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Humor has never found a place in science communication. Scientists have often shied away from using a light-hearted approach on the grounds that incorporating jokes during scientific communication ...

The Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland is holding "Science is a Drag," where attendees can celebrate the fusion of science, humor and drag on Friday. Drag superstar VERA is hosting the event ...

The funniest thing about studying the science of humor is that you’re essentially watching a bunch of nerds try to explain a joke. Then people get to watch you, as a writer, awkwardly trying to ...

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Oded Rechavi shares research and relatable science memes at the touch of his fingertips. We want our science to be known, so we put ourselves out there on social media. Although it’s not conducive to ...

JACKSON, MI - Like his childhood idol Bill Nye the Science Guy, Ray Savicke uses humor to draw students in before teaching them about the wonders of the natural world. Savicke, 41, has taught science ...

Have the British a peculiar sense of humor? A solemn inquiry into that footless but fascinating question has been doggedly conducted, amid the fury of World War II, by British Psychologist H. J.

Because research can be frustrating and a bit too serious sometimes, I have the following proposal. We get together to come up with solutions that seem to work—but won’t actually work—for world ...