Because while, yes, Carl, you’re right, math is obviously the best kind of science out there, what you fail to mention is the ...

Randall Munroe’s webcomic xkcd has plenty of sweet, goofy, and clever strips that appeal to anyone. I love silly ones like “Alternate Energy Revolution” – a mashup of War of the Worlds and Don Quixote ...

More than one commentator described President Donald Trump’s speech at the recent White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner with variations of “the opposite of funny.” There’s no reason to ...

Rick Ross is answering 50 Cent’s empty-seat joke by using Set In Stone sales to add fresh fuel to their endless feud. 50 Cent posted a clip Tuesday that seemed to show open seats before Ross performed ...

True confession time: I wasn’t born a bookworm—I was bribed into becoming one. When I was 8, I entered my library’s summer reading contest, not out of any love of literature but because I refused to ...

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Remember when we thought AI was going to be Rosie from The Jetsons? A cheerful, wisecracking robot who did our laundry, had a hot meal waiting and dispensed life wisdom with a feather duster in hand?

In 1991, a simple line appeared in Broom, a Lithuanian satire and humor journal. “A shortest joke: Communism,” it said. A one-liner to celebrate the collapse of the Soviet Union. Four years since ...

This year has seen some amazing advancements in fundamental mathematics. Researchers have made breakthroughs in geometry, topology, chaos theory, and more. And a startling three of our top 10 ...

Do you know your geometry from your arithmetic and your fractions from your logs? Let's find out! Think of this as a math class without the quizzes, where every problem has a twist solution, every ...

Over his decades-long career as a late-night comedy TV writer, Joe Toplyn has crafted jokes for the likes of David Letterman and Jay Leno. He has instructed adult-level courses on comedy writing and ...