Not all conspiracy theories involve shadow governments and secret societies—some are much, much dumber. This collection of funny low-stakes conspiracy theories is mostly a joke, but let’s be ...

It’s true that the theory is so absurd as to be kind of funny, and it’s fair to say that people who believe in it aren’t directly endangering anyone’s lives.

There are a lot of theories, like this one, thattry to explain why we find things funny. But like the blind man’s descriptionof the elephant, most of them are only partially right. But not ...

There’s another problem with these theories. While they all have their strengths, they share a major malfunction: They can’t explain why some things are not funny. Accidentally killing your ...

Researchers found only 10 to 20 percent of remarks that prompted laughter to be remotely funny. One general theory, put forth by a decidedly non-zany murderers’ row of Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes ...

The incongruity theory of humor suggests that we find fundamentally incompatible concepts or unexpected resolutions funny. Basically, we find humor in the incongruity between our expectations and ...

What Makes Something Funny? Clarke Clarifies Pattern Recognition Theory Date: March 26, 2009 Source: Pyrrhic House Summary: Recent commentary has suggested that the extent to which anomaly ...

What’s so funny about “The Big Bang Theory”? It's the most popular comedy on television – but I have to admit: I just don't understand what everyone's laughing at ...

Perhaps the oldest theory of humor, ... Making Immoral Behavior Funny. A. Peter McGraw and Caleb Warren in Psychological Science, Vol. 21, No.8, pages 1141–1149;August 2010.

Ever since the early 20 th century, we’ve known that the universe is expanding. Exactly how quickly it’s expanding, however, remains something of a vexed question.Until now, our theoretical ...