A mathematical formula that predicts which words people find funny might not get its own Comedy Central special, but it does offer insights into the human mind. Leslie Katz led a team that explored ...

Lazy critics, and even good critics in lazy moments, have been heard to complain of an adjective shortage. There simply aren't enough adjectives in the language to go around without either reusing ...

Mathematics teacher Catherine Herman has a special recipe for whetting her students` academic appetites. ”Teaching is like cooking Italian,” says Herman, who teaches Honors Algebra I, Geometry and ...

CEDAR FALLS - Poor mathematics. Sometimes, the subject can get a bad rap for being uninteresting. Tuesday night, with a smattering of students in attendance, three University of Northern Iowa math ...

My coworkers are providing lots of funny stuff.<BR><BR>Teaching Math in 1950: A logger sells a truckload of lumber<BR>for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price. What is ...

Written by Megan Amram, illustrated by Liana Finck. Megan Amram is a television and film writer. The director, who stopped shooting movies years ago to focus on writing scores and his own records, ...

Reader Gino Ledesma forwarded these allegedly real-life answers to mathematics and physics examinations by students in the United States: Question: Expand (a + b)n. Question: The water of the earth’s ...

A few months ago, the internet saw a trend come into existence; The ‘Girl math’ trend. It included women sharing how they plan their finances, or how they decide what to buy. To the untrained (read: ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — After 14 years of teaching in-person, it's been an adjustment for Mike Fabozzi to switch to an all-remote model. "I have three different devices going," he told 2 On Your Side. "I have ...

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Opting for a bold “big tent” strategy to rebuild the party, Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, told reporters today, “We need to ...