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You Are Built to Be Kind
New York Magazine: Let’s take a few minutes this dreary winter Wednesday to remind ourselves that people aren’t always the worst. In a neat little animated video published yesterday by the University of California, Berkeley
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Why Tom Brady’s F-Bombs Are A-OK
Boston.com: Nope, when it came to Brady and his F-Bombs, we pulled an anti-Rolling Stone and decided to do some reporting. In 2012, the Association for Psychological Science published a piece called “The Science of
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The Power in Writing About Yourself
The Atlantic: “This is not a replacement for people or human contact,” said the designer Albert Lee of his new creation, an app called Emojiary. I wanted to believe him. Every day you get a
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27th Annual Conference of the International Society for Humor Studies
June 29–July 3, 2015 Oakland, California www.hnu.edu/ishs/ISHS2015
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A Final Goodbye to a Family Home
The Wall Street Journal: I have managed to navigate most trials in middle age (job changes, children leaving home, deceased pets) with a fair amount of grace. But now I find myself strangely unnerved by
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Why YouTube Videos Go Viral
New York Magazine: Half of all YouTube videos have fewer than 500 views, but a tiny fraction of the 100 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute garner millions of hits, turning amateur filmmakers into stars or
