“Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar…” by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein Reading “Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar…” is like taking a philosophy survey course team-taught by a couple of zany ...

Ed Wynn, the Perfect Fool, isn't so dumb. "Do you want my definition of a hero?" he asked. "Well, a war hero is a man who gets a piece of gold on his chest for a piece of lead in his pants," he ...

Most philosophical texts are dense and … well, textual. There are very few philosophical images, beyond the truth tables in your logic textbook, and those aren’t exactly a feat of design. Few works of ...

Why do some people laugh during a crisis? Source: Pixabay "The restoration of humor is one clear mark that a person is getting healthy because I think ... finding something funny means being able to ...

There aren’t many authors who could craft an entertaining and coherent narrative out of Schopenhauer, Joseph Stalin, and penis jokes, but Jim Holt has managed it with Stop Me If You’ve Heard This: The ...

Jonny Sun, known on Twitter as “Jomny Sun,” leaned into Weird Twitter starting around 2011 or 2012 under the assumed identity of an “aliebn confuesed abot humamn lamgauge.” His tweets vary between ...

Why do some people laugh during a crisis? Source: Pixabay "The restoration of humor is one clear mark that a person is getting healthy because I think ... finding something funny means being able to ...