When is Natalie Portman's laughter not Natalie Portman's laughter? An Object Lesson. Aristotle called laughter an "ensouling mechanism," and the academic discipline of humor studies has built itself ...

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Laughter theorists have long separated themselves into one of two camps. Members of the first maintain the primal or primary function of laughter is one of communication. That is, it evolved to convey ...

It's not just you: This year was actually worse than last year, at least according to what GIFs people were sharing. The most popular GIFs of 2017 suggest that we're way more unhappy than we were last ...