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Laugh-ology

By The Daily Dish

Jul 2 2008, 4:29 AM ET

An article on the science of humor:

The real news is that the investigation of humour is belatedly becoming a science. After millennia of untested speculation by armchair thinkers, moves are afoot to bring the study of laughter into the mainstream of experimental psychology.

And kill every joke ever made.



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