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.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/07/laugh-ology/214540/
