DARPA has by far the greatest mission statement of any government organization: developing gonzo technologies to prevent and create strategic surprise. And this month the Defense Advanced Research ...

Writing of her future demise, author and humorist Dorothy Parker once observed that her epitaph might read, “Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.” Celebrated for her ...

Sarcasm is lost on many people, in some cases more than others, because they may be missing part of a complex set of cognitive skills based in specific parts of the brain. A new study by Israeli ...

Webster’s New World College Dictionary defines sarcasm as “a taunting, sneering, cutting or caustic remark,” while the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary–which calls itself the “one of the world’s most ...

Michigan company says SarcMark should be official punctuation mark for sarcasm. Jan. 18, 2010— -- Watch out, :-) Stand aside, j/k. There's a new kind of punctuation in town and it wants sarcasm ...

More than 2,500 people of all ages gathered in downtown Ashland theaters, restaurants and pop-up clubs last weekend to laugh about the quirky arts-centric city during the first-ever Ashland Sarcasm ...