If your jokes are falling flat in the lab, or your kids are groaning at your puns, Newscripts has just the advice you need. Neuroscientists at University College London have found that you can make ...

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NBC’s new summer sketch series, “The Downer Channel,” surfaced last month with some fluff that included “noises that can drive you crazy.” One was nails clawing a blackboard, another leaf blowers. I’d ...

In the 75 years since it was introduced, the laugh track has conditioned viewers to know when and how much to laugh Some audiences love it, and some audiences hate it, but the laugh track—which ...

Today I watched a YouTube video of a Roomba rolling and tripping its way through an obstacle course. The video was shot during a student robotics challenge at UC Berkeley, and it’s pretty much exactly ...

Is the laugh track finally being taken seriously? Critics have long viewed adding the taped sound of laughter to TV shows as an exercise in mind control and behavior modification. At best, TV viewers ...