This is the first episode of a two-part series on the origin of jokes and humor. The story appears in podcast feeds under the title, "Jokes, Part I: Sumer Funny, Sumer Not." Listen to part two here.

Twitter users are attempting to decipher an ancient Sumerian joke that involves a dog who — you guessed it — walks into a bar. The @dephsofwikipedia Twitter account shares random interesting and weird ...

For Chicagoans of a certain age, the sound of bells on a hot summer evening is a hallowed childhood memory. It called a timeout to schoolyard softball games. Ball players would scramble to line up at ...

If laughter is the best medicine—and science suggests that laughter does in fact promote health and healing—then we really need it during this pandemic. But, Sara Cooper lip-syncs and Bernie Sanders ...

This is the first episode of a two-part series on the origin of jokes and humor. Listen to part two here. This episode originally aired on August 5, 2022. In the late 1800s, archeologists in Iraq ...