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In which we remind people of the Ten Commandments of the God Particle. Now with added footnotes. I I am the Higgs. 
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...."If this different way of thinking explains the correlation between humor and intellectual creativity, then developing your sense of humor wouldn't necessarily help you to become more creative (although you might be happier). To do that, you would have to change the deeper patterns of thought. But then, what if humor did just that?
Remember that humor lights up three parts of the brain, starting with the thinking part that helps you get the joke. Consider a one-liner, like "If at first you don't succeed, skydiving may not be for you." A joke like this starts out with a traditional saying ("If at first you don't succeed, try, try again."), and then surprises you. It disobeys conventional expectations. It goes in an unexpected direction."
AN : the thesis here is that humour and creativity interlope....from an original article by Steve Gillman. ( Great and prolific author ).
http://creative.web.net/node/807
Via Arno Neumann
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Are you really, truly capable of laughing at yourself? If so, it's a good sign that you have an optimistic personality and a good sense of humor, a new study suggests.
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Forget Angry Birds: a new iPad game called Pig Chase could allow you to interact with real animals. Designed by Clemens Driessen and a team from Wageningen University and Utrecht School for the Arts in the Netherlands, the app aims to challenge pigs while creating a collaborative environment for play. Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2012/01/game-on-piggies-ipad-play-hits-the-pigpen.html...
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The study of linguistics is not a laughing matter -- unless you happen to have Stan Dubinsky as your professor.
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Men are funnier than women, but only just barely and mostly to other men. So says a psychology study from the University of California, San Diego Division of Social Sciences.
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In their 2011 book Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind, Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett and Reginald B. Adams, Jr. explain the tight link between brain development and humor that cognitive neuroscientists have found.
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One of the most persistent stereotypes around is that men are funnier than women.
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For the first time, researchers have scanned the brains of children watching funny videos to examine which of their brain regions are active as their sense of humor develops.
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Celebrated polemicist Christopher Hitchens, who passed away last month, never lacked targets for his writerly ire: Henry Kissinger, Bill Clinton, Gore Vidal — even Mother Teresa was not immune. But in a polarizing 2007 Vanity Fair essay, Hitchens outdid himself, taking aim at the entire female species. Women aren’t as funny as men, he declared. Case closed.
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Matthew Hurley was an undergraduate at Tufts when he asked a vital question: Why is the human brain equipped with a sense of humor?
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Parents who joke and pretend with their toddlers are giving their children a head start in terms of life skills.
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