“Dying is easy,” the Shakespearean actor Edmund Gwenn said on his deathbed. “Comedy is hard.” Every business communicator who has tried—and failed—to lighten up a presentation by being funny knows ...

Two hours with a beautiful mind feel like two minutes, but sitting on a hot stove for two minutes feels like two hours. That’s relativity.” This is a joke attributed to Albert Einstein when explaining ...

A new study examining more than 500 science conference presentations suggests that humor in academic talks rarely lands, with ...