This piece originally appeared on The Tyee. A straight-faced academic with a crew cut and sweater vest is making the packed room laugh using a projector and the branch of mathematics known as set ...

BOULDER, Colo. -- The University of Colorado's business school is serious about studying humor, but it has a website that's just for grins. The Humor Research Lab, part of CU's Leeds School of ...

As described in the cover story “The Nutty Professor,” Boulder professor Peter McGraw, with the help of his Humor Research Lab (HuRL), has come up with a universal theory of comedy they call the ...

How humor works is a serious study for CU Boulder's Peter McGraw. As director of the Humor Research Lab, McGraw is exploring what makes a good joke, and what falls flat. His team have developed a ...