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What causes us to laugh? This is the question that Laughter Lab, an exhibition and social experiment at London’s Cartoon Museum, attempts to answer

What makes a cartoon funny? - Museum research aims to 'crack the secret code'

How the Zoom era has ruined conversation Rachel Kurzius © Jess Suttner/for The Washington Post When Rabbi Hannah Goldstein would talk to families before a funeral in pre-pandemic times, she remembers how they would share information about a loved one with her. Everyone tended to “jump in, and someone corrects a detail and then someone adds another piece of it,” recalls Goldstein, who works at Temple Sinai in D.C. “It’s collaborative. It’s like everyone’s sort of telling that story together. Oftentimes, I think when you’re remembering a loved one, it’s like ...

Art 120 In Signal Mountain Among Those Awarded Grants From Building Bridges Program Thursday, April 29, 2021 Art 120 in Signal Mountain has received a grant of $89,700 from the Building Bridges 2020 Grants Program to support “Jingle Truck in Cyberspace and Beyond,” the expansion of a mobile art project to share the culture and art of the Pakistani Jingle Truck. The Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art today announced 22 recipients of more than $4 million through the Building Bridges 2020 Grants Program. This national grant competition, which first launched in 2013, supports arts- a...

Descendants of men from horrifying Tuskegee study want to calm virus vaccine fears David Montgomery © Alycee Byrd/For The Washington Post Lillie Tyson Head, whose father, Freddie Lee Tyson, was in the Tuskegee syphilis study. She is president of the Voices for Our Fathers Legacy Foundation. Eighty-four-year-old Florine Edwards was thrilled to receive her coronavirus vaccination in Memphis in March. “When I hear people say, ‘Well, I’m not sure,’ I say, ‘You be sure, because this is important,’ ” she explains. The same goes for Lillie Tyson Head, 76, who recei...