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A team of researchers from several fields at the University of Michigan is launching a study of why people laugh at cartoons. Come on, guys: Because they're funny! That's not good enough for the psychologists, linguists, anthropologists, historians and others who will be able to confront their subjects with every cartoon every published in The New Yorker magazine, all 68,647 of them. (no longer available online), see more here: What's so funny about humor (The New York Times / kniff.de)
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