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Mechanism and function of humor

Alastair Clarke explains: The theory is an evolutionary and cognitive explanation of how and why any individual finds anything funny. Effectively, it explains that humour occurs when the brain recognizes a pattern that surprises it, and that recognition of this sort is rewarded with the experience of the humorous response, an element of which is [...]

On Rising Earlier

As a teenager I used to go to bed late in the night and then slept till noon. Then for the year I was in the army I had to give up on this habit. By the way I’m mostly pacifist but here in Bulgaria we had a compulsory military service at that time. Later [...]

Work as a natural part of life

Ouch! It’s been long time since my last post. Some bigger changes at work, moved to our new flat, no enough biking (due to either too much other things to do or bad weather), IELTS course finished… And this reminds me that in one of my recent IELTS lessons there was a text called “The [...]