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The web was not precisely constructed to accommodate April Fools’ Day. As my colleague Megan Garber put it in 2015, our digital platforms don’t have a tendency “to distinguish between stories and facts, between the earnest and the satirical.” And on-line misinformation has solely turn into darker and extra rampant within the years since Megan revealed her article. What was as soon as a spring day for low-stakes enjoyable has turn into a headache-inducing sequence of exams to determine what’s actual and what’s not.
If you’re a kind of individuals who has managed to uphold the innocence of April Fools’ Day even in 2023, don’t allow us to spoil your enjoyable. But we’ll spend at the moment’s e-newsletter excited about the vary of low-stakes humor that exists in our every day lives—such because the nonsensical jokes of a kid or the too-obvious jokes of a dad—and the enjoyment this humor can carry.
On Humor
What’s black and white and skim throughout? This article, hopefully.
Knock Knock. Who’s There? Kids. Kids Who? Kids Tell Terrible Jokes.
There’s some logic behind their hilariously dangerous makes an attempt at humor.
The Link Between Happiness and a Sense of Humor
Humor is severe enterprise for happiness—however the kind of humor issues.
Still Curious?
Other Diversions
P.S.
I’ll go away you with a joke the author Ashley Fetters used to make recurrently when she was 4 years outdated:
“Knock, knock.”
“Who’s there?”
“Guitar.”
“Guitar who?”
“Guitar if you don’t have a house!”
Don’t spend too lengthy pondering that one this weekend.
— Isabel