We know that words shift in meaning over time, but what happens to visual storytelling over time? Follow our examination of this Olympian tradition to explore this question, and explore how visuals take on meanings (and change them) over time.

There’s something inherently weird about reading an article that purports to seriously examine humor.  I think it’s in the bloodless effort to analyze humor with exacting, almost scientific language.  Like this from Universal Class: “Humor events are defined as ‘discrete social behaviors that a producer intentionally creates for an audiences that influences audience positive affect.’”