Humor research

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 59. Chapters: Books about humor, Humor researchers, Aristotle, René Descartes, Isaac Asimov, Cicero, Gregory Bateson, Francis Hutcheson, List of humor research publications, Theories of humour, Patch Adams, David Hartley, Peter L. Berger, Computational humor, Paul Watzlawick, Laughter in literature, Gelotology, Salvatore Attardo, John Allen Paulos, Victor Raskin, Doni Tamblyn, Anthology of Black Humor, Comic timing, Misattribution Theory of Humor, World's funniest joke, Paul Lewis, John Morreall, Rationale of the Dirty Joke, Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Writers and Artists Who Made the National Lampoon Insanely Great, Humor: International Journal of Humor Research, Rod A. Martin, Going Too Far, Cost of Laughing Index. Excerpt: Isaac Asimov ( -z¿k -i-m¿v; born Isaak Yudovich Ozimov, Russian: ; Yiddish: ; c. January 2, 1920 - April 6, 1992) was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and over 9,000 letters and postcards. His works have been published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey Decimal System (The sole exception being the 100s: philosophy and psychology, although he did write a foreword for The Humanist Way, which is published in the 100s). Isaac Asimov is widely considered a master of hard science fiction and, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke, he was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers during his lifetime. Asimov's most famous work is the Foundation Series; his other major series are the Galactic Empire series and the Robot series, both of which he later tied into the same fictional universe as the Foundation Series to create a unified "future history" for his stories much like those pioneered by Robert A. Heinlein and previously produced by Cordwainer Smith and Poul Anderson. He wrote many short stories, among them "Nightfall", which in 1964 was voted by the Science Fiction Writers of America the best short science fiction story of all time. Asimov wrote the Lucky Starr series of juvenile science-fiction novels using the pen name Paul French. The prolific Asimov also wrote mysteries and fantasy, as well as much non-fiction. Most of his popular science books explain scientific concepts in a historical way, going as far back as possible to a time when the science in question was at its simplest stage. He often provides nationalities, birth dates, and death dates for the scientists he mentions, as well as etymologies and pronunciation guides for technical terms. Examples include his Guide to Science, the three volume set Un