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When I teach history of science at Stevens Institute of Technology, I devote plenty of time to science’s glories, the kinds of achievements that my buddy George Johnson wrote about in The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments (Alfred A. Knopf, 2008)

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There are more opportunities than ever to build an app that people will pay for -- if you know where to look.

Comedian Patrice O'Neal, a popular stand-up comic who often appeared on Comedy Central, died on Monday following complications from a stroke he suffered back in October. CBSNews.com's Ken Lombardi reports

Consider staging a Comedy Central-style celebrity roast of your top-selling product. Once a year or so, everyone at our company gets together for a week to hang out, work together, and socialize. Because 37signals consists of 28 people located in nearly 20 cities around the world, these get-togethers are rare—and important

What makes a joke funny? The head of the Internet radio site's team of comedy analysts shows us the inner workings of its new Comedy Genome Project. There’s an old quote from E.B.

Friday, August 05 It's been 20 years since fans flocked to Chicago for the first Lollapalooza music festival to catch a glimpse of Ice-T and the Violent Femmes. After struggling in the late '90s as bands lost interest in festivals, Lolla's now stronger than ever thanks to a sturdy partnership with the city's park district.

Even Jerry Seinfeld, stubbornly analog anti-Twitterer, has joined the Internet Age. Did you hear the one about the Internet? Comedy is dominating Net buzz in big ways this week, with several announcements that will make denizens of the web smile--and laugh

01 / YouTube For transforming itself from Google's folly into a global network.