Culture

We are not all equally gifted at jokes. Many, from the outset, declare themselves insolvent in this field, and they are surely right. And then there is that embarrassing silence after telling the alleged grace: "Don't you get it?" We ask incredulously. We just giggled, nervously, we. What makes a joke good or makes some people tell better jokes than others?

This ancient team sport, which is still practiced in many parts of Asia, combines singing and chasing.

In the twelve films of the saga, the masked Jason Voorhees murders - with some help and the most diverse methods - more than 200 victims.

Although a century ago scientists thought that the dinosaurs of the Tyrannosaurus rex species walked upright, they discarded the hypothesis several decades ago when they found that their posture was more like that of a bird, with its tail raised and its head forward in front of its two muscular hind legs. However, an outdated image of this upright Jurassic dinosaur remains in the popular imagination, as shown by a study carried out by paleontologists from Cornell University in New York (USA) echoed by the Associated Press.

A recent study by Ohio State University (USA) reveals that human beings always perceive the same colors, regardless of the place and culture in which we were born, and that we even name and classify them in a similar way. Across cultures, researchers have observed a tendency to classify hundreds of various color hues into just eight categories: red, green, yellow or orange, blue, purple, brown, pink, and blue-green.

Red stimulates and awakens passion in the West, in addition to warning of danger from traffic signs. However, in China it is the symbol of good luck, the color of the ancient emperors' costumes, and the people of that country are happy when they receive a red envelope on Chinese New Year. Still, a Spaniard and a Chinese will probably agree that red is a warm color. This is what the tests that researcher Li-Chen Ou of the National University of Science and Technology of Taiwan has carried out for years and which the SINC agency echoes.

Can a brain scan predict the success of a song before it is released? According to a new study from Emory University (USA), yes. Using neuroimaging techniques, neuroeconomist Gregory Bern and his colleagues studied 120 songs from the MySpace.com pages of little-known musicians.

Not in the western sense. The main work of a geisha is not sexual enjoyment, but aesthetic pleasure.