In fairness to Alanis, pop singers and Canadians aren’t the only ones who struggle to understand irony. There’s an entire line of cognitive research dedicated to understanding the concept (as well as ...
A new robot was programmed to have a sense of irony, allowing it to approach conversations with all the tact of a surly teenager. The idea was to make a robot that better mirrors how people talk in ...
A recent hipster-hating New York Times column got this pop-cultural moment exactly backwards. Cultural critics love hypothesizing about hipsters. And certainly hipsters make for useful lab rats if you ...
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