Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Monty Python famously performed a sketch about a joke so funny, it was lethal. Well, it turns out that John Cleese‘s latest attempt at a gag has been somewhat lost in translation. In a social media ...

A sketch similar to Monty Python's Dead Parrot gag has been discovered in a joke book written 1,600 years ago in Ancient Greece. However, instead of a dead pet, the deceased object in the fourth ...

Monty Python and Hallmark -- the combo I never knew I needed. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. That’s actually one I wrote in the ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...