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Question: 1.How do people perceive that specific things are funny? Answer : we need to know a whole lot more about humor .we hope to learn why we think things are funny, and whether it matters ,and if the joke is on us , that’s fine. * Question:2.How dose humor evolve？ Answer： (1)virtually every cartoon punished by the magazine since it began on feb.1.1925. (2)the cartoon database is available not only to researchers but for the general public. (3)New Yorker cartoons are organized by decades in the book, and the database can be used to track such comic evolutions as the one that saw father time mutate in the late 1960s into the grim reaper . * Question: 3.what is called the three-year interdisciplinary experimental project ? Answer : humor at Michigan ,in which wit will be studied from psychological ,medical ,anthropological ,culture history and other points of views. * Question: 4Which are in relation to vectors about Mr. Mankoff says it is possible to organize cartoon not just chronologically but taxonomically ? Answer :caption ,image and values he terms “real” and “unreal” * Questions Some people think that the more humor is studied, the more elusive it will become. What do you think? Why does Dr Herwitz say that humor, like Groucho Marx, refuses to join any club that would have it as a member? * D B C B D D B D B * That’s all Thank you! * * Outline Main idea Words Analysis of the text Questions and answers * Main idea New Yorker cartoons are organized by decades in the book but now it is the New Yorker cartoon itself that will become the object of scientific study. * Word perceive risible database interdisciplinary wit reside empirical uniform genome hereditary cognitive incredible machinery serotonin depict rudimentary consensus hypothesis gadfly varsity * words 1. wire sth. up: to join things together using wire 用金属丝把…连接在一起 2. mirth: (written) happiness, fun and laughter 欢乐，欢笑 e.g. The performance produced much mirth a