Language ambiguity as produced by humans, is often unnoticed and as such, is most of the times involuntary. In an original context, a sentence might be very clear with respect to the producer's intentions, but if it contains some unnoticed ambiguities (obliterated by the context), when put in another context, might convey a very different meaning, sometimes funny, sometimes embarrassing.

In this paper, I would like to argue { based on my personal programming experience { that implementing algorithms is FUN. Moreover, it can lead to a better understanding of the problem to be solved, it can help to avoid embarrassing mistakes, and the implemented algorithms can be used as a tool for teaching.

Weinvestigatedthefearofbeinglaughedat(gelotophobia),thejoyinbeing laughed at (gelotophilia), and the joy in laughing at others (katagelasticism) in adolescent students (N = 324, 13–15 years). Gelotophobia was associated primarily with the victim and katagelasticism with the bully-role (selfand peer reports). Gelotophobia correlated with laughing at oneself if experiencing an embarrassing situat...

Abstract The categories of ‘art’ and ‘life’ play a central role in the critical reception Allan Kaprow’s Happenings, which have predominantly been read as generalized, “blithely affirmative” even “faintly embarrassing” attempt to fuse two. This paper attempts rethink definition relation these two work. Rather than an uncritical art life, I suggest, Happenings developed increasingly complex, bra...

Ten years ago, when a team of researchers led by Claire Gmachl and Federico Capasso at Bell Laboratories (Murray Hill, NJ) grabbed the cover of Science magazine with a paper on “bow-tie” microcavity lasers, they also uncovered what one of their coauthors, A. Douglas Stone of Yale University (New Haven, CT), described as an “embarrassing” theoretical limitation. Now Stone and another team have d...