For most of recorded human history, the open smile has been “deeply unfashionable,” observes writer Nicholas Jeeves in his essay “The Serious and ... hygiene was so common that it wasn ...

As time went on, the “why so serious” meme met the early use of “lolspeak”—a simplified form of internet slang that often omits not strictly necessary letters from words and was popular ...

“Why so serious?,” were remixed into a series of recognizable meme prototypes, turning the malevolent maestro of mischief into an icon months before film’s actual release. Soon you could ...

The 949 yearbooks that the researchers looked through were not part of a random sample, so their paper (forthcoming ... people still preferred serious, pensive, or even sad poses for their photos.

For most of recorded human history, the open smile has been “deeply unfashionable,” observes writer Nicholas Jeeves in his essay “The Serious and ... hygiene was so common that it wasn ...