Swami Beyondananda  •  wakeuplaughing.com  •  Cosmic Comic Swami Beyondananda, aka Steve Bhaerman. Swami’s mission is to use healing laughter to help awaken human consciousness, which he calls fool-realization. “When we laugh lovingly at our own human foolishness, we can find the odd solutions that beat the heaven out of getting even.” ↖

From The Top  •  fromthetop.org  •  A weekly radio show, on National Public Radio, that showcases the best classical musicians in the USA under the age of 18. Before each student’s performance, the show’s host, Christopher O’Riley, interviews the student, and sometimes they perform a skit. Then the student performs musically, usually near, at, or beyond a professional level. Very entertaining and often very funny.  •  The show’s site has archives of all past shows, which you can listen to for free. ↖

Car Talk  •  cartalk.com  •  Another weekly radio show, also on National Public Radio. This is a call-in show for car repair, which might not sound very interesting, except that the two car mechanics, Tom and Ray Magliozzi, mix in a lot of spontaneous comedy with their usually sound advice about car repair. The show has been described as “the Marx brothers meet Mr. Goodwrench.”  •  The show’s site has archives of all past shows, which you can listen to for free. ↖

• Who’s On First—Audio  •  MP3 file  •  4.9M
• Who’s On First—Transcript

The famous skit by Abbott and Costello about a baseball team populated by pronouns and adverbs. ↖

Math Ph.D. Public Service Announcement  •  A facetious public service announcement I wrote about what you can do with an advanced math degree. ↖

Below is an animated graphic that poses an interesting puzzle. It has been posted in numerous places. Here I have included the text that usually accompanies it, with two omissions, explained below.

I have omitted two parts of the text: “This will drive you crazy!” because it won’t; and “Don’t ask me; I haven’t figured it out yet”, because I have. ↖