Articles
Self
- The Clue is in your Funprint – Martha Beck helps you find fun
- Playing with the Multiple Intelligences – How Play helps Them Grow - Bill Eberle
- Not Savage Beasts, but Valiant Pleasure Seekers - Jonathan Balcombe
- Play & Humor a collection of readings of interest to any Funiatrist, adapted from IN CONTEXT #13, Spring 1986
- Rats Tickled Pink with New Rodent Laughter, from the Athens Daily News, honestly
Society
- The Fun Community from the Well-Played Game
- The Importance of Play in Promoting Healthy Child Development and Maintaining Strong Parent-Child Bond: Focus on Children in Poverty – Regina M. Milteer, MD, et. al.
- The Playful Universe from the Ascent of Humanity by Charles Eisenstein
- Let Your Children Be the Animals They Have the Right to Be - Mark Bekoff
- Where have all the players gone? by Dr. Olga Jarrett
- The Responsive Community by Dr. Amitai Etzioni
- On Kids and Sports: a manifesto from Jay Coakley
- Marielle Visser teaches Computer Zen
- “The Fun of Telling Stories“: Glory Ressler on “flow” and story telling
- Play & Humor a collection of readings of interest to any Funiatrist, adapted from IN CONTEXT #13, Spring 1986
- Heroic Humor – Here’s “the story of Alfa Foxtrot 586″ as found in Chapter Eight ofDennis N. T. Perkin’s brilliant Leading at the Edge
- “Going to school with ‘FISH’ Happy employees can save companies more than a few fins” – an article about some actual success in bringing fun to work
- Putting Fun into Work – a strategic vision from Terra Nova
- Puzzling – a communication game
- ‘Good Work’: Where Ethics and Professionalism Meet – Howard Gardner reports on his research into the joys of doing a good job.
- If I’m having fun I can’t really be working, can I? from Catherine Ripplinger Fenwick on her Online Laugher Therapy Center
- Should Your Job be Fun? An interview with the author of said same
- Lighten Up: Tips for having more fun at work
- Fun Work: an interview with major Glidersleeve
- Spirit of the Game from the Ultimate Players’ Association describes a promising form of conscious competition
- What is a Puzzle? Puzzle designer Scott Kim discusses the puzzling functions of fun
- “Complexification” Playground designer Jay Beckwith reflects on his learnings at the Deep Fun at Esalen 2001 session
- Rock, Scissors, Paper examined.
- Bill Russell on Well-Played Games: the Celtics superstar talks about transcendence
- An Inuit Version of Hesse’s Glass Bead Game: story telling-games genuinely around the actual world
- Fun At Work Day: some novel ideas for celebrating April Fun’s Day, any day.
- New Games for the Business School: a few deep thoughts on college, kids, business and fun from a teacher of said same