WILKES-BARRE — Sean Baigus wasn’t smiling when he stood before Luzerne County Judge Joseph Sklarosky Jr. on Wednesday. Baigis, 48, who told Plains Township police he got a “rush” spray painting ...

In a time where people are largely dressed down and masked up due to the coronavirus pandemic, Apple has responded by creating a new face mask emoji character with a more positive outlook. The most ...

The smiley face is celebrating its 50 th anniversary, and the Italy-based Montegrappa pen company is taking note of this important bit of cultural history. The recently introduced Smiley® 50 th ...

Whenever I give a presentation on the impact of body language in the workplace, I always include a section on the power of a smile. That’s because research shows that a smiling expression sends ...

“Smile and the whole world smiles with you?” Actually, I prefer: “When your food smiles at you, you’ll smile back.” In a world of emoticon-heavy electronic correspondence, I should be positively sick ...

1. What's behind the smile? As the story goes, Worcester commercial artist Harvey Ball crafted the simple image of a turned-up mouth in 1963 as part of a campaign by Worcester Mutual Fire Insurance to ...

Perhaps eventually we’ll respond to emoji as we would to real dogs, cats and night skies Rose Eveleth Contributor When you see a colon and a parentheses, you know exactly what it means. The smiley ...

On World Smile Day, a walking, baseball bat-swinging, round yellow smiley face walked out of Worcester City Hall. Pharrell’s hit song “Happy” played on a small boom box as Smiley Ball walked down the ...

When you see a colon and a parentheses, you know exactly what it means. The smiley face has become ubiquitous online, and psychologists have even looked into the ways it’s used in emails. Now, ...