NPR's Andrew Limbong speaks with Catherine Price, author of The Power of Fun, about why it can be so difficult for adults to have fun and how people can find ways to incorporate fun into their life.

Summer . . . ahh, before you know it, it’ll be gone. Some years, it feels like as soon as we unpack the school bags, we’re out shopping for back-to-school clothes. This year, we’re going to make the ...

Youth sports has an attrition problem. "We do a tremendous job at getting kids involved," sport scientist Amanda Visek says. "We do a terrible job at keeping them." The absence of "fun" is often cited ...

Search "how to have fun" on Google and literally billions of search results come up. People pay hundreds of dollars to hire party coaches and play coaches. There are seminars and workshops on how to ...

In the corpus of the science of fun, there is a type of enjoyment that goes against the grain of seeking comfort and ease: “Type II Fun” (academically more often referred to as “hard fun”). Although ...