Laughter and the Union of the Minds .'.
If you're close to me, you've probably heard me ramble about laughter increasing the cooperation between the two hemispheres of the brain. (if you're really close to me, you've probably grinned while I repeat it for the fifth time..)
I have mentioned this study in passing many times since I read it a few years ago - though it's always been a foggy, summarised interpretation - and I feel that Scientific knowledge is certainly far more interesting when you are aware of it's origins.
Jokes, ice water and magnetism can change your view of the world--literally
(You can find the original artical over at Scientific American but I think it requires registration..)
In a culture of hearsay, partial truths, romanticism and urban myths, it is nice to have a horse's mouth to play with occasionally - even if most people believe what they hear without any question (or even any thought!), as one study says:
"..People are ten times more likely to believe something in quotation marks."
Believe it or not, that probability increases the more outlandish the claims are! As an earlier study showed:
"quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur"
..click here for more..
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Hi - thanks for the heads up on my broken links. I can't get your 'click for more' to work - have I got too high a security setting for the java?
Speaking of which, I gotta go get another cup of java...BC-ing You
hmmm - that's a shame, guess I got all excited and didn't test it.. Let me know how it goes, I've used it on a few posts, is it only broken on this one?
but yes, it uses javascript, do you have it enabled?
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ah - merdre - I thought the link would take me somewhere else - now I see you were just giving me the translation on a toggle.
I'm going to wash my head now (brain the size of a planet, parking cars for three million years...)
I live for laughter!
nunc est bibendum
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