Sophie Scott on 10 Things You Should Know About the Brain
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How to Laugh When You're Nervous
Laughter is a really interesting area in that because literally nobody studies it Charles Darwin wrote a lot about laughter when he wrote about the expression of emotions and humans and other animals. If you tickle a baby chimpanzee or a baby orangutan they laugh and it sounds very recognizably like our laughter, we're apes. It turns out that rats also laugh there was a fantastic American scientist called Pankstep who tickled rats and make this high pitch squeak when they're laughing but it doesn't sound like laughing but it seems. Now we come to the end of the free portion of this author interview to get the full fig go on over and become a paid subscriber to smoke them
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