The Power of Laughing

When Patrick Yitzchak was in grad school, he studied a mind control parasite that gets into a mouse brain and makes it lose its fear and gain an attraction to a cat. And what I found so beautiful about this paper when I came across it was it seemed as if in the same way that this parasite kind of took over free will or took over the will of the organism to kind of shape or change or alter its preferences. So people here in this room are laughing in response to earlier, even in the audience, people have laughed in response to the retelling of the story of her laughing,. which means in 1997, it's like pushed a button. People just poked around and