Why Are We Ticklish? Why do We Laugh?
Awesome London YouTubers in this episode: Khyan: http://www.youtube.com/Khyan Tom Ska: http://www.youtube.com/tomska Jenny Bingham: http://www.youtube.com/thatjennybee Charlie: http://www.youtube...
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Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. And today we're going to talk abouthumor, comedy. What makes somethingfunny and when something's funny, why do we laugh?What's the purpose of laughing and why do we laugh when we're tickled?Well, people study this. They're called gelotologistsand we don't have all the answers yet, but what we do know is that you arethirty times more likely to laughif there are other people around.We also know that babies laugh before they learn a languageand that babies born blind and deaf will laugh.There are thousands of languages, hundreds of thousands of dialects, but yet wealllaugh in much the same way. Our brains are constantly looking forpatterns - ways of understanding the world and predicting what&...
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Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. And today we're going to talk abouthumor, comedy. What makes somethingfunny and when something's funny, why do we laugh?What's the purpose of laughing and why do we laugh when we're tickled?Well, people study this. They're called gelotologistsand we don't have all the answers yet, but what we do know is that you arethirty times more likely to laughif there are other people around.We also know that babies laugh before they learn a languageand that babies born blind and deaf will laugh.There are thousands of languages, hundreds of thousands of dialects, but yet wealllaugh in much the same way. Our brains are constantly looking forpatterns - ways of understanding the world and predicting what&...
