Big Picture Science – Happily Confused: Scott Weems / Why We Laugh

by Gary Niederhoff on November 30, 2015

Happily Confused – Scott Weems
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Part 1 of Happily Confused, featuring Scott Weems, cognitive scientist and author of Ha!: The Science of When We Laugh and Why.

Tagged as: emotion, evolution, sociology

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"Alien satellites might offer a new way to find E.T.," NBC News, March 19, 2018.

"Scientists say space aliens could hack our planet," NBC News, February 21, 2018.

"Phoning Home: Is Intellligent Alien Life Really Out There?," Futurism, January 31, 2018.

"10 top science minds tell what strange new body part they'd like to have: Seth Shostak: Better Color Vision," NBC News, January 28, 2018.

"Simple math shows how many space aliens may be out there," NBC News, January 26, 2018.

"UFO believers got one thing right. Here's what they get wrong." NBC News, January 3, 2018.

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