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A study at Rutgers university showed comedy can act as a tool to change the world
26 May 2024 - 00:00
A study at Rutgers university showed comedy can act as a tool to change the world. How? By engaging our humerus bone — the act of comedy stimulates our neural pathways and fires our synapses. This process acts on audiences to think about complex issues in an emotionally acute setting — essentially working through stuff that may otherwise fester in political punditry and opinion columns, or in the human psych, requiring powerful medical interventions by way of antidepressants. ..
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