Listeners tuning into the first episode of “Your Two-Spirit Aunties” are greeted by a joyfully goofy ditty. “You have reached Your Two-Spirit Aunties Podcast. Please leave us a message after the tone.

Laughter is one of the best ways to heal and feel happy. It has special healing powers unlike anything else and when we are feeling down, a good laugh can bring our spirits back up. Laughter also has ...

A favorite writer of mine, Geraldine Brooks, lost her husband to a sudden heart attack several years ago. In “Memorial Days,” her reflection on coming to terms with grief, she wrote this: “Of all the ...

"When considering lifestyle changes to improve health, people often overlook the benefits of laughter," Michael Richardson, M.D., a family physician with Carbon Health in Boston, told Fox News Digital ...

This post is part two of a series. In the first post of this blog series, I made the case that the best way of understanding laughter was as a form of nonverbal communication, one that affirms a sense ...

For thousands of years, versions of the saying “laughter is the best medicine” have emerged in religious, scientific and popular literature—and for good reason. Laughter helps our neurological, ...

Laughter is an everyday reminder that we humans are animals. In fact, when recorded laughter is slowed down, listeners can’t tell whether the sound is from a person or an animal. We throw our heads ...

Laughter is thought to have evolved as a form of social bonding in animals and as a way to express playful intention. Many mammals laugh when they are tickled and when they engage in physical play.

Serbia, spring 1999. The Kosovo War is in full throttle, with no light at the end of the tunnel visible. Families are full of fear as they learn of worse news each day. The North Atlantic Treaty ...

There's way more to our giggles and guffaws than simply thinking something is funny. We asked a laughter expert to explain. No vocalization is more universal (or unifying) than laughter. There are no ...

Keeping Laughing Buddha at home is considered auspicious for your life. It is said that the idol of Laughing Buddha should ...