This is a highly edited version of the sermon Rabbi Fellman delivered to her congregation over the High Holy Days. Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, started on the first of Tishrei corresponding to ...

Across the world, groups of activists, teachers and psychologists are tackling one of the world’s most daunting problems — ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Laughter is almost universal. It’s an expression that is seen across all human cultures; babies begin to laugh within the first few months of life, and animals such as apes and even ...

In function, human laughter is extremely flexible, and is often used outside of play—for example, nervous laughing during speech, or aggressive laughter during taunting or schadenfreude. Laughter can ...

Human language hasn’t simply replaced the vocalizations of our primate cousins. Instead, we use language on top of the communication systems we inherited from our prelinguistic predecessors. We laugh ...

Are they laughing at you or laughing with you? Your brain can tell the difference.more Curious about how different types of laughter — mocking, joyful or ticklish — are understood, researchers led by ...

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I vividly remember a conversation with my very liberal grandmother 22 years ago when after she saw the 2003 movie "Elf," with Will Ferrell, she said, “That movie was so funny, it made me forget about ...