3 The last laugh
Jan 29, 2019
3 minutes
by Antonia Case
Escorting a group of children to the city one day, I became embroiled in a game they wanted to play called ‘laugh-o’. The aim of the game is to count the number of people who laugh out loud. Whoever heard the laughter first had to yell “laugh-o”. The first stop was a city café: a familiar scene of lone heads bowed to smartphones, tablets, and computers. Despite the ruckus we made, no one glanced in our direction.
Laughter, some think, is a social bonding noise that humans made pre-speech. It eases
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