---- Importance of laughter ---- (@apaipi )
(My computer has stopped being able to connect to internet so using phone 馃槨)
Richard Wiseman tried to find the funniest joke in the world. (It's okay.)
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"You've now heard the funniest joke, you can go home now."
Also, multiple cracks about the Finns. Speaker is from Denmark, but didn't bring any nice licorice.
#gotoconf
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Teams laughing with each other is really good. Teams laughing at each other is really bad.
Humor is parsed in the frontal part of the brain. Also, laughing is exercise. In X-rays, it looks like your body is trying to murder itself
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Laughter decreases stress level and improves mood. There's a rush of endorphins and stuff!
Mentally, it's god for resilience.
"It's good that Bjarne Stroustrup has a sense of humor, because it helped him survive making C++"
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Logos is what you are saying, pathos is the way you say it, ethos is what people think you are.
[Showing a video of self-depreciation. I obsessed over seeing how the subtitles didn't match up.]
"It's not just British people who can do self-depreciation."
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(Oh hey this talk isn't recorded. So this will be your only exposure! Look how civically mindful I am)
"Most speakers want to show how clever they are."
Often we use laughter to show we understand a topic. Examples of SOA, XML jokes.
#gotochgo
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"We laugh to show we belong"
Apparently mathematics in her university wrote math jokes all the time. A study found it was mostly to establish themselves as a group.
(My favorite "funny equation" is `
sin x = 2
x = -2i / (s * n)
`)
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"Humor can push people apart"
"Who here has bullied someone as a child."
(Only two people raised their hand, and one of them was me)
Sexist humor can make men more tolerant of sexism and sexist beliefs
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Humor can pull people together. "We think funny people are more smarter and more attractive." Nobody really knows why we do this. Maybe an indicator of "mental fitness?"
#GOTOchgo
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