Robert Provine is the author of Curious Behavior: Yawning, Laughing, Hiccupping, and Beyond (Belknap Press, 2012) and a neuroscientist and professor of psychology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in Baltimore, Maryland.
Segment
Read More
No Joke — Why Even Tragedy Gets a Laugh
A comedian and a neuroscientist walk into a bar… er, nevermind. Tig Notaro and Robert Provine talk about why we laugh at even the grimmest of subjects.