POSSIBILITIES

Medicinal mirth: The health benefits of laughter

 

A funny thing happened on the way to the office

Laughing at work keeps workers—and workplaces—healthy.

 

Miller’s online humor survey study

 

PEOPLE

The business of making people laugh

Being funny for a living is very serious business. How much would you pay for a laugh?

 

How laughter meditation can bring you peace and joy

Want to get in touch with your inner giggler? Try Dhyan Sutorius’ laughing meditation.

 

What makes the whoopee cushion so funny?

One man’s search for the laws of whoopee cushion acoustics.

 

PASSION

Does God have a sense of humor?

How laughter turned a trial attorney into a Baptist minister.

 

The funny side of faith

Sometimes, a joke book is the best sacred scripture.

 

How laughter can keep you on your spiritual path

 

How laughter evolved and how it makes us human

Grins and giggles may hold the key to our social evolution.

 

COMMENTARIES

In the beginning was the joke

Why cheerfulness is next to godliness.

 

Laughter and learning

The upside of looking on the lighter side of life.

 

COLUMNS

Happiness is overrated

Sometimes, there are lies behind the laughter.

 

Of laughter and land mines

The first rule of social investing—do no harm.

 

Migrate toward the merriment

Follow the laughter, wherever it leads.