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Laughter threatens Kay Underwood's health
A strange condition Kay Underwood would like to raise the correct perspective awareness to. It may seem quite peculiar and funny to some individuals but it's a quite debilitating and anguish causing condition...
Aussie basketballers more worred about Beijing pollution than American compet...
"The Australian Women's basketball team's WNBA superstar Lauren Jackson is not fretting about the basketball war with America that awaits her in Beijing; she's more worried about the weather. Asked at a lunch on the Gold Coast about Australia's ultra-intense...
FAMILY GUY "Crosses the Line"?
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorYeah, I have to admit, it is Black Humour, but they say in Comedy, nothing is sacred, not even Michael J. Fox's Parkinsons which was featured in the Zorro skit. I... 
Is There Such a Thing as a Funny Death?
To an extent, news functions as entertainment, whether we admit it or not. However, the old adage remains true: if it bleeds, it leads. So, what happens when we read a news story that A) doesn't affect us directly,... 
Take a pill of laughter
This is a fascinating summary of historical laughing as well as the benefits of hysterical laughing. Writer Albert Nerenberg presents information about laughing as a medical treatment, with illustrations and comments from experts throughout the years. One...
Japan, laughter to be measured by `aH`
""We have found that children laugh more freely, releasing 10 aH per second, which is about twice as much as an adult," Kimura, a professor at Kansai University in the western city of Osaka, told AFP on Friday."Adults tend to calculate whether it's appropriate to laugh and...
Humorous art exhibit not funny
Some funny artists are showing in a new exhibition called "Laughing in a Foreign Language" at The Hayward Gallery in London, but a reviewer for the Guardian says it's not all that drole."Laughing in a Foreign... 
Orang-utans 'king of the grinners'
"Laughter was not developed first by humans but by our close biological cousins the apes, according to new scientific research. Scientists at the University of Portsmouth have found that orang-utans have a sense of...
myspace Prank Leads to Teens Suicide
Here is a story that is tragic. The parents of a myspace member pull a prank on a vulnerable teen who later takes her own life. These parents should be arrested but word is they broke no laws. The blogs are getting... 
Media Matters - It's time for MSNBC to address Carlson's comments
It seems the neo-conservative/republican minded amongst us find Gay-bashing something to laugh at. Evidently, Tucker Carlson had no problem admitting to coming back to the scene of an alleging "bothering" of... 
Sexist Monkeys Terrorize Village
In Nachu Kenya there is trouble stirring, for months the village women have suffered at the hands of a brutal troop. Think it is just the work of another run of the mill African, warlord, tyrant.... 
'Til we meet
This is a follow up to a story published at NowPublic, a little over 2 months ago, The new, new normal, which tells the story of one family's efforts to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina."If you’ve...
Friendship: The Laws of Attraction
"The conventional wisdom is that we choose friends because of who they are. But it turns out that we actually love them because of the way they support who we are. My best friend, Olivia, and I met in a fiction-writing class almost 20 years ago. We bonded in an instant during...
Tips to Beat Job Burnout - Part 2 in a 2-Part Series
"In Part 1, we discussed how to know if you have job burnout -- an ailment common to workers in the healthcare industry. This part of the article will discuss tips to beat burnout in the workplace. One of the best ways to defeat burnout is to make your job more enjoyable....
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