Blurb from Original Website (2011)
Here's John Stewart making a correction:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-august-4-2011/moment-of-zen---dancing-birth-control-pills
No, I don't have any idea why the wacky birth control ad has a Bollywood soundtrack. But it's a good example of one of the many things I love about John Stewart. He makes fun of everybody. He rags on atheists and Planned Parenthood in one episode; the next he's telling Rick Perry to "dial back the Texas" from Yosemite Sam to Walker, Texas Ranger, or that coach feller from Friday Night Lights.
What is the evolutionary significance of laughter, anyway? Probably the guy who's spent the most ink on this is Robert Provine at the University of Maryland, who's been on Radio Lab more than once, and whom I hope to get on this show someday. If you don't know Radio Lab, you are missing out. Completely coincidentally, they were mucking around in the basal ganglia just a few weeks ago.
http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2011/aug/09/damn-it-basal-ganglia/
And there's a neat young-scientist career angle on it, too, which is cool.
Happy Labor Day.
Updates from 2021
REFERENCES from the show
VSI Episode 15