Laughter Helps You Live Longer

The other day, a member of our team and I somehow landed on the topic of bird group names. (These things tend to happen for some reason).

We discovered that a group of parrots is called a pandemonium, and a group of crows, a murder. Somewhere in the mix there is a parliament of owls and a flamboyance of flamingos. It keeps going if you can believe it. Apparently Ornithologists have a sense of humor.

By the time we got through the list, we were crying laughing. It turns out, apropos to our programs, laughing helps you live longer.

A new study featured in Scientific American followed thousands of people for years and found that those with a strong sense of humor had a lower risk of death from major causes.