The Humor Code

• I’m currently working with University of Colorado Boulder Professor Peter McGraw on The Humor Code, a global exploration of what makes thing funny that will culminate in a book to be published by Free Press. The project evolved out of stories I wrote about McGraw and his Humor Research Lab (aka HuRL) for Westword newspaper and Wired magazine.

  If all goes as planned, we will explore the healing power of laughing with Patch Adams in the slums of Peru, trek through Tanzania to pin down the origin of a devastating three-year laughter epidemic and trade zingers with revolutionaries in Palestine, among other escapades.

  Along the way, we are blogging about our adventures and experiments at Wired.com, Huffington Post and Psychology Today, as well as chronicling our travels through photos and videos posted on our Facebook page.