On the fourth Sunday of every month Venerable Suco Hue Huong, the Buddhist nun who anchors Buu Hung Buddhist Monastery in east Vancouver, offers a no-nonsense lecture about life, death and the human q ...

This is a highly edited version of the sermon Rabbi Fellman delivered to her congregation over the High Holy Days. Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, started on the first of Tishrei corresponding to ...

Human language hasn’t simply replaced the vocalizations of our primate cousins. Instead, we use language on top of the communication systems we inherited from our prelinguistic predecessors. We laugh ...

Scholars have long wondered whether humans are unique in their use of laughter. There is little doubt that all of our close genetic relatives—chimps, gorillas, and orangutans—use some form of laughter ...

While laughter is often considered uniquely human, tied to language and sense of humor, all great apes produce remarkably similar vocalizations during play that share evolutionary origins with human ...

I vividly remember a conversation with my very liberal grandmother 22 years ago when after she saw the 2003 movie "Elf," with Will Ferrell, she said, “That movie was so funny, it made me forget about ...