You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment (Henry David Thoreau)

localhuman — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:01:45 -0800

After hearing our show about moments of death, filmmaker Will Hoffman went out in search of moments of life. What follows is what he found. What is a moment? From the RadioLab Blog at WNYC, [via]

Church giggles to the extreme

lauranesson — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:28:50 -0800

In 1962, in a mission-run girls' boarding school in Kashasha, Tanzania, a student started laughing uncontrollably. Her laughter spread throughout the school, and the girls grew violent when teachers tried to calm them. Administration closed the school, sent some girls home, and the "epidemic of laughing and crying" spread to villages up and down the Bukoba district. The blog entry is from Radiolab producer Ellen Horne, who traveled to Tanzania with funding help from the folks at TED. The resulting segment can be heard today on the season 4 premiere, or later this week on their podcast. More recent episodes of "mass sociogenic illness" include a 2007 epidemic among students in Virginia high school, and a 1999 outbreak involving recalled Coca-Cola in Belgium. Here's a take on MSI in the British Journal of Psychiatry.

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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment (Henry David Thoreau)

Church giggles to the extreme