For the next three weeks I will be talking with the brilliantly insightful interesting, wise and wisdom packed Dr. Catherine Franssen. Catherine, along with being one of my very fav new friends of 2021 is a Life scientist at the Science museum of Virginia who is described as a multi-faceted scientific communicator with deep knowledge at the intersection of brain, behavior, and biology. She has made it her personal mission to advance scientific literacy using the lens of neuroscience to explore daily life experiences, such as stress, parenting, joy, decision making, and more. So basically she has made a career of answering all those questions we have ever had about why we do the things we do – so cool!!

This week Catherine and I are going to dig into the neuroscience of comedy! I am so excited to explore why we laugh why comedians chose stand up as a career and so many more quandaries I’ve always had about this bizarre world of comedy.