video Your Babies #012: Silly mummy is hair-lairious According to John Cleese, there are three rules of comedy: Rule 1. No puns. Rule 2. No puns. Rule 3. No puns. Why am I telling you this? Well babies aren't big fans of puns either. But, just like John Cleese, they do like grown ups being silly.
science Happy to be alive This picture and the accompanying caption have been whizzing round the internet in the last few days. I'm afraid I don't know where it originally comes from or anything else about it but it is definitely worth sharing.
science Birkbeck Babylab at London Baby Show We are going to be at the Baby Show this weekend. It's at the ExCel centre in London docklands and runs from Friday 22nd - Sunday 24th Feb. So i imagine it is a huge event. If you are planning on coming, come and find us and say
video Your Babies #011: Kelly humours her father Babies laugh a lot so it is not surprising if they laugh at seemingly strange things. But who or what is really amusing them? In this clip 9 month old Kelly is laughing at her father stripping paint from a windowsill with a coin. Now that's a strange
science What makes Canadian babies laugh? I did a live interview with Canadian breakfast TV last week. Here it is: That was the first time I've been on live television but it all happened so fast that I didn't have much chance to get nervous. I was in a small cupboard in
video Your Babies #010: Evan falling about with laughter, Toddy less impressed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz3zkov1CxU Here we see 8.5 month old Evan having hysterics over mummy Michelle's new tape measure. It's so funny that he falls over laughing. I love how the family dog is completely indifferent to it all. Thanks to Evan,
video Your Babies #009: Frankie losing his wee mind. Julie Lovell sent in this video of her 5.5 month old son Frankie. I'll let her explain: I was changing the duvet cover - when I shook it out he started losing his wee mind and didn't stop. It was awesome!
video Your Babies #008: Lily laughing at tearing paper. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWWdQLR9l Babies laugh at lots of things we wouldn't expect them to. 50 million people have wondered why baby Micah laughed at tearing paper. The most common explanation I've heard is that Micah probably laughs at everything. Micah does seem
science The science of a baby's smile Sandra Kiume over at ChannelN has a nice video of new research that uses babies smiles to track their development. Here's what they say about it: autismBaby Smiles Provide Clues to Healthy DevelopmentNational Science FoundationScience Nation Click here to see the video Babies are Smiling for Science (Channel
video Your Babies #007: Callan can't take Ikea seriously Laughter is a two-way street. It isn't long before laughing babies start clowning around, trying to make us laugh. They're pretty good at it too. Although they do have a tendency to laugh very hard at their own jokes. Here we see one year old Callan
laughter THE "original" laughing baby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjXi6X-moxE Apparently, this laughing baby (aka William Nilsson) is so well known that he is known as THE laughing baby. He even has his own wikipedia entry. Here's what they say: The Laughing Baby is an Internet neologism given to a YouTube
Uncategorized Laugh... wait... Laugh... wait.... Laugh... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnagemulucw We've probably had this one before but a friend just sent it to me again and it's definitely worth a second go. And when I took a closer look I noticed something new. I like how the baby'
science Richard Bacon interview Welcome to listener's to Radio Five Live. Caspar was on Richard Bacon's show this afternoon (click to listen).It was great fun and hopefully it went well. It went so fast I didn't really have time to tell. But fortunately this also didn'
science Baby scientists As a baby scientist I often get asked 'What is a baby scientist?'. One answer is that I am a scientist who studies what it is like to be a baby. And what is it like to be a baby? Funnily enough it's a lot like
video Your Babies #006: Jasper already full of laughter at 9 weeks Many babies are already laughing by three months old. (Many others aren't as babies start laughing a wide range of ages.) These videos sent to us by Gord Thompson show that his son Jasper was laughing early. In the first one Gord is playing with Jasper's
science Your theories on baby's laughter In one of the questions in our survey we ask parents for their theories on what makes their babies laugh. Here are some of their answers. (My favourites highlighted in bold.) * He loves to join in with a shared joke, this is part of a much wider love of participating
science What is the most memorable example of your baby laughing? Here are some of your answers to our survey question about the most memorable laugh.(Some of my favourites are highlighted in bold). * He has a particularly deep belly laugh when his tummy is kissed or tickled. * Dabbing around his mouth with a muslin caused lots of laughter c6 months
science Wag the dog: A science project for babies' best friend. Pet dogs are high up on the list of things that make babies laugh. But what makes dogs wag their tails? Some researchers in New York want to find out and would like your help. They are interested in how dogs and humans interact and what is involved when we
science Some early results of our study. We’ve had over 300 responses from 22 different countries. So far we’ve found a surprisingly wide range of ages for babies first laughs. We’re happy to report that mummy and daddy seem to be equally funny. Peekaboo is by far the most popular game for making babies
video Your Babies #005: Gangnam Style is popular with babies too. It had to happen sooner or later, those two YouTube juggernauts, laughing babies and Korean popstar Psy have collided. Stephenie sent us this video of her 1 & 1/2 year old dancing and laughing to the Gangnam Style video. His favorite bit seems to be when the music stops
science Should we tickle babies? Like a ride on a rollercoaster, tickling can teeter on the brink of being scary or unpleasant. In fact that's part of what is so fun about both tickling and rollercoasters. But just as babies are too small for scary fairground rides, maybe tickling is too much for
science BBC World Service: Why do we Laugh? he BBC World service programme the Why Factor has just broadcast a short program on why people laugh. You can still hear it online: At first glance, it seems like a very obvious basic human response - we laugh because we find things amusing. But what is it that actually
science Welcome, Bienvenue, Selamat datang, में आपका स्वागत है, Dialu-alukan It seems that last week's story in the Independent got picked up all around the world. So welcome to anyone from India, China, Zimbabwe and beyond. Hello and welcome, if you've found us from one of those sites. If you have a baby please take our
science Welcome readers of the Independent. We are very pleased that the Independent has taken an interest in the baby laughter project. We like their article and hope that you do too. If you are a parent of a baby under 2 and a half, you can help us by completing our survey. Everyone else is
