Falling is funny, & scientifically so [Video, article]

Why is falling so funny? Watch this video and then get into the science of “Benign Violation Theory”, which seeks to explain it with three conditions:

  1. ordinary life is somehow thrown off balance
  2. No one gets hurt
  3. And the first two conditions happen simultaneously. 

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