Children laugh up to 75 times a day, adults fewer than 20. ?What happens between childhood and adulthood?? asked Mark Fraire of the Wisconsin Arts Board. ?I call it life.? As part of an all-ages workshop Sunday ?IMPROVercise ? Releasing Your Sense of Humor? at the Waisman Center on the UW-Madison campus, Fraire gave a talk on the importance of laughter and then led exercises helping children and adults break down social boundaries, engage and have fun.
Fraire?s workshop was one of more than 150 events over the weekend that were part of the second annual Wisconsin Science Festival, which took place at more than three dozen locations across the state, but primarily in Madison and on the UW campus, especially in the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery building.