Friday Weird Science: The Baby is Due, is it Time to Get It ON?!

Sci, like everyone else around here, isn’t immune to the sands of time. She’s getting older, along with all of her friends, who are pairing up and settling down. This means two things:
1) Sci has been a bridesmaid SIX TIMES and counting so far. The tales she could tell…
2) Sci friends are having BABIES. LOTS AND LOTS OF BABIES. 400 BABIES!

(Sci is often accused of have GRATUITOUS AMOUNTS OF ENERGY. Also, she has to wonder if these guys had ever tried the energy gel called “Chocolate Outrage”. It may or may not be my favorite)
And of course with all these babies comes lots of information about babies and pregnancy. Sci has now learned about conception timing, morning sickness, the things being pregnant does to your bladder, the things having babies does to your sleep, the many amazing colors babies can produce substances in, etc, etc. And she heard one “fact” that made her ears perk up. It was this one:

Having sex and achieving orgasm when you’re due can help induce labor.

And her first thought was…well…can it?

(Sci saw this once with someone who was pregnant with twins. It was massively cool to watch her stomach and see an arm or a nose or a hand slide by.)
Tan et al. “Coitus and orgasm at term: effect on spontaneous labour and pregnancy outcome” Singapore Medical Journal, 2009.

Friday Weird Science: Getting carpal tunnel could be more fun than you think

So after that whole myth about sex in space got thrown around and it turned out to be bunk (well, ok, I’m calling it bunk until I see the report my ownself, and I was SO happy to be able to say “sex…in…spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace…”. Blah), I figure I owe you guys some REAL Friday Weird Science. Or at least, a really amusing hypothesis.
Ah, Journal of Medical Hypotheses. Where would we be without the hilarious, half-baked meanderings of people who submit their lightly-supported ideas to a journal with no peer-review?
I would like to dedicate this post to my laboratory manager. She is totally hilarious, and went through some rough surgery for carpal tunnel a few years ago. And now she’s going to go through an even MORE rough time as I mock her for the next few years about how she GOT the carpel tunnel. Mwah-ha-ha-ha…
Kudos also go out to NCBI ROFL, who pointed me towards this paper in the first place. What’s up, guys.
John Zenian. ‘The role of sexual intercourse in the etiology of carpal tunnel syndrome’ Medical Hypotheses, 2010.