Whoever invented the ‘laptop’ probably didn’t worry too much about male reproductive health. Turns out, unsurprisingly, that sitting with a computer on your lap will crank up the temperature of your nether regions, which could affect sperm quality.
And there is little you can do about it, according to the authors of a study out today in the journal Fertility and Sterility, short of putting your laptop on a desk. The researchers hooked thermometers to the scrotums of 29 young men who were balancing a laptop on their knees. They found that even with a lap pad under the computer, the men’s scrotums overheated quickly.
I guess you could call this One for the Books, or not. Facebook is being preemptively sued by Lamebook over trademark infringement. Lamebook is a parody website of Facebook.
Lamebook is a satirical site which allows Facebook users to submit funny status updates or events they’ve seen or been involved in. It’s from the same family of sites as Regretsy (which mocks Etsy listings) and People Of Walmart (which features photos of strange people who shop at Walmart)
Watch the below video on the McGurk Effect and it will literally mess with your mind. The McGurk effect is a perceptual phenomenon which demonstrates an interaction between hearing and vision in speech perception. It suggests that speech perception is multimodal, that is, that it involves information from more than one sensory modality.
Amazon just plopped down $500 million for the owners of Diaper.com. Expanding its online retail empire, Amazon.com Inc. said Monday it is buying Quidsi, the owner of Diapers.com and Soap.com, for $500 million in cash.
A series of posters and broasdsides collectively titled Avoid Eye Contact, most of which lean in a darkly humorous dystopian direction. They are artifacts from the Brave New Homeland. “You may be at risk for extermination, redemption, extinction, or salvation. Do not leave your body unattended at any time.”
