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Re:Airplane Mode by khookie on Monday February 07, 2011 @08:07PM (#2191498)
Airplane mode is also good for keeping your sperm count up when it's in your pockets.
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Re:Airplane Mode by albemuth on Monday February 07, 2011 @08:29PM (#2191543)
Is it really that bad? I'd like to see a study on this, at the moment I'm just a bit freaked out from reading 4HB but I'll definitely try to remember doing this
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Re:Airplane Mode by adnam on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @06:20AM (#2192565)
What is 4HB?
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Re:Airplane Mode by khafra on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @08:19AM (#2192744)
The Four-Hour Body, by Tim Ferriss. There's a chapter on gaining progeny, for those who want that; he observes that when you put a cellphone next to rats for an hour a day their sperm count and free testosterone are lowered.
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Re:Airplane Mode by adnam on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @08:45AM (#2192802)
Tim Ferriss observed this? Or in which peer-reviewed journal did the study appear?
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Re:Airplane Mode by khafra on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @09:04AM (#2192858)
Strangely, I couldn't find a place in the book where he directly cites the dozens of studies he says he read; but he does quote from this one: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19578660
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Re:Airplane Mode by pangram on Monday February 07, 2011 @10:01PM (#2191743)
However, do not try keeping the phone out of airplane mode as a substitute for other contraception methods.
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Re:Airplane Mode by orev on Monday February 07, 2011 @09:42PM (#2191697)
Why do you care about that? Unless you're actively trying to have a child?
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