A new study from researchers at SUNY found that the combination of high computer temperature and the knees-together posture required for actually positioning a laptop on your lap can increase scrotum temperature by as much as 2.8 degrees centigrade. That's enough to impair sperm production and lower fertility rates.
The over-generalized conclusion made by the popular media: teenage boys and young men should limit the use of laptops on their laps.
Thanks to the balls-out efforts of 29 volunteers, who, I'm sure, had to make up all kinds of scientific-sounding mumbo jumbo when asked what they had to do for that $75.
Careful, lads, that laptop might burn your genes [Times of London, via Towleroad]
After months of dealing with colic and saying that we don't want to go through this again (which, of course, I am sure we will forget in 2 or 3 years), I actually ordered a laptop a few days ago.
Maybe subconsciously, I was taking action to make sure our little girl was an only child...