Incurable hiccups and predicting the weather with insect romance - Recreational Science | Lyssna här

What’s the best way to get rid of hiccups? Have you tried massaging your butt?

Animals are deeply in tune with nature. Are insects more or less likely to mate when a storm is approaching?

In this episode, Lu and Tirth discuss the effectiveness of digital rectal massage in treating otherwise incurable hiccups and how moths’ and beetles’ interest in sex changes depending on the atmospheric pressure.

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro
0:41 Texas
7:21 Hiccups studies
19:03 Insect study
27:25 Let’s read some mail
31:34 What did you learn today, outro

Article links:

Fesmire, 1988. Termination of intractable hiccups with digital rectal massage. Annals of Emergency Medicine. https://www.annemergmed.com/article/S0196-0644(88)80594-8/abstract
Odeh et al., 1990. Termination of intractable hiccups with digital rectal massage. Journal of Internal Medicine. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2796.1990.tb00134.x
Lee & Tong, 2017. Termination of Persistent Hiccups by Digital Rectal Massage. The Journal of Emergency Medicine. https://www.jem-journal.com/article/S0736-4679(16)30634-5/abstract
Pellegrino et al., 2013. Weather Forecasting by Insects: Modified Sexual Behaviour in Response to Atmospheric Pressure Changes. PLoS One. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0075004

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