"Not to tonight, honey — I have a headache." Is there a more dreaded phrase in common parlance? I think not. But the wifey is either going to have to get more creative or buy a chastity belt, because recent research points to the idea that sex might actually cure migraine headaches, especially in women.
Oklahoma Health Sciences Center neurology professor James Couch first thought sex might cure headaches back in 1988, based on the context clues of a perhaps particularly randy patient.
"This lady said 'I really don't need a pill, I need a guy's phone number," [he said]. [...] The patient told Couch she had trouble curing her headaches since her husband had divorced her and she'd signed up for a pain treatment study.
Couch thought this was interesting, in a scientific way, of course. "A physiologic process — the climax — is turning off another physiologic process," said Couch.
The inquisitive Couch soldiered on, asking 84 female migraine patients what happened when they had sex during migraines. 61 percent reported some relief, which means for them, sex was comparable to modern migraine medications called triptans, which are thought to ease 60 to 80 percent of migraines. Even more impressively, 20 percent of women reported that sex cured their migraines completely, while triptans may cure migraines 30 percent of the time.
"Four women said it literally stopped the headache, period," said Couch. "No matter when the headache occurred, it stopped the headache cold."
Score one for...scoring! But there is some bad news, especially for men.
I'm known for my strong stomach: in elementary school, I was the kid who made money by eating different, gross combinations of lunchroom food. Don't laugh — peaches mixed with square hamburgers and every condiment available bought me a community college education. So when a story messes with my cast-adamantium stomach, you know it's pretty sick.
11 workers at Quality Pork Processors in St. Paul, MN, developed numbness, tingling and weakness in limbs and extremities, called chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, after working at the "head table," where they chop up pigs' heads and fire compressed air into the skulls to remove the brains. Scientists at the Mayo Clinic suspect inhaled airborne brain matter may have somehow triggered the illness.
Everyone, you have my permission to hork before continuing with this article.
Surviving after having half of your brain removed is certainly nothing new -- I'm living proof of the heights of success one can achieve while running on half-empty. But a woman in China tops all those people who had to pay to surgically halve their brains by sporting an all-natural, double-d, half-brain.
The Chinese woman only discovered she had half a brain when she went to the doctor with complaints of "feeling weak." That must've been an epic day at the clinic for Dr. Zhang -- can you imagine the amount of people he had to forward that first "dude, get this!" email to?
(A 60-second primer on Daredevil, for the geekily inclined.)
OK, it's not quite as cool as Marvel Comics' blind superhero, who could literally "see" with sound -- but it's close. People blinded early in life really do develop extra-sensitive aural abilities compared to the rest of us, by shunting their brains' unused visual circuitry over to enhance the sound-detecting parts. No radioactive accidents needed!
"Not to tonight, honey — I have a headache." Is there a more dreaded phrase in common parlance? I think not. But the wifey is either going to have to get more creative or buy a chastity belt, because recent research points to the idea that sex might actually cure migraine headaches, especially in women. 
I'm known for my strong stomach: in elementary school, I was the kid who made money by eating different, gross combinations of lunchroom food. Don't laugh — peaches mixed with square hamburgers and every condiment available bought me a community college education. So when a story messes with my cast-adamantium stomach, you know it's pretty sick.
Surviving after having half of your brain removed is 
