TRC #632: Anti-Sex Beds + Hollow Earth? + Youngest Mother

Cristina fact checks rumours circulating on social media that anti-sex beds were installed in Tokyo’s Olympic Village to deter athletes from hooking up. Adam digs into the plausibility of the Hollow Earth theory after seeing Godzilla vs. Kong. Darren looks into the shocking story behind the youngest person to ever give birth.

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Anti-Sex Beds

Fact Check: Have Tokyo Olympics Athletes Been Given ‘Anti-Sex’ Beds?

Were Anti-Sex Beds Installed at the 2020 Olympics?

Tokyo hospitals bracing for the worst in virus infections | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert  Monologue July 20

Olympic athletes experiment with their cardboard beds

Paul Chelimo on Twitter: “Beds to be installed in Tokyo Olympic Village will be made of cardboard, this is aimed at avoiding intimacy among athletes 

Tokyo 2020 unveil lightweight beds for athletes and mattresses to improve sleep

Hollow Earth? 

Why The Gravity In Godzilla Vs. Kong’s Hollow Earth Makes No Sense – Looper

A brief history of the HOLLOW EARTH THEORY || Monsterverse & Other References – Kaer Fiction – YouTube.com

Hollow Earth – Wikipedia

To Hold Up The Sky by Cixin Liu – Goodreads

Youngest Mother

The Sun UK

Wikipedia Lina Medina 

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One Response to TRC #632: Anti-Sex Beds + Hollow Earth? + Youngest Mother

  1. William T. Bridgman says:

    The Edmund Halley you mention in the Hollow Earth piece is the same Edmund Halley of Halley’s Comet fame.
    IIRC, when Newton first realized his theory of gravitation predicted no net force inside a hold spherical shell, he was suspicious of his result and this contributed to some delay in the publication of his Principia.

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