http://www.zefrank.com/punc/
In our personal, and professional lives...
http://www.improb.com/airchives/paperair/volume8/v8i3/sleep-
retardant.html
She proposed that, instead of taking hasty action, we conduct
an experimental study where we flip a coin each night to
determine whether I would sleep at her apartment or my own, in
order to prove a causative effect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_heinlein
During his long hospitalization he conceived of the waterbed,
and his detailed descriptions of it in three of his books later
prevented others from patenting the idea.