The organization called CONRAD, together with Nascentis Medicina Reproductiva, Córdoba, Argentina, supplied the researchers who did the research that resulted in the study “Use of laptop computers connected to internet through Wi-Fi decreases human sperm motility and increases sperm DNA fragmentation,” which we mentioned not so long ago. Investigator Julio Ernst commends this song, about Conrad, by […]
Tag: Internet
Moms on the Net: Intro to Computer Science
“Moms on the Net” is a propaganda video about moms on the net. It’s not new, but it’s got staying power. It begins with the words “What a day”: This video is a good introduction, in its own way, though possibly in no other way, to the field of computer science. (Thanks to investigator Carole […]
The rise of the meta-troll
Behold the rise of the meta-troll. Many of the comments to our column about a study about Internet trolls are from trolls or people gleefully pretending to be trolls. One comment, by a person using the name or label “GraemeByrne”, is special. It appears to be an example of meta-trolling: “Whenever I have come across […]
On the Impoliteness of Trolls
A new study tries to sharpen our understanding of the highly verbal parasites known as trolls. Trolls – call them internet trolls, if you like – are in some ways quite similar to Plasmodium falciparum, a protozoan parasite that causes malaria in large numbers of human beings. Both kinds of parasite are maddeningly difficult to suppress. They […]