The city council of the city of Wilmington, Delaware, USA has just passed a resolution (#12-02, on March 1, 2012) calling for every human sperm and every human egg to have the full set of rights to which each human citizen is entitled. This would instantly increase the population of the city of Delaware from […]
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Conrad’s cutting remarks: Scissors (and WiFi & testicles?)
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 […]
Provocative cell phone & semen study
A group of researchers at Medical University of Graz, Austria and Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada invite you to consider cell phones and semen. You may be dubious about claims that cell phones cause cancer and various other ills. In that you would be in broad company — nearly all of the scientists who carefully looked […]
Ichthyology’s most salacious study
Is this ichthyology’s most salacious study? “Female mouthbrooders in control of pre- and postmating sexual selection,” Marcel P. Haesler, Charlotte M. Lindeyer, Oliver Otti, Danielle Bonfils, Dik Heg and Michael Taborsky, Behavioral Ecology, epub June 14, 2011. (Thanks to investigator Charles Oppenheim for bringing this to our attention.) The authors, at various institutions in Switzerland, […]