There is a new (new to us, anyway) twist in the scrotal asymmetry story: a new form of underwear, offered for sale under the description “String Latéral Flash Bleu Alter”. The most recent, and most celebrated, part of the saga was the awarding in 2002 of the Ig Nobel Prize for medicine to Chris McManus of University College […]
Tag: Testicles
Is playing the harmonica linked to male infertility?
In the first study of its kind, a team of medics from the Aja University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, have investigated whether male mouth-organ players might suffer abnormally high rates of infertility. They were following the hypothesis that the hard blowing associated with harmonica playing might mimic the so-called Valsalva maneuver which, say the […]
Headline of the day: Yogurt and ball circumference
Today’s Headline of the Day is from Scientific American, atop an article by Elie Dolgin: Mice That Eat Yogurt Have Larger Testicles The article itself begins: Last summer a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology set out to better understand the effects of yogurt on obesity. They were following up on the results […]
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 […]