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Athletics lovers, here is a new competition for you in Ogle: the sperm race.
You may have read that male fertility is down and that the motility for sperm motility (travel speed) is apparently a factor. To draw attention to this problem, the founding adolescents of Sperm Racing have decided to transform it into sport. Or, to quote them: “We build the very first traffic track for sperm. Two competitors. Two samples. A microscopic finish line. “
Their website indicates that they have created “a microscopic race track that imitates the reproductive system”, and that “high resolution cameras” “will follow each microscopic movement”. They promise that “everything is live” (we assume that the choice of the sentence was deliberate) and that the winner will be “the sperm which first crosses the finish line, verified by advanced imaging”.
The first race, April 25, opposed the sperm of donors from two Californian universities to each other. Readers might wonder why the comments are so late in this story. For once, this is not due to our usual delay in order to identify news. This is because there was a touch in history after the event.
Unfortunately for the organizers, a journalist followed: River Page, a journalist at The free press. In a presentation, he explained: “The winners were known in advance. And the “race” was generated by computer. “
The problem is that microscopes do not work like that. If you have a long enough track for the sperm to swim in a competitive way, there is no way to install a camera that follows them. For movies, a camera person can follow Tom Cruise while he runs along the roof of a moving train. But it is difficult to keep a concentrated microscope even when the cells are practically stationary.
The creators apparently organized a real race in a private room, and in order to “show” the sperm that runs on the track in favor of a paying audience, they used computer -generated images.
This led the comments to think that it is unlikely that a second cycle of sperm racing ever takes place. Then, we remembered that millions of people really like “sports entertainment” such as the fight, although it is entirely false, and that the results of football are largely determined by which team belongs to the most necessary billionaire. Thus, sperm races could indeed be the next great thing.
Aqueous food
Comments are a food connoisseur, in the sense that we have read a lot of fashionable diets. Cut all the carbohydrates! Just eat red meat, salt and water! Eat only raw foods! There is also an “air protein”, but it simply means “microbes that feed on carbon dioxide”.
Just when we thought there were no new horizons to explore, we discovered the “water -based kitchen”. Since living organisms represent around 60% water, our first thought was that this could be another term for “cooking”. But then we found the headlines like: “Fad of food or science – or both?” Why cook with water can help slow aging “and” what is water -based kitchen – and why it’s better for you “. It was time to go further.
Essentially, water -based cooking means that you cook food in the water as much as possible, rather than oils. Boil, embers or steam; Do not fry or roast. This reduces the quantity of advanced glycation (ages), found in the golden crisp bits, for example, a fried steak, linked to health problems. Therefore, let’s say the water -based cooks, we must avoid eating them.
The main engine of this is a Michelle Davenport: “a nutritional scientist formed by the UCSF and the NYU, dietitian and former founder of a food company for digital children”, which “teaches more than 194,000 people on Instagram how to take control of their metabolic health thanks to water -based kitchen methods, inspired by its family recipes”.
Hence a post Tiktok that reads as follows: “POV you started water -based kitchen and now your skin is clear, your stomach is prosperous and you recover from a disease during the night”.
The comments seem that it could be a little about things, but it is the culture of well-being for you: if you are in something other than perfect health, it is certainly the result of your own choices. Anyway, we can’t help but sympathize with her on Bluesky, who simply says: “It’s soup. They make soup.”
Pizza surprise
We have requested examples of scientific studies like “no shit, Sherlock” which go to huge lengths to confirm things that we could have guess. The initial prompt was a study showing that the SUVs are more likely than smaller cars to kill you if they hit you.
In response, the Roger Erdem reader sent a selection of results completely without surprise. Here is one. In The Journal of Knee SurgeryResearchers led by Steven Defroda have published that “the players of the National Football League have higher rates of tears in the knee extensors during short and normal rest weeks against long weeks of rest”. Or, as the press release says, “NFL players more likely to injure the knee after a shorter rest period”. Well, yes.
A second jewel of Erdem concerned a study in Nutrients Directed by Katsumi Iizuka. This had the completely attractive title, “the type of meal rather than the meal sequence affects the duration of the meal, the chewing number and the chewing tempo”.
The study requires if certain types of food is consumed more quickly, contributing to obesity. Or, like a news in Medicalxpress In other words: “The study shows that pizza is consumed faster than baguette meals”. It turns out that live tasks are really taking longer.
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