Yonatan Zunger (zunger) wrote,
Yonatan Zunger
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Your random news item for the day

First item on this page, sorta kinda work-safe... I can only hope that the woman in question is making this up, and working on the assumption that in Britain, it would sound normal.

OK, I really hope that she's making this up.
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What the $#@%?

covenantscave

August 30 2002, 13:08:27 UTC 13 years ago

I'm MUCH, MUCH more disturbed by story #3, "Sperm Learn, Turn".

My little guys CAN learn?!? WTF?

This is DEEPLY disturbing.

I think I need a drink.

Eep!

Re: What the $#@%?

darklingrose

August 30 2002, 14:06:45 UTC 13 years ago

oh, it's much, much scarier than that.

They can (and do) also band together and "make camp" in little crevices, sending out smaller groups every so often to search, for up to eight days...

fear THAT. I sure am thankful for my pills!!! *giggle*

Re: What the $#@%?

zunger

August 30 2002, 14:16:00 UTC 13 years ago

I'm just getting the strangest mental picture now, of a small sperm encampment behind trenches, with a grizzled sperma-sergeant (wearing a helmet, of course) leading a band of scared young sperm on a reconaissance mission, their rifles in hand with bayonets fixed...

Hey, maybe this is where Newt Gingrich got his ideas about giraffe-hunting!

Re: What the $#@%?

darklingrose

August 30 2002, 15:03:31 UTC 13 years ago

heh. yah, I got a similar mental image when I first heard about that.

and I think Newt got his ideas from an alarming lack of good sex.

Re: What the $#@%?

sdragon

August 30 2002, 23:06:30 UTC 13 years ago

I wonder if there is correlation between the navigational abilities of sperm and of their donor . . . and does navigation ability get passed on to the resulting offspring?