According to the Metro today the production of sperm and brain cells are both very energy demanding. Thus males cannot generate large numbers of both. The study found that in bat species where the females were unusally promiscuous the males had much larger testicles, up to 8.5% of their body mass, as opposed to 0.02-0.75% [...]
Archive for: December, 2005
Work related injuries
I’ve had a bit of a bad week this week. On Tuesday I stabbed myself in the thumb with a screwdriver. Which still really hurts. Then later I managed to jam the same hand in a pair of pliers. Wedensday I then managed to drop a circuit board (no I don’t mean the type in [...]