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The Scrotum Is Nuts
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Why are testicles kept in a vulnerable dangling sac? It’s not why you think.
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Some of you may be thinking that there is a simple answer: temperature. This arrangement evolved to keep them cool. I thought so, too, and assumed that a quick glimpse at the scientific literature would reveal the biological reasons and I’d move on. But what I found was that the small band of scientists who have dedicated their professional time to pondering the scrotum’s existence are starkly divided over this so-called cooling hypothesis.
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Story: Trophy
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Another monologue… This time from a suggestion of “Trophy”:
It’s weird, right? Stressing over something so small. I mean, it shouldn’t be that big a deal, but it is. It’s my trophy. I won it. I put in the hours and effort, I sacrificed for it, it’s mine.
I mean, she doesn’t even want it. She said so.
She said to me “Karen, I don’t care if I win”.
That drives me crazy. How could you not want to win? Isn’t that the point? I mean, why take part if you’re not wanting to win? What is the actual point? Dad always said “If you’re not a winner, then you’re a loser, and we’re not a family of losers”. So that’s driven me all through my life. I have to be first. I have to be the one to win. Nothing else matters. The highest grades in school, medals at the sports days, being top of the class. Nothing else matters.
Nothing.
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Fabulous short story by my friend Bryn. Go read it…
Digest for September 2018
Summary
This month’s blog activity was mostly dominated by 360° photos taken with my new camera, e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. I also had to archive two geocaches, Oxford’s Wild Wolf One and Two, as they’d been getting muggled/vandalised. I also shared a fabulous reinterpretation of Who’s On First? for the post-post-modern society.
All posts
Posts marked by an asterisk (*) are referenced by the summary above.
Checkins
- Dan Q archived GC7Q9E6 / OK0457 – Oxford’s Wild Wolf One *
- Dan Q archived GC7Q9FF / OK0458 – Oxford’s Wild Wolf Two *
- Dan Q temporarily disabled GC7Q9FF Oxford’s Wild Wolf Two
- Dan Q performed maintenance for GC7Q96B Oxford’s Long-Lost Zoo
Notes
- Once you’re doing with adding #indieweb awesome to your website, @henrahmagix, you might like to add an RSS feed so people like me can subscribe! In the meantime, I made you a temporary one at https://rssey.danq.me/henryblyth powered by my RSSey tool ( like this: https://github.com/Dan-Q/rssey/blob/master/feeds/henryblyth.js ).
- Oh, go on, one more 360° photo: view from @NuffieldCollege’s (library) tower, ten stories above the #Oxford castle quarter. *
- One last @NuffieldCollege 360° photo on my lunchtime walk. Cool archway! *
- Walking around @NuffieldCollege at lunchtime: love this long pond. *
- Lunchtime at @NuffieldCollege gave me another excuse to snap some 360° photos; this one’s part of the quad. *
- The @bodleianlibs Comms Team Away Day at @NuffieldCollege provides yet another excuse to play with 360° photography. *
Reposts
Reposts marked with a dagger (†) include my comments or interpretation.
Note #10603
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Note #10601
Oh, go on, one more 360° photo: view from @NuffieldCollege’s (library) tower, ten stories above the #Oxford castle quarter.
Note #10598
One last @NuffieldCollege 360° photo on my lunchtime walk. Cool archway!
Note #10596
Walking around @NuffieldCollege at lunchtime: love this long pond.
Note #10594
Lunchtime at @NuffieldCollege gave me another excuse to snap some 360° photos; this one’s part of the quad.
Note #10589
The @bodleianlibs Comms Team Away Day at @NuffieldCollege provides yet another excuse to play with 360° photography.
That way they would never know
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Some 702 intimate examinations were done on sedated or anaesthetised patients (table 3). In only 24% of these examinations had written consent been obtained, and a further 24% of examinations were conducted apparently without written or oral consent.
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This 2003 study at an “English medical school” determined that vaginal/rectal examinations were routinely carried out on anaesthetised patients without their knowledge or consent. “I was told in the second year that the best way to learn to do [rectal examinations] was when the patient was under anaesthetic,” one fourth year student responded, to the survey, “That way they would never know.”
Well ain’t that a thing.
Unwrapping a viper
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Ah! That “new snake” smell.
Dan Q trash OK0457 Oxford’s Wild Wolf One
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Dan Q trash OK0458 Oxford’s Wild Wolf Two
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Dan Q temporarily disabled GC7Q9FF Oxford’s Wild Wolf Two
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This is definitely muggled to death. Never seen a cache and its hiding place so-deliberately wrecked as this before!