Sperm Tales
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In today’s podcast, a teaser for our hour-long Sperm show. If you think you learned all there is to know from that junior high school filmstrip, think again.
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(laughing) - I quite... - You're listening to Radio Lab. - The podcast. - From? - Who you are public radio. - Public radio, W-N-Y-C. - N-P-R. - Hello, I'm Jada Boomerad. - Hello, I'm Robert Colvin. - This is Radio Lab, the podcast. - Which means it's not the broadcast. - Not the one hour show. - Not the one hour show. - It's like a little tidbit. - This is a tidbit, but this is a tidbit with a teasing purpose. - Yes. - Because in the next few weeks, we are going to do the real shows about race, and there's one about choice. There's one, however, entirely devoted to the subject of sperm and sperm, you think. Well, why would you spend so much time talking about that? - Yes, in fact, it's a very sad, lonely show. Benio, go on. (laughing) - We learn a lot of things. I mean, if you open up any little basket and ask too many questions, you learn all kinds of fascinating things. - That is so true, particularly with sperm. - Yes, so we talked when we were preparing this hour with a woman named Joanna Ellington, a fertility expert who runs a company with a very short name, kind of like sperm itself. Inng, it's a fertility firm. And I asked her, if you are a healthy male at the very top of your game, so you've got everything you're ever gonna have, and they're all fiskey little guys ready to go, what proportion of your gang would be fit and ready to do the deed? - A normal ejaculate from a man is if you have 14, 1, 4, 14% or more of the sperm that are normally shaped. That's very low percent. - And 86% are abnormally shaped? - Yeah. - How do they differ from the normal? - Typically, you're gonna have problems with the tail,
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In today’s podcast, a teaser for our hour-long Sperm show. If you think you learned all there is to know from that junior high school filmstrip, think again.