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The Evolutionary Origin of Descending Testicles
- rrggrr 8y agoIf they were internal they would be impossible to scratch. I can't see how this a mystery.
- bytematic 8y agoHumans would find a way.
- mikece 8y agoThe stories that get voted to the front page of HN confuse me at times...
- projectramo 8y agoIt's just nuts...
- zyxwvu 8y agoWhy has it become acceptable to place ads in-between the text of an article (mobile at least)? I counted no less than 4 ads within the article. They almost always bug my browser out when they're loading while I'm reading through the article. Not to mention making the whole end-user experience terrible.
- ISL 8y agoThat is how newspapers have been for centuries.
- zyxwvu 8y agoNo. Newspapers would have article conintued on page # that would break up an article. The ads were not within the article/wall of texts themselves. Those ads also didn't break or hinder the the medium through which the text was displayed.
- nofunsir 8y agoAmusingly, they call them "CompanionColumns" in the html. I'm sure there's a uBlock filter one could create.
- acqq 8y agoI don't see any appropriate picture there, so at least here: https://www.fark.com/farq/about/ https://www.fark.com/farq/about/ "For the first two years of Fark.com's existence (1997-1999), all you got was this picture of a squirrel with big nuts"
- trhway 8y agoit is pretty much clear that it is because of temperature, yet what specific effects lower temp plays is still a matter of research, and i find this interesting wrt. various studies of epigenetics emerging in recent times: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4142806/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4142806/ " we hypothesize that, at least for some loci, the sex-specific epigenetic remodeling process might be influenced by the temperatures at which male and female gonads are exposed during the acquisition of a new imprinting. "