The Human Brain Is More Like A Testicle Than Any Other Organ:
Hailed as the most complex and exquisite structure in the universe, the human brain is generally considered to be without equal, yet new research suggests it may have finally met its match in the form of the lowly testicle. According to a study published today in the journal Royal Society Open Biology, our brains have a striking number of genes and proteins in common with the male gonads, and are in fact more akin to a goolie than any other organ in the body.
In spite of its many talents, the brain has long been suspected of maintaining a hidden bond with the testicle, with previous research revealing links between intelligence and semen quality. Yet the extent of the kinship between these two wrinkly blobs has never been fully understood.
To shine some light on the issue, the study authors compared the proteomes of 33 different tissue types, including the brain, testis, heart, ovaries, liver, prostate, cervix, and kidneys. Their results indicated that the brain is made up of 14,315 different proteins while the testis consists of 15,687, with the two tissues sharing an incredible 13,442 proteins in common.
[...] And in case you’re wondering, this also applies to the brains of women, which are just as ball-like as those of men.
Journal Reference:
Bárbara Matos, Stephen J. Publicover, Luis Filipe C. Castro, et al.
Brain and testis: more alike than previously thought?, Open Biology (DOI: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsob.200322)
(Score: 5, Funny) by unauthorized on Sunday June 13 2021, @09:35AM (1 child)
People always tell me I think with my dick, that'll show 'em!
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 14 2021, @01:20AM
This is why men are better. We have three testicles and women have one.
(Score: 5, Funny) by driverless on Sunday June 13 2021, @09:36AM (1 child)
Contrary to long-held opinion, guys don't think with their dicks but with a piece of anatomy in fairly close proximity to them.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 14 2021, @04:27AM
Their hands?
(Score: 4, Funny) by dltaylor on Sunday June 13 2021, @09:39AM (11 children)
Men have only enough blood to fully supply either the brain or the testicles; whichever is supplied controls that action.
FWIW, have they also looked into the control functions of bowels?
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 13 2021, @11:47AM (10 children)
Yours is the third post in a row, that makes me wonder how much men know about their own anatomy. A testicle is not a dick, or a penis. That requirement for a huge blood supply goes to the penis, not the testicles. The testicles get their blood supply no matter how sexually aroused you may or may not be. If you had a baculum, like other primates, that blood supply that you allude to wouldn't be an issue at all.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Farmer Tim on Sunday June 13 2021, @03:06PM
“Close, but no cigar.” - Sigmund Freud
Came for the news, stayed for the soap opera.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Tork on Sunday June 13 2021, @03:36PM (1 child)
Who knew in a thread about dicks a pedant would appear?
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 4, Funny) by Beryllium Sphere (r) on Sunday June 13 2021, @09:13PM
In a discussion about danglies, I would have expected a pendant to appear.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 13 2021, @03:42PM (1 child)
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday June 14 2021, @06:40PM
Blue balls is caused by a backup of unreleased semen once everything was close to launch T minus zero, but then the countdown clock suddenly stopped. This can happen even if no intercourse or actual foreplay touching have occurred.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by Anti-aristarchus on Sunday June 13 2021, @06:59PM (3 children)
Ah, the old argumentum ad baculum! The Phallusy of Appeal to a Dick bone. Right, nothing to do with testes, directly, anyway. (Great, now Runaway will start linking demotivational posters of the ad baculum every time someone says he is wrong.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 14 2021, @03:55AM (2 children)
It's kind of funny that people refer to it as a "boner" when humans are one of the relatively few mammals that lack an actual bone there.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 14 2021, @04:28AM (1 child)
How do you explain the erection then? You guys are so dumb.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday June 14 2021, @06:41PM
Do you know how boner pills work?
They cause an increased blood supply to certain areas of the body near and around the penis.
It's not like a bone. It's like a water balloon being pressurized.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 14 2021, @09:45AM
Considering the number of people that incorrectly call random bits of the female genitourinary system "vagina" is also rather large, probably not as many as you'd hope know about their "dirty bits."
(Score: 4, Funny) by Username on Sunday June 13 2021, @09:42AM (40 children)
This statement implies birthing people don't have testicles. This is obviously anti-science.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 13 2021, @10:30AM (39 children)
Birthing people day is the new politically correct name for Mothers day. Fathers day is coming up... Make sure you use the politically correct name for that too.
(Score: 0, Troll) by crafoo on Sunday June 13 2021, @10:52AM (31 children)
Given the divorce rate and single mother rate, particularly in the black community, I think we can just do away with father's day all together. There aren't many real fathers around anymore.
(Score: 2, Informative) by helel on Sunday June 13 2021, @11:59AM (27 children)
Why would black people staying married hurt fathers day? If your point is that men who get divorced aren't real fathers then shouldn't it be "given the divorce rate ... particularly in the white community ... there aren't many real fathers around anymore"?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Sunday June 13 2021, @02:18PM (26 children)
I can't know how insulting crafoo intended to be, but he has a point. That whole "get tough on crime", the "war on drugs", prison for profit, the school-to-prison pipeline, and decades of targeted law enforcement even before those, has pretty much destroyed the nuclear family in the black community. Governments and their law enforcement, in cooperation with the judicial system, have worked to ensure that young black males DO NOT HAVE adult male role models in their lives.
And, as much as prog/dem/lib people hate to hear it, President Clinton and then-congressman Biden played major roles in locking up those "super-predators".
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/07/politics/biden-1993-speech-predators/index.html [cnn.com]
I believe that ANY population subjected to such treatment for more than a hundred years would be in crap shape. Factor in the black population's former slave status, plus ongoing prejudice from people like Biden, and you have a helluva mess.
But, we're led to believe that Republicans are the racists . . .
(Score: 5, Insightful) by helel on Sunday June 13 2021, @02:29PM
The fact that Clinton and Biden are racist doesn't make Bush and Trump not racist. Say what you will about the effects of the war on drugs but crafoo is strait up lying about easily checked statistics in a way that casts the African American community in a negative light. That's a classic racism right there.
If crafoo was trying to make the point you did they could have. They didn't.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 13 2021, @03:47PM (20 children)
Uh huh. Just a little reminder that law enforcement's murder of American Citizens has been deemed acceptable Republicans.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday June 13 2021, @04:43PM (19 children)
Was it a Republican, or a Democrat administration that put 100,000 more cops on the streets so they could more effectively murder military aged black males?
And, are more of those military aged black males killed in Democrat run cities, or in Republican run cities?
I understand if you cannot, and will not answer those questions honestly. It would break your mind to admit that Dems are racists.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 13 2021, @07:11PM (4 children)
Whataboutism! Goal posts! Anything but admitting how nasty the GOP has gotten, and how deeply embedded racism is in Republican communities!
(Score: 3, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Sunday June 13 2021, @07:39PM (3 children)
Unfortunately, as "racist" as the Rs may or may not be, today's real racism is endorsed by the D party. Just as they have endorsed racism ever since the Civil War. But, you keep telling yourself that fairy tale about the party reforming itself. And, that other fairy tale about the racism polarity changing. Democrats, the party of race baiters.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 13 2021, @11:54PM (2 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 14 2021, @08:00AM (1 child)
Some of your friends want to pull down the Lincoln Memorial.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 14 2021, @08:06AM
He swings... he misses!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 13 2021, @07:25PM (4 children)
Bah! Liberals!
Christ, dude you are a one trick pony lately. Or did I just notice it? Anyway a Bah! Liberals! mod for you.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday June 13 2021, @07:40PM (3 children)
If you pay attention, many of us have been telling you that our liberals aren't liberal. Which terminology to you prefer?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 13 2021, @09:26PM (2 children)
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday June 13 2021, @09:59PM (1 child)
And you're constantly lying, projecting dem racism onto me.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 14 2021, @04:30AM
Bah! Liberals!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 13 2021, @09:24PM (2 children)
"Pls pls pls answer this so we can avoid talking about Republicans!"
Again, the expressed Republican view is that the current state of Police brutality is preferred. Whether I burn your argument up with a pointy rebuttal or collapse in defeat at your mastery of debate this fact still remains untouched. This is why you get made fun of whataboutism, you haven't taken any steps forward because you CAN'T.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday June 13 2021, @10:02PM (1 child)
The police brutality happens in DEMOCRAT cities far more than in republican cities. St. Louis, anywhere in Cali, NYC, Baltimore - and the list goes on. Democrats.
If Democrats wanted to fix police brutality in Democrat cities, they could do so without any cooperation from Republicans.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 13 2021, @10:21PM
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 14 2021, @12:52AM (5 children)
And it seems to be Republicans that are Okey-dokey with hanging a sitting Vice-President of the United States of America, killing the Speaker of the House, several members of Congress, and whatever Capitol Police personnel that try to stop them. No wonder I saw those bumper stickers a few years ago, "Voldemort/Cheney 20xx! Why settle for the lesser evil?" Yep, Death Eaters, ready to violate the Constitution, just like the rebels of the Old South. Traitors, and morons.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday June 14 2021, @07:56AM (4 children)
Did any of that shit happen, or was it all a narrative fed to you by CNN? Poor, gullible fools.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 14 2021, @08:11AM (3 children)
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday June 14 2021, @09:13AM (2 children)
Strange, though. There has not been a single conviction of insurrection, treason, or any other major crime. Just trespassing, illegal entry, unauthorized entry, and similar. Those assholes that broke out windows don't even seem to be getting convicted of breaking and entering. Why such a huge difference between legal proceedings, and popular media hype?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by cmdrklarg on Monday June 14 2021, @04:46PM
Yet.
The world is full of kings and queens who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 14 2021, @05:31PM
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 13 2021, @06:38PM (1 child)
> And, as much as prog/dem/lib people...
Progressives and others on the left are and were the fiercest critics of the right wing policies of Democrats like Clinton and Biden*. The far-right made claims against the persons, it was the left that was vocal in opposition to the policies. Sadly liberals (center-right usually) seem to be more similar to the far-right, and defend "their guy" and hate "their enemy" regardless of policies. And, the left, of whom progressives are a part, make too small a minority in the US to affect the country's direction-- too small a minority, even in the Democratic party to have much affect on their parties policies either.
*Biden's current domestic policies are to the left of Biden's historical record. His foreign policy positions haven't seemed to change much.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by helel on Sunday June 13 2021, @07:26PM
This gets to the real heart of the issue. We have two right wing parties - Democrats if you believe in racism and imperialism but want a balanced budget, Republicans if you believe in racism and imperialism and think the government should bleed cash like there's no tomorrow - but no major political party to represent left wing or even true centrist policies.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 13 2021, @10:51PM (1 child)
I think you may have mistake cause for effect.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday June 14 2021, @08:12AM
You'll have to come up with citations for that. Let's compare Amsterdam to any liberal run city in America.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 13 2021, @06:24PM (2 children)
> "There aren't many real fathers around anymore."
tThere were never that many as were thought, and it has nothing to do with race. Thanks first to blood typing, and more recently gene testing, between 10% and 30% of white guys are unknowingly raising other mens kids.
It's the same or worse with other primates - the alpha male isn't the father of most of what he considers "his" females. Seems he expends too much of his energy posturing as the alpha male, and not enough taking care of business at home.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 13 2021, @06:41PM (1 child)
> Between 10% and 30% of white guys are unknowingly raising other mens kids.
Citation needed
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 13 2021, @07:26PM
Between 10% and 30% of white guys are knowingly impregnating other mens girlfriends.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 13 2021, @11:29AM (3 children)
>> Birthing people day is the new politically correct name for Mothers day
There comes a time when these pink-hairs end up parodying themselves and losing what little moral credibility they had left, and I think we've reached that point now. Remember that SJWs didn't exist before they started to close the state mental asylums in the 1950s and 60s.
(Score: 3, Touché) by SpockLogic on Sunday June 13 2021, @11:46AM
Was that when you escaped?
Overreacting is one thing, sticking your head up your ass hoping the problem goes away is another - edIII
(Score: 4, Touché) by Tork on Sunday June 13 2021, @03:54PM (1 child)
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 14 2021, @12:55AM
And they still don't exist. Never have. They are like the Boogerman, the Antifa, Emmanuel Goldstein, made up objects of rigth-wing hate.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 13 2021, @03:53PM (2 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 13 2021, @05:27PM (1 child)
If we're being pedantic, she want a mother until after the first child.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 13 2021, @09:17PM
(Score: 4, Interesting) by khallow on Sunday June 13 2021, @12:34PM
(Score: 3, Interesting) by bzipitidoo on Sunday June 13 2021, @03:56PM (1 child)
Does this observation hold for all mammals? Reptiles? Birds? Fish? Insects?
And what does it mean? The article suggests that the needs of these organs are similar: lots and lots of energy, and therefore, oxidative stress. So it could be a matter of convergent evolution.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 14 2021, @02:34AM
Most mammals seem to be built like this at least... I think the symmetry is probably related to the doubling that characterizes embryonic growth?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 13 2021, @06:09PM
The human brain is more like a mass of mushrooms and other assorted fungi, growing in an old, abandoned septic tank.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 13 2021, @11:19PM
Or is the testicle actually like a tiny brain. I just blew your mind.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 14 2021, @12:48AM (2 children)
It makes sense to me.
I've an IQ in the 145 to 180 range, probably around 160.
I have 13 kids.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 14 2021, @12:57AM
If you're so smart, why don't you realize that they probably aren't yours? And quantity does not equate to quality. But, you know that already.
(Score: 0, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 14 2021, @04:38AM
Yeah but the guy with the IQ of 13 has 160 kids. You limp dick closet homo. Stop reading poetry and start breeding fast enough to defeat the Muslims over here so we don't have to do it over there.