The Legend of the Hafgafah

Today you’ll learn about how men with physically strenuous jobs have higher testosterone levels and, ahem, sperm counts, about how a researcher studying whales figured out an ancient mystery, and how providing women with more opportunities actually increases men’s life expectancy. 

Men At Work

• “Physically Demanding Work Tied to Male Fertility.” By Miles Martin. 2023.
  • https://hms.harvard.edu/news/physically-demanding-work-tied-male-fertility
• “Secular trends in semen parameters among men attending a fertility center between 2000 and 2017: Identifying potential predictors.” By Minguez-Alarcon, et al. 2018.
  • https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30389382/
• “Why more men are suffering from infertility than ever before.” By Susannah Cahalan. 2021.
  • https://nypost.com/2021/02/20/why-more-men-are-suffering-from-infertility-than-ever-before/
• “Occupational factors and markers of testicular function among men attending a fertility center.” By Minguez-Alarcon, et al. 2023.
  • https://academic.oup.com/humrep/advance-article/doi/10.1093/humrep/dead027/7034534?utm_source=authortollfreelink&utm_campaign=humrep&utm_medium=email&guestAccessKey=87e840cd-75fb-4975-8010-b2705f827fbb&login=false

Whale Interrupted 

• “Ancient texts shed new light on mysterious whale behaviour that ‘captured imagination’.” By Donna Lu. 2023.
  • https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/01/ancient-texts-power-new-light-shed-on-mysterious-whale-behaviour-that-captured-imagination
• “Parallels for cetacean trap feeding and tread-water feeding in the historical record across two millennia.” By McCarthy, Sebo, & Firth. 2023
  • https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mms.13009

Gender Equality 

• “Greater Gender Equality Helps Both Women and Men Live Longer.” George Institute for Global Health. 2023.
  • https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/981404
• “Gender equality related to gender differences in life expectancy across the globe gender equality and life expectancy.” By Ana-Catarina Pinho-Gomes, et al. 2023.
  • https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0001214
• “Greater gender equality helps both women and men live longer.” ScienceDaily. 2023.
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/03/230306143509.htm

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