{"id":20281,"date":"2025-09-30T14:37:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T12:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/30\/sperm-racing-is-all-the-rage-among-the-tech-bros-why-am-i-not-surprised-arwa-mahdawi\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T14:37:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T12:37:24","slug":"sperm-racing-is-all-the-rage-among-the-tech-bros-why-am-i-not-surprised-arwa-mahdawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/30\/sperm-racing-is-all-the-rage-among-the-tech-bros-why-am-i-not-surprised-arwa-mahdawi\/","title":{"rendered":"Sperm racing is all the rage among the tech bros. Why am I not surprised? | Arwa Mahdawi"},"content":{"rendered":"

It started as a gag, but Eric Zhu\u2019s sperm races are doing good work in putting male fertility under the microscope \u2013 literally<\/p>\n

Remember when Elon Musk challenged Vladimir Putin to physical combat<\/a> and Mark Zuckerberg to a cage fight<\/a>? Neither of those brawls took place for various reasons. Not least, I suspect, because Musk is just self-aware enough to know that he would not emerge with his dignity, or his spine, intact. However, if the richest man in the world is still casting around for a way to publicly demonstrate his virility, I think I\u2019ve hit on the perfect way: sperm racing.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t some below-the-belt insult. Sperm racing<\/a> is an emerging \u201cthing\u201d among tech types now. A teenage entrepreneur called Eric Zhu came up with the idea, and went viral with his first sperm race<\/a> in April. That initial race was rudimentary: college students gave sperm samples to be analysed and the results were turned into an animated race that visualised the fastest offerings.<\/p>\n

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\nIt started as a gag, but Eric Zhu\u2019s sperm races are doing good work in putting male fertility under the microscope \u2013 literally
\nRemember when Elon Musk challenged Vladimir Putin to physical combat and Mark Zuckerberg to a cage fight? Neither of those brawls took place for various reasons. Not least, I suspect, because Musk is just self-aware enough to know that he would not emerge with his dignity, or his spine, intact. However, if the richest man in the world is still casting around for a way to publicly demonstrate his virility, I think I\u2019ve hit on the perfect way: sperm racing.
\nThis isn\u2019t some below-the-belt insult. Sperm racing is an emerging \u201cthing\u201d among tech types now. A teenage entrepreneur called Eric Zhu came up with the idea, and went viral with his first sperm race in April. That initial race was rudimentary: college students gave sperm samples to be analysed and the results were turned into an animated race that visualised the fastest offerings. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It started as a gag, but Eric Zhu\u2019s sperm races are doing good work in putting male fertility under the microscope \u2013 literally Remember when Elon Musk challenged Vladimir Putin to physical combat and Mark Zuckerberg to a cage fight? Neither of those brawls took place for various reasons. Not least, I suspect, because Musk …<\/p>\n

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