Interesting Links for 05-04-2018
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andrewducker- The mystery of the 7 in the library book
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- The 3 most promising new methods of male birth control, explained
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- Steven Spielberg does not understand how names work
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- The three legal paths to stop Brexit are blocked
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- Timing of stress-hormone pulses controls weight gain
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- The 4 genres of web comics
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- ‘Describe Yourself Like a Male Author Would’ Is the Most Savage Twitter Thread in Ages
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- Woman takes Ancestry.com DNA test, learns her real dad is her mom’s doctor
- There's going to be an awful lot more of this kind of thing
(tags: genetics parents ) - Young children pretending to talk on the phone are terribly cute
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- Solar power’s greatest challenge was discovered 10 years ago. It looks like a duck.
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- Why Jewish History Is So Hard to Write
- I highly recommend Schama's TV series.
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Date: 2018-04-05 01:09 pm (UTC)And, tbf, the other case I can think of was a person finding all of their half siblings, not the actual doctor.
Confusion
Date: 2018-04-06 04:44 am (UTC)Is the "putting DNA in a database" part necessary to come up as a match? The article never says he did, and I was under the impression (never having done a DNA test, myself) that if you take a test and it comes up you're related to so-and-so that other so-and-so's can get on and say, "Hey, I'm related to you, too" without necessarily having to take a test? Or are matches drawn purely from tested individuals, only (not those vouched for as relatives by others who have been tested)?
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Date: 2018-04-05 08:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-04-05 08:21 pm (UTC)The FT is clearly teasing us. Cheers for the alternative link.
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Date: 2018-04-08 08:18 pm (UTC)Solar power’s greatest challenge was discovered 10 years ago. It looks like a duck.
Date: 2018-04-06 12:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-04-09 12:57 pm (UTC)He's right to be more exercised about the seasonal storage needs for the last 20%.
I hope the nuclear industry takes the hint that the market it should be aiming to supply is the support for the last 20%.