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A Day in the Life: Not what I expected
Last weekend I attended one of these get-away offerings where for $40 and attendance at a 90 minute presentation you get an overnight stay at a resort and a gift. The gift we selected was free…
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More on my Genographic travels
As I noted before, I fall into the “Haplogroup I” category. The test results I received from the National Geographic Society Genographic Project took my group to the Balkins but left me there. Other material cite…
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in Travel
May 24-25: Lubeck and area
We stayed in Lubeck one night. I think by this time in our trip, a visit to another beautiful little historic German town was wearing a little thin. So while we had planned to stay in…
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in Travel
Signs (Trip to Germany)
To set the context, we were crusing down the autobaun at 140. A modest rate by German standards. Some think there are no speed limits on the autobaun. That’s not completely true. There are sections which…
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in Research
The Genographic Project
The National Geographic Society, IBM, geneticist Spencer Wells, and the Waitt Family Foundation have launched the Genographic Project, a five-year effort to understand the human journey—where we came from and how we got to where we…