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This is an independently made film starring Jim Caviezel in a re-telling of the re-life mission by Tim Ballard, an ex-Homeland of National Security agent to rescue children sold into sexual slavery around the world. I really didn't want to see it, having been exposed to enough of that...

Just saw a tweet where some stupid poster claimed this last week has been the hottest in 100,000 years. I asked how he could know that since we've only had the instruments to measure that and record it for about 100 years. There was, of course, no answer. :)

Honestly, I make the original all the time and it's delicious as is; don't need all the fancier touches.

See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTBGNEliczc

See: How to Smelt Chalcolithic Copper - Biblical Archaeology Society

See: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/D7F3E5D94EBE0CE73AE941DF94AD6C2F/S0003598X23000789a.pdf/interlinking_research_the_big_exchange_project.pdf "Aim of the project Large-scale raw material exchange systems connect production from source to demand in...

I grew up on this, and on the Tuscan version called "Schiacciata". The plain one is, believe it or not, fabulous dipped into cappuccino. I never eat it here unless I make it myself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivY_n-jpvr4

Since there's no section on the X I've put it here". See: Skov et al https://www.cell.com/cell-genomics/fulltext/S2666-979X(23)00034-4 "Highlights •Strong reductions in X chromosome diversity among non-Africans •Positive selection spread long haplotypes across non-African populations •The...

See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-IjKXTvEOM The Pantheon is my absolutely favorite building. Try to go very early in the morning when there won't be many people and stand in the center below the oculus. It feels like being at the center of the universe. You wouldn't get me in the hot...

Like I said...a lot of amateur analyses and even some academic ones are just plain wrong, partly because people don't understand how to use it, and they let their biases influence their choices in qpAdm, and even in Admixture. False discovery rates of qpAdm-based screens for genetic...

Apologies if this has already been posted. Paper from the Reich Lab. Only a few papers have been re-examined using the new tool. I think a lot of things might change at least slightly if other papers are examined. See: On the limits of fitting complex models of population history to...

Very well done video based on the latest research. I can't tell you how many times I argued this point with people on dna forums, as well as this forum: Roman soldiers DID NOT subsist mostly on a carbohydrate date of puls and bread. What they would eat when on the march was completely different...

Including the beautiful gardens and views of Castello Brown. Have to hand it to the classically educated British lovers of Italy: they had exquisite taste.

See: Earliest evidence of bow and arrow use outside Africa unearthed in France | CNN Was this one of homo sapiens' advantages over Neanderthal?

See: https://www.cell.com/immunity/fulltext/S1074-7613(23)00038-9#.Y-0NKLDceUs.twitter "Highlights •Extensive human TCR gene heterogeneity exists in both populations and individuals •TCR gene variations frequently involve coding changes and non-functional alleles •Neanderthal-derived TCR...

See: https://nemets.substack.com/p/the-sons-of-chad "Many men among both the Laal, the Hausa, and other Chadic speaking peoples carry the Y chromosomal haplogroup R1b-V88. It puzzled scientists for a number of years as R1b lineages are most common in Europe, and there was no obvious connection...

See: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/vikings-brought-horses-and-dogs-to-england-study-finds-180981569/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=2/5/2023&utm_content=new

Greg Clark: Genetics and Social Mobility, transcript of an interview. See: Manifold | Transcript: Greg Clark: Genetics and Social Mobility — #14 (manifold1.com) It's a long and sometimes difficult read, but it's a complicated and very important issue. I read his first paper or two and thought...

See: Public views on polygenic screening of embryos | Science "For decades, people have used genetic information to exercise control over the kinds of children they will have. These technologies have largely targeted chromosomal and monogenic disorders and traits; but most human phenotypes are...

See: 'Princely' tomb of Hun warrior unearthed in Romania | Live Science "Workers building a new highway in Romania have unearthed the treasure-laden tomb of a wealthy warrior and his horse. The tomb dates to the fifth century A.D., when the region was controlled by a people known as the Huns...