Recent content by PolyhedralEpiklesis

I have received more information on my mtdna after doing a full sequence and sharing the info with the W & N2a haplogroup project: Here is what they had to say: " W is defined by the mutations T204C G207A T1243C A3505G G5460A G8251A G8994A A11914G G15884c. W1 is defined by C7864T. W1+T119C...

Not sure where vaping stands in terms of risks but I understand it to be much less than smoking. I have vaporized medicines before. I do not like burning things except maybe incense. Burnt tobacco is such an awful, noxious smell! Eating or transdermal medication seems superior to taking...

I think the wooly part of this is that cognition is a bit slippery to measure, as we often are measuring the effects of applied cognition and never "innate intelligence" within people. The problem with IQ tests, as an example, is they are biased to a specific culture of "test taking", and...

Diagnosed with mild autism in March. I always sort of knew, but having a confirmation has given me access to some resources and a better understanding of what I need.

I dislike tagging, or just the signature quickly scrawled on the edges of things. That's tacky and dull. However, when there is an obvious quality of art happening I think it's possible for graffiti to be deeply moving art. I know it sounds stupid but sometimes the forms and words written in...

I'm only recently starting to do more research on my family and my ancestral genetics and a resource that comes up frequently for mtdna W is thecid.com, which appears to be defunct at this time. Internet archive is still reasonably decent to navigate many of the resources previously published...