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Watched "Il Processo", The Trial, on netflix last night. It's good; even the English subtitles are good. Nice to hear some accents from Emilia/Toscana, although there are others.

Twin studies are of "identical twins", so, exact same genetics and same womb environment. Furthermore they then use only twins separated through, say, adoption, to try to see how similar they are...

I'm so sorry, Duarte; I didn't want you to feel badly. It's just what it's called.

What is annoying is that they gave us all that happy talk about how mutations in most case make a virus less...

I agree. I haven't had occasion to speak to many Provencal speakers, but I didn't have much difficulty understanding Catalan speakers. Some of the words definitely sounded Ligurian to me, or the...

My beauty ideals from the Golden Age of Hollywood:
Ronald Coleman:
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/20/42/db/2042db3b7ed59f658f1f3a6ae977ab4f.jpg

Gregory Peck...

Hope some country doesn't think this is a good idea in terms of warfare against their "enemies".

See:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.05.434167v1

"AbstractThe mosquito Aedes...

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I'm sure the same thing happened in Germany, Italy, big parts of Eastern Europe.

See:
https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1009347

"AbstractInformation about...

Had my shot yesterday; it was the Moderna one. No reaction at all.

It was held at the university hospital center and was a marvel of good planning and efficiency, I must say, with dozens of health...

I've been torturing myself with new videos of home; homesickness can kill you.

Road Trip Through the Lunigiana:

It's just pictures, so no language issue. Around 8 minutes in is Bagnone, my...

See:
https://www.archaeology.org/news/9503-210304-egypt-mummification-manual

"https://www.archaeology.org/images/News/2103/Embalming-Illustration.jpg(Ida Christensen)

COPENHAGEN,...

We can see it in the fact that all Northern European countries seem to have acquired more "farmer" ancestry as time went on, i.e. England.

My first shot is tomorrow. I sure hope it works against the Brazilian/South African variant, because it has apparently showed up in NYC, where it's a mess because DiBlasio is a moron, and Cuomo is...

My only exposure to Occitan came at university when we read medieval Occitan poetry to see its influence on other poetry, including the poetry of Italy.

I've always been fascinated by it. I could...

Romans were cynical; French and English writers of the 19th century were romanticists.

In the 19th century there was quite a cult of the beauty and allure of the pale, languid woman with a flush...

She's the author of "The Guillotine Mystique". I like these podcasts Khan does with different authors. I can't keep up with all the books I think might be interesting
...

That's how I interpreted it as well. It makes sense if I'm understanding it correctly that the death rate was particularly high beginning 2000 years ago because there was a new strain present at...

See the original paper:

https://www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002-9297(21)00051-3


"Tuberculosis (TB), usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria, is the first cause of death from an...

America saying a LOUD you know what to the WOKE cancel movement. Thank goodness, I don't have to rebuy. I saved them all for my children's children.

"This week, Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced...

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https://www.archaeology.org/news/9500-210303-little-foot-fossil

"OXFORD, ENGLAND—BBC News reports that the skull of “Little Foot” traveled from South Africa to Britain, where it was examined...

"PISA, ITALY—Multi-illumination hyperspectral extraction (MHX) has been used to reveal previously unseen details in 2,500-year-old Etruscan tomb paintings, according to a Live Science report. Gloria...

@Moesan,
Thanks for your consideration.

Just list the numbers of your posts.

Bonnie Raitt: I can't make you love me. One of the greats of Country Music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW9Cu6GYqxo

See:
https://www.archaeology.org/news/9480-210222-israel-roman-coin

"Rare 1,800-Year-Old Coin Discovered in Israel

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an1Vu-LwAfo