A few years ago, Roger and I ordered a National Genographic analysis, which was very interesting! There were a few surprises based on known family history, such as the similarity of my genes to those of people currently residing in Romania. To my knowledge, I have no Romanian relatives, but Read more…
My family does not consume high fructose corn syrup, as far as we know, which takes considerable effort. The stuff is literally in everything, including Baby Tylenol. To avoid high fructose corn syrup, we try to make as much food as possible from scratch. Otherwise, we are serious label readers! Read more…
My reading for today: lonely gamers? “Lonely gamers who have felt the pain of being separated by a screen from their favorite personalities now have a way to reach out and touch their game characters, and that new way is RePro3D. A group of researchers from Keio University in Japan Read more…
Here is what I am reading today: 1/2 European men and King Tut share DNA “For a film created for the Discovery Channel, scientists worked to reconstruct the DNA of the young male King, his father Akhenaten and his grandfather Amenhotep III. They discovered that King Tut had a DNA Read more…
Continuing our Father’s Day discussion of the importance of involved dads, I read with interest that in a study of families in Senegal, mothers’ ratings of how invested fathers were in their children were highly correlated with observer ratings of how much a child resembled his or her father. These data are consistent Read more…