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...

As a member of the LGBTQ community myself, I'm concerned that the rhetoric today which is opposed to the rights of human beings and their natural expression as they understand themselves. It is escalating to a dangerous degree. A lot of the anti-gay marriage stuff seems like it's being recycled...

My mother's family immigrated from Germany in between the world wars. My grandmother on my mother's side was apparently Polish or Czech, it's been a bit vague. My 23&me DNA testing indicates a fairly recent ancestry/relatives in Hungary and Russia, so I'm thinking my grandparents on my mother's...

A? The forms match A? At least the top parts and leaves. The stems match on B, but more attributes match in A?

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...

Ooh! I've had this once before but have been interested in maybe seeking it out again, or perhaps making it since it seems so simple from your description. I did make a peach and jalepeno jam once. It had good flavor but I went a little light on the boiling stage and didn't add enough pectin. I...

I have been fascinated with the distribution of my W1 ancestry. So many questions swirl. My grandmother on my mom's side was apparently Czech or maybe Polish. In short, my mother's family is likely Volga German, and immigrated to the US around the time of the Great Depression, but I can go no...