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Have you had your dna tested?
at 11:43 25 Jun 2020

I don’t understand why more people are not interested in genealogy and dna testing.

If you want to get into dna testing then you should do it soon because it will not survive the PC revolution in the Western world. The evidence seems to be that our genes have a far greater influence on our outcomes in life than was previously thought. But academics involved in this research are being attacked as racists and are being purged from the universities. Anything which goes against PC dogma is taboo.

The latest victim is Steve Hsu a professor in America. I remember him for two very interesting things he said in a podcast. The first was that there are 300,000 Chinese with an IQ over 160 compared with 10,000 in the USA. Most of the great discoveries made in the world have come from over 160 IQ geniuses like Maxwell and Newton so unless the Chinese geniuses are weighed down by the enormous number of Chinese thickos I think we will see exciting technological developments coming from China.

The second thing he mentioned was that there are 100,000 untested "rape kits" in America. Rape kits are evidence from rapes that the police could not afford to prepare for dna testing. I think Hse said the main cost of testing is in the collection and extraction of dna from these kits. He estimated $1,000 for each kit even though the actual testing would only cost $50. I heard this podcast about 2 years ago so the figures might be wrong. Of course, the main cost of all this would be the trials and the imprisonments so it is fairly certain that the kits will be quietly destroyed.

Dna tests are showing that many fathers are not the genetic fathers of their children. I think the rate of this is much higher than was previously estimated. This is causing family disputes and unhappiness. It won’t be long before someone is killed because of a dna test. That might be an excuse for shutting it all down in the UK. Or they could use privacy concerns. You might find it hard to get health or life insurance if your dna profile was made public or hacked.

If you do get a dna test then I would recommend using a service where you can see the individual segments you have received from your ancestors. Ancestry DNA do not give you this information. You would be better off with 23andMe or Myheritage. I can’t say anything about the others because I have not looked at them. With a bit of research you will be able to work out which segment (a contiguous chuck of dna) on each chromosome came from which ancestor going back to about 1800. You could combine this information with health information about your ancestor and the functions of the shared genes. We are still in the dark about what we get from the various genes but I think the Chinese will fill in the gaps in the near future.

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Happier days
at 00:33 16 Jun 2020

At a time like this when the world seems to be falling apart and when most of the young people have been swept up in the BLM cult I like to think about happier days.

Perhaps the following fact is well known but it only occurred to me last night when I was thinking about Peter Shilton. Every season from 1931/1932 to 1996—97 you could have seen Stanley Matthews or Peter Shilton play. Stan finished in 1964/65 and Shilton made his debut in the 1965/66 season. Some hypothetical supporter could have spent an entire lifetime watching their two favourite players turn out every season. There is a nice picture of Stan here with Jim Langley who I think I can remember watching playing for QPR against the Swans in the 1965/66 season.

https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/stanley-matthews-st

There are a lot of stressed and angry people on here. You need to chill out 50s style. This lovely album by Gordon Jenkins from 1957 might help.

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The Cliff Jones fitness regime
at 17:06 14 Jun 2020

Sorry if someone has already posted this. I think he is doing very well for an 85 year old. A lot of players are physical wrecks by their 50s but Cliff has put his background as a PE teacher to good use. It would be interesting to see what he could do if he went full out. But I think he is too modest for that.

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