Who Is Priscilla Chan? - NYTimes.com

Source: Maoxian

THE wedding of Mark Zuckerberg to Priscilla Chan last weekend here in the backyard of their $7 million home had all the staging of a carefully orchestrated celebrity event. A publicist for Facebook eagerly offered photos afterward of the ...
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Melungeons: DNA study seeks origin of Ancient Appalachian people

Source: Daily Mail - UK

Varied and sometimes wild claims have been made about the origins of a group of dark-skinned Appalachian residents once known derisively as the Melungeons. Some speculated they were descended from Portuguese explorers, o ...
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Best of the Web Today: Bean and Nothingness

Source: Wall Street Journal

For at least six straight years during Warren's tenure, Harvard University reported in federally mandated diversity statistics that it had a Native American woman in its senior ranks at the law school. According to both Harv ...
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Newfoundland wolf crossed on ice, say experts

Source: Toronto Star

ST. JOHN’S—Genetic tests confirm that a large canine shot on Newfoundland’s Bonavista Peninsula in March was a wolf that probably made it to the island on ice, provincial officials said Friday. The province’s Environmen ...
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Scientists Want To Test Bigfoot DNA

Source: UFO Digest

Can science unravel one of life’s enduring mysteries? Rumors of the hairy humanoid known variously as the yeti, bigfoot and sasquatch have persisted for decades, despite little hard evidence beyond grainy photographs an ...
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Test your Statistical Sense

Source: Philly.com

Think you're smarter than a doctor? If you get this right, you are way ahead of the curve when it comes to medically relevant statistics. Toxicologist Dave Cragin sent me this question after we had been discussing risk, probabilit ...
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Can Genetic Knowledge Tell Us The Difference Between What Consumers Think They Know Versus What They Actually Know?

Source: iStockAnalyst

CHICAGO, May 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With the rapid growth of direct-to-consumer (DTC) marketing of genetic tests, this article examines whether consumers' actual genetic knowledge matches how much ...
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Tests confirm Bonavista animal was a wolf

Source: CBC News

Genetic tests have confirmed an 82-pound animal shot on the Bonavista Peninsula was, in fact, a wolf. “We can only speculate on how this wolf arrived on the island of Newfoundland, but most likely it travelled from Labrador on sea ice to t ...
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Your views on the news - academy schools, starry skies and M&S profits

Source: Guardian Unlimited

If we are to follow the logic of many of the above posters who are against the NHS intervening against the course of nature, then perhaps it would be better if the NHS stopped offering medical treatment altogether. Tumours and viruses ...
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