cgsullivan

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   by cgsullivan 6y ago

   I believe you're close to correct. According to a paper in 2013 by Graham Coop (an evolutionary biologist from UC Davis) every living person of European descent, if you trace their family trees back 1000 years, likely shares the same l
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   by cgsullivan 6y ago

   A direct paternal-line descendent of Dante, which Sperello Alighieri might very well be, would essentially share a copy of Dante's Y-DNA, which is about 2% of the human genome. This is comparable to something between 2nd cousin (3.13%
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   by cgsullivan 6y ago

   I was in a book club dedicated to reading Finnegans Wake, all 626 pages. We met every two weeks over dinner and would discuss a page or two, or sometimes just a paragraph if things were especially puzzling. It took us eight years to compl
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   by cgsullivan 6y ago

   Irish doesn't have words for "yes" and "no" -- answers must echo the verb: "Are you okay?" "Am." "Did you tell him to come over?" "Didn't tell."
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   by cgsullivan 6y ago

   Gambit Scheme is also a pun on Marc Feeley's surname in Irish -- O Fithcheallaigh -- which means 'chess player'. The name is derived from the ancient Irish board game fidchell, rules unknown, but taken to be akin to chess.