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    Unexplained events and mysteries

    Stanley Milgram wanted to understand why normal Germans followed orders to kill millions. He came up with the term "destructive obedience". Prof Daniel Goldhagen's "Hitlers willing executioners" goes into a little more depth on psychosocial factors. A number of ex-Nazi scientists were recruited...
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    Unexplained events and mysteries

    Yes this makes some sense. 1920s Germany was (ironically) one of the most enlightened nations on the planet in all fields. Both intellectually, spiritually and culturally. Unfortunately the great depression and hyperinflation had a big enough impact to tip a critical mass of German people into...
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    Unexplained events and mysteries

    Yes it's quite mysterious how rapidly the Nazi party acquired power so rapidly. A cast of characters worthy of a best selling novel, except this all happened. Historians can spend their entire lives absorbed in the lives of Rudolph Hess, Bormann or even the ill-fated brownshirts and Ernst Rohm...
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    Unexplained events and mysteries

    Interesting, I didn't know that, and yes it looks like there is an association between AB blood type and increased cognitive flexibility, creative thinking, and the ability to quickly adapt to new conditions.
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    Unexplained events and mysteries

    Some studies suggest families with geniuses also are prone to having kids on the spectrum.
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    Unexplained events and mysteries

    Fair enough, could this AB blood type be inherited from an unknown native American ancestor perhaps?
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    Unexplained events and mysteries

    Blood type is probably quite universal but medical conditions like congenital dermal melanocytotis are more reflective of inheritance. Another condition is sickle cell anaemia. According to the CDC 1 in 333 white Americans carry the gene Can a White Person Have Sickle Cell Anemia? while its...
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    Unexplained events and mysteries

    Yes AB is typically higher in east Asians. Interestingly I have congenital dermal melanocytotis on my chest which is exclusively found east Asians and smaller numbers of Middle eastern and African people, but my DNA test shows zero % ancestry from east Asian or Middle eastern or African?
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    Ancient History

    ^^^ Yeah that is pretty cool.
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    Unexplained events and mysteries

    Genealogy is fine (agreed) % Phylogeny is not so accurate. Check twin studies.
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    Unexplained events and mysteries

    DNA tests (even taking into account their questionable accuracy) often reveal incongruent ancestry to family stories and surnames. I do remember some celebrity with a German surname did a DNA test on the program "who do you think you are" and found they had only English and Irish and 0% German.
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    Ancient History

    ^^^ the frozen casts of people from Pompei are certainly confronting. their positions in the throes of agony/death don't technically reveal how exactly they lived, but, yes seeing them in shops, kitchens and living rooms does bring home the idea domestic life has always been part of everyday lives.
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    Getting Lost in Tiny Worlds

    It's an algae called Volvox. If you like them you'll love diatoms
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    Getting Lost in Tiny Worlds

    I used to work as a microbiologist back in the late 1980s and 1990s. 99% of the world are completely oblivious to the microbial world
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    Unexplained events and mysteries

    I'm thinking something more prosaic. Many conspiracy types who constantly publish or broadcast governments withholding information from the public get tip offs from whistleblowers. Somebody working in intelligence with an axe to grind or facing an ethical dilemma about innocent people at risk...
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