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You have a high political officer forbidding critical review of state policies, colluding with university officials to censor or fire a professor. I don't believe there will be any consequence for anyone involved except the professor. Sometimes I really hate my state.

SO MAD about this. Professor gives talk about naloxone to 1st yr med students, is critical of Texas policies. Politically motivated student snitches to Lt Gov Dan Patrick, who contacts TAMU Chancellor John Sharp, who puts her on administrative leave, promises to fire her.

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Chuck had TWO designated "walk around and think time" and "hour-long nap" at 3 PM. I count 5.5 hrs of "work" time in his study. Meanwhile, I know scientists that have 6 hrs of committee meetings between manuscript or grant writing sessions.

I've been thinking about how Victorian Era scientists accomplished so much work, until I came across this. The Darwin family lived at Down House with a:. butler.cook.gardener.coachman.housemaid.2 nursery maids.& a governess. Never less than 8 servants lived at Down House.

So, we're all (probably) descendants of any figure you can name from ~3000 BC or thereabouts, or no-one is the descendant of that person. The fact that we all share ancestors is inevitable & might explain some online behavior. See you at Thanksgiving, cousins!

Now there are some reasons not to wholeheartedly endorse the 2004 computer modeling of the IAP. The assumptions about human behavior were artificial. But I want to emphasize that while the 2004 group may have picked TOO RECENT an IAP, the EXISTENCE of an IAP is undeniable.

You had a large number of ancestors alive at the IAP, but not all of them contributed equally to your genetic lineage. If you are European, almost all of your ancestors since the IAP have been European & that explains the inheritance of certain traits by locality.

But the result is that prior to about 3000 BC, it's virtually guaranteed that you & an Indigenous Australian have the same ancestors. Now the obvious question: if we're all related, why do we look different?. Here we need to distinguish genealogical from genetic ancestry.

Like a bucket chain for fires, each person passes the bucket only a short distance. An Australian makes the trip to East Timor. An East Timorian descendant travels to Indonesia. An Indonesian descendant travels to Sumatra. The chain is a series of short "hops".

I think our intuition is trying to imagine how Cleopatra could be the ancestor of an Indigenous Australian, for example. The answer is what I would call the "Genetic Bucket Chain": A single Egyptian need not travel to Australia to share a genealogy.