Recent content by bigsnake49

Voters in NY get automatically registered when they obtain a drivers license or any kind of photo ID. They then can vote without presenting a photoID by obtaining a provisional ballot which can then be counted if they go to the vote registrar's office with any valid id such as: Current and...

I am not sure about that US map. I know that Florida requires a photo ID to vote. I should know, I live there.

I think eye color is a bit more complicated than people only looking at DNA assume. For example all the sites that I have submitted my DNA to think that I should have grey eyes, the same as my father and younger sister. I have dark chocolate eyes like my mother and other sister. So unless these...

Today I heard an interview with Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau and part of the interview dealt with immigration. Canada has done a wonderful job dealing with immigration recognizing that seasonal labor (farm and construction) is needed and organized an orderly process to satisfy that demand. He...

From the illustrativeDNA discussion group, 2.179 Cypriot Greek 2.605 Dodecanese Greek 2.716 Anatolian Greek (Konya) 2.890 Anatolian Greek (Kayseri) 3.291 Anatolian Greek (Niğde) 3.475 Cypriot Turk 3.785 Romaniote Jew 3.958 Cretan Greek 4.181 Sephardic Jew 4.223 Cretan Turk Hybrids...

Right now the Phrygian/Brygian branch is supposedly through Yamnaya>Southwest Balkans>Anatolia. What if it actually went the other way, Yamnaya>South Caucasus>Anatolia>Southwest Balkans with the main body settling in central Anatolia and a smaller one migrating to between the Macedonians and the...

I think that gentrification, air B&B's and investment companies that are buying the houses to rent them out are the main drivers in the US. Where I live there is a limit to how far people can commute to downtown Tampa. There is no commuter trains although there is an elementary bus network. So...

From what my Greek/Swedish immigrant friends tell me, not all is what it seems in Sweden. Now I don't have the statistics to back their empirical observations but there is increased crimes committed by autochthonous Swedes and immigrants from Eastern Europeans associated with the drug trade...

I think Christianity made a mess of the whole trinity dogma. So many different points of contention around the trinity. People need something simple like one god like the Jewish or Muslim God. I mean 100 years after the start of Christianity the Orthodox and the Catholics were arguing about...

Out Of Africa Basal.

Now I am not going to take sides in the conflict between the Palestinians and the Israelis. What attracted my interest is a marvelous Palestinian Dabke dance group performing in Dearborn, Michigan: Enjoy!

I am surprised at the closeness between Italians and Croatians samples. What is the explanation? Western Balkanites migrating to Italy during the Slav migrations or maybe pre-slavic inhabitants in Croatia were close to Italians and were not autosomally affected by the Slavs, they just adopted...

Would make geographic sense due to the Apennines.

The pension problem is because when Greece joined the EU goods prices increased to a level that the pre-EU pensions were completely inadequate post EU. So the pensions were increased to keep up with the new price levels. Then they were increased for political reasons. Of course tax avoidance...

Acela Express can reach speeds up to 150mph and the second edition will reach speeds up to 220. However the rail infrastructure needs to be updated to reach the latter speed.