Have sent him a photo of the profile page in my tree of the man who was his birth father.
The fact that #MyHeritage not only shows dna matches but also the DNA our matches share with our common matches was key to this.
Unequivocal.
At RootsTech Crista Cowan dropped a hint that #AncestryDNA will be selling this tool maybe later, maybe even this year, and it can't come soon enough imvho.
This is a picture of Brixham harbour, which is only a few miles from where I live. It made the national news last week as the epicentre of an outbreak of cryptosporidium, but is normally thought of as a picturesque fishing port.
It's a popular tourist destination and, to the left of the shot, you can see its well-known replica of Sir Francis Drake's 'Golden Hind', in which he circumnavigated the globe. It's a disturbingly small vessel.
I just had a shower. I usually only have a shower if there is no bathtub available, but I was very dirty and I didn’t want to sit in a puddle of my own grime. The shower went from hot to cold to hot again, confirming my belief that they are treacherous and not to be trusted
... The complete disregard for how an institution's actions & inactions impact on those at the bottom of the 'pyramid' & the subsequent attempt to evade responsibility for the harm caused when publicised.
(you'll have other you'd like to add to the list, I'm sure)
A damning picture of misused power & disregard for others.
Chemistry is like physics where the particles have personalities - and chemists love talking about the really nasty ones. It makes for fun reading, like Derek Lowe's column "Things I Won't Work With". For example, bromine compounds:
"Most any working chemist will immediately recognize bromine because we don't commonly encounter too many opaque red liquids with a fog of corrosive orange fumes above them in the container. Which is good."
And that's just plain bromine. Then we get compounds like bromine fluorine dioxide.
"You have now prepared the colorless solid bromine fluorine dioxide. What to do with it? Well, what you don't do is let it warm up too far past +10C, because it's almost certainly going to explode. Keep that phrase in mind, it's going to come in handy in this sort of work. Prof. Seppelt, as the first person with a reliable supply of the pure stuff, set forth to react it with a whole list of things and has produced a whole string of weird compounds with brow-furrowing crystal structures. I don't even know what to call these beasts."
My decorator has detected certain "incidents" conveniently forgotten over the years.
One of my late mother's tended to involve one of those pressure cookers with little weights on that, if lifted off before it cooled, tended to shoot brussel sprouts in the air.
Here is a tweet of mine from 2019 that is still relevant to me.
A fear I find hard to articulate:
When we do "fun maths" activities and then the kids go back to their usual classrooms and do the usual things, are we just emphasising that the "fun maths" isn't real maths and the real maths is the not-fun bit?
Also, I suppose, it depends in part what is considered "fun" ... I recall being on holiday before university with my parents & they had a bottle of Mateus Rosé Portuguese wine in its uniquely shaped bottle ... I sat there happily trying to calculate its volume with calculus.
I also subscribe. I also struggle to get the search to work cleanly ... It's also difficult to reproduce a search to find things again :(
So I adopted the approach of screenshotting on my tablet anything I will want to keep then upload that image to my tree. I don't bother "linking" the articles to Ancestry.
The Australian (Trove) and NZ newspapers are a public database & rather good to search. Trove has a bot on Mastodon which pumps out a snippet every hour or two.