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Until now, it had been widely assumed by geneticists that the Ashkenazi communities of Northern and Central Europe were founded by men who came from the Middle East, perhaps as traders, and by the women from each local population whom they took as wives and converted to Judaism.
But the new study, published online this week in The American Journal of Human Genetics, suggests that the men and their wives migrated to Europe together.
schrager on bond st.
Couple weeks old, but it made me laugh out loud again today, so in case anyone missed it: The Chronic (what?) cles of Narnia SNL rap skit.
I don't know about the music but I think this is a really cool video world webcam collage type thing.
http://moon.google.com/ -- The level of detail is stunning. You can almost make out the lunar dune buggies rovers.
don't forget stamps cost 39 cents today.
know your cliches.
someone has a "told ya so" come to them. not my space.
pranks alot
Clinton Street Winter Lights Festival photos. I think Time Out is going to do a blurb on this in the next issue.
cataloging your stuff made easy. this looks pretty cool. (from maud.) i'd be curious to hear from anyone who is using it.
smells like new jersey
Any tips for where I might find reviews of AAC ripping SW for PCs? (I'm late to the MP3 party, and think I'll go ahead and skip a generation.)
I know WATI isnt even a real news paper but how off the wall is Michelle Malkin ?
allows you to get a birds-eye view of the Billboard Hot 100 by listening to all the #1 singles from 1958 through the millenium using a technique I've been working on for a couple of years called time-lapse phonography. The 857 songs used to make the piece are analyzed digitally and a spectral average is then derived from the entire song. Just as a long camera exposure will fuse motion into a single image, spectral averaging allows us to look at the average sonority of a piece of music, however long, giving a sort of average timbre of a piece. This gives us a sense of the average key and register of the song, as well as some clues about the production values present at the time the record was made; for example, the improvements in home stereo equipment over the past fifty years, as well as the gradual replacement of (relatively low-fidelity) AM radio with FM broadcasting has had an impact on how records are mixed... drums and bass lines gradually become louder as you approach the present, increasing the amount of spectral noise and low tones in our averages.
The spectral average of each song used in Billboard plays for one second for each week it stayed at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Thus we run about 52 seconds per year, for a grand total of a 37 minute sound work. The video image tells you what song was used to generate the current spectral average. Note that nothing of the original recording is used in this piece; everything that you hear is derived from a statistical algorithm applied to the original recordings. If you know the song used in the average, you may be able to sing the first few bars (or the main hook in the chorus) over the spectral average and find that you are quite in tune with it; in some cases, you may be surprised not to be.
Just now learned of Bob Denver's death. All obits I find mention an arrest for marijuana in 1998 but none mention an arrest for pot posession in the early 1970's. I swear I remember him being busted back then. Anyone know?
deep sky "in" jokes
thx sally
million dollar homepage
a friends step uncles hedge fund book reviewed.
future technology timeline
timbls blog
"Affiliates of terrorist organization Hezbollah cloned the mobiles of senior executives of Canadian operator Rogers Communications....":
"They were cloning the senior executives repeatedly, because everyone was afraid to cut off Ted Rogers' phone," Hopper told Gefen, in an interview that recognised the cleverness of the social engineering trick. "They were using actually a pretty brilliant psychology. Nobody wants to cut off Ted Rogers' phone or any people that are directly under Ted Rogers, so they took their scanners to our building... Nobody wants to shut off Ted. Even if he is calling Iran, Syria, Lebanon, and Kuwait."Pretty clever.
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