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Daily Archives: April 13, 2019
DNA FASTQ to BAM File Conversion
I ran across this article http://www.it2kane.org/2018/05/variant-discovery-process-update/ on how to convert FASTQ file to BAM file for DNA. It has a lot of details in the description.
Do Your Readers Trust You? — The Art of Blogging
Those who blog for fun and those who blog in order to earn a living out of it seem to be on two ends of a spectrum. On the one side: logic, strategy and profits. On the other: empathy, passion, … Continue reading
Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) in Cemeteries
This is a post I started working on years ago. There’s a Wichita, Kansas cemetery, Highland Cemetery – BillionGraves: https://billiongraves.com/cemetery/Highland-Cemetery/37991; Find-A-Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/92689/highland-cemetery considered to be the first one according to many records. It was abandoned by its owners in the early … Continue reading
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Tagged BillionGraves, Cemeteries, Find-A-Grave, Kansas, Sedgwick County, Wichita
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My True Ancestry DNA Website
I have heard different opinions on this DNA website – https://mytrueancestry.com/. I wouldn’t recommend using a password that you use anywhere else as a precaution although I generally recommend the same advice for all websites. I also recommend using a … Continue reading
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Tagged AncestryDNA, DNA, FamilyTree DNA, FindMyPastDNA, LivingDNA, MyHeritage DNA, MyHeritageDNA
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That Time a Luftwaffe Pilot Risked His Own Life to Save an American Bomber – YouTube Video
I have read about this incident a while back and it showed up on YouTube as a suggestion yesterday – That Time a Luftwaffe Pilot Risked His Own Life to Save an American Bomber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7UDdoEyFB4 (around 9:43 minutes long).
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Tagged military history, Social Media, World War II, YouTube
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Israel Lunar Lander Crashed on the Moon April 11, 2019 – Space Saturdays
I saw the articles recently of Israel’s Lunar Landing crashing. It came so close to making it. There are several articles about the crash: https://forward.com/fast-forward/422528/moon-lander-beresheet-spaceil-spacex-israel-morris-kahn-netanyahu/ https://bgr.com/2019/04/12/moon-lander-crash-spaceil-israel-beresheet/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfpUPVFQIsM I am glad to see the crash hasn’t stopped them from trying again: … Continue reading
New species of ancient human discovered in the Philippines – National Geographic
New species of ancient human discovered in the Philippines: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/04/new-species-ancient-human-discovered-luzon-philippines-homo-luzonensis/. 1,800th
— From The Darkness Into The Light
America is home to more than 328 million people, but did you know that more than 53 percent live in just 10 states? Naturally, these 10 states are home to the country’s biggest urban centers. The most popular states are, … Continue reading
My Ear Infection History
As a follow-up to https://upsdownsfamilyhistory.wordpress.com/2019/04/11/earitated-lifeoffaif, I decided to give my ear infection story. I briefly talked about it at https://upsdownsfamilyhistory.wordpress.com/2019/04/05/the-first-100-signs-you-need-to-know-american-sign-language-youtube-video. Starting in high school, I developed really bad ear infections. It eventually took an ear doctor putting in tubes to … Continue reading