Entries by Chopi

Indian Restaurants in New England

Here’s a quick guide to indian restaurants in our area, I wanted to play with google maps and did this up for my wife, it’s not very comprehensive, just ones we are aware of and wanted to remember. I used Chris Houser’s excellent js to embed the map.

Haplogroup M* – my mothers direct maternal line

This is my mother’s direct maternal line’s migratory pattern. These are her results from participating in the National Geographic’s Genographic Project. Her mtDNA identifies her as:“Your mtDNA results identify you as a member of haplogroup M*. The asterisk indicates that this is a macro-haplogroup. This haplogroup is the final destination of a genetic journey that […]

Haplogroup Q, Marker M242…

This is my direct paternal line’s migratory pattern. These are my results from participating in the National Geographic’s Genographic Project. My yDNA identifies me as: “Your Y chromosome results identify you as a member of haplogroup Q, a lineage defined by a genetic marker called M242. This haplogroup is the final destination of a genetic […]

Here is a piece from NYT…

Here is a piece from NYT,which might help your overheated dialogue. NEW DELHI — So, class, time for a news quiz: Name the second-largest Muslim community in the world. Iran? Wrong. Pakistan? Wrong. Saudi Arabia? Wrong. Time’s up — you lose. Answer: India. That’s right: India, with nearly 150 million Muslims, is believed to have […]

Nostradamus’s quote…

Podge, Where did you get that Nostradamus’s quotation.The whole thing looked horrible on the TV and we watched it all the way through.Any clues on whodunit. Every one seems pleased here that it is an Islamic group trained in Pakistan. At last the Americans will appreciate the endless battle we have been carrying against the […]