by david allan van nostrand | May 28, 2018 | Items in the News, Surveys
Estonia is in northern Europe, just south of Finland and just west of Russia. It was part of the USSR until 1991, when it declared its independence. Sten Hankewitz, writing in Estonian World, tells us that when several small districts in the Kanepi region recently...
by david allan van nostrand | May 21, 2018 | Fads, Items in the News
Columbus did not discover America. You might say he was the first European to arrive in the western hemisphere, but evidence suggests the Vikings got there 500 years before him. And never mind the Asians who 15,000 years ago came across the land bridge that connected...
by david allan van nostrand | May 14, 2018 | Items in the News, Voodoo Statistics
You already know music streaming is worth billions of dollars. Spotify, Apple and Pandora are big names, but did you know about TIDAL? Owned by Jay Z, TIDAL claims that Kanye West’s The Life Of Pablo was streamed by its customers 250 million times in just ten days and...
by david allan van nostrand | May 7, 2018 | Big Data, Items in the News, Voodoo Statistics
It depends. Phil Rogers, a Chicago news reporter, recently sent samples from home test kits to several online DNA sequencing services. One told him his ancestors were from Ireland and Scotland. Another said Portugal. Others said Scandinavia, Peru, and Afghanistan. How...
