Futurist Thomas Frey: Some of us get bitten by the genealogical bug early in life, others a bit later. But there are few of us who haven’t been haunted by the question – where did I come from?
Continue reading… “Launching the Whole Earth Genealogy Project”
Trimper’s Rides has been operating continuously for 122 summers on Ocean City’s famous Boardwalk.
It;s not uncommon for customers at Carl Heimerdinger’s family retail store for customers to bring in scissors for sharpening that were purchased there decades ago by a parent or grandparent.
Continue reading… “Family run companies in the U.S. that have been around 100-plus years”
What are these strange creatures capable of?
Talk about a long scientific experiment*. Japanese researchers have bred an unusual line of fruit fly called “Dark-fly” which has been kept in constant darkness for 57 years (1,400 generations). They’ve sequenced the Dark-fly’s genome and are now figuring out the genomic alterations linked to adaptation to living in the dark.
Continue reading… “Dark-Fly: A Line of Fruit Fly Bred in the Dark for 57 Years (1,400 Generations)”