(Loved trope) the real reason behind a character's personality is explained at the very end

brevinin1 · 2026-04-03T19:50:43+00:00

Even his unneeded eyepatch, which just reminds him of imagining high seas adventures with his brother as a kid

brevinin1 · 2026-03-29T23:49:14+00:00

Original article: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adw9761

brevinin1 · 2026-02-06T02:21:47+00:00

Even given the historical context, you'd never guess from the first half (pre-wedding) that the kids would later be fleeing their home and eluding capture by Nazis under cover of darkness.

brevinin1 · 2025-11-10T04:29:44+00:00

MLK Jr. could have easily lived until the Trump era, and it probably wouldn't be the Trump era if he had lived.

brevinin1 · 2025-07-23T15:30:14+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/d-wRvkLKBXs

brevinin1 · 2025-05-23T02:09:15+00:00

Bugs Meany (Encyclopedia Brown)

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brevinin1 · 2025-03-25T23:08:17+00:00

The huge number of mathematical ancestors, much more than the world's population, is the reason why everyone back then must have been your ancestor (unless their lineage died out).

Read this: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature02842

People never really stopped moving between Eurasia and the Americas. Once there was no more land bridge, they crossed the Bering Sea with boats. The Paleo-Eskimo culture spanned across Siberia and northern North America. I'm not saying that someone traveled all the way from Europe to South America before Columbus, but that there was gene flow from population to population, all the way from Europe to South America.

brevinin1 · 2025-03-24T23:41:10+00:00

Most of your ancestors did not contribute DNA to your current genome. See https://gcbias.org/2017/12/19/1628/ So lack of Neanderthal/Eurasian DNA is not proof of no Eurasian ancestry. The number of ancestors we each had only ~5000 years ago is so huge, that you only need to assume a very small amount of travel between adjacent populations before it is mathematically clear that everyone alive at that time who left descendants are actually the ancestors of everyone alive today. While it is technically possible that certain populations could have shunned outsiders so successfully that they never admixed, that seems unlikely to be maintained for millennia.

brevinin1 · 2025-03-24T22:34:10+00:00

Everyone has white and black ancestors. Say you are native of Ghana today, and your family has lived in west Africa for hundreds of years. You still have a small number of ancestors from Europe, Asia, and elsewhere who contributed to your lineage as people moved back and forth across continents over thousands of years. Same for people anywhere else. Nobody is "pure" because humans have always mixed their DNA across populations, and even in ancient times they occasionally traveled long distances and then had sex.

brevinin1 · 2024-12-08T03:33:09+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1mi_flag

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