Archive for July, 2009

No one will discuss Egyptian Y chromosomes with me.

Posted on July 17, 2009. Filed under: diary entry | Tags: , |

A few months ago, after re-reading Keita’s work on the Lucotte Y chr paper, I spotted the single biggest ‘elephant in the room’ fact about modern Egyptians… they aren’t Arabs. 
Arabs, with monotonous regularity, have J y chromosomes, where as Egyptians have African A, B and E at about 70%, with most of their other Eurasian [...]

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And British Gas finally back down

Posted on July 16, 2009. Filed under: diary entry | Tags: |

And so finally ends the saga of my screwed up electric bill. They admitted (after a year and a half) that someone messed up the records when they changed computer systems, which led to them overcharging us by about £800. It took me about 20 phone calls and a lot of patience, but one staff [...]

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