Miscellaneous items I found of interest during the week.
Popular Recent YouTube Videos
| Video Title | Views per day (approx.) |
|---|---|
| Ant & Dec Track Down Their Ancestors In Ireland (PART ONE) | 23636 |
| The Irish Heroes of the US Civil War | 8000 |
| Origin Story with Gabby Douglas & Natalie Hawkins | 4400 |
| Ancestry.com Shock: Finding My Brother’s Hidden Offspring | 2500 |
| Lesley Manville’s grandad was a revolutionary! | 1800 |
| Ancestry Profile Makeover | 1667 |
Note: The “Ant & Dec” video shows an exceptionally high views per day rate due to its recency (8 hours old at the time of data collection).
Goblincore, cottagegoth (sic).
Persephone’s blog post leads me to this
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DNA Tests Discount
Looking for a Y-DNA or mtDNA test. Family Tree DNA has discounts throughout August.
AncestryDNA’s autosomal test is $79, reduced from $129, plus taxes and shipping, until 11 August. For an extra $1, new subscribers can add a three-month World Deluxe Membership.
Weather Chat
The European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF) has an experimental AI-based assistant. You can ask questions like Will it rain in Toronto on Wednesday? Get a summary chart for the next 10 days by asking for a meteogram for a city of interest.
Alan Turing to ‘answer questions’ in new AI display
Thanks to this week’s contributors: Anonymous, Brenda Turner, gail benjafield, Gillian Leitch, Nick McDonald, Teresa, Unknown.
