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Just bought one. Looks absolutely gorgeous. Still trying to get used to the key spacing thou…
The Lady thinks the keyboard is cool. Jasper complains about the lack of the numeric keypad. I said to him that I never uses the numeric keypad anyway, but he argued that he does.

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I am still reading this great book, The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond. In chapter 6, Diamond argued that sexual selection of our ancestors has a very notable effect on how we look, and we “learn” our sexual preference from our young age. The male would tend to prefer someone [...]

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Mapping of the Chinese Genome, as reported by the Reuters, Wen Wei and Tai Kung.
The Wikipedia has the following to say about the Han Chinese:-

Han Chinese (Simplified Chinese: 汉族 or 汉人; Traditional Chinese: 漢族 or 漢人; pinyin: hànzú or hànrén) are a heterogenous ethnic group…

There is substantial genetic, linguistic, cultural and social diversity between its [...]

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what ever it is. To be revealed on Monday morning Pacific time, or around Monday midnight HKT.

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Link.

A copy of the signature of Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar. The original signature was found in a cell in the Chinon Castle in France where Molay was imprisoned.

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