WorldBank.org grows but diminishes in ability, awareness and relevance? Same for UN.org

@WorldBank Please put more effort into editing your data reports. Look at Population Total at https://data.worldbank.org/?locations=PK-IN-BD-CN-IR-AF   The entries for China and India are in Billions. You need consistent units. Do not round to whole numbers, give background links. I used to respect WorldBank data, but your Internet people apparently are not trained in statistical
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What to do if you need to look 500 or 5000 years back to understand African roots

Debra, I read your message again. Yes join the group on GedMatch and learn what it can do.  But it is only about 2 Million Tests, so do not expect magic solutions. Ancestry DNA Painter https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/Chromosome-Painter?language=en_US DNA Painter Example on DNAPainter.com https://dnapainter.com/example Adding 23andMe Data to DNA Painter  https://www.familysearch.org/to/rootstech/session/adding-23andme-data-to-dna-painter Ancestry Pro Tools matches of matches:
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Solar observing, Newtons Rings – artifacts of narrow band filtering, use it for good not evil

Drexel Glasgow posted images 14 Aug 2024 on Facebook with title “With the Altair GPCAM 130M. Plenty newton rings” Kirtsunegari posted in StarGazersLounge some animated gifs showing what you likely see when you look at live data, and what the software has to guess at when trying to separate the “really on the sun” things
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Yes, David, Internet search is highly biased and controlled by a few. It can be better

David Ho @_david_ho_ Anyone else notice that search doesn’t really work anymore? It used to be great. https://pic.x.com/8ip2boegma Replying to @_david_ho_ In the 26 years of the Internet Foundation, I have seen the Internet as a whole get worse. The terms I mostly use for myself are like “co-opted”, “fiddled” “manipulated”, “gamed”, “biased”. True random
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Famine is easy to solve, “hidden arbitrary decisions by a few” is not

Latimer Alder @latimeralder  Climatistas say that we are all starving because of climate change over the past 60 years. But the United Nations stats say the opposite.  We are not starving.  We have MORE food overall..and more food per person than humanity has ever known.  Don’t let the Climatistas mislead you https://pic.x.com/sw3glqs7lq Replying to @latimeralder I set up
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Storing electrons and ions over 100s and 1000s of kilometers

Storing electrons in cavities over 100s or 1000s of kilometers where they and ions can be stored or retrieved at multiple junctions is just a matter of a bit deeper effort with more sensors, data, models and fast control systems. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-51083-5 Most anything you can imagine is tightly constrained by the memes that circulate on
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Solar Photography group on Facebook – comments

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1278689162297491/?hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen&multi_permalinks=2820285491471176 Is the reason it is white at the edges, because the many colors are mixed, looking through deeper stretches of solar atmosphere? Can you give particulars of lenses, camera, settings, exposure, filters, post-processing, software? I just joined this group and have not had time to look around. I have been following space based and
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