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A friend I admire posted recently about how “obvious” it is when people use ChatGPT. The comments were predictable: I don’t use AI. I wrote my book myself. The subtext: using AI is lazy, fake, or somehow shameful.

The backlash is predictable. We’re scared of sameness, of machines replacing human creativity. I get that. None of us wants to live in a dystopia of synthetic thought. There’s skepticism, eye rolls, and even a sense of shame or defensiveness when someone admits they’ve used a tool...

DNA testing has shattered more family myths in the past decade than centuries of traditional genealogy ever could. What once required dusty archives and decades of detective work now takes a simple cheek swab and a few weeks of waiting. The results? Revolutionary discoveries that rewrite family histories: and sometimes, world history itself.

The most stunning example may be the case explored in our recent publication, Hitler's Jewish Wife. Through forensic DNA analysis, researchers discovered...

Here's something that might blow your mind: you could have more in common genetically with someone from a completely different continent than with your next-door neighbor who looks just like you. It sounds impossible, but it's exactly what decades of genetic research have proven: and it's turning everything we thought we knew about race upside down.

The numbers tell a pretty incredible story. Studies consistently show that about 85% of all human genetic variation exists within populations, not...