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The science and mystery of dreams

by Maud | October 30th, 2007

Rachel Aviv considers the legacy of Freud’s theories of dreams in the age of modern neuroscience.

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"And now our Irish family is Jewish. Our 'Swap Cousins' are Irish.”
A century-old switched-at-birth case is unraveled through DNA, with help from CeCe Moore. More at Strange Pilgrimage:
And then, interestingly, she asked me if I had expected my genetics results to report a sizable Ashkenazi component. I had expected it, I told her, but it turns out, I’m not very much Ashkenazi. Instead, I am unexpectedly Irish. It’s all very mysterious, I confided. And that’s when everything started to get a little weird.
Alice wrote that a few years back she had ordered a genetics test. She had expected the results to report that she was Irish, but instead they uncovered that she was half Ashkenazi Jew. She figured there must have been some mistake, but all of her brothers and sisters received the same results. P, her cousin, however, did not. Alice’s cousin, P, was not Jewish and was in fact not genetically related to Alice at all.
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