Scientific Sleuths

Wanna make money? Wanna find bae?? Or maybe you want to find all your cuzins in the world?! You can do all this with your DNA and in this episode we each you how. Then we'll be speaking with a genealogy enthusiast who has used his data to go on to discover over 20,000 relatives and become an internationally known advocate and educator of genealogical research. And as always, I'll leave you with some encouraging words about do it yourself science in the black community. . **NEW WEEKLY UPDATES on DAT RONA (aka SARs-COV2/COVID-19)!! That's right every week for the rest of season 1, we will be giving you quick sip of tea on Dat Rona and this week we are spilling ALL the tea on TESTS! I know y'all have been hearing all about the lack of tests, well we do a deep dive on why that is, what has been done, what hasn't been done, and what tests might look like in the coming days/weeks/months. . If you missed our DAMN G.I.N.A. episode, you can hear it here, http://player.audiostaq.com/inthosegenes/23_big_pharma__ . You can follow our guest Shannon Christmas @ShannonXmas . You can learn more about the SCAN project here, https://scanpublichealth.org/ . PLEASE NOTE, WE WILL BE UPDATING THESE SHOW NOTES (in case you don't see something we mentioned)! . If you would like to give to our freelancers working hard to make the this podcast available who are also impacted by the pandemic you can send them donations for their hard work on this episode with the information. Sam’s (our lead producers) Cash App: $SamRidd Chad's (our music producer) Venmo: @Chris-Diggins Chris' (our creative director) Venmo: @Imchadmilner- . In Those Genes is independently funded, to give, become a patron here: https://www.patreon.com/inthosegenes . If you would like to give a one time donation, you can do that here: https://paypal.me/inthosegenes . If a monetary donation isn’t in the cards be sure to rate and write a review of the podcast. OAN, don’t forget to share this podcast with everyone you know! . You can formally join the family by visiting, www.inthosegenes.com . . Follow us at @inthosegenespod on Instagram and Twitter for the latest updates. . The Nucleus (our transcript, The Helix (an episodic soundtrack), and Henrietta Facts (quick notes from the episode) will be posted soon.