Cleaning out the inbox-Non-Sports Version

Time to clean out the non-sports inbox as promised and we start with the DNA test that rocked (OK,maybe gently rolled) the political history world as testing proved that Nan Britton's claim from nearly 100 years ago that President Warren Harding had fathered a child with her.
Britton's book "The President's Daughter" printed in 1928 named Harding as the father of her daughter,Elizabeth in 1919 and was mostly rebuked by members of the family and the media.
A grandnephew of Harding contacted the grandson of Britton to run a DNA test and discovered the results with Ancestry.com to be that they were second cousins and therefore the connection was legitimate..
I find it interesting for two reasons.
The first is my casual interest in Harding's presidency,but the larger is how history could suddenly be affected by technology.
Imagine some of the things that we think are true and could be proven right or wrong in the future....

Hitchbot was a robot that relied on the kindness of strangers to move "him" across the country and had made it across both Canada and Germany.
Hitchbot barely made it 300 miles in the U.S.before being destroyed by vandals in Philadelphia.
I always wonder why people do stupid things for no particular reason with things that don't affect them in the slightest.

The National Arboretum has a 390 year old bonsai tree from Japan and even more unbelievably,the tree survived the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima!
And combine that with the fact that no one knew this until 2001,even though the tree had been given to the arboretum for the 1976 Bicentennial.
The white pine appears to have been shielded from the fallout by a wall and has "outlived its life expectancy".

Westword writes about one of my favorite bands in the Gin Blossoms and "how they escaped the grunge generation".
I might have been a little late to the Gin Blossoms party (a few years after their hits),but I count myself among the most ardent fans of the band.
I just missed seeing them at Altoona a few years back and I wished that I had been able to go.

We wrap up with Grantland's terrific article on the death of Rowdy Roddy Piper.
It covers Piper's career and is very detailed.
To those of you that asked,I plan on a Piper piece in the future,although it may wait until after the baseball season.
I think that's only fair considering the subject matter..

The inbox is all clear for now!
Hope to be back later with a few words on our new arrival.