Save $62 on the National Geographic DNA test kit on Amazon — it’s on sale for less than $40

Discovering your ancestry and your family roots just might be the key to unlocking who you are and where you came from. Tools like the National Geographic DNA Test Kit can help you on your path to self-discovery and it’s now on sale for just $37.99, …

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Got a DNA kit on your bucket list? National Geographic’s Geno 2.0 is on sale for $30 off on Amazon.

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This past holiday season, you could barely get on social media without seeing at least one person post about a DNA kit — meaning if you haven’t done one yet, you’re missing out.

You should really stop putting it off: National Geographic’s Geno 2.0 test is on sale for $30 off at Amazon today, meaning you can experience the magic for just $69.

Grab one for yourself or prep some Mother’s Day or Father’s Day gifts for this year — we’d bet they’ve been wanting to try one.

With Geno 2.0, you’ll do a deep dive into your regional ancestry with a percentage breakdown going back as far as 500,000 years and comparing data from 60 populations. This can be separated into mtDNA (maternal line) and Y-DNA (paternal line) tracing, and you can even discover the anthropological story of how your ancestors lived. Everything can be reached right on the Geno 2.0 app, where you can also access a custom video of your journey. Read more…

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Best deals for Nov. 29: KitchenAid, MacBook, Philips Hue, Google smart home, DNA test kits, and more

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Get the most out of your Thursday. We’ve rounded up the best deals from Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, and Macy’s on a few Apple products, kitchenware, smart home products, and Amazon devices for home security and video streaming. We also have deals on DNA test kits from National Geographic, as well as adult learning online courses from Udemy priced at just $9.99 — which is an extended Cyber Monday sale.

Here are just a few of our favorite deals today:

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What’s the matter with ‘Mars’? Season 2 struggles to find footing on Red Planet

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Mars is hard. Hard to get to, hard to make habitable for humans, hard to tell a story about on the screen and leave the viewer with any lasting impression. 

With a few shining exceptions — looking at you, The Martian — all Mars movies have bombed. From Mission to Mars with Tim Robbins in 2000 to The Last Days on Mars with Liev Schreiber in 2012, even supernatural thrillers have failed to locate deposits of decent drama on the Red Planet. And the TV version hasn’t fared much better. 

Witness Hulu’s new original series The First: ostensibly about the first Mars mission, it doesn’t even bother to make us care about the destination, focusing one entire season on sad Sean Penn and his earthbound struggles.  Read more…

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Startups are giving writers and filmmakers more ways to make it in Hollywood

On May 11 Netflix released the teen dramedy “The Kissing Booth” just as the school year was wrapping up for teens across the country. By June, the company had a smash hit among the tweenage set, and Wattpad, the company which owned the rights to the The Kissing Booth, had its first true breakout vehicle. The […]

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People can’t stop talking about this ‘brilliant’ National Geographic cover

National Geographic has its fair share of affecting, enduring covers, like 1985’s “Afghan Girl,” arguably the publication’s most famous image.
For its June 2018 cover and part of its “Planet or Plastic?” initiative, the magazine published a cover tha…

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Scientists found a new Earth-sized planet nearby…and it might be habitable

 Forget Mars, scientists have discovered a new Earth-sized, possibly habitable, planet just eleven light years away. Known as Ross 128b, the newly discovered planet orbits a life friendly red dwarf star that is an estimated seven billion years old…

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Scientists found a new Earth-sized planet nearby…and it might be habitable

 Forget Mars, scientists have discovered a new Earth-sized, possibly habitable, planet just eleven light years away. Known as Ross 128b, the newly discovered planet orbits a life friendly red dwarf star that is an estimated seven billion years old…

View More Scientists found a new Earth-sized planet nearby…and it might be habitable