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This demo homepage indicates what TIC proposes to do with inheritance.
We present here, among thousands, a few of the titles — just the titles — in which TIC is taking an interest and on which it will commission expert content from appropriate sources.
WILLS + ESTATES
{inherited assets}
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Wills, Codicils, Wishes
“Daddy wants a lawyer as executor. Help!”
Appointing a Lawyer as Executor or Administrator? Big Mistake. We explain why.
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Disinherited! Right and wrong ways to do it, complain about it
TIC explores free-will and no-free-will jurisdictions. Some interesting cases!
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What’s In It For Me? Dept: Bequests to Lawyers
When to smell which rats. TIC proposes a smell test
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Institutionalised Grandma’s curious codicil…
“She never told me she’d done that…” And maybe she never did it. TIC proposes some safeguards for when Grandma gets attached to that nice creative young nurse in the care home.
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Estate Management
“I’ve just found my long dead uncle’s stolen Rembrandt. Finders keepers, right?”
Is An Estate Ever Formally Closed? What about estate assets turning up years after the ‘final’ accounts?
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Messing up the testator’s specialist front-office business
So he left some unfinished business. Suddenly the estate manager is an expert?
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Bogus consent requests and bogus probate/chancery court applications
These lucrative mega-scams are often overlooked. We tell you about them.
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‘Estate’ accounts and accounting: if not perfect, assume criminal fraud
The estate manager’s financial statements are how she pulls it all off. ‘Even in this part of the universe, Captain, two plus two equals four.’
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Tax, Estate Planning, Trusts
“I want me some estate redistribution tax bucks. Duhh.”
Dude, you’ve been reading too many expert columns.
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Estate planning and tax planning: best practice, worst practice
TIC is skeptical of all those qualifications after his name. We tell you what can and does go wrong with it all.
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Fight it out: the living trust and or the bequest
We’ve seen some defective living-trust deeds and wonder what the point is.
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Estate and inheritance tax liabilities you really can and can’t avoid
That is, where it is due in the first place. Let’s see now.
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Inheriting, Disputes, Crime
“My Folks Are Living Too Long!”
Li’l Miss Entitled Consults A Lawyer. You might be surprised to hear the advice.
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Inheritance crime: when to suspect whom and for what; when and how to denounce, and who cares?
Inheritance crime is vastly underdone. Time for a new professional discipline?
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“Just come into $20m? Dude!”
TIC’s A-list of fortunate dudes and what they do and don’t do with it.
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Corrupt civil lawyers and judges
We have some examples for you.
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Philanthropy, Charities
“What, Actually Help People?!”
Why Do You Need A Charity?
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Well Spent Dept: who really needs your money?
The folks who do can’t afford to ask you for it. TIC goes scoping for genuinely poor worthy causes.
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Accounting to the estate for charity fees and expenses
It’s all very well bequeathing money to charities, but do your heirs ever hear from them again? TIC investigates after-sale service.
Celebrities Alive and Dead
Warren Buffett’s will
Amit Bachchan’s will
Bill Gates’ will
Hollywood wills
SIlicon Valley wills
Billionaire wills
Tony Curtis estate
Prince estate
OJ Simpson estate
Elvis Presley estate
Aretha Franklin estate
Howard Hughes estate
Anne Heche estate
James Thurber estate
Michael Jackson estate
GB Shaw’s estate
Pablo Picasso estate
TE Lawrence estate
Jeffrey Epstein estate
Mathew Perry estate
Bernard Madoff estate
Lisa Marie Presley estate
GENETICS
{inherited mind and body}
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Fundamentals
“I can’t believe it’s not genetics!”
Show What You’re Made Of Dept: Bye-Bye Linnaeus
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Why Don’t You Explain It Intelligibly?
The thinking — if that’s what it is — behind the terminology and exposition of genetics. TIC defies anyone to explain it clearly.
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Every cell in my body has identical DNA? Riiiiiight.
The notion that every cell in your body has the same DNA, including epigenes and yesteday’s mutations. Ho do you know? Is it nonsense?
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Gene therapy
“So you take some good genes…?”
How Does It Really Work? TIC takes you through a case, TIC style
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GT In The Impoverished Third World
Expensive, yes. Speculative, yes. Elusive, yes. Barely remunerative, yes. So who’s doing what where, with what results, and why.
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GT For Brain Cancers
TIC likes the idea of curing brain cancers with GT. We look into it.
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Gene evolution
“It’s Alive!”
Epigenetics Of Child Abuse. And yes, your offspring inherit it.
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Evolution of Mutations
TIC is not content with the current explanations . Check out TIC’s gene reality show.
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Evolution of the hominid poly-genome
In its boundless curiosity, TIC models the hominid poly-genome using a super-computer. Find out what we’ll look like in a thousand years (and the future of wills).
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Animal genetics
“Will I turn into a cow, eventually I mean?”
Yes you will. Why are you eating beef anyway?
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My friend’s top Black Angus herd: how does he do it?
TIC gives you a window on a typical day at a top breeder’s Missouri ranch.
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Inherited Diseases In The Spanish Water Dog
TIC has a very special soft spot for SWDs. We hate when they get sick and die of inherited diseases. We get the story from one of the world’s top SWD breeders.
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Plant genetics
“I’ve been eating GM corn. Level with me, Doc!”
The GM debate part 2. TIC’s global survey
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The Business End of GM Seeds and Pesticides
TIC does some home economics
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Indian Rice Genetics, Economics and Hunger
TIC goes to India, a world leader in rice production and export (Basmati, Pillau etc).
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Genetic diseases
“They can cure everything these days, right?”
Sickle Cell Disease
Progeria
Down Syndrome
Gaucher’s Disease
DiGeorge Syndrome
Alkaptonuria
Genetic arterial diseases
Ogden Syndrome
Ehler-Danlos Syndrome
Angelman Syndrome
Marfan Syndrome
Color blindness
Stargardt Disease
Scheuermann’s Disease
Woodhouse-Sakati Syndrome
Tay-Sachs Disease
Cohen Syndrome
Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
GENEALOGY
{inherited family}
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Archives, databases
‘A secret Moscow directive…’
TIC takes a look at ArcheoBiblioBase
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The Mormon Archives
A colossal archive. What’s in it? Who can access it?
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One’s Local Library
TIC does a quick survey of some local librarians to pick up some tips on who has what.
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Reckonings
‘In all of us there is a hunger to know our heritage’
Genealogical research about slavery
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Descendants of Slavers
TIC has its own connection — via inheritance, oddly enough — to descendants of a slave-shipping family. What’s behind the hand-wringing, apologising, etc.?
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And The Insurers…?
All those voyage, hull and cargo policies issued by Lloyd’s of London. TIC looks into the business, legal and political history. It’s not pleasant.
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DNA testing
“Some 3,000 samples require re-testing…’
Is it reliable? Who says? How does one know?
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Are The Data Secure? Let’s Blame The Customer
The recent problems with DNA data leaks. Who’s right?
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Testing for What Exactly?
Today’s list of tests, and so what?
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Criminology
‘Police are getting DNA data from people who think they [have] opted out’
Police Access to DNA Tests and Data
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Police Extraction of DNA
At a crime scene; at the police station; in your own home; from your chattels. Voluntary, involuntary. Then what?
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Convictions and Acquittals
Quite an industry these days, isn’t it, exonerating and liberating the wrongly convicted. TIC looks at some cases and some numbers.
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Emotional dynamics
‘The road after reunion…’
Reuniting — and then what?
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Hope
TIC talks to the hopeful to find out why and what they’re doing about it.
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Disappointment
TIC talks to the disappointed: they haven’t found anyone, or it hasn’t worked out.
Lost with a trace
Soviet purges
US border separations
Boko Haram
Holocaust hidden
Myanmar
Gaza
Ireland
Armenia
Australia
New Zealand
Ukrainian children
Tibet
Scotland
India partition
CULTURE
{inherited traditions, customs, heritage etc.}
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Occupations
“Hum paani ke jeev hain’
A family tradition in the last place on earth.
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Somali Archers
Traditional hunting archery; arrow-making; bow-making.
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Lodz Engraving
TIC goes down a personal pre-WW2 memory lane.
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Displays
Plain Dotty: Classical Music Stage Performance
What’s behind it? How bad will it get before someone stops it?
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Prehistoric Troglodite Chamber Music: Explains A Lot
TIC takes a fanciful look at the origin of all that grunting, snorting, frowning, fidgetting etc. We also look at the notation.
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Bagpipes. Really.
Now TIC is in favor of all kinds of music, but this is different. We look into the contraptions, the sound and the mystique
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Baggage
“Just kidding! (That’ll be fifty bucks and five years of your life)”
Freudian psychoanalysis and its generations of victims. (No, there’s no such thing as Oedipus Complex except in your own head.)
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Bought-In Monetised Resilient Stupidity
How societies, businesses, governments worldwide now depend on your wilful stupidity and cowardice. And coming soon: Artificial Stupidity!
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Child Abuse in Schools
By teachers. By older pupils. By younger pupils. Some societies continue to rely on it (traditional English, preppy American, some high-class Indian). Where does it get us?
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Intellectual child abuse at home (the narcissist father, the stupid mother, etc.)
TIC knows the Narcissistic Father-Figure. We look for more specimens. We talk to survivors.
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Abilities
Te Tennang, etc.:
The incredible abilities of Polynesian open-sea navigators
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Past Lives
Some people have definitely lived past lives: there’s no other rational explanation.
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Migrating geese
We at TIC like nothing more than the sight and sound of a flock of migrating geese. We get close.
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Behaviors
“Like Kind Of Sorta Like Sorta Um Da Kind Of Like. What I’m Sayin.”
Yes it really has come to this, with the beverage of your choice at this time. Now what?
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Your Limits To My Human Rights
Simple, really. The only thing infringing on human rights is humans. TIC looks into the epic struggle between the intolerant and the subservient.
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War
If ever there were an eternal inheritance, war is it. What a hand-me-down! TIC looks into our hard-wiring for picking fights (and the ancient war implements industry)
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Cowardice
If only enough of us were brave enough to see off enough bad guys! TIC looks into the modern coward and the modern tyrant. Who will win eventually, do you think?
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Arts and crafts
The One-hair brush etc. Rajastan Miniature Painting
A fascinating exercise in detail and patience.
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Critically Endangered Crafts
TIC’s incipient database, and others’ databases
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African Wood Carving
This is older than the stuff available on your European tourist beach. TIC goes into museums and talks to modern exponents of the art.
PLANET
{inherited living space}
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Garbage
‘Aware of the risk of damage to human health…’
Where Are The Garbage Trawler Fleets? The Basel Convention?
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Indian landfills: Unspeakable, Irremediable
Any observant visitor to India will be appalled. And it’s there forever.
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Africa landfills: Not Good
TIC takes stock of how Africa stores its garbage and why. Who’s going to clean it up before it becomes another India?
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Activism
‘[D]irectly targeted as a result of their journalistic investigations’
TIC explores how to not get killed in the line of duty.
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Effective vs Ineffective Activism
Go ahead, do something futile. That’ll show ’em.
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Valuing A Murdered Activist
Was it worth it? We measure esteem vs. value.
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Toxic politics
‘[H]er boss told her to falsify blood test lead results’
That pesky Flint Michigan. Where are the votes in drinking their water?
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More Polluted Water: Ways Out
Try drinking toxic water for a week. Every American city has it.
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Political Faults, Political Promises
TIC correlates election cycles to broken promises
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Middle East Asbestos: Chernobyl 2?
Where’s all the asbestos dust going from all that bombing?
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Decimation, destruction
Still killing animals for fun
Fresh thinking about how to stop the killers
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How much murdering of animals for an erection?
Has Sildenafil Saved The Rhino? (Will It Save The Giraffe?)
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Borneo
A disaster to bring tears to your eyes. Madagascar is next.
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Gudda
‘[N]ature constantly replenishes the wind’
Time to stop imagining we can renew wind, waves and sunlight.
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‘Bio-Mass’: Killing Made Trendy
Deconstructing the latest trend-setting destruction
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Carbon Credits
They don’t work. They never will.
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Asthma inhalers and greenhouse gases
We thought we had heard everything…
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Sovereign debt
Making poor countries poorer. It’s official.
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Extinction
It ‘carves out taxonomic groups’.
We are in big trouble.
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Too Bad It’s Not Better Dept: A Recent ‘Endangered’ List
The problem with inventories
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“So We’ve Resurrected The Mammoth. Now Let’s Kill It!”
What do you expect?