One night in early autumn, with the swampy ground of the Nature Preserve papered with fallen leaves, I was hunkered down to examine a dead snake about a foot in length whose color I thought might in life have been green, when, as I stood, I felt something brush the top of my head.

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The color of the eyes and hair of ancestors dead for hundreds of years can now be revealed from their DNA alone, researchers say.

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Put aside that there still is no agreement on how many dead and dying aliens were in the mishap, their color (beige and "yellow-orange, " among others, in addition to the popularly imagined green) or even the specific date when the alleged debacle occurred (various times are given over a three-week period starting in mid-June 1947 and ending just after July 4).

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But, you know, to everybody's point about - Mike, I appreciate your point about the levity and the dead giveaway, but why is the misery of poor, disenfranchised, often people of color, why is that fodder for Auto-tune?

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