TIC's five mega-subjects

This is how TIC intends to break them down
(as done on the demo homepage)

This is how TIC intends to treat inheritance

WILLS+ESTATES {inherited assets}

TIC will cover mental capacity, financial planning, estate planning, trusts, wills, codicils, letters of wishes, intestacy, family settlements, compulsory bequests, elder abuse, insolvent estates, probate, executors and administrators, inheritance-related disputes, philanthropy, tax, accounting etc. We know this subject!

Wills, Codicils, Wishes

A general and technical subject full of interest and importance to regular folk, businesses and professionals. TIC's bread and butter.

Inheriting, Disputes, Crime

How sudden fortune can turn to misfortune. Inheritance theft. Elder abuse. Murder. Will challenges. An indefinite supply of content on the seamy side of wills and estates.

Estate Management

The handling and mishandling of inheritances by executors, administrators, judges, law enforcement etc. — huge and underdone.

Philanthropy, Charities

Schools, universities, museums, libraries, research institutions — how big and small philanthropists leave money conventionally and unconventionally

Tax, Estate Planning, Trusts

Estate planning, lifetime trusts, lifetime transfers, asset management, running out of money etc. and many more hot topics.

Celebrities Alive and Dead

An inexhaustible supply of general and technical reading — the intentions, dispositions, assets, liabilities of actors, actresses, politicians, swindlers, public figures

GENETICS {inherited mind and body}

TIC will cover biological heredity, cell and gene anatomy and physiology, mutations, genetic diseases, the latest research and clinical practice, forensic genetics, epigenetics, neurogenetics, animal genetics, plant genetics, fungal genetics, genetics and health insurance, among others.

Fundamentals

The insanity of technical terms. The obsolescence of all genetic taxonomy, especially Linnaeus and Darwin, after 1869 (Miescher) or 1953 at the latest (Franklin, Crick, Watson). The absence of perfect clarity. TIC steps in.

Gene therapy

Research; clinical practice. Exactly how is it done? Why not done more? For the rich and not the poor. For specific conditions. A huge universe of content.

Gene Evolution

TIC is very interested in epigenetics and the development and propagation of mutations. TIC will use super-computation to elucidate the hominid poly-genome.

Animal Genetics

The selective breeding of animals by humans and animals is ancient — fruit flies to Belgisch Witblauw. Where is it going, as animal food runs out? Super-sheep? Super-farmed salmon?

Plant Genetics

Similarly plants. Deliberate genetic modification of crops is thousands of years old. Modern hyper-scientific pesticide-sensitive GM crops are a fact of life. TIC looks into it.

Genetic Diseases

TIC will maintain a list of some genetic diseases and take a close interest in their cure. Gaucher's Disease, Progeria, Ogden Syndrome, Alkaptonuria to start.

GENEALOGY {inherited family}

Tracing family and friends; researching ancestral activities, businesses, behavior; amateur and professional genealogy, archives, networks and other resources, DNA testing, emotional and social dynamics, separation, migration, displacement, reunification — fascinating!

Archives, Databases

Private and public archives and databases are the first resort. Some are well known and accessible; others not. TIC will look into providing directories of what's out there.

Reckonings

Follow your family and you might find some unpleasant precursors. Slavery is one of the big stories these days. TIC will follow it.

DNA Testing

Lots of DNA tests and testing techniques are now available. Numerous issues arise: accuracy, confidentiality, technology, etc. TIC will approach this systematically,

Criminology

The incriminating and exculpatory uses of DNA continue to revolutionise prosecution and humiliate law enforcement. There are many lamentable cases. TIC is onto them.

Emotional Dynamics

Behind the yearning for undiscovered family, and ahead of it, are raw emotions. Why look for family at all, and what to do when you've found them?

Lost With A Trace

First- and subsequent-generation displaced: it's quite common to have been sundered from one's family, and to be a close or distant descendant. Fascinating sagas.

CULTURE {inherited traditions, customs, heritage etc.}

TIC will cover literature, music, arts, crafts, dress, diet, behavior, philosophies, occupations, vocations, traditions, beliefs, usages… all from the point of view of inheritance and heritage. Where on earth does one begin? TIC will take a particular interest in endangered and disappearing cultures worldwide.

Occupations

From father to son: long-established family occupations that survive within the family are endlessly instructive and fascinating. TIC goes in search…

Displays

TIC is interested in the dark side of cultural behavior: affectation, pose, pretense, superficiality, baloney… TIC will be looking closely at some ridiculous examples.

Baggage

Similarly, we are burdened from generation to generation with a lot of bad behavior that sticks: child abuse in schools and at home; psychoanalysis etc.

Abilities

Also handed down: uncanny abilities such as Polynesian open-sea navigation, free-diving, the irrefutable living of a past life — to say nothing of extraordinary abilities in animals.

Behaviors

Human behavior between the generations is endlessly fascinating. American social inarticulateness; war; cowardice; dishonesty in politics; commercialised idiocy. TIC is onto it.

Arts and Crafts

TIC proposes a simple work-in-progress of a directory and dictionary of heritage-style thriving and threatened arts and crafts globally. Quite a project.

PLANET {inherited living space}

In twenty years from now, there will be precious little left of our planet as we now know it. What will we bequeath and what will future generations inherit? How soon before the Amazon rainforest is levelled and turned into a shopping warehouse? Extinctions, destruction, enviromental toxins… TIC will be all over the subject.

Garbage

Not-biodegradable plastic garbage is now with us forever, from gigantic Indian landfills and floating plastic islands to the microplastics in our brains and livers. Now what?

Decimation, Destruction

Man's treatment of our common inherited environment is enough to make anyone sick, and it's bound to get worse, if only because of over-population. TIC asks, 'What on earth will be left for future generations?'

Activism

Activists and journalists are getting themselves killed systematically. TIC calculates the benefits of suicide activism, and investigates what environmental intervention does work.

Gudda

TIC is nonplussed by gudda such as renewable gusts of wind, renewable sunbeams, carbon credits, biomass and sovereign debt. TIC asks, 'Is there no way out of this?'

Toxic Politics

Politicians and their failures are responsible for most pollution. The Flint Michigan saga is a vivid example. Where are the votes in it? And where is Middle East asbestos dust going?

Extinction

When it's all over. We're already down to our last few rhinos. The lists of endangered flora and fauna are unrelenting. TIC…

Start at the end and work back.
Neil Armstrong