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Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. For the 12th season of PBS’s “Finding Your Roots” (8 p.m. Tuesday, WQED-TV), Pittsburgh-raised music star Wiz Khalifa is ...

Discover a fast and powerful calculus-based method for finding square roots with impressive accuracy. This explanation shows how derivatives and iterative approximation can be used to quickly zero in ...

Family trees can hold jaw-dropping secrets! Join us as we explore the most shocking ancestry discoveries celebrities made on "Finding Your Roots." From spy grandfathers and royal connections to ...

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