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In Gaza, more than 70,000 people have already lost their homes - that’s almost 4% of the UK population. http://t.co/JdDedlrc7C

They think that the kids will get grown and feel scary from them … but they r wrong! They make those kids men that scare NOTHING but God! FB.com/Israelwc

Ed Balls, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor and Andrew Adonis, Labour’s Shadow Infrastructure Minister, writing in tomorrow’s Independent on Sunday say:

“In politics, actions speak louder than words. So when George Osborne desperately tries to claim this week that the Conservatives will deliver for the...

One story of Palestinians’ life in #WestBank FB.com/Israelwc

Museum scientists have uncovered the fossil of a 52-million-year old beetle that likely was able to live alongside ants—preying on their eggs and usurping resources from the comfort of their nest. 

The Eocene fossil, named Protoclaviger trichodens, was encased in a piece of amber from India and is the oldest-known example of this kind of social parasitism, or “myrmecophily.” Published today in the journal Current Biology, the research also shows that the diversification of these stealth beetles, which infiltrate ant nests around the world, correlates with the ecological rise of modern ants. 

Read the full story on the Museum blog. 

In school, Israeli kids learn to hate while Gaza mourns their classmates! FB.com/Israelwc

Gaza is Sunny today! With a high of 29 C and a low of 17 C and a chance of bomb showers from Israel! http://t.co/8fxkFCSIKE

Zionism is a mutant version of Nazism! FB.com/Israelwc

Exactly. The Jewish state are acting like the NAZIS!

RT @Pray4Pal: Amer’s passport Took his pic in the ICU as he is running out of time & need to be transferred outside #Gaza urgently http://t.co/NqPN9aZARg

How can the US support this genocide?

It is not about how much time you’re given before your house is bombed. I was given the entire war duration to pack but still can not figure out which is more important than which.Everything has something in my heart. Everything has memories. The very walls of my house are dear to me. How can I pack the ceiling at which I stare until I fall asleep or the window by which I spend hours thinking of my crush? I seriously can not begin to imaginethe horror of having to leave my home forever and watch all my life and memoriescollapsing right front of my eyes..!!

Fuck the Zionist-terrorist bastards!! Netanyahu is a butcher and is the role model for these disgraceful gangs of hate.

Zionist oppressors sponsored by the US!

Rogue State: Israeli Violations of UN Security Council Resolutions http://t.co/LFNp3E7NGA … http://t.co/aQWfhp7oYs

One word, OIL.

Rogue State: Israeli Violations of UN Security Council Resolutions http://t.co/LFNp3E7NGA … http://t.co/aQWfhp7oYs

Israel is behaving like the NAZIS did in WW2!

Invertebrate Zoology Division Chair and Curator James Carpenter joined Dennis Stevenson of the New York Botanical Garden on a Constantine S. Niarchos Expedition to Australia in search of pollen wasps, their host plants, and the ways they might be adapted to each other.

Along the way, they discovered a new pollen wasp species, Paragia ozoe, and a plant family, Proteaceae, previously unknown to host wasp pollinators. The rare teaming of zoologist and botanist underscores the value of interdisciplinary collaboration and of building scientific collections.

Learn more about this expedition.

What an amazing experience, I wish I could have been on that field trip.

A Zionist version ‘Racism’ America supports and finances! FB.com/Israelwc

They (Israel) are behaving like the Nazis during WWII!

This spider was trapped in tree resin about 20 million years ago. Over time, the resin fossilized to amber, preserving the animal inside. Specimens like this are helpful given that spiders don’t fossilize well in sediment. They offer researchers good information about the group’s more recent history. The oldest known amber specimen is from around 130 million years ago. This specimen was collected in the Dominican Republic. 

Learn more in our exhibition, Spiders Alive! open now. 

Amazing!

Huge asteroids and comets don’t collide with our planet very often, so scientists can’t easily observe the effects of a major impact.

But 20 years ago this month, in July of 1994, researchers got a glimpse of what can happen when a sizeable comet crashes into a planet—in this case, Jupiter. The fiery results offered clues to how devastating the ancient impact on Earth might have been.

The comet named Shoemaker-Levy 9, already shattered into many pieces, slammed into Jupiter in a series of impacts. Many of the fragments were between one and three kilometers (0.6 and 1.9 miles) across in size. The multiple impacts sent fireballs high above Jupiter’s atmosphere and left dark scars so large our own planet would have fit inside.

Learn more about planetary impacts in the Cullman Hall of the Universe. 

I remember avidly watching and reading anything about this amazing event!

Congrats to the Fred Levy and his Black Dogs Project blog. It’s an effort to correct the fact that black dogs are sadly, routinely passed over for adoption. It’s nothing but photos of black dogs against black backgrounds, it’s beautiful, and it’s about to become a book. It’ll be out in fall of 2015, and its pages will be heavy with ink.

If you yourself have a black dog, by the way, Fred still needs models… 

Tumblr Tuesday: Monkeys!

Fauna Chimps The Fauna Foundation is Canada’s only chimpanzee sanctuary and it serves vegan sweet potato poutine to its heartbreakingly sensitive guests. We held and petted a Capuchin monkey this weekend. It reached out its tiny hand and wrapped it around one of our fingers. 

An Unnatural History Possibly the world’s only collection of vintage monkey and ape photographs, some of which are of Capuchin monkeys, the kind that we held and petted this weekend. We cried three times afterward, moved by the experience itself and dizzy over the fact that our life had led to this. An Unnatural History is definitely Tumblr’s best source for monkeys hanging out with dogs.

Monkeys in Art History Could this diverse selection of monkey-centric art actually be the work of a single, spectacularly talented primate? We hadn’t considered the possibility until we saw our own reflection in the eyes of a Capuchin monkey this weekend. An ageless wisdom was writ into its expression, and in that moment our two species felt closer than we had ever thought possible. 

Primatography Photos by a primatologist, which is something you’ll wish you majored in after holding and petting a Capuchin monkey. We majored in Classics and assumed we would live a solitary life of the mind. Children were never a part of this picture…but to hold this fragile life in our hands, we were suddenly filled with a love too big for one heart to contain. Primatography includes special bonus shots of sloths and other mammals. 

Respectez ce Singeot A whole lot of beautiful monkeys and a little bit of the elusive Werner Herzog. Even now, thinking about that Capuchin monkey has our eyes once again filling with tears. 

Photo by njwight via faunachimps