Dr. Jones's Monkey Business

Mannnn there’s some crazy rain but don’t fear!! Homemade is here and near! Come on in for a getaway from the weather and enjoy a nice warm cup o’ joe and some almond mocha coffee cake:)) Doesn’t it look delicious? because it isss😋✨

https://www.berkeleyside.org/2023/03/13/homemade-cafe-free-meals-everybody-eats-berkeley

At this Berkeley cafe, people in need dine for free Homemade Cafe's "Everybody Eats" program serves a hearty breakfast at no cost to anyone who asks.

One of the greatest hominin fossil hunters, Kamoya Kimeu, has passed away at 84. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/11/science/kamoya-kimeu-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuomT1JKd6J17Vw1cRCfTTMQmqxCdw_PIxftm3iWka3DFDm8biP8eAoWG8EqKZqNmYMo6mjeaQdJcdbMiTfA0zvNaOwYlbTiUlaa-ucZPJTQp-8X0V3kq3pnJUPcyrzSwP2SweaInm-Ti-k_YPDL1UaHbgWkiI1wxqJVjc12g3iQY1-ySRL4Or9p13P8nBphwRi5RJ3XZ-qm1VGgtfYmOfRre6QIpWuBGWTu1ntaU7rIIcQQ6GkuRBTokoj56sIUATYtRaKXvLBcge978iaESCQFoLISvD54zTuvEhlUCdrt1urwTBdjacR5a4JY&smid=url-share

Kamoya Kimeu, Fossil-Hunting ‘Legend’ in East Africa, Is Dead Working closely with the Leakey family in Kenya, he discovered many of the bones that rewrote how we understand human evolution.

The Lawrence Berkeley Lab is hiring a computational scientist. :)

Short, thoughtful, and awe-inspiring article by another biological anthropologist.

I put a camera on a monkey. Here's how it shook my understanding of humanity Awe is a powerful force, a fact that is exciting and terrifying. Both humans and animals experience awe, but our experience is more profound.

Ten-minute video on axolotls. 💜

This axolotl would like to accept the award for Short Form film at the World Wildlife Day Film Showcase on behalf of our own bioGraphic magazine and filmmaker Katie Garrett. Once treasured by the ancient Aztecs, axolotls are now critically endangered, and this award-winning film follows the biologists, anthropologists, and farmers working to save them: bit.ly/34inxS1

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Marie Curie, Ambulance Driver: The Trailblazing Scientist’s Little-Known Humanitarian Heroism and Her Life-Saving Mobile X-Ray Units

Not many people know this about Marie Curie.

brainpickings.org How the first woman to win the Nobel Prize and her brilliant teenage daughter set out to mend the ugliness of war with ingenuity and sheer human courage.

Video: Cremation of a Human Body

Interesting five-minute video. You don't actually see much of the burning body (and the body is packaged up before it goes in so you don't really see much of it). I never knew what the process was and now I know.

cultofweird.com Ever wonder how the cremation process works? This graphic video shows the cremation of a human body from beginning to end.

Fireproof human skulls for your gas fireplace, barbeque or fire-pit

boingboing.net They’re $65 each, handmade from “lava granules plus significant heat ceramic refractory,” available in black and white. (via Geekologie)

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Some of you may remember me showing predator mobbing videos in my lecture class. Here's another, although you can't see much more of the leopard other than its tail at the top of the screen.

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HUMP DAY HUMOR

Friday's goodies are already in the works at Homemade Cafe!

The corned beef is cooking.. come in checkout our St. PATRICK'S DAY specials!!

Scientists Now Know Exactly How Lead Got Into Flint's Water

"The corrosive water pumping underneath Flint quickly ate away at the protective layer inside the city's old lead pipes, exposing bare lead to the water flowing through them. This lead was the source of the initial contamination, Edwards says. This is what happened in Walters’ house: According to the study, most of the lead appeared to come not from the lead pipe connecting her house to the main line, but from the protective rust that had built up on the house's iron piping over the decades."

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smithsonianmag.com New report points blames corrosion and warns that fixing lead poisoning nationwide will require more work than we hoped

An Amazing Look at a Monkey Being Born

There's a series of eight shots here which are awesome. In the first, mom's just eating some grass...doo do do...but wait, what's this? In the end, she's just sitting with the little thing, hanging out. No biggie.

nationalgeographic.com Geladas typically give birth in total seclusion. Here's how one photographer got a rare image of a monkey in labor.

I need 50,000 comments on a government website. - The Oatmeal

Do you have one or two minutes to cut and paste a comment from this site into a government website? If so, please do, and then share. (Or just share, whatever works best.) There are three days left to comment.

theoatmeal.com has done multiple campaigns similar to this one, and they estimated that 50k comments is the amount it would take for this program to get on the DOI's radar.