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Lancet: Palestinian Health Declines
New report by England's premier medical journal paints stark picture.Children are hardest hit by occupation, according to report.Image: AP / Charles DharapakThe Lancet’s report, Health in the Occupied...
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Naked Mole Rats Live Longer
World's most cooperative mammal may hold the secret to a longer life.The eusocial naked mole rats sleep in closely related family groups.Image: University of PennsylvaniaNaked mole rats won't win any...
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Naomi Wolf Slams "Fake Activism"
"Disney-like" marches won't be effective unless risks are taken to disrupt business as usual."Magic Kingdom" security forces may be called if protesters are actually making change.Image:...
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The Nature of Partisan Politics-Part I
Yuval Levin justifies partisan bickering based on false assumptions about human nature.Conservatives and liberals conflict over their basic views on human nature.Image: Artist UnknownAs an evolutionary...
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The Nature of Partisan Politics-Part II
Republicans from Mars, Democrats from Venus and the partisan assumptions about human nature.Liberals embrace a human nature based on equality and cooperation.Image: Eric Drooker, "People vs....
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Cruelty to Chimps in Research Lab
Science questions the morality of invasive experimentation.Chimpanzees suffering from isolation and disease in the name of science.Image: Animal AidThe National Institute of Health scandal involving...
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US Protestor Injured by Israeli Forces
I just received word that an American citizen, Tristan Anderson, has been critically injured by Israeli forces today. I'm relaying the information exactly as it's been communicated to me from my...
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Bodyguard of Lies
Dershowitz claims victory in withdrawal of Intelligence Chief.U.S.-Israeli "special relationship" results in first casualty of the Obama administration.Image: NBC NewsIn 1943 Winston Churchill...
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Dershowitz Responds
I received two rather interesting e-mails this morning in response to my post Bodyguard of Lies. In this post I critiqued Alan Dershowitz (left), professor of law at Harvard, for claiming that former...
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Some Messed Up Monkeys*
"Dance, Monkeys, Dance"ErnestCline.comErnest Cline, director of the recent film Fanboys, has this hilarious spoken word piece that pretty sums up my philosophy perfectly. It's put to music by The...
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Of "Foreign Entanglements" Past
The resignation of Intelligence Chief Chas Freeman has been creating a lot of buzz in the political blogosphere. Robert Dreyfuss has additional insight in a web exclusive posted today in Mother...
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Death for Blasphemy in Kabul
A student in Afghanistan has been sentenced to death for passing out an article about women's rights in Islam.The student, Parwiz Kambakhsh, 24, from northern Afghanistan, was arrested in 2007 and...
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Picture Perfect
Caravaggio used early camera to capture his stunning images.Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, "Judith Beheading Holofernes" (1598)The Renaissance artist Caravaggio may have used an early form of...
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Battlestar Galactica Meets with UN
President Roslyn and Admiral Adama with cast of Battlestar.Image: SciFi.comAs the popular show on SciFi heads towards its final episode Friday, President Laura Roslyn and Admiral William Adama met with...
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Marking Anniversary of Iraq War
Protests scheduled Thursday through Sunday nationwide.Visit http://www.PentagonMarch.org for more infoAs a socially conscious primate I'm committed to creating a better world than the one we have....
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Turkey Censors Darwin
As reported in the latest edition of Nature, government officials in Turkey have just censored the leading science periodical, Bilim ve Teknik (Science and Technology) for placing Charles Darwin on the...
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Nightline Highlights Bonobo Crisis
A new Nightline report travels to the war ravaged Democratic Republic of Congo to interview Bila-Isia Inogwabini, the World Wildlife Fund researcher who discovered an unknown population of nearly 2,300...
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Bonobos in the Garden of Eden
Our primate cousins could turn the question of human origins upside down.Could the bonobo homeland also be the origin of our common ancestor?Image: Cyril Ruoso / TimeIn an interview with Dan Harris on...
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Drunk Gorillas of Virunga
Less Gorillas in the Mist and more "gorillas getting pissed."Mountain gorilla after a few too many bamboo shots.Image: Andy Rouse / Daily MailThis mountain gorilla has been drinking alcoholic sap...
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Darwin's Controversy of the Corals
The Reef Tank is currently hosting my new post that tells the story of one of the largest controversies in the history of science. It involves Charles Darwin, a son defending his father's honor and the...
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Loss of Biodiversity and Extinctions
Anup Shaw over at Global Issues has collected an exhaustive collection of recent analysis on the loss of biodiversity in the last few years.As I wrote in my recent post Rivalry Among the Reefs, the...
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Superorganisms and Group Selection
Unicolonial ants pose challenge to "selfish gene" theory.Unicolonial ants, such as these Argentine ants (Linepithema humile), are genetically unrelated but will cooperate to defeat a much larger...
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Nature is calling . . .
The Primate Diaries has now been picked up by the journal Nature's online network. Click on the RSS button below to update your feed and click the image above to see the new site.
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The Primate Diaries Has Moved to Science Blogs
My new home is at http://scienceblogs.com/primatediaries. Update your RSS feed by clicking here and I look forward to hearing from you on the comments page!
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Now at Scientific American
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