"“Israel’s intentional and targeted starvation campaign against the Palestinian people is a form of genocidal violence and has resulted in famine across all of Gaza,” 10 independent UN experts said in a statement on Tuesday."
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some re-evolved theropod-like features too. Hoatzin chicks have claws on their wings (that they lose when they grow up), and seriemas have a sickle claw like raptors did
The cave paintings on Sulawesi are associated with the Homo sapiens occupation of the island. Whether Denisovans themselves crossed the Wallace line remains inconclusive.
The earliest known surviving example of representational art, and visual storytelling, from Sulawesi, has been dated to least 51,200 years ago, while another painting, also from Sulawesi, has been dated to at least 48,000 years ago, 4000 years earlier than thought www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Satellite Images Show Extensive Cultural Heritage Destruction in Artsakh.
Caucasus Heritage Watch’s latest report on Armenian cultural sites found a 75% increase in destroyed sites since fall 2023. hyperallergic.com/927532/satel...
tbf old satellites and upper stages breaking up in orbit is not uncommon, happens to US-launched objects too (see NOAA-17). Something more egregious would be deliberately targeting an orbiting satellite with missiles, like Russia did in 2021 (US/China have done it too) www.npr.org/2021/11/16/1...
"And as Israel continues its siege on Gaza, preventing aid groups getting enough food into the enclave, parents say they have no choice but to watch their children starve to death."
Over 20 years ago, Andrew Stroehlein visited Xinjiang and saw how Chinese authorities were erasing Uyghur culture.
This trend of cultural erasure has only intensified.
“Why was my family eliminated? There was no reason…They turned my home into ash and vaporized the life from those people because they were Palestinian.”
Ahmed Alnaouq on the Israeli airstrike that killed his entire extended family in Gaza: dawnmena.org/just-like-th...
It's obviously not the death of space exploration, that's why we have robotic spacecraft, which I believe, should be a higher priority than human spaceflight. I'd like to see a scientific base on Mars one day, but the idea that 'colonisation' is key to humanity's survival is troubling in many ways.
Multiple images of a single supernova gravitationally lensed by a massive galaxy cluster will allow researchers to calculate the expansion rate of the universe. aasnova.org/2024/06/17/f... 🔭🧪
It's been genocide since the moment Israeli officials stated their intention to commit genocide, as Israeli scholar Raz Segal points out. It's been genocide since the IDF began the killing of thousands of civilians. It is genocide, not an ugly trope or canard, it's the horrifying reality you support
I keep thinking about how many newscycles we had on Abu Ghraib and we're seeting Abu Ghraib level stuff coming out of Gaza basically hourly and it's getting normalized so fast
At least 210 people have been killed and more than 400 injured as a result of the Israeli operation to rescue four hostages in central Gaza, the enclave's government media office said. Follow live updates: cnn.it/3Ky3Xsi
Biodiversity loss, climate change, chemical pollution and introduced species—all as a result of human activity—may be increasing infectious disease transmission, according to a meta-analysis in Nature. go.nature.com/4brvx6b 🧪
MEE reports that at least one Palestinian student at the University of Manchester had her visa revoked because she ‘spoke at a protest’.
Worth noting is that Rishi Sunak was scheduled to meet with university chancellors today on the issue of student protests over Gaza.
And, of course, policy, technology, and behavior still have the potential to do much better than the path we are headed down today. It will be a heavy lift, but it’s still quite possible to end up well-below 2C this century.
“The lives of hundreds of thousands of people were already in jeopardy – and now, with the current fighting, even more are at risk.“ www.msf.org/sudan-msf-wa...
Today in @thenation.com we have a piece by Lujayn, a 14-year-old girl in Gaza, that has floored me every time I've read it. It's about what happened when an Israeli bulldozer came to destroy the house she was staying in, and you must, must, must read it. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
"The absence so far of evidence ... has raised questions about the snap decision by 19 donor governments to cut ... funding to Unrwa, the main channel for humanitarian support for Palestinians, even as the death toll in Gaza soared, the health system collapsed and famine began to loom."
Indeed.
The number of dead (Shuhada’a) unearthed in the mass grave at the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis has now reached 361. And Palestinians are still finding more.
Today is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, the annual commemoration of the genocide committed by the Ottoman government more than 100 years ago. Some 1.5 million Armenians were killed through systematic massacres and starvation.
A study in Nature Communications describes the genes linked to bird song rhythm and tempo and suggests that two genes—Neurexin-1 and Coenzyme Q8A—which are also known to affect human speech, may shape vocal rhythm in birds. 🧪