Don't Call Me Crazy on the 4th of July. Why couldn't Robert Lansberry get his mail? (Via Mindhacks, inspired by AskMe.)

Starlords. Star Wars / Lord of the Rings Disco Mashup! Via BB.

Cheeta is 74. Happy Birthday Cheeta.

Mind-opening lectures on the physiology of stress. The work of Robert Sapolsky.

Political video games against the dictatorship of entertainment. (Old but never posted before, possibly NSFW, and via BB.)

Will we let Jill Carroll be killed? Philosopher Peter Singer on kidnapped journalist Jill Carroll. (Via C&L.)

Finding Prosperity by Feeding Monkeys. [Via MeFi]

Kuan Yin, The Compassionate Rebel (with a thousand hands!)

TurtleKiss.com. Koopa the Turtle is unofficially the world's first internationally collected, professional turtle artist.

The Environmental Causes of Cancer (scroll down past the fundraising appeal). Full report here (PDF).

Infectious Disease Research in and Around New Orleans. What happened to the diseased research monkeys at the Tulane National Primate Research Center? more inside

Grocery Store Wars. From the makers of The Meatrix. [Via WorldChanging.]

Sita Sings the Blues. A new twist on an old myth, featuring our friend Hanuman (via bb).

Police want to add monkey to SWAT team.

The soundtrack of the Stone Age. The summer of 2004 has seen interesting discoveries in Canada and India that highlight a new branch of archæological research – archæoacoustics.

Transplantation of monkey embryonic stem cells reverses Parkinson disease in primates. [Via FuturePundit.]

The Great Ape Project. "The idea is radical but simple: to include the non-human great apes within the community of equals by granting them the basic moral and legal protection that only human beings currently enjoy." [Via Changesurfer.]

"Do not be alarmed if monkeys get in the bath with you."

What Is Too Human? The ethics of human/animal chimeras.

The Electric Sheep Thanksgiving Special. [Via No Touch Monkey!]