Alie Ward

And this week, she selected the Samir Project, which assists families who want to return home to Gaza by cleaning the streets of rubble, cleaning debris-filled structures, renting and fueling heavy machinery, and bringing large crews to tend to destroyed neighborhoods.

and working on destroyed water lines.

They also have an initiative right now called Give Warmth to Gaza, protecting families from the wind and rain and giving the warmth of care and recovery with blankets, tarps, tents, and clothing.

And for more context on Gazan displacement and mass deaths from offenses from Israel, you can see our Genocidology episode and its recent updated encore with a world-renowned genocide scholar, Dr. Dirk Moses.

So that donation was on behalf of Dr. Yara Haridi.

And thank you so much to sponsors of the show who make it possible to donate to a different charity close to the ologist's hearts each week.

Okay, thanks also to patrons of the show who submit questions before we record via patreon.com slash ologies.

It is hard to select which of your strong toothy contenders to start with, but patrons Peter and Gregorius of Tomsk had a whale of one, as did... Mouse Paxton, Spicy Native, both wanted to know, in Spicy Native's words, baleen, when did it evolve?

Is whale baleen, Mouse asks, considered teeth?

Ooh, that's a very good question.

What is it?

I thought it was keratinized, right?

You're right.

Okay.

Yeah.

So not a teeth, not an odont...

You got it?

Odontoin.

Odontoin.

Okay.