New on….

Too busy with the pseudo-moving right now, so just a quick set of links to other people’s good stuff:
An amazing, fantastic post on Laelaps about horse evolution (also noted by Larry Moran). While at first glance, this post on Pondering Pikaia on naturally occurring hybrids in fish is not related, I beg to differ – she does mention other instances of hybridism in nature, including those in Equids – the well-known mules and hinnies, and not so well-known zebroids and others. And I just finished reading a book Hemi: A Mule, which, IMHO, compares quite favorably to Black Beauty – after all, it was written in early 1970s USA (instead of in Victorian England) and is quite blunt on a number of topics, including sex and war. And the overall message is much more pleasing to me…but you’ll have to read it yourself.
Kate looks at a new study in Animal Behavior about the trade-offs between social/affiliative behaviors (e.g., embracing, grooming) and access to infants in New vs. Old World monkeys.
Archy looks at a new technique developed to read the old books and manuscripts without the need to open them.
There is an ongoing series of posts about the science museums and how much they have gone downhill in recent years, starting with Doctor Vector who is angry (and there is a great comment section there to read). Brian Switek responds.
The ethnobiology of voodoo zombification on Neurophilosophy.
RPM caught some wheel bugs in flagrante delicto…
T. Ryan Gregory, Larry Moran, Anne-Marie and PZ Myers discuss the so-called C-Value and why it has been thrown onto the trash-heap of history a long time ago.
Quixote on trained rats (sniffing explosives and such stuff).
Action!
Bring back the Office of Technology Assessment!
Blog Action Day 2007 focuses on the environment this year.
Restore habeas corpus.
Help make NIH-funded research findings freely available to everyone.
Stop the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) from cutting reimbursements for two radioimmunotherapy drugs to less than their cost.