Monday Science Links

Your weekly dose of science:

• John McKay at archy on the Diamond Sychotron - and reading those fragile manuscripts


• Jennifer Ouellette at Cocktail Party Physics on Chagas disease - one nasty little parasite and paratransgenesis, a new way to fight many more.


• Larry Moran at Sandwalk on genome size and complexity - and while you're there, looking at his short series on the Freedom in the Classroom (2007) report from the American Association of University Professors.


• Judith Weingarten at Zenobia: Empress of the East on why the Romans always got in the first blow although the Sassanid Persians had one heck of an army.


• Brian Switek at Laelaps on the branching bush of horse evolution - long and copiously illustrated and well worth the reading.

Enjoy!