August 6, 2012

#SciAmBlogs Monday - Curiosity, plant root bacteria, parallel universes, trapping in Tanzania, hoarding, and more.

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- Scicurious - It’s all about sex: the connectome of a C. elegans male

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- George Musser - How Do You Count Parallel Universes? You Can’t Just Go 1, 2, 3, …

- S.E. Gould - Underground Communities: The plant roots that collect bacteria

- Caleb A. Scharf - Curiosity Targets Gale Crater

- Joanne Manaster - Video: NASA Lands Car-Sized Rover Near Martian Mountain

- Kalliopi Monoyios - See Where Our Curiosity Gets Us?

- Ben Linhoff - Following the Ice 8: Epic Melting

- Melissa C. Lott - Joining Forces on Renewable Energy Development

- John Horgan - RIP Military Historian John Keegan, Who Saw War as Product of Culture Rather than Biology

- Darren Naish - The 19th Century discovery of dinosaurs

- DNLee - #DispatchesDNLee: Trapping in Tanzania

- Khalil A. Cassimally - Introducing: Lauren Fuge

- Alex Wild - Mailbag: How to light a photo backdrop with the MP-E lens

- Bora Zivkovic - The Scienceblogging Weekly (August 4th, 2012)andBest of July at A Blog Around The Clock

- Bora Zivkovic - Open Laboratory 2013 – submissions so far

- Larry Greenemeier - Curiosity Gears Up to Zap Rocks in Huge Crater at Red PlanetandDana Vollmer’s Butterfly Stroke Features Dolphin-Like Moves [Video]

- Katherine Harmon - Scans of Hoarders’ Brains Reveal Why They Never De-Clutter

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