August 14, 2012

#SciAmBlogs Monday - draught, new shark species, hospital closing, pouched rats, medicine cabinet, sustainable Olympics, and more.

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- Melanie Lenart - Extreme Digging

- Krystal D'Costa - Standards of Healthcare in Your Medicine Cabinet

- Judy Stone - Hospital merger déjà vu

- Melissa C. Lott - Sustainability Gold for the 2012 London Olympics

- David Wogan - Living with the Nest thermostat #1 – installation and the first couple of weeks

- S.E. Gould - Fungi that steal genes from bacteria

- Kelly Oakes - All 2299 Kepler exoplanet candidates orbiting one star

- Jennifer Frazer - The Brain-Eating Amoeba in Minnesota — Live

- Rebecca Priestley - Humping and dumping, Kermadecs styleandKermadecs Islands: Shark fishing with Clinton DuffyandKermadecs Islands: Dolphin chasing, whale watching and wrestling the Galapagos shark

- David Bressan - GeoRiddle #1

- DNLee - #DispatchesDNLee: 4 Weeks in Tanzania and checking inand#DispatchesDNLee: Do African Pouched Rats have belly pouches or cheek pouches?

- Bora Zivkovic - The Scienceblogging Weekly (August 11th, 2012)

- Bora Zivkovic - Open Laboratory 2013 – submissions so far

- Scicurious - It really does all sound the same, the evolution of modern pop music.

- David Biello - Freshwater Layers in Seas Found to Speed Up Hurricanes

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