Lately in the land of blogs:

• Guest blogger Lynda Sharpe contributed a fun piece on the purpose of animal play to Scientific American’s blog
• DrugMonkey discusses Grant Reductions. Sigh.
• US News Health and Oncology Journal cover a study in Cancer finding patients with access to their records are more satisfied with their treatment
• Christina’s LIS Rant has a nice post about science blogging entitled Blogs are not dead yet
• Tree of Life is compiling items about the evolving arsenic bacteria story following the recent items in Science