ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections November 29 - December 5, 2015 | #sciseekpicks

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favorite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• Strange But True: Dark Matter Grows 'Hair" Around Stars And Planets at Starts With a Bang! by Ethan Siegel
• Having sex with another species at Mapping Ignorance by Ignacio Amigo
• How Spicy Would You Like That Chemotherapy at Helical Translations by Shane Caldwell
• Do Bilingual People Have a Cognitive Advantage? by Neuroskeptic
• No, the dorsal anterior cingulate is not selective for pain: comment on Lieberman and Eisenberger (2015) by Tal Yarkoni
• Reproduction is energetically costly at Dynamic Ecology by Meghan Duffy
• How useful is Twitter for academics, really? at Neuroconscience by Micah Allen

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections November 22 - 28, 2015 | #sciseekpicks

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favorite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• Thanksgiving at Preposterous Universe by Sean Carroll
• What I'm Thankful For: the Science and Technology Edition at Out There by Corey S. Powell
• Classical Tests of General Relativity at The Physics Mill by Jonah Miller
• Six books to help  you write at CogSci by Sebastiaan Mathot
• Psychology's 10 Greatest Case Studies - Digested at BPS Research Digest by Christian Jarrett

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections November 15 - 21, 2015 | #sciseekpicks

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favorite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• Riemann Hypothesis not proved at The Aperiodical by Katie Steckles and Christian Lawson-Perfect
• The long run at bit-player by Brian Hayes
• The Space Doctor's Big Idea at The New Yorker by Randall Munroe
• Meanwhile Over in Computer Science at AMS Blogs by Anna Haensch
• TIFU using Math.random() at Medium by Mike Malone
• The unrehearsed lecture that changed the physics of light at Mapping Ignorance by DIPC
• 3D Recipe: Drug Design Meets Virtual Reality at Just Like Cooking by See Arr Oh
• What's in a scientific publication's name? One research article title explained at Sustainable Nano by Eric Melby
• Teasing Apart Depression from Traumatic Brain Injury at Cognitive Neuroscience Society by Lisa M.P. Munoz
• What do GWAS signals mean? at Wiring the Brain by Kevin Mitchell

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections November 8 - 14, 2015 | #sciseekpicks

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favorite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• By Solving the Mysteries of Shape-Shifting Spaces, Mathematicians Wins $3-Million Prize at Scientific American by Evelyn Lamb
• Everyone Has a Personal Green's Theorem at National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Blog by Dan Teague
• SLACKers: University of Michigan Chemists Experience Premier Research Facility at Tree Town Chemistry by Jimmy Brancho
• Linus Pauling's last laugh? Vitamin C might be bad news for mutant colorectal cancer at The Curious Wavefunction by Ashutosh Jogalekar
• One paragraph on eye drops for cataracts at Crystals and Catalysts by Mariam Zaki
• Can neuroscience explain consciousness at Oxford University Press Blog by Anil Seth
• Neuroscience: Tortured reasoning at Nature by Lasana T. Harris
• Meta-Neuroscience: Studying the Brains of Neuroscientists at Neuroskeptic 
• Should you start a science blog? Ask yourself these questions at Dynamic Ecology by Jeremy Fox

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections November 1 - 7, 2015 | #sciseekpicks

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favorite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• Neuroscience: The aesthetic brain at Nature by Chelsea Wald
• Young babies live in a world unto themselves at Science News: Growth Curve by Laura Sanders
• Fires in Indonesia at Azimuth by John Baez
• A (Frisbee) Murder Mystery at It's the Rheo Thing by John A. Spevack
• Frankenfood? The Real Science Behind GMOs at Lions Talk Science by Ross Keller
• The Phlogiston Theory - Wonderfully wrong but fantastically fruitful at The Renaissance Mathematicus

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections October 25 - 31, 2015 | #sciseekpicks

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favorite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• Decontaminating infant formula with the bacteriophage at Lunatic Laboratories 
• A Rough Guide to the IARC's Carcinogen Classifications at Compound Interest by Andy Brunning
• Using Gene Expression to Learn About Nanoparticle Toxicity at Sustainable Nano by Tian (Autumn) Qiu
• Equity or inertia: how emissions sharing philosophies shape climate policy success at Goodnight Earth by Jonathan Trinastic
• Integration dynamics and choice probabilities at Pillow Lab Blog by Jacob Yates
• Scary Math at Spiked Math Comics
• How to Build a Search Engine for Mathematics at Nautilus by Siobhan Roberts
• Guest blog [on teaching calculus] at Art of Mathematics by Dana Ernst

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections October 11 - 24, 2015 | #sciseekpicks

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favorite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past two weeks:

• The Designer Behind the Greatest Fake Mars Mission Ever at Out There by Corey S. Powell
• Cassini Reveals That Enceladus is Embraced by a Web of Cracks at Life, Unbounded by Caleb Scharf
• Meteorite impact turns silica into stishovite in a billionth of a second at An Atom's-Eye View of the Planet by Simon Redfern
• Public service announcement: No, drinking your own urine will not cure breast cancer at Respectful Insolence by Orac
• Throwback Thursday: How Dark Matter's #1 Competitor Died at Starts With a Bang! by Ethan Siegel
• The Future Soon at Physics Steve by Steven Thomson
• The early teaching of chemistry at Education in Chemistry Blog by Michael Seery
• The Neuroscience of Anorexia Reveals Why It's So Hard to Treat at Science of Us by Carrie Arnold
• The Science Surrounding Cryonics at MIT Technology Review by David W. Crippen, Robert J. Shmookler Reis, Ramon Risco, and Natasha Vita-More
• Seeing Sounds and Tasting Shapes - Synaesthesia and Phenomenon at The Neuron by Musa Clarke

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