ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections September 19-25 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

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

• Nail Polish Made From Ping Pong Balls? by Ms. Beautyphile
• The Chemistry of Paper and Polymer Banknotes by Andy Brunning at Compound Interest
• The Slow Poisoning of the UK’s Bees (and What to Do About It) by Diana Crow at Confessions of a Fledgling Science Journalist
• Brains + Sex = Controversy by Neuroskeptic at Discover
• Left Brain, Right Brain, Red Brain, Blue Brain by Barbara Spencer at NeuWrite San Diego
• How Different Parts of the Brain Co-operate by Bruno Dubuc at The Brain from Top to Bottom Blog
• Eyeing up intake: an Insight on overconsumption and diet by Sian Williams at Global Food Security blog
• Do Dolphins Dream of Space Travel? by Lucianne Walkowicz at Scientific American
• Quantum teleportation over 7 kilometres of cables smashes record by Anil Ananthaswamy at New Scientist 
• The most detailed look yet at how early humans left Africa by Emily Benson at New Scientist
• Map Shows Every River That Flows to the Mighty Mississippi by Betsy Mason at National Geographic
• The Earth is Changing on Human Timescales by Becky Nevin at Cosmic Chatter
• Why correlations of CO2 and Temperature over ice age cycles don’t define climate sensitivity by Gavin Schmidt at RealClimate
• Humboldt biography wins Royal Society Prize by Barbara Kiser at A View From the Bridge
• The Problem With Science Writing by Trevor Quirk at Nautilus
• Bacteria Evolving Resistance by Steven Novella at NeurologicaBlog
• Student Stress and USMLE Step 1 by Sukhjot Sandher at The Doctor's Tablet blog
• The Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative by Derek Lowe at In The Pipeline
• Zuckerberg se une a Gates en su propósito de erradicar las enfermedades del mundo by Sergio Parra at Xataka Ciencia

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections September 12-18 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

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

• If This Timeline Doesn't Convince You Climate Change Is Real, Nothing Will by Mary Beth Griggs at Popular Science 
• Expresso or Americano? Your genome has the answer by Rosa García-Verdugo at Mapping Ignorance 
• Ask a Physicist: How Much Energy is in Me? by Stephen Skolnick at Physics Buzz
• The Dawn of Biodegradable Robots by Jonathan Winfield, Jonathan Rossiter and Ioannis Ieropoulos at ACS Green Chemistry Nexus
• What you eat when you’re sick may determine if you’ll get better by Debora Mackenzie at New Scientist
• The Cancer Moonshot: Hype versus reality by David Gorskon at Science-Based Medicine 
• Where does the flu come from every year? by Matt Wood at ScienceLife
• The story of the first bone marrow transplant by Jovana Drinjakovic at Signals Blog
• Finding mushrooms with your mobile phone by Ingrid P Nuse at ScienceNordic
• Cosmic neutrinos detected, confirming the Big Bang’s last great prediction by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang! 
• ABC and FLT by Bryan Hayes at bit-player
• Evolución de la resistencia a antibióticos en video by David Castro at Expresión Genética

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections September 5-11 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

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

• Comet Lander Philae Finally Found Just a Month Before the End of Mission by Phil Plait at Bad Astronomy
• Fifth fundamental force: fact or fiction? by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang!
• Scientists need your help to build a quantum computer by Henrik Bendix at ScienceNordic
• Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper Deserve to be On Top by AHazard42 at It's Elementary! 
• Scientists film bacteria's maneuvers as they become impervious to drugs at PhysOrg
• In First, UN Will Consider Antibiotic Resistance  by Maryn Mckenna at Germination 
• It’s official: The five-second rule is down for the count by Beth Mole at Ars Technica
• Antimicrobial chemicals found with antibiotic-resistance genes in indoor dust at Lunatic Labs 
• Doing exercise may counteract some of alcohol’s deadly effects at New Scientist
• Biomaterials and the “ouch” factor in Olympics and sports by Hamideh Emrani at Signals Blog 
• The ethics and value of responsible animal research at Speaking of Research 
• Snails Are Going Extinct: Here's Why That Matters by John R. Platt at Scientific American  
• Genetic Choreography of the Developing Human Embryo by Ricki Lewis at DNA Science Blog 
• Awe-inspiring documentaries could turn people away from science by Christian Jarrett at BPS Research Digest
• Why Humanities Majors Should Take Science Courses by Yoo Jun Kim at Sci Ed In the Lab and Beyond 
• Mind Games: Tetris as a Tool for Neuroscience #2 by Lexie Thorpe at Cogitales
• Can You Improve Physical Skills While Dreaming? by Carla Clark at Brain Blogger
• Un atleta lo hace mejor si le mientes sobre su marca by Sergio Parra at Xataka Ciencia

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections August 29-September 4 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

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

• Are We Eating Our Way To Alzheimer's? by Dermot Barry at Brain Sponge Blog
• Can Pokemon Go solve the physical inactivity epidemic? by  Peter Janiszewski at Obesity Panacea
• The Chemistry of Blackberry Colour by Andy Brunning at Compound Interest
• In Defense of “Pseudoscience” by Steven Novella at Neurologica Blog
• Wisdom is more of a state than a trait and No reason to smile – Another modern psychology classic has failed to replicate by Christian Jarrett at British Psychological Society Research Digest 
• Neuron See, Neuron Do: The Mirror Neuron System and Clinical Implications by Jenn Tribble at Knowing Neurons 
• SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket apparently blew up during a test firing Thursday by Eric Berger at Ars Technica
• Ask Ethan: How many stars in the night sky still exist? by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang! 
• Hunting For the Most Distant Galaxy Cluster by Tao Wang at NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory Blog
• How Much More Can We Learn About the Universe? by Lawrence M Krauss at Nautilus
• Americans Now More Politically Polarized On Climate Change Than Ever Before, Analysis Finds by Graham Readfern at DeSmogBlog 
• Jeff: My IBL Story by Jeff Shriner at A Novice IBL Blog

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections August 22-28 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

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

• The Closest Terrestrial Exoplanet Discovered by AstroJake at The Astrophysics Journal
• Cassini prepares for its final, suicidal mission by Ethan Siegel at Starts with a Bang!
• When Will Life Exist? by Steven Novella at Neurologica Blog
• Your Coffee Addiction May Be In Your Genes by Sam Lee Cole at Popular Science
• Behold the octobot—a fully autonomous, soft-bodied robot by John Timmer at Ars Technica
• Why cancer is (still) more than just ‘bad luck’ by Emma Smith at Cancer Research UK Science Blog
• I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong review – full of life’s little surprises by Stephen Curry at The Guardian
• To diet or not to diet: what does your brain think? by Elena Vicario at NeuWrite San Diego
• How a Neuroscientist Came Around to Improv Comedy by Ben Kuebrich at Neuroamer
• The relationship between low physical activity and psychotic symptoms at Lunatic Labs 
• Effects of Emoticons on the Brain by Neuroskeptic at Discover 
• The beer brewing process - Beer science at home at Food Crumbles
• Obama Goes Big: Expansion of Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument Makes It The World’s Largest Marine Protected Area by Christie Wilcox at Science Sushi
• Medusas, la invasión silenciosa by José Manuel Nieves at El Blog Ciencia Y Technologica por José Manuel Nieves
• Aquamess: Portraits of Garbage from the Top of the World by Carol Devine at Signal to Noise Magazine
• Summers in the redwood forest by Matthew Brousil at Dispatches from the Field
• Invasive species in developing countries by Dirk Steinke at DNA Barcoding
• An unlikely choice between a gasoline or diesel car… by Dasaraden Mauree at EGU Atmospheric Sciences blog

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections August 15-21 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

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

• Do intersex women athletes have an edge over the field? by Richard A Lovett at Cosmos Magazine
• A gold medal for tissue engineering? Engineered brain organoids lend insight to Zika virus pathology by Holly Wobma at Signals
• The Composition of the Rio Olympics Medals by Andy Brunning at Compound Interest
• Link Between Diabetes and Alzheimer’s Disease by Viatcheslav Wlassoff at Brain Blogger
• A new ‘Einstein’ equation suggests wormholes hold key to quantum gravity by Tom Siegfried at Context 
• Bertrand’s Ballot Problem by Jim Propp at Mathematical Enchantments 
• Magnetic Bacteria Carry Drugs into Tumors by Isobel Maciver at Promega Connections
• Whole plant cells producing viral capsid protein as a poliovirus vaccine candidate  by Vincent Racaniello at Virology Blog 
• Single vs. Double-Blind Review: Is it really bad to let reviewers know who you are? by Josh Schimel at Writing Science
• Lluvias de rayos gamma y de polvo cometario by Ricardo Montiel at El Sofista 

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections August 8-14 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

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

• Puzzling pool problems? by Kat Day at The Chronicle Flask
• We Are Nowhere Close to the Limits of Athletic Performance by Stephen Hsu at Nautilus
• Physicists look to the future as new particle dream dies by Leah Crane at New Scientist 
• This is Your Brain on Physics by Kendra Redmond at Physics Buzz
• Where does the mass of a proton come from? by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang! 
• Polio rears its head again in Nigeria, after two years of no cases by Helen Branswell at STAT
• How the Knowledge of Locals Is Helping Google Build Better Maps by Greg Miller at National Geographic
• Everything is fucked: The syllabus by Sanjay Srivastava at The Hardest Science

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