ScienceSeeker Editors’ Selections: September 22-28, 2013

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

• Coloring In Birds' Bellies with Magic Marker Makes Them Healthier at Inkfish by Elizabeth Preston


• Brittle Star Domination! When Ophiuroids Carpet the Murky Deep! at The Echinoblog by Chris Mah


• Interview with Sir Michael Atiyah at The Endeavour by John D. Cook


• ‘Wired Microbes’ Act as Power Plants, Converting Sewage to Energy at The Daily Fusion

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ScienceSeeker Editors’ Selections: September 15-21, 2013

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

• Journal Club: In every whale’s earwax is a record of its lifetime exposure to pollutants at Maniraptora by GrrlScientist


• PCBs cause birds to sing a different tune at The Guardian by GrrlScientist


• Get Ready for More ‘Thousand-Year’ Floods at OnEarth by Michael Behar


• The bursting of the big data bubble at mathbabe by Cathy O'Neil


• This Insect Has Gears In Its Legs at Not Exactly Rocket Science by Ed Yong


• Google launches Calico, an anti-aging company led by an Apple executive at Ars Technica by Ron Amadeo


• Scientists Create Inexpensive Fuel Cell Catalyst That Tolerates Carbon Monoxide at The Daily Fusion

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ScienceSeeker Editors’ Selections: September 8-14, 2013

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

• Dolphin intelligence researcher did not say that dolphins aren’t intelligent as Daily Mail, Sunday Times claim at Southern Fried Science by David Shiffman


• This Insect Has Gears In Its Legs at Not Exactly Rocket Science by Ed Yong


• Trypophobia? The Most Common Phobia You Probably Never Heard Of at Science 2.0


• You Are What You Eat at Mind Read by Dana Smith


• How the War on Drugs Punishes Those Who Suffer at Public Health Perspectives by Jason Silverstein


• Gut Microbes Drive Gender Bias In Autoimmune Diseases at ScienceLife by Matt Wood


• Ion-Conducting Polymer Improves Solar Cell Performance at The Daily Fusion


• Solar Cells Applied Directly to Silicon Chip Can Power Wireless Sensors at The Daily Fusion

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ScienceSeeker Editors' Selections: September 1-7, 2013

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

• OMG. Sugar is poison!?, at Molecular Love (and other facts of life), by Brooke


• Yeast: Making Food Great for 5,000 Years. But What Exactly Is it?, at The Artful Amoeba, by Jennifer Frazer


• Trypophobia? The Most Common Phobia You Probably Never Heard Of, at Science 2.0


• You Are What You Eat, at Mind Read, by Dana Smith


• How the War on Drugs Punishes Those Who Suffer, at Public Health Perspectives, by Jason Silverstein


• The BBC and the History of Science: Light and Shadows, at The Renaissance Mathematicus, by thonyc


• The stretched geometry of ceilings, at 0xDE


• Gender Bias 102 For Mathematicians: Merit, at The Accidental Mathematician, by Izabella Laba


• The problem with parallels, at The Renaissance Mathematicus, by thonyc


• Yeast Strain That Efficiently Converts Bio-Waste Into Biofuel Developed, at The Daily Fusion, by aisicapital


• DNA ‘Cages’ May Aid Drug Delivery, at Science Post, by terraxt


• Chemists Use Chlorophyll From Plants to Create Solar Cells, LEDs, Lasers, at The Daily Fusion, by aisicapital


• Driving video game reverses age-related mental decline, at BPS Research Digest, by Christian Jarrett


• Solar Cells Applied Directly to Silicon Chip Can Power Wireless Sensors, at The Daily Fusion, by aisicapital

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Science Seeker Editors' Selections: August 25-31, 2013

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

• Note To CBS: This is NOT News, It’s Make Believe at Dan's Wild Wild Science Journal, by Dan Satterfield


• How One Little Sulfur Molecule Influences Earth’s Climate, at Culturing Science, by Hannah Waters


• First Human Brain-to-Brain Mind Meld Achieved, at Discovery News, by Nic Halverson.

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