ScienceSeeker Editors' Selections: October 27-November 2, 2013

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

• Missing Nitrogen May Be Vanishing in the Tubes of Giant Bacteria at The Artful Amoeba by Jennifer Frazer


• Inverse blackboard at What's on my blackboard? by haggisthesheep


• Grieving for a man I never met. at The Renaissance Mathematicus by thonyc


• What does it feel like to hold a human brain in your hands? at BrainFacts.org by Bradley Voytek


• Snoozing on the Weekend Won't Undo Workweek Sleep Loss at Inkfish by Elizabeth Preston


• Learning about touch sensation from an unlikely creature, the star-nosed mole at the Stanford Neuroblog by Nick Weiler


• The Laughter Prescription at The Brain Bank by Isabelle Abbey-Vital


• Human Cheese and the Microbial Superhighway at Oscillator by Christina Agapakis

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