ScienceSeeker Editors' Selections: December 1-7, 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:

• Wonderful Things: The Pugnacious, Alien-esque Skeleton Shrimp at The Artful Amoeba by Jennifer Frazer


• Staph Bacteria Turns the Immune System Against Itself at ScienceLife by Kevin Jiang


• How The Platypus And A Quarter Of Fishes Lost Their Stomachs at Not Exactly Rocket Science by Ed Yong


• Champagne Tasting at NeuroLogica Blog by Steven Novella


• What are scientists? (Hint: we are liars.) at neuroecology by Adam J Calhoun

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