ScienceSeeker Editors' Selections: January 5-11, 2014

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:

• Can birds defeat the emerald ash borer? at Conservation Magazine by Miles Becker


• The Road To Extinction Is Paved With Good Intentions at Conservation Magazine by Jason G. Goldman


• Words for odours at Neuro-patch by Janet Kwasniak


• Dijkstra’s 10 commandments for academic research at Punk Rock Operations Research by Laura McLay


• An editable database tracking freely accessible mathematics literature. at Secret Blogging Seminar by Scott Morrison


• 10 Awesome Land Creatures that can Glow at Life Science Exploration by Neha Jain


• What scientists ought to do for non-scientists, and why: Obligations of scientists (part 5) at Doing Good Science by Janet D. Stemwedel


• The chemistry of Breaking Bad, analyzed at Improbable Research by Marc Abrahams


• Even in 2014, influenza kills at Science-Based Medicine by David Gorski

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