ScienceSeeker Editors’ Selections: April 20 – 26, 2014

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

• Let’s experiment more at mathbabe by Cathy O'Neil


• Meeting myself at 17 at quomodocumque by JSE


• Interview with a middle school math teacher on the Common Core at mathbabe by Cathy O'Neil


• Elsevier journals — some facts at Gowers's weblog by gowers


• Feeling the pulse of the space-time continuum at is nerd by Vasudevan Mukunth


• High energy Germans at Interesting Organic Chemistry and Natural Products by dangerdackel


• Realizing when proteins go bad at Wild Types by rmukhopadhyay


• Deaf people get gene tweak to restore natural hearing at New Scientist


• Look Who’s Talking at Bird Brains and Monkey Minds by Sarah Koopman


• Cannabis use and structural changes in the brain at Antisense Science by robbhollis


• Mouse eggs are busy Survivin at Molecular Love and other facts of life by Brooke


• Meet the Cuckoo Mafia at Inkfish by Elizabeth Preston


• Effective Presentation in Medical Education and Research at The Doctor's Tablet by Joshua D. Nosanchuk, M.D.


• What’s the big deal with the connectome? at ScienceLife by Kevin Jiang


• Grantwriting: You Should Already Be Done Thinking at Infactorium by dr24hours


• Where sedimentology meets structural geology at Wooster Geologists by Mark Wilson


• The Moral Challenge of  Dangerous Climate Change at Hot Topic by Bryan Walker


• How Cold Was Winter? Starving Rats Ate Trees at Discovery by Mark Lallanilla 


• Restricted Area Five at Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs by Marc Vincent


• Does researching casual marijuana use cause brain abnormalities? at Bits of DNA by Lior Pachter

Check back next week for more great picks!