ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections August 24 - 30, 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:

• X-Volcanoes – Bárðarbunga at Dynamics of Cats by Steinn Sigurðsson


• What are Researchers Doing to Stop the Ebola Outbreak? at The Chemical Blog by Alex Reis


• Standard operating procedures exist in our world! at The Dose Makes The Poison by ForensicToxGuy


• The hardest part of a professor's job at Prof-Like Substance


• Manipulating memory in mice: What to do when a sexy neuroscience story is (almost) too complex to explain at Knight Science Journalism Tracker by Faye Flam


• The psychology of wearable computing - does Google Glass affect where people look? at BPS Research Digest


• Funding Research with Ice Buckets and Coffee Money at BrainFacts.org Blog by Dwayne Godwin

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections August 10 - 23, 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 two weeks:

• What bacteria can teach us about society at Mapping Ignorance by Guzmán Sánchez


• Does Hot Water Freeze Faster Than Cold Water? at Zidbits


• How Not to Stink! at The Chemical Blog by Alex Reis


• A Tale of Two Aphasias at Knowing Neurons by Kate Fehlhaber


• Who governs science? at Occam's Corner by Stephen Curry


• Maryam Mirzakhani makes history at The Accidental Mathematician by Izabella Laba


• I love math and I hate the Fields Medal at mathbabe by Cathy O'Neil


• The time the cops pulled their guns on me at PLEKTIX by Ben Allen


• Art in the life of mathematicians at The Accidental Mathematician by Izabella Laba


• Beauty: K2-Induced Seizures at The White Noise by Cassie Rodenberg


• The solar efficiency of Superman at Doc Madhattan by Gianluigi Filippelli


• Information Aversion at Azimuth by John Baez


• The DNA Signature of Lupus at Lunatic Laboratories


• Finally, A Solar Panel That You Can Actually See Through! at The Higher Learning


• Don’t Panic! Elsevier’s #OpenAccess policy is not malicious at justin's longish notes by Justin Kiggins


• Top 200 terms in cognitive neuroscience according to neurosynth at Neuroconscience by Neuroconscience


• Mirror neurons may have been inadvertently trained into laboratory macaques at Talking Brains by Greg Hickok

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections August 3 - 9, 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:

• A trigonometric proof of the pythagorean theorem at Doc Madhattan by Gianluigi Filippelli


• Johannes Kepler’s Somnium and Katharina Kepler’s Trial for Witchcraft: The emergence of a myth at The Renaissance Mathematicus


• Celebrating the 1939 Leo Szilard letter to FDR and setting the record straight at The Curious Wavefunction by Ashutosh Jogalekar


• The Man Who Invented the 26th Dimension at Starts With A Bang! — Medium by Ethan Siegel


• New Horizons Mission Catches Pluto And Charon Waltzing at Life, Unbounded by Caleb A. Scharf


• Mitochondria and Anti Aging at Lunatic Laboratories


• The discovery of Buckyballs at Chemistry World Blog by Rowena Fletcher-Wood


• Growing plants in lunar soil at Emma Cooper's Blog


• Conferences need students: make them affordable at Small Pond Science by Terry McGlynn


• Wet get drier (eventually)? at Climate Lab Book by Ed Hawkins


• Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: An Ordovician hardground with a bryozoan and borings — and an unexpected twist at Wooster Geologists by Mark Wilson


• Double Trouble for Hawaii: Iselle and Julio at ImaGeo by Tom Yulsman


• Strong La Niñas recently? Blame the Atlantic—and a volcano at Scientific Method by Scott K. Johnson


• Why bad news dominates the headlines at Mind Hacks by tomstafford


• Rat moms’ behavior reflected in their babies’ brains at Growth Curve by Laura Sanders

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections July 27 - August 2, 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:

• The Fermi Alternative Uncertain Principles by Chad Orzel


• The Quantum Cheshire Cat In The Wonderland of Quantum Physics at Pop by James Keen


• The discovery of Buckyballs at Chemistry World Blog by Rowena Fletcher-Wood


• Ebola Outbreak in West Africa: Some basic information by Greg Laden


• Do Beaked Whales Have Internal Antlers? at Not Exactly Rocket Science by Ed Yong


• Richard Dawkins doesn’t speak for me…so, who does? at The Contemplative Mammoth by Jacquelyn Gill


• Scientists on Twitter at BrainFacts.org Blog by Jean-Francois Gariepy


• Functional Neuroimaging’s Neymar Problem by Neuroskeptic

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