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

Check back next week for more great picks!