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

Check back next week for more great picks!