ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections November 23-29, 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:

• What Do Gold Nanoparticles Have to Do With Wrinkly Skin? at Sustainable Nano by Alicia McGeachy


• Hey, Why Did my Beer Just Explode? at Weak Interactions by Emily Conover


• Kuperberg’s parable at Shtetl-Optimized by Scott Aaronson


• Lucky Find Uncovers a Marvelous Fossil Mammal at Laelaps by Brian Switek


• Can penguins tell us how far the Cretaceous diving bird Hesperornis wandered? at The Integrative Paleontologists by Andrew Farke


• Need to turn off the pain? Well now we can! at Lunatic Laboratories by Gabriel


• Exposure to different forms of violence affects kids’ sleep differently at BPS Research Digest by Jordan Gaines Lewis


• Why do humans drink milk? at Machines Like Us


• Why I don’t use my campus email address at Small Pond Science by Terry McGlynn


• Fossil Beast Helps Fill The Backstory of Horses, Tapirs, and Rhinos at Laelaps by Brian Switek


• Systematic gender bias in editorial boards in ecology by Tim Poisot


• Metricophobia among academics at BishopBlog by Deevy Bishop

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections November 16-22, 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:

• What does the NSA think of academic cryptographers?  Recently-declassified document provides clues at Shtetl-Optimized by Scott Aaronson


• The Chameleon in the Vacuum Chamber at Starts With A Bang! — Medium by Sabine Hossenfelder


• Using Nano/Micromachines to Help Clean Up Oil Spills at Sustainable Nano by Suni Papramanik


• Philae lander sent in a surprise before going to sleep at Science Ticker | Science News by Ashley Yeager


• An Ontario court dooms a First Nations girl with cancer: Who’s to blame? at Respectful Insolence by David Gorsky


• H5N8: A Case Of Deja Flu? at Avian Flu Diary by Michael Coston


• How did the horrible Yale “Brontosaurus” skull come to be? at Sauropod Vertebrata Picture of the Week by Mike Taylor


• Vintage Dinosaur Art: A New Look at Dinosaurs, National Geographic, August 1978 at Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs by Marc Vincent


• Crocodiles of the World at Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings by David Hone


• Scientist to science writer at Watershed Moments: Thoughts from the Hydrosphere by Sarah Boon


• Crocodiles vs. elephants at Sauropod Vertebrata Picture of the Week by Mike Taylor


• Philae Lander Discovered Organic Compound On Comet Before Running Out of Power at Higher Learning by Mbiyimoh Ghogomu


• Live-tweeting at conferences by Tim Poisot


• Evidence based debunking at Mind Hacks by Tom Stafford

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections November 9-15, 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:

• From country girl to author on most cited paper: Nira Rosebrough Roberts at Wild Types by Raj Mukhopadhyay


• At the edge of the cliff: no new antibiotics for multidrug-resistant bacteria at Mapping Ignorance by Pablo Ortiz


• Scientists find first evidence of 'local' clock in the brain at 3quarksdaily by Azra Raza


• Fine Reading: There Is No 'Healthy' Microbiome at Small Things Considered by Moselio Schaechter


• Following Your Passion Project: Notes from the 2014 National Association of Science Writers Meeting at Communication Breakdown by Matt Shipman


• Let’s have a discussion about live-tweeting academic conferences at Green Tea and Velociraptors by Jon Tennant


• Is Crowdfunding a Good Option for Your Research? at Mendeley Blog by Alice Bonasio

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections November 2 - 8 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 Smell of Rain at The Chemical Blog by Alex Reis


• A Revolutionary New Look at How Planets Are Born at Out There by Corey S. Powell


• Confused? Good. You might be about to learn something at physicsfocus by Philip Moriarty


• Ancient Stone Circles in Mideast Baffle Archaeologists at Discovery: Archaeology by Owen Jarus


• Ebola primer, v2.0 at Controversies in Hospital Infection Prevention by Mike Edmond


• 'Exozodiacal' Light Detected Around Alien Habitable Zones Discovery: Space by Ian O'Neill


• A coating that protects against heat and oxidation at Nanowerk Nanotechnology News


• The journey to the other side of absolute zero at Machines Like Us by Tapio Simula


• Genetics reveal the diversity of pollinators’ other cargo: fungi at The Molecular Ecologist by Jeremy Yoder


• Why California’s Largest Estuary No Longer Works for Wildlife at KQED Public Media for Northern CA by Lauren Sommer


• Plant Skulls at New Under The Sun Blog by Johnna Roose


• Fright Week: The Stranger in the Mirror at The Neurocritic


• Why did curiosity kill the cat? Brain reward systems engaged in learning curious information at Mapping Ignorance by José Viosca


• Trainees as easy open access cannon fodder at Prof-Like Substance


• Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Upper Carboniferous seed casts from northeastern Ohio at Wooster Geologists by Mark Wilson


• Fossil Friday – mastodon lower molar at Valley of the Mastodon by Alton Dooley


• A Scary Story for Halloween: Rainfall Totals in My Neck of the Woods at Geotripper by Garry Hayes


• Is there really an oil glut? at Resource Insights by Kurt Cobb


• 36,000-year-old Human DNA Reveals Europe's Deep Past at io9 by Annalee Newitz


• Ode to a PhD student at The ICECReam


• Getting sketchy (when it comes to geology) at Magma Cum Laude by Jessica Ball

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections October 26 - November 1, 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:

• Isaiah Berlin, science and the dangers of certainty at The Curious Wavefunction by Ashutosh Jogalekar


• A Leafy Curse: The Physics of Leaves on the Track at Physics Buzz


• How the air we breathe was created by Earth’s tectonic plates at An Atom's-Eye View of the Planet by Simon Redfern


• Be Worried About Adjunct Professors, Even if You Aren't One at College Guide by Daniel Luzer


• Megalodon Became Extinct 2.6 Million Years Ago at Sci-News.com 


• The Cause Behind Seizures post-Vaccination at Lunatic Laboratories by Gabriel


• LeVar Burton Reads 'Go The [Expletive] To Sleep' at NPR Science News by Bill Chappell


• Higashi for the Anthropocene at Friends of the Pleistocene


• The stereotype of scientist as crazy genius does no favours to the mentally ill at Occam's Corner by Sylvia McLain

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