ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections December 21-28, 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 Imitation Game: Part 1 at Knot your average sheep by Haggis


• Christmas Trilogy 2014 Part I: Was he or wasn’t he and does it matter? at The Renaissance Mathematicus


• Advent Calendar of Science Stories 23: Parity at Uncertain Principles by Chad Orzel


• What is the meaning of the mean? Let’s talk about sex at Mapping Ignorance by Eva Ferreira


• Publication of the week, number 57, 26th December 2014 at Interesting Organic Chemistry and Natural Products by Prof. Dangerdackel

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections December 14-20, 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:

• Tea transitions at The Culture of Chemistry by Michelle Francl-Donnay


• Thinking about how girls think about themselves at physicsfocus by Athene Donald


• Does the Scientific Method need Revision? at Starts With A Bang! — Medium by Sabine Hossenfelder


• How to Write a Science Feature at The Last Word On Nothing by Cassandra Willyard


• Dances with Pharma: part 2 – How Cancer Research UK works with industry at Cancer Research UK - Science Update by Emma Smith


• The scientific community’s Galileo affair (you’re the Pope) at Brain's Idea by Richard Kunert


• Will Rapprochement Mean New Research Collaborations Between Cuba and the U.S.? at The Abstract by Matt Shipman

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections December 7-13, 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 use of natural fluorescent proteins for studying life at Mapping Ignorance by Jaime de Juan Sanz


• An "Hour of Code" with Color, Images, and Astronomy at ChandraBlog by Peter Edmonds


• The mystery of the magnetic train at Skulls in the Stars by Greg Gbur


• Move over solar pannels, introducing spray-on solar cells at Lunatic Laboratories by Gabriel


• The Shapes of Snowflakes at Compound Interest by Andy Brunning


• Stress, Continued: Jobs at My Biased Coin by Michael Mitzenmacher


• Open access and the direction of travel in scholarly publishing at Occam's Corner by Stephen Curry


• Why evaluating scientists by grant income is stupid at BishopBlog by Deevy Bishop


• The grant game: Momma said there'd be days like this at Prof-Like Substance

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections November 30-December 6, 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:

• 4+1 Interview: Linda Nilson at Casting out Nines by Robert Talbert


• The Saddest Thing I Know about the Integers at Roots of Unity by Evelyn Lamb


• The weather and the stars at The Renaissance Mathematicus


• Throwback Thursday: The Story of Mars at Starts With A Bang! — Medium by Ethan Siegel


• Einstein’s Papers Online by Sean Carroll


• Quantifying Miracles at Physics Buzz by Buzz Skyline


• Hearing voices: Social context influences psychosis at NeuWrite San Diego by Melissa Troyer


• The Chemistry of Brussels Sprouts: Bitterness & Genetics at Compound Interest by Andy Brunning


• Psychiatry: End of the Road for “Endophenotypes”? by Neuroskeptic

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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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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections October 19 - 25, 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:

• Do people really not know what running looks like? at Notes from Two Scientific Psychologists by Andrew Wilson


• Diversity and mathematics at The Accidental Mathematician by Izabella Laba


• Little things matter – for want of a semicolon at The Renaissance Mathematicus


• Weekend Diversion: Had NASA believed in merit at Starts With A Bang! by Ethan Siegel


• Autumn leaves at Chemically Cultured by Tom Branson


• How Fidel Castro Helped Bring Us the Hubble Space Telescope at Physics Buzz

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ScienceSeeker Editor’s Selections October 5 – 18, 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:

• If the CIA Tweets, Cognitive Neuroscientists Can Too: Harnessing Twitter’s Power for Your Research at Cognitive Neuroscience Society by Lisa M.P. Munoz


• The Blood-Brain Barrier and the Future of Medicine at Lunatic Laboratories by Gabriel


• Why blue LEDs are worth a Nobel Prize (Synopsis) at Starts With A Bang by Ethan Siegel


• When Is A Particle Not A Particle? at Physics Steve by Steve Thomson


• The chemistry of Cocktails: potatoes, absinthe and eggs! at The Chemical Blog by Alex Reis


• Repost: Stinker or Smeller? at Endless Possibilities v3.0 by Katherine Haxton


• David Greenglass and Robert Oppenheimer: A lesson from history at The Curious Wavefunction by Ashutosh Jogalekar


• Jane Marcet educates Michael Faraday at Skulls in the Stars by Greg Gbur


• New Evidence of the NSA Deliberately Weakening Encryption at The n-Category Café by Tom Leinster


• Quick Ebola Test, Not Quarantine, Could Be Best Defense at Discovery News Tech by Tracy Staedtler


• This Simulation Compares The Spread Of Ebola To Other Diseases at io9 by George Dvorsky


• Ada Lovelace And Others Inspire Women In STEM, But We Must Make Careers Worth Their While at Science 2.0 by Jan Bogg


• The “New” Roots of our Friends the Mitochondria at Lunatic Laboratories by Gabriel

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections September 28 - October 4, 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 Astrologer’s Triumph at Starts With A Bang! — Medium by James Bullock


• Scientists need to hold policy-makers to account at A Measure of Science by Shaun Hendy


• Not Your Daddy’s Sunblock – Why Thick, White Sunblock is a Thing of the Past at Sustainable Nano by Joel Pedersen


• Monday Micro: glowing dog bones in Taranaki! at Infectious Thoughts by Siouxsie Wiles


• New Immune System Discovery at Lunatic Laboratories


• Helping Disadvantaged People Succeed in College Doesn't Have a Damn Thing to Do with Admissions at College Guide by Daniel Luzer


• The Root(worm) of the Problem: Unexpected Obstacles on the Road to Research at The Abstract by Matt Shipman


• Sleeping Brains Understand Words at Neuroskeptic

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections September 21 - 27, 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:

• How anti-vaccination is like a nuclear bomb at Skulls in the Stars by Greg Gbur


• What if the Manhattan Project had been like an Alzheimer's disease drug discovery project at The Curious Wavefunction by Ashutosh Jogalekar


• New chip promising for tumor-targeting research at Nanowerk Nanotechnology News by Emil Venere


• The truthiness of naturopathic “facts” at Science-Based Pharmacy by Scott Gavura

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections September 14 - 20, 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:

• Tramadol; a natural product or not? at Interesting Organic Chemistry and Natural Products by Prof. Dangerdackel


• A Brief Guide to the Twenty Common Amino Acids at Compound Interest by Andy Brunning


• The Physics of the Death Star at Starts With A Bang! — Medium by Ethan Siegel


• How to Look for Otters at DO'Meara by Denise O'Meara


• The Night of the Elephants: Adventures of a Scientist in the Field at NC State News by Matt Shipman


• Why Is It So Hard To Think About The Brain? at Neuroskeptic


• Why is poverty associated with mental health problems for some people, but not others? at BPS Research Digest by Peter Kinderman


• Thinking about what we can do about sexual assault and harassment in the sciences at Small Pond Science by Terry McGlynn

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections September 7 - 13, 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:

• Telepathy breakthrough – great science, not science fiction at Physics Stop by Marcus Wilson


• The Planets that Never Were at Starts With A Bang! — Medium by Paul Halpern


• Hidden evolution: How the mammoth kept its cool at A Chemical Life by Ian Le Guillou


• Bacteria Can Really Get Around at As Many Exceptions As Rules


• Sun Erupts With Powerful Earth-Aimed Solar Flare at Discovery News by Ian O'Neill


• Don’t touch that knob: Norovirus can spread around an entire building within just hours of contaminating one surface at barfblog by Doug Powell


• Implicit racism in academia at Mind Hacks by Tom Stafford


• Have You Fallen Victim to the Guru Effect? at Neurobonkers

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections August 31 - September 6, 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:

• Stewarding Memories: Caring for People, Trees, and Land at The Nature of Cities by Lindsay Campbell


• New enigma at DNA Barcoding by Dirk Steinke


• Gross Negligence at OnEarth by Rocky Kistner


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


• For These Bats, the Best Falsetto Wins Over the Ladies at Inkfish by Elizabeth Preston


• Let’s Chew The Fat at As Many Exceptions As Rules


• Want people to carea bout the environment? Don't overplay the power of science at BPS Research Digest by Alex Fradera

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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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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections July 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:

• The Harmonograph at Azimuth by John Baez


• Blue Blood Donors at Periodic Tabloid by Jacob Roberts


• Clouds of climate change at Cosmic Chatter by Becky Nevin


• Lucy’s Brain: Use it or lose it at NeuWrite San Diego by Ethan McBride


• Percentages, quasi statistics and bad arguments at BishopBlog by Deevy Bishop


• Creativity and Mental Illness at Bad Psychology by Jesus Perez

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections July 13 - 19, 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:

• Comets and Heliocentricity: A Rough Guide at The Renaissance Mathematicus


• Is it Time for Fake Tan? at The Chemical Blog by Alex Reis


• Bubbles Help Your Pancakes Gel at Physics Buzz by Singularity


• Animated Ladybug Super Zoom-In at Sustainable Nano by Tom Kuech


• Why do we bite our nails? at Mind Hacks by Tom Stafford


• The Environmental Benefits of Hydroponics at EcoPost by Chris Wimmer


• Using the Dead to Understand Access to Water at Bones Don't Lie by Katy Meyers


• The Pain Of Being A Redhead at Brain Blogger by Sara Adaes, PhD


• China Clarifies its Plans on Setting a CO2 Emissions Peak at Dot Earth by Andrew C. Revkin


• Navigating the Tenure Track at Dynamic Ecology by Meghan Duffy


• Giving kids a spoonful of medicine: not what the doctor ordered at Growth Curve by Laura Sanders

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ScienceSeeker Editor’s Selections July 6 – 12, 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:

• When a picture isn't worth a thousand words at Cosmic Chatter by Morgan Rehnberg


• The uninhabitable planet: debunking the ESI at physicsfocus by Elizabeth Tasker


• Expect Delays: Why Trains Slow Down When It's Hot at Physics Buzz 


• Time weaves memories into patterns at Neurorexia by Shelly Fan


• The Bone-house Wasp  at Inspiring Science by Sedeer el-Showk


• 'Supermoon' to Dazzle the Skies This Weekend  at Discovery Space by Tanya Lewis


• Researchers claim we hate being alone with our thoughts. Lots of ink but is it true? at Knight Science Journalism Tracker by Faye Flam


• Isenberg: Drought amplifies, not causes, water problems at Inkstain by John Fleck


• On “On the emptiness of failed replications” at Neuroskeptic


• Unleashing the Power of the Bilingual Mind  at Cognitive Neuroscience Society by Anna M. Berez

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ScienceSeeker Editor’s Selections June 22 – 28, 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 Flash in the Dark! at ChandraBlog


• Physicists Should Stop Saying Silly Things about Philosophy by Sean Carroll


• Myths of the #SheriSangji case at The Safety Zone by Jyllian Kemsley


• The Strangest Star: A Neutron Star Inside a Red Giant at Stuff about Space by David Wilson


• Does the Bionic Man Dream of an Electric Pancreas? at Lunatic Laboratories by Gabriel


• Getting more bang for your photonic buck: nano-engineered quantum dots provide avenue for improved solar cell efficiency at Goodnight Earth by Jonathan Trinastic


• Finally, a smart analysis of whether children are being overmedicated or not at Knight Science Journalism Tracker by Paul Raeburn


• Objects Bring Fear the Closer They Appear at Inkfish by Elizabeth Preston


• Can fMRI be trusted? at Neuro-patch by Janet Kwasniak


• Is funding the most serious threat facing science today? at Occam's Corner by Steve Caplan

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ScienceSeeker Editor’s Selections June 15 – 21, 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:

• Learning to cope with dysgraphia at The Renaissance Mathematicus


• The Strangest Star: A Neutron Star Inside a Red Giant at Stuff about Space by David Wilson


• The Photons Of Your Life at Life, Unbounded by Caleb A. Scharf


• Eigenmorality at Shtetl-Optimized by Scott Aaronson


• Io9 lists 10 scientific ideas that scientists wish other people would stop misusing at Knight Science Journalism Tracker by Faye Flam


• Media Turn Against Former Darling Mehmet Oz After Senate Hearing on Shady Supplements at Knight Science Journalism Tracker by Faye Flam


• Dinosaur Blood Ran Just Right: Not Warm, Not Cold Discovery News by Rachel Sullivan


• 10 years of scientific career evolution: from springs to stormwater, student to teacher at Highly Allochthonous by Anne Jefferson


• The albatross and the phytoplankton at Frontier Scientists by Liz O'Connell


• “Scientists…speak up!” at Magma Cum Laude by Jessica Ball

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Welcome to the New, Improved ScienceSeeker!

You may have noticed a change in ScienceSeeker's website and this blog today—a lighter look and feel. But that's not all:

• The search functionality is back—and faster than before.


• You can now edit details about the site you submitted, even if it hasn't been approved yet.


• There is now improved coding support for Windows users.


• Different tabs on users' profile pages now denote different types of user activities.


• The internal code has been optimized for better performance.

Play around with some of these new features when you get a chance, and let us know what you think!

ScienceSeeker Editor’s Selections June 8 – 14, 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:

• Mexican hats and a metastable universe at Life & Physics (The Guardian) by Jon Butterworth


• My Conversation with “Eugene Goostman,” the Chatbot that’s All Over the News for Allegedly Passing the Turing Test at Shtetl-Optimized by Scott Aaronson


• Sequencing: Ship-Seq sails the seas at Megathora by Vivien Marx


• 'Hello, World!' NASA Beams Video From Space Station Via Laser at Science 2.0


• Gene editing tool can write HIV out of the picture at New Scientist by Peter Aldhous


• Bacteria help explain why stress, fear trigger heart attacks at ScienceBlog


• Before They Were Scientists: Jennifer Verdolin at Your Wild Life by Lea Shell


• How burnt-out students could be skewing psychology research at BPS Research Digest by Christian Jarrett


• Pattern separation gone awry: the dentate gyrus and schizophrenia at NeuWrite San Diego by Melissa Troyer

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ScienceSeeker Editor’s Selections May 25 – June 7, 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:

• A biologist’s prayer at Science Non Fiction by Ardon


• How A Troublesome Inheritance gets human genetics wrong at The Molecular Ecologist by Jeremy Yoder


• My Dissertation for Non-Physicists, Part II: Neutrino Oscillations at Weak Interactions by Emily Conover


• An attempt at setting the information balance right at The Allotrope by Akshat Rathi


• Beauty: K2 to Deal, with Abscesses and Bullets at The White Noise by Cassie Rodenberg


• Sweet! Taste Metaphors Elicit More Emotion Than Literal Phrases at Cognitive Neuroscience Society by Lisa M.P. Munoz


• West Coast Fo’ Life at BioDiverse Perspectives by Miranda Welsh


• Swimming in Feces at Your Wild Life by Holly Menninger


• The give-and-take between mothers and their offspring at Inspiring Science by Sedeer el-Showk


• CDC Telebriefing: Worst US Measles Outbreak In 20 Years at Avian Flu Diary by Michael Coston


• A question of trust: fixing the replication crisis at Occam's Corner by Uta and Chris Frith


• Death by Black Hole at Cosmic Chatter by Becky Nevin


• Schrödinger’s water for the perfect cup of coffee at Chemistry World Blog by Ben Valsler


• Chandra Captures Galaxy Sparkling in X-rays at ChandraBlog - Fresh Chandra News


• The President of the University of Alberta asked us to think twice, and we have! at Piece of Mind by N. Ghoussoub


• Cats of the Pharaohs at Beauty in the Bones by Samantha Field


• Vikings vs Dinosaurs at OnCirculation by Thomas Haber


• Social Media as a Catalyst for Psychological Science at Cedar's Digest by Cedar Riener


• You’re gonna miss me when I’m gone.. at Science Non Fiction by Chitra

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ScienceSeeker Editor’s Selections May 18 – 24, 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:

• Astronomers simulate Universe in unprecedented detail at Cosmic Chatter by Morgan Rehnberg


• Graphene: The Story of the Wonder Material at The Physics Mill by Jonah


• Why do cells die? at asdfScience by Virupaksh Agrawal


• The laws of physics are undemocratic at Physics Focus by Philip Moriarty


• What my Father-In-Law Taught me About Science at Sustainable Nano by Rebecca Klaper


• Snow, a Slowing Planet, and a Last Dangerous Dance with Venus at Life, Unbounded by Caleb A. Scharf


• Researchers create tiny nanoinjector in newest gene therapy advance at Nanowerk Nanotechnology News


• Envying Evolution: What Can The X-Men Teach Us About Stereotypes? at PsySociety by Melanie Tannenbaum


• Giant Dinosaurs Unearthed in Argentina at Discovery: Dinosaurs by Megan Gannon


• Volvo to Study Potential for Building Electric Roads at The Daily Fusion


• Jurassic World May Be the Most Gonzo Dinosaur Movie Ever at Laelaps by Brian Switek


• Mosquito netting, vacuum power, and bug science at Frontier Scientists by Liz O'Connell


• New Tech Powers Medical Devices Inside Human Body at The Daily Fusion


• Rubbish patches in ocean at Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience Blog by Brett Cherry


• Finnish Scientists Clean Oil-Polluted Soil With Fungi at The Daily Fusion


• 9 Myths About Seasonal Allergies at Discovery: Health by Cari Nierenberg


• Big Data, n. A kind of black magic at [citation needed] by Tal Yarkoni


• How honest should I be about my career goals? My post-PhD story at Small Pond Science by Amy Parachnowitsch

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ScienceSeeker Editor’s Selections May 11 – 17, 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:

• Should Mathematicians Cooperate with GCHQ? Part 2 at The n-Category Café by Tom Leinster


• Priors I don’t believe at Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science by Andrew


• Thrills and Uncertainties: Discovering a New Dinosaur in Madagascar at The Integrative Paleontologists by Andrew Farke


• Friday fabulous fungi at The Phytophactor


• We’re a drug-taking, supplement-taking nation. Can we do so safely? at Science-Based Pharmacy by Scott


• Dialogue on “Alternative Therapies” at Science-Based Medicine by Steven Novella


• Legislative Alchemy 2014 (so far) at Science-Based Medicine by Jann Bellamy


• Mummified Fetus Found in Tiny Ancient Egyptian Sarcophagus at Discovery by Rossella Lorenzi


• The Inexorable Melt: new evidence that glaciers in West Antarctica are past the point of no return at Goodnight Earth


• Two New Huge Dinosaurs Discovered at Discovery by Jennifer Viegas


• Bones in Submerged Cave May Be Earliest Native American at Discovery by Rossella Lorenzi


• Marine Reptile’s Weird Body Armor a Sign of Life’s Great Recovery at Laelaps by Brian Switek


• New Thermoelectric Material May Boost Green Tech at The Daily Fusion by The Daily Fusion


• About Nanotyrannus at Paleopix by Penny Higgins


• Lessons Learned as a First-Year Assistant Professor at College Guide by Robert Kelchen

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ScienceSeeker Editor’s Selections May 4 – 10, 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 Cosmos’ Attack on Computers at Science Non Fiction by Jesse


• Cassini Spots Another Pale Blue Dot! at ...things I LOVE! by Alex Autin


• Polls don’t identify the real science education problem at Science News by Tom Siegfried


• Conquering Westeros...the Chemistry of Fire Breathing Dragons at The Crimson Alkemist by Joseph Meany


• Not tonight dear, I had zymosan A injected into my hind paw at The Neurocritic


• Things I Learned as a Field Biologist #726 at Evopropinquitous by Christopher Schmitt


• What myths of academia need debunking? at Dynamic Ecology by Jeremy Fox


• mBio: Evolutionarily Distinct H11N2 Avian Flu Found In Antarctica at Avian Flu Diary by Michael Coston


• Climate change-boosted disease could endanger China’s food supply at Simple Climate by andyextance


• Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A scolecodont from the Upper Ordovician of the Cincinnati region at Wooster Geologists by Mark Wilson


• Afghanistan landslide of May 2, 2014 at Geology in Motion by Susan W. Kieffer


• Switch From Ethanol to Gasoline Causes Ozone Levels to Drop 20% at The Daily Fusion


• Surviving the Black Death at Bones Don't Lie by Katy Meyers


• Thrills and Uncertainties: Discovering a New Dinosaur in Madagascar at The Integrative Paleontologists by Andrew Farke


• Biased biology: the case of the missing vaginas at Propagating Waves by Elizabeth Gibney


• Groundbreaking food gardens at Emma the Gardener


• If obesity is a disease, is labelling it that way the cure? at BPS Research Digest by Melanie Tannenbaum


• Is grad school a good time to have a baby? at Small Pond Science by Amy Parachnowitsch

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections April 27 - May 3, 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:

• Y Combinator and biotech: The wave of the future? at The Curious Wavefunction by Ashutosh Jogalekar


• #xBio Preview: Building a sustainable biomed research enterprise at There and (hopefully) back again by biochembelle


• Twitter Geolocation: Why meta-data matters at The Canonical Hamiltonian by Hamilton


• Preventing A Heart Hack Attack at Inside Science by Marsha Lewis


• Predicting Suicide: A Statistical Scandal at Neuroskeptic 


• Bamboo bikes are better for your buttocks at Mapping Ignorance by Carlos Casanueva


• How Alcoholism Causes Muscle Weakness at Addiction Inbox by Dirk Hanson


• The Dark Side of Oxytocin at Science of Relationships by Dr. Gary Lewandowski


• In which I grapple with my Inner Imposter at Mind the Gap by Jennifer Rohn

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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

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