ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections January 18 - 24, 2015

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’s in a Particle? at The Physics Mill by Jonah Miller


• Mimicking Nature’s Nanotechnology: From a butterfly wing to anti-counterfeit technologies at Sustainable Nano by Merve Doğangün


• Your Smartphone Can Do Physics at Physics Buzz


• Gut Check at Science-Based Medicine by Mark Crislip


• Greek Tomb Held at Least Five Corpses at Discovery: Archaeology by Rossella Lorenzi


• Mostly Dead, but Slightly Alive: The Life After Death of Dismembered Remains in Ancient Peru at Bones Don't Lie by Katy Meyers Emery


• Do gender and imposter syndrome influence where scientists submit their manuscripts? at Dynamic Ecology by Meghan Duffy


• When our beliefs are threatened by facts, we turn to unfalsifiable justifications at BPS Research Digest by Alex Fradera

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections January 11 - 17, 2015

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:

• Revisiting grad school and mental health with Chemjobber at Not the Lab (NTL) by Vinylogous


• The Sun Is Red Because The Sky Is Blue at Uncertain Principles by Chad Orzel


• An experiment in post-proposal peer review at physicsfocus by Philip Moriarty


• Beagle 2: found on Mars after an 11-year hunt at Machines Like Us by David Dickinson


• Imagining walking through a doorway triggers increased forgetting at BPS Research Digest by Christian Jarrett

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections January 4 - 10, 2015

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 Most Important Scientist in my Life: My Mom at The Physics Mill by Jonah Miller


• What do we expect of a space program? at Starts With A Bang! — Medium by Ethan Siegel


• Mathematics and Magic: the de Bruijn Card Trick at The n-Category Café by Simon Willerton


• Insights into the scientific gatekeepers: A fight for the status quo? at Lunatic Laboratories by Gabriel


• Typical Dreams:  A Comparison of Dreams Across Cultures at SciLogs by Jalees Rehman


• Easter Islanders Petered Out After Europeans Came at Discovery News - Archaeology


• Why Viruses Prefer a Cold Nose at Discovery News - Human


• Five Things Being A Zumba Instructor Has Taught Me About Science Communication at PsySociety by Melanie Tannenbaum


• No, Half of All Children Won't Be Autistic By 2025, Despite What Your Facebook Friends May Tell You at Big Think by Neurobonkers

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections December 29, 2014 - January 3, 2015

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 I believe at Shtetl-Optimized by Scott Aaronson


• Can science prove the existence of God? at Starts With A Bang! — Medium by Ethan Siegel


• 2014: The Year In Space at ...things I LOVE! by Alex Autin


• How Dinosaurs Talk With Their Feathers at Laelaps by Brian Switek


• It May Be A New Year, But It’s The Same Old Brain at As Many Exceptions As Rules by Mark Lasbury


• Quit Smoking in 2015 at Brain Blogger by Carla Clark


• Coolest Archaeological Discoveries of 2014 at Discovery-Archaeology by Megan Gannon


• Episode 39: Dinosaurs of Alberta at Palaeocast by Dave Marshall


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


• Now, Make Them Stick at Paleopix by Penny Higgins


• Why you can live a normal life with half a brain at Mind Hacks by Tom Stafford

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