ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections February 22 - 28, 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:

• Gauss and Germain on Pleasure and Passion at Roots of Unity by Evelyn Lamb


• Tricksy Mars may be Obscuring Signs of Organic Matter at Life, Unbounded by Caleb A. Scharf


• Islamic science paved the way for a millennial celebration of light at Context | Science News by Tom Siegried


• Growing Black Holes: Hunting for the First Seeds at ChandraBlog by Mar Mezcua


• Should mice be used to study the human gut microbiome? at Science in the clouds by Isabel Torres


• Sciencespeak: Fossorial at Laelaps by Brian Switek


• News Bite: Parental care in early reptiles! at Past Time by Matt Borths


• Drug-Resistant Malaria Parasite Spreading at Discovery News: Human


• The early evolution of birds – more complicated than trying to untangle your headphones at Green Tea and Velociraptors by Jon Tennant


• Deepest Ocean Water Teems With Life at Discovery News: Earth by Becky Oskin


• Mummified Monk Sits Inside Ancient Buddha Statue at Discovery News: Archaeology by Rossella Lorenzi


• Sure can smell the rain at G-Soil by Antonio Jordán


• Animal research successes spur growth in science…but PeTA can only complain at Speaking of Research by David Jentsch


• Pluto a Planet Again? It May Happen This Year at The Crux by David A. Weintraub


• Speeding up the battle against slowing minds at Occam's Corner by Amy Coats


• Editors behaving badly? at BishopBlog by Dorothy Bishop

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections February 8 - 21, 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 two weeks:

• Humans are Wired for Prejudice, but That Doesn’t Have to be the End of the Story at Lions Talk Science by Caitlin Millett


• A submarine on Titan in 2040 at is nerd by Vasudevan Mukunth


• What Does It Take to Change a Mind? A Phase Transition at Cocktail Party Physics by Jennifer Ouellette


• Controlling Water Drops on the Space Station with Legos and Electricity at Physics Buzz


• Scholz’s Star at Azimuth by John Baez


• Throwback Thursday: The science of bottomless pits at Starts With A Bang! by Ethan Siegel


• Does Science Produce Too Many PhD Graduates? at Neuroskeptic


• There’s more than one way to persuade people to vaccinate at Science News by Bethany Brookshire


• Anderson Cooper Takes Down Dan Burton at NeuroLogica Blog by Steven Novella


• The hunt is on for new antibiotics at Occam's Corner by Jenny Rohn

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections February 1 - 7, 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:

• So what’s up with that “slower than light” light? at Skulls in the Stars by Greg Gbur


• The BICEP2 Result Was Just Dust, and That’s Okay at The Physics Mill by Jonah Miller


• Use of complementary medicine may impair your ability to detect the effectiveness of evidence-based medicine at Mapping Ignorance by Helena Matute


• Why are cancer rates increasing? at Cancer Research UK - Science Update by Greg Jones


• Sciencespeak: Lazarus taxon at Laelaps by Brian Switek


• Feathered Raptors Forever at Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs by David Orr


• Since Washington State is so Lousy on Vaccines at Reading the Washington Landscape by Dan McShane


• Giant Fossil Rodent Had an Awesome Bite at Laelaps by Brian Switek


• The equivocal epipophyses of Cf. Quetzalcoatlus at Sauropod Vertebrata Picture of the Week by Mike Taylor


• Termite Mound Oases Help Combat Climate Change at Discovery: Earth  by Jennifer Viegas


• Hungry Mushrooms and Other Meat-Loving Plants at Discovery: Earth


• Brain Training or Just Brain Games:  The Neuroscience of Cognitive Transfer at NeuWrite San Diego by Erik Kaestner

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections January 25 - 31, 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:

• Why wormholes (probably) don’t exist at Galileo's Pendulum by Matthew R. Francis


• Why does sodium react so explosively with water? at is nerd by Vasudevan Mukunth


• Three Physics Phenomena From a Winter Wonderland at Physics Buzz 


• Do Dogs Prefer Petting or Praise? at Companion Animal Psychology 


• Lies, fraud, conflicts of interest, and bogus science: The real Dr. Oz effect at Science-Based Medicine by Scott Gavura

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