ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections April 19 - 25, 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:

• Earth Day in the Universe at Starts With A Bang! — Medium by Ethan Siegel


• Moore's Law turns 50: The End of the Beginning? at The Curious Wavefunction by Ashutosh Jogalekar


• The Many Resurrections of the Hubble Space Telescope at Out There by Corey S. Powell


• Is Synesthesia A Brain Disorder? at Neuroskeptic

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections April 12 - 19, 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:

• Ask Ethan #83: What if dark energy isn’t real? at Starts With A Bang! — Medium by Ethan Siegel


• Neonicotinoid Pesticides & Bee Colonies at Compound Interest by Andy Brunning


• Going to Mars: How Will We Get There and Who Should Go? at Physics Buzz


• Boerke and the tell-tale pupils at Cogsci.nl by Sebastiaan Mathôt

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections April 5 - 11, 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:

• Should we fire people who pick the wrong Final Four? at quomodocumque by Jordan S. Ellenberg


• Not mentioned on the Aperiodical, 3/4/15 at The Aperiodical by Katie Steckles


• The First Rule of Teaching Science at Starts With A Bang! — Medium by Ethan Siegel


• A Rough Guide to Types of Scientific Evidence at Compound Interest by Andy Brunning


• On the Arrogance of Physicists at Physics Steve by Steven Thomson


• Antibiotic Resistance Could Spark Devastating Outbreaks at io9 by George Dvorsky


• Personalized Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise at Giefscience by The Toombst


• The University of Florida's Online Bait and Switch at College Guide by Daniel Luzer


• The Ideal Brain Scanner at Neuroskeptic

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections March 29 - April 4, 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:

• From Orwell to Kafka, Markov to Doctorow: Understanding Big Data through Metaphors at is nerd by Vasudevan Mukunth


• A fortnight ago a biologist in Switzerland (Eduardo Moreno) at  biochemistri.es 


• Battle of the Nobel Laureates at Starts With A Bang! — Medium by Paul Halpern


• Is NSF's postdoc mentoring plan actually doing anything? at Prof-Like Substance


• The problem of "pointing" in modern journalism at Neurobonkers by Simon  Oxenham


• Just how plastic is the brain? at BPS Research Digest by David Robson

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