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

Check back next week for more great picks!