ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections August 9 - 22, 2015 | #sciseekpicks

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:

• For 40 years, computer scientists have looked for a solution that doesn't exist at The Boston Globe by Laura McLay
• I Refuse to Think Like a Man at Occam's Typewriter by Athene Donald
• Surprising or contradictory health news stories encourage readers to be skeptical about science at BPS Research Digest by Christian Jarrett
• Why your nervous system wrinkles your fingers at Mapping Ignorance by Jaime de Juan Sanz
• The Physics of Butterfly Wings at Azimuth by John Carlos Baez
• What's more radioactive than a nuclear power plant? at Physics Buzz
• Math Fought The Law, And The Law Won at AMS Blogs by Anna Haensch
• Travels in a Mathematical World: #realfaceofmath at The Aperiodical by Peter Rowlett
• Attack on the pentagon results in discovery of new mathematical tile at The Guardian by Alex Bellos
• Physics: She did it all at Nature by Val Gibson
• The last 5% at The Thesis Whisperer by Inger Mewburn
• 5 hot research topics our scientists are homing in on at Cancer Research UK by Nick Peel
• "Aborted fetal tissue" and vaccines: Combining pseudoscience and religion to demonize vaccines at Science-Based Medicine by David Gorski
• A thought on impact factors at Green Tea and Velociraptors by Jon Tennant
• Nature's Eyes on Environment Blog: the story of a cave and climate change at Goodnight Earth by Jonathan Trinastic
• The Most Impossible Idea from Star Trek at Starts With a Bang by Ethan Siegel
• The Periodic Table's Endangered Elements at Compound Interest by Andy Brunning

Check back next week for more great picks!