ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections January 18-24 2016 #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 week:

• PR, ethics, and the science of head transplants by Jeremy Bailoo and Justin Varholick at Speaking of Research 
• Historic Storm Aims for the Mid-Atlantic. Why it's so hard to predict it! at Dan's Wild Wild Science Journal by Dan Satterfield
• Can physics help communication between refugees in Germany and their hosts? at The Guardian by Herbi Dreiner
• Pretend this Environmental Impact Statement is a national park: A brief tour of a virtual landscape at The Last Word On Nothing by Sarah Gilman
• Cat-Gras Delusion-the man who saw his cat as an imposter at Discover by Neuroskeptic
• Can a Quirky Chromosome Create a Second Human Species? by Ricki Lewis at DNA Science Blog 
• 2015 Temperatures at Real Climate by Gavin Schmidt
• Parenting as a Scientist in the Age of Climate Change at i'm a chordata! urochordata!
• Norovirus: to close or not to close? by Jon Otter at Reflections on Infection Prevention and Control
  
• A Dangerous Study of Medical Resident Hours at The Doctor's Tablet Blog by Ruth Macklin
• Our collective memory, like individual memory, is shockingly fallible at BPS Research Digest by Laura Spinney 
• Carbon Nanotubes: the Next Generation of Global Water Purification? at Sustainable Nano by Emily Caudill
• A Chilling Effect at Science Whys by James Morris
• A tale of Monogamy and Dopamine at Knowing Neurons by Jennifer Tribble
  
• We have become exhausted slaves in a culture of positivity at The Next Regeneration by Jalees Rahman 
• This neuroimaging method has 100% diagnostic accuracy (or your money back) by The Neurocritic 
• Damm(n)ing the Amazon at Two Degrees or Under
• It is way too difficult to be physically active by Travis Saunders at Obesity Panacea
• Will your paper be more cited if published in Open Access? at SciELO in Perspective by Ernesto Spinak  
• Prairie Word of the Day - Habitat Heterogeneity by Chris Helzer at Prarie Ecologist 
• When the music stops at Lunatic Laboratories 
• Our top posts of 2015 by Christian Lawson-Perfect at The Aperiodical
• A Simple Principle of Educational Psychology Has Been Massively Misunderstood at Neurobonkers by Simon Oxenham
  

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections January 11-17 2016 #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 week:

• The ultra-violent origins of gold at The Guardian by Jon Butterworth  
• He Fell In Love With His Grad Student — Then Fired Her For It at Buzzfeed by Azeen Ghorayshi
• 1801: Fraunhofer gets research funding in the worst possible way at Skulls in the Stars by Gregory J Gbur 
• The Djabugay medicine woman and the varieties of knowledge at The Curious Wavefunction by Ashutosh Jogalekar
• It's Time for a Presidential Debate on Science Policy at Scientific American by Sheril Kirshenbaum
• Killer Whales are Non-Human Persons at Grey Matters by Lars Crawford 
• Neural Response to Trigger PTSD at Discover by Neuroskeptic 
• The Brain on Déjà vu at CNN by Sandee Lamotte
• Genes don't call all the shots, your environment does too at Coffee Table Science by Ameya Paleja   
• Unexpected connections: Gut bacteria influence immunotherapy outcomes at Promega Connections by Isobel Maciver    
• New Enzyme Discovered In Mammals at Wild Types by Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections January 4-10 2016 #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 week:

• There’s a way to get girls to stick with science–and no, it’s not more female role models at Quartz by Shannon Palus 
• High-intensity interval training has great gains — and pain at Scicurious by Bethany Brookshire 
• The Incredible Thing We Do During Conversations at The Atlantic by Ed Yong
• The Terrible Beauty of Brain Surgery at New York Times by Karl Ove Knausgaard 
• The Periodic Table’s Four New Elements at Compound Interest by Andy Brunning
• Sunburns and Circuits: How Nanotechnology is Pushing the Boundaries of Computing at Sustainable Nano by John Van Gilder
• Through the looking glass by Ondrej Cernotik
• Virologists, start your poliovirus destruction! at Virology Blog by Vincent Racaniello
• How gratitude can change your brain at Science of Us by Christian Jarrett
• 'Neurodesign' - Packaging meets neuroscience at Packaging Innovation
• Blocking Inflammation could Halt Alzheimer's disease at BBC

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections December 21, 2015 - January 3, 2016 #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 week:

• The problem with science journalism: we’ve forgotten that reality matters most at The Guardian by Brooke Borel 
• Your Cells. Their Research. Your Permission? at New York Times by Rebecca Skloot 
• Biology’s Sherlock Holmes: The Strange Case of the Evolutionist and the Highest Mountain in the World at Science Whys by Andrew Berry
• This Year in Chemistry: 2015’s Biggest Chemistry Stories at Compound Interest by Andy Brunning
• Post from the near future: Top 10 physics predictions for 2016 at Starts With a Bang by Ethan Siegel
• Probiotics - medicine for the mind? at Bio Detectives by Alex B Munster 
• Do Dogs Know Other Dogs Are Dogs? at Scientific American by Julie Hecht

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