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

Check back next week for more great picks!