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
  

Check back next week for more great picks!