ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections March 14-20 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

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:

• Is Most Science News Bullshit? by Simon Oxenham at PrimeMind  
• Working Toward a Tool to Help Us Understand How Misinformation Spreads Online by Matt Shipman at Communication Breakdown
• Annotations on a tweet-storm directed more-or-less towards Neil deGrasse Tyson by Jeremy Yoder at The Molecular Ecologist
• Who Teaches The Teachers? by Simon Oxenham at Neurobonkers
• The “Lost” Paper of Gregor Mendel, the Patron Saint of Low Impact Scientific Publishing by John Fleischman at ACSB
• Confusing overdiagnosis for an “epidemic” of thyroid cancer in Japan after Fukushima by David Gorski at Science-Based Medicine
• Basic Income: A radical idea for eliminating poverty by Atif Kukaswadia at Public Health Perspectives
• What's the connection between residential segregation and health? by Donald F Schwarz at Culture of Health
• A pulse on the Mediterranean diet by José Viosca from Mapping Ignorance
• Autism + depression = more medical issues? by Paul Whiteley at Questioning Answers
• The amygdala: Beyond fear at Neuroscientifically Challenged
• Sizing Up Living Brain Tissue by Lisa Munoz at Cognitive Neuroscience Society 
• How False Memory Changes What Happened Yesterday by Julia Shaw at Scientific American Mind guest blog
• Should you be scared of your shampoo? by Kat Day at The Chronicle Flask
• The Hunt is On: Finding New Antibiotics by Tim Walker and Adam P. Roberts at Mostly Microbes  
• Could the Large Hadron Collider make an Earth-killing black hole? by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang!
• Physicist’s story of science breaks historians’ rules by Tom Siegfried at Context 
• Google DeepMind's AlphaGo Finishes Final Tournament Match With A Win by Dave Gershgorn at Popular Science
• Wiring the Brain: The surprising real genetics behind the X-Men by Kevin Mitchell at Wiring the Brain
• The CRISPR Conundrum by Mary Bates at IEEE PULSE
• From Denisovan DNA to Future Humanity by Ricki Lewis at DNA Science Blog
• Viruses of fungi are in a world of their own at Uncoating
• New horse-sized tyrannosaur with big brain reveals how "T. rex" became top predator by Becky Haberacker at Smithsonian Insider
• Rock Art - A Hunting Ritual? by Andrea Russo at Sci-Ed in the Lab and Beyond 
• Algal Toxins Found in Alaskan Marine Mammals by Neha Jain at GotScience.org 
• Global Warming Basics: What Has Changed? by Tamino at Open Mind

Check back next week for more great picks!