ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections April 4-10 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:

• 2-Minute Neuroscience: Alzheimer's Disease at Neuroscientifically Challenged
• Exciting cells and controlling heartbeats – could optogenetics create drug-free treatments? by Laura Swan at Speaking of Research 
• A minimal cell operating system by Vincent Racaniello at Virology Blog
• Momma Data: Debunking Parenting Advice and Children's Health News: The Perfect Parenting Storm? by Polly Palumbo at Momma Data
• Your Personal Identity: An Illusion That Hides A Work in Progress? by Bruno Dubuc at The Brain from Top to Bottom Blog  
• Watch the Great Debate on Connectomics at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society
• The Chemistry of Wild Garlic by Andy Brunning at Compound Interest
• Rare events may be required to form the Universe’s heaviest metals by Xaq Rzetelny at Ars Technica 
• Celebrating math, miracles and a movie by Carol Clark at eScienceCommons
• Maths Object: Correntator by Christian Lawson-Perfect at The Aperiodical
• ArXiv, comments and "quality control"  by Izabella Laba at The Accidental Mathematician 
• To Survive The Next Extinction, Animals Will Have To Live Fast by Mary Beth Griggs at Popular Science
• More of everything: increasing consumption means slower renewable revolution by Jonathan Trinastic at Goodnight Earth 
• Florida Flood at Open Mind

Check back next week for more great picks!