ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections April 11-17 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:

• Bons Mots by James Morris at Science Whys  
• Billionaire pledges $100m to send spaceships to Alpha Centauri by Jacob Aron at New Scientist  
• Why it's time to dispel the myths about nuclear power by David Robert Grimes at Notes and Theories  
• A Deeper Understanding of the Universe – from 2km Underground by Jon Butterworth at Life and Physics 
• What is the most astounding fact about the Universe? by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang 
• Open letter to the Wall Street Journal editor: a scientists’ response to Lomborg's misleading op-ed by Emmanuel Vincent at Skeptical Science 
• #Breadgate and nutritional psychiatry by Paul Whiteley at Questioning Answers 
• Eocene Fossils: The Mines of Messel by Steven Spence at GotScience.org 
• The small population paradigm: The be-all and end-all for small populations in nature by Jackie Wood at Eco-Evo Evo-Eco 
• Right Turn: The wild, wacky world of animals and regenerative medicine by Stacey Johnson at Signals Blog
• Second Gene Therapy Nears Approval in Europe: Lessons for CRISPR? by Ricki Lewis at DNA Science Blog
• The harsh truth about speed-reading by Simon Oxenham at The Kernel
• Another look at consciousness by Janet Kwasniak at Neuro-patch   
• Experienced meditators have brains that are physically 7 years younger than non-meditators by Christian Jarrett at BPS Research Digest
• The scientific brain: How the brain repurposes itself to learn scientific concepts at Lunatic Labs

Check back next week for more great picks!