ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections May 9-15 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:

• Sir Harry Kroto & Buckminsterfullerene by Andy Brunning at Compound Interest
• Spiralling global temperatures by Ed Hawkins at Climate Lab Book
• Can the Republican Party solve its science denial problem? by Dana Nuccitelli at Skeptical Science
• Why scientists are infuriated with a New Yorker article on epigenetics by Brian Resnick at Vox
• A Secret Flexibility Found in Life’s Blueprints by Vero Greenwood at Quanta Magazine 
• NASA videos highlight using omics to study what happens to a body in space by Jennifer Huber at Scientists Talk Funny
• BioDesign Studio Lets You Tinker With Biology to Make Something New by Lisa M Potter at KQED Science
• Understanding immortality, one slice at a time by Jovana Drinjakovic at Signals Blog
• Zika virus initiative reveals deeper malady in scientific publishing by Stephen Curry at Occam's Corner
• IBM Creates A Molecule That Could Destroy All Viruses by Claire Maldarelli at Popular Science
• The Princess IS the Frog (A Guest Post) by Hayley Trzinski at The Scorpion and the Frog 
• Top 10 facts about the Big Bang Theory by Ethan Siegel at Starts With a Bang! 
• And we're off! CERN declares start of 2016 LHC physics season by Jon M Butterworth at Life and Physics
• Number of potentially habitable planets in our galaxy: Tens of billions by Eric Berger at Ars Technica
• Emotional communication by Janet Kwasniak at Neuro-patch 
• Neuroscientists discover new learning rule for pattern completion at Lunatic Labs
• Good tests make children fail – here’s why by Tom Stafford at Mind Hacks
• Abacus gaining new respect among educators by Daniel LaPonsie at Psychology Punk
• Into the Mind of a Psychopath by Danielle Egan at Discover 
• The Trippy State Between Wakefulness and Sleep by Vaughan Bell at The Atlantic

Check back next week for more great picks!