ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections June 20-26 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:

• Why Science-Based Medicine Matters by James Thomas at Science-Based Medicine
• “I saw things children shouldn’t see” – surviving a troubled childhood by Lucy Maddox at Mosaic
• The Best Online Bird Watching Since #BirdieSanders by Kalliopi Monoyios at Symbiartic
• Chatham House: Brexit could harm UK climate and energy policy by Sophie Yeo at Carbon Brief 
• What The Brexit Means For Science by Lindsey Kratochwill at Popular Science
• Why can’t I stop? Internet addiction, compulsive gambling and other addictive behaviors by Matt Wood at ScienceLife 
• Using a cocktail of magic and fMRI, psychologists implanted thoughts in people's minds by Vaughan Bell at BPS Research Digest
• Monday Was Both the June Solstice and the Full Moon. How Rare Is That? by Phil Plait at Slate
• Vapor Explosions: Magic and Metallurgy by 'Positron' at Physics Buzz
• Is dark matter required for life to exist? by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang! 
• The Neurocritic: In Oxytocin We Trust at The Neurocritic
• Opiates no solution to back pain - by Steven J Atlas at Harvard Health Blog
• Enlisting artificial intelligence to assist radiologists by Jennifer Huber at Scientists Talk Funny
• Cancer, Elephants and P53 by Kayla Windelspecht at Ricochet Science
• Zika virus poses a greater threat than we thought by Steven Salzberg at Genomics, Medicine, and Pseudoscience
• A Motion-Sensor Switch for Antibiotic Resistance: My New Paper in the Journal Structure by Shaun Caldwell at Superhelical
• The Case of the Sugars that 'Strike Back' against HIV by Diana Crow at Confessions of a Fledgling Science Journalist

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections June 13-19 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:

• Educate Your Immune System by Moises Velasquez-Manoff at The New York Times
• Don’t forget all that dad has done for you.. and your epigenome.. this father’s day! by Jianqiang Bao at EpiBeat
• LIGO sees gravitational wave from second black hole death spiral by Lisa Grossman at New Scientist
• First Test For Machine That Could Change The Future Of Particle Physics by Ryan F Mandelbaum at Popular Science
• Missed The SpaceX Launch? Watch This Gorgeous New Video by Sarah Fecht at Popular Science
• How do black holes eat? Like Cookie Monster! by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang!
• Modern mussel shells much thinner than 50 years ago by Matt Wood at Science Life
• It's the Rheo Thing: Throwing the baby (fish) out with the (ocean) water by John Specavek at The Rheo Thing
• Use of Dental Appliances in the Management of Tourette Syndrome by Grant Ritchey and Clay Jones at Science Based Medicine
• Why the FDA Should Lift the Blood Donation Ban on Sexually Active Gay Men by Jason Silverstein at Public Health Perspectives
• Modernizing the Other Side of the Counter: FDA Oversight of Nonprescription Drugs by Janet Woodcock at Health Affairs Blog

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections June 6-12 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:

• TETRIS! Seventh Row of Periodic Table Completed by 'Positron' at Physics Buzz
• The Periodic Table of Elements: Element Name Origins by Andy Brunning and Mark Lorch at Compound Interest
• Ask Ethan: Is the Universe expanding faster than expected? by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang! 
• Ocean Heat Comes Back to Haunt Coral Reefs by Rob Painting at Skeptical Science 
• Blowing hot air: Are wind farms really bad for your health? by Simon Oxenham at Brain Scanner 
• fMRI study of Shamans tripping out to phat drumbeats by Micah Allen at Neuroconscience
• How the mind fluctuates during meditation by K Overeem at Yoga on the Brain
• The Psychology of Genre by Tom Vanderbilt at The New York Times
• The Four-Dimensional Brain? by Neuroskeptic at Discover
• The Phenomenon of Déjà Vu by Viatcheslav Wlassoff at Brain Blogger
• 'Unbroken Brain' Offers New Insights On Addiction by Alva Noë at Cosmos & Culture
• What the Science of Touch Says About Us by Adam Gopnik at The New Yorker
• Itching for Some Sun by Katie Delach at Penn Medicine News Blog
• The Immortality Hype by Adam Piore at Nautilus 
• Soon we will see ‘chrono-’ attached to every form of medicine by Jessa Gamble at Aeon
• If cryonics suddenly worked, we’d need to face the fallout by Rachel Nuwer at BBC Future
• To Fight Superbugs, Fight Poverty by Jason Silverstein at Public Health Perspectives
• How Junk Food Can End Obesity by David H. Freedman at The Atlantic 
• Fungi In Space! by Jennifer Frazer at The Artful Amoeba
• Seeing from the Bacterial Point of View by Mizu Ota and Susan S. Golden at Small Things Considered
• DNA Cages Deliver Chemotherapy Drugs In A Flash by Florian Rosado at ReliaWire
• Low gravity and high radiation: Would humans remain human on Mars? by Eric Berger at Ars Technica
• Supernovae 2 million years ago may have changed human behaviour by Shannon Hall at New Scientist
• Inbred Neanderthals left humans a genetic burden by Cristy Gelling at Genes to Genomes
• Immune To Evolution by Mark Lasbury at As Many Exceptions As Rules
• Dolphins Cooperate by Talking It Out  by Elizabeth Preston at Inkfish 
• Just how big is a big proof? by Katie Steckles and Paul Taylor at The Aperiodical 
• What Rebecca Black and Lin-Manuel Miranda can teach us about science education by Anna Zeidman at The Incubator 
• What do you wish you had known before submitting your first article? by Josh Schimel at Writing Science

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections May 29-June 5 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:

• No, a rat study with marginal results does not prove that cell phones cause cancer, , no matter what Mother Jones and Consumer Reports say by David Gorski at Science-Based Medicine
• Study that found cell phones cause cancer in rats is riddled with red flags by Beth Mole at Ars Technica
• What’s all the fuss about glyphosate? by Kat Day at Chronicle Flask
• Why Did King Tut Have A Knife Made Out Of Meteorite? by Mary Beth Griggs at Popular Science
• The Simple Explanation Of Why E=mc² by Chad Orzel at Forbes
• ‘Supercharged’ blood? at BioDetectives
• Using CRISPR To Learn How a Body Builds Itself by Ed Yong at The Atlantic
• Right on the nose by José Ramón Alonso at Mapping Ignorance
• The resting brain that never rests by Alice Bollini at Forging Connections
• Postdictive Illusion of Choice by Steven Novella at NeuroLogica Blog 
• Peru’s Sacred Valley- Andean Culture With Some Geologic Context by Debbie Hanneman at Geopostings 
• Can we use mathematics to prevent crime? by Ignacio Amigo at Mapping Ignorance

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