ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections July 18-24 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:

• The cocktail of poison and brandy that led to Olympic gold by Kathryn Harkup at Notes and Theories 
• That’s the Spirit by Rowena Fletcher-Wood at Chemistry World Blog 
• It's Time for Scientists to Stop Explaining So Much by Amanda Freise at Scientific American
• Tiny ants move a ton of soil by Sarah Zielinski at Wild Things
• Making Decisions on a “Hangry” Impulse by Sara Adaes at Brain Blogger
• How City Living Can be Bad for Kids by Traci Pedersen at Brain Blogger
• A new map of the brain - what does it mean? by Neuroskeptic at Discover
• Thousands of fMRI brain studies in doubt due to software flaws by Simon Oxenham at New Scientist
• How Does The Brain Organize Memories Across Time? by Viatcheslav Wlassoff at BrainBlogger
• Brain activity and response to food cues differ in severely obese women at Lunatic Laboratories
• Learning from Disorder: The Paradox of Information in the Brain by Joel Frohlich at Knowing Neurons
• Decoding Reading in the Brain by Lisa M P Munoz at Cognitive Neuroscience Society
• It's time to recognise the benefits of medical data use by Jon Fistein at MRC Insight
• The Multiverse for non-scientists by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang!
• Diamonds Lead to Ultra-High Pressure Situations by Kendra Redmond at Physics Buzz
• Noise and signal in Antartica by Ed Hawkins at Climate Lab Book
• La moral es más irracional que racional by Sergio Parra at Xataka Cienciaz

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections July 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:

• Trick or tweet, or both? How social media is messing up politics by Chris Baraniuk at New Scientist
• Does target shooting make teenagers aggressive? by Christian Jarrett at BPS Research Digest
• Do you really need to worry about baby wipes? by Kat Day at The Chronicle Flask
• Sticking germy fingers in your mouth may give you the upper hand on health by Beth Marie Mole at Ars Technica 
• #microbiome: unraveling truth from hype by Ella Epstein at Incubator
• Arctic Heat by Tamino at Open Mind
• Meteorologists shouldn’t just ‘stick to the weather,’ they should openly discuss climate change by Jason Samenow at Capital Weather Gang
• Physics Buzz: Did Rembrandt "Cheat"? Optics Paper Weighs in on Art History Debate by Kendra Redmond at Physics Buzz
• An Equation for the Origins of Life by Caleb Scharf at Life, Unbounded
• Metaphors and shapes by Janet Kwasniak at Neuro-Patch
• The Mystery of Urban Psychosis by Vaughan Bell at The Atlantic
• Specialized neurons in emotional memory play important role in fear at Lunatic Laboratories
• More bad news for malaria vaccine by Tom Murphy at Humanosphere
• How to Get and Keep Your Video Viewer’s Attention by Karen McKee at The Scientist Videographer
• Why the new Wellcome Trust open review journal may be the science publishing future by John Hawks at John Hawks Weblog

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections July 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:

• The Physics of Fireworks by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang! 
• Success! NASA's Juno Spacecraft Made It To Jupiter  by Shannon Stirone at Popular Science
• Jupiter & Juno – What Do We Already Know About Jupiter’s Chemistry? by Andy Brunning at Compound Interest
• What Most People Get Wrong About Einstein's Famous Equation by Positron at Physics Buzz
• Founders of Western civilisation were prehistoric dope dealers by Colin Barras at New Scientist
• Bacteria gene may help crops soak up more sun by Belinda Smith at Cosmos
• Just Keep Remembering (and Forgetting) by Megan Kirchgessner at NeuWrite San Diego 
• What explains Brexit, Trump and the rise of the far right? by Simon Oxenham at New Scientist
• How deep is the brain?  by Chris Baldassano at Rooting for the Machines
• False-Positive fMRI Hits The Mainstream by Neuroskeptic at Discover
• One step closer to reading minds, the representation of words in the brain by Ben Kuebrich at Neuroamer
• The Human Robot Virtuous Circle of Creativity by Norman Rusin at GotScience.org 
• Imprinting in Birds, and Why We’re Freaked Out by Robots by Emily Makowski in Sextraordinary!
• New research: climate may be more sensitive and situation more dire by Dana Nuccitelli at Skeptical Science
• Lionfish invasion comes to the Mediterranean by Sarah Zielinski at Wild Things
• A barbecue summer – but what about the charcoal? by Philip Strange at Philip Strange Science and Nature Writing
• Immunotoxins: a surprisingly less toxic approach to stem cell transplants by Holly Wobma at Signals

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections June 27-July 3 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 it hurts when somebody breaks our heart by Pablo Barrecheguren at Mapping Ignorance
• Brain training games don’t boost IQ. Here’s what does. by Brian Resnick at Vox
• Are the benefits of brain training no more than a placebo effect? by Christian Jarrett at BPS Research Digest
• Can a Neuroscientist Understand Donkey Kong, Let Alone a Brain? by Ed Yong at The Atlantic
• Scientists Are Planting False Experiences Into Peoples' Brains, Inception-Style by Samantha Cole at Popular Science
• When matters of the mind meet ailments of the body: exploring the power of big data by Sarah Fox at The Brain Bank North West
• Does Our Heartbeat Influence Our Sensory Awareness? and Can Antibiotics Stop The Growth of New Brain Cells? by Sara Adaes at BrainBlogger
• Touch me, please by José Ramón Alonso at Mapping Ignorance
• Empathy for animals is all about us by Bethany Brookshire at SciCurious
• How Do Animals Keep from Getting Lost? by M. R. O'Connor at The New Yorker
• Honeybees Have Personalities (Sort Of) by Elizabeth Preston at Inkfish
• Why Can't We Just Go With The Flow - The High Cost of Heating by Mark Lasbury at As Many Exceptions as Rules
• Australian rodent first mammalian victim of climate change by Jonathan Trinastic at Goodnight Earth
• Ocean Acidification and Chemical Signalling by Andy Brunning, Mark Lorch and Christina Roggatz at Compound Interest
• ‘Chemophobia’ is irrational, harmful – and hard to break by James Kennedy at Aeon
• On target at The Economist
• Mummies and Cancer by Steven Novella at Neurologica Blog
• The tiny little workhorses of gene therapy by Joost Snijder at Uncoating 
• A Good Little Girl by xykademiqz
• Humanity may be alone in the Universe by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang
• Using the Most Violent Explosions in the Universe to Measure Its Size by Phil Plait at Slate
• Thoughts on the future of math education by Kevin H. Wilson at mathbabe

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