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

Check back next week for more great picks!