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

Check back next week for more great picks!