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

Check back next week for more great picks!