ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections August 22-28 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favourite 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 Closest Terrestrial Exoplanet Discovered by AstroJake at The Astrophysics Journal
• Cassini prepares for its final, suicidal mission by Ethan Siegel at Starts with a Bang!
• When Will Life Exist? by Steven Novella at Neurologica Blog
• Your Coffee Addiction May Be In Your Genes by Sam Lee Cole at Popular Science
• Behold the octobot—a fully autonomous, soft-bodied robot by John Timmer at Ars Technica
• Why cancer is (still) more than just ‘bad luck’ by Emma Smith at Cancer Research UK Science Blog
• I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong review – full of life’s little surprises by Stephen Curry at The Guardian
• To diet or not to diet: what does your brain think? by Elena Vicario at NeuWrite San Diego
• How a Neuroscientist Came Around to Improv Comedy by Ben Kuebrich at Neuroamer
• The relationship between low physical activity and psychotic symptoms at Lunatic Labs 
• Effects of Emoticons on the Brain by Neuroskeptic at Discover 
• The beer brewing process - Beer science at home at Food Crumbles
• Obama Goes Big: Expansion of Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument Makes It The World’s Largest Marine Protected Area by Christie Wilcox at Science Sushi
• Medusas, la invasión silenciosa by José Manuel Nieves at El Blog Ciencia Y Technologica por José Manuel Nieves
• Aquamess: Portraits of Garbage from the Top of the World by Carol Devine at Signal to Noise Magazine
• Summers in the redwood forest by Matthew Brousil at Dispatches from the Field
• Invasive species in developing countries by Dirk Steinke at DNA Barcoding
• An unlikely choice between a gasoline or diesel car… by Dasaraden Mauree at EGU Atmospheric Sciences blog

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections August 15-21 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• Do intersex women athletes have an edge over the field? by Richard A Lovett at Cosmos Magazine
• A gold medal for tissue engineering? Engineered brain organoids lend insight to Zika virus pathology by Holly Wobma at Signals
• The Composition of the Rio Olympics Medals by Andy Brunning at Compound Interest
• Link Between Diabetes and Alzheimer’s Disease by Viatcheslav Wlassoff at Brain Blogger
• A new ‘Einstein’ equation suggests wormholes hold key to quantum gravity by Tom Siegfried at Context 
• Bertrand’s Ballot Problem by Jim Propp at Mathematical Enchantments 
• Magnetic Bacteria Carry Drugs into Tumors by Isobel Maciver at Promega Connections
• Whole plant cells producing viral capsid protein as a poliovirus vaccine candidate  by Vincent Racaniello at Virology Blog 
• Single vs. Double-Blind Review: Is it really bad to let reviewers know who you are? by Josh Schimel at Writing Science
• Lluvias de rayos gamma y de polvo cometario by Ricardo Montiel at El Sofista 

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections August 8-14 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• Puzzling pool problems? by Kat Day at The Chronicle Flask
• We Are Nowhere Close to the Limits of Athletic Performance by Stephen Hsu at Nautilus
• Physicists look to the future as new particle dream dies by Leah Crane at New Scientist 
• This is Your Brain on Physics by Kendra Redmond at Physics Buzz
• Where does the mass of a proton come from? by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang! 
• Polio rears its head again in Nigeria, after two years of no cases by Helen Branswell at STAT
• How the Knowledge of Locals Is Helping Google Build Better Maps by Greg Miller at National Geographic
• Everything is fucked: The syllabus by Sanjay Srivastava at The Hardest Science

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections August 1-7 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 Facts about Zika by Malika Kumar, Nisar Farhat, and Jeff Maloy at Signal to Noise Magazine
• Microcephaly discoveries in non-Zika cases explain abnormal brain growth at Lunatic Labs
• If the Olympics Were Held in Space by Chip Rowe at Nautilus 
• The Perseid Metor Shower May Have a Strong Outburst of Shooting Stars This Year. Here's How to Watch by Phil Plait at Slate
• Life and the Universe by Maggie Aderin-Pocock at IAI News
• A typical British high tea - on the bitterness of tea at Food Crumbles
• Speedy the Tortoise and Altering the Genetic Code by Ricki Lewis at DNA Science Blog
• Parabiosis – The Next Snakeoil by Steven Novella at Science-Based Medicine 
• Depression and Men: Why It’s Hard to Ask for Help by Therese J. Borchard at World of Psychology 
• Hallucinations vs Delusions – What’s the Difference? at Brain Blogger
• Gender differences at the movies – women better at remembering rom-coms, men at remembering action flicks by Alex Fradera at BPS Research Digest 
• The Problematic Rise of Big Neuro by Hilary Rose at IAI News
• How Quantum Sudoku Demonstrate Entanglement by Chad Orzel at Forbes
• How volcanos collapse by Catherine Jex at ScienceNordic
• New research shows penguins will suffer in a warming world by Dana Nuccitelli at Skeptical Science
• No Introductions Necessary? by Mark Lasbury at As Many Exceptions As Rules
• Mike Pence does not understand evolution by Steven Novella at Neurologica Blog
• How to Develop a Science Social Media Plan by Paige Brown Jarreau at From the Lab Benches
• Primera medida real del aumento del tráfico marítimo en el Ártico by Francisco R. Villatoro at La Ciencia de la Mula Francis

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections July 25-31 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:

• Should Politicians Be Drug Tested? by Lisa Thomas at Analyte Guru
• How to name a caribou by Michelle Nijhuis at The Last Word on Nothing
• Fishing-induced evolution by Sébastien Nusslé at Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics
• Bacteria made to turn sewage into clean water – and electricity by Sally Adee at New Scientist
• To improve your memory, try to get some space by Jarrett Lovelett at NeuWrite San Diego
• Why do antidepressants take so long to work? at Lunatic Labs
• Blink and you won’t miss a thing by Jen Martin at Espresso Science
• Differentiating Shame from Guilt: It’s Not So Easy by John Amodeo at World of Psychology
• Complaining and the Brain – How “Bad Karma” Is Created by Viatcheslav Wlassoff at Brain Blogger 
• Cannabinoids Hold Promise for Alzheimer’s Disease Treatment by Sara Adaes at Brain Blogger 
• Modeling Vienna’s traffic: air pollution and health by Anneke Brand at IIASA Vienna Nexus
• Explainer: what dust from the Sahara does to you and the planet by Jacob Adetunji at The Conversation
• A Tougher Turing Test by Steven Novella at NeuroLogica Blog
• Ice Bucket Challenge Funds New ALS Gene Discovery by Kate Baggaley at Popular Science
• We Should Not Accept Scientific Results That Have Not Been Repeated by Ahmed Alkhateeb at Nautilus
• Should we just abandon p-values altogether?‬ by Sam Watson at The Academic Health Economists' Blog
• Why You Should Care about High-Dimensional Sphere Packing by Evelyn Lamb at Roots of Unity
• Habits of highly mathematical people by Jeremy Kun
• Dark matter may be completely invisible by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang!
• Cómo se guían los colibríes para evitar colisiones a gran velocidad at Noticias de la Ciencia y la Tecnología Amazings

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