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

Check back next week for more great picks!