ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections December 5-11 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:

• Why Exercise May Be the Best Fix for Depression by Ferris Jabr at Scientific American Mind
• A Conversation With Dan Ariely About What Shapes our Motivations by Jessica Gross at Longreads
• T. rex cousin’s 99-million-year old tail feathers found in amber at New Scientist
• The Elements redux by Helen Arney at Sciencebase
• Linking Gaucher and Parkinson’s Diseases by Ricki Lewis at DNA Science Blog
• A Third of People Given Antibiotics Don't Need Them by Maryn McKenna at Germination
• Can living fig-tree bridges save lives in a changing climate? by Mike Shanahan at Under the Banyan
• Trump's First 100 Days: Science Education and Schools by Devin Powell at Scientific American
• What to watch for when science becomes politicized and Ask Ethan: How do gravitational waves escape from a black hole? by Ethan Siegel at Starts With a Bang
• Nobel Prize Data Viz: The Fast and The Spurious by Sophie Mathias by biomolbioandco 
• Reproducibility Crisis Timeline: Milestones in Tackling Research Reliability by Hilda Bastian at Absolutely Maybe
• West World and Consciousness by Steven Novella at Neurologica Blog
• Neuroscientists use neurofeedback to erase fear in the brain by Christian Jarrett at BPS Research Digest
• Using Magnets on the Brain to Bring Back Memories by Janice Wood at Brain Blogger
• Book Review: Spaceman by Mike Massimino by Steven Spence at GotScience.org
• Los parques urbanos pueden ser un buen lugar para buscar nuevos antibióticos y antitumorales by Ignacio López-Goñi at microBIO

Check back next week for more great picks!