ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections January 23-29 2017 #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:

• Scientists Create Metallic Hydrogen by Steven Novella at NeuroLogica Blog
• Chemical Concerns – Does Acrylamide in Toast & Roast Potatoes Cause Cancer? by Andy Brunning at Compound Interest
• The power of rituals: they calm nerves and boost performance by Alex Fradera at British Psychological Society Research Digest
• Why Are People Mean? by Hilary Jacobs Hendel at The World of Psychology 
• Nature Shapes Faithful and Unfaithful Brains by Sarah Jane Alger at The Scorpion and the Frog
• What’s so “bad” about the Badlands, anyway? by Jeff Atkins at PLOS Ecology Community 
• Ancient Meteorites Were Different by Caleb Scharf at Life, Unbounded
• Glacial shaping of the Tasmanian landscape by Anna Makushkina at OnCirculation
• How Your Diet and Gut Bacteria Work Together to Reduce Risk of Colon Cancer by Sheryl Wood at Invisiverse
• Acupuncture for Infantile Colic by Steven Novella at Science-Based Medicine
• How Much Scientific Research Is Wasted? by Chad Orzel at Forbes
• Genetic fix can make mass-produced tomatoes taste great again by Alister Doyle at New Scientist
• Descubren cómo devolverle al tomate su verdadero sabor at Noticias de la Ciencia y la Tecnología Amazings
• The Syrians and Iraqis at Your Dinner Table by Rob Dunn at Your Wild Life
• No Road Home: Three Doctors Reflect on Aleppo and the Future by Sheila Burt at Northwestern Public Health Review Blog
• Down and Almost Out in Scotland: George Orwell, 1948, and Nineteen Eighty-Four by Hilda Bastian at Absolutely Maybe 
• Public Health and the Need for Gun Violence Research by Ashley Ceniceros at The Doctor's Tablet
• "Rogue" Science Agencies Defy Trump Administration on Twitter by Mindy Weisberger at Scientific American 
• Does Torture Work? by Raj Persaud and Peter Bruggen 
• Immigrants are Critical for American Science by Mike White at The Finch and Pea
• A Researcher’s Guide to the #Resistance by Micah Allen at Neuroconscience
• The Freemasons: Prosocial Groups of the Enlightenment Era. A Conversation with Margaret C. Jacob by David C Wilson at This View of Life

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections January 16-22 2017 #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:

• Is the 5-Second Rule True? by Sabrina Stierwalt at Scientific American
• How the Hubble Space Telescope changed the Universe by Ethan Siegel at Starts With a Bang! 
• Scientists Make One Extremely Cold Drum by Kendra Redmond at Physics Buzz
• Killer whale menopause evolved from mother-daughter conflict by Dyani Lewis at Cosmos Magazine
• Finding Out if Dogs Like Cats - Or Not by Zazie Todd at Companion Animal Psychology
• How estrogen modulates fear learning — molecular insight into PTSD in women by Quinn Eastman at Lab Land
• If you like sick jokes, maybe it’s because you’re just so smart by Christian Jarrett at British Psychological Society Research Digest
• Neuroscience Can't Heal a Divided Nation at The Neurocritic
• 2016 was the hottest year on record by Kendra Pierre-Louis at Popular Science
• Climate Change Has Big Effects on Small Animals by Mary Bates at PLOS Ecology Blog
• Diving into the inbreeding depression by Patrícia Pečnerová The Molecular Ecologist 
• Coping with Sea Level Rise by Tamino at Open Mind
• Parts of United States are heating faster than globe as a whole by John Abraham at Skeptical Science
• Green CO2NCRETE for sustainable construction by Cheng-Wei Lin, Bu Wang, Richard Kaner, and Gaurav Sant at ACS Green Chemistry: The Nexus Blog
• Weekend effect explainer: why we are not the ‘climate change deniers of healthcare’ by Sam Watson at The Academic Health Economists' Blog
• Chinese BioMedical Research: Sturgeon’s Law In Action by Mark Crislip at Science-Based Medicine

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections January 9-15 2017 #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:

• 11 Ways to See How Climate Change Is Imperiling the Arctic by Betsy Mason at All Over the Map
• Woman Killed by a Superbug Resistant to Every Available Antibiotic by Helen Branswell at STAT News 
• A Necessary Retelling of the Smallpox Vaccine Story by Ricki Lewis at DNA Science Blog
• Peanut Allergy Prevention Advice Does a 180 by Scott Gavura at Science-Based Medicine
• Curcumin Will Waste Your Time by Derek Lowe at In the Pipeline
• An Often-Ignored Type of Brain Cell May Be the Key to Aging by Maya Gosztyla at AlzScience 
• What Can fMRI Tell Us About Mental Illness? by Neuroskeptic at Discover
• Dosing Dopamine to Regulate Rest by Kerin Higa at NeuWrite San Diego
• Teenagers’ brains process risk differently when Mum is around by Christian Jarrett at British Psychological Society Research Digest
• Scientists find link between maternal environment and neurodevelopmental disorders by Steven Erwood at Expression
• Scientists engineer animals with ancient genes to test causes of evolution by Matt Wood at Science Life
• Citizen Science and Tequila Help Bring an Endangered Bat Back From the Brink by Mary Bates at PLOS Ecology Community 
• Elements of life discovered everywhere in the Milky Way by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang! 
• Vast Shadow Sweeps Across Young Exoplanetary System by Caleb Scharf at Life, Unbounded
• Norway is first country to turn off FM radio and go digital-only by Timothy Revell at New Scientist
• Introducing ‘Economic Snapshot’ – Charts Tracking Trump’s Impact on Jobs and the Economy by Brian Kurilla at Geek Psychologist
• Cultural Anthropology and Cultural Evolution: Tear Down This Wall! A Conversation with Robert Paul by David S. Wilson at This View of Life
• Un trasplante de células madre devuelve la vista a ratones ciegos by Sergio Parra at Xataka Ciencia

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections January 2-8 2017 #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 you should avoid the gym in January (and do this instead) by  Peter Janiszewski at Obesity Panacea 
• Obese Mice Can Move, but They Don't by Leah Samuel at Scientific American
• Eating These Foods Makes Men More Attractive to Women by Marta Zaraska at Scientific American Mind
• Heroin Overdose Deaths Quadruple Among Older Millennials by Alex Berezow at American Council on Science and Health
• Universal flu vaccines could offer key benefits over seasonal shots by Kristy Hentchel at ScienceLife
• World Shatters Heat Records in 2016 by Alister Doyle at Scientific American
• The underestimated danger of a breakdown of the Gulf Stream System by Stefan Rahmstorf at RealClimate
• Greenland Ice Melt Could Push Atlantic Circulation to Collapse by Rebecca Boyle at Hakai Magazine
• Satellites Observe “Traffic Jams” in Antarctic Ice Stream Caused by Tides by Coby Beck at A Few Things Ill Considered 
• Communicating Real Science in a time of Fake News by Marcia Bjornerud at The Plainspoken Scientist 
• The metaphorical transparency of responsible media by Vasudevan Mukunth at Gaplogs
• Calling out fake medical journals that exist to promote acupuncture by Steven Salzberg at Genomics, Medicine, and Pseudoscience
• Revenge really is sweet: study shows the mood-enhancing effect of retaliation by Alex Fradera at British Psychological Society Research Digest
• Face-selective brain region continues to grow in adulthood by Mo Costandi at Neurophilosophy
• Gravitational Waves: from discovery of the year to science of the century by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang!
• January 1, 1925: The Day We Discovered the Universe by Corey S. Powell at Out There 
• Wave of the future: Using anesthesia to detect neurodegeneration by Samantha Payne at Signals Blog
• From micromonsters to mole rats: best of the animal world at Cosmos Magazine 
• The Dark Side of Fireworks – The Chemistry of their Environmental Effects by Andy Brunning at Compound Interest
• Mapas revelan efecto del consumismo sobre la biodiversidad by David Castro at Expresión Genética

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections December 26 2016-January 1 2017 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Happy New Year from the ScienceSeeker team! This week, as they do every week, the ScienceSeeker Editors have picked their favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is the round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections:

• Another 1/230,000,000th of a Galactic Orbit by Caleb Scharf at Life, Unbounded
• The 12 biggest and best science stories of 2016 at New Scientist
• 2016: Compound Interest’s Year in Review by Andy Brunning at Compound Interest
• The Best Prime Numbers of 2016 by Evelyn Lamb at Roots of Unity
• Raising a Glass to Vera Rubin & Dark Matter by Kendra Redmond at Physics Buzz 
• Gone in 2016: 10 Notable Women in Science and Technology by Maia Weinstock at Voices
• The Importance of Storytelling in Science by Jeff Atkins at PLOS Ecology Community
• We Need to Think Trashy Thoughts by Valerie Gwinner at The Nature of Cities

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