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

Check back next week for more great picks!