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

Check back next week for more great picks!