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

Check back next week for more great picks!