ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections February 20-26 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:

• New Evidence for the Strange Idea that the Universe Is a Hologram by Brian Koberlein at Nautilus
• Tiny, Tiny TRAPPIST-1 by Caleb Scharf at Life, Unbounded
• Birth control app invented by physicists gets approval by Catherine Jex at ScienceNordic
• How Do Skis Ski, and How Do Nanomaterials Make Skiing More Fun? by Margy Robinson at Sustainable Nano
• Energy-Free AC? Heat-Reflecting Wrap Could Cool Without Power by Tia Ghose at Live Science
• How much wood would a termite chuck…if it was missing it’s microbial symbionts by Kelle Freel at The Molecular Ecologist
• Who Was Detective X? by Rich Press at International Symposium on Human Identification News 
• Helen O. Dickens: A Figure Who Was Anything But Hidden by Katie Delach at Penn Medicine News
• There’s such a thing as “autism camouflaging” and it might explain why some people are diagnosed so late by Helge Hasselmann at British Psychological Society Research Digest
• Policy making manifesto: squaring science with the human factor by Michel Kazatchkine, Julian Kinderlerer, Aidan Gilligan, Lidia Brito, Thomas Hartung, Kathryn O’Hara, David Budtz Pedersen, Roy Robertson at Euroscientist 
• Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence? by Dirk Helbing, Bruno S. Frey, Gerd Gigerenzer, Ernst Hafen, Michael Hagner, Yvonne Hofstetter, Jeroen van den Hoven and Roberto V. Zicari, Andrej Zwitter at Scientific American
• Do Cultures Have Personality? by Sandy Gautam at The Mouse Trap 
• Your Brain as Laboratory: The Science of Meditation by John Yates at Scientific American 
• Brain Training: Placebo effects, publication bias, small sample sizes… and what we do next? by Duncan Astle at Forging Connections
• CDC: 2016-2017 Flu Vaccine Nearly 50 Percent Effective at American Academy of Family Physicians 

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections February 13-19 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 spotted a supernova just hours after it exploded by Sarah Fecht at Popular Science
• The first galaxies: what we know and what we still need to learn by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang! 
• What's in a name? Venoms vs. Poisons | Toxinology 101 by Christie Wilcox at Science Sushi
• What’s In Your Expired Makeup? by Ms. Beautyphile
• Metadating helps you find love based on your everyday data by Aviva Hope-Rutkin at New Scientist
• Your Brain on Love by Marley Rossa at NeuWrite San Diego
• Why does music training increase intelligence? by Richard Kunert at Brain's Idea
• no male and female brain types by Tom Stafford at Mind Hacks
• Brain plasticity and phantom limbs: Does amputation rewire the sense of touch? by Matt Wood at ScienceLife
• How Alzheimer’s and Depression are Linked to Hearing Loss at New Generation Hearing
• CRISPR/Cas9 Patent Battle by Chris Weir at Mostly Science
• Defying Mendelian Genetics and “Embryo Engineering” by Ricki Lewis at DNA Science Blog
• HIV Co-Opts the Body's First Line of Defense—Using It as a Shuttle to Take Over by Cynthia Wallentine at Invisiverse
• Climate change: to bee or not to bee by Fred Singer at Fred's Ecology and Environmental Tales
• Coastal flooding around the UK coastline by Ivan Haigh at Climatica
• Animating global sea ice changes by Ed Hawkins at Climate Lab Book
• Is anything wrong with Forbes Climate Reporting? by Sarah at Skeptical Science
• Politically biased information processing & the conjunction fallacy by Dan Kahan at The Cultural Cognition Blog
• Science – We Have a Reproducibility Problem by Steven Novella at NeurologicaBlog 
• Scientific Knowledge Is Made To Be Used by Chad Orzel at Forbes
• Cómo almacenar energía en silicio fundido at Noticias de la Ciencia y la Tecnología

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections February 6-12 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:

• What Does Nanotechnology Have to Do with Chocolate? by Liz Laudadio at Sustainable Nano
• Lessons on Aging Well, From a 105-Year-Old Cyclist by Gretchen Reynolds at The New York Times
• Which policies lead to less abortion? The ACA, state law and The Supreme Court by Beth Skwarecki at Public Health Perspectives
• Looking at a virtual hand reduces the pain in your real hand by Anil Ananthaswamy at New Scientist
• It's Okay That You Don't Like Mornings--Your Memory Probably Doesn't Either by Julia Shaw at Scientific American Mind Guest Blog
• The Super Bowl and Hindsight Bias by Steven Novella at NeurologicaBlog
• Where is consciousness? by Janet Kwasniak at Neuro-patch
• Quantum Loopholes And The Problem Of Free Will by Chad Orzel at Forbes
• Physicists Devise "Black Hole" on a Chip by Stephen Skolnick at Physics Buzz
• Asking for a Skeptic Friend by Richard Lenski at Telliamed Revisited
• A diet of corn turns wild hamsters into cannibals by Sarah Zielinski at Wild Things
• The data visualisation legacy of Hans Rosling at The Financial Times (Subscription may be needed)

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections January 30-February 5 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 the sound of noisy eating fills some people with rage by Tiffany O'Callaghan at New Scientist
• Playing an Instrument: Better for Your Brain than Just Listening by Sally Sapega at Penn Medicine News Blog
• World Cancer Day 2017: 4 cancers that pose a global challenge by Emma Smith at Cancer Research UK Science Blog
• Research on human embryos – should we draw a new line in the sand? at Bringing Science to You 
• 150-Year Journey to Alpha Centauri Proposed by Lee Billings at Scientific American
• World’s largest telescope will revolutionize the future of astronomy by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang! 
• Yes, humans influence evolution. Yes, that has consequences for humans! by Kiyoko Gotanda at Eco-evolutionary Dynamics
• DNA Methylation Plays Important Roles in Plant Biology by Jef Akst at The Scientist
• Anti-Evolution Bills Continue to Evolve by Steven Novella at NeuroLogica Blog
• History's First Science Experiments by Alexander Klotz at Physics Forums
• Irving Langmuir and pathological science: A warning for our times by Ash Jogalekar at The Curious Wavefunction
• The postmodern assault on science: If all truths are equal, who cares what science has to say? by Marcel Kuntz  at EMBO Reports
• Friday Action Item: Get ready to #MarchForScience by Jeremy Yoder at The Molecular Ecologist
• Who adopts queer and pansexual identities? Study examines sexual and demographic characteristics by Eric W. Dolan at PsyPost
• What is an Experimental Math Course and Why Should We Care? by Lara Pudwell at On Teaching and Learning Mathematics
• Un antepasado de los humanos de hace 540 millones de años at NeoFronteras 

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