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 

Check back next week for more great picks!