ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections March 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:

• World’s oldest fossil plants could rewrite life's early history by Rasmus Kragh Jakobsen at Science Nordic
• We Finally Figured Out How Tardigrades Can Survive in Space by Sheryl Wood at Invisiverse
• The first woman in space turned 80, and you probably never heard of her by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang! 
• The Real Expanse by Caleb Scharf at Life, Unbounded
• Potatoes can grow in 'extreme' Mars-like conditions, a new NASA-backed experiment shows by Dave Mosher at Business Insider
• Es factible cultivar patatas en Marte at NYCT/Amazings
• How bread goes stale - Science & Tricks by Science Chef at Food Crumbles
• The Science of Spring by Jeff Atkins at PLOS Ecology Community 
• Secretary of Defense James Mattis: The Lone Climate Change Soldier in this Administration’s Cabinet by Shana Udvardy at Union of Concerned Scientists
• It’s Raining Cats and Dogs and CoCoRaHS Wants to Know Where and How Many Fell by Alycia Crall at CitizenSci
• Coral reef bleaching by Ed Hawkins at Climate Lab Book
• “Chemotherapy is for losers”: A tragic tale of cancer, naturopathic quackery, and murder by David Gorski at Science-Based Medicine
• Three women blinded by experimental stem cell treatment by Carmen Heredia Rodriguez at Spectrum
• Characteristics of Initial Prescription Episodes and Likelihood of Long-Term Opioid Use by Anuj Shah, Corey J. Hayes, Bradley C. Martin at CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
• Here’s the first 3D glimpse of how DNA is packaged up in a single cell by Beth Mole at Ars Technica
• Can someone give me a hand? by Ed Chadwick at Translate
• Head injuries alter genes linked to serious brain disorders, new study shows by Jennifer Huber at Scientists Talk Funny
• Amnesia, Memory, and Music: The Lasting Impression of a Melody by Melissa J. Glenn at On Psychology and Neuroscience
• Microaggressions by Steven Novella at NeurologicaBlog
• The scientific evidence for microaggressions is weak and we should drop the term, argues review author by Alex Fradera at British Psychological Society Research Digest
• The Inner Lives of "Food Animals" by Barbara J King at Scientific American
• How do we know what we know? Sexual selection, in humans and in lizards by Ambika Kamath
• How to Calculate a Bigger Slice of Pi by Shelley Sandiford and Lydia Chain at Scientific American

Check back next week for more great picks!