ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections February 27-March 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:

• Traces in rock may be the oldest evidence of life on Earth ever by Colin Barras at New Scientist
• The (Mostly) Untold Story of the Oxygen Revolution by Diana Crow at Confessions of a Fledgling Science Journalist
• How Not to Do It: Breaking up Ammonium Nitrate by Derek Lowe at In The Pipeline
• SpaceX to Fly Humans around the Moon as Soon as 2018 by Calla Cofield at Scientific American 
• When Was The First Star Born? by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang! 
• The astonishing diversity of great tit song by Sam Hardman at Ecologica
• Astonishing Animal Sleeping Patterns by Eugene Gabriel at The Scorpion and The Frog
• A Weekend Camping Trip Is Enough to Reset Your Internal Clock  by Elizabeth Preston at Inkfish
• Neurofeedback Training For Insomnia No Better Than Sham at The Neurocritic
• How should we study dreams? by Melissa J Glenn at On Psychology and Neuroscience
• It’s all the cuddling – psychologists explore why people who have more sex are happier by Christian Jarrett at The British Psychological Society Research Digest
• Hormones, brain and behaviour, a not-so-simple story by Tom Stafford at Mind Hacks
• Autism in the brain, region by region by Sarah Deweerdt at Spectrum
• Inside the racist brain by Samah Karaki at Homo Scientificus Europaeus
• Strides & Hurdles by Stephen Skolnick at Physics Buzz
• Study: half of the studies you read about in the news are wrong by Brian Resnick at Vox
• Why Do Things That Are Unlikely to Harm Us Get the Most Attention? by Harriet Hall at Science-Based Medicine
• Chronic pain can be lessened by an ‘out of body’ illusion by James Pamment and Jane Aspell at Body in Mind
• India Tackles Superbug Menace with New Antibiotic Guidelines by Roli Srivastava at Scientific American
• Gut bacteria will revolutionise medicine by Kristian Sjøgren at ScienceNordic
• Energy positive: how Denmark's Samsø island switched to zero carbon by Dyani Lewis at The Guardian
• Republican hearing calls for a lower carbon pollution price. It should be much higher by Dana Nuccitelli at Skeptical Science
• Commuting and polluting – whose health is losing out? by Rachel Orritt at Cancer Research UK Science Blog
• De-extinction may cause extinction by Andrew Masterson at Cosmos Magazine
• Genome-editing of designer babies OK in some cases; huge CRISPR patent fight decision, but who’s the ultimate winner? by Tabitha M. Powledge at On Science Blogs 
• Is Transgender Identity Inherited? by Ricki Lewis at DNA Science Blog 
• The Death of Expertise by Steven Novella at Neurologica Blog
• Arithmetic vs Reality: The Sawdust Principle by Bob Pendleton at The Grumpy Programmer

Check back next week for more great picks!