ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections May 8-14 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 if We Discovered an Alien Civilization Less Advanced Than Our Own? by Corey S. Powell at Out There
• Astronomers Find Water and Weird Clouds on Extrasolar "Warm Neptune" by Mike Wall at Scientific American
• 3.5-billion-year-old fossils hint life evolved in pond, not sea by Alice Klein at New Scientist
• 4 Billion Year Old 'Fossil' Genes May Be Our Secret Weapon Against Infection by Sheryl Wood at Invisiverse
• Metaphors in science: How should we talk about genes? by Rose Hendricks
• Can a good sense of humour protect you from stress? by Christian Jarrett at British Psychological Society Research Digest
• How We Hear (or, An Introduction to Fourier Analysis) at Something Marvelous
• Vaccines, Autism, and Retraction by Neuroskeptic at Discover
• Trading beef for insects—or even chicken—would save a third of arable land by Emma Bryce at Anthropocene
• See how much sugar is packed into 'healthy' food by Sara Chodosh at Popular Science
• Platinum: the almighty cancer killer! by Kayla Matz at SEE: Science for Each and Everyone
• Searching for the keys to immunotherapy success in the tumor microenvironment by John Easton at Science Life
• Gut bacteria linked to stroke by E J Smyth at Sciencemed
• Female mannequins aren't just skinny, they're emaciated by Eric Robinson at Sifting the Evidence
• How Oats Could Save Iowa’s Farmers (and Fight Pollution) by Karen Stillerman at Union of Concerned Scientists
• Can Meadows Rescue the Planet from CO2? by Jane Braxton Little at Scientific American
• These Very Hungry Caterpillars Can Eat Your Plastic Trash by GrrlScientist
• Macro-litter pollution: Plastic shopping bags a risk for marine mammals at The Blue Reporters
• Why Are Bees Disappearing? by Arpit Sharma at Sciencepalooza
• How beekeepers help deadly parasites thrive by Andrew Masterson at Cosmos Magazine
• A Reddit Science Q&A on medical ethnobotany at eScienceCommons
• Rational Arguments for God? by Steven Novella at Neurologica Blog
• Preservar la fertilidad entre los 25 y los 35 años aumenta las tasas de éxito at Noticias de la Ciencia y la Tecnología/Amazings

Check back next week for more great picks!