Which crabs kill birds? Are there more pesticides in food? Find out in our November 13-19 2017 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Awesome things are happening in space, and in Earth's history - but perhaps we should pay more attention to what's happening here now? These themes and many others are covered by picks the ScienceSeeker editors have made of their favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is the full round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

If only nature was all as tough as this. Credit:  JANOS/ISTOCKPHOTO

• Phoning E.T.: Message Sent to Nearby Planet That Could Host Life by Mike Wall at Space.com
• The Impact History Of Asteroids Revealed In Cosmic Dust by Martin Suttle at Science Trends
• Flash! Thunderstorms Intensify Over Busy Shipping Lanes by Kendra Redmond at Physics Buzz
• This 8000-year-old jar holds traces of what may be Eurasia’s oldest wine by Michael Price in Science Magazine
• 280-Million-Year-Old Fossil Forest Discovered in … Antarctica by Stephanie Pappas at Live Science
• Study Finds Humans Have More Empathy For Dogs Than Other People by Mohendra Shiwnarain at Science Trends
• Researchers advance models of maternal antibody link to autism by Sarah Deweerdt at Spectrum
• Brain Implant Successfully Boosts Memory For The First Time Ever by Daniel Nelson at Science Trends
• Logran, por primera vez, mejorar la memoria humana con un implante cerebral por José Manuel Nieves a ABC Ciencia 
• God in the Brain: the Science of Neurotheology by Viatcheslav Wlassoff at BrainBlogger
• We are witnessing a renaissance in psychology by Christian Jarrett at British Psychological Society Research Digest 
• Transgenic stem cells lead to a miraculous cure by Steven Salzberg at Genomics, Medicine, and Pseudoscience
• Embryos kill off male tissue to become female by Tina Hesman Saey at Science News
• Coconut crabs are a bird’s worst nightmare by Sarah Zielinski at Wild Things
• Carbon emissions back on the rise by Michael Lucy at Cosmos
• Is there really an increasing number of pesticides in food? by Richard Fussell at Analyte Guru
• What, Me Worry? Humans Are Blind to Imminent Environmental Collapse by William E Rees at The Tyee
• Rising greenhouse gas emissions and extinction are “especially troubling” to researchers by Morgan Erickson-Davis at Mongabay
• What’s The Unintended Consequence Of Electric Cars? by Eric Johnson at Science Trends
• Jane Goodall interview: ‘The most important thing is sharing good news’ by Rhett A. Butler at Mongabay
• MIT students fortify concrete by adding recycled plastic by Jennifer Chu at MIT News
• The mystery of the phantom reference by Anne-Wil Harzing at Harzing.com
• Can we please stop (mis)quoting Albert on Emmy, it’s demeaning? by Thony Christie at The Renaissance Mathematicus

Check back next week for more great picks!