How future-thinking are Americans? Why are relationships important? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of February 5-11 2018 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

SpaceX's exploits last week were exciting, which says a lot about humanity, and there's also a lot of science involved in the Winter Olympics. These are among the topics tackled by ScienceSeeker editors' favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise for the past week. Here is the full round-up of the ScienceSeeker Editors’ Selections:

A car flew into space this week - but what does that say about
us? Credit: Elon Musk/SpaceX

• This may be the moment SpaceX opened the cosmos to the masses by Eric Berger at Ars Technica
• A sports car and a glitter ball are now in space – what does that say about us as humans? by Alice Gorman at The Conversation UK
• Podcast of the week: Feb 9th: Falcon Heavy Launch, New Exoplanets, and More! by Morgan Rehnberg, Kimberly Cartier, Pamela. L. Gay and Nicole Gugliucci at Cosmoquest
• Did you do that? by Timothy Sheehan at NeuWrite San Diego
• The role of relationships in happiness by Clare Garrard at Science Accessibly
• Twitter reveals how future-thinking Americans are and how that affects their decisions, new paper suggests by Carol Clark at eScienceCommons
• Thinking in a second language drains the imagination of vividness by Christian Jarrett at British Psychological Society Research Digest
• Autism shares brain signature with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder by Nicholette Zeliadt at Spectrum
• Tree-dwelling animals can ‘climb’ away from climate change, study finds and Earthquake triggers spawning in world’s rarest fish a few thousand miles away by Shreya Dasgupta at Mongabay
• Lessons from Nature –New Glue Clues from Slugs by Elizabeth Lam at Chembites
• The Science You Should Have Heard of This Week: Let’s Talk About Asparagine by Gaia Cantelli 
• Is This the Year the Florida Grasshopper Sparrow Goes Extinct? by John R Platt at Extinction Countdown
• Scientists get their first look at ‘Cheddar Man,’ one of England’s oldest modern humans by Ann Gibbons at Science
• Are Humans the most Advanced Species? by Rolf Muertter at Darwinian Demon
• Cycles of Mountain Building Formed 2018 Winter Olympics Terrain by Aaron Sidder at Eon
• Norovirus is a terrible gut bug. The Olympics could make it worse. by Adam Rogers at Wired
• Olympic Physics: How Does Mass Affect Luge? by Chad Orzel at Forbes
• Top 10 papers from Physical Review’s first 125 years by Tom Siegfried at Science News
• Chai, Massai and a long way to fly by Rhosanna Jenkins at Scienvy
• A mechanism for base misincorporation during DNA replication by Amitash at My Science Blog
• N=1 experiments and multilevel models by Andrew Gelman at Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 

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