Towels or air driers after cleaning hands? Why are whales so big? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of April 2-8 2018 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Is who we think we are defined by the people around us? Or can behaviour like infidelity be determined by our genes? Or are both things true? These and many other topics are among ScienceSeeker editors' favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise for the past seven days. Here is the full round-up of the ScienceSeeker Editors’ Selections:

Whales are awesomely large - but why?
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• A swarm of black holes may be lurking in our galaxy’s heart by Sid Perkins at Science
• At 12, He Had a Viral Science Video. At 14, He Fears He Was Too Rude by Adrianne Jefferies at The New York Times
• Why you should get the new shingles vaccine by Jane E Brody at The New York Times 
• Hot-air dryers suck in nasty bathroom bacteria and shoot them at your hands by Beth Mole at Ars Technica
• Why Whales Got So Big by Ed Yong at The Atlantic
• Hear Bowhead whales in the Arctic sing hundreds of complex songs by by Shreya Dasgupta at Mongabay
• Frogs may be ‘fighting back’ against deadly pandemic by Morgan Erickson-Davis at Mongabay
• Microplastics may enter freshwater and soil via compost by Rachel Ehrenberg at Science News
• What makes a tree a tree? by Rachel Ehrenberg at Knowable
• Humans Are Still Evolving by Steven Novella at NeuroLogica Blog
• How fungi oxygenated the Earth by Nigel Chaffey at Botany One
• Viewpoint: Why the USDA decided not to over-regulate CRISPR crops—and what it means for agriculture's future by Val Giddings at The Genetic Literacy Project
• Will Gene Editing Be Suitable for Agriculture? at BOSS Magazine
• NIH completes in-depth genomic analysis of 33 cancer types at National Institutes of Health (NIH) 
• “Another nail in the coffin for learning styles” – students did not benefit from studying according to their supposed learning style by Christian Jarrett at British Psychological Society Research Digest
• Why It's Time to Rethink School Science Fairs by Daisy Yuhas at KQED News
• Podcast of the week: Is There a Gene for Infidelity? by Lauren Vogelbaum at BrainStuff
• The Self Is Other People by Brian Gallagher at Nautilus
• Reprogramming fear responses outside of conscious awareness by Deric Bownds at Deric's Mindblog
• arXiv Fool's! by David Zaslavsky at Ellipsix Informatics
• Getting into sloe business by Stuart Cantrill at Chemical Connections
• Scientists Describe Nanostructure, Mechanical Properties of Chicken Eggshell at Sci-News.com
• Proudly presenting: #SciCommChall – the science communication challenge! by Miriam S. Glessmer at Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

Check back next week for more great picks!