How can we be funnier? What's making animals smarter? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of August 20-27 2018 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

This week, the best science posts include the discovery of an ancient lost city, a preteen who saved a river and how to cope with anxiety and stress. But there are many other topics touched on in 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:

• Watch Corals Form a ‘Wall of Mouths’ to Catch and Eat Jellyfish by Christie Wilcox at National Geographic
• Guest post: Using seawater to make bread! by Martin Haswell at Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching
• Podcast of the week: How To Be Funnier by Ginny Smith with  Dean Burnett, Tomas Engelthaler and Sophie Scott at PsychCrunch
• The Neuroscience of Laughter by Susan Lubejko at Neuwrite San Diego 
• Science is testing claims about psilocybin microdoses, and finding some truth by Sharon Begley at STAT
• Ancient Lost City Discovered In Field In Kansas by Alex Bolano at Science Trends
• Are Cities Making Animals Smarter? by Paul Bisceglio at The Atlantic
• 150 Years of Shifting Global Fishing by Gemma Conroy at Hakai Magazine
• For Birds, Life Is Different in a Metropolis by Larry Pynn at Hakai Magazine
• How One Preteen Saved a Contaminated River by Nicole Javorsky at CityLab
• Bioethanol: The Fuel of Tomorrow by Sana Yousaf at Techooid.com
• For some, experiencing trauma may act as a form of cognitive training that increases their mental control by Emma Young at British Psychological Society Research Digest
• What Were You Thinking!?: Teenagers show different processing of positive and negative consequences across adolescence by Jack-Morgan Mizell at Knowing Neurons 
• 11 Relaxation Techniques to Help You Cope with Negativity, Anxiety and Stress at Learning Mind
• Marques Brings the Ivory Tower to the Streets with Psychiatry Program at The Mass General Research Institute Blog
• How Can We Tell If a Comatose Patient Is Conscious? by Anouk Bercht and Steven Laureys at Scientific American
• Deliberate Vaccine Misinformation by Derek Lowe at Science Translational Medicine
• Scientists look to music of volcanos to better monitor eruptions by Jennifer Ouellette at Ars Technica
• Earth's Magnetic Field Could Flip Much Faster Than Previously Thought by David Bressan at Forbes
• Ask Ethan: Is Spacetime Really A Fabric? by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang
• CERN Physicists Observe Lyman-alpha Transition in Antihydrogen at Sci-News.com
• The Philosophical Difference Between Original Art and a Fake by Anoop Verma at The Verma Report
• A Crash Course in Fighting Lab Contamination by Jordan Villanueva at Promega Connections
• Science's Bullying Problem by Neuroskeptic at Discover
• GAO report shows the continued NIH grant funding disparity for underrepresented PIs at Drugmonkey

Check back next week for more great picks!