How are apps changing kids' reading? What keeps partners faithful? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of August 28-September 2 2018 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

This week, the best science posts include the lowdown on charcoal as a health supplement, plans to save Earth's biodiversity and an important quantum computing consideration. 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:

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• Activated Charcoal: Just Another Non-Scientific Wellness Trend by Lauren Parikhal at Science Summarized 
• Digital Text is Changing How Kids Read—Just Not in the Way That You Think by Holly Korbey at MindShift
• Leading With Learning On The First Day Of School To Build Class Culture by Katrina Schwartz at MindShift
• Study finds parents tend to be more socially conservative and judgmental than non-parents by Eric W. Dolan at PsyPost
• While your deliberate “monogamy maintenance strategies” probably won’t keep you faithful, your automatic psychological biases just might by Alex Fradera at British Psychological Society Research Digest
• Long-term study shows language’s role in easing autism features by Nicholette Zeliadt at Spectrum
• Can Fish Tell When a Diver Is Armed? by Jason G. Goldman at Hakai Magazine 
• Will protecting half the Earth save biodiversity? Depends which half by by Shreya Dasgupta at Mongabay
• Transgenic plants 🌱🌿on acid survive without water by Adam Phillips at It Ain't Magic
• Podcast of the Week: Brian Greene goes to 11 — again by Michelle Thaller, David Schulman. and Andrea Mustain at Orbital Path 
• Don't just count qubits by Philip Ball at homunculus

Check back next week for more great picks!