How can you avoid cracking up under pressure? Do men feel pain more? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of January 21-27 2019 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm

This week's best science posts include a happy ending for an endangered frog, a less happy ending for hedgehog lovers and tough questions for particle physics. But there are other important topics touched on in the 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:

Romeo's Juliet is not actually a little girl.
Credit: Gordon, used via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0

• A new gravitational wave detector is almost ready to join the search by Emily Conover for Science News.
• Particle physics may have reached the end of the line by Sabine Hossenfelder for Backreaction. 
• Scientists are building a quantum computer that "acts like a brain" by John Christian for futurism.com. 
• The Brain Maps Out Ideas and Memories Like Spaces by Jordana Cepelewicz for Quanta Magazine. 
• Men React to Repeated Painful Experiences Differently than Women Do by Diana M. Kwon for The Scientist. 
• A Surprising New Way To Avoid Choking Under Pressure – Imagine You Have The Prize And Are Performing To Keep It by Christian Jarrett for British Psychological Society Research Digest. 
• Podcast of the week: Creative Differences: The Benefits Of Reaching Out To People Unlike Ourselves by Jennifer Schmidt, Parth Shah, Shanka Vedantam, Tara Boyle, Maggie Penman and Max Nesterak for NPR Hidden Brain. 
• Nature Shapes Faithful and Unfaithful Brains by Sarah Jane Alger for The Scorpion and the Frog.
• Romeo finally found his Juliet, and an endangered frog has new prospects for survival by Mongabay.com. 
• Why I don’t bite everyone that stresses me out: The cost-benefit analysis of predators by Michelle Jewell for Southern Fried Science.
• After a year of no babies, three right whale calves spotted off U.S. coast by Mongabay.com. 
• Don’t Kiss Your Pet Hedgehogs, C.D.C. Warns by Julia Jacobs for The New York Times. 
• Inside Earth, Microbes Approach Immortality by Jennifer Frazer for Scientific American. 
• A New Infectious Mechanism for Alzheimer’s? by Derek Lowe at In The Pipeline 
• Is This Tiny Copepod the Key to Sustainably Producing Omega-3s? by Erica Cirino for Hakai Magazine.
• Coffee crisis? 60% of wild species could go extinct, some within decades by Carol Cruzan Morton for Science. 
• Study: Keep craft beer cool and drink in three months for best flavor by Jennifer Oullette for Ars Technica. 
• Examining Food Cravings In Women During Their Menstrual Cycle by Sridevi Krishnan for Science Trends.
• Pesticides on Our Plates: Is Our Food Safe to Eat? by Monica Reinagel for Scientific American. 
• Finding eco-friendly alternatives to cotton — in the forest by Nancy Bazilchuk for Science Nordic. 
• How to Reduce Your Plastic Use by Beni Kolenovic for InnoTechToday. 
• Earth’s Essential Elements for Life Probably Came from Another Planet at Sci-News.com. 
• The Periodic Table by Alex Bolano for Science Trends.
• Building Teamwork and Perseverance in Early Elementary Students with Breakouts by Katrina Schwartz for KQED News. 
• One more reason to remove letters of recommendation when evaluating candidates for jobs or scholarships by Andrew Gelman for Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science. 
• The landscape of MRSA in America's largest healthcare system: Acquisition carries a 1-4% chance of infection in the following year! by Daniel Morgan for Controversies in Hospital Infection Prevention. 
• Reversing an MD5 hash by John D. Cook at John D. Cook Consulting

Check back next week for more great picks!