Why should your kids play D&D? Where did all the plutonium come from? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of May 13 - May 19, 2019 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm.

In this week's best from the world of science news, find out why quantum physics is wrong (but still useful) and browse the many excellent articles this week covering the latest on climate change. ScienceSeeker editors' favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise also cover many other important and exciting topics. Why not have a read, inform yourselves, and indulge your scientific curiosity?

• How Dungeons & Dragons can help kids develop social-emotional learning skills by Paul Darvasis for KQED News.

  

  It's also the best game there is!
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• Where have all the playtimes gone? by Lucy Maddox at Psychology magpie.
• Great Barrier grief by Gemma Conroy for Hakai magazine.
• Climate change may make hurricanes and cyclones deadlier, study finds by Gianluca Cerullo for Mongabay.com.
• How to turn a persecuted pest into an ecosystem engineer by Brandon Keim for Anthropocene magazine.
• Fish below your feet and other solutions for a living harbor by Tyee Bridge for Hakai magazine.
• Penguin poop helps biodiversity bloom in Antarctica by Christopher Intagliata for Scientific American.
• Extreme weather puts traditional livelihoods in peril in Sri Lanka, studies warn by Dilrukshi Handunnetti for Mongabay.com.
• Bedbugs arose 115 Million years ago, roamed earth alongside dinosaurs by Sci-News.com.
• Five percent of live-born human offspring will have a genetic disorder by Don Martinez at Transmembrane Wnt Inhibitors and Activators.
• Extracellular Electron Transfer (EET) goes mainstream by Kevin Blake for Small Things Considered.
• We have now Reached the limits of the Hubble Space Telescope by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang.
• Single neutron star merger supplied half the Solar System’s plutonium by Chris Lee for Ars Technica.
• What’s artificial life, anyway? by Derek Lowe at Science Translational Medicine.
• Quantum Mechanics is wrong. There, I’ve said it. by Sabine Hossenfelder at Backreaction.
• Thesis Diaries: My thesis writing journey by Fresh Science.
• Why do I care so damn much about Game of Thrones? by Caroline Sferrazza via NeuWrite San Diego.

Check back next week for more great picks!