Being kicked in the testicles or childbirth, which hurts more? How can eating dirt help fend off anxiety? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of June 3 - June 9, 2019 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm.

In this week's best picks from the world of science news, meet the newest eight-armed lab animal and explore the genetics behind the preference between cats and dogs. 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 yourself, and indulge your scientific curiosity?

• Video: Kicked in the crotch vs. childbirth: The great debate hosted by Olivia Gordon for SciShow.

Does this seemingly innocent long-standing question actually illuminate unconscious sexism in science?
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• Healthy fat hidden in dirt may fend off anxiety disorders by Neuroscience News.
• Being a 'dog person' may be in your genes by Jaime Chambers for Massive Science.
• Dogs mirror stress levels of their owners by Stephen Johnson for BigThink.
• The newest lab rat has eight arms by Mićo Tatalović for Hakai magazine.
• Body parts respond to day and night independently from brain by Milla Bengtsson for Reliawire.
• Cracking the sugar code: the secret language cells use by Emma Clarke at The Curious Platypus.
• Study of marathon runners reveals a ‘hard limit’ on human endurance by Michael Price for Science magazine.
• The art of expressing science through poetry by Ellinor Nilsson for Crastina.
• It takes evil to defeat evil: why researchers built a fake news generator by Greg Fish for World of Weird Things.
• Varieties of nonsense by Derek Lowe at Science Translational Medicine.
• Oh my God double asteroid all the way across the sky! by Dan Samorodnitsky for Massive Science.
• Did exploding stars really help humans walk upright? by Greg Fish for World of Weird Things.
• This little-known quantum rule makes our existence possible by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang.
• Scientists discover the loneliest, most isolated galaxy in the entire universe by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang.
• Bizarre pentaquark turns out to be a new kind of subatomic 'molecule' by Leah Crane for New Scientist.
• NASA will allow private astronauts on the ISS for $11,250-$22,500 a day by Jonathan Gitlin for Ars Technica.

Check back next week for more great picks!