Do we need COVID-19 booster jabs? How is quantum mechanics weird and not weird? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of August 23-29 2021 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm.

In this week's edition of the best and brightest from science news around the world, discover whether the protective bubble Ryan Reynolds uses in the film 'Free Guy' would really work and hear about new Alzheimers' disease findings. 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?

• Would the 'Free Guy' Inflatable Bubble Protect a Real Person? by Rhett Allain at Wired 
• Crochet Enantiomers by Natalie Fey at Picture It Chemistry

You too can crochet molecules that can't be superimposed onto each other

Image credit Natalie Fey at Picture It Chemistry used via CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence     

• Why is quantum mechanics weird? The bomb experiment by Sabine Hossenfelder at Backreaction 
• Are COVID-19 vaccine boosters needed? by Vincent Racaniello at Virology Blog
• Scientist find the cause of Long COVID syndrome by Sudhriti M for BIOINOURLIFE 
• How COVID-19's Delta variant upended the world's fall plans by Sara May Bergstresser at Massive Science
• Biologists grow mouse eggs in mini ovaries developed from stem cells by Charlotte Douglas at Massive Science
• The Unsilencing by Molly Webster at Radiolab  
• Gelatins may protect the brain against Alzheimer’s disease by Kareem Clark at Massive Science 

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