ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections July 5 - 11, 2015 | #sciseekpicks

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favorite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• Why Is There Dark Matter? at Preposterous Universe by Sean Carroll
• Edgar Allan Poe's Eureka and the Big Bang at Starts With a Bang! by Paul Halpern
• How the Fruits Got Their Colors at Sustainable Nano by Alicia McGeachy
• A postscriptum on diversity and learning a language at The Accidental Mathematician by Izabella Laba
• The Rules of Research at Booles' Rings by Asaf Karagila
• Science says a 17-mile stage might be the Tour de France's toughest test at The Conversation by Florentina Hettinga
• Women blush when ovulating, and it doesn't matter a bit at Scicurious by Bethany Brookshire
• Shark Week: A Silent, Adorable Killer at The Last Word on Nothing by Erik Vance
• Cryotherapy: A Layman's Attempt to Understand the Science at Science-Based Medicine by Harriet Hall
• Thoughts from the New York Salon at Neuroscience+Art by Grace Lindsay
• The Neuroscience of Karma by Alan Ashley
• Could Travelling Waves Upset Cognitive Neuroscience by Neuroskeptic
• The experiences of adults with "selective mutism," in their own words at BPS Research Digest by Christian Jarrett

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections June 28 - July 4, 2015 | #sciseekpicks

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favorite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• Science is an art at The Lab and Field by Alex Bond
• The marketing industry has started using neuroscience, but the results are more glitter than gold at The Guardian by Vaughan Bell
• Should physicists think "unconsciously"? at Mapping Ignorance by Miguel A. Vadillo
• Something to watch for in the new data from the Large Hadron Collider at The Guardian by Jon Butterworth
• How to soar on Venus at Starts With a Bang! by Ethan Siegel
• Inside Out's Take on the Brain: A Neuroscientist's Perspective by Blake Porter
• The Buddhist and the Neuroscientist at The Atlantic by Kathy Gilsinan

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections June 21 - 27, 2015 | #sciseekpicks

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favorite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• Transitioning out of academia at The Thesis Whisperer
• The Latest Health Scare, In Perspective at Big Think by Simon Oxenham
• Do Children with Stronger Functional Connectivity at Rest have Better Working Memory Capacity? at Forging Connections
• I am an adjunct professor who teaches five classes. I earn less than a pet-sitter at The Guardian by Lee Hall
• A Design Dilemma Solved, Minus Designs at Quanta Magazine by Erica Klarreich
• Have we just found the first stars in the Universe? at Starts With a Bang! by Ethan Siegel
• Chemists are wildly polysemous at The Culture of Chemistry by Michelle Francl-Donnay
• Dissolving Surface May Form Titan's Lakes at Life, Unbounded by Caleb A. Scharf 
• The Brain Age at The Long + Short by Steven Poole
• It feels instantaneous, but how long does it really take to think a thought? at The Conversation by Tim Welsh

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections June 14 - 20, 2015 | #sciseekpicks

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favorite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• Nobel Prize Winner Tim Hunt Thinks Just Like You Do at Forbes by Emily Willingham
• Just one action for women in science at Occam's Corner by Athene Donald
• Speculative Sunday: Can a Black Hole Explode? at The Physics Mill by Jonah Miller
• The Philae Lander – Chemistry on a Comet at Compound Interest by Andy Brunning
• Playing Peekaboo With Reality at Pop by James Keen

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections May 31 - June 13, 2015 | #sciseekpicks

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favorite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past two weeks:

• Appeal to False Authority: Who is Tetyana Obukhaynch at Skeptical Raptor Blog
• The Last 5% at The Thesis Whisperer by Inger Mewburn
• This one simple trick to help fight the male scientist stereotype at Small Pond Science by Catherine Scott
• Chocolate study sting: Where are these millions of fools, anyway? by Emily Willingham
• 115 years of JACS titles at Chemical Connections by Stuart Cantrill
• Research funding: Is size really the most important thing? at The Guardian by Jon Butterworth
• Hannah and Her Sweets by Patrick Honner
• Image of the Week: Red blood cells at Wellcome Trust Blog by Emily Pritchard
• My collapse of confidence in Frontiers journals at BishopBlog by Deevy Bishop
• The art and science of animating life at Occam's Corner by Stephen Curry
• Your Brain Is Bigger In The Morning by Neuroskeptic
• From Broca’s area to Broca’s aphasia: a tale of two eponyms at PLoS Neuroscience Community by Pierre Mégevand 
• Philae Phones Home at The Spacewriter's Ramblings by Carolyn Collins Petersen
• Getting at the truth: gender in the lab at The Culture of Chemistry by Michelle Francl-Donnay
• Dexter on the Rocks at ScienceBase by David Bradley
• Crystals in Chemistry: The How and (Some of) the Why at Tree Town Chemistry by Jimmy Brancho

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