- What Went Wrong in Flint by Anna Maria Barry-Jester at Five Thirty-Eight
- Science-based medicine versus the Flint water crisis by David Gorski at Science-Based Medicine
- Lead in the Water – The Flint Water Crisis by Andy Brunning at Compound Interest
- The Zika Virus by Steven Novella at Neurologica Blog
- Pondering The Great Zika Unknowns
- Dawn of the DREADD by Drew Schreiner at Neuwrites
- It’s complicated: Benefits and toxicity of anti-prion antibodies in the brain at Lunatic Labs
- Scientists open the ‘black box’ of schizophrenia with dramatic genetic discovery by Amy Ellis Nutt at The Science of Us
- There’s a sour side to serotonin by Bethany Brookshire at Scicurious
- How do people with Dark Triad personality traits fare at speed dating? by Christian Jarrett at BPS Research Digest
- Stoking the Motivational Fire: Neuroscience Guides the Way by Teodora Stoica at Huffington Post
- The Differences Between Happiness and Meaning in Life by Scott Barry Kaufman at Beautiful Minds
- Organ transplantation: Using biomaterials to prevent immune rejection at Signals Blog
- How many emergency admissions can primary care policies actually prevent? Answer: Not many by Ed Wilson at Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research
- A day in the life of a butterfly ecologist by Jenna Siu at Dispatches from the Field
- Waterfall-Climbing Fish by Patrick Cooney at Buzz Hoot Roar
- Think Manatees are Recovered? Look Farther South by John R Platt at Extinction Countdown
- Top four threats to the ocean, according to marine scientists by Catherine Jex at Tak Fur the Kaffe
- The Real Octowives of Jervis Bay by Christie Wilcox at Science Sushi
- Wilbur Scoville and His Famous Heat Scale by Ian Street at The Quiet Branches
- Having your oil palm, and forests too by Tara Lohan at Forests News
- Experience the Earth Like an Astronaut: Glittering Blue by Caleb Scharf at Life, Unbounded
Entanglement is spooky, but not action at a distance (pt 1) and Quantum spookiness survives its toughest tests (pt 2) by Tom Siegfried at Context
2.01.2016
ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections January 25-31 2016 #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:
1.25.2016
ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections January 18-24 2016 #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:
- PR, ethics, and the science of head transplants by Jeremy Bailoo and Justin Varholick at Speaking of Research
- Historic Storm Aims for the Mid-Atlantic. Why it's so hard to predict it! at Dan's Wild Wild Science Journal by Dan Satterfield
- Can physics help communication between refugees in Germany and their hosts? at The Guardian by Herbi Dreiner
- Pretend this Environmental Impact Statement is a national park: A brief tour of a virtual landscape at The Last Word On Nothing by Sarah Gilman
- Cat-Gras Delusion-the man who saw his cat as an imposter at Discover by Neuroskeptic
- Can a Quirky Chromosome Create a Second Human Species? by Ricki Lewis at DNA Science Blog
- 2015 Temperatures at Real Climate by Gavin Schmidt
- Parenting as a Scientist in the Age of Climate Change at i'm a chordata! urochordata!
- Norovirus: to close or not to close? by Jon Otter at Reflections on Infection Prevention and Control
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A Dangerous Study of Medical Resident Hours at The Doctor's Tablet Blog by Ruth Macklin
- Our collective memory, like individual memory, is shockingly fallible at BPS Research Digest by Laura Spinney
- Carbon Nanotubes: the Next Generation of Global Water Purification? at Sustainable Nano by Emily Caudill
- A Chilling Effect at Science Whys by James Morris
- A tale of Monogamy and Dopamine at Knowing Neurons by Jennifer Tribble
- We have become exhausted slaves in a culture of positivity at The Next Regeneration by Jalees Rahman
- This neuroimaging method has 100% diagnostic accuracy (or your money back) by The Neurocritic
- Damm(n)ing the Amazon at Two Degrees or Under
- It is way too difficult to be physically active by Travis Saunders at Obesity Panacea
- Will your paper be more cited if published in Open Access? at SciELO in Perspective by Ernesto Spinak
- Prairie Word of the Day - Habitat Heterogeneity
- When the music stops at Lunatic Laboratories
- Our top posts of 2015 by Christian Lawson-Perfect at The Aperiodical
- A Simple Principle of Educational Psychology Has Been Massively Misunderstood at Neurobonkers by Simon Oxenham
1.18.2016
ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections January 11-17 2016 #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:
- The ultra-violent origins of gold at The Guardian by Jon Butterworth
- He Fell In Love With His Grad Student — Then Fired Her For It at Buzzfeed by Azeen Ghorayshi
- 1801: Fraunhofer gets research funding in the worst possible way at Skulls in the Stars by Gregory J Gbur
- The Djabugay medicine woman and the varieties of knowledge at The Curious Wavefunction by Ashutosh Jogalekar
- It's Time for a Presidential Debate on Science Policy at Scientific American by Sheril Kirshenbaum
- Killer Whales are Non-Human Persons at Grey Matters by Lars Crawford
- Neural Response to Trigger PTSD at Discover by Neuroskeptic
- The Brain on Déjà vu at CNN by Sandee Lamotte
- Genes don't call all the shots, your environment does too at Coffee Table Science by Ameya Paleja
- Unexpected connections: Gut bacteria influence immunotherapy outcomes at Promega Connections by Isobel Maciver
- New Enzyme Discovered In Mammals at Wild Types by Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay
1.11.2016
ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections January 4-10 2016 #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:
- There’s a way to get girls to stick with science–and no, it’s not more female role models at Quartz by Shannon Palus
- High-intensity interval training has great gains — and pain at Scicurious by Bethany Brookshire
- The Incredible Thing We Do During Conversations at The Atlantic by Ed Yong
- The Terrible Beauty of Brain Surgery at New York Times by Karl Ove Knausgaard
- The Periodic Table’s Four New Elements at Compound Interest by Andy Brunning
- Sunburns and Circuits: How Nanotechnology is Pushing the Boundaries of Computing at Sustainable Nano by John Van Gilder
- Through the looking glass by Ondrej Cernotik
- Virologists, start your poliovirus destruction! at Virology Blog by Vincent Racaniello
- How gratitude can change your brain at Science of Us by Christian Jarrett
- 'Neurodesign' - Packaging meets neuroscience at Packaging Innovation
- Blocking Inflammation could Halt Alzheimer's disease at BBC
1.04.2016
ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections December 21, 2015 - January 3, 2016 #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:
- The problem with science journalism: we’ve forgotten that reality matters most at The Guardian by Brooke Borel
- Your Cells. Their Research. Your Permission? at New York Times by Rebecca Skloot
- Biology’s Sherlock Holmes: The Strange Case of the Evolutionist and the Highest Mountain in the World at Science Whys by Andrew Berry
- This Year in Chemistry: 2015’s Biggest Chemistry Stories at Compound Interest by Andy Brunning
- Post from the near future: Top 10 physics predictions for 2016 at Starts With a Bang by Ethan Siegel
- Probiotics - medicine for the mind? at Bio Detectives by Alex B Munster
- Do Dogs Know Other Dogs Are Dogs? at Scientific American by Julie Hecht