ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections September 20 - 26, 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:

• How your brain puts the "where" and "when" in memories at ZME Science by Alexandru Micu
• How a fat hormone might make us born to run at Scicurious (Science News) by Bethany Brookshire
• Pigpen's Cloud: Charlie Brown Fiction Becomes Science Fact at Science 2.0
• Altruism: A Story of Amygdalae and Kidneys at NeuWrite SD by Catie Profaci
• More Doubts Over the Oxytocin and Trust Theory by Neuroskeptic
• A chemist's thoughts on the Volkswagen scandal (and CJ's questions) by Chemjobber
• Trying to Understand the Milky Way's Black Hole at Chandra Blog by Gabriele Ponti
• Giant Asteroid Headed Your Way? - How We Can Detect and Deflect Them at Science 2.0 by Robert Walker

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections September 13 - 19, 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:

• Building scientists #istandwithahmed #kierawilmot at The Culture of Chemistry by Michelle Francl-Donnay
• Black holes and academic walls at Starts With a Bang! by Sabine Hossenfelder
• Quantum Locked: Physicists Demonstrate "Weeping Angel" Effect at Physics Buzz
• Terence Tao has solved the Erdős discrepancy problem! at The Aperiodical by Christian Perfect
• Yes, maths can be for the amateur too at Oxford University Press by Snezana Lawrence
• The clearing out of our personal history by Rolf Degen
• Aromatherapy: what is it and does it actually work? at The Brain Bank Manc by Jadwiga Nazimek
• Discrete analysis at The Accidental Mathematician by Izabella Laba

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections September 6 - 12, 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:

• The ants' toilet, please? at Mapping Ignorance by Jose Ramon Alonso
• Archimedes, 3 Trillion Trees and Life in the Universe at Life, Unbounded by Caleb A. Scharf
• CONFIRMED: The Last Great Prediction of the Big Bang! at Starts With a Bang! by Ethan Siegel
• Eyes on Environment: Saving seeds and genes to save lives at Goodnight Earth by Jonathan Trinastic
• Is Psychology on the Verge of an Employment Crisis? at Geek Psychologist by Brian Kurilla
• Discrete Analysis - an arXiv overlay journal at Gower's Weblog by Timothy Gowers
• The future is now! The rise of genome editing at The Trenches of Discovery by James Felce

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections August 30 - September 5, 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 the Chess Computer Deep Blue Played Like a Human at Nautilus by David Auerbach
• New microscope techniques give deepest view yet of living cells at Science News by Tina Hesman Saey
• The Neuroscience of Interrogation: Why Torture Doesn't Work by Shane O'Mara

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections August 23 - 29, 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:

• Live cells stuck together like Velcro could mend broken hearts at New Scientist by Joshua Sokol
• When Freud Meets fMRI at The Atlantic by Casey Schwartz
• Weekend Diversion: The Horror And Beauty of California’s Wildfires at Starts With a Bang! by Ethan Siegel
• Conflicts in the Middle East are bringing down NOx emissions at Is Nerd by Vasudevan Mukunth
• Your BS Detector for Warp Drives, Double Moons, and Other Implausible Claims at Out There by Corey S. Powell
• Why high-impact educational practices (despite being so labor–intensive) keep me coming for more at AMS Blogs by Priscilla Bremser
• Square Root of Kids’ Math Anxiety: Their Parents’ Help at The New York Times by Bob Staake
• Math doesn’t get the media attention it deserves at Columbia Journalism Review by Laura Dattaro
• Kevin Barry, you magnificent bastard, I read your antivaccine book! at Respectful Insolence by Orac
• Cancer cells programmed back to normal by US scientists at The Telegraph by Sarah Knapton
• Oliver Sacks has left the building at Mind Hacks by Vaughan Bell
• Who Will Develop Psychosis? Automated Speech Analysis May Have the Answer by Columbia University 

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