SteemSTEM Distilled #70
Welcome to the 70th issue of SteemSTEM Distilled, a curation effort by the members of the @steemstem team.
SteemSTEM aims to make Steem a better place for STEM, a task which we believe crucial for the long-term development of the blockchain. Our goals consist in invigorating and inspiring the minds of a community of STEM aficionados on Steem, targeting on the long-term the upgrade of SteemSTEM as a real platform for science communication. In the meantime, this goes through the support of quality, interesting and cutting-edge STEM content.
For more details, a recent update on the SteemSTEM project is available here. If you want to discuss with us, please do not hesitate to join the steemSTEM discord server.
In order to support the best STEM content on Steem, our team scours the blockchain and read more than a couple of thousands of STEM-related posts per week. We hence support about 200 of these posts, and present in this distilled our top 8 handpicked choices for the last Thursday-Sunday period.
Monday - Wednesday
Toxoplasmosis: In Defense of the Cat
A well-written and interesting post is here to begin our week with! Read what @agmoore has written about Toxoplasmosis in this amazing piece!
Pretty blue rings of death, the bacterial basis for the octopus's venom
@effofex has given us another beautiful post for this week. Read to learn surprisng facts about the venom you can find in octopuses!
Wednesday - Friday
The Amateur Mycologist - Valdivia, Chile
We love @dber for his originality and this time he has another amazing post from his trip to Chile for us. Nature lovers, don't miss reading this one!
Leaving the Past Behind
Another excellent psychology piece by @abigail-dantes is here on the usual "Psychology Friday"! This time Abigail deals with the past in a must-read post!
Saturday - Sunday
Slope Stabilization and the Mass Wasting Phenomenon
Coming up next, a great engineering post by @abumaryam on the stabilization of slopes. If you enjoy engineering posts, you will surely like this one too!
Female Orgasm - starring evolution (genre - mystery)
Interesting, clever and beautifully written the post that closes our week. In this one, @scienceblocks discusses one of the greatest mysteries in life... the ladies' Big O!
For some time, the editorial team behind this distilled series is made of a one-woman-team, @ruth-girl, and she chooses her favorite posts (potentially discussing with other curators and/or the management). Posts written by the SteemSTEM team are excluded from the nomination process.
Please do not be discouraged if you did not make it on this issue. We are picking up in total 14 posts a week out of more than 200. The chances are thus low ;) In the meantime, you may wish to check these guidelines for extra tips on how your writing could be more effective.
In the spirit of being transparent about our actions that are now supported by @utopian-io, @curie, our delegators, our trailers and our manual curator supporters, we release every week the list of authors who have caught the attention of the @steemstem curation team.
Unfortunately, our stat man @lemouth is away on a mysterious adventure, so we are taking a temporary stat-vacation this week!
[Credits: @hightouch]
All curation rewards earned will be used to fund @steemstem project functioning and activities.
See you all next MonTuesday!
Well done authors!! Stats will be back with @lemouth, so enjoy a stat-free issue this time :P
Does this mean we could replace @lemouth with a tiny R script?
Nope, hes a lot more than stats :)
Python, man! Python! :D
Horses for courses. Which is a polite way of saying that I love python for general purpose computing, text munging, and ML but R for stats and plotting.
Which is a polite way of saying matplotlib is powerful, but terrible.
I like matplotlib but I have never tried R. Therefore, I cannot objectively compare :)
Which is a polite way of saying you think I'm full of it. ;)
That is a way to say that if I would have time, I would try to make myself an opinion. However, I don't have time and I will thus stick to python :D
Ok this is were this stat-man stuff started. Arf! :D
I don't see you being ec-stat-ic about it... 🤣🤣
Please wait for tonight. This night will be the stat night ;)
We can figure out the stats ourselves, Ruthie :p
Please do so! You can potentially replace me in the future! I will never complain about having less work :D
Both in the ground state and excited state, you can't be replaced :p
damned... I tried... :D
Oh! Came here to see if the Distilled had been released and here we are 😊. Thank you once again for featuring my Friday post @ruth-girl and @steemstem :) It is very flattering to have my article selected together with works such as those of @dber’s and @scienceblocks’ which I particularly enjoyed reading !
Congratulations to the other authors and thank you for enrinching our community with quality content.
All the best to you all.
Movie night over here 😃 and much love to you dear Ruth ❤️
It's always a pleasure to host your posts Abi!
Lots of love coming your way! ❤️❤️
We are lucky to have you publishing. :)
😊❤️
You totally deserve it. I don't know if you know, but I have been sharing your articles to my Facebook. And not just me my friends seem to love your work. In fact a lab mate of mine personally came to me and told me how much she liked your article. That ruminator one was her favorite.
It is truly kind of you to say and do this @scienceblocks. Thank you very much for you support! It means a lot to me :)
Oh wow, I am flattered and speechless. Thanks for considering my article to be good enough to be featured here. Also congratulations to a the other authors in this list, all these articles are brilliant. And I am honored to be a part of it. Esp in list where @abigail-dantes is there. Wow!
You are doing a great job! You've earned being here and we hope to feauture more good articles from you in the future! 😀
Thank you for all the hard work and dedication.
Thank you for the hours of curating you do!
Congrats to all authors featured, you guys did well.
Lovely selection @ruth-girl.
Great wok stem management and curators, keep up the great work guys.
#steemstem-rocks !!!
Will do! Salute
Thanks a lot @menoski! You are all doing a great job around here! :)
Happy Round Number! '0'
(That's a zero with candles)
:D
That's a zero with imagination 😝😝
Big congrats to all the featured authors.. They are well deserved of it. Nice selection again by our own @ruth-girl
SteemSTEM rocks!!
She;s a diamond in the rough, that ruth!
I agree 100%
👁️❤️U2 mobbs!!
💎💎💎
Thanks a lot Sammy! I'm flattered! 🤗
Congratulations to all the authors selected!!!
Keep up the amazing articles and lets us all keep building the best STEM project on the STEEM blockchain!!!!
Quite some interesting selections we have got here. A good way to get scientifically entertained. Great work and congrats to the authors.
Indeed, we are quite fortunate to have a group of authors so dedicated to facts, citations and original content.
Thank you so much for including my post. It's really something to meet steemstem's standards.
Also, read the post by @effofex. As usual, informative and entertaining. Tomorrow I will check out the other articles included in this issue.
Sorry for the very late reply! Well done (even if it's a little belated :P )
Thank you!