SteemSTEM Distilled #78

in #steemstem6 years ago (edited)

Welcome to the 78th 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 100 of these posts, and present in this distilled our top 6 handpicked choices.


Monday - Wednesday


Sex Drive: Do Women Have More of Id?

Let's open our week with an amazing, entertaining and surely very interesting post written by @alexander.alexis. Fall in love with his unique writing style and learn about differences in findings among various studies on male and female masturbation.

Chocolate -The Food Of The Gods. Finest Cacao In The World Straight From Venezuela.

Craving for some chocolate right now? How about reading @highonthehog's wonderful post on cocoa? You will find interesting facts on the history of cocoa and the plant itself. Go on! Click on that link now!


Wednesday - Friday


From Anti-Vaxers to Alfie's Army: Have we lost faith in medical science?

@nonzerosum comes next and another fantastic piece of writing! This time he discusses how people can be led to lose trust in medical science. How can certain circumstances make us have second thoughts on our doctors' abilities and efficiency? Read this great post to learn more!

How to earn a Nobel Prize Part 1: Frances Arnold

The next post comes from another great author, @tking77798. Here we learn about the work of Frances H. Arnold who was awarded this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry, along with George P. Smith and Sir Gregory P. Winter. Read to learn more about what Dr Arnold did to deserve such acknowledgement!


Saturday - Sunday


THE GAIT SYSTEM | The Physiology of Human Locomotion

The gait system, a cycle of rhythmic sequential actions within the human body, which enables our change in position is being beautifully presented in this post by @okunlolayk. A detailed piece, written in a very nice style, that will certainly teach you a lot!

You have a bad handwriting? Maybe I can’t read it but my program can

@nikolanikola will be closing this week's picks and a really cool post on pattern recognition and how it can be used to make out someone's handwriting. A very interesting piece you won't regret reading, trust us!


A few words about the nomination process


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 6 posts a week out of more than 150-200. 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.


Authors upvoted by the SteemSTEM team


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.

From September 30 to October 7, we rewarded 80 different authors who have written a total of 91 different articles. The 66 authors who received votes from @steemstem, @utopian-io and @curie all together that week are:

@abdulmath, @abigail-dantes, @acont, @ajpacheco1610, @alexaivytorres, @alexander.alexis, @alexdory, @amestyj, @anasav, @ancolie, @answerswithjoe, @antigenx, @ari16, @aurackle, @biffybirdcam, @btoye, @carlagonz, @chappertron, @charlesx, @chloroform, @conficker, @cryptogee, @cryptoitaly, @dark69, @discovery-it, @drifter1, @drifter2, @dysfunctional, @edgarlopez, @egotheist, @eliaschess333, @elvigia, @erickyoussif, @fran.frey, @gaescla, @germanmontero, @henrychidiebere, @hidden84, @highonthehog, @hillaryisidore, @isisfemale, @ivymalifred, @jasonbu, @josedelacruz, @kenadis, @luiscd8a, @lupafilotaxia, @magicmonk, @maryed, @masterwriter, @maverickinvictus, @mela, @menoski, @miroslavrc, @moncia90, @n4zrizulkafli, @nature.alchemist, @nikolanikola, @nonzerosum, @okunlolayk, @phage93, @pharmacy-jinni, @rbalzan79, @reinaseq, @rharphelle, @rifkan, @rosemery, @ruth-girl, @samminator, @scienceangel, @serialfiller, @sorin.lite, @stayoutoftherz, @steemit-italia, @steempsych, @svemirac, @talmid, @terrylovejoy, @thurllanie, @tychoxi, @viannis, @victory622, @ycam, @ydavgonzalez, @zen-art



[Credits: @hightouch]



All curation rewards earned will be used to fund @steemstem project functioning and activities.



See you all next MonTuesday for Distilled #79!

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Well done authors!! 🤩
Always a pleasure to feature such great content!!

Congratulations to all authors!

Hey would you look at that I made it into Distilled! Thank you, so much #steemstem and thank you @ruth-girl, I've had way to much fun blogging for our lovely community here the last few months. Long may it continue! But likely not this week as I really should get some science done at some point so that I have some more to write about (its a vicious cycle).

Congratulations to everyone included here. I've read the pieces by @alexander.alexis (provocative and entertaining, as usual), @nonzerosum ( informative and thought-provoking), and @nikolanikola (ingenious and creative--with more math than I can understand). The others look intriguing--thanks for highlighting them.

Thanks for the feature! I have to give a shout out to relative newcomer @okunlolayk for delving into a topic that seems simple at first, but gets cooler and cooler as you go deeper. Vertebrate physiology FTW!

Cool distill, i just read through the the gait system and how to earn a noble price from both @okunlolayk and @tking77798 repectively. @ruth-girl always select nice ones. Well done and @lemouth . The management , you are well done.

Congrats! You are the best :)

Nice job once again guys. Kudos to the featured and voted authors. Keep on steemsteming. Lol

Nice picks again by @ruth-girl.
Big congrats to all the featured authors and voted authors.

See you all next MonTuesday for Distilled #75!

I now believe in time travel 😂
We're moving from distilled #78! To #75! 😂😂

The ever hardworking team..... You guys are the best. More grace for gas Amazing work

Congratulations to all the featured authors.