SteemSTEM Distilled #17
Welcome to the 17th issue of SteemSTEM Distilled, a curation effort by the members of the @steemstem team.
SteemSTEM is a community driven project which seeks to promote well-written and informative Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics posts on Steemit. The project involves curating STEM-related posts through upvoting, resteeming, offering constructive feedback, supporting scientific contests, and other related activities.
For more details click here and here for information of what it means to be part of steemSTEM.
Our team scours the platform for original and quality content.After working through thousands (literally!) of STEM-related posts and upvoting more than 200 that we deemed to be worthy, we proudly present you our top 7 handpicked choices:
Monday - Geospatial Big Data: The Magic of Maps and Money
Big data is very important today on many different aspect. But what can we exactly do with data. @edumurphy is letting us know.
Tuesday - Becoming undead - How zombie cells make you older
Zombies do exist, at least in biology. Cells known as senescent cells are a class of cells that do not divide, but that do not die as well. Zombie cells in short. More about that is detailed by @aboutcoolscience.
Wednesday - Trehalose, a common food additive, may have fueled worldwide Clostridium difficile outbreaks
Want to know about a special sugar, this post of @tking77798 is for you. The author details what trehalose is and how it could potentially facilitate outbreaks.
Thursday - #11 IQ overload: Wolfgang Pauli
All you wanted to know about the life of Wolfgang Pauli is detailed in this post of @jakipatryk who manage a series about known scientists of the last century.
Friday - Journal of Unpublished Results – A case for the validity of scientific research (Part II)
Check out what beautiful things @replichara does in his lab, experimenting with carcinogenic genes. Follow him step by step and watch him "disarm" those evil cells!
Saturday - How are traits inherited across generations?
From albinism, peas, to incest, this post by @hadji is quite the educational trip on genetics and inheritance. Just how are traits passed on to future generations anyhow? Well, take a dive into this post and you just might learn the answer.
Sunday - Super Bugs - What is antibiotic resistance and how we are fighting it
The discovery of antibiotics was one of immense importance, one which has allowed the human race to fluorish to new heights. However, bacteria were not going to go down with out a fight, and some have developed resistances to our chosen antibiotic compounds. Here @tfcoates breaks down what it means to be one of these 'super bugs' and what we intend to do to fight them back.
For the sake of transparency we feel we need to clarify how our nomination process works; each issue is compiled by certain members of the SteemSTEM community. This week's editorial team was comprised of @justtryme90, @lemouth and @ruth-girl.
The editorial team chooses their favorite posts for the week and each issue is the result of their joined effort. In order to keep the process fair, posts written by the editorial team are excluded from the nomination process.
Don't be discouraged if you didn't make it on this issue. The competition is harsh and there is always a next time :) In the meantime, you may wish to check these guidelines for extra tips on how your writing can be more effective.
In the same spirit of being transparent about our actions that are now supported by @curie, we will release every week a list of authors who have caught the attention of the @steemstem curation team.
If you want to discuss this with us, please do not hesitate to join the steemSTEM channel on the Steemit chat or to follow our curation trail on Streemian. If you are not on Streemian, we have a plan B through a homemade voting bot. You can contact us on the chat in order to be added to its trail.
From January 1 to January 8, we rewarded 112 different authors who have written a total of 185 different articles. The authors who received both a @steemstem and a @curie vote that week are:
@abigail-dantes, @adi-mac, @afifa, @agbona, @alexander.alexis, @alexbeyman, @alexipapa, @alexs1320, @altherion, @amavi, @answerswithjoe, @asbonclz, @bikkichhantyal, @blessing97, @carloserp-2000, @churchboy, @cjrc97, @constantinep, @crt, @dber, @diana1, @dinodoc, @dysfunctional, @ememovic, @erh.germany, @erodedthoughts, @ertwro, @etcmike, @exercisinghealth, @fancybrothers, @filotasriza3, @floxxy, @fmlpanda, @frankjavier, @fredrikaa, @greenrun, @guga34, @hadji, @illuminatus, @jajdgenius, @jakipatryk, @jorge150785, @joseferrer, @justyy, @kaydee, @keephy, @kenadis, @kerriknox, @kharis, @kryzsec, @laylahsophia, @leczy, @lefactuoscope, @lesshorrible, @lordkingpotato, @loveisintheair, @marxrab, @masterwu, @maticpecovnik, @maurelvys, @mcw, @medhead, @mes, @mountain.phil28, @mountainwashere, @mrs.nobody, @munawar1235, @muphy, @myego13, @mystifact, @nedspeaks, @neyi24, @nitesh9, @noble-noah, @nonationnoborder, @ojay, @oluwabori, @onyemacourage, @pearlumie, @physics-o-mania, @plotbot2015, @proteus-h, @real2josh, @replichara, @rickie, @ruelrevales, @samminator, @samve, @saunter, @sc-steemit, @scalextrix, @scienceangel, @sco, @simplifylife, @siniy, @slapbox, @soleil-research, @spectrumecons, @stephennevets, @sulaimon, @sustainablyyours, @tachiosbag, @tensor, @terrylovejoy, @theodora.austria, @thequantumknight, @thescienceguy, @tsoldovieri, @turpsy, @ufv, @valth, @wilians, @zest, @zonguin, @zouxx
All curation rewards earned will be used to fund @steemstem project functioning and activities.
See you all next Monday!
Thank you so much guys! It's an amazing feeling when your post is chosen by one of the most intelligent and awesome group of people here on Steemit. More power to you all! Thanks again :D
You are welcome! Thanks for your nice contributions to the STEM content on the platform!
I am very glad to see the list of rewarded users increasing more and more. New records are getting made every other week, at the moment. It is cool to see that the rewards are shared with more and more people, and that conversely more and more people are getting engaged within our steemsTEM community :)
And of course, congratulations to all winners! :D
Thank you for your work and your support! You make the difference for so many users!
I second that thought.
It's crazy to see how much the need for SteemSTEM is proven by this post.
The fact that I have not run into even a single one of these great topics has to do with the trending page presenting mostly crypto related stuff. I seriously feel a bit warmer after viewing this one. Will visit each every one of the upvoted users the coming week in order to show some gratitude.
Not that my vote can be of any significance, I think my voice can.
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That's right. I had only seen the trehalose article. Good job, @steemstem !
You can check the steemstem-trending page to get those posts, here. This is how to get to all the posts we vote quickly :)
Thank you for the support steemSTEM. We are grateful for the continuous support to the STEM community especially the Nigerian community.
And the Nigerian community should be thankful to stemng as well :)
Thanks for featuring my article! There is a lot of solid competition these days so it feels like an accomplishment to make the list. Congrats to everyone else who contributed last week.
We are totally committed to STEM thanks to all who make this community grow weekly :)
And thanks also to you for the (future) development of our Spanish branch :)
Thanks for your good words :D
Damn it, I'm sinking down the alphabetical list at the end of the post. Gotta change my username to @---111alexander.alexis
Then, next week I will reverse the list :D
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very useful and what you publish is very good for my personal knowledge, hopefully always keep motivation bro
Thanks for your comment. Note that it is not really 'us' who publish things, but more the people we refer to. Do not hesitate to visit their blog. Also, we are not a 'bro' but a full team of people :)
Yeah bro always succes to you
Have you guys ever discussed doing a curation post by scientific topic? The one that springs to mind would be just STEM, of course- a Science post, a Technology post, etc. Alternatively, since Steemstem seems so heavily dominated by science posts over the other three, you could do it with the different sciences- physics, chemistry, biology, etc. (I had this idea a while ago, but it felt self-serving proposing it when I was one of the only people blogging about geology- but there are several other excellent geology bloggers on here now.)
I think that the current strategy you guys are using- the best post from each day strategy- is better overall, but this might be fun do do as a bonus post every now and then.
I think for the moment, the flow is not there yet. But in the future, this may be something we could have in mind. Thanks for your suggestion :)
Thanks for the inclusion! Part 2 will be coming soon, I promise. If my supervisor ever lets me out of the hospital on time :p
Aaah those supervisors :D
looking at these pictures，It reminds me of my middle school days，my interesting chemistry experiments。
^_^
What do the Chinese characters (is it Chinese?) mean? ;)
it means I am smiling like a child of 6000 years old。
this is a Ancient Chinese sculpture。^_^
The sculpture is super cool, actually :)