SteemSTEM Distilled #111

This week special as we are dealing with a very binary 111^th distilled of the best content posted last week on SteemSTEM. For those who do not know what SteemSTEM is, please take a look here or pass by and say "hi" on Discord or on the Steem Chat.

^{[image credits: @medro-martin]}

@lemouth has once again selected the two best posts found by our (English-speaking) curators from the (this time large) list of the most supported posts last week:

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Our top choices

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The Price To Pay For Technological Advancement?

@samminator, one of the oldest SteemSTEM members still on board, returned to write about STEM this week. He discussed the future of the human race when technological enhancements are accounted for, and emphasise the risk of getting to two classes of humans (enhanced and non-enhanced ones). Please pass by and contribute to the debate.

Gravitational waves, black holes & star clusters

Gastrophysics is a very young field in physics. @svemirac provides a crash course on the topic in his last post and details how gravitational waves have allowed us to directly discover black holes for the first time in human history. In addition, he also briefly mentions how life was imported to Earth by asteroids and the new results of GAIA.

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Statistics

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SteemSTEM offers support to anyone using our app, steemstem.io. We recall that:

• Posting an article through the app automatically yields a 5% stronger upvote at curation time.
• Posting a reply to an article (or to another reply) from the app can sometimes yield some SteemSTEM support.
• Setting @steemstem as a beneficiary to the post automatically yields a stronger upvote (up to 5%).

Last week, the SteemSTEM curator teams have supported 92 posts written by 49 authors. 15 of these posts have been posted through the app (and got a 5% stronger upvote). Among these 92 posts, we find:

• 59 small upvotes (less than 20%)
• 15 medium upvotes (in the 20%-50% range)
• 18 large upvotes (larger than 50%)

In addition, we have upvoted 24 comments posted through the app, written by 7 authors.

The list of upvoted post authors, potentially getting some extra support from @curie, is:
@abigail-dantes, @abneagro, @agmoore2, @alchemage, @anaestrada12, @annephilbrick, @answerswithjoe, @arac, @astrophoto.kevin, @belkisa758, @benainouna, @borjan, @carlos84, @erh.germany, @ericet, @ewkaw, @faltermann, @felixrodriguez, @flemingfarm, @idoctor, @iptrucs, @joshman, @kralizec, @lemouth, @lemouth-dev, @loveforlove, @lupafilotaxia, @magicmonk, @maibicita, @malay11, @marriakjozhegp, @mstafford, @newton666, @ozelot47, @phage93, @rbalzan79, @remlaps-lite, @samminator, @scienceblocks, @sebbbl, @sketch.and.jam, @spectrumecons, @stem-espanol, @thefairjournal, @themarkymark, @trumpman, @ubaldonet, @ulisesfl17, @walterprofe

The upvoted comments have been written by: @abigail-dantes, @agmoore2, @carlos84, @lemouth, @loveforlove, @scienceblocks, @terrylovejoy

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See you all next MonTuesday!