SteemSTEM Distilled #118

@lemouth is still serving his sentence of hard labour cleaning up after snow leopards in India, so this week's 118^th distilled will be authored by me (whatever 'me' means). Since everyone was busy this week this is part 1 of a 2-part week to give some fair share of appreciation. Some of these are older posts and I will look at more up-to-date ones in the follow-up post. Look out for that over the weekend!

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

Before moving on with the two best posts that have been selected by @lemouth and @mobbs (from all the posts found by our curators last week), here are a few of the most supported posts (of last week):

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Our top choices

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Radioactive Pigs, Wild Pigs, Sick Pigs: The Trouble with Pigs Today

Actually, @agmoore2 put the description better than I could: 'There's trouble with pigs these days. Radioactive pigs are turning up in Eastern Europe, and Japan. A virulent pig virus is spreading from continent to continent. And, across the globe, feral swine invade farms, meadows and even urban environments. What is going on with pigs? How did things get to this state? And have humans in any way contributed to the problem? For each one of these problems, I'm afraid the answer is, "Yes."' - Trust me it's fascinating, check it out!

M16 - The Eagle Nebula

I thought it worthwhile to give some kudos to the short and sweet posts out there. @Astrophoto.kevin has always provided us with photography that can just speak for itself and alter your perspective on life if you look at them too much. This one is no exception so be sure to enlarge the image and enjoy the full quality! (I cropped the preview here so I don't spoil your upcoming enjoyment)

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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 59 posts written by 40 authors. 17 of these posts have been posted through the app (and got a 5% stronger upvote). Among these 59 posts, we find:

• 33 small upvotes (less than 20%)
• 10 medium upvotes (in the 20%-50% range)
• 16 large upvotes (larger than 50%)

In addition, we have upvoted 11 comments posted through the app, written by 6 authors.

The list of upvoted post authors, potentially getting some extra support from @curie and @minnowbooster, is:
@abgjosesalas, @abigail-dantes, @agmoore2, @alchemage, @anaestrada12, @anomalogy, @astrophoto.kevin, @azulear, @belkisa758, @bert0, @borepstein, @borjan, @capp, @carlos84, @cecilian, @cervantes, @club12, @crisangel, @emperorhassy, @empressteemah, @etcmike, @exqueila, @faltermann, @iamphysical, @ideas-abstractas, @iptrucs, @josevas217, @loveforlove, @lupafilotaxia, @madefrance, @magicmonk, @mobbs, @newton666, @ozelot47, @remlaps-lite, @riccc96, @scienceblocks, @stem-espanol, @valth, @ycam

The upvoted comments have been written by: @abigail-dantes, @agmoore2, @carloserp-2000, @iamphysical, @rbalzan79, @scienceblocks

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See you all next Satunday!