SteemSTEM Distilled #35

Welcome to the 35^th issue of SteemSTEM Distilled, a bi-weekly 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, a recent update on the steemSTEM can be found here, and a not so recent one there. Moreover, if you ask yourself about what it means to be part of steemSTEM, please check here.

Our team scours the platform for original and quality content.

After working through thousands (literally!) of STEM-related posts and upvoting more than 150 that we deemed to be worthy, we proudly present you our top 6 handpicked choices for this Monday-Wednesday period.

Monday

Fusion of Twins and The Effects of Blood Transfusion

A wild scenario that might actually happen in real-life is a person carrying two different sets of DNA. No, this is not another sci-fi story, chimera is a real medical condition and if you want to know more about it read what
@churchboy has written.

Modeling the patterns on fish skin mathematically!

Numbers rule our world. Patterns are everywhere around us, from the seed arrangement in flowers in our gardens to the skin of fish in the ocean. @dexterdev uses the language of numbers to make models on the patterns on fish skin. Read on to learn more.

Tuesday

Farming on MARS: Challenges and the existing technological options - Colonization of MARS Series

A post that carefully goes through all the aspects of growing plants on the Red Planet is here by @alexdory. Read it if you want to learn what it takes to be a farmer on Mars. Any further questions or recommendations? @alexdory is here to listen.

Low Temperature Phenomena - Superfluids and The Meissner Effect.

@physics.benjamin gives us a post on superfluids. What happens when the temperature drops? And what is the Meissner effect? Read his work to find out.

Wednesday

Gentleman Medical Series #1; Antibiotic Resistance Crisis

The first part of a new medical series by @gameoverr discusses a hot topic, antibiotics. What are antibiotics? How do they work and how have bacteria managed to built resistance to them? The answers are in @gameoverr's post.

Ancient Knowledge: How did the Romans do math?

1 + 1 = 2, but has it always been like that? In Ancient Rome people didn't use the numeric symbols we do today. If you like brain teasers however, read @josalarcon2's post and try to figure out how the Romans did maths...

A few words about the nomination process

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 mid-week's editorial team was comprised of @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 :)

Top steemSTEM authors

During the last two weeks, steemstem supported with more than a (possibly split) 60% vote the following authors:

@adetola, @alexander.alexis, @alexs1320, @amavi, @chloroform, @de-stem, @duke77, @dysfunctional, @egotheist, @exercisinghealth, @greenrun, @henrychidiebere, @lemouth, @lordneroo, @mobbs, @mountainwashere, @ruth-girl, @samminator, @steemstem, @terrylovejoy, @trumpman, @valth