Welcome to the 64th 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 200 of these posts, and present in this distilled our top 8 handpicked choices for the last Thursday-Sunday period.
@nonzerosum opens our week with a post discussing the fight against mosquitoes, those tiny flying vampires that can sometimes be fatal. Don't miss this one!
An interesting post on the controversial topic of transgenderism is here by @funmiakinpelu. Read it to learn more about the science and the "transformation" of body and soul these people have to go through.
And moving on next to another topic that's worth discussing: abortion! From animals to "thinking animals" (id est humans), abortion is not a rare tactic. Read, think and express your opinion in the comments @spaghettiscience's great post!
Holding someone's life in your hands surely makes you feel powerful like an almighty god and @suzanrs explains why and how exactly this happens. That's an exciting post you don't want to miss!
A well-written post by @agmoore talks about our little friends, the worms. Helpful, necessary, but also vulnerable, these creatures deserve some more attention. Read @agmoore's post to learn why!
A sweet and beautiful psychology post by @insight-out discusses life with an introvert. If you want to learn more what introversion and extraversion mean and what effects it has on someone's social life, then you know which link to follow!
One of @erh.germany's excellent posts is here to have us reflect on the idea of how can one form an "objective" political opinion. Using her family's story as an example, she tries to explain this "complex" idea of political education. Certainly a post you will enjoy!
And we're closing with another interesting post by @alexander.alexis on sex differences. This time he shares with us a simple test whose results have confused scientist. Click on that link, take the test for yourself and tell us what you found!
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 14 posts a week out of more than 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 June 24 to July 1, we rewarded 151 different authors who have written a total of 204 different articles. The 125 authors who received votes from @steemstem, @utopian-io and @curie all together that week are:
