SteemSTEM Distilled #70

Welcome to the 70^th 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.

Monday - Wednesday

Toxoplasmosis: In Defense of the Cat

A well-written and interesting post is here to begin our week with! Read what @agmoore has written about Toxoplasmosis in this amazing piece!

Pretty blue rings of death, the bacterial basis for the octopus's venom

@effofex has given us another beautiful post for this week. Read to learn surprisng facts about the venom you can find in octopuses!

Wednesday - Friday

The Amateur Mycologist - Valdivia, Chile

We love @dber for his originality and this time he has another amazing post from his trip to Chile for us. Nature lovers, don't miss reading this one!

Leaving the Past Behind

Another excellent psychology piece by @abigail-dantes is here on the usual "Psychology Friday"! This time Abigail deals with the past in a must-read post!

Saturday - Sunday

Slope Stabilization and the Mass Wasting Phenomenon

Coming up next, a great engineering post by @abumaryam on the stabilization of slopes. If you enjoy engineering posts, you will surely like this one too!

Female Orgasm - starring evolution (genre - mystery)

Interesting, clever and beautifully written the post that closes our week. In this one, @scienceblocks discusses one of the greatest mysteries in life... the ladies' Big O!

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.