Welcome to the 78th 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 100 of these posts, and present in this distilled our top 6 handpicked choices.
Let's open our week with an amazing, entertaining and surely very interesting post written by @alexander.alexis. Fall in love with his unique writing style and learn about differences in findings among various studies on male and female masturbation.
Craving for some chocolate right now? How about reading @highonthehog's wonderful post on cocoa? You will find interesting facts on the history of cocoa and the plant itself. Go on! Click on that link now!
@nonzerosum comes next and another fantastic piece of writing! This time he discusses how people can be led to lose trust in medical science. How can certain circumstances make us have second thoughts on our doctors' abilities and efficiency? Read this great post to learn more!
The next post comes from another great author, @tking77798. Here we learn about the work of Frances H. Arnold who was awarded this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry, along with George P. Smith and Sir Gregory P. Winter. Read to learn more about what Dr Arnold did to deserve such acknowledgement!
The gait system, a cycle of rhythmic sequential actions within the human body, which enables our change in position is being beautifully presented in this post by @okunlolayk. A detailed piece, written in a very nice style, that will certainly teach you a lot!
@nikolanikola will be closing this week's picks and a really cool post on pattern recognition and how it can be used to make out someone's handwriting. A very interesting piece you won't regret reading, trust us!
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 6 posts a week out of more than 150-200. 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 September 30 to October 7, we rewarded 80 different authors who have written a total of 91 different articles. The 66 authors who received votes from @steemstem, @utopian-io and @curie all together that week are:
