Surprise surprise, it is Friday night (actually even Saturday for a few minutes), and here is a new distilled of the best STEMsocial content of last week. It is again 
Anyways, once again, thanks a lot to all STEMsocial authors of the week for their very nice contributions to our community. For those who do not know what STEMsocial is, please take a look here, or pass by Discord or the Openhive Chat.
In order to select the top posts of the period ranging from last Saturday (11.12) to today (17.12), we considered all best posts found by our curators, and written in English. We then selected those that attracted the largest number of comments that are written neither by the post author, nor by a script or a bot. Moreover, a given author cannot appear twice in the selection.
We encourage everyone to have a look and contribute to the discussion in any of the selected articles, as well as potentially give a follow to selected authors.
@gentleshaid and his post on a new technology assisting humans to suicide themselves. Whilst the topic may sound a bit weird, or at least interesting, this provides somehow possibly a (fancy) solution to a true first world problem. To fix the bar for this week, I am pleased to write that this blog attracted 13 comments.
@juecoree on remote labs. Due to the pandemic, almost all university classes went online, which may be an issue for laboratory classes. This is where virtual reality and augmented reality can help us and play a role. This is deeply discussed in the post, in particular with nice illustrations.
@mathowl shares the bronze medal with me (I appear first as @lemouth starts with an 'l' and @mathowl with an 'm'). In his post on mathematics, @mathowl discusses a bit his own research about how the singularities appearing in equations can be regularised. This then leads to solutions with a much better behaviour.
@rbalzan79, and discusses refraction and astigmatism. With 4 comments, it allows us to have two physics posts in the top 5, which makes me happy! In his post, the author discusses rays of light, refraction and how the latter can impact how we see the world around us. We can not the very comprehensive and homemade illustrations.
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See you all (hopefully) next week, or next-to-next week depending on Santa!
