STEMsocial Distilled #8

And here we are for the 8^th edition of the distilled of the best articles posted within the STEMsocial community. STEMsocial is actively pushing for engagement, which we find a bit weak at the present time. Therefore, feel free to read and comment the posts of all featured authors of the week! Note that if you use our app, your comments are eligible for a small upvote from STEMsocial!

For those who do not know what STEMsocial is, please take a look here, or pass by Discord, the Hive Chat, Twitter or Facebook.

Before moving on with the two best posts that have been selected (by @lemouth) from all the posts found by our curators last week, here are the most supported ones:

Author	Title
@lemouth	Scotino dark matter and the unification of the fundamental forces
@lupafilotaxia	Elaeis guineensis Oil Palm as a material of agronomic and economic interest of the Arecaceae family
@gentleshaid	Should Nigerians go vegan to tackle herdsmen crisis?
@girolamomarotta	Can Sartans and ACE inhibitors favor Covid-19 infection?
@terrylovejoy	Comet ATLAS - The Ups and Downs
@pibara	Why a herd immunity geared pollicy is a dangrous gamble and what alternatives we have.

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Our top choices

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Learning science through movies: the Faraday shield

Sometimes, movies are not that accurate that we may think of. In his last post, @hadji reports about a home-made experiment aiming at verifying the use of a microwave oven as a Faraday cage as presented in a movie (to save us from terrorists of course). Interestingly enough, it works, at least when the bomb 9from the movie) is replaced by a Wifi device!

Comet ATLAS - The Ups and Downs

One of the STEMsocial astrophotographer, @terrylovejoy, is back with us on Hive to share some of his pictures of a new comet named ATLAS and that has been found a few months ago. In his post, it is possible to follow the evolution of the comet over time, from March 2020 to today, thanks to a set of amazing pictures.

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Statistics

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STEMSocial offers support to anyone using our app, stem.openhive.network. We recall that:

• Posting an article through the app automatically yields a 5% stronger upvote at curation time.
• Posting a reply to an article (or to another reply) from the app can sometimes yield some support.
• Setting @stemsocial as a beneficiary to the post automatically yields a stronger upvote (up to 5%).

Last week, the STEMsocial curator team has supported 69 posts written by 51 authors. 15 of these posts have been posted through the app (and got a 5% stronger upvote). Among these 69 posts, we find:

• 34 small upvotes (less than 20%)
• 23 medium upvotes (in the 20%-50% range)
• 12 large upvotes (larger than 50%)

In addition, we have upvoted 36 comments posted through the app, written by 11 authors.

The list of upvoted post authors is: @acont, @agmoore, @aqua.nano, @azulear, @borjan, @capp, @carlos84, @chapette, @dkmathstats, @eliaschess333, @emperorhassy, @empressteemah, @enforcer48, @faltermann, @geekgirl, @gentleshaid, @giantbear, @girolamomarotta, @hadji, @helengutier2, @iptrucs, @jmkengineering, @jringo, @latm, @lemouth, @lemouth-dev, @lorenzor, @loveforlove, @lupafilotaxia, @maribelf, @medro-martin, @mengene, @minismallholding, @nattybongo, @nazer, @newton666, @oluwoleolaide, @ozelot47, @pibara, @riccc96, @rnunez09, @scalextrix, @stem-espanol, @terrylovejoy, @themarkymark, @theophile.roos, @tomastonyperez, @ulisesfl17, @wilmer14molina, @ydavgonzalez, @yongleantonio

The comments that have been upvoted are from: @agmoore, @carlos84, @eliaschess333, @emiliomoron, @gentleshaid, @hadji, @lemouth, @lupafilotaxia, @rbalzan79, @scienceblocks, @wilmer14molina

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See you all next week!

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