On the first day of Christmas
My true love sent to me
A partridge in a pear tree
Merry Christmas to every of our audience that celebrate the yuletide. Welcome to a new edition of the STEMsocial distilled. Being Christmas, we hope the selections for today will add to the speciality of the day. Behind the keyboard for this edition is 
A big complement of the season shout out to all STEMsocial authors, supporters, and enthusiasts. You guys make this place what it is (a community). For those who do not know what STEMsocial is, please take a look here, or pass by Discord or the Openhive Chat.
Featured posts for this edition were selected from those posted in the period ranging between 18/12 and 24/12 based on the number of comments, excluding bot or script-generated and author's comments. As a rule of thumb, no single author is featured twice in the same edition.
The selected posts are specially curated for the consumption of our audience. Supports for the authors in whatever forms are encouraged.
@agmoore. As cute as the animals are, it is sad to see that their existence is now being threatened by a combination of erractic climate and human activities. Deservedly, it ranked up 15 comments.
@agmoore with 13 comments, our runner up post this week is the one made by myself on why carbon dioxide seems to be getting all the attention out of all the numerous greenhouse gases known to scientists. Whilst the culpability of the gas as a chief warmer of the atmosphere is not new, why it gets all the attention as far as global warming and climate change are concerned was elucidated.
@lemouth. While the standard model of particle physics is known to virtually everyone, scientists are already working behind the scene to make discovery beyond it. This is the world that our Professor introduced us to in his post.
@bhoa. Jaundice may not be totally new to many people, but the author took a deepdive into the different types, their causes, and recommended treatments. The post ranked up 12 comments.
@noble-noah. The post which ranked up 8 comments dicussed the phenomenon in an extensive manner.
All rewards earned on the distilled posts are used to fund the STEMsocial project functioning and activities. The author of the distilled, who may be any STEMsocial curator depending on the week, gets 30% of the rewards of this post). If you like what we do, please consider joining our community on HIVE and delegating to the 
Have a wonderful Christmas celebration and do not forget to stay safe during all the festivities.
