Stemng Digest: Week #3

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Good day all and welcome to the third edition of stemng digest, a weekly selection of some of the best posts under the #stemng tag in the past week.

Stemng is a sub-community of steemSTEM, a community-driven project which seeks to promote well-written and informative Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics posts by Nigerians on Steemit. The project involves submitting quality STEM-related posts to the steemSTEM management for upvoting and resteeming where applicable.

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Just as we normally do, the management has traveled far and wide the corners of #stemng tag and selected the posts they think is the best for each day of this last week. Relax and enjoy as we take you through the best posts of the last seven days.

Saturday: Positive and Negative Temperature Coefficient Response of Conductors and Semiconductors

Conductors are materials that allow free flow of electrons through them when a voltage is applied. Insulators, on the other hand, will not allow free flow of electrons while semiconductors lie between the two. But exactly how do these materials respond to positive and negative temperature coefficients?

@kaydee took us through the journey of learning about their responses. You all should have a look.

Sunday: science behind a crying baby: what happens when you ignore a crying baby

Babies are one of my weaknesses :). Their cryings always send chills down my spine. I knew something is not just right to have them crying without being attended to. Thanks to

@noble-noah for illuminating our minds with the science behind a crying baby. Except for those that do not like babies, everyone should see this.

Monday: Achieving The First Double-Face Transplant [Miracle of medical science]

This particular post reminded of Arya Stark in GOT. It will probably pass partly as horror and partly as science. @samminator took us through how a man got a new face, not just once but twice. His body rejected the first one few months after the face transplant has been ruled 'successful. Scientists were forced to remove the face and he became faceless for some period while in a state of coma. "A man really has no face" What happened afterward? Have a look everyone.

Tuesday: How to synthesize nanoparticles using plants

This is why I love steemit. I never knew plant and nanoparticles could have something in common until I read this post by @turpsy. Knowledge, they say is like an ocean, we keep swimming until the day we cease to exist. Exactly how can nanoparticles be synthesized using plant tissues? Your guess cannot be good as mine until you take a clue from this post. Now I can boldly speak where particle physicists are speaking. lol

Wednesday : A Zero-Math Basics of Cellular Networks and Mobile Communications

I am not an engineer but I will totally support

@churchboy if I am one. Why do we have to get things so complicated by introducing mathematics into it when it can totally do fine without it? Zero-math basics of cellular networks and mobile communication explained the basics of networks and communication without mathematics. Something I would have if I were to be an engineer simply because I hate mathematics.

Thursday: How traits are inherited across generation #4

Personally, I think one of the most complex aspects of biology is genetics. I have been an ardent reader of

@hadji's posts because of the way these genetic processes of inheritance have been simplified. One would think genetics began and ended with Mendel but I have been made to understand that Mendel's outcomes were actually exceptions to the ways characters are inherited. Thanks to

@hadji.

Friday: The Earth's System -- Spheres of the earth. The Fantastic four!

Capping a fantastic week with a post on a fantastic four (excuse my alliteration). If you are looking to get some fine insight into the earth's system, look no further to this beautiful and well-written post from @pangoli. He took his time on this. The four elements of the ecosystem - air, water, land, and life, constituting the atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, and biosphere were extensively discussed.

About the selection process

The post for each day was selected based on consensus between the stemng management, in persons of @greenrun and @gentleshaid. This week's selections were made by @greenrun.

Do not feel discouraged if your post did not make the list, there are rooms for improvement for everyone. Find time to read these guidelines if you really wish to improve on your STEM-related writings.

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