Welcome to the 20^th issue of SteemSTEM Distilled, a curation effort by the members of the @steemstem team.

SteemSTEM is a community driven project which seeks to promote well-written and informative Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics posts on Steemit. The project involves curating STEM-related posts through upvoting, resteeming, offering constructive feedback, supporting scientific contests, and other related activities.

For more details, a recent update on the steemSTEM can be found here, and a not so recent one there. Moreover, if you ask yourself about what it means to be part of steemSTEM, please check here.

Our team scours the platform for original and quality content. After working through thousands (literally!) of STEM-related posts and upvoting more than 150 that we deemed to be worthy, we proudly present you our top 8 handpicked choices for this Thursday-Sunday period. ## Thursday _ ### The Geology of the Oldest Mountains in the World: Vol. 1 - Appalachian Mountains

The United States, among many things, is known for it’s areas of natural splendor. Along these lines we find the Applachian mountains, filled with a treasure trove of parks and beautiful geological features. Take a hike through this great post by @keephy and perhaps you will find an appreciation for what this old mountain range has to offer.

### Hypoglycemia | Risk Factor for People with Diabetes| Deep look

Diabetes is becoming ever more common in our modern, sedentary world. One complication faced by people with this disease is called Hypoglycemia. Take a deep dive with @juandiaz89 into what this entails, you just might learn something that could help you improve your life, or the life of someone you know.


_ ## Friday _ ### The Amateur Mycologist - Another Tree Killing Fungus To Look Out For - Likely Armillaria Species Infecting My Favorite Trees

Steemit’s resident amateur mycologist @dber continues to dazzle with his research on various species of mushrooms, self shot images, and rigorous investigaton into the literature to provide us with entertaining, interesting and educational blogs on these interesting organisms! Todays post is no exception! Check it out!


### Reliable information or manipulative content? Spot the difference!

The internet is filled with lies, information passed off as fact, but that has no basis in reality. One of the biggest challenges WE (and that means all of us) will face in the future is how to sort fact from fiction, truth from bullshit, science from pseudoscience. Take some time and read through this post where @irime goes through some examples of the use of logical fallacies to drive false information into our brains. We need to train our selves to think better, to employ logic, to be more rational, if we are to navigate our way through the confusing information being shot at us from all directions.
_ ## Saturday ### How can our heart keep beating on it’s own, over and over till we die - Understanding Electrical Activity of the Heart

How does the human heart work? Do you know? Why does it beat? Can yours beat all on its own, even if its not inside your body? Learn the answers to these questions (and more!) in this great post by @simplifylife


### COMETS - A Brief Primer

Comets are more than just something to see streaking brightly through the night sky! In fact they may hold the keys to unlocking more of the mysteries of the universe! Learn more about comets, and what the components are that we see as they travel by in this great piece by @terrylovejoy.

## Sunday ### The History of the Earth | Let’s See Our Past

The rocks are the key to understand how old our good old planet is. @mikekenlytungal browses history, and by highlighting a bunch of great scientists, the author shows us how we manage to show that Earth is 4 billions year old. A good insight on dating with the different elements that can be found under Earth’s crust.


### Audio compression (simplified)

Audio compression can be something complicated to understand. @thelonelydev however helps us with a simplified article detailing the two different types of compression (lossy and lossless), all of this illustrated with nice examples emphasizing the differences.

A few words about the nomination process For the sake of transparency we feel we need to clarify how our nomination process works; each issue is compiled by certain members of the SteemSTEM community. This week’s editorial team was comprised of @justtryme90 and @lemouth. The editorial team chooses their favorite posts for the week and each issue is the result of their joined effort. In order to keep the process fair, posts written by the editorial team are excluded from the nomination process. Don’t be discouraged if you didn’t make it on this issue. The competition is harsh and there is always a next time :) In the meantime, you may wish to check these guidelines for extra tips on how your writing can be more effective. Authors That Received a Curie Upvote by the SteemSTEM Team ___ In the same spirit of being transparent about our actions that are now supported by @curie, we will release every week a list of authors who have caught the attention of the @steemstem curation team. If you want to discuss this with us, please do not hesitate to join the steemSTEM channel on the Steemit chat or to follow our curation trail on Streemian. If you are not on Streemian, we have a plan B through a homemade voting bot. You can contact us on the chat in order to be added to its trail. From January 14 to January 20, we rewarded 164 different authors who have written a total of 251 different articles. The authors who received both a @steemstem and a @curie vote that week are: @abigail-dantes, @ajpacheco1610, @alexander.alexis, @alexbeyman, @alexs1320, @alpharay, @altherion, @amavi, @amity123, @angelggomz, @anibalmdz, @arrjey, @asbonclz, @atheneav, @azulear, @bape682, @biomanu, @biw, @carlgbush, @chandy18, @chotho, @churchboy, @clausewitz, @cpufronz, @crazy-daisy, @cuarzo05, @daylen, @dber, @dedicatedguy, @dexterdev, @djredimi2, @dkmathstats, @doctorcro, @donkeykong9000, @drifter1, @drkomoo, @dysfunctional, @ejrangel, @elith, @ememovic, @enzor, @erh.germany, @eugin, @eurogee, @fancybrothers, @filotasriza3, @freddbrito, @fredrikaa, @futurmen, @gianluccio, @giovaabbatichio, @gmaktub, @grider123, @gtan, @hadji, @hellofuture, @henrychidiebere, @highonthehog, @hjashnsaz, @ideas-abstractas, @irime, @issavets, @ixindamix, @jajdgenius, @jakipatryk, @jamhuery, @jefpatat, @jepper, @johan794, @jonelq, @jorge150785, @joseg, @jringo, @juanjdiaz89, @kaiyoko, @katerinaramm, @kaydee, @keephy, @kenadis, @kharrazi, @ksolymosi, @leczy, @lesshorrible, @louic, @louielowa, @loular, @loveisintheair, @lucastar, @markos86, @marverick984, @maurelvys, @mcw, @meghana123, @mihaitecnology, @mike11, @mikekenlytungal, @mirkon86, @mountain.phil28, @mountainwashere, @munawar1235, @muphy, @mystifact, @neyi24, @noble-noah, @nonationnoborder, @odiaprecious, @oluwabori, @oscarcc89, @osita21, @otsouvalas, @pacheco05, @pangoli, @pario, @pearlumie, @pisolutionsmru, @ponmile, @preciousdave, @proteus-h, @punjolife, @rabo, @reviewit, @rharphelle, @rickie, @rickyxp, @rionpistorius, @rnunez09, @robertoromero, @rocking-dave, @rossanavictora, @rscalabrini, @rupamxanu, @samminator, @samve, @sarabelardo, @sc-steemit, @sciencegeek, @scisteem, @sco, @setapart, @simplifylife, @siniy, @soleil-research, @stanleyc-md, @sustainablyyours, @svemirac, @sweetestglo-eu, @tarazkp, @techblogger, @techlife, @tensor, @terrylovejoy, @tfcoates, @thatsweeneyguy, @thedrewtrott, @thelonelydev, @therockman, @thinkingmind, @tkappa, @tsoldovieri, @ugonma, @valchiz, @valth, @wilians, @xtrex, @zoneboy All curation rewards earned will be used to fund @steemstem project functioning and activities. See you all on Thursday! https://steemitimages.com/0x0/https://i.imgur.com/WhYkkh9.gif

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As you are all probably aware of by now, the steemSTEM community is currently organizing its first meetup. And as a group of science lovers, what could be better than meeting in a famous research location?

To achieve this, we chose to meet up at CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland! However our meetup will not just be about exploring CERN… We will also go underground, and see the Large Hadron Collider from a few meters away! A dream for many scientists from all over the world.

This is an extremely unique opportunity, and it’s one that the members of the steemSTEM project/community get to experience ONLY because of doors opened up by STEEM/Steemit! Because of how unique this is, we feel it’s a really great opportunity to promote STEEM, the steemit platform, and of course our steemSTEM community! For more information on the steemSTEM project, the best place to check is our winter update. The steemSTEM team will be documenting the tour, with the hope that future Steemit promotional materials will be constructed out of the images and video that is shot as the community members tour this world class research facility.

How is all of this possible? Well, we (@steemstem) have the right connections…

A group of 20 Steemians will meet at CERN, on February 8th - 9th, to have fun, chat about science and technology (we are steemSTEM after all) and visit the place. In particular, they will be allowed to go down inside the Large Hadron Collider (the LHC) and visit the CMS detector. CMS is a huge magnet that allows detection of what is going on in the very highly-energetic collisions that are happening at the LHC.

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Some more practical details now.

Who

Our 20 participants are, alphabetically ordered: @alexs1320, @ana.luiza, @aurel.proorocu, @bendelgreco, @ceybiicien, @dber, @ertwro, @fredrikaa, @grandpere, @howo, @justtryme90 (+1 guest), @kerriknox (+1 guest), @lemouth, @reggaemuffin, @saunter, @scienceangel, @suesa, @tristan-muller

When: February 8th-9th, 2018

Most of us will arrive on the 8th of February, and we will meet in the evening for dinner, in Meyrin (at a steak place or an Italian place, TBD). The CERN visit will start on the 9th in the morning (10:00AM) and ends at 6:00 PM, roughly.

The detailed agenda

• We will meet on the 8th around 8:30 PM in Meyrin (Switzerland) to go to a restaurant and have food, drinks and fun. This event is open to anyone, but please let us know (on our dedicated discord channel) so that we can arrange the practical details.

• We will be scattered across Geneva and Saint-Genis for lodging, but the idea is to meet at the CERN main entrance at 10:00 AM. We will have 5 cars available to help us to move around the place (the LHC is a 27-kilometers-long circular collider; definitely not walkable). Thanks in advance to our 5 drivers @alexs1320, @aurel.proorocu, @dber, @justtryme90, @tristan-muller.

• We will visit the two permanent exhibitions of CERN, namely the Microcosm and the Universe of Particles. They are really worthy to visit. @lemouth will be our private guide. For this part of the meetup, any last-minute participant could come. Please contact us (again) on discord for details.

• We will have lunch on the way to CMS, located in Cessy. There is a nice Indian place in Ferney-Voltaire (France). By the way, Cessy is also a place where Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web, lived some time ago.

  • During the first part of the afternoon, @lemouth will give a particle physics crash course so that you could understand what you will be supposed to see during the visit of CMS and of the LHC. He has started to post some lecture notes on steemit. #1, #2, #3 and #4. The slides are (partly) available on google drive.

  • We will go down to the LHC and get a private tour of CMS from 17:00 to 18:00. We will get two CMS guides just for us so that the meetup participants can enjoy this as much as possible.

The meetup will end right after the visit.

Rules

There are a couple of things to keep in mind when visiting CERN. All visitors must carry their ID or passport when they are on site. Moreover, please read this document with the safety rules for the visit.

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And for those not attending?

No worries. We plan to take plenty of pictures and also do some video recording to bring the experience home for you all to share as well. This looks to be an amazing community building event!

All SBD rewards of this post will be used to support the trips of the 20 participants, as well as to to fund the @steemstem project functioning and future activities.

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Welcome to the 19^th issue of SteemSTEM Distilled, a bi-weekly curation effort by the members of the @steemstem team.

SteemSTEM is a community driven project which seeks to promote well-written and informative Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics posts on Steemit. The project involves curating STEM-related posts through upvoting, resteeming, offering constructive feedback, supporting scientific contests, and other related activities.

For more details, a recent update on the steemSTEM can be found here, and a not so recent one there. Moreover, if you ask yourself about what it means to be part of steemSTEM, please check here.

Our team scours the platform for original and quality content. After working through thousands (literally!) of STEM-related posts and upvoting more than 150 that we deemed to be worthy, we proudly present you our top 6 handpicked choices for this Monday-Wednesday period. ## Monday _ ### A Brief History Of Cataract Surgery : Part 2

Eye cataracts are the leading cause of blindness, accounting for about 50% of the total cases of blindness. In this second part of the series, @himal continues his historical review of cataract surgery from the ancient times to today. ### The Taj Mahal

Situated in the city of Agra, stands the of the highest feats of ancient engineering, a breath-taking site, the Taj Mahal. In his latest post, @akeelsingh takes us in an inner tour.






_ ## Tuesday ### Cool things we do with Satellites #6 : Near real-time detecting of oil spills worldwide

In another episode of cool things we can do with satellites @fredrikaa shows us how scientists use them to monitor and report oil spills in real time.
### The Amateur Mycologist #35 - Update - Likely Licea variabilis Slimemold! Morphological Transformation Caught On Time Lapse - In Depth Analysis

Our fungi expert @dber shares photos and information of yet another of his great finds, this time Licea variabilis. He even made a time lapse video of the fungi growing! Really cool stuff!


## Wednesday ### Nanobots and the coming zombie apocalypse

@sustainablyyours explains us how an army of zombies could be helpful to rule the world…. In fact, more seriously, he is telling us everything about nanobots and the associated technology. A must be read!




### Luna-2: First spacecraft to reach the moon

@proteus-h told us about a Russian piece of technology (at least 60 years ago) that was the first man-made object to touch down the moon (60 years ago). All the glory details are in the article!

A few words about the nomination process ___ For the sake of transparency we feel we need to clarify how our nomination process works; each issue is compiled by certain members of the SteemSTEM community. This mid-week’s editorial team was comprised of @trumpman and @lemouth. The editorial team chooses their favorite posts for the week and each issue is the result of their joined effort. In order to keep the process fair, posts written by the editorial team are excluded from the nomination process. Don’t be discouraged if you didn’t make it on this issue. The competition is harsh and there is always a next time :) All curation rewards earned will be used to fund @steemstem project functioning and activities. See you all next Monday! https://steemitimages.com/0x0/https://i.imgur.com/WhYkkh9.gif

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Welcome to the 18^th issue of SteemSTEM Distilled, a curation effort by the members of the @steemstem team.

SteemSTEM is a community driven project which seeks to promote well-written and informative Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics posts on Steemit. The project involves curating STEM-related posts through upvoting, resteeming, offering constructive feedback, supporting scientific contests, and other related activities.

For more details, a recent update on the steemSTEM can be found here, whilst older details are available here. Moreover, if you ask yourself about what it means to be part of steemSTEM, please check here.

Our team scours the platform for original and quality content.After working through thousands (literally!) of STEM-related posts and upvoting more than 300 that we deemed to be worthy, we proudly present you our top 7 handpicked choices: ## Monday - Ever Wonder Why Stuff Tastes Gross After You Brush Your Teeth?

A good old myth about how our tongue tastes stuff (and the related taste tongue map) is debunked by @sustainablyyours in his very nice article. In addition, he explains us why food tastes weird after having brushed our teeth.

Tuesday - The Holocene Mass Extinction Part 6: Taking Action

The Holocene mass extinction means that the world is screwed. Many species are either at risk of extinction over the next century, or in a very bad shape. There is stuff that can be done, and @mountainwashere tells us about that. We should not give up hope… yet.

Wednesday - Herd Immunity is a Lie, and here is Why! (it’s not a lie)

Vaccines and herd immunity? One of the good old debate here on Steem. This article of @alexs1320 details varied statements on the topic and shows the numbers backing them up (or not).

Thursday - Reaction in lab: The Swern oxidation

With the sciencepic challenge, @mcw discusses the glory details of Swern oxidation and how it works (with plenty of pictures). From the article, you will learn the mystery behind a temperature of -78 Celsius, why it matters and how it interplays with Swern oxidation.

Friday - Depression – Where to Draw the Line?

Life is sometimes tough and one ends up being depressed. This is actually very common those days. In order to clarify the misconception behind this emotional disorder, @abigail-dantes wrote an interesting article in which she clearly state what depression is, distinguishing in particular its mild and severe form.

Saturday - How are traits inherited across generations?The Paradox of Non-Transitive Dice and Our Imperfect Intuitions

It’s not often that you hear the word…’statistics’ and think… “Ohh boy!” However leave it to @rocking-dave to change all that with just a toss of a few dice! Give this post a roll and you may find your self as fascinated by these rock/paper/scissors like dice as we were!

Sunday - The construction loving Master Mind

How weird are your thoughts? Are your memories of real events, or have you conveniently invented them to be much rosier then they should be? For how much of what you think about your self, have you actually checked that it’s true? How much of all that you are just a construction? Take a read through this lenghy post by @erh.germany and you just might come to realize something about yourself that you never knew before. How’s that for some light sunday afternoon reading?

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A few words about the nomination process

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For the sake of transparency we feel we need to clarify how our nomination process works; each issue is compiled by certain members of the SteemSTEM community. This week’s editorial team was comprised of @justtryme90 and @lemouth.

The editorial team chooses their favorite posts for the week and each issue is the result of their joined effort. In order to keep the process fair, posts written by the editorial team are excluded from the nomination process.

Don’t be discouraged if you didn’t make it on this issue. The competition is harsh and there is always a next time :) In the meantime, you may wish to check these guidelines for extra tips on how your writing can be more effective.

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Authors That Received a Curie Upvote by the SteemSTEM Team

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In the same spirit of being transparent about our actions that are now supported by @curie, we will release every week a list of authors who have caught the attention of the @steemstem curation team.

If you want to discuss this with us, please do not hesitate to join the steemSTEM channel on the Steemit chat or to follow our curation trail on Streemian. If you are not on Streemian, we have a plan B through a homemade voting bot. You can contact us on the chat in order to be added to its trail.

From January 8 to January 14, we rewarded 140 different authors who have written a total of 221 different articles. The authors who received both a @steemstem and a @curie vote that week are:

@aboutcoolscience, @adetola, @adi-mac, @afifa, @ajpacheco1610, @alexander.alexis, @alexipapa, @alexs1320, @alpharay, @altherion, @amavi, @amity123, @arrjey, @aximot, @bewise, @biomanu, @blessing97, @blue-steens, @booster916, @carloserp-2000, @chidiebereegbo, @chotho, @churchboy, @cjrc97, @codeworkr, @crazy-daisy, @cristi, @csusbgeochem1, @cuarzo05, @cwen, @dber, @dedicatedguy, @doctorcro, @donfelix, @drkomoo, @dysfunctional, @ecostory, @edumurphy, @eliaschess333, @ememovic, @emilclaudell, @enzor, @erh.germany, @esteemlife, @etcmike, @exercisinghealth, @fancybrothers, @filotasriza3, @fredrikaa, @geekpowered, @godswill, @greenrun, @hadji, @haphazard-hstead, @harshameghadri, @himal, @holothewise, @illuminatus, @inglimod, @irime, @jacobts, @jakipatryk, @jepper, @josalarcon2, @josealbertomg71, @joseg, @juanjdiaz89, @katerinaramm, @kay-khosa, @kaydee, @kedi, @keephy, @kenadis, @kerriknox, @kharrazi, @laylahsophia, @leczy, @lesshorrible, @louic, @loveisintheair, @markos86, @marverick984, @masterwu, @mathowl, @maticpecovnik, @maurelvys, @mcw, @mlilom, @mountain.phil28, @mountainwashere, @mrs.nobody, @muphy, @myego13, @mystifact, @nedspeaks, @nicomax, @noble-noah, @nonationnoborder, @olayiwola, @oluwabori, @oscarcc89, @osmerj, @pario, @pearlumie, @preciousdave, @proteus-h, @punjolife, @rebelheart, @replichara, @rickie, @rionpistorius, @rocking-dave, @rossanavictora, @rscalabrini, @samminator, @saunter, @sc-steemit, @sciencegeek, @sco, @shairanada, @shehzad, @shodiya, @simplifylife, @siniy, @st3llar, @steepup, @stelmar, @tbp-hou, @techlife, @tensor, @terrylovejoy, @tfcoates, @thalmaray, @thatsweeneyguy, @thedrewtrott, @thegiamarcos, @timspeer, @tking77798, @toomuchcoffee, @tormiwah, @tsoldovieri, @ufv, @valchiz, @valth, @wilians, @zest, @zkalemiss

All curation rewards earned will be used to fund @steemstem project functioning and activities.

See you all next Thursday!

Due to the increasing number of great posts, we will advertise more posts and do it twice a week once on Thursday (the 6 best choices from Monday to Wednesday) and once on Monday (the 8th best choices from Thursday to Sunday)!

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We (@steemstem) felt that an update as to the status of the project was long overdue!

This (somewhat lengthy) post will inform you on the progress that we have made in the last few months, our current philosophy regarding supporting STEM content on Steemit, our desire to grow and nurture a community of STEM content creators, and some plans/ideas we have for the future of the project.

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What is SteemSTEM?

The steemSTEM project is a community-oriented initiative to increase both the quality as well as the visibility of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) posts on Steemit.

Discussion revolving around STEM disciplines are not just niche topics, but rather core subjects essential to the long term growth and development of Steemit. We believe that a thriving Steemit STEM community is crucial for providing support and encouraging further development of current skilful bloggers, as well as recruiting outside talent. Each is necessary for achieving our mission to provide Steemit with quality, interesting and cutting edge STEM content.

The project seeks in part to accomplish these goals through the direct promotion of quality content posted on Steemit. Quality assessment of content is achieved by a team of curators with expertise in various STEM disciplines working on behalf of the community. Curation by @steemstem is further aided by a collaboration with @curie through its Community Support program.

Curation Progress

Since the initiation of the collaboration with @curie 18 weeks ago, the SteemSTEM project curation team has supported over 3432 posts, of which 2480 posts received votes from both the @steemstem and @curie voting trails. This corresponds to 686 unique authors upvoted by @steemstem, and 544 unique authors upvoted both by @steemstem and @curie.

Our Weekly Curation Digest: SteemSTEM Distilled

Members of the curation team have also begun assembling a weekly curation digest (Issue: [#1], [#2], [#3], [#4], [#5], [#6], [#7], [#8], [#9],[#10],[#11],[#12],[#13],[#14],[#15],[#16],[#17]) highlighing one exceptional post from each day of the week as a means to provide further exposure for excellent content creators; as well as provide examples that other community members can learn from to improve their own blogging skills.

What Are The Criterion Used by the SteemSTEM Curation Team When Voting on Posts?

One question which community members frequently ask is “What do the curators look for when selecting content for votes?”

As explained in detail in this post, four requirements are in order. An authors’ post must be original, well written (using clear English), well formatted (easy to read) and not plaggiarized (or translated from foreign sources).

Moreover, being recognized by @steemSTEM means more that just being rewarded for his/her blog. It means that the author is engaged with our vibrant community through posts, participation on the chat (on the steemit chat or discord) and through comments on the articles of other STEM authors.

Sub-communities

The steemSTEM team members understand that our standards require a high level English proficiency that not all members of our growing community may possess. We recognize that this is both unfair, and also is closing the door on a chance to educate and inform more people. To enable users to be able to create content that is keeping with the SteemSTEM qualilty guidelines, but written in their own native languages we have begun establishing sub communities with curators/managers who have both scientific expertise as well as any needed language expertise. Each community has chosen a unique tag for users to use to better enable identification of local or non-english STEM content of high quality.

To date collaborations with the following communities have been established:

| Community/Language | group tag | managers/curators | | ——– | ——– | ——– | | Nigerian | stemng | @greenrun | | | | @gentleshaid | | Italian | itastem/scienze | @aboutcoolscience | | French | franco-stem | @guga34 | | | | @kingswisdom | | Spanish | | @carloserp-2000 | | | | @iamphysical |

We thank each of these sub-community managers for their efforts to expand the spread of quality STEM content on steemit. We look forward to assisting them in growing the size of these communities and bringing more great content creators to our platform.

Additional Projects Supported

In addition to the project’s curation function, we also encourage and support various community member initiatives through the donation of STEEM POWER as rewards for their participants. Since the previous update we have supported the following projects/contests:

• @kenchung

  • Mathematics Programming Competition #5
  • Mathematics Programming Competition #6
  • Mathematics Programming Competition #7
  • Mathematics Programming Competition #8

• @suesa

  • Suesa’s Science Challenge #2
  • Suesa’s Science Challenge #3 - A Very Science Christmas
• @mystifact
  • Mystifact-or-Fiction Challenge #1
  • Mystifact-or-Fiction Challenge #2
• @biuiam
  • SteemSTEM Science Fair
• @curiousity
  • Curiousity Science Contest
• @mcw
  • Christmas: Science Picture Challenge

Potential/Likely Future Projects

Disclaimer: All projects discussed below are tentative, and require future developments by either Steemit Inc. or other community developers as well as collaborations between the SteemSTEM team and other generous Steemit community members/developers.

Implementation of a STEM Community SMT

Steemit’s recent announcement of Smart Media Tokens and their intended use to aid in the development of internet communities provides us the opportunity to implement a secondary token revolving around the creation of STEM content. We have teamed up with @reggaemuffin who has offered to help us with the technical side of creating an SMT.

Currently the finer details of how these tokens will function have not yet been completely revealed. It is nevertheless our intention to utilize this new technology to continue to build the STEM community on Steemit as soon as possible.

The steemSTEM community is not just those of us in the SteemSTEM management and curation teams, but actually all of you as well. Implementing a SMT needs to be done in the right way: one which will help the community grow! This means that we will need your help in deciding what to do with these tokens. Please drop by our channels on the steemit chat and/or on discord, or leave a comment below if you have any suggestions about the way in which one should implement the token to encourage excellence in STEM content. This is a community project, and a SteemSTEM SMT would be a COMMUNITY token, one that we are all proud to distribute and use to promote STEM the world over.

Also, if you have not checked out the SMT White Paper, you can also do that Here. Perhaps you will find some inspiration by reading through it!

An Official SteemSTEM/STEM Community

The steemSTEM team, much like everyone on the platform, is extremely excited at the prospects of official communities being implemented on steemit. We have been trying our best to organically grow the group of posters who possess a likeminded vision that high quality, interesting, well cited and well formatted blog posts will illustrate to the masses that steemit THE place to go to read about Science and Tech. In recent months the community size has increased to almost 2100 followers of the @steemstem project account and over 600 members on steemit.chat. The current (and growing) size of the community will to enable us to rapidly transition to official community status as soon as the Steemit Inc developers deploy the platform update.

The SteemSTEM Meetup At The Large Hadron Colider

As many of you are aware we (well mostly @lemouth) have been planning and organizing the first ever SteemSTEM meetup. Not to be outdone by other communities @lemouth wanted to help us bring our A-Game and meet somewhere that many scientists only dream to go. The worlds largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, in located Geneva Switzerland at CERN. As the corner stone of this meetup the group of attendees will be going down into the LHC to see the Compact Muon Solenoid detector, where researchers use a massive solenoid magnet to generate a magnetic field 100,000 times the strength of our planet’s, to bend the beam of subatomic particles generated by the collisions. Pretty cool destination, and an amazing opportunity to promote both STEEM/Steemit and the SteemSTEM project! Don’t ya think? To date 18 people have been confirmed to participate, however for those unable to make the trip, worry not! We plan to take plenty of pictures and also do some video recording to bring the experience home for you all to share as well. This looks to be an amazing community building event!

The Future Is Bright, Our Community Is Vibrant

Finally, we would like to take a moment in this closing section to thank our community members for the great discussions that we have in the group chat on steemit.chat (https://steemit.chat/channel/steemSTEM) and more recently on discord too, as well as for their enthusiasm for what we are trying to do; enthusiasm which can be seen in our winning the award for best public chat on steemit.chat, a testament to the supportive atmosphere that the community keeps and the enthusiasm they share for each others’ content and STEM as a whole.

We strive to keep our steemit.chat and discord channels positive places where users who are creating STEM content can discuss whatever they want. It’s not just about chatting science, it’s our place to get to know one another, and to help build the relationships that will allow for a network that can support one another! Our community is about helping each other grow on steemit.

Thank You All for your support of this project, for creating the wonderful content that you do, for your passion for the fascinating mysteries of the world, and for allowing us the privilege of building this community.

Cheers!

The SteemSTEM Team:

Curators @ruth-girl @trumpman @zest @kryzsec

Management Team @mobbs @suesa @anarchyhasnogods

Founders @lemouth @justtryme90

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Welcome to the 17^th issue of SteemSTEM Distilled, a curation effort by the members of the @steemstem team.

SteemSTEM is a community driven project which seeks to promote well-written and informative Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics posts on Steemit. The project involves curating STEM-related posts through upvoting, resteeming, offering constructive feedback, supporting scientific contests, and other related activities.

For more details click here and here for information of what it means to be part of steemSTEM.

Our team scours the platform for original and quality content.After working through thousands (literally!) of STEM-related posts and upvoting more than 200 that we deemed to be worthy, we proudly present you our top 7 handpicked choices: ## Monday - Geospatial Big Data: The Magic of Maps and Money

Big data is very important today on many different aspect. But what can we exactly do with data. @edumurphy is letting us know.

Tuesday - Becoming undead - How zombie cells make you older

Zombies do exist, at least in biology. Cells known as senescent cells are a class of cells that do not divide, but that do not die as well. Zombie cells in short. More about that is detailed by @aboutcoolscience.

Wednesday - Trehalose, a common food additive, may have fueled worldwide Clostridium difficile outbreaks

Want to know about a special sugar, this post of @tking77798 is for you. The author details what trehalose is and how it could potentially facilitate outbreaks.

Thursday - #11 IQ overload: Wolfgang Pauli

All you wanted to know about the life of Wolfgang Pauli is detailed in this post of @jakipatryk who manage a series about known scientists of the last century.

Friday - Journal of Unpublished Results – A case for the validity of scientific research (Part II)

Check out what beautiful things @replichara does in his lab, experimenting with carcinogenic genes. Follow him step by step and watch him “disarm” those evil cells!

Saturday - How are traits inherited across generations?

From albinism, peas, to incest, this post by @hadji is quite the educational trip on genetics and inheritance. Just how are traits passed on to future generations anyhow? Well, take a dive into this post and you just might learn the answer.

Sunday - Super Bugs - What is antibiotic resistance and how we are fighting it

The discovery of antibiotics was one of immense importance, one which has allowed the human race to fluorish to new heights. However, bacteria were not going to go down with out a fight, and some have developed resistances to our chosen antibiotic compounds. Here @tfcoates breaks down what it means to be one of these ‘super bugs’ and what we intend to do to fight them back.

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A few words about the nomination process

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For the sake of transparency we feel we need to clarify how our nomination process works; each issue is compiled by certain members of the SteemSTEM community. This week’s editorial team was comprised of @justtryme90, @lemouth and @ruth-girl.

The editorial team chooses their favorite posts for the week and each issue is the result of their joined effort. In order to keep the process fair, posts written by the editorial team are excluded from the nomination process.

Don’t be discouraged if you didn’t make it on this issue. The competition is harsh and there is always a next time :) In the meantime, you may wish to check these guidelines for extra tips on how your writing can be more effective.

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Authors That Received a Curie Upvote by the SteemSTEM Team

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In the same spirit of being transparent about our actions that are now supported by @curie, we will release every week a list of authors who have caught the attention of the @steemstem curation team.

If you want to discuss this with us, please do not hesitate to join the steemSTEM channel on the Steemit chat or to follow our curation trail on Streemian. If you are not on Streemian, we have a plan B through a homemade voting bot. You can contact us on the chat in order to be added to its trail.

From January 1 to January 8, we rewarded 112 different authors who have written a total of 185 different articles. The authors who received both a @steemstem and a @curie vote that week are:

@abigail-dantes, @adi-mac, @afifa, @agbona, @alexander.alexis, @alexbeyman, @alexipapa, @alexs1320, @altherion, @amavi, @answerswithjoe, @asbonclz, @bikkichhantyal, @blessing97, @carloserp-2000, @churchboy, @cjrc97, @constantinep, @crt, @dber, @diana1, @dinodoc, @dysfunctional, @ememovic, @erh.germany, @erodedthoughts, @ertwro, @etcmike, @exercisinghealth, @fancybrothers, @filotasriza3, @floxxy, @fmlpanda, @frankjavier, @fredrikaa, @greenrun, @guga34, @hadji, @illuminatus, @jajdgenius, @jakipatryk, @jorge150785, @joseferrer, @justyy, @kaydee, @keephy, @kenadis, @kerriknox, @kharis, @kryzsec, @laylahsophia, @leczy, @lefactuoscope, @lesshorrible, @lordkingpotato, @loveisintheair, @marxrab, @masterwu, @maticpecovnik, @maurelvys, @mcw, @medhead, @mes, @mountain.phil28, @mountainwashere, @mrs.nobody, @munawar1235, @muphy, @myego13, @mystifact, @nedspeaks, @neyi24, @nitesh9, @noble-noah, @nonationnoborder, @ojay, @oluwabori, @onyemacourage, @pearlumie, @physics-o-mania, @plotbot2015, @proteus-h, @real2josh, @replichara, @rickie, @ruelrevales, @samminator, @samve, @saunter, @sc-steemit, @scalextrix, @scienceangel, @sco, @simplifylife, @siniy, @slapbox, @soleil-research, @spectrumecons, @stephennevets, @sulaimon, @sustainablyyours, @tachiosbag, @tensor, @terrylovejoy, @theodora.austria, @thequantumknight, @thescienceguy, @tsoldovieri, @turpsy, @ufv, @valth, @wilians, @zest, @zonguin, @zouxx

All curation rewards earned will be used to fund @steemstem project functioning and activities.

See you all next Monday!

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