Interviewing the SteemSTEM Language Curators! - @Carloserp-2000

Interviewing the SteemSTEM Language Curators! - @Carloserp-2000

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The SteemSTEM Curators
# What do they do? Well, their tasks include searching for new STEM authors, evaluating and reviewing STEM articles, conducting thorough searches for plagiarism and suggesting whether or not a STEM article should be upvoted and supported by @steemstem. — A community gets bigger and stronger as its members work together, get to know each other, learn from each other. — ##
Introducing @carloserp-2000!
— In this post @carloserp-2000 is interviewed by @kingabesh! A man with a passion for STEM in general but with a bit more flair for the physics of semiconductor compounds in particular. Carloserp-2000 is definitely a man we all look forward to knowing. If you have any extra questions or thoughts, feel free to let someone from the PR team know! ##
Let’s Go On With That!
Q - Hi Carloserp-2000, thank you for taking the time to reply to our questions! You are one of the very serious industrious people of StemSTEM! Would you please let us know a few things about yourself: What is your real (first) name? What do you do, where are you from, how long — Hello kingabesh my name is Carlos Pagnini. I am from a small town in the Venezuelan Andes. I studied at a prestigious University in my country, specifically the University of Zulia. Currently I work as a researcher, although I do not have much work at the moment. I have about 1 year and a half on Steem, I discovered it thanks to some friends of the University. I like to play sports, I am a soccer fan and the rest of the time I try to share as much as possible with my little daughter Sophi. Q - How long have you been a language curator for SteemSTEM? A - I started in January 2018 with the birth of the Spanish-speaking sub-community (@stem-espanol) — — Q - Do you curate only Spanish language posts? A - Yes, I’m only in charge of checking the publications in Spanish. — Q - How and when did it all start? A - At the end of 2017 I sent a DM to @mobbs and asked if there was the possibility of creating a Spanish-speaking sub-community, because there was a large community of users, and he immediately responded that the idea was very good. He got in touch with @justtryme90 and @lemouth to get their opinions on my proposal. After a few weeks, I received a response and we started the conversations for about 3 weeks. They told me I needed a co-worker. After much planning, STEM-Espanol was founded. — Q - What do the Spanish-speaking authors prefer to write about? Are there significant differences in the topics chosen, between other nationalities and articles in English? A - Sincerely, it is a very varied community, most of the posts are medicine, chemistry and engineering. Although we also have some very good authors in math, biology and of course physics. The difference with the publications of other nationalities is significant, the authors of STEM-Espanol use a very technical-scientific language, that’s a positive thing, but I always recommend that they try to write as digestibly as possible, so that readers can understand the content. And this advice has been useful! — Q - What is the first thing that you take into consideration when curating? A - Unique content, easy to read. With the time I have been a curator, I already know many respected users, most of them are scientists with doctorates, they always write about the area in which they work and they are great articles. Necessarily, the post should not be about any experiment or field work, it can be a personal interpretation of any specific topic. That is why any author can be encouraged to write in STEM as long as their content meets the established standards. — Q - Tell us something that really gives you a great first impression when you see a SteemSTEM post. (It could have to do with the chosen topic, images, structure, lay-out etc) A - The title of the post is very important, a good title calls your attention. Immediately after clicking on the publication, I check the images if they have their licenses and the references at the end of the publication. For me, grammar and spelling are very important, if a publication has flaws with accentuation and spelling errors, I lose interest immediately. Spanish is complicated, but there are many corrective text programs that can help users. And as I mentioned in the previous question, it is important to understand a publication, to have fun reading its content. The idea is to convey the message to a wide audience, it is fabulous when a doctor understands a publication about physics. This translates into a great reward for the author. Q - Do you have a favorite scientific topic that you have fun reading and reviewing over any others? Do you get a chance to read often about it? A - I like publications on pure sciences, physics, chemistry and mathematics. But I love learning new things, lately I’m reading a lot about medicine and I’ve known fabulous subjects. When a publication is well written that does not come from Wikipedia and the content is perfectly transmitted I am HAPPY. — Q - Tell us something that really makes you disappointed or angry when you see a SteemSTEM post. (It could have to do with the chosen topic, images, structure etc) A - I think all the curators are bothered by plagiarism, and I’m no exception! However when a subject is very good and interesting and the author does not work enough to provide good content, that is disappointing! The authors must take advantage of the content and convey their ideas, they must stop being something peresozos and work harder. — Q - What would be your advice to both the old and new authors who wish to join SteemSTEM but do not know where to start? Do you have a channel for Spanish Speaking STEM authors? A - For the ancients, they should continue to publish excellent content, although it is always important to renew so that the readers at some point do not feel bored. For new ones, share content with which you feel familiar, things that you love, that you master perfectly. Also perseverance and humility is important. Many new authors get upset because their articles are not supported and they begin to criticize our work, without first asking what they are failing and how they can improve. We have our official channel in discord https://discord.gg/Fef7p2m where you can go and share your concerns with the curators and collaborators, they can help you improve. They can also talk about any specific topic and have fun interacting healthily. — — Q - What is the meaning of your username and if i may ask, why does it have 2000 attached to it? A - After my name are the initials of my middle name and my two surnames. The 2000 is the name of the favorite video game store, I spent hours playing, my mother very upset, always went to the store to find me because I had to go home to do my homework from school hehehe :P. — — Q - The physics of semiconductor compounds. Can you throw more light on this? Maybe let us know why you find this worth researching and writing on ? A - It is a very broad and interesting field of physics. In particular I enjoy conducting experiments with semiconductors always looking for new results that can be translated into future applications. In my country we have excellent professionals in the area always looking for new compounds that help us solve problems such as electricity. We all know that renewable energies are the future and semiconductors play an essential role in these energies. — — Q - If you could interview anyone from SteemSTEM, who would it be and ask him/her one question now? A - @justtryme90 and @mobbs … when will they show their faces?. :P — — Q - If you had more time to spare, how would you spend it? A - Touring all the countries of europe visinting the soccer stadiums. :D — — Q - What does Science and SteemSTEM mean to you? A - Curiosity, predict, decipher and check. In that order for me is the meaning of science. Without science in my life everything would be boring, everything would be wrong. Is my motivation is a fundamental pillar with my daughter. — — Q - Is there a great scientist that you really admire? Why? A - There are many but especially Stephen Hawking that despite his illness, had the desire to continue contributing to science - it was his great motivation to live. — —- Q - If you could have any job in the world, what would you choose? A - Being a footballer is my frustrated dream because I was very good at playing, but a serious injury interrupted my career and a new love was born, “La Fisica”. — — Q - Besides SteemSTEM, do you have any other Steem-related activities you would like to share? A - Not really, I’m totally committed to SteemSTEM. — —- Q - What is your greatest wish for SteemSTEM? A - We all want, that the project continues to grow and that more users can share their knowledge on this platform. — Q - Where do you see SteemSTEM in 5 years? A - As a consolidated project, famous in all the Universities of the world, where each professional and student from different areas of science contribute their knowledge. —
It was an honor interviewing @carloserp-2000 and I would like to sincerely thank him for finding time to answer my questions. Thank You!
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Season’s greetings from SteemSTEM and a 2018 status report

2018 was an outstanding year for SteemSTEM. The project, founded 2.5 years ago, is now firmly marching towards its grand goal: allowing for the use of Steem as a science communication medium.

Before summarizing all the team’s 2018 accomplishments, we wish all our contributors, supporters, honor members, benefactors and curators our best for the upcoming year.

We will summarize below most of our efforts from 2018. This includes progress in building a STEM community on Steem, the development of our app, what we do in terms of curation and the deployment of our witness and seed nodes.

Community building

Science communication is a vital force worldwide, and we, at SteemSTEM, believe Steem has a significant role to play in this space through SteemSTEM.

To that end we initially focused our attention toward building a community of science and STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) lovers on the Steem blockchain.

By community, we consider both actual scientists that could use Steem to directly communicate about their work and state-of-the-art research, as well as passionate STEM enthusiasts that could share their knowledge freely and enthusiastically view and engage with experts and amateur content creators alike.

We believe that Steem can offer STEM professionals and enthusiasts a social media environment that actively promotes and supports them, through SteemSTEM, without having to rely on any middlemen (like journalists) who interpret raw information and oftentimes introduce inaccuracies.

Steem would hence be a primary source of STEM information for mainstream audiences!

In order achieve this goal, SteemSTEM has started to increase our visibility outside Steem and its community. Information needs to be widely spread and we therefore regularly advertise our actions and specific STEM posts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. We moreover regularly organize meetups in top-notch science places like CERN or Virgo Labs.


The steemstem.io app

Shortly after the summer break, we released our new open source app, steemstem.io, that we believe will become a valuable tool for STEM lovers and researchers to communicate and share information.

Our app is a full interface to Steem, and allows one to undertake any standard action that should be done from a Steem interface. This in particular includes the option to set beneficiaries to a post and to directly delegate some SP to another account.

It chronologically displays English posts carrying the #steemstem tag and approved by the SteemSTEM curation team. The language requirement can be modified (we support the Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Slavic languages providing each sub-community their own custom trending pages), and extra category filters (math, physics, …) can be enforced. The curation requirement can also be removed by the simple click of a button.

Our app finally offers extra exposure to our whitelisted authors and post promotion in the top banner can be purchsed by anyone.

There are still many features to implement before moving away from the beta version of the app, but the to-do list has been reduced by a lot thanks to our one-person development wizard.

In Q1 2019, we plan to continue working out this list, as well as to introduce gamification within the app. We for instance aim to track the best users in terms of engagement, and reward them with a stronger post support and new tokens of appreciations. More details will follow in the coming weeks.


STEM support on Steem and curation

Our curation team searches for original and quality content posted on Steem and related to all STEM fields in seven languages (Chinese, English, French, Italian, German, Slavic and Spanish) through our support to several sub-communities (cn-stem, de-stem, francostem, itastem, stemng, stem-espanol and yu-stem).

Curators decide on the voting strength applied for each qualifying post, this reccomendation is then re-affirmed by a separte curator. Upvotes could be small (5%: encouragement or motivation), medium (20%: informative post on a given topic), standard (65%: post going beyond what could be found elsewhere) or high (100%: information on state-of-the-art research generally not available anywhere else).

Upvotes by the @steemstem account additionally trigger, under certain conditions (usually the best posts), a voting trail consisting of other initiatives like @curie or @utopian-io, as well as generous support from independent curators.

Within this scheme, getting higher support corresponds to bringing something to Steem that cannot be found anywhere else (cutting-edge science, novel and/or non-standard way of presenting a topic, etc.).

On different lines, SteemSTEM has started to build a repository of open-source images that could be requested by authors and used in STEM posts. This initiative, called stem-art, is supported by the SteemSTEM project. We make sure contributing artists are provided a reward for their work.

The picture below summarizes the number of posts and authors that we support since the creation of the project.

In these hard times (let’s say the last three months), the SteemSTEM community includes on a more or less stable basis about 75 authors who write a total of about 100 posts each week.

Taking the entire 2018 year into account, SteemSTEM supported 1341 unique authors who wrote 9906 posts.


Witness and node

SteemSTEM is also proud to play a role in maintaining the Steem blockchain through the deployment of a witness (@stem.witness) and a seed node (seed.steemstem.io:2001) during the last quarter of 2018.


Wishing you all an amazing New Year, we invite you to join our Discord server and stay tuned for more exciting news, soon!


Make sure to follow SteemSTEM on steemstem.io, Steemit, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to always be up-to-date on our latest news and ideas. Please also consider to support the project by delegating to @steemstem for a ROI of 65% of our curation rewards (quick delegation links: 50SP | 100SP | 500SP | 1000SP | 5000SP | 10000SP).


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SteemSTEM Distilled #87

Welcome to the 87th issue of SteemSTEM Distilled, a curation effort by the members of the @steemstem team.

SteemSTEM aims to make Steem a better place for STEM, a task which we believe crucial for the long-term development of the blockchain. Our goals consist in invigorating and inspiring the minds of a community of STEM aficionados on Steem, targeting on the long-term the upgrade of SteemSTEM as a real platform for science communication. In the meantime, this goes through the support of quality, interesting and cutting-edge STEM content. For more details, a recent update on the SteemSTEM project is available here. If you want to discuss with us, please do not hesitate to join the steemSTEM discord server.
In order to support the best STEM content on Steem, our team scours the blockchain and read more than several hundreds of STEM-related posts per week. We hence support about 100 of these posts, and present in this distilled our top 6 handpicked choices for the last week. ##
Monday - Wednesday
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### How to Earn a Nobel Prize Part 3: Greg Winter
Our Christmas issue begins with an amazing @steemstem author, @tking77798, and his very interesting series of Nobel prize winners. In this episode we get to see Greg Winter’s remarkable work on antibody reshaping for therapeutic purposes. An important man with an even more important piece of work. Read on to learn more!
### Careful What You Say… The Forest Has Ears.
Moving on to find another great post written by @sustainablyyours. A walk in the forest brings lots of weird encounters and in this post you will meet with a strange fungus in the shape of… an ear! Did we get you intrigued enough? Then follow the link to read more about it!

Wednesday - Friday


### The biology and physics of wound healing
Let’s move on to another wonderful piece by @scienceblocks. Do you want to learn how wound healing works? Then you’ve come to the right place! Here you will learn about the organs and mechanisms that work together every time a body deals with a wound.
### Reviving a vintage Transmission Electron Microscope - The Philips EM 420 (part 1).
Do we have any tech geeks here? Because the next post will impress you! Watch as @roguescientist84 is trying to bring a vintage Transmission Electron Microscope back to life. Ok, now we got you ready for the second part of the series! Stay tuned for it!

Saturday - Sunday


### Overview Of Diabetes In Pregnancy
As we’re heading to the end of this issue, we come across a very interesting and well-written post by @n4zrizulkafli about diabetes and pregnancy. A very good health post that certainly deserves a read from you!
### Surviving the Holidays. Psychology Christmas Special
And we’ll be closing this issue with a special post on ‘Christmas psychology’ written by @insight-out. Why is it that instead of enjoying a relaxing holiday break, we stress ourselves over things like gift shopping, family fights over the Christmas table and shedding of those extra holiday pounds we’ve gained before the holidays even begin? Worry not, friends, as @insight-out has found the way to survive and enjoy this time of the year and is here to share her secrets with us! Don’t miss reading this beautiful post and don’t forget to appreciate this festive period before it comes to an end!

A few words about the nomination process


For some time, the editorial team behind this distilled series is made of a one-woman-team, @ruth-girl, and she chooses her favorite posts (potentially discussing with other curators and/or the management). Posts written by the SteemSTEM team are excluded from the nomination process.

Please do not be discouraged if you did not make it on this issue. We are picking up in total 6 posts a week out of more than 150-200. The chances are thus low ;) In the meantime, you may wish to check these guidelines for extra tips on how your writing could be more effective.


Authors upvoted by the SteemSTEM team


In the spirit of being transparent about our actions that are now supported by @utopian-io, @curie, our delegators, our trailers and our manual curator supporters, we release every week the list of authors who have caught the attention of the @steemstem curation team.

From December 16 to 22, we rewarded 77 different authors who have written a total of 111 different articles. The 59 authors who received votes from @steemstem, potentially with either @utopian-io, @curie or both, are:

@abcallen, @abdulmath, @aellly, @aleestra, @alexaivytorres, @amart29, @amestyj, @anaestrada12, @anasav, @carlos84, @chloe1, @conficker, @deanliu, @djredimi2, @elvigia, @emiliomoron, @emynb, @endopediatria, @ericet, @erickyoussif, @fancybrothers, @felixrodriguez, @gokhan83kurt, @honoru, @insight-out, @irelandscape, @joseangelvs, @josedelacruz, @jrevilla, @julian2013, @lauch3d, @littlemix, @livinguktaiwan, @lupafilotaxia, @markgritter, @masterwu, @merynerleo, @mike961, @miroslavrc, @moncia90, @mr-aaron, @n4zrizulkafli, @oflyhigh, @osita21, @rbalzan79, @rifkan, @roguescientist84, @rscalabrini, @ryanshan25, @samminator, @sasaadrian, @scienceblocks, @softmetal, @sustainablyyours, @terrylovejoy, @tking77798, @tomastonyperez, @tomatom, @tsoldovieri, @yhubi, @zen-art


[Credits: @hightouch]



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



See you all next MonTuesday!


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Interviewing the SteemSTEM sub-community curators! - @LaMouthe

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The Curators of SteemSTEM
What do they do? Well, their tasks include searching for new STEM authors, evaluating and reviewing STEM articles, conducting thorough searches for plagiarism and they are the people who will suggest whether or not a STEM article has to be upvoted and supported by @steemstem. — A community gets bigger and stronger as its members work together, get to know each other, learn from each other. Evolve. Flourish. — ######
Introducing .. @lamouthe!
In this post @lamouthe is interviewed by @katerinaramm! With a passion about technology, nature, health, nature … @Lamouthe is one of the very respected persons in the steem blockchain and especially among the French Community! I am sure that many of you would like to know more about her so.. without any further due, let us get to know @Lamouthe a little bit better! If you have any extra questions or thoughts, feel free to let someone from the PR team know! ##
Let’s shed some light!
Q - Hi @LaMouthe, thank you for taking the time to reply to our questions! You are one of the very serious, pleasant and if I may say ‘Calm’ people of StemSTEM! Would you please let us know a few things about yourself: What is your real (first) name? What do you do, where are you from, how long have you been on Steem and what are your hobbies? A - My name is Emmanuelle. I come from a little village in the north of Montreal, in Quebec, and I finished my nursing training in 1999. In 2003, I went to work in Switzerland. There, I traveled a lot and met extraordinary people. At work, I did a special training in emergency care and a research work. I discovered how passionate my field was, how much I enjoy doing researches and also, how much I needed to understand the “how” of things! In the same period, I met @lemouth, a researcher in particule physics.Q - How long have you been a language curator for SteemSTEM? A - I have been an official curator since this summer (2018), but I have been reading and looking for STEEM French articles for @lemouth for several months. He got tired of me spoiling his skype, so I became a curator. — — Q - Do you curate only French Posts? A - Actually, I do curation only for French-language articles.Q - How and when did it all start? A - As I said, by spoiling the skype of @lemouth!Q - What do the French-speaking authors prefer to write about? Are there significant differences in the topics chosen, between other nationalities and articles in English? A - There are actually very few French-speaking authors. One of our regular authors write about medical topics, a few others about technologies. We also have a few authors who are not “specialists” but very curious about almost everything and who write various kind of articles.Q - What is the first thing that you take into consideration when curating? A - If the text is easy to read and with a “correct” French. Sometimes, “google translate” is NOT the best friend of authors…Q - Tell us something that really gives you a great first impression when you see a SteemSTEM post. (It could have to do with the chosen topic, images, structure etc) A - The structure of the text is something I find very important. When there is no images, no paragraph splitting and just one big bloc of text, even if the topic is really interesting, I know it will be “hard” and painful to read…Q - Do you have a favorite scientific topic that you have fun reading and reviewing over any others? Do you get a chance to read often about it? A - Since I am a nurse, the majority of topics related to health, medicine, psychology and biology will be of particular interest to me. Sadly, I don’t always have enought time to read as much as I would like about those topics in English…Q - Tell us something that really makes you disappointed or angry when you see a SteemSTEM post. (It could have to do with the chosen topic, images, structure etc) A - Plagiarism!!! At first, I did not find this type of articles very quickly. I used to spend a lot of time reading articles that were often very interesting, checking out sources and discovering that it was just a copy-paste of a site or very awkward Wikipedia rewriting… So in the end, I was losing a lot time on authors who did not produce articles on their own. That was very frustrating!Q - What would be your advice to both the old and new authors who wish to join SteemSTEM but do not know where to start? Do you have a channel for French Speaking STEM authors? A - I would have two advices. The first is to write about a subject that interests the author. It’s always more funny to read an article from an author who enjoyed and was passionate about writing it! The second advice concerns the length of the post: it has to be neither too long, nor too short. Usually between 1000 and 1500 words yields a post that reads well. Shorter posts are sometimes good enough, but often the subject has simply not been covered deeply enough. On the other hand, If it’s too long, either there are too many details, or it would be better to write several articles on the subject … We also have a discord server “francostem“ where people can ask their questions. Also, please do not hesitate to follow the (currently almost sleeping) @francostem blog. — — Q - Do you curate the French articles posted by @lemouth? A - In fact, it is rather him who does the double curation on French-speaking articles … including mine! But of course, when he posts in French, his articles are also supported by SteemSTEM. — — Q - Would you have any remarks to share regarding @lemouth’s scientific posts? Would you like to see different topics, or any changes in the formating of his posts? A - No, because his articles are very different from what is usually found in French. We understand that he is a true scientist who masters his subject. He also manages to popularize very complex subjects and it brings a real benefit to the French community. Many readers want more articles of this type, but there are few authors currently … — — Q - If you could interview anyone from SteemSTEM, who would it be and ask him/her one question now? A - @lemouth: What do you want to eat next week ?Q - If you had more time to spare, how would you spend it? A - Write more frequently!!! And also, take time to read on topics I like… in English. — — Q - What does Science and SteemSTEM is to you? A - SteemSTEM consists in a way to discover science on the Internet with people capable of critical thinking. Today, we find plenty of informations and it is sometimes difficult to distinguish the true from the false. With SteemSTEM, we have the opportunity to discover scientific articles of all levels and topics, but above all, to have the pros, cons and counter-opinions of other scientists …
Q - Is there a great scientist that you really admire? And Why? A - euh… @lemouth again ? Because he is travelling so much! ;) — Q - Do you do any cool scientific experiments with your children? Have you thought of ways to make them get interested in science? A - I have already posted some articles about small experiences that I realized with our oldest son. He is a very curious child who likes to understand things in depth. We always try to help him satisfying his curiosity by searching with him the answers to his questions, no matter which topics he addresses. We also take every single opportunity to arouse his curiosity. There are also many museums for children, where they can touch everything and experiment the sciences with their senses and are great to awaken children to science … —- Q - If you could have any job in the world, what would you choose? A - Writing my posts on an island with wifi and pina colada!!Q - Besides SteemSTEM, do you have any other steem related activities you would like to share? A - Actually, it is hard for me to find time to do anything else at the moment… — —- Q - What is your wish for SteemSTEM? A - That the SteemSTEM platform becomes big enough to be known by scientists from all over the world…Q - Where do you see yourself in 5 years? A - About the same as now… but with more time for myself!
It was an honor to be able to interview @lamouthe and I sincerely would like to thank her from my heart for taking the time to answer my questions. Thank You!
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SteemSTEM Distilled #86

Welcome to the 86th issue of SteemSTEM Distilled, a curation effort by the members of the @steemstem team.

SteemSTEM aims to make Steem a better place for STEM, a task which we believe crucial for the long-term development of the blockchain. Our goals consist in invigorating and inspiring the minds of a community of STEM aficionados on Steem, targeting on the long-term the upgrade of SteemSTEM as a real platform for science communication. In the meantime, this goes through the support of quality, interesting and cutting-edge STEM content. For more details, a recent update on the SteemSTEM project is available here. If you want to discuss with us, please do not hesitate to join the steemSTEM discord server.
In order to support the best STEM content on Steem, our team scours the blockchain and read more than several hundreds of STEM-related posts per week. We hence support about 100 of these posts, and present in this distilled our top 6 handpicked choices for the last week. ##
Monday - Wednesday
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### A: What are liquid crystals?
This week let us begin with a post by @maticpecovnik discussing something that we all use quite frequently in our television, monitors and laptop screens! Liquid crystals! This post was created as an answer to a question on the STEEM based STEM question-and-answer platform stemQ, check it out!
### Ants: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Here we have a nice extensive post on an animal that has a collective mass which exceeds that of all humans on earth; the ant. Crawl on into this lovely work by @agmoore and learn something about one of the earth’s great builders.

Wednesday - Friday


### What Movies Have Done Wrong
Do you get annoyed at bad science in movies and TV? If you answer yes to that you are clearly of the same mind as our very own @conficker. In this post, @conficker goes into the details of some common mistakes that movie makers have made in their attempts to entertain us. Perhaps we need to watch them with a different mindset, accepting that the world of the movie is not reality! Nevertheless, take a gander into the work @conficker has provided for us here!
### How to Cope with Stress. (Part 5) Humor and Friends
If you are anything like me, you are regularly under loads of stress! Coming up with effective mechanisms to cope isn’t always intuitive. Here @insight-out continues her well-done series on how to do just that. Read here about how something that people on the internet don’t have (friends) can help you cope with your stress.

Saturday - Sunday


### Do not stay in the way of love between Magnesium and your body! :)
This one is for all the divalent cation (M2+) lovers in the house. @zen-art takes us on a deep dive into the love between our bodies and Magnesium, a metal with a whole host of essential functions from allowing our muscles to move, to enabling the replication of our DNA. Eat your leafy greens and take some time to learn with @zen-art, ensure your body has the nutrients it needs to keep you happy and healthy.
### How to live healthy? Part 5: What should I do?
Another week, another fantastic post by @chappertron. Here he finishes his series on how to live healthy, by summing up what we all need to do to keep our telomeres long (without upregulating telomerase and giving ourselves cancer :P). He also provides a nice background section on telomeres themselves! There have been a plethora of opportunities to learn from his series, and this conclusion is no exception, check it out!

A few words about the nomination process


For some time, the editorial team behind this distilled series is made of a one-woman-team, @ruth-girl, and she chooses her favorite posts (potentially discussing with other curators and/or the management). Posts written by the SteemSTEM team are excluded from the nomination process.

Please do not be discouraged if you did not make it on this issue. We are picking up in total 6 posts a week out of more than 150-200. The chances are thus low ;) In the meantime, you may wish to check these guidelines for extra tips on how your writing could be more effective.


Authors upvoted by the SteemSTEM team


In the spirit of being transparent about our actions that are now supported by @utopian-io, @curie, our delegators, our trailers and our manual curator supporters, we release every week the list of authors who have caught the attention of the @steemstem curation team.

From December X to X, we rewarded X different authors who have written a total of X different articles. The X authors who received votes from @steemstem, potentially with either @utopian-io, @curie or both, are:

Stats to be provided upon the availability of the stat master.


[Credits: @hightouch]



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



See you all next MonTuesday!


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SteemSTEM Distilled #85

Welcome to the 85th issue of SteemSTEM Distilled, a curation effort by the members of the @steemstem team.

SteemSTEM aims to make Steem a better place for STEM, a task which we believe crucial for the long-term development of the blockchain. Our goals consist in invigorating and inspiring the minds of a community of STEM aficionados on Steem, targeting on the long-term the upgrade of SteemSTEM as a real platform for science communication. In the meantime, this goes through the support of quality, interesting and cutting-edge STEM content. For more details, a recent update on the SteemSTEM project is available here. If you want to discuss with us, please do not hesitate to join the steemSTEM discord server.
In order to support the best STEM content on Steem, our team scours the blockchain and read more than several hundreds of STEM-related posts per week. We hence support about 100 of these posts, and present in this distilled our top 6 handpicked choices for the last week. ##
Monday - Wednesday
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### How to live healthy? Part 4: How can I get to the truth?
This week let us begin with a continuation of @chappertron’s delightful ‘How to live healthy?’ series! The focus of this article revolves around statistics (I know, I know… you would’t think this is an interesting topic, but I assure you it is… in this post at least!!), which in our modern world is much more relevant to you than you might think! In this post @chappertron does a wonderful job illustrating some of the difficulties surrounding statistical analysis and interpretation of P-Values, P-hacking, and how perhaps Block Chain technology can play a role in helping! All done through the entertaining example of Steemit Vs. Facebook! Check it out!
### Through the Solar System - Venus
Lets bring some Space back into the mix! Here @svemirac continues taking us ‘Through the Solar System’ in his series of the same name. The celestial body of focus is Venus! In this nice and brief post he takes us through some comparisons between Venus and our own Earth and also displays some available information with regards to the physical properties of the planet as determined by probes. Shoot on by and increase your space knowledge!

Wednesday - Friday


### Logical Fallacies - Are you being manipulated (or manipulating) with bad arguments?
Do you spend time arguing on the internet? If you do, you likely come across logical fallacies on a very regular basis (ad hominem, and post hoc ergo proctor hoc are exceedingly common). Spend some time reading this work by @zen-art to learn more about these manipulative, illogical arguments. Being able to better identify them in the statements of others, or even in yourself will help you become a more effective communicator of logical thought, and perhaps even a destroyer of poor logic on the web!
### Can we model the Neolithic transition with fossil pollen?
Now we arrive at @samve and his wonderful post! He discusses some work using pollen in fossils to confirm the transition of humans in europe from a more hunter-gatherer society to a farming based one (neolithic). Never before this post have I found ancient pollen samples more interesting!

Saturday - Sunday


### HIV prophylaxis
Join @hitsug in learning about HIV and protecting yourself from exposure during sexual activities. As he succintly states to the question “How can I avoid HIV infection?” should not have to be “don’t have sex.”
### Let’s see what is deep inside of our body! What kind of effect calcium, sodium and potassium ions have?
Let us end this week’s distilled with a text book quality biochemistry/cellular biology deep dive into the roles of calcium, sodium, and potassium in our bodies. In this post @anasav has put together a detailed depiction of a variety of biochemical pathways, and the respecive ion channels and proteins involved in the shuttling of these essential metal ions into and out of our cells. Check it out!

A few words about the nomination process


For some time, the editorial team behind this distilled series is made of a one-woman-team, @ruth-girl, and she chooses her favorite posts (potentially discussing with other curators and/or the management). Posts written by the SteemSTEM team are excluded from the nomination process. This week however, our one woman powerhouse needed a quick break. To facilitate this @justtryme90 stepped in and did his best to uphold the quality she puts forth on a weekly basis for you all.

Please do not be discouraged if you did not make it on this issue. We are picking up in total 6 posts a week out of more than 150-200. The chances are thus low ;) In the meantime, you may wish to check these guidelines for extra tips on how your writing could be more effective.


Authors upvoted by the SteemSTEM team


In the spirit of being transparent about our actions that are now supported by @utopian-io, @curie, our delegators, our trailers and our manual curator supporters, we release every week the list of authors who have caught the attention of the @steemstem curation team.

From November 26 to December 2, we rewarded X different authors who have written a total of Y different articles. The Z authors who received votes from @steemstem, potentially with either @utopian-io, @curie or both, are:

Stats to be filled in upon availability of our stat-wizard.


[Credits: @hightouch]



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



See you all next MonTuesday!


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