SteemSTEM Distilled #93

Welcome to the 93^rd 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 and the active development of our app, steemstem.io.
By the way, do not hesitate to set @steemstem as a beneficiary to your post and to use the steemstem.io app. Stronger upvotes (up to 10% more) can be expected. Moreover, feel free to join the SteemSTEM discord server to discuss with us and meet us.

We present in this distilled our top 4 handpicked choices for the last week out about 100 posts weekly supported by the projet (out of several hundreds of STEM-related posts in total that our curators are reading). This week’s distilled highlights were selected once again by @lemouth. Today is party day: four posts were selected instead of 3!
Please do not be discouraged if you did not make it on this issue. The chances to be picked are low. In the meantime, you may wish to check these guidelines for extra tips on how your writing could be more effective.

Monday - Thursday (first half)

Developing a Developmental Biology Lab – Roundabout Sex Determination

SteemSTEM proudly supports @tking77798 and his project of designing lab classes in developmental biology (and publishinh them on SteemSTEM). Today, he is not discussing placenta eating at all (yes, this is a thing… apparently…), but how to make use of DNA and a placenta to determine the sex of a child.

Practical Astronomy - Measuring the distance to the moon

If you are not a big fan of playing with blood, maybe is astronomy a better topic four you. @terrylovejoy started to design a series of practical astronomy lessons. Once again, SteemSTEM is proud to fully support this initiative. In the lecture of last week, you will learn how to measure easily (more or less :p) the distance to the moon (without getting there)!

Thursday (second half) - Sunday

Could the Formosan clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa brachyura) still be extant in the dense jungles of Taiwan?

Is the Formosan clouded leopard really extinct. I would say yes, but this is not what everybody thinks. What is your opinion on this topic? if you do not have any, feel free to read this post from @valth in which you will get more information first on the animal itself, and second on the origins of there rumours.

Being Diagnosed With Lung Cancer; Wait A Minute, I’m Not A Smoker?!

One of the most frequent cancer yielding death is definitely lung cancer. This holds for smokers of course, but not only. Everyone in the same basket here. And this is the intriguing fact @n4zrizulkafli is after, trying to find some correlations in the numbers.

Statistics

Statistics are still busy. Water-pony is done and today it is the turn of practicing our strwaberry tasting abitlities. Hopefully, stats will be back next week…

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See you all next MonTuesday!

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