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.
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Monday - Wednesday
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A: What are liquid crystals?
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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!
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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
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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!
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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
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Do not stay in the way of love between Magnesium and your body! :)
This one is for all the divalent cation (M
2+) 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.
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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!