SteemSTEM Distilled #95

Welcome to the 95^th issue of SteemSTEM Distilled, a curation effort by the members of the @steemstem team.

Let's try to make distilled great again! Or at least let's try to make it a routine again. Our one-man-team has worked hard today, and managed to select a few posts representative of the SteemSTEM activity of last week!

Before moving on with the posts, let us advertise the steemstem.io app (whose version v0.7 has just been released) a little bit. Why should you use the app? Well maybe for one of the below reasons.

• Posting an article through the app automatically yields a 5% stronger upvote at curation time.
• Posting a reply to an article (or to another reply) allows one to get selected for a motivation (2-4%) SteemSTEM upvote.
• On different lines, setting @steemstem as a beneficiary to the post automatically yields a stronger upvote (up to 5% stronger).

Moreover, feel free to join the SteemSTEM discord server to discuss with us and meet us.

^{[image credits: @medro-martin]}

We present in this distilled our top three handpicked post choices for the last week, out of about 100 weekly supported posts (from several hundreds of STEM-related posts on Steem). This week's distilled highlights were selected once again by @lemouth, and statistics (that are more and more complete) are given at the end of this post.

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.

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The posts

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How human carbon emissions mess with archaeology

It may sound logical. Anything related with the amount of carbon in the atmosphere may be impacted with climate changes (that are connected with carbon emission by humans). Subsequently, archeology, that often relies on dating artefacts with the concentration of radioactive carbon-14 in them, cannot escape this. @samve brings the topic in his post, together with comprehensively explaining how carbon-14 dating works.

The Double Helix, Photo 51 and the Challenge of Priority: Who Gets Credit in Science?

A story such as those we do not like to hear. @agmoore tells us everything discovery of the double-helix structure of the DNA. From who took the first picture of it, who got the credits and the Nobel prize for it and how the truth got the be known. A lot of not so great behaviors in this story, unfortunately. Science is not always a dream...

The Organic Fraud

What we eat is very important and we probably all agree on this. Our friend @midhunkm discusses this topic in his post, and focuses in particular on the current trend about organic food and the fact that not everything originating from nature is actually safe to eat. This brings in the problem that some pseudoscientists may try to sell natural products curing all diseases on Earth, and more. Feel free to read the post and participate to the discussion.

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Statistics

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Last week, the SteemSTEM curator teams have supported 85 posts written by 52 authors. 13 of these posts have been posted through the app (and got a 5% stronger upvote). Among these 85 posts, we find:

• 41 small upvotes (less than 20%)
• 23 medium upvotes (in the 20%-50% range)
• 21 large upvotes (larger than 50%)

In addition, we have upvoted 103 comments posted through the app, written by 13 authors.

The list of upvoted post authors, potentially getting some extra support from @curie and/or @utopian-io, is:
@a-condor, @aellly, @agmoore, @alchemage, @alexander.alexis, @alexs1320, @anaestrada12, @answerswithjoe, @astromaniac, @bettervision, @carloserp-2000, @cervantes, @chappertron, @chemicalweek, @cheva, @crazy-facts, @cryptoeater, @doitvoluntarily, @drifter1, @emiliomoron, @emperorhassy, @eniolw, @erh.germany, @etcmike, @fancybrothers, @hongtao, @joelagbo, @joseangelvs, @kralizec, @laylahsophia, @lemouth, @magicmonk, @maribelf, @matkodurko, @medro-martin, @midhunkm, @miroslavrc, @mountainjewel, @nelinoeva, @newton666, @phage93, @rhemakosi, @robertyan, @samve, @spectrumecons, @stem-espanol, @tdre, @tomastonyperez, @undead-writer, @whizzydom, @wlakinsson, @yu-stem

The list of upvoted comment authors is: @alexander.alexis, @carloserp-2000, @eliaschess333, @emiliomoron, @emperorhassy, @eniolw, @iamphysical, @justtryme90, @lemouth, @lupafilotaxia, @qiyi, @scienceblocks, @tking77798

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

See you all next MonTuesday!