SteemSTEM Distilled #22

in steemstem •  7 years ago  (edited)

Welcome to the 22nd 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


NITROGEN --- A BIT OF CHEMISTRY AND MORE OF LIFE.


Just like the title implies, the amazing element of life, Nitrogen is much more present and important than we think. Taking up almost 4/5 of the earth's atmosphere, it is an element worth learning more about and @whileponderin gives us a great presentation in his post!



Cockroaches Explained: Useful or Just A Disgusting Insect?


You hate them, you find them disgusting, but there are cuisines that have them on their menu. Coackroaches, those Die Hard insects are more amazing than disgusting and studying them has a lot to offer. Check out this post from @filotasriza3, maybe when finishing it you will despise them a little less.





Friday


The Uyuni Salt Flats in Bolivia are Powering Half the World's Batteries

Our wonderful @kerriknox takes us on a trip to discover the amazing salt flats of Salar De Uyuni. Follow her steps and learn more about the place that provides us with the lithium that powers almost half of the world's batteries. Who knows, maybe your phone is powered by a nature's wonder!




Microwave Ovens: Turning waves into weapons


We bless the man who invented them, but do we know how these appliances that so conveniently heat up or even cook our food work? @henrychidiebere explains it very well in his post about microwaves and how a technology used so widely is communications and satellites, is finally adjusted to help us in the kitchen.



Saturday


Neurotheology - What the Heck Is That?!


@saunter introduces us to Neurotheology a bizarre "mixture of scientific approach to unusual phenomena, undeveloped methodology, strange marketing and (above all) attempts to understand the important area of our lives - faith and spiritual life."




Criminаl Psychology: The motivаtion of the Frаudster


In this exciting chapter criminal phychology @dysfunctional teaches us about the factors that motivate the fraudster and why it is important to understand their motivations.




Sunday


EGYPTOLOGY: The Hibis Temple at Kharga Oasis in Egypt



@laylahsophia continues her tour on Ancient Egypt, taking us this time in the Hibis Temple, one of the most impressive temples of the Late Period (664–332 BC) up to the Greco-Roman Period (332 BC to 395 AD) of Ancient Egypt.




Cutting, Pasting, Cloning, and GMOs



Until the 1960s scientists knew the genetic code was made up of 4 letters and that's pretty much all! Just a long chain of 4 letters one after the other with no clear boundaries of where one gene ended and another began. But as @alexander.alexis explained in his latest post, all that changed whenscientists came up with methods to cut, paste, and then clone DNA.




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, @ruth-girl and @trumpman.

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 21 to January 28, we rewarded 151 different authors who have written a total of 243 different articles. The authors who received both a @steemstem and a @curie vote that week are:

@abigail-dantes, @ajpacheco1610, @akeelsingh, @alexander.alexis, @alexbeyman, @altherion, @amavi, @amity123, @anibalmdz, @asaj, @atheneav, @azman, @blessing97, @callumogilvy, @carlaro, @carlgbush, @chotho, @churchboy, @cpufronz, @cristi, @cuarzo05, @dandymee, @darkiche, @dber, @dedicatedguy, @djredimi2, @doctorcro, @donfelix, @drifter1, @drkomoo, @dysfunctional, @elith, @elyvelasquezleon, @ememovic, @emily61, @engineer.jocs, @erh.germany, @ertwro, @exercisinghealth, @fancybrothers, @filotasriza3, @fitdoc, @frankjavier, @fredrikaa, @geniusvillain, @giovaabbatichio, @gmaktub, @gotgame, @gregan, @grider123, @hadji, @hellofuture, @henrychidiebere, @herverisson, @hidden84, @highonthehog, @himal, @ideas-abstractas, @illuminatus, @irime, @irza, @ixindamix, @jakedriftwood, @jakipatryk, @jamhuery, @jaydurella, @jc21.ramos, @jefpatat, @jennifer.jimenez, @jepper, @joseferrer, @josevbc, @juanjdiaz89, @katerinaramm, @kaydee, @keephy, @ksolymosi, @lamexicana, @leczy, @lefactuoscope, @lesshorrible, @lets-tech, @louic, @maikelsoto, @mariaentela, @marverick984, @maurelvys, @mayowadavid, @mcw, @mihaitecnology, @mike11, @mikekenlytungal, @mirkon86, @mlaura, @mountain.phil28, @mountainwashere, @munawar1235, @muphy, @mystifact, @nawamy, @nedspeaks, @nitesh9, @noble-noah, @nonationnoborder, @oluwabori, @oscarcc89, @osita21, @osmerj, @pangoli, @pario, @pearlumie, @plotbot2015, @preciousdave, @prometheus21, @proteus-h, @punjolife, @rickie, @robotics101, @rocking-dave, @rscalabrini, @samminator, @sary, @scienceangel, @sciencegeek, @scisteem, @sco, @shodiya, @simplifylife, @soleil-research, @stats-n-lats, @sustainablyyours, @sward, @taborda-charrouf, @techmojo, @technocracy, @tensor, @terrylovejoy, @tfcoates, @theinsideout, @thelonelydev, @thinkingmind, @tkappa, @top5attractions, @treslotos, @tsoldovieri, @turpsy, @ugonma, @uzochukwu, @valth, @voghera, @whentone, @woleybabz, @yoes, @zouxx

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

See you all next Thursday!

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Congratulations to everyone. A slight reduction with respect to next week in therms of the number of authors 7-8% less) and in the number of voted posts, but the number is still large. And guess what, the number has restarted increasing for the next week. But for that information, you will have to wait a little bit ;)

Thanks for your generous support, it has given me motivation to write more

It is our pleasure :)

Solid articles this issue. Congrats everyone!

What more can I say? SteemSTEM is one of the best things that has happened to the steemit science community.
Keep up the good works great STEMers.
SteemSTEM rocks

One of? ;)

@justtryme90 : steemSTEM is the best thing I guess in steemit. May be we are biased. :)

:D

Lol. The best thing actually. I was just being conservative :D

I think he was meaning steemSTEM and stemng :D

Word, brother :)

in this episot 22 i want to join you .. i want to learn many things here .. i need support from these members, let me join and please provide the latest information for me ... best regards for you and all colleagues in @steemstem

Thank you steemstem for all your amazing support in the science community. Awesome

And thanks to you for your contribution :)

Congratulations to all of the winning posts/authors!

Gracias por el apoyo de verdad que es una excelente comunidad, y cada dia creciendo más de la mano de #stem-espanol

De nada! Is that proper Spanish?

thanks a lot for included me!! i am so excited!!!
if you wanna read my post and at the same time you eat, i suggest to finish your launch first :P

lol

excelent

Wow, congrats guys!

You are simply great!

Good news everyone!

I haven't invented anything! But it's good to see that steemstem is still going strong!

The publications are very good. Thank you for increasing our knowledge and the desire to continue discovering about the world we live and everything that surrounds us.

The pleasure is for us, really :D

Exelente, gracias por todo el apoyo y sigan así para que podamos seguir creciendo en esta comunidad.

Okay, Been waiting about 4 hours for the title to be edited cos there was a mistake, but it seems the authors couldn't spot it. So, can you kindly change the "TH" in the 22 to “ND" so it reads 22ND Issue not 22TH ? By the way, nice job guys!

Good catch! Fixed :D

This was just a copy-paste error from our template ;)

So my post today thank you for visiting my blog @ bebangsunan

good basic informative posts

I want to join with @steemstem in discord. Can u guys give me a link? Thank you

Thanks for the support guys :)

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