And here we are for the 8^th edition of the *distilled* of the best articles posted within the STEMsocial community. STEMsocial is actively pushing for **engagement**, which we find a bit weak at the present time. Therefore, feel free to read and comment the posts of all featured authors of the week! Note that if you use [our app](https://stem.openhive.network), your comments are eligible for a small upvote from STEMsocial! For those who do not know what STEMsocial is, please take a look [here](https://stem.openhive.network/#!/faq), or pass by Discord, the Hive Chat, Twitter or Facebook.

Before moving on with the two best posts that have been selected (by @lemouth) from all the posts found by our curators last week, here are the most supported ones: | Author | Title | | ------ | ------ | | @lemouth| Scotino dark matter and the unification of the fundamental forces| | @lupafilotaxia| Elaeis guineensis Oil Palm as a material of agronomic and economic interest of the Arecaceae family| | @gentleshaid| Should Nigerians go vegan to tackle herdsmen crisis?| | @girolamomarotta| Can Sartans and ACE inhibitors favor Covid-19 infection?| | @terrylovejoy| Comet ATLAS - The Ups and Downs| | @pibara| Why a herd immunity geared pollicy is a dangrous gamble and what alternatives we have.| Interested in being part of that list? Please check these guidelines or ask for a mentor on Discord or on the Hive Chat.

Our top choices

Learning science through movies: the Faraday shield

Sometimes, movies are not that accurate that we may think of. In his last post, @hadji reports about a home-made experiment aiming at verifying the use of a microwave oven as a Faraday cage as presented in a movie (to save us from terrorists of course). Interestingly enough, it works, at least when the bomb 9from the movie) is replaced by a Wifi device!

Comet ATLAS - The Ups and Downs

One of the STEMsocial astrophotographer, @terrylovejoy, is back with us on Hive to share some of his pictures of a new comet named ATLAS and that has been found a few months ago. In his post, it is possible to follow the evolution of the comet over time, from March 2020 to today, thanks to a set of amazing pictures.

Statistics

STEMSocial offers support to anyone using our app, stem.openhive.network. We recall that:

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) from the app can sometimes yield some support.
Setting @stemsocial as a beneficiary to the post automatically yields a stronger upvote (up to 5%).

Last week, the STEMsocial curator team has supported 69 posts written by 51 authors. 15 of these posts have been posted through the app (and got a 5% stronger upvote). Among these 69 posts, we find:

34 small upvotes (less than 20%)
23 medium upvotes (in the 20%-50% range)
12 large upvotes (larger than 50%)

In addition, we have upvoted 36 comments posted through the app, written by 11 authors. The list of upvoted post authors is: @acont, @agmoore, @aqua.nano, @azulear, @borjan, @capp, @carlos84, @chapette, @dkmathstats, @eliaschess333, @emperorhassy, @empressteemah, @enforcer48, @faltermann, @geekgirl, @gentleshaid, @giantbear, @girolamomarotta, @hadji, @helengutier2, @iptrucs, @jmkengineering, @jringo, @latm, @lemouth, @lemouth-dev, @lorenzor, @loveforlove, @lupafilotaxia, @maribelf, @medro-martin, @mengene, @minismallholding, @nattybongo, @nazer, @newton666, @oluwoleolaide, @ozelot47, @pibara, @riccc96, @rnunez09, @scalextrix, @stem-espanol, @terrylovejoy, @themarkymark, @theophile.roos, @tomastonyperez, @ulisesfl17, @wilmer14molina, @ydavgonzalez, @yongleantonio The comments that have been upvoted are from: @agmoore, @carlos84, @eliaschess333, @emiliomoron, @gentleshaid, @hadji, @lemouth, @lupafilotaxia, @rbalzan79, @scienceblocks, @wilmer14molina

All curation rewards earned are used to fund the STEMsocial project functioning and activities. If you like what we do, please consider: - [supporting our funding proposal](https://hivesigner.com/sign/update-proposal-votes?proposal_ids=%5B91%5D&approve=true") (#91), on which extra information can be found [here](/@lemouth-dev/rebooting-and-clarifying-the-stemsocial-proposal); - [approving](https://hivesigner.com/sign/account_witness_vote?approve=1&witness=stem.witness") our witness (@stem.witness); - delegating to the @stemsocial account (or trailing it). See you all next week! ^{PS: This article has been formatted for the **STEMsocial front-end**. Please see here for a better reading.}