Here is our 12th distilled edition of the best articles posted within the STEMsocial community. This means that we are on Hive for 3 months! Time flies... As a side note, we hope to be able to release this series again on Monday from next week onwards, but for now, with the current agenda of 
Anyways, let's have a look to the best selected articles of last week. Feel free to read and comment those posts. Note that if you use our app, your comments are eligible for a small upvote.
For those who do not know what STEMsocial is, please take a look here, or pass by Discord, the Openhive Chat, Twitter or Facebook.
Before moving on with the two best posts that have been selected (by
) from all the posts found by our curators last week, here are the most supported ones:
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
 | About the STEMsocial app development: May-June report |
 | Rectilinear propagation and light reflection |
Interested in being part of that list? Please check these guidelines or ask for a mentor on Discord or on the Openhive Chat.
Our top choices
Medical Myths: Does Shaving Make Hair Come Back Thicker?
It is an old myth that
debunks with us today: does shaving help to have our hair growing thicker. Does it work like grass? We could tell you the answer here, but we actually prefer letting you having a look to the post to get it by yourself. Also, let's congratulate the author who is the only person to be featured two weeks in a row in the distilled!
How to control a drone remotely? Part 1: The Transmitter
Very recently,
started a series dedicated to the building of a quadcopter... from scratch! In the post of this weel, he provides a bunch of details on the transmitter and the physics behind it. If you are interested in the topic, feel free to have a look not only to the featured post, but also to the previous episodes.
Engagement
As a novelty this week, please find below a list with the most engaging of all our community members (more to come with this respect soon; please check out the blog of
| Position | Member | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | | 1580.457 |
| 2 |  | 837.304 |
| 3 |  | 643.597 |
| 4 |  | 536.501 |
| 5 |  | 465.937 |
What does being in this list change? For now not much, but please be ready for more soon. Inversely, the top-5 STEMsocial authors who generated the largest engagement are:
| Position | Member | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | | 678.013 |
| 2 | | 305.872 |
| 3 |  | 296.442 |
| 4 |  | 286.378 |
| 5 |  | 256.019 |
As I said, more information about those scores and how they are computed will be shared from
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
as a beneficiary to the post automatically yields a stronger upvote (up to 5%).
Last week, the STEMsocial curator team has supported 58 posts written by 39 authors. 26 of these posts have been posted through the app (and got a 5% stronger upvote). Among these 58 posts, we find:
- 20 small upvotes (less than 20%)
- 26 medium upvotes (in the 20%-50% range)
- 12 large upvotes (larger than 50%)
In addition, we have upvoted 11 comments posted through the app, written by 6 authors.
The list of upvoted post authors is: 
The comments that have been upvoted are from: 
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 (#91), on which extra information can be found here;
- approving our witness (
);
- delegating to the
See you all next week!
PS: This article has been formatted for the STEMsocial front-end. Please see here for a better reading.