SteemSTEM Distilled #79

Welcome to the 79^th issue of SteemSTEM Distilled, a curation effort by the members of the Hive account@steemstem team.

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 a couple of thousands of STEM-related posts per week. We hence support about 200 of these posts, and present in this distilled our top 8 handpicked choices for the last Thursday-Sunday period.

Monday - Wednesday

Water drop tutorial 💦 Collision of milk droplets

This week starts with an awesome tutorial post by Hive account@marjanko. Follow the steps to photograph droplets and get amazing results. Learn the right settings and all the equipment you're going to need to get some awesome shots!

INTRODUCTION TO CARTOGRAPHY - DASYMETRIC MAPPING

Here is some engineering now! Read another part of Hive account@lordneroo's interesting series on cartography! In this well-written post you will learn about dasymetric mapping and the variables you need to take into consideration.

Wednesday - Friday

The neurobiology of stereotypes

Hive account@zen-art earns a place in this week's picks with her beautiful post on the neurobiology of stereotypes. Although they are a mechanism so useful to us, stereotypes still have the danger of becoming a blindfold. Don't miss reading this one, you will surely love it!

Nonmortuus Contagio; How About We Called Them Zombie Instead?

Let's move to a topic so fitting with the Halloween mood! Next in line we have Hive account@chloroform and another great post on zombies! What if all these imaginative films and novels were a reality? Everything you need to know about zombies lies hidden in Hive account@chloroform's post!

Saturday - Sunday

How unique are you? The science of individual differences.

Anyone in for some biology? Because we have an awesome post by Hive account@scienceblocks that is discussing genetic differences. Are we more similar than different on a genetic level? Do we share common patterns with each other? How "identical" can identical twins be? All the answers in Hive account@scienceblocks' post!

Venus at Inferior Conjunction

We started with photography and we are closing with astrophotography and our amazing Hive account@terrylovejoy! In this last pick for the week, we see how Hive account@terrylovejoy didn't miss the chance to take photos of Venus' crescent while the planet was at inferior conjunction with the Earth and the Sun. Keep an eye on his blog, he's getting some more pics out soon!

A few words about the nomination process

For some time, the editorial team behind this distilled series is made of a one-woman-team, Hive account@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 Hive account@utopian-io, Hive account@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 Hive account@steemstem curation team.

From October 7 to October 14, we rewarded 109 different authors who have written a total of 127 different articles. The 83 authors who received votes from Hive account@steemstem, Hive account@utopian-io and Hive account@curie all together that week are: