SteemSTEM Distilled #85

Welcome to the 85^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 several hundreds of STEM-related posts per week. We hence support about 100 of these posts, and present in this distilled our top 6 handpicked choices for the last week.

Monday - Wednesday

How to live healthy? Part 4: How can I get to the truth?

This week let us begin with a continuation of Hive account@chappertron's delightful 'How to live healthy?' series! The focus of this article revolves around statistics (I know, I know... you would't think this is an interesting topic, but I assure you it is... in this post at least!!), which in our modern world is much more relevant to you than you might think! In this post Hive account@chappertron does a wonderful job illustrating some of the difficulties surrounding statistical analysis and interpretation of P-Values, P-hacking, and how perhaps Block Chain technology can play a role in helping! All done through the entertaining example of Steemit Vs. Facebook! Check it out!

Through the Solar System - Venus

Lets bring some Space back into the mix! Here Hive account@svemirac continues taking us 'Through the Solar System' in his series of the same name. The celestial body of focus is Venus! In this nice and brief post he takes us through some comparisons between Venus and our own Earth and also displays some available information with regards to the physical properties of the planet as determined by probes. Shoot on by and increase your space knowledge!

Wednesday - Friday

Logical Fallacies - Are you being manipulated (or manipulating) with bad arguments?

Do you spend time arguing on the internet? If you do, you likely come across logical fallacies on a very regular basis (ad hominem, and post hoc ergo proctor hoc are exceedingly common). Spend some time reading this work by Hive account@zen-art to learn more about these manipulative, illogical arguments. Being able to better identify them in the statements of others, or even in yourself will help you become a more effective communicator of logical thought, and perhaps even a destroyer of poor logic on the web!

Can we model the Neolithic transition with fossil pollen?

Now we arrive at Hive account@samve and his wonderful post! He discusses some work using pollen in fossils to confirm the transition of humans in europe from a more hunter-gatherer society to a farming based one (neolithic). Never before this post have I found ancient pollen samples more interesting!

Saturday - Sunday

HIV prophylaxis

Join Hive account@hitsug in learning about HIV and protecting yourself from exposure during sexual activities. As he succintly states to the question “How can I avoid HIV infection?” should not have to be "don't have sex."

Let's see what is deep inside of our body! What kind of effect calcium, sodium and potassium ions have?

Let us end this week's distilled with a text book quality biochemistry/cellular biology deep dive into the roles of calcium, sodium, and potassium in our bodies. In this post Hive account@anasav has put together a detailed depiction of a variety of biochemical pathways, and the respecive ion channels and proteins involved in the shuttling of these essential metal ions into and out of our cells. Check it out!

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. This week however, our one woman powerhouse needed a quick break. To facilitate this Hive account@justtryme90 stepped in and did his best to uphold the quality she puts forth on a weekly basis for you all.

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 November 26 to December 2, we rewarded X different authors who have written a total of Y different articles. The Z authors who received votes from Hive account@steemstem, potentially with either Hive account@utopian-io, Hive account@curie or both, are:

Stats to be filled in upon availability of our stat-wizard.

_{[Credits: Hive account@hightouch]}

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

See you all next MonTuesday!