SteemSTEM Distilled #87

Welcome to the 87^th issue of SteemSTEM Distilled, a curation effort by the members of the @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 Earn a Nobel Prize Part 3: Greg Winter

Our Christmas issue begins with an amazing @steemstem author, @tking77798, and his very interesting series of Nobel prize winners. In this episode we get to see Greg Winter's remarkable work on antibody reshaping for therapeutic purposes. An important man with an even more important piece of work. Read on to learn more!

Careful What You Say... The Forest Has Ears.

Moving on to find another great post written by @sustainablyyours. A walk in the forest brings lots of weird encounters and in this post you will meet with a strange fungus in the shape of... an ear! Did we get you intrigued enough? Then follow the link to read more about it!

Wednesday - Friday

The biology and physics of wound healing

Let's move on to another wonderful piece by @scienceblocks. Do you want to learn how wound healing works? Then you've come to the right place! Here you will learn about the organs and mechanisms that work together every time a body deals with a wound.

Reviving a vintage Transmission Electron Microscope - The Philips EM 420 (part 1).

Do we have any tech geeks here? Because the next post will impress you! Watch as @roguescientist84 is trying to bring a vintage Transmission Electron Microscope back to life. Ok, now we got you ready for the second part of the series! Stay tuned for it!

Saturday - Sunday

Overview Of Diabetes In Pregnancy

As we're heading to the end of this issue, we come across a very interesting and well-written post by @n4zrizulkafli about diabetes and pregnancy. A very good health post that certainly deserves a read from you!

Surviving the Holidays. Psychology Christmas Special

And we'll be closing this issue with a special post on 'Christmas psychology' written by @insight-out. Why is it that instead of enjoying a relaxing holiday break, we stress ourselves over things like gift shopping, family fights over the Christmas table and shedding of those extra holiday pounds we've gained before the holidays even begin? Worry not, friends, as @insight-out has found the way to survive and enjoy this time of the year and is here to share her secrets with us! Don't miss reading this beautiful post and don't forget to appreciate this festive period before it comes to an end!

A few words about the nomination process

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

From December 16 to 22, we rewarded 77 different authors who have written a total of 111 different articles. The 59 authors who received votes from @steemstem, potentially with either @utopian-io, @curie or both, are:

@abcallen, @abdulmath, @aellly, @aleestra, @alexaivytorres, @amart29, @amestyj, @anaestrada12, @anasav, @carlos84, @chloe1, @conficker, @deanliu, @djredimi2, @elvigia, @emiliomoron, @emynb, @endopediatria, @ericet, @erickyoussif, @fancybrothers, @felixrodriguez, @gokhan83kurt, @honoru, @insight-out, @irelandscape, @joseangelvs, @josedelacruz, @jrevilla, @julian2013, @lauch3d, @littlemix, @livinguktaiwan, @lupafilotaxia, @markgritter, @masterwu, @merynerleo, @mike961, @miroslavrc, @moncia90, @mr-aaron, @n4zrizulkafli, @oflyhigh, @osita21, @rbalzan79, @rifkan, @roguescientist84, @rscalabrini, @ryanshan25, @samminator, @sasaadrian, @scienceblocks, @softmetal, @sustainablyyours, @terrylovejoy, @tking77798, @tomastonyperez, @tomatom, @tsoldovieri, @yhubi, @zen-art

_{[Credits: @hightouch]}

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

See you all next MonTuesday!