SteemSTEM Distilled #121

Steem is currently living hard times, but we at SteemSTEM decided to move on with curation (and follow what is going on on the chain, of course). @lemouth is thus happy to share this fresh distilled of the best SteemSTEM posts of last week with you.

For those who do not know what SteemSTEM is, please take a look here or come say hi on Discord or in the Steem Chat.

^{[image credits: @medro-martin]} 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 a few of the most supported posts (of last week):

Author	Title
@corsica	One journey for a child #7
@svemirac	Astronomy - Community for all space enthusiasts
@lemouth	Leptoquarks at the Large Hadron Collider
@tomlee	Improving Drilling Mud with Soda Ash and Barite
@anaestrada12	How to remove a foreign body from the skin
@carloserp-2000	What did Lorentz and Zeeman do to win the Nobel Prize for physics in 1902?
@cyprianj	The kinetics of drug elimination/clearance
@anaestrada12	Invasive treatment of cardiac tamponade
@alchemage	Using Withania somnifera (Ashwaganda) to cope with Stress

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Our top choices

What did Lorentz and Zeeman do to win the Nobel Prize for physics in 1902?

We are pleased to emphasise the post of one of our curators, @carloserp-2000, who shed light on the history behind the 1902 Nobel prize in physics. Zeeman and Lorentz got it, but how and why? You will know more by looking into the post, in which you may learn (or be reminded) a few things about radiation and magnetism.

Improving Drilling Mud with Soda Ash and Barite

Our SteemSTEM member @tomlee attended an interesting meeting about engineering in Nigeria, with a focus on the need for being more local. In other words, it focused on trying to diminish importations. The post reports about a project aiming at improving the way clay is made in Nigeria.

Statistics

SteemSTEM offers support to anyone using our app, steemstem.io. 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 SteemSTEM support.
Setting @steemstem as a beneficiary to the post automatically yields a stronger upvote (up to 5%).

Last week, the SteemSTEM curator teams have supported 62 posts written by 38 authors. 22 of these posts have been posted through the app (and got a 5% stronger upvote). Among these 62 posts, we find:

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

In addition, we have upvoted 8 comments posted through the app, written by 3 authors.

The list of upvoted post authors, potentially getting some extra support from @curie and @minnowbooster, is: @acont, @alchemage, @anaestrada12, @aqua.nano, @astrophoto.kevin, @barvon, @belkisa758, @borjan, @capp, @carlos84, @carloserp-2000, @chappertron, @corsica, @cyprianj, @debo-medstudent, @delta1512, @dra.karina, @emperorhassy, @empressteemah, @fisicanaveia, @iptrucs, @joebrochin, @lemouth, @lnakuma, @loveforlove, @lupafilotaxia, @magicmonk, @natalimcr27, @newton666, @rbalzan79, @remlaps-lite, @scholaris, @simplifylife, @stem-espanol, @suesa, @svemirac, @tomlee, @ulisesfl17.

The upvoted comments have been written by: @agmoore2, @iamphysical, @mes.

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

See you hopefully all next week!

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