STEMsocial Distilled #12

Here is our 12^th 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 @lemouth, this is not possible.

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 @lemouth) from all the posts found by our curators last week, here are the most supported ones:

Author	Title
@lemouth-dev	About the STEMsocial app development: May-June report
@rbalzan79	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.

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Our top choices

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Medical Myths: Does Shaving Make Hair Come Back Thicker?

It is an old myth that @mike961 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, @robotics101 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.

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Engagement

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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 @lemouth-dev). In other words, we display the top 5 of our community members that distinguished themselves in interacting with other members on chain.

Position	Member	Score
1	@lemouth	1580.457
2	@agmoore	837.304
3	@amestyj	643.597
4	@lupafilotaxia	536.501
5	@acont	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	@lemouth	678.013
2	@agmoore	305.872
3	@chappertron	296.442
4	@ancolie	286.378
5	@whack.science	256.019

As I said, more information about those scores and how they are computed will be shared from @lemouth-dev later this week. Please stay tuned!

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Statistics

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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 @stemsocial 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: @acont, @anaestrada12, @aqua.nano, @azulear, @borjan, @capp, @carlos84, @chappertron, @crazydani, @eliaschess333, @emperorhassy, @empressteemah, @enforcer48, @hope777, @iamphysical, @idoctor, @iptrucs, @jacobtothe, @jywahaha, @kharrazi, @lasocia, @lemouth-dev, @loveforlove, @lupafilotaxia, @magicmonk, @mandate, @menoski, @mike961, @nazer, @newton666, @ozelot47, @rbalzan79, @remotehorst23, @robotics101, @sandracarrascal, @stem-espanol, @stemng, @sward, @tsoldovieri

The comments that have been upvoted are from: @agmoore, @carlos84, @gentleshaid, @lemouth, @pearlumie, @robotics101

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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 (@stem.witness);
• delegating to the @stemsocial account (or trailing it).

See you all next week!

^{PS: This article has been formatted for the STEMsocial front-end. Please see here for a better reading.}