STEMsocial Distilled #14

Tough times, tough times, and the distilled is late. However, better late than never and here is our 14^th distilled of the best articles posted within the STEMsocial community is late. We encourage our readers to have a look and comment any of the best selected articles of last week. As usual, if you use our app, your comments are eligible for a small upvote.

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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
@robotics101	Strengths and weaknesses of 3D printing in crises situations and in general
@cyprianj	Indepth Study and Insight into Wrinkle formation; Age Dependent or hereditary?
@cyprianj	The journey of that stinking toilet and gutter water back to your tap
@mengene	BLACK HOLES: A Galactic Feature Science Is Still Yet To Understand!!!

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Our top choices

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Indepth Study and Insight into Wrinkle formation; Age Dependent or hereditary?

Wrinkles? Are they a sign one is getting old? This is a common belief, but this may not be true. @cyprianj provides this week a very nice analysis explaining how wrinkles coiuld form, especially at an early age. Sometimes the environment plays a role, sometimes genetics. More information is in the post!

Strengths and weaknesses of 3D printing in crises situations and in general

Our 3D printing expert @robotics101 is nicely details how he got involved in the recent (and on-going) COVID-19 crisis in France. Armed with a 3D printer, he took part to the production of material useful for the hospitals. He not only shares his experience in his post, but also detail the associated strengths and weaknesses.

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Engagement

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As for the last two weeks, here are the engagement statistics. You can find below a list with the top-five most engaging of all our community members, or in other words, our community members that distinguished themselves in interacting with others on chain.

Position	Member	Score
1	@lemouth	2006.451
2	@amestyj	994.453
3	@agmoore	749.057
4	@gentleshaid	625.905
5	@acont	619.303

Inversely, the top-5 STEMsocial authors who generated the largest engagement are

Position	Member	Score
1	@lemouth	661.319
2	@chappertron	296.442
3	@whack.science	256.019
4	@abneagro	253.004
5	@scholaris	249.221

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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 52 posts written by 37 authors. 15 of these posts have been posted through the app (and got a 5% stronger upvote). Among these 52 posts, we find:

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

In addition, we have upvoted 31 comments posted through the app, written by 9 authors.

The list of upvoted post authors is: @acont, @aliriera, @aqua.nano, @borjan, @carlos84, @cyprianj, @emiliocabrera, @emiliomoron, @emperorhassy, @geekgirl, @glotokens, @gotomarket, @idoctor, @jacksondavies, @k-banti, @lasocia, @lemouth-dev, @lupafilotaxia, @magicmonk, @mandate, @maribelf, @marijo-rm, @mengene, @menoski, @nattybongo, @nazer, @ozelot47, @riccc96, @rnunez09, @robotics101, @sandracarrascal, @solominer, @stem-espanol, @stemng, @tomlee, @tsoldovieri, @walterprofe

The comments that have been upvoted are from: @acont, @agmoore, @emiliomoron, @emperorhassy, @empressteemah, @gentleshaid, @lemouth, @robotics101, @steepup

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See you all next week!

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