SteemSTEM Distilled #116

Since your usual one-man distilled team is tied to a chair, hanging off the roof of some evil genius' penthouse balcony, this week's 116^th distilled will be authored by me (Could be anyone).

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Before moving on with the two best posts that have been selected by @lemouth and @mobbs (from all the posts found by our curators last week), here are a few of the most supported posts (of last week):

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Our top choices

Climate Predictions Are Useless – So What?

Here, @egotheist discusses the recent distrust of climate science as a result of inaccurate p predictions - and why that is irrelevant. Using examples of complex systems, he makes the argument that predictions - right or wrong - have an extremely vital place in our consciousness and they should not be dismissed. Read on to find out why!

Organography and Plant Histology of Hydrocotyle umbellata (Araliaceae)

@lupafilotaxia takes a deep look into the water coin, a plant often used medicinally around the world which has the added benefit of functioning as a bioindicator of pollutants. How? Find out by clicking the link! You'll be introduced to an intimate introduction to this powerfully invasive and prolific species, getting a microscopic window into the plant's very soul.

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 43 posts written by 31 authors. 13 of these posts have been posted through the app (and got a 5% stronger upvote). Among these 43 posts, we find:

• 16 small upvotes (less than 20%)
• 15 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 4 authors.

The list of upvoted post authors, potentially getting some extra support from @curie, is:
@abigail-dantes, @abneagro, @afifa, @amestyj, @anaestrada12, @azulear, @capp, @carlos84, @cecilian, @cervantes, @chappertron, @egotheist, @ericet, @faltermann, @felixrodriguez, @fregonzalez, @jd4e, @loveforlove, @lupafilotaxia, @magicmonk, @mattgroening, @mobbs, @newton666, @ozelot47, @ozricho, @renataboreal, @sincroniadivina, @stem-espanol, @susiejob, @ycam, @yonnathang

The upvoted comments have been written by: @abigail-dantes, @agmoore2, @lupafilotaxia, @scienceblocks

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

See you all next MonTuesday!