STEM Saturday Post Promotion #36: Once again filling the promoted page with STEM content

TL;DR: With SBD printing still paused, competition for the /promoted page remains low, so I have once again promoted multiple posts for STEM Saturday. This week's promotions included posts by repeat contributors @jorgebgt, @o1eh, @ruzmaira02, and @sarahjay1 as well as first time promotions for @reptul and @truth2.

If you are a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics enthusiast, please consider following these accounts.

Welcome to our 36^th STEM Saturday post promotion on the Steem blockchain. In celebration of the occasion, I have once again promoted the Popular STEM community to the top of the /promoted list.

This marks the thirty-sixth consecutive Saturday that our community has held the top of the /promoted page.

As previously announced, the promoted post(s) will be pinned in our community, and will remain pinned until payout time or until dropping out of the top-2 promoted posts for our community.

Because there are more than 2, the posts should periodically rotate in and out of the pinned slots.

The Post

This week, since there wasn't much competition for the top of the page, I promoted six posts, and we have - once again - a STEM Saturday /promoted page that's entirely dedicated to STEM topics. The posts were:

• A volcanic eruption that has lasted for months. by @jorgebgt.
• Does Weather-Related Pain Exist? by @o1eh.
• 500-million-year-old fossil creatures discovered with three eyes and well-preserved brains by @reptul.
• Fun fact | 450 thousand years ago in the past, the human being was already sailing through the Mediterranean by @ruzmaira02.
• Neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer and Parkinson strangely linked to viral infections by @sarahjay1.
• New Rocket Engine Technology May Allow for Sustainable Space Travel by @truth2.

Welcome to new contributor, @reptul, and thank you to long time contributor, @truth2, for the account's first steemexclusive post in our community.

As with prior weeks, all posts were passed through three separate online plagiarism checks before promotion. As a reminder, I only consider posts that are unique to the Steem blockchain for STEM Saturday promotions.

Here are the posts at the top of /promoted:

Promotion Cost

In order to promote these posts, I burned 0.06 SBD (equivalent to about ³/₁₀ STEEM) by sending to @null with the memo field set to: @[ACCOUNT]/[PERMLINK].

The Community

The Popular STEM community is intended to be a place for accessible STEM conversations (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). If you have an interest in STEM topics, please come join us!

About STEM Saturday

If members would like to have your own STEM content considered for future promotions, please come join us and start contributing. I don't know how long I'll be continuing the tradition, but while I do, here are the minimum requirements for consideration (subject to change without notice ;-).

1. Original, plagiarism-free content
2. Minimum word count: currently 300 words, but this may be adjusted.
3. The content must not be cross-posted on other web sites or blockchains. Correct use of the #steemexclusive tag is encouraged.
4. English language. (sorry, it's the only one I know)
5. Because a post leaves /promoted at payout time, posts created shortly before STEM Saturday may be more likely to be chosen than older posts.

All community members are invited to create original and exclusive content that can be considered for future promotions.

Please help grow the science & technology audience on the Steem blockchain by following the Science and Technology on the Social Blockchain Facebook page then liking & sharing our links!

Visit the /promoted page and #burnsteem25 to support the inflation-fighters who are helping to enable decentralized regulation of Steem token supply growth.