I keep track of any posts on the Steem blockchain which I've found worth reading. Here's the stuff I've enjoyed over the last few days.

Happy reading!

Big beautiful world

Story time: Bath Tub Boats in Vietnam

by @davedavis91

"A little story I'd like to share from when I traveled to Vietnam last year: Mui Ne, Vietnam. On this picture you can see the fishermen's port of Mui Ne. A both quite and buzzing place in very colorful shapes. Correct me if I am wrong, but those hot-tub-boats are very common due to size-policies that…"

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Cave Ruins in Sedona

by @r351574nc3

"Picturesque view of cave dwellings near Sedona, AZ"

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Meaning of Dragons in Daewung-Jeon of Gaeam-sa Temple, Korea

by @slowwalker

"The reason why Daewung-Jeon of Gaeam-sa temple was famous for its dragon sculptures inside of the building. As I have posted several times, the dragons have special meaning in Buddhism in Oriental society. Actually the dragons were originated from China. It is believed that the dragons were sum of…"

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Exploring the world's oldest rainforest!

by @steef-05

"Good evening all! Little later than usual am I writing to you again! Let me take you to this place! The weather has just been so good these days that I found it hard to find some time to write my next blog =) Drinking some beers at festivals and sailing are some really good alternatives right (?)…"

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Underwater Photography: Stingless Jellyfish at Jellyfish Sanctuary, Sohoton Cove, Surigao del Norte

by @appleskie

"Stingless Jellyfish I'M IN AWE! In some part of Sohoton Cove, a Jellyfish Sanctuary is a must go destination. You will be able to swim and even touch the jellyfishes that live in the lagoon. Worry not, as these lovely creatures are stingless and very safe to be near with. Their season is during…"

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Guatemala Part 6: Spending an unforgettable Night and Sunrise at the Volcano Acatenango (Fotos + Videos)

by @lizanomadsoul

"At my last post I already told you how we got up there; what a fight it was for us to climb this volcano walking for 7 full hours steep uphill until we finally got to our camp and saw the sunset between the clouds and the first eruption of the volcano Fuego just in front of us."

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STEM

Particle physics - exercise 1d solution

by @irelandscape

"This post is my implementation of @lemouth's fourth exercise in his series aiming at getting voluntary contributions from software developers and Utopian-io…"

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It's Just A Theory: The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out

by @zyx066

"Yes, that's true: a theory is not a claim of knowing the truth, or the true nature of reality. But... A theory on the other hand is the highest attainable status a hypothesis is able to reach in science. And since science is the best method we have to describe an approximation of…"

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Kill Time With Recreational Math - The Generalized Collatz Conjecture

by @procrastilearner

"I normally post every day but this one took me a few days to write the programs and to work out what the results meant. It was fun little mathematical journey in which I try to generalize the Collatz conjecture and fail (but that's life). I hope…"

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News from SteemSTEM - 18 July 2018

by @steemstem

"Starting today, the distilled series will move back to a once-a-week rhythm, to be posted on Mon/Tuesday each week. Instead of a mid-week distilled, we will discuss varied topics of interest to the community. What better way to start the day than by grabbing a cup of coffee and reading the latest…"

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290K DMPC bilayer lipid patch versus 310K patch: A Molecular Dynamics Experiment on HPC facility!

by @dexterdev

"In my last molecular dynamics article, we saw: formation of GEL state lipids which are very ordered interdigitation of upper and lower layer lipids in the DMPC membrane patch which was simulated(for 320 nanoseconds) at temperature 290K. As illustrated in the below image, we know that the main…"

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Smart Cards, A chip with so much applications

by @henrychidiebere

"Good day everyone and I'm happy to bring to us yet another interesting IT component and I'll be talking about smart cards. Smart cards are workaholics but yet, they're so much unnoticed and the few that noticed how important these cards are did so under distress. Let's get going. Image source…"

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Need For Approval & External Validation

by @abigail-dantes

"Last week I shared here on Steemit a post discussing certain emotions and behaviours that platforms such as Facebook elicits in some of us. I presented behavioural (positive reinforcement) and neuropsychological (the dopaminergic pathway) reasons to explain as to why we often feel uncontrollably…"

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Geology of Iceland - Part 8: Skaftáreldar | Skaftár Fires

by @sooflauschig

"The Skraftár Fires describe an event that lasted from June, 1783 to February, 1784. It was the largest and one of the most devastating basaltic fissure eruptions in human history. The eruption took place at the Laki fissures and is therefore also known as the Laki eruption or the Laki…"

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Open Source News Digest by Utopian.io [11-18/07/2016] - Blockchain Phones, "Batman Ninja", Solar Panels, The Human Brain Project & more

by @techslut

"My main job on the weekly Utopian.io Open Source Radio Show on MSP Waves (aired live weekly on Wednesdays at 6PM UTC) is causing mayhem is bringing in the freshest most interesting news from the open source world, and (when possible) adding some commentary to each new item. Unfortunately, I always…"

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Let's Talk About Chloroform As An Anaesthetic Agent

by @chloroform

"Surgical procedures are painful, no doubt. Even with the advancement of medicine in the field of anaesthetic, certain complications are to be expected among patients who were receiving anaesthesia (regardless of types) such as bradycardia,…"

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Astronomical observations #8 : Orion Nebula (M42)

by @astromaniac

"Hello! Observations of deep-sky objects, we will start with M42. This is the brightest nebula in our sky, visible to the naked eye under a dark, rural sky. It is located in the constellation of Orion. It is about 1350 light-years distant from Earth. This object is really worth seeing! A photo of the…"

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Coding

Github Pages: An Easy Place to Host Tools

by @eonwarped

"While pondering about where to put my latest hacked up toy for listing historical posts with filtering, I had been thinking that the entirety of my tool could be entirely driven by Javscript and hosted static-ly somewhere. I vaguely remembered various other simple pages being hosted on github, and…"

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Easily query an account's feed, blog, comments and replies with beem

by @crokkon

"Beem is an inofficial python library to access the Steem blockchain, developed and maintained by @holger80. Version 0.19.49 was just released and contains among a number of fixes and improvements also the new features described…"

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Scraping Web Data with R

by @eroche

"This is the third part of a 9 part tutorial series about the R Statistical Programming Language, targeted at data analysts and programmers that are active on Steem. In this course you will learn the R programming language through practical examples. Repository The R source code can be found via one…"

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Steemitself and other crypto

GPUGrid - Windows Tasks Disabled For a Few Days

by @neuralminer

"GPUGrid has disabled all Windows tasks for a few days while they rebuild the Windows-specific application. Please follow/subscribe to the thread below to stay up to date."

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How Smart Media Token Bounties Accelerate Businesses

by @flauwy

"Smart Media Tokens (SMTs) are already changing the Steem dynamics before they are even released. @appics, @actifit and @steemhunt lead the way of successful bounty incentives for users to promote, delegate Steem Power and use their application. Each of these tokens will have a value eventually and…"

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Surfing the OpenSea of Blockchain Games and Digital Assets [Interview with Devin Finzer]

by @creativecrypto

"One of the most exciting aspects of a decentralized creative world are the new layers of communities and experiences that can be built surrounding crypto-products. Blockchain resources open the door for marketplaces, games, social networks, community…"

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Blockchain Update 4: Resource Credit Implementation Details

by @steemitblog

"As the release of Hardfork 20 draws near, the Blockchain Team would like to take this opportunity to explore some of the progress we’ve made toward implementing our new Resource Credit (RC) system. A Freemium Blockchain Steem is one of the few blockchains that operates under a “freemium” model,…"

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Curation

Weekly Technology Curation & SBD Giveaway #028 & #29

by @jrswab

"Here are five of my favorite technology posts from the past week. All upvotes from the @msp-curation account went out on Wednesday. Please take the time to visit the content listed. While they are not required to be minnows, my goal is to focus on such members when possible. Let's share some…"

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Doctor Worm's Curation Collection, July 17

by @doctorworm

"This is a weekly feature of some of the work @themesopotamians project has supported on Steem through the @doctorworm account. The Mesopotamians provides ongoing support to certain selected users in hopes of building a cooperative and growing middle class on Steem. @corpsvalues continues to write…"

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Particle Man's Support Particles, July 18

by @particleman

"This is a weekly feature of some of the work @themesopotamians project has supported on Steem through the @particleman account. The Mesopotamians provides ongoing support to certain selected users in hopes of building a cooperative and growing middle class on Steem. @markgritter introduced us to a…"

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Games, art, geekery

Legend of Zelda Art Updated & Meaningless Rambling

by @la-fumettista

"I shared a quick sketch a couple of days ago, see post here, and decided to color it in. This is part of my "Sketch More, Post More" Plan 2k18. In the past I usually posted, maybe, two times a week on social media but I'm trying to ramp up my efforts and post at least 5 times. Will I burn myself…"

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ART EXPLOSION WEEK 43: Theme MYTHOLOGY / Nidhogg and Ratatosk

by @kennyvaldez

"Hello everyone! This week the theme of the contest ART EXPLOSION WEEK hosted by @juliakponsford is: Mythology My drawing for this contest is the Dragon God Nidhogg and the little squirrel Ratatosk (yes, it's not as cool as the dragon) This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0…"

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What killed the point-and-click adventure genre and why is it seeing a comeback?

by @retro-room

"Through the late 80’s and most of the 90’s, the appropriately named ‘point-and-click’ adventure genre gained massive popularity, primarily on home computers. Series like Kings Quest, Police Quest, Space Quest, Legend of Kyrandia and Leisure Suit Larry were staples and accounted for over 20 games…"

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Issue 16- My Hero: The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl

by @comicscorner

"With the recent passing of legendary Marvel artist and Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko, I would like to introduce you to another, lesser known character he helped to develop. Yes, in case you completely missed the title, it’s THE UNBEATABLE Squirrel…"

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My Drawing as Advertising Poster in my Singularity World

by @donnadavisart

"A poster advertising the benefits of the Mechanic with the Oraganic. A poster I imagined on the walls of my Singularity world before the world quickly changed post Singularity. I made this with sketches first then digital pen and ink adding the font in photoshop. The tag line "sing the body…"

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Vampirella

by @zugart

"Ever since I successfully managed to infiltrate the pages of Dynamite Comics’ “Red Sonja” I have been attempting to do it again with other Pinup oriented comics ... hence the new-found interest in Vampirella. This time in the style of Sergio Aragones."

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Wonder Woman #52 Jenny Frison Variant

by @blewitt

"Ever since the amazing Jenny Frison started rocking Wonder Woman B variants for DC, she has been knocking it out of the park. Pretty much every single WW Variant she’s done has been a home run. Including her upcoming cover for issue #52 which is due out Augest 8th. I love the way she did this cover.…"

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Michael's Long Box: Screen Monsters #4: Godzilla (1993, Zone Productions)

by @modernzorker

"Screen Monsters was a short-lived series produced by indie publisher Zone Productions in the early 90's. It lasted for exactly four issues, plus another two specials which looked at creators rather than creatures, so it was never more than a blip on anybody's radar. Neither was Zone Productions, for…"

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Curved drawing lessons #1 : Geometry beyond planar perspective

by @javier.dejuan

"As many people are demanding me what are the basics of curved drawing including 360º or Panoramic drawing I commence here a set of lessons introducing the fundamentals of this subject. The purpose of this lessons is to develop the necessary drawing skills to achieve a curved drawing.…"

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Lala Prologue, New Commodore Plus 4 Game Coming

by @triverse

"New games for old platforms are sporadic at best. The heyday of seeing 10+ releases a month are long gone, at least for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Commodore 64. That doesn’t mean we never see anything worth playing released today. Far from it. We still see plenty of interesting titles…"

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Current Game Progress

by @zealouscoder

"It's a bit rough around the edges. I have a couple of things that I need to update about it, before the next big release. But here is the first cut at the ship building screen. Last post I covered a little bit about randomly generating planets so that I could use them in my game as…"

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Colony Survival - Short Playthrough / Game Overview

by @ggt

"Colony Survival: What is it?... Colony Survival at it's core is a new and fresh take on the tower-defense genre. But it's not just a tower-defense game, it's actually an open-world survival game too! It might sound strange a little strange when you first think about it but after you giving the game…"

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ART EXPLOSION WEEK 43: THEME MYTHOLOGY | ENCHANTRESS (from Suicide Squad)

by @lemareg

""The whole world is a stage, and all men and women are mere playthings. Within the heart of the hideous woods, trapped in malicious shades, an enchantress dwells, of ancient origins, born from the depravity of Gods from old. Demented from knowledge of dark magic. Deep skilled in all her mother's…"

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Movies and entertainment

Moviemaking Concepts: Introduction

by @derosnec

"Welcome to my comprehensive moviemaking series where I go step by step to break down the actual process of making a typical film from start to finish!

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Some Thoughts About Evergreen Content

by @the-alien

"There’s a popular belief in cinema that the sequel usually tends to be worse than the original first film. According to many, The Godfather 2 was one of the few sequels that not only lived up to the first film, but it ended up being an even better movie in its own right. Even today, when you read…"

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FOOD

Homegrown Mushroom Update - 1 week in

by @digitaldan

"Oi Oi Oyster Mushrooms!!! 😬 You may of seen the other day that i ordered some more mushroom spawn the other day and they sent the wrong spawn, i ended up with oyster mushroom spawn instead of portobello…. The Mushroom Mixup However this seems to have worked out better than imagined. I mixed up a new…"

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BEES

I captured my first bee swarm today (with pictures)

by @curtross

"Fun Fact: A swarm of bees in the first day or two upon moving from their original hive are unable to sting because they are holding so much honey their stinger cannot protrude past it. I went today on an expedition to go catch a swarm of bees. I work at a camp and we have neighbors that live on the…"

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So, what's all this then?

My goals here are to foster interaction on steem and provide visibility for good content.

Why not just resteem

This is basically a UI issue; I've noted in my feed that some great accounts which resteem dozens of times a day tend to drown out other posts. Until there's a way to separate author-content from resteems in there general steem-verse (i.e. on Steemit), I don't like resteeming much.

Criteria and format

The only real criterion I have is that the article should be something I was happy to have read. Ideally, it would be recent enough to still be active for 3 to 4 days after I post. A few other other things:

• There's no restriction on category, though I tend to read more STEM/nerdy stuff
• The list is not exhaustive
• If I left you off, it's not because I don't think your post was worth reading
• I'm still figuring out how to arrange topics
• Post order is like the point system on 'Whose Line Is It Anyway' - meaningless
• If you're a prolific author, I might only list one post in full format, then mention others.
• If I post your stuff a lot, I may leave you out from time to time to make room for others.
• If time allows, I may provide commentary on posts, but right now I'm letting them stand on their own merits.
• Artists! I'm trying to post your art in such a way that people can see enough of it to know if they want to follow the link. I definitely don't want to just repost your stuff in full resolution. Let me know what makes you happy.

Call to Action

I enjoyed compiling this list and you can do it, too. Even if your vote counts for nothing and you have 3 whole followers, start keeping track of what you actually liked reading and let the world know about it. I don't think there's a relevant tag yet, so let's go ahead and use #readinglog. If there is a better tag out there, let me know.

Remember, a community without interactions is just a bunch of people. Comment, vote, promote, even resteem!

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