SteemSTEM Distilled #93
Welcome to the 93rd issue of SteemSTEM Distilled, a curation effort by the members of the @steemstem team.
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We present in this distilled our top 4 handpicked choices for the last week out about 100 posts weekly supported by the projet (out of several hundreds of STEM-related posts in total that our curators are reading). This week's distilled highlights were selected once again by @lemouth. Today is party day: four posts were selected instead of 3!
Please do not be discouraged if you did not make it on this issue. The chances to be picked are low. In the meantime, you may wish to check these guidelines for extra tips on how your writing could be more effective.
Monday - Thursday (first half)
Developing a Developmental Biology Lab – Roundabout Sex Determination
SteemSTEM proudly supports @tking77798 and his project of designing lab classes in developmental biology (and publishinh them on SteemSTEM). Today, he is not discussing placenta eating at all (yes, this is a thing... apparently...), but how to make use of DNA and a placenta to determine the sex of a child.
Practical Astronomy - Measuring the distance to the moon
If you are not a big fan of playing with blood, maybe is astronomy a better topic four you. @terrylovejoy started to design a series of practical astronomy lessons. Once again, SteemSTEM is proud to fully support this initiative. In the lecture of last week, you will learn how to measure easily (more or less :p) the distance to the moon (without getting there)!
Thursday (second half) - Sunday
Could the Formosan clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa brachyura) still be extant in the dense jungles of Taiwan?
Is the Formosan clouded leopard really extinct. I would say yes, but this is not what everybody thinks. What is your opinion on this topic? if you do not have any, feel free to read this post from @valth in which you will get more information first on the animal itself, and second on the origins of there rumours.
Being Diagnosed With Lung Cancer; Wait A Minute, I'm Not A Smoker?!
One of the most frequent cancer yielding death is definitely lung cancer. This holds for smokers of course, but not only. Everyone in the same basket here. And this is the intriguing fact @n4zrizulkafli is after, trying to find some correlations in the numbers.
Statistics
Statistics are still busy. Water-pony is done and today it is the turn of practicing our strwaberry tasting abitlities. Hopefully, stats will be back next week...
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Strawberries taste good because of sugar and some volatile organic compounds.
Yeah. But not at this time of the year. At least not in Middle Europe.
(I had some last week. Don't ask! Those were sour as hell. I wonder whether they had been painted.)
Likely greenhouse grown, picked unripe and ripened from ethylene gas exposure. No time for the plant to produce any nice sugars.
I definitely agree: not now. But in front of the emergency of finding a stupid reason for not having had the time to handle the stats... strawberries (and placentas) are perfect :)
Of course!
I'm glad to see people say this. My wife keeps buying those sour strawberries, and I can't even handle eating a few of them. It's so much better to wait for the real deal in the summer.
Yeah! Lolss @justtryme90
Is that true, even with a placenta?
Especially with one. Who doesn't enjoy a fine strawberry and placenta.
Never during winter time. Placentas are much more enjoyable in summer time! Strawberries + placenta + a good beer :D
Thanks for the shout out! Great to see another issue of distilled up so soon too!
I am putting the effort! I just hope I will be capable to follow. The due date of the next one clashes with my trip back from the US, so that it may be delayed by a day or two.
Nice picks there again by @lemouth. Congrats to the selected authors
PS: Last week it was water-pony, and this week it's strawberry. Our "stats" are really enjoying 😂. I love strawberry by the way :)
Thanks! You cannot even imagine what next week will be about ^^
Placenta?
Thanks for the idea! :)
Thank you guys for the mention! Have updated the article with preliminary results of moon parallax. Be sure to check out the gif at the end showing you how much the moon shifts in the sky from changing your location 130km.
I will check that out immediately :D
Thanks for the feature!