STEMsocial Distilled - Christmas Edition

On the first day of Christmas
My true love sent to me
A partridge in a pear tree

Merry Christmas to every of our audience that celebrate the yuletide. Welcome to a new edition of the STEMsocial distilled. Being Christmas, we hope the selections for today will add to the speciality of the day. Behind the keyboard for this edition is @gentleshaid, as @lemouth is away on some family duty, trying to discover more particles, and/or dressing up as Santa to impress some undergraduates (I wouldn't know. Hope he pops up in the comment section).

A big complement of the season shout out to all STEMsocial authors, supporters, and enthusiasts. You guys make this place what it is (a community). For those who do not know what STEMsocial is, please take a look here, or pass by Discord or the Openhive Chat.

Featured posts for this edition were selected from those posted in the period ranging between 18/12 and 24/12 based on the number of comments, excluding bot or script-generated and author's comments. As a rule of thumb, no single author is featured twice in the same edition.

The selected posts are specially curated for the consumption of our audience. Supports for the authors in whatever forms are encouraged.

Our top choices

Polar Bears! In a Collage for LMAC#104

At the top of our selection this week is a collage cum post about polar bears by @agmoore. As cute as the animals are, it is sad to see that their existence is now being threatened by a combination of erractic climate and human activities. Deservedly, it ranked up 15 comments.

Climate Change: Why all the attention on carbon dioxide?

Closely behind @agmoore with 13 comments, our runner up post this week is the one made by myself on why carbon dioxide seems to be getting all the attention out of all the numerous greenhouse gases known to scientists. Whilst the culpability of the gas as a chief warmer of the atmosphere is not new, why it gets all the attention as far as global warming and climate change are concerned was elucidated.

Beyond the Standard Model of particle physics - a wild wild world…

Next in line also with 13 comments is a post on particulate nature of matter by the founder of stemsocial himself, a Professor of particle physics in the person of @lemouth. While the standard model of particle physics is known to virtually everyone, scientists are already working behind the scene to make discovery beyond it. This is the world that our Professor introduced us to in his post.

Jaundice in the newborn: Types, causes and Treatment.

Next is a medical post on jaundice by @bhoa. Jaundice may not be totally new to many people, but the author took a deepdive into the different types, their causes, and recommended treatments. The post ranked up 12 comments.

Genotype Factor: An Obstacle To Marry Your Choice of Spouse

Ending our selection for this week is a post on blood genotype and selecting one's life partner by @noble-noah. The post which ranked up 8 comments dicussed the phenomenon in an extensive manner.

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Have a wonderful Christmas celebration and do not forget to stay safe during all the festivities.