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). For those who do not know what SteemSTEM is, please take a look [here](https://www.steemstem.io/#!/faq) or come say hi on [Discord](https://discord.gg/9c7pKVD) or in the Steem Chat.

^{[image credits: @medro-martin]} 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):

| Author | Title | | ------ | ------ | | @chappertron| Winter is coming: Lower your food intake to stay warm!| | @egotheist| Climate Predictions Are Useless – So What?| | @jd4e| A Random World History Simulator Part 5| | @mobbs| Teamtrees - The challenges of reforesting the world (part 1)| | @abigail-dantes| Loneliness or Emotional Dependency?| | @lupafilotaxia| Organography and Plant Histology of Hydrocotyle umbellata (Araliaceae)| | @anaestrada12 | Subdural hematoma resulting from head trauma |

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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!