Suesa's Science Challenge #2
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It is time again for a new challenge! After the first one got so many great entries, I decided to do it again with a different topic.
The Topic
This time, it is all about misconceptions. Write about either
- A misconception that greatly annoys you
- A misconception that amuses you
The Rules
The misconception should be about something scientific, which includes not only natural sciences like biology, chemistry and physics but also mathematics, technology, medicine and engineering – basically STEM + medicine.
Write a post describing the misconception and explaining how and why it is wrong.
Add sources and properly cite them. If you use pictures that aren’t your own, give proper credit.
Tag your entry with #suesascience and post a link to your entry as a comment under this post.
The challenge will end on 29th September at 0:00 UTC+2, results will follow soon after.
Winners will be chosen by volunteers from steemSTEM management who won’t participate themselves.
Winners from the last challenge can participate, but their entries won’t be taken into consideration to give other people a better chance at winning.
If you want to participate but want to decline the chance to win you can state that at the beginning of your post.
The Rewards
- 30 SBD + 30 SP
- 25 SBD + 25 SP
- 20 SBD + 20 SP
- 15 SBD + 15 SP
- 10 SBD + 10 SP
The Steempower will be directly powered up to the winner and is sponsored by @steemstem
The SBD are taken out of my personal funds.
Bonus: The winner out of the top five who has the least Steempower (Minnow-Winner) will be rewarded with a big temporary Steempower delegation sponsored by @minnowbooster !
Additional Notes
Every participant who follows the rules will be mentioned in the final post which announces the winners, to give them all a bit more exposure.
Plagiarizers will be immediately disqualified. If you’re a known plagiarizer you’ll be disqualified even if your entry itself is legit.
If you want to connect with the steemSTEM community, join the #steemSTEM channel on steemit.chat!
And last but not least: Good luck and have fun writing!
That's a really cool concept for a competition Suesa! So much so that I think I'll have to do a "misconceptions about Space" series :D
Seems a bit odd that prior winners can't also win again when the prize pool this time is larger. Should people think they have an incentive to wait with participating until it gets larger? ;p
Thanks for taking the time to make the initiative. I'm looking forward to writing a post and to reading the submissions! :)
I just want to make sure people aren't intimidated by you again :P
But I'm thinking about always just excluding the winners from the previous challenge, meaning you could participate in the 3rd again.
Haha, I'll tune it down a little bit then ;)
Yeah, I guess that makes sense just to ensure that the love is spread a little bit more ^^
Perhaps I can then both write a post and be a judge!
Sure, why not!
fredrikaa is quite intimidating, I can attest to that ;)
But he's really cool and a nice person!
In the last challenge, participants were supposed to write about a day in their life as someone who works in a STEM field. After fredrikaa submitted his entry, someone messaged me that "there is no way to win against someone who works at the ESA"
😅
Haha I know, he's a very interesting guy. We've talked on steemspeak together many times. I was just messing around :)
This is my entry:
https://steemit.com/suesascience/@bachuslib/misconception-electric-cars-started-to-appear-just-recently
Here's my entry to the contest. I've written about how some people still believe that the hump of the camels are filled with water, which is simply not true.
Thanks for doing these science challenges by the way! I've found some nice posts and some cool people to follow because of this :)
I totally forgot this part of the entry process.
So, of course I made an entry that is mushroom centric. In the US there are three mushrooms that rule like 90% of the market - The white button mushroom - the Cremini or Crimini mushroom - and the Portobello.
The only thing is -They're all the same species of mushroom!
When I tell my friends and family this it usually blows their minds because everyone thinks they're three different species and they look very different. But no - a widespread misconception if there ever was one!
https://steemit.com/suesascience/@dber/the-amateur-mycologist-22-agaricus-bisporus-the-white-button-mushroom-the-cremini-mushrom-and-the-portobello-mushroom-suesa-2017925t113328524z
that is a lot of rewards. i do have a topic in my mind. i will try to write about it. resteeming the post so i can find it easily
What is a challenge without big rewards? :) I'm looking forward to your entry!
My submission, thanks for the challenge @suesa , was fun.
https://steemit.com/suesascience/@krazykrista/misconception-being-cold-will-make-you-sick
thanks....dear
@minnowbooster thanks for always being there for the minnows. Nothing gives more joy than helping others to grow
Here is my contribution, I hope this within the requested by the challenge, is the first time I participate, greetings and success to all!
https://steemit.com/suesascience/@rusinho027/it-really-drives-me-crazy-that-misconception-that-if-you-work-with-computers-you-have-to-know-absolutely-everything
Thanks for the information from you @suesa .. I will try and really want to join .. Because I also develop a post about the science that I teach to my students.
About the network material and also the computer field .. Glad to be able to join .. Once again thanks for the information from you @suesa
Hey Suesa, another round of Suesa's challenge, yay~
Here is my entry (Ignore me for the prize):
https://steemit.com/cn/@biuiam/suesa-s-science-challenge-2-coughing-and-antibiotics-is-it-a-good-treatment
I am just here to correct people's misconceptions!! XD