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Featured Article is an award given weekly to a high-quality Citizendium article.

Chunbum Park is the current Featured Articles maintainer.

Note on editing Featured Articles (8 August 2011)

You are encouraged to fix any errors you find in our Featured Articles. Do note however, that changes made to the current Feature at CZ:Featured article/Current do not automatically apply to the main article. The /Current page is blanked once a week to make room for the next Feature. For your contribution to be permanent, you need to make the change in the main article as well, i.e. the topmost link in the list below. Thank you. Johan Förberg

Formal policy

EC Decision D-2011-014, 28 February 2011:

The welcome page of the Citizendium shall display one or two featured articles.

If no other system of choosing and displaying articles is employed, then at least one article shall be chosen from our Approved articles on a rotating basis and shall thereafter be changed at least once a week.

Remark: This replaces the "Article of the Week" and the "New Draft of the Week" for the time being, or until another feature is installed.

Archive

List of previously featured articles.

Before May 4, 2011, there were two distinct categories of featured articles, which are archived separately.

Featured articles

  • Developed Article Volatility (chemistry) [r]: A term used to characterize the tendency of a substance to vaporize. [e] (January 6 — January 13, 2012)
  • Approved Article Alcmaeon of Croton [r]: A Greek natural philosopher, living c. 500 BCE, interested in particular in medicine and physiology, credited by scholars as the first person to recognize the brain as the seat of intelligence and mind, whose ideas about the causes of disease prompted or anticipated those of Hippocrates. [e] (December 31, 2011 — January 6, 2012)
  • Developed Article Thomas Jefferson [r]: (1743-1826) Third U.S. President (from 1801 to 1809), first U.S. Secretary of State (from 1789 to 1793), author of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, and founder of the University of Virginia. [e] (December 23 — December 31, 2011)
  • Developed Article Linguistics [r]: The scientific study of language. [e] (December 17 — December 23, 2011)
  • Developed Article Kilt [r]: A knee-length, skirtlike, traditional Scottish garment, usually worn by men as part of Highland attire. [e] (December 9 — December 17, 2011)
  • Developed Article Warfarin [r]: Rat poison also used as anticoagulant medication to prevent embolism and thrombosis [e] (December 2 — December 9, 2011)
  • Developed Article Global warming [r]: The increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans in recent decades and its projected continuation. [e] (November 26 — December 2, 2011)
  • Developed Article Reuben sandwich [r]: Part of American food folklore, a dish made from rye bread, sauerkraut, Swiss cheese and corned beef, although pastrami can be used instead of corned beef. [e] (November 19 — November 26, 2011)
  • Developed Article British and American English [r]: A comparison between these two language variants in terms of vocabulary, spelling and pronunciation. [e] (November 12 — November 19, 2011)
  • Developed Article Plymouth Colony [r]: English colony in North America, 1620-1691, until it was absorbed by Massachusetts. [e] (November 4 — November 12, 2011)
  • Developed Article Arab Spring [r]: Protest movements in the Arab world that seek the removal of oppressive governments. [e] (October 28 — November 4, 2011)
  • Developed Article C (letter) [r]: The third letter of the English and Latin alphabets. [e] (October 22 — October 28, 2011)
  • Approved Article Fertility (demography) [r]: The demographic analysis of having babies. [e] (October 14 — October 22, 2011)
  • Developed Article Geometric series [r]: A series associated with a geometric sequence, i.e., consecutive terms have a constant ratio. [e] (October 8 — October 14, 2011)
  • Developed Article Eurozone crisis [r]: A financial crisis involving member countries of the Eurozone [e] (October 1 — October 8, 2011)
  • Developed Article Destroyer [r]: Add brief definition or description (September 26 — October 1, 2011)
  • Cypherpunk [r]: Add brief definition or description (September 17 — September 26, 2011)
  • Developed Article Dirac delta function [r]: Sharply peaked function, generalization of the Kronecker delta; a distribution that maps a regular function onto a single function value. [e] (September 10 — September 17, 2011)
  • Lockheed SR-71 [r]: Add brief definition or description (September 2 — September 10, 2011)
  • Developed Article Clostridium difficile [r]: A bacteria species causing infectious diarhhea and pseudomembranous colitis. [e] (August 25 — September 2, 2011)
  • Developed Article Great Recession [r]: The disruption of economic activity that began with a downturn in 2007 and generated international repercussions that continued through 2012 and into 2013. [e] (August 19 — August 25, 2011)
  • Developed Article Alice Bailey [r]: Author of spiritual, occult, esoteric and religious themes; early popularizer of terms New Age and Age of Aquarius. [e] (August 13 — August 19, 2011)
  • Approved Article Félix d'Hérelle [r]: (1873 – 1949) - A French-Canadian bacteriologist, and the discoverer of bacteriophages. [e] (August 7 — August 13, 2011)
  • Developed Article Miller effect [r]: The increase in the equivalent input capacitance of an inverting voltage amplifier due to a capacitance connected between two gain-related nodes. [e] (July 29 — August 7, 2011)
  • Developed Article Gut-brain signalling [r]: The interaction between the gastrointestinal tract and the brain. [e] (July 23 — 29, 2011)
  • Developed Article Neanderthal [r]: Extinct member of the Homo genus that is known from Pleistocene specimens found in Europe and parts of western and central Asia. [e] (July 13 — 23, 2011)
  • Developed Article Tennis [r]: A sport played on a hard-surfaced rectangular court, between either two players or two teams of two players each, in which the players attempt to strike a hollow rubber ball, using a stringed raquet, over a net into the opponent's half of the court. [e] (July 2 — 13, 2011)
  • Developed Article Apollo program [r]: A human spaceflight program undertaken by NASA during the years 1961–1975 with the goal of conducting manned moon landing missions. [e] (June 26 — July 2, 2011)
  • Developing Article Semiconductor diode [r]: Two-terminal device that conducts current in only one direction, made of two or more layers of material, of which at least one is a semiconductor. [e] (June 17 — 26, 2011)
  • Developed Article Miller effect [r]: The increase in the equivalent input capacitance of an inverting voltage amplifier due to a capacitance connected between two gain-related nodes. [e] (June 11 — 17, 2011)
  • Approved Article Specific heat ratio [r]: The ratio of the specific heat of a gas at constant pressure, , to the specific heat at constant volume, , also sometimes called the adiabatic index or the heat capacity ratio or the isentropic expansion factor. [e] (June 3 — 11 2011)
  • Approved Article Macromolecular chemistry [r]: The study of the physical, biological and chemical structure, properties, composition, and reaction mechanisms of macromolecules. [e] (May 27 — June 3, 2011)
  • Developed Article Tecum Umam [r]: Add brief definition or description (May 21 — 27, 2011)
  • Developed Article Heterotaxis [r]: Add brief definition or description (May 4 — 21, 2011)

Articles of the Week (before May 4, 2011)

New Drafts of the Week (before May 4, 2011)

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