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MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC ⁠⁠⁠https://neptunestudios.info⁠⁠⁠ If you like what we do, you can help us! - Become our patron: ⁠⁠⁠https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth⁠⁠⁠   - Buy our merch: ⁠⁠⁠http://dftba.com/minuteearth⁠⁠⁠   - Buy our book: ⁠⁠⁠https://minuteearth.com/books⁠⁠⁠ - Sign up to our newsletter: ⁠⁠⁠http://news.minuteearth.com⁠⁠⁠   - Share with your friends and family - Leave us a comment (we read them!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: carbon: element that makes up half of tree wood by weight. MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC ⁠⁠⁠https://neptunestudios.info⁠⁠⁠ If you like what we do, you can help us! - Become our patron: ⁠⁠⁠https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth⁠⁠⁠   - Buy our merch: ⁠⁠⁠http://dftba.com/minuteearth⁠⁠⁠   - Buy our book: ⁠⁠⁠https://minuteearth.com/books⁠⁠⁠ - Sign up to our newsletter: ⁠⁠⁠http://news.minuteearth.com⁠⁠⁠   - Share with your friends and family - Leave us a comment (we read them!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Second-Language Acquisition: The process of a language that’s not the speaker’s native language. Bilingualism: The ability to speak and understand two languages. Monitor Model: A group of hypotheses that propose that linguistic competence is only advanced when language is subconsciously acquired. Sociolinguistics: The study of language in relation to all sorts of social factors. Linguistic Investment: A motivation to learn a language based on the understanding that the speaker will acquire a wider range of symbolic and material resources, which will in turn increase the value of their cultural capital and social power. Hyperpolyglot: A person who can speak and understand more than six languages. MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC ⁠⁠⁠https://neptunestudios.info⁠⁠⁠ If you like what we do, you can help us! - Become our patron: ⁠⁠⁠https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth⁠⁠⁠   - Buy our merch: ⁠⁠⁠http://dftba.com/minuteearth⁠⁠⁠   - Buy our book: ⁠⁠⁠https://minuteearth.com/books⁠⁠⁠ - Sign up to our newsletter: ⁠⁠⁠http://news.minuteearth.com⁠⁠⁠   - Share with your friends and family - Leave us a comment (we read them!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Cyclooxygenase: An enzyme responsible for the production of thromboxane and prostaglandins. Thromboxane: A lipid that acts as a platelet aggregator. Platelets: Special non-nucleic blood cells that clump together to cause blood clots. Prostaglandins: A lipid that causes vasodilation and inflammation. Aspirin: A form of acetylsalicylic acid that acts as an NSAID. NSAIDs: Non-steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs that inhibit COX, and thus inflammation and clotting. MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC ⁠⁠⁠https://neptunestudios.info⁠⁠⁠ If you like what we do, you can help us! - Become our patron: ⁠⁠⁠https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth⁠⁠⁠   - Buy our merch: ⁠⁠⁠http://dftba.com/minuteearth⁠⁠⁠   - Buy our book: ⁠⁠⁠https://minuteearth.com/books⁠⁠⁠ - Sign up to our newsletter: ⁠⁠⁠http://news.minuteearth.com⁠⁠⁠   - Share with your friends and family - Leave us a comment (we read them!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Physical activity - any bodily movement produced by the contraction of skeletal muscle that increases energy expenditure above a basal level Exercise - a form of physical activity that is planned, structured, repetitive, and performed (primarily) with the goal of improving health or fitness Recommended levels of physical activity (USA) - 150 minutes moderate-intensity or 75 minutes vigorous-intensity aerobic physical activity per week, or an equivalent combination, and muscle-strengthening activities at least 2 days / week Evolutionary medicine - a field that uses evolutionary theory & data to better understand (the origins of) health & disease Mismatch conditions - health conditions that are more prevalent or severe today than in the past because the body is inadequately or insufficiently adapted to modern environmental conditions (likely including: cavities, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, osteoporosis) MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC ⁠⁠https://neptunestudios.info⁠⁠ If you like what we do, you can help us! - Become our patron: ⁠⁠https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth⁠⁠   - Buy our merch: ⁠⁠http://dftba.com/minuteearth⁠⁠   - Buy our book: ⁠⁠https://minuteearth.com/books⁠⁠ - Sign up to our newsletter: ⁠⁠http://news.minuteearth.com⁠⁠   - Share with your friends and family - Leave us a comment (we read them!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Waterlog - to saturate (a field) with water; a problem for most crops Drainage - the removal of liquid (water) from an area Ditch - a narrow channel dug in the ground, typically used for drainage alongside a road or the edge of a field Drain tile - a pipe buried (beneath a field) for drainage. Originally made of ceramic tiles, now typically of corrugated plastic Precision agriculture - putting corn seed + small dose of fertilizer/pesticides in hole in ground Controlled drainage - the use of a water control structure to raise the depth of a drain tile outlet to hold water in the field when drainage isn't needed Wood chip bioreactor - an underground trench filled with wood chips that provide carbon for bacteria that denitrify the water flowing through it Saturated buffer - a strip on the edge of a field filled with plants & bacteria that can remove some nitrogen from the water flowing onto it from drain tiles Denitrification - the removal of nitrogen from a substance (soil, air, or water) by chemical reduction, typically via bacteria Wetland - an area of land where water covers the soil year-round or at certain times of year Ecosystem services - the free benefits humans get from natural ecosystems MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC ⁠https://neptunestudios.info⁠ If you like what we do, you can help us! - Become our patron: ⁠https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth⁠   - Buy our merch: ⁠http://dftba.com/minuteearth⁠   - Buy our book: ⁠https://minuteearth.com/books⁠ - Sign up to our newsletter: ⁠http://news.minuteearth.com⁠   - Share with your friends and family - Leave us a comment (we read them!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC ⁠⁠https://neptunestudios.info⁠⁠ If you like what we do, you can help us! - Become our patron: ⁠⁠https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth⁠⁠   - Buy our merch: ⁠⁠http://dftba.com/minuteearth⁠⁠   - Buy our book: ⁠⁠https://minuteearth.com/books⁠⁠ - Sign up to our newsletter: ⁠⁠http://news.minuteearth.com⁠⁠   - Share with your friends and family - Leave us a comment (we read them!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC ⁠https://neptunestudios.info⁠ If you like what we do, you can help us! - Become our patron: ⁠https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth⁠   - Buy our merch: ⁠http://dftba.com/minuteearth⁠   - Buy our book: ⁠https://minuteearth.com/books⁠ - Sign up to our newsletter: ⁠http://news.minuteearth.com⁠   - Share with your friends and family - Leave us a comment (we read them!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Optimality models: tools used to evaluate the costs and benefits of different organismal features, traits, and characteristics, including behavior, in the natural world. Optimal foraging theory: a behavioral ecology model that helps predict how an animal behaves when searching for food. Marginal value theorem: an optimality model that describes the strategy that maximizes gain per unit time in systems where resources, and thus rate of returns, decrease with time. Central place foraging: a model for analyzing how an organism traveling from a home base to a distant foraging location can maximize foraging rates. MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC ⁠https://neptunestudios.info⁠ If you like what we do, you can help us! - Become our patron: ⁠https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth⁠   - Buy our merch: ⁠http://dftba.com/minuteearth⁠   - Buy our book: ⁠https://minuteearth.com/books⁠ - Sign up to our newsletter: ⁠http://news.minuteearth.com⁠   - Share with your friends and family - Leave us a comment (we read them!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices