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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Chimpanzee: A great ape native to tropical Africa that is one of humanity’s closest living relatives. Bonobo: A slightly smaller great ape native to tropical Africa that is one of humanity’s closest living relatives. Speciation: A lineage-splitting event in which a population of the same species becomes two different species....

To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Rhizome: a continuously growing horizontal underground stem which puts out lateral shoots and roots at intervals Vacuole: an organelle within the cytoplasm of a cell, enclosed by a membrane and typically containing fluid, whose main purpose in plants is to maintain pressure against the cell wall Microfibrils: fiber-like stran...

To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Anaerobic digestion: a sequence of processes by which microorganisms break down biodegradable material in the absence of oxygen Methanogens: a methane-producing bacterium, especially an archaean which reduces carbon dioxide to methane Wastewater treatment: a process used to remove contaminants from wastewater or sewage and co...

To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Cartilage: The flexible connective tissue that is turned to bone by osteoblasts. Osteoblasts: Cells that control calcium and mineral deposition to turn cartilage into bone. Sesamoids: Bones embedded in tendons or muscles. Fabella: A large sesamoid bone occasionally found behind the knee joint. Coccyx: The small set of semi-fu...

To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: grafting: joining together a cut branch with a cut root of the same species to produce a new individual. 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.c...

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Chronic traumatic encephalopathy: a progressive degenerative disease of the brain found in people with a history of repetitive brain trauma (often athletes) Traumatic brain injury (TBI): a disruption in the normal function of the brain that can be caused by a bump, blow, or jolt to the head, or penetrating head injury Subdura...

To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: The Great Acceleration - the dramatic increase in human activity, largely since 1950, that is evident across a variety of socio-economic and biophysical measures, and that has made humans into a planetary scale force The Anthropocene - our current geological epoch (contested), beginning when humans first had significant impac...

To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Deep learning: a subset of machine learning in artificial intelligence that can learning from data that is unstructured or unlabeled 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 o...

To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Dematerialization - using less (or no) material to deliver the same service Energy conservation - using less energy by adjusting behavior (turning down your heat) Energy efficiency - using less energy by using technology that requires less energy to perform the same function (insulating your house to keep warm while using les...

To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Tetrapods: four-limbed (with a few exceptions, such as snakes which have vestigial limbs) animals constituting the superclass Tetrapoda. 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 o...

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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://minu...

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 o...

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 acetyls...

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 acti...

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...

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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 m...

To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Microbe - an organism (such as a bacterium or protozoan) of microscopic or ultramicroscopic size. Remote sensing - the scanning of the earth , especially by satellite or high-flying aircraft, in order to obtain information about it. Pathogen - a bacterium, virus, or other microbe that can cause disease. Chlorophyll - a green...