Oh, this is double hard, isn’t it. My initial thought was that it was a confusion between paedology and pedology (in my head something to do with feet!). But it’s actually soil science… TIL :)

Wikipedia says:

Spielberg told Lucas he was interested in making a James Bond film, but Lucas pitched him of an idea “better than James Bond”, outlining the plot of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Well, growing up in Germany with all my grandarents being more on the nazi side of WWII, I feel like the US idea of getting rid of nazis is that you just have to fight them like in WWII. It didn’t work though. German society and politics was still very much made up of nazis afterwards. Sure, they got taken the power to act upon their ideology in the same way as before. What you need is a systemic change where fascist ideas don’t have any space anymore, where emancipatory ideas can grow and where people are liberated in who they are and what they think. But the issue is, misogyny and racism like portrayed by the Indiana Jones movies are strictly opposed to emancipatory struggles. Giving discriminatory ideas like these too much space will again lead to more fascist tendencies. My point is, it isn’t always black and white, nazi or not nazi. I have no idea if my grandparents were all nazis. They were just kids brainwashed into this ideology. My granddad fought in the Wehrmacht against the allies, but he was just 17. It is easy to say “punch nazis” or “kill nazis”. But unless you have a clear cut enemy like in a political party or an opposing army, this gets messy pretty quickly.

Why do you choose to see Jones in the context of the 1930s? It is a character based on the values of the 80s and onward. On top of being misogynistic, the character of Indiana Jones is also being the white hero playing into many racist tropes. So using Jones as this Nazi fighting hero doesn’t work even on the most basic level. Again, I’m all for punching Nazis, but we should choose better heroes or even better: no heroes at all!

Though the character of Indiana Jones or Harrison Ford as a person aren’t really worth to aspire to. Sure, the nazi punching part is great but being a sexist piece of shit isn’t…

Danke für den Kommentar! ❤️ Ich fühl mich durch so sexistische Scheiße wie was die Person vor dir gesagt hat meist ohnmächtig und hätte da nicht konstruktiv drauf reagieren können :'(

If you like fun but also well-researched stories about people living in pre-modern times, you might also enjoy the weird medieval guys podcast :) They actually did an episode on fossils recently. Another funny story they mention is the one of Johann Beringer’s “Lying Stones”.

While I agree with the first part of what you said, I don’t think the longterm solution is to call out individuals and make their lives horrible. It sure is a good way to maybe deter a few people from doing those misogynistic things. But what we need is actual structural change. It shouldn’t be possible these people to do such things in the first place without being sanctioned. And we should educate people more on feminism and intersectional struggles in general.

You still got it mixed up a bit though. There is no “normal” respiration, cells use both types of respiration all the time.

current estimates [of the yield in aerobic respiration] range around 29 to 30 ATP per glucose. Aerobic metabolism is up to 15 times more efficient than anaerobic metabolism (which yields 2 molecules of ATP per 1 molecule of glucose).

Anoxic regeneration of NAD+ is only an effective means of energy production during short, intense exercise in vertebrates, for a period ranging from 10 seconds to 2 minutes during a maximal effort in humans. (At lower exercise intensities it can sustain muscle activity in diving animals, such as seals, whales and other aquatic vertebrates, for very much longer periods of time.)

Maybe you could link an article or a study where you’ve hear about this cancer connection? Would be curious what’s behind it.

Your first sentence is wrong (the mitochondria’s primary function is to generate ATP, which then gets transported to elsewhere where its stored energy is used). And your second sentence is confusing. With “broken ATP” you mean ADP? Or broken ATP synthesis? The point of this alternative oxidase pathway is producing some ATP, but inefficiently. And it produces also heat, because of its inefficiency (not all the energy stored in the sugars can be turned into chemically stored energy so it also produces heat energy. Think traditional light bulb). This heat is then used in the inflorescences of some aroids.

Ich ernähre mich seit über nem Jahrzehnt vegan und koche ziemlich viel, vor allem mit unverarbeiteten Produkten und so. Was mir die Zeit gezeigt hat, ist dass es noch auf viel mehr ankommt. Durch die Umstellung von primär Testosteron auf primär Östrogen in meinem Körper haben sich mein Gewicht, die Gewichtsverteilung, Muskelmasse und vieles mehr drastisch verändert. Alter und Sport haben da sicherlich auch ne Rolle gespielt. Durch Antidepressiva ist dann noch mal ein drastischer Wechsel gekommen und ich hab einfach 20kg in einem Jahr zugenommen, ohne was an meinem Lebensstil zu ändern.

Mein Punkt ist: Du hast zwar gute Punkte genannt, auf die Menschen auf jeden Fall acht geben sollten. Aber es ist noch viel komplexer als das und sehr unterschiedlich von Person zu Person bzw sogar innerhalb einer Person zu verschiedenen Zeiten.

Isn’t this just the normal functions of mitochondria in organisms irrespective of kingdom? They burn sugars (in aerobic respiration using oxygen) to produce ATP. ATP can then be used elsewhere in the body as an energy reserve. Animals do it and plants do it. The difference here might rather be that they don’t convert the sugars into ATP but rather use the thermic energy of the reaction to produce heat instead of ATP?

ETA: unfortunately, searching for “Alternative Oxidase Metabolic Pathway” only leads to this very short Wikipedia article and a whole bunch of hard to understand scientific papers. But seems to be an alternative pathway found in various different organisms for various reasons.

Well, the child is three years old and certainly has no concept of gender/sex. So how and why is someone apparently assigning gender and sex to this child? Why not just keep it neutral? Especially in context of forced gender and sex assignations as well as intersex child mutilations. Shouldn’t we be much more careful in this context not to force our biases and weird ideas of gender/sex onto children?!

Interesting how they call this child a “boy” if the karyotype and genitalia are so ambiguous. Like, why???

This got me interested too and apparently aroids as a family are specialized on doing this.

https://www.indefenseofplants.com/blog/2018/6/5/how-aroids-turn-up-the-heat

In lieu of their normal metabolic pathway, which ends in the production of ATP, the mitochondria switch over to a pathway called the “Alternative Oxidase Metabolic Pathway.” When this happens, the mitochondria start burning sugars using oxygen as a fuel source. This form of respiration produces heat.

Nonetheless, some aroids can maintain this costly level of respiration intermittently for weeks on end. Take the charismatic skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus) for example. Its spadix can reach temperatures of upwards of 45 °F (7 °C) on and and off for as long as two weeks. Even more incredible, the plant is able to do this despite freezing ambient temperatures, literally melting its way through layers of snow.

For some aroids, however, carbohydrates just don’t cut it. Species like the Brazilian Philodendron bipinnatifidum produce a staggering amount of floral heat and to do so requires a different fuel source - fat.

For about 20 to 40 minutes, the inflorescence of P. bipinnatifidum reaches temperatures as high as 95 °F (35 °C) with one record breaker maxing out at 115 °F (46 °C)!

Incredible!!

Well, duh, I obviously learned LaTeX only to be less productive and procrastinate more. And when I was getting somewhere with it, I had to switch to RMarkdown instead to be able to procrastinate even more! Imagine actually having to think about the content of your work, ugh :/

Neither beautiful nor conclusive data. With such a low amount of plane crashes over such a small time scale the number of incidents could just be random fluctuations. Since only the number of fatalities is given but not the number of incidents per year, it is impossible to tell if the difference in fatalities might just be due to varying sizes of planes.

If you want to know more about this (because in reality it is a bit more complicated) MinuteFood explains it pretty well in this video.

Das sind aber trotzdem zwei sehr verschiedene Sachen, also Russlandfreundlichkeit und der Glauben an Verhandlungen. Das macht eigentlich schon dein ganzes Argument zunichte, weil ist halt komplett falsch. Alles, was du über Putin gesagt hast, kannst du halt auch über Trump, Xi Jinping, Erdogan und und und sagen, mit denen verschiedenste EU Staaten und auch Deutschland sehr wohl verhandeln. Und Jan van Aken hat sich das ja auch tiefergehend mit Kriegen auseinandergesetzt und bietet jetzt seine Einschätzung an, wie eben historisch Kriege eher beendet wurden.

What I started doing was setting timers for things like that. A timer when the coffee is ready to drink could work for example.

Sorry, I misread your question. Yes, google maps shows “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)” in Europe as well :(