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From Wikipedia on dopamine:

The brain includes several distinct dopamine pathways, one of which plays a major role in the motivational component of reward-motivated behavior.

So it is a neurotransmitter but has many different functions as such. But also:

Outside the central nervous system, dopamine functions primarily as a local paracrine messenger. In blood vessels, it inhibits norepinephrine release and acts as a vasodilator; in the kidneys, it increases sodium excretion and urine output; in the pancreas, it reduces insulin production; in the digestive system, it reduces gastrointestinal motility and protects intestinal mucosa; and in the immune system, it reduces the activity of lymphocytes. With the exception of the blood vessels, dopamine in each of these peripheral systems is synthesized locally and exerts its effects near the cells that release it.

So dopamine is important for all kinds of cells to function correctly. So just chugging a bunch of dopamine would do all kinds of stuff to your body...

Yeah, seems like you're right about kurz. It's mostly just walnuts although you can find recipes where they say nueces and use pecans. Almendras seem to be classified as a separate thing from nuts, interesting. Wasn't aware of that before! I'd just use the term "nuez" like I would in German maybe that's why I never noticed :D

I guess things can have multiple names, too. In German you would also say Waldfrüchte (forest fruits) to mixed berries, but they are still Beeren (berries) as well. If you search for "postre de bayas" or "pastel de bayas" many recipes pop up. And sure, Spanish is obviously a diverse language with the divide between Spanish from Spain and from Latin America.

Disclaimer: I'm part of the scientific bubble so that's why I may here more terms that are botanical in Spanish ;)

Bayas y nueces... Tubérculo is closer to the botanical definition because it is a tuber (storage organ) and not a fruit (like most vegetables). And I would think that tubérculo could be any tuber vegetable, not just papas/patatas. Things like ñame or otoe are called tubérculo también.

Well, there is someone around with a checklist constantly reminding me of what I should be able to accomplish and they actually do compare my every step with my peak performance. It is the part of me that was made to believe that I only have any worth if I'm achieving the best. Anything less and I'm worthless...

I'm glad you made it out of there. Hope I'll get to this point one day, too!

Hm, anscheinend funktioniert das Business Model für Meta ganz gut, solange sie nur ab und zu mal paar Millionen zahlen müssen. Ich finds super, dass es Menschen gibt, die das aufdecken und die verklagen, aber wir brauchen sicherlich eine größere Veränderung, als großen Konzernen ab und zu mal auf die Finger zu hauen. Und für Einzelpersonen sollte es ja auch keine Überraschung sein, dass wenn man ne Meta App installiert, die eben alles ausspionieren, was man so macht. Pragmatisch gesehen ist das Installieren so einer App ja schon die Inkaufnahme von Bespitzelung...

Have you got any links? A quick search didn't show up anything in that direction, only how important Mendel was for modern genetics...

Hm, I was intrigued and looked at the evolution of plants. This made me realize how paraphyletic gymnosperms and angiosperms really are! We just don't know how angiosperms exactly started out and if they might be monophyletic. And in case of gymnosperms, they are consisting of many very different plant groups that evolved independently.

So gymnosperms were probably the first plants to evolve seeds and they "include conifers, cycads, Ginkgo, and gnetophytes, forming the clade Gymnospermae". That doesn't really give an answer but that's the best we can do?

It was previously widely accepted that the gymnosperms originated in the Late Carboniferous period, replacing the lycopsid rainforests of the tropical region, but more recent phylogenetic evidence indicates that they diverged from the ancestors of angiosperms during the Early Carboniferous.[12][13] The radiation of gymnosperms during the late Carboniferous appears to have resulted from a whole genome duplication event around 319 million years ago.[14] Early characteristics of seed plants are evident in fossil progymnosperms of the late Devonian period around 383 million years ago. It has been suggested that during the mid-Mesozoic era, pollination of some extinct groups of gymnosperms was by extinct species of scorpionflies that had specialized proboscis for feeding on pollination drops. The scorpionflies likely engaged in pollination mutualisms with gymnosperms, long before the similar and independent coevolution of nectar-feeding insects on angiosperms.[15][16] Evidence has also been found that mid-Mesozoic gymnosperms were pollinated by Kalligrammatid lacewings, a now-extinct family with members which (in an example of convergent evolution) resembled the modern butterflies that arose far later.

Wow, so there was already pollination going on before flowering plants even existed??? By scorpionflies who's ancestors I frequently see? And there were butterfly-like insects long before real butterflies existed? Look how butterfly-like they were! This is wild!!

OK, aber das heißt ja, dass wenn die aktuelle Generation an Eltern (die Enkel), so viele Kinder bekommen würden wie in den Generationen davor, die Zahl der Urenkel nicht mal ansatzweise vollständig wäre!

1. Generation hat 8 Kinder p.P. bekommen
2. Generation hat 54/8 = 6.75 Kinder p.P. bekommen
3. Generation sollte dann im Schnitt eigentlich 7.35 Kinder p.P. bekommen (Mittelwert aus 8 und 6.75)

Das würde insgesamt 7.35 * 54 = 398 Kinder bedeuten!

Du wirst die Radford Family lieben, falls du das nicht schon bereits tust :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjvsb3ORskc

Ich kann zusätzlich noch den Podcast "Weird Medieval Guys" empfehlen (Spotify, Substack. ist allerdings auf English). Wirklich sehr ausführlich, unterhaltsam und man bekommt sehr viel mit, wie das Leben im Mittelalter wohl wirklich war. Besonders auch zu empfehlen für die, die bei den ganzen drögen Erzählungen im Geschichtsunterricht nie Interesse dafür entwickeln konnten ;)

Es geht nicht um schwul oder nicht, sondern welche problematischen Werte da gefeiert werden. Und wer ist bitteschön "wir"? Bist du Teil der Band, die du nie hörst? Oder einfach nur patriotisch, was ja an sich schon sehr problematisch ist.