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How are 3D graphics rendered in order to get a cel-shaded or painted effect such as in Breath of the Wild?
[ "Cel shading is a very simple effect: you just have to compute lighting as usual and then step it (ie: code something like \"if the surface is more than 50% lit it is considered 100% lit otherwise it is considered 25% lit). \n\nIn practice you want more than one step (to keep specular highlights and the like) so yo...
why my laptop battery will take an hour to reach 90% but then take another hour to cap to 100%
[ "ELI5 Option (this is off my vague understanding, might be incorrect).\n\nImagine a battery is like a cup, and your charging source is a fat pitcher of water. When you first start pouring the water, the cup is empty so you dump it all in there because well, it's nearly empty and easy to control. As you get near ...
Why does it seem to take humans many more "tries" to get pregnant, while many wild animals seem to mate once and reproduce?
[ "Different reproductive systems.\n\nThe vast majority of animals *only* mate when they are already ovulating. Some are induced ovulaters even. Meaning that the very act of sex makes them ovulate.\n\nIn humans, mating is more of a social / partner bonding thing, so we also mate when we are not ovulating and there is...
- Messenger pigeons
[ "They are born and raised in a certain location. When you release them, they fly back to it.", "They only fly home (which is why they're also called homing pigeons).\n\nWhen you wanted to send a message somewhere you needed a pigeon from that place which was quite a downside. On the upside was that they were rela...
Why do people get "stuck in their ways"?
[ "Because it's easier to fool a man than it is to convince him he's being fooled.", "It's the \"don't fix what isn't broken\" principle. A person follows tradition because it's never led them astray, and even if it does, cognitive dissonance/motivated reasoning will allow them to rationalize their beliefs and acti...
How do drug purity test like mecke, marque and Simon work?
[ "Reagent testing can only tell you whether a certain class of compound is present or not, not how pure it is.\n\nIn order to find out how much of your substance is what you’re interested in you’d want to use titration instead.\n\nThe non-drug portion may be completely inert and not react with a reagent test kit, bu...
What is the link between the neurotransmitter GABA and anxiety disorders?
[ "GABA is an inhibitory NT, meaning that it blocks certain synaptic activity including the same receptors that help anxiety which we use Valium or Librium. They cause chloride ions enter the neuron causing less synaptic activity." ]
Computer graphics (and C)
[ "Good question actually.\n\nThe pixels you see on the monitor is actually just a computer memory being drawn. Now this memory used to be in RAM or maybe even in the monitor itself or elsewhere in the days of old, but on a normal desktop PC the memory is on graphics card.\n\nSo the graphics card holds the pixels to ...
The differences between Suni, Shia, and Kurdish muslims in the Middle East and the conflict(s) surrounding them.
[ "The Shia and Sunni are the two main branches of Islam, and concern the proper line of descent from Muhammad. The Sunni believe that the rightful heir was Abu Bakr, Muhammad's father-in-law, while the Shia believe it was Ali, Muhammad's son-in-law through his daughter Fatima (hence why the Shia are historically som...
Is there a real difference between deodorant and anti-perspirant or is it just marketing?
[ "It's in the name. De-odor-ant is designed to mask or get rid of a smell or odor. Anti-perspir-ant is designed to stop you perspiring by interrupting the sweat gland.\n\nDeodorants are alcohol based and kill the bacteria that grow but also partially stimulates sweating. This isn't a concern though as the bacteria a...
The difference and classifications between military ships; frigates, destroyers, carriers, etc.
[ "Corvettes are small attack ships. Frigates are medium-sized attack ships, Destroyers are larger than Frigates. Cruisers are larger than Destroyers. These are called 'surface combatants' and are meant for fighting enemies directly.\n\nCarriers are in a different category since they aren't meant to fight directly...
why do software versions always have decimals? What do the decimals mean? Why not version 3 instead of 2.7.10?
[ "The decimal places often denote major , minor, and patch releases. Major releases usually have lots of features added or significant changes / improvements, minor releases may have a single feature added while patch releases may only have defect corrections for example.", "The first number is the major version,...
Watching the World Cup, I see many soccer players touching the back of the heads of each other. What does this gesture mean?
[ "It expresses a \"no hard feelings\" sentiment. You usually see it after one player gets called for a foul on his opponent. He helps up the fouled player, and apologizes if the tackle hurt him." ]
What is the difference between a Function Call and a Function Definition?
[ "Function Definition: You define what the function will do when you call it.\n\nFunction Call: You call the function to do what you defined previously.\n\n🙂", "A function definition is a cake recipe. \n\nA function call is a warm delicious cake\n\n\nOne defines the means, the other executes it.", "Imagine a fu...
Why do streetlights in the distance twinkle like stars, when the ones nearby seem to glow consistently?
[ "The air in between you and the street light is a moving mass of uneven temperature. As the light moves through it, it gets bent which causes the twinkling effect. The same thing is going on with stars.\n\nWhen the light is closer there is less air for it to move through and so it gets bent less." ]
When a movie is censored for broadcast who decides what the dialog will be replaced with?
[ "The goal with censoring lines in a TV broadcast is to make it so that viewers don't realize it's dubbed, which breaks suspension of disbelief, so words will be chosen that lip-read similarly to their profane counterparts. That's why the broadcast version of *Snakes on a Plane* [is so bizarre.](_URL_0_) For posteri...
Why are September, October, November, and December not the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th months?
[ "They were, in the Old Roman calender. Then they were modified to make a more accurate, Julian Calender. Then that got changed again by the Church to create the Gregorian calender.", "Originally they were.\n\nJanuary is named for Janus, the roman god of beginning and endings.\n\nFebruary is named after Februus/Fe...
Why can't skaters do backflips in the olympics?
[ "two reasons: because it's dangerous, and when they land, their skates damage the ice more than just a \"normal\" jump would.", "Simply because the ISU considers the backflip to be too dangerous. There have been other moves that the ISU has banned such as the \"head banger\" death spiral in pairs skating because ...
Computers. More specifically, what bridges the gap between the hardware and software?
[ "A computer, at its heart, has a *processor* which runs the show. A processor can do simple mathematical operations and move data from one place to another, thats about all it does. \n\nEverything a processor does is determined by the values contained in its registers.\n\nIn the processor there is a *register* call...
What kind of device or technique do Radio stations use to get immediate access to almost every song and/or sound effect?
[ "I don't remember the exact numbers, but nearly every radio station in America is owned by a couple companies. It's really, *really* not just a patchwork of independent stations like the old days.\n\nSo they have control over millions of listeners and are able to get direct access to content from the major labels a...
How does the monetization of Facebook Likes and Shares work?
[ "If you're referring to people making profit directly off of facebook pages, without any other product in the mix:\n\n1. someone creates a site/page and tries to make it as appealing as possible.\n2. they post content people would like and/or share, and often explicitly encourage people to interact with the content...
Why do the words terrific and terrible have different connotations?
[ "They both came from the same Latin root, as someone already explained.\n\nThe meaning of words and phrases in language changes over time.\n\nAnother interesting development is the relationship between German and English and their tendencies to use \"negative\" words with \"positive\" ones to make something \"extra...
What is the difference and punishment between treason and high treason in the U.S.?
[ "Treason is against the country, and High treason is against the current sitting monarch. The US has no monarch so it has no High Treason.", "High treason doesn't exist in the United States. There is only treason.\n\nCanada has both, but not the U.S." ]
Why are weightlifters generally more into motivational posts online, compared to other athletes?
[ "Because bodybuilding is not a team sport, when you're in the gym 5-6 times a week by yourself you're going to need motivation more than somebody who can look up to their team mates and better players in the same club.", "because other athletes have competitions. something to look forward to. Weightlifters usuall...
If atomic blasts and radiation can change gene expression and cause mutations, can we theoretically use similar methods to our benefit?
[ "Chance.\n\nWhen cell division occurs there is a very good chance that the off spring's DNA will be mutated. This happens a lot not > 50% of the time, but fairly often.\n\nNormally 99% of these are useless and will do nothing. .7% are harmful, and will be killed by the immune system, .2999% end up as carcinoma cel...
Why are there only 7 visible cubes in a hypercube.
[ "there are 8 visible cubes in the 3d representation of it. One on the inside. 6 for each side of the inner cube. and the one that contains them all.. Take a look at [this](_URL_0_) to see what I mean." ]
What about smoking cigarettes is calming?
[ "When the body wants nicotine it will drive you nuts until you get it.\n\nWhen the body gets it fix the cravings go away.\n\nAlso when smoking deep slow breaths are taken which is also calming", "For the addict, the calming aspect of what is otherwise a stimulant (nicotine) is simply the satisfying of the addicti...
How come we never run out of things to memorize? Is there a limit in our brain that says we can't memorize anymore things?
[ "Im at work. I'll be home in a while, ill link you some articles then" ]
Why do they turn of the cabine lights on take-offs and landings on airplanes?
[ "For safety. These are the two most dangerous times in a flight. However unlikely, if an accident were to happen, by having the lights off, your eyes will already be adjusted to the outside levels of light, ready for the evacuation." ]
If there is a 3D object on a screen, will my eyes view that as added distance to see or will it see it as a 2D representation? Why?
[ "When you look at something, each of your eyes individually sees a 2d image. But because your eyes are in slightly different places, each eye sees the object from a slightly different angle. The closer the object is to you, the more offset the angles are, and therefore the more different the images each eye sees ar...
If Somalia was a failed state how did the borders stay intact and not be taken over by neighbouring countries
[ "Why would they want it? Seriously though, the surrounding countries were probably a bit too busy with their own problems and the international community would have had something to say about it. At a minimum there would have been a very strongly worded letter.", "Because in the current world there's a general ...
Regarding officials (police, judges, etc) who get caught doing something immoral or illegal, why are they asked to resign instead of getting fired/license/certs revoked?
[ "Police can be fired. In *some* locales, so can judges. But in *many* locales, judges are protected against removal except in extreme cases (like a felony), as are legislators. This is done to prevent abuses, like someone who doesn't like their policies working to get them fired." ]
Why the US is allowed to shutdown websites such as Mega-upload?
[ "Because the relevant assets were inside the jurisdiction of the governments that did the seizures.\n\nA website hosted inside Germany using the .de ccTLD of Germany is safe from the USA because all of its assets are inside Germany. Germany can take action against them, though." ]
How did reddit manipulate Google image results of Comcast to display a swastika?
[ "You post the image, with the title including \"Comcast\". The longer it stays and the more popular the image is, the more likely it is the google bot will pick it up, and place it closer to #1" ]
What does it mean when someone is always trying to one-up you in a conversation?
[ "I do this, and I try not to. As I've gotten older I'm much more successful. \n\nTo think of it a targeted thing is more than a little misleading. It's a defect in my communication that has little to do with the person I'm communicating with and way more to do with how I'm communicating.\n\nFor me, it's mostly a...
I'm afraid to tell my husband I've never seen Star Wars before. Can someone give me a cheat sheet of the main characters and plot?
[ "If you need to explain to your husband that you've been off sleeping with NBA All Star Team I can help you out, or that you've sold off a kid on the chinese black market...I'm your man. Need to break the news that you've mortgaged the house to support your heroin addiction? I'm there for you. But this? No way....
Why the NFL commissioner is boo'd?
[ "Tradition, when it was in NYC Jets fans boo'd everything especially their team's picks.\n\nBut also he is nothing but a corporate shill and spineless mouthpiece for the uncaring owners. Why should he be cheered?" ]
Why do apostrophes appear as ' & #39;' on many internet forums after copy/pasting?
[ "It's called an \"ASCII Code\", the \" & #__;\", where the blanks are two-three numbers is specifically used for HTML, the programming language used for websites.\n\nASCII stands for \"American Standard Code for Information Exchange\". All letters, numbers, and characters have an ASCII code. \n\nBasically, when it ...
At what point does a fertilized egg or an embryo gain consciousness or awareness that its alive?
[ "If you're talking about self-awareness, then around the age of two assuming you follow the mirror test as a valid test of self-awareness. Basically, you show the child a mirror. If they think it's another child, it's not self-aware. If it recognizes the image in the mirror as themself, they are self-aware.", "We...
Regarding the different types of non-covalent interactions, why/how does the energy of these different types of interactions depend on the distance between them?
[ "Non covalent (Ionic) bonds do not share their electrons like covalent bonds do. It is a metal bonding with a non metal. There has to be a certain degree of electro negativity difference. If you take a gander at the periodic table, there's metals in groups 1, 2, and 3 that lose one electron, two or three (same as t...
Why does sleeping 6 hours earlier at night make me more tired than sleeping 6 hours late at night?
[ "It could be as simple as your body taking time to adjust to a new sleeping pattern. How long have you been doing this new sleep schedule?" ]
Why in Islam and Judaism its followers can't eat pork?
[ "Pigs and humans are genetically very similar, to the point where you can do organ transplants. Many of the bacteria, parasites, etc will therefore find humans a similar host. \n\nTwo tribes are near each other. One eats pork, the other doesn't. The tribe that doesn't suffers less illnesses and the people are healt...
How do cartoon shows like The Simpsons and Family Guy increase the overall quality of animation over time? What changes?
[ "They got bigger budgets due to popularity. Also, the early seasons used hand-drawn animation made for 480p analog broadcast, while now they are computer animation rendered in 1080p.", "They get viewers and make more money to put into development.\n\nJust like a (non-animated) series I watch: Supernatural.\nFirst...
Why does a country like china devalue its currency?
[ "Let's pretend the exchange rate is 1:1 for the Yuan to the Dollar.\n\nSomething that costs 100 Yuan would have to sell for at least $100.\n\nLet's say now the exchange rate is 2:1. It costs twice as much in Yuan to buy its equivalence in Dollars.\n\nThat good that costs 100 yuan can now sell for $50." ]
Why is it whenever I stand up too fast from sitting on the couch, my vision becomes slightly impaired (or I start seeing only black) and I become dizzy?
[ "Interestingly, the Mayo Clinic offers a [description of that dizziness, but no reason for it](_URL_1_)\n\nMy guess would be it's a combination of two things. One is the sudden movement of standing which jostles the fluid inside your inner ear. Your ear uses that fluid to detect movement, orientation, and help with...
Can a person survive walking inside a tornado?
[ "It's definitely possible but not probable. I don't think you'd be able to walk either. You'd most likely be picked up by the wind. Occasionally stories pop up about people who get picked up and gently set down a few miles away with minor bruises, but most people die.", "Unlikely, but possible. All but the weake...
Why are there so many Saudi princes?
[ "Because each one takes on multiple wives and has many children... so prince has 20 children, and they each have 20 children you end up with many, many princes in the royal family." ]
Now that we know that "spooky action at a distance" is a confirmed phenomena of the quantum world, what does it mean?
[ "Quantum entanglement, or 'spooky action at a distance', is a phenomenon that can occur when two particles are created. I'll use spin as an example of a property that can be entangled. If two particles are created that are entangled, their spins will have opposite values. You can only know the probability that a pa...
Why do they make 'normal' cars that go faster than the speed limits? e.g. Hyundai i10 that goes up to 150mph
[ "There are several things which affect this, some of which have already been mentioned:\n\n* The first is selling point (mentioned by @PM_ME_YOUR_AIRFOIL). Not so much so for your base models but for higher end cars Top Speed and how quickly a car gets there may affect which car someone buys.\n* The second is engin...
Game engines
[ "A game engine is nothing more than a bunch of code/software that handles the \"hard\" parts of making a game work so that the developers can focus on creating gameplay and content.\n\nSome things that a game engine may do:\n\n* Read and write graphics files (3D models, textures, sprites, etc.) and display them on ...
Please explain how a one-way mirror works.
[ "a one-way mirror is really just a 1/2 mirror and a 1/2 glass. If it is facing into a bright room (imagine someone in a dark closet spying on the room) then from the bright room, 1/2 of the bright light goes into the closet and 1/2 of the bright light gets reflected back\n\nAdditionally, 1/2 of the dim light from t...
Why are there so many more shootings, attacks, and bombings in Europe than the US When the US is more actively involved in destabilized regions than countries, for instance, like France?
[ "1. There aren't more shootings in Europe than in the USA, but there are more Islamic terrorist attacks, which I presume is your point.\n\n2. Europe is more populous than the USA, the EU alone has over 500m residents. More people = more stuff happening.\n\n3. Europe is closer to areas of unrest and shares land bor...
On USA Taxes, how much do you need to donate to charity to receive more than the standard deduction?
[ "The standard deduction for most single people is $6300. In most cases, they should itemize if their itemized deductions are more than that. One way to do that would be to donate more than $6300, of course, but people can also deduct sales taxes or state and local income tax, as well as their mortgage interest, rea...
How can a plane 'disappear' without knowing its location, when i can track flights live from my phone? Malaysia Airlines MH370 imparticular
[ "Exactly the point and why this is a serious problem, OP.", "All those tracking apps rely on position reports broadcast via the airplane itself (via something called the transponder or ADS-B). If the airplane stops transmitting for some reason, the only thing you have is an approximate radar position with very li...
How do TV shows translate word play based jokes for viewing in other languages?
[ "depending on the circumstances, it's rewritten slightly. usually there's a surprisingly fitting equivalent you can come up with. the languages more similar to the show's original language, tend to be more likely to have an equivalent word/wording for it. but then sometimes, the joke just doesnt work anymore and th...
EL15 Why can I effortlessly touch-type but I am unable to recite the order of keys on my keyboard without looking.
[ "The same way Eric Clapton could play a blistering guitar solo, but be unable to recite all the notes of that solo to you one by one.", "Touch typing develops muscle memory through an act of repetition. This allows you to subconsciously 'remember' locations of keys and patterns needed to type words.\n\nAs you pra...
Why does being tickled give such an intense feeling of almost urinating?
[ "Judging from your post history (sorry) you're an adult woman, so it makes sense that you don't quite understand the sensation. \n\nThat's the start of the ejaculation reflex.\n\nWhat you do with that knowledge is up to you." ]
Why is the sun orange?
[ "First, the sun isn't orange, it's brilliant white with a hint of yellow. It often appears orange in photos because the people that are studying it take pictures and movies of it through special lenses or using cameras that detect light in the parts of the light spectrum that we can't see, such as infrared or ultra...
Why is water the thing we look for on other planets to determine if life could have existed there? How do we know water is necessary for other types of life?
[ "We don't, its just the only type of life we know to look for!" ]
How does an autonomous vehicle decide who dies in an unavoidable crash?
[ "They aren't that complex. They just try to stop the vehicle and avoid collision as best they can, they don't make assessments of likelihood of death.\n\nOnce they can it will likely be legislated to judge in a certain manner.", "The car's programming is very simple.\n\n1. Object in path.\n\n2. Can I stop in ti...
Keynesian Economics
[ "I've tried to make this short and sweet. Keynesian Economics, most simply could be thought of as such:\n\n* \nThere exists a cycle in the economy, in which there are years of success and growth, followed by years of depression or recession, where the economy is not doing well and people are unemployed and business...
If a female is born with a third nipple, will she develop a third breast during puberty?
[ "No, there's no breast tissue. Superfluous nipples are more like moles than breasts. Source: I'm a guy but I have 3 extra ones." ]
Why is there so little advertising targeting/encouraging women to buy things for the man in their life?
[ "Simply that men make a larger share of the household income. However in advertisement there is a heavy emphasis on mother's for groceries and household products", "I suspect some of the advertising you think is targeted at men is about men but targeted at women.", "In my experience, women don't have to be remi...
how did the US become so dependent on China-made goods and what persons made it happen?
[ "In the 60s and 70s, Regan reduced the taxation of capital gains over 1 mil from 70% to 30%, loosing a good portion of tax revenue, reducing education subsidies and creating a poorly educated and unskilled workforce. Entering the age of globalization and technology starting in the 1980 through the present, a new gr...
UV Index. It's 110 in AZ with a UV index of 1 and 88 in Chicago with a UV index of 5. Will you burn quicker in Chicago??
[ "Yes you will.\n\nSunburn has little to do with air temperature, it is the amount of UV radiation that reaches your exposed skin. You can get sunburn in the middle of winter, you are just less like to, because spend less time outdoors and have less skin exposed to the sun.", "Yes. Sunburns have nothing to do wi...
why do we get a bloody taste in our mouth when we get injured?
[ "That'd be the blood.\n\nWhen you open a wound it will start to leak your blood. It's important to stay far away from vampires and sharks at that point." ]
how do oven mits and pot holders work?
[ "They don't transfer heat very well. Metal transfers heat very well because all of the molecules are packed very tightly. When one side of a piece of metal gets hot the fast-moving molecules will bump into other molecules and transfer that heat to the other side very easily.\n\nBut, pot holders are made up of cloth...
What happens if the member of a jury notices something during a trial that they need to be addressed to make a decision? Can they ask questions or try to get something addressed?
[ "As noted by another commenter, specifics will vary by jurisdiction; however, juries are usually not allowed to inquire about the facts of the case being presented. The jury's role is basically to decide 1) who is telling the truth if there are conflicting accounts and 2) whether the true story fits into the laws a...
Why do houses get more valuable over time?
[ "It's the land, not the house.\n\nthe real estate the houses are build on are what rise in value. it's location relative to local services, schools, businesses, etc.\n\nhouses do generally drop in value, you're right. that's why people remodel rooms or the entire thing.\n\nat least, that's the traditional wisdom. i...
What is the benefit to the CEO's disbanding the White House advisory panel?
[ "Imagine you go to a party with your friend, Donnie. You get to the party, which has a pretty diverse group of partygoers, and Donnie starts spouting off white supremacist nonsense at the party. What are the partygoers going to think of you, since you're buddied up with Donnie?\n\nCEOs are the leaders and, in many ...
How does electricity "know" when to start flowing?
[ "imagine you have a water pump, connect an empty pipe with a tap on the end and it will fill up the pipe with water. (ignore the air that's in the pipe)\n\nthe same thing happens with a wire. if you connect a wire to the positive of a battery the wire also becomes positive." ]
How clothes shrink in the dryer
[ "As a sheep owner who got tired of answering the question \"Why do sweaters shrink when they get wet, but sheep don't shrink in the rain?\" I wrote [this short response](_URL_0_)\n\nBasically it's the heat from the drying process and how it affects the shape of the fibers." ]
Why does it seem that there are no revolutionary artist in the likes of DaVinci, Picasso, Van Gough, etc. in modern day art?
[ "Picasso and Van Gogh were modern artists.\n\nEven if you mean more recent than them, there are plenty of artists art history might consider \"revolutionary.\" Warhol, Rauschenberg, Pollock, de Kooning, Kahlo, Dali, Duchamp, and Bourgeois are just a few that come to mind.\n\nA lot of art is only recognized as \"rev...
How come some drinks taste better out of a bottle than a can? or is it all in my head?
[ "Coke: Can\n\nDr Pepper: Bottle\n\nBarq's (Root Beer): Bottle\n\nMountain Dew: Can\n\nSource- Caffeine Addict", "Well, first of all is not because of anything being absorbed into the drink (usually). In fact the main thing that causes many drinks (ie beer) to go bad or \"skunk\" is light, so cans are actually bet...
Why do parliament impose sentence ranges for crimes instead of leaving it up to the judge and case law?
[ "It's important to have some degree of uniformity in sentencing. Of course every case and every criminal is different, but some guidelines are necessary.\n\nIn County A you get arrested for possessing heroine and the judge happens to think drug laws are a bit silly and gives you 10 days in jail. Get arrested for th...
Fake news
[ "In US current events, it is being used fairly frequently to describe fictional or misrepresented news stories, where the purpose is not satire but instead to mislead, often to promote or attack a specific agenda, on the assumption that many readers will not take the time to research if the story is in fact false."...
where do mosquitoes sleep?
[ "Outside, they hangout under leaves on low level vegetation like bushes and weeds, etc. That's why keeping your yard cleaned up will help with mosquitoes because it limits the area for them to hide.", "I hope someone knows the answer to this. There's been one mosquito in my room for a week now, hiding in the day,...
Heidegger's Being v. being
[ "The common term \"being\" simply conveys presence. Something \"is\".\n\nHeidegger saw living as a human being as fundamentally not inert, not just sitting there existing, but as something else. To us, life is an immersion of consciousness in a world which presents possibilites of action to us. So being to us is...
Why is it hottest when the sun begins to set instead of when the sun is at its highest point?
[ "The atmosphere takes time to heat up and cool down. While the sunlight may be more indirect in the afternoon, the atmosphere overall has been exposed to more sunlight at that point than it has at noon.\n\nRight at Noon, you've got \"most direct light, preceded by almost direct light, preceded by indirect light.\n\...
Why isn't childhood obesity grounds for abuse like under feeding a child is?
[ "There can be a variety of factors that may lead to childhood obesity that aren't linked to overeating. \n\nFor example, hypothyroidism. Medicinal side-effects. Asthma may even doom a kid to inactivity. \n\nLastly, you need to consider *who* gets obese. You're far more likely to get obese if you are poor. This is b...
Logic gates in programming
[ "In general, all logic gates work on values that are either true or false.\n\nAn **AND** gate accepts two or more inputs, and outputs true if *all* of its inputs are true, or false otherwise.\n\nAn **OR** gate accepts two or more inputs, and outputs true if *one or more* of its inputs are true, or false otherwise.\...
Streaming VS Cable Broadcast
[ "No, it shouldn't be of the same quality.\n\nWith streaming content that travels over the internet, it shares bandwidth with, well, everything else. That's why sometimes it gets a little faster and sometimes gets a little slower.\n\nBut with the TV transmission from the cable company, the broadcast has its own dedi...
How could whatsapp knows that I may have new messages even without internet.
[ "Simple answer: they don't. They likely just want to entice you to get back on the platform. At most, they run a machine learning algorithm on the frequency at which you receive messages and store this locally in each person's phone, thus over time, predicting with some accuracy if you'll get a message." ]
What is actually happening to the air when I have one car window down and I get that ear rattling bass?
[ "Imagine the air in the car as being a springy cushion that the air from the outside pushes into. The air enters from the outside, making the air on the inside more dense, then the difference in pressure from the inside and outside pushes the air out and the process repeats. This constant in and out of the air crea...
At its core, how is science not a belief? Essentially, how is it any different than a religion or any other human based concept.
[ "Sounds like you're interested in the questions covered in the [philosophy of science](_URL_0_).", "Science is a *method* of using empirical observations to objectively determine which explanations are more accurate, as far as is reasonably possible.\n\nThere are 2 fundamental assumptions made by science:\n\n* Th...
Why is fertilizer the primary ingredient in many homemade bombs?
[ "It's the nitrogen//nitrogen-based chemicals in the fertilizer. The nitrogen stuff is great for growing crops... but it's also good for explosives.\n\nYou can search for \"nitrogen explosive compounds\", but read here this one example of why:\n\n_URL_0_" ]
How do asians differentiate amongst people based on their countries?
[ "The same way everyone else does. You have difficulty telling Asian nationalities apart because it's not something you do on a regular basis. There are visible ways to tell, and people who are exposed to a wider diversity of Asians know. But then they might have difficulty picking up the differences between say a E...
Why was Alcatraz closed and why don't we reopen it now.
[ "It was closed because it was super expensive to run.\n\nWhy do you feel the need to be more separated from violent criminals than high security prisons already provide? In reality escapes are super super rare, and they get rarer as prison design improves. There isn't really a benefit to shipping people off to an...
How food or sleep can help relieve migraines
[ "Food or sleep usually wont relieve a migraine - you get hungry during a migraine because your body understands theres a sharp pain around your head(along with your blood vessels getting dialated hugely to start the constriction in the first place), and gets sleepy because all your nerves are getting crunched by yo...
How do Football players get more concussions than rugby players when they don't wear helmets?
[ "because in football more players get hit in the head way more often vs rugby players. \n\nby wearing padded \"armor\" it gives players a false sense of security so they act more reckless.", "Rugby players know that other rugby players aren't wearing helmets and other extensive amounts of padding, and neither are...
What is the difference, chemically, between Isopropyl Alcohol (Rubbing Alcohol) and Ethyl Alcohol (Liquor)?
[ "Rubbing Alcohol gets broken down by your body and turned into poison. Due to having a different chemical structure, Liquor is broken down differently by the body, and is relatively safe to consume in moderate quantities. \n\ntl;dr: They are different substances. Alcohol is a family of similar molecules that ha...
Why do smaller computer chips produce less heat?
[ "The heat in a circuit is caused by resistance in the conductors inside the circuit. Smaller chips have fewer and shorter conductors, so the electricity meets less resistance as it travels through the paths in the chip. \n\nLarger components have more heat conductive material, but that doesn't really matter, as th...
What exactly is medicine (capsules/pills) made from?
[ "That will depend on what you are taking. For example, looking at my bottle of ibuprofen, the active ingredient (the actual drug) is 200 milligrams of ibuprofen. The inactive ingredients that make up most of the pill include such things as anhydrous lactose (dried milk), iron oxide (red dye), cellulose (wood pulp) ...
Why do American's feel so strongly about the right to bear arms? As an Aussie, the only people I know with guns own weak shotguns for hunting geese, pigs ect but not for protection at all?
[ "Its a concept that is hyper ingrained into US culture.\n\nThe idea was that the US founding father got sick of British oppression, picked up their muskets and declared war. Now of course the truth is more complicated and less romantic, but regardless the US was born on the back of the minuteman, the citizen with a...
Why are companies like Virgin or Straight Talk able to give you "unlimited" data for cheap while larger companies like AT & T and Verizon charging 150+ for a couple of GB?
[ "Because Virgin and Straight talk utilize bandwidth throttling and also use unused carrier bands from the major providers. Verizon and other Major carriers provide the hardcore backbone for primary subscribers, and then use the secondary carriers to give a cheaper option, but at reduced functionality. They may not ...
Why chemical weapons considered more indiscriminate than conventional weapons?
[ "While all destruction of human life is essentially 'inhumane', chemical weapons have been proven to be particularly devastating. \n\nI'm not an expert but I will try to give my opinion on the matter.\n\nThe Geneva Protocol, signed in June 1925, prohibited these weapons because of Europe's recent experience with th...
What is 'High place Phenomenom'?
[ "The high place phenomenon is a psychological effect that is prevalent when you are in a high place, hence the name. If you've ever been on the top of a cliff or tall building, you've probably felt a small urge to jump off, just because you could. This is part of the high place phenomenon, the other part is if you ...
Why do people tend to hate the sound of their own voice in a recording?
[ "You're usually hearing your voice not just with your ears, but transmitted through your jawbone, which changes the sound. When you hear a recording, you just get the sound, which is familiar but *wrong*. Similarly, people tend to think they look bad in photos because people aren't perfectly symmetrical. You're ...
Why did Blu-ray beat HD-DVD?
[ "The edge was that Blue Ray managed to get several big companies to use Blue Ray meaning it was less chance that your movie would appear on HD DVD. So if you wanted to watch your favorite morning cartoon, you had to have Blueray if you wanted it in the high definition format. Shortly thereafter, Toshiba conceded d...
What's the difference between facewash soaps and regular soap?
[ "Facewash does not contain soap, which is the point. First off, soap has a pH-level way above your skin, which screws up the balance and can make bacterial growth increase and in turn cause acne. It also contains a fair range of thickeners which clog pores, also leading to acne. Lastly soap will get rid of so much ...