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Why are gems valuable?	[ "They're pretty, rare, and associated with wealth and status. Some gems have unique properties which have industrial uses, such as diamond's hardness, or ruby's staying-the-same-shapeness, but mostly it's just \"ooh, shiny\".", "The worth of an item is due to supply and demand, for gemstones they are quite rare (...
The Union	[ "Im a union sheet metal worker. I making around $54 per hour and have health benefits and pensions so I can retire one day. Without the union I'd make less than half the wage I do and would have no health care or retirement package. Today unions are their own businesses and organized crime isn't involved. This is a...
why does whacking vacuum sealed glass containers (Snapple's Bottles, Jam Jars, etc.) on the bottom make them easier to open?	[ "You usually break any physical seal (dry food or vacuum) that was keeping it together" ]
What is a second mortgage and how does it work?	[ "A second mortgage is basically a home equity loan. If you have a mortgage on your house, the home equity is the difference between the value of your house and what remains to be paid in the mortgage. \n\nFor example, if you have a $100,000 house and you still owe $60,000 on it, the home equity is $40,000. That'...
Is it feasible to put a severely damaged/cut limb into a bucket to reserve blood instead of using a tourniquet to cut off blood flow?	[ "No. Your heart never really pulls a suction on your circulatory system. Even the return path for low oxygen, high carbon dioxide blood is under a positive pressure relative to the atmosphere.\n\nBlood would go into the bucket from the arteries, but the veins wouldn't be sucking it back up." ]
What makes old people smell like old people?	[ "Their cells are busy dying.\n\nAlso, they do not bathe as often as you or I might, since it has become a much more difficult and risky proposition, since getting in and out of a tub or shower might literally mean the difference between life or death. A fall at their age can be fatal. Laundry is also a chore, so ...
What do the values of the Dow, Nasdaq, and S & P actually mean?	[ "The Dow, Nasdaq, and S & P all represent an aggregate of publicly traded companies. \n\nIf you were to take the total amount of shares a company has, and multiply it by their share price, that is the current value of that company. \n\nTherefore, if you take a bunch of companies and aggregate their stock price, y...
Why can states allow minimum wages that are below the federal minimum wage level?	[ "States with lower minimum wages like Arkansas $6.16, Georgia $5.15, Minnesota $5.15, and Wyoming $5.15 only apply to businesses that are not subject to the regulation of the FLSA. \n\nGenerally, a business comes under the regulations of the FLSA if it has $500,000 or more in annual sales, or if the employees work...
Can you die from a broken heart?	[ "Unless you mean cardiomyopathy or heart attack, not technically. \n\nThat being said, depression and anxiety, especially when severe, can cause a plethora of negative effects on your physical health, including contribution to heart disease and high blood pressure, which may result in a heart attack or stroke. So i...
What are Ayn Rand's books/beliefs about and why do people seem to either love or despise her?	[ "Going to try to write this answer without being biased.\n\nThe people that love her respect how outspoken she is about her capitalist beliefs, and how well she portrays it in her books. She is on the extreme end of Libertarianism, and there are better comments in other threads that explain what that is. \n\nThe pe...
Why do humans take so long to mature from infants into adults unlike other animals?	[ "The human pregnancy is hugely flawed, we give birth after 9 months because that's the biggest the fetus can grow in order to be given birth to. Animals don't have this problem and so they give birth to young that can walk, feed themselves ect pretty much right from the moment they're born. So the human fetus is un...
The benefits of empire	[ "'Empire' isn't really a form of government in and of itself. Throughout history, there have been many empires with very different forms of government, some with complex bureaucracies and high local autonomy, others that are essentially just vast kingdoms with highly centralized states.\n\nThe word 'empire' is from...
can someone please explain feminism without going on a guilt tripping feminist rant	[ "Feminists generally want 'equality' - i.e. for men and women to be treated identically and to have the same opportunities (some groups add on that they also want women to be treated equally whilst 'keeping their femininity' i.e. not having to act like men to be treated as equal to men)\n\nThere is a long history o...
Why do you watch TV and suddenly realize you have your mouth open.	[ "When creating a movie or tv show the job of the director is to create a highly captivating end result, which if you are watching the show it probably is. One of my teachers called this the exit sign effect because when you are in a movie theatre you start watching and the exit signs are there and maybe bothering y...
how is boiling a live crab not considered animal cruelty?	[ "I could be wrong but I believe they die in a matter of seconds. Also nobody really cares either way (most people) because they are delicious and it never crosses anyone's minds.", "They die almost immediately. If I recall correctly, a business in my county was sued by the Better Business Bureau for animal cruelt...
Financially speaking, how do some people just drop everything and go travel the world after college?	[ "The bank of mom and dad, loans, working legally, working illegally. \n\nKeep in mind the cost of living some places is very low compared to western developed countries, so if you're not to attached to things like sanitation or avoiding malaria you can stay for cheap. I don't recommend contracting malaria though....
Why do we usually only breath through one nostril at a time?	[ "Do we? I don't feel like I do. I feel like I utilize both nostrils when I breath. Am I wrong?", "Short answer: we don't know why. It doesn't cause people to die and there is no money in developing drugs for it so no-one has bothered to research it.\n\nAs for how, that we do know. Erectile tissue is found in 3 ...
How does Kinesin turn chemical energy into mechanical energy? How does it "walk" down the microtubule?	[ "_URL_0_\n\nThe simplest way I can explain the \"how chemical energy is converted to mechanical energy?\" questions is:\n\nProteins have a certain structure which is the most stable given a set of conditions. It depends on all kinds of things including (but not limited to) what is bound to the protein and also whic...
Where did the terms 'ho' and 'pimp' come from?	[ "['Pimp'](_URL_0_) is a late 16th century word, possibly deriving from the french word 'pimpant' (meaning alluring in seductive dress). Around 1785 in London, the word was first seen in text in the [Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue](_URL_1_) and meant \"A male procurer, or cock bawd\". In the 1970's, media attention...
- Nobel Prize Economics 2012 (The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel)	[ "We've had this thread a dozen times in the past week. Please search. \n\nMy old post:\n\n > Roth, Shapley, David Gale, and a few other people figured out how to obtain efficient allocations of goods and services in markets where you aren't allowed to use prices. Examples of these are matching students to schools, ...
Why do people get gold fronts/grills?	[ "there is a culture of flashiness and bravado in alot of poor urban areas. you could say that its a way of \"proving\" your identity as a gangsta, baller, what-have-you, because gansta and baller attitudes are what is accepted in these cultures. It displays wealth and status, like eperman said, and serves as an int...
What is the difference between the US Senate and House of Representatives?	[ "A Congressman in the House represents the interests of individual districts where you live.\n\nA Senator in the Senate represents the interests of the state at large.\n\nThe reason we have two chambers is because the Framers were concerned with balancing out the power between the states. If we only had the House,...
Why do doctors/etc. squirt out the contents of a syringe before administering it in movies/television?	[ "Actually I do this daily. You need this when you are making a measured injection of some sort of medicine like insulin. Its not so much the air in the veins which could possibly be trouble, but instead to make sure the bubbles isnt messing up your measurement. I have a dog who needs exactly 4 ml of insulin a shot....
Would a simultaneous double punch (both fists) deliver the same mechanical force as a single punch by the same person on average?	[ "I'm no physicist but I would think the single punch would have more power, depending on how it was executed. A lot of the power behind a punch comes with being able to rotate your core at the same time as rapidly extending your arm. A double punch would negate this as all you would have is the force behind rapidly...
Why were the "fappening" photos so effectively removed from the internet when other, more offensive and harmful, images remain?	[ "All the rich and famous peoples lawyers just threatened websites with expensive legal action, they arent gone, they just arent explicitly displayed anywhere.", "What makes you think they were effectively removed from the internet?", "They were removed from websites that cared, like Imgur. If you just went to G...
Why is it that I enjoy listening to a song I like on the radio more than I like on my phone/personal music player?	[ "There's an element of good luck to it, or serendipity. You feel like the universe is doing you a little favor. Also, if a song is on the radio, or a movie you like happens to be on TV, you know on some level that you're part of a larger audience. It becomes a sort of rudimentary version of a communal experience, w...
Why is it easier to wash dishes with hot water?	[ "The hot temperature combined with soap helps to dislodge grease which may have congealed onto silverware and plates. Grease becomes less viscous as it is heated and thus easier to wash off.", "Hot water helps with washing for the same reason that slightly cool frigerators delay spoiling. I'm not sure I'm remembe...
Why does the return trip feel faster than the trip to the destination?	[ "Well son, I don't think that is always the case but....\n\n Remember when we went for ice cream and you were so excited you couldn't wait to get there. It seemed like it was gonna take forever, right? Then on the way home you were just relaxing and not thinking so much about ice cream any more, then suddenly you'r...
Why does cabin pressure change during a flight, and not stay the same?	[ "To keep the air inside the cabin at sea level pressure would require planes to be much stronger (and heavier). Letting some of the air out reduces the strength needed to prevent leaks, and it's still enough air to keep the people alive inside.", "You can essentially have 2 options. \n1)have the cabin pressure s...
in economics, how does inflation work?	[ "The money supply represents all the available 'working value' in an economy. By increasing the money supply, you can't change the 'real' value of the work, but now that you have more tokens representing the same economy, each token is worth less. \n\nLet's look at an economy of 10 people, and a money supply of 100...
Why does a rocking motion facilitate sleep?	[ "I imagine that it has something to do with the development of an unborn child in the mother's womb. In what way is it comfortable to sleep? - in darkness, in warmth and with rocking motions, three attributes of the inside of the uterus. You spent the first nine months of your life sleeping inside of there. It's on...
Why can't I build a custom cellphone when I can build a superior laptop or computer for cheaper than most name-brand equipment?	[ "The \"you can\" comments are missing a major component set that makes phones VERY different from your standard computer. RF and antenna matching gets really fuckey if you don't know how to tune it properly, which requires patience and relatively costly equipment. If you are an RF engineer who has access to this (...
Why does it take so much time for the death penalty to actually kill said person?	[ "Because it's a little... permanent. The proper steps have to be taken to ensure that the person you kill has actually done what he's been convicted for. It's already a barbaric practice, don't need to add even more innocent deaths to it.", "* the state wants to be really, really sure before issuing an irreversib...
What makes something romantic?	[ "Romance is easily subjective, so it's dependent upon the receiver of the romance to find it romantic. A woman may find flowers from her significant other romantic, but she may REALLY find it romantic when he does the dishes. I don't think it can be easily defined by one act or style of gift. It's really all abo...
Why do soccer players always seem to overreact to injuries?	[ "Not sure how familiar you are with football (soccer) so excuse me if I've used simple terms. I watch a lot of football, so I think it's important to point out a distinction here. There are two things at play here: simulation and over-reaction.\n\nSimulation is the act of pretending to be fouled or embellishing con...
What is this Central Bank bubble that is being talked about a lot, and how it compares with previous market bubbles?	[ "An economic bubble refers to having something (houses, stocks, anything really) where the demand is higher than it should be because people are buying it with the sole intention of selling it again (called speculation). They don't care how useful the things are that they're buying, they just want to have some, so ...
Why does Iowa always choose the presidential candidate? Why don't we switch states up for every caucus?	[ "Iowa doesn't choose the presidential candidate. In fact it's only about 50/50 even at predicting the outcome of the primaries. It is however the time that we see actual vote results for the season rather than polling data. This generally leads to a big shift in campaigns. Donors can flood in or dry up depending on...
Why are the majority of people right handed?	[ "No one is quite sure. The science of handedness is still in its infancy. What is known is that it probably has something to do with brain lateralization. Brain lateralization is where certain parts of our brain specialize in certain tasks, such as the left side of the brain dealing with verbal processing and the...
Can you explain the identity relation in philosophy?	[ "Lets say you have two objects, Object A and Object B. The two objects can be anything you want.\n\nNow, depending on what Object A and Object B are, there are \"relations\" that describe how the two objects are connected to each other conceptually.\n\nFor example, if A = Fire Truck, B = Ambulance, then one relatio...
star formation	[ "The mass is rotating from the original collapsed cloud. They can't simply negate this velocity in order to fall into the center of the cloud (any more than the earth can suddenly fall straight into the sun). As such, there is a distribution of elements throughout the disc.\nThere are heavier elements that become p...
Why is there a separate security code on credit cards? If the three extra digits make it that much more secure, why not just make the number three digits longer?	[ "In the olden days, credit cards were often not scanned with the mag strip, because the equipment was still too expensive for smaller retailers.\n\nWhat they did instead was use a carbon paper and a roller machine to take an imprint of the front of the credit card with the numbers. This was commonly part of the rec...
Why does the prime minister of some countries appear to have more power than the president?	[ "Broadly speaking, there are three main systems of government around the world. \n\nThere are Presidential systems where there is a president who is head of state and head of government (\"head of government\" being the person who makes most of the big decisions).\n\nThere are Parliamentary systems where the head o...
The concept of spin as it pertains to particle physics.	[ "Think about the state something is in. For example, a car can be traveling at 10 meter/second. It is in this state of traveling at such velocity. Now, some states (like the velocity example above) are continuous in nature, i.e. the car might as well be traveling at 9.98, 9.99, 10.01 meter/second and so on. On ...
Why can paper only be folded 7 times, no matter the size of paper?	[ "Contrary to popular belief, this isn't true. The thing is, though, that the number of sheets on top of each other and therefore the total thickness that has to be folded increases exponentially (see u\\random_username456's answer). This means that you need a really, really big sheet of paper to begin with if you w...
Old school graphics explanation. I need clarification please.	[ "You have a grid of 320200 pixels. That's 64000 pixels. Each pixel is either on or off, so you need 1 bit per pixel, for a total of 8000 bytes\n\nYou also divide the screen into 88 color cells. Each color cell has 64 pixels, so there are a total of 1000 color cells. Each color cell has a foreground and background...
Why do some trucks have a sign on the back that says "Work vehicle. Do not follow." What is the point?	[ "Construction areas can be confusing, especially at night. People have a habit of following dump trucks off the pavement into the work area because the truck is well lit, visible, and moves like he knows where he needs to be.\n\nSource: I drive gravel trucks for a road crew in the summers", "They sometimes stop i...
Where did "trick or treat" come from?	[ "Simple questions like this that don't warrant much explanation do not belong in ELI5, so this post has been removed. Try [google](_URL_0_) or /r/answers." ]
What is Daisy's Destruction?	[ "It is very real. It is very horrible from my understanding. I'm watching the 60 minutes video about it right now. You can Google it. The creator and perpetrator is Peter Scully.", "Are you coming from that thread on /b/? Yeah, me too. Also I'm curious as fuck." ]
Why do peoples faces turn red when nervous or embarrassed?	[ "Generally when you're nervous or embarrassed, you probably feel like you're in a high-pressure situation. The body responds by releasing adrenaline and increasing blood flow which causes your face to redden and your heart to pound.", "It is a \"Fight or Flight\" instinct reaction that is programmed down deep in ...
Why does one's hair become white as one ages and why does it happen to individual hairs at different stages?	[ "As we get older, our follicles stop producing pigment. It occurs in different people at different times, in different locations, for different reasons.\n\nThe primary factor is aging, and the scientific consensus is that all humans will only grow grey or white hairs if they live long enough.\n\nActually, the abse...
"Jimmy Legs" (Restless Leg Syndrome)	[ "In all honestly, we don't know what causes restless leg syndrome. There are certain things that can make it worse, but the initial cause hasn't been found yet. There may be a genetic component. Continue to experiment with different therapies to find one that helps, or at least figure out if there is anything that ...
What is the point of a "D" grade in colleges?	[ "Some majors will accept D grades for non-essential classes, like if you're studying journalism and you get a D in organic chemistry. You need no functional knowledge of organic chemistry to do your job as a journalist, so the major may be forgiving if you do poorly in that particular class.", "I think you are in...
Why cars don't have built in breathalyzers to prevent drunk driving.	[ "Because it'd be weirdly invasive to try and force people to buy cars with what amounts to a monitoring system and it wouldn't be effective; you can't police everybody full time and make sure nobody tampers with it to deactivate it or give false readings.", "They're expensive to install & require constant recal...
Why is there such thing as activation fees? Where does it originate from?	[ "Originally, it was because there was a cost to set up a product or service. It wasn't all instant or quick and easy to do like it is now - getting a phone set up or programmed took time and certain knowledge, or involved a lot more physical work to properly install and program a SIM card or the like. For other thi...
What is happening at the cellular level when a body part "goes numb" from being too cold?	[ "The blood supply to the nerves and nerve endings/receptors that mediate sensation is diminished, they get less oxygen and loose function. The nerve cells needs to constantly replenish its energy supplies through active uptake of nutrients, this relies on molecular pumps in the celle membrane that work poorly in lo...
When I lick my skin and smell it, why does it smell sort of like bleu cheese?	[ "Bacteria on your tongue. Go brush your teeth." ]
Why does a federal court mediate this Tom Brady deflategate case if its a disagreement of league rules and bylaws.	[ "Because the players union is suing the league. Courts are the ones who get involved when lawsuits are filed.", "While it is a dispute within the organization, the conflict is that of a contract.\n\nWhen Brady got his contract, it stated that he would follow the rules of the NFL.\n\nBrady not following those rule...
Is it legal to domesticate any critter as household pets?	[ "That depends on where you live. I'm pretty sure the US has laws prohibiting you from keeping any endangered or threatened species as a household pet. States probably have their own laws on what counts as a pet as well and almost all mid-sized or larger cities have ordinances defining what pets can be kept within t...
What are contraceptives and how do they work.	[ "There are many different sorts of contraceptives from condoms to hormonal birth control to intrauterine devices. \n\nCondoms and similar devices work my preventing the passage of semen. \n\nHormonal birth control, such as the pill or patch, work by disrupting ovulation.\n\nIntrauterine devices work by either disru...
How can a "lazy" dog finish 7th in a 1/2 marathon, competing against humans? Aren't bipedals much better at traversing longer distances?	[ "If I'm not mistaken dogs can be pretty good at covering long distances so long as it's not too hot. Humans main advantage to their stamina is being able to keep cool by sweating. That may not be the only reason but it may help you understand the logic behind the dog competing in a marathon during the winter", "H...
Why do Americans celebrate Thanksgiving?	[ "Thanksgiving celebrations were an old European tradition even back in the 1620's (specifically, the Dutch had the habit since the late 16th century). A Thaksgiving was a celebration made to recognize particularly good luck - the end of a war, an especially good harvest, etc. They were generally characterized by a ...
content filters	[ "Imagine that you're in line at the grocery store. Each item in your cart is a website that you want to get to, and each cashier is a filter. Good cashiers check to make sure that things are getting rung up right, that stuff isn't being left in the cart, etc...\n\nYou can have the best cashiers/filters in the indus...
How come a Wi-Fi repeater uses the same channel as the router?	[ "Personally I would never use a wireless extender because they are not very reliable. What I would use is a wired extender. One that connects to the first router via ethernet cable and works as a second wifi connection point. This is known as bridging. In this case you can change the bandwidth and even SSID and it ...
What happens to wax in a candle after it burns away?	[ "When you burn wax it (mostly) turns into carbon dioxide and water. Most of the mass is carbon that ends up in carbon dioxide. Neither water vapor nor carbon dioxide will bother you much if you breathe them in.", "The wax is the fuel itself so it gets burned up.\n\nCandle wax is a mix of paraffins of different...
What would happen to atmosphere if there wasn't any sunlight? Let's say sun is replaced by a cold sphere of the same mass.	[ "> What I'm thinking is this - if the sun's rays weren't there, how would this total amount of energy be replenished? \n\nIt wouldn't. The planet would become increasingly colder. You can think of heat as free energy floating around, which we normally take as an average. Molecules high in the atmosphere can actu...
If LASIK eye surgery is proven to correct eyesight, why hasn't it caught on and put the glasses/contact industry out of business?	[ "1. it is far more expensive than glasses \n2. children are rarely good candidates and lots of them need glasses \n3. they slice your eye open with a scalpel. \n4. then they shoot lasers into your eyes. \n5. some people like wearing glasses (even if they dont really need them) \n6. it cannot correct all vison...
what do the numbers in blood pressure mean?	[ "When you pump up a blood pressure cuff all the way, the brachial artery is completely clamped shut: no blood is flowing and there is no sound. \n\nAs you start to lower the cuff pressure, it eventually gets to a point where your left ventricle's (one of the heart chambers) heart beat is strong enough to push the a...
Why do eggs harden when heated?	[ "Eggs are made largely of proteins, which are very large, complicated molecules. The protein that makes up most of the egg's white is albumin, which looks [something like this](_URL_0_). Proteins normally have a well-defined, somewhat rigid shape, but when heated up, they get all messed up - they lose their structu...
How do 'quick change' artists do it?	[ "Watch [this act](_URL_0_). It's a reasonable interpretation. Without wishing to seem crude, the easiest way to see how it's done is to look at the size of her boobs at the start and end of the act.\n\nThere's nothing more too it than multi-layered clothing. \n\nEDIT: It's the wrong link, but I'm leaving it in as ...
why it only takes a minute to recharge a car battery when you need a jump start but phone batteries and lap top batteries take hours.	[ "Jump-starting a car doesn't recharge the battery; it temporarily bypasses the battery to start the engine.\n\nA car engine needs a quick jolt of power to get started. Something needs to turn the crank and move the pistons so when gasoline is injected and ignited, the engine can keep running under its own power. ...
Why when hyper-ventilating does it help to breath in a bag?	[ "When you're hyperventilating you're essentially blowing off too much CO2, leading to respiratory alkalosis, which means your blood's pH is too high (acting too much like a base), which in turn has all sorts of negative effects since you need a very specific pH range for a lot of very important proteins and enzymes...
What causes photos of screens to look so bad?	[ "It's called the moire effect.\n\nCameras have pixels, and those pixels are arranged in symmetric rectangular grids. Displays have pixels, also arranged in symmetric grids. When those grids perfectly align, the image is fine. However, if the grid is off a little then camera pixel A sees display pixel A and a lit...
Can someone legally arrest a cop? Why/Why not?	[ "I would not advice it. Cops are like brothers in any part of the world, the situation will get framed differently and you will be bullied. Best way to go about is a less direct approach and let the police arrest the police officer." ]
How do some flowers close tightly at night? Why do they do this?	[ "I know that some flowers do it to trap small pollinating insects inside overnight to ensure good pollen distribution. Idk if this holds true for all flowers that close at night." ]
Why is it harder to control your bladder than your bowels?	[ "Urine is produced constantly and in greater amounts than faeces. Plus it's a liquid, and the muscles that are supposed to control it get weaker, like any muscle as you age. The shape of the colon means that there's more room for poop to build up, so it's less urgent than your bladder, if it's full, its coming out....
why is Ford's stock (~$30) significantly cheaper than Nissan's stock (~$1,100)?	[ "Prices of individual shares are not as relevant as the overall market cap of the company. Share prices can be driven downward by having stock splits, which most companies do when the per share price becomes high.", "The price of Nissan is ~$18.50. What you are looking at is the price of Nissan in Japanese yen. I...
Atoms and us	[ "Atoms are like Lego. Different atoms can stick together with chemical bonds to build molecules, just like you can build all sorts of things out of Lego. The molecule has its own properties and behavior, but it's still a collection of atoms (Lego) all stuck together.\n\nYour whole body, skin and bones and all, is...
What do people mean when they say a console has a different architecture than another console?	[ "If you're doing computer science, you probably have some awareness that certain computer components go together, while others don't.\n\nFor example, Intel processors have to go in a motherboard with a compatible socket and chipset, as do AMD processors. These different 'architectures' also deal execute different i...
Attachment Parenting and the theories around it.	[ "What about it seems creepy. It all seems natural to me. Historically we've almost always slept with, carried, and breastfed our babies. It seems obvious that concentrating on nurturing a child would have positive outcomes. On the other side it can be taken too far. If a mother is forcing a 7 year old to breastfeed...
Why is Cyprus still split into north and south?	[ "Cyprus has been divided since 1974 when Turkey invaded the north. The island was partitioned with the northern third inhabited by Turkish Cypriots and the southern two-thirds by Greek Cypriots. The two groups want independence more than to live together." ]
why are movies still released in theaters?	[ "Because going to the theater is an experience. You go with a group of people, you are watching a screen much larger than you could ever own with a sound system far superior to what you could ever own. Yes you can watch the movie online in your home, or buy it on Blueray or via your cable but you cannot replicate t...
Why do kids that come from poor back grounds have kids earlier in life on average?	[ "Ain't nobody got time for kids when starting a career. Poor people tend to have jobs instead of careers. That and we like to fuck a lot.", "Sex is one of the few free joys in life. Poor people tend to flock to it early.\n\nOn top of that less guidance sometimes, and worse education of the consequences." ]
what are those lines and bumps on hard palate(roof of the mouth)?	[ "Googled your (almost) exact title, first result is a wiki article:\n\n > On the anterior portion of the roof of the hard palate are the rugae, irregular ridges in the mucous membrane that help facilitate the movement of food backwards towards the pharynx." ]
Why Dick Cheney is a "war criminal", and worse than other Bush-admin politicians who also pushed for war.	[ "People consider Dick Cheney a war criminal, because there was no evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. This was the whole basis for entering and bombing Iraq. Also, Dick Cheney was the Chair and CEO of [Halliburton](_URL_0_) which is the largest US military defense contractor. No conflict of interest th...
Why do our eyes get crusty in the morning?	[ "Tear ducts produce tears regularly to clean and lubricate the eyes. \n\nOvernight, this often builds up and dries leaving you with crusty eyes.", "You tear during the night (more so if your eyes are irritated) but you're not blinking. Blinking helps spread tears over the ocular surface and helps guide excess te...
How is it that the President can have the authority to authorize a nuclear attack but not a travel ban?	[ "He actually does have the authority to implement a travel ban under section 212(B) subsection F of the immigration and nationality act.\n_URL_0_\n\n\"Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States...
why are Android application updates as big as the size of the app, while on Windows/steam they are very small?	[ "Android apps are packaged and treated as a single unit whereas on steam it is installed as a series of files. So on one hand you replace the whole unit (so technically you do reinstall the whole app), on the other you can replace individual files.", "In the case of PUBG (and other highly graphic apps), all the c...
How do we know how fast the sea level rose 2000 years ago?	[ "Here is the blog of one of the scientists in the study. _URL_1_\n\nOn the second page, you'll see they talk about drill cores of coastal sediments, and here is an article talking about how that is done: _URL_0_\n\nThe new paper uses statistical modelling techniques to use a wide variety of data points from those ...
Why does cling film sometimes stick to the plate, bowl etc. and other times don't?	[ "Static electricity. That's the cling in cling wrap. Remove all the electrons from it and it looses that magic. Learned this from Mr. Wizard. The OG science guy." ]
Why is the major axis of paper/text documents vertical, while the major axis of human vision is horizontal?	[ "Because written lines that are too long make text hard to read. The longer the line, the easier it is for you to lose track of where you are when you have to wrap back to the other side to continue a sentence. You'll tend to accidentally start re-reading the same line, or skip over the next line, more frequently...
How can I go back and forth between posts and listing of posts without losing the upvotes I already made to other posts?	[ "> I read a post, then use the back arrow to go to the list of other posts. Upvotes that I gave no longer show\n\nThey no longer show up in your browser because the browser is loading the page from its internal cache when you hit the back button. But the votes are there, and if you refresh the page to get a fr...
Where do you find the number for pay phones? Like in movies a boss would call the exact phone you’re walking by on the street.	[ "At one point in time, pay phones had a little strip above the keypad which had its phone number. That’s just my memory of them from childhood. I don’t know that I’ve touched one as an adult.\n\nAs for someone just magically knowing the number of the phone you’re walking by; probably the same way they know where ...
What exactly do vitamins do?	[ "Vitamins are chemicals and your body runs in a multitude of chemical processes. Aside from the proteins and fats you get from food, vitamins are the chemicals that are necessary (though in much smaller amounts) for other chemical processes to occur. Being different chemicals, the different vitamins do different th...
what are all the clowns?	[ "Random strangers who are trying to amuse themselves and get attention by creeping out other random strangers. It happens every few years. One guy does it, it gets such a reaction and press coverage that other people just hop on the bandwagon. All they want is for people to talk about them and give them attention (...
Why can't I use my smart phone to call or text solely on a WiFi signal?	[ "Some companies do offer that service, it's just not very common. (Republic Wireless does calls/text over wifi, though I have never used them.)", "Yes, you can. Firstly, T-Mobile offers this service on its branded phones. Second, Republic Wireless is a carrier that runs off of Sprint's network but primarily uses...
What is arbitrage and how do arbitrageurs make money?	[ "an arbitrage opportunity is one in which an investor can make a risk-less profit by exploiting price differences in different markets for identical goods. widgets go for $1 in abcville and for $2 in xyzville. you go and buy 100 widgets in abcville for $100 and immediately go and sell in xyzville for $200 and sec...
Why are the connections for the vent in a clothes dryer so frustrating and seemingly inefficient?	[ "You are tackling this as a novice. The experienced people have done it scores of times and it is much easier for them. But I agree with you. Purchasers of appliances should know before had just how difficult installation is. But we do not see that information presented to us.\n\nA lot of electronic equipment has b...
Why (on imdb) does it have some cast members roles as their role, then as their name in brackets?	[ "> Chloë Grace Moretz\t... \tCammie (as Chloe Grace Moretz)\n\n\nFirst entry = her name as listed on IMDB.\n\nSecond entry = her role\n\nThird entry = how she was credited in the movie.\n\n\nNotice how the first entry and third entry are different - the first has ë, not e. Sometimes the change is more drastic, dep...
How can getting sun burnt cause skin cancer?	[ "Generally skin cancer is caused by exposure to ultraviolet radiation, a high-energy but invisible type of light. UV radiation can penetrate your cells and cause direct damage to your DNA, and occasionally the damage will cause cancer cells to form.\n\nIronically, UV radiation exposure is required for our skin to p...
Why is there such a strong assumption online that Sweden has been culturally destroyed by immigration?	[ "The country is accepting more refugees per capita than others, so it really is changing the nature of the population more rapidly than the newcomers can be assimilated. And their culture is very different indeed.\n\nSome Swedes do think it's going to wreck their country.", "This post is not asking for a layman...

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