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If images are just data that says what color each pixel should be on screen, then why are some bigger in size than others?	[ "Compression. The maths is a lot more complex and there are multiple ways to do it, but to sum it up, it's like writing that there are \"10,000 consecutive zeroes\" instead of writing \"000000000000....\" (10,000 zeroes).\n\nIt's kind of like how we write a 9 instead of writing IIIII IIII", "The program you use t...
What was the impact of the Cold War in the Yugoslav Wars?	[ "I'm not a history expert but Yugoslavia was a non allied state which maintained good relations with both the USSR and the United States. After the Tito-Stalin split Yugoslavia liberalized it's economy to an extent, so you could say it was a blend of Capitalism and Socialism; don't get me wrong though, most industr...
How does paying bail/jumping bail work	[ "It's basically like this:\n\nIn the time between where the suspect is arrested and charged with a crime, until the suspect has been sentenced to time in prison, community service, etc., that person can under some circumstances be permitted to leave the police station.\nUsually, somebody has to leave a large sum of...
The origin of stereotypical African-American names (e.g. Shaniqua,Trayvon,Laquisha,etc...)	[ "Steve Levitt (author of Freakenomics and a professor at U. of Chicago) published a paper titled \"The Causes and Consequences of Distinctly Black Names\" which proposes that the naming culture of African-Americans is tied to the black power movement in the 1970's, and was a way for African Americans to express the...
How common is it for birds to fly into airplane engines? And how do they keep it from happening?	[ "Planes usually fly much higher than birds, so bird strikes are only a major problem during takeoff and landing.\n\nAirports employ a number of techniques to spook birds away, including noisemakers, repellents, trappers, trained animals, scarecrows, and fake predators.\n\nThey still happen though, and big geese can...
How are plastic latches made?	[ "Without being able to study this closer it looks like it is injection molded and then the hinges are drilled or pressed out in a second stage. You might just see the dividing line between the two molds at the edges of the piece. In the middle you can see a second plastic piece which have been ultrasonically wielde...
Why does stuff get dusty?	[ "Your skin is constantly dying, falling off, and being replaced. The dead skin becomes dust that gets blown around and finally lands on stuff." ]
What does "agent has interest in the property" mean?	[ "> Is this just stating that as an agent they also might make money off the sale because the own it?\n\nThat is pretty much it. \n\nNormally the representing agent gets a few percent commission. In this case they want to disclose a possible conflict of interest, letting you know they have a financial interest th...
why it is better to absorb essential oils and minerals from food rather than supplements?	[ "From what I know it’s not because it’s “better” but because with a well balanced diet you should be getting all of the minerals and vitamins you need (unless you have a deficiency), and those foods are better for you (help you maintain a healthy weight, etc.). So when you are lacking in certain vitamins because of...
Why do bones last so much longer than flesh after we die?	[ "I think most importantly, tissue will be eaten by microorganisms, bones won't. Once all the water evaporates off, bones are ~70% made of a mineral called hydroxyapatite, which isn't going to decompose, at most it'll become fragmented and ground down. Flesh, on the other hand, while mostly water, is made of protein...
Stage fright at the urinal. Why does it happen?	[ "Your body has a sympathetic and a parasympathetic nervous system. One is the fight or flight, and the other is sometimes called \"rest and digest\". Peeing falls under the digesting side (requires things to loosen up), and thinking the guy next to you is examining your junk can trigger the fight or flight one, whi...
Why do the ants take my toenail clippings and what are they doing with them?	[ "Without more information regarding the type of ants that are removing your clippings, it's difficult to say. However, all ants require a diet of sugars and proteins. \n\nNail clippings will contain (especially depending on your level of cleanliness) skin sheddings, oils, etc. \n\nTo my knowledge, no ants eat ke...
How did objects that require practice get invented? E.g. why didn't they decide that bicycles weren't usable when they couldn't ride it immediately?	[ "You have to appreciate the history of the bicycle. We didn't leap from nothing to the penny-farthing. The first historically verified bicycle was a German invention that was called a \"running machine\". It had two wheels and was steerable, and you sat in a saddle and walked. The bicycle allowed you to glide and s...
Why is one currency worth more than another?	[ "It's all to do with perspective.\n\nLet's say you and two other friends want to trade. You've got oranges, one friend has apples and the other has peaches. If you want a peach, you could just trade one orange for it. But what happens if you think your orange is worth more than a single peach? If your friend with a...
How is needing smoke breaks during work not considered as a drug addiction impacting your ability to focus on your job?	[ "Technically smoke breaks are only legally required within the confines of the official breaks. A company doesn't have to allow extra breaks. But employee morale is something that does need to be considered.\n\nThis isn't the most karma I've ever had from a post but it is by far the most commented on comment I've e...
Why are some court cases allowed to be filmed, but others aren't?	[ "In the U.S., it very much depends on the state and the individual judges. Some states have bans on recording with cell phones, some allow them with permission of judges. You would have to look up the individual state for the rules. Here: \n\n_URL_0_" ]
How do apps like Shazam work?	[ "It takes the sample of music and creates a \"fingerprint\" using the different properties of the sound, so it makes a snippet of sound into a bunch of discrete values. It then compares this fingerprint with a large database until it finds a match." ]
Why do we have nuclear ships and nuclear submarines, but no nuclear aircraft?	[ "They did think about it during the Cold War, but it was just too impractical - _URL_0_ .\n\nHeavy reactor, and heavy shielding for the crew would make it very hard to get something with enough power to fly.\n\nPlus it became somewhat pointless when ICBMs were devised.", "Because nuclear reactors and the shieldin...
why do they call it elevator music if there never really is any music in elevators?	[ "The answer's pretty simple, [it used to be played in elevators](_URL_0_), but has been phased out as we've gotten more comfortable riding in little metal death traps.\n\n > As skyscrapers began popping up in urban areas around the world, the necessity of elevators shot up. As the story goes, early skyscraper ...
why do rainbows split so cleanly into 7 distinct colours? Why isn't there a gradient or some sort.	[ "The idea that the rainbow can be divided into seven colours was invented by Isaac Newton.\n\nThe rainbow is a smooth sequence of all the possible primary colours - colours representable by a single frequency of light. There are in fact an infinite number of frequencies in that range. But there are also other colou...
Why Couldn't we create a machine to just split CO2 down to its component atoms?	[ "This can actually be done, but it's not energy efficient. \n\nCO2 is like a dude laying in a bed after a threesome with two Swedish supermodels. He already blew his energy load, so if you want to get him away from the likely pinnacle of his sex-like, you're going to have to put in a lot of effort from an outside s...
Why does your body allow fungus to grow on your tongue? If it serves a purpose, what is that purpose?	[ "Your body is constantly host to low levels of all sorts of bacteria and fungal spores. Especially in warm wet areas where such things thrive best (in this case a mouth, but genitals are another great place for these things to thrive). These things are everywhere, and it is not like your body can completely ward th...
Why is it so much easier to fall asleep in a napping scenario and so difficult to fall asleep for a night's rest?	[ "You take a nap because you are already tired before engaging in the nap. You go to bed at night because you know you need to in order to have enough energy for the next day. So sleeping because you want to vs. because you are supposed to.", "You'll probably get a more accurate answer in /r/science or something. ...
Why is it a negative thing to be over-qualified for a job?	[ "If you're overqualified for a job, there's a good chance you'll leave when something better comes along. Employers prefer stability, particularly because some jobs have a cap on how high a person can perform.", "Let's put it like this, if you are over-qualified, it would be a waste of your knowledge having you i...
Why is emulation so difficult? Especially sound	[ "Emulators take the instructions from the game that were originally intended to be interpreted by the console, they then have to find a way of mimicking these behaviors on a modern computer. This is very difficult, not only do you have to learn how the game worked based off the assembly instructions (very low level...
How come NES as SNES games still look great to me after 20-25 years yet early Xbox 360 games seem dated and just generally bad?	[ "Aside from nostalgia (I see others have mentioned it and you don't think that's the case), I'd say it's because you have different expectations for each. Because the NES and SNES had such limited graphical capabilities, you know that you're only going to get so much from it - limited pixels for sprites and their e...
How do they make clean rooms super clean?	[ "As much as I understand is that they have crazy air filters. Plus everything that goes in gets cleaned, everyone that gets in is being sucked off from dust before entering.\nI know one of the methods to clean the air from dust is with electric charge that \"pulls\" the dust like a magnet.", "There are a few thin...
What's the difference between muscle implants and transplants. Is it possible to have a fully functioning pectoral muscle implanted/transplanted?	[ "the word implant generally refers to non-organic things put inside the human body. muscle implants are much like breast implants but to make your muscles look bigger.\n\nmuscle transplants are different. transplant means something taken from someone else, or somewhere else on the body. muscle implants generally do...
Why, unlike other nineteenth century accessories like stocks and monocles, are neckties not yet obsolete when they have no particular purpose?	[ "They have always been decoration / fashion items not functional items.\n\nMonocles are replaced by glasses, contacts and laser eye correction as vision aides.\n\nYou don't need to keep your pants up with suspenders any more since elastic waistbands and belts generally replace them.\n\nyou don't need to keep your s...
How did I convey to my dog we’re “just playing” when I wrestle with her?	[ "> What makes it possible that we have this connection? \n\nIntelligence. Your dog can learn and has the ability to work some things out.\n\n > but how did we, two very different creatures, determine that we like to play with each other? \n\nUsing that intelligence and some natural instincts towards being a social...
What is a trust fund?	[ "Daddy or Mommy puts money in the bank which you can only use when you reach a certain age OR do certain things. \nImagine Brewsters millions : _URL_0_\n\nEdit : To include Mommies everywhere", "You can read any of the other posters to get the definition (or even google it for that matter. So i'll give you a Real...
South China Sea Conflict	[ "South China Seas consist of hundreds, if not thousands, of tiny islands and reefs that over the course of history, have been claimed by many nations in the region. China, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, are just some of the players. What complicates things is that over time, multiple nations have laid ...
how is the European parliament structured?	[ "Not entirely sure what you mean by \"structured\", but I'll give it a crack.\n\nElections and Parties\n\nThe EU is made up of 28 member-states and the Parliament is made up of 751 MEPs. Each state is assigned a certain number of MEPs based on its population, although it isn't directly proportional to ensure t...
Why do animals jump in front of cars?	[ "I want to know why birds seem to fly right in front of cars directly across the road. I'm pretty sure it's a game they play to see who can get closest without getting hit. \"Yo Tweety, you're up on this tractor trailer. Bet you can't graze the grill with your wing\". Bam.", "I think it's several factors but prob...
The difference between a Polar Vortex and Wintertime weather?	[ "The polar vortex is not weather, its a persistent atmospheric state around both north and south poles. But if weather conditions get too weird too fast, they split into multiple weaker vortexes and the very cold weather confined to the poles spreads out" ]
Why do my mental emotions feel physically painful, especially in my chest?	[ "It's because mental emotions cause the same physiological responses as physical pain would cause you. \n\nThe fight/flight response increases the rate of flow to the heart, changes your breathing etc, so it makes sense that your brain associates that sense of fear/anxiety with physical pain. The more that you allo...
Why do tennis players makes a great deal on selecting which ball to serve?	[ "Newer (or 'unfluffy') balls move faster through the air than older balls that have fluffed up. So depending on their preference, players will choose the ball (fluffy or unfluffy) that will give them the biggest advantage. For example, a player whose game revolves around retrieving (keeping the point going for as l...
What causes evolution?	[ "The answer is that it doesn't. Evolution has no knowledge, no goals and no plans. It's a process. This is sorta like saying how does a hurricane know to hit Florida? The process of Evolution relies on random changes, and then kills off those whose changes were for the worse. \n \nEvery organism copies DNA when...
Why aren't things like Caffeine or Nicotine Scheduled (controlled) substances?	[ "I think it's not controlled in this way because caffeine and nicotine in themselves are not harmful and extremely difficult to overdose on in their \"natural\" form. By that I mean, the amount of caffeine in tea or coffee and the amount of nicotine in tobacco. They also have less of an effect. Caffeine and nicotin...
Physics being tied to framerate in game engines	[ "The physics engine operates in discrete steps. One simple way to write a game loop is to process input, advance the physics one step, render a frame, and repeat. If you do this, then the timestep for the physics is tied to the framerate. You can measure the framerate and set your timestep accordingly - but some al...
What is PETA doing wrong?	[ "Everyone thinks PETA is for stopping animal cruelty.\n\nBut that's not true. PETA couldn't care less about animal cruelty, PETA is against animal onwership of any kind. \n\nHere is a list of things PETA is against:\n\n-Dogs & cats as pets\n\n-Pets really of any kind\n\n-Adoption of formerly abused animals\n\n-Ra...
Buying country debt at negative taxes.	[ "I'm going to assume you mean interest rates here, not tax rates.\n\nThe general idea around government interest rates is that government bonds are the safest form of investment there is - after all, the government can just print money to pay you back, so the odds of not getting the promised return are near zero. ...
Why is it not commonplace to copy multiple items to your clipboard?	[ "Such a feature would require a complete overhaul of how copy, cut and past works. The clipboard is a part of how the OS and all the applications talk with each other and is used in many different ways by many different people and programs.\n\nAdding some extra clipboards inside a single program would be simply, ha...
Why does (good) sushi taste so incredible? Looking at ingredients on paper, I'm completely mystified - and wouldn't have even tried sushi 10 years ago (but could happily eat it twice a week now).	[ "It's all in the technique and quality of ingredients. The way that an ingredient is layered and cut with other ingredients can dramatically alter how it tastes." ]
The difference between an HMO and PPO dental plan?	[ "Finally a question I can answer confidently =)\n\nAn HMO is a plan that utilizes a managed care company. Usually a third party that oversees your healthcare, or in this case, your dental needs and maximizes your coverage. With an HMO, you choose and are assigned to your primary dentist. That individual takes car...
Why do my cheerios make a "crackling" sound in my milk?	[ "When you pour milk into your bowl, the cereal absorbs the milk. As milk flows into the crispy kernel, the liquid puts pressure on the air inside and pushes it around.\n\nThe air shoves against each pocket’s walls until they shatter, forcing out a snap, or a crackle, or, as you, know, sometimes a pop.", "you migh...
What are antioxidants and why are they good for you?	[ "I am not a doctor, this is how I understand things, I could be wrong.\n\nFrom what I understand, your body actually utilizes the oxidization process to help aid in killing sick cells. \n\nEating too many anti-oxidants can actually increase your chances of cancer, or if you have cancer, reduce the effectiveness of...
How does the U.S. continue to lead the world as a superpower and in STEM fields despite having a broken, failing education system as evinced by decades of studies and test scores.	[ "* The US has an excellent post-secondary education system, by many measures the best in the world\n\n* Relative US power and economic pre-eminence change slowly (and are changing) and depend on more than just the relative education of its citizens\n\n* The US system is poor on average, but very strong at the top a...
Why do people make computer viruses?	[ "For many reasons:\n\n* To steal information\n* To steal money\n* To trick you into viewing ads (which gets them money)\n* To use your computer for some purpose against your will (to attack a website)\n* To show that you can do it (to show off)", "There are a number of possible reasons:\n\nA) Because you think yo...
Why do Sugar Babies (the candy) feel more and more gritty the longer I chew them?	[ "Because as you chew them, you are changing the hard-ish sugar/wax coating from big pieces into grit that gets mixed up with the softer inside part." ]
How do airplane wings actually work?	[ "Reposting from my [answer](_URL_1_) on /r/askscience:\n\nSince I ramble quite a bit here, I bolded the sections that actually answer your question(s)\n\nThe differences in fluid velocity between the top of the airfoil and the bottom of the airfoil result in a total pressure difference between the two, since as...
If I touch my forehead skin with my fingers, which touch feel will be received faster into my brain?	[ "The sensory information from your forehead will reach your brain faster, however, you will perceive both sensations as occurring at the same time. The reason why signals from your face reach your brain faster is because they have much less distance to travel. Somatic (touch) information enters the brain through on...
What is the cause of the bee population decrease that's being observed, and what solutions are being implemented?	[ "This vide explains it best - _URL_0_\n\nTL;DW - There are multiple theories regarding Colony Collapse Disorder (the term for bee loss). The most popular theories are changes in earth's magnetic poles (mostly speculation), climate change (minimal consensus), or contamination of bees from pollen of plants sprayed wi...
With some modern smartphones being able to record video at 4k and 60fps, why do film makers still use the huge and expensive cameras?	[ "There is much, much more to do with an image than resolution and framerate. An 8mpx photo taken by a good photographer on a $200 Nikon D40 is going to blow away any picture taken by a 41mpx Nokia.\n\nYou also can't put on different lenses, the sensor is much smaller giving you virtually no control of depth of fie...
How does the body taste/smell things when you think of them?	[ "Basically when you first interact with something it will trigger a neuron in your brain to fire, neurons work in much the same way as transistors in a computer, they can be on or off. When you eat a steak your tastebuds sent a signal to the neuron in the part of the brain responsible for short term memory this in ...
Why do carbonated beverages have streams of bubbles coming from seemingly nowhere?	[ "The bubbles are carbon dioxide gas. The gas is initially dissolved in the liquid, like you would dissolve salt or sugar in water. However, as pressure and temperature decrease, gases become less good at being dissolved - they become less soluble. This causes some of the dissolved gas to be converted to normal carb...
How do modders with limited resources seem to do things that AAA budget developers can't?	[ "This question has been asked a lot lately though in reponse more to battlefront than GTA, please search first before posting in the future. The answer boils down to: those developers could make graphics like that if it made financial sense, but it doesnt, because they need to appeal to as broad an audience as poss...
How or where in the evolutionary process did the separation happen between warm and cold blooded animals? What mechanism does it involve?	[ "A key mechanism is going from a three-chambered heart to a four-chambered heart. In a three-chambered heart, one side receives freshly oxygenated blood from the lungs, the other deoxygenated blood from the body. In the third chamber the two are mixed together and pumped into the rest of the body. With a fourth cha...
How does freezing an item (like clothes) remove odors?	[ "The odor is caused by bacterial secretions, and freezing the clothes kills some or most of the bacteria. However, with only freezing your clothes you're left with bacterial carcasses throughout your clothes which is pretty gross IMO. Wear the skin of your enemies, I guess." ]
How do live closed captions work?	[ "If you're talking about on TV it isn't actually live. There is still a delay, but yet I would assume someone is still typing fairly quickly, or they are using a damn good translation service.", "Yup. They are called stenographers. They use special keyboards that have a different format than a standard keyboar...
how did sugar go from something so valued to something so available we talk about how bad it is in food	[ "A) modern industrial farming & the ability to quickly move product from the tropical areas where sugar grows to population centers made sugar an easily obtainable commodity over the last 100-150 years\n\nB) We figured out how to take our ridiculous surplus of dirt-cheap subsidized corn and turn it into dirt-ch...
how do nerves know where to send information to move the right muscles?	[ "There is a vague mapping that is hardwired in from the earliest development. This establishes the main trunks throughout th ebody and basic part of the motor cortex (the part of your brain that instructs physical movement) routing through the cerbellum.\n\nHowever, real control must be learned. Even before birt...
Why doesn't someone just start another currency called BotCoin?	[ "They have, most notably \"LiteCoin\" and \"PPCoin\". One imagines, though, that the success of private digital currencies will diminish as more are created, especially if they're being created as get-rich schemes for their creators.", "I'm gonna talk about money here and answer your question in a roundabout way...
What it means when a central bank imposes NEGATIVE interest rates	[ "When negative interest rates are imposed, the costs of storing money becomes higher than actually having to spend it. It's weird when we think about it as consumers, but basically that's the economist's inflationary tool to keep investment and liquidity flowing in the free market. That -0.25% will now become a...
Why Do Fish Schools Form Bait Balls?	[ "\"Bait fish\" are small and can't swim very fast compared to predators such as dolphins, sailfish, etc. Alone and away from the school, they are easily picked off.\n\nIn a tight ball, the shimmering and flash of the scales, as they move back and forth makes it hard to focus on an individual fish. Each fish tries t...
Why security screws are used in restrooms?	[ "Bathrooms are an extremely common location for vandalism. Graffitti, cutting/scraping/gouging/burning, and general destruction is common. I'm sure that's no surprise to anyone who has ever used public bathrooms.\n\nThere are people out there that would remove a door, or stall wall, just for a laugh. Everyone else ...
Can drinking salt water when dying of dehaydration help you?	[ "It depends on the amount and kind of salt. I imagine you mean salt like from the table or from the sea. A good thing to remember is, \"The poison is in the dose.\" Even water with nothing dissolved in it (\"pure\") can kill you if you drink too much. So, if the concentration of salt in the water you drink is l...
How do I go about setting up a website?	[ "First, can you remove that domain name from your post? I won't do it but someone could quickly go and register that domain name and then you're out of luck. \n\nYou have the basic process correct. First, you will buy your domain name. They are called 'domain registrars'. Head over to _URL_5_, sign up, buy one...
The U.S. holds 18 trillion in national debt; who do we owe this money to and how does it get repaid?	[ "The reason why the United States can keep issuing debt at a very low interest rate is because of the demand for US debt. It's widely perceived as one of the safest investments in the world, so much so that the finance community has historically used US short-term debt as an estimate of the \"risk-free rate of retu...
- Here in Dallas/Ft Worth all of our gas stations are running out of fuel and panic and worry is already setting in. If our nation has a huge stockpile that thy already want to reduce, why can't it be tapped into enough to help the region?	[ "The Strategic Petroleum Reserve stores unrefined fuels, not the refined gasoline like you get at the gas station. For it to be useful, it would need to go to a refinery to turn it into gasoline.\n\nAnd the problem we have right now is that many refineries are shut down right now.\n\nSo, increasing the supply of c...
Why do people hate insurance companies?	[ "It's pretty simple really. You pay them a lot of money to protect you should something happen like a car accident or you get sick. They are some of the richest companies on earth, and they gouge the consumer. If ever you need them they will do everything that they can to invalidate your claim, or at least ma...
Why are so many people allergic to things like peanuts, treenuts, and shellfish?	[ "I get the impression that OP is asking \"why peanuts/shellfish\" and not \"why so many allergies today\"... none of the responses so far are really answering that question.", "I think the OP is asking why peanuts and shellfish are particularly deadly as allergies, while other irritants are not. Why are peanuts d...
Why do we shudder and get that weird tingly feeling in our chests after taking a drink of liquor?	[ "Alcohol - especially high-proof alcohol like liquor - irritates the membranes that line your mouth, esophagus, and to some extent the stomach. We interpret this feeling as mild burning. \n\nWhen you take a shot, you're lightly irritating your esophagus the whole way down, which might feel like tingling. Blood may ...
Eye Goobers. What bodily function causes it?	[ "It's called [rheum](_URL_0_). \n\nShort of it: Your eyes discharge fluid with stuff in it (mucus, dried skin flakes, etc). While awake, you blink and clear it away. While asleep you don't." ]
Why the commenting was disabled on the "racism alive and well" video currently on the front page.	[ "Popular videos attract hideous comments. YouTube videos attract hideous comments. Racial anything attracts hideous comments.\n\nThe post was a popular YouTube video about race." ]
Mac OS vs Windows hardware utilization	[ "Macbooks are laptops, and they have comparable specs to any other high-end Windows laptop. Are you comparing Macbooks to Windows desktops? Desktops are always more powerful than laptops because they don't have to worry about power usage.\n\nTo answer you question directly, they both use the hardware pretty similar...
Muscle protein synthesis	[ "When you exercise, if there's sufficient stress on your muscle, slight damage occurs to the cells. There are hormones in your body, particularly Human Growth Hormone and Testosterone, whose job it is to repair damaged muscle tissue. They primarily (but not exclusively) work when you're asleep, which is why growing...
How do Helium Neon lasers work?	[ "You have two mirrors: One is very very reflective and the other is like a two way mirror (called an output coupler). \n\nSo we going to bounce some light between the two mirrors so that the light can reach a high enough intensity to escape through the output coupler. \n\nNow the problem with using random light ...
- What causes the changes in some homosexual men like higher pitched or lisped voices? Dressing and walking more feminine or dainty? Is it additional estrogen in their biological makeup? Is it done purposefully sometimes to differentiate themselves?	[ "It is a cultural affectation that a small portion of gas (gay) men take on, presumably for the identity it associates with them.", "I was wondering the same but with heroin addicts? same voices same shifty walk" ]
Why do pictures that have the same number of pixels have different file sizes?	[ "It depends on the type of file.\n\nBut most file types that contain pictures are compressed. Some pictures can be compressed more than others - if there are large parts of the picture that are the same colour, for example, then it's not necessary to store the colour of each individual pixel, and space can be saved...
Am I the only one who occasionally gets that weird jiggle after I finish peeing? Seriously, what's that all about?	[ "your not. the urine is a warm liquid that is leaving the body, thus leaving you colder. the body compensates by heating up. by quivering, shivering, and other jiggles", "Jiggle? You mean like a cold chill or something like that? If so you're not alone.", "Pee Shivers. People always talk about them, but I've ne...
Why does every site I go on need to mention that they use cookies now?	[ "The parliament of the EU thought cookies were big scary things and made it law that websites have to say they use them. There's big fines if you don't.", "The simplest answer is that cookies store information about you, then transmit that information to someone else. There are different kinds of cookies, but the...
Why does your heart feel like it's skipping a beat or fluttering when you have a "crush"?	[ "when you see someone you fancy you brain releases all sorts of chemicals but we will focus on the one you are asking about: epinephrine aka adrenaline. this chemical causes the heart to increase it's rate (fun fact: the brain does not tell the heart to beat, only to increase or decrease it's rate) this is because ...
If camels and rabbits are an eco-problem in australia, why they don't they eat it to extinction?	[ "Have you ever heard the term \"Fucking like rabbits\"? They breed like crazy. They're also small, fast and like to hide. It's much easier said than done." ]
Why do our fingers have hangnails, but not our toes?	[ "The source I found (listed below) lists the following as causes of hangnails: nail biting, trauma, dryness, cutting the cuticle.\n\nThe article itself states that we use our hands for various tasks (gardening, dish washing) as well as exposure to elements (sun, chlorinated pool water) which can cause the dryness a...
The difference between Thai curries (Red, Yellow, Green, Penang, Massaman, and Jungle)	[ "Jungle curry doesn't feature coconut milk, the others do. Masaman curry isn't made with pork (it has its origins in Muslim cooking) and has peanuts, and is often milder than the others. Green curry gets its color from cilantro. Thai curries typically include fish sauce as part of the \"base\".\n\nSource: I make th...
What is Sesame Credit?	[ "China has recently implemented a credit score system, similar to what has been present in the US and other western nations for a while now. The goal of the system is to go beyond generating a score based on just your financial history by also factoring in your overall 'trustworthiness' (i.e. not only that you can ...
the Sun was proven to be a star in the 19th century. Giordano Bruno was killed because he asserted this in the 15th century. So how did Dante get away with it in his final verse of the Divine Comedy "Love that moves the Sun and the other stars" dated 1320?	[ "Bruno was burned for a whole list of heresies. The sun being a star (the problem was not calling it a star, but saying it was an ordinary star in an infinite universe) was not the worst one. He also denied the Trinity, transubstantiation, and the virginity of Mary. Bruno was a preacher with a following, and w...
How come ads on YouTube are essentially unfettered and great quality but a 240P video buffers?	[ "The same ad may be played before thousands of different youtube videos, and so millions of people might be watching it at any one time.\n\nThey can move those ads close to you and put them on a fat pipe right outside your door.\n\nYou might be the only person watching the actual video, and so it is cold and far aw...
When fired directly into the air, wouldnt a bullet fall at 9.8m/s^2?	[ "MythBusters did a segment on this some years ago. Here's a summary:\n\n > In the case of a bullet fired at a precisely vertical angle (something extremely difficult for a human being to duplicate), the bullet would tumble, lose its spin, and fall at a much slower speed due to terminal velocity and is therefore re...
Empty buildings must cost the owner a lot.	[ "For Americans, it may be a stratagy to reduce taxes that the owener is paying from income generated by other properties. \nA taxpayer pays taxes based on how the income was earned such as income, capital gains, prizes and winnings, gifts, etc. One of the subcategories of income is passive income/losses where the t...
How do viruses know to attack their hosts when they aren't even alive?	[ "I'll chip in with some specifics.\n\nThink of a virus as a bleb of cell membrane with a bunch of surface proteins and a genome inside. Some of these surface proteins are binding and fusion proteins that are what latch on to host cells.\n\nHIV, for example, has surface proteins that specifically bind to the CCR5 r...
How does the whole Basketball and American Football seasons work? In terms of how many teams in league, the whole playoff thing, all of it!	[ "NFL\n\nThis will be an order of hierarchy thing.\n\n1. One League\n2. Two Conferences (American & National)\n3. Four Divisions\n4. Four teams per division.\n\nA total of 32 teams. 16 in each conference = 4 teams x 4 divisions.\n\nIn comparison to other tournaments.\n\nSuperBowl = Final\n\nConference Champion...
Why do skin tags bleed so much when you remove them?	[ "Skin tags are benign tumours and so have their own blood supply. So, in a sense your body \"knows\" to deliver more blood to them. It does this by creating a greater network of vessels, some of which are larger than typical capillaries you would find in the outer layers of skin. So when removed, they typically ble...
Why is speed of light 300 000 km/s but not any other number?	[ "No reason. The length of a meter was defined long before the speed of light was known. 299792458 m/s is just a number", "We don't know why it is that high. As far as we know it could have also been 3 000 km/s. But we measured it and it happens to be 300 000 km/s. It cannot be theoretically shown to be 300 00...
the random link address when you open a picture in new tab in facebook such as _URL_0_	[ "Content like static images are frequently stored on what's called a CDN, or Content Delivery Network. CDNs generally have lots of servers all around the world that share the same content, so when your browser tries to load the images it'll do so from the nearest (and therefore fastest) CDN location. For example if...
How can cereal companies afford to print such colorful boxes when ink is so expensive?	[ "They charge you for it in the price of their cereal. Somewhere along the way an analyst figured out that having the colorful box increased sales enough to justify the cost, or that the colorful box made people willing to pay more for the product than the extra cost of the ink/packaging." ]
Why vegetables and fruits seem to go bad faster than they used to years ago?	[ "Just a guess, but going for it because of a similar discovery when I started a garden. \n\nSo first time garden. First harvest of some leaves of lettuce. Cleaned them, dried them well, and then totally lost them in the fridge for about a month. When I found them, they were still good and crunchy. So I figure a few...
(American) state secession	[ "Short answer: you cannot withdraw from the union. \n\nLonger answer: Pennsylvania and New York (if in remembering correctly) would have never joined the union if it was perpetual, however Lincoln established the de facto precedent that you cannot withdraw with the civil war (this was later backed in a Supreme Cour...
How people get amazing pictures of the night sky, but when I try I only get blackness.	[ "#1 A camera that can take a long exposure (the duration the cameras shutter stays open - which allows the sensor to pickup dim light; stars)\n\n#2 A tripod, as shaking hands are VERY noticeable on long exposures (equatorial mounts with auto-tracking motors are required for long exposures - these move the camera wi...

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