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The questions raised by today's XKCD.	[ "Basically things in a mirror aren't flipped horizontally. The left side is still on the left as the upper side is still on top.\n\nIf you now try to mention a book/piece of paper/word as an example, I have to disappoint you, because this depends totally on the axis you flip it." ]
Why is it that when you drink water your pee become clear and thats a sign that you're hydrated, but when you drink beer you become dehydrated but your pee is still clear?	[ "Clear urine simply means that you have a lot of water in your urine and the urine is dilute. When you're well hydrated, you pee out excess water and the urine is clear. When you drink alcohol, the alcohol inhibits a hormone that helps the kidneys reabsorb water. As a result, you pee out excess water making the uri...
How do services such as 'Bongo' in the UK know any details about a person, and are they even real?	[ "From their FAQ:\n\n > HOW DOES BONGO WORK?\n\n > BONGO works thanks to a number of intelligent human researchers and a very sophisticated software application with a huge database.\n\nSo officially, they say it's a mixture of human researchers and a software application. Presumably they are collecting info from so...
Why is marriage "hard work"?	[ "Life is hard work. Marriage, or any situation where another person lives with you, complicates things because you can't just think about what is best for you in order to solve all the problems one encounters through life. Someone with a family has many more considerations to take into account when making a decis...
How do some business make profit out of a huge discount on products?	[ "They're not losing $1440, they're getting $60 and claiming that you could find other classes that would charge $1500 for similar a similar class. \n\nLet's say the company offers a week of one on one training and gives the certification test, vs what's likely to be a set of videos posted online and a test. While...
Why old videos always are messed up at the bottom	[ "It's not the the original recording that's messed up, it's the result of the tracking not being correct when the VCR recording is being played back. Tracking is what syncs the speed of playback with the speed of the recording. When the tracking isn't correct, you get distortion in the image displayed on the screen...
The new Snapchat privacy policy. How invasive is it really?	[ "The problem is no one really knows what they plan on doing with this. It could be nothing, it could be horrible. Its the precedent of them saying \"we are openly going to do whatever we want with all this\" thats concerning" ]
Public Key Encryption	[ "I actually just took a course on cryptography, so perhaps I can answer your question:\n\nPublic key cryptography is basically cryptography based on allowing people to send you messages by applying certain functions that use parameters you publish (the public key) on those messages (which are essentially big number...
Why is there a static sound when you unplug earphones from your device?	[ "When the headphone connector is all the way in, there are three metal contacts that line up with three metal contacts inside the device. As you slide the plug in or pull it out, the contacts touch the wrongs places briefly and cause a momentary short circuit. \n\nThe short circuit causes the voltage to spike very...
why are u supposed to not ration water but ration food when you are stranded in the desert?	[ "Because you lose water through sweat, the minimum water intake is a hard minimum. You can go longer without eating because your body can turn to fat stores/muscle mass for energy.", "You can ration water, but there is a hard minimum required to keep living in that environment and if you go below that you will di...
Why don't clubs have a 'house set' of high quality drums so bands don't need to carry their own space mongering set?	[ "Some clubs do. The problem is that these sets get a lot of use and hardly any maintenance, and so sound crap. It doesn't help that they're usually cheap to begin with.\n\nWhenever I've used a house set it's always been rubbish. \n\nOh, and some drummers like crazy set ups with 18 cymbals and 4,231 toms and 3 kick...
Why cant we order and buy new cars completely online, but are instead required to go to the dealership?	[ "Tesla cars can be bought online! Otherwise due to state laws and stuff for regular cars you must go to a dealership.\n\nPersonally the best way that secured car purchases with me is go to Edmunds Tmv, get that price with the specs you priced and go to a dealership.'if they don't even match it or come close walk ou...
Cannabinoid receptors, CB1 and CB2, as novel targets for inhibition of non-small cell lung cancer growth and metastasis.	[ "There are these receptors in lung cells called CB1 and CB2. They are like Lego blocks, any block with the right shape will lock onto them. It turns out than some non-small cell lung cancer cells have this same receptor. We have plants, you know the one I suspect because you are asking, that happen to make compo...
How did early explorers and cartographers accurately create their maps with the lack of tools we use today?	[ "They had a very varied and effective arsenal of tools and mathematical knowledge to increase the accuracy of their depictions, however like you say, by todays standards they are somewhat poor. \n\nTo work out lengths they would use ropes or wheels of predetermined lengths, and count how many ropes are needed or wh...
With more People and less jobs, how will future generations all find employment?	[ "More people means more demand means more production and civil service jobs. It's always been this way.\n\nIf one task is eventually automated, hopefully the excess workforce will be put to performing more complex tasks.", "They won't. There will be a huge underclass of low skill citizens who live a marginal lif...
Why are crooked teeth considered so unattractive in the US?	[ "Attractiveness is generally determined by how symmetrical someone's features are. Crooked teeth destroy symmetry.", "Dental work in the US is relatively attainable, so the average American has pretty straight will aligned teeth, at least where it is concerned with the front teeth. \n\nWhile not a hard and fast r...
what makes the light from stars lose intensity? Since they travel trough a vacuum and all that.	[ "As light moves away from the star it has to occupy a larger area.\n\nImagine you took a picture of a star, and could see all of the photons currently emerging from the surface of that star. Like a photon balloon.\n\nThen you wait one second and take a second picture. All of those photons are now one light-second a...
Profile of the false accuser	[ "Wait what? Why did I get downvoted? Did I put it in the wrong section?" ]
a DDoS attack?	[ "flooding a network with a very large amount of requests for access or data.\nMaybe this makes more sense,\nIf you had a 12 lane highway, put enough traffic in it and nobody can go anywhere.", "Essentially, they flood the target server with PING requests. A PING is basically sending a message to the server asking...
How does zipping a file make it smaller?	[ "Zipping a file tries to reduce the amount of information needed to recreate the file.\n\nLet's take the following 'file' : \"aaabbbaaaccc\"\n\nThis is a file of 12 letters. But we can easily see patterns, for example all different letters come in triplets.\n\nSo we can also say that the file is 3a + 3b + 3*a + 3...
How do we know that conservation of energy is a law? How have we proved that energy cannot be created or destroyed?	[ "A scientific law is simply a statement that holds up under repeated experimentation.\n\nThe law of conservation of energy has held up with every experiment ever thrown at it across all parts of the universe we can observe. It is verifiable with math, measurements, and tests. Is it possible that it's wrong (or in...
How does ISIS still exist and stay so strong although many nations have sent so much armed forces to hunt them down?	[ "Much of the action against ISIS has taken the form of air strikes, special forces actions, and more conventional actions. To be effective against a guerrilla force, you need to have a large number of troops constantly occupying their power base areas to prevent them from moving and resupplying, while building good...
why has Africa fallen behind the rest of the world's exonomies?	[ "Because it has always been behind (well, in the case of North Africa only since the late Middle Ages). \n\nIt's mostly due to it's location and climate. Sub-Saharan Africa just was too far from from the trade routes of the world and didn't allow for large populations (until the Modern Era). When the Europeans star...
What is the point of having an interim position?	[ "Some positions need to be filled immediately to continue operating the business but they also want to have an in-depth search to find the absolute best person for the job.\n\nThe solution is to find somebody you know is good but doesn't really want to take the job for a long period of time to fill the vacancy...
Why are Mosquitos attracted to colour and what purpose does it have?	[ "Animals are more or less going to be a color with blue incorporated into it subtly even if we as humans can't see it they can. It simply acts to attract them to veins if visible or just a body in general." ]
Why does love hurt ?	[ "It's because you vest a degree of emotional trust and attachment to someone. Not only do you lose your love, but maybe your best friend too.", "That is... a good question and a good guess. Could be something hormon related. Either way... It really sucks" ]
Could I get a credit card and buy cheap items 1-3 times a month to build credit?	[ "Yes, this is what you do when you have no credit. Don't buy things you can't pay off right now though.", "I've always liked this way of looking at it - suppose I'm a loan agent and you want to borrow money. \nIf you have had a credit card for a while, and don't have a balance, then it's probably safer for me to ...
How does autofocus work in digital cameras? (particularly DSLRs)	[ "When not in live view mode, DSLRs and film SLRs use phase detection autofocus, which uses optical triangulation to determine the distance between the camera focal plane and the focus target. See [this page](_URL_0_) from Stanford for further details and a demonstration applet.\n\nMost other types of cameras, incl...
Why is it that new GPU's have to increase in size to become more powerful while CPU's have always stayed the same size?	[ "It is partly that GPUs create significantly more heat than CPUs. Most of the room a GPU takes up is fans or copper heat sinks.", "It's not so much that the GPU itself increases in size, but the cooling and power requirements increase, so the devices the GPU is attached to get larger.\n\nThe same thing happens wi...
If I eat a lot of sugar In one sitting does my body store all of the sugar for later?	[ "Are you the usual, considered normal? Or are you a Type I or a type II diabetic? Or do you not know?\n\nNormal response: Your GI tract starts absorbing the sugar. You blood glucose level starts rising. Actually this happens in all cases.\n\nFurther normal response. Your pancreatic cells concerned with this respon...
Why do things that are powerwashed, say a wood house, not splinter and break?	[ "Older wood will often splinter and break which is why I can't power wash my old deck but most wood you can buy is pressure treated and this allows it to withstand the ingres of water and it's pretty durable." ]
Why is it that dreams are so weird?	[ "We really don't know yet! There hasn't been all that much research into dreams, compared to a lot of other areas of science. Dreams seem to defy explanation and logic, and are very subjective, so it's tough to study them.\n\nWe do know that when you're asleep, certain parts of your brain turn on and off. Mostly, t...
why the american corn taste different from middle eastern corn or Asian one?	[ "They differ in species, soil composition, environment, exposure to the sun. These all could effect the taste.", "There are many different variations of corn. In Korea (s), supermarkets usually have 2 or 3 different corns in the vegetable section (starchy, sweet). In the US, it's usually the same sweet corn, unle...
Why does urine feel hot after a workout?	[ "Your body heats up while working out, and your pee is inside of you initially. Your skin cools down relatively quickly, but your internal organs stay warm for a while. On top of that, your heat-sensing nerves sense the change in heat, meaning if you stay in a warm environment for a while, you'll get used to it eve...
Why are so many seedless fruits available such as watermelon, but not avocados?	[ "Most fruits are not available seedless. \n\nIn the example of watermelons, they have simply been bred to have very small, immature seeds. If you take an avocado and make its seed smaller, it'll still be a huge pit." ]
When DJ's 'scratch', what exactly are they doing? How do they turn that into a song?	[ "A vinyl record is one long groove etched into a disc. The different shapes of the groove vibrate the needle to make sounds as the record turns. You can stop the record at a specific point where there is a particular sound, such as a snare drum. Then if you move it back and forth while the needle is over that snare...
Why are chiropractors so controversial?	[ "There are two types of Chiropractor: \"straight\" and \"mixers\". The Straights believe that chiropractor can cure anything by spinal manipulation. This is the traditional view. The \"Mixers\" restrict themselves to helping with back and spinal problems.\n\nThe results were analysed in the book \"[Trick or Trea...
Why do I get crappy gas millage in the winter when I drive slower but get better MPG when speeding in the summer?	[ "The computer in your car adjusts the air fuel mixture based on air temperature among other things. The car has to run much longer to reach optimal operating temperature in winter so more fuel is used during this longer warm up (fast idle) period. If you are mostly making shorter trips (under 10 minutes) the car pr...
Why does water evaporate faster outdoors than indoors?	[ "Yes, temperature. But also other factors, such as humidity and wind.\n\n_URL_0_\n\nThere are definitely less wind indoor, so that's a big factor.\n\nIf you have a puddle in a small room, as the puddle evaporate, the room gets more humid, thus slowing slowing down the evaporation. In the outdoors, the humidity quic...
Why does being paid for sex suddenly become acceptable when there is a camera involved?	[ "Making porn films used to be illegal in most of the United States. Along came an over zealous sheriff in the late 70's who had the opposite approach of the OP. He felt that since people were being paid to participate in sex acts, it was prostitution and the actors could be arrested for that crime. \n\nThe Californ...
why do you have to "eject" USB drives before removing them from your computer?	[ "I'm fairly sure this gets asked a lot, so I'm going with Short Answer: your operating system doesn't always write changes to files right away. This is intentional and for performance reasons. Telling the computer to eject a device forces any pending changes to be written right now. \n\nBasically, it's a precaution...
How can someone incapable of speaking with a terrible stutter turn around and sing perfectly?	[ "The parts of the brain that control speech are different than the ones that control singing.", "Stuttering is often purely psychological. Many people who stutter only do so when stressed, or are capable of speaking clearly when something gets them sufficiently emotional, distracted, or whatever to temporarily ge...
How the average net worth per person in America is more than $301,000, yet more than 80% of Americans are in debt?	[ "There are some REALLY wealthy Americans who skew the numbers to a ludicrous degree. This is why average net worth isn't by itself a worthwhile statistic.", "The top 1% of Americans have such a ridiculously huge amount of money that they skew the average way high.", "On top of really wealthy people skewing the ...
Where does our head voice come from if it doesn't sound like our actual voice?	[ "The psychological theory of [bicameralism](_URL_0_) is controversial, but interesting nonetheless.\n\nIt basically states that humans developed consciousness with an intermediary step -- bicameralism. This involved two parts of the brain communicating, one is talking to the other and telling it what to do. The a...
what happens if someone eats enough protein and some other nutrients but not enough calories?	[ "His reserves will be used to make up the difference. \n\nInitially this will be bloodsugar, next any excess body fat, and then his muscles will be converted to energy." ]
ELI: What determines which emergency vehicles arrive when a call comes in (traffic accident, medical incident, etc)?	[ "A lot of times they just send all of them if an emergency call comes in.", "It depends on the jurisdiction. In our town of a 100,00, if a medical call comes in, a fire truck with EMTs/Paramedics responds automatically since there is only one ambulance station in town and the city limits stretch for some 26 mile...
If I dug a hole from the north pole to the south pole, would I fall halfway and then fly upwards for the second half?	[ "If you're digging the hole, there'd be no fall, since you'd already be down there... Just sayin. (Unless you climbed back out, only to jump into the hole)", "With no air resistance, you would forever fall back and forth between both holes. With air resistance, you would slow down and eventually just float in t...
What is the difference between Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark, Apache HBase, and Apache Hive?	[ "Forgive me if anything gets a little vague, I'm not an expert & have only looked at this stuff in passing.\n\nHadoop is the big dog core project. It handles the low-level bits about distributed data storage (HDFS) & data processing (MapReduce). On top of that base system, there's a ton of other tools that ...
How do my electronics know what time it is, even after I turn them off for a few hours?	[ "Think about a digital wrist watch. It can keep time with one little battery for years. All your electronics need is a quartz oscillator and a chip and a little electricity. That's why if you turn on a computer even years after it was plugged in, it still has pretty accurate time.", "If they're still plugged in, ...
Why are the American presidential primary elections not riddled with voters registering with the opposite party and voting against the candidate most likely to beat their favorite?	[ "Nothing stops it, and registering for the opposing party in order to vote for the candidate that you think will win a nomination, but lose an election is not an unheard of thing.\n\n\nThe major downside is that you remove your ability to vote for the candidate that you think is best suited to lead your own party's...
The Menger Sponge	[ "What do you want to know? It's an abstract object, not physically constructible. It is most often represented as an iterated process. The first few steps are easy to describe, and it can be seen as the result of this process taken to infinity. \n\n[This](_URL_0_) is a good illustration." ]
Why did Sausage Party cost only $19 Million to make when movies like Finding Dory took $200 million?	[ "The comments about poor animator pay are correct, but it can't account for the HUGE 10x difference. You have to keep in mind that the two movies have different risk profiles. \n\n**TL;DR: Disney knows they can make huge hits, so they can spend a lot. Sausage Party is much riskier, so they're more careful with ...
The average bullet travels at 1700mph. So if you were to travel at 1700mph and simultaneously fire a bullet. What would happen?	[ "If you were to fire it forward, from the point of view of someone stood on the ground, the bullet would be now be travelling at 3400MPH. \n\nIf you were to fire it backwards, the speed would cancel out and to someone stationary the bullet would drop harmlessly to the ground like a stone. \n\nEDIT [Relevant Myt...
In popular TV Show Boston Legal, why do the lawyers from Crane,Pool and Schmidt always give their closing the last(2nd)?	[ "Artistic license. The same goes for some shows/movies when the lawyer in the middle of cross examination suddenly stops questioning and makes an argument to the jury. As an attorney for 20+ years, I've learned to suspend disbelief and grant a certain amount of artistic license." ]
How does devaluing a currency "stimulate exports" in any real sense of the term? Doesn't the stimulation only occure because the exporters DON'T change their prices to account for their now weakend currency?	[ "Good question. I think you are just missing one point, the value on the Canadian side.\n\nThe assumption would be that if the price does not change on the US side (ie. still $100 USD) then their buying behaviour wouldn't change. They would still buy the same amount of product.\n\nOn the Canadian side of the transa...
Why does McDonalds only charge $1 for a large coffee, but a medium costs $1.70	[ "Because its dollar drink days all summer. All drinks, all sizes: $1." ]
Why are most electronic devices that require 2 batteries set up so that the batteries face in opposite directions?	[ "depends on if the battery works in parallel or series. \n\nmost electronics batteries work in series. so you need the negative end of one to connect to the positive end of another. so it's easier and requires less wiring to have them face in opposite directions." ]
How does a credit/debit card work?	[ "Credit cards use the RSA method to encrypt information. The method is based on the mathematical fact that if you take the product of two prime numbers, which we will call N, there is a formula that will tell you what power you can raise any number to whereby you will get that same number modulo N back. Modulo is j...
What's the difference between grey and gray? When should I use which? I've wondered for years.	[ "Usually, \"grey\" is the British/Commonwealth spelling (like adding the \"u\" in color/colour), while \"gray\" is the American spelling. I remember it by grey has an \"e\" for English and gray has an \"a\" for American.", "Go with 'grey' it will save you $5 every time.\n\n_URL_0_", "Both are equally correct an...
or just explain normally] What is the history of Anonymous, LulzSec, and AntiSec?	[ "I can only talk about Anonymous because that's all I know.\n\nAnonymous started back in 2008 when a video emerged of Tom Cruise talking about Scientology. 4chan (where Anonymous originated from) got angry about this, and saw this as proof Scientology was nothing but a bad thing for people. Anonymous said that the ...
Why are numbers above a thousand uniquely named every 10^3 (e.g. thousand, million, billion, etc)?	[ "[It's a tradition that dates back to the Fifteenth Century, and was first codified by a French mathematician named Jehan Adam.](_URL_0_)" ]
Exactly what training does a dog so in order to became a service dog? What sets them apart from other dogs?	[ "Basically the desired traits of service dogs are good temperament, trainability, good health and physical structure. Hence why labs, golden retrievers and German Shepherds are the most common service dogs you will see. Any dog can be trained yes but not all breeds have all the desired traits. Imagine a chuiauia tr...
How can there be negative decibels?	[ "It's not that simple, but there's a part of it that's actually very very simple.\n\nSometimes we deal with extremely large numbers: millions, billions, trillions of billions. That gets tiresome, so a clever guy worked out how to make the numbers smaller, while still letting them be just as big.\n\nHe invented the ...
behind the inside of a belly button?	[ "The blood vessels and urachus (where urine the fetus produced leaves through umbilical cord) atrophy and become different rudimentary, ligament-like attachments. They don't serve any function in an adult. In the fetus, the urachus connected to the bladder, the two umbilical arteries connected to the aorta, and the...
why are native american rights/issues not even factoring in this election (or in any popular discourse)? even when immigration is such a hot topic discussed by the descendants of immigrants?	[ "/r/IndianCountry founder and mod reporting in.\n\nActually, Bernie Sanders now makes a point to regularly mention Native American issues in his stump speeches. He courts the Native Vote, which can influence outcomes in some regions.\n\nGo ahead and search the Bernie subreddits for the words \"Native American\"...
Why do we (men) get morning wood?	[ "Basically, unlike what you might think, it actually takes a muscle to contract to be flaccid. An erection is the relaxed state.\n\nDuring sleep, the brain sends a certain hormone thing to your spinal cord to prevent you from moving things that aren't necessary (lack of this is what causes sleepwalking). This cause...
what do insects do during the winter and how do they come back every spring and summer?	[ "Some of them, having laid eggs that will not hatch/mature until spring, simply die. \nOthers migrate. Butterflies are a common example. \nThe rest hibernate.", "They live in trees or in houses. Basically wherever it is warm enough to survive the winter. Then they have babies and they repopulate and bug us agai...
why was the spanish pavilion 1937 built	[ "Spain was engulfed in a bitter civil war in 1937, and the Axis-backed nationalists were winning.\n\nWith WWII looming and a micro version already playing out in Spain, there was a lot of anti-war sentiment in the artistic community.", "Have... have you given up on The Google?" ]
Can someone explain to me the monty hall dilemma? Why does switching doors give you a higher probability of winning?	[ "Imagine you have 100 doors, and there is a prize behind one. You pick one door and then 98 others are opened. The prize is either behind your door, or the other one that is unopened. Should you switch? \n\nAbsolutely, because you had a 1/100 shot of guessing right with your first pick, and a 99/100 chance if y...
Why do antidepressants take several weeks to "kick in"?	[ "After you take a drug, it starts getting eliminated from the body. When you take repeated doses before the drug is completely eliminated from your body, the concentration in your blood keeps increasing until you reach the desired \"steady state\", where there's a certain amount, and each time you take a dose, it r...
What each computer part does and how it affects performance.	[ "The hard drive is like a library. It's huge and stores all the information you need, but it's slow to access stuff (imagine hunting through stacks of books looking for the one you want). The hard drive really only matters as long as it's big enough to hold all your crap. \n\nRAM is like your desk. It's great t...
How can we see the Milky Way if we are inside it?	[ "We are on one of the spiral arms, about two-thirds of the way out. [This image](_URL_0_) should do a good job of giving you an idea of where we are. \n\nWhen we \"see the Milky Way\", we're actually seeing the rest of it from our position in the galaxy. That is, we're seeing the centre. In that image I linked, ima...
What is the historical rate of return from the stock market	[ "Which market? I would suggest you google \"index funds\" to get a general idea.\n\nGenerally, you get 5%-12% per decade." ]
if outerspace is a vacuum what stops it from sucking up our atmosphere?	[ "The gravity of earth is stronger than the vacuum of space. One example of an element that is not, is helium. Its too light and after it has been released into the air, it rises and exits out atmosspere (which is why weather balloons use helium). The rest of the elements are too heavy ro escape without propulsion."...
Why must my college books cost so much? The entire system is corrupt. There is now way a hardcover book should cost $199.98, and I've even seen more expensive than that. There has got to be a way to stop this. I want to change this.. Can we find a way?	[ "Do you have a question you want explained like you're 5? Because all I see is a rant." ]
Why does China defend North Korea so often at the international level?	[ "1. North Korea is already a huge humanitarian crisis, but collapse of the regime means that a huge portion of that becomes China's problem more or less immediately. Millions of North Koreans would flee into Northeastern China, which already has a large population of ethnically Korean citizens. Actually keeping the...
Why did the guitar become the go-to instrument for rock and the blues?	[ "I think it's because the guitar, and it's variations, are one of the few instruments you can sing with while playing. Try doing that with a saxophone or violin. Adding on to that, it's a fairly easy instrument to learn and allows for easy of movement and performance, so its an easy fit.", "It's also not prohibit...
Gears in cars	[ "Have you never ridden a bicycle with gears? It works the same. In a low gear you are very strong, you can go up a steep hill. But you don't get that far for ever turn of the pedals. And if you get up to speed you need to peddle like a mad man to keep up.\n\nA higher gear however is great when you are moving fast, ...
Some ads say tooth enamel cannot be restored, but others claim their paste repairs it. Which is true?	[ "Tooth enamel that's gone is gone forever. Softened tooth enamel however can be chemically hardened to prevent it from being eaten away by further acid erosion.", "Also, sipping on soda or fruit juice throughtout the day is /far/ worse for your teeth than consuming it all at once. Please don't brush your teeth im...
Now that nano engineering of carbon is becoming a reality, are there any other materials which the properties can be nano engineered?	[ "Realistically there are a lot of elements and molecules that can be produced on the nanoscale. The problem than comes from the property of the elements change drastically. One example being colloidal silver (nano particles of silver in solution) when silver is shrunk to the nano level it changes color to yellow an...
If energy can't be created or destroyed, what happens to the energy during radioactive decay?	[ "The energy released comes from the nucleus undergoing a transition (decay) to a more energy efficient state. Since the new nucleus is more energy efficient, we'll end up with some spare energy. This is the energy that's released in form of radiation." ]
Why isnt there any "getting used to a medication dosage pills"	[ "Some prescribers will indeed start a patient on a sub-therapeutic dose to make sure the drug is well-tolerated, and tablets are often scored to be cut in half if needed. For a drug like venlafaxine, slow dose increases are standard, as higher doses are more effective but many patients would have unacceptable nause...
When is it safe to open the microwave door?	[ "The moment you open a microwave door it shuts off automatically. So it is safe to open the door any time as opening the door causes the microwave to cease operation.", "Thanks for your comments! I'll make sure to tell her she's paranoid next time I see her." ]
Why are some letters basically the same capital and lowercase (O, W, P) and some vastly different (G, E, Q)?	[ "Our alphabet is derived from the Latin alphabet. The Upper case is essential the Latin. The lower case alphabet is derived from the Latin through an intermediate font called Carolinian minuscule. This is a smaller font derived from the Latin alphabet designed to be easy to read and quick to write. Changes were...
Tax brackets and how it affects tax returns	[ "Your coworkers likely don't know how tax brackets work. That's unfortunately common. Here's a basic example of how they work and how your coworkers think they work. \n\nLet's say income between $0 and $50,000 is taxed at 20% and income over $50,000 is taxed at 30% \n\n- So if you earn $40,000 you will pay $8000 i...
How does organic milk have a shelf life of 2+ months?	[ "it's ultrapasteurized. pasteurization is basically where you heat some liquid up real hot to kill all the germs. the \"ultra\" is just a longer, hotter method of heating the liquid up to kill even more germs for even longer. \n\nif you're over 5, you can read the wikipedia article [here](_URL_0_)" ]
why does your body get really warm when you go indoors after being out in cold weather for some time	[ "It has something to do with heat conduction. When you're in the cold, your body is literally losing heat to attempt to maintain your internal body temperature (this is why hypothermia is a thing). Your skin becomes cold and your muscles start shivering to generate heat.\n\nWhwn a room is completely closed, heat st...
Why does breathing into a bag help when hyperventilating?	[ "When you hyperventilate your breathing pattern causes you to breath out too much carbon dioxide. (Your body doesn't really use it like it does oxygen, but it's adapted to it being there and requires it to be there in a certain concentration)\n\nIf you breath in a closed environment the excess carbon dioxide you ex...
Why do Dryer Sheets work so well at negating Static Cling?	[ "The dryer sheet has chemicals which are attracted to the electrically charged fibers; once a particle of fabric \"clings\" to a particle of the chemical, the two together have a neutral charge, so they won't cling to other fabric particles.", "The chemicals in dryer sheets act as a lubricant to keep the clothes ...
Why Steam games are so cheap compared to Xbox and PS?	[ "Because of a wide distribution chain. You can set the monetary bar high on consoles because the people who buy then have no choice.", "Why consoles are more expensive\n\n* Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo have no incentive to reduce costs for people that have already bought into the respective ecosystems. In th...
How did people in the Stone Age deal with diseases (viruses, bacteria, parasites)?	[ "> How did people in the Stone Age deal with diseases and mental disorders?\n\nThey either got over it, lived with it, or died. People died a lot back then.\n\n > Wouldn't they have died out at a certain time?\n\nIndividuals did but overall they reproduced more.\n\n > Considering countries today are very develop...
If we don't know when Jesus was born how did Christmas become a celebration?	[ "There are many December holidays that take place during this time, and December 25th was intentionally chosen to mimic them. Both to draw attention away from them, and make it easier for converts to switch over. \n\nSaturnalia, the Winter Solstice celebrations, and the birth day of Mithra, Mothers' Night, Yule, Ya...
What is a half-life?	[ "Imagine you have a million pennies. Every hour, you flip them, and remove all the coins that come up tails. So after an hour, about half of them are gone, after two hours, 3/4th, etc. You don't know when any particular penny will come up tails, but with a little math, you make a pretty good guess at how many wo...
Waist size vs pants size vs belt size.	[ "There is no standard for sizing. It only is very roughly related to your actual waist size. For example, a Levis 501 in 34 waist will fit quite differently from a Levis 511. Across different brands, it is much worse. \n\nI suggest you find a particular pair of pants that fit you nicely, and get others in the ...
Why a post will jump from 12000 upvotes to 7000, but OP only has 4600 link karma	[ "I believe this is due to reddit sort of smearing the votes to prevents bots from upvoting a certain post to the front page.", "[This](_URL_0_) may help you understand why... I am sort of unclear on it as well though." ]
Why can I control an erect penis with my muscles and not a flaccid one?	[ "You're actually controlling muscles at the base. You can control it flaccid, it's just nit as noticeable because the lack of rigidity." ]
What's the deal with hot-wiring cars and how has it changed over time with advances in technology?	[ "Traditionally cars operated on a pretty simple start up mechanism wherein a circuit was completed and the engine. As long as the circuit could be maintained then so could the car. \n\nThis is actually still the primary principle however the safeguards to prevent a false start up are increased such as protecting fr...
what has happened to Cartoon Network?	[ "That's a really good question. I feel like adult swim is the only thing keeping them around. Ive found myself watching Boomerang more and more lately because they have more variety like old cartoon network used to have." ]
How come human infants are so helpless, compared to other mammal offsprings?	[ "One of the current theories is that it was evolutionarily favorable for human offspring to be born earlier in their cognitive development compared with other mammals so that their head would be small enough for a natural birth. Instead of the brain growing larger during pregnancy and the baby being born with more...
Explain how percentiles work?	[ "\"Per cent\" means out of 100.\n\nSuppose you have 100 apples, and you rank them from most fresh to most rotten. The freshest apples would be the top 10 percent (the top 10 out of 100), and the most rotten would be the bottom 10 percent (the bottom 10 out of 100)." ]

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