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Why is Europe trying to keep the Euro/Eurozone together?	[ "Because together under the Euro their money is worth more." ]	[ "For a long time that is what peiple thought. It wass assumed that the universe would eventually collapse back into itself in an event called 'The Big Crunch'. In order to prove this theory astronomers needed to measure how the expansion of the universe has changed with time. As it turns out you can do that by look...
How does my stomach separate liquids I drank from my stomach acid?	[ "Your stomach doesn't separate anything. Your stomach acids react with the food you've consumed, and should basically be neutralized by the time it enters your small intestine. Any soluable molecules, can pass the intestine barrier and enter your blood stream. I believe this is a two way street, and spent food stuf...	[ "Basically your brain is receiving conflicting signals from your eyes and ears. If you are looking at the floor when in a car or on a bus or a book your eyes are telling you that you are not moving. But your ear is telling your brain that you are indeed moving. So instead of your body realising you are reading a bo...
Why is it that soda can become flat, even though the can should be sealed and no CO2 should escape?	[ "I've never experienced soda in a sealed can come out flat." ]	[ "Your whole high school is in the gym for an assembly. The presentation comes to an end and everyone needs to leave all at once. If you never open the doors, people will never leave. If you open one door, how long will it take for everyone to leave? If you open all the doors, how long will it take for everyone t...
What is the difference between "leaking" information and "releasing" information as it relates to US government?	[ "Leaking generally referred to information which is not released through legal/authorized channels or methods. Released implies that it was done officially or legally." ]	[ "Say you have a hammer and nail. If the hammer head is bigger than the nail, then the force of the hammer is distributed evenly against the head of the nail. The nail will go straight into the wood. Now say you have a hammer and a nail, but the nail head is bigger than the hammer. When you hit the hammer against t...
Why is gravitation considered to be a different fundamental force, and not residual force of the strong interaction?	[ "I'm not really sure what spawned your question, because gravity and the strong interaction have very little to do with each other. If you explain your thought process a bit maybe I can be more helpful. The residual force of the strong interaction is sometimes called the Yukawa force, and is responsible for keeping...	[ "The \"standard model of cosmology\", i.e. [the lambda-CDM model](_URL_0_) treats dark energy as the result of having a non-zero cosmological constant. \"Constant\" being the key word. Ideas like the Big Rip only come about when you imagine a cosmology where the cosmological \"constant\" is actually some elaborate ...
Just how tall were people in previous civilizations?	[ "Unsure about previous civilizations, but a lot of work has been done in comparing height records from the past several centuries. The major source of these records is military rolls. Here's an example of this research: _URL_0_" ]	[ "You may consider asking this question in /r/askscience or possibly /r/AskAnthropology if you don't get an answer here. It seems like your question and potential answers may be cross-disciplinary." ]
Were wooden sailing ships ever pitted against metal steamships in battle? How did they fare?	[ "Additional to Hampton Roads would be Lissa (1866), where the part-wooden, part-armoured Austrian fleet under Tegethoff defeated a more heavily armoured Italian force. Ultimately, the gunnery available had yet to catch up to armour, and so the combat between the steel ships degenerated into a number of ramming acti...	[ "It might be useful if you could specify the time period you're looking for. From Elizabethan times to now, for example, or from Nelson's time to the Victorian Navy, then the question will be easier to answer." ]
Table salt is Sodium Chloride (NaCl), one atom of Sodium and one atom of Chlorine. When stores sell "low" sodium table salt, from a Chemist's point of view, what exactly are they selling?	[ "I'm pretty sure a salt substitute is potassium chloride. Salt is one of the things formed when a base and an acid react. It doesn't have to be sodium chloride necessarily. As long as what the store is selling is a salt, there doesn't need to be sodium. Also, I'm not sure on salt, but the FDA is actually incredibly...	[ "There are several types of OTC pain relievers. Advil (ibuprofen) belongs to a class known as NSAIDs. Non-Steroidal Anti Inflammatory drugs. Some other well known NSAIDS are naproxen sodium (Aleve) and Ketorolac (Toradol). NSAIDs work by stopping the body's inflammation response. These drugs inhibit certain enzymes...
Why is water colourless?	[ "While relatively small quantities ofwater appear to be colorless, the slight tint of water becomes a deeper blue as the thickness of the observed sample increases. The blue hue of water is an intrinsic property and is caused by the selective absorption and scattering of white light." ]	[ "In a metal the most outter electrons are considered to be more or less free. They are described by a free electron gas. A free electron can absorb photons of any wavelength. This makes metals intransparent. In insulators like glass the electrons are hold in certain states. In those states they can only absorb cert...
I took this question to r/findareddit and they said this is the place.	[ "Hi there, I've approved this question but you may want to reword it so the question is actually in the title. Most of our flaired users have alerts set up that search titles for keywords, that one isn't going to get you anywhere unfortunately :-)." ]	[ "Explain ___ like I'm five or Explain __ LI5 would be great in my opinion, and having a loose format like TIL also helps when browsing the main page (to easily identify which subreddit the post is from based on the title)." ]
Why are humans so bad at giving birth?	[ "> Why is this process so hard for humans? Because we are smart and use tools. Being smart requires a big brain, which means a big skull. Using tools means we need to walk upright which is easier with narrow hips. But the skull needs to go through the hips at birth! To compensate human infants are born relatively...	[ "Hi OP, this is a cultural question, so it would greatly assist anyone considering answering if you could specify which culture you're asking about. For example, the name of a cultural group / country / geographic region, plus a rough time period. Otherwise, this question is simply too broad, as it encompasses almo...
At what point are moving particles considered radiation?	[ "Radiation is basically anything which carries energy away from something else through some kind of emission process. As for the helium question you had, you pretty much answered it yourself...it would be \"dispersion\" instead of \"radiation\", because the collection of particles aren't losing any energy from an e...	[ "Early CRT TVs produced a reasonable amount of X-rays. The way to remain safe is to reduce the amount of X-rays that reach you, and the best way do do that is to allow them to spread out - by keeping a reasonable distance from the source. But this problem was designed away long ago. As CRT TVs are no longer used, t...
Did Adolf Hitler have absolute control, and if so, how did he gain it?	[ "The enabling act was what gave Hitler absolute power. It was passed with a constitutionally required supermajority of the reichstag (the social democrats were the only ones to vote against it - the Communists would have, but they were expelled from parliament). The enabling act gave Hitler legislative power - he c...	[ "For clarification, do you have certain kings in mind? From the early medieval period the ones that think of are Charlemagne and Alfred the Great. (Okay, Charlemagne was an emperor...) There is going to be a huge difference between those guys and later kings like Louis XIV and Henry XIII. I also think that the one...
Why do I feel sick to my stomach if I don't get enough sleep?	[ "It has to do with your sympathetic nervous system (fight/flight or rest/digest) If you don't sleep enough, your body will continue to produce hormones etc, which usually degrades again when you sleep. These hormones will stack up, and induce a sympathetic reaction, which makes your food-tube (stomach, bowels etc) ...	[ "When watching a shaky movie or FPS, there is a disconnect between what your eyes are telling your brain is going on and what your inner ear is saying. Your eyes register motion, but your inner ear registers that your head is stationary, the dissonance is associated with feeling dizzy or nauseous." ]
Why does water burn skin at far lower temperatures than air does?	[ "Because water is far more effective at transferring heat to you than air is. It's the same reason why if you put your hand in a 200C hot oven, it'll feel hot but won't burn you unless you hold it in there for quite a few seconds, but if you so much as brush one of the metal shelves you'll get an instant burn. Eve...	[ "The best way we have now to cool down a molecule is with “laser cooling”. We reached the lowest temperature ever, bringing a 3-atom molecule to withing a thousand of a kelvin of absolute zero. Molecules are a lot harder to cool down than individual atoms. The technique works by causing an electron bound to the ato...
What good books for a layman can I read about the history of Mexico?	[ "Michael Coe and Rex Koontz's [Mexico: From the Olmec to the Aztec](_URL_0_) is a great read, and it's not pricey. Coe, more than most other scholars, puts out very readable books for a public audience. Mexico is his most comprensive, but he does have two other good books on the Maya: The Maya, and *Breaking ...	[ "Hi - we as mods have approved this thread, because while this is a homework question, it is asking for clarification or resources, rather than the answer itself, which is fine according to [our rules](_URL_1_). This policy is further explained in this [Rules Roundtable thread](_URL_3_) and this [META Thread](_URL_...
What is the eukaryotic revolution	[ "This sounds like a high school assignment...and assuming you're in high school, your comment history..." ]	[ "Follow up question (please don't delete) how influential were nobility titles on economic upward mobility in the Europe of that same time?" ]
I fainted today after seeing my own blood. Would like to know why and how.	[ "It's called vasovagal syncope. It's caused by the vagus nerve. Some info: _URL_0_ This nerve can be responsible for some very weird reactions indeed." ]	[ "Anthems are designed to do this. I don't know exactly what it is, but many anthems have similar effects.try listening to some other ones." ]
How come I can't pull my seatbelt?	[ "Because you car is locked because you have no arms because someone stapled the seatbelt to the chair because you car is filled with concrete maybe you should embellish your question if you want accurate explanations." ]	[ "Same reason why certain food can taste nasty. It’s just not your taste. You’ve adapted to your own style. Nothing wrong with that, imo." ]
There's a painting of Napoleon that I'm having trouble finding. Perhaps the Art Historians may be of some help?	[ "Can you think of the overall color scheme of the painting?" ]	[ "Hi everyone. Since this is the kind of question that can attract non-expert responses, just a friendly reminder that all responses must comply with [sub rules](_URL_0_), and that [personal anecdotes](_URL_1_) are explicitly not permitted in /r/AskHistorians." ]
Why did/do Jews seem to make up such a disproportionately large amount of the European intellectual community?	[ "The current theory in vogue is based on a paper published by Cochran and Harpending in the mid-2000s. It relies on an analysis of population genetics and argues that between about 700 and 1600 European laws forced Jews into non-farming roles requiring high intellectual ability. This plus the very strong in-group b...	[ "They control the British Crown, they keep the metric system down. They keep Atlantis off the maps, they keep the Martians under wraps. They hold back the electric car, they make Steve Guttenberg a star. They rob cave fish of their sight, they rig every Oscar night." ]
[astronomy] What do we think exists at 141Ym? What do we think exists at 931Ym?	[ "Basically, the farther away we look, the farther back in time we see. When we look far enough, eventually we see a time where the universe was too hot for hydrogen to form and it was full of opaque plasma. We can't see beyond that, so the farthest thing we can see is the thermal radiation from this plasma as it de...	[ "Many missions do use multiple slingshot encounters (aka \"Gravity Assist Maneuvers\"). If I recall correctly, the Rosetta mission performed two Earth GAMs and a Mars GAM. Cassini performed two GAMs past Venus, one past Earth, and another at Jupiter. However, this takes time. In order to pull off the double-earth s...
What do we experience when we hear a soundwave that is very loud ( > 150dB) but also outside of the hearing range?	[ "Human audiograms are very steep at the high frequency end. But thresholds can be obtained at high enough intensities at 28 kHz (tested to 110 dB SPL), so I would be confident that 30 kHz at 150 dB SPL would cause a perception of sound in the highest frequency acoustic afferents. Should sound like a very high frequ...	[ "The formula for the relativistic Doppler shift for EM radiation is, from wikipedia: f = F sqrt( (1-B)/(1+B) ) where F is the frequency in the frame of the source and f is the frequency in the frame of an observer moving relative to the source with velocity B = v/c. For B < 0 the observer is moving towards the sour...
Is it possible for Pluto to collide with Neptune?	[ "Pluto's orbit doesn't intersect Neptune's; it just appears to if you project onto a 2-dimensional viewing plane. Imagine two hula-hoops, interlocked but not touching. No matter how you shine a light on them, their shadows will always appear to touch, but the hoops themselves clearly don't. That's what happens wi...	[ "They're close enough genetically to breed, although the offspring suffer from infertility (among other common birth defects), so it clearly isn't a perfect union." ]
If I throw a rock straight up into the air, for how long exactly does it stay at 0 mph before it falls down again?	[ "In practice it depends on how accurate your measurement of speed is. That is, how many digits you are willing to consider. Mathematically you can work it out pretty easily. The answer is zero seconds. The top of a parabola is one point only, it has no extent." ]	[ "No not necessarily. Between the two tuning forks you are creating a standing wave, the equation of which is described by [this formula](_URL_0_). The amplitude of the wave is only zero at the nodes, i.e. where sink(kx)=0. To find out where this happens, you just have to solve the equation above, i.e. kx=n*pi, wher...
What happened to Digg.	[ "Digg was a site very much like Reddit, but with only 8 \"subreddits\", and the source was closed. A number of so-called \"power users\" were increasingly criticized for gaming the systems, and eventually the owners themselves \"sold-out\" by allowing companies to automatically submit stories, which would then be g...	[ "Imgur was originally created as an image host for Reddit images." ]
What happens to our eyeballs when we close our eyes? Do they roll back or stay in the same position as they would when our eyes are open?	[ "I understand (by the question) that you are an alien. Every person would know the answers Busted!" ]	[ "Grab a tennis ball and a lamp. Turn off every other light in the room. Hold up the tennis ball. Half is lit, half is dark. If you are looking from the side (you can see the lamp and the ball) you can see some of the dark side of the ball. The ONLY way to see nothing but lit ball is to have the lamp directly behin...
After World War 2, why was Japan forced to give up territory they had controlled since before World War 1?	[ "The simple answer is that because they lost a war, and there were no specific international legal norms concerning what territory a state may or may not be forced to relinquish. The terms of the Potsdam Declaration (and thus the terms of the Japanese surrender) made clear that \"Japanese sovereignty shall be limit...	[ "The geography is important. With the exception of Johannesburg, all of these cities were in a position to become logical naval trade hubs for regional distribution. Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries the UK was the dominant naval power in the world, and so it was in the strategic interest of the UK to build up...
Can someone please explain to me why Pro wrestling (fake) is considered professional, but amateur wrestling (real) isn't?	[ "\"Professional\" implies you can do it for a living." ]	[ "Fission is the splitting of big atoms (Plutonium, Uranium etc.) in to smaller ones, releasing energy in the process. This happens naturally all the time in in different amounts, but we refine the material and bring pieces together to produce a lot of energy. Fusion is the smashing together of small atoms (startin...
Why do some people faint upon meeting or seeing a celebrity?	[ "Basically they get so excited about seeing or even meeting them, that they reach a state of euphoria that causes them to hyperventilate. While hyperventilating the body doesn't get enough oxygen. Some start screaming in addition which lowers the oxygen Level even more. Long story short, they dont breathe in a heal...	[ "Technically it is fighting for survival. When you're under that much pain the cardiovascular system can't handle the pressure. Everything is working so hard so the body just passes out to block the pain. If you don't pass out your heart could pay the price. You pass out to not die." ]
Why did Clement V specifically pick Avignon as the Catholic seat during papal exile in the 14th century?	[ "Technically, the Avignon popes resided first in Carpentras, northeast of Avignon, which was the capital of the papal territory known as the Comtat Venaissin and had been ever since it was given to the papacy by Philip III in 1274. Avignon proper was independent of the Comtat, but it was owned by the Angevin counts...	[ "The [St Thomas Christians](_URL_1_) are another example. They are in Kerala (southern India) and derive from the missionary activities of Thomas the Apostle. They remained part of the Church of the East, part of the Syriac community, until disruptions caused by the Portugese caused some division." ]
This is a bit of a long one but. What was to stop the Germans from just killing POW's?	[ "Beyond any racial sympathies, as a practical matter the Germans knew that any violations done to POWs they held could also be done against German POWs held in the Allied nations. As a concrete example of this, the Germans had captured a large number of Canadians after the Dieppe raid and shackled all of them after...	[ "Hi! You may be interested in my [earlier answer](_URL_0_) to this question. The main point is that Greek phalanxes, contrary to popular belief, were not capable of carrying out manoeuvres like this, in part because their methods of conveying orders were not up to the task. Decisions to increase the depth of the ...
Are there any treaties between the U.S. and Native Americans that still stand to this day?	[ "As far as I'm aware, most treaties between the US government and the various Native American tribes are still in effect. That's the legal basis for NA sovereignty. In fact, I remember a few years ago a local (I live in Washington State) tribe wanted to conduct some whaling, and they were able to do it because thei...	[ "Can you explain a little more what you're seeking? The Louisiana or Gadsden Purchases, for example, were giant chunks." ]
What is the purpose of eyebrows?	[ "Eyebrows are hypothesized to have two main functions: to prevent debris, such as dirt, sweat, or dust, from falling into the eyes from above (in addition to the protection offered by eyelashes) and to offer an additional means of facial expression." ]	[ "These bonds show the 3 dimensional structure of the molecule. The plain lines are in the plane of the page. The solid wedge shape signifies a bond coming out of the page towards you. The dashed line signifies a bond going into the page away from you. It's as simple as that. Chemists use this to show a 3D structure...
If the the Twin Jet nebula is 1,200 years old then how can we see it if it's 2,100 light years away?	[ "Because when we discuss how old something is in the sky we're generally referring to local time. Not the time of the event plus its distance from us. Thus the Nebula was created 1200 years ago our time, or 3200 years their time. So Supernova 1987a occurred 28 years ago is accurate from our perception, we dont say ...	[ "The Doppler effect happens with radio waves too, not just sound waves. This is very useful and gave way to pulse Doppler radars which were widely used in aircraft in the 70s to 90s and are still popular today, for fire control radars and weather radars. Imagine you fire 5 pulses of radar waves towards a target, w...
Are sound waves affected by gravity?	[ "Sound can't just \"leave\" the atmosphere. Think about it - there is nothing to vibrate outside of the atmosphere, so where would the vibrational energy go? The answer is that it stays in the atmosphere. Vacuum is a perfect reflector of sound. If you send a sound wave up in the sky, it will reach space, then bounc...	[ "> I think it's just a delay in the OS's process to update the display And you are almost correct. It's not the display (which can be updated immediately), it's the OS that takes a little time trying to reconnect to the network before deciding it is really down. Your roommate doesn't know what he/she is talking abo...
If your visual cortex is damaged, can you see in your dreams?	[ "I don't have any direct evidence but I would assume no, based on the following reasoning: losing the part of the visual cortex that allow you to see colour (eventually) makes you unable to imagine colour. More generally, mental imagery activates the same parts of the cortex that are activated through corresponding...	[ "I love this question. There is a movie called Waking Life that addresses this idea. The whole movie is on YouTube right now for free and is awesome. Check it out. But at the minute 40:35 is when your question gets talked about. _URL_8_" ]
Why did the people of Scandinavia and other Nordic countries convert to Christianity?	[ "The arriving missionaries had technology like better masonry, metal and gold working, and some improvements to agriculture. When the missionaries come with significant improvements to your life, why not convert?" ]	[ "The writers made them do it. That said, I doubt the people who have a problem with mutants in the Marvel universe are okay with random gods, aliens, etc any more than they are the mutants. Except the X-men (and related) product lines just delve into it more. Moreover... Okay, Thor exists. You don't like that dirty...
Why do employers set up their application processes the way they do?	[ "The resume thing is so a bot can scan and look for pertinent information, then, if the application is approved it's forwarded to a real person." ]	[ "Scientist don't assume all life must follow the same rules. It's just that the life on Earth is the only kind of life we know of, and we know it very well, so it's the starting point for looking for extraterrestrial life. The conditions of earth are proven to nurture life, whereas other forms of life are purely ...
Why do they tell you to unplug your charger?	[ "In the charger there is usually a transformer coil (an iron box with 2 coils of wire wrapped around it). The primary coil still draws power even when the charger is unplugged (the primary and secondary coils are on different circuits)" ]	[ "Takeoff and landing are the most likely times of a crash, and the upright position is the safest position both for the sitter and the passenger behind them. There's a few aspects to it. * the seat is more firmly locked while upright, and can take more force that way * your head has less distance to travel while th...
Why do we drive with one foot?	[ "If you drive a manual, you use your left foot for the clutch. Since it's necessary to use the clutch+brake together, and the clutch and accelerator (gas pedal) together, having the clutch on a different foot to the other pedals makes sense. For an automatic gearbox, we no longer use the clutch.... but the other ...	[ "I'm not sure about most, but horses have been shown to take longer strides with their right hooves. You can see this in a horse race in which they go counterclockwise." ]
The difference between herbs and spices	[ "Herbs are always from the leaf of the plant, spices from everywhere else, IE, the root, stem or seeds." ]	[ "Top = amount of upvotes-downvotes New = time since posting Hot = how fast something is getting upvotes Controversial = a ratio of downvotes to upvotes" ]
For laparoscopy, why is gas used instead of liquid?	[ "Also surgeons aren't generally used to operating in a liquid cavity (with a couple of exceptions) for instance it would alter the optics inside the cavity, if they were bleeding from somewhere it would be hard to tell how much or where from etc." ]	[ "It is less personal. The person who pulls a lever to release poison does not need to look at the person to be executed. It's also less messy - no one has to clean up brain afterwards." ]
We as a civilization lost the ability to create concrete with the fall of Rome and didn't figure out the process again till the 19th century. What exactly happened that caused such a valuable tool to not be passed on in any way?	[ "In the thread below, /u/Aemilius_Paulus has a pretty comprehensive write-up about this: _URL_1_" ]	[ "Basically, you have to be weaker if you want the kind of fine muscle control we have. Chimps and gorillas physically could not do the kinds of things we can do with our hands - sculpture, art, writing, etc. - because of the way their muscles are attached to their bones. They have better leverage because their an...
If you fired photons into a box that was perfectly reflective, and somehow closed it without the light escaping...could the light remain in there forever?	[ "If we ignore the fact that there is no perfectly reflective material, and the fact that it would be ~~neigh~~ nearly impossible to introduce a photon into this box without letting it escape almost immediately ... then yes the photon would stay there forever. On the other hand, if we construct an hypothetical scena...	[ "Strictly speaking, I think an object can cast an infinite shadow, albeit not for very long. Consider a single ray, moving from the sun to the earth, and assume that this ray misses the earth by a tiny margin, say 3 feet or so. If we ignore the effects of gravity, then this ray will move past the earth and out into...
It seems like the porn industry completely defies the law of supply and demand, how are people still paid well when there is basically unlimited amounts of it available now?	[ "Why pay for the next Star Wars movie when old episodes of Buck Rodgers is available for free. They are pretty much the same, right? While many people see porn as a single use commodity, there is a core of hardcore porn fan (hardcore fans, not the porn). They have performers and series they like and follow, and whe...	[ "The nice ladies with the big boobies eat magic pills that don't let them have babies. A lot of them will even eat an extra magic pill after each scene just to be safe in case the first magic pill was broken." ]
How are surfing competitions judged if surfers don't always get the same waves as each other?	[ "As a surfer, you have to pick the wave that best suits the tricks you want to perform. That's part of the skill, being able to read the wave. Just like how fishing competitions rely on the fishermen picking the best fish to keep, not just catching fish." ]	[ "> does the satellite emits one signal that is interpred by every single user on his own or do the satellite do any calculus that it send to the user. The satellite emits one signal. This signal contains, among other things, information on the time that it was emitted. GPS receivers collect this signal from multipl...
How is breast cancer different from other forms of cancer?	[ "Saying \"a general cure for cancer\" is like saying \"a general cure for virus.\" Cancer isn't one disease, it's a group of hundreds or thousands of different diseases with a ton of different causes and a ton of different effects. If we cure breast cancer that doesn't mean we could cure any other kind of cancer, a...	[ "news agencies are businesses. they serve up stories in a way that customers want them. you have indicated in the past that you are more interested in reading stories if women and children have died - hence, they now get specifically mentioned when possible. (you = society, not just you specifically) Similar reason...
How come when we head north, we’ll eventually be heading south, but when we head east, we’ll always be heading east?	[ "Because there's no east or west pole. Directions are relative to the poles, which are roughly the axis's of Earth's rotation. East and west means parallel your walking left/right relative to a pole, while north and south means your walking toward that pole. Once you pass the pole, your no longer walking toward tha...	[ "Basically every time you used the escalator, it moved by itself. The first times it felt weird because your body wasn't used to use stairs that move by themselves. So the first time you used an escalator, you probably felt like you lost balance and needed a few seconds to stabilise. After many uses, your brain got...
How do decongestants work? And do they affect the way our body fights infection or illness?	[ "Plain Mucinex is not a decongestant, it is an expectorant. Look on the back of the box at the ingredients. If only guafenisen is listed you have plain Mucinex. What that does is thins the mucus in your lungs so that it is easier to cough up. There is some question about how effective it is over just drinking plen...	[ "Think of it as a fridge. An empty fridge will consume more power because there is nothing in it to \"control\" the requested temperature other than the seal on the door. Whereas a fridge full of food and liquids will consume less because they \"regulate\" the temperatures by quickly absorbing the changes that occu...
If I swallow my saliva a couple of times really fast, my swallowing just kind of disables. Why?	[ "It probably has to do with a vacuum pressure in the mouth due to shallowing several times and not opening your mouth. If you simply open your mouth it returns to atmospheric pressure again and swallowing should work as usual just with less saliva." ]	[ "Usually when we type, we are using our working memory to hold the info we want to type. Our working memory only has so much space in it that if something new pops up it pushes back the old info and takes front seat; attention also affects this. Think of it like a bus. What you're trying to type is in the drivers ...
When I prepay cash for gas, why does the pump have to slow down to an absolute crawl for the last 40 cents of gas that I pump?	[ "Precision. The machinery isn't good enough to stop from full flow on a dime (or a penny, in this case). It slows down to make sure it cuts you off at the right amount, and you don't get extra gas." ]	[ "Our brains didn't evolve with cars in mind. They evolved with, like, being hunted by a jaguar (or whatever) in mind. So your brain doesn't know what to do with a car. It thinks hey, we're sitting, our body's not really doing anything physical, there's very little activity or stimulus... this seems like a good time...
Why are the "Founding Fathers" of the US treated like saints?	[ "Every nation needs a \"creation story\". We happen to have been founded by a unique group of men at a unique time in history; they were merchants, not Kings, Renaissance men, not conquerors. They established democracy rather than oligarchy. They enshrined the fundamental rights of every (white) American at a time ...	[ "Ever try to schedule time off with a boss who views his employees as disposable indentured servants? It's an excellent way to hear that your vacation pay will be your severance package. One would think that ought to be illegal, but it turns out that the courts really don't care." ]
Why some people get the "heebie jeebies" when they touch certain items? (ie sponge foam, peaches, cotton balls, etc)	[ "It's called a Sensory Processing Disorder. Pretty much certain textures or sounds activate certain parts of the brain which makes it respond negatively. It often happens to people with autism but they don't have to necessarily be comorbid. Not everyone with SPD deals with the same type of SPD or are affected in th...	[ "Fight or flight nervous response. To increase oxygen intake, the autonomic nervous system makes us breath faster, and expands the glottis, the opening in the throat that allows air to flow from the larynx to the lungs. The expansion of the glottis in and of itself does not create a lumpy feeling, until we try to s...
How do companies deliver packages overnight from one part of the country to another?	[ "UPS and Fedex have their own fleet of planes. You can fly anywhere in the continental US in around 6 hours." ]	[ "TV Stations actually don't really \"pick\" commercials. Stations have advertising slots open for anyone who is willing to pay to advertise there. Now for the advertiser that slot must be worth the money they are paying to sell their product. That's why is you were to watch Nick, Disney or Cartoonnetwork you see a ...
How much extra energy does an amputee have considering they don't have a limb they have to provide energy to?	[ "Ever cell generates energy so they require less energy but are also missing those cells to begin with. So it's pretty much irrelevant. However internal organs, specifically the brain require a greater amount of energy so they likely have a lower overall amount because the internal organs can't siphon off the energ...	[ "In your example given, asthma is the body's immune reaction and not necessarily a function of the lungs so no, the person would still have asthma. -Correction in reply below Now, if someone had nerve damage in their hand (not resulting from a spinal issue) and successfully recieved a hand transplant, in theory thi...
If deleted files on your computer are still there (how the authorities catch people with illegal content), is possible to eventually download and then delete enough data to keep your hard drive full, even after deleting everything?	[ "Yes in a sense- but you need to understand how computers treat deleted data. When you delete a file, its not actually deleted from memory, the OS just modifies the memory so it says ' there's nothing here' instead of ' file A is here'. So next time the OS is looking for space to put a new file, it may overwrite fi...	[ "Because as you get hungrier and hungrier, your body reacts by making you feel it so that you are more and more encouraged to go and find food. It's so you don't get lazy and just not eat and just \"endure\" the hunger - that wasn't a very good survival strategy in the conditions we had in our evolutionary history....
Does our body really use a minimum of 1500 calories a day? If so, what are we using it for?	[ "Anything that requires muscle contraction or movement in general will require energy (heartbeats, breathing, maintaining posture or balance, etc.). Generating body heat also takes a lot of energy on a constant basis." ]	[ "A $3500 deductible means, that with a few specific exceptions, you are responsible for the first $3500 in medical costs in a given plan year, before insurance starts paying at the agreed coinsurance rate." ]
When was the last piece of "free land" claimed in the United States?	[ "You are referring to the [Homestead Act of 1862](_URL_0_). Here is a nice article on the [last homesteader](_URL_1_), who claimed land in Alaska between 1974 and 1988 (it took a while to finalize the paperwork)." ]	[ "Can you explain a little more what you're seeking? The Louisiana or Gadsden Purchases, for example, were giant chunks." ]
What happens if an ant is released outside in a strange location?	[ "What happens is that the ant tries to get home. The ant will look for scent trails or landmarks to get back home. If it is a worker ant, the ant has only one mission, and it can't do that mission if it is not in or near it's colony. Taking the ant from inside your house to the front lawn, the ant will probably be...	[ "Because we are very close relatively speaking in terms of evolution. We are, in a broad sense, not \"very\" different to each other. That's why it's hard. For example, Nicotine (and caffeine) were created by plants to attack insect \"brains\" and those molecules also bind to humans brains. But it can be done!, one...
Was there an attempt at revenge for Hiroshima and Nagasaki?	[ "Are you more interested in a short term retaliation like the immediate years following the war? Or any period of time including up to modern day?" ]	[ "U Boats were active off of the Island of Newfoundland (where I am from). I believe Newfoundland has the dubious distinction of being the [only North American landmass attacked during WW2](_URL_2_); a U Boat torpedo missed its target and hit Bell Island (off of Newfoundland's coast). What's really interesting is th...
Why do certain people have sexual fetishes?	[ "Scientists seem to disagree between themselves on the answer. I know of 4 main theories (but there could very well be others). 1: Brain overlap theory. Basically, the parts of the brain that control the sex organs are located near the parts of the brain that control other areas of the body like the feet. These adj...	[ "Nostalgia, too ~ a lot of older guys that now have lots of money are reliving their youth - they either had one when they were young & want another, or wanted one when they were young and can now afford to pay the big bucks to get one." ]
How did the Republican Party go from Abraham Lincoln's party to being the party of the Confederate States?	[ "The Democrats were associated with the civil rights act so the Republicans positioned themselves as being against civil rights [to win support in the south](_URL_0_)." ]	[ "These cases are not the same. In terms of the hierarchy of republics in the Soviet Union, Belarus was on the same level as Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Armenia and so on. All these \"first-level\" republics became independent without exception. Russia, however, was unique because it was a \"Federative ...
The saying "The exception that proves the rule"	[ "It's a shortened version of the original phrase \"The exception that proves the rule exists\". For example, if you have a sign that says \"No parking 2-5pm\" that proves that the rules \"Parking is legal\" exists in that place, because of the stating of an exception." ]	[ "Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity. Albert Einstein" ]
Why do big companies with already well recognized brands still spend millions on advertisement? Do advertisements still make them that much money?	[ "Paraphrase of Quote by William Wrigley (chewing gum millionaire) when asked why he continued to advertise so heavily when his product was already well known... His answer: \"A plane goes about 300 MPH. Why doesn't the pilot just turn off the engines and let the plane fly on its own momentum?\"" ]	[ "Besides the art itself, the other half of being a famous person is being in the 'right circles' and knowing who you're selling your art to. The most famous artists are able to market the right art to the people that are able to buy it. A good example is Jackson Pollock (of paint splatters fame). For one, his art i...
Why is terrorism funded?	[ "Because various groups and organizations (an example being various dubious Saudi charities) agree with the goals of any number of terrorist organizations but don't want to get their hands dirty, so to speak, so they fund them instead." ]	[ "Insurance. Companies with high-cost, high-risk tasks like sending a $200M thing into space pay BIG insurance premiums for just these kinds of situations. It should be noted the launch today was a test launch." ]
How did R. Kelly get away with having sex with an underage kid.?	[ "The prosecution was simply unable to prove 100% (at least enough for a jury) that it was R. Kelly in the video." ]	[ "They don't. It's a marketing ~~lie~~ gimmick. I used to work for a company that did a similar thing by mail. New customers were supposed to sign up by a certain time for special rates but as a specific matter of policy we'd give those rates to anyone who mailed back the special offer." ]
Proxies, VPNs, and APNs	[ "here is a short explanation. Proxy servers serve as middleman for clients looking for information. VPNs serve to extend a private network to the public network(aka internet) APNs are the gateway between a 3 or 4g network and another computer network source:i am a network adminstrator" ]	[ "If this is homework, write a bit about the assignment, give some context and give your initial thoughts. See also the [rules regarding homework](_URL_0_) and/or try /r/HomeworkHelp" ]
How did areas like the Sahara desert recieve such enormous amounts of sand?	[ "Interestingly, the idea of deserts as mostly sand dunes is incorrect, however popular. Most of the Sahara, in fact, is comprised of 'hamada' or bare rock, which looks more like [this](_URL_0_). Only a relatively small portion is sand dunes, called ergs. Ergs typically occur downwind of areas with lots of dry loos...	[ "Oil money and slave labor can do some amazing things. Once the oil money started pushing the city up real estate and construction started to take over as everyone wanted a piece of this city that has been marketed as the future." ]
Why do large, orbital structures such as accretion discs, spiral galaxies, planetary rings, etc, tend to form in a 2d disc instead of a 3d sphere/cloud?	[ "The really ELI5 answer. Everything wants to make a single ball of stuff because of gravity. But just like a centrifuge, spinning makes things want to go to the outside. Since they are only spinning in one direction, they only move to the outside in one direction. So you have a ball that is spinning and spitting ou...	[ "Dimensions in the way you speak of are really just mathematical tools for analysis. Its like with fractional derivatives. Normally, when analyzing physical phenomenon, it makes sense that there are first, second, third, and nth derivatives of something, i.e first derivative of position is speed, second derivative...
The difference between mutation and evolution.	[ "Mutation is a naturally occurring phenomenon within DNA. As mutation occurs, certain traits change. If a new trait makes survival more likely, this trait is likely to become more widespread throughout later generations of a population. This is an aspect of evolution. TL;DR: Mutation that leads to beneficial trait...	[ "[Ape vs Monkey](_URL_0_) comparison chart. Hope this helps." ]
When measuring the energy of a lightning bolt, or any electrical discharge, is the energy of the bolt uniform through out it, or does the energy decrease as the bolt travels to its "target"?	[ "The energy (actually power dissipation) can vary depending on the position along the bolt. This can be affected by things like atmospheric density, humidity, wind velocity, pressure, dusts, etc. As an example look at [Paschen's law](_URL_1_). You will notice the voltage varies non-linearly with pressure. This wo...	[ "The Universe is a dynamic place. Stars have been observed to move around, some quite fast. We have seen a number of [supernovae](_URL_6_) throughout the centuries, including many in other galaxies in more recent years. [Supernova 1987A](_URL_3_) has changed since we first saw it (this is really the post-supernova)...
If the lowest energy state for the 3 spatial dimensions is a sphere, what shape is the lowest energy state for 4 dimensions?	[ "\"lowest energy state\" implies that we're talking about something other than the topology of the space. The \"lowest energy state\" of any n-dimensional space is the vacuum state (which generally has no particles in it, though there are exotic vacuums). If what you mean to ask is about curvature, which has almost...	[ "Only minimally coupled scalar matter falls along geodesics, which is what the equivalence principle claims. Even fermions which were minimally coupled would not follow geodesics, because they \"feel\" the curvature (technically: they couple to the spin connection and end up moving according to the Papapetrou e...
Did America know of Japanese war crimes before dropping the atomic bomb?	[ "Yes. The Rape of Nanking was widely reported, as was poor Japanese treatment of Allied POWs (e.g. the Bataan Death March). Indeed, the question of whether the Emperor himself would be tried for war crimes was a sticking point of Japanese attempts to reach a diplomatic end of the war and played a role in the Potsda...	[ "In the 1832 Supreme Court case Worcester v. Georgia, Chief Justice John Marshall, in the majority opinion, ruled that the Cherokee nation was its own distinct community and not subject to the laws of a particular state. How, Andrew Jackson chose not to enforce that ruling, thus paving the way for the Trail of Tear...
How do fruits and vegetables stay "fresh" in their peels after they're picked?	[ "Peel is like a nutrition storage for the fruit and it provides nutrients to the fruit itself but once it's depleted it rots.peel also prevent fruit do come in contact with different gases in atmosphere which are harmful for it." ]	[ "I used to work in retail and the answer is poorly. We can't possibly track any given customer across hundreds or thousands of potential stores. The ban really has two purposes: - It is a deterrent - many customers are too afraid of consequences to show up at the store again. - _If_ we do recognize them, we have ju...
Do fever-reducing medicines deprive your immune system of the benefits of having a higher body temperature while fighting an infection?	[ "The answer is yes. Sometimes fevers can be desirable as a method of fighting off certain infections. Fevers are quite literally your own bodies method of killing off infections by cooking em+other factors like wbcs. Sometimes it doesnt always work or you get too hot due to the strength of the infection, or other f...	[ "Your body can only process a certain amount of water within a certain amount of time. Anything extra gets pushed through the system faster. Think of it like putting a bucket under a faucet and another bucket under a waterfall. Your body can only process one bucket at a time, so even though the waterfall will fill...
How can some game services (Origin for my case) allow you to play games mid-way through download, before it's complete?	[ "Most of what makes a modern game so huge is the assets, especially graphical ones like character models and maps. So if they have it ordered in such a way where the base game code downloads, along with the assets needed for the first couple levels or so, you can play the game while it works to download the rest of...	[ "Think of it like this. Our body is quite the complex system. It's balancing on the brink of disaster at all times. Our cells are dividing all the time. Thousands of times each second. All that's needed for us to get cancer is that something goes wrong in one of those divisions. We are standing on the brink, and we...
Why are you always "on" public transport, but "in" private transport?	[ "Because you lean over and sit down to get into a car, or you step up and sit down to get into a big truck. You're in an individual cab. But you walk onto a bus or airplane or subway, and you generally are in a somewhat open space on some sort of platform with walking space. If you're on a plane, though, you're *i...	[ "Who is a subject, while whom is a direct object. To compare, look at another pronoun: He is a subject, while him is a direct object. Examples: Who let the dogs out? To whom did you write the letter? Edit: Thank you to thearchduke (below) for further simplifying!" ]
Human Field of Vision?	[ "The field of vision is that portion of space in which objects are visible at the same moment during steady fixation of gaze in one direction. The monocular visual field consists of central vision, which includes the inner 30 degrees of vision and central fixation, and the peripheral visual field, which extends 100...	[ "No, smog, clouds, dust in the air etc. would bock visibility after a certain point, but you would be able to see a lot farther then we can with a rounded earth." ]
Why do old people love bingo so much?	[ "It's socially acceptable gambling that's often supported by local churches, so it's not seen as sinful. You still get the adrenaline rush of winning big, without the need to travel to Las Vegas and if you lose, you comfort yourself by knowing the money is still going to a good cause. The format is very simple and ...	[ "\"Just about everyone here\" Where is \"here\" for you? It sounds like your question's premise is based on a small sample set based on personal observation. Before your question is addressed, you should be making sure the premise is valid..." ]
how do they make malteasers round without getting any flat edges?	[ "\"I saw them made at the factory once. First the honeycomb dough is made and rolled out in a long sheet. This passes between two rollers which have little hemispheres carved out of them to make the bubbles and compress the dough around them. When the dough is baked the little balls pop up and the compressed bits b...	[ "So, from what I've read, the box tops are collected by the schools that participate, and through the advertising budgets of General Mills and other similar companies, they distribute money back to the schools. Basically, a reward for using their products. If I'm wrong, someone please correct me." ]
How does the iTunes visualizer work?	[ "There is this brilliant math operation known as a Fourier transform, the most common computer algorithm used to calculate it is FFT or fast Fourier transform. A Fourier transform can be used to find all sorts of things out about a wave or sound, such as tempo, pitch, voices, levels, and loudness. All of this infor...	[ "Edit: STSCI people have [posted an explanation](_URL_4_). There's also a [youtube video](_URL_3_) which explains it around 1:45. The long and short of it is that Hubble was tracking background stars throughout those images, and its orbit around the Earth meant that the comet had noticeable parallax which cause...
Why is it that events such as archery and shooting necessitate separate women's and men's events?	[ "> with highly physical events Archery IS physical, so is shooting. It is not because you don't jump everywhere that something is not hard and exhausting." ]	[ "This question is getting a lot of traffic after being [tweeted by @reddit](_URL_5_), so I thought I'd welcome those of you that haven't visited /r/AskHistorians before to the subreddit. Please do bear in mind that in order to keep the quality of answers here high we have [strict rules on comments](/r/AskHistorians...
How the hell did people survive before mosquito spray? I am getting eaten alive right now.	[ "I assume you mean how did they not go crazy, rather than how did they not get diseases, because they did get diseases. I've heard a few theories: Use smoke to keep the bugs away. When fire is how you cook, harden wood for spears, and keep large animals away, you always have smoke. There may be some plants that he...	[ "The AskScience FAQ has some lovely things to say on this topic! * [Weren't insects huge in the past because oxygen levels were higher?](_URL_1_) * [Could a dinosaur breathe in today's atmosphere? Weren't animals bigger when there was more oxygen to breathe?](_URL_0_) * [Why are animals smaller today than in the...
If the TOR network was funded by government, how is it guaranteed to be secure?	[ "Plenty of people have actually done this research: the implementation know as Tor is open-source, it's plain to see what code is used for each Tor node and each Tor client." ]	[ "ICANN originally had domains for countries as well as the ones for organizations (com/org/net etc). Recently, though, ICANN opened it up and allowed anyone with too much money to register a top level domain." ]
What would happen to a phone's screen rotation if it was used on the ISS?	[ "It probably wouldn't rotate. There's a gizmo inside of phones called an accelerometer, which is designed to detect acceleration in any direction. But here on earth, it's always detecting acceleration in at least one direction due to gravity pulling on it. The software on the phone watches this detection and flip...	[ "if I might add a question to be answered: I'd like to know if behavioral tendencies would also play a role in their orientation? (e.g. would schooling fish all swim in the same orientation/direction in zero g?)" ]
why are plane propellers in the front and submarine propellers in the back?	[ "Airplane propellers aren't always in the front. [As a matter of fact, the Wright Flyer was a \"pusher\" prop!](_URL_0_)" ]	[ "[The Straight Dope covered this](_URL_0_). Basically, they started out as being made by two different production teams, but after a certain point, they became essentially interchangeable, but they kept both names going." ]
Why do we get restless when excited?	[ "Adrenaline - your brain sends a signal to release the hormone adrenaline from your adrenal glands which in turn speeds up your heart rate and breathing, and prepares your muscles for fight or flight, leaving you feeling restless." ]	[ "Read Nightwatch by Sergei Lukyanenko. It deosn't give an actual reason, but the made up one is pretty cool. Russian distopic modern fantasy. Seriously though, my guess would be either: 1. Extra energy (I sometimes just start running places too.) 2. Seeing a little critter or something that you don't." ]
Why water evaporates even though the temperature doesn't exceed the boiling point.	[ "All things strive to be in equilibrium. For the water, this equilibrium is reached when the air around it becomes completely saturated with water. Leaving a glass of water in a room with air that's not already saturated with water is like dropping a bit of food coloring into a pool. The food coloring (water) sprea...	[ "Because air resistance increases at higher velocities, and in fact air resistance increases faster than velocity. So, as an object falls, at some point the slow down of air resistance cancels out the speed up of gravity, and then you have terminal velocity." ]
Why does a call center keep making me repeat the same information every time I get transferred?	[ "They have to verify that you are who you are in order to give you access or information about your account. Who knows where you're actually getting transferred to. Could be down the hall or across the country. It's safer to verify your information every time than to just assume and possibly give out personal infor...	[ "Imma answer your question, but first let me tell you about this time I watered the lawn on a warm july afternoon, there were clouds in the sky and childrens laughter.... ok seriously, who knows, maybe they just like to hear themselves type, or create an emotional connection to the recipe, perhaps they are just kil...
Why does eating spicy food make my nose run?	[ "Capsaicin is a chemical in some spicy foods like peppers. Allyl isothiocyanate is an oil in some spicy foods like mustard. Both irritate the linings of your nose and lungs. Your body thinks it is being attacked, and does whatever it can to stop the attack. This is why some people sweat, produce tears, produce mucu...	[ "Our brains didn't evolve with cars in mind. They evolved with, like, being hunted by a jaguar (or whatever) in mind. So your brain doesn't know what to do with a car. It thinks hey, we're sitting, our body's not really doing anything physical, there's very little activity or stimulus... this seems like a good time...
How does alcohol get to the brain?	[ "[Here is a really good description of how it works.](_URL_0_) Oil and water don't mix. So things that are nonpolar tend to stick to oil and fat. Things that are polar tend to stick to water. Alcohol is a small molecule and can do both. It gets in the watery environment of the blood, floats up to the brain, and the...	[ "We don't know the details, because it is very difficult to study because it is still an illegal drug in many places or there has not been enough time yet to legally study it." ]
Can someone explain this "contradiction" regarding the "World's Roundest Object" and the sensivity of human fingertips?	[ "The highest point on earth is the summit of Mt. Everest. The lowest point on earth is the bottom of the Mariana Trench. The difference between these two is 8.8 km + 11 km = about 29.8 km. 29.8 km is 29800 meters. Compared to 14 meters, that's a 1:2100 ratio (rounded for significant digits). While the human finger ...	[ "There are a few different technologies. I assume you are thinking of the touch screen on your phone screen. That works because the screen is electrified just a little bit, not enough for you to even notice. When you touch the screen it messes up the electrical field. The computer can measure how the field changes ...
How does obesity physiologically increase one’s cancer risk?	[ "I can explain for some cancers. 1. Body fat which contains cholesterol can provide ground substance for producing steroid hormones one of which is oestrogen. Excess fat - > excess oestogen. In females, oestrogen has stimulator effect on breast and uterine lining-endometrium. Stimulation - > increased multiplicatio...	[ "_URL_0_ > Hippocrates (ca. 460 BC – ca. 370 BC) described several kinds of cancer, referring to them with the Greek word carcinos (crab or crayfish), among others This name comes from the appearance of the cut surface of a solid malignant tumour, with \"the veins stretched on all sides as the animal the crab has ...
What was the context of Katsushika Hokusai's the Dream of the Fisherman's Wife in Japanese culture? Is this woodblock a forerunner of Japanese tentacle hentai today or are they unrelated?	[ "I tagged your submission NSFW. Please remember that many contributors and readers here work in offices that frown upon images such as this being linked or porn even discussed. Thank you!" ]	[ "It is doubtful that any of the primates that were allegedly taught sign language were using any kind of language at all. Upon review, the \"primate linguists\" seem to have been so infatuated with their work that huge confirmation bias obtained: all things that the primates did which could be claimed word-like wer...
How come when you take a picture of a computer screen or TV screen, these weird ugly lines show up that you can't see with the naked eye?	[ "That's because of the [Moire pattern](_URL_0_) produced. Moire patterns are produced when you overlay two patterns that are very similar, with a small amount of displacement or rotation. In this case, the two patterns are the pixel density of the picture and the pixel density of the computer/TV in the picture. Bot...	[ "Processing power. Your IPhone may be good and a marvel of miniaturization, but it isn't nearly as powerful as your laptop. The laptop can process all of the complex images and ads far faster than your phone can because your laptop processes everything faster." ]
How much of a rotten or spoiled food does one need to ingest so that one's body goes into "Food posoining/vomit/I'm ill mode"?	[ "It totally depends on the specific bacteria involved. But for the most part things like E. coli and Salmonella do not survive longer than about 4 hours on a surface exposed to air. On wooden surfaces, they are absorbed very quickly into the pores of the wood and cannot easily be transferred back onto food because ...	[ "I ain’t no scientist but here is my two cents... Fruit is designed to ferment (rot) as part of its ability to seed. When fruit falls from a tree (or is picked) the fruit starts to ferment which releases natural sugars making it sweet and juicy - eventually you’ll see the pips, seeds or stones becoming easier to re...
Coldsores. There are a lot of alternative treatments for it, but many swear by ketchup. How could ketchup work to treat a coldsore?	[ "First off, \"coldsore\" is a cute name for herpes. 99% of the population has herpes, most of us got it during very early childhood from a relative that was showing affecting and kissing a baby. For 99.99% of humanity this was no big deal, then companies figured out they could sell \"treatments\" for it if they sh...	[ "\"Trickle down economics\" is a political phrase used to criticize policies that involve tax cuts or business incentives, ridiculing the idea that government spending for the benefit of the top will \"trickle down\" to the lower class. (It's pejorative, not used by people to describe their own policies.) It's not ...
What does it mean to not have a personality? Isn't everyone different?	[ "When someone uses personality in that context, the person really means to use the word 'charisma.'" ]	[ "Average, can be measured artistically, in terms of simple mechanical skill. Give thirty randos a set of watercolors and brushes, say \"Paint a tree and a blue house.\" You'll get some terrible, one or two great ones, and and 26 very similar houses with similar trees. Hiter's work was somewhat like that, in the wo...
Statistically speaking, am I more likely to get into a fatal car accident for each day that passes where I don't die in a car accident?	[ "In general statistics the answer would be no. The probability is the same every day, especially in your stated scenario where all factors are equal and nothing has changed from yesterday. Peer reviewed article here: _URL_0_" ]	[ "You can only apply for insurance during \"open enrollment periods\" (the 2015 one ends February 15th) or under certain specific circumstances called \"qualifying life events\" (get married, be born, change jobs, things that might require you to change health insurance basically). If it's not an open enrollment per...

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