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Why my left arm/hand go completely numb/shoot with pain for 15 minutes when I'm sleeping, so much that the pain wakes me up.	[ "I knackered my elbow a year or so ago, had a bursa for a while which eventually cleared. I do however now suffer from problems with my [Ulnar nerve](_URL_0_) that cause my arm from the elbow down to go slightly numb. It's kind of common for people to report the little finger and half the finger next to it going nu...	[ "There are a few factors at work here : Moſt chairs are deſigned to ſit at about knee height ; they generally ſupport your back, and more importantly, your butt and legs. Toilets are uſually lower, and they are made with a large hole in the middle, into which you ſink a little. This lower height, lack of ſupport,...
YouTube's buffer. It buffers, but if your Internet gets turned off, the video stops. It never used to be like this.	[ "They changed their way of loading videos to prevent people with fast connections loading the full video in several seconds and then just skipping to the next video, before viewing the complete clip, generating huge amounts of bandwith for YouTube/Google that's used for nothing and thus costing them money for nothi...	[ "Imagine driving a long distance on the road. Your destination is 160 miles away, so you drive along the highway at about 80mph and figure that you need about 2hours total. Then, in the middle of that 160mi, the road gets very bad (you had no chance of knowing that) so you can drive only 50mph. You don't know if th...
how is die hard considered a Christmas movie ?	[ "Yes they take place at Christmas hence the line about another Christmas and another ventilation duct- or something similar." ]	[ "Wow, lots of grammar nazis here. For lack of better words myself I'll leave this here for them: _URL_0_ There's a discusson on this here: _URL_1_ ...but I've also heard it is because your blood is flowing away from the cold areas, which exposes your nerves to the skin. Don't know about that now that I read that ot...
How does taxes work for international companies?	[ "ELI5: So it's like homework, you give it to the teacher in which class you're in. ELI10: So you pay taxes on the money earned in that country. ELI15: A multinational company can exploit some tax loopholes, but in theory, if they have a company in a country, whatever they sell in that country (goods or services), ...	[ "In short (I'm over-simplifying here) the ICANN takes care of internet addresses. This has been in the US for years, but after the NSA spying scandal they decided it was time to make some changes. See also: _URL_0_ It was always the plan to be global, and not tied to one specific country's government. It was never ...
Why do world-renowned actors/actresses, who have almost no risk of ever being in financial trouble, sometimes do terrible movies?	[ "Because they can make a fat pile of cash for almost no work. In a lot of those terrible movies the big actors only need to show up for like 2 days, shoot all their scenes, and then cash the check." ]	[ "Imagine a needle in a haystack that is 10 kilometers wide, and there are only 10 people designated to finding said needle. It would take them an insanely long time. They might find a few of the needles in their allotted time frame, but likely not all of them. When a game is released to the public, it's the same wa...
why benign tumors are not considered cancerous	[ "Just think of a benign tumour as the friend that nobody likes and a malignant tumour as a terrorist." ]	[ "For the same reason the plate your food on isn't part of dinner. It is the medium in which the reaction takes place, but not a part of the reaction its self." ]
Digital signal amplification, how does it work?	[ "As a general rule it's best to leave volume control on the analog side of amplification. Digital volume control results in the loss of information - which to a purist or an idealist is really bad. To solve for this, many higher end Digital-analog-convertors upsample the entire digital signal to a very high rate an...	[ "Dublin Regulation is an act regulating how asylum claims are handled. TL;DR: First country an asylum applicant enters handles the problem. It's failing couse it would strain countries reciving the weave of migrants like Greece or italy" ]
When lawyers say "we don't get paid until you get paid!", how accurate is that?	[ "It's very accurate. They will take a case on contingency, and take their payment out of your winnings. However, they will only take cases that they are likely to win. It's not like they take every case on for free." ]	[ "Current law: Amount of current entering a junction (the place where two or more wires meet) is the same as the amount of current leaving the junction. Analogy: Think of a busy traffic intersection where many roads meet. On any given day, the total number of cars that have arrived at the intersection will ...
Books giving overview of ruling empires , their movements and rise and fall?	[ "If you are casual history lover please, for your own sake, don't try to read \"The Decline of the West\" For one it's not all that great of a history book. Spengler throws all sorts of stuff in there that would not pass modern academic scholarship. He also speaks in a really really archaic language that's utterly ...	[ "Hi there, those interested in recommending things to OP! While you might have a title to share, this is still a thread on AskHistorians, and we still want the replies here to be to an /r/AskHistorians standard - presumably OP would have asked at /r/history or /r/askreddit if they wanted non-specialist opinion. So ...
The problem of reproduction between cousins.	[ "The only problem with reproducing with close genetic kin is an increased chance of replicating recessive genetic disorders. A disease that should be rare suddenly becomes the norm if you have too many generations of reproduction between close family members. A good example of this is polydactyly (more than 5 finge...	[ "A comment posted on here a while back about the Catholic church's sexual restraint in that period mentioned that it did declare that it was wrong to have sex with one's own slaves, so it was most certainly going on among a portion of slaveowners." ]
Medieval and "Fantasy" stories often use the trope of a bandit attack on a village. Was this a common thing anywhere in the world?	[ "One has to ask about the definition of a \"bandit\" here. Is the Baron who is squabbling with your feudal lord a bandit? What about Alexander the Great or Hernan Cortez? In times we can relate to more easily, Pancho Villa is a bandit or a guerilla fighter, depending on which side of the border you are on. One coul...	[ "A couple of interesting first hand accounts on it. Infantry veteran [Tom Hain](_URL_0_) wrote: > I also thought that the war movies about Vietnam hurt our credibility too. I wanted more realism. Apocalypse Now was close, Green Berets was not. Another veteran, [B.G. Burkett](_URL_1_), said this when asked about t...
What was the reasoning behind exempting the POTUS from federal rules that prohibit executive branch employees from participating in matters in which they have financial interests?	[ "There are restrictions on the president, mostly in that he isn't able to accept any sort of gift from foreign governments, ~~which is why he will be donating profits from his international businesses since keeping them would violate the constitution. It becomes more complicated with his domestic businesses since e...	[ "For napoleon, at least, it was to avoid making him a martyr. Napoleon had a lot of supporters in france at the time he was exiled. Would he have been killed, they could have used him as a symbol and continued fighting on a new leaders behalf. However, since they kept him alive, he both acted as a living reminder o...
Why do some people think Ancient Egyptians are Sub-Saharan Black?	[ "The distinction between the Nubians (from present day Sudan) and the ancient Egyptians you're referring to (Nile River Valley, present day Egypt) is probably lost on her. American command of distant geography and/or ancient history is not usually excellent." ]	[ "Much nicer. The pyramids at Giza were once covered by fine white stone. The remnants of such stone can still be found at the top of the pyramids. Over the millenia, these stones were stolen or destroyed. [This page goes into detail about the beautiful outer stones.](_URL_0_)" ]
What are Geodesic lines?	[ "A geodesic is the shortest path from point A to point B, which on a flat surface is a straight line, but in a curved surface might be something else. Consider a plane flying from New York to London. On a flat mercator projection, the path the plane flies appears as an arc stretching north, because that's the short...	[ "The speed of gravity -- say, as measured by the speed of gravitational waves -- is the same as the speed of light. The best paper on this is one by [Carlip](_URL_0_)." ]
Since time is slower for objects that are moving faster, is the equator increasingly lagging behind in time compared to more northern and southern regions?	[ "We actually do have to account for this, in a way -- GPS satellites go so fast (they orbit far above the earth, and go fast enough to stay above the same spot on the ground) they dilate time just enough to throw their locations out of whack, so we have to manually adjust their clocks in relation to a central clock...	[ "Point a flashlight at the wall and turn it on. See the small circle? Now, let's say your flashlight is delivering xyz power to the wall. So xyz power is landing in that circle, right? Tilt the flashlight in any direction. The circle spreads out across the wall doesn't it? But you didn't change the batteries or any...
how/why does bamboo grow so quickly? Wouldn't all plants benefit from quick growing? Does anything else grow that quickly?	[ "Bamboo is a type of grass, which grows from the roots. What that means, is that if you mark a piece of bamboo (carve your initials etc) and come back later that spot will be higher. If you carve your initials in a tree and come back later, it'll be at the same height. Growing from the roots is very efficient at gr...	[ "Pressure. If I see one person clapping, I might think, \"meh\" and sit. Someone is going to start clapping with that person most likely (in certain places). Now, I have the pressure of two people subliminally telling me to clap. The reason it takes a long time is because the number of people clapping increases in...
Why does the government borrow money from the Fed at interest when they have the authority to print it themselves?	[ "This Eli5 question is flawed, because \"the government,\" if referring to the US Treasury, does not borrow money from the Federal Reserve. The Treasury also cannot 'print' money. The Federal Reserve cannot lend money to the Treasury. It can only purchase the debt in the open market from other investors - from whom...	[ "Inflation. Let's put it this way, in America it used to be that you could buy a steak dinner for let's say $5. Then today that same steak dinner would cost $50. How much we pay for things, and how much we get paid has increased slowly over time. In other countries, it has increased way faster, so something that us...
Why does my stomach growl more in class than when Im home all day if im starving at both places?	[ "Your stomach can sense the stomachs of other people and has to show its dominance. So it makes loud growling noises to show that you are the alpha stomach and you are not to be messed with. Also, your stomach will growl more when you are out on a date in a quite movie theater as a sort of mating call. Its a primal...	[ "There is always random noise in television feed. When the TV is receiving a stronger channel, the signal drowns out the noise. When the TV is receiving a weaker signal (or no signal at all) the noise drowns out the signal. For example, when you are in a movie theater and the movie is on and blaring music, you can...
Web beacon (tracking pixel)	[ "Every HTML image has a \"source\" property which gets set to the location of the actual image (e.g _URL_0_\"). But there's a cool trick that the coder can do. Instead of setting the source property directly to an image, he or she can set it to a web page. The web page can have its own code, including very standard...	[ "[Here](_URL_0_) is a detailed answers from an old Stack Exchange thread." ]
How does the release of cytochrome c and other intermembranous proteins of the mitochondria under the influence of apoptototic factors lead to the ultimate outcome of cell death?	[ "Binding of cytochrome C to a protein called Apaf-1 forms a structure called the apoptosome. The apoptosome is able to act on another protein called Pro-caspase 9, it cuts the pro-caspase, activating it and forming Caspase 9. Caspase 9 is an initiator Caspase, which means it's job is to activate other Effector casp...	[ "Like many things in history, this is the subject of interpretation. Many dynasties in history have had a similar destiny, being puppets and legitimizers of true rulers. However, the Abbasids didn't give up so easily. Caliph an-Nāṣir made a final attempt to restore the Caliphate to its original power: the Ayyubids ...
How was Muggsy Mogues , someone who was 5'3" ft tall (160cm), able to play in the NBA?	[ "While he's not going to have super dunking skills, his footwork and ball control made him a superstar. Plus, his size made him incredibly fast in comparison to the giants on the court with him, if the other team lost the ball in his side of the court, a quick pass to him and he was down the other end with a layup ...	[ "Because what's considered \"high amounts\" of things in air is actually quite a tiny amount. For example, pollen count is measured in grains of pollen per cubic meter of air, and the websites that I see to track it have \"very high\" pollen levels at around 10. That's 10 grains of pollen per cubic meter. Hardly so...
What does "sp. n." means in a taxon's description?	[ "\"Sp. n.\" is short for the Latin species nova, or \"new species\". When it appears in a paper, it means \"this is the first time this name has been used, I am creating this species name right now in this paper that you are currently reading.\" You might also see \"sp. nov.\" which means the same thing. \"Gen. n...	[ "It's just done to give prominence to that actor. A lot of that crediting stuff originated with Jonathan Harris in Lost in Space. He didn't like being listed last in the credits, so he had them credit him as a \"Special Guest Star\" in every episode of the series - it made him more prominent in the credits. Nowad...
What is the difference between college and university in the education system of usa?	[ "The words \"college\" and \"university\" are used interchangeably when speaking colloquially in U.S. English. \"College\" is probably used more frequently than \"university\" in conversation, except when speaking about a specific institution by name. (For example, you'd be much more likely to say \"I am a college ...	[ "This CGP Grey video does a really good job of explaining it all. _URL_3_" ]
How can we hear noise from the sun? I've heard audio, and it sounds like a deep rumble.	[ "You are not hearing a recording of sound waves from the sun. You are hearing the sonification of some other type of measurement. Without know what specific audio you are referring to, it is difficult to know what measurement was being made." ]	[ "You could have [tinnitus](_URL_0_). You should see a doctor if you want any further information, since asking for medical advice is not allowed in this forum." ]
[REQUEST] I'm a student working with motivating children about science and mathematics, do you have any fascinating videos about science that I can show my students? Hopefully a concept I can read myself up on and explain it in laymen terms.	[ "I'd recommend Periodic Videos on Youtube (chemistry) _URL_1_ Veritasium, also on Youtube (general science/physics) _URL_0_ Vsause on Youtube (science/philosophy/general coolness) _URL_4_ Smarter Every Day on Youtube (general science and great for younger students) _URL_2_ Seeing as you recently did a project on gy...	[ "Use everyday objects they can relate to along with analogies. I read this really good one a while ago explaining the prevalence of birth defects in siblings mating: pretend you and your sister's DNA are pants with holes on the left knee and right pocket. If you put them over each other there will still be holes. ...
What is the evolutionary advantage in having two sexes?	[ "variety. When you have two contributors of genetic material you end up with a new organism that has a combinations of both parents. If we reproduced asexually then our offspring would be clones of us, with all the the bad and good we have. And no chance to make the bad go away" ]	[ "This is a question that is still up in the air. A lot of studies that suggest those things were frequently helpful for our caveman ancestors. As some random examples: Symmetry is often a good indication of health, which is useful if you're trying to have kids that will survive. Complementary colors are something...
Nokia's rapid decline in phone popularity	[ "Because Nokia didn't want to become \"like everybody\" company. So it refused to use Android in its phones at first. No Android = No abundance of apps. Who needs a phone without basic programs? Windows Phone not a bad OS, but who needs that when you have already Android and iOS? What so special about that?" ]	[ "I still like them, but the hate is because they reused the same melody for a few songs like [This.](_URL_0_) Honestly, they aren't the only ones." ]
How did the lion emerge in European culture (heraldry, etc.)?	[ "Lions were native to Europe. In classical times, they were living in Greece. Until several hundred years ago, they lived in North Africa and the Middle East." ]	[ "[here](_URL_4_) is an article about cats on LSD. we now know that both cats and humans are reacting to LSD, we can assume that many other animals will also do. as some of us know, being on psychedelics can be a pretty unpleasant experience, especially if you don't actually know that you are. in the long distant...
After seeing the images included on the voyager, would we still include similar images and information today?	[ "The messages on the voyager spare craft are practically a novelty, an amusing side project. Yes it may well last for thousands (millions,billions?) of years floating throughout our universe, but the odds of anyone or anything encountering this probe are so low as to be considered zero. Even if an alien species ca...	[ "Some trials don't allow cameras or video recordings. As a substitute, people draw what's going on. It's not crucial, but it's nice to have a visual representation of a trial, especially if it's high profile." ]
Why is it that billions of dollars can be transferred electronically every day but electronic voting systems are still unreliable and unsafe?	[ "The essence of electronic funds transfer is being absolutely positive who sent the money to whom. Those techniques could be used for voting, if people could accept everybody knowing exactly who everybody voted for. Alas, that tends to lead to a lot of intimidation, retaliation, and social badness. Thus we've deter...	[ "Robots and machines are really really expensive to build, develop, and maintain. People in Bangladesh are dirt cheap labor that can accomplish the same thing at small fraction of the cost of said robots and machines. Clothes being an easy item to construct, a cheap item, and a safe item, it doesn't make a lot of s...
Why did it take longer to find the Higgs than the top quark?	[ "Because mass isn't the only thing that determines how hard a particle is to find. Neutrinos are almost massless, and they're very difficult to detect. For a start, the production cross section for tt̅ pairs at the LHC is about 10 times higher than for the Higgs. Top quarks decay almost exclusively to a real W and ...	[ "Put simply - moving parts. A HDD needs to spin to the correct place, and the head needs to move to the correct part of the disk, before the data can be accessed. The only thing moving inside a SSD is electrons." ]
How did Bangladesh come about	[ "From the 19th century it was part of British India. When India gained independence from Britain it was split in two, broadly along religious lines. The mainly Hindu parts became India and the mainly Muslim parts became Pakistan. Pakistan was in two disconnected parts, East and West Pakistan. West Pakistan was the...	[ "Depends on the bacteria. Members of the Clostridium and Bacillus genera can form spores and survive boiling water. B. cereus can cause food poisoning on leftover rice after boiling/cooking it; that’s why it’s important to refrigerate it as soon as possible after eating." ]
What was the FBI’s plan when they sent a letter to Martin Luther King Jr instructing him to commit suicide? Did they honestly believe he’d do it.	[ "Why was the link to the letter deleted?" ]	[ "Kim DotCom is the founder and owner of the file sharing site, MegaUpload. The purpose of the site is to help share files (whether it's a photo, document, or video) that are ultimately to big to share through means of email. One can simply upload their file to this site and then send their friend(s) a link that all...
Why does lightning suddenly increase brightness when it reaches the ground?	[ "While the lightning strike is approaching the ground, it can't conduct a whole lot of electricity, since electrons can't really flow anywhere. What happens is that the air gets ionized, meaning that electrons are ripped away from the atoms, making them conductive. Once it hits the ground, there is a conductive con...	[ "Balisors are less common around airports (where air traffic is tightly controlled) than in the countryside where low-flying planes are likely (if not common) for crop-dusting, police, state natural resource departments. They can also be visible at night, read here: _URL_0_" ]
What was the cause of the Port Royal fire in 1703?	[ "I'm not sure exactly how to make this clearer, but: the cause of the fire is undetermined. Says so right in the books link you have there. Now that said, it also has in the Google Books link [a handy footnote](_URL_0_) to a primary source document that you could check out if you want more information on it. Anoth...	[ "If you're new to the thread, please don't post the Mythbusters episode again. Mythbusters is entertaining but it's not history (or more specifically, it's not historical proof of anything.) The short answer is no, not that we know of. /u/davidaop, our pirate expert, and I have both answered [questions about th...
Is it possible for their to be light of a frequency that would disrupt nuclear bonding?	[ "Theoretically, yes. The nucleus is a bound state, hit it with the right bundle of energy (a photon), and you can excite the weakest bound nucleon off of the atom. It's easiest to think of deuterium: It's an electron, a proton, and a neutron. Knock off the electron with something low energy (an ultraviolet photon, ...	[ "It's accidental in the SM given the field content---when you write down all allowed terms in the Lagrangian for the quark sector, you can get rid of all but one unitary matrix, the CKM matrix. You can put CKM in the mass matrix so gauge interactions are diagonal (this is the 'flavor basis') or in the gauge interac...
Is it better to brush teeth just as you wake up or after the breakfast?	[ "I like to brush right after I wake up from the nights build up then I wait about 1/2 hour till I eat after that I rinse my mouth with water after each meal. At night time I do another cleaning." ]	[ "Two social psychological concepts come to mind here. State dependent memory encoding and Erickson Arousal theory of learning. State dependent learning states that what ever state of mind you are in during encoding is the state of mind where recall would be optimal. Erickson arousal theory states that learning is m...
What exactly is the deep web?	[ "The \"deep web\" is the term we use to describe web sites and content that aren't indexed by search engines. The average internet user accesses content through google, facebook, and other similarly popular platforms. But there's a lot of web content that just isn't (generally) discoverable through these platforms...	[ "If you don't have even a 5 year olds level of understanding then why do you want to get into it? If you are actually interested then I can explain some of it, but you won't make money, trust me." ]
Why are ice hockey players allowed to beat the shit out of each other?	[ "So that the aggression is not taken out dangerously against the boards with two players traveling 30mph." ]	[ "You said it... instinctively. As to how that came to be? Evolution. Animals which attacked weak points on their prey or predators were more successful, bred more, and they're the ancestors of the animals we know today. Evolution is an arms race, and having an advantage means your genes get to keep going." ]
How close is science to creating artificial proteins/enzymes for industrial processes such as pharmaceuticals or plastics?	[ "We are already doing it! Engineered proteins have been made on an industrial scale for ~ 30 years in the biopharma industry. The first recombinant protein treatment was approved by the fda in 1982 _URL_0_" ]	[ "Many medications depend on the pathway of the disease. For example, diabetes insipidous (not the typical glucose diabetes) is characterized by excessive urination and thirst, which washes out lots of your ions and other important compounds. It has 2 causes. Either your brain isn't releasing ADH, a compound that pr...
How can a pitcher strike out four batters in one inning? Please be specific.	[ "If a batter swings at strike three but the catcher drops the ball or it gets past him, the batter is permitted to try to get to first. If he does before the catcher recovers the ball and either rage the batter or gets it to a fielder standing on first, he's safe, but the pitcher still records a strikeout." ]	[ "It's usually a failsafe to ensure they remain in prison. For instance, lets say someone is arrested for 3 murders but the prosecutor is lazy and only pursues 1 murder charge. He's convicted and sentenced to life w/o parole. Later it's found he didn't commit the 1 murder for which he was tried but he did commit the...
What do people mean when they talk about keeping same-sex marriage out of education?	[ "It means same sex marriage, and homosexual relationships in general are not part of the school curriculum. There are two main justifications for this: * Homosexuality is immoral, and should not be presented as \"normal\". * Young children don't need to be exposed to every variety of sexual relationship. When we te...	[ "They did a few years back. It was called Olestra, and it was supposed to change the way we eat (or so they claimed). Basically, the stuff was a fat-substitute that the body simply wasn't able to absorb or digest, so it was just passed through the body. Unfortunately, a problem arose with the stuff because you were...
How they expect us to colonize Mars if we can't even breathe it's atmosphere?	[ "we would have to start out in protective domes first. but the plans for long term colonization include terraforming, which is a fancy word for planet engineering. elon musk recently said the fastest way to get that done would be by nuking the polls. the slow way would be to introduce plant life or algae to make ox...	[ "I mean, you can work out and gain mass, but the statement about muscle is taking into account that you follow the same routine as in earth and were stabilized on not gainong/losing muscle. What it means is that since you don't make work against gravity to walk, move things, etc. Doing the same workout with the sa...
Why does Japan have such an affinity for baseball?	[ "Baseball has been popular in Japan since the late nineteenth century. It certainly was not something first introduced only after World War II. Since the 1920s there's been regular baseball championship games among Japanese middle schools and universities. Babe Ruth visited Japan in the 1930s to great acclaim. Even...	[ "This is a pretty common question here; here's some links from the FAQ: _URL_2_ _URL_4_ and a few others that have been posted over the years: _URL_3_ _URL_1_ _URL_0_ Most posts agree that it is largely a post-war pop phenomenon with fairly little evidence to support it." ]
how far is the nearest star as a scale model?	[ "If the Sun was the size of a pinhead, then the nearest star would be 18 miles away. If the Sun was the size of a marble, it would be 270 miles away. If the Sun was the size of a golf ball, it would be 775 miles away. Further information: If the Sun was the size of a golf ball, the speed of light would be .02 mph, ...	[ "You're going .99c, 1 mile per hour, and are also stationary. All of the above, and more. The problem is \"space\" doesn't have a rest frame. Velocity only makes sense in comparison to some other object. We forget this, or never learn it, because almost always in our daily lives, when we measure speed there is a...
The recent string of "Hacking" that has gone on. (ex: George Bush's Email, News Corp & the Federal Reserve) What is Hacking and how does it work?	[ "Hacking is trying to gain access to a system you are not allowed to. Simply asking for a password that does not belong to you is an attempt at hacking. Phishing emails often trick folks into entering passwords into text fields on forms. It only gets more sophisticated from there." ]	[ "Let's say you send a message from GMail to HotMail. Google and Microsoft both have lots of computers that handle that transfer. The server your GMail account is served by doesn't directly connect to the server handling your friend's HotMail account. Both Google and Microsoft like to route mail through control poin...
Is the cyanide compound found in certain fruit seeds an defensive adaptation or a 'spandrel' ?	[ "Cyanide is not uncommon in plants, in fact, it is very common but does not accumulate in most plants or plant tissues that we know of. It is a byproduct of ethylene biosynthesis - ethylene is a plant hormone that promotes ripening, among other things. So, as background, cyanide is produced commonly and almost all ...	[ "Here's something I didn't see referenced in the three posts linked in the FAQ. There's a genetic mutation called Delta 32 or [CCR5](_URL_1_) that is believed to impart resistance to the Bubonic plague (and possibly HIV). Apparently this gene is more prevalent in Scandinavian and Slavic bloodlines. There's another ...
If cocaine is worse than weed, why is cocaine a schedule 2 drug and weed is schedule 1?	[ "Schedule 1 drugs have a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical use. _URL_0_ Schedule 2 drugs also have a high potential for abuse, but do have accepted medical use. Marijuana, according to the DEA/federal government, has no medical uses, whereas cocaine is used as an anesthetic and vasoconstrictor during...	[ "Well, this so called peace treaty is much more complicated than people seem to believe it is. Although one of the primary negotiations was a ceasefire between FARC and the government, FARC's primary intention is to change the constitution in order to have a political say inside Colombia. If you want to know more a...
Explain how touch-screen works LI5.	[ "There's 2 kinds of touch screens: Capacitive and Resistive. Resistive touchscreens have 2 layers, one on top of the other. When you put some pressure on the top layer, the 2 layers touch and conduct some electricity, and that's how it \"knows\" where you're touching it. These screens work with any object; your fin...	[ "This is a very good question, but I don't know if can be aquatically explained to a 5 year old. Still, I would love to see someone do it." ]
How does the Akinator work?	[ "I know that if it doesn't get it right it asks you type in the solution. Maybe that's how all the answers were fed to it except for the first 1,000 names the developers might have put in to get a prototype." ]	[ "While _URL_0_ digitizes a lot of records from the past, that doesn't specifically tell you about your family. They way it knows about your specific family is that there are other people who have taken the time to enter their family trees on the site, and their ancestors match up with your ancestors. When you sta...
Why conditions in sweatshops haven't made drastic changes even though poor labor practices are pretty well known in the world.	[ "Basically because the conditions in sweatshops are better than the alternative for the workers (not working or subsistance farming) and buyers (the companies that buy from the sweatshops) only care if it affects their sales. You can fire everyone if there are a hundred times as many employees who are doing someth...	[ "Sugar tastes good. When faced with a choice between that which is smart and that which is pleasing, most people will spend their money on the latter. A business exists to sell people what they want to buy, not what some might feel they should buy." ]
In the late 19th century, as the Western world shifted to motor power and rail for transportation, what happened to all of the "unemployed" horses?	[ "Horses were actually replaced rather slowly. Local freight was still hauled mostly by horse until the 1920s. Automobiles were the province of the rich until they were mass produced, and even after the advent of Fordism many people kept their horses. And so, it was instead a matter of selling a few less horses each...	[ "Well if you're following current video game trends, imagine thousands of early access games being sold as finished products without even the possibility that it will be updated. This quality of game was vastly more common than a finished game, as companies were just trying to jump onto the bandwagon of the video g...
Why do a lot of government entities and other companies insist on using Internet Explorer over other browsers such as Chrome or Firefox saying that IE is more secure? Is there any truth to this?	[ "Usually requiring IE isn't by choice. in my experience it is typically because the business have spent a ton of money on an IT system that depends on some IE specific feature, like ActiveX for example. In many cases the business might even have two browsers installed on all their systems, one for their expensive l...	[ "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...
What is the benefit of leaded gasoline in cars?	[ "Tetraethyl lead was one of the first known cost-effective ways to produce fuel with high octane ratings (less likely to detonate during the compression stroke before the spark plug fires). This allowed engine designers to produce engines that were more powerful for their size." ]	[ "For the same reason we prefer drinking cold water to warm water. It makes no difference, but we prefer the taste/feel of cold water in our mouths." ]
Why do people get warts?	[ "Warts are actually caused by a virus. People get warts when the virus infects their tissues. So you can actually spread warts from person to person, and from finger to finger/toes. Luckily they're plenty of ways to treat warts really effectively." ]	[ "You have probably been lucky, and not been exposed to as many contagious people. Do you have much contact with children?" ]
If a gang of men with automatic weapons robbed a bank in the UK, wouldn't it take much longer than in the States for armed response?	[ "In both the U.S. and U.K., automatic weapons are very very rarely used in crime. It's not really a typical scenario that the police needs to be armed for. But both countries do have heavily armed subdivisions in their police forces, particularly in metropolitan areas. The UK has fewer such units in other parts of ...	[ "Actually we do. _URL_0_ The reason its so complicated is because we have so many dialects, accents, and speaking mannerisms. The program itself needs (I believe) a minute of speech from the subject before mimicing the speech." ]
What are the differences between a salsa, chutney, relish, etc?	[ "A relish is a cooked, pickled, or chopped vegetable or fruit food item typically used as a condiment in particular to enhance a staple. Chutney is a family of condiments associated with South Asian cuisine made from a highly variable mixture of spices, vegetables, or fruit. Salsa is a popular form of social dance ...	[ "Ever tried Steak Tartare? That is basically chopped raw steak with seasoning and dressing. The meat obviously needs to be high quality, and not from a diseased animal. Even so, it's not something pregnant ladies should try. Oh, and [don't do it at home] (_URL_0_)!" ]
American Revolution Conspiracies	[ "I have done a little research paper last year about the Blount Conspiracy that took place in the late 1790's. I know that it is some years after the Revolution but it was in the wake of it. The continental expansion of the US was (or could have been) greatly changed if the conspiracy had went through. Right now I...	[ "A big one is, well, most of the bible. Was there a united monarchy? If so, what did it look like? Is there something behind the Exodus narrative, or is it a myth to give the Israelites a history separate from the other Canaanite groups?" ]
The SRS subreddits. What are they? What makes them special? What the hell is a "fempire?"	[ "In theory - \"Let's find people on reddit who are spreading hate (racism, sexism, homophobia, discrimination of any kind), and expose them. Batman style.\" In practice - \"Let's find people on reddit who say things that don't align with our opinions and attack them, then make a crazy treehouse and say thin...	[ "Yer not alone in askin', and kind strangers have explained: 1. [ELI5: Why there seems to be so much rape in India ](_URL_3_) 1. [ELI5: Why is there so much gang raping in India? ](_URL_0_) 1. [ELI5: Why are there so many men raping women in india? ](_URL_5_) 1. [ELI5 INDIA: Why is there so much rape in India????? ...
Why do wholesalers need distributors to get into retailers?	[ "Just because you have the knowledge to make a good beer doesn't mean you have the knowledge to run a distribution system. Drivers, warehouses, meeting exacting delivery schedules... yeah, if you have the expertise to do it, that's great, but you're probably better at making beer." ]	[ "In addition to people moving out to the suburbs, so did businesses. To use your example of Boston, there was a huge expansion of business in eastern Mass after WWII, but much of it was in the Route 128 suburban belt out in the suburbs. To be fair, Digital built a sort of token plant in inner city Boston, but 95+ p...
If light cannot escape a black hole, does that mean it moves faster than the speed of light when it is being sucked in?	[ "No, light always travels at the speed of light. What happens with a black hole is an \"all roads lead to Rome\" situation where once past the event horizon, all directions lead further into the black hole, spacetime curves to ensure this." ]	[ "The scenario is impossible. It's impossible to have a classical orbit with speed greater than c (anywhere on the orbit) and the entire orbit being outside the Schwarzschild radius. Schwarzschild Radius = 2μ/c^2 Maximum speed of orbiting particle = √(((1+e)μ)/((1-e)a)) Minimum distance from central body = (1-e)a If...
Why using chicken raised with antibiotics is a bad thing	[ "Actually it's illegal in the united States to sell chicken that was raised on antibiotics. So when you see chicken that says \"antibiotic free!\" On the packaging, it's just a marketing ploy." ]	[ "If i open a farmers market and someone starts selling pot and I call the cops on him and prevent others from selling drugs then I probably won't get in trouble. If I set up a farmers market with a sign that says \"sell your drugs here.\" I am gonna get in trouble" ]
How does the porn industry survive?	[ "Same way google survives. Advertisements. Even if you just go to tube sites like most internet savey people they have adds. And not just easily blocked adds either, you will notice many have the advertisements worked into the actual video player. The porn industry stays on the cutting edge of tech to keep making...	[ "My guess? When you're dealing with a lot of makeup, prosthesis, special effects its easier to hide flaws. You can see acne under makeup in high def, you couldn't really see that back in the day. Just a guess." ]
Why do beer bottles fizz out of the bottle when someone smacks the top with another beer ?	[ "All beer contains a certain amount of fizziness. If you pour the beer out of the bottle this fizziness is released as bubbles of gas that create the foam that forms on top of the beer. If you leave the beer in the bottle it still contains all that fizzy potential (it'll feel a lot fizzier on your tongue than if yo...	[ "The inner ear and outer ear are seperated by a layer of issue impermeable to the outside atmosphere called the ear drum, aka tympanic membrane. When the air pressure changes by a large amount, the air in the inner ear and the air outside the ear are not at equilibrium. To re-establish that equilibrium of pressure,...
What are the advantages of driving on the left side of the road as opposed to the right?	[ "Two major reasons. * Who colonized you. * Who is your major source of vehicles. Keeping to the left while walking, driving etc is an English custom while it was customary to drive on the right in continental Europe. Countries like America and Australia were colonized by England and so had 'drive on the left' rules...	[ "CommissarAJ has it, but just to add Majority governments through parliament effectively prevent the grid lock that America has right now in Congress. The difficult part of parliamentary politics to understand is how powerful the Prime Minister is...technically he is just one vote of 308 seats...but informally he i...
A priori and A posteriori knowledge.	[ "Mathematics is often given as an example of A priori knowledge. A priori is knowledge that is internally consistent, without the need for any outside measurements. In maths we know 1+1=2, because we explicitly define 2 to be twice that of one. Other a priori knowledge are facts of definition, such as \"redditors b...	[ "Muscle memory and learning. You don't instinctively know exactly how to throw a baseball to get it on target as a toddler. You can get it in the general direction, but only through practice and the brain having an opportunity to learn through experience do you become capable of throwing a ball accurately" ]
What is Anti-aliasing, what's the difference between the kinds, and why does it help in gaming?	[ "Basically anti-aliasing prevents jagged edges on walls and stuff. Example: _URL_3_ You can see the towers edges are all blocky vs the smooth surface of the aliased one. It makes an incredible improvement in games at the cost of performance which is why consoles typically don't use aa." ]	[ "Ask Reddit is for personal opinions, stories, and the like. Essentially subjective answers to questions without hard answers. Something like \"whats your favorite food\" is a good post there ELI5 is for getting a simplified answer or explanation to a question that you don't understand. A good thread here would som...
Why does milk keeps from curdling if I boil it at regular intervals?	[ "Boiling it kills pretty much all the bacteria in it. That's how pasteurization works. Every time you boil it you basically reset the clock until it spoils (though toxins produced by the bacteria generally are not destroyed by boiling, so it's not safe to keep doing this forever)." ]	[ "This is called the [Cheerios Effect](_URL_1_). I find this amusing. Basically, when something is floating in a liquid, a [meniscus](_URL_0_) forms around it. (In the case of the bubbles, it's a concave meniscus.) Since the bubbles float, they want to be at the highest point achievable on the surface of the liquid,...
SanDisk released a 200GB Micro SD. What might be the reason, technologically, for such an odd capacity?	[ "Recently NAND manufacturers have been stacking dies to create larger chips. Sandisk have managed to [stack twenty five 8GB dies](_URL_0_) into this chip for a total of 200GB. In the past memory became larger due to the size of the transistors. This is slowing down and stacking dies is starting to take over, partl...	[ "Because storage is dirt cheap... like... it is almost silly how cheap storage is. A gigabyte of storage costs fractions of a penny when stored in the cloud. Oracle (where I work) charges $33 a month for a terabyte of storage." ]
The legend of Robin Hood dates from the 13th century; do most historians believe the legend was based on a real person/composite of real people? At the time, mainstream culture seemed mainly concerned with the aristocracy; were there precursors for the archetype of 'heroic outlaw'?	[ "A followup: would you average person hearing a tale of Robin Hood in the first 300-400 years of the legend believe that he was a real living (contemporary?) person or would they have been more inclined to think of him as a fictional character in the way we think of movie characters today?" ]	[ "hi! you may be interested in this post * [Why are the Swiss renowned chocolatiers?](_URL_0_) and perhaps also this one * [To what extent did tropical stimulants (coffee, tea, tobacco, chocolate...) have an impact on European industrialization?](_URL_1_) Meanwhile, since posts on popular food items tend to attract ...
How, why, and who the heck thought of creating a piece of thin wood to blow through to make noise and then make the most complex piece of brass anyone could think of.	[ "Who? Adolphe Sax. There is a nice slide show at _URL_0_ which includes the patent drawings that Sax submitted in 1846. The invention was not quite the miracle that you are implying. The number of holes to cover is pretty similar to that of the clarinets that preceded it. Those had been added a few at a time over t...	[ "Imagine you wanted to send a digital file to a friend of yours, but all you have is a telephone and the binary data contents of the file. You tell your friend \"when I say beep you write down 1, when I say boop, you write down 0\", and then you read the contents of the file to him over the phone \"beep beep boop ...
Why do electronics get hot when we use them?	[ "Energy can't be created or destroyed, only converted from one form to another. The electronics in your phone can't remove the energy from your phone's battery, they just convert nice useful electrical energy into less useful energy like heat (and a little bit of light for the screen and some sound, perhaps). It's ...	[ "> It's not like the energy you don't waste is stored, from what I know that's impossible. Electricity doesn't come from nowhere, it needs to be generated which in most cases means burning fossil fuels. If you consume electricity it means the generators must work harder and burn more fuel in order to maintain the s...
Why are level crossings so dangerous?	[ "Because people think that they can race the train and win. Some people are too impatient to wait the 5 min that it takes a train to pass, and try to beat it across the crossing. These people are idiots." ]	[ "So each power company has a control room that shows all the substations linked. Each substation has protection relays, the relays look at different zones along a power line zones 1-3. One substation looks down the line to next substation and that sub looks back at the previous. As their zones 3 overlap we know tha...
Why is it OK to acknowledge that some races have some advantages / strengths but not disadvantages / weaknesses?	[ "It isn't ok, because all of those things you said are wrong. I mean, it's less offensive to be wrong in a positive way I guess, but it's still wrong." ]	[ "Each culture has an 'in' to a particular business in each area. So, one Korean family will come and open a dry cleaning business. When their cousins come, they will tell them the tricks of the trade and the regulations and have the business model set, so their cousins open up another cleaning business one town ove...
What prevented slaves in Southern states for revolting?	[ "Sure, they might be successful in killing their master and a few others. But the penalty for any violence against a master or overseer was death. And so while they might have a brief victory, all the white men nearby, armed with guns, on horseback, and with dogs, would come running, and would ultimately be victori...	[ "Basically because the conditions in sweatshops are better than the alternative for the workers (not working or subsistance farming) and buyers (the companies that buy from the sweatshops) only care if it affects their sales. You can fire everyone if there are a hundred times as many employees who are doing someth...
Why does a weak am/fm radio signal result in a consistent static/fuzzy sound while a weak satellite radio signal results in intermittent high quality sound?	[ "The simple answer is that AM/FM is an analog signal, which you can \"kind of\" pick up. Think of analog as a scale of 100-0 with the quality increasing or decreasing as you move from the transmitter. Satellite radio is a digital signal. Think 1 or 0. It's either there, or it's not. The same holds true for satellit...	[ "Your router does a lot of load balancing, and transmits data through different channels. Depending on the number of devices connected, and their location relative to the router/other wireless networks, wireless devices will be automatically assigned different channels to use. Not all channels are created equally,...
Will be possible to play a game with low ping with people overseas anytime soon?	[ "The speed of light in optical fiber is about 200,000 km/s (about 2/3 of c, the speed of light in vacuum). The Earth is about 40,000 km in circumference, so the time for a signal to get from your computer to a server on the other side of the world and back again (20,000 km each way) is 200 ms. Now, the server isn't...	[ "Something similar to this was asked once before & u/intangible-tangerine [gave an excellent answer.](_URL_0_) As far as the explorers and international mail, as far as I know there was no real “system” in place. It was more just a matter of hand the letter to someone you trust on their voyage back, and say “here ...
In "The Martian", did the crew actually age for 3/4 years when they were in space?	[ "They are not going nearly fast enough for dilation to be significant. They will feel every second of those 900 days." ]	[ "Not sure if this helps but what you describe is common for two things. A pan can be old, usually passed down through generations having been seasoned over the years from every meal that was cooked in it. Usually cast iron. The other thing that seems more likely to your question is when someone uses a traditional s...
Erection and blood pressure	[ "Your circulatory system compensates very well for much larger volume changes than this. Veins are elastic, and can stretch. Arteries are both elastic and lined with musculature, so they can either stretch or constrict. The body uses these mechanisms to maintain blood pressure at approximately the same level despi...	[ "Some of the chemicals in some weed are vasodialators which cause blood vessels to expand. It's the same reason that frequently when you smoke you feel cold. You see it in your eyes, feel it in your skin" ]
What is going on in someone's mind when they turn into an angry drunk?	[ "The best explanation I've heard: Alcohol lowers your inhibition but can also lower your ability to regulate your feelings. Basically a feeling that might otherwise be quelled by the prefrontal cortex (that front bit of your brain) is left unchecked. [link!](_URL_0_)" ]	[ "Looking at an object in a mirror is the same as looking at the object at a distance of (distance from you to mirror) + (distance from object to mirror). To see something, light travels off of an object, through the pupil and to the retina. The pupil focuses this light so that lands correctly on the retina. Blurry ...
Were there major celebrations on New Year's Eve 999? How was the new millennium greeted?	[ "Not to discourage new discussion but this has been asked a few times and there are some good answers here: _URL_0_" ]	[ "You mention in the opening that you in the 18th Century there elite women had at least some place in political life (even if indirectly). But I am wondering about 1) How did femininity as a concept shape politics in the 18th Century. For example, Judith Walkowitz argues that in the 19th C. the Jack the Ripper m...
AMA: Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, the Three Great Traditions of China	[ "Would you be willing to compare and contrast the relationship between the 'Mandate of Heaven' and each religion. Also, would you include Neoconfucianism, as from what I understand it is an mixture of the 3 belief systems of some sort. Thank you guys!" ]	[ "NIH provides good objective information about the current status of these topics and _URL_5_ has good information about their history. Here are those pages for the topics you asked about: Homeopathy: _URL_4_ _URL_0_ Acupuncture: _URL_1_ _URL_2_ Chiropractic: _URL_3_ http://www._URL_5_/medicine/divisio...
Why do we "warm up" the car every morning?	[ "With fuel injected cars it doesn't really matter that much anymore. The reason why it started is because you're engine reaches a certain operating temperature where it is going to run most efficiently. Older cars have chokes on them to make the fuel to air mixture more rich, this makes the combustion easier becaus...	[ "Simply put for the same reason drinking water when you're not thirsty isn't as refreshing as when you're REALLY thirsty. Anticipating the bodies' needs doesn't trigger the same reward responses in the brain as fulfilling a need that is already present. Your muscles don't NEED to stretch right now, so you can't ant...
Why was kingdoms succession laws always in favor of men ?	[ "The question too is always where? It was not that way across the world. Matrilineal succession has been common at times in Southeast Asia for nobility and cognatic or bilateral kinship was also widespread (meaning it can draw on either line of lineage). Patriarchal succession and social organization is only normal...	[ "Depends. Usually creditors (the people you owe money to) collect from the estate, before any of your heirs get inheritance. If you die owing more money then you have in assets, then the creditors get less then they are owed." ]
Could you change the climate of a desert area by massive treeplanting and other re-greening efforts?	[ "The general answer is no, though there might be exceptions in specific places. Most deserts are deserts because of lack of rain. Arid regions are more influenced by the large scale circulation of the atmosphere than local plants. Sure, plants might transpire some water into their nearby atmosphere but the water st...	[ "This guy, [Kamal Meattle](_URL_2_) from India, has been studying precisely that for past past couple of decades. They have been using combinations of [areca palm](_URL_1_)(Dypsis lutescens) for producing oxygen during daylight hours, [snake plant or mother in law's tongue](_URL_0_)(Sansevieria trifasciata) for pro...
Are Photons everywhere?	[ "Technically yes. However, obviously an object can intersect between the viewer and the light source cutting off that particular source of photons for some time. So, for example, if you are observing light from 1 million light years away, and an object intersects at 500,000 light years, you won't see the light disa...	[ "> they have to be somewhere? A tidal wave has to be somewhere, but you can't determine its location more precisely that a few meters. For a ship, you could define it's center of mass and find that location very precisely, but something like a wave doesn't even have a well-defined shape." ]
Why is Christianity not considered mythology?	[ "It is in that category technically but unfortunately people treat it like fact and for that reason, people refuse to recognize it as mythology." ]	[ "> how it really amounts to a bunch of bologna I don't have an answer, but I do need to point out that bologna = lunch meat. Baloney = nonsense." ]
How accurately can we measure gravity, and do the formula we use to make the calculations take into account the effects of space/time expansion on its accuracy?	[ "It depends what you mean by that. Measurements of the gravitational constant can be measured to 150 parts per million precision (e.g. [here](_URL_0_)). Experiments on Earth do not need to take into account the expansion of the universe." ]	[ "The simplified explanation is that it is the telescope's center of mass that is in orbit around the Earth, so that the Earth is not imparting any torque on the telescope as it travels around the Earth. Therefore, the telescope keeps its alignment relative to a fixed outside point. This is a first approximation, o...
why do computer screens on TV shows have seem to have light waves running through them?	[ "It happens when the TV screen is out of sync with the camera. Remember, the TV displays several images per second, and the camera records several images per second. So if the TV is showing 30 frames per second, and the camera is recording 50 frames per second, there's going to be a lot of times when the camera tak...	[ "Modern computer chips are made with a technology called Photolithography or also called Nanophotolithography. First a block of pure silicon is produced from sand. This is called the silicon substrate or wafer. Next hundreds of individual steps are used: add a layer on top, cut it into 1.4 billion piece...
What happens to electrons in a circuit?	[ "For the purposes of circuits, electricity works a lot like a pneumatic system. With wire there will be electrons in all the places at the same time. If power gets used up, to useful work or to resistance it does so in the form of a 'pressure drop' but the electrons are still around. The actual net movement of the ...	[ "Hi, 53 year old electrician here. Orangecrushucf has a very good answer. Ever look in your toaster when it's running? That's the heat made by the electricity running through the coils very badly. It is has a lot of resistance do to being a poor conductor. (a good conductor is copper, like the wires in your house) ...
Can a body get an infection from a single cell of bacteria or do they need to be in quantity to start an infection?	[ "Yes and yes. Technically, a single cell of bacteria or a single virus can infect you. But, they are far more likely to make you sick if your initial exposure is bigger." ]	[ "To simplify by analogy: Think of level of obesity like the amount of water in a bucket. What determines how much water is in a bucket? The size of the bucket, or the amount of water that was poured into it? The answer, of course, is both. Big buckets can hold more water than small buckets, but if you pour only a l...
Why does hot air seem difficult to breathe?	[ "Hot air is less dense than cold air so there is actually less oxygen present in it for your lungs to pass into your bloodstream" ]	[ "I can only talk about this on an anatomical level, but our ears aren't designed to pick up every sound around us. When a sound registers in our inner ear, it activates one of 24(?) or so critical bands, which vacillate in the general area that the sound occurs. Because there are a limited number of critical bands,...
How the fuck the Akinator web genie works.	[ "It uses a modified decision tree. Basically, every question can be answered with true or false. The combination of all those trues and falses gives a unique answer that is preprogrammed into the database. If it fails, it tries to learn the sequence of trues and falses and gives it the correct answer (You can tell ...	[ "The captcha isn't checking that you clicked the box. But how you clicked the box. What was the path of the mouse cursor movement. What was the delay in movement. What was the speed of the movement. What were the initial and ending coordinates Applying heuristics, it can give a confidence level if it matches any ...
why can't we use the puplic air waves, radio and tv, to supply wifi to most metropolitan areas?	[ "With wifi you need to both send and recieve a signal to upload and download data. Radio and TV are one way systems, and if you did use a hand held transmitter, you would have limited range. Think: Walkie Talkie." ]	[ "There are technical limitations, especially if you are talking about lasers and not about stimulated emission (the physics lasers are based on). To make a laser you need a resonant cavity and an amplifying medium, both at the frequency you are making the laser. Finding amplifying mediums is very difficult at certa...
How does a ponzi scheme work	[ "You convince people to give you their money in exchange for more money, later. You get that money by convincing those people to convince other people to give you their money based on the same premise. Repeat until it falls apart, then take the money and run." ]	[ "If you don't have even a 5 year olds level of understanding then why do you want to get into it? If you are actually interested then I can explain some of it, but you won't make money, trust me." ]
When people were put in stocks as punishment back in colonial times, was it just a given that they'd be raped?	[ "Hi, not to discourage further discussion, but you may be interested in this answer from a past question that deals directly with your question! _URL_0_" ]	[ "Former (sorta) mortuary assistant here. Sometimes it does come out as a \"deathly\" fart during removal from the place of death. The \"jostling\" (for lack of a better word) that happens when we need to get them onto our equipment, such a a gurney, often lets out some of the gasses. However, when doing preparatio...
How come online banking transactions still follow bankers hours if it's all computerized?	[ "Its a system of checks and balances. It won't process something under non normal business hours because at the end of the line, there has to be someone who gets that information and processes it to ensure there are no computer errors that occur. Its in an effort to make sure everything is still seen on a human lev...	[ "It is convenient to have one computer drive the website, and another be just for downloading files, so it isn't unusual for the web server to hand off control to the file server. However, a lot of older browsers, and browsers with certain security settings are unable to execute the handoff properly, so a link is p...
If the First Lady of the US has never been elected by anyone, how is she allowed to spend taxpayer money on a staff?	[ "Lots of people in government who have not been elected are authorized to spend money. The First Lady's budget is part of the White House budget authorized by Congress." ]	[ "Traditionally, up until the middle of the 19th century most teachers were male. That's because most formalized teaching was for older students. Around that time, the concept of elementary aged education grew. Because it was for younger children, there was a perspective that it was considered women's work, as it wa...
Why does it take babies some time to learn to smile/laugh than it does for them to display other emotions/expressions?	[ "[Here's](_URL_0_) some info on smiling specifically. Basically smiling is not a learned behavior, even blind people express happiness by smiling." ]	[ "From an evolutionary standpoint, the most important goal of an organism is the passing on of its genetics to the next generation. This requires lots of energy. Some animals, like flies, expend that energy all at once, releasing as many offspring as possible and then dying. By releasing so many offspring all at onc...
What is the meaning behind the "Horse and Sparrow theory?	[ "It's not so much as a synonym as a criticism. The \"story\" is that if you feed enough oats to a horse, it's crap will contain surplus oats (oats that passed through the horse's digestive track) and the sparrow can get its oats from the horse shit. The criticism of trickle down economics is two-fold. First and for...	[ "So, I don't know if you know this, but Blackstone did just what you are suggesting. After the housing crash of 2009, they went out and bought up homes in different cities. They put them all under the umbrella of a REIT (real estate investment trust) called \"Invitation Homes\" and then spun it out in an IPO a few...

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