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Were all ancient Greek sculptures painted? What about the Hellenistic period?	[ "In my Greek art and architecture class, our professor told us that all Greek sculpture was originally painted, period. I am, however, far from an expert in sculpture, and I can't really say anything beyond that." ]	[ "They typically didn't menstruate that often. Back then you'd be pregnant as soon as you were able to have children and then pregnant as often as possible." ]
Why is there so much opposition to universal healthcare in the US from even people of modest income who would benefit substantially from such a policy?	[ "It would cost a lot of money. That money would have to come from taxpayers. Folks with modest income don't expect Government to start taxing the rich exclusively, given their political power. You can't tax poor people, they have no money. That means the tax would be on middle income people, and they don't want to ...	[ "Greetings everyone. In the few minutes this sub has been up, it's attracting sub-standard responses. Just a reminder of a few of the rules: * no responses covering events/conditions post-1994, per this sub's \"20-year rule\" prohibiting discussion of current events * no anecdotes * no speculation OP: your question...
As a passenger, why do my ears feel like exploding when 1 car window is rolled down?	[ "You're forcing air into a confined space with no good way of escaping. This increases the air pressure. The only way for it to escape is out the way it came, which eventually it does do once enough pressure inside the car is great enough. As the air inside the cabin leaves out the window, pressure reduces to the p...	[ "Speculative, as I know of no scientific study on the subject, but I am an electronics technician and electronic warfare specialist who works with various radio and radar equipment. It's possible that the angle of your radio station relative to the freeway (and thus overpasses) is such that just as you go through t...
What is happening when our head is "spinning" after drinking too much alcohol	[ "It's called positional alcohol nystagmus. Basically, there are these things in your ears called semicircular canals that are responsible for your sense of balance. The semicircular canals are supported inside of a fluid that is usually the same density as the semicircular canals, but when you drink alcohol it chan...	[ "Your eyes are perceiving that your body should be in one position (lying down in case of the linked gif), yet the signal from the balance centers in your ears are sending a different signal to your brain. This dissonance causes your brain to try and make you feel how you should based on the signal from your eyes."...
Why is the speed of light (c) squared in the equation 'E=mc2'? Or velocity (v) in Ek=0.5mv2?	[ "Because E is in joule. 1 joule is equal to 1 kg·m^2 / s^2. Therefore if you want the equation to make sense (unit wise), you need a mass multiplied by a speed squared." ]	[ "Think about things bouncing around. Imagine a box with a fan in it. Put 20 balls in ithe box. Now imagine a basket to one side just the right size for the balls. Turn on the fan. The balls jump around randomly. At some point a ball will fall into the basket. This will happen at a given rate which will depends on h...
Why do "experts" and "pundits" go onto obviously biased news shows to be badgered and berated?	[ "Some of them believe that they'll get a chance to make their argument. Others like the idea of being on TV. Some of them have a book to plug or see it as free publicity." ]	[ "I would recommend that you read [this](_URL_0_) article. It's written by Christopher Hitchens who volunteered to undergo the water boarding process. The tl;dr version is best summed up by Hitchens himself > You may have read by now the official lie about this treatment, which is that it “simulates” the feeling of...
How do psychiatrists physically test the chemical imbalance for mental disorders?	[ "Unfortunately, they can't. Which is why treating a mental disorder isn't an exact science -- we're not 100% sure of the mechanisms that cause or treat mental disorders -- we just have compelling evidence that the addition of synthetic chemicals can help." ]	[ "It photographs the paper and compares it to real bills. Also real money has magnetic ink they can use to double check them." ]
What is the relationship/correlation(?) between the moon and the tides?	[ "The rotation of the moon around the earth causes the tides. Specifically, as the moon spins around the earth, more flexible materials (like the water in the oceans as compared to the land) end up being pulled more toward the moon as a result of it's gravitational pull. Think of someone pulling on one part of an ...	[ "If you have thin film of transparent material the light reflect on both top and bottom surfaces of this film the additional distance the light that reflect on the bottom of the film makes difference in the phase of the light wave function. As the phase of wave functions of the same light are shifted now, they star...
Why do humans have allergic reactions?	[ "Long time ago when humans didn't have doctors or better medicine, the bodies were at a much more risky position. Imagine wondering in a forest and picking up some wild fruits that were poisonous to eat. Later on you would end up dying as a result. So the body evolved into having these reactions whenever it sensed ...	[ "We are exposed to millions of pathogens daily. Getting into a long answer will require explaining the entire immune process which can get lengthy, check out these pages: [Innate Immunity](_URL_4_) [T Helper Cell](_URL_1_) [Complement system](_URL_0_) [Adaptive Immunity](_URL_2_) [Generation of Antibody Diversity](...
What was the theology behind the Roman Imperial Cult? Did the Romans believe that becoming Emperor made one divine or were Emperors divine individuals fated to become Emperor?	[ "/u/mp96 has a great write up on this [here](_URL_0_?)" ]	[ "Determinism is basically the view that free will is an illusion, that everything that happens is determined by the arrangement of particles and energy when the universe began, that events cannot unfold any other way than the way they will unfold. The rationale is that human beings are (chemical) machines, and that...
Which US Presidents and Vice-Presidents disliked each other the most?	[ "When Adams and Jefferson were President and Vice President respectively they were in the midst of their feud and were extremely bitter towards one another. Adams and Washington also had their issues but far less so. Also Johnson and Lincoln were not so hot either. And later when Vice Presidents were selected at ti...	[ "With trepidation, I will try my first posting of an image - one suitable for this question. This is [John Piper's Old Corner Bar](_URL_0_) in Virginia City, Nevada in late 1860, illustrated by Grafton Brown, an African American Artist who produced a Bird's Eye View of the town (with businesses illustrated around p...
Why does a dog's iris take up most of the visible eye, but a human's has lots of white visible?	[ "The sclera (from the Greek skleros, meaning hard), also known as the white of the eye, is the opaque, fibrous, protective, outer layer of the eye containing collagen and elastic fiber. It is theorized that the eye-white evolved because of our social nature as the eye became a useful communication tool in addition ...	[ "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...
How is the USA able to have a naval base in cuba and why hasn't cuba tried taking the land back?	[ "Back in the 19th century, Spain still had a lot of colonies. Some of them were close the U.S. One was Cuba. There were some rebels in Cuba who wanted independence. We supported the rebels, because we wanted to weaken Spain's influence in the area. I'm not sure why exactly (except for a vague sense that we were mor...	[ "Greetings everyone. In the few minutes this sub has been up, it's attracting sub-standard responses. Just a reminder of a few of the rules: * no responses covering events/conditions post-1994, per this sub's \"20-year rule\" prohibiting discussion of current events * no anecdotes * no speculation OP: your question...
Why bother with satellite communications? Given the enormous expense of a build and launch, and the trouble once it's up there, wouldn't it just make more sense to propagate on-land (fibre optic) or OTA (microwave?) communications?	[ "I think you have an odd perspective on how easy it is to build giant glass wires running everywhere compared to just building one satellite." ]	[ "You see different things in different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum (see [Multiwavelength Milky Way](_URL_0_)). Different sources will emit differently because of different physics, thus we need telescopes across the spectrum to study these phenomena. Also, you cannot calibrate a radio telescope to see at ...
Was the perceived "Golden Age" of the US during the 1950s merely a product of a war-ravaged world economy in which all other advanced nations had their production capacities crippled?	[ "Paul Krugman has addressed this question on his blog a few times. _URL_0_ The basic answer is that because Europe served as both an economic competitor AND as a customer for much of our export goods in the postwar era, the destruction wrought by WW2 was not beneficial to our growth. They couldn't compete with us b...	[ "(1) Gold is malleable. It is easy to make things out of gold. (2) Gold is beautiful. Gold has a lot of aesthetic appeal to people. (3) Gold is just rare enough. Gold is scarce enough for people to value it, but not so unabundant that you can't use it as a commodity. Rarer isn't always better. If you're going to us...
Are there any alternatives to antibiotics?	[ "There's lots of antibacterial foods like honey and garlic. You could use bacteriophages. _URL_0_" ]	[ "Olive oil has been mentioned, but perhaps not emphasized enough. Judging from the numbers of amphorae found in shipwrecks, I guess that olive oil and wine were major agricultural products and also traded. From the number of pictures of fishermen on pottery it would also seem that fishing was an important source of...
Do atomic nucleï rotate if the molecule they are in rotates?	[ "If you rotate a molecule the nuclear spins of the atoms will not rotate with it, as there's no simple interaction that rigidly couples the nuclear spins to, e.g., the orientation of bonds, and so angular momentum must be conserved. This is why molecular tumbling, or magic angle spinning (MAS), can decouple the dip...	[ "Radiation can damage anything and everything in the cell. It's just that cells can repair the damage. They also repair DNA damage, but there is potential to make mistakes during the repair process. The cells don't necessarily die, though damaged cells can be targeted for recycling by the immune system. For a cell ...
How does Wikipedia remain well managed?	[ "Community policing mostly, and they do have staff that check articles that keep getting vandalized and such. The wiki community is astonishingly quick at times, and will fight to retain control over articles they contribute to." ]	[ "Sort of how hawaiis volcano is not particularly dangerous as it constantly and very gradually errupts. Good question, i would love a geologist to point out all the unidentified variables etc" ]
Why do some players of multiplayer videogames pay other people to play the game in their place?	[ "This generally exists in two forms, Boosting and Grinding. With grinding, there is generally something in the game that is desirable but requires a large time investment. If a player doesn't have time, but does have money. He can hire someone to grind for him to get the big reward. This is more something for MMO's...	[ "When you write a computer program the compiler compiles the code into a machine readable executable code which is not human readable. For example a python program named _URL_0_ creates _URL_0_c similarly foo.java creates ~~foo.jar~~ foo.class .... (See correction below as pointed by /u/Schnutzel). Now you can ta...
Why has the Church of Scientology decided to use L. Ron Hubbard's WW2 record as the focus of their new advertisement campaign when that has specifically been called out as fraudulent?	[ "Because people will be too lazy to look it up." ]	[ "Any soldiers who served in both Vietnam and WWII would have been field grade or higher officers, or senior NCOs. As far as I'm aware, there are no available numbers for men who served in both wars, but the army has kept track of three-time Combat Infantryman Badge awardees, almost all of whom saw combat in WWII, K...
Why does the faint light from an indicator on my humidifier disappear from my sight if I keep my eyes still?	[ "This actually happens with entirety of your vision, and the reason that you don't normally notice is that your eyes have a built-in jiggling mechanism that keeps them moving back and forth slightly even if you are trying to hold them perfectly still. But if your eye muscles are paralyzed (which some medications ca...	[ "The filaments in the bulb get thinner and thinner with more use. At some point they are thin enough that the surge of electricity when turning on the bulb is more than the filament can take." ]
Why hasn't anyone involved in the UK parliament pedophile ring been prosecuted?	[ "The answer is in the question. \"Parliament\". They're in positions of authority and the peasants can't be given the idea that the same rules apply to them as to their lords." ]	[ "Apart from very experienced cameramen and researchers, they just take a long time. If it takes a couple of weeks to get the right shot, that's what they'll do. It's one of the reasons the BBC wildlife programmes are so expensive to produce. There are times when things are set up - a while ago they filmed polar bea...
Why does O2 have the same charge as a single Oxygen ion?	[ "Oxidation states are useful for solving problems and sometimes can break down, all peroxides are considered -1 and there are even superoxides where it is considered -0.5. Hydrogen is 90% going to be +1 but there are some corner cases like LiH where H is -1. This is more of a learning method and a way to think rath...	[ "You just have to memorize the chart. There's no trick to it. You should get used to this if you will eventually have to take Organic Chemistry. Here's a [picture](_URL_0_) of the chart to help you out. All you really need to do is figure out how many chemical bonds you have, and how many lone pairs you have, and t...
Would it ever be profitable for a studio to simply place a movie on youtube after a run in the box offices, netflix/hulu?	[ "Well, in the current model, chances are, yes. It's very unusual for a movie to lose money anymore. The movies with the biggest budgets--most often action flicks--are also the easiest to peddle overseas. Even notorious flops usually end up making their budget back through a combination of overseas revenue, home vid...	[ "To make a movie of a thing, you just point a movie camera at it and shoot. Say it's cars driving across a bridge. You start the camera. It takes 24 frames per second. You stop the camera. You're pretty much done. You have a minute's footage of cars on a bridge. 1,440 frames. Now you need a giant robot destroying ...
How do earphones get so tangled when left unattended?	[ "its due to something called \"chaos Theory\". Which states that there is billions of ways in which your earphones can be tangled, but only one way in which they are not. Probability states that they will most likly always be tangled when you get them out." ]	[ "All of the individual colors of the clothes that are in there mix up and make a darkish mess, just like if you mixed a bunch of paint colors together. Sometimes if something is shedding a lot of fibers, like a towel, or if you have a lot of similarly colored clothes, then that can influence the color of the lint....
Would having two swords actually benefit you in the middle ages / before guns? Or is it only to make people look cool in movies?	[ "In terms of the middle ages u/Peli-kan has an interesting post refuting dual wielding usefulness on the battlefield whilst explaining its usefulness during renaissance duals at _URL_0_" ]	[ "Let's say the cpu is some kind of calculator, for simplicity sake. You put some numbers into the calculator, then you ask the calculator to do something with it (subtract, add etc). Then the calculator gives you a number back, the result. Why more cores? Let's say you have 2 math problems. 1 core would mean 1 calc...
Why can't California just build a load of desalinization plants along its coasts? I know it's really expensive, but expensive water is better than no water.	[ "We have plenty of water for drinking and general human uses. What we're short of is irrigation water. So by cutting irrigation and importing more food, we'll be fine. That's cheaper than building and operating desalination plants. If the drought continues for longer, however, we may be forced to go that direction....	[ "Instead of draining the ocean, what about a cofferdam down to the ocean floor? Something like a giant tube all the way down so that you were at the elevation of the bottom of the ocean. Are you interested in whether we could breath there or if the pressure would be too high?" ]
Why does "rapid rehydration kill"?	[ "Alright, think of it this way. Your cells are little sacs containing a bunch of solutes, like sodium and electrolytes. When the water-solute balance in your body is off (because you've drunk more water than your body can handle), the cells attempt to compensate by absorbing water from outside the cell (osmosis). T...	[ "The spectrometer on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was pointed at the Recurring Slope Lineae, and it found spectral signatures that are unique to perchlorate salts. Since these lineae flow downhill in the summer, it means that the salts are being brought to the surface and then transported by a liquid of some kin...
How do you measure the worth of ancient currency in today's currency?	[ "Usually, historians look at how much of a certain crop - often things like wheat or barley or something similar. It varies with the region - could've been bought with a certain amount of money. If you then look at how much of that crop could be bought with today's currency, you've got some frame of reference about...	[ "A couple factors: Age, Location, history * Age: Rome was founded almost 3000 years ago. The colosseum was built almost 2000 years ago. In that time materials physically fail (wood rots, concrete erodes). People also broke roman structures down for materials from time to time * Location: Rome...
If I stand on an asteroid hurling through space, will I fall off or move with it?	[ "You do realize you are currently standing on an asteroid-like object hurling through space at this very moment. Are you falling off or moving with it?" ]	[ "Distance is determined using Parallax. ever looked at your laptop screen with one eye, then changed to the other eye? what happens to the laptop screen? It seems to shift. the amount it shifts corresponds to the distance between your eyes, and the distance from you to the screen. You know the distance between y...
How does the "pineapple juice makes semen taste better" thing work? And how frequently do I have to drink it to make it work?	[ "You could always run a controlled study. By keeping track of what you eat and drink and tasting your semen regularly you should be able to make a determination as to the truth of the statement." ]	[ "> Why is the \"Sexy Son Hypothesis\" presented by Prof. Richard Dawkins scientifically substantiated? This sort of sounds like a loaded question as it assumes the hypothesis is \"scientifically substantiated\", whatever that means. The general idea is that the most important aspect by which a female would choose h...
Why did Italy end up with multiple feuding city states at a time(renaissance) when many other major European powers had national governments?	[ "Although I'm always happy to entertain more discussion, [this previous answer of mine](_URL_0_) might shed some light on the topic." ]	[ "Most neighborhoods built after the 1950s, ie subdivisions in the suburbs, are built all at once. Meaning they will all be built within a year of each other and use 1-5 building plans. Homes built in cities or on privately owned lots outside the city limits that are not a part of a subdivision are built as the owne...
Why don’t animals get sick from eating raw foods?	[ "They eat it when it's extremely fresh, in many cases, still alive. So, it has a similar risk to high-quality sushi: some but actually rather low. As for parasites, animals get them and just deal with it. Most animals don't really live too long in the wild. Maybe 10 years or so. Lots of carnivores or scavengers hav...	[ "It's just in their DNA. Even now, science can't fully explain the phenomena we call \"instincts\", even though we can see them in action, and have them ourselves." ]
Alexander the Great marched all the way to India. How did he supply his army?	[ "Follow up question. I heard a story of Alexander the great pouring out his water in front of his soldiers while crossing the desert, saying something to the effect of \"If my men don't drink, I don't drink.\" Any truth to this story?" ]	[ "[This thread](_URL_1_) has some good information about it. Basically though, no one is really certain of the route that they took through the alps, which makes it difficult to choose where to look. And actually, any remains found of elephants would probably give a more definitive answer as to the route. Also, bein...
How did Marlborough influence Wellington?	[ "I asked this of well read friend of mine who explained it to me paraphrased as: Belgium was studied by most generals during the time period as it was one of the primary focal points of combat for centuries in Europe. Plus, it is no secret that Wellington did indeed study Marlborough, as most generals should have a...	[ "Follow-up: If not the newspaper, did it have anything to do with the John Philips Sousa march, \"The Washington Post\"?" ]
Why did slavery remain in the United States so much longer than Europe?	[ "The cash crops grown by slave labor required a specific climate and soil to grow, so most British or French slaves were located in the Caribbean, mainly in Jamaica and Haiti, respectively. That means that slave labor did not have such an effect on their economy, and the slave owners did not have such a political i...	[ "Politics. It's an easy issue to use to paint your opponent as \"evil\" regardless of which side of the debate they are on." ]
Who was Gaddafi and what did he do wrong?	[ "How I would explain to my son/daughter: Gaddafi was the ruler of Libya. The people didn't vote him to be leader, he took over by intimidation. When he was the leader, he was very very mean to anyone who didn't want him to be the ruler. He even killed people who weren't on his side, like protesters! Also, as the...	[ "Hi, I've approved the post, but just a note to you and potential respondents: this subreddit has a 20-year rule against discussing current events, so any answers will have to cut off at 1997. If you're looking for answers that can include 1998-2012, do consider x-posting elsewhere, eg. a foreign affairs sub like /...
Why do muscles get bigger for the short time during/after you workout that muscle?	[ "When you work a muscle, more blood is pumped into that area to provide it more oxygen to use. This increase in blood makes your muscles bigger for a period of time" ]	[ "Methamphetamine is a dopamine agonist, so when you take it you overflow the dopamine receptors amd get the corresponding reactions, just more intense. With frequent use the receptors cannot tolerate the constant \"high\" so they either diminish in number or grow less sensitive to dopamine. This leads to the need o...
Why, after feeling hungry for a long time, do I stop feeling hunger pangs?	[ "Your body has a few ways of storing energy for long-term use; most people are familiar with how extra calories can end up being stored as fat. If you've been feeling hungry for just a few hours, your body will start to use up its [glycogen](_URL_0_) supply, which is basically the animal equivalent of a plant's sta...	[ "Think of your brain like a billion streams of water that flow over the surface of a rock. The more you use a certain stream, the more \"powerful\" that stream becomes by digging away that rock. Now even if you have a nice dug place for a stream, sometimes randomly that stream won't have needed to flow for a while ...
Why is it considered rude when you reject someone offering you food/beverage in their home?	[ "warning: i am going to make blanket statements and sweeping generalizations in the interest of keeping this brief. when you see someone working on your behalf you want to help them somehow. even if you are going to pay them you feel like you should be doing SOMETHING. holding a flashlight, handing them nails, some...	[ "Because most people will see it as a lower value. Just like stuff are advertised for 19.99 and a lot of people will think of that as \"less than twenty.\" 3.699 gets rounded in people's heads as three-sixty, not three-seventy. In a couple of days you can train your self to see the real value, 19.99 actually means ...
What's the most powerful an earthquake could be? What would this look like?	[ "Maybe someone can answer a follow on question for me. The magnitude of an earthquake is a measure of the total energy released. The total energy released is going to be a function of the ground movement amplitude AND the length of time the shaking occurs. So, it's possible that a large amplitude short duration qu...	[ "The spirit of your question is correct. It is possible to make certain measurements of quantum systems without collapsing the wavefunction. They're called [weak measurements](_URL_0_). The idea is that you get very little information from each measurement, but by taking millions of measurements you can build up ...
Why is there a sum (link inside) that equals pi? How does it work?	[ "There's a way of approximating functions called a Taylor series, where you add up diminishing terms with higher and higher powers. For example, the cosine of x can be approximated as 1-x^2 /2 + x^4 /24 - x^6 /720 ... The tangent is the ratio of the opposite and adjacent sides of a right triangle, and for a 45 degr...	[ "You know how authors write long stories using letters and words and the rules of grammar and writing? Its just like that. With enough knowledge of how to read (math), these kinds of explanations make sense. Dont feel bad that you cant read it. Its just like if you tried to read a story in a language you dont know....
Why can some people hear the noises emitted by sonic repellant devices that are typically used to ward off rodents or birds etc....	[ "it may be that while the device is emitting the majority of the sound at a high (inaudible) frequency to humans that some sounds coming from the device are audible to some humans, who retain the ability to hear high-frequencies. I know they use similar techniques to deter teenagers from loitering. This is because...	[ "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 in sports is the amount of money an athelete makes such a headline ?	[ "cuz the average person doesn’t make that much and the fact that a person can make such a high amount of money by just playing a sport is still, to this day, a pretty outstanding feat." ]	[ "[ Humans are social creatures, psychologists say, and we evolved — and still live — in an environment where it paid to pay attention to the people at the top. Celebrity fascination may be an outgrowth of this tendency, nourished by the media and technology.](_URL_0_)" ]
What was the process of converting "Königsberg" to "Kaliningrad"? Was it just a name change, or was there a more fundamental shift?	[ "Follow up question: given that this involved wholesale expulsion of the German population and the erasure of Prussian identity (from what I've heard), could this have reasonably been considered ethnic cleansing?" ]	[ "This post probably violates the rules, but, some might find it interesting from a personal viewpoint. I was a fairly senior staff officer at the 7th Army Training Command in Grafenwoher, FRG, 91-94. I very clearly remember watching a battalion of T72s drive from the railhead to the range. Quite a shock to me as I ...
How people get a fake I.D	[ "A) find somebody older who looks similar (older sibling, friend/stranger with similar features) B) some people can use a marker and nailpolish to change the numbers in an ID C)novelty or costume store will make you a fake that looks real, but sell it as a \"prop\"" ]	[ "Unfortunately there isn't always a way to tell. There are mechanical kiosks at big box stores that copy keys for a small price. In that case there is no verification, like you said - There's no proof that you aren't a theif required for copying a key. Edit: That's why most landlords buy keys with \"DO NOT COPY\" ...
Why are there so many violent radical Islamic peoples compared to radical Christian and Jewish peoples?	[ "It's the time we live in. War and poverty in the location where that specific demographic is located. If you look back in time, to the middle/dark age, the roles were reversed. Militant extremist christians doing much of what extremists are doing today, but in Europe. The middle east at that time experienced a tim...	[ "In all honestly I would argue it has to do with point of entry. Middle Eastern immigrants have to fly in, and thus enter in metropolitan areas with international airports. Thus, if you have a small budget, the natural progression would be to find a job in the immediate area, and of course taxi driving jobs, conven...
The situation in Venezuela.	[ "Venezuela in the last 15 years took steps towards the socialism, threatening the investors and businessman, finaly driving them out of Venezuela. Nobody wants to invest and enterpreneur there because the socialist government imposes prices and wants to control their business in their place, setting prices and anot...	[ "Can you please give an example of \"everyone\" and of what \"recent reports\" your referring to? This is an incredibly loaded statement" ]
What causes global warming?	[ "The Earth is surrounded by a gaseous layer in the atmosphere known as the Ozone layer. The Ozone layer makes the earth habitable by 1) filtering out a certain amount of radiation from the Sun 2) reducing the amount of heat that reaches us from the Sun The main contributor of global warming is what is known as gree...	[ "This CGP Grey video does a really good job of explaining it all. _URL_3_" ]
Why do people associate eye patches with being evil?	[ "Asymmetry often makes us uncomfortable. When designing movie characters, editors will purposefully make the villains slightly asymmetrical, just enough to make us uncomfortable. Similarly, you almost never see someone with two eyepatches, cause... At that point eyepatches are kinda pointless. So while it's not the...	[ "Because \"pirate music\" from film and games is modeled on Irish folk music?" ]
What is the role of delegates in the democratic primary? Does the popular vote of each state determine the nominee?	[ "The delegates attend the party convention, and actually vote for the nominee. (Like the Electoral College, if that helps.) Delegates from each state are pledged to vote for the person that won the popular vote in their state--so yes, normally the popular vote decides. However, if no candidate wins a majority, they...	[ "Former telemarketer here, 1. When you register on the DNC List it is only active for a certain amount of time. After about a year you need to renew yourself on whatever website you used to register. 1. Tell the telemarketer that you are on the DNC List. They may be working with older information, and will have...
Since fat is non-polar, does it mean that microwave ovens are ineffective in heating food with high fat content?	[ "Although lipids are less polar than water, they do not entirely lack dipole moments and therefore they can, in fact, be heated in microwaves. While microwaves are not \"ineffective\" at heating food with high lipid content, they can be considered \"less efficient\" at heating molecules with a small dipole moment c...	[ "The two surfaces of a typical cell membrane have very different lipid compositions because they need to have different physical properties. For example the outer surface of a mammalian cell's plasma membrane has mostly charge-neutral lipids, and thus presents am inert surface to the outside world. Good for preven...
Is there such a thing as geometrical body that has the MAXIMUM area for a given volume?	[ "The surface area to volume ratio can be arbitrarily large. Thus no maximum exists. For example, look at the [Menger sponge](_URL_0_). You can easily show that the nth Menger sponge has a higher surface area to volume ratio than the (n-1)th Menger sponge." ]	[ "Money no object? Great! In that case the best road is \"it depends\". It depends on where in the world the road is located (weather, climate, population, what the land the road is placed on is like), what type of road it is (what type of use it will see), and what kind of vehicles will be common on it. Unfortunate...
This is really hard for me to word right. We only know the "observable universe" because light passed the 13.8 billion LY mark hasn't reached us yet. Is there new light showing up all the time?	[ "Yes. Here's the harder question: if at some point the expansion of space counteracts the growing of the observable universe, will we reach a critical point that is the maximum theoretical size of any given \"known\" universe?" ]	[ "Yes, but things expanded away too fast for their light to reach us." ]
What does it mean to plea “no contest?”	[ "Basically it means, \"I'm not pleading guilty, but I can't or won't fight the charges.\" Functionally, the court operates as if the defendant plead guilty, but the plea can not be used against them in any future proceedings; for example, if you plead guilty to a traffic violation that caused an accident, that guil...	[ "One can quickly do a back of the envelope computation of their liability and determine that they owe less than say $5000. They pay $5000 now and then can take their time in getting paperwork together to look for various deductions in order to minimize their bill, and request a refund at a later date. As such it is...
Why does bottled water taste differently from one brand to another?	[ "It isn't just water, there are trace minerals added to affect taste." ]	[ "Depends on the country. Some countries have laws in place that ensure equal service for all providers using the same network, i.e. the network owner aren't allowed to diminish the service in any way for providers who \"rent\" their network. As for your particular example, they're both owned by the same corporation...
Why is deuterium six times more abundant in the Earth than in Jupiter and the rest of the universe?	[ "It is not so much that deuterium is more abundant on earth...it's that regular hydrogen, or protium, is less abundant. Protium is light enough that it readily evaporates out of the upper atmosphere and escapes into outer space. Deuterium is twice as heavy...that is still light enough to escape, just not quite as r...	[ "sugar is heavier than water but if you mixed it into water it will distribute throughout. If sulfur hexafluoride forms a solution with nitrogen and oxygen it will be distributed throughout the atmosphere. Winds could potentially mix heavy gases and distribute them over large areas." ]
How do ambulance services work and why do they cost money?	[ "911 will radio to ambulances and those that are capable of responding (not busy, close enough) will let 911 know. This is similar to how tow trucks are dispatched. People in the US usually have to pay for ambulances because, unlike fire or police, the ambulances are not part of the government. They need revenue to...	[ "Actually it did used to be free. Then cable companies had this great idea to sell it to u with no adverts. Then they put adverts in anyway...." ]
why people say "boomers" ruined the housing market	[ "I agree with everything here but would expand for Aus. The boomers turned the housing market into an investment market. They have used their voting control to maintain negative gearing, increase foreign investment, under tax their primary earning years, destroyed the unions/ local jobs, and then told us we just ne...	[ "Paul Bloom wrote a terrific book that had a large chunk devoted to this topic: [link](_URL_0_)." ]
How can three-wheeled vehicles such as Spyders be accredited as road-safe when 3-wheeled ATVs were discontinued for safety concerns?	[ "Because a Spyder has different weight distribution that creates a low center of gravity and makes it considerably more stable, and Spyders (and the other similar 3-wheeled vehicles) are not designed for \"all terrain\" (ie, off-road, on rough ground, rocks, deep mud, etc) use, they're designed for highway use on p...	[ "First, you have to understand that it's basically a graph theory question : regions become vertices of your graph, and two vertices are joint by an edge if the corresponding regions touch. The graphs that arise when you look at planar maps are called planar graphs. These are the graphs that you can draw on a plan...
Is Netflix perceived as the 'good guy' in the whole Net Neutrality shebang?	[ "Yes. Netflix isnt altruistic or anything they are just a honest company trying to make an honest profit by providing something people want. Companies like comcast/time warner feel threatened by their business model and realize while they cannont kill netflix off they can at least cash in on netflix success. Comca...	[ "Depends on the country. Some countries have laws in place that ensure equal service for all providers using the same network, i.e. the network owner aren't allowed to diminish the service in any way for providers who \"rent\" their network. As for your particular example, they're both owned by the same corporation...
How does your body know to wake up after sleep?	[ "Without going into the mechanisms of how your brain works, the most I can say is this. If your brain is a battery that empties during the day, then when it's fully charged after sleep, you know to wake up. There are other things that can wake you up, such as sounds, movement and, most often, light." ]	[ "It's because the colour receptor cones in your eyes wear out relatively quickly when they're looking at the same colour for prolonged periods, causing you to see less of that colour when you look to see something else. In the case of a nap, the light will shine through your eyelids and expose your cones to a prolo...
Birth control pills, the off week.	[ "The pills you take during the week prevent the release of an egg. During the \"off week\" that cycle has already passed, and so those hormones are not needed. There are no eggs going to be released during the \"period week.\"" ]	[ "Had this exact conversation with a neurobiology professor around 5 years ago. Conclusion was you should definitely keep on the same schedule- even through the weekend. It was not my major and I do not remember specifics [but this was a top google result.](_URL_0_)" ]
can small things see smaller things that we can’t see with our naked eye because they’re smaller?	[ "Small eyes have fewer number of sensory cells, so the resolution of the image they produce is far worse. Ants probably can't see microscopic organisms, but they can see what's relatively similar to their own size." ]	[ "That's mostly a question of size. A radio antenna is designed for radiowaves. Shrink it down to nano size, and you'll end up with a nano-antenna for visible light." ]
What happened to people in jail during the Great Depression? If the public could barely afford to live how could prisoners? Did any of them die from starvation or were they all adequately fed?	[ "I have an add-on question. How true was it that the average person 'could barely afford to live'? I've heard anecdotal stories from older relatives of small southern towns being basically unaffected by the depression." ]	[ "First they tend to walk on established animal trails, which from centuries of animals grazing along side the are cleared of most snags. Second they do hit tree branches all the time, they just keep walking and get untangled or back up. Very rarely does an animal get so badly tangled that it starves to death. If yo...
Do we lose any weight through exhalation?	[ "You're exactly right! We actually lose most of our weight through exhalation. (Sweating is the other major mechanism, but since that's mostly water it doesn't create a net loss.) This is why weight loss is so hard; all the fat molecules that your body stores have to be oxidized and exhaled." ]	[ "Our vocal chords get tighter the more we use them, but tire out like muscles after use, making them get looser again" ]
So is renewable energy viable now or isn't it, the information ive read up on is contradictory	[ "Viable to start converting our infrastructure over to it? Yes. Viable to fully convert our infrastructure over to it immediately? No. Our energy need are much higher than the current renewable tech allows us to generate, but it is improving and if we start converting now it will make what fossil fuels we do stil...	[ "For that you need mountains, with two lakes above each other, and a river to replenish the evaporated water. Most, if not all suitable sites are already used for that. *Construction is expensive, and the energy content is relatively low. As a theoretical exercise you can calculate the 'lake' sizes and heigh...
Why do we refrigerate the bottles of coffee creamer and not the small little disposable ones you find at gas stations or 7/11?	[ "Those small ones are sterilised, like sterilised milk that you can find in a carton that does not require refrigeration until it's opened. Not sure all creamer requires refrigeration, but it's probably down to it's contents, some might break down once opened as it's exposed to oxygen." ]	[ "Mold spores are everywhere. It got on it any time it was exposed to air. Right as you put it in the container, right as you opened it for 10 seconds to scoop out a serving, could have been on a room temp ingredient like the Parmesan cheese you added or the garlic bread you dipped in the sauce. I mean *everywhere...
Did Hitler actually ever visit a concentration kamp? (I mean, did he actually see what really happened there?!)	[ "New answers are welcome in this thread as well, but check out [this](_URL_0_) thread." ]	[ "It would depend on the cause of the blindness. LSD is an agonist of 5HT2a receptors and works at the level of the visual cortex. So if someone had a non cortical blindness due to for example a cataract it should still be possible for them to experience the visual effects of LSD. If the cause of the blindess was co...
Is it possible for a star to have a low mass yet have a large volume?	[ "Yes, that's pretty much what red giants are. They have masses ranging from 0.3 to 8 solar masses, but their radius can be up to 200 times larger than the Sun. Red supergiants and hypergiants are even larger, but also more massive." ]	[ "It's easier to break up the clumps when there is less room for the clumps to slip away from you. When there is a lot of water, the powder will end up in a few clumps that swirl around, and if you just stir without seeking them out, they don't break up easily. When tehre is less water, simple stirring will cause th...
Why did Boeing workers in S.C. just overwhelmingly vote against unionizing?	[ "Unions have sometimes improved conditions. However, they've also made them worse - they're not a universal panacea to all problems. Boeing workers generally make $20/hour or more, with full benefits. Their work environment is safe and (relatively) pleasant. So the workers have very little incentive to submit to ...	[ "Because the manufacturers have very little power. If Samsung gives the carriers a hard time, they can immediately switch to HTC or another brand that's quite similar. By contrast, if Apple gives the carriers a hard time, there is no very similar substitute they can choose, so they tolerate it." ]
What are the odds that SOPA actually passes and takes affect in the US? How will it affect average everyday internet users like myself?	[ "I believe the final step has to be Obama signing off on it and he has stated he will not pass it into law" ]	[ "The supreme court had previously held that making private copies available for use by others was legal in Canada (see BMG vs. John Doe). As such, there was no legal copyright infringement that copyright holders could use as leverage to get (the subpoenas required to get) ISPs to disclose the identities of the file...
Neurologically speaking, what makes a child's brain better at learning new skills and languages than that of an adult?	[ "Lack of myeline around axons makes new synapsis easier to form, and our cerebral axons get myeline coats from age 25 or so onwards. A very young child also has quite a bit more neurons than will have as an adult, and those will make a massive ammount of synapsis. Most of those will end up being pruned. Our specie...	[ "Imagine you are a travelling salesman, and you spend most of your time driving from place to place across the country. Today you need to get from Denver to Dallas. You could use High Level Navigation. You know how to get from Denver to Wichita, Wichita to Oklahoma City, and Oklahoma City to Dallas. String those to...
What are computer glitches and why do they occur?	[ "In really simple terms, it's when you do something the program has no idea how to respond to. In a perfect program this would never happen, but no program is perfect. So for example if you glitch through the wall in a game, the game doesn't really know that you shouldn't be able to do that because maybe you did it...	[ "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...
Why is the word "playwright" spelled with "wright" instead of "write"?	[ "\"Wright\" is a word that means \"to make or build\". Just like a shipwright makes ships, a playwright makes plays." ]	[ "Lower right corner, there is your tray, click on the icon that looks like a keyboard, and change the setting to US English, or just US. If you don't have this little icon, look for a little taskbar that can be anywhere on your screen, usually at the top. Change it to US settings. It happens whenever you change yo...
Is there a current future and a current past?	[ "If another life form were to be \"looking at us\", they would not see us in the future, they'd see us in the past. If they are, say, 25 light years away and had the ability to resolve our planet, they would see it as it was 25 years ago, just the same as when we look at them. This is due to the time it takes for l...	[ "Its none of those. The things you speak of are typically very serial in operation.. Generally speaking, bit by bit. Brains are massively parallel.... Lets pretend that we have a memory that is a brain harddrive - and we want to reference a particular file called \"Orange\". The harddrive brain would immediately ac...
What determines a person's sexuality?	[ "The only science that could be cited to say that homosexuality is unnatural is that it takes heterosexual interaction for us to reproduce. In essence the design (no implication meant using that word) of the vast majority of multicellular life on Earth requires both sexes to continue the species. As others ha...	[ "A lot of it would be smell and pheromones wouldn't it? That's why male dogs go nuts when female dogs are in heat - they can smell the pheromones they're giving off (from some distance away I might add)." ]
How does a private person pay taxes in America?	[ "> you check your accounts 'n stuff to make sure you don't owe anything to the IRS and have paid the correct amount in taxes? Yes, this one. There's an IRS form you have to fill out with information given to you by your employer, and other stuff you might have. You have to report your earnings, how much has alread...	[ "There is a fear, founded or not, that the government will require specific actions or information in order to provided service. Example: \"Oh, you want kidney stone procedure done? Sure, but first we need to see all of your grocery store receipts to see if your diet is causing the problem\" or \"Yes, we will be ha...
Why are baseball teams so inconsistent year-over-year compared to basketball teams and those of other sports?	[ "Free agency, the owner's willingness to invest in top tier players, and the effectiveness of the pitching staff all contribute to the yearly differences in an MLB team. It's very rare to see the same lineup and pitching staff two years in a row on any given MLB roster. The addition or loss of a single good startin...	[ "Let's say you want to travel to Chicago from Atlanta by car. Can you predict your exact position at any given time? No. You can predict where you are going to be in the next few seconds but as you look further ahead you lose accuracy. Sure, you could say, \"I'll be near Indy around 6pm on this road, but you don't ...
Can someone please explain recursion in programming?	[ "Go to this post _URL_0_ and read the first comment, until you understand recursion." ]	[ "The guy at the top starts and recruits 6 people to sell his product. He gets all of their sales and the only way they can make money is to recruit 6 more each. The same thing for those people. Only problem is, after the 7th or 8th generation, the number of people involved becomes greater than the global population...
Why were the British able to beat the French militarily so consistently throughout history?	[ "I'll quickly butt in as a reminder that the British did [not](_URL_0_) consistently beat the French throughout history. Now, the \"French\" and \"British\" of 1066 weren't exactly the same as they are now, but it'd be poor history to discount the Norman conquest." ]	[ "The simple answer, that covers most of the differences: Brittain is an island and Canada has a huge land mass. Water tends to have a moderating effect on temperature, while large land masses make for extreme temperature diffenses." ]
Why can't LEDs produce radio waves or x-rays?	[ "You already know how bandgaps work. We'd absolutely love to directly image high and low wavelengths, but it's probably not possible. For high energy waves above UV, you're talking about ionizing radiation. If the photon being released has enough energy to ionize an atom, it very likely is ionizing the atoms in t...	[ "I had to consult his Nobel prize lecture to get some of the experimental details. It is well worth a read. _URL_0_ Lenard seems to have worked with electrons with energies around 30 keV (that is, accelerated by 30000 volts). Electrons of these energies will be fairly efficiently absorbed by materials on a length s...
Are there historical reasons for many of Japan's major settlements, such as Kyoto and Tokyo, being located on Japan's Pacific coast and facing away from their closest sources of trade (mainland Asia)? What are these reasons?	[ "There are cities on the sea of Japan coast as well, like Kanazawa, Jōetsu, Niigata, and Akita. Three key things to remember are: 1. Coastal settlements on the coast of the Sea of Japan are only closer to the coast of Korea and Manchuria that are also on the coast of the Sea of Japan. There's little to no differenc...	[ "Why are cells rich in potassium but poor in sodium? One idea concerns how the oceans grew salty as cells evolved (about a billion years ago). The early oceans were relatively rich in potassium; they have grown more salty with sodium over time. The reason is that, while there are about equal parts potassium and sod...
How do humans know how to have sexual intercourse without being shown?	[ "In evolution, there is something called the Baldwin effect. It’s basically the idea that people that learn a behavior quickly are more likely to survive and reproduce, passing down their genes. So the couple that figured out the birds and bees pretty quickly had babies and lots of them. The guys that stared at the...	[ "I think it is hardwired into us. [Tommy Edison](_URL_0_) explains it better." ]
I have my grandfather's original letters from WWII. What should I do with them?	[ "I'm glad your family has kept them! There are lots of place that would love to have copies of your letters/the letters themselves. You can send copies of your letters to the [Legacy Project](_URL_0_). * The Legacy Project * PO Box 53250 * Washington, D.C. 20009 * WarLetters2004@yahoo.com I'd also reach out to lo...	[ "[The Fordham Internet History Sourcebooks](_URL_1_) are pretty much go-to in terms of finding major/commonly-assigned primary documents in simple text format. The faculty in my department use Fordham docs a ton in assigning readings. I use the [Public Records Office of Northern Ireland](_URL_0_) online selection, ...
the current terrorist threat that is causing the US to shut down embassies in the Middle East	[ "A conversation was allegedly intercepted between two top level members of AQAP (Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula) speaking in very general terms about a terrorist attack in the very near future. Given what happened at Bengazi last September, the Obama administation is using an abundance of caution because the las...	[ "MPAA send a request to google to stop showing results for a specific subreddit, /r/FullLengthFilms, because in it they found links to cam recordings of Tom Cruise's newest film 'Edge of Tomorrow'. That subreddit had like, 300 subscribers prior to this but this move made a huge number of people visit it." ]
How does laser eye surgery work?	[ "They remove a really small piece from top of your eyes which is a \"lens\" that focuses incoming light. This makes the light go correctly where it's supposed to go." ]	[ "Yes, there are [SASERs](_URL_0_). [Here](_URL_1_) is an article from New Scientist about the first such device." ]
Is it possible to create a topographically hostile environment for bacteria?	[ "Yes, surface stiffness has a startling effect on biofilm growth and propagation. (In case you don't know, a biofilm is an an aggregate of microbes, that form a sheet or \"film\". Like bacterial colonies which grow primarily in the lateral plane respective to the surface.) Researchers at MIT verified this hypothes...	[ "Nasa, among other groups with space exploration in mind, are asking that question themselves: _URL_0_ It seems the biggest problem to overcome is the low atmospheric pressure, which sucks the already rare water out of plants. Nutrients don't seem to be a problem." ]
Why is the Orion spacecraft better than the Space Shuttle	[ "Safety at launch and cost. A lot can go wrong with the shuttle and escaping during launch problems is difficult." ]	[ "Here's a pretty good explainer. _URL_0_ Basically it comes down to different memory, different promises (reliability and service life), and different marketing." ]
Why does champagne start bubbling like crazy as soon as it enters my mouth?	[ "When you dissolve CO2 in a liquid, it combines with water to produce carbonic acid, which dissociates into HCO3(-) and H(+). Your mouth contains carbonic anhydrase, which catalyzes the reverse reaction, releasing the CO2 from the champagne. Also, your mouth contains many physical imperfections that allow bubbles t...	[ "Air cavitates behind bullets is my understanding. You can hear them pass (the hiss) but in order to hear the cavitation (the snap, quite literally the air behind the bullet \"slamming shut\") you need to be quite close. Hence the saying." ]
How is it that our teeth require a diamond to cut into, but for example, if I drop my phone on my face I can chip my tooth?	[ "A precise cut is very different from an impact break" ]	[ "We are pushing against an 'edge' beyond which the notion of particles stops making sense: The amount of detail that the universe allows at the small scale. Look up 'the Planck Length'. The ELI5 version is that we are trying to zoom in and we're getting pixels." ]
How does fat and muscle tissue get into the digestive system while calorie restricting?	[ "Fat tissue (fats) and muscle tissue (proteins) don't make it back to the digestive system once body fat/muscle are broken down (assuming I understand your question). When ingested, food is broken down during digestion, and the constituent parts of macronutrients (carbohydrates, proteins, fats) are absorbed by the...	[ "If you don't like spending more money than you have to, you'll only buy a car big enough for your needs. A bigger car is more expensive, and uses a lot more gasoline than a little car. You wouldn't buy a big SUV if you didn't need it. Lean muscle mass burns energy - it's expensive for our bodies to build it, and k...
Why do hardly used/ over used plastic electronic items become tacky to the touch.	[ "That film is usually chemicals leaching out of the plastic! When plastic or rubber are made they use a variety of binders, stabilizers, blending agents etc, and not all of them are proving to be very shelf stable after all these years." ]	[ "It's called the oligodynamic effect. Here you can read about it, but usually it's pretty easy to google these types of questions: _URL_0_ Apparently several heavy metals do it including copper (Brass is an alloy of copper) and silver. Basically heavy metal ions bond with bits of proteins in bacteria and make them ...
Why do people believe in something even if it's proven to be false?	[ "AFAIK it's not scientists are 99% sure, but rather that 99% of scientists are sure. Anyway, plenty of things have been \"proven,\" by dubious sources. Just like the paper that forms the basis of the anti-vaxxer movement, as other people have mentioned. It's easy to find evidence of bias, incompetence, etc. when y...	[ "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...
What's the difference between Post-Karma and Link-Karma?	[ "They're counted separately because Reddit was originally just a link-sharing site. There were no comments. When they decided to add comments & self posts, they decided that those should not count towards your link-sharing score. This means comments are tallied separately & self posts yield no karma. There's no m...	[ "This CGP Grey video does a really good job of explaining it all. _URL_3_" ]
If we read or say the same word multiple times, why does it begin to sound funny?	[ "This is called semantic satiation or semantic saturation. Basically, what happens is your brain keeps getting the same input, so it starts ignoring it more and more. An analogy would be how a new odor can really hit you, but then you get used to it and forget about it a few minutes later." ]	[ "you have it on repeat. just turn on the shuffle and you will be cool :) cheers" ]
How does pee come out, snakes slither, and water come out via pressure?	[ "Your bladder is surrounded by muscle. When your body detects a lot of urine you have the urge to pee. The muscles around your bladder contract and push the urine down through your urethra. So pressure is involved but the pressure is controlled by your muscles and how much urine is in your bladder. Snakes have a b...	[ "You can get the sensation of excrement entering your anus without it actually being there. You technically feel like you have to go even while sitting down but that's only because you're actually contracting your \"poo muscles.\" When your body doesn't feel itself trying to \"go\" any more, it tells your brain \"h...
Computer technicians who fixed computers so they would not break because of the Y2K bug, what did you actually do?	[ "Just added a small extension to some programs that could identify the difference between 2000 and 1900. The Y2K bug was an oversight in design as a lot of programs checked only the last 2 digits in a year, but 00 was set as 1900 and not 2000." ]	[ "I said this in another thread earlier: For those of you working tonight, make sure you get paid for the extra hour, I've had to get it corrected before. You should always be tracking your own hours and checking your pay stubs anyway, but keep an extra close eye on this one." ]
The core beliefs of American political parties.	[ "This is a difficult question, America is insanely vast. A Republican in New York is going to be much different from a republican in Texas. A democrat in California will be different from a democrat in Michigan. Any person that wants to run for major office with a likable chance of winning usually has to run under ...	[ "Taxes. Young people don't have strong opinions on Capital Gains Tax, for example, because they don't have any yet. No strong opinions on Property Tax, because they don't own any yet. A lot of people have opinions about Estate Taxes....It's not nothing. I'm a lefty guy, but the idea that it sucks when the governmen...
How do people afford the lifestyle of an extreme adventure enthusiast?	[ "Most of the time the people who go to these places are either already successful or some kind of athlete. The majority of the people you are talking about already have a lot of money to finance these trips. The alternative is usually some kind of athlete like the ones you see on YouTube doing extreme sports (base ...	[ "I've always wondered this too. I know for sure they get money from the ads on their page because of the amount of viewers coming in each day. I've also heard that its by the number of views per video or total subscribers. That I'm not to sure about tho." ]

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