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Hey, what can you historians tell me about the personalities of the conspirators responsible for Rasputin's death - Prince Felix Yusupov, Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, and Vladimir Purishkevich? I am particularly interested in Purishkevich and his involvement in the Black Hundreds. | For the black hundreds see Orlando Figes, *A People's Tragedy* and Richard Luckett, *The White Generals*
For Purishkevich, there's not a whole lot in English about him personally, outside of books on the time-period. I'd look at, if you can, an old book on Rasputin, *The Holy Devil* by Rene Fulop-Miller. If you have r... | [
"As a son-in-law of Ivan Betskoy and a secretary to Prince Potemkin, he became one of the earliest administrators of the New Russia. He may have been involved in the conspiracy to overthrow Emperor Paul, but died several months before the coup took place. Contemporaries thought he had been poisoned by one of the co... |
neurologically what is happening at the moment i fall asleep and why can't i ever remember transitioning into sleep. | there is a theory that consciousness is something that when numerous subsystems of the brain are online and fully coordinated, and when these go out of communication with each other then that is you go to sleep.
There is much more to the idea, but that is the general idea
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"Transition to and from sleep may be attended by a wide variety of sensory experiences. These can occur in any modality, individually or combined, and range from the vague and barely perceptible to vivid hallucinations.\n",
"Threshold consciousness (commonly called \"half-asleep\" or \"half-awake\", or \"mind awa... |
why do dog paws smell like fritos (corn chips)? | better question is: 'Why did they make Fritos smell like dog paws?" | [
"Nutmeg is highly neurotoxic to dogs and causes seizures, tremors, and nervous system disorders which can be fatal. Nutmeg's rich, spicy scent is attractive to dogs which can result in a dog ingesting a lethal amount of this spice. Eggnog and other food preparations which contain nutmeg should not be given to dogs.... |
why are most call centers based out of india? | It started because of the abundance of English speakers and the relatively low wages. Now that there are a lot of call centers, the infrastructure is in place and it's easy to train workers.
General Electric was one of the first companies to establish a call center in India - possibly because there were Indian executi... | [
"A call center is an office with the capacity to field many telephone calls for a company. Types of call center work can include customer service and telemarketing. Factors that have made India attractive as a hub of call center work from the US, UK, and Australia include its convenient time zone, low labor costs, ... |
How did the dutch prepare their coffee in the age of exploration? Was it different from today? | Today i'd say most people use a drip machine, Senseo (blech), or some Nespresso type machine. None of those of those existed before the 20th/21st century.
I don't think it's the earliest method of making coffee in the Netherlands, but the [kraantjespot](_URL_0_) (tap pot) has been around since the 18th century. Groun... | [
"As the Dutch Republic enters its Golden Age in the 17th century, dishes of this kind became available to the wealthy middle class as well, often consisting of a rich variety of fruits, cheeses, meat, wine, and nuts. The Dutch Empire enabled spices, sugar, and exotic fruits to be imported to the country. The Dutch ... |
why do some states prohibit recording your own phone calls? | Because a phone call isn't "yours", it is the person you're talking with too. If they are under the impression that it is private, it should be. If you want to record, tell them. | [
"Call recording laws in some U.S. states require only one party to be aware of the recording, while other states require both parties to be aware. Several states require that all parties consent when one party wants to record a telephone conversation. Telephone scammers and others intentionally violating the federa... |
Late Roman 'gun control' - did people in the western empire, c.400 CE, have personal weapons? | Have you checked out Stuart Laycock's *Britannia: A Failed State*? His conclusions are more than a little goofy (Roman Britain=literally Yugoslavia, also some claptrap about primordial ethnic conflict) but he did a really good job of mapping out belt buckles and has some pretty interesting categorizations of them.
Mor... | [
"The use of firearms and balls had been known before the advent of the Portuguese. As gunpowder and shot made by the natives were poor quality, Kozhikode later employed the Europeans to manufacture them. The Mappilas formed the main corps of musketeers, led by Thinayancheri Elayathu.\n",
"The earliest kind of pis... |
-- why do people blame the nra for mass shootings? | they’re a big part of the reason why gun control laws are so lax in the US, and give tons of money to politicians for their special interests. hence why it’s so easy to get a gun. | [
"The NRA has been criticized for their media strategy following mass shootings in the United States. After the Sandy Hook shooting the NRA released an online video which attacked Obama and mentioned Obama's daughters; New Jersey Governor Chris Christie called it \"reprehensible\" and said that it demeaned the organ... |
How rich and smart are we today compared to those of the 16th century? | we are vastly, astonishingly wealthier than in the past. more than you can imagine, the pre-industrial world was desperately, impossibly poor by modern standards. And the flynn effect suggests that we are smarter as well, but that is a much trickier thing to measure and much more controversial. wealth, however, is u... | [
"Since the mid-sixteenth century Rich has had a highly negative reputation for immorality, financial dishonesty, double dealing, perjury and treachery that is seldom matched in all of English history. The historian Hugh Trevor-Roper dismissed Rich as a man \"of whom nobody has ever spoken a good word\".\n",
"Ther... |
why is the president saluted while they retain a civilian status? | The President of the USA is also Commander in Chief of all branches of the military. So, he is technically a part of the military chain of command, and is treated appropriately by military personnel. | [
"In the United States, civilian military auxiliaries such as the Civil Air Patrol are required to salute all commissioned and warrant officers of higher rank and return the salute of those with lower ranks of the U.S. Uniformed Services (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, U.S. Public Health Service, ... |
what causes cavities and how do dentists fix them? | Bacteria on the surface of your teeth consume sugar from the food and drink you ingest and secrete acid. The acid wears away at your teeth, creating holes called cavities.
Dentists will drill out the hole and fill it with a material, then cap it off so it matches the countours of your other teeth. | [
"Cavities can develop on any surface of a tooth, but are most common inside the pits and fissures in grooves on chewing surfaces. This is where the toothbrush bristles and fluoride toothpaste cannot reach effectively.\n",
"A key benefit of CAMBRA is that it forces both the dental professional and the patient (or ... |
how does food become skin, blood, organs, etc? | Food is broken down to proteins, carbs, lipids
Then these molecules are further broken down to amino acids, simple sugars cholesterol and fatty acids. These are simple building blocks containing mostly carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and phosphate (among others) that make up all the cells and tissues in our bodies... | [
"BULLET::::- Though we might eat various food stuff the stable food which constitute to main dishes lead to the formation of “Blood” in the body. Wheat and wheat bread, rice, beans and chickpea, sweat fruits such as fig and grape, read meat specially lamb and beef, liver, kidney and heart meat, egg, fatty food stuf... |
Is gravity infinite? | Gravity does have infinite range. So if you had two atoms of hydrogen, at rest with respect to each other, separated by billions of light years in a static universe, then they would eventually hit each other.
However, if they're in any sort of relative motion, they would instead end up in some (probably ridiculously... | [
"In 2009, Verlinde showed that the laws of gravity may be derived by assuming a form of the holographic principle and the laws of thermodynamics. This may imply that gravity is not a true fundamental force of nature (like e.g. electromagnetism), but instead is a consequence of the universe striving to maximize entr... |
what are snails even trying to do? | Make more snails. It's what life does. There are more snails than humans, so arguably they're better at it than we are. | [
"This snail species has extremely limited dispersal capabilities, which means it has little or no ability to find, and disperse to, other suitable habitats, or to move out of a habitat where the conditions have changed such that it is no longer suitable. Consequently, these snails are unable to avoid contaminants o... |
how do video cards, gpu's and ram work together in terms of gaming? | First here are the components I am going to describe:
1. CPU (Central Processing Unit) The main controller, calculator and processor for the PC.
2. RAM (c) (Random Access Memory) The "working memory" of the PC, it is where currently needed or soon to be needed data is stored by the computer. The (c) is to remind you... | [
"Similarly, 3D games often rely on a powerful graphics processing unit (GPU), which accelerates the process of drawing complex scenes in realtime. GPUs may be an integrated part of the computer's motherboard, the most common solution in laptops, or come packaged with a discrete graphics card with a supply of dedica... |
Books on ancient sexuality? | It’s not a book, but I would recommend Holt N. Parker’s article “The Myth of the Heterosexual: Anthropology and Sexuality for Classicists” in the journal *Arethusa* Volume 34, Number 3 (2001). It offers a good look at how we often need to think differently when we look at sexuality in the past.
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"In his 1996 debut book \"Sex and Society in Graeco-Roman Egypt\" Montserrat presented a broad study of ancient sexuality and its cultural manifestations in Greco-Roman Egypt. His second book focused on the life and times of the \"heretic pharaoh\" Akhenaten (2000), whose long afterlife as an object of modern inter... |
How was weather different when landmasses were clumped into super continents like Pangaea? | With a large conjoined landmass, the weather would be more severe. Much of the continent was very distant from the cooling ~~affects~~ effects of the sea. The hot interior would be dry (like a midcontinental desert). The margins would probably experience extreme weather patterns such as monsoons (formed by heating of t... | [
"After the vigorous convergent plate mountain-building of the late Paleozoic, Mesozoic tectonic deformation was comparatively mild. Nevertheless, the era featured the dramatic rifting of the supercontinent Pangaea. Pangaea gradually split into a northern continent, Laurasia, and a southern continent, Gondwana. This... |
- why does eating a banana help with muscle cramps? | Well, you probably know that muscles contract when you run electrical current through them. The stuff that actually conducts the electricity within your muscles is called electrolytes. It's a combination of sodium, *potassium*, and calcium.
When you're working hard you can sweat out these electrolytes. If your muscles... | [
"Banana bags are used in the intensive care unit to correct acute magnesium deficiencies. They are stated to be beneficial for patients with terminal illness because magnesium can mitigate nerve pain and relieve muscle pain and cramps.\n",
"Fe'i bananas are generally eaten as \"plantains\", i.e. they are usually ... |
why are different audio channels/layers played through left and right earphones and not all layers through both? | Not necessarily. If there are two similar sounds (like two guitars for instance) it might be better for one to be on the left and one to be on the right so that the sounds stay independent until your brain mashes them together. | [
"When played on a conventional two channel stereo equipment, the front channels are narrower than ordinary two channels because of the low separation. But the rear channels are heard from points outside the ordinary stereo spectrum. So the QS record gives a totally broader stereo picture than conventional two chann... |
Is the 7.9 earthquake in Alaska related in any way to the recent eruption of Mount Mayon in the Philippines? | In short, no.
Earthquakes and volcanoes are spatially correlated because the majority of them both occur along plate boundaries. In certain specific cases they can be temporally correlated as well. Eruption of volcanoes can be accompanied (and preceded) by earthquakes, but these are VERY local and are associated with ... | [
"An earthquake off the coast of Samar occurred on August 31, 2012, at 20:47 local time (12:47 UTC) in the Philippines. The populated islands of Visayas were struck by an earthquake of magnitude 7.6. The earthquake has a depth of 45 km (27.9 miles). A tsunami warning was announced within the Pacific area and was lat... |
how did scientists breed produce for specific traits hundreds of years ago | Take the seeds of the offspring you like, and plant and nurture those. The offspring you don't like as much, just destroy the seeds.
Bam. Evolutionary pressure via artificial selection. | [
"The idea of shaping an organism to fit a specific need isn't a new science; selective breeding of animals and plants started before recorded history. However, until the late 1900s farmers and scientist could breed new strains of a plant or organism only from closely related species, because the DNA had to be compa... |
how are boneless fish made? | When they slice open the fish to pull its guts out they pull out the bones too since they are all connected. | [
"Boneless Fish is a fish-based frozen food brand and grocery product, the process in the production of which was invented by Dairei Corporation (大冷株式会社) of Japan in 1998. It is essentially a fish that has been scaled, gutted and deboned by a skilled worker before being reassembled with a transglutaminase to look li... |
Which elements of a family crest should be kept
intact? | I'm sorry, but your "best image" is from House of Names, who are a blatant and frankly absurd scam operation with no basis in legitimate genealogy or heraldry. Their crests are basically bullshit with no more validity than something made through generators like [this](_URL_1_) or [this](_URL_0_). If you really want arm... | [
"The family crest, put on Castle Sypesteyn's gates by Cornelis Ascanius was a symbol of recognition of the family. This crest is also visible on many doors and shutters in the castle. On the crest there are three birds without beaks and legs. These are called \"merletten\". Each 'eldest' son or daughter receives a ... |
Given the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, why is there order in the world? | The second law of thermodynamics is perfectly fine with order appearing. To say otherwise is simply wrong, although distressingly often stated anyway as part of a false argument against evolution. Perhaps that's where you heard it.
The important missing part is that a *closed system* tends towards disorder. The Earth ... | [
"The Second Law of Thermodynamics is concerned primarily with whether or not a given process is possible. The Second Law states that no natural process can occur unless it is accompanied by an increase in the entropy of the universe. Stated differently, an isolated system will always tend to disorder. Living organi... |
Was Julius Caesar a reformist, a conservative, or just an opportunist? | I don't think any of these terms are particularly useful, because they assume a sort of governmental structure and set of norms that was quite different from what existed in antiquity. Within the context of ancient Mediterranean politics, however, Caesar had a very well worn archetype that describes him well: the popul... | [
"Alföldi's work regarding the downfall of the Roman Republic was marked by his thesis that Julius Caesar intended to establish a monarchy along the old Roman pattern. He believed that he found evidence that confirmed this theory in the coinage of the year 44BC. Alföldi defended Caesar in this. Like Theodor Mommsen,... |
Does the moon have an effect on the speed of earth's revolution around the sun? | Well, because Earth and the Moon orbit around their common barycenter (ignoring the very small effects of other bodies) there's a very slight "wobble" in Earth's orbit. Earth's speed around the barycenter is roughly 11 m/s, which, compared to the ~30 km/s (note: meters vs. kilometers!) average orbital speed around the ... | [
"Pierre-Simon Laplace produced in 1786 a theoretical analysis giving a basis on which the Moon's mean motion should accelerate in response to perturbational changes in the eccentricity of the orbit of Earth around the Sun. Laplace's initial computation accounted for the whole effect, thus seeming to tie up the theo... |
How long can radio wavelengths get, while still being useable? | It has to be roughly the same order as the wavelength you want to measure, typically about one-half length (see [here](_URL_2_)). So, to measure a wave the diameter of the Earth, you have to build an antenna roughly that size, though even if you scale it down an order of magnitude, you're talking about ~1200 km in leng... | [
"Extreme interference at the longer edge of the 150–200 meter band – the official wavelengths allocated to amateurs by the Second National Radio Conference in 1923 – forced amateurs to shift to shorter and shorter wavelengths; however, amateurs were limited by regulation to wavelengths longer than 150 meters (2 MHz... |
why are there fewer blue raspberry jolly ranchers than every other flavor? | They might have a more expensive ingredient. I know blue dyes are often more difficult to create than others.
Maybe they wanted to include blue, for a 'rainbow' effect, but the blue dye (or some other ingredient specific only to the blue ones, like a flavour) makes them expensive, so they put in enough for there to be... | [
"Adding to the confusion is the fact there are also wild American blueberry varieties, sold in stores mainly in the US and Canada. These are uncommon outside of North America. Even more confusion is due to the huckleberry name, which originates from English dialectal names 'hurtleberry' and 'whortleberry' for the b... |
are humans designed to eat meat? i get that we have canines, but aren't our digestive tracts too long? | The length of the digestive tract argument, and the "meat actually rots in your body" claim, are both horrifically inaccurate and are deliberately played up by the more evangelizing members of the vegan crowd.
Humans are opportunistic omnivores, in that we have a wide variety of foods that we are "meant" to eat. That ... | [
"Dog food is food specifically formulated and intended for consumption by dogs and other related canines. Like all carnivores, dogs have sharp, pointed teeth, and have short gastrointestinal tracts better suited for the consumption of meat than of vegetable substances. In spite of this natural carnivorous design, d... |
When did the cannon reach the end of it's use as a conventional artillery weapon? | Well, that's a good question. The problem with answering it is that "cannons" per se have three defining characteristics which differ them from modern artillery:
* Flat trajectory, direct fire targeting
* Inert ammunition
* Muzzle loading
In answering your question we have to consider that these three attributes disa... | [
"The history of the cannon spans several hundred years. It is unclear exactly where the cannon was invented, however there are accounts of its usage in warfare as early as the 12th century. These early accounts occur in Middle Eastern, European as well as Asiatic sources. The cannon traces its development from the ... |
Is it true that Roman dictators stepped down voluntarily for a 500 years? | Yes, it's true.
There are two separate periods of Roman history involved here: the Roman Republic *before* Julius Caesar, and the Roman Principate/Empire *after* Julius Caesar.
The period that the squeaky guy in the video is talking about is the 500 years *before* Julius Caesar. During this time, there were [a lot ... | [
"A dictator was expected to resign his office upon the successful completion of the task for which he was appointed, or at the expiration of six months. These sharp limitations were intended to prevent the dictatorship from too closely resembling the absolute power of the Roman kings. But the six month limitation m... |
How are the massive diesel engines on industrial ships started? | Simple answer: compressed air.
Yup, any engine is basically just an air pump with fuel thrown in the mix. To get that much metal moving they basically prime the cylinders in a certain order to get the kinect energy flowing.
Huge accumulators hold the air that's used for this (and many other) ship functions. Typical... | [
"The first diesel engines for ships were made by A. B. Diesels Motorer Stockholm in 1903. These engines were three-cylinder units of 120 PS (88 kW) and four-cylinder units of 180 PS (132 kW) and used for Russian ships. In World War I, especially submarine diesel engine development advanced quickly. By the end of th... |
why do humans have sex (mostly) in missionary, when nearly all other animals do it doggy, even apes / chimps? | Throughout the evolution of human history, the vagina (well, to be perfectly accurate, the vulva) has moved forward. It seems as though face-to-face sex is likely to keep the father around longer and likely to have more sex with the female. Since human babies need a lot of support in order to develop through the first ... | [
"Research has proven that non-human animals can and do have sex for non-reproductive purposes (and for pleasure). In 2006, a Danish Animal Ethics Council report concluded that ethically performed zoosexual activity is capable of providing a positive experience for all participants, and that some non-human animals a... |
why do our teeth feel dirty after sleeping? | When you brush your teeth at night, your teeth are clean and smooth. When you sleep, your mouth isn't moving the saliva around your teeth like it does when you're asleep. Plaque accumulates naturally from your saliva. Because your mouth is mainly stagnant when sleeping, the plaque is just staying on the surface of the ... | [
"Dentures should be taken out at night, as leaving them in whilst sleeping has been linked to poor oral health. Leaving a denture in during sleep reduces the protective cleansing and antibacterial properties of saliva against Candida albicans (oral thrush) and denture stomatitis; the inflammation and redness of the... |
How could the UK afford to set up the NHS in '48 if WW2 had bankrupted them? | It was super expensive however at the end of the war, Labour, a left wing political party was voted into party and they aimed to create a better future for all the people who had been affected by the war. Many people were happy with the government planning of the economy and wanted it to continue into peacetime. So thi... | [
"Healthcare was reformed in 1948 after the Second World War, broadly along the lines of the 1942 Beveridge Report, with the creation of the National Health Service or NHS. It was originally established as part of a wider reform of social services and funded by a system of National Insurance, though receipt of healt... |
art thieves. for those who do it for the money and not the challenge, how do you get by the fact that everyone knows it's stolen? | I am going to guess a private collector hired the thief. Or they steal not so popular art. | [
"Unfortunately for the thieves, it is extremely difficult to sell the most famous and valuable works without getting caught, because any interested buyer will almost certainly know the work is stolen and advertising it risks someone contacting the authorities. It is also difficult for the buyer to display the work ... |
how can companies like t-mobile offer streaming for certain products that doesn't count against your cap? isn't this prioritizing one company's data over another's? | The short answer is yes. It's not quite as problematic as the old fast lane issue because TMobile does not have a steaming service they are trying to push, they aren't charging companies for the privilege of streaming their stuff without going against the cap and they're trying to add as many competing companies as po... | [
"Since June 2014, U.S. mobile provider T-Mobile US has offered zero-rated access to participating music streaming services to its mobile internet customers. T-Mobile launched its plan called “Music Freedom” which would exempt users of T-Mobile from having to pay premium prices for access to music content; additiona... |
what things happened (not the actual weather) that caused hurricane katrina to be such a disaster. | most of the city of New Orleans is below sea level...just think about that for a minute...it can not exist without a complex and expensive system of canals, levees and pumps. given that, and the fact that it had been about 75 years since the last major NOLA flood, it was probably inevitable that some kind of disaster w... | [
"Accompanying Hurricane Katrina's catastrophic coastal impacts was a moderate tornado outbreak spawned by the cyclone's outer bands. The event spanned August 26–31, 2005, with 57 tornadoes touching down across 8 states. One person died and numerous communities suffered damage of varying degrees from central Mississ... |
Is the heat that radiates from humans (and other living things) enough to effect the temperature of the Earth on a global scale? | A person radiates something like a 100 watts, so 7 billion people are putting out 700 billion watts. The earth receives something like 200 petawatts from the sun.
So the heat from humans amounts to something like 0.00035% of the heat coming in from the sun (which is the primary driver of Earth's temperature). Even ad... | [
"While the total internal Earth heat flow to the surface is well constrained, the relative contribution of the two main sources of Earth's heat, radiogenic and primordial heat, are highly uncertain because their direct measurement is difficult. Chemical and physical models give estimated ranges of 15–41 TW and 12–3... |
if anonymous is just an idea, then what are these social media accounts and websites. | Groups that loosely identify with the ideas behind anonymous and band together to act upon those ideas and/or people who like Guy Fawkes masks. | [
"In 2010, the \"Wall Street Journal\" found that many of Facebook's top-rated apps were transmitting identifying information to \"dozens of advertising and Internet tracking companies\". The apps used an HTTP referer that exposed the user's identity and sometimes their friends' identities. Facebook said that \"Whil... |
what is "the stack"? | Gonna need the context. In ultimate frisbee, it's an offensive tactic where member of the attacking team forms a line to begin their cuts from. | [
"A typical stack is an area of computer memory with a fixed origin and a variable size. Initially the size of the stack is zero. A \"stack pointer,\" usually in the form of a hardware register, points to the most recently referenced location on the stack; when the stack has a size of zero, the stack pointer points ... |
why do votes recorded on electronic voting machines need to be counted separately? is it not possible to count the votes as they are cast? | The votes can be counted as they are cast, however the ballots are also counted separately because the machines could be in error, could have a bug and miscounted, or were intentionally programmed to commit fraud.
Without paper votes that can be counted separately, you'd never know if the machine was accurate. | [
"A recorded vote may be taken in one of three different ways. One is electronically. Members use a personal identification card to record their votes at 46 voting stations in the chamber. Votes are usually held in this way. A second mode of recorded vote is by teller. Members hand in colored cards to indicate their... |
What is nutrition? | It is an exaggeration to say it has no nutritional value. Colloquially, yes, it has no nutritional value. But it does have nutritional value in that it provides calories. "Nutrition" is anything that provides cells with what they need to function. It might be better to say that soda has minimal nutritional value. | [
"Nutrition is the science that interprets the interaction of nutrients and other substances in food in relation to maintenance, growth, reproduction, health and disease of an organism. It includes food intake, absorption, assimilation, biosynthesis, catabolism, and excretion.\n",
"Nutrition is the selection of fo... |
Given that the earth is spinning, and water is a liquid, will sea level rise (due to climate change) be greater at the equator? | The Earth is an oblate spheroid. That means it is like a losing politician: flattened at the poles. (An Asimov joke, forgive me. I do have a real answers.) The spin means that the equator does bulge and that there is more water there as well. (I'm not saying that well. The water is deeper at the equator than it would b... | [
"Sea level rise is not uniform around the globe. Some land masses are moving up or down as a consequence of subsidence (land sinking or settling) or post-glacial rebound (land rising due to the loss of the weight of ice after melting), so that relative sea level rise is higher or lower than globally averaged. There... |
How reliable is the medical information regarding marijuana that is published on _URL_0_? | You shouldn't focus on the site where the information is published, but the groups who do the research.
Any organization with a political bias is going to selectively choose the information that backs their positions. That said, I've done a few projects and utilized NORML as a starting point for them. I found their r... | [
"Medical Marijuana News & Reviews is a quarterly magazine published by \"High Times\" magazine through the company’s West Coast office. The magazine focuses on the medical marijuana movement in America and includes information on dispensaries, medical cannabis activism and the efficacy of certain strains of marijua... |
Do the animals (mammals, mostly) that we keep as pets exhibit behavior that is akin to that of a human suffering from Stockholm Syndrome? | As /u/Nixie9 has already pointed out, definitely, without a doubt. That said, saying so is slightly problematic.
One of the most common mistakes people make when trying to understand animals and animal behavior is assigning human feelings and characteristics to them; personification of non-persons is always a little w... | [
"Common causes of disordered behavior in captive or pet animals are lack of stimulation, inappropriate stimulation, or overstimulation. These conditions can lead to disorders, unpredictable and unwanted behavior, and sometimes even physical symptoms and diseases. For example, rats who are exposed to loud music for ... |
Did the transportation of convicts to Australia lower the crime rate in Britain? | The short answer is no, the crime rate was not lowered due to the transportation of convicts. This is in part because recidivism was not the main cause of crime in England between 1787 and 1868. People transported to Australia were typically people who had been convicted of property crime - theft (petite and grand larc... | [
"Between 1788 and 1868, approximately 161,700 convicts (of whom 25,000 were women) were transported to the Australian colonies of New South Wales, Van Diemen's land and Western Australia. Historian Lloyd Robson has estimated that perhaps two-thirds were thieves from working class towns, particularly from the Midlan... |
callouses | It's like light scar tissue. A tool runs on you hand. But not enough to cause a blister. It doesn't mean the same actions that would cause a blister didn't happen. The small tears heal. But with repeated use more tears happen. More healing. More scaring thicker dead skin layer. Callous. | [
"Callose is a plant polysaccharide. Its production is due to the glucan synthase-like gene (GLS) in various places within a plant. It is produced to act as a temporary cell wall in response to stimuli such as stress or damage. Callose is composed of glucose residues linked together through β-1,3-linkages, and is te... |
if i have a large sum of money sitting in a checking account, then why would bankers from the same institution encourage me to invest the funds? doesn’t the bank make more money off of my funds if i’m completely hands off? | They do, but if you invest then you have the potential to be putting in even more money. They're looking at it long-term, you'd be putting in more money over time from investments rather than one lump sum. | [
"The case decided that a banker does not hold the sums in a bank account on trust for its customer. Instead the relationship between them is that of debtor and creditor. When the customer deposits money in the account it becomes the bank's money, and the bank's obligation to repay an equivalent sum (and any agreed ... |
if reddit was against sopa and other censoring freedom of speech on the internet, why are many subreddits pushing to ban others? | Because Reddit is not one person.
Because a private operation like Reddit imposing content restrictions on itself is far different from government imposed censorship that applies to everyone. | [
"As early as 2015, platforms such as Reddit began to enforce selective bans based, for example, on terms of service prohibiting \"hate speech\". According to technology journalist Declan McCullagh, \"Silicon Valley's efforts to pull the plug on dissenting opinions\" began around 2018 with Twitter, Facebook, and You... |
why would anyone choose a revolver over a pistol, given the substantial reload time? | Because there are still a great deal of myths about the capabilities of revolvers. People still believe that they are somehow easier to shoot and handle and there are a great deal of stories about over inflated reliability. They are still ok for pocket guns or a back up gun but the reality is that they are in fact obso... | [
"Using a revolver is not a disadvantage because the \"rapid-fire\" stage is not as demanding or fast as the true rapid-fire event of 25 metre rapid fire pistol. The current record is set with a revolver (Toz 49). The most popular handgun choices however are larger caliber versions of rimfire semi-automatic pistols ... |
how bad is the rain forest fire that's been going on for weeks now? how irreversible us the damage? | Well, the nice thing is that forest fires are a part of nature. They happen, they happen often and within 5-10 years after the fire most of the damage is repaired.
The problems happen when these fires get so intense that they damage and kill the larger trees. So while these fires are part of the natural cycle, if t... | [
"The wildfires destroyed many acres of forest. Due to the lack of trees' roots holding the soil together, the ground had reduced stability and was vulnerable to mud slides in heavy rain. In early January 2018, heavy rain was predicted for the American Southwest, causing flash flood watches and evacuations to be iss... |
why would an artist want to start their own record label? | For the same reason the guy who makes $100k a year leaves hisbjob to start his own business. People like to work for themselves, not for others. | [
"On occasion, established artists, once their record contract has finished, move to an independent label. This often gives the combined advantage of name recognition and more control over one's music along with a larger portion of royalty profits. Artists such as Dolly Parton, Aimee Mann, Prince, Public Enemy, BKBr... |
How much petroleum is used for making, say, a plastic bag? | Bear in mine that petroleum is split into "fractions" of varying densities using fractional distillation. Because only certain fractions are used for making plastic, although the amount of raw petroleum needed to make one plastic bag would be (relatively) quite a lot, the other products wouldn't be wasted (making them ... | [
"While petroleum is also used as a source for plastics and other chemicals, and powers various industrial processes, today two-thirds of oil consumption in the US is in the form of its derived transportation fuels. \n",
"Naturally occurring crude bitumen impregnated in sedimentary rock is the prime feed stock for... |
Why do most landmasses appear to taper downward? | just coincidence. [Looking back into Earth's past](_URL_0_), we don't see that trend. | [
"For about as far as the camera can see, the land is flat, but shaped into polygons between 2–3 meters in diameter and are bounded by troughs that are 20 cm to 50 cm deep. These shapes are due to ice in the soil expanding and contracting due to major temperature changes.\n",
"Historically, taperes were almost alw... |
How did medieval urban militias maintain training? | J.F. Verbuggen suggested that the Flemish urban militia infantry did not have any real form of training for weapons such as the pike. He argues that the militia would have had to learn to maneuver with their weapons "during a campaign, on the march, and on the battlefield" and attributes their general ineffectiveness i... | [
"The large number of sieges during the medieval era called for huge numbers of infantry in the field, both in defence and in attack. Aside from labour units to construct defensive or offensive works, several specialists were deployed such as artillerymen, engineers and miners. Strongly fortified castles were hard t... |
why do actors alter their credited name slightly between films, often long after they are an established name? | If an actor wants to join an actor's union (which is basically a requirement if they want to work in Hollywood) they can't use the same name as someone who is already in the union.
Sometimes actors will use a different name on a film in order to avoid certain union rules governing their participation in those films i... | [
"The main catalyst for change was the public's desire to know the actors' names. Film audiences repeatedly recognized certain performers in movies that they liked. Since they did not know the performers' names they gave them nicknames (such as \"the Biograph Girl\", Florence Lawrence, who was featured in Biograph m... |
why aren't things in orbit constantly accelerating? | They are constantly accelerating. But it's important to know that, in physics, "accelerating" doesn't mean "getting faster". Rather, it means "changing velocity". And velocity is a vector, meaning that it has both a direction and a magnitude.
We tend to think of the magnitude portion of velocity as the "speed" of... | [
"If an orbit is about a planetary body with significant atmosphere, its orbit can decay because of drag. Particularly at each periapsis, the object experiences atmospheric drag, losing energy. Each time, the orbit grows less eccentric (more circular) because the object loses kinetic energy precisely when that energ... |
doppler effect and radar guns that cops use | The gun sends out a wave of particles and then times how long it takes to get back.
Based on the difference in times between two pulses, you can determine the distance traveled.
If you know the amount of time between pulses, you also know the amount of time it took to travel that distance.
Since since Rate = distan... | [
"The Doppler effect is used in some types of radar, to measure the velocity of detected objects. A radar beam is fired at a moving target — e.g. a motor car, as police use radar to detect speeding motorists — as it approaches or recedes from the radar source. Each successive radar wave has to travel farther to reac... |
what factors can cause a medication to produce fatally adverse reactions in humans during phase 1 drug trail, but pass animal testing with no problems? | Different animals can be affected by chemicals in different ways. Breaking down chemicals requires *really* complex series of chemical reactions and not all animals use the same enzymes, pathways, etc so even if the drug isn't immediately toxic the byproducts of the drug as the body breaks it down can *also* be toxic.
... | [
"Ro4-1539 has never formally undergone clinical trials in humans, but based on its effects in animals it would be expected to produce effects similar to those of other potent opioid agonists, including strong analgesia, sedation, euphoria, constipation, itching, tachyphylaxis and respiratory depression, which could... |
Did some people like living in East Germany? What things did they like about it? | East Germany was, by comparison, one of the richer Communist nations and although it was a failure in comparison to the economic powerhouse that was the Federal Republic, its citizens did not live in abject poverty or anything of the sort. Far from it, in fact. East Germans could boast several, at least perceived, adva... | [
"The culture of East Germany varied throughout the years due to the political and historical events that took place in the 20th century, especially as a result of Nazism and Communism. A reflection on the history of arts and culture in East Germany reveals complex relationships between artists and the state, betwee... |
why is cold water so effective at getting rid of suds? | Suds, or bubbles, in water are a result of decreased surface tension.
As the Surface Tension increases, the Surface Area is caused to decrease. Bubbles on the surface are a surfeit of surface area, compared to the flat surface of your non-soapy filled sink, so they exist at a much reduced tension.
It turns out, as wa... | [
"Since some hot tubs are not drained after each use it is necessary to treat the water to keep it attractive and safe. It must be neither too alkaline nor too acidic, and must be sanitised to stay free of harmful microorganisms. Partly due to their high water temperatures, hot tubs can pose particular health risks ... |
why do apps in the apple app store have 5 star ratings, but when i scroll down and look at the reviews, they're all angry customers who left one star? | Because people who like the app just click the 5 stars. People who are pissed enough to click one star are probably going to also write up a diatribe. | [
"The Windows Phone Store was redesigned in Windows Phone 8.1 to become more information-dense. App collections, which were previously visible in a different page, are now fully featured on the front column of the Store. There is also no more distinction between Games and other apps; both now show up in the app list... |
How much of the sunlight, emitted from its birth untill now, is still travelling? | > How much of the sunlight, emitted from its birth untill now, is still travelling?
The [sun is about 4.567 billion years old](_URL_1_). Light emitted from the Sun will [keep travelling until it hits something](_URL_0_) and is absorbed. The surface area of any objects within a 4.567 billion light-year distance of t... | [
"The VLT has observed the afterglow of the farthest known gamma-ray burst. With a measured redshift of 8.2, the light from this very remote astronomical source has taken more than 13 billion years to reach the earth. It occurred when the universe was less than 600 million years old (less than five percent of its pr... |
why do movies/series always fake phone screens? | The refresh on the phone isn't synced with anything and the persistence isn't very good. If they didn't fake them, you'd see all sorts of moire effects, that changed as the camera zoomed. It would be horrible. Like all things that look bad, they get replaced in post-production. | [
"Cell phones were used to call friends, take pictures and make videos of the phenomenon and send them to friends. Critics have suggested that the overexposed and blurry quality of the pictures and footage being sent around on cell phones, facilitated the illusory perception of a figure, when in fact some people wer... |
how does political instability in the middle east affect oil prices? | A lot of oil comes from the Middle East. Political instability might lead to chaos on the ground, that could result in less of it being produced in the future.
You're probably familiar with the idea that prices are determined by supply and demand. If just as many people want something, and there's suddenly less of it,... | [
"As many of the world's major oil producing countries are in the Middle East, the unrest has caused a rise in oil prices. The International Monetary Fund accordingly revised its forecast for 2011 oil prices to reflect a higher price, and also reported that food prices could also increase. Additionally, concerns abo... |
how is cgi put into non-digitally filmed movies? | They use a device called a [Film Recorder](_URL_0_) - modern film recorders simply expose a frame of film to a brightly backlit high res LCD screen, but previous generations would scan the picture onto the film with lasers | [
"Chathra Weeraman personally supervised the film's visual effects. He studied visual effects and animation at the Multimedia University in Malaysia. Digital set extensions were used in filming palaces and battle camps in the film. 3D technology has been used in with photography and matte paintings. Computer-Generat... |
Why did birthrates in the United States decline so rapidly in the 1920s? | This was VERY fun to research, so thank you for the question!
After looking at [this PBS fact sheet about the Decline in U.S. fertility](_URL_0_), I eventually found this neat article from the CDC called ["Achievements in Public Health, 1900-1999: Family Planning."](_URL_1_) The basic argument that these scholars put ... | [
"Following the thriving economic success that was a product of the Second World War, America's population skyrocketed between the years 1940-1959, to which the new American generation was called the Baby Boomers. Today, as of 2017, many of these Baby Boomers have celebrated their 60th birthdays and in the next few ... |
price fixing | Essentially, it is when competing companies agree to keep their prices higher than would otherwise be logical, in order to make more money, which is illegal.
Usually, for every competing market, there is a price that everyone makes the most money to sell at, because their profit equation ([Sale price - cost]*number s... | [
"Price fixing is maintaining a price at a certain level, which has been agreed upon between competing sellers and is illegal in most countries . When price fixing occurs and a price is set by an industry, customers are forced to pay the exorbitant price due to a lack of options.\n",
"Price fixing requires a consp... |
why do lips get chapped in cold weather compared to hot? doesn’t the hot air absorb the moisture more? | Hot air does make moisture move more, but that also includes nearby water sources, making the air more humid.
The higher water content of the warm air doesn't suck from your lips as much as the very dry cold air.
Plus, when it's warmer, you're sweating more, applying moisture more directly. | [
"Lip licking, biting, or rubbing habits are frequently involved. Counterintuitively, constant licking of the lips causes drying and irritation, and eventually the mucosa splits or cracks. The lips have a greater tendency to dry out in cold, dry weather. Digestive enzymes present in saliva may also irritate the lips... |
Could you recommend sources with information about cultural conceptions of time in post-World War II America? | > I am especially curious about the impact the internet has had on our understandings or perceptions of time. Thank you!
AskHistorians places a 20-year limit on discussions here. You might consider asking about this particular angle over in /r/AskSocialScience! | [
"The Contemporary Period generally covers history still in living memory, approximately 100 years behind the current year. However, for all intents and purposes, the period will be used here as spanning from the second world war in 1945 to present day, as it is considered separate from the past eras and the newest ... |
butt smacking in sports. | In baseball, it's easier to smack someone's butt than pat them on the back. The smacking motion is way easier to do under handed than an overhand pat on the back. Plus, when they get excited, I'd imagine a vigirious smack on the butt is a bit more tolerable than an aggressive pat on the back. Usually it only happens af... | [
"Tamakeri (玉蹴り) (lit. ball kicking) is a sexual fetish and subgenre of BDSM within which a man's testicles are abused. The genre is also referred to as ballbusting (\"bb\" for short). Tamakeri is the Japanese term, but it is used by many non-Japanese people to describe media where Asian people—mainly women—are part... |
how does my phone number show up on a stranger’s call log even though i never called that person? | This literally is still happening to my husband but he's recieving so many calls and texts that his phone can't function right now. It's been since this morning around 10, and it's 5pm now. | [
"These telephones are almost always marked by a placard or sign indicating a unique serial number or identifier which allows the authorities to know exactly where the caller is - even if the caller does not know - by having the caller read the short identifier from the placard over the telephone. Some phones are eq... |
Do ears have depth perception? | No, they cannot. You can only hear the direction where the sound is coming from (and this in all 3 dimensions!). This is because the sound will hit your ears at different times (so you can tell if it is from left or right), and it will be forwarded a bit different dependent on the direction it hits your auricle (you ca... | [
"Depth perception results from many monocular and binocular visual clues. For objects relatively close to the eyes, binocular vision plays an important role in depth perception. Binocular vision allows the brain to create a single Cyclopean image and to attach a depth level to each point in it.\n",
"Scientists wh... |
how do child actors/actresses play roles in films and tv shows meant for mature audiences such as "game of thrones?" | Depends on the rules in the country, but in the US, child labor/acting laws are pretty restrictive.
They have permission from their parents, they know they're acting, and they're well guarded from any potential abuse. If the parents are OK with it, and the kids are OK with it and no other laws are being broken, then e... | [
"Many child actors find themselves struggling to adapt as they become adults. Lindsay Lohan and Macaulay Culkin are two particular famous child actors who eventually experienced much difficulty with the fame they acquired at a young age. Many child actors also become successful adult actors as well, a prime example... |
what does inflammation have to do with a diabetics pancreas? | Type 1 Diabetes is an autoimmune disease. i.e, the immune cells of the body like lymphocytes starts attacking the insulin producing beta cells of the pancreas. As more and more beta cells are destroyed, there will be reduced production of the insulin and ultimately the pancreas cannot produce anymore insulin. That is w... | [
"Diseases causing inflammation in the GI tract can lead to blood in the stool. Inflammation can occur anywhere along the GI tract in Crohn's disease, or in the colon if a person has ulcerative colitis.\n",
"Malnutrition–inflammation complex (syndrome), abbreviated as \"MICS\" and also known as \"malnutrition–infl... |
ruth's chris steakhouse. what is a chris steak? why is it ruth's and not ruth chris' steakhouse? | The original Chris Steak House (1927–1965):
Chris Steak House was founded on February 27, 1927 by New Orleans entrepreneur Chris Matulich. It was located at 11 Broad Street near the New Orleans Fairgrounds Racetrack, seated 60 people, and had no parking lot. During Matulich's 38-year management, the business was sold ... | [
"A steakhouse, steak house, or chophouse is a restaurant that specializes in steaks and chops. Modern steakhouses may also offer other cuts of meat such as poultry, roast prime rib, and veal, as well as fish and seafood.\n",
"A carpetbag steak or carpetbagger steak is an end cut of steak that is pocketed and stuf... |
1953 & Iran | I would recommend that you read over the CIA's own history of the coup. A lot written about this event tends to be highly biased, so its difficult to find concrete sources. But, the CIA's history is a basic look at the CIA's arguments for the coup and the actual events, which I found insightful. _URL_0_
He's right, bu... | [
"The Tehran Conference (codenamed Eureka) was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from 28 November to 1 December 1943, after the Anglo-Soviet Invasion of Iran. It was held in the Soviet Union's embassy in Tehran, Iran. It was the first of the World War II conferences of... |
why do we have toll booths when driving through states and such? is it just an easy way for them to get tax money? | Toll roads are highways that pay for themselves. They're often used by drive-through states (like Kansas) that have people from other states use their highways but not spend money in their state to generate revenue to keep the highways cared for. | [
"On an open toll system, all vehicles stop at various locations along the highway to pay a toll. (This is different from \"open road tolling\", where \"no\" vehicles stop to pay a toll.) While this may save money from the lack of need to construct toll booths at every exit, it can cause traffic congestion while tra... |
When an object breaks the sound barrier, mach 1, there's a sonic boom; is there a similar occurrence when it goes double or triple the speed of sound? | A sonic boom doesn't occur only when an object passes through Mach 1. A sonic boom is produced whenever an object is traveling supersonically. | [
"The tip of a bullwhip is thought to be the first man-made object to break the sound barrier, resulting in the telltale \"crack\" (actually a small sonic boom). The wave motion traveling through the bullwhip is what makes it capable of achieving supersonic speeds.\n",
"A sonic boom does not occur only at the mome... |
why do some people use comma (,) instead of dot/period (.) when writing decimals? | Historical reasons
> In France, the full stop was already in use in printing to make Roman numerals more readable, so the comma was chosen.Many other countries, such as Italy, also chose to use the comma to mark the decimal units position. It has been made standard by the ISO for international blueprints. However, En... | [
"Punctuation varies from language to language. For example, French Braille uses for its question mark and swaps the quotation marks and parentheses (to and ); it uses the period () for the decimal point, as in print, and the decimal point () to mark capitalization.\n",
"In France, the full stop was already in use... |
why does mic feedback always present itself as high pitched ringing? | Audio Engineer here:
& #x200B;
It doesn't always. Sometimes it's low end frequencies feeding back from a subwoofer into a mic stand or similar.
& #x200B;
The reason that *most of the time* it's high pitched is because:
* The speakers are better at reproducing high pitches
* The mics are better at picking up high... | [
"The loud squeals that sometimes occurs in audio systems, PA systems, and rock music are known as audio feedback. If a microphone is in front of a loudspeaker that it is connected to, sound that the microphone picks up comes out of the speaker, and is picked up by the microphone and re-amplified. If the loop gain i... |
Why did the Romans use the letter 'C' for the sound already represented by the letters 'K' and 'Q', when it comes from the Greek letter 'Γ' (gamma) ? | The use of C/G/Γ, K, and Q in the early Latin alphabet was influenced by the Etruscan, which didn’t distinguish between voiced/unvoiced pairs like *k/g*. Instead, the choice of letter was determined by the following vowel: Q was used for *k* and *g* sounds before rounded vowels; K was used before *a*; and C was used fo... | [
"C, K, and Q in the Roman alphabet could all be used to write both the and sounds; the Romans soon modified the letter C to make G, inserted it in seventh place, where Z had been, to maintain the gematria (the numerical sequence of the alphabet). Over the few centuries after Alexander the Great conquered the Easter... |
What happened to the confiscated items the Nazis took from the prisoners during the Holocaust? | Most of it had already been redistributed among Germans, the SS, the Führer's Chancellory, etc. We have the actual letter ordering camp commandants what to do with the items. It is from SS-Brigade-Führer August Frank dated September 26, 1942. Frank was the head of the SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt (WVHA, the SS Ma... | [
"From 1933 through the end of World War II, the Nazi regime maintained a policy of looting art for sale or for removal to museums in the Third Reich. Hermann Göring, head of the Luftwaffe, personally took charge of hundreds of valuable pieces, generally stolen from Jews and other victims of the Holocaust.\n",
"An... |
Why do certain substances leave an odor that is nearly impossible to remove from your skin, while others was off with ease? | The chemicals that are responsible for the smells you have listed are not water soluble, so washing your hands with water would not be an effective way to get rid of them. Rinsing your hands in something non-polar (such as, for example, cooking oil) should, theoretically, do more to get rid of these smells. If that fai... | [
"Outgassing can be significant if it collects in a closed environment where air is stagnant or recirculated. For example, new car smell consists of outgassed chemicals released by heat in a closed automobile. Even a nearly odorless material such as wood may build up a strong smell if kept in a closed box for months... |
regarding evolution. assuming the first life was single cell organisms that reproduced by splitting, or reproduced asexually. at what point was the male/female two-part system introduced...and why? | The downside of asexual reproduction is that it doesn't easily introduce new genes into the mix. Reproduction with a partner does do this, and generally those are genes are pretty good. (else they wouldn't have survive until adulthood) Species become more varied as a result which helps them survive in changing environm... | [
"The much larger eukaryotic genome with its rapid copying gave eukaryotes the capacity to create many different types of cells and assemble them together into large, complex, multicellular life. By 1.2 Ga, meiosis and sexual reproduction are present in single-celled eukaryotes. Bangiomorpha pubescens, a fossil mult... |
Why can we digest fats but not plastics when both are mostly hydrocarbon chains? | 1) The carboxylic acid changes the chemistry of fatty acids compared to plastic hydrocarbons massively. It looks subtle on paper, but it is like the difference between a stick and an arm (with a hand!) in terms of chemical functionality.
2) Plastic/polymeric hydrocarbons are very chemically inert and there is therefor... | [
"Polyunsaturated fats are fats in which the constituent hydrocarbon chain possesses two or more carbon–carbon double bonds. Polyunsaturated fat can be found mostly in nuts, seeds, fish, seed oils, and oysters. \"Unsaturated\" refers to the fact that the molecules contain less than the maximum amount of hydrogen (if... |
if america were to do away with the penny, what would happen to all the pennies i have? | They're legal tender, so the government has to honor their value -- at least until they decide they don't anymore.
People would box up their pennies, and take them to banks and get other currency for them. The banks would then send the pennies to the Treasury, who would dispose of them.
You could keep them, but after... | [
"In 1990, the organization commissioned a survey which found that 62% of Americans opposed eliminating the penny. They commissioned another survey in 2012 which came to a similar conclusion; namely, that about two-thirds of Americans supported keeping the penny.\n",
"A debate has long existed within the United St... |
why do antibiotics make you nauseous? | Your stomach is filled with bacteria, tons of it. And...that's a good thing. There is increasing amounts of research that show that our symbiotic relationship with the bacteria in our gut is a powerful part of "feeling good" in the belly. Anti-biotics indiscriminately destroy bacteria - even the good stuff. This is... | [
"While antibiotics are beneficial in certain types of acute diarrhea, they are usually not used except in specific situations. There are concerns that antibiotics may increase the risk of hemolytic uremic syndrome in people infected with . In resource-poor countries, treatment with antibiotics may be beneficial. Ho... |
In what way were the Mongolians affected by the Black Death? | You asked about trade so I'll cover that specifically but the plague had massive implications for the whole empire.
By the time the whole 'pillage and slaughter' thing had slowed down in the Mongol conscious they readily turned to trade. For awhile many in the Mongol elite had been interacting with Confucian scholars ... | [
"The Mongol Empire established commercial and political connections between the Eastern and Western areas of the world, through the most mobile army ever seen. The armies, composed of the most rapidly moving travelers who had ever moved between the steppes of East Asia (where bubonic plague was and remains endemic ... |
how do teeth move? | The hole is 'stretched' by the continued application of force, and then the gaps are slowly filled in by new bone as it heals. This is part of why you have a retainer to wear even after the correction is done with and it must be worn a lot more at first. | [
"When the teeth are moving in the unrestricted (i.e. forward) direction, the pawl easily slides up and over the gently sloped edges of the teeth, with a spring forcing it (often with an audible 'click') into the depression between the teeth as it passes the tip of each tooth. When the teeth move in the opposite (ba... |
why are 99% of ads which are supposed to be funny so unfunny? surely multi-billion dollar companies could afford comedic ad writers? | They get group tested to hell and back, scrutinized backwards and forwards to eliminate any possible offense, to fit specific demographics, to fit in allotted time,etc.
Small companies generally do better at this, as they just go with the initial idea (saw a Bigfoot themed ad for a mattress protector that was funnier... | [
"\"TV Guide\" described it as \"a mildly amusing comedy that never really delivers its laugh quota, due primarily to its uneven script. Drake, a popular British television comic of the day, is good, though the movies are clearly not his metier.\"\n",
"Jokes are made at the expense of plot holes, inconsistent char... |
Why are most tuxedos and other formal clothes black and white? | This question needs a big asterisk attached - it's *men's* formal clothing that tends toward black and white.
The story starts in the late 1770s and 1780s, a period when men and women of fashion began to show their status by, among other things, wearing looser and less formal clothing - the most obvious example we ten... | [
"The toque most likely originated as the result of the gradual evolution of head coverings worn by cooks throughout the centuries. Their roots are sometimes traced to the \"casque à meche\" (stocking cap) worn by 18th-century French chefs. The colour of the \"casque à meche\" denoted the rank of the wearer. Boucher... |
Who was the wealthiest individual in ancient history? | Ancient history is a pretty broad timespan. You might want to narrow that down a bit. | [
"The Richest Man in Babylon is a 1926 book by George S. Clason that dispenses financial advice through a collection of parables set 8,000 years ago in ancient Babylon. The book remains in print almost a century after the parables were originally published, and is regarded as a classic of personal financial advice.\... |
why do employers ask to upload resume and also fill out employment history, school information, etc... that is already listed on the resume? | they want the ability to sort, filter, search etc. all of the resumes submitted very efficiently. Rather than having a person extract that information from all the various formats of resumes they receive they ask you to do that form them. It also serves to some degree to assure that they get the information they need... | [
"The school is building an online alumni directory where ex-students can attach resume, skills, years of experiences, qualifications, whether looking for jobs or not, type of jobs looking for etc. so that it can be used as a Resume Service for HR managers.\n",
"A typical résumé contains a \"summary\" of relevant ... |
how come if your fingers are paralyzed or have nerve damage, they don’t prune, (wrinkle) and why do only our finger tips and toes prune? | Pruning of the fingertips is a mechanism that is regulated by the nervous system. If there’s paralysis or some form of nerve damage in the fingers, these nerve impulses are unable to initiate the physiological changes that result in the pruning of the skin in that area.
Pruning of the fingertips/toes are thought to h... | [
"Carpal tunnel syndrome is a common disorder of the hand. This disorder results from compression of an important nerve in the wrist. Disorders like diabetes mellitus, thyroid or rheumatoid arthritis can narrow the tunnel and cause impingement of the nerve. Carpal tunnel syndrome also occurs in people who overuse th... |
why ireland separated | Ireland was a colony of britain for 700 years. In 1919 an Irish independence movement and its military wing the Irish Republican Army waged a guerrilla war on the british army stationed in the country. Now there had been various rebellions and pushes for independence but nothing worked as the british were very good at ... | [
"The partition of Ireland () divided the island of Ireland into two jurisdictions, Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland. It took place on 3 May 1921 under the Government of Ireland Act 1920. Today the former is still known as Northern Ireland and forms part of the United Kingdom, while the latter is now a sovereig... |
what is healthcare reform in america and how will it affect me-a middle class, fulltime worker with benefits? i seriously cannot figure this out and nothing makes sense when i try to find simple explainations. | It probably won't effect you all that much, besides offering you more options if you end up losing your job at some point.
There are some restrictions on healthcare insurance in the future, mostly that you can't as easily have the insurance companies abandon you in some situations. | [
"The healthcare reform debate in the United States has been a political issue focusing upon increasing medical coverage, decreasing costs, insurance reform, and the philosophy of its provision, funding, and government involvement. \n",
"A variety of specific types of reform have been suggested to improve the Unit... |
why do certain drinks (i.e: milk) make you sick in large quantities while others (i.e: water) do not? | Have you ever heard the saying, "too much of anything isn't good for you."? Things such as water can also be harmful in extreme quantities. A few years ago, a football player drank 4 gallons of fluids to stop cramps, and later died from water intoxication. | [
"According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 300 people in the United States got sick from drinking raw milk or eating cheese made from raw milk in 2001, and nearly 200 became ill from these products in 2002. \"Drinking raw milk or eating raw milk products is like playing Russian roulette ... |
what does a cigarette actually contain? | They contain processed tobacco, various flavor additives (see link to list posted by u/bulksalty, and the paper "tube" or wrap. The paper will vary by brand - it can be rice paper, hemp paper, flax paper, lots of different things.
The tobacco plant is harvested, cured (dried), and processed down into a pulp that is ... | [
"The term \"cigarette\", as commonly used, refers to a tobacco cigarette but is sometimes used to refer to other substances, such as a cannabis cigarette. A cigarette is distinguished from a cigar by its usually smaller size, use of processed leaf, and paper wrapping, which is typically white. Cigar wrappers are ty... |
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