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Why is the base of a flame hotter than the top? | The base of the flame is hotter because that is where the bulk of the actual burning is. The top of the flame is more just the ash cooling until it stops glowing. |
The difference between an exonym and an Anglicized word. | Ok, Exonym is the general term for a external name for a geographical place that's solely used out side of that place. Anglicize is the specific example of Exonym. |
How do they get the Stripes on the grass on a baseball field and on golf courses? | I think the strips being referred to by the asker are those vague, nebulous stripes you get from mowing in opposite directions on different passes over the field. Golf courses don't have painted stripes, but they do have the swaths of different colored green -- I get the same stripes when I mow my back yard.They pull a... |
Why does HR universally suck at all midsize/big companies? | HR tends not to attract the best and brightest because it's mostly an administrative role. In a big corporation, HR is probably the least demanding department in terms of skills. You don't need to be a technical expert in anything like engineering or laboratory folks, you don't need people skills like the sales guys, a... |
- Why can't people that go vegetarian/vegan taste meat again? | It isn't true. They might get a bit of a bad stomach for a day or two, but it won't put them in the hospital. They're just being dramatic. Chances are they eat meat all the time anyway. Survays have shown that the majority of 'vegetarians' eat meat occasionally. Especially when they are drunk. |
What causes the "drop" feeling you get in your stomach when you experience something thats upsetting? | when you step on a lego your spine sends the 'jump' signal; before your brain gets the 'lego' signal, and this is a survival reflex to keep you from doing stupid shit. basically you have an entire second brain in your gut and spine and sends all sorts of involuntary signals before your brain even knows whats going on. ... |
Why do nipples get erect when testicles retract into the body when it's cold outside? | My best guess is that nipples get erect the same way goosebumps work. When it's cold they contract to seal off pores in the skin, which helps keep in body heat. Meanwhile, testicles need to stay at a certain temperature, which is slightly below body temperature, so when it's warmer they need to be farther away from the... |
What would happen if an important character on a TV show died mid-filming? | If you watched the sitcom News Radio you'd see an example. Phil Hartman was killed while the show was still in full swing. The writers killed the character off-screen with a heart - attack and wrote in a replacement character.[8 Simple Rules for Dating my Teenage Daughter] had to deal with this when John Ritter died. T... |
what are neutron stars? | > What distinguishes whether a star will becomes a black hole or a neutron star? Mass. A small star will cease fusion and become a white dwarf. One that is large enough to overcome electron degeneracy pressure will become a neutron star. One that is large enough to have its Schwartzschild radius outside itself will bec... |
Why do our noses run when we eat spicy foods? | Capsaicin is what makes food taste spicy. When the mucous membranes get exposed to it, it irritates them and mucous is produced by the body as a defense to try to flush out the irritant. Same reason your eyes water from dust, basicallySomeone has explained that capsaicin is an irritant. I'll add the "why" because I thi... |
Why is most of the girls handwriting „better“ than boys handwriting? | I work with kids. Generally, there's a big difference in how girls and boys are socialized in regards to handwriting. I find teachers are often harder on girls who have messier handwriting, while boys are sometimes chalked up to inaccurate assumptions about boys' development and interests. While teaching handwriting, t... |
Why are not there just people called Jesus outside the Hispanic countries? | The Iberian peninsula fell under Islamic rule after the Arab Conquest of Hispannia. Muslims love to name their children Muhammad. As a response to this habbit by their Muslim rulers, the Iberians began to name their children Jesus. The short answer is Hispannia fell under Muslim rule, hence they adapt their practice of... |
I understand that Ebola has been around for a long time, but what caused this sudden spread of the disease? | Unlike previous outbreaks that happened in rural, isolated areas which burned themselves out, this one managed to spread to a large densely populated area with poor sanitation and terrible healthcare services. Throw in poor education, lack of basic knowledge of the illness, superstition, burial rituals that evolve touc... |
How come you don't get an echo when your phone is on loudspeaker? | That's because they have programmed in a feedback control loop to detect which sounds are coming from the speaker and which should be echoed and which should not. Lots of engineers worked hard to make this work. |
How do hard shutdowns work even if device is frozen? | Outside of the parts of the device that can 'freeze', there's a simple switch. This switch cannot be activated easily, as one would reset or turn off the device too often. Instead it's a simple mechanism that's activated by a combination of pressing a particular button for long or combining it with another button. On a... |
Why should we brush our teeth before breakfast and not after? | Because some foods and drinks, especially sour ones, can make your teeth soft. Then when you brush them you can scratch them all up. |
How does a deflated football provide an advantage? | It's easier to grab, making it less likely that a runner will fumble, or a receiver will have the ball bounce out of his hands, and it helps the quarterback hold the ball getting ready to throw. Basically, the less inflated, the easier the ball is to handle, giving the offense an advantage. Edit: grammar, so much poor ... |
What is a felony? | In the USA a felony is a more serious type of offence, and is punishable by more severe sanctions. Lesser offences are called misdemeanors. People convicted of felonies often face restrictions that continue after their sentences have been served, such as voting restrictions or not being allowed to own firearms, etc. On... |
How do heart rate sensors track your actual heart rate? | Yer not alone in askin', and kind strangers have explained: 1. [ELI5: How do heart rate sensors on wrist watches work? ] ^1. [ELI5: How do smartwatch heart rate monitors work? ] ^1. [ELI5: How do the heart rate monitors that clip on to your finger also find oxygen levels? ] ^1. [How do those smart watch green light hea... |
Before we went to space, how did we know there would be no gravity? | Travelling into space doesn't make us weightless. Travelling in an orbital path does. Think of throwing an object. It travels some distance then falls to the ground. Now throw it harder. It travels further but still falls. Now throw it really, really hard. It can travel far enough that the curvature of the Earth makes ... |
How the hell does Asia have so many people? | Well to start with it's goddamn enormous, so there's that, it's also been populated a *lot* longer got to remember that Westerners didn't even make it out to America until a few centuries ago, before that the 'Western World' was pretty much just Europe.To put it simply, it has a good amount of arable land and more impo... |
How does having a Youtube channel with lots of subscribers make you money? | People watch your videos, and those videos have ads on them. You get a percentage of the profit from that ad based on how many people watch the video. There's a good breakdown of how the profit is divided here: _URL_0_", 'Mainly, advertising , also product placement and sometimes networks contracts.Adverts, sponsors, p... |
How does ctrl+f work? | This is a huge can of worms your looking into lol. Search algorithms are really complex and go really deep into several methods. Now I'm not sure exactly how windows handles its search, but as a web developer, I've had to make a few different types of searches. I may be getting the terms wrong here, but here's an overv... |
Why do the tendons in my foot randomly contract to the point where my toes will curl up? | It sounds like a regular foot cramp to me. I get those sometimes. Maybe you need potassium or something? Are you eating properly? Taking a multivitamin? Do you get leg cramps? Maybe you need electrolytes and hydration. *Edit: IANAD', "You need to visit a doctor. Call soon. It could just be an ordinary cramp, but if it'... |
How we know the age of the universe? | The ELI5 version is that we know universe is expanding, and if you know how fast something is expanding you can extrapolate backwards to a time when everything was all in the same place, which is considered the beginning of the universe as we know it. If you want a more complicated answer:_URL_0_ You might want to hit ... |
- Does masturbation decrease sperm quality? NSFW | That's bullshit. If anything, masturbation is good for men, as it \'clears out the tubes\', so to speak. In fact, "high frequency ejaculation" reduces men's risk of prostate cancer! [Study] EDIT: A search on Pubmed returns NO evidence WHATSOEVER that masturbation decreases either sperm count or quality. EDIT2: Here's a... |
What happens to a check after the teller takes it and does the magic? | It's been years ago, but I used to be a proof operator. Essentially the checks, with the deposit slips and cash in/cash out tickets are collected from all branches and sent to the proof operator. That person encodes each item for its individual amount. If you notice when you get look at your check, the amount is encode... |
Why is is customary in rap/hip-hop to use a different name? | It's often a part of culture. Especially in the African American community, nicknames are what people are most known by.Its just a convention of hip hop. Probably influenced by very early NY hiphop being closely linked with graffitti, where you 'd make up a tag, coz writing your government name on the side of a train i... |
Why are Russian bombers flying "over" the UK? | They are flying over the uk to prove they can, train their pilots and most importantly test the response time of the RAF. Provides them with valuable information in the event of relations heating up even more than they are! They have been doing this three or four times a year for the past decade, there's nothing new! |
Why does Sean Bean always die? | He often plays secondary protagonists or villains, both roles that often find themselves with a death scene. John Hurt, Bela Lugosi, and Vincent Price are killed in movies much more often. Then again two of those are famous horror villains so obviously they would dieSean bean is actually one of twenty-seven siblings bo... |
Does decaf coffee have any amount of caffeine? Or is it completely void of all traces? | Totallyfightingfoo is correct, about 1-2% of the original amount of caffeine, but it should also be mentioned that the process to make decaf coffee involves using industrial strength chemicals and processing them in such a way that if you saw the entire process and the chemical list .pretty sure you would just avoid it... |
Why does mold grow so fast on berries. | Berries are full of water & sugar - mold loves to eat this stuff. Berries have very thin skins, which allows the mold to get to the water & sugar . Most of them have tons of nooks & crannies, giving lots of surface area for the mold to take root. |
Current and voltage. And how can a phase difference happen between them. | [This image] pretty succinctly demonstrates what potential, current and resistance are. Using the image as a reference, the simple answer to your question is that for any curent to move *first* there has to be a *push* from the voltage . The current won't move until after the volt pushes, and any delay in the movement ... |
The European Union and why it would be such a big deal of Greece left it | Imagine there was a club for businessmen, where they agree to look out for each other. Gerry and Frank are very rich and successful. They don't really need a club, but it does help them out. Paul, Steve and Isaac are doing ok. The fact they are in the club and backed by Gerry and Frank helps them get loans they might n... |
Why does baking soda cure canker soars? | It doesn't cure them per-say. But the canker sores are typically infested with bacteria that like acidic environments. Likewise, the pain receptors exposed by the sore will react from acidic things. Baking soda is a basic compound, which means it will neutralize acid, which may both help with killing off bacteria keepi... |
Why is there a stigma associated with those who read comic books, but none attached to those who watch the same characters in comic book movies? | Okay, remember The Avengers? Here's a scene from Marvel's [Ultimates], a revamped version of the team. I know that's unfair, since the Ultimate Universe was always a little more adult, but I don't want to talk about regular universe Spider-Man killing his unborn baby and mind-raping his wife in a deal with Mephisto, th... |
why do mosfets have Gate, Drain and Source rather than Base, Collector and Emitter? | In a transistor with a Base, Collector and Emitter, a small current is used to control a larger current, essentially copying the small current, but *larger*--thus, the transistor amplifies a faint signal into a stronger signal. There's a net flow of current through all three electrodes. In a MOSFET, the purpose of the ... |
Why is there a standard arrangement of the numbers on a game die? | Some arrangements of numbers keep the extremes from clumping up on one side of the die, which if the die is unbalanced, would mean significantly higher or lower averages if rolled a large number of times. Though with dicemaking techniques available today, most dice are going to be mostly fair for most practical purpose... |
Why are women more attracted to "unavailable" men, is this chemical, psychological or a bit of both columns? | 1. The less available something is, the more it is wanted. 2. if a man has a GF/wife he appears to be a good bet because somebody already thinks he's dateable. |
How does a hostile takeover in business work? | when someone tries to acquire 50% + 1 of the voting shares of a company without approval of the board/stockholders. |
Why are some parking lots angled? | Angled spaces are easier to turn into and back out of, but require that you go down the aisle a specific direction. |
What the term cancer means, and can we actually cure it? | Cancer is a disease of cells. It is an abnormal growth of cells which tend to proliferate in an uncontrolled way and, in some cases, to metastasize . Cancer is also called malignancy. A cancerous growth or tumor is sometimes referred to as a malignant growth or tumor. A non-malignant growth or tumor is referred to as b... |
Why does China turn back North Korean defectors? | The Chinese view North Koreans as economic immigrants, similar to how the US sees Mexico. They're only crossing the border to try to get a better job in China, which many North Koreans do along the border. Most other countries see North Koreans as political refugees, like how the US sees Cuba. China is under a lot of p... |
When sheep run away from their herd they grow several pounds of wool. So how do wild sheep now get weighed down and die? | Sheep have been bred to produce more wool. Just like dairy cows have been bred to produce more milk, pigs have been bred to grow very large very fast, and chickens and turkeys have been bred to grow so quickly that they can be slaughtered at just weeks old for meat. Wild sheep produce exactly enough wool to keep themse... |
Who is it screaming like crazy at the beginning of a run in Olympic downhill alpine skiing competition? Why do they do it? | I was a competitive skier and for me it was always the coach / teammates. In most downhill ski events, you get a short distance before turns or gates start where you will see skiers skating to pick up speed faster. I always thought it as a the last way someone could yell encouragement and get your adrenaline pumping. S... |
Why do seemingly all Russians use dashboard cams? | _URL_0_ For the super lazy: > Disclaimer: This is my opinion as a Moscowvite. Also I am kind of drunk . It's my first day at work after new years break and we had a few too drink in the office Then youtube came along and people started uploading their interactions with cops. The first people to start uploading the vide... |
If humans become an interplanetary or interstellar civilization, what will be the best way to tell time? | Well biologically, we're set for 24 hour days, assuming that doesn't change, I guess we would try and stick with it, but a planet spinning on it's axis is normally a good way to go too. |
How do hardware manufacturers keep MAC addresses unique when there are also other manufacturers that produce the same type of hardware? | There is a standards body that allocates MAC addresses similar to IP's. So Cisco will have a range or ranges of MAC addresses it can call upon. I do seem to recall hearing that they are not completely globally unique and may get reused from time to time. |
How does antimicrobial clothing work? | First, to you second question yeah definitely. Whether they're impregnated with a bacteriostatic/cidal agent, or have silver threads or "nano-coatings" the washer is the great equalizer. Most, if not all such products cease to be effective within a couple of dozen wash cycles. Most people don't need them anyway, so the... |
Why is Google considered a better search engine than Bing or Ask Jeeves? | Google could be said to be the best search engine for the following reasons: It relies on a simplicity that many other search engines lack.It's fast, reliable, easy to use, user friendly.Fewer, less noticeable ads.The search algorithm seems to bring the most relevant items to the top.More relevant ads. Why is Google th... |
Why seeing a very bright light leave an imprint in one's vision? | Your eyes retina has photoreceptors . There's a chemical reaction happening when light hits it, and if the light is very bright that chemical reaction is bigger than normal and it takes a little time until your eyes can get "rid" of it again, therefore you see an after-Image since the chemicals stimuli still send an im... |
What is the difference between a Router/Modem and an Access Point. | * Modem: transforms a signal so it can be better transmitted * Router: connects two networks * Switch: a distribution box* Access Point: like a Switch for Wifi The things your telecom provider puts in your home usually combines all four to the carrier side, there is a modem , then there comes a router , and after that ... |
Why do Canadian car models use slightly different icons than the other NA country counterparts? | it is the other way around, there are standardized universal symbols/icons for stuff in a car used by car manufacturers in almost all their cars. but America require them to be written in English, i think top gear made fun of that once.It has nothing to do with Canada. We use the same icons in the whole world . It's th... |
how come birds don't collide while flying in a flock? | It's also a bit of an urban legend that birds in flocks don't collide. They collide all of the time, but it's not a Michael Bay collision, they just bump wing tips and adjust their flight. As long as they are all moving in generally the same direction, they don't "crash". But general spacial awareness and an eye to the... |
Why do some youtube videos take longer times to load than others? | So, when you go to a site like YouTube, or Google etc, you point your browser to somewhere, and a program immediately transfers you to another server. It farms out your request. You are then on one of a huge array of boxes, which you make your request on. This machine then goes off and tries to get your content streami... |
How is Sepp Blatter still the president of FIFA? | When was the last time the CEO of Bank of America/Target/Walmart got impeached? It's a corporation, not a government. If he wants to stay President, unless he does something that puts him in jail, which he could still stay president, there's nothing forcing him to leave. The whole FIFA thing is a crockpile of shit |
how do Sumo Wrestlers not pop out while in the ring | Not a sumo wrestler. But watched alot of sumo and did a tour once. Penile slips rarely happen for three reasons. 1) top layer looks loose but the underlying layers are secure and keep everything on place 2) the schlong sits in a crevice in the material owing to the way it's wrapped. 3) sumo wrestlers are generally not ... |
Why when guys pee it some times splits into a double stream? | The pee hole isn't a perfectly round hole, under lower pressure the 2 middle parts can close leaving 2 smaller gaps either side.[This helpful video from Hot Rod will explain all] [This video will let you know that you are not alone]', "Sometimes a bit of skin gets in the way and makes the double stream, or sprays it li... |
LI5 Twitter. (No, I'm not kidding.) | Twitter is like sending a text or message to everyone in the world. You write a short message, and everyone can read it! Hash tags are like descriptions. It's grouping similar tweets. For example "Traffic here is terrible! #Boston". I'm grouping my tweet with other tweets about Boston. Your user name is presented as @U... |
Why do are some areas or towns have the name Kill or Kills in them? Was it old tyme English for slaughterhouse areas or the industry that started the town? | Kill comes from dutch, and it means creek. These towns were located near creeks during their founding and were founded by people that were Dutch or of Dutch descentKille was an old Dutch word for *river* -- hence, in the mid-Atlantic especially, you'll see various rivers/locations with the word "-Kill". This includes A... |
Why do I get the chills and goosebumps when hearing someone who sings really well? | not really an answer, but you might be interested in /r/Frisson and /r/asmrIt's the "feel-good" chemicals that your brain is releasing. When you're doing something that you REALLY love your brain produces a high quantity, and you feel euphoric. I believe it's endorphin.I'm not a professional, but I believe anything tha... |
Why does the print on some store-bought t-shirts fade and crack with age, and others seem to last forever, no matter how many times you wash them? | Some t shirts are made with high quality material and printing. Others with lower quality fabric and printing. Price can be a good indicator of quality but not always as a brand can easily sell poorer quality for a larger price.Screen printing and DTG are higher quality methods of putting a design on a t shirt but cost... |
Why does diffused/reflected laser light appear to have a grainy texture? | This grainy look is a product of the laser light waves bouncing off the surface and interfering with one another on your retina. Where two or more waves cancel each other out, you see a dark spot. _URL_0_ |
What does it mean for the Peers to give UK's Parliament a "meaningful vote" on the final deal reached with Brussels? | A "meaningful vote" means giving Parliament the power to approve or reject the final Brexit deal that the government negotiates. Many people, especially on the anti-Brexit side, are concerned the government will negotiate a bad deal and nobody will be able to do anything about it. |
Will we ever stop evolving? | You're forgetting the difference between evolution and natural selection. Humans will always evolve BUT through modern health care natural selection is becoming less and less effective on us. |
why female products often costs more then male products? | Could you name an example? Throwing out blanket statements makes it really difficult to answer your question.Some products are 'made' for women but are really no better, and sometimes worse than the male/genderless equivalent. A lot of pinkwashing really with raised prices. For example, razors. Ladies razors are usuall... |
How does Accutane work? | Yes. Accutane is a cousin of Vitamin A that, when taken by mouth, decreases the skin’s natural oil production. When you produce less oil, there’s less oily wax that clogs your pores. When that happens, you get less pimples, cysts, and so forth. |
why do pipe organs have such a deep psychological effect? | There are several parts to this. The simple part is that you 've learnt, by associating pipe organs to specific events or scenes, that pipe organ means "wow!". This is cultural, someone who has never been exposed to pipe organ music, or who doesn't make that association might not feel the same reaction. The other is du... |
How are infants and toddlers able to take so much (relatively minor) head trauma on a regular basis? | Compared to adults, kids are lightweight and low to the ground. A full on face plant for a toddler involves *way* less energy than it does for an adult. If you want to work out how much exactly, you’re looking at half the mass times velocity squaredTheir skulls are not fully formed yet and still contain areas of membra... |
Do fish, whales and other aquatic animals experience flatulence? | Yes. * [Whale farting]* [Dolphin farting]* [A whole write up] on fish farting. |
Why and how do my nostrils switch sides when my nose is runny? | Actually, even when you are perfectly well, your nostrils will alternately which one is more open than the other, it just seems more noticeable when you are sick. This is called the nasal cycle: _URL_0_ |
When you have a 'lesser' mental illness (like depression, anxiety) why can't your brain simply fix itself? | You have a fundamental misunderstanding of mental illness. A broken bone is a bit of damage done to the bone, since bones are constantly replacing and recycling material, lining the bone up straight allows the bones natural processes to fix itself. The Flu is an illness caused by a pathogen, one which our body has spec... |
Why so many Japanese shows have people live reacting to content on screen? | It's the Japanese equivalent of the laugh track or other audience reaction recordings on an American or other Western show. Just like how a western sitcom will have a laugh track to let the audience now 'That was funny, you are supposed to laugh', a Japanese show will have a person reacting. As I understand, it can var... |
How does your tolerance actually change when you drink a lot of alcohol? | Alcohol tolerance happens in three different ways. The first way happens in your brain. The first drink of alcohol you take makes your brain release a chemical that makes you feel happy. After a few years of drinking, the happy feeling you get is never the same again. You have to keep drinking and drinking to feel happ... |
Why do bugs always try to fly into your mouth and eyes? | At least where I come from it’s normally flys seeking moisture in the arid areas - trick is wear a dark shirt and work hard enough so that your back is sweaty and then they’ll land on your back instead of in your eyes or mouth or at least that’s my anecdotal experience. Other than that not sure. |
Why do teachers think Wikipedia is such a bad source? Is it actually as bad as they say it is? | Historically stuff found on the internet was not that well sourced. Wikipedia was the same in its early days and got a bit of a bad reputation in that sense. It has gotten a lot better since, though. The thing is, however, that you shouldn't rely on Wikipedia per se; You should check the sources used for that Wiki page... |
What do people who are considered by economists to have "given up looking for work" do for income? | It can be anything. They might be supported by a partner , they might be living on savings, they might be earning money under the table, they may have gone back to school/started another education, sometimes they qualify for assistance.Welfare can get you pretty far if you have several **dependants** **. Working for ca... |
How do Christmas lights (or other lights) affect WiFi? | They really shouldn't. LED lights transmit at THz range well well well above the GHz range your wifi uses.Is it possible? Yes, although I highly doubt it. Any time you have an electrical source, there is a chance that poor shielding or grounding or inefficient use of the power can raise the RF noise floor - disrupting ... |
Why is LGBTQ in that order? | It mostly has to do with when each letter was added as a term to the acronym. In the mid to late 80s the term LGB started working it's way into common language as a replacement for the term "gay" to describe the LGBT community. Why LGB and not BLG, GLB, or LBG is likely at least in part due to how those letter are pron... |
What is the significance of this leaked Supreme Court video? | You can't bring cameras into a courtroom if they 've been disallowed and you certainly are not allowed to stand up and interrupt the proceeding to make a political statement. I'm personally surprised the protestor got out as many words as he did before being escorted away. The protestor is concerned about McCutcheon v.... |
Why does pre-existing black hair turn white? | It's not so much that black hair turns white, it's more that it stops being black. The default colour of hair is white, but it is coloured because your body produces a pigment called melanin. When the body stops producing melanin in the hair, the hair is no longer coloured and remains white. |
What is the difference in a muscle strain/pull and normal fatigue from working out. Why does one heal so much faster. | They are very different.Normal fatigue from working out is caused by lactic acid, a compound produced by your muscles when they run out of oxygen. Lactic acid is a byproduct of breaking down carbohydrates for energy that has the unfortunate side effect of making your muscles feel sore, but it doesn't physically damage ... |
How do other countries buy US debt? [LI5] | The U.S. makes promises to pay all sorts of people back, not just countries. Countries end up buying promises from each other to offset their trade imbalances. So, when a company in the U.S. buys a truckload of rubber duckies from a factory in China, the U.S. company could pay in two different currencies, either dollar... |
What's this programming lingo of branches mean? | A branch is when you have an if / then / else code. So you might have some code which goes: setupSomeStuff; logTheUserIn; Until this point, the code has only one possible route, but it can do one of two things: if ) userDoesStuffWithProgram; else reportFailedLogin; soundIntruderAlarms; explodeComputer; The program can ... |
What exactly happens if you default on a student loan? | From personal experience : First, they'll start calling you several times a day. If you don't respond after a week or so, they'll begin calling your co-signer similarly. They aren't allowed to say specifically what they're calling in regards to, but will state it's an urgent matter. If they don't hear from you after th... |
Why is it so important that car companies not sell directly? | It's just antiquated laws, but they stay in place because the dealers lobby so heavily to keep the laws the way they are. They promote those laws as being good because they 'protect jobs', but really it's just because it keeps them in business. Most of the jobs would just move to the manufacturer, and those that would ... |
What Kills a Person Who is Overheating/Heat Stroking | Usually the lack of water causes imbalance in the salts. This causes organs to shut down. Liver and kidneys rely on osmosis for proper function. If that doesn't work, they fail. Organs can shutdown if the core temperature too high. One of the above kills the person. It can start with a fainting or general weakness. Han... |
Why do I get more mosquito bites than others? Why are the bites larger and itchier? | Mosquitos, along with many other insects, are attracted to the CO2 you produce. This means it is something you are unlikely to change. What you can do is place something nearby, but not too close, that is producing more CO2 than you. Dry Ice in water will do this. So if you are backpacking or something, you will just h... |
If scientists can tell that their best atomic clock loses 1s every 16 million year, why not use what ever they're using to measure the clock's accuracy as a clock itself? | They're not measuring the atomic clock, they're using the science behind it to judge it's statistical likelihood of accuracy. They're measuring it's "margin or error."Apparently this needs to be a FAQ. [How did people know which clocks were the most accurate?] To re-explain, you don't need a Platonic True Clock to meas... |
If utilities infastructure was created through taxpayer dollars, then why do people have to pay private companies for their utilities? | In most cases where facilities were built by the public and then privatized, the company either had to pay the government for the facilities, or agree to repair or improve the facilities at their own expense, thus effectively paying a bill that would have been the government's bill. |
Why do the second clicks on my wall clock sound like they are making different pitches? | Is it a pendulum clock? If so, you're probably hearing the [escapement] locking into place. |
Why can people eat more (especially greasy) food when they're drunk? | The feeling of fullness is very much your perception of feeling full. Things like only eating half the food on you plate can leave you feeling less satisfied than finishing a plate with only half the food on it. Being drunk kinda messes with your cognitive ability so if you are less aware of how much you are eating, or... |
Why are most lawyer offices come in duos? 2 Lawyers working together in one office? | Running a law office adds a healthy number of fixed costs but one lawyer usually does not come close to fully utilizing these services. So two lawyers partnering can share these costs, each paying half, with plenty of capacity for each and increasing the income of both. Technology can reduce their dependence on some fi... |
Obama says he supports decriminalization of marijuana but not its legalization. Is there a difference or is that just political word games? | Yes. _URL_0_ To 'decriminalize' means to remove the criminal penalty for - it can still be a civil offense where you pay a fine, rather than facing a stiffer criminal penalty. Basically, Obama wants to make it so that it's not something you can be sent to prison for, but it's still not OK. |
How does Feng Shui work? | It doesnt. A bowl of goldfish by your northeast entrance isnt going to improve your relationship problems. Good interior design *does* however improve your quality of life in general and has been shown to increase work productivity.From what I've absorbed through osmosis after ten years in asia, feng shui is all about ... |
rubber bands get colder than they started when they contract? | I am sure there will be physics papers published on this during the next months just like with the glowing sticky tape. One theory is briefly explained in the original video. As the rubber is stretched the molecules have to align in certain ways. This constricts them which increases the internal pressure of the rubber.... |
Whats the big deal about Macron being the new President of France? | The big deal is that the alternative would have been Marie le Pen. And she would have been a disaster for the European Union. Amidst all the other right wing and nationalist ideology that you may or may not agree with, she wanted to have a referendum for leaving the EU. Since France and Germany are basically the core n... |
what exactly are teamsters? | The Teamsters is a labor union that represents assorted blue collar workers from truck drivers, to auto mechanics, to factory workers, and more. They got their start in the first decade of the 1900s, and really took off during the great depression. One of their functions as a union was providing a pension to all their ... |
How is it that organizations like the Church of Scientology are legal and growing in popularity even though they do so many illegal things frequently? | It's hard to consider an entire organization 'illegal,' even though at least one country has already determined that it is. Many scientologists have been arrested for crimes ranging from fraud to murder, committed while they were doing their jobs for scientology, but it hasn't been possible to prove that the entire org... |
Is Diamond a "substance" | substance : noun. a particular kind of matter with uniform properties So.. yes. What did you think it was? How is this asking for an explanation? It's a yes or no question ", 'Sure. "Substance" is just about the least specific word there is. Virtually anything that is tangible can be said to be a "substance." |
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