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Why do fizzy drinks like Coca Cola go 'flat' after a while? | When the coke is in a closed container the CO2 doesn't completely leave the drink because it reaches an equilibrium with the little air that is in the can. However, because the can is no open there is plenty of air for the CO2 to go to, so the leftover amount of CO2 is very low. |
How is mudd/dirt removed from inside your ears without your aid? | The motion of the jaw opening and closing kind of pushes the build up out your ear. I'd imagine it then just comes out in the shower/bath. |
Do infants that rely on sign language communicate as poorly as infants that use their voice or are they well spoken due to a more 'tangible' language? | I forget what age, she was probably 2, but my niece learned a few words in sign language and it helped communicate her needs, such as thirsty, hungry, and so forth. All around the time she learned to to talk. So her parents would make the sign and say "thirsty" so she learned to say it but sign it as well so there was ... |
because there is a 1 million dollar reward for anyone who comes forward with proof there is an afterlife, how come the long island medium has not come forward? or any other medium? | Presumably because they aren't capable of providing verifiable proof.I'm unaware of any such reward . The Randi prize is more geared towards demonstrating paranormal powers, but I suppose a "proof" of the afterlife could qualify. However, I'm a little unclear on how, exactly, one COULD prove it, especially to the satis... |
Why does it help to "sleep on it" when making big decisions? | When faced with a big decision, it's probably going to spark some emotions that put you in a slightly irrational state of mind . It's best to wait until you're in a headspace in which you can make a rational, not impulsive, decision! |
A whitening toothpaste advertises 1 shade whiter every week. Theoretically, could I brush my teeth 28 times in one sitting and have my teeth 2 shades whiter after? | No. Brushing has nothing to do with it, the effect comes from having the chemicals sit on your teeth for a weekNo. You could have your enamel removed by overbrushing and have a lot of dental work incoming thoughFrom what my dentist tells me, "whitening" toothpastes just feature more/grittier abrasives. Probably not a g... |
What is required to have the internet/WiFi technology? If we're to one day live on the moon and other planets, will we be able to have these things? | The Internet is a network made by connecting millions of computers around the world together. Wi-Fi is one of the systems we can use to connect computers together- it uses high-frequency two-way radios for the computers to communicate. It wouldn't be too difficult to have a network of satellites that connect computers ... |
why is there no yy chromosomes? | The woman has the XX, while the man has the XY chromosome pair. A man can inseminate a woman and pass on either the X or the Y, while the woman always provides an X.males have xy, females have xx, so it's an impossibility. You can get these though: XX normal\t XY normal XO Turner \t XXY\tKlinefelter XXX Triple-X\t XYY\... |
Car drivers are fined for running red lights, why aren't pedestrians fined for walking on "Do not Walk" signs? | They are. It's called jaywalking. Enforcement will vary with the attitude of your local police force.They are. That is a crime called jaywalking and they not only have the ability to fine you, they can arrest you for it.It's jaywalking and bad things can happen in conjunction with [it]. And cops can stop you for [it]. |
; Why do we feel cold after we wake up, even if the temperature is the same as when going to bed? | During the night, your body temperature lowers from 96-99 to 94-95 as we sleep. When we wake up, we are used to the temp and soon wake up feeling cold due to the decreased body temperature and accustom to blanket. We seek warmth to bring us back up to operating conditionAlso, circulation is slower because you aren't us... |
Why do trees lose their leaves in winter if they need them to breathe? | They need them to make sugar, which they store during the Winter as they don't need to use it. |
Google Analytics. How does it work and what is the information used for? | You visit a webpage somewhere on the internet. The site owner added some JavaScript to the page that you never see. When your web browser finishes loading that web page, it automatically runs that JavaScript. The script makes your web browser send a bit of data to Google servers. It tells them the page you just loaded,... |
When selling a car on craigslist why do people call, sound excited about the car, say they are coming over right away to look at it and then never show up? | > Did they forget? Are they pathological liars? Do people on craigslist just have a different definition of "right now"? People are fickle. They routinely make promises and then don't follow through. I 've seen this with recruiting volunteers for a charity thing, scheduling appointments for private tutoring sessions, s... |
Why did Hitler think that Northern Europeans were "the perfect race"? | Because that's the race he belonged to, of course. Racists always think that their race is the most superior one. It's an amazing coincidence, don't you think?", 'Hitler grew up in a period of time when social Darwinist racial theories were widely spread in public and taught in schools. In Europe in the decades leading... |
Why can't our Children Inherent our memories and experiences/learning ? | Your memories are patterns left in your brain after something happens. They are not encoded into your DNA and definitely not encoded into your sperm or eggs |
How video game hosting works. | What do you mean by "hosting"? There are many topics that we could go into. Do you mean "servers"? It works in the same way as a web server, it's just that instead of web pages, it's sending and receiving other data. Do you mean that your buddy on the room across can press a button and host a server? It's the same as a... |
How to use stock charts/ graphs to a traders advantage | Charts help in studying the movements in the stock prices visually, which helps in understanding the trends and other technical aspects of a company's performance. Using the charting techniques, the analysts are able to find trends and patterns in the stock price's movements which helps them to forecast future stock pr... |
How do you start a fire by blowing on it? Shouldn't that put it out? | Blowing on a fire, or more usually the embers to start it brings the oxygen that fire can use as fuel closer to it, which allows it to grow and burn more. This does only work to a certain degree though, if you blow too much air, or too hard at the fire, it'll blow it out if the fire's small enough; like when you blow o... |
How is the data in an MP3 file translated into the sound coming through my headphones? | First let's talk about a .wav file. Take a sound and capture it with a microphone . The microphone converts the sound into [electrical voltages] that vary with time. Use an Analog to Digital Converter circuit to convert that time-varying voltage waveform into a series of numbers. For example, 0000 could represent 0 vol... |
how the audio works on VHS tapes. | VHS encoded 3 tracks related to audio. 1. a control track that was on the bottom edge of the tape that was used to ensure the proper pace of the overall tape to ensure accuracy. 2. one or two audio tracks that ran along the top. |
how does astronauts not get throat burns from stomach acid in 0G? | The stomach has two "gates". One prevents the things inside to go back up when you're doing a handstand. The other one prevents the things inside to continue to the intestines before you're done partially digesting them. |
why getting into a hot bath is so pleasurable, despite the body having to work harder to maintain a safe body temperature. | Warm water causes your blood vessels to open up to compensate for the higher temperature, and will also support some of your weight, which helps to immediately reduce all the effort your muscles have been making all day. Your body can only tolerate certain ranges of temperature, too hot and your nerves will definitely ... |
Spacecrafts can withstand insane forces while launching into orbit, why is it gently tipping over during landing such a catastrophe? | They are designed to handle significant air resistance and compression in the direction of travel. Hit them from the side, like when they fall over, and they'll crumple easily. |
What happens when frying food that makes it so much worse for you? | Frying food entails submerging it into oil and fat at very high temperatures, which greatly increases the fat and calorie contents of the food. The fat adds flavor and gives fried foods their signature taste, but also makes them unhealthy as we all know. There are different ways of frying something, with the traditiona... |
What gives fresh cut grass that distinct smell? | Volatile organic compounds that the plant uses to try and self-heal, as well as signal other plants that there is danger. Basically, they are screaming. In scent-form. _URL_0_ |
What happened to labor unions? Why are they no longer around? | The PATCO union defeat by President Reagan changed organized labor in the United States thereafter. Laborers stopped trying to form unions and managers started employing more aggressive union-busting techniques that had been previously frowned upon by the National Labor Relations Board. Unions were in trouble for years... |
Why does your nose run when you're sat in the cold? | Some of that is the same thing that makes a dog's nose wet - condensation. When it's cold, your nose gets cold but your lungs, and the air coming out of them, is still ~98f/37c and the air has picked up a lot of moisture from your lungs. When it contacts the cooler tissues of your nose, it condenses and eventually drip... |
how can defeat device software, like the kind recently found in Volkswagens, allow a car to cheat on its emissions test? | For testing purposes the car is put on a device where the traction wheels can rotate. If a car doesn't have 4wd one pair of wheels does spin but the second pair doesn't. Newer cars don't like if only one pair of your wheels spin 'cause it thinks you are loosing control, so you have to trick the car into doing it. You g... |
What exactly are reddit bots and how do they work? | When a human uses reddit, he types things and clicks things and the site responds to him by changing the content shown on the screen. When you click something or type something into a browser, the browser will get that information and based on the currently loaded site will either change what is displayed on the curren... |
Why do some people you see have money but do not seem like hard workers, while others who do seem like hard workers live in poverty? | The metaphor "The Rich get Richer and the Poor get Poorer" is quite true. I'm sorry to be the one to break the news to you, but money makes money. People that are successful probably had money to get them to the point where they're aloud to be lazy. It seems like thats how society works nowadays. :s |
Why did so many Caribbean nations have serious discussions about joining Canada? | Many were former British Colonies, and some were Spanish Colonies. When Canada became an independent nation as part of the Commonwealth, they wanted similar abilities, so these areas were proposed to be Canadian Territories, much like the Yukon, Nunavut and Northwest Territories. These fell through for a variety of rea... |
With the recent passing of the world's last *male* Northern White Rhino, how will efforts to revive the species continue? | Most likely as CRISP-R gene sequencing advances more this will allow them to remove and replace the southern white rhino DNA and would allow them to make a complete northern white rhino they have made significant progress in wanting to bring back the woolly mammoth and even calm with in the next year or so will have su... |
How do people physically cross the DMZ to defect to/from North Korea? | Some defectors have crossed the DMZ from the North to the South. How did they do it? Very very cautiously and carefully. |
What do fruits and vegetables do for my body that vitamins can't? | Some synthetic supplements aren't exactly the same composition as their naturally occurring counterparts. Because of this, their bioavailability is much lower . Also, many people may think that eating a bunch of processed foods then taking a multivitamin is the same as eating "healthy." One reason for eating fruits and... |
Why do people sometimes make odd noises after they misspeak in order to re-attempt speaking and why does it so often work? | Short answer, recalibration. You kinda try to reset. Do various noises to check your voice, see if they came out ok then try again.Its to draw attention to the fact that they're aware they just misspoke, most commonly mixed with a bit of humour. There's probably some element of it being a learned reaction as there are ... |
Why is is that people who don't make much money always have so many kids? | Remember that in America at least, there are huge tax incentives to have kids. I work at a credit union, and it's not uncommon to see $5,000+ tax returns. I've seen two for around $8,000. I have a relative that has kids for the child support and tax refunds that they provide. She doesn't worry about how much the kids w... |
Some Soap/Shampoo rinses off with water quickly, while some others leave a slippery residue even after rinsing off for a long time. I hate this. What is the substance that is doing this? | Some soap is soap while other "soap" is more like industrial detergents. Some people complain that real soap leaves behind a film. Maybe that's what you're talking about?Could have to do with hard/soft water. I remember when I was a kid we finally got a water softener and it seemed like the soap took longer to rinse of... |
Why can radio waves go through walls, while microwave waves can't, and light can go through some materials? | For the same reason you can have an object that's transparent to blue light and not to red. Different wavelengths of light interact with different materials. You're probably thinking of materials as "solid", so that the light "hits" the atoms in it, but that's really not true. Even a "solid" object is almost entirely e... |
Why don't we have to pay sales tax on items from vending machines? | The markup includes the relevant tax. It gets paid, they just don't break it down for you. |
With dropping/increasing currency, why doesn't anyone exchange for a profit? | It is. Look up forex. You can either buy and hold currencies to sell for later or take advantage of exchange rates to buy one currency and sell at a good price for another, then exchange it to your own currency for a profitBecause its wildly unpredictable, and is essentially gambling. That being said, it is totally a t... |
If my company can decrypt my HTTPS traffic? | If your IT guys REALLY wanted to, they would have to set up something along the lines of a man in the middle attack using a proxy server. Basically, when a proxy server is set up, all your web traffic goes first to their server, and then out to the rest of the internet. They could break the HTTPS encryption by connecti... |
Why does DeepDream seem like it's mainly just adding eyeballs and animal faces to everything? | It relies on the image dataset you have given it. When you feed it animals and eyeballs, it's gonna dream about animals and eyeballs. There is now a live system of DeepDream and it has a different dataset - > _URL_0_. You can see it's dataset in _URL_1_ You can guide what DeepDream is dreaming about in twitch chat and ... |
What happened to /r/punchablefaces and why? Just a few days ago posts from the sub were reaching /r/all, but now the sub is filled with random content and there are 40 mods. | There have been a few threads on /r/OutOfTheLoop, but basically the top mod decided they didn't want to mod anymore and turned the controls over to someone who enjoys trolling. _URL_2_ _URL_0_ _URL_1_", 'There were a lot of posts with the face of one of the "BLM" activists that interrupted a Sanders speech. Looked punc... |
Why is the Nanking massacre so controversial among the Chinese and Japanese? Which is correct? | Unlike Germany, which took the high road of apologizing for all of their wartime behavior, the Japanese have never fully taken responsibility for their war crimes. Comfort women are the other well-established atrocity that comes to mind. To be fair, Iris Chang's The Rape of Nanking presents itself as a scholarly book b... |
Why do most Americans ignore the speed limit on the highway? | California was probably a poor representation of how *most Americans* drive. They are notoriously fast. Maybe it's because they're wound up from sitting in traffic. In terms of traffic enforcement, it is well-known that most law enforcement is unlikely to stop for 5 or 10mph over on a highway. Although you could be pul... |
What about orgasm that makes it feel so good that we want it more and more? | /u/casey_pritam has it right, but to go more in depth: The act of sex itself is exercise, and so you're already going to get what amounts to "runner's high" afterwards. Combine that with the other drugs that your brain naturally produces, and you have an addictive experience. To answer "why," simply evolution. Humans e... |
How do you understand computer specifications? | You might want to re-ask with a little more detail in the text. What exactly is it you don't understand? |
Why don't we ride moose? | Lots of people ride elephants. Its not about size. Its about moose being violent, evil, murder machinesElephants have been used as domestic animals for thousands of years. Horses can provide anything a moose could provide, but much better. But you can try to ride a bull moose if you want. |
Baton Rouge / red stick why? | It's in the article you cited. Says in 1723 the French saw a red pole which marked Native American hunting grounds . |
Why does the skin produce heat after it has been sunburned? | The damage of a sunburn extends to the blood vessels in your skin, which causes increased bloodflow to the skin, making it appear red and feel warm.A sunburn is pretty much a wound. When the Sun's rays pierce the skin too much, then the skin gets damaged, similar to being cut but a knife, needle, etc . Since it's a wou... |
Marcus Aurelius & Niccolo Machiavelli | Niccolo Machiavelli was an author; he wrote a book called "The Prince", which was written in the form of an instruction manual to a leader of the time. He was explaining about how politicians should manipulate, pay false praise to their superiors, exploit their inferiors, etc. etc. This is what "Machiavellian politics"... |
Why do tin cans have that ribbing around the sides? | The ribs act like tiny beams, reinforcing the side of the can against crushing. A smooth-sided can is much easier to dent.He mentions the ridges on food cans about 8 min in but this is seriously the [most interesting video] on the most mundane topic I've ever seen. Just in case you wanted to know more about cans than y... |
How is it possible that one with mental disabilities suddenly attain profound skills after a head injury? (Savant syndrome) | It's not known how Savant Syndrome works, but one theory is that we all potentially possesses the skills Savants shows, but that our brains are "locking" those skills for some reason, and that an injury can prohibit this locking mechanism to function properly. This is a very interesting theory, because it could inheren... |
Could some explain sampling variability in statistics for me please? | by looking only at reddit one could reasonably assume that pretty much everyone in the world is a white libertarian male between the age of 15-30 but if you look at say everyone who lives on your street you will reach a different conclusion. this difference is your sampling variability |
Why do people no longer smoke opium as much as they did 100 years ago? | In short: because opium has been distilled into more potent forms. The long answer is the history of opiates, from which opium is a relative. This lead us to the drugs we have today that are related to opium such as: Heroin, Morphine, Codine, and Oxycontin. All of which are highly addictive and are regularly abused. Mu... |
Why do male children get bonners if they do not get sexually aroused? | What is a bonner? For a serious answer it is usually due to some slight stimulus either a touch or rubbing of the pants. The nervous system reacts just showing it is working. Young and older men can get erections when needing to urinate or go poop. It is just a nervous system reaction. Just a system check. |
The mining strikes in Northern England in the 80s and why Margaret Thatcher was hated for it | Margret Thatcher came into power in a similar fashion to David Cameron, i.e. the country was spending way too much money and she had to reduce this deficit. While in power she reduced social welfare spending and closed down the mines in the north which were no longer profitable which lead to strikes by the miners who h... |
If the Toba supervolcano nearly killed off human species,why not larger species such as elephants,bears et cetera | The evidence for the Toba theory is very controversial. Presuming it as the basis of your question is problematic. That said, humans are not as sturdy as bears or elephants. They rely on manipulation of the environment to survive. 75K years ago they were not nearly as good at building structures to manipulate the envir... |
Using Methanol injection in cars | Is typically used on water injection engines, , basically it is spraying water into the cylinder or incoming air/fuel mixture to cool the combustion chambers of the engine, this allows for greater compression ratios and largely eliminates the problem of engine knocking . As a result of this it increases the octane rati... |
What would happen if everyone in the US that has student loan debt just stopped paying? | There is a group called Debt Collective which recently initiated a well publicized debt strike for debtors scammed by Corinthian Colleges. They plan to follow this up with a wider strike for all borrowers in the future. Go to _URL_0_ and show your support. You can also subscribe to /r/studentloandefaulters here on Redd... |
Why does 90 degree heat feel hot while a 90 degree swimming pool feels amazing? | Water is way better at transferring heat than air is. First off, it's got a higher heat capacity . It's also a more effective thermal conductor - water has a thermal conductivity of 0.6 W/mK, air has a thermal conductivity of .025 W/mK. In layman's terms, it takes more energy to heat up the same mass of water, and it's... |
Why do women have curvier butts than men? | Curvy male ass right here. Fuck the rules.Women have larger hips than men because they will have to carry and give birth to children. While that might seem like bigger asses, its actually the hips. There's no reason why a women would have a fatter as than a man, maybe you just keep good company?", 'They have a higher p... |
- What's happening in North Carolina? | A couple days ago NC amended the state constitution to define marriage within the state as "one man + one woman" Obviously, this has upset the people in favor of gay rights. This is reminiscent of people working to get interracial marriage made legal 50-some years ago ', "The people of the state voted to change their s... |
Why are we able to put our hands through liquids but not solids? | Liquids can be very complicated but are still liquids. The molecules in liquids are fairly short and do not bond much with each other. I am putting in these qualifiers. That is because water is special and has polar properties. Colloids can be very complicated. In solids there is much more bonding going on. Molecules c... |
How do they put elevator cars in elevator shafts? | I will try to sum it up the best I can! The hoist-way is generally made of block wall or poured concrete. At the landing on each floor, the openings into the shaft are roughed-in oversized so that material can be 'flown' into the hoist-way with an electric cable hoist and set into place. Each company has their own proc... |
What would happen if you were swallowed whole by a whale? | Well, actually you'd die from hypoxia before you'd even reach the stomach.You would chill for a few days and then talk to God. Duh!!!!! |
When they 'sweep for bugs' in a room what are they actually doing? What all are they able to find? | The purpose of a bug - which is a listening device - is electronic. Which means to operate it must either be on to record, which uses/sends signals. Or it must be sending what it's receiving back to someone or some thing. Usually there are two types. Ones that send information back to someone and ones that must be retr... |
why do kids cry when they get tired? | Humans might just crave more attention from their parents than other animals. Consider that caring for children is veeery important for humans, it might be evolutionarily advantageous for babies to cry when they're tired, so that they are looked after more and aren't left to sleep where they can be eaten by predators. ... |
What does "integrated" or "dedicated" or "onboard" mean in reference to graphics cards? | Integrated graphics cards use your computer's RAM and processing power and aren't very good for running 3D programs. Dedicated cards don't because they have their own and are definitely better at running 3D programs. Also, Integrated = Onboard; Dedicated = Discrete. If I'm not mistaken, the 7560D is the *integrated* gr... |
How does a female paradise-bird decide if the performance of a male is good enough? | Well how do **you** know someone is sexually attractive? It's a mixture of instincts and experience. Does he look healthy and colorful? or is he injured or dirty? Does he look like someone you've had good experiences with? Is he the right species in the first place, or does he do the wrong dance? And how desperate are ... |
Why adware and spyware makers and utilizers arn't prosecuted for unwarranted wiretapping or hacking. | > Edit: BTW SpyHunter seems to be the best scan/removal tool around. Most others I tried, scans returned clean or very few threats. Just because it finds lots of errors does NOT mean it's good. A quick google search shows that Spyhunter has a history of deceptive advertising and other shenanigans. I would not be surpri... |
Why are all adverts on porn sites of such poor quality? [NSFW] | Sometimes advertisers purposely make their ads look like they're written by non-english speakers. I get spam on a daily basis with people pretending to be "a young russian lady living in the boonies of ukraine. I love meeting your acquaintance on my profile" and crap like that. They're trying to make it seem "more real... |
Why do people that "look" friendly, and have friendly facial features, generally end up being nice and friendly? | [Roald Dahl had a theory.] From "The Twits": > “If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it. > A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can h... |
What is the difference between blackheads and whiteheads? | The oils in a blackhead are oxidized due to a hole in the skin. This changes the color to a translucent yellow-brown, which appears black when in the skin. A whitehead is not exposed to air, and the oil does not oxidize. Thus, it stays white. |
Why do many bullet effects in movies (Ex. Saving Private Ryan) look so much better than bullet effects in Tv shows? (they look like sparks) | because there is both more time and money spent on details in films. Tv shows have to work quickly enough to produce 40+ hours of content in a year and turn a profit for each episode. film has a year to produce 2 hours of content with a giant profit margin. |
What is the ringing sound in our ears every once in a while, and why can no one but ourselves hear it when it happens to us? | the sound is a fault in your ears commonly known as tinitus. The reason no one else can hear it is because it is your ear that sends a faulty signal to your brain, thus you "hear" the ringing noise', "This question has been answered, but there's an interesting complication in its premise in that there's a variant of ti... |
How gas masks work and their effectiveness. | The round thing on the front is a filter. If you have a Brita water filter at home, you know how a filter works; stuff comes in, bad stuff stays in the filter, and purified stuff goes through. The gas mask does the same thing, except to air, and filters more compounds than a Brita does. |
What is the reason for making a throwaway account? | So that when you admit to killing your drug addicted brother in law it can't be traced back to you and get you arrested. . Plenty of users use the same name across multiple sites and its possible to identify who they are if you try, sometimes you want to talk about stuff that you don't want traced back to you. |
Why does Spotify play so many ads for features on the application instead of payed ads by advertisers? | If you subscribe for premium you pay a monthly fee. I think its more profitable for them to increase paying users than it is for other companies paying for add time.I work mainly in TV and radio advertising and usually if you see something like that it is because they cannot sell the airtime. Now in those industries it... |
How college scholarships work. (US) | Scholarships are largely offered by a variety of organizations that are not standardized, so the rules vary from scholarship to scholarship. Sometimes, you can win a scholarship as early as grade school to go toward your college education . Most scholarships require proof that you are either currently enrolled in a uni... |
Why did coins use to have a hole? | Some kinds of coins were produced by pouring metal into molds which were then broken apart and the rough coins stacked onto a rod where they were clamped and then the sides ground down to size in batches of hundreds at a time. Square holes were even more helpful in that they tended to resist twisting in this process. I... |
Why does radio have more commercials than TV? | Also consider radio's principle audience are drivers - literally captive audiences because they're stuck in their vehicle. If all the stations play their commercials all at the same time, you'll learn this flipping through the channels, eventually settling on a channel in defeat. Eventually, commercials will kick off a... |
Why doesn't someone just make a new site like Youtube? | There already *are* a lot of sites like Youtube. They're just not as big so many sites that like to embed the video files may not support them. |
Why is it that when I'm in the drivers or the passengers seat and one of the back windows are open it makes this really annoying ringing feeling in my eardrums? | It is a harmonic vibration caused by the inability of the air entering the open windows to find an easy way to escape. My 2004 Jetta Wagon vibrated and hummed very loudly if you rolled down all the windows at high speed. Your ears are very sensitive to vibration . |
Why is there no thunder or lightning during snowstorms? | I don't know the science behind it, but I know that I've heard thunder during a blizzard. Usually, thunder/lightning comes from lots of heat in the atmosphere where the weather front is.[Good explanation] TLDR: Warmer air holds more water and has stronger updrafts, both of which contribute to lightning.There can be we'... |
How come there aren't vitamins named after every letter in the alphabet? And why did they name vitamins after letters anyway? | This [video] explains it very well. It comes down to being historic, the people who discovered the vitamin named it, but some vitamins were actually two substances and some were the same substance with two names. This lead to this confusing system of vitamin namespart of the issue is that some "vitamins" are demoted ov... |
Why are ants considered to be especially dangerous to other arthropods? | They are heavily armoured, have jaws that can do damage, and tend to have tens of thousands of friends that could show up. |
How Can A Game Company Offer a Free Version? | Pay to play games rely on regular monthly spending. Every month, they know they will get $15 from 100,000 people. Releasing expansions also give a big boost of money to the company. Free to play games make everything from an item mall. Here, people can spend real money for extra benefits in game. The most profitable it... |
What's the difference between ibuprofen, acetaminophen and Naxproxen? | For those who are not in the US.Acetaminophen = Paracetamol', "Yarr! Yer not alone in askin', and kind strangers have explained: 1. [ELI5: The difference between ibuprofen, advil, and tylenol. ] ^1. [ELI5: The differences between aspirin, ibuprofen, and acetaminophen ] ^1. [ELI5: The difference between Advil, Tylenol, ... |
What is happening inside my body when my stomach growls? | **When people hear their stomachs make noise, most of what they hear is gas and intestinal motility, the normal movement of the intestines. Even when you’re not eating, your gut is moving. If you have food in your intestine, it can muffle the sound, but if you have air in there, and that’s all you’re moving, that is wh... |
- why do we sweat when we eat really spicy food. | You don't have a "hot/spicy" taste receptor. Capsaicin oil, the chemical that makes things taste spicy is actually doing so by triggering the heat receptors in your mouth that normally tell you if food is physically hot. The exact opposite of effect is triggered by Menthol, which chemically triggers the cold receptors. |
How did colors come to be such an important source of symbolism? | Colors have always been a source for feelings. Certain colors create certain feelings. For example: [Yellow and Red make you hungrier which is why McDonalds and countless others use those colors.] [Red is a powerful color that makes people more aggressive and attractive] Blue is seen as more stability and trustworthy. ... |
How can a state's economy be driven by domestic consumption? | Domestic consumption is your own people buying your goods and services. It is better in that it is more reliable as well as improving the life of your people. Exports can swing based on currency exchange rates as well as the economy of other countries. If the U.S. stops buying Chinese goods, their economy will collapse... |
How is it possible to still be susceptible to chicken pox if you've already gotten an up to date immunization shot for it? | No vaccine works perfectly for everyone. Some people don't develop a strong immune response for one reason or another. This is one of the reasons it's important to vaccinate everyone. When enough people are protected, it's harder for a virus to spread to the people who aren't protected. |
Why do you need a NASA lens to record candle lit scenes on film, yet the human eye is as small as a mobile phone camera and can see low lit scenes just fine? | Our brain is incredibly powerful and can 'compute' the dynamic range and the white balance of everything we see. Even the the most expensive sensors on the best cameras available today can't recreate the wide dynamic range our eyes do for us, at least not without combining multiple images.Example. When driving through ... |
How exactly do tinted windows work? | It's basically a film that you put on the window, making it darker inside than outside. You can see through glass-like things easy if the opposite side is better lit. This is how 2-way mirrors work, and why you can see inside lit buildings at night, but not during the day. |
How is it you can legally stream a video game but not a real sports game? | Actually, video game publishers *could* shut down streaming of their games if they wanted to, but they don't want to. The legality of streaming a video game isn't set in stone yet. Game publishers own the performance rights to the characters, logos, music, and pretty much everything in the games they publish. It isn't ... |
How do those bid one cent websites make money? | Because: 1. You pay something like $0.60 to place a bid and raise the price of the item by $0.01 2. You lose that $0.60 forever, *even if you lose the auction*. So if something raises in price from an initial $0.01 to $10, that's 999 bids, which, at $0.60 each, is $599.40 that the company has made in non-refundable bid... |
Why do bombs squads blow up "packages" that they determine to not be a bomb? | Maybe it was for fun. Maybe you can't be too careful. Either way, any time a threat is made, it has to be taken with utmost precaution. Even if a baby doll sounds like ticking is coming from its leg, it's a threat. |
Why do professional swimmers wear 2 caps when competing? | So I was actually wondering this out loud the other day while I was watching the Olympics with my wife, and not 10 seconds later the commentator on the TV actually explained it. He said occasionally you will see some swimmers wear their goggles with the strap on the outside of their swimming cap, but most wear them wit... |
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