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Why does being tickled give such an intense feeling of almost urinating? | Judging from your post history you're an adult woman, so it makes sense that you don't quite understand the sensation. That's the start of the ejaculation reflex. What you do with that knowledge is up to you. |
Why is the sun orange? | First, the sun isn't orange, it's brilliant white with a hint of yellow. It often appears orange in photos because the people that are studying it take pictures and movies of it through special lenses or using cameras that detect light in the parts of the light spectrum that we can't see, such as infrared or ultraviole... |
How does an autonomous vehicle decide who dies in an unavoidable crash? | They aren't that complex. They just try to stop the vehicle and avoid collision as best they can, they don't make assessments of likelihood of death. Once they can it will likely be legislated to judge in a certain manner.The car's programming is very simple. 1. Object in path. 2. Can I stop in time? Yes = stop. 3. If ... |
If a female is born with a third nipple, will she develop a third breast during puberty? | No, there's no breast tissue. Superfluous nipples are more like moles than breasts. Source: I'm a guy but I have 3 extra ones. |
Why is there so little advertising targeting/encouraging women to buy things for the man in their life? | Simply that men make a larger share of the household income. However in advertisement there is a heavy emphasis on mother's for groceries and household products", 'I suspect some of the advertising you think is targeted at men is about men but targeted at women.In my experience, women don't have to be reminded to buy g... |
how did the US become so dependent on China-made goods and what persons made it happen? | In the 60s and 70s, Regan reduced the taxation of capital gains over 1 mil from 70% to 30%, loosing a good portion of tax revenue, reducing education subsidies and creating a poorly educated and unskilled workforce. Entering the age of globalization and technology starting in the 1980 through the present, a new group a... |
UV Index. It's 110 in AZ with a UV index of 1 and 88 in Chicago with a UV index of 5. Will you burn quicker in Chicago?? | Yes you will. Sunburn has little to do with air temperature, it is the amount of UV radiation that reaches your exposed skin. You can get sunburn in the middle of winter, you are just less like to, because spend less time outdoors and have less skin exposed to the sunYes. Sunburns have nothing to do with temperature, a... |
why do we get a bloody taste in our mouth when we get injured? | That'd be the blood. When you open a wound it will start to leak your blood. It's important to stay far away from vampires and sharks at that point. |
how do oven mits and pot holders work? | They don't transfer heat very well. Metal transfers heat very well because all of the molecules are packed very tightly. When one side of a piece of metal gets hot the fast-moving molecules will bump into other molecules and transfer that heat to the other side very easily. But, pot holders are made up of cloth with a ... |
What happens if the member of a jury notices something during a trial that they need to be addressed to make a decision? Can they ask questions or try to get something addressed? | As noted by another commenter, specifics will vary by jurisdiction; however, juries are usually not allowed to inquire about the facts of the case being presented. The jury's role is basically to decide 1) who is telling the truth if there are conflicting accounts and 2) whether the true story fits into the laws as pre... |
Why do houses get more valuable over time? | It's the land, not the house. the real estate the houses are build on are what rise in value. it's location relative to local services, schools, businesses, etc. houses do generally drop in value, you're right. that's why people remodel rooms or the entire thing. at least, that's the traditional wisdom. i'm not a real ... |
What is the benefit to the CEO's disbanding the White House advisory panel? | Imagine you go to a party with your friend, Donnie. You get to the party, which has a pretty diverse group of partygoers, and Donnie starts spouting off white supremacist nonsense at the party. What are the partygoers going to think of you, since you're buddied up with Donnie? CEOs are the leaders and, in many cases, t... |
How does electricity "know" when to start flowing? | imagine you have a water pump, connect an empty pipe with a tap on the end and it will fill up the pipe with water. the same thing happens with a wire. if you connect a wire to the positive of a battery the wire also becomes positive. |
How clothes shrink in the dryer | As a sheep owner who got tired of answering the question "Why do sweaters shrink when they get wet, but sheep don't shrink in the rain?" I wrote [this short response] Basically it's the heat from the drying process and how it affects the shape of the fibers. |
How come some drinks taste better out of a bottle than a can? or is it all in my head? | Coke: Can Dr Pepper: Bottle Barq's : Bottle Mountain Dew: Can Source- Caffeine Addict", 'Well, first of all is not because of anything being absorbed into the drink . In fact the main thing that causes many drinks to go bad or "skunk" is light, so cans are actually better. This is why beer bottles are usually darker co... |
Why do parliament impose sentence ranges for crimes instead of leaving it up to the judge and case law? | It's important to have some degree of uniformity in sentencing. Of course every case and every criminal is different, but some guidelines are necessary. In County A you get arrested for possessing heroine and the judge happens to think drug laws are a bit silly and gives you 10 days in jail. Get arrested for the same c... |
where do mosquitoes sleep? | Outside, they hangout under leaves on low level vegetation like bushes and weeds, etc. That's why keeping your yard cleaned up will help with mosquitoes because it limits the area for them to hide. |
Heidegger's Being v. being | The common term "being" simply conveys presence. Something "is". Heidegger saw living as a human being as fundamentally not inert, not just sitting there existing, but as something else. To us, life is an immersion of consciousness in a world which presents possibilites of action to us. So being to us is what he would ... |
Why is it hottest when the sun begins to set instead of when the sun is at its highest point? | The atmosphere takes time to heat up and cool down. While the sunlight may be more indirect in the afternoon, the atmosphere overall has been exposed to more sunlight at that point than it has at noon. Right at Noon, you 've got "most direct light, preceded by almost direct light, preceded by indirect light. At 4ish, y... |
Why isn't childhood obesity grounds for abuse like under feeding a child is? | There can be a variety of factors that may lead to childhood obesity that aren't linked to overeating. For example, hypothyroidism. Medicinal side-effects. Asthma may even doom a kid to inactivity. Lastly, you need to consider *who* gets obese. You're far more likely to get obese if you are poor. This is because unheal... |
How could whatsapp knows that I may have new messages even without internet. | Simple answer: they don't. They likely just want to entice you to get back on the platform. At most, they run a machine learning algorithm on the frequency at which you receive messages and store this locally in each person's phone, thus over time, predicting with some accuracy if you'll get a message. |
What is actually happening to the air when I have one car window down and I get that ear rattling bass? | Imagine the air in the car as being a springy cushion that the air from the outside pushes into. The air enters from the outside, making the air on the inside more dense, then the difference in pressure from the inside and outside pushes the air out and the process repeats. This constant in and out of the air creates t... |
At its core, how is science not a belief? Essentially, how is it any different than a religion or any other human based concept. | Sounds like you're interested in the questions covered in the [philosophy of science].Science is a *method* of using empirical observations to objectively determine which explanations are more accurate, as far as is reasonably possible. There are 2 fundamental assumptions made by science: * There is some objective real... |
Why is fertilizer the primary ingredient in many homemade bombs? | It's the nitrogen//nitrogen-based chemicals in the fertilizer. The nitrogen stuff is great for growing crops but it's also good for explosives. You can search for "nitrogen explosive compounds", but read here this one example of why: _URL_0_ |
How do asians differentiate amongst people based on their countries? | The same way everyone else does. You have difficulty telling Asian nationalities apart because it's not something you do on a regular basis. There are visible ways to tell, and people who are exposed to a wider diversity of Asians know. But then they might have difficulty picking up the differences between say a Englis... |
Why was Alcatraz closed and why don't we reopen it now. | It was closed because it was super expensive to run. Why do you feel the need to be more separated from violent criminals than high security prisons already provide? In reality escapes are super super rare, and they get rarer as prison design improves. There isn't really a benefit to shipping people off to an island th... |
How food or sleep can help relieve migraines | Food or sleep usually wont relieve a migraine - you get hungry during a migraine because your body understands theres a sharp pain around your head, and gets sleepy because all your nerves are getting crunched by your blood vessels . The only way to really relieve a migraine is using vasoconsctricting PNS stimulants li... |
How do Football players get more concussions than rugby players when they don't wear helmets? | because in football more players get hit in the head way more often vs rugby players. by wearing padded "armor" it gives players a false sense of security so they act more reckless.Rugby players know that other rugby players aren't wearing helmets and other extensive amounts of padding, and neither are they. This resul... |
What is the difference, chemically, between Isopropyl Alcohol (Rubbing Alcohol) and Ethyl Alcohol (Liquor)? | Rubbing Alcohol gets broken down by your body and turned into poison. Due to having a different chemical structure, Liquor is broken down differently by the body, and is relatively safe to consume in moderate quantities. tl;dr: They are different substances. Alcohol is a family of similar molecules that have a similar ... |
Why do smaller computer chips produce less heat? | The heat in a circuit is caused by resistance in the conductors inside the circuit. Smaller chips have fewer and shorter conductors, so the electricity meets less resistance as it travels through the paths in the chip. Larger components have more heat conductive material, but that doesn't really matter, as they also ha... |
What exactly is medicine (capsules/pills) made from? | That will depend on what you are taking. For example, looking at my bottle of ibuprofen, the active ingredient is 200 milligrams of ibuprofen. The inactive ingredients that make up most of the pill include such things as anhydrous lactose , iron oxide , cellulose and other harmless materials that give the pill its bulk... |
Why are companies like Virgin or Straight Talk able to give you "unlimited" data for cheap while larger companies like AT & T and Verizon charging 150+ for a couple of GB? | Because Virgin and Straight talk utilize bandwidth throttling and also use unused carrier bands from the major providers. Verizon and other Major carriers provide the hardcore backbone for primary subscribers, and then use the secondary carriers to give a cheaper option, but at reduced functionality. They may not cap t... |
Why chemical weapons considered more indiscriminate than conventional weapons? | While all destruction of human life is essentially 'inhumane', chemical weapons have been proven to be particularly devastating. I'm not an expert but I will try to give my opinion on the matter. The Geneva Protocol, signed in June 1925, prohibited these weapons because of Europe's recent experience with them in the Fi... |
What is 'High place Phenomenom'? | The high place phenomenon is a psychological effect that is prevalent when you are in a high place, hence the name. If you've ever been on the top of a cliff or tall building, you've probably felt a small urge to jump off, just because you could. This is part of the high place phenomenon, the other part is if you are o... |
Why do people tend to hate the sound of their own voice in a recording? | You're usually hearing your voice not just with your ears, but transmitted through your jawbone, which changes the sound. When you hear a recording, you just get the sound, which is familiar but *wrong*. Similarly, people tend to think they look bad in photos because people aren't perfectly symmetrical. You're used to ... |
Why did Blu-ray beat HD-DVD? | The edge was that Blue Ray managed to get several big companies to use Blue Ray meaning it was less chance that your movie would appear on HD DVD. So if you wanted to watch your favorite morning cartoon, you had to have Blueray if you wanted it in the high definition format. Shortly thereafter, Toshiba conceded defeat ... |
What's the difference between facewash soaps and regular soap? | Facewash does not contain soap, which is the point. First off, soap has a pH-level way above your skin, which screws up the balance and can make bacterial growth increase and in turn cause acne. It also contains a fair range of thickeners which clog pores, also leading to acne. Lastly soap will get rid of so much of th... |
When someone is angry, what is happening that prevents them from thinking rationally? | It's mostly the hormones that are released, with the biggest culprit being cortisol. Cortisol tends to bind to any open neuron, so it can effectively "block out" any rational thoughts that try to get through to your brain. The same response happens with people that are panicking, since that comes with a large release o... |
how police radars determine your speed if they are traveling towards you in the on coming lane | Doppler effect. Frequencies of waves will be increased if they're reflected off something travelling relatively towards you. The magnitude of this increase is what tells the relative speed. The reverse of this is also true. f'=[/]f is the equation. |
Why do smaller downloads seem to go at slower speeds/Larger downloads at higher speeds? | It takes time to establish a Connection to the server you're downloading from, which may seem longer with smaller downloads since the time it takes to establish that connection might be as long as the actual download time. Also smaller downloads usually contains a lot of smaller files instead of a few big files . |
Why do products like honey or salt have expiration date even though they never go bad? | well tuna and canned goods never go bad ever too, still they have a best by date at around two years. the reason can be found with simple thought exersise, how exactly would you test that a can of tuna lasts 100 years in the can. if you follow _URL_0_ he regularly eats canned foods that are older than he isIt's a legal... |
why do some people "run hot" or "run cold"? | AFAIK your thyroid settles this. I also seem to be hot a lot and feel uncomfortable in situations where other people are just fine. I've asked my dermatologist why is that and she asked if anyone in my family has had issues with their thyroid", 'In your body there are white fats and there are brown fats. White fats are... |
Why is Italy, Greece considered a "white" country but Spain is not? | Modern racism is not very consistent; since scientists no longer support the concept, the people at large are sort of going by their gut feeling. Traditionally, although many authors separated the Mediterranean and Nordic peoples, they placed them both in the Caucasian family. However, in the United States the Census B... |
What is risk premium for a stock? | Beta is a systemic risk measure. It's calculated by comparing the stock's past performance to the overall market's past performance. A stock with Beta=1 goes up and down as much as the market overall. A low Beta stock moves less; it the market goes up 10% and the stock goes 5% it would have a beta of 0.5 . Similarly, a... |
How does the US Democratic Party's rule of proportional representation work? | All candidates who get 15% or more of the vote in a certain state get delegates. How many delegates they get depends on the number of people who voted for them: if candidate A gets twice as many votes as candidate B, then candidate A gets twice as many delegates . As an example, suppose we had three people running: Ali... |
Why do things like the waistband of sweatpants, the edges of fitted sheets, and the upper part of socks have such a hard time getting dry in the dryer? | Essentially, the elastic in those parts bunches the material together. To dry, material needs to have air circulation for the water to evaporate off of . Where these areas are more bunched together they both hold more liquid to begin with and have less surface area for the liquid to evaporate off of. Or at least, that'... |
why can we only tell when something (our home, for example) smells different than usual when we enter it and not be able to tell when we exit into fresher air? | The reason is that we ignore/reduce constant stimuli. It is easier to notice for touch. You notice primary when something changes. You notice when someone first touch your arm but notice less when they keep there hand there. You feel the chair when you sit down but not when you are sitting on it. The small works simila... |
Why does Facebook need 60 million lines of code in order to run? | Facebook is complicated - it does more than just show you things people have shared, said, liked or whatever. Facebook's real business is in handling data. Facebook know you really well. They've got a good picture of you - they know what adverts you're likely to respond to, they know what pages to suggest you might wan... |
What is the purpose of having so many bones in our wrists/ankles? | fluidity of movement. Your wrist and ankles have to turn in all kinds of directions, way more than say your knees or elbows, so we sacrificed strength in those areas for dexterity.Ball and socket joints are meant more for a powerful and wide motion, usually a swinging motion. Wrist/ankle joints are more to enable fine ... |
Why electric cars aren’t solar powered? | Some do have solar panels, such as the [Fisker Karma]. Most manufacturers have released designs or concepts with solar panels . Quite simply, a panel small enough to fit on a car doesn't collect enough energy to power a car. A whole roof is only good for 300-400 watts of energy in full sunlight. A P65D Tesla has a 65,0... |
If an asteroid was due to collide with earth, what could we realistically do to stop it? | Depends on how much of a heads-up we get. We've already been able to land on asteroids and comets remotely, so it's not beyond belief to say that we could park a probe on an asteroid in a precise location and either detonate a nuke on it, run a thruster, unfurl a solar sail, or otherwise nudge it enough to ensure it wo... |
Why does it seem like I always have to poop after drinking coffee or smoking a cigarette? | Both caffeine and nicotine are actually colonic stimulants and [here]), so they make the colon contract and move, prompting a bowel movement. Note that coffee also serves as a diuretic which can end up drying out the stool in your colon, so it's not overly useful as an anti-constipation drug either. |
Does a company have to buy a domain from a domain selling service even if a domain isn't claimed yet? | Yes. When someone enters a domain name into their browser, it essentially goes and asks someone "hey, where does this domain exist on the internet?". When you register a domain name, you're paying to have someone put in that information for you so that everyone knows where the name points to. |
How come it is illegal to smoke in the car with children, but not for pregnant women to smoke? | Where is this illegal? It is fully legal here in the US so this has to be a law somewhere else.It would be extremely difficult to enforce, for one thing. What is an officer supposed to do if he sees a woman who he believes to be pregnant and smoking? Write her a ticket? Giving fines to pregnant women who need help with... |
Why does it sometimes hurt to cough, sometimes feel good, and sometimes both? | When you cough and it hurts, It's probably because your respiratory tract is exhausted from all the coughing and needs to stop When you cough and it feels good, It could be because the things your respiratory tract are trying to released are successfully released. If both,then these two above happen at the same time |
How light can move as a particle and a wave and how this makes it special or in its own class | Very simplistically, it's better to look at it propagating or moving as a wave and interacting or colliding as a particle. \r\r\rAlso, this doesn't make it unique or its own class. Everything that exists has properties of both classical waves and particles. Electrons, protons, atoms, molecules. You can even calculate t... |
Why does the same water from the shower feel warm to my body, but scalding hot to my face? (Or warm to my face and cool to my body) | Mind over matter mate. Theres more nerve endings on your face so perhaps the extra sensory information is overwhelming. Just like easing into a hot tub.I think it's because your body is constantly under hot water while your face is mostly away from the stream. This allows your body to get used to the hot water so it do... |
How come so few species feel "good" when having sexual actions and why/how did it develop (in humans)? | I'm distinctly curious as to how you have polled the enjoyment level of sex from the majority of the animal kingdom. This seems like it would be dangerous, messy, difficult, and expensive. |
What happens during a CPR? | You pump the heart manually, sending oxygenated blood through the body, delaying cell death until an AED or other advanced medical personnel. That's why it's just as important to breathe for them every 30 compressions. Source: Emergency Medical Responder |
Why do humans have to wipe after using the restroom but other animals don't? | We wear clothes. We care what we smell like. We have butt cheeks because we need large butt muscles to keep us on two legs.Because we choose as a society to do so for hygiene reasons. However there is also a factor due to our walking on two legs as opposed to four. Most animals take food in at one end and put it out th... |
Why is it taboo to say exactly how a person died? | It's a private matter & the personal business of the family. You don't deserve to know just because you liked some of his movies any more than you deserve to know anything else that's going on in their private lives. They're still people & don't automatically forfeit their private lives just because they get famous. |
Why are there so many riots at the time? | > Syria, Egypt, Ukraine and now in Venezuela. Am i now becoming aware of them or why do they start everywhere? Syria and Egypt has been going on for a couple of years now . I am not quite sure about Venezuela, but I think its been going on for a while there to, or at least it as been brewing up for it for quite a while... |
How did people with poor vision function in society before eyeglasses were invented? | Long story short I was legally blind for about ten years I could only see maybe a few feet away. They were able to recently correct my vision to almost normal. I didn't drive, had other people read me menu boards/signs or just asked the sales person, and made some embarrassing mistakes with not recognizing people. But ... |
why are orangutans so chill, but chimps are violent assholes? Aren't they really similar? | Similar by what measure? Genetically, we're very similar to chimpanzees, but obviously there are some pretty substantial behavioral differences. Although admittedly, not necessarily in all the ways we'd like to think.How about Bonobos. You could not tell them from a chimp by their appearance. But they are much less vio... |
Now we're moving beyond 3D printing with plastics, how does that work? | Anything that can be extruded and which exhibits [chemical cohesion] can be 3d printed. It's not required to melt it - as long as it sticks to itself, that's enough. |
why there needs to be another copyright law in the eyes of the entertainment industry? | Because the DMCA hasn't done anything to stop piracy, pirating is so easy its remarkable that anyone pays for software, music, and TV shows anymore. Entire websites exist with the sole purpose of distributing pirated material, but they are within the law because they don't host the files. It is completely useless SOPA ... |
Why does a single overpass (flyover) take the same amount of time to build as a skyscraper? | You're probably perceiving a lot of it because you're stuck there fuming in traffic and getting all road-ragey. Smaller overpasses don't usually take as long as a tall building to finish. That being said, they do take a while. Some reasons: * They often have HUGE footprints when you include on-ramps and off-ramps and r... |
How do they keep the water in water towers from freezeing dolid in the winter? | For a few reasons: 1. water retains heat better than almost all other liquids. I believe only ammonia of the common liquids has a higher specific heat than water. 2. It's moving! Water towers - despite what we commonly think - aren't generally for water storage, they are for water pressure management. Moving water does... |
What exactly is G-Force? | When you're standing on the ground, your body experiences a downward force. For simplicity's sake, other forces exerted on the human body are often expressed in terms of multiples of this base level of force because most people have no concept of what a Newton really is. When flying planes in high performance manouvers... |
How do they assign social security numbers? | The nine-digit SSN is composed of three parts: The first set of three digits is called the Area Number. The Area Number is assigned by the geographical region. Prior to 1972, cards were issued in local Social Security offices around the country and the Area Number represented the State in which the card was issued. Thi... |
why western formal menswear is always white and black, with something tied around your neck? | I only know about ties. They used to be functional. Weirdly, in the Croatian military during the 1600's, they used to tie the top of their military jackets together with a bit of cloth. King Louis XIII liked the look so much he made it a requirement for royal gatherings. It became fashionable as a result. Never really ... |
How is Google not a monopoly, especially in the B2B section? | Being a monopoly isn't illegal. Engaging in anticompetitive behavior in order to become or maintain a monopoly is illegal. To my knowledge, Google isn't involved in any behavior right now that is designed to force other companies out of the market, they're just performing better or at a lower cost than their peers. Wha... |
What causes to us to wake up and forgot where we are for a few brief seconds? | The brain isn't something that just turns on full power and shuts down to 0 power when not in use. It needs to warm up, and take in its new surroundings to build context and put meaning behind what it sees. When you wake up, its not like your brain is at 100 percent and processing things like a super computer its slugg... |
The Chinese Government-Is it really communist? | Well at first it was trying to be hard core communist, but Mao's Great Leap Foreward resulted in them falling flat on their face. After millions died and Mao died too the government decided to go a different direction. The Chinese are communist only in name at this point, they have adopted a Free Market system for the ... |
Why do pimples form and why are they so prevalent with teens going through puberty? | Your skin is full of tiny holes called pores. Pores serve a variety of functions but the point of your question: Pimples occur when the pore becomes clogged with dirt, oil, or an in-grown hair. Pimples are common in teens due to the excessive natural oils generated during puberty.Additional question: why does acne go a... |
Why does a 1280x720 photo look fine on a 17 inch monitor but grainy on a 4x6" print? | Monitors usually have a resolution of about 96 ppi; they have about 96 pixels per inch, although this can vary. Mobile devices typically have much higher ppi as they are viewed at much closer range. Print resolution for good results is around 300 dpi, or 300 dots per inch. This is much higher than the usual computer mo... |
Why is it so satisfying to peel something? | I'd assume that it triggers a smaller version of the dopamine rush we get when we get something new. |
Why did throwing money into public fountains become a sign of good luck and associated with wishes? | In the past , access to clean water was a luxury. Centuries ago, this clean water was considered a gift from the gods. Many people actually believed that gods or deities lived in the water, in fact. So, they would sacrifice what little money they had to these gods to appease and honor them, to ensure that the clean wat... |
Why you get less and less sore the more frequent you work out? | The body adapts to stress after repeated exposure, and in the case of decreased soreness in exercising much of that has to do with increased efficiency in using energy, such that muscles produce less lactic acid and other fatigue signs. However, that applies most to certain ranges of motion, so for the greatest range o... |
Why do planes leave trails? | When things are burned , they produce three main things: Energy , Carbon Dioxide & Water. The last two come out of the engine as exhaust. Since planes fly in very cold air, the water vapour turns into tiny droplets of water or ice that float in the air, making clouds. [A second type of trail] can be formed by the shape... |
Why are objects in (old) cartoons that will be animated drawn differently and so easily noticable? | Old cartoons were hand-drawn on transparencies. Usually, there was a background artist who painted the background, then another artist who just drew the animated figure on a set of transparencies, one per object. These were then stacked together and photographed to make the frame. When the two artists didn't exactly ma... |
If Vladimir Putin lost his mind one day and he'd decided life should be no more, would the world be safe or are there systems in place to stop things like this happening? | Many nations have anti missile systems, but how advanced they are is probably highly classified. However Putin was the head of the the Russian intelligence, which is no small feat. He actually must be stable of mind, and isn't the leader most likely to fall off his rocker. Americans judge him because he doesn't act in ... |
When i cut my finger, blood goes everywhere but when surgeons perform surgery, blood isnt exploding everywhere? | * they avoid major blood vessels* you are anesthetized so your heart is beating more slowly* they often clamp off vessels to the area they are working on* there is a person their with a suction tube to remove excess bloodSurgeons also like to work in a bloodless field so they will apply large tournequites when performi... |
Why is it that our facial expressions seem to show that we are in pain while having sex, even though we feel pleasure? | I think it has to do with the *intensity* of the pleasure we're experiencing. It can be overwhelming, even though it feels so good, and the body even prepares itself sometimes by involuntarily tensing up our muscles, especially when we're close to experiencing an orgasm. |
How matter becomes "alive" or develops consciousness | I recommend reading: [*The User Illusion*] by Tor Norretranders, [*Gödel, Escher, Bach*] by Douglas R. Hofstadter, and [*I Am a Strange Loop*] also by Douglas R. Hofstadter for some interesting reading on the subject . I read a lot of books on science in general and, based on that, it seems like many believe consciousn... |
- what the gallbladder does, who it works for/with, why I, at 32 am having attacks! | I had my gall bladder removed about 6 years ago, so I can tell you what happens when you don't have one and how the doctor explained it to me. Your gall bladder acts as a storage place for the bile and other digestive bits that your liver produces . This is helpful because when you eat, your body needs those things inj... |
why is mocking the Jewish faith so common in popular entertainment? | I just wanted to point out that Matt Stone is Jewish and that South Park rips every religion a new asshole, not just Judaism. They also wrote a massively successful musical called "The Book of Mormon" which completely destroys a particular religion. Can you guess which one? I'll give you a hint: NOT JUDAISM.I have to p... |
Why translations on shirts and things so bad? | Who says these are translations? For example, the "Home Alone" vs "Mi Pobre Angel" title change is a choice by the studio. The meme of latchkey kids isn't as common in Latin American countries, so a "Solo En Casa" title wouldn't have worked. Calling children angels in America would be mostly sarcastic, though it's a co... |
Why haven't humans visited the moon since 1972? | [This article] covers it fairly well. The TLDR is that it comes down to budget restrictions, technological restrictions , a lack of political and public interest as well as NASA being more interested in putting people on Mars. |
Why is northern Mexico's drug trade so violent and why does it feel like no one is *seriously* doing something about it? | Because the cartels quite literally own the mexican goverment. Or more specifically, the influential politicians that could do anything about it.The Mexicans in the early 2000's took aggressive measures to combat the growing influence of the cartels. Long story short this strategy backfired and allowed the most violent... |
Why is it when someone drinks a cup of coffee they might get sleepy but the same doesn't happen with energy drinks? | It sometimes does, especially in people with atypical responses to caffeine, such as those with ADHD. Some folks with ADHD self medicate with energy drinks rather than taking a prescription stimulant such as adderall. I’ve also encountered parents who use Mountain Dew to chill out their kid during a hyperactivity meltd... |
Why at high speeds on a motorcycle you countersteer turns while leaning. | As you're rolling forward you turn the wheel to the left Momentum continues to carry you forward Since the wheel's moved to the left you 'fall' into the space where the wheel used to be. The bike leans over to the right The bike's wheels draw a curve that has your 'lean' towards the center The same forces that stick yo... |
What does it mean to estimate pi | Pi is an infinitely long not repeating decimal. 3.14 is an estimate to the hundredth position. 3.14159 is an estimate to the 100000th position. All finite representations of pi are estimations, and the work of calculating the next digit is to "estimate pi to a greater degree of accuracy."Pi is something called an irrat... |
why moving a body part through hot water makes the water feel hotter than when said body part is stationary in the same water at the same temperature. | Same reason air feels cooler when its being blown on you by a fan instead of being still. The movement, yours or the water's, makes you come in to contact with water that hasn't cooled down by being in contact with you. Same thing happens with cold water if you move around instead of being still, it will feel even cold... |
Why should I worry about Google's data gathering? | Do you have to be worried? Not necessarily. Just what does Google have about you? If you use their email, they likely know your name and keywords about your interests. If you use their search, they know some of the sites you visit and your interests. For the most part, knowledge of your interests helps them make ads of... |
Why do things that are warm or heated up have more of a scent than things that are cold? | You smell things because particles of the item are floating in the air and registering in your nose. If you heat something up it makes substances more volatile. This just means that since the thing is hotter its particles have more energy, and so can escape from the object into the air more easily. Also bacteria and fu... |
Why Tim Tebow is not playing in the NFL (especially this year with so many injured QBs)? | He is not good enough to play. The NFL teams are not blacklisting him for some arbitrary reason. He is not good enough. It really is that simple, no matter how hard his fans wish otherwise.If Tim Tebow were good enough to be playing in the NFL, he would be. He certainly wants to. But its clear that no team feels he is ... |
If two different species can't breed with each other, how do we have things like the liger? (Lion + Tiger | Some species are close enough that breeding is still an option. A horse bred with a donkey will result in a mule, which is sterile and unable to breed with anything elseUnfortunately, what delineates one species from another is very loosely defined, and some of it is just arbitrary decisions on the part of taxonomists.... |
How do companies like Netflix, Shomi and Crave TV make money charging a few dollars a month when I pay $70/month for cable and they have commercials? | Part of it is that Netflix, Shomi, and Crave produce very very little of their content. They simply distribute entertainment and distribution rights are much much cheaper than production costs along with distribution rights. Part of it is the fact that there is not a middle man. The cable companies are a middle man tha... |
Why we say "Islamic" extremism instead of "Muslim" extremism | Typically, "Islam" refers to the religion, and "Muslim" to the people who follow Islam. "Islamic" is used for anything that is part of the larger culture of Islam- Islamic art, Islamic Music, Islamic Prayers .and so on. So we say "Islamic extremeISM" and "Muslim ExtremeIST"', "Quick google search as I couldn't put it i... |
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