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What is the purpose of the blue tint/film at the top of windshields? | It helps to shade the sun from blinding you as you drive. Think about how sunglasses work except only for certain anglesThe sky is brighter than ground, and the difference in brightness causes eyestrain. so some manufacturers tint that portion of the windshield to balance the brightness between the sky and the ground. ... |
Why in the u.s. they call some places and restaurants "hole in the wall"? | This phrase has been used since the early 1800s. A 'hole' is an empty space, and a 'wall' is part of a building. So a 'hole in the wall' is a simple, undecorated space in a building. |
Why do TV stations use "photographer" when referring to their videographer job postings? | TV stations are going to be shooting motion, not stills. Why are you looking at TV station jobs if you want to work at a newspaper? Anyways, photography doesn't just refer to stills. The head of the camera department on a film production is called the Director of Photography. The period of shooting in a film production... |
Why do we feel fear when watching a horror movie even though we know we're not in any kind of danger? | Rational thought is expressed at the prefrontal cortex in the brain, but fear is expressed in the amygdala in the limbic system, a more primal part of the brain. The limbic system is not under conscious control and will automatically activate upon contact with terrifying stimuli, the prefrontal cortex is not able to sh... |
Why is salary credited in a Bank Statement? | The name comes from double entry accounting's terms for increasing and decreasing an account, and because from the bank's perspective your account is a liability not an asset . |
Why has internet speed increased over the years if the medium of delivery has always been the same? | Mainly because of new methods of compressing data to fit into the limited bandwidth of those copper wires. Also by expanding and bringing high bandwidth fiber networks closer to the home. I'm getting 100mbps over the same cable I used to watch scrambled porn on when I was a teenager. |
Why do most countries have extremely different dialects that cannot be understood by people in the same country while the United States basically has one? | We're freakin' *young*. Those dialects grew up over centuries of isolation. The average person wouldn't go from Edinburgh to London, ever. So you have a long time of relative linguistic isolation. Compare to the US, where it's been common for a century or so to move from one end of the continent to the other, and we're... |
Why is "I have nothing to hide" a bad argument against mass surveillance? | Because you shouldn't only be entitled to privacy if you have something to hide."I have nothing to hide." is an ignorant justification *for* mass surveillance, not an argument against it. The U.S. Bill of Rights promise of, "no unreasonable search or seizures." would be an argument *against* mass surveillance.Know tell... |
How can a human stomach realistically hold 74 hot dogs and buns? | The stomach is not a stiff organ. Its due to it's elasticity, the material / tissue of the stomach is pretty elastic, allowing it to hold a lot of solids/liquids without "exploding" or breaking up. It pretty much acts as a bag. Without counting the digestion that "liquidifies" aliments and reduces their volume But i di... |
Is it the actual tobacco that is bad for you in cigarettes, or all of the chemicals that are put into the cigarette? | Both; but it is more complicated that. The chemicals added are bad. The act of breathing smoke into lungs is bad. Nicotine is highly addictive and carcinogenic.Okay first of all, *everything* is a chemical--not just the 'additives'. Yes, chemicals are added to cigarettes, but cigarettes already contain chemicals, becau... |
Why do clothes get darker when they're wet? | Your clothes are made out of irregular surfaces, such as tiny fibres. They scatter light easily. Some of the fibres are also translucent, and thus retro-reflect white light. The combination of these factors can make your clothes appear brighter. When your clothes get wet, the water surrounding the fibres acts as optica... |
How are scratch cards made? | Do you mean like lottery scratch-off cards? The technique is pretty simple. The card is printed and covered with a wax coating. Then a thin layer of latex rubber paint is applied over the scratchable areas. The latex sticks to the wax, but comes off with a fingernail. |
Why can't an electric car charge itself while driving? | You can't generate more power than you put into the system. If you take power from the wheels to charge the battery, then you are increasing the resistance in the wheels, you can't simply "borrow power" without impacting them. This means you slow them. This means you need to apply more power to make the same trip. Duri... |
How do music recognition apps like Shazam work? | The ELI5 answer is that it listens for patterns in volume changes, and then checks those against the volume change patterns in its database of songs. This is why it still works when there's background noise and such. ", 'From [Gizmodo]: > Here are the basic steps: > > > 1. Beforehand, Shazam fingerprints a comprehensiv... |
What is an allegory? | It's a story that has a hidden meaning and symbolism that applies to something that happens in the real world. George Orwell's Animal Farm is about a bunch of abused farm animals who revolt and take over the farm from the humans, and try to run it in a fair way for all animals' benefit. But the administrators end up us... |
Why, even if I'm dehydrated (not dangerously so), do I still pee a ton when drinking water? Doesn't my body need that? | Part of the reason you need water is to rinse your filters so that stuff doesn't build up in your system. Once that's done, your body will fill up the blood supply.are you aware of that milk and soda are basically water with some fat and/or sugar in it?', "The body is constantly undergoing multiple metabolic reactions,... |
What happens to your sense of smell after being hit in the nose? | Blood smells metallic to a lot of people. Depending on how hard you've been booped, you'll get a metallic smell, if not a coppery taste too, particularly if you've had a particularly deep conversation with someone else's knuckles. Also being schmacked in the schnozz can loosen up the crusties up in your air hole, relea... |
Why have we gotten rid of the $500 bill? | To make smuggling cash 5 times harder. It takes a bigger box to export ill-gotten drug gains, which makes it easier for law enforcement to catch evildoers. In 1969 the US government purged all the big bills, $500, $1000, $5000, and $10,000 to fight fraud, drugs, and money launderingWhen the decision to kill the $500 wa... |
Why is livelihood more expensive in Italy and Spain than in Germany although they have a weaker economy? | You can't just look at a "strong" or "weak" value system for rating an economy. What might be more useful is looking at the idea of "uncompetitive" or "inefficient" economies. These sorts of economies could both be weak overall, and have higher consumer prices. An economy that is competitive and efficient, could have l... |
How do they create the lines/arrows on football fields for live NFL games? | Well, obviously you already know how you can overlay graphics on top of a still image. Creating an arrow or label on top of a photo isn't so hard, from that perspective. It's the movement and real-time camera sync that's hard. So how do you do it when the image moves and changes constantly? Well, the cameras positions ... |
Why is it that the amount of inertia and the strength of gravity are both based on mass? | You have stumbled upon one of the great mystery in physics! There is no known reason why all object with inertia interacts with gravity at the same proportion! Yet all observations demonstrate thisThings with mass inherently have inertia, and that inertia scales directly with changes in mass. Similarly, things with mas... |
What happens to Debt and other stuff you owe to people when you die? | It generally gets taken out of your estate, if there isn't enough in your estate then the rest will get written off. A family member may only have to keep paying off the debt if they're still mortgage left on the house that's been left to them and they decide to keep it. |
What is the piece of equipment that's always suspended from the crane at an inactive construction site (ie, during nighttime)? Why does it have to be suspended? | Thinking this might be a portable generator or welding unit. Usually moved from a tow hitch, would be pretty easy to drive up pop the lock and drive off with it.They suspend anything they think may be stolen. Ladders, generators, small vehicles or other equipment that they not only don't want to transport to the jobsit... |
Why does the Panama Canal has different gates? What would happen if they just let the water flow? | The Panama canal is not flat. A large section of the canal is an artificial lake that is about 85 ft above sea level. If you were to remove the gates , the water would flood out of the lake and into the oceansThe pacific ocean is at a different height than the atlantic. If they just let the water flow then the Canal co... |
How did basic medicine come about? | People died. Before antibiotics, you got an infection and died. In ancient Greece, if you stepped on a sharp rock, it got infected and you died. In the Civil War, you got your limb amputated, then almost certainly got an infection and died. Without modern antibiotics, everything was fatal. |
How does the GPA system in US schools work? | Some schools do it differently, but most are on a 4.0 scale . In your classes, you get a letter grade: A, B, C, D, & F, those grades equal a GPA number. Now, many high schools, like mine, did away with the +/- system. The GPA:Letter Grade goes like this : A/A+: 4.0 A-: 3.67 B+: 3.33 B:3.0 B-:2.67 C+:2.33 C: 2.0 C-: 1.6... |
why are people trying to ban e-cigs? | Well, tobacco companies don't want people thinking e-cigs are healthier because it'll cut in to their profits. . If everyone is using e-cigs; then no one will want to buy regular cigarettes. They're just trying to protect thier profits. As far as other people; a lot of it is ignorance. They cannot grasp how what you're... |
How can transgendered people have cisgendered identical twins? | When a baby grows inside its mother, it grows according to a recipe . Depending on how well the recipe is followed, and under what conditions, the results can be everything from the same every time to completely different every time. Twins have the same DNA, but because they get different treatment in the womb they tur... |
Is Adblocker legal? And if so, how? | It's not illegal. They still sent me all the data they intended to - ads included - I just had a script remove advertisements out of that data. It's much the same as throwing your junk mail out without looking at it. |
- Subatomic Physics and String Theory | > "The theory of quantum electrodynamics describes Nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And it agrees fully with experiment. So I hope you accept Nature as She is — absurd." -Richard Feynman', "We're not *sure*, no. But nobody's presented a more elegant theory that's consistent with observation, so ... |
I weighed 169.8 lbs before I went to bed. I weighed 168.6 lbs when I woke up. Where did the 1.2 lbs go? | Your metabolism converts sugars + oxygen into carbon dioxide + water + energy. You then breathe out the CO*_2_*, along with some of the H*_2_*O in the form of water vapor, while you sleepMost of it is probably due to breathing. You lose a surprisingly large amount of water vapour through that route over 7-8 hours. |
How would a lemon battery behave/perform if it remained attached to its tree? | The lemon doesn't actually provide the power, rather, it provides an electrolyte for ions to travel through. The power, or rather, the voltage, is determined by the electronegativity of the cathode and anode metals stuck into the lemon - the "power" by how much metal there is available to react with. Therefore, such a ... |
In regards to hills and valleys, what determines whether a roadway will be a tunnel, a cutout, a bridge, or just go with the curve of the land? | Civil Engineer here. The biggest factor in determining a tunnel, a cutout, a bridge or following the natural curve of the land has to do with .Geometrics. Roadway geometrics deals with how a road can handle a vehicle as it speeds along pavement. Ever notice how it feels like you are being shoved to the right or left si... |
What is being done in the world of science to offset the imposing "antibiotic apocalypse?" | [Here is an article you may want to read] I'll post a little of the article so my comment doesn't get deleted. Scientists have come across a potential game-changer in the fight against drug-resistant superbugs - a new class of antibiotic that is resistant to resistance. Not only does the new compound - which comes from... |
How do "Reality Shows" like Pawn Stars and Duck Dynasty work? | Never seen Duck Dynasty, but Pawn Stars is definitely scripted. They close the pawn shop, and producers find people with cool things. Those people bring their things into the shop, and they talk about them on camera. Sometimes they're really purchased, sometimes they're not. It's 99% scripted and planned out. You can s... |
Why is the CIA allowed to black out parts of declassified documents? | The easiest, non-conspiracy way to explain it is simply that the act of removing the information is what allows the documents to become declassified. For example, in the sentence: "Mr. Ahmed Jones informed us of the super secret password to the al-qaeda clubhouse: pepperoni." The sentence could be "declassified" by rem... |
Why is my car built to go faster than I can ever legally drive it? | Because a car being pushed to the absolute limits is going to break a hell of a lot faster then one cruising along serenely and well within tolerances.If I build a bar that can support 10 pounds, if you ever go to 11 pounds, or even if you keep 10 pounds on it for too long, that bar's going to bend. If I build a bar th... |
Why Amazon doesn't care if my friend sends a stone in return instead of actual product? Wouldn't this cost financial loss from their side? | Amazon can drop his account. Or Amazon can sue him for fraud. Of, if your friend is returning it through the USPS, that's a federal offense and he can land in the pokey.If he use a single account/adress, amazon probably write it up until there is enough cases to go after a single individualAmazon has a LOT of money. It... |
Is it true that honey never goes bad? | Honey has so much sugar that osmosis would dehydrate and kill any bacterial cell that found it's way into the jar. It also has direct antibacterial properties - _URL_0_", 'I have a jar of bad honey in my house at this very moment. It went bad by fermenting, it would seem, because it smells a little bit like rotten frui... |
How is RAM different from SSD/HDD hard drives? | > The responses got me wondering on how SSD/HDD hard drives are different from RAM. RAM uses a different technology from a HDD, more similar to an SSD but still very different in operation. The main difference to the end user is that access both reading and writing to RAM is *extremely fast* in comparison to either SSD... |
Does running a shaving razor across a pair of jeans in the opposite direction actually sharpen it? If so, how does it work? | For the edge of knife, imagine a saw with little teeth of metal, but they're not all sticking out in the same direction. Rubbing it the right way gradually nudges them all to point along the same line of cutting. "Real" sharpening would be grinding the sides of the saw to make the whole thing thinner.That's a good way ... |
Why aren't more bullets pointed instead of rounded? | Virtually all rifle rounds are pointed. This is for high-velocity aerodynamics. The only type of bullets that are typically round are handgun bullets, which are generally not as fast as rifle rounds, aren't feasibly accurate to nearly the same ranges, and depend more on squashing and deforming in order to wound the tar... |
how do people know when to put the expiry date on their products? | They perform [stability studies] to see how temperature, humidity, UV, impacts, abrasions, and other environmental effects degrade their product, and they establish an expiration date based on that. In certain cases there are government regulations that tell them that their expiration dates cannot be longer than the sh... |
Why do some cheeses taste different depending on how it is served | Pretty much all complex food tastes different in different conditions. Since much of our 'taste' is actually smell, I suspect that a huge amount of it depends on the proportion and composition of the volatile components. Another thing is texture - mouthfeel affects our perception of flavour a fair bit. Finally, there's... |
Why does a computer only last at most 4 or 5 years? Why can't a computer last forever? | Computers can last as long as you want them to provided you take care of them. The issue is that computers become obsolete very quickly. Technology advances at a significant pace and computers are built to take advantage of these advancesA PC could last for longer than they generally do, but as I noted in my response t... |
how does police jurisdiction work? | Police generally cannot enter another jurisdiction with approval from that jurisdiction and perform any police actions. This means that if you stab someone in New York City and flee to Miami, New York Police can't just chase you down the East Coast and arrest you. They can put out a warrant for your arrest that the Mia... |
Reddit's obsession with John Cena | The majority of the internet has an obsession with John Cena. All of it spawned when a radio show did a prank call or "phone scam" telling the person being pranked that they could see the WWE Superslam and watch John Cena wrestle. There's a video from where it all started, just by looking up "John Cena Prank Call" on Y... |
How do engineers decide what the speed limit should be on any given road/street? | State route speed limits are set by lawmakers, not engineers. Engineers however do set the speed limits for ramps and transition roadways, curvy bits where G forces matter more than speed. When traveling through a curve there's a max G force your vehicle is allowed to take before it becomes unsafe; this is why posted s... |
how can a woman sue a company for Toxic Shock Syndrome if the warnings are placed on the box as a warning? | You can't just put a warning label on a box and make yourself immune from a lawsuit. Like, Chevy couldn't design cars that explode randomly and it be fine because they put a sticker on the cars. Hormel can't sell poisonous cans of Spam and have it be fine if they put some words on the can. Walmart can't stock and sell ... |
How nuclear weapons could have been dropped and tested in Nevada, without the nuclear fallout or radiation harming civilian populations in the surrounding communities. | they tested them in super remote areas, and before long, they stopped testing them above ground or under water , they would detonate them underground, so the radiation would be contained. there is a low level of radiation across the globe that didnt exist before nuclear testing. generally inconsequential for humans, bu... |
This reddit vault thing?! | Originally a redditors Dad bought an old casino , they found a safe behind a secret wall. He posted to Reddit saying he'd film and take pictures when they opened it and share what was inside. Everyone got excited, tried guessing what was in the safe - why was it behind a wall? etc. Story took off and Oprah bought the r... |
What is a four wheel drive and how is it different to normal cars? | Most cars are two wheel drive, which means that power from the engine only goes to two of the wheels, either front or back. Four wheel drive means power goes to all four wheels. Think of a car that is suspended above the ground, and when you push the gas, only the powered wheels will spin. * Front wheel drive: only the... |
What are things an average person can do to help fight the global warming? | When you buy appliances, buy energy star. Use less heat and air conditioning. Bike more, drive less. Put solar panels on your house . If you get a car, get a hybrid or electric one. Turn down your water heater. Check whether your electric utility offers the option of buying wind or solar power. Insulate your home .Be e... |
Why does rushing water appear white instead of clear? | It's for the same reason that Egg whites are clear until they're beaten, when they become white - it's the addition of air very rapidly being incorporated into the egg whites. Water moving at speed traps air in much the same way as air gets beaten into eggs, causing the water to froth and appear white. |
What benefits has space exploration brought to humans? | Memory foam mattresses. Many technologies developed for space exploration have since made it into our daily livesYour typing on it, dude . No lunar program, no pc revolution, no internet. The rest is gravy._URL_0_ I'll let the boys at NASA take this. |
How is there a slow lane and a fast lane on the highway if the speed limit never changes? | Legally, in theory the idea is that not everyone is going to go *exactly* the speed limit. It's the limit-- you can't go over it, but you can go varying degrees under it. So some people will go 65, some will go 60, and the people going 65 need to pass the ones going 60 to avoid congestion. Practically, everyone underst... |
How every new movie that comes out can say they are the "Number one" Movie in America | Because of Statistics! Depending on how you want to spin the numbers, or what cohort you're looking for, then you can manipulate the numbers to say anything you want. Are they the "Number One Movie" based on total tickets sold, or tickets solded based on an age demographic, or base on a timeframe, or based on amount of... |
Why do people consider Police to be the problem when camera statistics would seem to point to citizens causing most of the problems? | It could go either way. It could mean that police are less likely to engage in misconduct because everything they do is being monitored. Without the cameras, the police are more likely to be supported because they are seen as doing their job. There are also times when the police initiate the misconduct by intentionally... |
why a show like The Flash looks much better on Netflix than it does watching it live on CW with Comcast/Xfinity? | Cable streams are highly compressed and a lot of the quality is lost. When you are streaming from Netflix you are getting a better video feed. |
What's the difference between a psychiatrist and a psychologist? Living in the UK, how does one become either of these? | A psychiatrist has gone through medical school and can prescribe drugs. A psychologist has not gone through medical school, and can not prescribe controlled drugs.In the US, a psychiatrist is a medical doctor who prescribes medication and treats mental illness. A psychologist is not an MD, can't prescribe medication, a... |
Why do ants die when soap is sprayed on them? | I am not an entomologist, but I will give it a shot. Ants are insects and "breath" through little holes in their thorax. When they are in rain, it has a high surface tension, so the ant is able to "separate" from the water by pushing off the surface of the water droplet . Once you put some soap in there, the surface te... |
Why do people without a chance of winning, like Donald Trump, run for US President? | Dat publicity. Running for president gets your name out there and gets people buying your product, reading your books, and remembering your brand.It's pretty much just an act of self promotion. It gets his name out there, and gives him a platform to publicly talk about his political views. His end goal could be monetar... |
Why couldn't Iran's $400M that was returned be sent by bank transfer? | The simple answer to your question is that sending a wire transfer would require the countries involved to have a banking relationship, which the US and Iran do not. The Guantanamo checks are sent as a legal formality and have not been cashed by the Cuban government in over fifty years. The checks themselves are addres... |
why does streaming something take less bandwidth/data than downloading that same thing? | It doesn't assuming you really are getting the same thing. YouTube and many other video players can reduce quality on the video before transmission, and some may use more compact encoding than some video files, but really streaming is just downloading something in such a way that something can start playing it before i... |
How do copper iuds work? | It's my understanding that they change the ph of the environment making it hostile to sperm and equally unlikely that if a super sperm was able to fertilize, the embryo would be unable to implant and grow due to the changed environment. |
seriously, why in movies are the voices so quiet and the sound effects so loud? | most movies are meant to be played on a 5.1 or 7.1 surround system with a center channel speaker reserved for voice. Most of the voice is channled through that speaker. So if you listen to it with a set of 2 speakers or somtimes headpones the balance is off because all the voice is not seperatedI believe the movie ques... |
How long would it take to use 1 GB of data on a cell plan? | That depends on what you view on Reddit. If you end up loading threads with a lot of images/videos that you view/watch, it's going to consume more data than just reading text. Also the frequency of how often you navigate to other pages/threads will affect data usage as well . |
Can V8 engines rev higher than V10/V12s? Or is it the other way around? | Decreasing the mass [displacement] of each cylinder allows the crankshaft to move with less inertia. As a general rule, "muscle cars" tend to have high displacement engines which involves bigger and heavier pistons/rods. This reciprocal mass/weight creates more resistance; you also note that compression ratios are lowe... |
What makes one photo better than another? | I think this is a very subjective question. What one person may think is an incredible photo others may deem mediocre. It is all in the eye of the beholder. |
How does COPS choose individual officers to film with. It seems like they always have the most interesting situations to deal with. | I'd be willing to bet they follow a lot of officers around and just cherry pick the best incidences to show on tv |
Anonymous sources the News Agencies always quote, High Level officer inside who gives info. Who are these guys? Are they paid by the News agencies? Isn't illegal to leak info? | It's only illegal to leak *classified* information. It's rarely classified information being leaked. Often, these "leaks" are from the agency itself, when it wants to get information out there but not be tied to it. For example, someone might give a quote to a reporter and tell them that they can't use his name, but ca... |
Can someone explain the difference between
communism and socialism? | Communism is essentially a subset of Socialism, which originated mostly from Marx's "Communist Manifesto". Socialism is the idea that the government should have a stake in the economy, in people's welfare and livelihood, etc. Communism takes it a step farther to attempt to create a classless society based on collective... |
What does does the polarity refer to in a molecule? | Basically a molecule consists of protons, neutrons, and electrons. Protons have a positive charge, neutrons have no charge, and electrons have a negative charge. The electrons have some freedom in where they go. At any given moment, the electrons can be more on one side of the molecule than the other. This can be due e... |
Why do I wake up extremely tired, but go to bed wide awake? | I've been asking this question ever since I was a child. It makes no sense that our society would run on a system that puts us to sleep when we are awake and forces us to wake up when we are still tired. |
What it means when the PSI pressure of water gets too low that causes a water boil order? | A property of any liquid is its vapor pressure, the tendency of it to jump to the vapor phase at its surface, to evaporate. Different liquids have different vapor pressures. We all have experience with this whether we know it or not. Wipe a little room temperature water on the back of your hand and it will feel a bit c... |
Why would Greenpeace damage a World Heritage site like the Nazca lines? | Because they are idiots with grand ideas. The area is off-limits because it's easy to make permanent marks to the ground, and the group didn't realize that prancing all over the place could cause harm to the site. |
Do A-sexuals enjoy sex? | It really depends on the individual. Asexual people present in many different likes/dislikes/tolerances. You may wish to take a look at the asexual reddit: /r/asexuality', "She might be. Some asexuals enjoy the feelings that come with sex, but just feel no sexual attraction, and have no real desire or drive to have sex... |
Can you 'cook' pasta in cold water? Otherwise why do you need hot water to cook pasta? | Dried pasta out of a box, or fresh-made pasta? Dried pasta is cooked already. So yes, you can just soak it in cold water and it'll be fine. Fresh pasta is dough. It's raw, and you need to cook it. Eating it would be like eating raw bread dough. |
Why are the recommended daily allowances for alcohol different for men and women? | It is based on the difference in body mass. Women tend to be smaller than men and thus the recommendation is no more than 2-3 units for women and 3-4 units for menIn addition to the first comment, women also typically have more fat vs. water in their bodies. Ethanol is water soluable, so a man has more water to dilute ... |
Why do muscles randomly twitch when you're not moving? | I think it's something like your brain sending a "ping" to your body to check if you're still alive. It's often happens just before you fell asleep |
Why do particles become excited when matter changes states? | The "heat" of an atom/molecule is pretty much just a measure of how fast it vibrates or moves, i.e how much energy it has. The hotter it is, the more energy it has ,the more faster it moves. So take water as example. When its frozen, all the water molecules are arranged and bonded together in a nice crystalline shape. ... |
Why can RyanAir explicitly impose a 2% fee for paying with credit cards? Wasn't this prohibited by Visa and MasterCard policies? | It used to be common for credit cards to specifically require that you not charge customers more to use them. If you did, it would not violate a law, but it would violate your contract with the credit card company. That is the question he is asking about, and most of the responders do not even seem to be aware of this,... |
What would happen if someone got a credit card with no spending limit and paid of all the dept for all people in a small town? (or something like that) | a small town called southpark? it could work, but you'd be in debt the rest of your life. |
What's the reasoning behind the "pause" and "play" symbols as we know them? | Their origin is not clear but I think the "play" symbol was supposed to be an arrow that indicates the direction tape was moving in old reel-to-reel tapes, which would explain why the fast forward symbol is a double arrow. The pause symbol on the other hand, is even less clear. Some say it's a variation of the "stop" s... |
Why do colleges continue to raise tuition when they are sitting on billions of tax free endowments? | The value of the asset that is the endowment is the money it produces. The money it produces _is_ spent on the university. Without this money tuitions would be higher, there would be less financial aid etc. For an extreme example, the cost to run Yale university is estimated to be $95,549 per student _more than the tui... |
How are Catholic priests chosen to become exorcists and how do they train for the job? | > Since at least the third century, the Latin Church has formally ordained men to the minor order of exorcist.[1] Text previously attributed to a fourth Council of Carthage in 398, now identified as a collection called Statuta Ecclesiæ Antiqua, prescribes in its seventh canon the rite of ordination of such an exorcist:... |
How come when I pay for 30 mb/sec download speed I only download files at 3mb/sec? | You need to be careful in reading what the actual measurement is. Your ISP will measure your service in Meg**bits** per second , while the file download **may** be measured in Mega**bytes** per second . This would result in a difference by a factor of eight . Alternatively, if you are paying for 30Mbps, yes you get 30M... |
How are underwater tunnel highways, like the Lincoln and Holland Tunnel, built? | In a variety of ways, depending on the exact circumstances. If the geology and cost permits it, they'll just tunnel through the rock under the water, and then seal the tunnel walls with concrete or something to prevent leaks. Sometimes, prefabricated tunnel sections are built on land, then put on a barge, taken to the ... |
"black male disadvantage in dating" versus lots more black male-white female couples than reverse | OKCupid itself actually has a good blog post on the subject. _URL_0_ The jist of it is that, male or female, white people are the most desirable. And while black men get fewer replies than white men, Black women get far fewer replies than white women.I heard a report on the radio a few years ago about how black women d... |
Why do you have to put your signature AND initials when signing a legal document? | Your initials are just a short way of repeating your signature to show that you specifically agree to key parts and none of the middle pages were changed after you signed the last page.Contracts aren't magical papers that 100% binding at all times. Bits and pieces can frequently be thrown out in court - especially when... |
If there have been more deadly genocides in history than the holocaust, why is the holocaust the one we reference to the most? | Generally speaking, I've not seen other genocides estimated to have a higher death toll, although you might get some equivalence if you compare a lowball for the Holocaust and a high estimate for one or two other genocides in history. Additionally, the holocaust was relatively recent, involved direct history for a lot ... |
How do you teach a person who was born deaf to read? | You don't have to talk to communicate. Deaf children will learn to use sign language first and then read and write. It might take longer because it takes longer for fine moter skills to develop but it will happen |
- Why do employers decide not to hire unemployed people who have bad credit. | People with bad credit can be stereotyped as being irresponsible. If you can't manage your credit then you may not be able to manage X. I'm a manager and I have never looked at credit history or numbers. In my industry , they look at credit histories to look for issues may exclude you from handling large amount of mone... |
What's the difference between a program's source code and the actual program ? | In general, the source code is human-readable instructions that the computer will follow in order to do something interesting or useful. When you're done writing a program's source code you'll send it to a compiler which will turn it into something that a computer processor can "execute". In that form it's not really r... |
Why does the radius seem to matter more than the diameter? | Math doesn't like extra, it likes simple. If you 've got the center and the radius you 've got literally everything you need to know about a circle in 2d. The diameter gives you that too, but it has "extra". Math has a strong preference for not-extra-info. Further, in practical use if you want to _draw_ a circle you wa... |
Why can't we scan our phone for our ID, credit/debit card, and email (for recipts)? | You can scan your phone for payments. That's what Apple Pay and Android Pay do -- I. And you can scan your phone for tickets and some forms of ID, too, iOS even ships with an app to do this for you . I've been doing this for 6-7 years . You can't do it for your driver's license or passport yet because governments would... |
Can someone please explain the rise and fall of gas prices in relation to the price of crude oil? | I could really totally go to town on this and unleash sarcasm on a scale unknown to mankind before this event. I won't though. When the price of crude goes up, the oil companies say "hey! the price of our crude oil at the source just went up! We must raise prices at the pump!" When the price of crude goes down, the oil... |
Why does warm water taste so bad compared to cold water? Considering the water was filtered, purified bottled water that was in the sun. | A lower temperature does a good job hiding smells and odors. Remember this the next time you want to hide some bbq sauce in chocolate ice cream and serve it to you friends.Your tastebuds are less sensitiv at lower temperatures. Thats why many cheaper alcoholic drinks are served chilled. If you want to taste somthing dr... |
what is the difference between a bush and a tree, and where is the line between them? | Google answers this quite nicely and easily. The generally acknowledged definition of a tree, according to USU, is a "woody plant having one erect perennial stem at least three inches in diameter at a point 4-1/2 feet above the ground, a definitely formed crown of foliage, and a mature height of at least 13 feet." A bu... |
Does there have to be a tradeoff between privacy and national security? | Kind of. In a pretend world with zero privacy, the authorities are able to peer inside your mind and discover if you're planning to do something bad. Zero privacy, total security. In a pretend world with total privacy, an attack can never ever be prevented. Zero security, total privacy. The issue stems from the ways in... |
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