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Is there a general rule for differences in words ending in -ic and -ical? Like historic vs historical or symmetric vs symmetrical. | As with the rest of the English language, lol no. Historic/historical: if something is historic, it is unique, interesting, noteworthy, as in historic landmark, historic event, historic peace treaty, whereas historical simply means it exists in history, as in historical event, historical marker, historical literature. ... |
How is it that the Farmers Almanac can predict long-range forecast so accurately? | It always rains around then. All you really have to do is look at a bunch of years and figure out the trends, and then combine all of them into a comprehensive calendar for useful application. I'm sure the biggest part of the whole thing is just accounting for drift in the solar calendar compared to the natural conditi... |
How is thermal sensation measured/estimated? | The feels like takes humidity and windspeed into effect, both testable factors. Generally objects heat or cool in an inverse exponential fashion shown [here]. Having humidity or wind will increase or decrease the rate of cooling, but the final temperature has to stay the same, you can't cool something down to 10 degree... |
The difference between / need for male and female bicycle designs | Nowadays, if you're wearing a skirt, especially if it's short, it's more comfortable to use a female bicycle because you don't need to lift your leg over the back of the bike and show everyone your knickers. That's it. Same applies if the skirt is knee length but relatively tight. You can't lift your leg that far up we... |
How does cooling work? | Contrary to popular belief, fans do not actually make a room cooler. Actually, fans actually make rooms slightly warmer. What's happening is convective heat loss; the circulating air more easily evaporates sweat, and therefore you feel cooler. So no, you cannot actually lower the temperature of a room with a common fan... |
/ELI16: How come we can create circles if their circumference is infinitely precise? | You're getting hung up on the idea of Pi being a measurable distance. It isn't. It's the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its radius. To create a circle, you only need two points -- the center, and any point on the circumference. Set a compass to that, drag it around and draw the circle, done. It's only when y... |
How do internet startups get a big user base before they are well known? | I remember watching a documentary on reddit and before they went to investors they would have fake accounts to make the sight seem more active thus it seems more interesting. Now if where talking about companies like Google they were advertised by their professor who eventually got the entire universe hooked onto the p... |
why do elevators always have close buttons that never work | [According to 47-year elevator maintenance veteran John Menville, the "door close" button is just there to give people the illusion of control. It's a release valve so that after you have to wait for a million stupid things during the course of the morning, this isn't the straw that breaks the camel's back and causes y... |
why can we eat until we're full and then want dessert but can't manage to eat more of the main course? | It takes about 20 minutes for your brain to register you are full. Desert is also super tasty. On a side note, sweet foods suppress appetites. That's why sweet foods are usually served last. |
Folding@Home processing/project. | Folding@Home determines the shape of proteins. Organic molecules are basically all made of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen - the important thing is the shape. So their server has a huge list of molecules that could *potentially* be manufactured, and your computer is calculating what shape they would actually form, if they... |
Why is the iPhone 7 waterproof in 1 meter deep water, but not any deeper? | Because water pressure increases the deeper you go into water and something that can withhold the pressure of 1M of water can't necessarily withhold the pressure of 10M of water.Add-on question: Why upto 30 mins? What changes after 30 minutes?The deeper something is in water, the more pressure it's subjected to--there'... |
How do police get from fingerprints to actually finding the suspect? | first they check the fingerprint database to see if they are already on file, if they are not they fingerprint anybody who is a suspect to see if it's them, and then if they still don't have a match the case just stays open for years and years until one day somebody who thinks their past in long behind them get's invol... |
Why does so much of the world hate Isreal? | Its not hate, its a strong dislike of their racist policies. Like giving african immigrants long term birth control without their knowledge. Having a economic blockade on Palestine. Occupying Palestine and kicking people out of there homes to let settlers live there. Stuff like that.To give a simplified explanation- Is... |
Albert Einstein's quote: "Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them." | If you ignore or do not know your limits, you cannot address them. If you acknowledge you have limits, you can begin to address them and eventually push past them. "Wow, I never knew I could do that!" |
What Hitler's motives were | Hitler's political ideals aren't particularly cut and dried, there has always been debate over them, and probably always will be. However, growing up he was very nationalist, and it is generally accepted that he genuinely believed that the Jews were responsible for Germany's post-WWI problems. He was wildly anti-commun... |
Why do most world leaders appear unconcerned with world population increase? It seems like a potentially civilization ending thing in my mind? | It's not. The world can sustain a much much larger population than we currently have. Additionally, the population of the developed world is mostly stable and declining in a few places. We produce far more food and goods than everyone in the world needs. The problem is distribution. There are environmental problems but... |
WTF is japan's deal with pedophilia? | As a matter of fact, japan as a whole does not like the subculture you're talking about. You're talking mostly about "Otaku" and as someone said in another thread about this: "It's the same with America. Otaku are nerds/geeks, and not the ironic kind either. They're considered the neckbeards of Japan, and some of them ... |
Why do people get headaches after playing video games or watching TV for too long? | * Dehydration from low fluid intake* Slow blink rate, causing dry eyes* Poor body posture* Hey. Hey. Hey Listen. Hey. Look. Hey. Hey. Hey. Look. Hey. Listen. Listen. Hey. |
How does a loading bar work? | It can be done in many ways. Having multiple whole images of of the loading bar at various percentages is common. But just as common is generating it programmatically - describing it, not as whole lot of pixels, but as a drawing - a rectangle with rounded corners, and a thick line with sharp corners for the progress ba... |
If public intoxication isn't allowed why is selling alcohol in public allowed? | Because you can take it somewhere else to drink it, obviously. This is like asking why do grocery stores exist since no one is going to eat that food in the parking lot. |
We put a reflective surface on the moon to test distance.. Why?? | The astronauts placed a corner reflector on the moon. This is a device that reflects nearly all the incident light back to the source of the light . The corner reflector is necessary to get an accurate distance. Note that even with a powerful laser, the amount of light that is reflected is very small once it makes the ... |
Hiccups. What causes them, and how can you get rid of them, SUCCESSFULLY! | Taking a very deep breath and holding it has always worked for me. But I know people who will get them and have them all day no matter what. I don't think there's any hard and fast rule that works for everyone. If there is, it'd be great to know. |
Why are rockets launched from places like Cape Canaveral and not high up in the mountains? | Cape Canaveral has two very large advantages for launching rockets. * 1: It's near the equator, the spin of the earth gives a boost which helps get the rocket to orbital speed* 2: It's near the sea, so any debris or stages that fall back to earth dont hit any populated areas. It is also easy to deliver large rocket par... |
Why can't I pop a bag of popcorn twice? | Kernels contain water, by heating the water it turns into steam and if you do this fast enough it'll make the kernel pop. However if you slow the heating down the steam will still expand but it will do it slower so instead it now just gently escapes and the kernel will never pop. Taking the bag out the microwave slows ... |
What are the pros and cons of Ukraine joining the EU? | **Pros** Joining the EU lowers barriers between the EU countries. With full membership citizens of any country can live and work in any other EU country of their choice. It also lowers the cost of doing business. Common currencies would make Ukrainian goods cheaper in the EU, making them more desirable. And because of ... |
Why do governments not dump confiscated contraband back on the market for next to nothing prices in order to drive down profits for criminals? | So you want to combat the sale of illegal goods by selling illegal goods? They are illegal for a reason. |
Why do TV series' from cable/streaming services like HBO, Netflix or Hulu seem to be so much higher quality than network TV? | Because of advertisers. Since on subscription services most of their revenue comes straight from the consumer they are willing to create more diverse content. So they might not have as many viewers but they're getting more money from less viewers. On network TV the advertisers want to be seen by as many people as possi... |
What is special about Cecil the Lion? | Because it was on the news and it had a name.Most bad things that happen will not make people care till its on the news. |
Why do professional athletes get paid as much as they do? | The teams they play for make many times more than that from ticket sales, advertising, merchandising and so on. Those teams make more money when they have better athletes, enough so that it's a perfectly sensible business practice to pay that much to get the very best ones they can. |
Why do people sometimes need or feel like they need to make a bowel movement before an important event? | Most of the responses seem to revolve around not having to go later, but that's a bit vague. Much of what is happening is an attempt to stay unencumbered and free of unnecessary weight due to the presumed preparation for physical activity. In more complex terms , stress hormones shut down nonessential systems like repr... |
Why are AM towers so dangerous? | Yes. AM radio stations broadcast on such long wavelengths that they normally use "hot tower" set ups where the tower is insulated from the ground and then the whole tower is fed from the feedline. Broadcast AM power levels range anywhere from 1 kilowatt to 50 kilowatts and higherWorked in AM radio for decades. An AM to... |
Why are there different brands of ambulances? | The EMS system in the U.S. is a patchwork of government, private owned, and hospital-based services. The make-up varies by state & by municipality. Part of the reason you might see multiple ambulances companies in your city is that they may be providing different services: There are also 2 major services ambulance comp... |
What would happen to the World if all the water (read: salt, fresh, bottled, etc) on Earth disappeared for one day and came back the next? | To begin with, all marine life and plants would die. If you count intracellular water, all life would end, with the possible exception of some sporesWell, the first thing that happened, would be about 7 billion people freaking the fuck out that some supernatural event occurred beyond any reality humankind can conceive ... |
What do people do in communities after a major flood hits? How do they get their homes fixed or their belongings replaced? | State and federal aid agencies provide temporary assistance. Other non for profit agencies such as community health centers, churches or organizations offer assistance in forms of housing, food, clothing etc. Individuals may stay in nearby hotels or with family or community members. Qualifying survivors may receive cov... |
Why are rapes described as a crime of power and control instead of a rapist's desire for sexual gratification? | Because some people don't get off because of the act of sex. They get off because they know that they are, for the moment anyway, the absolute most superior being over all others and can do with them as they please. Rape also can be a crime of passion although it's not often that you hear about it without a search due ... |
Was Jacob Tremblay even that good in the room? | Have you seen it for yourself? Cant you decide for yourself?', "Follow up question: Who the fuck is this kid? I've seen his name *everywhere*, no idea who he is. Where he came from or even what his blood type is. What did I miss now? |
How to dance with a girl at a club | Are you ready for the secret? The tried and true method that works for me 100%? here it is. **Dont try to dance with girls. Just dance.** Go out on the dance floor and just have fun. Dance to whatever song is on wether you like it or not. Dance by yourself, and more importantly have fun while you do it. Seriously. Girl... |
What makes a burning clutch smell the way it does? | Road vehicle friction materials are typically made from a plastic material with various friction producing additives The most common plastic used is something called "phenolic". This tends to have quite a strong smell when burned or heated, but is otherwise extremely resistant to heat; it won't melt and it burns only w... |
Why is everything controversial topic a SomethinGate? | Watergate was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s, following a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. in 1972 and President Richard Nixon's administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement. When the consp... |
how does the library of babel even work? | If you make enough random combinations of characters, some of them will make sense. On a small scale, if you start making random combinations of three letters, most of them will be gibberish but some of them will make perfect sense. I've just done this myself in Excel - after 46 lines of nonsense, 47 was DAY, 68 was TO... |
If Union is there to support and protect employees from unfair treatments, why there are many people against it? | 1. Unions can be corrupt, basically stealing from the employees who pay dues and getting kickbacks from the companies.1. If the union says they're striking, *you* have to strike even if you are not unhappy, or you *really* have bills to pay, or whatever. |
How come most all lights in any building are aimed from the ceiling down to the floor? | Those are more likely to be in your line of sight, and thus interfere with your vision, and less likely to illuminate whatever you are interacting with. You don't spend as much time looking at the ceiling, normally, and you don't usually have stuff to work with on the ceiling. Lights on the floor aren't going to do as ... |
What is the sound I hear when I yawn? | It's your [Tensor Tympani muscle] in your inner ear. This muscle's purpose is to dampen noises as you chew so they don't hurt your eardrum, but when you yawn it can become tense as well. Also some people like me can control it voluntarily and make head thunder even without yawning. |
Why do some people float on water easily when others a similar size can't? | We're mostly water, so it doesn't take much either way to make us dense enough to sink, or a little more buoyant to float. I found out when I was little that I was almost neutral, and could float if I filled up my lungs, but would sink if I emptied them, scaring the lifeguards at the pool, so it's a pretty close balanc... |
What happens in the brain when you blackout from drinking alcohol? | Your brain is filled with special cells called neurons. At the end of the neurons, the neurons shoot out special chemicals called neurotransmitters to talk to the next neuron. Alcohol is a type of drug called a depressant. It lowers the number of neurotransmitters thereby making your brain work slower. The part of your... |
Why does America sell 2 Litre bottles of soda when everything else is in gallons? | The metric system creeps up on you slowly, inch by 2.54 cm Because even America has to draw the line at one gallon sodasLiquor is also sold by the liter most of the time but beer is usually ounces. Oddly most bartending recipes still go by ounces though.Since no one has answered your question I will. The reason why is ... |
Please ELI5: What the bible has to say about people who belong to LGBT groups. | A note on Lilith - she's not in the Bible itself but Talmudic texts and a lot of stuff about her was developed much later . Sort of like how many people's mental picture of Hell comes from *Paradise Lost* and *The Divine Comedy* rather than the Bible.The Old Testament specifically says that "men who lie with men as the... |
Why, and how, are states able to block Tesla from selling their cars within a particular state? Don't other auto manufacturers make and sell electric cars in their states? | The law that is in place says that they have to sell through dealers . So they don't want them being sold from the car manufacturer directly to consumers. However, since the spirit of the law is to protect dealers from their own car manufacturers, you could say they're exploiting a loophole to ban Tesla. |
Why do we sometimes taste blood when we see we're bleeding? | Do we? I've never experienced that. Maybe it's some kind of mind-trick thing.Its just memory recall based on what you are currently seeing Just like when you look at something on a restaurant menu, you can envision what something will taste like obviously a bit odd with blood, but same idea. |
why are fire trucks red? | Red is often used for important things because the red color is noticed first by the brain . Other things like traffic signs are also red because of that. |
Why do moths like light so much?? | they don't. The leading theory is that moths use moonlight to navigate. The moon, being so far away, maintains a relatively fixed position in the sky from the standpoint of a moth. It maintains the moon in its field of vision, and its position doesn't change as the moth travels. A bright light, being perceived as the m... |
why do religions have similar stories and morals? | There's a couple of reasons. Some evolve from the same origins. For example, a lot of religions believe that there was a man called Moses and he was chosen by God. They followed his stories. Then a man called Jesus arrived and said he was the son of God. Some people didn't believe him, and they carried on as they were.... |
Why is gold valuable? Also, why was gold important to ancient civilizations? | It's shiny, doesn't oxidize, yellow is rather unique as metallic color. It's also relatively soft and malleable with a low melting point that makes it a pretty nice material to work with and create art/religious symbols and being not that common makes it special, too.For one, it looks pretty good. Most metals, if I'm n... |
Why are they called tension rods? | From an engineering point of view, there is tension in the system. You think of tension as something actively being stretched out, but that's not quite how engineers look at it. Tension and compression go together. The forces have to balance to zero. If they don't, something is moving. So if something is being compress... |
What OCD is really like | You have disturbing thoughts that you cannot control, e.g. people you care about dying. These are the obessions part of OCD. Certain actions, like tapping a door four time, reduces/stops your obsessions for a short period of time so you tend to repeat these actions to stave off your disturbing thoughts. With OCD, most ... |
Why do the epiphany-like developmental leaps of childhood cease as we age? | It's really easy to have a massive leap when you're starting with nothing. Babies start off hardly being able to crawl, but learn to walk within a couple of years. That's what, a 300% increase in mobility? But for that to happen to an adult that would be like going from a nobody to a world class sprinter in a couple mo... |
How much Oil(Gas) do we burn moving Oil(Gas) around the world? | Here are some rough numbers calculated from [Wikipedia]. Cargo ship: 0.1-0.3% per 1000 km . Freight train: 0.4%-0.9% per 1000 km Truck: 3% per 1000 km Air: 8-9% per 1000 km EDIT: Line breaks', "A suezmax tanker fitted with a wartsila X72 engine burns 56.7 metric tons of fuel per day traveling at 15knots. A suezmax will... |
How can we feel something when we never actually touch it (on an atomic level)? | Lift your arm up. Do you feel a pressure trying to pull it downward? That is gravity, and even though nothing is directly touching you, the *force* of gravity is affecting you. The same thing goes for touch. Even though we do not really "touch" anything, we do feel the forces of the world interacting with us. We feel t... |
Why does the burn from hot peppers feel like it goes down in your body and the burn from wasabi goes up into your nose. | Hot peppers and wasabi affect your olfactory system differently. Horseradish and wasabi are both made from the roots of plants in the cabbage family: Armoracia rusticana and Wasabia japonica, respectively. When the cells in these roots are ruptured—if they're chopped or chewed, for example—they release a compound calle... |
The difference between urban, agglomeration, and metropolitan populations | Metropolitan Area I think determines all villages and areas where at least 50% of the working population drive to the same city to work Whilst agglomeration only includes villages and towns directly connected to the city, like suburbs and satellites for example I could be wrong though so feel free to correct me. This i... |
How do we sing in key when our voices sound different in our heads? | Your head isn't thick enough to have an effect on the frequency that you hear. When you listen to a recording of your own voice, what's missing is the deeper harmonics that result from the sound travelling through you skull to the bones in your ear, but it doesn't really affect the accuracy with which you can judge the... |
How do we know that dolphins are self-aware? | This might be a philosophical question but doesn't self-awareness infer that the animal in question is conscious? In other words, would "i think therefore i am" apply to these self aware animal? If so, would these animals have souls from a religious standpoint?They are one of the few species to pass the [mirror test]. |
Can someone explain me the actual economic situation of the world? And why some countries are growing so fast? | Basically, the cost of living in certain countries varies drastically. Because of this, the citizens are willing to work for drastically different wages, creating different economic environments. In "developed" countries, like Germany, the United States, and England, the cost of living is high, taxes are relatively hig... |
Why does Obama and the Republicans like the Trans-Pacific Partnership and many Democrats dislike it? Are trade pacts good for American jobs? | It's incredibly complex, yes. The answer to your american jobs question is that it both helps AND harms the economy, it just depends what sector. It would likely improve the job situation in any of the poorer countries, it would be very good for finance and financial services , it would be good for retail, as goods can... |
Why do I sometimes regret text messages I send immediately after I send them, no matter how long I think about them beforehand? | I read a thing on Cracked recently that said our brains don't see our future-selves as us; it's considered a different person. It's why we stay up late or go out and drink a lot - we see the after effects being lived out by a different person. Maybe it's something to do with that? Even if you know you'll send it in the... |
What is the benefit of a company splitting into two publicly traded companies? | There are a lot of opinions about this. For a while it was the fashion for companies to buy other companies to become conglomerates. "Bigger is better." For a while it was common for raiders to buy companies, split them, and sell the parts for more than they paid for the company. Anything which could not be sold was sh... |
Why I'm able to over-eat for months at a time, then seemingly able to eat nothing following those months. Are calorie deficits/debts a real thing? | Technically, you can go without food for a long time. A very long time. Depending on fat stores. Is this healthy? Not really. I remember reading about a severely obese man eating nothing for 1 year while staying/monitored at a hospital in some very controversial treatment. So yes in a way calorie deficits and debts are... |
When you're hungover, why does your body feel the need to puke even if there's nothing left in your stomach? | The feeling of nausea is not necessarily related to having something in the stomach. Direct stimulation of the [Chemoreceptor Trigger Zone], by alcohol and its metabolites in this case, is the likely cause for the nausea. EDIT - nausea when actually drunk, not hungover, can be caused by alcohol messing with the vestibu... |
How do the Japanese not smudge their letters when writing from top to bottom and right to left? | Keep in mind that it's top to bottom first. One column is analogous to one line in western text. So by the time you get to a new column the ink at the top has dried. On top of that, traditional style top to bottom writing is usually reserved for formal situations so you'll be being more careful with your text. Everyday... |
Why does the brain tend to constantly play music on its own ? | From the experience of a musician, it's always there. It never leaves. But then again, we want it there. There's no "Maybe if I complete the song instead of turning it off in between, it will stop." I guess we have to always make sure it's something we like. It can be bad though, like when you are talking to people. Th... |
Biologically, why are some people naturally better singers than other? | The difference lies in the brain and vocal aptitude. Different people have different levels of understanding harmony and other aspects of music. Also, some people have greater levels of pitch discrimination, which allows them to sing more on-key. The diaphragm and larynx are involved in singing. Some people have strong... |
Why cant we colonize the moon? | Because there's no point. There are no resources there to sustain life, and thus everything would need to be shipped from earth which is very costly and incredibly inefficient. |
What are the different kinds of lightbulbs? | There are [incandescent lightbulbs]. These have a bulb-shape and get hot. They work by putting electricity through a thin wire made of tungsten, which gets really *really* hot: hot enough that it shines brightly. The other main type is [fluorescent]. These usually have a more spiral shape, although other shapes are pos... |
How do 3d printers work and what are the limitations to what they can or can’t make? | There are several technologies behind various 3d printers, but the most common one uses a nozzle to melt hot plastic into a line, sort of like icing a cake. The 3D object is sliced into layers by software and the printer draws each layer one on top of the other. As the plastic melts together and cools, you gradually bu... |
How is the heat energy released by the burning fuel is converted to the mechanical energy of a car’s motion? | _URL_0_ The key is that when you burn fuel, hot gases expand. You have a piston that goes back and forth in a cylinder. When it goes down, making more room in the cylinder, it sucks a fuel/air mixture in. On the way up, it compresses that mixture. A spark ignites the mixture and the resulting gasses *take up more room*... |
Why do we perceive those who don't speak the same language as us to be less intelligent? | I don't think that's a given. Perhaps the inability to communicate makes it harder to sympathize with what they're saying. But I know personally I don't perceive foreign language speakers to be less intelligent. |
How come "mother" and "father" are always some variation of the M and P sound, regardless of language? | They are some of the oldest words in any language. They are almost as old as language itself. They are [15,000 years old]. Words are preserved by use. The more you use a word, the harder it is to change that word. If you don't ever use a word much, it might be possible that your children won't hear that word from you. ... |
How did the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 come about? | * Housing prices were going up for a very long time creating a bubble. * Lenders decided that they'd take advantage of the increasing values by selling loans to people who couldn't normally afford them * This on top of people who were taking out equity loans on their homes. * They bundle the loans into large chunks cal... |
Why is it that the lottery has reached a records high this year and the year before that ect. It it purely by chance or are there other factors involved? | The organizers of the lottery have changed the [odds of winning a few times] and since the top prize grows when there's no winner the odds increases mean the pot can get much larger than in the past. |
why is the earth so hot on the inside? | There are three main sources\xa0of\xa0heat in the deep\xa0earth: heat from when the planet formed and accreted, which has not yet been lost; frictional heating, caused by denser\xa0core\xa0material sinking to the center\xa0of\xa0the planet; and heat from the decay\xa0of\xa0radioactive elementsA few reasons. One, and th... |
Why do islands like these form? | Those are called barrier islands, and they are caused by receding tides dropping sediment on the oceanbed a few hundred feet to a few miles offshore. As the tide recedes into open water, the movement becomes slower, and the slower water is no longer able to keep moving the sediment. Over very long times, you get underw... |
How can car insurance companies legally charge men more than women? | There are no laws that make it illegal. The Civil Rights Act forbids gender discrimination by places of public accommodation, such as restaurants, hotels, etc. It isn't applicable in this case. States could pass laws to make it illegal, but they have not. Montana is an exception and I believe it is illegal to charge me... |
Why are there so many checkout lines in grocery stores but never enough employees to fill them? | A few reasons. Redundancy: if a lane goes down, you can just shut it down and move to the next one in line while tech support fixes it, rather than holding up customers. Peak use: A couple times a year, all of those lanes will be needed, mostly for big holidays. You can't really build more lanes, so you build the numbe... |
The President of the United States and what he actually DOES. | > Shouldn't he, as the supposed leader of the country, be able to say "Gay marriage is now legal in America and you gotta deal with it"? No, definitely not. Well, at least that was the philosophy of the Founders. The executive branch, which the President is in charge of, enforces laws. It doesn't create them - that's t... |
Does the text in the Quran justify Muslim extremists' suicide bombings and other attacks? | Considering suicide is expressly forbidden, and killing innocents is as well, not really, but extremists of any religion will find a way to justify what they want to do using whatever mental gymnastics they can.Not really, it's all in how you interpret it. It's the same as how certain verses in the Bible can be warped ... |
Why are some people picky eaters? | As a behaviorist and a picky eater , I can help with the exposure therapy bit. Forced eating will likely make the problem worse, as the food is now associated with an even worse outcome . Exposure therapy, which requires consent, will likely make the food more appealing over time. This will require starting very very s... |
How Getty Images owns the rights to so many pictures. | For myself they just sent me an email that basically 'we want to sell these, if we do we will send you wads of cash. Please sign this contract if you agree' |
Why do people flame each other over their political philosophy? | The success or failure of any political philosophy depends on it's popularity. So when someone disagrees with you on politics, they are by definition preventing you from doing what you think will help the world. It's frustrating. But you're right of course, anger is not a helpful emotion and reason must prevail.Because... |
Why can we easily pour a lot of booze into ourselves during a party but two cups of tea/water/etc. in a row makes us feel full? | I think this is a little subjective? I mean, I can easily drink 2 liters of soda in a sitting and I don't necessarily feel full. It depends on what you ate/drank before, I guess. Also, drinking beer never makes you feel bloated? It's pretty frequent for me. This would depend on how much it takes to get "knocked down" Y... |
How DSLR cameras can record videos | the reflex mirror is lifted and the light from the lens is allowed to hit the sensor continuously. in video mode, a DSLR is no different than a camcorder.The physical shutter and mirror are moved out of the way, allowing light to continuously hit the sensor. The software on the camera then employs what's known as a rol... |
What Negative Effects Does Ecstacy Have on Your Brain/Life? | As with most soft drugs, we are not completely sure. There are some studies linking ecstasy with long term dependence and altered brain chemistry, but as with all studies like this, it suffers a fatal flaw the subjects are *drug users*. Drug users are willing to break the law to get high. That puts them in a category o... |
Why is sleep absolutely necessary? | Sleep is a heightened anabolic state, accentuating the growth and rejuvenation of the immune, nervous, skeletal and muscular systems. essentially, we heal our psyche and our body when we sleep', "We don't know. A recent study suggests that out brain needs sleep to destroy toxic waste inside us, but meh. I don't know.Li... |
Why are companies like Google and Microsoft always under Anti-Competition scrutiny, but Apple is not? | Apple is constantly under anti-competition scrutiny. They just won a $1B suit over their iTunes software in December. They just lost a case in Taiwan in June over their pricing schemes for hardware. In the US, they're currently under investigation for anti-competition violations with their Apple Music service, raised b... |
How do anchors work? | The anchor works both via its weight and its hooks. The hooks only hold in the direction of the seabed. That means, if the boat is directly above the anchor , you can usually just pull it out. If that doesn't work, the ship might have to do some manoeuvering or in the worst case cut the line, attach a buoy and come bac... |
What ever happened to all those cash for gold companies? | _URL_0_ The value of gold was climbing until 2012, when the market suddenly trended downwards, and it's predicted to get worse. Since gold isn't as valuable anymore, there's less incentive to run a business that collects it. |
Why do cases like the Jodi Arias trial and the Casey Anthony trial blow and get so much media attention? | Who the victim is makes a big difference too. If someone kills a homeless person, nobody cares. People take it harder when the victim's family are people we think deserve more sympathy. Edit: and lets never forget social issues. If a murder can also be used as proof for claims someone was already making, it will get mo... |
Why do certain Ethnicities give off a stronger odor when they sweat? | basicaly, We all stink if we dont shower, but differences in diet and genetics make it that the smell is different, You reek too but - you´re use to it and since you mostly hang out with people of your own etnicity you dont notice it. - Most deodorant sticks in western countries are designed for white people and are pr... |
Why does my vision seemingly improve when I squint? | This is how I believe it works based on my experience with traditional lenses: Spherically shaped lenses do not diffract light perfectly. Light hitting the corner of the lens will "over-bend" the light that hits the center, causing the light from the object to be spread out, creating a fuzzy image.Spherical lenses work... |
What happens in a car when you press the button to put it in 'Sport' mode? | This varies by vehicle and manufacturer, but generally it changes the shift points in an automatic transmission. It may also make the ABS and traction control less aggressive and stiffen the suspension. You'll have to look up your car specifically to see what your sport mode does. |
Why are Fingerprints valid? | > is it NOT POSSIBLE to have matching fingerprints? Of course it is possible, just fairly improbable. It is reasonably likely that you share fingerprints that are close enough to be difficult if not impossible to distinguish with a couple living people today. But the way they are used in legal trials or identification ... |
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