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What Happened During the Hungarian Revolution (1956)? What was the Catalyst? | It was more or less a revolt against the U.S.S.R policies and control of the Hungarian republic. It began from a student protest , they marched through Budapest to parliament. Some students went to a radio station to make known what they were protesting for and what they wanted but they were detained by State police . ... |
How can ISIS make money from selling oil? Who do they sell it to and how is it possible to smuggle oil when you're in focus all the time? | "Most of the oil is bought by local traders and covers the domestic needs of rebel-held areas in northern Syria. But some low-quality crude has been smuggled to Turkey where prices of over $350 a barrel, three times the local rate, have nurtured a lucrative cross-border trade."_URL_0_ Basically by selling it locally or... |
why is tax money used to build sports stadiums? | Beyond what /u/desertravenwy said, having professional sports teams in the city increases the city's presence, makes the city a desirable location for people to move to, and makes citizens happier. When you couple that with the problem that "City Next Door" *will* offer the team a nice shiny new stadium at low or no co... |
Why is the coin grading system a scale of 60-70? That seems like a rather odd range. | The scale was originally proposed by William H Sheldon. Since no such scale was widely in use at the time he had a very wide amount of leeway in choosing what the scale would look like. Ideally the scale should have enough different grades that you could have a good idea of how worn a coin is, but few enough grades tha... |
How do Electricity Shortages Work? | The electric grid has to remain in balance, energy in = energy out. If you can't provide enough input to satisfy the demand then everyone gets less power than they want. What exactly happens after that is complicated but the ELI5 is nobody is happy and extremely expensive machinery can breakdown. > Absolutely. Every co... |
How scientists recognise what gene is responsible for. | You genetically sequence a normal version of the organism. Then you mutate or breed the organism until its progeny express abnormalities in the trait you're interested in. Then you sequence the progeny and compare how their genetic codes differ from the "natural" parent. You look for sequences within their genome that ... |
Why do electric machines seem to suffer in performance under cold conditions? | Many electric machines are battery powered. Batteries produce electricity through chemical reactions, which slow down when it is cold, thus reducing power production. Machines, in general, need oil for lubrication. When the oil gets cold, it becomes more viscous. This increases drag/friction, and thus reduces the speed... |
Why does "inflation" happen, and why can't we set up policies to encourage deinflation instead? | the opposite of inflation is called deflation. Deflation is kinda dangerous for an economy, as people will save up money instead of spending it. Why should you buy a TV for 1000$ today when you can get it for 800$ in half a year? > why can't we just try to stop or reverse inflation instead? Because the opposite of infl... |
Why do humans cry "tears of joy" when we're happy? | To start this off, let me tell you about the hypothalamus i.e a tiny little part of your brain that controls pretty important stuff like body temperature and hunger.Next, the amygdala, little groups of nuclei that are important when processing memory, and emotional reactions. Whether you're happy or sad, the hypothalam... |
How do we fill tanks of pure gases like helium on a large scale? Where does the gas come from? How do we separate it and get it into the tanks? | air seperation and industrial gas liquefaction is done by compressing, cooling, then expanding the gas. Nitrogen, Oxygen, Argon, and a few other noble gases are produced by distilling air- the gases all have different boiling points. Helium comes from natural gas wells. one mode of radioactive decay releases helium nuc... |
The cultural difference between "You can't say that because it offends me," and "You can't say that because it offends my God." | You're trying to understand a combination of insanity and power mongering masquerading itself as morally superior. In the US we're all supposed to get along, but in older parts of the world they openly hate other groups of people. Having an enemy with a different religion is an excellent excuse to murder them. |
Why is it hard to walk in the same direction as the train is accelerating? | Walking forward requires force. When the train is accelerating, it is forcing you forward . This is like walking up hill, where you not only have to move yourself forward but you also have to lift yourself up. On the train you not only have to move yourself forward, but you also have to accelerate yourself to the new s... |
Why do some high pitched sounds (ex. screeching of a chalkboard) cause some to cringe uncomfortably, while others are seemingly unaffected? | It is said that the ear is particularly tuned to the frequencies of human speech, you know, for obvious reasons. The screeching "fingernails on a chalkboard" frequency seems to be approximate to the same frequency as a large bit of human speech, but is at a higher volume level, thereby triggering a very uncomfortable f... |
If Saudi Arabia has $650bn +/- in cash left reserves, why are they borrowing $4bn from banks? | Just because they have cash not not mean they have cash to spend, they want to make it go as far as possible so as to avoid being caught with their pants down. Business as usual. |
Where does all the internet comes from and why the speed isn't the same everywhere? | The Internet is just a bunch of servers and networks that are connected to each other, think of old school telephone operators, you pick up the phone, tell them who you want to talk to, and they connect you to them. This is basically what happens when you are connecting to a website. The speeds aren't the same for ever... |
How does photo identification work for Muslim women who wear the full face veils? | They take them off and presumably, smile. In airport security or anywhere where they are required to show their face, it isn't really convoluted: they go to a private room where a *female* officer identifies her. The keyword is female. I live in a country with a native Muslim population and the issue has never really c... |
Why is the snow not melting when being lit on fire? | Soot from the lighter is black which gets on the snow so when it does melt. It has the contaminants from the lighter in it.Soot from the lighter makes it black. Reason it doesn't melt much is it takes around 300-350 Joules to melt about 1 gram ice at 0°C.A typical lighter flame might give off 900 Joules pr. minute. So ... |
Why do we, as people, like winning so much? | We like what winning means: attention, prizes, power, etc. "Winning" is meaningless on its own, but people might pay more attention to you if you won "the big game," or you might want a monetary prize, or you might just like the feeling of power you get having triumphed over the other players--or any other kind of feel... |
Why does a Fridge/Freezer sometimes become really hard to open after just closing it? | When you shut the door hard, you squeezed the rubber seal, raising the air pressure slightly so a little air leaked out. Then the rubber seal rebounds slightly, the volume in the fridge increases slightly, so the air pressure inside goes down. This is a partial vacuum, so outside air is pressing slightly harder on the ... |
Does every language and/or culture have a word for love that is a big deal to say to your partner the first time? | so, this is pretty on the fly, but theres a list of human universals, found in every culture somwhere on wikipedia I am pretty sure that your claimed one is not in there, but please check it out yourself. EDIT: This was bugging me and I knew that Pinker got it in the appendix of 'The Blank Slate', so here ya go: _URL_0... |
Why do persons in the military wear their uniform outside of work? | In my case, only time I wore my uniform outside of work was for quick tasks on the way to or from work such as stopping for gas, grocery, food, etc. With that, if you spot a guy in uniform at a bar or a club chances are he's most likely an asshole milking the uniform.Military uniforms are supposed to be worn while at w... |
if you look at yourself in a mirror from 15 feet away, are you looking 30 feet? | Yes. Your reflection *is* 30 feet away. When you see things, you are really seeing the light that bounces off of them. The light that makes up your reflection first bounces off you and then travels the 15 feet until it hits the mirror. Then it travels another 15 feet from the mirror and back to your eyes for a total of... |
What causes us to be pushed upwards into the restraint when riding an amusement park 'Drop Tower'? | They aren't free fall. The carriage is actually being propelled downwards at first, which causes the passengers to be 'lifted up' in relation to the carriage. |
Why did it hurt so badly when the anaesthetic was injected into my IV? | I'm assuming you had propofol given to you for your anesthetic. A milky white fluid? The pain/burning is not unusual when administered in a smaller vein . Different people have different sensations to it from nothing, to slight tingling, to a burning, to outright pain though most sensations are fairly mild. That's the ... |
Why do Americans say "twelve hundred" but not "ten hundred (rather than one thousand)"? What's the difference? | Americans are lazy. We don't like having to say anything longer then we have to. Twelve hundred is faster then 1 thousand and 2 hundred. 1 thousand is simple and fast, though. So there's not anything really different other then one being faster then the other. |
Why are European police cars made to be extremely visible and American police cars made to be hard to spot? | In my opinion its because European police want to deter illegal activity, while American cops want to be sneaky about their presence to fulfill their ticket quotas. There actually are laws on the books about how far away people are supposed to recognise police, but they are not enforced because the judges also benefit ... |
How can something hot burn one person and not another? | The explanation is rather simple: We're all different. Some people can withstand more pain than others, some people can withstand low oxygen levels better than others, some people can withstand hot beverages better than others, some people can drink more alcohol than others before getting drunk, etc. It all boils down ... |
Why does "premium" 'cat food often contain fruit and veggies is cats are Obligate carnivores? | Wild cats' prey are herbivores. Cats often eat their smaller prey animals whole; so, when a cat eats a mouse, it in turn eats what the mouse has eaten - a small amount of grains, for instance. > So, for a cat, the consumption of fermented gut content from a mouse or rabbit aids in the management of the cat's own intest... |
Why are cold showers so uncomfortable compared to pools? | They're both equally unpleasant to me, but if this is the case for you, I think it's for the same reason it feels colder when wind is blowing. In a still medium , you feel cold at first, but over time the temperature of your body and its close environment starts to equalize, making you a little colder but also a thin l... |
What will happen to the body if you breathe 100% pure oxygen? | It depends. If it's at atmospheric pressure, you die from too much oxygen, although in short stints you'll be fine . If the pressure is suitably low enough , you're fine, at least in the short term. It's inconclusive what happens in the long term. If the pressure is below 15-25% atmosphere , you die from lack of oxygen... |
Since bugs are attracted to lights why are there no land predators that use bioluminescence to attract bugs? | [There are]. But the lights bugs are attracted to are usually quite bright, brighter than most reasonable bioluminescenceProbably because it is not possible for bioluminesense to be bright enough to trick bugs into thinking the sun is out, also the predator would stick out too much and something else may attack it or o... |
Why is it that turning the oven up super high doesn't bake my food super fast? | There's two main reasons why that doesn't work: 1. Heat takes time to actually conduct through something. If you tried to bake a cake at 1000° for a minute, you 'd end up with a scorched outside, but the inside of the cake would still be gooey batter. The heat just doesn't have time to move its way through the substanc... |
How do you go about opening/starting a school | What kind of school? What sorts of subjects will be taught at this school? Where will the school be located? How will the school handle funding and revenue? Depending on where the school will be, there will most likely be legal requirements to start a school. There may also be "accreditation" organizations, which condu... |
Why does hair in ones face and pubic region, grow faster than hair elsewhere on the body? | Different areas of the body have different growth phases as well as resting phases. The hair will grow for a specified amount of time, this phase can be anywhere from a few weeks to years. The hair on your head has an average activation period of about 6 to 10 years, whereas your eyebrows only have an active phase of a... |
How Does Electricity turn to movement? | Magnets. Electric current generates magnetic field. In fact, electricity and magnetism are two faces of the same thing, thus it is often called electromagnetism. To answer your question, your RC car has a motor with some permanent magnets plus wires wound up in such a way as to maximize magnetic field when current is f... |
Can flowers be watered with blood? and will it have an effect? | You can buy bags of dried processed blood as [fertilizer]. It has lots of useful nutrients. I'm sure there are plants that would be overjoyed to live in a rotten unprocessed coagulated mass of blood but it may be too rich and too salty for most. |
Why when I masturbate can I bring myself to orgasm in a matter of minutes, but during sex it takes longer even though it feels better? | It seems like you may be assuming that faster to orgasm means a better orgasm. Faster is not synonymous with more pleasurable! Setting aside the very large role our mind plays in our subjective experience of pleasure, there are physiological reasons why you could enjoy sex more than masturbation. When we see masturbati... |
Why do people think Apple is revolutionary? | I don't think most people do??? I'm an Apple fan. I have an iPhone, an iPad, and I'm typing this on a MacBook Pro. But I don't think they're revolutionary. What they are very good at, though, is taking existing technologies, and making them useful and therefore popular. They took the technology of using a mouse to poin... |
how do fan duel and draft kings make an insane amount of money. | They make an insane amount because a lot of people play on those sites. Anytime you deposit money, they take a little off the top. As for your bonus question, it's sort of correct. The people who make a living playing daily fantasy sports usually have their own algorithms that help them choose lineups, then they will s... |
why are plane propellers in the front and submarine propellers in the back? | For planes having the props in front: 1. The weight of the engine in the front helps to balance the airframe versus the aerodynamic center for stability 2. Less chance of connecting with the tarmac on rotation 3. During takeoff the air coming from the props moves over the wings. This is faster than the speed of the air... |
Could a tree survive indoors with artificial lighting? | Mature trees don't handle being replanted well, but there's nothing special about being indoors that would present a problem- just a matter of getting enough lights. Growing plants under artificial light is pretty much a solved problem; just ask any of a thousand marijuana growers.Yes, but you would need one hell of a ... |
Why do liberals and conservatives both complain they other hates America? Aren't most people proud to be American? | They both think that "Being American" means "Being like me". The other side wants to be different, so they must be wrong. It's not really complicated.I've never heard a conservative say they hate America. And I've never heard a liberal explicitly state that they hate America, they just piss and moan about how Europe is... |
What are psychoactive pharmaceuticals made out of? | It very heavily depends on the compound. Take adderall, which is a mixture of amphetamine salts:One way would be toluene is oxidized to benzaldehyde, or you can source that from bitter almond oil. Add nitroethane, which is produced by reacting propane with nitric acid at heat. These are reacted with base and then a pal... |
How are Reddit moderators chosen? | > Don't post just to express an opinion or argue a point of view. ELI5 isn't the place to complain about how terrible people are so this post has been removed. The question itself isn't a conceptual question and so it would be removed anyway. Try /r/answers instead. And from what I can see your post wasn't removed from... |
why do trains usually have engines on the front and back rather than just the front or back? | So the engine can push the train no matter what direction it's going. Instead of turning the whole train around, they can just use the other engine |
Why is my polystyrene coffee cup cool to hold, but other cups tend to be hot? | Polystyrene doesn't conduct heat very well. It's a good insulator; that's why they sell disposable coolers made out of it. Thin paper with some wax covering? Lets that heat through easily though. |
How is it that I'm occasionally able to hear sounds miles off in the distance (e.g. trains, motorways) as if they were up close? | The time of day is relevant. Sound is a pressure wave, think of it like a ripple in a lake. The source of the sound is the rock being thrown into the lake, and the ripples are the sound waves. They spread outward and get weaker the further out they go. The air during the day has a fair bit of movement in it. Mostly win... |
why is the swastika taboo but the hammer and sickle isn't? | Swastika is taboo because Germany was conquered by the US and the population was rededucated so that Germans are the ones who prosecute the symbol the most today. Russia was never conquered so theit many people who still openly sympathise with the old Soviet government. |
The point of death row. | > So what are the primary reasons for incarcerating someone and spending money on them for so long when they're ultimately going to be executed in the end anyway? Because the death penalty is so serious, "all" various legal processes such as exhausting the appeals process are usually explored by the defendant. This tak... |
Why is it that children (and some adults) never hurt their own ear drums when they shriek but everyone elses hurts? | Do a silent scream. Make the motion but no noise and notice how your ears constrict. You're essentially closing them up when you scream. |
Why did people think Beanie Babies would be worth a lot? | The first nine or so beanie babies were actually rare and are still worth a relatively large amount . They were issued and retired before very many stores sold them. The issue was all the later beanie babies were not remotely rare, and were worth nothing once everyone figured out that they weren't rare at all. They onl... |
Why every storm we get the radar shows it moving one way but the wind blows the opposite? | Because the wind is not pushing the storm along. That's not how storms work. Wind moves from areas of high pressure, to areas of low pressure. A storm front is a low pressure area, so wind will flow from the high pressure area in front of the storm, back into it. This also moves the storm, because as the wind moves it ... |
Why does it hurt touching the bone if it has no nerves? | There is a sheath around each bone that has a lot of nerve endings. That's the thing that hurts if you hit or break a bone. |
How do image identification and classification algorithms work? | This is something I have recently been studying a bit. The way that most of these systems work is by first consuming training data, which is data that humans have labelled and assembled to help the machine learn. The program then uses a ton of complicated mathematical models and statistics to understand the data. The c... |
Why can't actors fight with actual steel swords? | They can, actually Viggo Mortensen used his "hero" steel sword for the entire filming process of the *Lord of the Rings*. However, it's much more sensible to use an aluminium sword for action scenes, because it's much lighter , and actors will have to do the same takes over and over again, all day long, while not looki... |
Putin's government in Russia and the quality of democracy that exists there. | Well, I lived in Russia during Putin's primetime. And in all honesty, 10 years ago he was the best thing that happened in Russia. He made the country great, became a very popular, most people loved him. Then when reaching his maximum term, he declined to rewrite a law and all the country praised it as an honorable act.... |
how skin tags are formed & why are they usually found in armpits? | They are caused by collagen and blood vessels trapped inside a thicker part of skin developing and being rubbed together. - The armpit is is just one of the most common places, others are: Groin, chest and neck. These are where the skin is most likely to rub against other skin and cause this development |
Why do dogs circle an area before laying down? | They do it instinctively. Imagine a dog out in the wild. If it's going to lie down, it needs to mat down the wild grasses and brush around it first. Dogs spin to do two things: check for predators and make a nice bed out of the brush around them. Dogs did it in the wild for millions of years and it worked well for them... |
Why do dentists sometimes have to break a tooth into pieces to remove it? | Many times the tooths root is curved and wrapped around or very close to the nerves that run through your gums. Breaking it allows him to manipulate it easier |
How did humans manage to relate similar words but in different languages? | Two people, one Romanian one English, interact for the first time. They are trying to learn each other's languages. The English man points at a pineapple and says "pineapple". The Romanian man points at the pineapple and says "ananas". Thus, they both learn to understand each other via their environment.Same way you co... |
Why do applications have bugs on some devices but not others? If a code is written for an application which works perfectly in practice, what introduces problems in the future? | It is really hard to say. There are a lot of things that can lead to bugs appearing, even on the same type of device. For example, say we have two Iphones, same specs and everything, one has the bug and the other one does not. It could be that the person with the bug has additional programs installed that are interferi... |
What am I really protecting myself from when I use one of those paper toilet seat covers in a public restroom? | It is basically protecting you from feeling gross. Toilet lids are relatively inhospitable locations for germs.It is completely a mental thing. But if a company can convince the world that their product is an absolute necessity, they stand to make a killing. Wasn't so long ago that no public toilets had seat covers; I ... |
The effectiveness of the "Granny shot" | It is fairly accurate, some players over the years have had very high free throw percentages with it. In professional basketball you never see it because the low, slow shooting motion is easily blocked during play. Modern free throw shooters don't use it mostly because it looks silly and they've been raised on the over... |
Why don't we see TV ads that are totally silent and display nothing more than a company's logo for the 30 second spot? | I believe Ford did that during the intermission of the first network showing of Schindler's List. The first showing was somewhat controversial obviously painful and adult subject material, very somber and you don't want to slam to a commercial of dogs chasing Beggin'Strips. So the first showing was completely commercia... |
Why do some foods(Such as Pizza or Eggplant Parmesan) taste better the day after(once reheated) rather than the day they are made? | I know a bunch of recipes that are better the day after! I think a lot of this is the same reason that marinating something makes sense. You give it time for spices and flavors to really blend, also perhaps lettings things like acids break down some of the food. I know my lasagna especially is good the day of, but the ... |
Why do public schools (and many offices) exclusively use Internet Explorer? | Certain settings in Internet Explorer can be controlled through a Windows Domain environment with something called Group Policy. For instance, you can use Group Policy to enforce the Homepage of IE, whereas Chrome and Firefox would require running extra code on every device to keep the home page set to what you want. A... |
Can an e-mail travel at the speed of light? | Yes. But that's not how it currently works. In theory you could encode a message using bursts of a laser beam and that message would travel from origin to destination at the speed of light. |
Why didn't this gopro burn up when it fell from Earth's atmosphere? | It never attained orbital velocity .. It Got close to space or upper atmosphere by doing a very slow parabolic path on a ballon. This is why Felix Baumgartner wasn't burned in re entry 1) he was still in the thin upper atmosphere 2) he wasn't going 17500 mph that you need to orbit the earth |
What is a picture plane? | It's an imaginary surface located where the paper of the image is. Imagine your monitor is a window -- you're on one side of it, the thing you're looking at is on the other side, and the monitor's glass is the picture plane. |
Why is NASA's dicovery of those 7 earth-like planets so important? | Because it's a major step in the search for life in the Universe. This many planets in a single place means they can focus less resources for more gain, aiming everything at a single star. Also, three of the planets are in the habitable zone, making this a seriously exciting find, because if they are there then there i... |
Who buys stock when it's expensive? | Someone who thinks the stock is going to shoot up to $200 a share is going to buy it. Or, more likely these days, an algorithm that thinks it will go up to $60.02 in the next 2 seconds will buy it.The people who buy it are the people who think it will continue to rise in price. Other people will not sell their stock im... |
What is the significance of gravitational waves being discovered throughout space? | Gravitational waves offer further evidence in support of Einstein's theory of General Relativity. Although it's widely accepted, Einstein's theory is very difficult to test without being able to manipulate masses the size of stars or planets. General relativity offers a better understanding of the Cosmos and how the un... |
How immigration is supposed to work? | Here is the idea lets say you are a small island nation. Now in your small island nation there is a fixed amount of labor force a fixed amount of wealth and a fixed amount of skills. Now assuming every generation produces exactly as many kids as it takes to replace itself . And assuming that every generation exactly fi... |
How do you make fire works have shapes, such as hearts and shapes. | Even though the cartridges you see probably all look ball shaped, what's inside isn't. If you take a fire cracker, and put it in a metal bowl, the explosion will be contained on the sides, and be pushed out the top of the bowl.This shape charge effect is what all sorts of explosives use, and the same is with fireworks.... |
What is the impact of young children using computers to stimulate imagination vs. physical toys? | Eyesight. Playing with a screen forces eyes to stay at a fixed focal distance. Even if virtual workspace is drawn as perspectived 3d. The backlit screen also adversely stimulates the eyesight. Also nowadays computer games and especially apps are written towards short term instant satisfaction. Grinding the plains in Fi... |
How does a bank process a check that is scanned in for deposit using a smartphone? | optical character recognition identifies the account and routing number as well as the handwritten amount. This is what usually causes it to fail when it does. the dollar amount being unclear can be an issue sometimes. But for the most part its pretty simple and effective. |
What would happen to the economy/society/politics if a cap was placed on personal income? | Well obviously there would be less of a gap in income, because we'd chop off the top of it. That being said, why would you invest your money if you couldn't earn more than what you were already earning? You'd probably just hoard it. that would likely completely cripple the economy, and everyone would likely just go to ... |
What exactly happens when you put a fork in the microwave? (Why) | Microwaves oven use radio/microwaves in about the same band as as your WiFi router. The only difference is the WiFi is about 0.1 Watts, and the oven is 1000 W. \r\r\rJust like your antenna in your laptop picks up the WiFi signal as an electrical current, so do metal objects in the microwave. But since it's 10,000 times... |
Why Democrats and Republicans are so called, when both parties are in favor of democracy and republic? | **Because** everyone is in favor of democracy and republic. So that name isn't objectionable to anyone, so you have the broadest possible appeal. The names are historic. The republicans formed in opposition to the democrats largely over the issue of slavery. The democrats formed earlier from the collapse of the "democr... |
Why don't rockets have fins, and why DO model rockets? | Because the rockets without fins can actually be steered by the rocket motor nozzle itself. Model rockets and even the old V2 German rockets were just fixed nozzles and needed fins to produce drag when the rocket attempted to "tip" thus keeping the bottom below the top. Also, model rockets do not leave the atmosphere. ... |
What is a domain and who actually owns the domain? How does a domain come into existence? | domain names are owned by an individual and registered through a registrar. a domain name is created by being registering an alpha-numeric combination of letters with a domain name registrar; if nobody has already registered the domain name, the registrar can reserve the usage of this domain on behalf of the customer. ... |
Why does the throat become so dry when laying in bed/sleeping? | Generally because you are sleeping with your mouth open which dries out the mucous membrane. If you don't believe me, try keeping your mouth wide open and breath in and out for an hour and tell me how your throat feels. |
Since your voice sounds so different to your own ears, then how can you do impressions of other people? | I'm no expert, but when I started singing I was told that I needed to "stop listening to my own voice and start listening to my brain". When we do impressions of people, we listen to their voices in our heads and speak as we hear it in our head. If we were listening to our own voices and trying to get the impression ri... |
The concept of the ghost in the machine | EDIT: Wow, okay, so I'll leave up what I wrote but I just realized that I 've been misinterpreting this "ghost in the machine" business for a while, and what I wrote is a common usage of the phrase, but untrue to its original meanings. The "ghost" is the mind, but the "machine" is the human body. [Descartes had posited... |
re: "too big to fail", won't broken up banks still be as much of a potential threat to the economy? | The difference is it is a lot less likely that 10 banks will all fail at the same time or all have identical portfolios of assets. By breaking one big bank into a bunch of smaller banks you avoid the scenario where one guy makes a few bad decisions that tank an entire national economy.It's the decentralization of power... |
What is it that our bodies do when we sleep? Why do we need it, what is "replenished" etc? | We don't really have a definite answer, some say it's important in the conversion of short term to long term memory, that when you sleep your mind basically gets a chance to"De-fragment" all of the information you took in that day. Others say it's necessary in order to give our bodies time to heal and recover, but our ... |
Raising and lowering of the federal interest rate. Why is this so important? | When you take out a loan from a bank, that bank in turn often will take a loan out from another bank. The interest rate on the bank borrowing from another bank is defined by the federal interest rate. Thus if the federal interest rate goes up, so does the interest on your loan. Low interest makes it easier to borrow. T... |
What happened between David Mustaine and Metallica? | According to Mustaine's biography, which is surprisingly readable , he was a drunken, argumentative, belligerent young man, and he was quite a jerk to the bass player and other members of the band. They eventually kicked him out after numerous incidents involving drunken behaviour and aggressiveness. It drove him nuts ... |
The fly in Breaking Bad | The fly itself was not a problem, that is the main thing you should get out of it. This episode in particular is meant to reveal more about Walt's character. Though Walt gives some BS explanation as to why the fly can't stay in the lab , it is just Walt giving a sugar coated explanation for him wanting to have control ... |
If hate groups and hate speech is protected by the first amendment, how can we combat racism, sexism, etc. without depriving people of their constitutional right? | This is an insanely complex question, one that probably can't be explained to a 50 year old, let alone a 5 year old, but I'll give it a shot. The most important thing you can do is have empathy. You have to understand where the other guy is coming from. No one is ever"Bad Guy" of there own story. They have a reason for... |
'Desalination' and the difficulties associated with performing it on a large scale? | [This diagram shows the desalination process done at one of the plants in Singapore] [Website Source] Hope that helps! |
Why do some online stores have different regions? | It's due to copyright related issues, one different companies can hold the rights to the same book in different regions, for example that upcoming Star Trek series was licensed to Netflix in every other country than the United States. Sometimes it is also due to legal issues, e.g. games with Nazi symbols may not be sol... |
In the Movie, “50 First Dates,” how does Lucy singing The Beach Boys song mean that she remembers Henry? | Earlier in the movie her father had realized that she only sang that song on days she'd met Henry. So her singing it even while she was isolated from Henry showed that, on some level, she did remember meeting and knowing him. When he goes to visit her he confirms it, because she's been painting pictures of him and his ... |
Why is it when you say “ahh” hot air comes out vs when you say “whew” cold air comes out? | It’s not actually colder, it’s just coming out faster because it is squeezing through a smaller opening, and fast air feels cold. |
Is there a scientific/evolutionary reason why I want to be alone when I need to poop? | This is just a social thing because if you go to some places in some extremes they will just crap on the side off the road and continue there daily routine. Also there are people who enjoy watching this sort off thing So no it's not a science explanation just more of a social aspect of how you were brought up and taugh... |
Why was heroin so widely used / such a scourge to rock bands of the early 90s? | I'm not sure what your talking about. Hendrix, Garcia, Ginger Baker, Crosby, Keith Richards, Bob Dylan, Steven Tyler, Eric Clapton, etc. all were at least involved with heroin if not massive addicts. If I had to guess, maybe the dark and gritty grunge era music reflected the heroin addict life style a la Trainspotting. |
Why do we need to send a satellite (New Horizon) to photograph color pluton when we have telescopes that see galaxies much farther? | The ability to see so far in space is based solely on light. Pluto does not give off light itself and is too distant to reflect visible light from the Sun. When we are looking at distant galaxies through a telescope we are looking at the stars in the galaxy. We have not yet been able to visually see an exoplanet . We h... |
Why do Germanic-based english words change a lot in root and plural, while latin based words are correct down to the T* including their plural? | Cactus and octopus are actually interesting cases, because they are Greek via Latin into English. Technically, for octopus, you can use any of "Octopi," "Octopuses," and "Octopodes" and be "correct." Granted, if you use the third one, nobody's going to know what the fuck you're saying, but either of the first two are g... |
Difference between Titanium Dioxide; nano, anatase, rutile and photochromic | Can't help you with the difference between them functionally except they are derived from difference sources . However if they sell rutile as cosmetic supply then they are [usually in powder]. |
Does your body process alcohol differently when extremely dehydrated? | Alcohol is a diuretic. What this means is that it's a substance that increases the production of urine, which in turn increases the excretion of water from the body. Alcohol does this specifically by inhibiting anti-diuretic hormones, causing diuresis . Caffeine is another diuretic but uses different mechanisms. What t... |
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