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What happens if Edward Snowden is granted asylum by another country? Are the US powerless to extradite him at this point? | If he's in another country that is unwilling to hand him over, then he is indeed untouchable **. That said, he's betting on that host country never, ever having a more pro-American government in the future. This is in no sense a safe bet. |
What are veins, arteries, and capillaries made from? Are they some sort of live cells, and if so, what kind? | There's a few different layers, capilaries are only one layer, the most inner layer that makes the inner wall of the vein is endothelium, capilaries are a single cell layer of endothelial cells. then there's a layer called tunica intima, which is mostly just connective tissue, then tunica media which is smooth muscle w... |
The Observer Effect (quantum Physics) | Say you are in a room that's pitch black. There's an object in the middle of the room and you are trying to figure out what it is by shooting glow-in-the-dark paintballs at it. Classically, the object is large like an elephant or something so the paintballs don't affect the object as you hit it. As the object gets smal... |
why is pink treated as it's own colour when light blue and light green don't? | I think it's a cultural thing. There are some cultures that have more words for green than we do in English, and as a result people from these cultures have a much easier time picking out one different green from, say 9 samples of the same green, and 1 slightly different. The example that I read about went on to explai... |
If the NSA is such a big, evil, secret agency how is it possible that every day on Reddit there is a new article with great details of their exploits? | You said it yourself: Snowden did it. Until and unless Snowden, or another person, commits the interesting-legally acts he did, the NSA wasn't anything we even cared about. The reason that so much is \'known\' about them is because various government entites went a little ballistic and blatant about it. They want Snowd... |
Why is marijuana illegal? Why is it becoming legal now? | A century ago or more, cannabis was used in various tinctures and oils for medicinal purposes. Its parent plant, hemp, was banned in 1937 as a result of big paper lobbying, because its industrial capacity threatened the paper industry. A lot of things happened in between, but since more and more people have tried it wi... |
How do so many books become a New York Times Best Seller? | New York Times Bestseller is not a title you get like a platinum album or something where you need to have a certain amount of confirmed sales to achieve it. It is more like the billboard charts. The New York Times simply prints a list each week of the books that sold the most copies in that week. So every week there i... |
How is it possible for there to be underwater lake beds, underwater? | Mineral content as well as salt content can change water density. Denser water can pool at the bottom if a lake and be visually distinct from the water above itUsually something known as Brine which is basically minerals and high amounts of salt can sink to the bottom of water because it is much denser than the actual ... |
Why do people treat Beef Wellington as some special "showstopper" of a dish? Pigs in a blanket isn't consider so much more fancy than regular hotdogs? | Beef Wellington isn't just meat wrapped in bread. If made traditionally, it also has layers of pate, usually foie gras, and duxelles . It's expensive, making a proper duxelles is time-consuming, and a completely different thing than just wrapping some dough around a piece of meat. |
Why can't I seem to sing or hum between two half-notes? | You can sing quarter tones as well, but your ear and voice are trained to move in semitones, so this is what you hear and sing most of the time. |
Why do Americans seem to constantly believe that it's illegal to record or take photos in public? | There are times that it is illegal to video record or take pictures. When you have expectation of privacy or when you are on private property and not visible from public property are examples. But you are correct that if the person doing the recording is in a public space they can take pictures of you or record you. An... |
Why does an MRI make such loud noises during use? | The MRI uses metal coils that it passes electricity through to create a magnetic field. The electricity is sent in fast pulses, and those pulses cause the coils to jump. They bang into each other making the noise. The more powerful the MRI machine is, the larger the magnets and pulses have to be to create that power, a... |
Whats the difference between AP courses and IB courses? Which one is better? | IB is essentially the international standard version of AP. IB is international credit for a course while AP is for American colleges Essentially what you should do is look at the colleges you're looking to apply to and see which ones accept AP or IB as real credit, so you don't have to retake the course. If you're loo... |
What are the pros and cons of having shared currency like Euro? | Pros: It's much easier to conduct transactions across national borders which lowers prices. It's much easier to write contracts and do lots of legal work which reduces confusion and lowers prices. It may forge a sense of regional accountability that increases civility between cultures and reduces the risk of war. Cons:... |
The fundamental differences between Democrats & Republicans | Republicans: The right-wing party. Favors Christian values, free-market capitalism, an aggressive foreign policy, and a more decentralized government. Stereotyped by Democrats as evil racist warmongers who are probably on the payroll of big oil companies. Democrats: The left-wing party. Favors social progressive values... |
Why Jurassic Park 3 failed to attract viewers but all of a sudden every one got hyped for Jurassic World? | 2 was pretty bad and burnt a lot of fans who had enjoyed the original, and 3 came four years after without much advertising or hype and was even worse. It looked like, and felt like, a cash-in sequel to a lame sequel. World came 14 years later, after people had plenty of time to forget how bad 2 & 3 were, and people we... |
Why is it that in the southern states, they say sir and ma'am but nowhere else is it proper in the US? | You're partially wrong. "Sir/ma\'am" are proper forms of address throughout the US, however they are far more common in the South than elsewhere. This is because southern culture places far more importance on proprietyThe same reason that in California it's more appropriate to call someone "dude". The US is a big count... |
Why is it that when you get certain shots from the doctor it makes you really sore while others don't. | Shots typically come in two forms: Intravenous - Injected into your veins Intramuscular - Injected into your muscle fibers Typically a shot in the muscle fibers will induce soreness more often than an intravenous shot. However, the size of the needle and the medicine being administered also play a factor. |
What is the main difference between the different branches of the military? | **Air Force** - The fast striking arm. Owns all the bombers and ICBMs. Delivers critical cargo and fuel via air. Can strike anywhere in the world within 45 minutes or about 12 hours Can't really take and hold territory. Owns GPS and a bunch of other satellites. **Navy** - The power projection arm. Each carrier group al... |
What good do wasps & mosquitoes do? | I think the same case can be made for humans. At least insects aren't in the midst if intentionally killing the planet. |
What are the benefits of ice baths? | It reduces inflammation in muscles, which is why someone would do it after a race. Like putting ice on a sprained muscle, except you put it everywhere to treat minor soreness. Some of these athletes probably believe that activating the body's adaptations to cold has wider ranging benefits; they probably take ice baths ... |
Does being fat make you more likely to survive famine? | Yes, fat is stored food. That's why we have it, to tide us over between meals that could be very intermittent in times gone by. |
When Obama enters another country, do they stamp his passport? More generally, how do visiting heads of state (or lesser bureaucrats) cross borders? | Yes but he isn't responsible for it. Instead it is usually a team from the State Department who is in charge of all the paperwork for his team that holds onto it for him. His passport has a black cover, and he doesn't have to pay any fees for it. His immediate family, certain top White House officials, and about 80,000... |
Why do bees become less aggressive/fall asleep when beekeepers pour smoke into their hives? | Bees communicate using chemicals called pheromones. The smoke blocks the pheromones so communications between bees are essentially cut. While it does calm the bees, it can also set hive production back a day or two until the smoke wears off and communications are restored. For this reason, some beekeepers prefer to spr... |
EPLI5: Why is the shape called a trapezoid in the US and Trapezium in the UK? | back in the day american english deliberately tried to make itself more standardized and recognized to distinguish themselves from the english. a big part of this was releasing new 'standard american' dictionaries. trapezium and trapezoid were already two different definitions for a similar thing. but then when an amer... |
Why won't technological advances in the near future make giant atmospheric carbon sequestration machines to balance out global warming? | No one is saying that's not a possibility, but it's not a good idea to count on it.How are we going to power such plants when our power generation now centers around the energy released by breaking such bonds?', "People have been working on solutions that remove more CO2 than they take to run and produce, and unfortuna... |
Why did the bronze age come first? | Bronze preceded iron as a widely worked metal due to the fact that the metals which make bronze are easily recovered from their ores, and the resulting alloy is soft enough to be easily worked with the raw materials which were then available. Copper is probably the reason why the Bronze Age came first. Copper is the pe... |
How do life insurers make a profit? | They invest the money you give them and earn interest on it. And they don't always pay out so they keep that money too.Most people end up paying more in premiums then they get in return, accounting for inflation and return on the invested funds.Most have an expiration date well below the average age of death. They're d... |
How do things like medicine or vinegar just crystallize? | I will attempt an explanation here even though I'm no expert. Some medicines have an active ingredient that, by itself, is in a crystalline state but it needs an inert component to make it a liquid to aid in application. When the liquid evaporates all that is left is the active ingredient. A popular wart medication wit... |
The effect that The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
will have on doctors. | The main concern I see is that medicare/medicaid are notorious for undercompensating procedures, as well as medicine. This is why you see some doctors/optometrists/pharmacies not accepting this insurance. When healthcare becomes nationalized , that means more of their customers will use a payment system that routinely ... |
Why is radiation bad for the Juno Spacecraft? | It's not really great for anything you want to stay in one piece over a long period of time! Radiation results in molecular damage to whatever is exposed to it. Depending on the type and amount of radiation, and the *things* we don't want broken, this may take more or less time. A medical X-ray on you won't break enoug... |
Why is there so much variation in Caucasian people's eye and hair colour but not in other races? | This question has been posed a few times and I've answered it a few times. All of our eyes are actually blue. Melanin changes the color to brown in fetal development. Darker eyes afford less sensitivity to the sun, so this was a natural evolutionary development over tens of thousands of years.The general scientific con... |
What is passion and where does it come from? (Passion for subjects or jobs.) How can it be created? | This is a good question. Comparable to "how do you knew when you 've met the one?" You just know. |
If a human was able to see colours outside of our normal range (whether through a transplant of different receptors or some other means), how would the brain perceive it? | Is the question: how would the brain perceive the new input? Or what physical receptors would perform this function ? |
How do homeless people always seem to end up with a dog? | Companionship, warmth on cold nights and first line of defense. Homeless people are quite often set upon at night, a dog serves as early warning and protectionhomeless dogs? Both require companionship. Literally your answer is that simple.Most homeless shelters don't allow pets. Thus homeless people with dogs spend mor... |
Past Simple / Present Perfect. Treat me like a five year old, non native English speaker. | Past simple is used to make a simple statement about the past. It is made from the past tense version of a word, and solely that. I worked. He played. She killed. Verbs were work, play, kill, turned into their past tense forms. Present perfect is a way to imply something about the sentence, or its topic, is ongoing or ... |
How do illegal immigrants get into the US? | Some enter illegally, by crossing the border or sneaking in on container ships. Others enter legally then stay past what their visa allows jOh you sweet summer child If you are coming from a country that is poor and brown then you cannot just grab your passport and fly to another country. You need a visa. To get a visa... |
What is the difference between a migraine and a headache and what is the primary cause of them? | A migraine feels like a hangover with a throbbing headache thrown in for good measure. When having one I have a lot of trouble focusing on anything and just want to shut myself in a dark room and sleep. It can last anywhere from a few hours to a few days and vary in intensity from a minor annoyance to truly debilitatin... |
Colgate says their "Opti-White" toothpaste will whiten my teeth in 3 days?! What?! How? Do I have to brush 19 times an hour? | Whitening toothpaste only works to a degree. As a topical bleaching agent, the longer it's in contact with the teeth, the deeper it penetrates into the enamel. When they say things like "whitens in 3 days", there's an implied asterisk of "whitening the surface enamel". If you have at any point used whitening toothpaste... |
Why do high schools test you on every chapter when colleges/universities only give two exams? | > you might be studying a lot for something that doesn't show up on the test The goal is not to pass tests: the goal is to acquire knowledge. Tests and exams are just there to prove you've actually studied to the required standard, but you're not supposed to ignore stuff in the course that doesn't come up in the test. ... |
Why can I play online games with zero lag with 11 other online players in a 1080p game at 60fps but a webpage is often very slow to load? | There's relatively little data being passed around for the game, it's not like streaming a 1080p 60fps video. The computers are just exchanging information about who has moved, fired their gun, etc, and all the rendering of the images happens on your computer based on that information. |
Why do some people get seasick and others do not? | Like almost everything else about the brain, nobody really knows why some people get seasick and other people don't. Motion sickness, which includes seasickness, is caused when the motion you see with your eyes doesn't match the motion you feel with your vestibular system . Basically, you get motion sickness because th... |
What is the biological purpose of fingerprints? | For gripping things of course. Their particular pattern is basically random because it hardly mattersIf you look at a chart of neurons in our body, our hands are ridiculous! They are even more sensitive than all the good-feelie nerves in our genitals. People can read braille with fingers! They can tell the difference b... |
How is tea made into different flavours? | While there are different cultivars of tea, the difference between different tea "colors" is processing. In order to make green tea, the leaves are heated to stop oxidation immediatelly after harvesting. For white tea, the leaves are let to wilt and then dried or baked. Yellow tea is similar to green tea, only that the... |
The Rotherham child sex scandal, specifically the facts and figures | It happened over the course of 16 years, and frequently girls were brought in and out of the town. It wouldnt be 5% of the population unless it happened all at once. |
Why is listening to sad music when sad so comforting? | Because it’s a relatable feeling. When you listen to sad music it’s like someone else is feeling the way you do. Your not alone.It helps you to realize that what you're going through is universal. You are not alone in this. We've all been there and it gets better |
Why do people lump LBGTQ all in one group? Are these people not very different? | They are different, but have one important thing in common their sexuality is not accepted by a large segment of society. In that regard, they make common cause, because gaining acceptable for one will likely mean more acceptance for all.They frequently lump themselves into a group because they feel that they have more... |
Why do TVs and monitors need a refresh rate? | A TV or monitor draws an image on the screen. A static, non-moving image. It produces the illusion of motion by redrawing the image over and over. The number of times per second that it draws the image is the refresh rate. The slower the refresh rate, the "jerkier" the display is. An oil painting has a refresh rate of ... |
What exactly is a Bail Bond? How does a Bail Bond company work? | Courts often will allow an accused person to leave jail before their court trial. But to do this, the court asks for money, which would be returned upon a satisfactory court appearance. This amount can sometimes be a lot of money relative to what a person can afford at the time. A bail bond company offers lend the pers... |
In parts of India where cows are worshipped, what do they think about milk? | As an offering from the animal that is partaken with respect, after first offering some to the godsSaying cows are "worshipped" is a bit incorrect. They are *revered*, and one of the reasons for that is specifically because they provide milk. |
Why do most buses have to stop on train tracks and open their doors? | For safety. Stopping gives a chance to see the train, and opening the doors gives an opportunity to hear the train. Pretty much every state passed laws requiring this almost 80 years ago when a [freight train hit a school bus] killing the driver and 25 childrenSame as why att makes their techs put cones out by their va... |
What is the actual goal of ISIS? | They are fighting a "holy war." They call this Jihad. If they have specific goals they have not made them public. For now, they mean to terrorize communities, scaring them into being Muslim or, in some cases, "better" Muslims. They have said they have no respect for non-Muslims , and aim to kill, rape, or enslave any n... |
Who or what is ISIS? | They want to create a Sunni state out of Iraq and Syria. They are localized to that region, but they are a particularly nasty group. If they don't like you, expect to be ziptied on the floor and then executed. Either by beheading or as seen on liveleak with surpressed pistols. They also have no qualms about doing it to... |
What is Memorial Day about and why is it a federal holiday? | Memorial Day\xa0is a\xa0federal holiday\xa0in the United States for remembering the people who died while serving in the\xa0country's armed forces. I imagine most countries have something similar. |
Where does the SA node gets (or creates?) its electricity from? | > does the electrical conduction system of the heart generates electricity before transferring it? It seems there are some misconceptions behind this question. First, the heart does not run off of electricity. It is commonly taught that the nerves within the body operate via electricity like wires in our electrical gri... |
How does manufacturer pricing work? Can a business charge more than the price on the item packaging? | Unless the store has signed a contract stating otherwise, they are free to sell for whatever price they want to. There may be some jurisdictions in which this doesn't apply, but I'm not aware of them. |
How do headphones act as antenna to cellphone radio? | So, there's nothing really special about a dedicated antenna. Any old piece of wire can act as a receptor / transmitter for a wireless signal. Of course, the better the wire, the better the signal quality. Connecting the headphones makes the wires inside it start pulling duty as antennae -- or more precisely, the cellp... |
That sensation of falling that occurs sometimes when you're trying to fall asleep. | A hypnic jerk is when the deeper parts of your brain make your body twitch when you're deeply asleep. It's why you end up in a different place when you wake up. Normally, your muscles are kept fairly rigid.The falling sensation? Well, most people say that they are still 'awake' during the lightest stage of sleep. That ... |
Are you supporting violence when you buy party drugs? | At some level, yes. Due to the nature of being illegal, it is a black market, an untapped market if you will when the drugs are not available. Because of how supply and demand work, that's a void where money can be made if someone moves in to get a good local market share and the demand makes it so there that incentivi... |
On day 1, I search for picnic blankets on a website. On day 2, that website is advertising picnic blankets to me on my Facebook. Are they somehow spying on me? | Yup. Google takes your search history and uses it to tailor advertisements for you. Facebook is also known to sink its hooks into your browser and record what you are looking at in other tabs. I noticed it recently when an add for Cafepress showed a shirt based on a very specific game I played, one that is in no way co... |
Why is it considered okay for people in Alcoholics Anonymous to smoke cigarettes while smoking marijuana isn't considered a "sober" alternative? | People generally start to become alcoholics because alcohol changes their mental state. They start to drink it to get "high" and over time it creates a mental and physical dependency. Tobacco also creates a physical addiction but the mental state impacts aren't really that great. You don't smoke cigs to "get high", you... |
Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" | Are you sitting comfortably? Then I shall begin. Once upon a time [click here] And they all lived happily ever after. The End. |
Why do companies who make products run a review with weird numbers? E.g. 87% of 152 people agree. | Well they sent out a survey to 1000 people and got 152 responses. 87% agreed. They can keep pummeling more people until they get a nice round number, but for advertising purposes they can just put the **87%** in bold and the ^152 in the small print. Getting *exactly* 200 responses would be difficult. |
Why do so many things smell much better than they taste? | This should be an interesting one. I don’t believe that I’d agree that things smell better than they taste more often than not. In fact, I’d probably go the opposite way. However, it’s my understanding that we don’t all smell, and taste in the exact same way. Or at least it’s not a given that we do. I’ll hang around to... |
What was so great about sliced bread? | Slicing bread is a pain in the ass. It was hella convenient when you could just reach into the bag and grab two slices for your Sammie and be on your way. |
How are measurements kept exact (do they prevent small changes from completely changing a millimeter over time) | Well the millimeter is based on the meter. The meter is **defined as** > "the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second" And the second is defined as: > duration of 9192631770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine lev... |
What is the texture called on these keys? (Keyboard) | Hello I am a tool maker from germany and I will try to help you to answer that question .So what we do , is to produce molding tools made of steel, with different shapes, to be able to produce different plastic parts with it later on. Looks like this _URL_1_You can then take those tools and produce plastic pieces of an... |
How did cartographers accurately map things before the advent of GPS tracking and satellite imaging? | Sextant and compass and a measure of distance or estimate . Once pocket watch technology was demonstrated that allowed maps that rival all but the most accurate maps/charts available today. The biggest difference is that takes a lot of work compared to satellite technology; but even so non-GPS measurements are still th... |
Why is horse manure considered a good natural fertiliser? Why doesn't the horse make use of the nutrients in it? | Manure is rich is Nitrogen which plants require for creating amino acids which are in turn used for growth and repair. If the soil the plant was grown in had a lack of nitrogen then the plant would display deficiency symptoms of poor growth and yellow leaves. As for why the horse doesn't make use of the nutrients in th... |
Why are so many of the old buildings in the UK to the north, wouldn't it have been much colder and harder to live in? | The north of UK may be colder, but the south has all the money with which it can knock down and build new buildings. But now we're at a point where old buildings are protected. Plus there's the fact that the south is closer to Europe, and got bombed in WWII pretty bad. And anyway, there's old buildings everywhere! Prac... |
How does a company know that a hack had occurred? | Systems that process logins and billing are typically built with logging that tracks logon attempts and IP addresses. Most likely someone phoned in to say that their account got hacked. Sony reviewed the logs, found that an unusual IP address was accessing the account, and they did a look up to find out what other acco... |
Why is a game like WoW so addicting, yet doing "quests" in real life for real gold/experience/muscles so boring? | MMOs are [Skinner boxes] where you do something and have the chance for an immediate reward. If somehow working out was like an MMO quest, then you'd work out a hundred times for the chance to get buff with no results, then on the 101st time you'd get one bulge on a six-pack. Then you gotta complete the set!", 'Because... |
Why do the coldest days of the year come after the winter solstice, and not around it? | The shortest day off comes near the winter solstice, around December 21st for northern latitudes. But on average, the coldest day of the year is usually in January or February, sometimes even as late as March. Why wouldn't the coldest day correspond correspond with the day with the least amount of sunlight? The short a... |
In swimming, how can the world record for an individual event be slower than a single leg of a relay? | Competitive swimmer here. So part of that particular example was that Lezak's swim was an unreal performance spurred on by some serious trash talking by the French. But in general, it has to do with the difference in the start. The individual events start how you imagine. The starter says "take your mark" and then afte... |
Do slow-growing plants, such as cacti, produce less oxygen and clean up CO2 slower than a fast-growing plant, such as grass? | Yes, all plants with a slower metabolic rate will consume less carbon-dioxide and will produce less oxygen. It should also be noted that roughly 80% of atmospheric oxygen is made from ocean algae and plankton, not land plants as is often assumedThis question unfortunately is vague. For example, a slow growing tree like... |
How does Euler's identity really work? I have trouble understanding how trig functions can be related to imaginary numbers so elegantly. | Find the Taylor expansion for e^x and then plug in iω for x. Then you'll notice it is the sum of the Taylor series for cosω and i multiplied by the Taylor series for sinω. Then you can see Euler's identity e^iω = cosω +isinω. Plug in π for ω and you get that neat little identity |
How Babe Ruth managed to hit 714 homers | Do you want to know the terrifying truth, or do you want to see me sock a few dingers?', "It's a perfect storm kind of situation .. If you know other sports I would equate it to Gretzky in hockey. It takes an exceptional individual but also a set of circumstances to make the great ones |
How do dyes (hair, fabric, etc.) work? What makes one dye more "permanent" than another? | A dye is typically composed of a pigment molecule or a combination of pigment molecules. Pigments absorb light at some specific wavelength and therefore reflect other light that you see as color. . Over time, pigment molecules either wash away from the place where you put them or break down into some non-pigment molecu... |
Why does my iPhone struggle to load a 2 min youtube video, but streams Netflix seamlessly? | There are differences between Netflix and Google/YouTube. One is a paid subscription one is a free ad sponsored site. The subscription based Netflix has all the episodes spooled up and ready to go on each server - they know exactly what to anticipate prior to release. That being said, even their House of Cards and Oran... |
Why can I buy an extremely tiny micro SD card with 32 GB on it, but SSD's with 120 GB are huge? | Employee of a Big Data Storage vendor here: The SSDs are designed for higher sustained throughput. This requires space and materials for cooling, among other details I'm not going to address, such as error correction. If you tried to drive your SD card at the sustained rates that SSDs are designed to handle normally, y... |
What's the point of delegates in the presidential conventions? | Delegates apply to the primaries, not to the general election. In the primaries delegates amount to "points" that people acquire based on the votes in each individual state. Bigger states have more delegates. If you get a certain amount of the total delegates you will become the candidate for the general election*. *Th... |
Why does the American government want to control the Internet and eliminate privacy? | I do not think the government wants to control the internet as much as certain business interests want to control the internet. If ISPs, Studios, Publishers, etc. can control the amount and quality of content available to the consumer per $$$ paid, they can charge you more for the content some individuals desire.Lets, ... |
Why do 3D movies hurt my eyes? Why do I have issues when others don't? What's going on with my vision? | I have a similar issue. I asked my eye doctor and was told that the astigmatism is what causes the headaches and such. Something to do with how the eyes shift to focus. I can't go to 3D movies because I get wicked headaches. |
Why do white animals have red eyes? | Albino animals are born with a genetic condition which means they don't produce melanin , the pigment responsible for giving their skin/hair colour. It's also the pigment responsible for giving their eyes colour. Without this pigment the blood vessels in the eye can be seen. So their eyes are actually "coloured" red it... |
why are most pears not sprayed with wax, while most apples are sprayed? | Apples are a cut-throat business. There can be dozens of different kinds in one store, and most people buy based on looks. Pears don't have that kind of competition, so they can relax and not worry about appearance as much. |
Why are nuclear bombs detonated in the air instead of on impact? | Because it has a wider impact range. Detonating on the ground has quite a bit of energy absorbed into the ground below it, instead of on the target location. Detonating in air allows it to spread out more, dealing more damage.It's a bit like how artillery shells are often set to detonate before impact. If they detonate... |
How does something like Alzheimer's lead to death? | The disease itself doesn't directly cause death, however it slowly causes the affected person to lose the ability to take care of themselves - they lose motor functions and the ability to speak, and end up spending their days bedridden, which also results in lack of proper diet and weakening of the immune system. They ... |
What's the TL;DR version of the Fine Bros situation? | The fine brothers were in the process of broadly trademarking reaction videos and their video format. The were asserting their power over other content creators, even ones that had few views or were exercising fair use . People probably would 've been more okay with them protecting their work if they had been more open... |
The No Child Left Behind Act and how it is effecting our education system. | No Child Left Behind makes the funding of schools depend on how well the students do on tests. The effects are: - Teachers will concentrate on having the students do well on tests rather than making sure the students learn something- Once your school gets behind and you receive less money, it's hard to improve because ... |
Why does chocolate that has melted and then reformed taste different than the pre-melted version? | The pre-melted version has obviously been formed with a certain ratio of milk, butter, cocoa etc. What happens when it's melted and reformed is that when you melt it - it needs heat. When heated it will then disturb some of the chemicals in there and the way in which they are controlled are disturbed as well. The secon... |
How does internet cookies work, exactly? | When you have cookies enabled, a website can save "variables" to your browser that only that same website can access. Like: * account_id = 4* name = Frank* last_visit = 2015 Then when you visit that website again, your browser sends all those values back to the websiteWhat intrigues me most is why they are named "cooki... |
Multiple federal courts issuing simultaneous conflicting rulings on the same issue | The general rule is that when there are conflicting rulings from federal courts, they are binding in the areas where those courts sit. So, for instance, if the federal courts in NY rule that X tactic by the FBI is illegal, the FBI at a minimum has to stop using that tactic in NY to extent possible. If California courts... |
How can lawyers get things like drug charges and DUIs talked down to things like trespassing and littering? | Trials are expensive and time consuming. Rather than everyone spending the money and the time to prepare and go to trial, the defendant agrees to plead guilty to a lesser charge. Taxpayers don't have to pay as much for the trial, the guilty party still gets some form of punishment, and for the most part everyone's happ... |
what's the purpose of having nails on our fingers and toes? | They protect the ends of your phalanges and help you grip, claw and pry things. For example - imagine if you were running on a dirt area, maybe a field, barefoot. Let's imagine you trip, and you fall forward, dragging your foot with you. If you stumble, that means your foot is digging into the ground, almost kicking it... |
why is movie theater popcorn so much better than microwave bags? | It's popped "the old-fashioned way". Popcorn popped over external heat with lots of oil is always better than the kind popped with naturally uneven microwave power.They pop it with physical contact heat, canola oil, and [flavacol] powered seasoning. The Flavacol is the fucking key. I've popped a lot of popcorn in my da... |
How some less muscular people can lift a lot heavier weights than much muscular people? | When I had a weight training class, I was told that I could lift weights to become stronger OR to have more impressive-looking muscles, but not really both at the same time. More muscle is more power, so any working out will make you capable of moving more weight, but different training leads to different results. At t... |
How are old movies so clear today? | If the original prints of the film are available, they can create movies in newer formats directly from these prints. Due to the method of filming used decades ago, they are not limited to pixels and have a "resolution" far higher than DVD and even Blu-Ray. So they aren't taking the VHS footage and using it to make DVD... |
Is there a maximum population a spieces can reach before the instinct to reproduce is considered successful and stops being the primary driving force? | No. Your question is based on the fallacious assumption that organisms act 'for the good of the species.' Individuals in fact behave for the reproductive success of their own genes. In other words, even if a population has reached its carrying capacity, individuals in the population will still strive to have a greater ... |
Why aren't economies zero sum? | It comes from investing money into capital projects instead of spending it. Imagine you're stranded on an island. Every day, you spend all day long struggling to catch a fish for dinner. One day, you decide to make a fish net out of woven reeds. Of course, this means you go hungry that day, but you happily find that th... |
how to do this trig problem | Ex geometry teacher here. Does it have to be regular? A regular hexagon can be broken down into six equilateral meeting at the center point. The problem is that if two of the sides coincide with two opposite sides of your square post the points of other triangles come outside of your post. If you are still following- t... |
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