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How people program "Angry Birds"-like physics and collision detection. | I'm going to make some mock-code here. This is not real code, this is just so you can understand basically what's happening. object Bird { centerX = 50 centerY = 50 width = 20 height = 20 } building.frontEdge = 100 while { centerX = centerX + centerY = centerY + bird.frontEdge = center + if { do whatever for a collisio... |
What is the purpose of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act? | It addresses two issues. First, it's a "good neighbor" policy. It's hard to fight graft and corruption when the funding for the graft and corruption is coming from another country. The US wants to be able to say "not our fault" when other countries bitch about how they can't control graft and corruption. Second, it avo... |
- Why does it seem like the same WiFi network that quickly loads virtually any website on a desktop or laptop struggles to load Google in even a dozen seconds on a smartphone? | I have an iPhone and have this problem too, sometimes, my phone won't search using the url/search bar or load _URL_0_. I don't know why this happens, but the only way I can get it to work again is to go on Bing or Yahoo and search for Google and click on it, after this, everything turns back to normal. |
Why do we love members of our family that aren't our parents? | Because, evolutionarily speaking, they share a good bit of your genetic material. Furthermore, we're a social species. We basically lived in extended family groups for a lot of our history.Because we tend to love people who give us love. Family members typically do so in abundance, consistently through time and in unco... |
What is the use of a birth certificate? | It proves you were born here and are a citizen. Without one, and without a record of one, they could try and deport you as an illegal immigrant. It also, you know, proves your age. For age-related things like getting into public school and getting a drivers licenseTo sign your kids up to play soccer. They are freakishl... |
why t-shirt companies place their tags that rip a hole in the t-shirt if you take it out and cause discomfort if you dont? | 1) So you can't remove the branding for the company 2) it's just how tags are for some people, they don't bother me, but they do some |
how does a ship with sails travel in a direction that opposes the wind, or the current of the water? | The keel pushes against the water 90 degrees from the tipping axel of the boat kinda counteracting the force of the wind against the sail. Imagine this at around 130 or so degrees apart, the net force overall pushes the boat in the forwards direction. _URL_0_ More in depth explication. |
How do GPS satellites work and how does relativity effect them? | Each GPS satellite transmits a signal that includes pseudorandom code and the state vector of the satellite. The same signal is generated by the GPS receiver. When the two signals are compared, the one from the satellite will be found to lag behind the one of the receiver because of the time it took for the signal to t... |
What would actually happen to your eyes if you stopped blinking completely? | Your eyes would dry out and crack, become infected, and eventually rot right out of your skull. If it didn't kill you then the open wound would eventually scar over. |
If we all have a voice inside our head, at what point does it become a sign of schizophrenia? | When the voice is not your voice. We all know our own inner voice. Imagine an uncontrollable foreign voice speaking in your head. That's schizophrenia. |
The concept of white privilege to someone like me who is not white | White privilege does not mean that ever single white person enjoys advantages over every single person of other ethnicities. It's mostly referring to two things: * White neighborhoods are, in general, better off economically than minority communities - and tend to receive better education/police services.* Racism is su... |
Do words in tonal languages (Chinese, Thai, etc) lose their tones when sung? | For Chinese the answer is yes. Listeners infer the meaning of the words by their context, rather than their tone. I assume it is the same for other tonal languages. The same sort of tone-loss can happen when people simply speak really fast, too. |
What happens at the molecular level when a paper is cut by a scissor? | I'm not sure how to word this given the limitation of a molecular level explanation, but you could say that the scissor's force is strong enough such that the electrons of the scissors repel the electrons of the paper enough to form a cut.Scissors exert shear force on paper fibers and tear them apart. This involves bot... |
How are rock songs constructed? | > How exactly does the guitar interact with the bass, rhythm and vocals. Generally speaking, one instrument plays a lead melody, while all other instrumentation and vocals play harmonically-compatible parts which *support* that melody. On their own these supportive instruments do not play parts that could be considered... |
Creatures like hermit crabs and snails thay move from shell to shell through their lives | Snails don't change shells, they make their own. Hermit crabs will find abandoned shells from other animals, shells of dead animals, or will often kill snails to take their shells. |
Why don't I notice myself falling asleep? | Your brain shuts down most functions while going into sleep mode. The function we're most interested in here is the long term memory. For example can you remember the dreams you had the last 7 days? How about last night? Probably not. You do however typically remember those dreams right as you wake up. It kind of works... |
how do we determine currency conversions? | This was asked before: _URL_0_ See if that post answers your questionToday, rates are generally determined through supply and demand . Some piece of news, say a drop in the price of oil or an increase in unemployment, makes that currency less desirable, so it's value respective to other currencies that haven't had any ... |
why, after years of civil war, is NOW the tipping point where so many Syrians are fleeing to Europe? | They aren't fleeing, really. They're looking for a higher standard of living. If they were simply looking for shelter from war, they would not go to Germany. [Look at this map.] There are perhaps near a dozen countries, all of which are not at war, between Syria and Germany. Most go through Hungary, which is not as wel... |
Why is it not long after you wake up, it's very difficult to remember the more interesting dreams you had? | Memories created in dreams almost immediately gets mixed up. They are created when the part of your brain that handles common logic isn't operating. The moment you wake up and that part of your brain starts to work on all of last night's memories to make sense of it all. The thing is how do you know that what you think... |
why do girls or guys put naked pictures of themselves on the internet ? | 1. Attention/validation/excitement;2. It's just a normal picture to them and the fact they are naked isn't an issue for them;3. They were paid at some point, but has been distributed by others freely;4. It was never meant for public dissemination but some asshole decided to put it out there;", 'Maybe a better question ... |
How Does Stephen Hawking's Chair Work? | Hawking suffers from motor neuron disease, and over time, he's become more and more paralysed. Early on in the disease's progression, his students were able to understand him , but as his disease progressed he's needed other solutions. In the mid-80's he had a tracheotomy, and lost his ability to talk verbally complete... |
Why is it that when you drink cranberry juice it creates a sort of texture in your mouth, but other juices do not? | Some drinks/foods have something inside them called Tannins. Tannins bind with the proteins in your saliva on your tongue and cheeks, changing the surface of your mouth by taking away some of the natural coating that is normally thereCranberries contain large concentrations of a class of compounds called tannins, that ... |
Why do judges and lawyers in the UK still wear those ridiculous wigs in court? | Why do priests wear their collars backwards? Why do businessmen wear a strip of fabric around their necks that have no function? Why do chefs wear that puffy hat ? I think labeling something as "ridiculous is a bit subjective', "It's traditional and entirely optional. If the judge chooses to wear his wig and gown, then... |
How do animal eggs get their nutrients? | The yolk contains the nutrients needed for the animal to grow. Think of the yolk as the place a of the egg. The fetus is attached by an umbilical cord to the yolk. By the time the animal is fully grown, the yolk nutrients have been used up. |
How does a compiler work and what language is a compiler written in? | A compiler is basically just a translator. It turns one language into another one, just like a hypothetical machine that could translate English into Japanese. The output of a compiler is typically the computer's machine code. Compilers usually have a few pieces. * The lexer. This turns sequences of characters into tok... |
What happens to people who were previously charged with illegal possession of marijuana after a new law legalizes it? | It depends on the exact nature of the new law. All else being equal, they may still be convicted, or if already convicted may still be imprisoned, because they broke the law *as it stood at the time*. However, recognising that this is kind of silly where a law is introduced that basically says "welp, we shouldn't have ... |
The reason behind Colorado county secession vote today | Many states have tensions between urban areas, which tend to be more liberal, and rural areas, which tend to be more conservative. In Colorado, which in recent years has trended liberal, legalized pot, banned high-capacity magazines, etc, the rural conservatives are particularly distraught. Of course, it's rather super... |
How do tape recorders adjust for the differences in spool sizes? | The speed of the tape isn't controlled by the speed that the reels turn, it's the other way around. Part of the tape path, usually just after the heads, is a cylindrical drive called the [capstan], and a pinch roller to hold the tape against the capstan. The capstan turns at a constant speed and *that* is what determin... |
How substances like gasoline are able to store so much energy | Hydrocarbon chains are made of carbon and hydrogen. When these substances undergo combustion, the carbon atoms bond with external oxygen to form CO2, and the hydrogen atoms bond with external oxygen to form H2O. Every time a complex molecule becomes a simpler molecule, energy is released -- the CO2 and H2O molecules ar... |
If teachers have to spend so much money out of pocket on school supplies for class why don't they just stop? | Teachers are kind of strange in that they care about the children under their charge and also care about their jobs. Kind of crazy I know', "Former high school teacher here. Two thoughts come to mind. 1) Nobody gets into teaching for the money. If you're a teacher, you probably have some sense that people deserve equit... |
why are YouTube videos not available to My country (u.s) | Copyright issues. One company might have copyright laws registered in the US, but not in, say, Russia. So Youtube might block that video in the US because the company can sue them for hosting the video in the US, but won't in other countries. |
What sound properties do different musical instruments have different from each other? | This has a lot to do with overtones and resonance. Resonance is pretty self-explanatory: how well something resonates throughout a room or building due to the sound waves bouncing and amplifying for a short period of time. Overtones are what make a sound "thick." When an instrument plays a note, there is a dominant pit... |
Why don't more satellites get damaged from space debris? | While there is a lot of trash around, space is huuuuuge. And the chances of something beeing hit are pretty small. This map shows you all the sattelites in earth orbit _URL_0_ and just look at how much space there is inbetween them.There is a lot of space debris up there actually. It's just the vast dimensions we are h... |
Why don't humans (and other organisms) evolve into perfect beings? | All evolution does is adapt you to survive and reproduce in your surroundings. If thats the end goal, humans pretty much are perfectFittest means, "reproduces the most." It does not mean physically perfect. Insects are fitter than any other form of animal life on the planet because they are the most numerous. Plants ar... |
Why does direct deposit take upwards of two weeks to activate yet opening a credit account can take 20 minutes at a store? | Assuming we're talking about direct deposit of a paycheck, it's likely your job that is causing the delay and not the bank. Businesses have to have their payroll and financial booking in order before they can pay you. They might not be able to handle financial changes on short notice for a variety of reasons. If they a... |
Are Brooklyn, Staten Island, Queens, Bronx and Manhattan considered different cities? And what considers them boroughs? | They're all part of New York City, though they were once separate and individual cities. As for what considers them “boroughs,” that's the colloquial name for the counties which now bear those names. Queens and the Bronx are the same in both cases, but Manhattan is New York county, Staten Island is Richmond county, and... |
Why do animals like deer, kangaroos and such seem to vaporize when hit by a fast moving car? | Vaporize? They don't. You can clearly see the bodies after contact. However, the blood is expelled as a loosely compacted liquid which, as liquids do at high velocity, disperses as a mist. Some of the internal organs would go with that, too, as they are very squishy, and squishy things hit by something large and moving... |
Why does it feel colder when you get wet? | when water evaporates off your skin, the water takes some energy from its surroundings in order to change from a liquid to a gas. This is also why sweating makes you cooler. The evaporation of any water, sweat or otherwise, cools you down. |
How do swype keyboard work and how are they so accurate? | You start on one letter. The computer takes a list of words that start with that letter. You swype to the next letter -the computer eliminates all words that don't have that letter next. You swype to the third letter and it eliminates more words and so on until you have only the word you swyped in. However, your input ... |
the meaning behind this quote: "Karachi is like Gotham City.. except we have no Batman.. and our Joker lives in London" | Karachi is currently experiencing some large problems; both in crime, and politically. This is in part due to [Altaf Hussain] who is the founder and leader of the [Muttahida Quami Movement] - a political party in pakistan based in the city of Karachi. The problems surrounding the party are complicated, but politics in ... |
Why is it that Russians are never (or barely ever) referred to as Asians, even though Russia is technically part of the continent Asia? | Most Russians live in what is considered by most maps to be Europe. However, far more importantly than that, most Russians are ethnic Slavs and are far, far more culturally connected to Europe than any Asian culture.You've been misinformed your whole life, but not intentional.The country you know as Russia is a Europea... |
What would happen if a civilian took the laws in their own hands (Catching criminals, helping the police etc.). Are there any legal restricitions against doing this, like Batman does? | Canadian lawyer here. This depends massively on the jurisdiction you are in. In Canada, anyone is allowed to arrest someone they find committing an indictable offence , but there are certain restrictions. For example, if I'm going to arrest someone, I have to directly find them committing the crime. A cop can arrest so... |
Back in the old days of Minecraft Modding, why did we need to delete the "META-INF" folder to avoid a black screen? | Meta-Inf is an address book of sorts. Minecraft will attempt to index everything in that address book. When modding old-school style, we replace files in the minecraft.jar itself. That will lead to some disrepancies in the addresses and whatnot. Minecraft then crashes cause it can't find what it expects. By deleting Me... |
What is the "life expectancy" of the human civilisation? | That's way too complicated to possibly predict, and as far as we know, there's likely not anything we could do to ourselves that would wipe us out completely, even if it would be catastrophic. Some humans somewhere would somehow limp to survival. Although we do know that at some point, increasing solar radiation will m... |
Why does it take so long for new video game consoles to be produced? | Consoles are typically sold at a loss to encourage people to buy them. This increases the install base, and developers want to target the largest audiences possible to maximize sales. Developers have to pay a licensing fee to the console manufacturers to release a game on their platform. So the reason it takes a while ... |
what's the difference between torque and brake horse power? | Torque and HP are related by an equation: HP = torque * RPMs / 5252 Torque is the amount of twisting force available at that moment at the wheel. HP is the amount of energy the engine is able to produce, and they are in a fixed relationship with each other. When people argue about torque vs. horsepower for cars, it's u... |
Does the heat index (or wind chill) objectively effect the human body? | Before I answer your question, I want to address your 99 vs. 100 degrees C example. Water will evaporate, very quickly, at 99 degrees C. It just won't quite reach boiling . Now, what causes the heat index is temperature *and* humidity. The amount of moisture already in the air. We cool ourselves off by sweating. The sw... |
Why do modern TVs seem to increase the framerate of video, even when to footage is decades old? | Modern televisions have a setting that is usually turned on by default that causes this effect. The way it does it is by looking at two frames in the image, seeing what the differences are, and "guessing" what another frame between the two would look like if it was there when the show was recorded. The TV then creates ... |
Short Film Industry. How do short films make money? How much do the directors/producers/actors earn on average? | They generally don't unless you win an award. They're usually funded by art grants or private investors as a proof of concept for the director and/or crew's talents. |
I read somewhere it's impossible to overdose on melatonin. But, what would happen if I consumed an entire bottle at one time? | I was laying in bed sleeping when I woke up adrenaline pumping fully alert. I couldn't move, I was paralyzed. My body didn't do the "feels like I have a million pound weight" deal, just didn't do crap. Standing over me was a demon dressed in a white dress. I 've heard stories of the white light, etc. I thought this was... |
Why do I see the same length of my body in the mirror no matter how far I am from the mirror? | What do you mean by "length of my body"? Do you mean you see yourself as the same height? You see yourself as the same height because you are still the same height. looking in a mirror is like looking at a person on the other side of a piece of glass, standing as far from the glass as you. Since they're still the same ... |
What are the differences between mechanical keyboard switches? | Mechanical switches differ not only in actuation force, but also in the profile of that force. A switch might be designed to require a high force to begin moving, but then it lightens up. Or it can be made to get heavier as you push it. They can also differ in how much force it takes to keep them depressed, and with ho... |
the speed of light through different materials. | That's an error a lot of people make. Light itself doesn't slow down, it only appear to slow down. Light isn't bouncing around inside the material, because it that would be the case, then light would be scarttered in all direction when exiting the material and there would be a randomness in the apparent speed of light ... |
Why are we circumcised? | From what I understand, it was a religious reason to Jewish folks, but it became more mainstream when John Kellogg recommended it to prevent masturbation. I may be wrong, but that's what I understand of the subject. |
What is the difference between techno and electronic? | Techno originates from the 80s in Detroit. It sounds dark, industrial, and sometimes depressing. A good example is Prodigy - Breathe: _URL_1_ Electronic is a catch-all term for all music that uses electronic instruments. "Electronica" is not a genre. It is a marketing buzzword from the 90s when electronic music became ... |
Why are so many universities selective with admissions if more students means more revenue? | Imagine you have a movie theater that seats 200 people. There's a popular movie coming out. Would you sell 800 tickets to the show? I mean, that'e more revenue, right? Well, yeah, but you can't handle that many people. So, capacity and infrastructure are part of it. Another part is that limiting the number of students ... |
If residential solar is such a good investment, how come 95% percent of homes don't have it yet? | Probably because it takes 10 - 20 years until you have your costs cut and start to make profits since solar panels aren't cheap at all. Here in germany the goverment was support solar panel companies but have since cut those supports.high initial cost, low rate of return, and the systems are fairly complicated, making ... |
Why do so many airline pilots have alcohol problems? | Poor pay, irregular hours, spending time away from family, stressful environment and lack of rest to name a few.I think your premise is false. If this were true, it wouldn't make the news. I think the fact that it happens so rarely is what makes it newsworthy. |
Why did some animals become mainstream pets? | They were the easiest to tame and domesticate. Also, some had actual uses beyond "companion".Dogs that liked to be around humans did better than those who didn't. Eventually dogs lived in our villages and ate our garbage in exchange for offering us some protection.Pets are a fairly recent development. In the meaning of... |
Why is it so incredibly difficult to hold in a bowel movement? | The anus is an involuntary scphincter. When you try to hold in your poops you are controlling muscles around the anus but not the anus itself. Once there is enough internal pressure the anus will relax and there is nothing you can do about itThe real question is why the pressure goes away completely if you hold it in l... |
How big is an atom? | Let's try with size comparisons. For reference, the average measures I'll use are as follows: the diameter of a grain of sand is 0.2 millimetres, the diameter of an atom is about 200 picometres, and the diameter of the nucleus alone is 10 femtometres. Now for the comparison: If a grain of sand was the size of planet ea... |
Why (or how) do certain mobile apps and programs make phones heat up and drain battery so quickly? And how does fixing a certain string of code fix that? | Most of the time, most parts of your phone aren't being used, or aren't being used fully. - The GPS chip is switched off when you're not using location services - The cellular data chip goes into a lower power mode when you're not sending/receiving data - Even the processor isn't used very much when the app is just wai... |
How does ADHD affect the brain? | You know the story of the ant and the grasshopper? The ant works hard, plans for the future, prepares and stores food for winter. Grasshopper fucks around all summer, procrastinates, does whatever he wants and when winter comes he's caught off guard and underprepared. Well, in the brain of an ADHD person, the ant is ha... |
Why are almonds cheaper in milk form? | > Doesn't it take way more almonds to make a half gallon of milk then 6oz of raw almonds? Not "way more", no. Depending on the recipe, I 've seen something like 6oz - 8oz of almonds for half a gallon of almond milk. And keep in mind that you don't need almonds in great condition. If you're buying almonds to eat, you pr... |
When I pee, am I peeing out the water I drank recently, or the water I drank yesterday to make room for the new water? | When you drink water, it eventually becomes part of your blood. Your kidney regulates your blood pressure by drawing out water from the blood, which gets excreted as urine. So it's not really possible to differentiate water you drank now from water you drank earlier or even water your body produced.Imagine it like pour... |
Human babies are a luxury? | Our large brains mean we have to be expelled from the body before we grow too large to fit through the birth canal, so as a result we have to do a lot of our growing outside the body. Our brains are also the reason why we have and can use weapons to prevent being eaten by a lionBecause we are a K selected species: [_UR... |
Seeing all of these Harambe & Deez Nuts votes in the presidental elections, What would happen if one of them actually got the majority of the votes? | If the person behind the name *was* eligible, then he or she could get the job. In the last election in the UK, Lord Buckethead stood against Prime Minister Theresa May in her constituency: if he had one, she would have lost the PM job , and he would have become an MPHarambe is not human, and is deceased so does not qu... |
How can movies shot in the 1980s and 1990s be released on HD platforms such as Bluray? | Yes, the original 35 mm film had much higher resolution than Blu-ray. Remember, they were meant to be shown on a huge cinema size screen if you put up a Blu-ray movie on a 20 meter wide screen it wouldn't look nice.Thoses movies were filmed on film. 35mm film. This is a pretty good stuff in fact.We you you realease a m... |
Before electronic currency, how did central banks, e.g the Fed, pay for the production of legal tender (bills/coins)? | Electronic bookkeeping was not the first time balances were written down rather than represented with physical objects. Did you think that when I deposited $50 in a bank in 1950, that exact $50 bill was kept in the vault until I asked for it back? No, they took the bill, added it to their stash, and added 50 to the num... |
How do planes land safely on seemingly not safe days? | Airplanes are much heavier than cars, so they slip less. It's the same reason a heavier car won't slide off the highway as easily as a smaller car. Plus, the runways are very long and very straight, so they're designed to have lots of room for stopping ", 'Most jets also have some form of anti-skid protection, specific... |
If I go back a couple of hundred generations I would have more direct ancestors than there were people alive on the planet: How is this possible? | Incest o/ edit: to clarify: At some point multiple of these positions in your tree of origin are occupied by the same person. |
Why do toe nails typically have fungus while fingernails usually don't? | Toenails often are confined in a dark, warm, moist environment — inside your shoes — where fungi can thrive.Toes usually have less blood flow than do fingers, making it harder for your body's immune system to detect and stop infection. |
How are tyres attached to wheels? | In car tires, there's a steel wire that's on the edge of the rubber tire. This wire is forced over the lip of the car wheel when mounting the tire. Then tension of the wire combined with friction of the rubber and air pressure seals the tire to the wheel. In some off-road wheels, a securing ring of bolts is used called... |
why do you always get a distinct feeling/smell/ thing when you get struck in the nose or face? | I don't think the exact cause is known, but shocks to the brain - which could come through a blow to your face - can produce these odd taste sensations. They're common in concussions. Presumably a taste center in the brain is being knocked and playing up. You should get any potential concussion checked out in case ther... |
Why do Americans use 'mom' and not mum also change other words? | For the same reason you don't use Ye Old English like you read in Shakespeare's plays, or even the most obscure English from way before that. Language change, and that's fleek, it's lit, it's groovy, and it's far out, man.Mom is the older shortening of "Mother". As with many things it is the British not the Americans t... |
Why do I sometimes 'hear' my heart beat through my ear when I lay my ear on a pillow? | You are hearing your pulse as it travels through your ear. The pillow blocks out most external sound, and you laying at rest causes you to focus on certain things. |
Why when I press on my skin it leaves a white spot for a couple of seconds? | You have tiny blood vessels near the surface of your skin . When you push on your skin you force blood out of them. When you release it takes a fraction of a second for the blood to return.It's called capillary refill and one of the many simple tests a doctor or clinic might make, push and see how long it takes for col... |
When animals are pregnant and then give birth, does the mother understand what is happening? | Before you answer this question you have to answer "What do animals understand?". There is limited evidence that animals have the same self-awareness that humans do. _URL_0_ Skip to about 5 minutes for an explanation on the explanatory gap and the 'theory of mind\'. |
Why aren't people electrocuted during a flash flood/storm? | Being electrocuted in the water isn't easy. I know you get told a lot about not taking a bath during a lightning storm. But chances are even if you did, nothing would happen. There are still thigns taller than you, still a whole lot of places for electricity to conduct more readily, and a lot of space between you and t... |
How do simple traffic stops/calls escalate to deadly force for police officers/offenders so frequently? | The thing is that its not frequent. They dont report the millions of traffic stops that operate smoothly. They find the one or two that escalated and report the crap out of it until people start to believe that cops are killing black people for no reason or drug dealers are gunning down cops on the regular. & nbsp; Sit... |
What is the source of heat for the Earths core? | > What is the source of heat for the Earths core? A small portion is residual heat from the initial collapse of material into the gravity well of Earth, but the majority at this point is from radioactive decay of heavy elements in the coreThe majority comes from radioactive decay. There are various elements in the core... |
Why iOS update is 75MB but requires 1.5GB to install? | Because that 75 MB contains 3kb of changes to make to this 1MB file, and 2kb of changes to make to this 2MB file, etc etc. when it installs, it has to load the original file, duplicate it, apply the changes, and then return the file to its original place and delete the original. So why don't they just do this one file ... |
Why does the combination of a fedora/trilby, graphic tee, and shorts make my skin crawl? | You've probably gotten such a negative/weird view of these people from Reddit so when you finally saw one you had a pre-determined opinion. |
Muscular tone. Why do muscles get harder? How? Why do they get 'soft' faster than they get hard. What's the difference with muscular mass? | The fibers aren't really getting "tougher" they are getting larger. Muscle fibers are composed of smaller structures called myofilaments . It is the creation of more myofilaments which causes muscle growth or what we in science call hypertrophy. When you exercise, you damage the protein in the muscle. This sends signal... |
How does head lice start? | Head lice is a great example of how infection can spread. It doesn't spontaneously happen. Someone carries it, and passes it on. You and your family are lice free. Your 2 kids go to school, one in daycare, one in kindergarten. The kindergarten and daycare are also lice free. Your kid goes to the museum and plays dress ... |
What is a Caveat? | The most common usage of the word is used as a warning. An example would be "You should update your computer firmware with the caveat that if you do it in the wrong order you could brick your system."', "It is the Latin for 'beware'. The phrase 'caveat emptor' translates as 'buyer beware' . So a caveat has come to mean... |
In regards to colleges/universities, how does "tenure" protect someone from being fired? | I'm far from an expert, but I believe it's essentially an employment term that acknowledges an advanced academic skill set and offers permanent employment to retain access to those skills even if they're not currently required or aren't meeting any desired output criteria. I think it effectively protects you against be... |
Will the number of atheists increase as time goes on?
How would a society where atheists are the largest group behave? | > How would a society where atheists are the largest group behave? Like Norway.There's an atheist awakening that's only local to the United States, where the proportion of open atheists currently raises as time goes on. In other parts of the western world, atheism is already well established, and sometimes even the nor... |
Kneeling during/sitting in national anthem disrespect to armed forces? | It's only disrespecting the armed forces in a super roundabout way. In the US, we stand to pay respect to the flag, which represents the US. If you're in uniform you also salute. Maybe other professions as well, like police and firefighters, but I don't know for sure. Our military fights for the US, and in some cases c... |
How can companies own the rights or patent a chemical? | A government must exist that creates laws that say such ownership is legal, then it's sold to that company from the government. Some things are not legal as property in some countries so a patent is different in every single country and a patent in one country does not transfer legally to be a patent in another country... |
how do you make a Haiku? | A Haiku is a poem written in a 3 line format. It doesn't need to rhyme, or have rhythm or anything like that. It literally only needs to follow the pattern of syllables per line 5 7 5. This is a haiku. This line has more syllables. Than the first and last. is a Haiku. |
why do some countries (such as the U.K.) drive on the opposite side of the road as the U.S.? When the car was invented, why was no standard created? | Driving on the side of the road was decided way before the invention of the car. If I remember correctly the UK drives on the left because when everybody had swords and road around in horse and carriages they would ride on the left so they could joust with their favoured right hand should they need too. Over time this ... |
ELI(foreign)5: Why is Boy Scouts of America such a big deal? | The Boy Scouts is like an after-school club that kids can join. A lot of boys are in the Boy Scouts - it's very popular. They do fun things, like learn how to light fires, and tie knots, and navigate. They work on projects which, when they finish them, they get a [badge], which they can sew to the vest of their Boy Sco... |
Morning wood, and if a similar phenomenon occurs in women | There are a few theories about why this happens but scientists aren't exactly sure the cause of morning wood. Women will also get clitoral erections in the morning but they're not as noticeable.If I recall correctly the penis being flaccid is a reflex, at sleep the reflex is partially inhibited, thus creating temporary... |
The USPS suffered a $5.3 billion loss in the most recent quarter of this year, is there a possibility that the Postal Service could go out of business? What happens then? | If the USPS gets in too bad of a financial situation, the US government will have to reabsorb it; there are way too many things the government needs it for to just let it go out of business.USPS isn't a business, it's a service. This distinction ***must*** be made. USPS gets most of their funds from postal products tha... |
Why can't the UN's blue helmets intervene with force when the situation calls for it? | This is actually my debate topic for this month! Technically, they can, it just has to follow the 3 principles of peacekeeping. They must [1] have the consent of the host country [2] Impartiality in their dealings , to protect the civilians without furthering the conflict and [3] Non-Use of Force Except in Self Defense... |
Why do toddlers like to see their own reflections so much? | "It looks like me, but I'm right here, it moves the same as me too, I must observe the specimen."', "There's lots of theories about how mirrors and seeing oneself in a reflection is important to an infant's development. [Lacan's theory of the 'mirror stage'. ] |
What will happen if a skinny guy lifts lots of weights without eating a ton? | He'll get leaner and stronger, but not much bigger and not as much stronger as he would were he to eat more.A lot of "skinny" guys are out of shape and actually carry some body fat. While I was wrestling, we had a trainer that would occasionally do body fat measurements. A lot of skinny guys, just starting out would ro... |
How come when you take a picture of your computer screen on a cell phone/digital camera all the pixels show up? | Well the reason is simple. When you see a monitor it is actually projecting more than one image at any given time. This is how we create motion. Without getting into to much detail you can push your mouse and the little arrow will move around. So what is actually happening here is multiple images are being displayed an... |
I just don't understand Citizens United. | First of all, Corporate Personhood was established in the late 1800s, way before Citizens United. And secondly, your question has nothing to do with your example. The issue with Citizens United had to do with Campaign Finance. Before the case, there were limits on what an entity could do in terms of Broadcasting politi... |
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