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how (and why) the government says someone is illegally in this country but still issues them a driver's licence. | For better or worse , there is no one government authority that handles this stuff. So the state departments of licensing may have no idea whether someone is legally or illegally in the country.Being licensed to drive an automobile does not confer or indicate citizenship. No connection between the two. The confusion ar... |
I been sick for the past week and I was asleep for 2 days and just woke up 5 minute ago. What the actual **** is happing right now. | We are safe until sometime in January. After that all bets are off. You can ask how this happened. I can point to quite a few democracies in the world which have not chosen wise courses of action and are suffering right now due to this. |
Why are there no long exposure/astrophotography photographs taken from the Moon or Mars? | Why go to Mars when you can just take a picture from orbit? The Hubble telescope avoids light pollution and atmosphericinterference, while being in a much more convenient place to get it, and then communicate with. If it were on Mars it would have to contend with poor communications, atmospheric interference and even s... |
what is the path that lightning takes once it strikes? | To keep it short and simple, lightning takes the path of least resistance, so it's attracted to highly conductive structures, that are ideally high up, however it can take other paths, such as wooden poles |
If humans went to Mars and came back, is it possible that those people bring back some sort of a disease that would wipe out humanity? | Almost certainly impossible. First off, there would have to be life on Mars, which hasn't been proven. Second, that life would have to come into contact with humans. Considering that nobody is likely to just take off their helmets and put Mars dirt in their mouths,etc, not very likely. Third, that life would have to so... |
How do flashy lights and video games cause seizures? | The flashing lights are just a [trigger] for certain forms of epilepsy. What's happening during a seizure is the brain has lots and lots of activity, and doesn't 100% know what to do with it, but many normal things, like motor skills are put on the back burner and cognitive function ceases until the brain "reboots". |
What is Fast Fourier transform(FFT) | The Fast Fourier Transform is a way of converting a signal containing many different simple sounds or frequencies into those simple components. Say you had a sound that was made up of a pure middle 'C' mixed with a pure middle 'A'. FFT would take that mixed signal and tell you both the notes and their strengths. |
Why does it seem like the majority of YouTube comments are made by trolls? | Youtube ranks comments by how 'engaging' the comment is in terms of how effective it is at generating a discussion thread. This basically just means that comments with lots of replies are given higher rankings. This unfortunately results in a lot of trolls reaching the top comments section since their comments tend to ... |
Why is my poop so weird after a night of drinking? | How much did you drink? My poop once spoke to me and then turned into white snakesAlcohol prevents the absorption of water through the lining of the large intestine, so for a couple of days after a night of heavy drinking, things are well, just awful back there.I have chronic constipation but always end up going to the... |
How does Thermo-pads work? I'm impressed how with the flex of the disk the liquid crystalizes and generates heat. | It takes energy to change something from a solid to a liquid - this heat is called the [Latent Heat of Fusion.] The material in the Thermo-pad is a [SuperSaturated] solution of water and sodium diacetate - SDA. When you boil the pads, you dissolve the SDA into the water as you add heat to it, melting the crystals. Sinc... |
Why Wikipedia car pictures all come from Maryland | When you click on a photo you can see who made it. Apparently this user makes lots of pictures of cars and puts them on Wikipedia: _URL_0_With very few exceptions *, Wikipedia can only accept images that have been released under certain licenses - public domain and Creative Commons Share-Alike. Few automobile images on... |
Why is the year written as 2015 and not 2,015? | The usually typesetting rule is only to use the comma digit-grouping separator where there are *more* than four digits in the number. By this rule we need to wait for the year 10 & thinsp;000. There's an exception to the rule where you have tables of numbers that will look strange if the digits don't align but this rar... |
Why are we called "Carbon based life forms?" | Carbon sort of acts like the "skeleton" of life on Earth, at a molecular level. Carbon loves to form lots of good bonds with other atoms, and so it's kind of a key element that helps build all the complex molecules that makes life happen. These carbon bonds have favorable energy levels, meaning that it's fairly easy fo... |
Why is history so eurocentric? | Well . let's start with "where are you from". If you are from Europe or America then of course history is taught through that lens because *that's where you are!* But otherwise? Because Europe took the lead in a lot of history. Starting with the Renaissance, Europe became the global leader in pretty much everything. So... |
Why is that when you look at the second hand on a watch or a clock, it seems to take extra time to start moving? | This is called the stopped-clock illusion and an example of what is known as [Chronostasis]. Basically your eyes are lying to you all the time and you only notice it when you do things like looking at stopped clocks. When your eyes first start to look at something, the 'seeing' part of the brain takes a moment to figur... |
Why are professional athletes' salaries public? | The leagues use salaries in two major ways. 1. Teams need to account for their payroll for adherence to things like salary cap and luxury tax. 2. Baseball and Football have payroll options that specifically hinge on knowing what players salaries are. Baseball's arbitration process awards team controlled players a perce... |
Why do new operating systems have higher system requirements than old ones? | They provide common services / APIs to attach to a greater variety of hardware out of the box. - GPU acceleration - Bluetooth - wifi - USB 3 - touch screen support - orientation sensors for tablets Etc Many of these where only possible in old versions by installing complete 3rd party solutions thus a smaller number of ... |
How does World Cup Soccer generate revenue for ESPN or other television broadcasters if there are no commercials? | They would just charge more for the time they can show commercials. Obviously with simplified numbers, During a baseball game, if you can show 100 commercials for $10 a spot, you can make $1,000. For soccer, if you can only show 10 commeocals, you would need to charge $100 per spot to make the same money.They make a lo... |
Should we wash fruits and vegetables before refrigerating or right before we eat them? | Before eating. Generally speaking most fruit and veg live longest being kept in a cool, dark and dry place. Washing them before refrigerating increases the risk of you putting them in the fridge slightly damp which will speed up quite significantly how quickly they spoil. |
How do teeth know how to grow in the pattern so they fit together when you bite down? | They don't "know". Your body starts out with some stem cells. These are basically cells without an assigned function. They don't know where to go and what to do yet. They just divide. When your cells divide functions do get assigned to the new cells that form. This is done based on what it says in your DNA, which is ba... |
How difficult is it for a lefty to go through basic in the army? | When qualifying with the rifle, it is really based on your dominate eye. For example, in bootcamp, I really couldnt tell which one of my eyes where dominate, but I noticed I have better vision with my left eye. So I chose to shoot lefty, just to see if I could. Turns out I got high shooter. Anyway, if you practice enou... |
Why is it when I have a light sleep my body jolts waking myself up? | You're not talking about a [hypnagogic jerk] are you? I'm have narcolepsy and part of that means I get these pretty regularly. Far more common when falling asleep, though I have had the odd one waking up as well. Not sure if that's what your asking though. I think you're talking about the "where the smeg am I" think af... |
Suppose I filled an indestructible container completely with water, then proceeded to increase the temperature through hundreds, thousands and millions of degrees C, what would happen to the water? | it would become superheated water - water that has reached its boiling point but is under too much pressure to vaporize. this is what happens in a pressure cooker.Well - is the container fixed in volume? Or does it expand like a balloon I'm assuming you meant that doesn't change size. ;) Water can go through different ... |
What happens to the eyelashes that disappear behind my eyeball? | You are going to tear up eventually and those eyelashes are going to take the express water slide out of your eyes every once in a whileYour eye is ringed with muscles and tissues. Things literally cannot go "behind" your eyeball. Debris eventually get washed out by tears. |
Why do OLED screens burn in? | _URL_1_ _URL_0_ As my two primary sources of information. So OLEDs basically rely on a layer of compound under the screen that reacts to certain charges to light up a specific color, though some OLEDs have an always-on backlight. Each pixel is supplied a separate current than the next, obviously. Over time, the compoun... |
Is it harmful to keep my laptop plugged in? | No, just the opposite. It saves wear and tear on the battery. Don't worry about overcharging; the charging logic in your laptop knows how to take care of the battery properly. |
WHY is Japan purposely devaluing its currency? | I know the yen has lost value due to inflation, but has their government actively devalued their currency the same way China has? China of course has done so to keep the cost of their exports down since such a large part of their economy is based on itI think a lot of people confuse yen with dollars. Yen are really jus... |
How is this newly discovered TNO even in our orbit? Isn't it too far away? | There isn't a maximum distance to be caught in a gravitational field. Gravity weakens the farther you are from an object, but it doesn't go away. Assuming an object isn't moving too fast, and it isn't being pulled away from the orbit by a greater force, it can orbit at a very long distance away. |
When you only roll down two windows in the car, the crazy noise/pressure thing.. | You're basically changing the inside of the car into a big organ pipe. The air rushing past the open window starts the air inside the car vibrating, just like when you blow on a musical instrument. Not all cars do this; the interior needs to be the right shape and rigidity and "air-tightness". Some do it with only one ... |
How come so many European written languages like French, Spanish, German use accent marks, but English doesn't? | German doesn't have "accent marks", except in words borrowed from other languages. The umlaut -- those two dots above some letters -- is actually just a different way of writing an "e": "ä |
Why do subtitles and credits in older movies jump around on screen? | They hold an index card up to the camera and film it. Or roll a transparency past the camera whole filming |
The security precautions of today's unity march in France. | World Leaders? Anyone important will have a security detail with them, whether they are overt security or covert . And the other attacks likely had a huge amount of planning involved, setting something up on the fly is more difficult, because it's harder to figure out a get away, a safe route, and the march will have p... |
After a company like Twitter does an IPO and sells itself to the public, how can they then issue new shares in the future? Where do these new shares come from? | Twitter didn't sell all of its shares in the IPO. It sold only 10% or so. Some of the rest of the shares are owned by people who founded or invested in the company or otherwise got in early. The rest are owned by the company itself, and many of those are locked up in stock options and RSUs. |
Why do I perceive differences in warm temperatures better than I perceive differences in cold temperatures? | Your nerves are more sensitive when they are warm . In the 50 to 80 degree range, your nerves are much more sensitive than in the -40 to -10 degree range. Hence, you detect the difference more readily when warmer than colder. |
How a free app like Telegram with no ads or IAPs can cover server costs? | > Telegram is run by a German nonprofit organization backed by entrepreneur and philanthropist Pavel Durov. Pavel Durov is a Russian entrepreneur, best known for being the founder of the social networking site VK, and has a net worth of $260 million. |
Why do people need to care for their teeth but animals don't? | I've heard a theory that if we ate what our ancestors ate in the paleolithic age, our teeth would look a lot better. They wouldn't be perfect, but neither are animals' teeth. This means that instead of eating lots of refined sugars and starches, we'd eat meat, fish, nuts, leafy vegetables, fruit, and nuts. |
Why do teeth need to have sensory functions? What evolutionary purpose does that ability have? | If you bite a metal bar you can tell it's too tough to chew. Without nerves you wouldn't be able to tell and would end up breaking your teeth |
why do some songs give me an intense physiological reaction whilst others don't? | I think it depends on many factors. Some of them might be: The compatibility of the emotion of the music with your mood at the time Your personal liking for that style of music The artists' skill The quality of reproduction, if recorded The feelings of people around you For music to affect you as you describe, unless y... |
Is it legal to record someone (say, doing something funny on the street) with a camera? In what situations do I need their permission? | Generally speaking, if you are in public, you can record anything you can see or hear. Exceptions may potentially apply if you're using extremely powerful telephoto lenses, as an example, or parabolic microphones, but with something like a cell phone, nothing you can see or hear from a public place is produced by someb... |
What is it about fast food that when eaten late at night, gives your stomach that hangover feeling in the morning? | probably the beer that prompted you to eat fast food late at night? i'm just kidding. Most likely: this might be something that is unique to you . it could be that your body is having a hard time processing junkfoods like that, and is reacting adversely, and not a direct bi-product of the food itself Less likely: you c... |
The exact purpose of histamine, and why it can become harmful to allergic peoples? | Histamine is a chemical in your brain that tells your body to respond to harmful intruders. It's what makes itchy bites swell and feel hot. Unfortunately it can also have more serious effects, when it feels that the intruder is more harmful. If It' a peanut you've just eaten, your body thinks it should swell your throa... |
why the construction industry, no mater which country, seems to attract corruption | The construction industry is unique in that most projects are paid for in frequent large sums of cash or cash equivalent payments. This cash flow design makes moving large amounts of money easy, especially for those earning it illegally. Because such cash flows are common, they are also difficult to audit without analy... |
How does the algorithm for music suggestions work? | There isn't just one algorithm. Likely it is a variety of techniques including genera and artist; if you like Taylor Swift then they will probably suggest Taylor Swift songs and other pop artists. But another easy way is to ask you to pick a genera and then throw some songs of that kind that are rated highly overall. T... |
What is AI or Artificial Intelligence? | There are generally two forms of AI - narrow and general. Narrow AI is the ability of software - sometimes in conjunction with hardware sensors and mechanisms - to dynamically perform an otherwise narrowly-defined task that is simple for humans but difficult for autonomous machines. Self-driving cars would be an exampl... |
Why does being left-handed distort the double helix of DNA? | Few, if any, of the enzymes that are designed to function with DNA are structured to work on left-handed DNA. I am not a biologist, so I don't know which enzymes can function with left-handed DNA, sorry! What I *do* know is that the enzymes are basically tiny molecular machines. Like real, full-scale machines, they are... |
Why can't video games have graphics as good as their CGI trailers? | the tech isnt there yet. CGI is exponentially more processing intensive than real time graphics. If your tried to make a game with cgi quality graphics right now you be extremely lucky to get 1fps in that game and its more likely to be a lot less. It would be nowhere near fast enough to be something that is considered ... |
How are goats able to eat things such as tin cans with seemingly no repercussions? | A lot of farm animals especially goats have powerful stomach acids. Pigs do as well and can digest almost anything but are smart enough not to eat anything that can go in their mouth. A goat is not too brightLol my neighbor steve had a rusted out ford f150 truck that sat in the weeds and his goat billy would run as fas... |
why are some terms more politically correct than others? | when terms become mainstream, some people use them mockingly, or with a negative context. over time people defined by those terms feel verbally violated or harassed more often than not when they hear it. they no longer feel that term defines them, they suggest another term, and the cycle continuesMany of the terms that... |
Why does a little pepper in tomato juice have more spiciness than a larger amount of pepper in something like macaroni and cheese? | Milk neutralizes the spice. There's milk in the mac and cheese or the creamy sauces. This is why you drink milk to "cool off" when you eat peppers that are too spicy. Water doesn't work well because the spice in a pepper is in an oil, and water doesn't do well against oilThe fat and starch in dishes like Mac and cheese... |
How did humans found out, that they can create paper out of wood? | people in China figured it out in about 105 AD. people in Europe didn't figure it out. they used parchment, which is treated animal skin. it wasn't until paper reached Europe about 1000 years later that Europeans started making paper .Paper way back when came from smaller plants. Papyrus was very popular in ancient Egy... |
How do artificial flavorings work? | Chemistry. The flavor that makes a banana taste like a banana is a naturally occurring chemical, sometimes called an ester, in a banana. If you create this chemical in a laboratory without any actual bananas involved, the flavor is called artificial even though it is the exact same, or nearly same, chemical. If you der... |
Does there exist an entity or task force that agressively investigates, pursues, and charges people that create malware or viruses that essentially destroy peoples property or information? | There exist a huge number of security researchers that try to locate and discern the impact of malware, many of them associated with universities or the like or specific companies. The defence convention each year includes a lot about it. It's really hard to press any charges or alert authorities, though, when the rele... |
How come you can independently stick out each of your fingers to create a 180° angle with your hand, but can't lift your ring finger past 90°? | It's to do with the ligaments and how your hand is 'put together', your fingers operate separately except your ring and middle finger which are connected. It's also due to the fact your ring finger is generally the least used and becomes weaker, some people, for example musicians, who use all their fingers equally shou... |
If depression is often linked to a lack of serotonin and anxiety to too much serotonin, how come the two occur together so commonly?( | The link between serotonin and depression isn't as clear cut as many believe. While drugs that increase serotonin levels in the brain appears to help, so does drugs that *decrease* serotonin levels. The brain is extremely complex, believing that you can fix it by pumping in more of some substance seems as misguided as ... |
What's the deal with Israel and Iran? Why are they angsty with each other? | Until the Iranian revolution, Israel and Iran didn't hate each other. They had normal relations in terms of politics and trade and defense. They worked together on an [oil pipeline] and a [military project], for example. In 1979, there was a revolution in Iran. The Khomeini , who came into power, didn't like that Israe... |
what determines how powerful and what specs a computer needs to be to run games/programs? | Former game dev here, The studio chooses a target hardware spec and builds the game to run on that as the reference minimum. If the game is too slow and they need to optimize, they optimize until it runs adequately on that machine. Everything that is determined to be "not good enough" is targeted to be improved is in r... |
How does expelling Diplomats from your country punish the other country more than yours? | It's really more about the diplomats being, or enabling, spies. If they're not inside your country, it's a lot harder for them to do that. Also, the purpose of the embassy isn't as much about relations between the government of the UK and Russia, it's more about the businesses of the UK and Russia. That means shutting ... |
How do electrical systems on a jet operate? | There are alternators in each engine casing. They provide electricity to the main batteries and the auxiliary systems batteries that power the on-board electrical systems. |
Why are cruise missiles used if ballistic missiles can reach targets faster? | Why do pistols exist if you can hit a target with a 50 caliber sniper rifle at 1000 yards? It's cheaper, smaller, lighter, easier to deploy, and easier to get up close. |
Why is it that reselling movies, music, etc. is legal, while pirating them is not? | There's a legal principle known as the [first-sale doctrine] that basically says, once you buy a copyrighted work you can do whatever the fuck you want with *that copy*. Copyright is, literally, the right to copy a creative work. When somebody holds the copyright on a work, they have a monopoly on the ability to copy i... |
How do animated shows like Archer or Rick and Morty get produced then put into a format where it can be "watched"? | How the animation gets done inside the software will vary from studio to studio, but in general, once a story is decided, the artists will create the story boards as axty mentions. the story boards are a basic representation of what the scenes will look like, what interactions or camera transformations will be happenin... |
Why would President Obama want to veto the bill that would give u.s. citizens the ability to sue the Saudi government for damages relating to the 9/11 attacks? | Because it would open up pandora's box for other countries suing the U.S. For all the unethical shit the U.S. Has done to them. |
How did we end up finding Osama Bin Laden and why did it take ten years to do it? | It's actually the exact opposite. These people build there lives ready to go into hiding at a moments notice, so it's hard at first to find them. But the longer they hide, the harder it gets. Eventually someone makes a call, gets sick, forgets to shut off a phone or close a curtain. They get tired and sloppy, trusted a... |
If a human baby was born into this world with no language taught to them as they grew up, How would they talk to themselves in their own minds without knowing any language? | There's a great example of this. There was a child that had been neglected and abused for 13 years, all without learning to speak. When people rescued her, they taught her basic language, and realized that she could recall situations about her abuse before she had learned to speak.This proved that humans do not require... |
Why do vacuum hoses (mostly canister style) have a small, coverable, vent at the top? | Actually, it can be used to reduce the amount of suction when you are vacuuming a smaller rug to keep the rug from getting pulled around - or at least that's what my mother taught me when I was a wee lad first learning housekeeping. |
Do animals have religions? Is there any evidence of any type of animal religions? | No. No animal is capable of that kind of detailed thought to establish a religion. None of even close. |
What does Google earth and other mapping companies do about disputed lands and borders such as in Crimea? | Google maps has disputed borders as dashed lines. You can see these in a fair few places. There's a whole bunch of them around Pakistan, India, Tajikistan and China. And many borders in Africa have parts of them in dispute as well. One interesting border dispute is between Egypt and Sudan. See [this]. They both claim t... |
Phone speakers are so incredibly tiny, but have an incredibly loud sound, and is usually pretty clear too. How? | One reason is that the phone cuts off most of the low frequencies, below a certain limit. With every lowering of an octave , a speaker diaphragm has to move 4x the distance for equal volume. So by cutting off the bass they can get more perceived volume out of a smaller unitBelieve it or not, some of the sound you hear ... |
why a word will sound strange or "not real" after you say it repeatedly? | This is called *semantic satiation*. According to [Wikipedia]: > The explanation for the phenomenon was that verbal repetition repeatedly aroused a specific neural pattern in the cortex which corresponds to the meaning of the word. Rapid repetition causes both the peripheral sensorimotor activity and the central neural... |
Why is Nepals time zone different from the rest? | Cause that's how Nepal wants its time to be. Its not globally mandated how you set your time zone. They could set it at GMT+5.23 if they wanted to. |
How does the audience in big soccer matches end up neatly divided by teams, when the tickets are sold even before the competing teams are known? | The expensive seats are usually sold ahead of time via FIFA/UEFA or whoever is sponsoring the match. Each team gets X thousand allocated in a contiguous block of seating and held in reserve until the actual matchup is known. These are usually then allocated and sold via the club's ticketing system. Cardholding club mem... |
What makes a material microwave safe? | A "microwave safe" material is one which does not heat up significantly when exposed to microwave radiation at about 2.4GHz, the frequency of a microwave oven. Metals will generally suffer heating from induced currents, and resultant resistive losses. Ceramics and plastics are insulators , but some types have high diel... |
Why does my phone say 4g and have 3 bars and still won't load a simple jpg from imgur? | The most important thing to consider when talking about a phone's 'signal' is it's signal-to-noise ratio. I believe the confusion arises due to a lack of standardization amongst manufacturers and the way this ratio is presented. So each manufacturer has their own, individual idea of what should be shown - so essentiall... |
Why does our vision sometimes get really cloudy/blurry after we wake up? | It's the muscle that controls the focusing of your lens. It needs to be "warmed up" just like any of your muscles would. After sitting for a long period the nerves and muscles need to have their actual molecular makeup moved around a bit until they are functioning optimally again. It has a bit to do with "short-term" l... |
Why do bagels have a hole in the middle? I feel like a bagel without a hole would be delicious | Because it wouldn't be a bagel without the hole. Also, > The basic roll-with-a-hole design is hundreds of years old and has other practical advantages besides *providing for a more even cooking and baking of the dough*: the hole could be used to thread string or dowels through groups of bagels, allowing for easier hand... |
Why doesn't Saturn's rings clump up and turn into a moon? | First, because they have/do. Second, Because the gravity of Saturn's actual moons stops them from doing so. Some gaps in Saturn's rings are formed because a moon or moonlet has formed and cleared a place in the ring. Other gaps form because orbital resonance causes them form. But the fact that rings exist at all is dow... |
Mendel's Laws of Inheritance | 1) The Law of Segregation states what you already seem to know: you get one allele per trait from each parent , and you may inherit these in any combination of dominant/recessive.\xa0 2) Independent Assortment means that when chromosomes divide and gametes are formed, the separation of one pair of alleles has no effect... |
Why are some people more sensitive than others? How is it that two people can go through the same horrible experience but one deal with it a lot better than the other? | Lots of factors will impact how all of us handle situations. Current health status, level of sleep, diet, upbringing, current and past quantity of major stressors, current and past quality of major stressors, circles of support, income, genetic predisposals etc some of these things change day to day others are more ove... |
Why aren't washer/dryers (one machine, two uses) more mainstream? | 1. In most places, space is cheap so there isn't an economic driving force2. 2 in 1 machines are more complicated which drives up cost and lowers effectiveness and potentially shortens lifespan3. Less efficient from a throughput stand point: with separate machines, once the wash is done I can start a second load withou... |
Why is cultural/social liberalism described as being "progressive"? | During the French Revolution, which overthrew the French monarch, the National Assembly would organise themselves into two camps when they met. Those who favoured continuing the revolution, abolishing the monarchy, and creating a new Republic sat in the left wing of the hall, and those who favoured restoring the King, ... |
- Global warming? What's really going on? Is human species at danger in coming years? | The overwhelming scientific consensus is that climate change is real and presents dangers to humanity. The "debate" is almost entirely political and very few credible scientists question that climate change is happening. The main effect of climate is an average increase in the worlds temperature. The result of this is ... |
Why do we say MERRY Christmas but HAPPY Halloween/Thanksgiving/Easter, etc. | It's a tradition, not a requirement. You can say "Happy Christmas". Now, because it's a tradition, it's very hard to pin down exactly how or where it started. We know that working was around in the 1500s, but it probably became popularised after Charles Dickens published *A Christmas Carol*. |
When I'm watching satellite TV, is the satellite transmitting all the channels at once for my receiver to pick one or is my receiver requesting a channel to the satellite? | They broadcast from a few satellites on horizontal and vertical polarity. Your dish selects which satellite and polarity, but it still **receives many channels at once**. The signal going from the dish to the receiver has many radio carriers, and the receiver has to tune to the desired one. Further, within each carrier... |
Does having a big body actually increase your ability to withstand severe wounds? | Most of that is just Hollywood make-believe. Some of it could be the increased layer of fat between the skin and the peritoneal cavity where your organs are. In real life, a long enough blade can cause significant damage to anyone. There is something to say for "adrenaline" in the system and the "fight or flight" respo... |
Why does bacon shrink when cooked? | Bacon shrink when you cook it because the fat turns to grease and oil which causes parts of the bacon to decrease only where the fat is so the meat gets all ripoli because where the fat is usually lengthwise of the bacon shrivels which crossed the whole thing they get wrinkly |
Why are things like fashion, culture and music split up into decades and are so different? | A decade is an arbitrary unit of measurement. Culture and fashion are constantly changing. We just choose to divide history into chunks of 10 years and pick the defining culturual influences of those years. A lot of defining "80s" things could have easily started in the 70s, but people remember their influence more on ... |
why do sugary liquids make you even more thirsty? | If your blood sugar gets too high, your body will try to get rid of the extra sugar by flushing it out with water. Your body will take water out of you body, put it in your blood, then dump the extra sugery blood through your kidneys to try to restore a good sugar level. With all of this water getting moved around and ... |
Why does a new car lose so much of it's value as soon as it's driven once? | Coins, uncirculated coins are worth well more in the long run than anything else. Pretty much anything, especially if you can get it in a hermetically sealed box. I think most of the problem is, if you use something, anything, it's immediately 'used,' there's probably less or no warranty, and there's no way to accurate... |
the 60 Minutes Story and Benghazi. What did they say and why is everyone so upset now? | Their Benghazi story presented the view that the US government responded badly to the attack in Benghazi, as told by a guy who claimed to have been there. The problem is that he *wasn't* there, and in fact had earlier told the FBI that he wasn't there. So either 60 Minutes knowingly ran a false story, or they didn't bo... |
How does Google collect data based on internet browsing habits? What happens to this data? | Google makes it very attractive for you to be tracked; for instance by forcing google+ down your throat if you want to use certain parts of youtube. Or google accounts for using google drive and enabling the "stay logged in" option - even when you don't use google drive.Then they can simply \'note down\' where that acc... |
What is the difference between race and ethnicity? When did this distinction develop? | Race is a social construct meant to separate and group individuals based on physical features. Ethnicity is actual historical genetic origins. One can be part of the white "race" but with ethnicity of Polish.Race is much more if a shifting goalpost. It wasn't that long ago that Italians, Irish and Eastern Europeans wer... |
To what extent are gorilla's able to communicate in sign language? | In Koko's case, she is estimated to understand 1000 signs/2000 spoken English words. However, she communicates in very fragmented adjectives and verbs mostly. An example: She gestures to an apple she wants to eat, while signing for Red, and or hungry. |
Can someone explain the different parts of a computer and how their uses? | Sure! * Monitor - Let's you see stuff the computer wants to show you* Keyboard/Mouse - Let's you put information into the computer, control things* Harddrive - Stores information in the medium/long term * RAM - Stores information in the short term * Optical Drive - Let's you read from disks using light , like CDs, DVDs... |
Why do we have different battery sizes if they all do the same thing in the same way? | To clarify, batteries have a fuel inside them that they convert to electricity . A battery that is flat is one that has run out of fuel. Just like a car with a small fuel tank doesn't have less power than one with the same engine but a bigger fuel tank, so two batteries with the same type of fuel produce the same amoun... |
How do dogs know the difference between "play" biting and hurtful biting? | Your question is confusing, how do you know how hard you pressed the keys on your keyboard? A dog has pressure sensitive nerves the same as you. If you meant to ask how do dogs know the difference between another dog attacking them and a dog that wants to play, it's all in the body language. The raised wagging tail, th... |
Why does poking a second hole make pouring easier? | The second hole lets air in the container to fill in the vacuum created my liquid exiting via the first hole. The vacuum is what slows the initial liquid pour in the first placeWhen you have one hole and try to pour out of it, air has to go into the can to replace the lost liquid. There is both liquid exiting and air g... |
House Resolution 368. Not how it passed, but what it means. | > If I'm reading it correctly, it essentially gives the Speaker of the House non-overridable veto power over any bill that is ever proposed ever, by way of allowing him to never bring bills to a vote Are you even reading it? For one thing, HR 368 grants power to the Majority Leader, not the Speaker, and Section 2 makes... |
the purpose of running a "cooldown" after a cardio workout | It allows your heart rate and breathing rate to gradually slow down and also for your body temperature to reduce, while decreasing the lactic acid content in your muscles. Overall, it helps to prevent fainting and helps your muscles to relaxYou have 2 main way's your body make's energy for your muscles to use. you have... |
Why does working out hurt more the 2nd day after compared to the day after? | DOMS - delayed onset muscle soreness - just your muscles telling you you've had a workout. Nobody knows why, and there doesn't seem to be any documented cure although plenty of anecdotes of hot tubs, massage, pain killers etc to ease the pain. Personally I go for a swim, jacuzzi and sauna, topped off by a beer! This gu... |
Why do people look thinner in darker clothing? | you can't see their curves as easily. since light isn't reflecting off their bodies to show detail they don't look as fat. |
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