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Why do pickles have 0 calories? | They have some calories in the form of sugars, but since pickles are just cucumbers in vinegar or brine then the only calories that come from it are from the cucumbers themselves. |
Why can't you donate directly to disease research, and instead must donate to charities who do not donate all funding to research? | You can, you just have to track down who is doing the research and where. Charities usually just do this leg work for you.Find a researcher that's publishing promising papers, then write their department a cheque and ask that it be put in their research account. |
Why do some job sites ask for your gender/age/race/sexual orientation? | As far as I know, it's just for census purposes. Some businesses like to keep track of these things, to prove via statistics that they aren't discriminating. |
How do people like Jared and Ivanka have 30 million in outstanding debts but still live glamorously? And who keeps lending them money? | Most of that debt is likely funding investments. But anyways, paying say $3M-$5M a year in interest isn’t exciting if you’re making $100M/year. That’s a pittance |
Are sound, sight, and touch the only forms of communication possible for humans? | Well theres scent and taste. We cant really communicate with them but we definitely receive signals through themYou left out speech, writing and signing as forms of communication.Hearing and sight are senses to receive communication but not generate it. As for smell, the natural gas on a kitchen stove has an odor added... |
How do the economics of a cemetery work? Eventually do they quit turning a profit? Then what happens? | The cost of a burial plot is many more times the value of the land. So one plot might make the company as much money as the cost of the entire acre. Some cemeteries get new cemeteries buried right on top of old ones. So the person who was buried there might get dug up for long enough to bury them deeper to make room fo... |
Why is there so much media attention on the Jodi Arias case? | Attractive white girl + violent crime = media frenzy', "You know what, it's so funny - I read the newspaper every single day, get news delivered to my e-mail, all of that stuff. And if someone put a gun to my head before maybe a week ago, I'd *never* have been able to say who she was or what she did. I have absolutely ... |
what is the conductor of an orchestra actually doing? Doesn't everyone already know what to play based on the sheet music? | first, the conductor uses his baton to keep tempo. This helps everyone play in synch, adjust to tempo changes in music, and count rests in bars when they aren't playing. He also cues people when it's time for their solos. The size of the movements indicate how loud or soft to play.He/she counts off the initial tempo an... |
What is CRISPR? The other things I'm reading seem more ELI25. | CRISPR is a bacterial self-defense against virus infection. This saves a copy of a viral intruder's gene in the CRISPR sector of the bacterial genome and will make a guide RNA to "arm" the nuclease Cas9 . With the giRNA the Cas9 scans an DNA and if finds a match it will cut the gene, stopping the viral infection. CRISP... |
Why do people talk about the environmental impact of bottled water but not of pop or other drinks | I think the answer is that bottled water is a packaging of a product that you can get for nearly free, by turning on a tap. Of course, this assumes you have access to a clean and safe water source.Bottled water gets singled out because fir most Americans there is a perfectly good, nearly free, and in many cases higher ... |
Why did GTA V leak almost instantly after shipping to the stores started and why doesn't it happen with other games? | GTA V was quite the slow leak. Things leak as soon as humanly possible and GTA V is getting attention because its GTA, not because it leaked.In the manufacturing facility there is a LOT of security, metal detectors, ect. to prevent people from stealing it. When shipped, the trucks are escorted by armed security and fol... |
Do additives like techron make a difference on your mpg? Or is it all just jargon so they can charge more? | Those products claim to "clean" the engine. If it has less sludge and the injectors and systems are clean the car will have less friction and should have a bit more MPG. I think the question should be…. is it worth the cost over what it does.All fuels have these additives, they're legally required. All fuels have rough... |
- why do we feel sleepy? | One part that helps you feel sleepy is melatonin, which gets released as the sun sets and it starts getting dark. The brain technically does still have energy to my knowledge as I have definitely passed this stage and been able to last longer, at the expense of falling asleep easier though |
how they separate the egg whites from the yolks for sale in those small containers. Also what do they do with the yolks? | Separating an egg is easy. You can even do it with your hands. They just have machines that crack eggs and slide the eggs down a chute. Theres a crack in the chute where the whites fall through but the yolk is too big to fall through. They probably use the yolk in another product they sell or they sell it to another co... |
why do we get rings under our eyes from lack of sleep? | I'm not completely sure about this, but I believe it's due to a lack of oxygen , the blood becomes more of a dark red/ purple blue colour and since the skin around your eyes is very thin, the veins make the skin appear blue. |
when an iphone dies, why does it take a long time to start after plugging the charger | Lithium Ion batteries are "smart" batteries, unlike NiMH/NiCD and other batteries of old. You can't just throw electrons at them and increase their charge - it has to be managed. Li-ion batteries themselves have tiny circuits inside to help with managing their charge, but your phone also has a charging circuit which ne... |
What does it mean to be out of tune? | When you're out of tune, it's because you're slightly off of a note. When the two notes are close together but not exactly the same, then it sounds a whole lot worse because of dissonance. That's why when you're tuning a note, you can hear a little wavy "wubbing" sound. The closer you get to the target pitch, the faste... |
Why are mattresses and furniture always on sale? | It's always on sale because individuals don't buy it every day. If the furniture isn't cheap crap, then it may be something that somebody buys once or twice in their lives. Likewise, how often have you bought a bed in your life? Because it can be a major investment and most of the independent furniture and mattress sto... |
How does Google (and similar companies) update traffic on their maps app? | Smart phones like the iPhone and those running the Android operating system have built-in sensors that measure the acceleration and orientation of the device. Similarly, proximity to cell towers and GPS integration make the position of the phone available. The measurements these sensors capture are available to be read... |
Why are people grumpy after waking up in the morning or after a nap? | I'm sure someone will come in here with the actual science, but I'm fairly certain the answer to your question has a lot to do with elevated cortisol levels being present in the mornings. You'll frequently here cortisol referred to as your body's "stress" hormone. I think it stands to reason that people are usually mor... |
Why do, on occasion, temperatures of -2 Celsius in some regions feel colder than temperatures of +3 Celsius in other reasons? | Wind and air humidity have great impact on how the air temperature feels. When your skin loses heat to the surrounding air, that air heats up and in turn absorbs less heat from your skin afterwards. That’s how fur keeps animals warm. It traps the warm air at their skin. Clothes do the same for us humans. Wind carries t... |
Why are some artists only appreciated hundreds of years after their death? What makes an artist worthy of being a "staple" of their time? | Generally an "undiscovered" artist was either unknown at the time of their life , or the era they were from had other priorities . Artists become popular in their time for a variety of reasons, but generally it's either because they are very very good at something , they invent/discover/develop/transform something , or... |
How do drug dealers legitimize their high incomes? (In Declarations of Income, etc.) | Small time drug dealers don't. They just spend cash, and don't tell the government how much they make. Bigger drug dealers need to launder their money. Usually this involves making it look like the money actually came from a legitimate business. So, for example, if you are a drug dealer, you could buy a laundromat, and... |
It feels wrong to say "every woman has an uterus", but is it gramatically correct to write? | You use "a" instead of "an" because of how it's pronouncedThe word sounds like it starts with a "Y" like University and Unicorn, and this is the key to using "a" or "an" if the word when spoken sounds like it starts with a vowel then it would be preceded with "an". Like: It was an historic event. The word sounds like i... |
what are targeted individuals and/or gang stalking? Is this real or a symptom of mental illness. | There's no solid proof it's actually a thing, and the flexible "everyone's out to get me" narrative sounds very much like schizophrenia or other mental illnessIt's paranoid schizophrenia. "Gang stalking" always magically ceases to be a problem when the "targeted individual" engages in mental health treatment. |
why sleeping in fetal position is bad for you | Because your neck most likely isn't in a good position since the pillow might be too high or too low. The other point is that deep breathing is restricted in the fetal position which is essential for a restful sleep. |
How are some mods in gaming compatible to new game versions while other mods need to be updated? (eg. Skyrim - compatible after patch but Minecraft - mods need updates) | It depends on what those mods were doing to the game files, and what was changed in those files between versions. For example, if you alter the "running speed" value in the movement script, it's not likely the company is going to change the way movement works between versions, so your mod will still work. For a counter... |
In Drake's music video of God's Plan, was Drake ruining the economy? | No this is not contributing to inflation because it was in Miami, Florida and not Kenya lmfao. He went around places like Miami Beach and Miami high school and gave out scholarships. If this was in a different country it wouldn’t contribute to inflation because inflation is the over valuation of a nations currency. Add... |
Do magnets stay magnetic for ever? | correct me if I'm wrong, magnetism depends on the type of material the core is and the amount of current passing through. materials, such as iron, are soft magnetic metals, they do not retain magnetism. Hard magnetic metals on the other hand, retain magnetism when charged. Magnetic force can be increase by increasing t... |
Why does Board in Room and Board mean food? | Food, although nowadays it means "all the other services typically offered in conjunction with a room to sleep in for the night". In olden times the "board" was literally a board made into a table; later it was a table. Or food left out on a sideboard type stand. |
Why don't we have one global currency? | Because, the Euro. It doesn't make sense for there to be one global currency when you have individual countries still setting their own economic policy.Why would the strong, independent nations ever agree to it? They would risk economic uncertainty by being tied to others. And credit cards are fast replacing cash. Sure... |
Why does hitting your "funny bone" hurt in a way that nowhere else on your body seems to hurt? | Running down the inside part of your elbow is a nerve called the ulnar nerve. The ulnar nerve lets your brain know about feelings in your fourth and fifth fingers. You get tingling sensation when you pinched any nerves, but you will generally get a lot of pain along with the tingling sensation when you pinch other nerv... |
ELIV: The proper distinction between the terms Arab, Arabic, and Arabian. | Arab is an ethnicity, kind of like Swedish or Irish. Arabs are a very widespread people, across much of the middle east and north Africa, but do not confuse Turkish or Persian people for Arabs - they're not. Arabic is a language with many dialects. It is also widespread across the middle east and north Africa. Arabia u... |
How can 100 million people browse porn videos at the same time but I'm still in queue to start up Overwatch | because when you watch porn. it's a 1:1 connection between you and the porn server. when you queue to play overwatch, they need to find 9 other people with similar skill rating as you. so that could take additional time. |
Why do we need to be in a state of sleep to feel rested? | Think of our minds as an oven. When we are awake, the oven is turned on and is used for baking. However, splatters and drips from baking will accumulate throughout the day. Even though we are relaxing, we are still awake. It's quite difficult to clean a hot oven! Sleeping lets the oven shut off so we can scrub it down.... |
how bills such as PIPA and SOPA can still be brought up to be voted on when there is such astounding public opposition? | "Laws are supposed to be decided by the people": completely wrong, laws are supposed to be decided by elected representatives. You probably have a biased view of what the public is and what it wants/cares about if you hang out on reddit, as well.Ok lets say you have two people. One is called John and the other is calle... |
Why is the Sagrada Familia still unfinished? | * It's a masterpiece from a creative genius who is dead. * Much of said genius's plans for the unfinished sections were destroyed in the Spanish Civil War. * It's a monumental project. |
Why does it feel like your heart sinks whenever you get scared? | A surge of adrenaline and sense of extreme alertness. Your brain is forcing you to improve your focus and prepare to fight or flight. The heart sinking feeling might be related to a rapid increase in heartbeat. The increased heartbeat improves and speeds of circulation, which allows your body to have more oxygen absorp... |
Is it legal that my employer does not let me have my wallet or my keys while working? | If there is a business reason for this, and it is not being applied in a discriminatory fashion, it is legal. You you don't like the restrictions, you always have the option to get some other job. The restrictions you describe are nothing compared to what you might have to go through in a high security environment. |
How do award shows distinguish between the best film and the one with the best director? | Directing is a skill like any other. For example, BIRDMAN is a film with a very distinct style, shot as if it were one, long take. That takes finesse. Further, directors work directly with actors, so if all the performances are good, the directing was good. |
Why you would black mail someone | You don't necessarily look like an awful person for exposing someone's secret shame; even if you did, you could still release the information anonymously. |
How much would each person earn annually if every U.S. wage was evenly distributed to every citizen, employed and unemployed, as an annual salary? | It's not as simple of a calculation as it may seem, because a lot of the outliers don't get their money from "wages" like normal middle class people do. Their worth is tied up in all sorts of investments and other non-liquid areas. For instance, Bill Gates would provide little-to-nothing in this scenario. So, there's l... |
If time is relative, why do we experience it linearly | Because - *relative to each other* - we are all affected in the same way. Time only becomes [noticeably] relative when you look at it on grand scales. Until we live in a universe with near-light-speed travel, or huge gravity wells, etc, there's simply nothing else for us to see it "in relation to". |
Why do papercuts hurt so damn much? | I have no sources but I read once that it's because paper's surface is really rough, even though it appears smooth to touch. When you cut yourself with paper you're not causing a straight cut, you're devastating your tissues. And your nerves feel it all. |
Why is W usually styled as a double-V and not a double-U? | V and U used to be the same letter and did not differentiate until *after* W was introduced. W originated as a "UU"/"VV" digraph in the 7th or 8th century, and U and V only became distinct letters in the 14th century. Note that some languages do call it "double V" instead of "double U" . |
How do you make new friends without going to bars? | Find things you like. Find groups of people doing the same things you like. Join those groups and go to meet upsjoin a class or a club. Martial arts, art classes, etc whatever your hobbies are find a group who do it together. |
Why does turning the wifi router on and off again solve most problems with the connectivity? | The same reason it works for a lot of technology. When you power on your router it loads its base firmware and your configuration from nonvolatile memory into volatile memory. This load represents the router in its perfect state. Then it goes to work. Inevitably on a long enough time line with enough work going on, the... |
Why Does Canadian Internet Have a Data Cap? | The companies have no competition so they can price gouge as they pleaseNetworks do not really suffer from large amounts of data being transfered in terms of stability. In a worst case scenario where everyone was downloading a large amount of files the network would just slow down. Once a network is set up its costs of... |
Are fabrics like linen really anti-microbial? | An educated guess is that either the fabric has been treated with something, or that the fibers are woven tightly enough together that bacteria and microbes have difficulty passing through it. So while it is "anti-bacterial" it doesn't kill them on contact. Here is an album of someone showing the difference of a lab co... |
Why can't you donate blood after having a tattoo? | They're concerned that the voluntary needle stick put you at risk of a blood born disease, most prominently, hepatitis. In established clean parlors, the waiting period is shorter at some donation centers. |
How are retirement communities allowed to operate and enforce age restrictions with facing discrimination charges? | age isn't a protected class under federal housing laws. and the states have recognized the benefits of senior communities. and then there's the Housing for Older Persons Act of 1995 which basically legalized senior communities. |
how HeLa is contaminated and considering progressive cancers, shouldn't any progressive cancer cell be "immortal"? | The standard way today to check for a cell line is to check for it's genetic signature . If this matches the original cells from which a cell line was derived, you have a faithful culture of these cells. But genetic fingerprinting only became available and affordable of late. Hela cells were isolated an cultured over 7... |
- What is string theory, and why is it so controversial? | String theory tries to give a solution to certain problems in physics. General relativity and quantum physics can be shown to work by themselves, but they seem to contradict each other. A theory called supersymmetry that is proposed by stringtheory - which is then called superstringtheory could solve that. However, so ... |
What is the difference between a Special Prosecutor, an Independent Commission, and an Independent Counsel? | Special counsel/prosecutor is someone with full powers to investigate when possible crimes are believed to have been committed, or when congressional investigations are thought not to be unable to resolve the issue. This is pretty similar to an independent counsel/prosecutor. Before that law ended in 1999, a three judg... |
Is foam soap or regular soap better? | Seems like the answer to that question will depend mainly on personal preference. Me, I like regular soap, and I deliberately don't use the kind with triclosan if I have an option.Depends on your priorities, regular soap is more cost effective, foam soap is a gimmick to get kids to wash their hands. |
How do cells 'know' what shape the organ they're part of is? | Organ development is actually a subject of research now. I'm not sure how much we actually know, but we definitely don't have a clear cut answer. My girlfriend actually does her PhD on this kind of subject, exploring how different pressures in different parts of organs might tell the cells where they are to guide the o... |
what's a VPN and why would I need it? | A VPN is almost like a "remailer" for letters. You send them secret packages, they open the packages, and then send those packages to wherever you were trying to get to in new boxes, and with none of your information. So if someone is watching the mail you send, they see nothing other than you are shipping packages to ... |
Why do car washes always have a small amount of dry time? | Drying as you drive is much more efficient then adding in a jet dryer to dry your vehicle wile you sit there. Its not like drying your hair. |
Difference between "/" (forwad slash) and "\" (backward slash? | In Windows, backslashes are used to separate directories in file paths. On the internet, we use forward slashes in our urls. When there needs to be a difference, I don't know but there is one.The forward [slash] is properly just called the slash. It is used as punctuation in English text. It can be used as a substitute... |
Where do insects go during the winter? | a great many insects lay eggs which go dormant through the winter and then hatch into the next generation when the conditions are right. the adults simply die out in the cold some are capable of something akin to hibernation and will hide in some corner of the wilderness. maybe burrow into a tree or the earth. some ins... |
Why is there such a stigma behind losing your virginity? | It's left over from the time when the only way to keep power was to keep your bloodline going. If you wanted to be sure your wife was not carrying the seed of someone outside the royal family, virginity was the the only way to be sure. It was stayed a dominant stigma up until the time we could start doing things like b... |
How do certain electric toothbrush charging stations work? | there's a copper wire coil in that nub in the base. there's another copper wire coil in the base of the toothbrush. the base coil energizes. the base coil induces a current on the toothbrush coil. the toothbrush coil pushes current to the battery in the toothbrush handle |
Why do many Americans care so much about their lawn and why it is seen as a symbol of social status? | Where I live, if you fail to maintain your yard then the city will fine you $1600, then send a lawn care service that works for the city out to cut your lawn for you. They then send you a $1200 bill for the lawn service. Happened to me when I was really sick for a month one summer. The guys that mowed my yard ran over ... |
Why does a shuttle get super hot while going through our atmosphere, yet skydivers feel nothing more than cold air as they fall? | Meteorites fall through the atmosphere at speeds over 90,000 mph . When the space shuttle re-enters the atmosphere it is traveling over 17,000 mph . A skydiver is only falling around 110 mph , which is no where near that speed. However, even supersonic jet aircraft that go around 2,000 mph experience enough heat that i... |
If the average household income in China is only $10,220 then how do Chinese people afford luxury items like iPhones? | Average income is a pretty terrible statistic to get anything meaningful from. The extreme highs and extreme lows can skew the number substantially. Median income is much more reliable. On top of that you can't really convert a foreign income into your own currency and wonder how they can live off it without taking thi... |
if the Hubble telescope is so powerful, why can't it zoom in on the moon and prove the moon buggy is there to show the landing was real? | /u/booweesy is correct, but I 'd also like to add that I don't think anybody who has control of those sorts of things gives a rats ass about the moon landing deniers. They definitly aren't going to take time and money away from research to attempt to satisfy conspiracy theorists Its not that powerfull, if pointed at th... |
Why is it controversial to suggest England should have a say in Scottish independence? | Three main reasons the way I see it: - Lot of bad history between England and Scotland, esp. where Oliver Cromwell and the larger scope of history between the two. - Scotland has a lot of oil and gas reserves , and doesn't particularly want to see their economy in the gutter like the larger UK and a lot of countries in... |
Changing students grades up or down to meet faculty standards. | The breakdowns help you determine how important one assignment is relative to another. College grades are not arbitrary and scores must be tied to rubrics for each assignment. |
Why is a standard 40 hour a week job called a "nine to five"? | "Nine to Five" jobs exist, but they're much rarer than they used to be. Historically, 9 to 5 was more or less standard for any sort of office job. Banks, insurance, etc. all were open from 9 to 5, so if you were a manager, salesman, or secretary, your schedule was 9 to 5. Dolly Parton had a huge hit with "Working Nine ... |
How do pain thresholds work in regards to humans? How is it some people have a higher threshold? | Some people have physical differences that mean they don't feel pain as well. Some is mental, pain seems lesser when you're used to it, for whatever reason. Some is psychological, people see ignoring pain as being tough, so they pretend not to feel it.We all have our really lame mutant powers. Some have pain receptors ... |
The MTGHeadQuarters drama with spoiled cards? | From /u/fe-addict: Someone on Reddit saw MTGHQ got a preview, criticized WotC for supporting him. Trick responded that they don't support him and that him getting a preview was a mistake and that they will double down on removing him from every last list/promotional offer he was on from WotC. HQ exploded about all this... |
Why doe heat reduce the viscosity of oil? | Viscosity has to do with the attraction between molecules in an oil and their ability to slide past each other. Oils contain long hydrocarbon chains that interact via Van Der Waals forces, which basically means that they stick together when they are close enough. If the molecules are colder, this means that they have l... |
How can people in Ukrain keep working on their regular jobs during the conflict? At the end of the day, they need their monthly salary. | I was asking myself this during many of the long running protests in the Middle East . This is not an answer, but I would imagine that many of the people who feel they have most to gain in Ukraine from joining the EU may well be the unemployed, so they may form a significant part of protester numbers. There may also be... |
Why is the dosage for medicine in tablet form given as "child" or "adult", rather than by the weight of the patient? (MIC) | > It seems more logical that they would have dosages listed for body weight ranges. The average consumer is an absolute moron and wouldn't be able to handle it. For medicines which are available over the counter it doesn't really matter, the dosing instructions are just so you don't give a 30 pound kid the full adult d... |
What's the difference between emotional cheating and having close friendships? | When the relationship is being used to elicit feelings that one would normally seek from one's SO. Basically, would I want the feeling I'm experiencing to come from a friend, or a lover? And would I be ok if my lover was experiencing it from another person instead of me? |
what the full text of the TPP says, and what it means? | Part of the problem with the document is that it's 10 billion pages long and you really need to be a subject mater expert to understand exactly what it means. For example, it's sure to impact the Canadian Dairy industry. But you really need to be a Canadian Dairy industry expert to understand how it will impact it. The... |
Why do laptops have "waves" going across the screen when looking through a phone camera, but they are not seen by our naked eye? | It's called aliasing, or more exactly moire pattern: both camera sensors and LCD screens are made from pixels. Pixels are not contiguous but are made to either display or capture specific color, like red green or blue. Now when you focus your camera on laptop screen, the individual pixels on the sensor do not match the... |
With the approach for public/private key encryption, why do you need both public and private key? | They do have that system, it's just normal encryption. It requires transmitting the private key to others in some way, though, and that's a huge vulnerability or just a big hassle. With the asymmetric system you can send out the public key willy nilly and it doesn't matter who gets it.The public key "locks" the message... |
EIL5: Why are people protesting the NATO summit in Chicago? | Protesters are coming from a diverse set of backgrounds. Some are pacifists or anti-war protesters opposed to the specific wars that NATO forces have fought or are currently fighting . Some demonstrators are opposed to the extreme power of NATO. It is the largest military alliance on earth today. Such concentrated powe... |
What happens when my anti-virus software quarantines something? | Viruses, etc, are programs, which need to run to do their job. There are various different ways they can do this, for example a traditional virus attaches itself to a legitimate program, whereas it's more common nowadays for malware to pretend to be something you might genuinely want to click on, and the act of clickin... |
Why do the poorest countries and neighborhoods insist on having multiple children despite no resources? | This has been the subject of a lot of statistical research over the past few decades. The answer is stunning in it's simplicity. Women who have high-paying jobs with good careers have fewer children because they are busy. Women who have no pressing obligations, on the other hand, have lots of children. The man's wealth... |
How come celebrities like Roman Polanski and Woody Allen are completely forgiven for their rapes and sexual crimes? | I wouldn't say Roman Polanski was completely forgiven. He pled guilty and fled the country to escape jail time, and to my knowledge has never been back to the States. As for Woody Allen, the allegations against him were more or less thrown out. Although Dylan Farrow still maintains that he molested her, and wrote a pre... |
Why can't a vertically oriented phone record a horizontal video? Aren't camera lenses non-directional? | Because the sensors are arranged to take a portrait style picture, since if you wanted a landscape you can turn your phone. Otherwise they would need to make a big square for the sensors instead, and the just automatically crop every picture you take based on whether you wanted it to be horizontal or vertical, and that... |
How's it possible for all the planets to be at the same height with respect to the sun? | They all formed out a disc that orbited the sun in an almost-flat plane. As a result, they also orbit in that plane.That's just the most stable composition. If they tumbled around and about on different planes, it'd be much less likely to achieve a stable, periodic system, because they'd pull each other away, and propa... |
Why and how does smoking weed give you cotton mouth? | THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, suppresses saliva production.What's cotton mouth? Looked it up, all I found is snakes.One time I had such bad cottonmouth driving home that I legitamately considered licking a cut on my hand for the blood. Instead I found a KFC and tried to go through the drive-through but my mo... |
Why does Economic Liberalism not coincide with being a liberal? | You can thank FDR for this somewhat confusing bit of language. Liberalism was the term for an ideology favoring individual liberty and economic freedom which is, indeed, typically evoked by the center-right. FDR began to use the term to describe his shift in the focus of the Democratic party toward more intervention in... |
Why do bank transactions take several business days to go through if everything is digital? | The US banking system was [developed in the 70s], and has not been updated since. They save up days worth of transactions and then actually perform them all at once, which saves them a lot of effort. If Bank A has 10,000 transactions totaling 1 million dollars to go to bank B, and Bank B has 10,000 transactions totalin... |
How is putting the thermometer in your armpit accurate? | that's the point. when you check your temperature, you are going to be accurate when you measure it in spots more "internal" possible, since your skin temperature is not representative of your actual temperature. You need to do that in your mouth, anus or armpit. the armpit in fact get sweaty exactly because it has a h... |
What is dark matter and how do we know it exists? | We were looking around at various galaxies and found that they behave as if there was way more mass in them than can be accounted for by the matter we can see. We hypothesized that there is matter out there which is different from normal matter in that it doesn't interact with light but does have mass and thus does int... |
Why do some things smell good and others smell bad? | Evolution, my friend. Things smell good because they gain some selective advantage in appealing to you. Alternatively, people who liked smells that drew them to useful resources and the like were more likely to survive and produce progeny. Conversely, if you were repulsed by something that was harmful, you were again m... |
How does funding NASA create economical benefits for the USA? | Long-term returns in future technology. For example, if NASA develops the technology to mine asteroids for resources then the government can tax businesses which utilize the new technology.Why would you *expect* NASA to bring in any money? That's not really the point.A little abstract but I think this is the best reaso... |
Why do Plasma TVs not work properly or break in high elevations? | _URL_0_ In laymen's terms, as the air outside gets thinner, there's less pressure being exerted on the gases in the TV that produce the picture. So the gases inside heat up , so the TV's cooling unit has to work harder, and then fails more quickly. |
When your mouth is dry, why can you not moisten it with your own saliva? | It's the other way around: your mouth is dry *because* you can't moisten it with your saliva. It happens because of different reasons: salivary glands can't produce as much saliva as you are evaporating by breathing through your mouth or you are dehydrated. If you are perfectly healthy and not in stress situation and d... |
Why are popular soft drinks from America, not available in country's in Europe and the rest of the world | Shipping water around the world is expensive. Unless there is a proven market for a drink they are unlikely to ship it to another country.In addition to the answers given, it is also about tastes and preferences. Ribena may be popular in the UK and Pepsi Cucumber in Japan, but not in the rest of the world. They will do... |
Why are our brains / emotions so easily fooled by watching a sad/scary TV show we know is fiction? | Your sense of empathy isn't something that you reason yourself into or out of. We can sense and "feel" other people's emotions on a level more primitive than our rational thoughtWe know they're not real, but if the stories are told effectively, and don't distract us from their "unrealness" we have what is called *suspe... |
If I filled two balloons of equal volume, one with hydrogen and the other with helium, would the hydrogen balloon be able to carry twice of much weight? | Not really. The reason balloons of gas are able to "Carry" things is because they are lighter than air. In what are considered the chemical standard conditions - 0 degrees celsius and 1 atm, 1 mole of gas - any gas - will have a volume of 22.4 litres. Let's take the balloon to be this volume, which means that each of o... |
Why are people attracted to confidence? Why do we act differently around those who are beaming with confidence, and those who are not? | Probably a surivival tool. Typically, confidence means you know what you're doing, and you're good at it. Think back to cavemen days. If you're being chased by a strange, new predator, you're going to follow the person who's done it before. How do you know who that person is? Well, they're the one acting confidently. C... |
How come watermelons are considered seedless even though there are still the little tan seeds? And why can't they breed them to take those seeds out like the black ones? | All plants will produce seeds. Seedless watermelons are generally developed by breeding two different strains of watermelon species together with incompatible genes. Basically a seedless watermelon is an infertile plant that never develops mature seeds that can reproduce. The little would be seeds still develop somewha... |
What happens to drug dealers after they are interviewed by a television network? | "we interviewed an individual who calls himself Iceman. we don't know his real name or where he lives or conducts business. we did not check his drivers license or proof of gang membership card." and it could be a true statement. |
What did Imelda Marcos do that was bad? | She lived opulently during a time of extreme economic distress and poverty in her country. And she wasn't shy about it- she's famous for having thousands of shoes. When many people couldn't afford to eat.My friend Uncle Bob tells it like this. She was very greedy. She took from the rich and the poor. She turned against... |
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