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Why did a gentleman toss a catfish on the ice during the recent NHL playoff game? | The Legend of the Octopus is a sports tradition during Detroit Red Wings home playoff games involving dead octopuses thrown onto the ice rink. The origins of the activity go back to the 1952 playoffs, when a National Hockey League team played two best-of-seven series to capture the Stanley Cup. The Nashville Predators ... |
why do we have to "safely remove" USB devices? | [here] is a good explanation. tl;dr osx and linux uses write caching which means the OS waits until a decent amount of data is queued to do the writing since many little jobs is more expensive/slower than a few large writes. windows is more discriminative on ejectable drivesIn the old days, whenever you wrote to a driv... |
Why is particle physics not affecting biology? | In what way do you expect that it would? The realms of particle physics are so far beyond biology, chemistry and even other forms of physics in terms of size and energy . For comparison, an atomic nucleus is about 1000 times the radius of the atom itself with all electrons included, which is itself up to about a 1000 t... |
How does mimicry happen amongst lower organisms? | Pretty much the same way evolution does. There is species a and species b. Species b is poisonous. Species c hunts down both species. When it eats species b it dies. Species c notices that b is harmful. When species a is born, it can have different looks, for simplicity's sake let's assume there are 2: similar to speci... |
Subcutaneous, intramuscular and intravenous injections and how/why they differ. | Speed of absorption and ease of injection are the two main factors. Subcutaneous refers to injecting into the fatty tissue just underneath the skin. These aren't used too often because adipose tissue has poor vasculature, so whatever you inject doesn't get absorbed readily. However, if you want the stuff to linger then... |
How does an electrical arc furnace work? | Good comparison is if you took a big D battery and stuck a paperclip on both sides at once. Paperclip gets warm. This is because the voltage of the battery is inducing a current, and some of that current is being lost as heat into the paperclip, and then into the surroundings. Electrical arc furnace is about the same, ... |
Why are some YouTube videos blocked on mobile? | I think that the rates Youtube pays for video ad views/clicks are different for mobile phones and for "real" computers. Youtube also probably has an opaque way of calculating how much money you get per view/ad-click based on your number of subscribers, where they're from, how much they adventure on the website that pai... |
Why do I get carsick when looking at something in the car (e.g. a phone), but not if my eyes are closed? | Motion sickness is caused by the signals from your eyes conflicting with the signals from other senses, such as the sense of balance, motion, etc. If you are in a car, you can feel the car moving. If you look outside, the feeling and the sight of the car moving works together so you know that you are moving. If you sta... |
How is carbon monoxide odorless? | My best reasonable guess: We haven't had the opportunity to evolve smell-detection of CO because it's not naturally occurring in nature, and hence hasn't been killing off enough humans for long enough. |
EIL5: What is a currency swap? | If you have a stream of foreign currency coming in, and you want to protect it from exchange rate fluctuations, you find someone else who has the opposite concern. If I want to protect a Euro to American Dollars , I will find a investment bank . The bank will then look for a company who is concerned about protected an ... |
How can a company as big as Geico be an LLC (Limited Liability)? | The size of a company doesn't matter, just its ownership and tax structure. Geico, for instance, is just a wholly-owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway. There are no shares in existence to be divided. |
What would happen if your entire body was burned by steam? | You would be burned: _URL_1_ Specifically, you'd be scalded _URL_2_ The severity of the burn will determine how badly you are injured and how likely it is that you'll survive. _URL_0_ A momentary blast of steam would probably give you first or second degree burns. A sustained stream of hot steam would go as high as thi... |
why can humans start sprinting at full speed almost right away, but needs to slow to a stop over time? | Your feet are designed for this. They stick out in front so you can lean forward and maintain balance, necessary if you want to combat the forces pushing you back during forward acceleration. On the other hand leaning backward offers on your heels you little to no balance, and if you wanted to stop the way to begin a S... |
Why is the shape of a man's urine stream a double helix? | It's a mix between the dynamics of a turbulent flow, and surface tension. Also, I notice the urethra is more of a slit than it is a hole, so the stream exits the tip with kind of a vertical cross-section that collapses on itself, if that makes sense. Uncut guys can control the shape and angle of their stream with a lot... |
How does the post office decide on the price of a stamp? | In the US at least, they don't, Congress tells them the price. Usually the post office says they need more money and estimates what a stamp needs to be to balance their budget, they send it to Congress and Congress tells them the new price of a stamp, it may or may not be in line with the price they requested.The price... |
Why is it most of the "most popular" movie titles on services such as Amazon Prime and Netflix, are always filled with movies that most people have never even heard of? | It totally depends on the algorithm they use, so no one can tell you exactly why. One reason this can happen, though, is because sites define \'hotness\' in terms of \'biggest *increase* in plays\'. This can make sense -- if you just go by flat number of plays, then you'll probably have The Beatles and Nirvana in the t... |
When X hires someone from Y to design something (e.g. CPU or GPU chips), how does the hired person do the job? | No modern CPU or GPU is designed by a single person. There are fairly large teams with different areas of specialization. You start with the architects, who come up with the overall plan for how the chip is put together and how the various blocks interact. Then you have teams designing blocks. Then circuit design teams... |
Why do I hear an annoying high- pitchedbeep/buzz in my ear? | Your ear has thousands of little hairs which vibrate and send signals to your brain. Your brain then interprets those signals as sound. Sometimes the little hairs can go a temporarily "haywire" and send a jumble of signals that your brain interprets as the buzz or whine. While a constant noise is cause for a concern, a... |
What exactly is the point of having police officers on horseback? Is there a specific utility that they serve or is it more ceremonial? | It's not. It's usually presumed that they are still very effective at crowd control - they are significantly more imposing than foot troopers, the smacks from their batons will be enhanced by their height, and yet they are unlikely to kill someone as much as pushing the crowd with a car would be. |
why can TV (music, anything that you listen to) be heard at very low volumes early in the morning/late at night but impossible to hear at that volume later in the day? | ambient noise from the environment is much louder during the day. traffic noises, people, planes, etc. In a city, anyway. Are you in a city or populated area, can you hear road noise form your tv watching space? edit, unless you mean something like, does it take time to hear quiet sounds when I move from a loud environ... |
How has the U.S. government continued to get away with breaking/changing 500+ treaties with American Indian groups? | The Native Americans had no means to enforce their treaties. The US was overwhelmingly more powerful and could essentially do as it wished. |
Why don't pet dishes like this overflow | Did you never play with an empty soft drink bottle in a sink or a bathtub when you were a child? Atmospheric pressure holds the water in the bottle. And the pool of water covering the mouth of the bottle keeps air from entering the bottle to displace the water. A hamster bottle works much the same, but the water's surf... |
Why can't the brain and spine heal like other body parts? | The brain can and does try to repair itself. Brains form scar tissue. Unfortunately, it's so complex that basic natural healing can't do much. The spine can and does try to repair itself. Spine bones often do repair nicely. Unfortunately, the nerves running throughout are so complex that basic natural healing can't do ... |
Why will it start to tear off skin if you pull the hair on someone's head hard enough, but large strips of wax pulling hair doesn't have the same effect? | The roots to a head of hair are deaper than roots for short hair such as eyebrows or legs, making it easier to wax them. Also, waxing hurts like hell, and can lead to torn skin, but its torn like scrapes and scabs. That hurts. |
Why do we randomly make eye contact with people across the room? | I think you look at a lot of people in a room, but you only make note of when they're looking at you too. |
If it's illegal to deface US currency, what's with those penny squashers? | This is covered in 18 USC 331. It says that whoever *fraudulently* alters coins is guilty of a crime. The key word there is "fraudulently." If you alter a coin with the intent of defrauding somebody, you're guilty of a crime. If you alter or destroy a coin you own for reasons other than committing fraud, then you're ju... |
Why Are Drones Classed Differently to Remote Control Aircraft? | The fact that they're quadcopters is irrelevant. Traditional R/C aircraft were limited to manual control within the operator's line of sight. If you couldn't see the plane, you were probably going to lose it. Drones, between their cameras and computers autopilots, have the ability to operate well beyond the line of sig... |
Why are some animals scared of humans but not other animals of different species? | The wildlife of the Galapagos islands often show no fear of humans at all. They have experienced little or nothing in the way of human predation. That is some pretty strong evidence. People talk all of this nonsense "The Great White Shark is the perfect predator." Not one Rocky Mountain Big Horned Sheep, Elephant, Rhin... |
What "chained CPI" is, and how it affects the Social Security cuts. | Standard CPI has a couple of problems in that it overestimates inflation for consumers as it doesn't account for substitution in consumer behavior. In the simplest example imagine someone is buying Lays brand chips that cost $2 a bag. Suppose that the price rises to $2.20 a bag, instead of accepting the higher price po... |
Would anything on Earth drastically change if Superman were, in fact, able to exactly reverse the earths rotation? | Superman didn't reverse the Earth's rotation, he travelled backwards in time and we watched the Earth "rewind" because time was flowing backwards.[xkcd's take on this] If you're referring to the film in which that occurs, though, my preferred expansion is that Superman 'only' exceeds the speed of light, causing him to ... |
Why does the FTC require clothing manufacturers to display the specific country their clothes were made in? | Because Congress passed laws called the Textile Fiber Products Identification Act and the Wool Products Labeling Act that require all garments to have a label identifying whether they are American made, and if not, their country of origin, along with their fiber composition .I worked in the garment industry and studied... |
What would happen if Prince William ran for Prime Minister of England? | You can't "run" for Prime Minister. What you can do is run for a seat in the lower house of parliament, and if you get that seat you become eligible for selection as the Prime Minister. In modern politics this selection is essentially automatic to the leader of the majority party. Of course there are exceptions, the lo... |
How and why are contracting taxes different from normal w-2 taxes? And how would you file taxes for contracting work? What is the tax percent? | By "contracting work" I am amusing you mean 1099 pay, which is if you are being paid by a company to work for them, but you are not an employee of the company. This is called self employment. The reason this is taxed differently is because there are things like social security and medicare which are normally taxed off ... |
How do credit cards and scanners work? | Swiping your card is just having your magnetic strip read by a head in the device . It pulls your number from your card, and then over the internet, contacts the bank to authorize the transaction. The bank will then authorize the transaction back to the merchant, and then put that as a pending action in your account, w... |
Why you need a circuit to have voltage. | There *is* voltage from the negative terminal of one battery and the positive of another. There's no *current* and thus also no *power* , but there is still voltage.As others have said, voltage can and will appear even without a closed circuit. You need a circuit to have current. BUT you don't need a closed conductor l... |
What's the difference between bushed and brushless motors? | Brushed motors rely on rotating electromagnets whose commutator terminals make and break contact with a brush. As the rotor turns, different coils get energized, and that rotates the rotor to try to align the fields with the permanent magnet fields of the stator. Brushless DC motors put the permanent magnets on the rot... |
Can someone please explain me the working of a dehumidifier? | Yes..Similiar. there are a few types But the one that is similiar to an AC unit works by cooling the air. this reduces the airs capacity to hold moisture. The moisture condenses out.. the air is then heated back up to its original temperature But now contains less moisture It's just like when you see a cold can of soda... |
How do "high fashion" (the kind no one wears) stylists get money to keep on doing fashion shows and paying models, etc? | I believe another thing that can the designer can sell is the "concept" of their clothing line-up. The people who like it, purchase the design and modify it into something more practical and wearableMost of the fashion designed also do custom made clothes for rich people and celebrities. Also, most fashion houses would... |
Where do cops and SWAT wear their name and badge? | The militaristic gear is only used in serious cases where violence is a likely outcome.For normal, every day police patrols officers still wear their blue/black/white or whatever uniform with a badge on it. |
How a bird can tell if the food crumb I throw on the ground is edible or not from a distance? | Crumbs are probably those patricular birds' primary source of food. They've learned to tell the difference at a glance. A wild bird not fed constantly by humans would probably have to invesitigate first. |
How does the placebo effect work? | It's like when people cherry pick arguments that align with their own beliefs. People only see what they want to and if it happens to be improved symptoms than they can notice the tiniest little thing. The actual cause of the symptoms don't go away they just don't see them as much because they think that they should't ... |
What caused Pangea to separate and why did the landmasses separate in those directions? | The answer to both questions is Plate Tectonics. Earth's surface is made up of a series of giant 'plates' of material that slowly movee around the planet. They do this because right below the continents is a layer of rock that is very hot , and not rigid like surface rocks, allowing for very slow movement of the plates... |
How do blind people determine their sexual preferences? | There's the voice, gendered patterns of behaviour, and the possibly instinctive knowledge that you don't enjoy taking it up the backside. you do realize you can *touch* boobs in reality, right?', "Visual attraction is only part of the whole picture. It around be interesting to see if blindness, or deafness has any effe... |
Who was the person responsible for naming our planet "Earth", Why? | There wasn't so much a person as just a group. The word earth evolved from the german word erda, which was used to describe the ground/dirt. In the middle ages people began using it to describe the globe by saying the earth. Now it is Earth. |
How does Netflix profit off of exclusive shows like House of cards and Orange is the New black? | Others mentioned subscribers, and that's certainly the obvious way that they're making profit from these shows. But, I think Netflix is playing a longer game here, and doing it in a pretty clever way. Certainly everyone knew about Netflix before these shows, and they had a ton of subscribers. But by producing their own... |
Bostonians and "Sweet Caroline" | If memory serves, sometime in the late 90's it was played at Fenway as a kind of inside-joke congratulations for an important family member who had recently had a baby girl that they named Caroline. It got used more often but still not consistently. Over time it simply got used more often as the fans reacted positively... |
How did talk show host Oprah Winfrey become so rich and powerful? | Oprah managed to very shrewdly work herself into a market that didn't have anything else like her. She started as a really low-brow talkshow. Not quite as bad as Jerry Springer, but definitely one where the worst kinds of people would be featured. This built her an audience during a time when these shows were very popu... |
La Croix flavored carbonated water, why did it specifically become the sudden trend? | Great question . been wondering this myself. I remember I used to drink this stuff when I was 8 years old. I think it's more than just la croix, its the overall boom in flavored seltzer water. There's definitely been a surge. More products. Soda stream. People are trying to be healthier, cut out soda. La croix has grea... |
Why are certain vitamins categorized by letter and then others like Calcium not? | The letter ones are complex molecules that are have long, difficult proper names. Calcium is just a single element, so there's no such trouble there.Calcium is not a vitamin. Vitamins are organic compounds such as vitamin C where as minerals are not produced buy living organisms, such as calcium, iron, potassium. |
Why traffic lights adopt a non-friendly color palette for colorblind people? | My high school teacher always said that the red has enough orange and the green has enough blue for both to be visible to most red or green colorblind people. The population sample that would see only gray or not discern the colors is quite small.There are a [few ideas] to make traffic lights more colorblind friendly. ... |
Why dont all police officers have to wear bodycams? | Because it is expensive, the cameras are not cheap to get, and to outfit a whole department would cost a good amount of money that they mY not be able to spare. They really should by then thought, they can protect both the cop and citizens. |
Why is cigarette smoke easy to inhale when most fumes are not? | Its not a fume, its smoke, and its not easy!!! You have to train your body to take it, because people are to stupid to listen to their lungs and throats. Eventually your body realizes your going to be stupid anyway so no bother continuing to tell you how stupid your being by sending the pain and discomfort signals to y... |
How exactly do loaded dice work? | You put a weight of the opposite side of the number you want, so that when you roll the die, it will tend to land so the weight is on the bottom. For example, if you wanted to load a 6 sided die to the number 6, you would put a weight in the 1 so that the die would land with the 1 on the bottom and the 6 on the topOfte... |
How do they pasteurise eggs without cooking them? | Pasteurizing eggs in their shells is achieved through a technique that uses precise time and temperature zones within water baths. Pasteurizing eggs in their shells can also be achieved through a process that involves treatment with ozone and reactive oxygen species under high and low pressures, followed by replacement... |
Magnets, How do they work? | Magnetism is more or less at the bottom of our knowledge; it's fundamental. Imagine if you're trying to learn more and more about how something works or what it is made of. * What is this table made of? Wood * What is wood made of? Cells * What are cells made of? Molecules * What are molecules made of? Atoms and the fo... |
Why does English usually seem shorter than French and Spanish? | Written English is briefer in those examples, although long when compared to logographic languages such as Chinese or Japanese, but interestingly it turns out that spoken languages impart information at about the same rate in all cases. For instance Spanish is typically spoken very quickly by native speakers in terms o... |
Does your ehnicity have anything to do with how easy it is for you to gain weight? | It has little to do with genetics, and a lot to do with social issues such as poverty and education. Black people, in the USA, tend to poorer and lower education, which often leads to behaviours that lead to obesity. ', "I'm no expert, but I doubt that race has a causal link to obesity. Perhaps in so far that certain p... |
Why do we accept historical writings as fact, yet reject others? | My take? It's just part of the information we use to try to piece together a picture. The more information from different sources that collaborate the story, the more faith we have in it. Not all of the bible is believed to be fiction there are some events that are believed to have occurred and others that don't have e... |
What effect does or can holding a magnet have on the iron in your body? | The interaction between metallic iron and a magnet - what you see between a fridge door and a magnet, for example - is the result of ferromagnetism. Iron in your blood isn't ferromagnetic - it's paramagnetic. So it won't react to a magnet the same as a piece of metallic iron. It is the reason an MRI magnet - which is o... |
How can countries like Germany afford to make a college education free while some universities in the US charge $50k+ a year for tuition? | Most EU countries have a higher tax rate than the US, combined with significantly lower military spending and smaller populations than the US. In 2011, Germany had a tax revenue of $1.551 trillion. In that same year, the US had a tax revenue of $4.218 trillion The US had a population of 311.6 million. Germany had a pop... |
Could someone please ELI5 relations between the Canadian government and First Nations people throughout history and the situation today? | Well, building another country on top of what was already a nation of sorts always leads to conflict. The Natives want to retain their sense of identity and culture and whatnot. The Canadian government recognized this, and granted them Indian Reserves, where they could be somewhat autonomous and self-ruling. Sometimes ... |
What is the purpose of those car mask/bra things? | In my case back in the day it hid the smashed up front fender from my dad til I was able to fix it.They were intended to protect your vehicle's paint from rock chips on the highway. One of the issues with them was continued use would cause you to notice your paint fading in different patterns. As it was covered up in t... |
Why do parents not want their kids to be vaccinated? | Typically, it is because of a thoroughly debunked and wrongheaded idea that vaccines will give their kids autism or some other malady. In fact, vaccines have saved more lives than any other medical discovery in the history of the world, and are extraordinarily safeBecause of ignorance. Because a celebrity with absolute... |
How the economy would be different if there were more jobs than people to fill them, instead of the other way around. | If you look at a company where there is a lot of demand for workers and not enough workers to fill the jobs, the company may try raising wages, getting its existing workers to work overtime, opening the positions to workers they wouldn't otherwise have considered , or trying to recruit workers from elsewhere to come in... |
If so there is so much illegal activity in the Deep Web, why does it still exist? | The "deep web" is not a thing like Facebook or Google or whatever is a thing. It's just the blanket name for websites which you can't find on a search engine. Shutting it down isn't *meaningful*, because it's not one concrete thingThink of it this way. If so much illegal stuff is sold on the black market, why does it s... |
If I don't have any stock, how would a recession affect me personally? | A recession will affect you personally in multiple ways: Despite the decision to not raise interest rates till 2013, the recession/ downgrade could lead to the prices of borrowing money to increase, meaning loans, mortgage, credit cards, etc. Also if you are like me, someone with little credit to begin with it becomes ... |
Why does the U.S. Navy have it's own, incredibly expansive Air Force when there is a separate US Air Force? | Why does the coast guard have boats if we have a navy? The simple answer to both questions is different missions. However, the airforce and navy have different air craft because they are generally performing different missions. If you look at the operational aircraft for each branch, there are certainly going to be som... |
What is my Gall Bladder, why do I need it, and why is it OK for them to remove it? | Put simply your liver produces bile and it is stored in your gall bladder. When you eat foods with fat/grease in them your gall bladder squirts some bile into a part of your small intestine to help you digest and process fats from food. Without the gall bladder there is no storage facility and the bile goes from the li... |
cutting off a cat's balls is humane but taking off their claws isn't? | I'm not going to specifically comment on the humaneness of either, but you should know that declawing a cat is not the same as cutting your fingernails. It is actually the equivalent of someone ripping out the entire tip of your fingers and toes up to the first knuckle. |
Why is it fair for companies to flash illegible, quickly disappearing fine print at the end of commercials as their "full disclosure"? | Stealing from [here] to get you your answer faster: > A) They're legally obligated to explain that stuff. There's very little ruling on the size or speed in which they need to explain it, though. B) The objective of the commercial is to sell a product. Often, the legal information at best does nothing to help, or at wo... |
Why isn't it socially accepted to talk about sex and death ? | They're topics that make certain people uncomfortable. It's usually not socially acceptable to willingly make people uncomfortable. |
yo science peoples, what is actually happening when a product like "febreeze" is 'clearing/deodorising' the air? | The cyclodextrin molecule sort of resembles a donut. When you spray Febreze, the water in the product partially dissolves the odor, allowing it to form a complex inside the 'hole' of the cyclodextrin donut shape. The stink molecule is still there, but it can't bind to your odor receptors, so you can't smell it. Dependi... |
Why are most cars in Europe manual, whereas most in the US are automatic? | Different marketing. In the US automatics were marketed as a luxury, in europe they were marketed as a driving aid for people who couldn't drive a stick shift. |
Congress has less that 9% approval rating. Why do people keep voting the same people back in? | Congress has a 9% approval rating, but I'm willing to bet that the individual members of Congress have fairly high approval ratings. So it's a matter of, people like 'their guy' and think that it's everyone else that's the problem.They hate "Congress" but like their Congressman/woman. It's a case of "I wish they were a... |
How come eyes don't require shutters to work, and don't work based on frames, but cameras do? | Shutters are only required to keep light off of a camera sensor while it isn't taking pictures. In a way you do have shutters for when you don't want to see.In answer to your second question the biological nature of the human body requires that vision be processed purely in analogue and in real time by your brain. Also... |
why when you look in a mirror with a mirror oppisite that it goes on forever, but seems to get darker the further in it gets? | Mirrors aren't perfect - not all of the light that hits a mirror is reflected back out again. If, for instance, a mirror reflects 90% of the light that hits it, that means 10% will be lost. So on the first reflection, you'll be down to 90% of the original light intensity. It hits the second mirror, and we drop 10% from... |
Are humans genetically inclined to stay with one partner their entire life? | Compared to other apes, humans are sort of in the middle. Historically, humans cultures have had polygamy , but most humans only had one mate at a time, although extra-marital sex has always been very common among both males and females. Humans tend to have a mate for a few years and then move on. Much of the emphasis ... |
How does Google Maps make money? | 1. it provides google with data about your movements - it can target ads to you that are not only based on stuff you like but where you are . That allows them to sell more ads. 2. it keeps you within the google ecosystem. If you click on the thing on their map, you're more likely to use their rating system for the plac... |
Why do we distinguish ugly and beautiful? | What is considered naturally "beautiful" is usually linked with fertility and the ability to rear a family. For women, this means wide hips and large breasts indicate fertility. For men, muscularity and hairiness indicate testosterone and virility. Of course, cultural and social beliefs permeate into this natural attra... |
What part of the Milky Way I'm seeing in this picture. | I guess I just don't understand. I know what the Milky Way looks like, and it looks completely different when looking at it from Earth. Maybe I should have asked someone to explain the structure of galaxies. |
Why, when I'm 'full', can I still eat certain types of food? | It could just be the fact that too much of one taste will get old after a while or in some cases the food is too rich, ect. Although I am not entirely sure on the specifics, I can assure you it is not about the available space and even, in most part, the contents currently in your stomach. The feeling of being full or ... |
Why do you get that weird vortex sound when you let both of your back windows down when driving? | I don't do that, but I've found that if I open the front passenger window a little bit and the window behind it a little bit, there's a nice circulation in my car, with a slight breeze on the back of my neck. Anyone here do what OP said? |
Why is it popular to yell "Play Freebird!" at concerts | I's a song by Lynyrd Skynyrd. It is far and away their biggest song. Like really their only actual popular song besides Sweet Home Alabama. The joke is that at a concert if they played Free Bird, half the audience would just leave because it's the reason that everyone is there. So at a Skynyrd concert, everyone is just... |
Why would you use shaving cream to clean a grade school desk? | Kids like to make a mess. It lets off steam and lets them get one over on the adults. Teachers like it because it keeps kids occupied and gets the desk clean. Win/Win for everyoneyou can check this link_URL_0_ teachers think its fun activity to do, also it cleans off marks made by pencils, pens, crayons, glue, etc so y... |
Why do I pee when I laugh really hard? | I think it's called stress urinary incontinence.This is caused by a sudden increase in abdominal pressure. Normally urine only leaves the body when you are emptying your bladder. But with stress "urinary incontinence ", urine leaves the bladder unexpectedly at the time of a cough, sneeze, laugh, jump, etc. This happens... |
How is art like this (often seen for video game covers) drawn? | That image is more than likely a render, not hand drawn. You can use a program such as Blender, 3DS, Maya, etc. to make some pretty cool 3D things. Something like this was probably drawn out and planned beforehand, but finalized in one of the many programs available. Once you have the form, everything molded and lookin... |
Why do golfers only use one glove? | it's not like baseball, where the full swing goes through both hands. it's more one hand swinging, one hand steering, and the glove adds grip and balance to the swinging hand. |
What is that noise your computer makes when it's "thinking"? | The hard drive spins, but that is not the crackling sound you hear. That sound comes from the hard drive moving the head back and forth along the platter. The head doesn't actually touch the spinning platter, but the drive mechanism are noisy. |
Why does coke in a glass bottle, or in a can, taste noticeably different from coke from plastic bottles? | The polymer that lines aluminium cans might absorb small amounts of soluble flavor from the soda. Conversely, acetaldehyde in plastic bottles might migrate into the soda. The FDA regulates this kind of potential chemical contact, but even minute, allowable amounts could alter flavor. Glass is apparently the best for ke... |
Why do smart people "look smart"? | The eyes that follow a person's movements and respond to speech and show engagement are my first clue. I once knew a lady and didn't like her very much, but the first thing I noticed about her was her intelligent eyes. From that point on, I regarded her with caution and tried to consider what she was trying to achieve ... |
After signing the Declaration of Independence, how did such a small group, the first government officials, go about convincing inhabitants that they were now living in the United States of America? | The Revolutionary War had already been going on in earnest for a year. People were literally shooting the British authorities and soldiers. So it didn't take a document to convince people something was up. That said, many were *loyalists* who sided with the British and did not agree with the Declaration or the revoluti... |
How does a car spin it's rear tires without actually moving? | To add onto what others said: this is NOT to show off. Burnouts are done to warm up the tires to increase grip. |
why aren't eye glasses made out of gorilla glass, or other scratch resistant glass that electronics have | Honestly, most glasses aren't even made with glass anymore - just different types of plastics. Glass is heavier and less shatter-resistant than other materials which are more commonly used. And as mentioned already, there are anti-scratch coatings that you can get. Source: I'm in optometry school. |
where did the phrase 'coming out of the closet' originate? | I'm not expert but I would assume it has to do with the phrase "having skeletons in your closet"', "You can be a 'closet' anything. Closet justin beiber fan only listens to the beib on his headphones, too scared to let anyone know he likes bad music. the closet is were we hide things we're ashamed to let others see.tha... |
Why does an Android phone show the WiFi icon for a few seconds even after the router's turned off? | > I think it's just a delay in the OS's process to update the display And you are almost correct. It's not the display , it's the OS that takes a little time trying to reconnect to the network before deciding it is really down. Your roommate doesn't know what he/she is talking about - radio waves don't "hang around in ... |
How can television shows take peoples stupid home videos and make all that money without paying them back? | They sign a comprehensive release of rights for consideration in the big win. It's sleazy but effective. |
How does tipping work in US restaurants when paying by card? | The way it works is that when your card is swiped into the machine, the machine authorizes the card for the amount of the bill. But, if you write in a tip, someone later will go back to the machine and use a code on the receipt to access that transaction, then make the adjustment for the total amount charged to the car... |
How was this list of live camera feeds collected, why are the cameras connected to the internet, and is it illegal to access them? | Webcam software usually connect to the internet by making a webpage that the user access. Here is a list of the pages that webcam make. _URL_1_ Everyone computer on the internet is connected with a IP address which is the location of the computer on the internet. The Ip address is the _URL_0_ part of the link. There ar... |
Why bones are more likely to break if they hit a small area, like the corner of a wall. | Force multiplier. The surface area over which a force occurs drastically effects the damage that is done. If you have a hundred pounds over a hundred square in evenly divided, that is only one pound per square inch, similar to lifting a pound on the tips of your index and middle finger. If you had a thousand pounds ove... |
What's going on with DirecTV and Viacom? | There are probably a lot of actual 5-year-olds wanting an answer for this question, because Nickelodeon is gone. =) I'll try to answer as thoroughly as possible: When a cable/satellite provider wants to carry a channel , they have to sign a contract with the owners of that channel . The contract basically says DirecTV ... |
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