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Why does wind feel colder when you are wet? | Because as the wind blows, some of the water evaporates and is blown away. This water takes heat with it. Also evaporation in and of itself leads to cooling.Two reasons: Water is very good at absorbing heat from your body. When water is on your skin, it's sucking heat away from your skin The phase change from liquid to... |
What purpose do the Primaries serve? | Each political party has a number of members who each want to be the party's chosen candidate in our general elections. The primaries are mini-elections held where only members of the respective party can vote , and they vote to choose their candidate for the general election. |
How can televised "prank shows" such as Just for Laughs impersonate police officers and stop motorists without being charged for impersonating an officer? | You can get around the law pretty easily: * Tell the police what you are doing before you do it * Do not wear any emblems of any government body * Do not actually say that you are acting in any capacity as a police officer or other peace officer or otherwise an officer of the government. [Sos.] Sans interperetation. On... |
What do large corporation do with billions of dollars in revenue after expenses? Do they spend it all on assets or can they get a bank account like people? | Well In a publicly held corporation, like the ones you are thinking of when you hear the word "corporation", after expenses some is set aside by the board of directors for future investments, expansion and that sort of thing, and the rest of it is sent to the share holders in the form of a check. This is called a divid... |
Why do Volcanoes and Earthquakes release explosive amounts of energy over such a relatively short period of time? | It seems like a short period of time for us, but really the pressure has been building up for a long period of time in the tectonic plates below us. Think about it like pulling an elastic band really tight, until it snaps. The earthquake is the 'snap' but the pulling had been building up for a long time beforehand. The... |
Why does the President hold veto power in a democracy? | Because people in large groups can be terrifyingly stupid from time to timeChecks and balances. Each branch of government is able to check the power of the other branches by the powers vested to that particular branch. So if congress passes a bill that the president disagrees with or thinks is unconstitutional, he can ... |
The dying whale noises coming from my stomach during a silent class. | Your stomach is anticipating food and is squishing digestive juices around as it would if there was food mash in there. |
How does the observable universe have a diameter of 93 billion light years if it is only 13.8 billion years old? | The universe is expanding. The vast empty spaces between galaxy clusters are expanding quickly enough to that the very farthest galaxies we can see are moving away from us *faster than the speed of light*. The light we see was emitted from a very young galaxy 13 billion years ago, by now that same galaxy is 40+ billion... |
What would happen if the standard work week was moved to 32 hours in the US? | The trend today is in the opposite direction -- the most skilled elite workers work more than full time, and earn a huge amount, while workers with the least skill have a hard time getting a decent job at all. The change you describe is a form of *rationing.* It would take some of the work opportunity away from the mos... |
The difference, pros, and cons between leasing, financing, and any other options when looking for a new car. | Any way you dice it, if you don't pay cash for a car you are indebting yourself, so remember that above all else. Leasing is like renting a car. When your rental time is up, you just hand the keys back. There may be fees for excessive wear and tear if you haven't taken care of the car, or if you've put more miles on th... |
How it's possible to know the length of a year and day down to the millisecond | Well we exactly how the path of Earth around the Sun is going to play out because it is governed by the force of gravity. As long as we have accurate measurements on the initial position and velocity of Earth, we can use not very complicated formulas to find out where we will be centuries in the future. The more accura... |
The FAA says passengers can now use electronic devices on airplanes. Why were they banned in the first place? | They were banned because there weren't enough studies done to determine the effects. It was simply a preventative measure. |
Air resistance and Newton's second law | What's your question? Newton's 2nd Law states that the acceleration of an object is dependent on the net forces acting on the object & the mass of the object. Air resistance is part of those net force. |
why does my dog wag so much whenever I touch him or enter a room or talk to him, is he really that happy every time to warrant a tail wag | Behavioral ecologist here! Dogs have been bred for thousands of years to love us and react positively when we walk into the room. We are their alpha dog, their protector and their friend. Your dog really is just that happy to see you!They are happy to be in your presence, and yes they get that happy when they see their... |
How can a power-bar provide power to multiple appliances from one socket? | Most home circuit breakers that go to outlets are rated for 15-20 amps. Most circuit breakers will have a few outlets on them. In theory, the house should be wired such that any single outlet could handle all 15-20 amps coming from its breaker, though usually it is spread out somewhat. As long as the things on the powe... |
WHy does every youtube video want me to "like and subscribe"? | They get better rankings and are more likely to be suggested or put on the front page, which increases their viewer-ship further and helps them monetize moreBecause "Likes" and "Subscribes" are used as metrics for popularity and can let some channels negotiate higher ad rates.YouTube determines a lot of their ranking/r... |
Why do we say eleven and twelve and not something like oneteen and twoteen? | Historically, humans have used many number systems other than decimal. Dosenal and sexagesimal were two of the most popular. English used a dosenal-vigesimal number system for way longer than a lot of people are willing to admit, up until 1971 they had a dosenal-vigesimal currency. 12 pence = shilling. 20 shilling = po... |
If pot isn't addictive, then why are so many people obsessed with it to the point where it's part of their user name? | When people say pot isn't addictive, they mean that it is not chemically addictive . However, people can still become dependent on it psychologically. |
Why does time seem to pass so much slower when you are doing something unenjoyable? | Density of information appears to have something to do with it.We humans are really bad at telling actual time , we tend to confuse passing of time with events taking place.Say you are very busy and when you finally have the time to look at the clock you notice it is already much later than you expected.In this case we... |
What is 1x when it comes to cell networks? | It's an older 3g network standard that was used by some networks, like Verizon and Sprint. It's slower than the 4g network and the later 3g network so you'll probably struggle to do much Internet browsing on it, but phone calls should work fine. |
Universality of the term "mama". | the transition from closed mouth to open mouth sounding is one of the simplest phonemes. Since children will mmmaa mmaa mmaaa, and mothers respond to their childs noises mama becomes a word when in fact its only noise but words are just noise assigned meaning. Another common sound caused by forcing sound through closed... |
Why is Einstein's special theory of relativity not considered paradoxical? How is the "Twins Paradox" resolved? | It isn't really a paradox. It is just a weird consequence of relativity. We think of time as constant so the idea that two things created simultaneously could have experienced different amounts of time hurts our little brains. But basically it is no different than this: two new cars left the lot at the same time an hou... |
Where exactly is Hogwarts supposed to be? | Supposedly it's in our universe, but they cast a spell on it so that muggles couldn't find it, no matter how hard they look. |
How do chess AIs work | In general, a chess-playing program works by looking at the current state of the chess board , then looking ahead at all the possible moves, and picking the best one based on a points system where each of the pieces are assigned values. Difficulty is determined by how many moves ahead the computer looks. If they just l... |
How can the US government tack on extra laws to bills? | People in the US don't vote on every bill that is to/might become law. It is a Representstive Democracy so they vote for Senators and Congresmen/women who will they represent them. It is these people who then vote on the bills which are put before them. If the bill passes in both the Senate and the House of Representat... |
how do non-profits make salaries for employees? | Profit is the money that is left after expenses. They spend all the money they take in on expenses like employee salaries, office space, resources and so on, so they have zero profit. |
Why is a British flag shirt considered trendy and/or cool, but an American flag shirt is considered to be a redneck thing? | Because typically it is rock stars that wear British flag shirts and rednecks that wear American flag shirts. .. wearing any flag as a shirt makes you a wanker. unless infact you're representing that country at something like the Olympics and even then it has to look respectable |
What's are the differences between gangs, cartels, mafias, triads and mobs? | My understanding is nationality. For example, the Triads are Chinese, Mafia is Italian, gangs tend to be American, such as the BloodsLet's see. Cartels are businesses, so to speak, that follow a certain practice: force the price of something up high and keep it there, which involves restricting competition and other qu... |
The law, in relation to security guards, bodyguards, and boucers | The law in my state, Alabama, states that a civil complaint is nullified by contributory negligence, that is if you do something to contribute to the situation then it's your fault too. Before I've ever removed someone they have contributed to their being removed, usually by committing a crime, and definitely if they'v... |
Why are some games windows only, Mac only, etc? Why aren't all games cross-platform? | Each system has unique hardware and drivers to talk to that hardware. Even on the same hardware, the OS may need different drivers to properly interact with the hardware. So while programming languages may be universal, they have to interact with drivers which are not. And the API to communicate with the drivers may be... |
Why has Germany been able to bounce back from Economic catastrophe twice in history but other European nations can't? | Because Germany has several important factors: A skilled workforce and a high technological level of industry. Also, its position in the middle of Europe allows for easy trade with all of its neighboring countries. There were two important actions after WWII: First was the currency reform implemented by Ludwig Erhard. ... |
My smartphone's battary status | Even what your phone considers zero battery still has about a 10% of capacity but lithium batteries are not to be discharged to absolute zero, this can damage them. As for the discharge rate the percentage read by the phone is indicated by voltage read off of the battery. Batteries have discharge curves that are unique... |
Why was Sweden never taken over during WW2? | Sweden declared itself neutral, and didn't really cause Germany many problems. They occasionally allowed Germany to move troops through their country. Strategically, Sweden could've been a pretty tough fight for Germany. It's rough terrain with pretty harsh winters, and the only land route from Germany was through Russ... |
The difference between Satan, Lucifer, The Devil, Beelzebub, etc... | Simple answer: They are the same. Elaborate answer: they have different origins, due to different abrahamistic religions adopting the concept of a devil: Satan, Shatain: Arameic, ArabicLucifer: Latin "lightbringer"Beelzebub: Hebrew "Lord of the flies"', "Now I'm curious as to why this question has been asked twice with... |
How is is that on the day a Google Doodle is released, there are already several well-researched articles explaining the Google Doodle? | Because Google will allow the writes early access to the project on the condition that they won't discuss it prior to release. |
What is so challenging about making ocean water drinkable? | Making it economically viable. There are many technologies available all are more expensive than using extant fresh-water supplies. |
Why do some days I feel like I look ugly but some days I think I look really good looking for no logical reason? Is our brain playing a trick on us? | I don't think it's quite as drastic as the other commenter has suggested. That is a possibility, but it is more likely that it has to do with hormones. So many things come into play there including appropriate amount of sleep, eating habits, exercise ", 'Are you looking in the same mirror? Lighting plays more of a role... |
Why can a university deny a request for a double major? If you take the classes, shouldn't you be able to get the degree? | Most schools are fine with double majors. My best guess, if its a Liberal Arts college, is that they believe a double major would hurt your ability to gain the rounded, varied breadth of learning they want students to get from their school.Do you have an example of a specific instance of this you could share? Anyway, r... |
Why is some deli meat, like sliced turkey breast, slimy, while the more expensive brands are normal? | Carrageenan is a substance derived from seaweed that absorbs water to form a gel. Since deli meat is sold by the pound, cheaper meats will have water added to increase the weight. You'll notice that better meats tend to not be slimy, and their turkey has a texture closer to your thanksgiving turkey breast than the chea... |
how does an antenna receive radio waves? | There are metals that are good conductors - they allow electricity to move through them fairly easily. When electrons move, like when power is running through a wire , they produce a magnetic field. Altering the properties of the electrical current, such as it's strength or frequency, does the same to the magnetic fiel... |
What's the difference between Apple Juice and Apple Cider? | To quote from the Simpsons: If it's clear and yellow, you got juice there, fellow. If it's tangy and brown, you're in cider-town. Now,of course, there are two exceptions ", '_URL_0_ > according to its Department of Agricultural Resources, "apple juice and apple cider are both fruit beverages made from apples, but there... |
Why does oxigenated water fizzes when applied to a wound? | _URL_0_ "It is a common misconception that hydrogen peroxide is a disinfectant or antiseptic for treating wounds. While it is an effective cleaning agent, hydrogen peroxide is not an effective agent for reducing bacterial infection of wounds. Further, hydrogen peroxide applied to wounds can impede healing and lead to s... |
Why does bleach turn colors white, but white things yellow? | Why bleach turns colors white: The most common kind of bleach, chlorine bleach contains sodium hypochlorite. When you wash clothes with say, ketchup on it, the sodium hypochlorite *oxidizes* the ketchup. This changes the chemical composition of the stain into one which still has color, *but* it's color is outside human... |
How does a stereo record player work? | The needle doesn't just move up and down, it also moves side to side, the up and down motion has one sensor, and the side to side motion has another, and these are read separately as the different channels. Good visuals: _URL_0_ |
How does the theory of instantaneous interstellar communication work? Is it possible? | There is no theory of instantaneous interstellar communication. The "speed of light" is better named the "maximum speed of information transfer".Are you talking about quantum entangled particles? Edit:[This] is a very brief overview of quantum entanglement. Using this process we could theoretically create a pair of com... |
Why are the recently revealed emails concerning Blair, Bush and the Iraq War important? Do they tell us anything new? | Some people still like to think politicians are honest. They're not. Many are very hungry for war, same is true with Syria right now. A "majority" of people voted for a guy that actively pushed the country into war. It's important to remind that half of the country what they got for their vote. |
why are corner offices so sought after? | If the offices have windows, the corner office has two walls that will have windows. It's much more open. It's also likely that, due to the layout of the rooms, the corner office is larger than the others. In all, the corner office is more desireable. It's a symbol that they've moved up in the company high enough to cl... |
Why are there laws that restrict viewership in other countries? | It is the right of the content creators or owners to control how their content is used; this is the basis of the intellectual property system we have. That includes the right to let others use those rights, or not, in whatever ways the owners see fit. Maybe the owners just have a huge problem with Paraguay or something... |
Could a fat person starve and still die fat? | Eating nothing at all can probably kill the fatty by avitaminosis/mineral deficiency before all fat is spent, but there was someone who lasted a year on water with mineral and vitamin supplements under medical surveillance, losing over 100kg in the processYes you technically can. There have been reported instances of s... |
Why would people fly drones with malware over wifi spots to put on people's computers? | A lot of the security community might consider themselves "white hat", but still have the desire to prove they can even do it. Once they can, perhaps then they could figure out ways to twart that kind of attack. I think the way they see it is that "if i don't do it, the bad guys will" |
How does the "traffic time to..." updates on the overhead signs on the freeway get tracked in real time? | Most freeways use induction loops under the asphalt, which trigger every time a vehicle passes overhead. These loops can determine the speed that vehicles are passing by, as well as the traffic density. With a little bit of math it's not too difficult to determine times to different places.In Maryland, they somehow pur... |
How does music or voice recordings go from physical waves to a fixed medium that allows infinite, exact playback? | The analog wave is digitalized. The music is picked up by microphones. which actually respond to the pressure of the sound waves. A value is recorded and stored in memory at a very fast rate. After the recording the same sound can be reproduced by recreating the sound from the levels recorded The sound is not actually ... |
Why are "virtual machines" generally regarded as impenetrable/safe? | A virtual machine is like The Matrix. When you're inside The Matrix, you're not aware that what you're doing is taking place in a virtual world -- to you it's real life. You could go on a killing spree, but it's all just a figment of your imagination. Code that runs in a virtual machine is running in The Matrix. It is ... |
How/Why did organisms go from single cell division to requiring a separate partner to reproduce? | I've always tied it to the invention of meiosis. Mitosis divides cells, but meiosis make half-cell kits, that can then combine in rapidly expanding numbers of ways. I see it as several billion years of mitosis and then meiosis gets discovered and boom: Cambrian Explosion. |
Why do earbuds have little speakers on the back? | It's to provide somewhere for the air to go as the speaker moves inside. Speakers generate sound by compressing the air in front of it in specific patterns and frequencies. So, as the air is compressed inside of your earbud, most of it goes into your ear, but not all of it. The speaker still needs to alleviate that exc... |
On a hot day, why does the road look wet from a distance? | The roads, being black, absorb a lot of heat from the Sun. They radiate that heat back into the air, although not perfectly. This cause a gradient of heat to 'rise' up from the road. Light travels differently in air that is at different temperatures, causing the waviness that you see and making it look like the road is... |
Why Insects can survive falling from such, relatively, great heights. | Simply put, they don't hit as hard. They don't have as much momentum and the materials they're made of are more or less the same as yours, but since there's less impact energy dissipated the structure of the fly's body is less damaged by the same *velocity*. Why can you bang two Matchbox cars together and they don't cr... |
What is in the testicles before puberty? | Most of what is in a testicle is not sperm, but the machinery which makes, stores, and eventually eventually ejects, plus stuff to complement that . From the time a young boy's testicles drop, all of that is in there, whether it's really working or not. |
Why is the score on metacritic consistently lower than the score on rotten tomatoes? | Rotten Tomatoes is higher than Metacritic on good movies, and lower than Metacritic on bad movies. As said below,RT's numbers are ratios. For a "pretty good" movie that everyone agrees is decent, you're likely to get a 100% on RT, while on MC, you'll get something like a 65 - 70 . And for some amiably crappy, low-brow ... |
If threatening people is illegal, why were protesters allowed to carry Nazi flags and call for the death of groups of people like black people / jews? | Because the First Amendment distinguishes between advocacy of violence and incitement of imminent violence. It is not illegal to advocate and support violent acts. It is illegal to try to persuade people to commit violent acts right now. So carrying torches and calling for genocide = totally legal. Carrying torches and... |
What happened with Carlos Mencia and why is he basically shunned as a comedian? | He stole jokes and got outed by other comedians such as Joe Rogan for doing so.Well, as it's been said he's notorious for stealing material, sometimes word for word, from other comedians. But then there's the fact that, by and large, his own material isn't very funny, and he usually gets by on his loud, obnoxious perso... |
what is the Heartbleed virus and why is everyone panicking about it ruining the thought of a secure internet? | First off, I am not a comp sci expert by any means, so I will just be explaining what I know of this. The Heartbleed is not a virus. Rather it is a bug in a program called OpenSSL. This is an encryption program that is used by a great many websites. Basically what happens is whenever you log into a website like your em... |
Why is my beard hair so much different from my head hair? | All hair after puberty is a type of hair called terminal hair but the differences in "feel" actually come from how the hair is shaped in a cross-section. Straight hair is round, wavy hair is oval, and curly hair is flat. Scalp hair can be any of these, but facial hair is used to increase the surface area of pheromones ... |
Considering air friction, why do fans make air feel cooler and not warmer? | The effect of friction on the air is negligible. Fans don't cool the air overall, but they make you *feel* cooler by moving the air around. You heat the air immediately above your skin to well above room temperature, and a fan blows cooler air in to replace that.**Short answer:** Moving air is up to 10 times more effic... |
Why is Hollywood what it is? | It still was "the" place until fairly recently when Vancouver boomed and now Georgia officially produces the most filmsOriginally the area just worked out as being good for making movies in - the location and typical weather makes for more nice sunny days, which means you have good lighting for filming outside, more co... |
How does 911 connect you to the local dispatch? | Landlines are assigned specific E911 addresses and relayed through their non-switched network via the phone number. Mobile phones are a little more complicated, because the signal is triangulated to a nearby tower. Cell towers are assigned E911 addresses as well, but they often relay GPS information to the 911 network.... |
How do people can make a game console emulator and how they extract game files from physical cartridge to digital files ? | First up: emulators An emulator takes the machine code on a cartridge and either interprets it - that is, translates it piece by piece as it runs, or uses JIT compilation to translate it. The second one is much more complicated, but often more efficient. They can translate like this as often the CPU is not custom, and ... |
why doesn't smoking weed lead to heart problems and strokes whil smoking other carcinogens like cigarettes do? | It probably does since nothing burns completely clean. I think there are fewer people smoking weed at the equivalent of a pack a day to really have enough evidence to decide one way or anotherI would say it is probably because there are other side effects to smoking about 20-30 joints per day. Cancer is way down the li... |
why the US Postal Service is in so much trouble | Several years ago congress passed a law forcing the USPS to pre fund the retirement accounts for the next 75 years. Meaning they have to put money away for workers that have not even been born yet. Without this requirement the USPS would be operating just fine. Email has also caused a reduction in mail volume which is ... |
what is the purpose of earnings per share? What distinguish it from mere earnings? | Unless you know the earnings per share, you can't determine the price/earnings ratio of the stock you might want to buy or sell. If two companies have $1Million in earnings but Co A has 1 Million shares outstanding and Co B has 2 Million shares outstanding, one might expect the price of Co B's shares to be 1/2 of those... |
How does daylight savings work for a person that works overnights? | I used to work graveyard at a hospital . Spring Forward was nice because we only had to work 7 hours, but got paid for the full 8. Fall back we worked 9 hours and got paid overtime for the extra hour. Also we were responsible for changing all the clocks.I've worked overnight when the clocks changed. You either work an ... |
What's with the "strange" spring new home building habits of ants? | The small black ants that usually do that are Argentine ants. They need a lot of water for their nests because there are a lot of ants in their colonies and sprinklers from lawns are usually right by that concrete. Usually when you see ants walking around on the sidewalks, or above ground, its only about 5% of the colo... |
How are suicide bombers able to so easily circumvent what is considered the deepest human trait: self-preservation? | Self-preservation is not the deepest human trait as we can see when people sacrifice themselves for others. Survival of the fittest doesn't refer to the individual but to the genes that are passed on by your relatives. There are situations where looking after yourself will get everyone killed but if one person sacrific... |
Where do the worms in your garbage bag come from? They can't be in the food you eat right? | They absolutely can come from the food you eat. Fly eggs will only hatch in temperatures hospitable to the larva . Warm cozy trash can is way nicer than the inside of a refrigerator. They can also come from flies that occasionally make it into your house, and subsequently your trashIf you mean fly larvae, then yes the ... |
Henry Kissinger, why he was revered in his day but hated now. | Whenever Kissinger talks, you should listen, but you should also remember that he is the paragon of Realpolitik's virtues. To him, international politics is just a game, a game with winners and losers, and the only goal is to be the winner. Reading his books, you get a cold assessment of the world, but no mention of an... |
Why are there play-in games in the NCAA Tournament for 11 and 12 seeds? | 32 teams qualify for the tournament by winning their conference, 36 win by getting an "at-large" bid, which essentially means they're the top teams out of those that didn't win their conferences. The at-large bid teams are all going to be better than quite a few of the smaller conference winners, so they get ranked hig... |
Why is my mental image of myself very different from my actual appearance, and why am I unable to reconcile the two? | Somewhat related: why do I think I look pretty good when looking in the mirror, but look far worse when I see a photo or a video of myself from the same day? |
Bayesian probability and how it relates to interpretation of DNA evidence in a criminal trial | When dealing with events that are 99% likely, small differences get blown out of proportion when you look too closely at the 1%. Say 1% of the population has a disease, and we have a 99% chance of properly diagnosing whether they're sick. Pretty good odds, right? Out of 10,000 people - - 100 of them are actually sick -... |
The medicine approval process? | * Indication: This is where we identify a disease state. Say, Reddititis. There is currently no cure for reddititis. We have an idea about what causes it.* Discovery: We found a compound that in petri dishes seems to prevent the major cause of reddititis. The phases describe different types of trials: * Phase 1: These ... |
Why do we laugh at things when with a peer that we would not even find amusing alone? | It's a bonding mechanism. A lot of laughter can be attributed to bonding with others: - when people are in a group and laugh, they tend to look at the person they feel closest to or would like to feel close to - in dating, humor is big factor for how well 2 people connect. You tend to feel close to those who laugh with... |
What causes the sensation of needing to cough? | You have cough receptors in your lungs and your ~~airpipes~~ airways, they get stimulated by chemical or mechanic irritants These receptors send electrical signals via the vagus nerve to the brain, the signal is processed and a cough reflex is send via motor nerves which make you cough to eliminate this irritant. In Dr... |
How do (rechargeable) batteries exactly store power? | batteries work via a chemical reaction in which one set of atoms loses electrons and another gains electrons. the battery is set up so that the reaction is ready to happen, but can't without a way for the electrons to get from one terminal to the other, and you provide this path for the electrons when you put the batte... |
What does "systemless" mean in the context of newer Android systems? | It basically means they're not modifying some system folders. Modifying system folders causes some Android functionality not to work , so people have found a workaround. No doubt Google will find a way to prevent the workaround, and then people will figure out a workaround for *that*, etc. |
what is /r/ circlejerk about? | You can't really run out of karma. Well you can go into the negatives but you can build it back up fairly easily. /r/circlejerk is self-satire on general Reddit views, mostly leftist views which they tend to spin to far leftist views that are absurd and so on. They make fun of stereotypical Redditor behavior which incl... |
why is there an uproar about declaring Jurusalem as capital instead of Tel Aviv? | Both the Israelis and Palestinians claim the entire city as their own. At the moment it is divided and the implication of the announcement is that the US supports Israel claim to the entire thing. While trump explicitly stated it didn't mean this, it is how the world including his base views the implication", 'As I und... |
What is the spread and how is it beat? And why would ine want to do so? | When most people bet on sports for real money, they don't just bet on who will win or lose. Instead, to make it more interesting---especially when a better team is playing a bad team---the bet usually involves a spread. The spread is the number of points that the favorite team would have to win by in order for a person... |
Why do potato chips' such as: Ketchup, All Dressed, and Dill Pickle sales tests perform so poorly in the US, but are among the top flavours in other countries? | The flavours you mention all have one thing in common: sourness. Ketchup, all dressed and dill pickle are all vinegary flavours and sour/vinegar is not a flavour element that's very popular in American cuisine with a few notable exceptions . Salt & vinegar or malt vinegar is extreeeeeeeeeeemely popular in the UK/Irelan... |
why does the singing on TV and radio adverts always sound so bad? | I'm not completely sure but in a few cases I have noticed that the vocals are always MUCH louder than the instrumentals so that whatever lyrics are sung can be heard and understood easily. It may not be that radio/TV singing is any worse than the vocals on a song, but just that there is less to cover up/distract from t... |
Why do so many people hate Comcast? | because comcast makes a habit of taking advantage of how its a monopoly in most areas. They know their customers have no other choices, so they bump up prices, give you much less service than what you're paying for, and offer spotty service in general. Their customer support is garbage, and they make it as hard as poss... |
Why are food, water and shelter not first on the human rights list? | Because they're positive rights - saying you're entitled to shit. The most important ones are negative rights - saying what you can't be subjected to - such as slavery, torture etc.How would you guarantee such rights? If someone has no food, who is responsible for violating this right? If someone takes food away from t... |
What chemicals are found in disposable chopsticks and what harm will they do? | If they are wood then its just wood. Even if there is a treated coating then the question is less what is in it, and more how much of it can actually get into food. I could get heavy metal poisoning if my fork dissolved into my food, but I don’t because it doesnt ', "You may want to follow the paraffin trail, assuming ... |
Why do we only see smoke after a candle is blown out and not while it's burning? | Most of the smoke from a blown out candle is un-burned fuel that got vaporized on the hot wick. When a candle is burning, it uses up this fuel leaving only small amounts of carbon behind. Fun Fact: You can actually re-light a candle by lighting the stream of smoke coming from a recently blown out candle. This is becaus... |
Why are the vertical stabilizers on combat jets slightly angled horizontally and not strictly vertical? | It depends on the plane and the goals. The [F14] has twin vertical vertical stabilizers, while the [F/A-18] is similar to the F-22 with twin angled vertical stabilizers. The vertical stabilizer has a control surface on the back of it. On a vertical stabilizer like that on the F-14 it is only a rudder, but if you tilt t... |
States voting to keep NFL teams | > Recently, someone told me that the state of Colorado votes every four years to keep the Broncos. This is completely false, I can't even think of a reason someone would believe that. Denver and neighboring counties voted once in the 1990's to help fund a new stadium that reduced the likelihood the team would move. The... |
If so much of Linux and the various distros are open-source, how are they secure? Wouldn't people be able to study the code for security loop-holes? | Yep, and when they find those holes they report them or patch it up making the distro even more secure than before.The simplest way to put it I think would be this: If you made Windows 10 open source project right now, how many major security problems do you expect people all around the world would find within weeks? L... |
Medications that have side effects that give mood swings. How do I know what I'm feeling is real and not part of a mood swing? | Scientifically, there really is no way to find out, other than stopping taking medications, getting past the withdrawal symptoms, and seeing if the mood swings are still there. Assuming that's not an option, there is no way. They're mood swings, it doesn't really matter was the cause is now, is there? |
Madden 2015 commentator dialogue. | In code there are loops that decide when to execute a certain command. There are many different ways to choose the phrases that he spoke; so as for specific algorithms, you 'd have to be a developer for the Madden game to know exactly. Variables are deciding the phrases he says. For example you throw a very long pass, ... |
Why don't Microsoft and Sony release upgraded versions of their consoles with each new iteration within a generation? | It would break compatibility with earlier consoles. Nobody wants to buy a PS4 today only to find out that 3 years down the road the games being released only work with the PS4 Advanced. At that point, you're really just releasing a new console on a shorter timescale than your competitors, which would drive away consume... |
How does our skin perceive the subtle changes between hot and cold? | There are special temperature sensing channels called TRP channels . TRP channels were first isolated in Drosophila and responded to light. Now we know that some TRP channels actually respond to narrow ranges of temperatures and are found in many organisms, including humans . Essentially, when exposed to a temperature ... |
Why does my desk vibrate when I play a specific frequency? | ELI5 version: Your desk has a frequency that it likes. This is called its [resonant frequency]. When it hears sounds of this frequency, it dances along with the music. The receipt has a different frequency that it likes, so it dances or buzzes along with that frequency. Slightly more sciencey version: Since you asked y... |
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