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Why are some able to vividly recollect dreams and others have no memory of them? | I think it has to do with how much sleep you get, as well as where in your sleep cycle you wake up. But other than that, I couldn't tell you about differences in brain chemistry that would cause this difference.I sometimes remember my dreams, other times, not. The difference between the two for me is waking in the midd... |
Why do men run the 110 meter hurdles while women run only 100 meters? | Historically, the lengths of the hurdle events varied greatly for both men and women. The men's even settled into 10 hurdles and 110m, while the women did 8 over 80m. In the 1960s, they experimented with increasing the number of hurdles in the women's event to 10, and experimented with various distances. They settled o... |
What actually happens when you 'stand up too fast' (dizzy, blurry vision, shaky legs) | Orthostatic Hypotension. Blood flow to brain will be reduced, when you suddenly stand up, due to gravity . You heart will pump in more blood to your brain and you will feel normal after some time. EDITED for grammar and clarity. |
Why are brains wrinkly? | > that doesn't answer why a smooth brain wouldn't be able to hold the same amount of grey matter with a similar volume to a wrinkly brain. Your head can only get so big before your neck can no longer support it. So in order for more neurons to fit in the skull, the increase in surface area must be in wrinkles rather th... |
I like driving, and don't want self driving cars. Is my ability to drive in threat in the foreseeable future? | Of course not. Driving, even when taken over generally by robotics and automation will always be available to hobbyists like minded to yourself. It may become a recreational thing but it will always be available.Define the foreseeable future. Self driving cars are still very much in development. Even right now the deve... |
Why do I want to chew on my lips when they're chapped? | It's dry. Your first reaction is to lick it wet. Then you feel the dry skin which then you unconsciously start chewing off. Not all people do it. Some people do it because of habit like having a scab. |
Why do people sometimes find things more funny when they become tired? What is happening in the brain? | When you don't get enough sleep it is a lot of stress for your brain. To protect itself from damage it releases endorphins to relax the body so that you finally give in and go to bed. After > 35h awake I start giggling uncontrollably like a little girl. So basically TL;DR: *you get high on your own supply*. |
Why are smartphone screens made out of glass rather than tougher and shatter-proof plastic? | Even the best polycarbonate will still scratch, and the scratches refract the light of the display. Glass is hard enough to resist scratching Capitalism-The sooner it breaks the sooner they buy a new one |
What exactly is "static electricity", and can we harvest it? | Static electricity is just what it sounds like. Electricity that's not "moving". Electrons build up on the edge of something, like a doorknob, and they jump over when you touch it. But there's no continuing flow, once they jump, they're done. So while there is actually a ton of voltage , there's no amps , so there's pr... |
How does wireless communication work? | Wireless is made up of two parts - transmitter and receiver. In general, a better antennae for transmitting will also be better for receiving, which is why just changing antennae can make a big difference. When a device talks about signal strength, it's talking about the fastest it can both send and receive the informa... |
How do subreddits such as Internet Is Beautiful have so little content? | There is very little on /r/InternetIsBeautiful because the internet is a wretched hive of scum and villainy full of the worst of humanity. There is very little on /r/InternetIsBeautiful because there is very little beauty on the internet. |
What is the difference between Great Britain, UK and England? | This is a very good video explaining the situation. _URL_0_The basics are that England is part of the island of Great Britain, along with Scotland and Wales. These three, together with Northern Ireland make up the sovereign state called the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland* England = England* UK = E... |
how do chicken eggs get fertilized if they're in a shell? | [Looks like someone needs to rewatch The Magic Schoolbus!] TL;DW: The egg is encased in a shell *after* it's fertilized, not *before*. |
Why is food said to be Piping hot? Why piping? | This expression was used as early as late medieval times, referring to the steam that shot out of a spouted tea kettle, a device in use at least since ancient Mesopotamia. In other words, "piping hot" means "boiling hot." Chaucer used the expression in 1386, as quoted by wiki.answers: "Wafres pipyng hoot out of the gle... |
How exactly did celebs like Jennifer Lawrence get their phones hacked and their photos stolen? Is anyone with a smartphone vulnerable? | I read that someone hacked their cloud storage accounts. If that is the case then "hacked" probably isn't the right term. Someone correctly guessed their password. As for if we're all vulnerable ..anything you store online behind a password is susceptible to exposure like this. Sleep tight!On my phone especially I assu... |
Why do presidents seem to dissappear from politics after their term ends? | US President is the highest office in the nation. Once you've been President, you can command many thousands of dollars in speaking fees, you can open your library, you can publish your memoirs and make more money, you receive a pension of $200,000 per year - why would you want to stay in politics? Anyways, they don't ... |
What gives a company the right to call themselves or their products the "finest quality", the "first" of that type of product or the "best"? | Its quite literally the same as a stereotypical white girl saying, "O.M.G that is the best thing evverrr!" |
Why do most older motorcycles use one carburetor per cylinder, instead of just one carburetor for the whole engine, like a car? | Tunability vs cost. Each cylinder will receive slightly different amounts of air if only using 1 carb, due to the fact that there is an intake manifold placed behind it causing different runner lengths as well as different heat characteristics per cylinder. in an I4, cylinder 3 typically runs the hottest. It's more exp... |
What's the difference between Agnostic and Atheism? | Gnosticism is a claim of knowledge. I know things for certain if I am a gnostic. If I am agnostic, I admit I don't have a solid basis for my knowledge, but feel it is correct. Theism is the belief in a god. Theists believe there is one. Atheists aren't convinced there is one. Antitheists are the ones who say god does n... |
Why does dust stick to things that are in motion? ie: ceiling fans | Becasuse of the way the blades work, they push air down. As it pushes down and strikes a surface it then pushes out, hits a wall, goes up, hits the ceiling and then moves back towards the fan. You'd think it would continue like this, but there is a bit of a low pressure zone above the fan, where nothing is getting suck... |
Why do prominent Conservatives MPs keep standing with their legs awkwardly far apart at important photo ops? | Practical joke by the PR company they hire, I reckon. It's like that episode of Blackadder where Prince George has to keep adjusting his stance. Like the stupid thumb thing they do which is supposed to mean integrity or some shit, but what it actually does is make me turn off to whatever they're saying because the whol... |
Why can't humans target where we lose weight? | Fat can and does fuel the muscles, which is why it's easy to trick people into thinking your new workout video will target belly fat. If the ab muscles are using fat for energy, it would make the most sense they would use the fat that's right there. The thing is, though, the muscles don't have access to the fat stored ... |
Why do media services use simultaneous downloads by default? | Because the limiting factor is not your download speed but the upload speed of the server. You can download 1 file at a time at 500kb/s or you can download 10 at a time at 500kb/s. Some fancy programs like torrents may split the file into 100 chunks and download each one at 500kb/s from a different person. When downloa... |
What is oxygen saturation and what actually happens to your body when it is too low? | Oxygen saturation is how much oxygen is in your blood compared to the standard level in human blood. If your levels drop too low your organs start to shut down. This is particularly true of your brain. If it drops low enough long enough you will die. Anything below 95% will prompt medical professionals to give you an o... |
Why do so many religions forbid masturbation? | Religions wanted as many followers as they could have, so they wanted their followers to have as many children as they could. They used guilt and shame to make people think the only time people should have sexual release is only when it was intended to make a babyIf I remember correctly from my Sunday school days, it's... |
Why do post menopausal women still desire sex even though they can no longer produce offspring? | Because sex still feels good. Why stop? Hell, it's *better* because you don't have to worry about unwanted pregnancies. That, and a lot of hormones don't always stop just because they're not needed anymore. You may consciously know you can't have children, your ovaries may be aware that you can't have children, but tha... |
How a computer turns electrical signals, into a Windows GUI or a Mac GUI | It tells the pixel what color to display. Make many millions of them and you get an image. Change them a lot and you get motion. Think of one of those giant TVs that’s made up of 9 smaller TVs, each with 1/9th of the overall display — they each show a small part of the bigger image. Now instead of 9, have millions. The... |
Who exactly are Roman vs. Fousey? | Roman and Fousey are both prank-focused Youtubers and [fouseyTUBE], over 9.5 million subs each), and Roman vs. Fousey is just a live show tour they collaborated on. |
How did the US and Canada, two countries with similar colonial and geographic backgrounds, end up so different in terms of political cultures? | Their colonial backgrounds aren't very similar at all. Canada didn't become functionally independent from the British Parliament until 1931, and not entirely so until 1982. Predictably, Canada's political culture is much more similar to Britain's. Not to mention that many of the United States' founders were specificall... |
How is/was music rated in order to 'make it to the charts?' | Back in the day record shops and radio stations used to fill in charts on what they were selling/playing. These were easily fixed. Also keep in mind not all record shops filled in these charts, so there always have been an uncomplete view of what was selling. In the 90s came Nielsen soundscan. Nielsen was a company tha... |
ELI: 5 why do I lose my eye sight when I get a head rush? | That "head rush" is caused by a sudden drop in blood pressure. It takes a moment for your circulatory system to adjust to having your blood redistributed more to your legs when you stand, and sometimes it can't keep up quickly enough. The loss of vision is caused by a temporary reduction of oxygen to the visual cortex ... |
How the digestive system adapt to certain foods that it initially has trouble with? | I'm not sure, but I'd like to know AND to ask why the opposite is true. When I first went vegan I had the worst farts I wasn't fit to be around . That settled down eventually, which is in keeping wit OP's question. Now, after 11 years, if I have any dairy products at all I get stomach sick and very gassy - I used to lo... |
Why do I need to pee more when I've been drinking alcohol? | Alcohol blocks the signal that tells your kidneys to retain water. Without the signal, you pee out more water than you normally would. This is also why you get a hang over. You're dehydrated. |
How are cranes assembled? | Well, usually you do have another crane, but let's imagine that you don't. I don't think that they use other cranes to build them anyway. For the record, I am not an expert in construction, but these are all ideas that seem feasible. If you want to build it vertically, you can use [scaffolding] around it and build it p... |
If the flu mutates so rapidly, why do we experience similar symptoms every time we get it? | Not all parts of the virus mutate at the same rate. The parts necessary to keep the virus functioning are going to be conserved from one generation to the next. Other parts are more free to change, because there may be some flexibility in the way the virus uses them. The proteins used to attach to host cells and get in... |
Why is there coconut oil AND coconut water? | Coconut water is as you've said; it's the liquid inside the cavity of the coconut. Coconut oil is pressed from the coconut meat . Just as you're capable of secreting water and producing oil, so to can coconut. |
Why do we have a debt ceiling when it continues to get raised | Your instincts are right. It has been described as the political version of the playground game "Stop Hitting Yourself." _URL_0_', "> Inevitably, it gets raised despite all of the posturing and grandstanding. That is more a function of the inability of our government to reign in spending than the overall benefit to hav... |
How exactly does pain medicine taken by way of pill know where to target in our bodies to relieve the pain? | it works on your brain, not the area of your body that’s in pain. it affects our PERCEPTION of pain> How exactly does medicine know where to go to stop the pain? It doesn't. Medication goes *everywhere* and impacts everything, so even if it has a picture of one area of the body on the box it is actually going all throu... |
Why were my student loans just suddenly paid off? | A friend recently had the same experience. His loan was sold to some company. It definitely wasn't magically paid off by the government, so alert them to the error or you may end up owing more money down the line.It would help if we knew where in the world you were.If it's only $1600, the potential upside is limited to... |
Why is the launch price for the Nintendo Switch nearly $100 more for Australian buyers? Even converting the US price to AUD equals $394 D: | There may be extra costs involved for Nintendo. The price of importing a product is more complex than simply the sales tax the consumer pays. Besides import duties there is some one-time safety/legal obstacles to be cleared and if they expect to sell fewer in Australia, the cost of meeting their laws/requirements is sp... |
Would a small kitten, having been taken away from it's mother at birth AND never seeing a mouse before, still try to eat it? | Instincts are basically genetic memories of what to do. My dog, when she was a puppy only a few weeks old, would be at the end of a hallway and try to 'stalk' us. She would get low to the ground, and walk really slowly trying to sneak up on her toys or us playing with her. No one taught her how to do that she just knew... |
Do you need a PhD to teach a technical subject (engineering)? Why? | I teach part-time at a local university. I have a Master's degree, but if I ever wanted to be full-time, I would need a PhD. There is a reason for that. Universities are still first research institutions, and second teaching environments. That role is heavily debated, and for good reason. But that is the current model.... |
Why do our nose and sense of smell affect our taste so much? | Because the vast majority of the sensation we call "taste" is actually just smell. You smell food particles that travel up the back of your nose while you chew. This is why holding your nose while chewing greatly diminishes the sensation of flavor: You're blocking the smell from reaching your nose. The *actual* sensati... |
Once scratched, why are Teflon pots unusable? | The coating is not good for you, and can stay in your body for a while. Once it starts to chip or gets scratched it all starts to come off like paint when it begins to peel off. Use wood , plastic or silicone utensils to not scratch it. |
Why are there so many rebel groups in Africa? | Basically the countries' borders were set up by the european colonial powers with no consideration of traditional tribal boundaries. So countries contain members from two or three tribes. Governments tend to be run by a majority from one tribe and another tribe rightfully or wrongfully feels left out, so they rebel. Ad... |
how/why is suspension with pay a form of punishment? | It's not a punishment. Suspension with pay is what you do when there's evidence something's up , but nothing is proven yet . |
How does the Boston bomb suspect afford such high end defense? | because she wants to. read her wiki and law page, she doesn't believe in the death penalty so she fights for people to not die for their crimes |
Why is space exploration so important that we spend billions of dollars on it. | It's the future, and whichever country/group of countries has the greatest understanding and control of space technology will have a massive competitive advantage in countless fields. But putting all strategic reasons aside, it's just the most awesome human endeavour, and worthy of investment in its own right, just to ... |
r/K selection theory as it pertains to modern humans. | r/K selection theory is outdated even in *non*humans, though several of its concepts have been incorporated into its successors. Furthermore, since it was always about comparisons *between species*, its primary relevance to modern humans is that we are a species that overall uses a K-selection strategy: we produce one ... |
Why do things get quieter when I yawn? | Pressure changes make it harder for the hairs in your ear to pick up vibrations. Also you have a muscle near your ear and jaw that is for cutting down the sound of chewing that you hear. When you yawn your flex this muscle which also dampens noise. Unrelated but some people have the ability to flex this muscle, and the... |
What causes the satisfying "pop" in our ears after we yawn from being sick or dropping altitudes? | The uncomfortable feeling that makes you want to yawn is a difference in pressure between your outer ear and your middle ear, which are separated from each other by your eardrum. The act of yawning opens up the Eustachian tubes, which connect the middle ear to the mouth and nose. This allows the pressure in the ear to ... |
How is a carrot different from other root vegetables like cassava or cocoyam? | Those three vegetables are not related to each other at all and I don't know how you can think they're like each other since they look radically different. Carrots are in the Apiaceae family, cassava are in the Euphorbiaceae, and coco yams are in the family Araceae. Putting this into animal terms, if a carrot is a pig ... |
Evolutionarily, what is the purpose of toenails on humans? | If you'll notice, our evolutionary cousins, the Great Apes, also have toenails. Even old world monkeys have toenails. In fact, it seems that most non-human primates have nails. So this actually answers part of your question: the purpose of toenails is not human-specific. More on the evolutionary function of nails in pr... |
Why do people develop cultural preferences? | Not a sociology major or anything of the sort; but I would wager that if you were brought up in a fairly normal north American household, you 've been exposed to massive amounts of subtle and overt marketing over the years that generally appeals to the largest demographic, white people. You 've simply adapted the minds... |
how are police sketches made? | A witness will sit down with a forensic sketch artist. The artist, typically, will have a binder or book full of different noses, eyes, etc. and the witness will go through picking which are best. If alterations need to be made the witness does their best to describe it to the artistFrom what I have heard, they ask for... |
Why is it that countries which are near or next to eachother can have completely different sounding languages? | The "slowly changing gradient" thing kinda is what happens. Then the king of France, for example, comes along and says that you have to speak French in his country. He also enforces the border, so you 've not go as much reason to communicate with someone ten miles away in Germany as you do to someone 300 miles away on ... |
Is it possible to communicate wirelessly using Light instead of radio frequency? | Light and radiowaves are both forms of electromagnetic radiation. They can both be used to transmit information, Fibre optic cables, your infrared remote on the television and many other technologies use light as the communication mediumYes? You can flicker the lights in morse code or any other signal pattern. Problem ... |
Why does rain fall in a constant downfall instead of one giant burst of dropping the water? | Water vapor is suspended in the air. Warm air can hold more water in it than cool air, so as the air cools it allows water to condense into small droplets of water which manifest as a thin mist or cloud. Water in vapor form is transparent and invisible to the naked eye. Obviously once those tiny droplets start to colle... |
House Republicans passed HR368 so that they could go to conference. What does it mean to go to conference? (video reference included) | It means to send a bill to a conference committee composed of representatives and senators so that they can hammer out the differences between the two versions of the text and reach an eventual compromise that both houses will accept. I can't watch the video at the moment, so I'm not sure of the exact context, but that... |
Why is it so hard to stop peeing after I've started? | the muscle responsible for stopping your pee is weak basically, your penis doesn't even lift. do you even kegel?", 'it isnt for me, i have kegals of steel. been like that since i was little, i pee how I want |
If I am sitting at my computer and gaming with a 130 bpm heart rate, why is that not as good cardiovascular as running outside with 130 bpm HR? | You would have to be playing a pretty intense game for a long time to actually get your heart rate that high for long stretches. Simple story is that when you're gaming, you're not necessarily giving all your muscles a good work out and exercising them. With the exception of the Nintendo Wii, most games involve sitting... |
How do cruise ships not tip over? | Essentially it stays upright by the same principles as [this guy]. Vast oversimplification, but you get the ideaIn addition to stabilizing fins, the main reason are the ballast tanks. All ships have these in some form but cruise ship and transport ships rely on them heavily. Ballast tanks can empty with water providing... |
If the law of conversation of energy dictates that no energy can ever get lost then where did it come from in the first place? | Nobody knows. We're still trying to figure out what crazy shit went down in the Big Bang. All we know is that there's energy now and it is conserved in the things we can observe. |
How does "Popcorn Time" manage to function both legally and financially? | Popcorntime is not legal in any way. The app is simply a torrent client with the ability to play the movie/tv-show while it is downloaded. It uses standard torrent databases like the pirate bay or kickass torrents to fetch the torrents, not its own service. Also it is open source, so everybody can build their own versi... |
How much is mathematical analysis actually useful for IT? | It is very useful in *computer science* but rarely used in *applied information technology.* Universities usually teach you more theory than you will use on the job, in the hopes of giving you a more profound understanding and stronger thinking skills.Mathematical analysis is critical in two aspects of computer science... |
How does this cell phone hologram work? | It looks as though each opposite pair of images is a mirror of the other, and either filmed from a slightly different perspective. If your eyeballs are close enough to the reflecting apparatus, each eyeball gets a different "version" of the image, and your brain fuses it into a 3D image.It's not really a hologram, it's... |
why will old milk make you sick but cheese and yogurt are fine ? | Most bad milk won't make you sick, it's just really nasty to drink. This is because most off the milk we drink is pasteurized there won't be alot of bacteria to make you sick. |
Paris syndrome. Why does it happen? | Paris syndrome is experienced by southeast Asian tourists -- particularly the Japanese -- in Paris. Basically, their illusions are shattered while at the same time they suffer from culture shock, jetlag, exhaustion and various other problems associated with long-distance travel. What these tourists are expecting is a b... |
The Fed announced they will likely be raising interest rates soon. What does this mean for people who are in the process of picking out a house to buy? | Interest rates are likely to be higher than lower. The change is probably small, 0.25%, but you should expect that banks will pass the cost on to you. Much of the increase is already baked into estimates, so don't expect a square wave in rates the next day. |
Why do men's clothes have buttons on the right while women's clothes have buttons on the left? | The general explanation for this is a few hundred years ago it was common for gentlemen to dress themselves while ladies would be dressed by others. Since right-handedness is by-far the dominant trait, the buttons would be on the right for a man, but on the left for a woman so that for a second woman facing the first, ... |
How does the crisper of a hot pocket work?? | The inside of the sleeve reflects microwaves, the idea being that it causes more microwave exposure in less time, or just more radiant heat, or something along those lines. I remember when we got some microwave, years and years ago now, the cookbook that came with it talked about using aluminum foil to control the brow... |
How does a surface-to-air missile (SAM) distinguish hostile aircrafts from friendly aircrafts? | The typical SAM can't tell the difference between friendlies and hostiles. For systems where the SAM is guided from the ground, it's up to the operator to make that call. |
Why is prostitution allowed in some countries, but not brothels? | I think it's to ensure sex workers are doing it of their own free will brothels can hide a lot of secrets like trafficked workers whose passports have been taken and live in fear each day and are therefore deterred from speaking out to authorities", 'Those laws allow sex workers to work as independent contractors, but ... |
Ribbon Diagrams for protein structure | To solve the structure of a protein, you generally need x-ray crystallography. This technique allows atomic, angstrom-level resolution of the structure of proteins. Once you have a structure, you can represent that structure with different models. Ribbon diagrams are good for showing secondary structure as well as tert... |
How they go about laying the foundation for an oil rig? | Oil rigs aren't on a 'foundation'. They are an actual metal rig that sits on the existing ground. They will drill out a hole and cap it off with cement for later use after they have reached their desired depth. Think space shittle tracks. The big tracks they use to move around the large space equipment. Things are diff... |
why are some fields unionized while others are not? | Some fields need it more than others. Some high skill fields are constantly in demand, so people in those fields don't really need to unionize to ensure they get fair pay and good benefits. Other fields are more easily replaced, however, so unions are more beneficial for them.Unions are pretty old, so a lot of unions e... |
Why are drugs sometimes cut with dangerous shit? | A dealer does not really give a shit. He will cut the drugs with anything he can get his hands on. Sure, he wants to keep his customers alive, repeat business is good, but he cares more about maximising his profits. Twin this with the fact that said drug dealer is not a fully qualified chemist, and it only takes a mino... |
Why is it harder to grip things when your fingers are cold? | All processes in the human body are temperatute dependent. There is an optimal temp rang where metaboloc processes are performed optimally. When temp ranges are too cold, body processes slow down. So in the hands, nerve impulses are sent to the brain less often and with lower intensity. This causes less muscles involve... |
Where did Palestine come from? Does Israel predate Palestine? | Israel was an independent state thousands of years ago, but was not a Jewish state after the diaspora in the centuries before the 1 century AD. Palestine became a state after the British and French arbitrarily drew borders in the Middle East after WW1, despite the British promise to allow the Arabs self governance for ... |
Is it truly worth paying more to go to a better College/University? | I think this is going to 100% depend on what field you're going into. Figure one out, and run it by your parents . Then see if you can find a business you can contact. Their human resources department is probably the place to go, and flat out ask them if, for any of their positions that require degrees, how heavily doe... |
Why is it "acceptable" for senators to refuse to vote on a supreme court nominee when it is their job to do so? | The Senate leadership gets to decide when votes are scheduled. They can legally choose to take the votes for the Supreme Court nominee and adjourn them without a set date. Whether it's *politically* acceptable is a totally different matter. |
why is the unit of distance light 'year'? | In addition to what others have said, all distances could be expressed as a measure of time if you assume a constant speed. So, if your highway speed is 70 miles per hour, you could say that a town 70 miles away is 1 highway hour away. We do not need to do so because miles are intuitive to us, since we experience them ... |
How does Spotify remain operational, when it loses hundreds of million each year? | Technology companies are generally subject to different rules than normal companies in the sense that they get private investors who are willing to think long term. When you start a company intended to disrupt an existing industry it can take years to turn a profit. But when you finally do, you do so **bigtime**. All i... |
What is the difference between FLAC, WAV and MP3 320? | First of all: FLAC and MP3 are audio encoding formats, while WAV is a container format. This means that WAV supports many different types of audio encodings. However, usually when people talk about WAV they are referring to the standard, uncompressed PCM format. MP3 uses lossy compression. This means that the compressi... |
Why does saying something in Latin make something sound more valid than when said in English? | It's 'foreign,' and therefore exotic, something only people who had studied enough of whatever to know what they mean could use. Implies the user is smart. Same thing with French in Russia back in the mid 1800s I believe? Additionally, due to the Latin name for a lot of stuff in science, it strengthens the 'smartness' ... |
Why is it that lots of smaller files take longer to copy than a smaller amount of large files? | There is more to copying a file than just copying its content. The file system keeps a book of all of the files on the drive so this book must updated. If the book is indexed, there is an additional computatipn to calculate the new files index. If you have 1000 4kb files all of this has to be done 1000 times. IRL, if y... |
Why can't I, the one in control of my brain, make myself forget bad memories? | You're assuming you're in control of your brain. Who are *you* in this scenario? An invisible mind-creature floating in the center of yourself, working your limbs and mind like puppet appendages? No, you don't control your brain. You are brain. You are head. You are arms, legs, torso, hands, feet, genitals, butt. You *... |
If blood is a biohazard, why are feminine hygiene products not thrown away in a more careful way? | In a hospital setting it's treated as a biohazard because there is a much higher change that the owner of the blood is infected in some way . Also, the blood isn't treated as a biohazard for the protection of the patients, it's more for the nurses and employees. They have to come into contact with blood far, far more o... |
Since water expands as it freezes, why will the ocean levels rise if the ice caps melt? | The ice caps are holding a significant quantity of water, much of it above sea level. As they melt, the total volume of water released is less than the volume of the ice, but it is still a significant addition to the oceansa lot of the ice is above and outside the water', "The ice in Antartica and Greenland and any on ... |
Why do people say to "take a cold shower" when someone is horny? | The male genitalia are outside the body because sperm production is best achieved at lower than normal body temperature. This ideal temperature is maintained by the relaxation and expansion of the scrotum when warm to increase cooling, and the constriction of the scrotum when cold to bring them closer to the body. Bloo... |
Why do we forget our dreams after waking up? | They aren't important to you. If you write them down or even mentally reevaluate them before you get out of bed or reorient yourself, you'll retain them better, but on a base level your brain prioritizes remembering real sense-data and clearing out or ignoring your "imagination.The changes in quantity of a certain neur... |
My account is blocked for 15 min after I type my password 3 times incorrectly. So how come hackers can break my password in few seconds/minutes? | There's two primary ways this occurs. Normally, attackers aren't just entering things into the website's log-in form. Through a security flaw in the site, they manage to obtain the password database. The site should have stored only a one-way *hash* of the password, a mathematical transformation into a string of charac... |
What is the appeal of professional wrestling? | You need to remember that it's not a "sport" it's "sports entertainment". It's like a cross between ballet & a soap opera, that's targeted at pubescent & teen boys. Once you grow up with it, people tend to stick with itWrestling is a form of narrative that has a lot less historical baggage than many others. Think about... |
why Universal Theme park has Marvel rides if Disney owns Marvel | Because those rides and characters were purchased by Universal before Disney made deals with Marvel. Disney did not get the rights to those things when they got MarvelBack in the 1990s, long before Marvel was acquired by Disney, they signed an impressively tight contract with Universal for the rights to the characters ... |
What is Diacetyl and how is it formed? | Diacetyl is one of two chemical compounds that give butter it's characteristic flavor. It gets created as a byproduct during the fermentation of milk fat, i.e. butter. |
. Why we cant print a load of money to end recessions? | Let's say that you run a bakery and sell your bread for $5. You heard on the news that the government is printing a shitload more money, so now everyone is going to be loaded. Now that hobo down the street can afford to buy all of your bread because you still have it at $5 and you are missing out on profit. So now you ... |
Why do my cats meow at me, but not at each other? | Dogs understand that you are Not a Dog. Cats basically consider you a cat, and think you're *very dumb*. You can't hunt, you don't clean yourself, you ignore body language, and you don't fight back when they try to play fight. |
how is it some prehistoric animals turned to fossil fuels, but others turned to fossil? | To paraphrase [this source], much of the world’s coal was generated 300–360 million years ago during the Carboniferous period. The world was covered in lots of swamp land and land dwelling creatures had only just come onto the scene. Wood is made up of lignin which is hard to decompose. Over this entire 60 million year... |
The core principles of Immanuel Kant's philosphy. | Kant answers 3 big questions: 1- what is reality? Kant says there's a real world outside of your body. But the way you experience this world creates a map, or model, of this outside reality in your mind, which is unique to YOU. Even things like space and time are unique to you. So if you had different senses, like Supe... |
Why is Apple allowed to sell their products worldwide at varying prices? | First, there is no international law that dictates the amount of money a corporation, or an individual, can or must sell a product for. If I go to the local store in New York City, a Yankees Tee Shirt can cost anywhere from $7 from a street vendor to $25 at the Yankees store. But I saw one in Mexico for $3. Apple has A... |
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