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Why does it take so long to test and release drugs? | Because the human body is a complex thing, and each body is a little different from the other bodies. You have to make sure it doesn't have some bizarre side effect on a small but significant number of people, and that takes time. Also, many diseases being treated by new drugs aren't going to show improvement or ill si... |
what's wrong with Peter Dinklage's voice acting in Destiny? | its a very emotionless delivery that adds nothing to the game. coupled with terrible writing . like at the end, in the black garden mission, when you finish the main game and save the world he literally has zero emotion. |
Why does art usually face left? | It’s more common because the subjects face the light. The light in studios usually comes from the artists’ left . It outside, artists usually still kept the light to their left. |
Why does the USPS delay packages when it has the ability to deliver them overnight? | It doesn't sit in a sorting office for a few extra days, it sits in a truck. Fast mail usually goes by air, which is much more expensive. Normal mail usually goes by truck, which is slower but much cheaper. There is some overlap; if they can get it there quickly by truck they will, rather than use an airplane. But they... |
Why do certain products (like the GoPro) stay at virtually the same price, while other products decrease in price over time? | they do keep updating it and adding features, so your not exactly buying a 10 year old gopro for the same retail price. with that said, gopro is in pretty dire financial trouble because their market has been yanked out from under them by bigger competitors with less overhead and more efficient supply chains. They exist... |
What does MuleSoft do? | The basis of Mulesoft's offering is the mule Enterprise service bus . For the non technical, a bus in computer science is something that can transport data for a variety of reasons. . The ESB allows for extremely fast creation of integrations between different software services. Let's say you own a retail store You pay... |
Why are apps like Bumble empowering for women? | The idea behind Bumble is not to 'empower' women, but to solve the crucial crisis of all dating websites. Women receive hundreds of messages a day on dating websites, and men receive almost none. Because of this, women generally disengage from dating websites after a few days - the right guy might be in the pile, but t... |
does globalization/automation reduce costs for Americans and create wealthier trade partners in the long-run? If so, are there measures of those positive values compared to the domestic job losses they also create? | > does globalization/automation reduce costs for Americans It does > create wealthier trade partners in the long-run? Also yes. > If so, are there measures of those positive values compared to the domestic job losses they also create? There's some, but it's still an ongoing piece of research. Autor et al recently relea... |
Since when did ELI5 become explain like I'm an educated adult | > Since when did ELI5 become explain like I'm an educated adult Check out the rules in the sidebar: > LI5 means friendly, simplified and layman-accessible explanations, not for responses aimed at literal five year olds . Answers are supposed to be simple enough for the average adult to understand, and not simple enough... |
Why do people stick a 'SOLD' sticker on a previously 'FOR SALE' house's billboard? | Because it's still an advertisement for the real estate agency, and it shows results. You see a "sold" sign and people can see that the agency is doing its job.As other people said it is advertisement for the real estate agency but also sales for houses fall through fairly frequently so at almost not time before the ne... |
Why do female dogs get "humpy"? | Humping is a dogs sign for dominance. Kinda like men puffing up their chest and holding their arms out. If the female is dominant, she'll hump regardless if she has proper equipment. |
If recording artists are not selling music because everybody steals it, how do they afford multi-million dollars mansions and private jets? | Artists have rarely made money from record sales themselves. That money has almost always gone to the record companies. Recording contracts are structured to give minimal money to artists. We're talking pennies per album. For artists, the real money is in performances, publishing rights, merchandise and synchronization... |
why is movies' aspect ratio becoming more and more "rectangular"? | Older monitors were 4:3 because that was close to a square which was close to a circle and a circular CRT was the easiest to build. Newer displays are rectangular because it's closer to our vision and rectangular is no longer hard to build.Firstly, you're technical premise is incorrect, and it certainly isn't "nowadays... |
How has magic johnson survived being HIV positive for more than 25 years? | Contrary to popular belief, HIV is not a death sentence. Especially today, the disease can be treated with medicine that suppresses the virus from spreading furtherOnce HIV had been isolated and researched so we knew how it worked researchers were quick to test out drugs that suppressed the attack points. HIV on itself... |
How/Why does flatulence exist? | Digestion is the process of chemically changing the things you eat to convert them into things your body can use. This process involves taking the parts of what you eat your body can use —\xa0the actual individual molecules, I mean —\xa0and leaving the rest behind. Some of what gets left behind is solid matter, some is... |
Does a person who has unprotected sex for 15 seconds have the same exposure to STI's that a person who has unprotected sex for 15 minutes? | No, person B has much more exposure to the STI. However, depending on the STI and whether the other person is actively showing symptoms, 15 seconds and 15 minutes might not make much of a difference in terms of whether or not the person gets infected.I want to say yes and no. It's like the classic 5 second rule, when y... |
How can animals like the celiocanth and alligator gar who are considered "living fossils" go millions of years without really evolving all that much. | They're evolving the entire time just like everything else. The difference is that their form is relatively well suited to their environment, and so they don't show a lot of deviation in form. If your form is already well suited, then changes from that are less likely to be more successful. That shouldn't be confused w... |
The republican situation in the House right now. | Lots of questions, so I'll answer them one at a time. Right now, the situation is that Speaker Boehner announced that he was resigning from the speakership and the House. The House needs to elect a new speaker, but there is no one who appears to be a viable candidate. Bohener resigned, because he was under pressure fro... |
How do our passwords stay protected even though many websites/companies know our login information? | Most sites don't store your password, they store a hash of your password A hash is specifically designed to be a one way function so it's easy to take the password and generate the hash and check it against the database, but it is hard to take the hash and determine what password makes it. You should have to try lots a... |
why do snowboarders get so much more height on a half pipe compared to skiers? | I looked up three articles and all said that skiers get more height than snowboarders. Can you explain why you think snowboarders get more? |
Privacy laws in Europe. Confusing. | you treat here Europe as a one country and it's just bad. privacy laws are comparable to some degree, but there are differences between countries. what is not allowed? selling databases for example. there is many things and it's not easy to list what is allowed and what is not, especially when in some countries it's ba... |
How did people organize revolutions 'back in the day' without mainstream media like Facebook? | The same way that many 'militia' groups today do. Word of mouth. Facebook isn't really a good way to set up a rebellion anyway, they never even claim to want to protect your privacy. |
If posture is so important in order to prevent Scoliosis (or a curved spine) why do we tend to roll up in a ball when we sleep? Does that not make it worse? | Sleeping positions are different because you are lying down. Gravity and weak muscles are the culprits. **Gravity does not pull the spine into a curve when lying down, only when you are standing or sitting.** It requires no muscular strength to resist gravity when lying in bed. When you sit up or stand, you must either... |
Net Neutrality and How it Works | Best analogy I've heard is that the Internet is a highway. Net Neutrality would allow all cars on the highway to use whichever lane they want for free. A non-neutral net allows for companies to pay the owners of the highway for exclusive use of the passing lane, leaving the rest of us stuck in the slow moving, non-pass... |
If we were to come into contact with an intelligent alien race, how would we determine what language to teach and speak to them? | Honestly, we can't even speak to intelligent species on our own planet , I'm not sure how wed go about even beginning to understand a being from another planet", 'Just watch the movie "Arrival" that is the most scientific answer to your question. Really good to: _URL_0_ Source: I am professional alien translator. Can c... |
Why do products have 'Made in' [Location here] | One big reason is each country has different laws and tax rates associated with trade. The us has favorable trade with some countries so less tariff for import. Same with other countries. For instance traveling to canada to sell t shirts with tick band, at border they check the shirts because if they are made in Americ... |
Why is it that the video games that involve shooting or some kind of violence or killing are the most popular? | Actually, the most popular games tend to be simple ones like tetris, bejeweled, Farmville, and stuff like that. But I think the reason violence works well with video games is it's the easiest human fantasy for them to simulate. We're mainly into sex and violence as human, and sex and emotional stuff doesn't work as wel... |
Why do I sometimes get an eyelash type hair on my arms? | Chances are you have a lot of melanin in that specific follicle and it makes your hair darker, it usually happens on or around moles and freckles. |
What causes thunder and lightning storms during a volcanic eruption? | Lightning storms are due to a charge difference between the rain clouds and the ground, this is essentially because as all the water and ice molecules interact they become charged and this excess charge must be dissipated to ground. In a volcanic eruption the ash and other particulates in the plume also interact and ru... |
Why don't trickle down economics work? | When wealthier people get more money, they don't necessarily have much incentive to spend more since they already have their needs met, especially, if there isn't increased demand and they can easily use it to buy products overseas or expand there. Cutting taxes and social safety-nets hasn't really worked historically.... |
Is there any difference between sociopath and psychopath? | Sociopaths tend to seem normal at first glance, they are incredibly manipulative and have no regards for others emotions because they lack the empathy most humans exhibit. A Psychopath can be noticed right off the bat, usually mumbling to themselves, paranoid looking, frightened, usually on some off the wall topic, con... |
Why don't TVs have the best picture settings at default right out of the box? | Because most of them come with the best setting for display in a store. They usually have them all set up so you can take them out of the box, throw them up on a wall under all the fluorescent lights and it will look fantastic and make someone want to buy them. Your living room usually has much less light and of a diff... |
Why do electrical short-circuits create fire | A short circuit can carry a *huge* amount of energy per second. This can get the wires so hot that they set nearby materials on fireElectricity generates heat equal to current squared times resistance. If your resistance drops close to zero, your current will have such a huge spike that the heat generated will cause an... |
After eating, why does your lower ab area expand more than/rather than your upper abs, right below your stomach and ribs? | Your upper abdomen does expand slightly in appearance, but filling of the stomach displaces lower organs which are more malleable and less restricted by the structures that converge upon the upper abdomen Basically, the lower abdomen is a stretchy, squishy pushover. |
why congress can exempt themselves from laws | Because if you get to make the laws, you can write them to say anything that isn't already illegal or unconstitutional. For example, it used to be that Congress could vote themselves a pay raise. There was nothing illegal or unconstitutional about it.Then the 27th Amendment passed, and approving a pay raise for the sit... |
Why do scientists keep looking for water as a sign of life on other planets? | > I'm wondering why scientist do not consider They absolutely do consider this. But tell me, how would you search for "Life that we don't know what it looks like or what it does or anything else" ? |
Can we actually notice a difference between displays at 1080p and displays at 4K? Or is it just a placebo? | It really depends on how far away you are, and how big the displays are. It's not really about pixel count alone, but the ratio of the number of pixels to the size of the screen. For example, a 28" 1080p monitor will have a pixel density of about 79ppi, whereas a 60" 4k TV will have a similar density at about 73ppi. No... |
Do you have Prince Albert in a can? Well you better go catch him! | That's 2 jokes. 1.) Do you have Prince Albert in a can? You should let him out. 2.) Is your fridge running? You better catch it. The joke was probably said by a person doing their first prank call and was nervous. Also, Prince Albert is a tabacco product sometimes sold in a can.I believe you have mixed up the "do you h... |
When it's said that the reason someone is putting down someone else is to make themselves feel better, what is the correlation there? | The person who does this is aware of their own deficiencies which are often glaringly obvious to themselves. Since they feel very inferior themselves then they are happier when they can destroy the image of perfection displayed by others. |
Why are non-nutritive sweeteners (aspartame sucralose etc..) in so many non-diet products? | Because they work out cheaper than the equivalent amount of sugar. One thing that helps this is the problems making and distributing the concentrate syrup that they use to mix up large amounts. You can only add so much sugar to a syrup before it forms solid crystals. If you use sugar, you have to transport and handle l... |
How come there hasn't been another "Einstein"? Or has there? | I often wonder if people would be as familiar with Einstein if his work didn't lead directly to nuclear weapons There are tons of scientists who are just as smart as Einstein, maybe smarter, but instead of being a part of a massive secret weapons program that results in one of the most amazing and horrible events in th... |
How do swim diapers absorb urine but not water? | They're really quite tight on the child's tummy and legs, the elastic bits, and the outer layer is waterproof. So when helped by being held on under a swimming costume, they don't let much water in. They still absorb a little bit, and they would absorb more if, for example, they were too big for the kid. |
Why can't governments print more money if they are in debt? | Say you have a rare pokemon card you don't really need, so you decide to trade to a friend for his lunch. Now suppose your friend doesn't want your rare pokemon card, because he already has one. So you try to trade your pokemon card to another friend for his lunch instead, only to find out that he too already has it. W... |
Why is depleted Uranium used in armored vehicles like the M1 Abrams? How else is depleted Uranium used conventionally? | Former tanker here. The depleted uranium you are referencing is used in the rounds fired and not in the armor itself. It's used because it is extremely dense, and you need very little of it to penetrate enemy armor. Going further, because you need so little, you can launch it quite a distance . In my M2A2 Bradley, we u... |
What happens if I own stock in a company and that company gets sold (or bought out) by another company? | It depends on the specific of the deal as announced and approved by the shareholders, but most commonly the shared will be converted to shares in the acquiring company. Sometimes they'll issue only in full shares and pay cash for fractional shares and sometimes they'll issue fractional shares. As an example, I owned 15... |
Why does sugar kill our immune systems so fast? | It doesn't. This is almost certainly the nocebo effect: you know that Coke and candy are unhealthy, so you start to feel unhealthy as soon as you eat them. Have you ever felt sick after eating watermelon or drinking orange juice, even though they often have considerably *more* sugar than candy and soda? Your immune sys... |
Why are "mouth breathers" held in such low regard? | Breathing through your mouth is a bad idea compared to your nose, as your nose can warm and filter the air. Breathing through your mouth is more likely to make you sick. The implication/joke is that someone is *so* dumb that they can't manage to breathe correctly. Plus, having one's mouth slightly open creates an expre... |
What Are The Floating Things in My Eyes? | "Most eye floaters are caused by small flecks of a protein called collagen. The back compartment of the eye is filled with a gel-like substance called vitreous humor. As you age, the vitreous and its millions of fine collagen fibers shrink and become shred-like. Shreds can accumulate in the vitreous. This can cause a c... |
What causes your hair to turn gray? | It's caused by a process called "Achromotrichia". There are certain stem cells found within the scalp that produce melanocytes, which are the source of color both in hair and skin, as you age and time progresses these stem cells slowly die, but your hair will keep growing without the pigmentation. It's a totally natura... |
Why do probiotic supplements need to be taken daily? | Your gut is a class that has a session everyday. Your native flora are the students that show up to class each day.; they all have their preferred seats, and they won’t give them up without an argument. The probiotics are the new kid; in order for him to earn a spot he has to be consistent. He has to show up at the rig... |
Why does a 32 bit operating system limit the amount of RAM you can use to 8GB? | It's actually 4 GB, not 8. The computer has to be able to reach each byte of data that's stored in RAM. A 32 bit processor can only handle 32-bit data addresses, and 32 bits is only enough to address 4,294,967,296 different addresses, which is 4GB . |
Why do bugs like Ticks and other ones not drown when you hold them under water? | They will, eventually, but it takes quite a long time. Bugs like ticks and fleas breathe not with lungs, but with little tiny holes in the outer shell that are connected to little tiny tubes that run throughout the inside of the body. These little holes are so small that the surface tension of the water near them preve... |
what defines the minimum, idle and maximum rpm of an engine? | Defines, or limits? On modern engines, the ECU, engine control unit, defines all the variables. In the old days, the carburetor defined it, setting a maximum and minimum amount for fuel/air to enter the engine, keeping it within a certain RPM range. It's limited by the mechanics of a motor. Minimum RPM is limited by th... |
Why does spinning around many times and fast makes us desoriented? | Your sense of balance, or equilibrium, is determined by a fluid, and the position of stone-like things in it within the inner part of the ear. When you vigorously spin around you shake up these stones, so when you stop spinning they are still moving about causing you to feel dizzy. |
What are the consequences of sleeping with soft contact lenses? | They dry out your eyes and can lead to infection.If they're not extended wear, you should follow instructions to take them out. Contact lenses can be colonized by Staph bacteria from your hands and so should be cleaned daily each night before bed. That's not to say that I haven't occasionally slept in mine in the past,... |
How come the whole world uses the Christian year 2013? | Well, the answer is, they don't. There are a number of date formats used. However, the reason why there is a standard format of a year having 12 months, with each month having agreed day lengths, and the use of the AD/BC for the year dating system, including the spread of Christianity across the world , and the fact th... |
How come taking out the battery of something and putting it back in makes it work again for a couple seconds before it dies again? | Without a load, there is a small voltage build up that drops again when you reconnect the batteries. |
Why does pasta have numbers on the box? i.e Farafelle no. 65 | Pasta is extruded through dis. The number on the box is referring to the di that was used to make that particular shape of pastaThink of a Play Doh pasta maker. Each shape requires a different plate/insert/dye. A pasta machine is just a larger version of that. You add your dough and it gets pushed through the dye. Each... |
Why are famous people not being arrested for drug usage/posession? | Well, two main reasons. One the prosecution has to build a case. Just knowing that a celebrity does a drug isn't enough. They need hard evidence, proof of when and where it happened, and it needs to be solid enough that a high powered lawyer can't poke holes in the case. The other one is whether it's really worth their... |
How is it possible for AC current to move from point A to point B? | They do not. In an AC line, the electrons move less than 1 meter before the current reverses direction. But *all the electrons throughout the wire* move back and forth together, like a mob in a very crowded room.The electrons don't, current does. Think of hose filled with water, the water is the electrons, but when you... |
How do social networks going IPO, like Twitter, effect us? | On the surface, it doesn't. People in the company get rich and investors hope to get rich. However, maybe it does affect us. If a company goes public they now have shareholders. The Shareholders are all owners. The company will now have other people, outside their employees that they need to worry about. The shareholde... |
why some of my whiskers grow super thick and waxy, and why there is more of a color variation in my beard than on my head. | I can't remember right off the top of my head, but it has something to do with that we have different colored hair all over our bodies and where certain hormones go to first in a person's life. I remember reading about how when a woman gets pregnant, and I've seen this in person, they get a dark line of skin and hair f... |
Are we creating new, miniature universes by accelerating particles in the LHC and colliding them? | Probably not. One thing to realize about the LHC, it isn't doing anything that isn't happening in nature all the time. It is just doing it on demand, in front of a sensitive camera. |
Why on earth is cat shit appetizing to dogs? | I had a Lab that would eat my poop. Got locked out once without the keys. You gotta go, you gotta go. Who knew it would turn out to be a teaching moment to learn something new about dogs. I never let her lick me again though after that. Never againThe list of things a dog will happily eat is written by starting with "e... |
Why was marijuana made illegal in the first place? | > "The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people," former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman told Harper's writer Dan Baum for the April cover story published Tuesday. > "You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal t... |
Why do dogs enjoy the occasional snacking of poop? | Let's be honest folks, who doesn't enjoy an occasional poop snack? Its nothing to be ashamed of. |
Code duplication and why it's bad | If there is a mistake in duplicated code you need to fix that multiple times, If you change something that the duplicated code depends on you need to update each copy to work with the changes. When duplicating code you might not do so perfectly, introducing subtle differences between the copies which can have a knock-o... |
What exactly is a headache, and why do they hurt? | The pain from a headache comes from the meninges that surround the brain like plastic wrap.Your meninges are innervated somatically just like other parts of your body that feel pain. When there's pressure on your meninges, you get a headache.When you're dehydrated and hungover, you get a headache because the lack of fl... |
What are proteins, fat and carbohydrates job in our bodies? | Well, they each have many functions that are intertwined, but the simplest explanation is: Proteins - building blocks, its what your muscles are made of Fat - long-term energy storage, when you have excess energy, your body stores it as fat to use it later, body prefers to use carbohydrates when available though Carboh... |
Is Selectively breeding humans possible? | Yes, it is possible to a certain extent, but the question is whether or not it is ethical. This is called eugenics. The Nazis tried it, as did many other groups and movements in history. It is a loaded term, but *technically* it is still practiced, even in developing countries. It is considered by many to have an abort... |
The Aurora victims owe the theater $700k in legal fees. Can the victims file another counter suit that stops them having to pay? | Not likely. They owe the legal fees because they filed a lawsuit with no merit in the first place. If they couldn't come up with a meritorious claim against the theater to begin with, it's hard to imagine how they would be able to come up with one now. |
How come high frequency noises hurt our ears, but lower frequency doesn’t? | So as you probably know people can hear frequencies that range from 20 Hz - 20kHz .If by lower frequencies you mean frequencies below 20Hz they can actually be worse than high frequency. All sound below 20 Hz is called infrasound. We can't hear infrasound but we can feel it in our body. If we would match our heartbeat ... |
If water boils/vaporates at 100 degrees Celsius /212 degrees Fahrenheit, why is the sun's radiation/heat enough to 'vaporize' water to form clouds? | Water can evaporate at much lower than 100 Celsius. Boiling is the temperature at which *all* of the water has been raised to the temperature necessary to vaporize. But temperature is an *average* measure of the energy of the molecules in the water. Even below boiling, some molecules are more energetic and others are l... |
Why does adding a '?' to the end of a URL that comes back 403: Forbbiden allow you to access the content? | The question mark is a signal to start a query string. if you see a website: http://_URL_0_?search="something" It is telling your browser go to the location "_URL_0_" and tell the server 'search="search"\'. If you go to "http://_URL_0_" you are telling the browser just to go to "_URL_3_" and don't tell the server anyth... |
Why eye contact feels so intense? | Probably a primal reaction to a possible threat, this is why you don't stare down primates. This could be entirely wrong lol |
Why are some foods more addictive than others? | For the _vast_ majority of human history, you didn't have ready access to food. You literally didn't know when or from where your next meal would be. As a result, when you had food, you needed to fill up on the things that would sustain you while you were trying to find your next meal. Fats, carbs, sugars, etc. are all... |
Why are 11 and 12 not in the "teens"?" | This is an interesting question actually, and you might get a more thoughtful response over at /r/etymology. The number names you're looking for would likely be firsteen and secondteen, but they aren't called that, as we all know. My guess, and I'm only guessing, is that eleven and twelve are names held over from some ... |
Why does no one care that the Bush and Bin Laden families are close? | Bin Laden has so many cousins that its not a big deal. His father was a billionaire with 3 permanent wives and a rotating fourth wife he would divorce and replace when he got bored with them, which was often. Its hard to make a big deal out of being related to Osama bin Laden when so many ppl are due his father's habit... |
How can drinking a liquid (soda, coffee, alcohol) dehydrate you? | They don't. People who say this believe that ingesting the caffeine will cause you to pee out more water than you drink from the beverage. Caffeine can act as a diuretic, meaning it makes you pee more, but the effect isn't that strong. You hydrate yourself more drinking the liquid than you do from ingesting the caffein... |
Why is gravity a theory and not fact? | "Theories" in science are large structures that explain various phenomena. So there's a "theory" of gravity and a "theory" of evolution and a "theory" of thermodynamics. There are also "laws." Scientific laws are not more certain than theories, they just describe different things. "Laws" have rules, whereas "theories" ... |
Why do conservatives not typical push for conservation of the environment and of natural resources? | Generally conservatives are against regulation of business, and conservation of the environment requires businesses to be regulated so that they don't exploit it. This is a case where their economic stance of "making laws that regulate businesses is bad" outweighs any other considerations.The short economic answer woul... |
What is quantum computing and why is it better than what we have now? | Check out this video, a brilliant youtube channel which should hopefully explain this much better than can be done in a paragraph of text. [Click Here] |
Why do sidewalks sometimes have sections of metal grippy things? | These are to alert blind people that the walkway ends here -- you're about to step into a more dangerous zone . |
why do diabetics poke their fingers instead of a meatier area that is less used? Like an arm? | Hello, Diabetes 1 person here, I poke my self in the arm for measuring twice a day, I used to do it in the fingers before, but my fingers got very sore, and the skin eventually fell off. Poking in the arm is a safier way, but not as accurate, the glykose in the blood moves to the fingers quite early, and spreads around... |
why don't web pages refresh automatically after failing to load the first time? | A browser doesn't necessarily know what's slowing down the network. All it knows is that the server has told it more data is coming, but has not yet been provided. A few reasons that the data isn't there yet: * It hasn't been generated yet* It is stuck on a slow transit * The pre-routed network path has broken, and the... |
I got hit in the nuts with a soccer ball lastnight, why did I feel such pain in my stomache? | Every fetus starts out female; the reproductive organs all start out in the gut. If you are finally a male, the organs drop out of the body and dangle precariously in a thin, vulnerable pouch of skin. But the nerves in the organs still register as in the gutThe same reason that if you wiggle a finger in your belly butt... |
How do music royalties work, and how have they changed due to streaming? | In simple terms there are Writers & Publishers, Artists & Record Labels. - Writers write the lyric and/or melody to create a "work".- Publishers sign writers and register their works in databases so that when the work is played, recorded, covered, synched into a movie/commercial etc., they get paid. - Artists perform t... |
. What is the 'god particle,' and why is it important? | First, 'God particle' is a stupid name with no meaning that exists only for news articles to make flashy titles. Other than that, the Higgs boson is very important as it's the last big undiscovered part of our 'standard model' of particle physics. This model, and its associated mathematics, has been tremendously succes... |
How did foods like onions and cranberries get to be considered food, when they must have been so difficult to eat when discovered? | A food is pretty much is anything you can eat and it will not kill you . I would be more interested in who decided to eat lobster first and how many people died before finding out what parts of a puffer fish were edible.You're confusing your dislike for a food with a blanket dislike. I enjoy raw cranberries, as I'm sur... |
Why does moving in water feel colder than just staying still in water? | Just as wind feels colder than no wind, when you stand still in the water the water closest to your body heats up and acts as an isolator. When you move the water does not have time to heat up and stays the temperature of the rest of the water.Feeling cold is the result of losing heat. The faster the rate of loss, the ... |
Netflix - Why does it remove shows, instead of just adding? | Netflix has to purchase the rights to stream a particular show in a particular country, sometimes the price of a particular show may increase to the point where it's no longer economical , or the rights holder may simply decide they no longer wish to allow it . |
Why is the "island" in Rhode Island? | Rhode Island and Providence Plantations is the states full name. However Rhode Island refers to Aquidneck Island which was called Rogue's Island. It was refered to this because RI was originally the destination banned from Massachussets for religious reasons. Rogues Island was also a pirate haven and full of Aquidneck ... |
Why do anamorphic lenses produce oval bokeh even after re-squeezing the image vertically? | I believe it is because the iris is placed after the anamorphic lens, and the iris is not anamorphic. Even if the iris is wide open, the rear elements are symmetrical, and will affect the bokeh unevenly. |
Why is there no irony in the song "Ironic"? What is irony if it's not coincidences? | Would you say that a song titled Ironic without any situations that could be defined as ironic is in and of itself, ironic?In general irony is about a situation that is deliberately contrary to what one expects, and it often amusing as a result. "It's lie rain on your wedding day" is just bad luck -- there's no reason ... |
Is it possible to spy on people through a microwave? | Not unless you put a bunch of new hardware into the microwave's box. The machine itself contains no sensors that could be used to eavesdrop on people. It has no camera, no microphone, no radio receiver, etc. |
How does the waxing/waning of the Moon relate to the time of day? | The moon is setting after the sun, so it's a waxing moon - that is, it's going from new moon to full. We know this because the moon orbits in the same direction as Earth's rotation, so it rises earlier each day. Since it's setting shortly after the sun, it must have recently been setting at the same time . But if you'r... |
Why some people have a grayish scalp after shaving and others have a shiny scalp? | I think it depends on when they shaved last/thickness of the person's hair. It could also just be lighting. Like if a person with a shaven head were outdoors under cloudy conditions, their would be just enough light to show detail on the head, allowing you to see the little details, like moles and the little hairs star... |
Why haven't humans created artificial gills yet? | Assuming we were able to make a synthetic gill, they'd have to be quite large. Fish use much less oxygen proportionately than a human. So youd have a large device that would probably need to be powered to move water across the membranes. The end result would be pure oxygen, which we can't breathe, so we'd have to carry... |
why weed and hops smell almost the same | They are extremely closely related, both belonging to the family "cannabacae". They share a vast amount of their genetics with cannabis so the smell is similar.They're related plants. It stands to reason they would smell alike. |
How do cut resistant gloves work? | It's not complex. They contain super-strong fibers mixed into the fabric. So while you may cut the normal part of the fabric, the knife won't easily get through these special fibers. |
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