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Why is destruction and killing in video games (think DOOM and Destiny) so fun? | Because you can't conduct yourself in that fashion any other time in any other place. It isn't that you desire to kill, it's just an experience that 99% of people don't allow themselves to partake in and so when you let your instinctual fight or flight take over on purpose you are stroking a part of your brain that evo... |
Where does my liver store my bile and how do my fats get broken down without a gallbladder? | A large part of fat breakdown will probably come from your pancreas. Specifically, the enzyme lipase is released to metabolize fats. Without a gallbladder your liver will still manufacture bile, it just won't be stored anywhere in any great quantity. It will still "drip" into the small intestine and help to digest fats... |
Why does the US have a budget deficit if the GDP is well over the federal budget? | Because the GDP is not credited to the federal government. the GDP is the product of the whole US economy. The federal government has much smaller sources of revenue, almost all of it taxes.GDP is the total amount of money moving around the economy as a whole; it's all the economic activity in the country. Right now, t... |
How do mass protests work on a basic level? | It really depends on your definition of mass protest. Most "mass" protests like the Women's March are done on the weekends so more people are available. Protests that go on for periods of time like union strikes often have people who would be working take shifts protesting instead. It's often common for unions to use t... |
What are those white stone looking things that come out of you mouth that smell horrible? | Tonsil stones? Not everyone gets them. They are also called tonsilloliths. They are basically made out of bone materialTonsilloliths, sometimes called tonsillar concretions. A buildup of calcium, mucus, and bacteriathese white stone secretions i usually cough up from the back of my throat smell like crap when squeezed.... |
Why is it normal for babies to throw up when they're burped? | Technically, it's not throwing up, it's spitting up. They don't have the all the muscles built up that you do to hold their food in, and they don't know when to stop eating. So, their stomach is overfill and the food can just come up with it. In the case of a burp, the bubble of air just pushes some of the milk/formula... |
Why do things get red hot? | Everything emits light. You probably know that people emit infrared radiation because you can see people easily with night-vision goggles. The hotter something is, the more light it emits and the higher the frequency of the light it emits. So people don't glow with visible light because they're too cold, but they glow ... |
How have car antennas gotten smaller over the years while FM/AM radio quality has gotten better. | Smaller antennas are not as good as the classic 1/4 wavelength whip with ground plane. FM radio is about 3 meters so a 3/4 meter or 30 inch antenna was traditional. Smaller ones use a coil of wire to help lengthen the antenna as far as the preamp is concerned. Radio receivers have gotten better over time. HD Radio is a... |
How is OPEC any different from a massive corporation? | I am very confused by this question. OPEC is a cartel composed of most of the big oil producers in the world. For years they had a stranglehold on much of the global economy because they accounted for a massive amount of global fuel production. What's happening right now is that they are keeping prices artificially low... |
What is The Onion magazine? | The Onion is a humor and parody newspaper that makes fun of political, social and economic events in the world through parody and exaggeration. |
Why is it only now that Pirate Bay's HQ was raided and the website shut down when it was clear years ago where they were operating/what they were doing was illegal? | Pirate bay has never actually had any illegal content on there servers. They only have had links to the content. This a various other loop holes have kept them clean.They've been raided/shut down before, and simply moved. Sweden was their latest home, which 'kind of' permitted their activities until recently due to the... |
Exactly where is the New Horizon now after passing by Pluto? | It's just on the other side of Pluto. It's traveling at about 14.5 km/s, or about 32,500 miles per hour, which is really fast, but Pluto is about 3 billion miles away from Earth, so it's not going that fast relative to the distance it's already traveled. It won't ever come back to Earth. Its next stop is a few other ob... |
Why do pirates use strippers to get 4k content? | If you merely capture screen, you will only get pixel by pixel data. Saving pixel by pixel one hour of 4k video would take tremendous space 4k denotes 3840*2160. That is the number of pixels on screen on a single frame, or in other words, that's 8 million pixels per frame. Each pixel should have color information tagge... |
How I wake up 5-10 Mnutes before my alarm every morning. | SIDE BAR: If you wake up 5-10 minutes before your alarm, do everything you can to get up at that moment. That's the easiest time for your body to wake up. If you try to snooz for 5 more minutes, waking up will be hell", 'Black magic, i mean a Biological mechanism, called your circadian rhythm. Basically your body has a... |
How can the tiny brain of a spider be clever enough to use tools? | That's most likely an accident, not a deliberate strategy to suspend a rock in order to make a web. Spiders build webs by first anchoring major structural lines to something and then filling in non-sticky scaffolds that place the structural lines under pressure. What likely happened here is that the rock was on the gro... |
How a person with an accent sings without the accent. | Folk music perspective: British folk singers open their mouths far and have less "twang" and more "warble", most American folk singers go the okie/appalachia route and sing with a more closed mouth and more twang. This is why Joan\tBaez sounds more british than Joni Mitchel, even though both are AmericansLet's look at ... |
How can sudden shock make us pass out? | A huge adrenaline rush. I produce excess adrenaline and cortisol, and this means small scares creates such a surge I feel dizzy. Everyone has what is called a sympathetic nervous system. This is basically your fight or flight response and creates anxiety/fear reactions, such as an adrenaline/cortisol rush, enlarged pup... |
The first four words of the Second Amendment are "A well regulated Militia..." Regulated, to me, means controlled, as in background checks, etc. Am I missing something? | > A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. The first half of that sentence is stating that a regulated militia is critical for national security. The second half states that individuals have the right to bear arms. It... |
Why do many modern sites force you to click through to read something bit by bit? | Yes, it is an ad revenue thing. If they split things up, they have ten pages, ten clicks, and ten ads to display. If they put it all on one page, that is one click and one ad._URL_0_ and its related websites are the worst. Not only do they string every article out to 10+ pages, but they each load like I am using 90's d... |
What is Turing completeness? | Ahoy, matey! Yer not alone in askin\', and kind strangers have explained: 1. [ELI5: Turing completeness ]1. [ELI5: What does Turing Complete mean? ]1. [ELI5: Turing complete programming language ]1. [ELI5:What is Turing Complete and why is it so important to Digital Currencies ]1. [ELI5: What is "Turing completeness?" ... |
what causes rivers to suddenly be rapid in certain areas? | Think of a river like a garden hose. The water flows smoothly and at a certain speed if the end is open. But putting a sprayer over the end gives the same amount of water less area to get through, increasing its pressure, speed, and turbulence. That's what happens when rivers get suddenly shallower or narrower, or both... |
Why, with the NFL being Number 1 in terms of revenue; are superstar players' contracts almost always trumped by that of MLB and the NBA? | Because there are 45 guys on an NFL roster . There are a lot fewer players in every other sport. So the money available for salaries is being divided by a variable number of players.Different sports leagues have different salary caps, which limit the highest possible salary you can play one player and/or the entire tea... |
Why shouldn't you top off a car's gas tank? | Gas gives of a lot of fumes, which can cause pressure build up. If you "top off" a fuel tank, you're putting more fuel in than it was designed to safely hold. When the tank is too full, there's not enough air space between the top of the tank and the surface of the fuel to allow for expansion and venting of said fumes.... |
Why does the reverse gear of a car sound completely different than all other gears? | The forward gears have helical gears, while the reverse have straight cut gears. You can see the difference in this image: [Helical vs Straight], the helical gears are on top, the straight gears are on the bottom. So why do they sound different? When the gears mesh, the straight cut gears do so over the whole width of ... |
How do bird sit on eggs without breaking them? | Birds are really, really light. The female of the largest flying bird only typically weighs 16lbs; which isn't that much for a bird with a 7-foot wingspan. Birds also don't "sit" on their eggs. They sit with their eggs nested around them; they are actually sitting on their legs, which leaves enough room for the eggsEgg... |
Why are cats scared of cucumbers? | It's more the fact that the cat crouches down to eat, then the cucumber is placed behind them without their knowledge. When they turn around they're not expecting it and it shocks them. Another factor is that cats are very picky about where they eat. They just won't eat in an area they think is unsafe or contaminated. ... |
Why does coca cola taste so much better in a glass bottle as opposed to plastic bottles and soda fountains? | Glass is far less permeable than plastic, so glass bottles will have that fresher fizz, and cans probably impart some metallic/metal oxide flavour. Basically glass tastes best because it has the perfect fizz, and the least altered tasteWhat and where are these glorious sounding soda fountains?', "This my just my opinio... |
Why do tax loopholes exist? | Exceptions in the tax code exists to favor/disfavor various forms of behavior. For example, the government wants to encourage home ownership, so it creates a 'loophole' where home owners get a tax deduction. They do the same for a host of other behaviors such as electric car ownership, college tuition, etc. In terms of... |
Why do songs all of a sudden become popular after months of them being released? | Could be a song used in a popular movie or show. Then advertisements/radio could start playing it and word of mouth. This is usually the case with songs from unpopular/less known bands but also the case with popular artistsPeople discover song. People show friends. People overplay. Song gets purchased and played a lot ... |
In the (linked) picture of the Andromeda galaxy, why are some areas predominantly blue and others red? | From what I remember blue are younger stars and red are older. If they form and decay in clusters that would make sense. |
What is Amazon Web Services and what does it do? | Amazon Web Services is Amazon renting out their server power. Instead of investing in your own equipment, space, and support staff; Amazon does it for you. It created a software interface so that you can do a lot of things without having to think about the hardware. |
How do people make money off stocks and investments? | I need money so you buy half my lemonade stand for $50. This is great because I can by more lemonade to make more profits, which we share. Eventually I have a lemonade empire, and you decide you're done with the deal so you find someone who wants half a lemonade empire, he agrees to pay $50 million for your half of the... |
How does starving not equal weight loss? | Starving leads to [wasting], also called "acute malnutrition". When you starve, your fat goes but your muscle goes along with it. To lose weight in a healthy way, you need to maintain your nutrition so that you lose adipose tissue but not muscle mass. So that might mean eating more than you do now, but eating *clean*.S... |
How (or why) the U.S. government can pick what state laws it wants to allow and not? | They aren't exactly disallowing or allowing laws. In the case of Colorado they simply decided not to sue, which is at the discretion of the AG, similar to how if there will be a criminal trial is usually at the discretion of the DA. Similarly the AG decided to sue Texas, and is arguing before a court that the law is un... |
Why do fast food restaurants make such a big deal about breakfast/lunch? | Usually a grill can't be used for breakfast and regular menus simultaneously . I agree that the situation you're describing is extreme: in my fast-food working days, I would have taken your order and parked you until it was ready.Main problem is temperature difference of the grill. |
Why does the heart go faster as you're tired? | 1. Our body runs on oxygen to function.2. As oxygen is used up, it would need to be replenished.3. This is done by oxygen being transported in blood.4. Our heart pumps blood to all parts - muscles, surrounding organs etc5. The faster the heart pumps , the more oxygen our entire body gets. This is to ensure that we can ... |
How can we only survive as omnivores, while other animals can survive only as carnivores/herbivores | Lots of humans survive as vegetarians. Some such as the Maasai, traditionally lived as almost total carnivores. We don't have to have such a diet at all. We have options. |
Why do stove temperature knobs go from high to low/simmer? | Sort of related, but I've wondered why most fans also work the same way if you want to turn it on, it always starts at full blast. Is there a reason for this, or it is just so the fan parts burn out slightly faster? Edit: A good answer for this here: _URL_0_ |
If the sun is made of gas then how is it dense enough to be the center of our solar system? Or do i have it wrong? | It is very, very big. So even if though the hydrogen and helium are very light elements, there are just so much of them. Just like a tonne of feathers and a tonne of bricks weigh the same. Edit: s/way/weigh. sigh. Thansk _Born_To_Be_MildThe average density of the sun is quite low, little more than water. For comparison... |
The role of a network switch | > will everything I connect to the switch from there, get at unique IP from the routers DCHP and work like a charm, or what? Yes. A switch is what you want if you want to expand the number of computer you can hook up under the same router. The router will still be in control of the network and give out IP addresses.You... |
Calls to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill | Well there was that whole ordeal with basically uprooting an entire race of people and forcing them to march into a new area of land.Other than that he was pretty swellThe biggest rap against Jackson was that he was pretty brutal on Native Americans . He basically refused to acknowledge Native American ownership of any... |
How can Obama "pass" the Iran deal with only 34 votes. | He doesn't need to pass it. He just needs to be able to veto any attempt Congress might make to strip of him of his power to ease the sanctions. Congress will vote to strip that power. Obama will veto it. To override the veto, Congress needs 2/3rds of both houses of Congress. So, in the Senate, they would need 67 votes... |
Why is the ISIL flag purposefully designed that the white ring in the center isn't perfectly circular? Perfect replications of the flag exist that all contain the same deformities. | Did you not notice that the text also looks like it was drawn with crayon? The original design was obviously hand-drawn and then some terrorist went down to Kinkos and had it xeroxedFrom what I understand that part of the flag is always misshapen because it is supposed to be the[ "seal of muhammad seals are like stamps... |
why 100's (longer cigarettes) cost just as much as shorter cigarettes. | 100s just have slightly longer filters than kings cigarettes, no extra tobacco. The filter material is too cheap to bother putting a price on. Beyond that, most of the cost of cigarettes come from taxes and marketing, not the cigarette itself. |
Please explain the difference between hard and soft water. | IIRC 'hard' water contains minerals, such as iron, calcium, and magnesium, generally found in wells and ground water. A water softener filters hard water through salt, not to add sodium, but to remove the cations of these minerals, and replace them with the sodium ions. Each type of water has its pros and cons. Hard wa... |
.999 repeating is equal to 1? | It might not be the easiest to ELI5, but if you know basic algebra it makes it a lot easier. Using digit manipulation, you can prove it. Let's say x represents 0.999 x = 0.99999 10x = 9.99999 10x - x = 9 9x = 9 x = 1 |
Why do electrons come from the negative side/terminal of the battery? | People that made up the convention of labeling one side negative and the other positive did it thinking positive current flows from positive to negative. Later we realized that it's actually negative current flowing the other way. We didn't know that it was electrons moving and not protons at the time. It doesn't matte... |
Why do people get "pee shivers"? | It's because your body loses so much heat when you urinate that your body responds with a shiver. A drop in blood pressure is created within the body to relax so you can pee. It's been posted on here but I can't find it EDIT- forgot half the answer. |
What is reversible computing and what does it mean that it has no "energy cost?" | Irreversible means you can't figure out the input from the output. As a simple example, let's say I have two numbers as input, add them together, and get the output 4. Can you figure out the input? No. Could have been or or something else. Information about the input has been lost. When it comes to energy cost, it seem... |
Why do eco cycles take longer? | Nowadays the most expensive thing at washing is the heating of the water. Not the engine that turns the wash drum.The dish washer or washing machines need more time because the less hot water needs more time to do the same job like the really hot water.No native speaker, I hope my answer is understandable :D |
What is the debate around The repeal of Glass-Steagall | If the banks can use your money instead of their own, they are more likely to invest much more risky. The debate is banks don't want to use their own money to make risky investments. Therefore, if they use your money to make risky investments that go bad, the government must bail them out to prevent a collapse. |
why does salt sting in cuts? | Salt is a powerful dehydrating agent. It sucks water out of cells, including nerve cells. This causes the nerve cells to complain. While human cells do contain sodium chloride, this is nothing in comparison to the concentration of dry [salt]. Alternate explanation: The way your pain receptors work involves using ion co... |
Why do teachers always talk about how little money they make? | Most of teacher have made quite long studies Comparing to people with same level degree working in industry they make quite little money and they find it not fair. In Our capitalistic word, the amount of money you have/make is often seen as a way to mesure your importance/place in the society. Teacher believed that the... |
How does a fly survive when my giant human sized hand smacks it mid-flight? | Here's a fun image response: I was taking some macro photos when I smacked away a horse fly that bit me. When I took a closer look I realized I caved in half his face', "The fly is going to need to accelerate to the speed of your hand very quickly. But the difference between the insect and a human being hit by a train ... |
What causes the cool sensation in mint? | Among the nerve receptors on your tongue are receptors for cold. Mint has a molecular structure that allows it to "plug into" the surface of the cold receptors on your tongue, activating them. This causes you to feel a sensation of cold. |
How is Rob Ford still in office ? | Canada has no way to remove mayors from office unless he gets himself a criminal record. What they can do is limit what actual authority he has which they have already done. Toronto city council has voted to both remove Mayor Rob Ford's authority during emergency situations and, under a separate motion, has stripped hi... |
The difference between Loans and Bonds | There isn't much difference. A bond is basically a loan made to an entity on which you collect a preset fixed amount, regardless of whether or not the entity does poorly or well. |
How do countries choose who or what teams will represent them in the Olympics? | Each country has their own system. The US has qualifying competitions where people compete in their chosen sports and the top X spots for each sport goes. |
How can we hold onto objects if atoms are "never touching"? | like you said, a force is applied. if you hold an object in your hand, the electrons of your skin repel the electrons on the surface of the object with enough force to counteract gravityWatch Brian Cox's lecture "A Night With the Stars" he explains it all beautifully.Atoms can 'touch' but its' not a familiar process on... |
Why is pear in most juices or fruit snacks. | It's sweet but doesn't have a very strong flavour of its own, so it's essentially being used as a natural sweetening agent |
What is happening when you see the air ripple on a hot day? | Light travels at different speeds through different mediums, and as the density of the mediums vary. The air is being heated at different rates between you and the horizon creating different air densities, like ripples on the surface of a river. Light from the horizon refracts as is passes through the different boundar... |
Why is evolution a theory but gravity is a law? | A scientific law is a direct, observable relationship of physical characteristics: Current equals voltage divided by resistance, the force of attraction between a two masses is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them, etc. Usually they can be expressed mathematically: I=V/r, for example. A the... |
How does foaming soap work? | It's not regular liquid soap, it's actually a much thinner solution with a water-like consistency. It comes out of the container as usual, but is passed through a hand pump that is specially designed to mix a lot of air with a small amount of fluid. This results in the voluminous foamy stuff that comes out of the spout... |
What exactly are eigenvectors and eigenvalues? | SVD returns *three* matrices, not *two*. It's fairly straightforward to extract the eigenvectors and eigenvalues from them. The wiki page on SVD has a decent explanation: [_URL_1_] The three SVD matrices are also related to the loads and scores of PCA, but those also require a little massaging to extract. I wrote a pri... |
How does liquid surface tension work, and what allows to resist certain forces? | The shape of a water molecule makes one side slightly more negative and the other slightly more positive. When more molecules are together the negative side of one it atracted to the positive side of the next. |
What is the burning sensation on your tongue when you eat spicy food? | It's literally a burning sensation: Chiles have a substance called capsaicin that basically interacts with the nerve cells and produces the exact same response from them as if those nerve cells were exposed to excess heat. |
Why can girls keep going after they have an orgasm, but guys can't? | Successful reproduction relies on the male ejaculating sperm into the female. If sex stopped once the female was finished it would be extremely counter intuitive. Sex goes until the end goal is reached, ejaculation. Natural selection would select for females that continued to have sex after their own orgasm, if they we... |
What's happened in Syria in the last several months, and why it's important to the rest of the world? | Long story short,Syrian dicatator, Bashar Assad and his family have single handidly run the country for as long as I can remember.The free Syrian Army, which Bashars regime refer to as terrorists, has retaliated against Bashar. Bashar has refused to step down, and has been firing back killing member sof the free syrian... |
Why do I always seem to wake up at the "perfect" time? | The brain doesn't like to be awoken suddenly by the jeering of an alarm clock. And, believe it or not, your body works on an internal clock, and at the first few rays of sun , your body woke up. You can train yourself to wake up at certain times by setting an alarm clock for a certain time every day, and then having so... |
British Nobility : What are the different titles, what is their meaning and which are more/less important | Baron is the lowest rank in the British Peerage; a baron holds a barony. An Earl is a higher rank than Baron. It's the equivalent of Count in many other systems of Peerage. A Duke is the highest title of the British Peerage, second only to the monarch. There's also a few Viscounts, which are between a Baron and an Earl... |
How come domesticated animals such as goats need to have their hooves trimmed to prevent injury? How do wild animals solve that problem? | i think most wild animals that have this done tend to take care of it naturally by just walking around on harder surfaces. rocks and wot not with wear the hooves down. domesticated animals tend to be kept in a field full of soft grass.Wild animals experience wear and tear from walking around over rocks and earth. Domes... |
how does second hand smoking affect people? | Smoking increases your risk of diseases like cancer. Second hand smoke is indirect smoking so it has the same health effects. [CDC Website - Second Hand Smoke] [American Cancer Society- Second Hand Smoke] [National Cancer Institute- Second Hand Smoke] [WebMD - Effects of Second Hand smoke] |
Why do we call some countries by a different name than their natives do? | Very true regarding Germany which we in English named after the tribe called the "Germannen". They named themselves after the tribe called the "Teutsch". The French named them after the tribe called the "Allemannen". The Romans named them after the "Tudesci". And so on. Im guessing some other groups had less flattering... |
Why can't I see what's in the air? | You CAN see it. For instance, the sky would not be blue if there was nothing between your eye and space. Or think of the way how the sun goes down and colors the sky golden and red. This is due to the different colors being reflected more or less strongly off the atmosphere. Because the angle of the sun towards your st... |
If I was to replace all of my blood instantaneously with blood of another person, what would happen? | Well, it would be a shock to your system. And if the blood wasn't a good match, probably a very bad one. It would also be fatal to the other person who's blood you've taken. So, I don't advise it. |
why hair grows in my pubic regions | The hair is there to catch the smells your body produces. To our modern noses they smell kind of funky but to out animal selves they smelled like sexy deliciousness. Your armpits & pubic regions produce a lot of pheromones & the hair traps it so when a lady comes around she can smell your funk & hopefully get turned on... |
if it is possible to travel to other star systems, does the expansion of the universe affect the distance of the trip? | Assuming you're planning to stay within our galaxy , the expansion of the universe would have no effect. Gravitationally bound objects like physical bodies, solar systems and individual galaxies don't experience the expansion and will stay together. Our galaxy will eventually merge with Andromeda and the combined galax... |
How does a headbutt work? | The aim of a headbutt is to land your forehead onto the nose of your adversary. Your forehead is broad and strong while the nose is quite fragile. The result would be a little bit of daze for you, but blood and pain for your dance partner> is the aim for the nose? Bingo. The goal is to land the solid bit of your skull ... |
Why are most humans generally scared, startled, or grossed out by most bugs, even ones that don't pose any kind of threat to them? | Non-dangerous bugs look a lot like dangerous bugs. Like, indistinguishable unless you're an entomologist/arachnologist. So it was an evolutionary advantage to just be scared of and avoid *all* bugs.Because most bugs are hideous disgusting things with extra legs and creepy mouths and way too many eyes and legs. They are... |
Why do some sounds (e.g chewing) sound louder with earphones plugged in | Bone conduction is sound being conducted to the inner ear through the skull. Tapping on your head, chewing, things like that. When you block your ears, you effectively block out everything else and only hear what is conducted through the bones. |
Why do hedge fund managers earn multihundred million dollar salaries when hedge funds earn less over the long term than throwing darts at the stock pages? | Because OP with M are willing to pay them. If you think that that is bizarre, consider how some people are willing to pay their own money to see Will Ferrell movies. There is no accounting for taste.Because they aren't just handling one persons money. They are handling a lot of people's money. Think about the average c... |
Why are we groggy when we wake up? | The short version is that we sleep in cycles, that go into different "depths" of sleep. The deeper the sleep, the harder to wake up. Each sleep cycle goes from lighter to deeper sleep and back roughly every 90 minutes. Deep sleep is where REM happens, it is also when you do the most healing, and your body stops itself ... |
The austerity measures Greece is taking | For most people, it is ok to have a little debt. Your income tends to grow throughout your lifetime, so it is reasonable to assume you buy something now and pay it off later. And even if you get a little carried away or don't get your next raise, you can usually just cut out a few luxuries and get caught up. But if you... |
The phisiological difference between white meat and dark meat | Dark meat is the muscle animals have, which they use frequently So it contains a lot of myoglobin, which is constantly carrying oxygen to supply the muscle with energy. This also contributes to muscle growth. White meat is the muscle that's only required for short, brief bursts of energy, like flying. So, there's no re... |
Few questions related Christianism. Please help me by explaining them in basic words. | 1) Jesus is God in Christianity. They are one and con-substantial. 2) Jews don't recognise Jesus as being divine. 3) The Bible is a collection of scriptures written over a long period of time. The Scriptures as we see them today were put together in the late 4th century. The New Testament contains the Gospels. 4) Scien... |
The difference between low weight and high reps versus high weight and low reps | This is a handy chart I ran into one day. A huge guy at the gym explained it this way. High weight low reps makes muscle more dense/strong. Low weight high reps makes muscles larger. _URL_0_', "The specificity principle. You want to get better at lifting heavy things? Then lift heavy things. You want to be able to run ... |
How does catnip work and does it affect any other animals? | Catnip contains the feline attractant nepetalactone. Nepeta cataria are known for their behavioral effects on the cat family, not only on domestic cats but also other species of cats. Several tests showed that leopards, cougars, servals, and lynxes often reacted strongly to catnip in a manner similar to domestic cats a... |
How to understand a mathematical formula? | Each symbol in a formula is a general placeholder represents something more specific. Each symbol is like a bucket. If you fill all the buckets, the equation balances. Because you know it all has to balance, you can calculate what anyone bucket should be if you gill all the other buckets with known numbers. For example... |
Is the speed of light a literal physical speed limit in our universe, or is light simply the fastest thing we have found so far? Is faster-than-light travel speed physically possible? | Faster-than-light speed is, as far as physicists know, impossible. It's a fundamental property of the universe, as fundamental as its age or its size. It can be thought of as the universal speed limit. To be more exact, no two things can move at a speed greater than *c* relative to each other. Speed is always relative ... |
How do people make torrents to tv shows with no commercials and in such high quality almost immediately after it has aired on tv? | The video feed to the TV is split to also feed a digital video recorder; the digital video file is broken up into smaller chunks while recording so you are able to edit the earlier footage while new footage is being recorded. You are able to edit out the commercials this way. And as soon as the whole episode is complet... |
What exactly happens when someone’s social security number gets blacklisted? | It means someone is trying to scam you, because there is no such thing as having your social security number "blacklisted." It is a common scare tactic scammers use to get people to tell them personal information like name, date of birth, SSN, and financial details.Social security numbers are occasionally replaced by t... |
Why is speaking in third person often associated with low intelligence? | Is it? Ceasar's Commentaries were written in the third person MUJ561 is most likely think of speaking in the third person as a) Odd and b) Pretentious. |
"Dolby surround sound". How it's different than normal surround sound? | [Dolby] is a company which designed a system for surround sound. When something says Dolby surround sound, it simply means that it uses that companies technology. |
When I get an x-ray, why does everyone else have to wear some kind of protection or leave the room but I'm all good? | The risks of things like x-rays are cumulative - the risk of receiving 1 x-ray is negligible, but if you had 20 of the things per day, over your entire career, the risks would multiply. So it is safe for you, because you are only having one. But the radiology nurse or dentist is present for many of them, so they need t... |
How Indian finger math works? | So you might have heard of an abacus. Its a physical calculator that you operate by sliding beads along a hand held rack. These kids are using an imaginary abacus in order visualize and quickly perform basic mathWhen I was in high school 7 years ago, calculators were not allowed in exams so we had to learn a lot of tri... |
The "Fiscal Cliff" for us that are totally confused. | Last year, when the congress was so deadlocked, they couldn't even agree on what should have been a routine debt ceiling increase. The Democrats wanted to increase revenue and continue the stimulus, the Republicans wanted to cut taxes and spending. So they struck a perverse deal. They would pass the debt ceiling bill, ... |
Why do checks and balances only apply to branches of government and not political parties? | The parties in the U.S. are not part of the government, they are merely collections of individuals who have freely chosen to work together politically. They're no different, fundamentally, from a work/school clique. |
Why can't astronauts or satellites take high quality cameras to anywhere they are going and take nice pictures of planets and space? | There are several problems. Firstly, cameras have mass. Delivering a kilogram to orbit costs $2500 to $12500, which makes for one costly camera. Then there is the fact that "nice pictures" have absolutely zero scientific value compared to much less nice, much more detailed, images, often not in the visible spectrum. Al... |
Why does 'image processing' have such a large impact on gaming? | A lot of televisions have high *input lag*, while computer monitors try to minimize this. This isn't related to the *refresh rate* of the screen, which is what you mean by "Hertz." . Slow controls aren't really a problem when you're just watching television after all.Any digital signal requires some kind of processing ... |
How does the UFC charge $60 per event, whereas other sports like the NFL, NBA, MLB, etc, are free to the viewer? | MLB is not free by and large, NBA is not free by and large. NFL is the only one that is almost always free. I live in a very big tv market, with a team in every sport, and I've seen less than a handful of baseball games on tv this year, with just a few more expected for basketball. |
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