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How did the guy on America's Got Talent swallow sugar and then water after that and regurgitate the sugar still dry with no water? | Stevie Starr. Saw him in the late 80's or early 90's at my college. HE lived in an orphanage and learned to protect his valuables by swalling them and then bringing them back up on command. |
Why is it that the United States can afford to keep giving financial assistance to countries when the United States itself is in $17 trillion dollars in debt? | Foreign Aid can benefits the donor country. For example, if the United States gave foreign aid to a nation through emergency aid in the form of food and water, if it were purchased within it's own country that benefits the United States . It can also benefit the U.S.A. as it can improve foreign policy with other countr... |
How is converting coal to electric to mechanical energy more efficient than just using a coal powered train? | Trains are the perfect application for electric motors A key feature of electric motors is that they produce maximum torque at zero speed which is exactly what a massive train needs to get moving. They can provide very precise speed control, much more than a coal fired boiler can so you can get the train moving efficie... |
Why do cereal and juice boxes all have "color swatches" under the tabs? | They're to verify the printing. If the blue on that swatch is faded then you know the rest of the blue on the box is faded. If the crosshairs are misaligned then you know the box art is misaligned. |
How do STDs start? As in someone has to get them first- before they starts transferring through sex. | There's always a patient 0. The person who first came in contact with the disease or had it mutate in their body. |
Why are people afraid? Why are some people
fearless? | Unless you wanna hear anecdotes from people that will say that they aren't afraid of anything, I think the best place for this question would be [/r/askscience]. |
What does the president actually do all day? | From day to night, Obama's life in the Whitehouse on his 130th day of presidency: 1) Sees to his daughters going to school, workout.2) Review national security briefing, read 4-5 newspapers.3) Goes through 10 randomly selected pieces of mail that is sent to him.4) Senior staff meetings, discussing economics, security, ... |
Before Darwin, how did people explain animal husbandry? | Through evolution. Darwin didn't come up with that idea, he came up with natural selection to explain how it happened. The idea of evolution has been around for thousands of years. Darwin's own grandfather studied evolution. Before Darwin the main idea to explain evolution was Larmarckism. Lamarack thought that organis... |
How is it that Sparta was conquered if their military was so powerful? | They had a strong army, for sure, that doesn't make them invincible. They stood their own against Athens in the Peloponesian War, and eventually defeated them with help from Persia, but they didn't stand a chance against Philip of Macedon and Alexander the Great. |
Why does New York have three big international airports? | LaGuardia is technically an International Airport, but it's main purpose is for shorter regional flights. As air travel increased over the years, LaGuardia simply became too small for the demand. When JFK was built, a 1500 mile limit was put on flights to/from LaGuardia. There are exceptions to to the limit, for exampl... |
How can a rocket reach escape velocity of Earth (11.2 km/s) if chemical fuels allow exhaust velocity 4.5 km/s at most? | Ordinary vehicles work by pushing on some medium . The faster they're moving relative to that medium, the faster they have to push to maintain the same force, taking more power. If the medium somehow matched your speed, like if you drove onto a conveyor belt, it's like you're stationary again and you can accelerate eas... |
what happens with a woman's abs while pregnant? | I think the way the abs are is the least of the crazy that happens to a woman's body. All of the organs moving into the rib cage is freaky. My wife said the strangest part is feeling everything shift around in the cavity for a while. |
Why is virtualising servers efficient? | Imagine I have 5 applications I want to run, and I want to give each of them their own server. They have a minimum requirement of 8 GB of RAM and 2 CPU's, however I know for a fact that when these applications run, they only use about 4 GB of RAM max . I can take a server that has 8 CPU cores and 24 GB of RAM, put VMwa... |
How does the US providing weapons and military training to "forces" in the Middle East benefit the US? | One of the things to remember about the news is that we generally only discuss failures. If we do something that works 95% of the time 40 times over 40 years, and it fails spectacularly twice, in the public sphere we only talk about the failures and can treat the programs like total failures. Gifting military equipment... |
Modern role of hand-to-hand combat | Well I would imagine in a few scenarios, it could be useful. If you run out of ammo, need to be sneaky, or don't have a weapon, thats the way to go. Although this is very rare. |
Why do MMA fighters peak at an older age than sports like American Football, Baseball, and Hockey? | Note: I'm not an mma expert, just a fan From my observations, experience is very important in mma and any combat sports for that matter. Once you've seen anything that your opponent can throw at you, it becomes easier to react to. If you think about it, mma is simply reacting to what the other fighter is doing. Another... |
- Courtroom sketches - why are these a thing? | There's no other good way for news outlets to get an image of the people in trial. So they send sketch artists to make some drawings without disturbing the proceedings the way a camera might. |
How come when your body does natural things like get a fever, swell after injury etc. we try to reverse that? | A couple of reasons. One is that the bodies natural response could be harmful. The body isn't perfect. Too high of a fever can cause organ damage. Swelling can make it hard for nutrients to make it to the site of the injury and swelling can damage nearby tissue. Another reason is subjective well being. Fevers and swell... |
- Why are some fuel caps on the left hand side of the car yet some are on the right? | Why not? Gas pumps can be approached from both sides, so if you're coming from the same direction it's actually better to have 1/2 and 1/2 to equally use each side of the pump. And worst case you can turn around to use the gas pump on the other side. Because there is no reason not to have them on different sides, the r... |
The difference between temperature (F/C/K) and heat (Joules) | Heat is thermal energy, so it's measured in units of energy like ergs or Joules. Temperature is a measure of hotness or coldness and tells you, if you put two items of unlike temperature into contact with one another, which way the heat will flow. Heat flows from hot to cold. The two are related through the heat capaci... |
Why is piracy and counterfeiting so popular in China? | You do understand that Communism shuns private property rights? Well China reversed this decision about 10 years ago so citizens have ownership of their actual property now. They have also somewhat opened up the doors to international trade and commerce. What you're talking about though is so-called Intellectual Proper... |
Why is tax law so complicated? | Imagine the tax brackets not as finite steps, but as a giant curve. Tax law is attempting to create a flexible rate of taxes across that broad curve without having any giant 'chunks' at too many steps. Those stepping points are as fought over as any piece of government legislation. In the case of your example, the lowe... |
Why the disappearance of Madeleine McCann is so heavily reported. | This is more of an Ask Reddit question, but I'll answer anyways. 1) She was white. 2) The parents were great to interview - eloquent, relatively photogenic ect. 3) It was summer, a traditionally slow news time. 4) The case had a decent amount of twists and turns. Basically it all boils down to: 5) It sold newspapers. |
What is that soft clicking/tapping sound that computers make when they're running slowly or having trouble performing tasks? | Probably thrashing. Sometimes the RAM gets filled and the operating system has to rely more heavily virtual memory . Aside from slowing the system down this also puts extra wear and tear on the drive, so you want to avoid situations that cause it as much as possible. The easiest way is to close programs you're not usin... |
If oil is an scarce resource, why is it's price going down? | Oil is not scarce. We are capping more wells here in the US than ever. It's just my opinion but I think opec is manipulating the oil price to hose Venezuela and Russia since their oil takes more to process. And to keep them from flooding the market taking money from the middle east.There are two types of scarcity: envi... |
Why does the sound of a fan, or white noise in general, help me fall asleep? | Because white noise contains almost all of the 'hearable' frequencies that a human is capable of hearing. This therefore drowns out other sounds that may be repetitive and annoying and keep you awake. |
What is a percentage of a temperature? | Well you won't find people talking about errors in temperatures, and this is kind of one of the reasons. You should probably talk about errors in total energy. Or, if you insist on staying in the realm of temperature, move to an absolute temperature scale . The problem is this. Let's suppose you want to make this idea ... |
Why do we ignore obviously mentally ill homeless people when they should be in some type of treatment? | Because if they don't want help, we can't force them to get help. They have 4th amendment rights as well. |
Why aren't fines associated with traffic tickets and municipal violations income-based? | - I believe it's the case in one of the nordic countries. - In principle it's fairer , for some people 90 is nothing while for some other it's a lot. - The drawback is that it means that the police will have to know your income before giving you a fine. Firstly, it might produce extra-delay , secondly it creates some e... |
Why is it that if you lick or spit on something, your saliva smells pretty bad, but it doesn't necessarily taste bad to kiss someone? | I think its because of what your spit lifts off the surface you are licking or tasting. Some bring up the influence of smell as well. Saliva is the first part of the digestive process. Anything with a taste is at least somewhat saliva soluble, and saliva is a better solvent for a lot of organics than water is. So if yo... |
Does arresting a drug cartel 'kingpin' really do anything? | Its the equivalent of firing a company executive or manager. They can almost always be replaced. And even if that kingpin's organization fails, another one will rise up to fill the void. As long as it is profitable to sell drugs, somebody is going to try to sell them.In my opinion i does not help at all, what it does i... |
Why are colours like pink or brown not in the colour spectrum? | To piggy-back on this question, what about neon colors? They don't seem to fit any color model either.Brown is the linear combination of Red, Yellow, and Orange. Just as gray combines the Green, Blue, Violet, end of the spectrum. Pink is A highly reflective red . They are all thereBrowns are made when two colors are pu... |
How do chips modify the power of car engines? | most fuel efficient", and "least pollution". The default settings on most cars is a compromise between all of them. Rechipping a car means you can change the ratio, usually to "most power". Unless you're driving a big diesel truck and you rechip your truck to "roll coal". Then you select the "biggest douchebag" setting... |
Why do we stop feeling "butterflies" as a romantic relationship progresses? | Having someone who has the freedom to do whatever he/she wants, but still chooses to be with you, is exciting. That's where the butterflies come from. It fades away not because we are used to the excitement, but because possession of each other is eventually expected of a relationship today. It disappears when there is... |
Liquid breathing with fluorocarbon - has anyone ever attempted this? | I did some research into this a few years back and what I read was that the problem wasn't so much getting oxygen into the blood, it was getting the CO2 out of the blood and into the liquid. So while breathing the liquid you would get plenty of oxygen, you would very quickly build up too much carbon dioxide due to it's... |
Why do records by incredibly popular bands like The Beatles consistently top 'most rare/valuable' vintage LP lists? Shouldn't the market be over-saturated because so many people bought them when they were new? | This is just speculation. But I'd say supply and demand. So many people want them, so the price goes up. Some unknown band might have a smaller number of copies in circulation, making them rarer, but if nobody wants them, they're not going to top any lists.LPs wear out or get warped from heat. A lot of old LPs got thro... |
why are a vast majority of vinyl records on black vinyl, when coloured vinyl is possible and looks really good? | The first records were made of shellac and were black. The material became in short supply during the war, so they switched to vinyl. I don't have expertise here, but I do know it was common in this sort of situation to try and make the replacing material look as much as possible like the material it replaced, so that ... |
Will homosexual marriage open the door to polygamous marriages? And what's wrong with polygamy anyway? | What you're talking about is called a slippery slope argument, which is a logical fallacy. Should gay people be punished because a triad wants to be married? Should lesbians be punished because a brother wants to marry his sister? The truth is we don't know. Marriage is a civil construct in our society and we have to t... |
In media why is light always associated with ''good'' and darkness always associated with ''evil''? | Darkness represents fear, the unknown, it's dangerous to not be able to see, since humans rely so heavily on sight to survive and assess threats Some people will try to argue it's a race related thing - it isn't.Have you ever been outside in the Dark? Tripped over something that you forgot was there? In nature, dark is... |
How come the day after a heavy night of drinking I'm always incredibly horny? | Alcohol causes an increase in dopamine in the reward centre of the brain. Increases in dopamine lead to increased sex drive in men. The heightened dopamine levels are maintained the next day. That's why guys are horny the next day and women generally aren't as affected ", 'Some soldiers say that after surviving a battl... |
What makes marijuana smoke safer than cigarette smoke? | Marijuana is not inherently carcinogenic; tobacco is. Even smokeless tobacco causes cancer. This is partly because it contains [radioactive elements] like polonium-210 from the fertilizer/pesticides used to grow it. The nicotine in tobacco smoke constricts the airways and blood vessels while marijuana smoke dilates the... |
How do radio stations properly screen callers from using profanity on live shows? | What is broadcasted usually lags a few seconds behind what is said. EG something is said, a few seconds later that something is broadcasted. This gives censors a few seconds to bleep out anything they don't like, though sometimes they make mistakes and don't catch it in time. Then the FCC fines them.With a box like _UR... |
If you're not supposed to mix conventional and synthetic motor oil, how do they separate it when you recycle it? | Both types of engine oil are made from crude oil that comes from the ground. The difference is that synthetic motor oils are made from more advanced refining processes and are of a higher purity and quality than conventional mineral oils or semi-synthetic oils. It all comes from the same oil in the ground It is not mad... |
How do documentary shows like in History channel manage to record videos deep inside things like an ant colony, bee hive, etc? | Super late to the party so I doubt anyone will see this, but I make wildlife documentaries about invertebrates. Basically you use a mixture of sets and wild shot footage. You have certain things that you can't film in a studio and other things that you can't film in the wild. This is an example of the latter: _URL_6_ A... |
Why is the first day of fall (northern hemisphere) and the first day of spring (southern hemisphere) two days apart, the 23rd and 21st respectively? | The earth's orbit around the sun isn't quite round. When it's farther away from the sun it moves a little bit slower. It happens that the Earth tends to be farthest from the sun in early July, so that makes spring and summer a little bit longer than fall and winter. |
What is an I.Q./I.Q. test? How do they represent someone's intelligence and how accurately do they do so? Are they widely used still? | IQ is a scale. It stands for Intelligence Quota. 100 is considered average. Interestingly enough the tests are different in every country, in Canada it's slightly harder than in the USA. Most of the questions are logic. You cannot really teach logic so this is measuring the persons ability to think and reason. Some oth... |
Why is everyone making such a big deal about Hillary Clinton's emails? | To my understanding , a white house official using a private server for what is supposed to be public info and losing scores of emails is sketchy and untrustworthy. While the GOP candidates are also really sketchy, Clinton has *already* been a member of white house staff. Corruption is not limited to the extreme right,... |
What stops us from having an International Space Station arouns Mars? | Time is also a factor. You'll need at least 150 days to reach Mars when you're in the perfect launch window , so even if the conditions are perfect for a trip to Mars, you'd need to launch supply Missions before the actual station arrives at the Planet. And since we are talking about an entire space station, we're talk... |
Is there real scientific evidence that marijuana has significant medicinal properties or is unreliable information being promoted in the interest of legalization? | [Examine] compiled a list of confirmed and unconfirmed results by various studies. Scroll down to the Human Effect Matrix. The results aren't shocking however. The medical properties found *and confirmed* so far are minor pain relief and minor MS symptom relief. Relaxation comes behind it with low consistency and while... |
if Einstein said we can look at stars which are already dead, can someone be watching the dinosaurs if they are far enough? | Here is a fantastic video on the subject. _URL_0_ Is it possible? Yes. But you don't realize how difficult it is to see it with so much detail. You would need a telescope the size of a planet. Watch the video it's pretty awesome.Theoretically yes, they could, but they would need a massive telescope capable of seeing ou... |
Aside from money, what's keeping me from buying a ton of gas and hoarding it until the price inevitably rises again? | Storage is expensive if you want to do it properly and legally. It's a giant potential safety and environmental hazard.\r\rOn top of that, it'll absorb water from the air and go bad.Gasoline also has a shelf life; it will eventually ruin over time . And depending on where you choose to store it, you might have legal li... |
How do asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean ect.) and Arabic keyboards work? Aren't there thousands of different characters? | I can't speak for Japanese but Arabic and Korean both have an alphabet, it may appear like each character is unique but in reality it's more comparable to cursive, each letter connects differently so to someone unfamiliar with the language differentiating letters from connected letters is difficult. Source: I can read ... |
My tax return is only $450, while non-working families get a huge return from claiming children. | A return is simply how much you paid over what you had to. You don't want a large return, as that could have been your money to spend/invest throughout the year. You can change how much your job is withholding for taxes, so refund amount is irrelevant. And to some extent, your taxes may cover other people. Society does... |
How can you be diagnosed with autism at the age of 2? | I would assume that they made the judgment based on whether they've hit learning milestones on time, late, or not at all, as well as their interactions with other toddlers. |
Other than carbon dating, is there a way to prove the Earth is more than 6,000 years old? | Other methods people haven't mentioned yet: Heavy element decay ratios. Radio-isotope dating doesn't just work for C-14. Basically, uranium and stuff decays into well-known other elements, at well known rates. So if you capture some uranium in a stable form , wait a couple hundred million years, then measure the isotop... |
Why does a car steer with its front wheels, while an aeroplane steer with its tail rudder? | Cars steer with the front wheels, because the engine is usually in the front, and its weight makes for better traction. Also, it is much easier to turn the front and have the rear wheels follow. An airplane doesn't really steer with its rudder, most of the turning is done with the ailerons on the wings. The rudder is m... |
Why do retail clothing stores have lots of large sizes, but rarely any smalls? | If you ask large people, they will tell just the opposite. This is an observation bias. When you can't find the size you want, you keep looking, and so keep seeing all the other sizes you aren't interested in. If you immediately find the size you are looking for, you stop. You don't continue to survey all the other siz... |
Does reading ruin eyesight? | With respect to myopia , folks used to think that it was caused by reading, but this is no longer widely believed. Instead, a current hypothesis is that myopia is a consequence of not spending enough time outdoors. [Here's an article on it].Reading, in itself does not damage your eyesight. Instead, it is the focusing o... |
How does this not exceed the speed of light? | You don't add the two speeds. Each one, individually can go to .9 C and still not be breaking anything. The relativistic effects of looking at one ship from the other would cause the other vessel to be the only thing appearing to move in real time.You answered your own question. Time dilation accounts for this. The clo... |
Why do so Many YouTube Playlists have the Videos in Reverse Order? | That depends entirely on the person that created the playlist Not sure what there is to explain here. That being said, I don't think I have ever ran into this issue. Do you have an example? |
Why can't we harness the ocean for energy? | because 1. waves don't happen all the time.2. waves don't happen at the same location.3. there's no way to control the power output either.4. it's expensive to build something to harness this energy.5. because of the above, doing so is not efficient, so we don't. |
Why do so many people hate Apple products? | So, you remember that one guy in highschool? Super popular, well liked but he's actually a shitbag? He talks nice to people to their face, but it's just so they'll like him. He talks bad about anyone not on his train, he betrays people, he puts others down to make himself look better. But he's good looking, and he know... |
The Pluto probe went right where they wanted it to. HOW DID THEY DO THAT??? | The probe is dirigible. It has 16 thrusters that expel material that can be used to push the probe and correct course . |
What makes CRISPR a *synthetic* biology innovation? | If you want the most informative answer, you should ask Goe Moe-Behrens at his [Google+ Community] , or visit _URL_0_, or visit askscience subreddit. From what I've gathered from the CRISPR Technology, it is synthetic biology because it modifies genes in an organic structure which could be yeast or even a human being. ... |
Why Don't We Have Big Cats Living With Us? | Excellent answers. I'll give another perspective. My first career was as a veterinary tech. One of the vets I worked for rescued these big cats. People buy them when they're young and cute, but they get big and unmanageable quickly. At the time I worked for him, he had 42 lions, tigers, mountain lions, etc on his farm.... |
why are almost all newborn creatures so "cute" to us? | βYou look at a baby and it's so pure, and so free, and so clean, and adults are like this mess of sadness.β -Mary Svevo, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind |
Why don't politicians get sick more often considering they have to shake thousands of strangers' hands every election cycle? | They do get sick, why do you think they don't get sick? A lot of their job can be done remotely, and the president definitely has the ability to reschedule most things. They get sick plenty but it's not going to be announced or on the news.Jay Leno used to shake hands with all the audience members at the beginning of T... |
If the human body is around 70% water, how come we don't have pure H2O in our bodies? | It takes energy to separate miscible things. It's a lot easier to make Kool-Aid with sugar and water and flavoring than it is to make those three things from Kool-Aid! Besides, the things dissolved in your bodily fluids tend to serve important purposes like keeping you from leaking too badly and keeping conditions for ... |
what is the job hunt, rΓ©sumΓ©, and interview process like at the CEO level like? | Hopefully not too late here, but I have recently left an Executive Search firm that placed a lot of Director and CEO level positions across industries. The process usually goes,1) layout all the details of the job2) we would then look at all relevant companies and industries and 'map' out these companies 3) We would br... |
Why are almost all flavored liquors uniformly 35% alcohol content, while their unflavored counterparts are almost all uniformly 40% alcohol content? | Liquor distributor here, flavored vodkas with a lower ABV use a flavoring agent added after distillation and dilution, vodka is typically a grain alcohol that is distilled at 95% or more alcohol using column stills. In the US, by definition and law, vodka must be odorless, colorless, and flavorless which means the dist... |
Why was it so easy to find employment in the late 20th century? | I'm not a historian by any measure, but I do know much of the *technological* history of the 20th century, so that's my primary perspective. There were dozens of new ideas either being incubated, or exploding in success during that time. You had the rise of the personal computer which formed the backbone of so many ind... |
Keyless entry; what's stopping someone from hitting unlock on the door as I walk away but am still in range of the car? | Owners manual for my car says it has a five foot range from each sensor. If I stand on the driver's side my wife can't unlock the passenger door. |
Art historians: ELI5 why it took so long for people to be able to to draw/paint well. | The ability to draw in perspective come from a techniques called point perspective or the vanishing point which actually had to be invented. Single point perspective simply mean that all parallel lines have to meet at a single point. This creates the illusion of perspective in a painting. This combined with proper shad... |
Why do some playgrounds use woodchips for flooring? Aren't they kind of dangerous? | I always preferred pea gravel. Must have been a choking hazard or something cause you don't see it anymore. |
Why is sugar so bad for us ? e.g. Coca-cola, Pepsi, etc. | Sugar is not bad. It's the amount of sugar u consume that can be bad. If you eat a lot of sugar u of course get fat. |
If a person sleeps in the cold with a blanket every night, does that person automatically feel tired when they are really cold. | While it's conceivable to develop a [Pavlovian] response such as cold and sleepiness i doubt that's the case here Likely it was colder than usual and you didn't sleep well because your door was open so you're tired.Being cold can prevent sleep -- causing tiredness the next day. I have gone camping, woken up shivering, ... |
Why does putting your car remote against your head increase the range in which you can unlock a car? | This gets posted a lot and is always contentious. I've seen the 'skull focuses signal like a dish' theory refuted. I've seen the 'salty liquid' theory refuted. [Here's a link to past threads] |
How did people chew foods like meat before we cleaned our teeth? | There are ways to clean your teeth naturally without abrasive toothpastes. Gnawing on bone would have been common, as would have chewing on certain roots and tree barks . Their teeth weren't falling out, if anything they were stronger than ours. They just would have been more of an pale-yellow color intead of bleached ... |
What are the pros and cons of lethal (guns) and nonlethal (tasers, batons) force from the perspective of a police officer in the line of duty? | The advantage of less than lethal weapons is, if a suspect is aggressive but not an immediate danger to anyone's life, it gives the officer a way to subdue with less risk of injury than no weapon, and less risk of killing the suspect than a gun. One main advantage of guns is that, if a suspect legitimately fears for hi... |
Why don't some people react to pepper spray? | Two possibilities 1-genetics. In the same way people can eat spicy food better than others, some people just don't react to pepper spray like others 2-idiocy. I myself fall into this category. Though I still react, the number of times I've rubbed my eyes while eating something incredibly spicy is way too high. If I kep... |
Why do sports analysts wear business suits | Indeed the wigs and such were. But today, it's the suit. The suit makes a person look like they know what they're doing. If the guy was in flip flops, jams, and a wifebeater, would you seriously think of him as any kind of an expert on sports? Likely not. And if a gal was in a bikini running for mayor, you'd think it's... |
How can the ear differentiate between different sounds, when the sound is just one compounded wave? | There's a tiny organ in the inside of your ear called the cochlea. There are little tiny hair cells inside of the cochlea and are on a membrane . These little tiny hair cells are organized like a piano and respond to different frequencies. So the hair cells at the opening of the cochlea respond to high frequencies whil... |
How do millionaires and billionaires make sure their accountants, lawyers and doctors don't charge them unreasonably high rates? | Because they'll just find a new one. All those doctors, lawyers and accountants are in competition with one another. If the businessman does not like their service they'll go to another doctor/lawyer/accountant and employ them. So in exchange for greed, the first doctor/accountant/lawyer is now unemployed earning nothi... |
Why are there no major anarchist-style governments? | The problem is that with anarchy there is no authority and anytime you have a standing army, the army has the authority. I may be wrong but that's my thought about this. |
Why is smoking marijuana considered cool and acceptable, while smoking tobacco is seen as unhealthy? | Smoking tobacco: mainstream, accepted. Smoking pot: illegal, edgy. Since pot is already illegal, there's no reason to stigmatize it anymore. On the other hand, tobacco had long been embraced and integrated into numerous cultures. Now that more people know about the health risks, tobacco receives more stigma.I think peo... |
What is the point of another nuclear arms race? Why have thousands when a handful could do the trick? | Anti missile systems are super expensive, not 100% effective and are designed for a small number of missiles. Imagine I'm Russia and you are America. You have 5 nukes and 100 interceptors to destroy my nukes. I got 2000. Then I'll launch 200 at each of your nukes and destroy them.m. You now have no nukes and I got 1000... |
People with liver disease have a unique smell. What is it? | Top answer is top. It is a horrible smell, isn't it? Lots of diseases have a bad effect on the breath. Untreated diabetics' breath can smell like dry-cleaning fluid, f'rinstance.Sheesh can someone please send condolences to this guy!? Sorry about your brother, man, hope he gets better. |
Why are essential oils "essential"? | Essential as in pure essence. Essential oils are made from pure extracts of the plant, which makes them healthier to burn in an oil burner and generally non-toxic as opposed to fragrance oil which is only scented with the plant's essence. |
Why are wounded soldiers always thirsty? | People often underestimate how long soldiers are in battle. Historically, many go for *days* , during which they have no time to put down their weapons and go get food/water/rest. You do that after the battle is won. Given that, it's no surprise many battles and even entire wars have been lost due to being ill-prepared... |
Why does even the shittiest Porn site have a better player than Youtube? | The one thing I would love to know. Youtube is the biggest video site on the inernet. Why the fuck cannot I not set Youtube to always load in 720? It's is a very basic function and it cannot do it. I need to resort to extensions and scripts. Youtube team need to get their act together. |
Why is BMI used as a measure of obesity? | It's easy, reasonably accurate for most people, and the tools are readily at hand. You just need a scale, tape measure and calculator. It doesn't categorize most people as overweight, though, just most tall people. People shorter than average are more likely to be given target zones which are slightly higher than would... |
Is it possible for ghosts to exist? | But of course: Create an entity who, by definition, can not be detected by the human senses nor measured by scientific instruments. We would never be able to prove if they exist or not, and thus the possibility that they *do* exists arises. The more important question is: does it make sense to believe in something you ... |
Why do OTC medicines go by age instead of pounds? | I would imagine that more people know their age than know their weight - especially with kids. Knowing a kid's age is easy. Their weight may change significantly over the course of a few months. |
How to gaming companies miss big bugs and glitches even after test runs? | Imagine a needle in a haystack that is 10 kilometers wide, and there are only 10 people designated to finding said needle. It would take them an insanely long time. They might find a few of the needles in their allotted time frame, but likely not all of them. When a game is released to the public, it's the same way. Te... |
Why does the air seem "fresher" in the morning? | This is just a guess on my part, but there aren't as many cars driving during the night as during the day, so you don't have as much pollution, & businesses are usually closed at night so any smells they create clear out.If you are referring to stepping outside it is a combination of you leaving your house and the smel... |
If kids only learn the common core method of basic math (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division), does that groundwork prepare them adequately for more advanced math? | What we term 'Common Core Math' is also known as 'Singapore Math' and it's based on observing how kids who are good at math learn it. Most people learn math by simple rote memorization. However, this can very quickly reach a limit of effectiveness. By the time they're in high school, math becomes a grind and they start... |
Why speakers on stage (Floor Monitors) face the performer and not the audience | The band need to hear itself. Try to sing something in tune when you don't hear yourself kinda hard. And with all the noise there you can barley hear anything. So you put down some Monitor speakers so that the band can hear their instruments. Usually they adjust them, the guitar player amplifies the guitar a bit, every... |
The differences between the way Europe and America handles social and criminal problems and why? | This is a great, but difficult question to answer because it deals with a very complex subject: Human social behavior! In other words, I can't give you a single, easy answer to why the American criminal justice system is so troubled. But I can throw out some ideas for you to consider. For instance: Even though American... |
Do our bodies get used to certain exercises, and so start burning fewer calories when we do them? | With regard to running, yes, absolutely. The average person burns about 100 calories a mile while jogging at a moderate pace, but a trained recreational runner will only burn 60-70 per mile at the same pace. There are a lot of factors that go into it, but all things being equal, your body will adapt to a routine and be... |
When a baseball is hit, why does it typically curve upwards rather than down into the ground or straight ahead? | If you know anyone that plays pool well ask them to show you English in a shot. Exact same concept except it is using air for friction instead of cloth. It's all in the spin. |
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