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How did X's over eyes come to symbolize death in cartoons and drawings? | There was also the custom of putting a coin on each eye to keep them shut. This also seems to have got tied up with the Ancient Greek custom of putting a coin in the mouth to 'pay the ferryman', Charon who rowed the soul over the river Styx, or otherwise be doomed to wander its barren shores for eternity. |
Why can air not travel in streams while underwater, like water does when in air? | Water is a lot heavier than air, so when water is moving through air in a stream it doesn't get slowed down very much. But when air is moving through water the water significantly slows down the air, that's why bubbles float up to the surface slowly but water falls through the air quickly. |
radio waves, radio transmissions, and data transmission (radio music, smartphone data) | When you send AC through a conductor the changing currents generate ripples in the electric and magnetic fields. These ripples can then cause more ripples and keep them selves sustained as the propagate out from the wire. This is known as electromagnetic radiation, or light. These are basically less energetic forms of ... |
How has Ebola not killed us all by now? | It isn't so contagious. Basically with flush toilets, hand washing, indoor plumbing, good medical care, and other luxuries that aren't as available in West Africa it won't be as easy to transmit in the West. |
Wouldn't space ships traveling at the speed of light be destroyed by space debris? | Yes, all objects with mass that travel through space have to deal with running into debris. The good thing about space is that it's so big that there's a *lot* of space between objects. If we ever made the breakthrough to build a spaceship that can travel the speed of light, we'll also be able to calculate routes to av... |
Whаt nutrіеnts dоеs саrtіlаgе nееd? | Cartilage is made out of mostly proteins by cells called chondrocytes. While I don't know a ton about the biochemical process by which it forms these proteins, like all other cells it needs at least two things to synthesize proteins: energy in the form of ATP and raw materials in the form of amino acids |
Does the type of calorie you consume matter? | There are three things you can eat that have calories, carbs, proteins and fats. These are called your macros. Each of these breaks down into many subcategories and are listed in the nutritional information on products that you buy. The people in /r/keto believe that it is better to get your calories from fats and prot... |
Why can't you re-freeze uncooked meat after it's been thawed? | In short: thawing allows for bacteria to spread and freezing doesn't kill it, therefore you can get contaminated meat.Bacteric levels experience a large outburst when thawing, so it is unadvisable to do it again due to its multiplicative nature. |
Why do bugs in videogames appear or not sometimes if it's the same situation? Wouldn't it happen always if it is the same situation? | As a computer developer if you can get bugs to happen reliably it is amazing and that is usually the first step to fixing them. This is because the vast majority of bugs is repeatable in some fashion, so if you know how to recreate it then you can figure out what is causing it and is the problem. As for why it might no... |
Why are schools funded by property tax? That seems like the least fair way to tax for education. | Where I live, property taxes go to the school district, and then the district allocates funds to the schools. My tax dollars end up at every school in the city, regardless of neighborhood. Schools in the rich neighborhoods are better funded though because rich families donate more to school booster clubs. You can't rea... |
Why does my pee make a helix shape when I pee? | Have you looked at your meatus? It's a slit, not an open end of a tube, and isn't perfectly strait. |
Why do dogs sigh? | As a dog I can tell you that it's probably for the same reason that humans sigh but I can't be sure", 'Dogs sigh for a few reasons: 1) If a dog is sleepy, they'll typically let out a little sigh, much like human do. Next time your in the same room as someone who's asleep, keep an ear out and you might hear one. 2) Dogs... |
Why isn't lobbying illegal? When in American history was lobbying beneficial to society? What steps could be taken to make it illegal? | On the legality purpose, there is a really simple answer: It was specifically made legal by congress. It continues to be legal until either congress changes the laws, or the courts overturn it. That's not happening anytime soon.If you made it illegal, then any group of people with shared interests would be criminals if... |
How do computer chips and basic electronics work? | or", and "not". For example, the "and" gate only allows electricity to flow out of the output if electricity flows into both of its inputs at the same time, and the "not" gate allows electricity to flow out only when it has no input. Now that you have logic gates, you can combine them to create circuits that do things ... |
Can someone please explain how soy milk (and other plant based milks) is more expensive than cow's milk? | Cow's milk is already a liquid it just has to be filtered and pasteurized and it is pretty much ready to go in the container. For soy milk the beans have to be ground, soaked for in water for at least a couple of hours, and heated so the process for plant based milk takes a little longer also. |
How deodorant works and why it "stops working" after a bit | My question is that why haven't all of the different body odors been classified and mapped? It seems as if people are embarrassed about it. |
Why is modern pornography so vulgar and violent compared to vintage pornography, which was more focused on intimacy? | Part is demand: people are willing to watch it. Another part is obscenity laws are far more lax: adding violence to sex was much more likely to come under obscenity charges, so the filmmakers didn't do it; through the 1980s, the big factor was that something wasn't obscene if it contained artistic merit, so there was m... |
How come sometimes the feeling that you have forgotten something is so strong, yet you are unable to think what you have forgotten? | Usually you end up too distracted by the feeling of forgetting something that you can't ever remember what it is you forgot. |
Why when we are baking and using specific recipe our baking goods come out different almost every time? | On top of other tips below - flour density - if it sits too long it's no long as airy as it used to be.It might be same by mass not not volume.Butter temperature - affects it's softness and how it interacts with dry ingredients.Natural yeasts in the air . |
Why is it ok to watch a sunrise/sunset but its not okay to look directly at the sun? | It's still probably not considered safe at sunset FYI. It's just not as immediately harmful. That's why even during an eclipse when the sun is 95% covered, it's considered unsafe to look at it. |
What is cultural appropriation and why is it a bad thing? | Simplest terms. Do you share the culture of the one you are representing it? Are you attending a cultural event that requires this garb? Do you understand the cultural significance of this garb, and are you wearing it appropriately? This is not an issue of opinion. Appropriation of culture is when one individual attemp... |
What happens when a surgeon has to go pee during a 12 hour long surgery? | I was looking over the records for a major surgery that I needed to have. A lunch break was included. I can only *guess* that various other surgical staff 'hold down the fort' while the other surgeons are away. |
Why do we assume other planets need water and/or oxygen to host lifeforms? | I just want to add that in the seemingly infinite vastness of the universe, I'm sure there are life forms that we can't even comprehend. I once thought to myself that what we perceive as ghosts might be lifeforms from a distant galaxy. I also came to the conclusion that I smoke way too much pot.I 've pondered this ques... |
Is it healthy to crack the bones in your body regularly? | My A & P prof taught is that it doesn't hurt the body. The sound comes from imploding gas bubbles sitting in the joint fluid. I think he said something about stretching ligaments but it wasn't a big deal |
Why is the Netflix series: Dear White People so unpopular when it is based on the film Dear White People which is the same premise and popular? | The series won't even come on Netflix for another 2 months. How could it be unpopular already? We have no idea if it will or will not be popular buddy, its not out yet", 'With the increase in identity based politics people are getting more sensitive to perceived "reverse" racism. |
Why can't taxi drivers just become Uber drivers? | Why would they want to be Uber drivers? because of the app? There exists an alternative for the Uber-platform exclusively for cabbies themselves. They have to register , and when they're the closest to a customer, they get assigned. Depending on the country, Uber-drivers are not legal. Cabbies have to pay taxes, fees, ... |
Why do we like being angry? | Is this true? I don't enjoy being angry. To answer why we are quick to anger, and feel energized, blame evolution. When faced with danger, we can fight or flight. If we fight, we need to be energized. Thus our bodies pump out chemicals to pump us up. There is also the social part of fighting. Groups that fight together... |
With the extraordinary range of biodiversity on our planet, why isn't there even a single life form that does not experience death (or the equivalent)? | There is, see the immortal jellyfish ) that loops through the developmental stages. They don't die from old age, only from being eaten or something. |
why can some games graphics be changed in game while some require restarts? | Basically some game developers didn't think it was worth the effort to make it hot swappable and others did. |
If I go to bed an hour or so earlier than usual, even if tired, why am I unable to sleep the entire night? | That doesn't happen to me, but I work odd hours and don't go to bed at the same time every day. Maybe you are using your phone or watching television in bed? It's a good idea to only get in bed when you're ready to lay down and go to sleep. It helps train your mind to fall asleep faster. |
What is the difference in Bourbon and Whisky? | Bourbon is a type of whiskey. Like New Yorkers are a type of Americans. Whiskey is a grain spirit aged in oak barrels. Different parts of the world use different types of grain . Not all American whiskey is Bourbon, to use the word it must be meet specific legal requirements. A famous example of American whiskey that i... |
Why do fans get to keep a baseball when it goes into the stands during a game, but not a basketball? | The average lifespan of a baseball in MLB is seven pitches. It's no great loss to replace one if it goes into the stands. |
how are english speaking kids taught to read? | There are two broad approaches to learning to read English. Many children learn English phonics. Most English words use similar single sound letter combinations, and this approach starts with the most common ones later adding the exceptions which must be memorized . The other approach is the whole language approach. Un... |
How does our body know how much force to apply when throwing things? | Millions of years of evolution have made us damn good at throwing and catching. We can thank our tree-dwelling ancestors for most of it. Swinging from branch to branch and leaping between trees requires extremely finely tuned spatial reasoning skills and proprioception . Because we come from a long line of tree-jumpers... |
How people can get arrested for protesting when it's a constitutional right | No right is absolute. That's the most important thing to remember. The government can curtail them if it has, as the courts say, a 'legitimate state interest' in doing so. In New York, this includes keeping traffic flowing, protecting bystanders, closing parks and cleaning them, and laws against homelessness. These law... |
What is the difference between isp practicing "zero-rating" and retail stores selling their private label brand at a discounted price? | A more accurate comparison would be Costco offering all Kirkland goods for free . If that was the case, a LOT of people would end up getting all their food for free from Costco and not buying any other brands, making it much harder for others to compete. Granted not everyone would only get Kirkland products, but a larg... |
How do primary elections really work? | Members of the parties vote for the delegates to the Convention. The delegates then vote at the convention. If one candidate has enough pledged delegates before the convention, that's the point of you voting. If not, the delegates and their own judgement is the point of the convention. |
With all the nuclear bomb tests carried out, how comes it didnt have serious effects on the earth? | Nuclear bombs release radioactive particles, known as nuclear fallout, into the air when they detonate. However, most nuclear tests are carried out in locations where there is no immediate danger to people. The fallout cloud often dissopates and decays quickly enough that it doesn't pose a threat to people who aren't i... |
How does lucid dreaming work/possible? How does it feel when someone is lucid dreaming? | Here's the shortcut. Eat 2 or more grams of blue cheese right before bed, or any aged cheese. If it's not blue cheese, eat more. Blue cheese is just usually the strongest type. Maybe at first your dreams will be wacky, but at the very least they will be VIVID, as in very detailed and you will be somewhat awake and awar... |
Higgs Boson and Being human | When they learn how to filter out the higgs boson, they will be able to make heavy things levitate. Ok, that isn't the reason, but it is probably a correct side effect. |
How does construction engineers / architects make sure a building won't collapse when they're designing it? | /u/sleighur answered this well, but to add: Engineers will know their materials, and have massive charts to consult. What foundation works best with this soil? What are the environmental hazards ? What does the client want In other words, a good engineer doesn't just do math, they also do a lot of thinking from differe... |
What is the scientific community's understanding of race, and how do they differentiate races? | Filipino" or "Mexican" as races . It differs everywhere: In many African countries, "black" means "descendants of the original inhabitants", while "white" means "descendants of the European colonialists". French racists discriminate between "whites" and "arabs". In short: Biologically speaking, "race" is a non-concept.... |
Why do satellites and the ISS need re-boosting while we have too much space junk that seems to keep hanging around? | The ISS orbits at a convenient altitude for resupply and to keep it below the Van Allen radiation belts and within the protection of Earth's magnetic field. It could be orbited much higher, and it would not suffer meaningful orbital decay, but doing that would mean that resupply would be more expensive, and the crew wo... |
Why do we do things, which we know are dangerous or bad for us long term? | Easy access to sugar and the use of fossil fuels have both been around for an extremely short time, evolutionary speaking. There hasn't been enough time for natural selection to gradually result in adaptations that discourage these behaviors. |
Why do the British wear paper crowns and play with firecrackers on Christmas Day? | What do you mean play with firecrackers? We have a thing called party crackers which make a small bang when pulled but nothing like fire crackers I've seen in American media.Not sure on the origin on the cracker itself, but I believe the crowns are to represent the crowns worn by the three wise kings._URL_1_ I apologis... |
Why is it that animals do not complain (or make a drama) as much as humans when they are in pain? | What you are describing isn't actually a phenomenon. Many animals DO make a hue and cry when in pain, and the reasoning has to do with evolution. Some species have evolved not to cry out because it attracts predators to the location to finish the job. Others do cry out because if you are unlikely to survive, predators ... |
At what points does the gravity of matter become additive? | There is no cutoff point. Gravity extends infinitely far; it just gets much weaker as the distance increases. And even the smallest atom creates some gravitational attraction; it's exactly proportional to the total mass. |
Why are most plastic grocery bags white? | Yes, that's exactly why. Adding colour means additional raw materials when making it, additional steps in the manufacture so therefore additional cost. |
why do sites like YouTube run like crap on my laptop but run great on my tablets? | This isn't thr most exciting answer, but it could be a bunch of reasons. If you're watching YouTube on an app specifically written for YouTube and only YouTube, you can do some optimizations you otherwise wouldn't be able to get away with on a general web browser. It could be the YouTube site sees you're coming from a ... |
Why do people hate Steve Jobs so much? | Because he got famous and successful by stealing others ideas. Steve Wozniak was responsible for a lot of Jobs's best ideas but he was given little to no credit for any of them. Also, Steve Jobs was a perfectionist and a bit of an asshole towards his employees, and would berate them for even the tiniest mistake. |
What makes electrons "negative"? | If you're asking why electrons are 'negative' over being 'positive', it's somewhat arbitrary, and the positive/negative conventions where already in place. But when the atom was being explored, it was thought that nucleons carried the electric force, so was deemed positive. When the electron was discovered separate fro... |
Why did Zuckerberg go public with Facebook's stock and why are the shares tanking? | It's tanking because in the days leading up to the IPO, they increased its price and increased the number of shares sold by 25%. People who thought they weren't going to get many shares suddenly got filled on their full size at a really high price. Thus in the days following, people have sold the extra shares they didn... |
"Can you hear me?" Scam | There's also the last part of **scaring/intimidating** the victim into sending money. Scammers are targeting the 5% of people who are easily persuaded/scared/intimidated. Scammers can't just force you to owe money without personal information and account information. If scammers do have your account information, the ba... |
If saliva is a liquid, then why is it when I'm thirsty and swallow my saliva, it doesn't quench my thirst? | Well, one, there isn't very much of it. And more to the point, your body is going to consume the same amount of water re-wetting your mouth. |
Why is health care so expensive, and seemingly more expensive for those that have health insurance? | It sucks, I have the same issue/gripe, but it's the first step in the right direction. Right now you basically just have catastrophic insurance. For most stuff you won't need it, but it gives you peace of mind in case you need major surgery or something on the order of tens-to-hundreds of thousands of dollars or more. ... |
How Einstein's theory of general relativity relates to the practical effects of gravity here on Earth. | Everything is relative. For you, time always moves at the same rate, no matter what. But for others observing you, in relation to their time 'bubble' you are moving more slowly through time. Gravity bends spacetime. So, the more into the 'bend' you are, the slower time moves for you RELATIVE to those who are outside of... |
Why is it that NASA can take high resolution pictures of distant galaxies, stars and nebulae but can't take high resolution pictures of pluto without sending a spacecraft? | Because galaxies just more photogenic. They are bigger, brighter, and sit still better than Pluto, and that makes for better pictures. Obviously, galaxies are bigger, but they are also bigger in the sky. Pluto takes up a minuscule 1/30,000th of a degree, which is near the limit of detail that the largest telescopes can... |
How do millions of phones work out of the box if they're built before the operating system is finalized? | It's likely the phones have a mostly-finalized version of the new OS, but receive the rest of it during the first big update the phone gets when it's first connected to the network.The "gold master" version of iOS was released a week or two ago, and was installed on all the phones before being boxed up. The installatio... |
How do flat earthers back up their belief? | I'd always thought the Flat Earth Society was meant as a joke. The point was to say, 'You shouldn't trust anything unless you can prove it yourself. Don't take facts for granted just cos someone told you they're true.' A very elaborate joke that people are bizarrely committed to, but a joke nonetheless. I could be wron... |
Why does soap kill bacteria? | Aren't there studies that shows it breaks the literal surface tension of the germs themselves causing them to literally lyse? |
Why don't we explore "upwards" or "downwards" in space? | Both Voyagers are going way off the ecliptic plane . So yes, we do explore upwards and downwards. There's a 3d model of their trajectories [here]. Of course all the planets and most asteroids are in the ecliptic plane so if you want to explore those then that's where you'll have to go. You'll notice that both Voyagers ... |
How is this possible that there are never the same DNA in the world ? | Well the average human's genome is about 3.2x10^9 base pairs, with a base pair being a single set of the individual nucleotides that make up our DNA , and while between humans we share about 99.9% of our DNA with any other human, that still leaves about 7 million base pairs that can vary between people. So while its no... |
What is a filibuster? Why is it so important? | A good way to look at it is suppose your know your school is going to give an exam at the end of the semester and you are woefully unprepared for the test. Let's say it is 9am the day of the test and you know the class has to end no later than 3pm, but the teacher tells you you can ask one question prior to the start o... |
Why do people in the west wipe instead of washing after doing their business? | As a westerner who's been using for toilet paper all my life, I went to Malaysia last year for work, and the hotel I was staying at had a toilet with built in bidet. I thought it was amazing, and wish I had one at home. One justification I've heard is that bidet's are more important in hot and humid climates like South... |
Why is it good for a company if its stocks are more expensive? | They represent shares in the company and thus its value. If a company has 100 shares that are each worth $1000 the company is worth $100k. If the share price doubles, the company's value doubles too. Of course this is simplificated explanation as the actual value of a company is determined in a more complicated way. Bu... |
Why is the guitar typically played with the dominant hand doing the easy bit (strumming/plucking the strings), while the less dexterous hand has to cope with all the more fiddly fretwork? | Thinking about it, it seems to me that in most circumstances, activities that tend to be done only with a dominant hand are usually relatively large motions, performed with at least the wrist, if not more of the arm. Throwing a ball uses the whole arm, with different motions from different parts, depending on the type ... |
How is a cemetery financially solvent after all of the plots are sold? | That's usually why they buy a huge plot of land. Also I assume they make money excavating the graves for the funerals, things like this. Also some of the much bigger ones also do cremations. |
Why do some people go to bed dry and as soon as they fall asleep they start sweating alot? | Sleep is not fully understood yet. There's several reasons why people could sweat when the sleep. The blankets could be too much and they get hot, the body briefly speeds up metabolism before the nightly slow down, or they get nervous while thinking.There is some genetic component to it. My dad had it. I had it. Two of... |
If government corn subsidies lead to cheaper high fructose corn syrup, which plays a big part in national obesity, why doesn't the government just use that money to subsidize vegetables? | It's the sugar quota making sugar [expensive] that caused America to swap to corn syrup. Corn subsidies began during the great depression. The sugar quota began in 1977. Here's America's [sweeteners usage]. |
How does anesthesia make us unconscious but doesn't harm or shut off unconscious functions? | The anesthetic gas itself turns off many unconscious functions. It can easily cause cardiovascular collapse so blood pressure is always carefully monitored and treated throughout the surgery. You will not thermoregulate and your body will trend toward room temperature. Your muscle tone will diminish to the point that y... |
Why are stores allowed to accept credit cards without signatures on their backs if it very clearly says beside that "NOT VALID UNLESS SIGNED"? | As a former cashier I can say the main reason is that we just don't care. First of all I couldn't really do anything about it even if I wanted to. Second of all the charge still goes through if the card isn't signed; the customer gets what they want, nobody asks to speak to my boss, and I get to keep making minimum wag... |
People say that Apollo 11 could have been done with a normal calculator, so why is space flight nowadays still so hard? | It's often forgotten what level of risk was considered acceptable during the space race. A 10% loss rate was seen as tolerable back then. NASA was ok with losing every tenth mission. The Apollo Astronauts could not get life insurance because they were operating under such high risks . Also, space flight isn't particula... |
How does US currency keep its value if not with gold? | its simple OIL & Commodities basically Dollar doesn't need a gold standard, since most of the world commodities are traded in dollars USD maintains its value with OIL deals world wide.The taxing power is what ultimately gives a sovereign fiat currency its base notional value. The government is a currency monopolist and... |
Why does the earth tilt/oscillate? | The earth isn't actually oscillating as it moves around the sun. Rather, the Earth is on a tilt as it orbits the sun, and that tilt is preserved as it travels around the sun. For a clearer explanation, check out [this diagram]. As you can see, the Earth itself doesn't oscillate, but rather it's just the perspective of ... |
How, if at all, is the love/attachment humans feel different from the love a dog feels for its master? | my dogs' eyes dont light up like my sons' when i buy him the new roller coaster tycoon 3 for the wii u entertainment system |
why is it legal for my school to monitor our text messages when using their WiFi, doesn't it violate a law? | I think you're misinformed. Being connected to a wifi network doesn't give the operator of that network access to your text messages. It won't work for things like whatsapp or Facebook messenger either. Those are server to client encrypted, and trying to monitor them wouldn't work. |
AskScience couldn't help; can you explain why my hands curl up during a hypoglycemic attack? | > r/askscience _doesn't want to help_. FTFY. There is a no medical advice policy there. Go see your general practitioner. There are a number of causes for tetany. |
why do some antennas such as the kind for TV have such a rail-like design? | If you like visualizations, see here: _URL_1_ This particular picture probably isn't from an antenna like you describe, but the effect is the same. This diagram is a visualization of the power output measured at different points around an antenna, when that antenna is transmitting, and directly relates to its receiving... |
Why do people say we know more about outer space than we know about our ocean? How can people quantify this? | It's a saying. It refers to the fact that we have sent people to the moon, but no person ever was at the deepest point of the ocean. It is very very hard to build stuff that is able to survive the pressure in the deep sea, yet there are organisms living down there. We don't know a lot about them because its so hard to ... |
How do credit card companies provide refunds for scams? | I guess it's a combination of insurance and the weight of all of their lawyers and legal teams. They can come down on the company with enough aggro that it's cheaper to just do the refund, rather than pay to fight a legal battle. |
Why do people often think they are less attractive than they are? | People are more forgiving of others' flaws because they do not scrutinize others as thoroughly as they scrutinize themselves. I can spend hours in front of a mirror examining every wrinkle on my face, I can see all of the unappealing angles of my own body, whereas someone else only looks at me fleetingly, or may only s... |
Why do people stop using 5 point harness safety belts in cars once they're older? | Nylon loses strength as it ages from being exposed to uv light. The certification for strength becomes invalid after 3-5 years. You'll see this expiration date on the tag of the harness. If you have a 6 year old harness, the racing organization won't let you race. Consumer car seat belts are also rated for age. You're ... |
Why do companies like Snapchat and Twitter have so much money, when their circumstances seem similiar to Reddit? Large user base, unclear or unestablished revenue model | They usually have money because their investors GIVE them money. If you have a product used by millions of people, but no clear revenue stream, I'll invest in you hoping that you'll monetize later.In part, they sell out to more advertising. |
How do planes flying on the same route avoid running into one another? | It is perhaps best to think of the air as like a multi-story parking garage. On each level there are rules about where you can go, parts that are one-way only, and parts where you need to keep right. But each level is totally independent of the others. Small aircraft don't go to the top floors, so it's only the big air... |
Ohm's law applies on alternate current till 220V but not further, why ? | Ohm's law still applies. Where are you getting that it doesn't?", 'It still applies You can use Ohms law to figure out what leakage will be in a 25kV hipot test. You just need to convert everything to a compatible form As long as you convert everything into RMS voltages and RMS currents you can use Ohms law at any volt... |
What is going on with China's stock market? What's causing it and what does it mean for the global economy? | Around 1 year ago the economic fundamentals in China were confirmed as slowing-slowed. New constructrion fell off, exports dropped, housing sales fell off a cliff, iron prices crashed. So China was slowing down, no big deal. However you look at the stock market and it was booming. So basically just a confirmation of a ... |
Can someone dumb down the Watergate Scandal | The President of The United States of America, Richard Milhouse Nixon, and the Republican Party sent operatives into The Watergate Hotel and the headquarters of The Democratic National Party in Washington DC, to see what they could find. They were caught. The president was blamed. He resigned before they could remove h... |
What makes "ice-breaker" ships so different than regular ships that allows even the smallest ice-breaker ship to easily get through ice-covered waters that would pose a giant risk to a regular ship? | Haha I wrote about this a couple years ago, they're fasscinating! Couple of amazing videos of them at work too: _URL_6_ |
why is fast food incredibly cheap in america (especially McDonalds) compared to other parts of the world? | Because America grows Calories very cheap at a good profit margin. You can buy 5lbs of sugar for about 3 bucks. That's 8775 calories. You can buy 5lbs of broccoli for about 10 bucks. That's 770 calories |
If oil is near $40 a barrel why is gas still almost $3.00 a gallon in the US? | Because you have to pay less taxes than in other countries. That's why gas is so cheap in the USA. |
Why does the universe exist? | Asking why implies there's a reason. The nice secular answer is .there's no reason no why. The beautiful cosmological physics philosophy answer is: only if the universe exists can you exist, and only when you exist can you question why the universe exists, therefore the universe exists as a manifestation of your consci... |
Why do episodes in the same series have different directors? | Because they can't find anyone willing to work 145 weeks a year. Being a director is a lot of work. It starts long before filming starts, and end well after filming is over. There's casting and editing and going over scripts and all of that. So, the director is a hired gun to take care of that episode. While one direct... |
Explain like I'm 5 what Existentialism is? | When you're born, you're like a blank canvas. You don't know anything! You don't know what's right or wrong or funny or beautiful to you. The rest of your life experiences and the choices you make will ultimately paint your canvas and create your values. Some people copy other people's canvases; they're not being authe... |
Vehicle mpg as it relates to speed | The power required to go faster is not linear, it increases geometrically. Going from 10 MPH to 20 MPH doesn't take twice as much power, it takes 4 times as much. The time saving at 100 MPH instead of 50 MPH is linear but the fuel used is 4 times as high, and in the real world probably a whole lot more. Going fast is v... |
Why do flies always bother me instead of doing something in the rest of the entire apartment? | Human skin is actually a smorgasbord of delicacies to your average fly: salt, dead skin, skin oils, etc. Plus you're warm and inviting to a creature that has the constant urge to shit and vomit on things it lands on. |
Why quitting smoking makes you fat ? | Great question! So smoking suppresses appetite a good bit. When you ditch the cigarettes, sometimes you find yourself eating more than you used to. If your smoking was linked to an oral fixation , you might find yourself snacking more often to satisfy that need. Also, nicotine is a known stimulant, and raises your meta... |
Why has Puerto Rico still not been admitted to the Union? | The shortest and best answer I can give you is.. They vote on that as a country, from my knowledge they have voted to become part of the union. But, then the U.S. Government needs to accept them as a state. I doubt that will happen anytime soon being they've accumulated about 70 Billion dollars in debt. Nine billion fr... |
How likely is a nuclear war? | The most likely modern scenario in which a nuclear attack occurs is an attack by stateless terrorists, not a nation which would be obliterated in response. A realistic possibility would be a violent overthrow of the regime in Pakistan like last year's Second Libyan Revolution, and in the chaos of regime change, the Tal... |
Why are job applications so redundant and occasionally invasive, even for really mundane jobs? | A) Background checks. B) It's to test if you will deal with their crap before you even get the job, they don't want anyone who isn't willing to mop a bathroom stall with a wicker broom for half an hour when told to. |
Old concorde aircraft seem superior than modern commercial airliners. Why did they stop making Concordes? | They were faster but that's about it. Modern aircraft are more efficient, safer, more comfortable, more reliable and all around better in pretty much every other respect. The Concorde was always ridiculously expensive to fly on. These days, now that communications & teleconferencing technology has improved, there's sel... |
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