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Why do glasses need UV protection when people who don't need glasses are fine without it? | People who don't need glasses are not fine without UV protection. If you spend a lot of time outdoors without protecting your eyes, you will have a higher likelihood of developing cataracts in later life.Glass need extra UV protection because the theory of glass is to foucs the light at the back wall of the eye , if th... |
Why is making a making a movie so expensive ? | Equipment: Top cameras, effects that just can't be done on a computer. Cast: Jennifer Lawrence ain't cheap. Staff: Top directors, editors, assistants, cinematographer, sound directors. Those are talents themselves Script: Gotta buy dat plot. Harry Potter books aren't cheap to buy. That copyright needs to be solved or e... |
How exactly does somebody go "missing in action" (MIA)? | If no one saw you die and you never made it back to base, you're MIA. If someone saw you die, you're KIA. That's why you see a lot of MIA presumed KIA |
In the US how does construction scams like "no shows" work and how does it tie in with unions? | > I was wondering what these mostly are and how they work, and how/why they always seem to tie in with unions. One of the traditional activities of the American Mafia has been labor racketeering. That basically means that they extort and control unions as a way to make money. > can't imagine it being as simple as someo... |
why do some American bridges have little roofs on them? | It protects the wooden bridge from the weather. The road doesn't need a roof because the rest of the road isn't made of wood which can rot or otherwise be degraded. |
Why is a keyboard/mouse preferred over a controller in gaming? | It's not really from my experience far more people prefer controllers that said for competitive fps and rts / moba style games kb/m is superior. For fps you can just aim much faster and accurately with a mouse and most RTS / moba games would just not be possible are have terrible controls with a controller. On the flip... |
What is the point of 4-way Stop sign intersections? | Traffic flows are high enough that you wouldn't want to just put nothing. They're low enough that traffic lights would be too expensive to be worth it. And there isn't a clear choice of 'main' and 'side' road. So what do you do? In America, you put in a four-way stop, because that's what all the road designers before y... |
How does free webpages make money? | Think of it this way: when you aren't paying for the product, you *are* the product. In this case, websites like FB and Reddit are getting paid by advertisers for access to users. |
How did the officials connect the two brothers to the Boston bombings? | There's talk of a video that shows one of the guys putting a backpack down right at the spot of one of the bombs, shortly before it blows up. Governor Patrick talked about the details of this video, implying that he'd seen it. |
Why is flashing headlights to warn others on the road about a speed trap illegal? | The only reason to enforce this is revenue. Presumably, everybody who has a clue will slow down when they see the flash. So it actually encourages people to drive the speed limit. The only reason to punish that is that it is in the cops' interest that people break the law in order to get caught. |
Why do I feel sick to my stomach if I don't get enough sleep? | Your body loses a lot of it's functions full abilities as you lose energy and your body runs on less. Believe it or not the more tired you grow, the less water your body retains. This is true for almost everything in the body. Everything slows if it isn't well fed. Including your glands and pancreas which make your blo... |
Why are we saying "We breathe Oxygen" Instead of Nitrogen? | The nitrogen we inhale is inert, our bodies don't use it in any way, and eventually exhale it. |
Why do dogs seem to know your taking a photo of them and look away? | Dogs don't like having things pointed at them. They know what a nozzle looks like from experience. Hoses, spray bottles, faucets, etc. Many dogs learn that circular openings are where water comes from. Cameras have a circular opening, thus they look away to avoid getting sprayed in the face. At least that's why several... |
art criticism, what makes a painting valuable? | What makes a painting valuable is who says it is valuable. Is the painting in one of Saatchi, Broad, or Gagosian's galleries? Is it being auctioned off at Sotheby's? That's pretty much it. The variables of how the value is added by those people differs in methodology a bit , but that's mostly unnecessary detail. Outsid... |
If the games aren’t “rigged” how do gambling casinos make massive profits? If house and player odds are the same, wouldn’t they just break even in the end? | It's the law of large numbers. The odds are tuned so that they favor the house. The games don't have to be rigged when statistically speaking even if you have a handful of winners, the majority of people lose money so the house makes more money in the end. Casinos are also designed to keep people inside and playing. Th... |
Why does turning my phones brightness up when I'm in the sun make it easier to see the screen? | The sun is illuminating the components of your screen , which reduces the contrast of the displayed image. The display is, for the most part, black plastic with a very dim light shining through it. The dim light is competing with the sun and losing. |
Why it's dangerous to look at an eclipse. | Staring at an eclipse is damaging to your eyes for the same reason staring at the sun is. Because that's what you're doing.If you look at the sun on a normal day, you're not going to be able to look for very long. The bright light will hurt your eyes and you'll be forced to look away. During a solar eclipse, the sun is... |
[NSFW] Why do human vaginas tear during birth to the point of needing surgery to repair and other mammals don’t? | There are a lot of factors that play a role. First of all, birth in humans is much harder than other mammals. This is due to the relatively large size of the human head and due to the fact that we walk upright. Other animals have wider pelvises which a baby can more easily pass through, leading to quicker births. Not s... |
In a democracy, what is supposed to stop hypothetical 90% majority from literally killing off minority 10%? | The idea is that democracy is supposed to be a reflection of the people. If the people don't want to round up and kill that 10%, it won't be done. Morals, in that sense, are not necessarily right versus wrong, but instead determined by what the majority decides. The reality is that nothing can stop them. It's happened ... |
How can companies that sell "aged" goods (e.g. wine, cheese) predict the demand for their goods so far in the future? | Past experience can give you a surprisingly good idea. I did read about a whiskey distiller that ran into supply issues recently due their 12 year becoming quite popular. I'm actually curious if that same distiller will also have issues with their 18 year in a couple years, since I imagine if the demand for one is low ... |
Where do last names come from and why do we have them? | Dale", etc that would be used at a local level to designate people and they would eventually become a last name. 5) Description. Color names describing someones hair color or eye color , or that describe height are commonly used to differentiate someone. Those often eventually get turned into names.It depends on what p... |
Why you shouldn't put sharp knives in the dishwasher. | I had wondered this as well and learned recently that its because dishwasher 'soap' contains chemical abrasives and stronger chemicals in order to have water jets work as well as a scrubbie. So you're basically microscopically sandblasting them into dullness and hurting the handles. |
JDM and the culture behind it. | It's probably a combination of the fast and furious movies/ racing video games that became popular ~20 years ago, and the fact that people want what they can't have. Jdm cars that aren't sold in US or EU markets become forbidden fruit, and people are willing to pay big bucks to own a Jdm car. Then, when everyone on the... |
How do astronauts shower in space? | Not exactly the answer, but this is [how they wash their hands in space]. I assume it's the same principle. |
What's the point of smashing together atoms? Do we do it just because we can? | Essentially, the point is that there are lots of particles which have extremely high masses in comparison to protons, neutrons, electrons, etc. They only exist for brief moments before disintegrating into other types of particles. Experimental physicists want to have evidence that these kinds of particles actually exis... |
Why 1000 fps is slow motion and 24 fps is not. | If you shoot 24 frames in one second, and you slow that down, the footage will look jerky. It only took 24 pictures, so there will be large gaps in between those pictures. If you play it at full speed, you won't notice, but slow it down and it will look jerky. If you shoot 1000 frames in one second, you can slow it way... |
How do powerline ethernet cables work? | They are effectively radio transceivers, however instead of sending the signal over free space, they use the mains cabling to carry it. There is usually some method of encryption so that the network traffic can't be received by a device which is plugged in that is not supposed to be part of the network. While these dev... |
What would happen if you didn't sneeze? Not hold it in, but just not react to an irritant. | People who have a [tracheostomy] or a [laryngectomy] can't sneeze. What tends to happen is that the nose will run, a lot, or the mucous will drain down the back of the throat, and it can be really dry/thick and sticky at that point. Mucous management is a really big thing for these patients. Their noses can detect the ... |
How do accents form by region? Like why do people from Chicago have a different accent than people from Georgia? | This sound clip explains a lot of how accents were formed.. In the U.S. anyways. _URL_0_ TL:DLInfluences of ancestor's country origins and generations of more progressed and varied speech tones create most accents.The correct term for regional differences of the same language is *dialect*. In Chicago exists a unique di... |
How do we know Homosexuality isnt a psychological disorder? | Essentially; A disorder is a disorder if it is described like that in the DSM. . In my opinion, I don't even count autism as a disorder. People are different, people with autism are just different in another spectrum, and more capable in some/less capable in other fields. Much like you wouldn't call someone bad at cook... |
why I can't live my life off of cash | Essentially, it comes down to this: There are many, many times where acquiring a good or service will require a credit history, and, usually, a pretty good credit history. The big ones are: getting loans to buy houses, cars, etc. The smaller, more subtle ones are usually in the form of deposits- rent deposits, utility ... |
What makes a man feel like he's a woman inside? | Any combination of feeling like there are parts that *should be there* that aren't, feeling like the way other people view your masculinity or feminity doesn't actually represent the way you wish to be seen, extreme discomfort about gender-specific physical aspects of your body , and a general sense that something is w... |
How would Universal Income work? Where does the money come from? Wouldn't it devalue our currency and decrease our buying power? | There's already an answer to the first two questions here, so I'll answer the last one. Currency devaluation is usually caused by either inflation or a lack of trust in the government or system backing the currency. Inflation only occurs when you're creating new money, which basic income doesn't do. And it's possible t... |
How does the density of old eggs decreease while the mass and volume stays constant? | The eggs slowly dry out through the skin that lines the interior of the egg shell. The shell doesn't get smaller, but it has less water and more air inside of it, so its density is reduced. |
Why do some people talk in their sleep? What causes it? | When you sleep your brain releases [chemicals] which block your body from carrying out the actions from your dream. When this process is a too strong you get sleep paralysis when the process is too weak you talk and walk in your sleep. |
what's the point of having 2 kidneys? | Because if it fails you're left with no kidneys. And that REALLY sucks. It's nature's redundancy system. |
What are the benefits of hacking your wifi router? | It depends on your router, and what sort of functionality it already has. For example your router may have a USB port for network storage, by changing the software in the router you may be able to make that storage accessible via the Internet , or you could use the port for something completely different, like a 3G mod... |
What does diplomatic immunity actually do? | It essentially makes diplomats from other nations non-prosecutable, unless their home nation agrees to waive the immunity. So if you're a Tauren diplomat from Thunder Bluff, and you are on a diplomatic mission to Ironforge and you trample an NPC to death with your Kodo you cannot be arrested or brought to trial for it.... |
Why do people continue to dispute mans impact on global climate despite what appears to be absolute and certain evidence? | People dispute mans impact on the global climate because they don't consider the evidence to be absolute and certain.It is inconvenient for them to believe in it, and they believe the effects was far enough down the road that they do not have to face up to themBecause people are idiots who would question even evolution... |
Why did apparently many nazi flee to Argentina and what happened to them ? | According to my friend in Argentina, they don't have the same beliefs anymore but they are all mainly in the southern part of Argentina. |
Why are roads so much better/ why is there so little road construction in Europe compared to USA? | I think a main reason as well is heavy semi-truck traffic. For instance Michigan's roads are some of the worst, people will point to the weather but Ontario's are way way smoother and better. In fact it's because Michigan allows some of the heaviest freight allowances for semi-trucks out of all of the states, all of th... |
The Id, ego and super-ego | So if this were ELIaD & DRP ; * Id - Chaotic* Ego - Neutral* Superego - Lawful Am I getting this right? |
Why are we not seeing fast advancements in battery life as we do in other fields relating to technology? | > Which brings me to my question about batteries.. Wtf dude? I had a smartphone in 2003 or 2004. It could run apps . It could connect to the internet , take pictures and videos . It had Bluetooth and WiFi and cellular connection to the web and a screen and a CPU. And it would lose all battery power by the end of the da... |
Is outsourcing good for anyone besides the stock holders? | It's potentially good for the customers of the company, assuming the cost savings are passed on to customers.I once saw a documentary which summed up this dilemma: The interviewer asked a white lady that if she is against jobs being outsourced overseas. She staunchly says "It is not right!" The interviewer then notices... |
Why water that I buy in a bottle tastes nasty after a few days of sitting | Chemist Here Carbonic acid is in water as soon as its open to the air. If you aren't distilling your water, it has CO2 dissolved in it, and this does not affect the taste that much. Bacteria shouldn't grow in pure water with nothing for them to eat. If they are plastic water bottles, you should not let them sit out and... |
How does restarting your router (often) help when your internet was slower than normal? | It doesn't always fix it, but if the router is having issues or just overloaded sometimes a reboot just works. |
In history we always learn about the Jewish extermination in the Holocaust, how come nobody ever talks about the other millions who perished? | Jews aren't regular people? Speaking as a Jew, I certainly heard about the Holocaust as something that happened to Jews as a child, but when we studied it the queers, Roma, and political prisoners were also included in the discussion. |
Why are breast cancer charities focused on awareness and not research? | Research is hard and requires unbelievable amounts of money. Research is not flashy. Research is not going to get a foundation CEO $700K in salary. Unfortunately, most cancer oriented charities seem to be at best social clubs at worst marginally fraudulent and ethically questionable. I'd love to stand corrected here.I ... |
What happens when a cop pulls over a lawyer? | IANAL but they probably stay quiet and polite. The time to argue usually isn't with the cop it's in court. |
Does the dopplar effect work with light/vision? | It's called redshift/blueshift. As you start moving relative to a light source at a significant fraction of the speed of light, the wavelength becomes compressed or elongated in a very similar way to sound. This is used extensively by astronomers to determine how fast something is moving. A neat quirk of the universe i... |
Why is porno music so bad? | It's really not complicated. They want some music in the background, but paying to use music from someone isnt really in the budget. So they end up getting some very cheaply / poorly made music and use it.There was actually some pretty good funk being made for porn in the 70s. One record company [released] two [compila... |
What happened to the mysterious Bermuda triangle. Why is it no longer an issue. | It never was an issue. Just hooplah. Some ships disappeared or sank, but no more than any other major shipping lane. For some reason people just became fascinated with it and made it out to be really mysterious, but the truth is there really isn't anything that was ever mysterious about it. Over time people just sort o... |
If running out of gas, should one go faster to attempt to get to a gas station quicker or go slower in order to preserve gas? | The time it takes to get there is of little consequence, you lose a proportionally small amount of time leaving the car running. Modern cars are designed to most efficiently run around 50 MPH depending on design [Here's a typical MPG/Speed graph for a few common cars] The Key points would be to A: Use the ~~break~~ bra... |
Why do parents love their kids? | Basically, human babies rely on their parents, especially their mother, to survive into adulthood. Humans are hence genetically programmed, for lack of a better term, to care for their own offspring. If they didn't, then most babies would die and the species would become extinct. |
What would actually happen if someone DID eat one of those oxygen absorption packets in beef jerky? | They don't absorb oxygen, they absorb moisture. If you ate one, it would absorb some moisture, so moistened mucus surfaces it came in contact with might get a little drier briefly. If you swallow the packet whole I suppose it could provide an indigestible blockage, but more likely is that I expect you would poop it out... |
so what's exactly happening when I'm being tickled? | From what I've heard, you're ticklish in certain parts of your body because when you get tickled, you're automatic response is to protect those ticklish areas. Those sensitive ares are also home to vital body parts, so the body wants to curl up into a ball and protect itself from tickling. It's something gained through... |
What's with the Christian Fish symbol thing? | It's called an [ichthys], and it's got a few layers of symbolism attached to it. The Wikipedia article has a pretty good explanation of them.According to word of mouth of a Christian: Way back in the day when Christians were persecuted and killed the fishy symbol was their secret sign. |
How was Bill Murray forced to promote Ghostbusters reboot? | A new Ghostbusters film has been in the works for a very long time, but Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd never saw eye to eye on many issues. At some point though many years ago Murray did sign on for it, and it's that contract is what Sony is using as leverage to force him onboard.There must have been a prior agreement, pr... |
Why do some people have more tolerance to spicy food? Why does no amount of water seem to stop the fires of hell? Why is milk so darn effective? | > Why do some people have more tolerance to spicy food? The more often you eat spicy food, the more tolerant you become, just like anything. > Why does no amount of water seem to stop the fires of hell Usually because the chemical causing the burning is trapped in some lipid and water can't dissolve oil. If the chemica... |
Why do special effects and video editing cost so much? | First, the Programs used in making the special effects and Video editing is really really costly. Second, the labour and time allotted in making those stuffs. Making a really good special effects takes a lot of time and hard work just to be created. There's more to it than just those two but mostly, those eats most of ... |
How is being trans NOT a mental illness? | I think the issue is that it's very limited in scope, and not otherwise harmful. Generally a mental illness has a more lasting negative impact on your life and psyche, but once they transition, they're pretty much fine, so what's the harm? People do all kinds of weird shit to themselves, this is certainly no worse than... |
What the difference between organizational vision, mission and strategy is. | Like you're five: vision and mission - not different enough to worry about at your age. If you must: the two differentiate between dreams and ambitions . Strategy is the plan you think is most likely to get you there. |
How can foreign iPhone knockoffs sell legally on Amazon, etc while Samsung has been sued by Apple for copying "the look and feel"? | Because almost all the knock-offs are from China. Courts in China are really slow and what's the point of banning some product after four years of its release? So they don't even bother. Samsung is more of an international company and they can sue them in the US/Europe and that's something else. |
What does a drug dealer gain by putting something deadly (aside from the drug) inside his product? | The general principle is that they can mix the drug with something cheaper, allowing them to sell more doses for the same amount of drug. They might use something toxic, but usually the toxic dose is too small to be lethal or noticeably harmful. But, every body is different, so sometimes a dose that shouldn't hurt anyo... |
Why do sore throats become worse at night? | Because you've been awake all day, using your throat for talking, eating, drinking, etc. The more you use something that's sore and inflammed, the worse it'll feel by the end of the day. It feels better after sleeping because your body had time to repair itself when you werent using it so heavily. |
Is it less bad to wash clothes saying "warm wash only" with cold water, or vice versa? | I'm a 25yr old male. It might as well all say wash in cold water. Unless it's dry-clean only. |
would a nuclear holocaust (or other Armageddon-type event) destroy the internet? | Individual organisations have servers . These servers can send the data to your computer - you request this information by connecting to a web url in a web browser such as Chrome or Internet Explorer. The server registers where this request is coming from and bounces back the data.The internet isn't owned or funded by ... |
Do pets understand the concept of babies and the young? | My dog has no patience for any adult but takes so much abuse from my 1 1/2 year old grand daughter. He's growled a bit at her as a warning but has not snapped at her. I still wouldn't trust him to be alone with her though. |
Why do people purchase expensive water? | This is a basic economics/psychology experiment. The water itself is not anything special.The bottle it is contained in does nothing special. The cold air that chills it has not special effect either. One of the primary reasons that a person will buy it is because of a few reasons. First is the convenience of it. Cold ... |
When religious people claim they talk to God, are they not just schizophrenic? | Not all theists who have claimed they talked with God have actually heard voices. In fact, I'd guess than damn few do. What happened was that they had a perfectly normal conversation with their own thoughts, as we all do all the time, but mistook the thoughts for God. Or they could just simply be lying.Why did god talk... |
When someone gets shot in television/movies, why does blood come from their mouth? | This can happen in real life when the lungs or stomach are punctured and begin to fill with blood. When the lungs begin to fill with blood, your body will naturally react to fluid building up by trying to 'cough it out', as it would with any other fluid - this results in blood coming out of the mouth. It however is gen... |
How come salvage yards only have cars that are older than 10 years? | I don't think this is a universal truth, maybe you're just going to shitty salvage yards. Most of the junkyards in my area have plenty of cars from the last 10 years.Where do you live that this is the case?I know that car companies are only required to produce car parts for 10 years after they stop production of a car.... |
Is there a pattern to how manholes are placed? Or are they seemingly random? | A peeve of mine is that the manhole covers are all over the lane. Wish they'd put them in the middle of the lane, so drivers would be less likely to hit them. Not good for tires or alignment. |
Why does it sometimes cost more to fly from A - > B than it does to fly from A - > B - > C? | I think competitive pressure is a likely answer. When you want to get from A - > C where neither A nor C are a hub for any major airline, all the local airlines may be in reasonable competition for that ticket, flying through their own hubs . If you want to get from A - > B then the airline that uses B as a hub might b... |
How do certain sea creatures who swallow their food whole process them without them escaping/eating their way out? | The prey actually dies very quickly. Usually it's crushed to death by powerful stomach muscles, otherwise it's suffocated within a couple of minutes. After that it's just a matter of powerful stomach acids. Sharks can digest pretty much anything except large bones. |
Suffering from depression, I exercise to try and get those "endorphins" and that "runners high"... but I don't experience it, why? | In life every one has things that naturally make them happy, the trick is to seek out and define those things that make u happy, the more the better! kind of like a stock pile of weapons to fight the bad feelings. I try to order them from least effective to most effective to know what strategy I need to take at the tim... |
Why TF are seemingly all toilet brushes white?! | Why TF did you need to drop the f bomb to make a post that didn't need the F word |
The legality of protecting yourself from/in a mob. | As with most legal problems, there is a certain amount of ambiguity. In the UK you have the right to self-defence. So, if the bikers attacked you and you drove away and knocked them off in the process, that would be self-defense. However, what constitutes self-defence varies A LOT. You also have the issue of loss of co... |
How does radiation kill you so fast? | Radiation kills by fucking up your DNA. Your cells are dividing all the time, using DNA to make new cells, make new stuff in the cells, etc. Radiation can mess with the DNA, sometimes causing harmless mutations, sometimes causing harmful ones, sometimes doing basically nothing, and sometimes making it so the cell can't... |
Why does my dog lick me? | Because you taste good. I'll give you a piece of advice: don't drop unconscious at home, your dog will eat you. |
What the difference between Computer Viruses, Malware, and Spyware? | It really depends on who you ask - even among IT professionals there's not as much consensus as people believe. Here are the definitions I use when working: Malware - a generic term for any type of code that was deliberately created to do bad things without the user's informed consent. Virus - an older form of malware;... |
Why did Ronda Rousey look like a complete amateur tonight who had never stepped foot into an octagon? | She was not THAT great of a fighter, just a dominant one in a growing sport . As it got bigger, the fighters got better. And she took a long break and had just not improved in the time. |
Why are pet hedgehogs so popular in the UK but almost unheard of in the USA? | American here. I think of a hedgehog as a wild animal. I know they CAN be kept as pets, but my brain puts them in the category of 'wild animals that are probably more fun on the internet than in your house,' with squirrels, small pigs, and descented skunks. |
Why do onions become sweet when boiled? | The sulfur compounds which make onions spicy break down with heat. You're also removing water and concentrating the sugars, and in the case of fried onions, a sweeter species is preferred anyway. |
how we can see back to the big bang? | Not sure what you mean by this: > how would the matter that makes up everything around us have outrun the light given off from the big bang? We don't have to outrun anything. Light has a finite speed. This means, as you say, it takes time for light to reach us from distance objects. Let's say the universe is 1 billion ... |
Why does a company like Tesla or Uber have such high valuation (over 50 Bn) despite have low sales or losing money yearly? | Those companies are in growth mode, where they have to spend a ton to build scale and that costs a lot of money. More than they currently take in. But long term, the spend will be reduced while revenues climb and they'll be profitable. In Tesla's case, it's spending a ton of money to build a HUGE battery plant near Ren... |
If British newspaper the Daily Mail is so 'hated', why hasn't it gone out of business already? | Plenty of companies make money without being 100% popular. It doesn't matter if everyone likes a company. It just matters if a company has enough customers to stay in business. The Daily Mail sells just under 2 million print copies each day, plus roughly 14 million online readers. That's about a quarter of the UK's pop... |
How does $200 worth of virtual currency turn into $2.4 million in 4 years? | It's the same with every good that can be traded, be it virtual or real goods. If the demand of a certain good is bigger than the supply the price rises. If the supply is bigger than the demand, the price drops. In the case of Bitcoins, the demand increased much quicker than they could supply new ones. This resulted in... |
Why do cars disable airbags when someone doesn't have a seatbelt on? | Because the car doesn't know if it is a person or just a heavy object. If it is a person, they should have a seatbelt. If it is a heavy object, or a box of small objects, an airbag would launch them around the car created more danger. |
How can having one vaccine shot cover you for life? | When you're vaccinated you're given the antigens which sets off the primary immune response which is what happens when the body is presented with a pathogen it hasn't encountered before. The primary immune response is a bit shit and doesn't get rid of the pathogen quickly enough however as a result of the primary immun... |
Why can't humans move their eyes independently? | Humans have a large part of our brains devoted to visual processing, as well as our eyes positioned so that we can gain binocular vision. To not look at things with both eyes would be to waste a huge portion of our biological strengths. Another issue is that due to our adaptation toward binocular vision the visual fiel... |
why is hyperthermia extra dangerous with a low body weight? | I would imagine it's the same reason you have to cook a turkey longer than a Cornish game her. It takes longer for the heat to reach the core of the 'meat'. |
How does alcohol make you confident? | It doesn't. It just makes me better looking and able to chat to women.Looks like you already got the answer you were looking for. For a more TL;DR explanation, I will post this here. Pretty decent channel for dumbing down stuff like this. _URL_0_Losing your inhibitions and gaining confidence are two completely separate... |
The new internet bill passed in congress. | I'm sorry, did the House and Senate pass those two bills? I have heard nothing about it being passed. |
why are the displayed prices in some countries not including taxes ? | In the US for example it is because taxes vary by State, County, and City. This means that instead of running an ad on tv or the newspaper for a product in a given market you would have to run dozens if not hundreds of ads tailored down to the specific city. That is very expensive. You also have various entities that a... |
How did they do math before Arabic numerals? | There were various methods of calculating, often by using tokens such as beads that could be strung on bars and slid from one side to the other or moved around on a patterned board. About the time of the Norman invasion in the 11th century, English government officials used cloth with a chequerboard pattern to make fin... |
Why can't cameras capture the full brightness of the sun? | The camera can change the shutter and aperture to let less light in. Also, the screen displaying the sun isn't as bright as daylight . |
What does Queen Elizabeth even do... | She's a ceremonial leader. She shows up to represent England at some international leaders, maybe important visitors, and dedicates buildings and stuff.1) She owns a lot of land that she donates the incomes from in return for an allowance. So simply by existing she makes a lot of money for the UK. 2) She is the Head of... |
When we are deep under water, why can we not feel the weight of all the water above us? | You don't feel the weight of the water above you because water is a liquid. Its 'weight' rests on all your surface area equally and you experience it's 'pressure' from all directions equally. Since your body is mostly non-compressible water as well, you only experience that 'pressure' where it meets the air in your lun... |
The plot of Donnie Darko | There is also some speculation as to what happens when he messes up the whole timeline thing. I remember reading that Donnie becomes this otherworldly being after not dying. He's kind of stuck in two planes, so to speak. So he can see the future , gains superhuman powers and maybe telekinetic powers? Watch him stare at... |
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