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is passing out from pain equivalent to a circuit breaker? | Imagine pain as being little bits of electricity, well they are, and let's imagine the brain as a massive computer, which it kinda is. Lots of pain means lots of electricity, if the computer doesn't know how to handle the massive surge it will shut down to prevent damage. If we were to translate that back to human bodi... |
How does somebody like Aaron Swartz face 50 years prison for hacking, but people on trial for murder only face 15-25 years? | Also, in the US there's have to be some mitigating circumstances for only 15-25 years for murder. Like lack of premeditation, like a bar fight that got out of control or a drug deal gone bad, not a Ted Bundy type murder. or else the result of a plea bargain- Bundy was offered the chance to plea for three consecutive 25... |
Why do commercial airplanes have to fly at around 35,000ft? Why can't they just fly at 1,000ft or so and save time on going up so high? | 20,000 think about it Jack, what does 20,000 feet give you? Less turbulence. Thats right, because its above the weather. Jack we wanna fly above the weather. Only 1% of the American population has set foot on an airliner. Why? Because they're scared to death , they should be. I mean 7,000 feet feels bumpy as shit. We b... |
Why do some animals reject their young if they are exposed to human scent? | They don't in most cases. Its just a tale parents tell children so they don't hurt baby animals by curiosity. But now it's kind of backfired because parents even themselves believe it to be true, so when they see sometimes when people see a baby animal wandering around they assume its just abandoned and take it for the... |
Why don't any NFL team want Tim Tebow? Has he not proven himself at least to give him a chance as a starter for the entire season? | His completion percentage is much below what other good QB's have. The fact that he has had so many 4th quarter comebacks is in part a testament to how bad he played in the rest of the game. His throwing motion is also much more extended then other QB's, and the way he released it meant the ball came out lower, meaning... |
Why incest is illegal / frowned apon | I do not think incest is bad as long as they do not want blood-children. It is proven to have birth defects and it's not fair to make another human while knowingly giving it defects. But if they want to have sex all day long with a condom, great! It's only frowned upon because a majority in history frowned upon it long... |
Why can't you eat before getting blood work? | It's not just glucose. The more important bit is that after you eat your white blood cell count rises, particularly after a fatty meal. Same with exercise. That's why if you're giving blood for DNA extraction you want to have a snack half an hour or so earlier. |
why do I have to "restart computer to finish installing"? | Its because of drivers that need to be loaded when the system first boots. Some drivers require being loaded into the kernel before others, and so when the system is running it simply can't start them, so it tells you to reboot. This is becoming less and less true though, and like NeutralParty said this can mostly be i... |
how or why does someone get shadow banned on reddit? Also what is shadow banning? | What I find amazing is that websites are storing all the data of what the banned person does, in order to show it to them, and only them. I know the space it takes isn't worth mentioning, just the irony that shadow-banned people are given their own private corner of the internet, where no one will hear them scream. *ch... |
Why do humans swing their arms while walking? | To maintain their balance while carrying something. One theory is that in the past we used to walk with our hand alongside the most forward feet like weirdo's but along time we began to carry weight and when we got use to this the crossing of arms and hands begin. Since than we still move like so :) |
Why do some photos, centuries old, look better than most photos taken by a phone camera today? | The shot of Ulysses S. Grant was probably taken on a [large format camera] which means the film negative could have been roughly the size of a sheet of paper prints were made at the same size. The cost of photography then also tended to limit it to only people who knew what they were doing to a very high degree which m... |
Why do shadows "blur" the further away they are from a surface? | * light sources aren't a single point, they have width there will be part of the shadow, along the edge, which is only partially blocking the source* light can refract around the edge of the shadow, leading to patterns of lighter and darker areas around the edge |
How do sanctions actually work? | Usually trade regulation that makes it more difficult for those economies to operate. The Cuban embargo was a good example. Americans were not allowed to receive services from Cubans. Cubans therefore couldn't export sugar or tobacco to the US despite being so close. Instead Cuba was exporting it's goods to eastern Eur... |
Why don't we see acne on other animals such as pigs or cows? | My cats get cystic acne under their chins - and only their chins- when they eat dairy products. It's an inflammatory response and I won't give them dairy anymore. |
How does beer regain liquid volume as it loses foam volume? | The foam is just made of liquid with lots of air inside forming bubbles. When the foam pops the amount of liquid isn't changing. |
Why doesn't the lava inside the Earth stiffen? | * the vacuum of space is a great insulator, any heat withing the earth escapes very slower* there are billions of tons of radioactive elements withing the earth's core and mantle, that give off heat when they decay this is the primary source of the earth's internal heat* there are other sources of heat, including the s... |
why haven't we evolved stronger teeth? | First, 10,000 years is what? 500 generations or so? That's nothing in the grand scheme of things. Evolution occurs over thousands of generations. Second, the advent of modern dentistry means that evolving harder teeth provides no real evolutionary advantage, since people with weak teeth can just get them fixed. |
How do islands like Male survive storms/tsunamis/etc. when they are at Sea Level and packed with buildings/people? | _URL_0_ Not sure where you got the idea that Mali didn't get hit by the Tsunami of 2004. I'm sure they had to rebuild quite a bit. |
Why do 15 minutes in a 105° shower feel great, but 15 minutes outside in 105° weather feel terrible? | It also has a lot to do with the sun. The hottest I've been outside after dark was 103° here in Tucson in June, with a light breeze and no humidity it's actually kind of pleasant |
How do we conjugate verbs in English? | I'm portuguese and started learning english when i was 10, in my opinion it was really easy to learn compared to other languages . The ending in -ing, i understood really quickly, and the rest of the rules, sank in with practice . Basically imo english is a really easy language to learn. |
"She/He died of old age"? | Say you have a car. It's well-made and you take care of it very well, keep up with the oil and all that. It runs smoothly, but the parts still start to wear down after a while. No worries, though, because your dad is a mechanic, so between you and him, the car is in tip-top shape. But many years later, your dad can't r... |
I had a KFC yesterday with less calories than a healthy home-cooked meal, based on this, why isnt it beneficial just to eat KFC all the time? | You'll start suffering from nutrient deficiencies. Calories aren't the only factor. You need vitamins and minerals like zinc and iron. Otherwise you'll get rather sick. |
Why does alcohol seem to run through your system faster than other liquids? | naturally, alcohol is a diuretic. it acts on your kidneys to make you pee more than you need to. it is a diuretic because the presence of alcohol stops the production of the enzyme arginine vasopressin . so not only is your body producing more urine by drawing water from the body, but it also cannot hold as much urine ... |
why is facial hair a thing? | I think OP may be asking is what is the biological reason that facial hair exists. Sorry if not, but that's the question I'd like to know the answer to. |
[Gravitation]How did Newton know that the force of two objects is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them? | One of the reasons we recognize Newton as a genius was that he was able to figure this out without making any measurements in the lab. Newton was working from data about the orbits of the planets and moons in the solar system developed by Johannes Kepler. He knew the time it took the planets and moons to complete an or... |
Why is genetically modified food considered a bad thing? | So much misinformation and lies mixed in with the truth in these responses. It is no wonder people are so confused about something that has been going on for centuries and made to seem like some recent advance by evil scientists. Read everything you can from reputable sources and make up your own mind. It won't be easy... |
Why does our solar system spin on nearly a 2 dimensional plain? | I know it's against the rules here, but [this video from minutephysics] is so good I don't think I can add anything useful to it. |
How would life change for the average American if we changed to a socialist economy. | Major change: Higher taxes, but you don't have to pay for stuff like schools, health care, care for elderly, infrastructure and a shitload of other things you pay a lot for . Edit: Also, you wouldn't have the dirt-poor people, as there would be a social security which took care of them and made sure that everyone at le... |
Why has the United States not invaded North Korea (in recent years), especially after having been threatened repeatedly? | as others have mentioned, there's not really a point in attacking N. Korea. there's no benefit and there'll blow-backs from neighboring states due to a flood of refugees & losses in labor camps. also, it's costly & unpopular to overthrow & rebuild N. Korea. lastly, N. Korea makes an easy scapegoat to increase our milit... |
Why does background noise seem to calm some people? For example keeping the tv on when not even watching it when trying to sleep. | For me, silence is deafening and feels unnatural. Even in the country, in a quiet place there is always some noise. A cricket, a frog, the breeze through grass, a bird chirping there's always something. I personally sleep with the tv on as it helps me to distract myself into sleep. If I don't have some sort of noise ar... |
what are ramifications of the US pulling out of the UN Human Rights Council? | All human rights are decided by leader of the council, Saudi Arabia. /s Its a fucked system. This would be the first I heard of the US pulling out but if it's true, good. |
What is electric flux? | think of it this way, the electric field is like water pressure. Now let's say you have 100 psi of water pressure. That doesn't tell you much. Is that the pressure coming out of your sink or out of a firehose. So you multiply the pressure by the area through which it is applied. So using my example the firehose has a m... |
Why is it hard to like new (to me) music as I age? | It's because when you're younger, you're new to music. Everything seems fresh. But once you've been listening to a genre for 20 years, you consciously or unconsciously realize that what you're hearing is stale. |
how did Putin become a dictator-like figure? | You have to remember Russia hadn't been democratic for very long when Putin came into power. The Russian people are used to having an autocrat in power, whether it's the czars or the communists, and Russia's transition to democracy was accompanied by an economic depression. It's thus very easy for Putin to convince his... |
If the information Edward Snowden leaked was illegally obtained by the NSA, how has Edward done something wrong? Aren't the NSA the ones in the wrong? | It is a tricky situation. On the one hand, he leaked classified information, which could have been a threat to national security. On the other hand, he was exposing something that many people consider to be wrong, even illegal, and should have been public knowledge. We have the right to know if we're being spied on. To... |
How Dubai's rotating skyscraper gets it's electrical and water supply? | The building does not exist, and AFAIK no solution has been published describing how it would work. You're asking about a fictitious thing. |
If a person is multilingual, would they "think" in their first language and then convert if necessary, or whichever language they are using at the time? | Slovak, Finnish, English and in the past Czech here. Atm I'm using the first three mentioned and I usually think in the language I am currently using. However I'm not a pro at Finnish yet for example so sometimes I think in english instead, despite being a Slovak. Idk why, I got very used to it. But sometimes I also th... |
If web browsers treat Javascript consistently, why can't they do the same with CSS? | Browsers don't treat javascript consistently. That's why libraries like jQuery are so popular. They essentially standardise tasks by executing them in browser specific ways behind the scenes. HTLM and CSS isn't standardised because different vendors have different priorities. Think of it like this: * Apple is big on se... |
Why can't you just flex really hard to gain muscles? | In order to build muscle you need resistance, IE something to push or pull or twist, some force that has to be overcome with your muscle. You could build muscle by flexing if you used one group of muscles to resist another group of muscles, like trying to move your leg up and down at the same time. But this is much les... |
Why does multiplying two negatives give you a positive? | Cool, I'm teaching my 5 yo the concept of negative numbers so I'll start with that: So imagine you owe me 5 apples, but you don't have any. You owe me 5 apples. So you have -5 apples. Now imagine this happens 5 times. -5x5 = -25. You owe me 25 apples. Ok so imagine this happens -5 times. In other words, this happens th... |
Why aren't we using flash on smartphones or new technology anymore, when it used to be a good option for animation? | To answer your question a little bit differently, Flash is still used for animation by a good number of people, and it is still a solid tool for animators. As a runtime environment, however, Flash simply hasn't been maintained very well by Adobe, as they focus more on their enterprise software . Since Flash was such a ... |
How does Hawking radiation work? | Okay, first off: When they told you that matter cannot be created nor destroyed, they lied. There are two ways this can occur: The first is conversion to and from energy, which happens via e=mc^. The second is the creation of matter: However, the energy of the system needs to remain the same in this case, so matter alw... |
Why we don't build more than 32 or 64 Bit Computers? Creating bigger and better registers doesn't seem to be such a huge deal for my understanding. | Actually die size is a major limiting factor in processor design. Bigger die == less chips per wafer == less revenue. Add to that the fact that there isn't much demand for 128-bit processing at present, and you have a recipe for 64 bit processor offerings from Intel/AMD. Right now there are some, not all, but quite a f... |
What is it about chocolate and grapes That makes them poisonous to dogs? | I know about chocolate, it's a substance in chocolate called methylxanthine that dogs can't metabolize. Cat's can't metabolize it either, but aren't as prone to eat chocolate since they can't taste sweetness. I do not know why dogs can't eat grapes though. |
If cash would be worthless in the event of an economic/societal collapse, why would survivalists say to keep cash on hand? | There are different levels of economy crisis. In one where the banks shut down but the gov't was mostly intact, have cash on hand would be valuable. Even if the gov't completely collapse, cash might serve as a barter medium, as like precious medals, it is difficult to fake. That said, many serious survivalists also kee... |
What's the difference between alcohol that has only been distilled once versus triple distilled? | Man, I don't remember anything about it really, so sorry in advance, but didn't they do a test where they had a professional vodka taster try out the same vodka that had been distilled a different number of times, and the guy thought the cheap vodka distilled several times was better than the most expensive vodka? You ... |
Why do so many orchestral pieces have a slow second movement? | Because they don't have slow first movements. :) The first movement needs to grab the audience's attention, so it is generally going to be pretty lively. The second movement provides contrast and transition, settling down an audience that has been overstimulated by the first movement. It also sets up a good contrast wi... |
How did people make ice before electricity? | You may want to read up on [ice houses] where people basically harvested ice in winter months and then stored it in insulated buildings through the summer and shipped/delivered it in insulated containers. I can't find a source, but I remember in one of my history classes a professor detailing how one of the ancient Lat... |
How are companies like MetroPCS and T-Mobile able to say they cover 99% of Americans? | Why do you believe they can't say this? and why do you believe it isn't true? Both companies have coverage in nearly all of the US. Plus marketing people are great-- they will find a way to make that statement true. |
If someone were to commit a crime on the moon, what would happen to said individual? | Go to the moon and download a car. Nobody's gonna prosecute you because you're on the moon. Enjoy your car. |
How did goats calm racehorses back in the day? Did other animals calm them the same? Why or Why not? | I saw a horse stabled temporarily at a horse show grounds once, that had it's billygoat companion in the same stall And the goat stank to high heaven. Nasty. 10/10 do not recommend. |
What exactly does the FBI and CIA do that makes them separate, and why aren't they combined into one organization? | CIA = outside of US FBI = inside US. Obviously it's not that simple but that is putting it at the most simplest understanding. |
Why do I lower the sound in my car when I am using my eyes to look for an address? | Put simply, your brain can only focus on so much things at once, if music is blasting through your speakers it will attract some level of attention from your brain. If you remove the distraction you will find it easier to focus on other things, such as looking out for an address. Practically the same as trying to figur... |
The meaning of Auld Lang Syne | Should you forget your old friends as time goes by? Hell, no. Raise a cup in kindness and cheer, and drink to days gone by. Let's remember the times past and not forget them. Let's drink to those we loved.It makes a bit more sense if you read the words in a Scots accent. Literally, it's "old long since", or, as others ... |
The difference between men's and women's razors | No difference. At all. The handle is different sometimes. But this does help explain why women always steal a guys razor. In other words. Don't waste your money on 'womens razors'. |
Does anyone on ELI5 have a 5-year old that we can test to see if a 5-year old can actually understand the responses? | I think the phrase explain like I'm five is not meant to be taking literately. Just to explain things to a person with no knowledge base about the subject at hand. Though if you find the explanations in here too advanced, you can always ask for clarification |
If the Earth is spinning around the sun, and the sun is hurtling through space at 67,000 miles per hour then why haven't the constellations changed in thousands of years? | Because they're so far away that 67,000 MPH for a few thousand years isn't much in comparison. The speed of light is about 670,000,000 MPH. So, light covers in one year what Earth covers in 1,000 years. For comparison, the star in the middle of Orion's belt--Epsilon Orionis--is 2,000 light years away. |
How is there vitamin D in the sun ? | It isn't in the sun, our body uses sunlight to produce it.ultraviolet light breaks a certain molecule in your body to make another molecule which your body then, through several steps, makes into vitamin D which it can use. |
How do they calculate the probability for genetic traits? | There's no genetic analysis done, they just try to figure out how many split color lobsters have been caught divided by how many lobsters total have been caught while controlling for unknown variables, like how many split color lobsters have been caught but not noticed. It's likely a bullshit statistic anyway. |
How do modes in music work? | Got some good explanations here already, but I'll give it my go. You know how the C major scale and the A minor scale are virtually the same thing? They have the same key signatures and everything but they sound so different. It's because the way you play those scales revolve around different notes. That's how modes wo... |
Do marketing companies intentionally make certain commercials annoying? What is the purpose of this? | We're in a really unique age for ads. Ads are almost the red headed step child of multi-media. On demand has really cut out the legs of ads on TV. YouTube and social media has lowered the relevance of ads. Ad blockers are pervasive. And many ads can be opted out of after 5 to 15 seconds. So ad creators must capture you... |
Is there a linear relationship between necessary sleep time and alertness? | No. There are very much optimal times at which to wake up. For example: sleeping for 5 hours is usually worse than sleeping for 4.5 hours ). |
How is man able to continuously come up with new music? Will there ever be a point where there are simply no new melodies or songs to be made? | I've asked this myself before I got into music production. If you've ever dabbled into music making, you would soon notice that you have pretty much unlimited freedom in going about your music. While there are certain good rule of thumbs for great chords and melodies - the instrument of choice, tempo, and a combination... |
What is so "huge" about the Mayweather/Pacquiao fight, besides the money? | Mayweather is the root of all evil. Flaunts a ridiculous lifestyle. Charged with assaulting women multiple times. Arrogant. Stereotypical movie villain. Pacquiao came from nothing. He's mowed through a bunch of weight classes since his start and eventually arrived at Mayweather's weight class. He then beat everyone May... |
Why should everybody go to university or college? Shouldn't it be just the brightest? | Absolutely. Best best and brightest isn't the same as richest. Free university with very high admissions standards would reach the best and brightest. Expensive and low difficulty reaches only the idle rich. |
What will happen to Edward Snowden? | It is the official position of the government that disclosing classified materials is a prosecutable crime- regardless of whether or not the disclosed material is evidence of crimes by the government. A recent quote on this: US Congressman Peter King: 'If Edward Snowden did in fact leak the NSA data as he claims, the U... |
Those random phone numbers that call you and hang up when you say hello... | They might be predictive diallers. Outbound sales call centres will use these, rather than having agents manually dialling a list of numbers. The general aim of these diallers is that an agent will become available to speak to you around the same time as you pick the phone up. This way, they're not paying people to sit... |
How a lay-person interacts with stock and the financial market | The easiest way would be to use a service like E-trade. You'll pay a service fee for each trade, but you'll have a computer program that you'll be able to buy, sell, and manage stocks. |
Why is ESPN in so much trouble? | Deadspin has a pretty good breakdown of things:_URL_0_ They were fine when people had bundles of channels, but a pick-and-pay system is going to have far reaching impacts for many channels . |
How do we know how far to throw a ball? | In a word, practise. Your body has learned that with your muscle mass, you can throw a weight of particular mass an approximate distance. Developing teenagers or people who gain/lose a large amount of muscle in a short time have to retrain their body because they don't know how much power to put into things. |
Why is The Great Wave off Kanagawa such a famous painting? | As someone who has had repetitive nightmares of huge waves since almost drowning in the ocean at 11 years of age, I fail to see why the image *wouldn't* be fascinating to people. It's an obstacle that many of us who live on the planet encounter, brought to life in a vivid way. |
Why is there a strong drive to prove others wrong? | As I've gotten older I've realized that people who do this a lot are usually train wrecks. Other things in their lives are a mess so they compensate by getting a win over something often mundane. For younger people I think it's just a natural self validation that you can learn/teach and influence. Once I hit my 50s I r... |
How do Romney and Obama plan to help the economy, and will either plan actually work? | Romney has shifted his 'plan' so much from the primaries . So who knows what Romneys actual plan is anymore? Obama's plan will try to drive the economy by infrastructure spending and government job creation that then will start to get the private sector hiring. Then you start to dissolve the government stimulated jobs ... |
What does it actually mean when it's said that contraceptive pills are 99% effective? | It's based on 1 year, not number of times you have sex. So it means in 1 year of ideal usage 1 out of 100 women will become pregnant. The actual scary thing is that this number is based off of ideal usage and not average usage. But the numbers drop crazy small when using 2 forms of BC . |
Why are cockroaches so terrifying? | Another aspect to consider is both cultural and mental. Cockroaches in media are usually used to represent horrific, disgusting, nasty conditions, especially in kitchens. Obviously having any sort of critters going around your pantry is unsafe, but cockroaches are the stereotypical epitome of nastiness. Watch any sort ... |
If you throw a ball upward in a fast moving car, why does it not fly to the rear of the car? | It's already moving as fast as the car is, and is in an enclosed environment. If you're accelerating, it would move back a bit, depending on how much. |
Why are hate crimes illegal? If the crime itself is already illegal, what does the reason have to do with it? | Because hate crimes have the added effect of terrorizing the victim's minority community. For instance: A gang goes around beating up black people. In addition to the damage done to the individual victims, all black people in that area feel like they have to be more careful when they go out, and it reduces their qualit... |
Why is Orange juice murky but Apple juice clear? | Remember: If it's clear and yellow, you've got juice there fellow If it's tangy and brown, you're in cider town |
Why do hot drinks like coffee and tea taste so much worse when they are luke-warm or cool vs when they are hot? | That's relative- I actually prefer to let my warm drinks cool.iced coffee and iced tea taste just fine, thank you. |
How does the UK's "unwritten constitution work? | MC-Gandhi, Congraduation, Like_a_, HMS-Surprise: Thank you for your unexpectedly thorough and concise explanations. I'm marking this answered. Hats off to you gentlement |
What’s happening when you have the feeling you have to pee, but when you go to the bathroom, nothing comes out? | Does this happen at home? Or only at public restrooms ? It could be anxiety . If you feel the urge to pee and nothing comes out, that could be an early issue . But IANAD just saying this has never happened with me.I do this relatively frequently, but it can almost always be attributed to nerves for me. I get nervous, I... |
Why do some websites have to shut down for regular maintenance while others do not? | Say a site runs off only one server . Then, if that one server has to go down for maintenance, the entire site goes down. If it even just has two servers that are identical copies of each other, then while one is down for maintenance, the site can still be up, albeit at reduced capacity. Now, something like Google or A... |
How do explosions kill people? | In one of four ways: 1. The force of the blast 2. The shrapnel being thrown around everywhere from the blast And if there's a lot of fire involved: 3. The fire incinerating you. 4. The fire sucking all the air out of your lungs and in the area around you and suffocating you. |
why do des the amp to my soundsystem start at -40db? | Decibels are a unit that specifies a ratio between two values. You need to select a reference value and the value you are measuring. To calculate dB you go 'log ' If you make your reference value 0, then you need to divide by zero and all the math blows up. For sound, the reference value was made the quietest 1000 hz t... |
Is 60 fps on a 60 hz monitor as good as having 200fps on a 60hz monitor? | Nope. The main reason is frame latency. Your monitor refreshes 60 times every second, and it takes the most recent frame your PC spat out and displays it. This creates the moving image illusion we know and love today. When your PC renders a frame of anything you are doing, say playing Youtube, to reading this comment, ... |
why do past regrets come to mind when trying to fall asleep for so many people? | Ruminating is the term I believe. You're just looking for closure. The only thing you can do is improve yourself and forget about it. You'll keep thinking until you do something and have success. Basically |
. US dollar value goes up: great for American worker. US dollar value goes up- bad for US businesses. How are the two true and not mutually exclusive. | It's in reference to international trade. A strong US dollar means American workers can buy more foreign goods with their dollars, since each US dollar is worth more in foreign currency. American companies want to sell stuff to people in other countries. A strong US dollar makes it harder for people in other countries ... |
How do I trade a stock? | sign up with a stock broker. such as scotttrade, etrade, hand the broker $1000. tell him to buy Apple. he'll buy apple and put it on your account sheet, take a $10 transaction fee. tomm, tell him to sell apple. he'll sell apple, take a $10 transaction fee and put the rest into your account as cash |
Why do people flick and squirt needles before giving injections? | It's to make sure there aren't any tiny bubbles hanging around or sticking to the side of the syringe. Flicking them brings them to the surface, and squirting expels them. They're also flicked to help mix a diluted drug. You'd need a fairly large amount of air in a vein to cause you a dangerous embolism, but it's unpro... |
How do planes/subs know when missiles have a 'lock'? | It depends on the missile. Lock is short for radar lock. During an engagement they will be painted by radar continuously by various aircraft and surface craft. When getting a lock on an aircraft from a surface station or other aircraft it starts out scanning the radar more slowly around in every direction. Once the air... |
Why does the Dutch name for The Hague ('s-Gravenhage) begin with an apostrophe? | There is also 's-Hertogenbosch at least that I've heard of. The people there refer to it as Den Bosch, same as 's-Gravenhage is Den Haag, if that provides any clues. However I don't have an explanation as I'm not Dutch. |
how does an actor/actress cry actual tears "on command" for a shot? | It's not that difficult; anyone can do it. You just need to think of a string of emotional thoughts to work yourself up and you can make yourself cry. You don't necessarily have to be sad, but being in an intense emotional state feels very similar to it. Fortunately once you reach that point you can generally turn it o... |
Why does cologne burn so bad when sprayed on my balls. | Because it uses alcohol as a carrier and your balls have delicate skin. If you've just shaved, you would also have a bunch of teeny cuts, and the alcohol in the cut would be quite painful. |
Let's say you jump off a very high cliff above water. What determines whether or not you will die when jumping into the water? | The size and angle of contact, and what's beneath the surface of the water. Drop with your body like a pin and you'll pierce the surface without much injury, belly flop, and you're dead. Of course above a certain height you'll get destroyed anyway. |
Why do people kick each other in the balls so rarely during fights? | Despite what you might see on *America's Funniest Home Videos*, it is not an easy move to pull off. It is a small, hidden, fairly well-protected target, you put yourself off balance trying to kick, and you have to land it really well to debilitate rather than annoy.Many self-defense classes do encourage you to go after... |
Why do baked goods, and other foods turn brown as you bake them | Heating organic stuff slowly destroys the complex structure. In the end carbohydrates turn complete into carbon and water. The more structure is destroyed the darker it gets. But don't worry there is no coal in your bread. Only if you bake it for like 24 hours. |
Why are vitamin recommended to be supplements but not replacements? At the end of the day, aren't we just intaking the same chemicals, regardless if it came from a pill or orange? | Because in the first world we get all the vitamins we need just from getting food, at least for most people. So the pills supplement the lack from the food, if you have one. However, the number of people that use supplement pills vs the number that need them, has a far larger number for the first than the second. As al... |
Why is it that analog broadcasts get snow/static the further you are away from the transmitter, but real-life sounds such as voices only get quieter without distortion the further you get away? | Distance isn't the issue, noise is. When you receive the signal you are also picking up noise, as long as the signal is a lot stronger than the noise you can hear it clearly, but the further away it is, the quieter it is, and the harder it is to understand against the noise Consider standing next to someone talking whi... |
Why do cold drinks seem to taste better than room-temperature ones? | This answer isn't really about taste, but a good reason cold drinks are preferred: Stagnant water is often dangerous to drink because it's more likely that contaminants have concentrated in it and its low oxygen environment encourages the growth of dangerous bacteria and parasites. Safer, running water tends to be cold... |
Why is American food so much larger compared to other countries. | I didn't read all the answers to see if this has been said but here it goes, the restaurant industry is all about making as much as possible. If someone gave you a piece of pizza and charged you $6 you would be upset. However if you were given 2 pieces of pizza and charged $10 you find it to be more in line. This is ju... |
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