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Weird taste after cancer treatment? | hello, as I don't feel like rambling on about stuff I don't really know about after doing minum abount of research on the subject, as but reddit isn't the very best place for answering questions. my suggestion to you is look at this _URL_0_ and if your father has any concerns about his taste changes please contact your... |
what actually happens when someone drinks bleach? | From what I understand is that its an acid and when you ingest the liquid it goes down the throat and melt the parts and spills you stomach acid into your body and you melt inside.A lot of pain, followed immediately by furious vomiting. Drink enough and you can poison yourself, but it's an ugly way to go. |
why do people who get shot stiffen their limbs? | Your muscles are one line of defense against harm to your organs. Since it's dense, thick tissue that is difficult to get through compared to skin and fat, and relatively easily healed, especially compared to organs. When you sense a sudden force or hit against your body, you tense up so that your muscles become even d... |
how much particles are needed for sound to travel? | That's an awkward question. Sound is a group of particles hitting your eardrums. The less particles you have, the quieter the sound will be. Sound in our atmosphere works by something hitting the air surrounding it, making it vibrate. That air hits more air in the same way and so on and so forth until some air hits you... |
Can analog watches "die"? | > Can analog watches "die"? I'm not sure what you mean by this. An analog watch is simply the method of displaying time in a dial watch face rather than with a numerical display and doesn't imply anything about the actual operating mechanism. So anything which can "kill" a digital display watch can kill an analog displ... |
How come a person's net worth is defined by how much they have now, but a company's net worth is defined by how much they will earn in the future? | A company's net worth is still determined by what they have now -- but the company's *value* in the context of purchasing it is based on how much they can earn in the future. We don't measure people that way because it's been illegal to own people for about 150 years now, so it's not a useful metric. |
What's the difference between weapons grade plutonium and regular plutonium? Or any other element combination for that matter... | "Weapons grade" plutonium or uranium refers to the fact that the common form of those elements are often mixed in regards to isotopes . Different isotopes of plutonium and uranium have different characteristics, and so we need to purify the common mixture of different isotopes into a pure form that has just the isotope... |
How does a BIOS update 'brick' hardware? | The bios contains the basic functions of the motherboard. If it’s not properly loaded then the motherboard won’t be able to boot. If the mobo has dual bios then you can boot the other bios and flash the bad one. Otherwise you need to replace the memory chip on the motherboard that contains the bios with another one tha... |
How does Silica Gel keep things fresh? | Silica gel is a desiccant, meaning it absorbs water and keeps the relative humility low in a sealed environment. Silica gel is used where you don't want moisture building inside a container. Usually this is to keep fungus and bacteria from growing . This would be the case for your shoes and certain "dry" foods . Silica... |
Why don't cold things smell as strong as warm things? | You can only smell things if vapors are evaporating off of them into the air. The hotter something is, the more vapor you get, until you reach the boiling point and the vapor as forced into the air as fast as it canbecause cold things are closer to a frozen state which means they are closer to a solid whereas warm thin... |
Why do our lips get chapped? | Dry air sucks the moisture out of exposed areas. That is why skin is drier in the winter . I'm not sure about all other animals, but I think primeapes can also get chapped lips. |
Why do ATM's only give you money in multiples of $20? | It's easier to only have to stock one type of bill in the machines. If you had all types, you'd need different hoppers loaded with different bills and mechanisms to calculate how many bills from each separate stack to take out and give to the user. This way is much cheaper and simpler. |
Why do basic Explorer file UI operations seem to take a long time in Windows? | What you are describing are Read/Write operations, which are mainly related to your hard drive. I assume you are using a HDD. Upgrading to a a SDD will improve the speed of such tasks.It depends on the hardware. It sounds like you're running a HDD, and an old one at that, the read/write speeds are going to be nothing c... |
Why is the letter "Y" only considered a vowel in certain circumstances? | Because sometimes, as in words like "yell" or "yes", it makes a consonant sound. And other times, like "happy" or "dysentery", it makes a vowel soundVowels and consonants are *sounds*. Letters are lines on paper and not sounds, hence there are no letters which *are* a vowel or a consonant. But a particular letter in a ... |
What makes humans pick at their scabs, and why do certain individuals seem to struggle with it more than others? | Itching, mostly. As wounds heal, they get itchy, and some people are less good at resisting the urge to scratch than others. Kids tend to be the worst for picking. Mosquito bites can also be itchy as a result of an allergy. That kind of itching is just utterly maddening; about the only thing you can do for it is to app... |
Net Present Value (NPV) | Its like this. NPV is all about figuring out what tomorrow's dollar will be in TODAY"S DOLLARS. It answers the question: If I win a million dollars 50 years from now what would that be like winning today? 500K?, 300K? Because we all know that the dollar does not go very far over time right? When I was a kid $5 as a lot... |
Why click bait webpages put everything in a slided format? | Cause every time you click, the ads refresh, which makes them more money. Some ads also pay more to websites with greater engagement. So each click registers as more engagement. They don't care of it's annoying, they only care about money.There are 50 different ads on those 50 slides. Ads pay the site per view, per pag... |
Given the highly precise forces required to set them going, how do stable orbits occur naturally? Have we ever observed the start of an orbit? | take 1million objects in vicinity of the sun. they're all going random trajectories. some orbital some not. give time a couple million years. the ones that are not in orbital path will either exit the system or crash into the sun. the ones remaining are in orbit. |
If there was a way to remove a brain from the body and keep it alive, what would it feel? | An easy metaphor for it is to ask what a person that's had a traumatic spinal cord injury and is paralyzed from the neck down feels. Nothing. Now add in what a blind person sees and what a deaf person hears: blackness, and nothing again. And then just strip out the other senses because the brain's not plugged into anyt... |
Why people put apple slices behind their ears when they pierce them with needles. | It's used to as something to brace the ear against while pushing the needle through the ear. Basically it holds everything nice and even. This helps to prevent any tearing during the piercing. Any soft flat item would work. Using an apple slice is actually pretty dumb as it increases the risk of infection. You're smear... |
Why is my urine yellow when I'm dehydrated? | Imagine a mound of white paint, and then imagine right alongside it a little gob of white paint. Now picture two brushes, each with an equal amount of drops of red paint on the ends of their hairs. Take a brush and mix the red paint into the mound of white paint. You'll no longer see a perfect white color, but rather a... |
What is this strange sexual attraction we sometimes have towards people we are mad at? | I don't know for sure , but it could have something to do with [misattribution of arousal]. The idea is that if you are aroused by something other than attraction, like fear or anger, you may unconsciously attribute that arousal to attraction. It's mostly studied from the fear angle and thought to be the reason why wat... |
Why is it that after 3 years or so laptops become so slow they're almost unusable even if you're just using them for the Internet and nothing huge? | 85% Poor maintenance with people cluttering their laptops up with junk and never clearing it. In my experience the older generation does this more, my dad literally had 3 different full install programs to "test his internet speed" running all the time. The last 15% is a mix of websites/programs getting updated and mod... |
What is happening when I scratch one part of my body and feel it in another? | Many of your nerves and neural paths cross. The place you initially scratch often isn't even the place that itched. But your mind thought it was due to a miss-communication above in your brain. So you scratch it and realize that isn't even the location that itched.Also: Note that often when you scratch an itch, your mi... |
Why is it assumed that people have a Right to Privacy but is not considered one of the fundamental right? | Privacy protects go back a long way, but they aren't always expressed as clearly. The Romans had the concept of "[actio iniuriarum]" which is about protecting a person from physical harm, but also protecting their dignity and reputation. The Romans also had very strong protections for the integrity of the home, which a... |
What does WIFI stand for/ mean? | Wi-Fi doesn't stand for anything, but its name was a play on the term Hi-Fi, short for High Fidelity, a term used to refer to high quality reproduction of sound from a home stereo system. The Wi-Fi alliance used the phrase "The Standard for Wireless Fidelity" for a while in advertising in reference for this, but it nev... |
Third normal form for database design? | I like to think of this as "the data only lives in one place" Also stated: If I update an attribute of something in my database, I should only have to update one record, not multiple. Say for example you are designing a database to store information about money your customer owes you. So you start with a table with:Cus... |
The 1947 Roswell UFO Incident | An object crashed in the dessert. The government says it was a high-altitude classified surveillance balloon. There are many people who believe it was actually a UFO . It was largely ignored for 30 years until a man allegedly involved with the recovery of the crash stated that he believed the government was covering up... |
Why do pillows lose their fluffiness over time? | Imagine a pile of feathers. You lay down on it, and the feathers bend to support your weight then spring back when you're up. However, the bending slightly weakens them, and they don't spring back quite as much as the last time. Over multiple uses, they don't spring back much at all as they've all been crushed and smas... |
How exactly does Adrenaline work? | There are receptors for adrenaline in your body. Once it gets released, it will go into your blood, around your body and bind to those receptors. This causes things to happen based on where the receptors are. It basically has your body break down sugar and fat ASAP, ups your breathing rate and gets your blood flowing f... |
How did people hundreds of years ago know if food was safe to eat? | [Universal edibility test]. Granted, they probably didn't call it that, but the general idea is there. Over the years, people also discovered some constants: - Nothing tastes sweet and is poisonous- No furry mammals are poisonous- Brightly-colored and furry bugs are rarely edible- Things that smell bad shouldn't be eat... |
Why do really loud noises "hurt" to hear? | Like most pain signals, this is your body trying to get you to stop something that's injuring you. Really loud noises can permanently break the tiny sensors in your inner ear, leading to permanent hearing loss. |
Why can ocean water not be used and filtered for drinking water? | It is. It can be expensive to do this for large amounts of water, however, and the main issue is transporting that water to non-coastal cities. Simple evaporation combined with a condenser would purify most of the waterThe city of Dubai is only possible because exactly this technology is used. As taggedjc said. You sim... |
What is so special about aged ribeye? How do you go about preparing it? | Aged beef means that the meat hung for several weeks which allows water to evaporate and the meat to tenderize. It requires a large amount of well marbled meat which allows the layer of rancid fat to be removed leaving good fat below to cook. The cooking method is the same as usual Brush on some olive oil and grind som... |
Scientific Model, Economic Model, Mathematical Model. What is Model? | A simplified description of how something works. A real-life system has a *lot* of detail in it that we can't really duplicate much of the time, so we develop models which we *are* capable of working with that approximate the real-life system and seem to fit the data we already have rather well. For example, a macroeco... |
The difference between First Nations, Metis, Inuit, Aboriginal and Indigenous people | First Nations is the term for pretty much everyone that used to be called 'Indians' . All the different peoples from the Haida in BC to the Micmac in the Maritimes fall under the category of First Nations. Inuit is the term used for those Northern peoples that Americans have long called Eskimos. Avoid that term whereve... |
How are the US and Chinese economies linked? | How are they linked? Well quite simply trade, the USA imports around $400 billion worth of goods every year from China while it only exports around $111 billion. So every year the USA is on the bad end of a $300 billion deficit, which is not a good position to be in. To offset the trade deficit China purchases large am... |
why do cigarettes help calm down anxiety? Is it something purely psychologic? | I had a doctor once tell me that cigarettes are one of the best mood stabilizers he has ever seen. I thought it sounded weird since the symptoms that ciggs cause don't seem very stabilizing, but he explained it pretty well. Essentially the addiction to cigarettes causes anxiety when you don't have enough in your system... |
Company Valuation vs Market Valuation | The the book "Security Analysis" Graham and Dodd introduce the concept of intrinsic value as to the most accurate estimate of what a public company is worth. Market Valuation is what the the company is currently selling for. Many value investors look for companies selling at a discount to intrinsic value. Intrinsic val... |
Why is it whenever I'm being scolded, yelled at, etc, I feel the intense urge to smile? | I do this to its because you're nervous, most likely.It's a nervous tendency, not smugness, yes? You are grinning, but you are not happy. I am the same way. I especially smile or grin when I am being confronted and accused of something I have not done. This turns out badly for me because the quickest way to convince a ... |
Why artificial coloring perceived as worse than natural? | Some people are allergic to some additives. A lot of people believe that a lot of additives are in some way toxic or carciogenic. It makes food seem more 'natural' which is something a lot of people like. So it's also good marketing. |
If matter is neither created nor destroyed, how did all the matter in the universe come to be? | If any one can answer this on ELI5 it would solve one of the worlds greatest mystery's", 'Energy can be transformed into matter and vice versa. E = mc^2 E=energy m=mass c=speed of light In the early universe some of the radiation from the big bang turned into matter and anti-matter. Anti-matter is attracted to matter a... |
How Would Someone Go About Legally Changing Their Child's Name? | I know someone who had his name legally changed. Basically he just went to some government office, filled out a form, and may have paid a nominal fee. They don't even care about the reason, he just didn't like his first name, and decided he'd rather have his nickname be his legal name. |
What would happen if the entire world just decided to stop eating meat and go vegan? | This thread is more appropriate for /r/futurewhatif, as explainlikeimfive is for conceptual explanation not for future hypotheticals or speculation. |
How does g2a shady system works? | The keys are purchased with stolen credit card information. G2A makes no effort to validate the sources of their keys. When the card holder finds out and their bank reverses the transaction, the key becomes invalid. Bye-bye game. |
How will my Bluetooth headphones know to connect to a Aux-to-Bluetooth transmitter without my input? | When you go to pair them, the transmitter will see a device that wants to pair and it will ask to pair. The two will pair and you're good to go. |
Why are airline food brands always unrecognizable? | Airline companies are cheap as FUCK. They will take a standard airplane, remove half the bathrooms, unbolt the seats and move them all 1+ inches closer together to add anywhere from 2-4 more rows to the aircraft. Meanwhile using weather data and overbooking flights and collecting other info to math it all out as to how... |
Why do cats (including lions, etc.) like to rub their faces/chins on humans and other animals? | Cats produce pheromones from glands in various spots on their heads. By rubbing their faces on objects/people they can mark them with their scentThis is called bunting, and is a form of social communication. As others have noted, it includes marking others with pheromones. This accomplishes two things: for inanimate ob... |
if a normal GPS can work without a data connection, why can’t our phones and tablets get the full functionality of a GPS while offline? | That's a good question. I 've often wondered about that as well. I 've seen this in weather apps. They can tell you everywhere you are but up to a certain point then you're directed to turn your location on for "full features". |
The key difference(s) between ADD and ADHD | The thing is, depending on who you ask, there are between [three] and [seven kinds] of ADD. As time goes on, more research has gone into trying to nail down exactly how ADD/ADHD works. There's a general agreement that some types of ADD involve more hyperactivity and impulsivity, especially among children, while other t... |
why do my loose outlets not cause a fire? | A loose plug could cause arcing, but usually the box will contain the arc so it won't catch anything flammable on fire, that's what the boxes are for. Electricity wants to follow the path of least resistance, so it most wants to flow from the prongs of the plug to the contacts of the socket. Many countries have recesse... |
How do Storage Area Networks work? | Let's say your making another Facebook. Now you've got different data you have to deal with. Some of it is stored in databases but some of it is really just raw data Now Facebook has a alot of photo and there is no one hard disk that can store all those pictures Actually there isn't one computer that could hold all tho... |
How does the body build a tolerance against drugs? | When your liver enzymes get used more, the DNA that codes for them gets used more , which means you ve now got more of those enzymes---then there's the part where the tracts in your brain which normally balance out your mood and stuff go overdrive too long while you're high and they fry up and die --then there's the tr... |
How do Antivirus programs know a certain program is suspicious? | Cs major here, Viruses aren't built from scratch each time. Something like 99% of viruses are built using code from a previous strain. So programs keep logs of what to look for and know to quarantine it. In your case, Sometimes they also look at permissions. Your AV is thinking "Hey taylaj your computer has code on it ... |
Why does the sound of rainfall, the ocean, and other specific sounds seem to universally relax people? | Wooshing or liquid-type sounds are very comforting to humans because they're similar to the sounds we experienced in the womb, which is very comforting. Same reason why saying "shhh" to a baby relaxes them. |
Why is it that sometimes when I'm listening to music, it'll sound like its playing slower than usual? | Your imagination can process things *much* faster than reality. For example, if you "think" of the alphabet, you will run through the letters faster than you would actually *say* them. The same is true for music. Once you become familiar with the tune/lyrics/beat, it becomes less important to your brain, and thus you b... |
How are parents who disown, and throw their minor children onto the streets for stuff like atheism or homosexuality not charged with criminal neglect? | In some cases, they are. However, for a charge to be sought, the individual needs to go to police and report this, and then seek action. This is an incredible amount of stress on a teen whose life was just turned upside down, to sit there and testify against your own parents, and spill your guts to a court of law. It's... |
How did they encode images onto the Voyager golden records? | [Wikipedia] actually has a fairly easy explanation that you can try. An even explanation: Each image is made up of 512 lines. Each line can either be black or white . Then for color pictures they have three pictures, one each for red, blue and green. |
Why is the Squatty Potty a thing? If you want to squat, doesn't leaning forward do the same thing? | Hi ! According to this article : > However, a similar effect to squatting can still be achieved — by leaning forward. Sitting with hands on or near the floor presses the torso against the thighs and puts an extra squeeze on the colon. _URL_0_ I think the "squatting" just make it more easy.Because someone came up with t... |
How does global warming cause both the world to get hotter, while making winters colder? | They go together in theory since the theory predicted it which is one thing theories do. Warming the globe can shift wind patterns. If that shift brings cold air from somewhere to where it wasn't brought in the past, or as much, that region will experience cooling. The problem is that people think that their little reg... |
Does it matter which oven rack you cook your food on, and if so why? | An oven cooks food from the different methods. Convection which may be fan assisted, hot air rises, cool air goes to the oven floor where the heating elements reheat it. Infrared heat from either the top or bottom heating elements. Radiant heat from the oven walls. Being in the middle of the center rack helps the food ... |
Why watches, weather apps etc. indicate the phase of the moon. Why is the moon phase so significant that people need to know? | Some people use moon phase, rise, set and when it is directly overhead, or underfoot along with the position of the sun to determine the best times to fish or hunt. The moon does have an effect on some animal behaviour, along with affecting tides. Everything else equal, I've found that fishing during a new moon or full... |
Why are men's pant sizes in measurements and women's pant sizes in generalized numbers? | Women's sizes basically mean nothing anymore. They were suppose to be a ratio of bust, waist, and hip and were meant to show a smaller number because it made women feel better about their body. Smaller number is just more appealing than something like inches. They don't seem to be standard at all anymore. Women just wi... |
Why isn't it a conflict of interest for a judge to decide an appeal of a case that he presided over? | There are two kinds of appeal. The first is a request for reconsideration - you ask the judge to reconsider what he/she has already ruled. It's not a conflict of interest to rule on those because that's the whole point - you are asking them to re-rule. 9 times out of 10 they are formal, with no hope of actually matteri... |
when should I put ice on an injury versus heat? | Warm temperatures cause capillaries to expand, thus increasing perfusion , and edema if tissue is damaged. Inflammation is what causes pain. Cold temperatures cause the opposite effect. The choice of which kind of treatment to apply to an injury depends on the effect you want to achieve. If you want to reduce perfusio... |
What do actors actually snort when they film scenes of snorting coke? | Sometimes actual coke, but normally it's powdered lactose. It would only be actual coke if the actor made that switch himself. For example in Grandma's Boy the actors replaced all the fake weed with real weed.Powdered lactose or vitamin B powder. If they snort it through a straw or something they coat the inside with v... |
How does your body know where to burn fat from? | > If you do an abdomen exercise, how does your body know to burn fat from that area, and not another? Your body **doesn't** burn belly far when you do abdomen exercises. You lose fat from the same areas no matter what type of exercises that you do, and which areas are used is genetic. Doing abdomen exercises just makes... |
Why do competitive divers shave their body hair, yet not wear swim caps? | From what I've been told, swim caps are frowned upon by judges in competitive diving. My daughter dives. Some girls wear caps during practice, but only one wears a cap in competition and it's because she has a braid that goes to het butt. |
How come some drugs give near instant mood boost and relief for depression, whilst anti-depressants take up to 6 weeks | No, there is no simple explanation for this. The reason SSRIs make you feel better is we have no idea. No, really, we don't actually know. There are people who will tell you that depression is a serotonin deficiency, and that SSRIs make you feel better by boosting your serotonin. This is not correct. SSRIs boost your s... |
how did the movie "The Purge" get away with using the EAS tones without being fined? | Sorry, my first reply was a guess. But a 4-second Google search answered the specific question quite easily. From the wikipedia page on the EAS: > In the 2013 film The Purge, the "Emergency Broadcast System" is used to inform the populace that the yearly Purge will be starting and lasting for twelve hours.[44] The warn... |
How can so many mobile games get away with clearly ripping off copyrighted material? | Games are expensive to make, taking lots of time and money. Good games take more time and money. In the mobile gaming world, I make more money when more people download my game, and I lose money in making the game. Stealing intellectual property from other people and well-recognized brands kills an entire flock of bird... |
How do subcultures like punks, juggalos etc. get popular and make people change their lifestyle? | It's an aesthetic. You wear the uniform, and instantly you identify yourself to other people who take issue with current societal behavior or whom wish to express a part of themselves - many of these subcultures have room for individual creative experimentation within the basic tropes. The music is often angry, and it ... |
Why do people get sick eating raw chicken, but not raw beef? Would people still get sick from a chicken that was just killed and eaten right away? | Often commercialy grown chicken is crammed into barns with thousands at a time, walking in their own poop. The have wounds on their legs from prolonged poop exposure and are stressed out and peck each other so they get more injuries. Poop in the wounds make it so that nasty bacteria such as salmonella infect the meat. ... |
What does it mean when someone says they browsed the deep web? | [Searched] Relevant [discussion] top comment by [Drewger] > The Deep Web is simply content not searchable via Search Engines and are hard to find unless you know the direct address. > The "Deep Web" you speak of, is a set of such sites only accessible by using TOR to provide anonymity as much as possible. The Deep Web ... |
How are lottery winnings received and taxed? Do you receive it full through one payment or are they spread annually taxed each year? | Typically, you have the choice of how to receive it. If you get it annualized, you'd get the full amount over some long period of time and each payment would be taxed. If you choose a lump sum all at once, you'd usually receive a much lesser sum total, you'd be taxed on it this year, and then you'd be free to spend/inv... |
What is the meaning behind "In God We Trust" on U.S. currency? | The judge was referring to Ceremonial Deism, which means that the phrase doesn't have any specific meaning to a particular religion but is instead a more non-denominational reference to a higher power. Through repeated and regular use, it loses any special religious significance. Which means when you buy something with... |
What is a registered agent? | LLC, Corporations, etc. are fictional entities. They cannot act for themselves, they need humans to act on their behalf. The primary purpose of a registered agent in the US is to accept the service of legal process. A corporation, LLC, LP, etc. is required by state law to have a registered agent. Any adult residing in ... |
How can babies breath in the womb? Can adults go back and 'breath' like babies in the womb? | As a fetus, you had an umbilical cord, and your blood replenished its oxygen that way, via the mother's blood supply through her placenta. You didn't need to breathe, and you didn't have gills: you didn't respire at all. It's not until you're born and that cord breaks that breathing is necessary. An adult can't go back... |
From a fundamental point of view, what makes our genitals "dirty" or "unclean"? | Your genitals are in a region of your body that's sweaty, dark, and warm. Three qualities that do the most to promote bacteria growth. That makes your junk smell bad and more prone to infection. It's the same reason your armpits smell worse than other parts of your body.They are a place that gets fairly sweaty, and bot... |
Why does the coastline have beaches in some places and Rocky cliffs in other places, even right next to each other? | Different water currents. Normally cliffs would just keep eroding, and waves would wash the sand away. But in some places the currents *re-deposit* the sand up onto the shore, refreshing the beach so it doesn't disappear.Geology of the shore is very important. A harder rock type is more resistant to erosion and has the... |
Why don't cigarettes set off smoke detectors and fire alarms? | Cigarettes tend to not set off smoke detectors often because there is simply not that much smoke from a single cigarette, and it has usually dissipated sufficiently by the time it reaches the detector. If one smokes often in a room that's not well ventilated or fairly close to a detector there is a good chance it will ... |
Exactly how screwed is the hacker/leaker of the nude celebrity pics? | There is no single person responsible for leaking these pictures. On the deep web there is a site where people can buy and sell original celebrity nudes. In order to gain access to it, you need to contribute a completely original celeb nude, and you're allowed into the site. They all use various different ways to obtai... |
How did China become so successful if it is as corrupt as everyone says? | Who said corruption is necessarily bad for business? In some recent study of "corruption", there is made a distinction between "petty corruption" that increases overall costs of businesses vs. "efficient corruption" that actually decrease overall costs of businesses. Consider simple scenarios: Petty corruption: You go ... |
Is the United States currently at war? | We are at war in virtually any meaningful sense, we have just refused to call it such because that word has real legal and political ramifications1. Technically no but by any reasonable metric of what "being at war" mean, yes. 2. If you consider the limited cases of intervention in the ME our goal is the deterrence of ... |
What the pineal gland is? | The pineal gland is responsible for our circadian rhythm. It determines sleep wake cycles. It secretes melatonin to do so. |
Why is it righty tighty and lefty loosey? Was there ever a point when bolts tightened when twisting left? | Left-handed threads are used in particular circumstances where they are advantageous. Pedals on a bicycle have different threads on each side of the bike so they both tend to tighten instead of one coming loose as they go round. Nuts on gas cylinders and pipework have LH thread for fuel gases so the wrong gas can't be ... |
Why aren't the atoms blowing up ? | There's another force at work in the center , the Strong force, so named because it's the strongest force in the universe. It pulls the protons and neutrons together. It's also responsible for holding the quarks in protons and neutrons. However, the strong force only operates over short distances, so when nuclei get to... |
What's stopping new ISP's from popping up and competing with the monopolies some ISP companies have within major cities? Why isnt there more competition? | Extremely high barrier to entry. To be an ISP, you need to have the cabling infrastructure. To have the infrastructure you need to dig and run lines to literally everywhere. The costs associated with this activity alone are astronomical. Example: It's estimated that Google's Fiber project in Austin is going to run upwa... |
What does America export to the world and what are things we could export more? | We export a shitton of food. If we stopped ethanol subsidies we'd export more, most likely. _URL_0_ Here's a list of stuff we export to different countries.We have moved on to [tertiary sector] and [quaternary sector of economy] already. We export a lot of science and technology. |
Why isn't there one universal system for shoe sizes instead of multiple systems like kids, men, women, etc.? | Making a standard and getting people on it costs money. And there's no profit for doing it. |
Why do we make gestures while talking on the phone even though we know they can't see us? | We also communicate via our body with body language: gestures, posture, fscial expression, physical reactions, etc. We actually communicate with body langusge more often than vocally. |
How are hip hop / rap songs created? What starts the process? | A bit of Column A, and a bit of Column B of what you said OP. I'm pretty sure that most rappers write nothing but lyrics first, pages on end, and wait for a song writer to have something that would work with their lyrics second. Basically what Eminem does, he has a phone book thick worth of lyric notes. |
The differences between the types of welding and their uses. | I'm no expert at welding but I do know a few things - Shielded metal arc welding , basically stick welding, is typically used by home-gamers to make repairs on equipment because of the ease and simplicity of use. It can be used to weld in windy weather since the rod is covered in a layer of flux, but it creates a lot o... |
Why does it sting when you use Aftershave/Cologne after you shave? | when you shave, you make micro -cuts all over your skin. Usually Aftershaves and Cologne has an alcohol in them to facilitate evaporation. Alcohol burns any wounds, even if they are smallSo, to continue off the previous answer, yes, when you shave you do cause tiny cuts in your skin. More importantly, however, the razo... |
If the US Government prints money, and we need money, why don't they just print trillions and trillions of dollars? | Money is a promise for something of value. Printing more money doesn't create more somethings; it just dilutes the promise. |
Why are we as humans so dependant on tools? | Tool use predates anatomically modern humans. We appear to be so dependent on them because we evolved with tool use as an integral part of survival. For example, there used to be two different groups of early human species existing at roughly the same time, gracile Australopithecines and robust Australopithecines. Grac... |
How do pilots/stewardesses go about notifying passengers when there is a major issue on a plane? | "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress." British Airways Flight 9 after flying through an ash cloud and all 4 engines died. _URL_0_ Also, if you 'd like to ... |
What is happening when someone sleep walks and how is it possible? | > How do people do this with their eyes closed? They don't. You sleepwalk with your eyes open. And you're not asleep in the normal sense. Rather, you enter a semi-awake state of consciousness where you can perform many basic actions, but you have little-to-no memory of the event when you fully awaken. |
Why is it that Macintosh computers are allegedly not susceptible to viruses, while PCs are? | The oft-given modern answer detailing the market share of Windows and the familiarity of the platform wrongly focuses on the ease of distribution, not the ease of infecting the system. Windows was built from the first version up with a disregard for established security, sacrificing most of it for ease of use and user ... |
If there was life on a planet the size of the sun, would those life forms be proportionally bigger than life on Earth? How and why? | Nope. I think they would be way smaller, if they were to be made from same elements as we are. The reason is gravity. It’s safe to believe that this giant planet would have surface as we enter the planet rather than condensed gases. This surface would produce so much gravity that if a person of our height fell down sim... |
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