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when Venus fly traps eat, how does the animal die? - also what would happen to a finger in a Venus fly trap? | The fly's body slowly dissolves in liquids secreted by the plant. Same thing would happen to a finger. Seems like a pretty gruesome way to die. |
What is this new Canadian Anti-Terror bill and why are people protesting it? | Much of it is the same shit in a different bag but this time around they've included language that makes meaningful opposition to oil and gas projects equivalent to terrorism. |
why do Diesel engines last longer or have the reputation of lasting longer than gas engines? | Compression ignition dictates a much stronger bottom end. a normal compression ratio for a car can be around 9 to 1 and a diesel can be as high as 15 to 20 to one. All this squeezing force ads to how strong it must be built to survive.Plus diesel fuel is high in lubricity that helps to lubricate parts that it's in cont... |
Why didn't some people like Obama? | Same reason everyone hates somebody else? You nailed it, it's all opinions. Something that is good for one person is not always good for another.There are several valid reasons including the NSA, TSA and CIA becoming more invasive during his presidency , taxes being used improperly and the Affordable Care Act being ver... |
Why are college sports taken so seriously in America? | A big part of the reason is that two of the most popular sports leagues in America, the NFL and the NBA, don't have minor leagues. The National Collegiate Athletic Association's football and basketball conferences are essentially the minor leagues for the NFL and NBA, from which they draft the vast majority of their pl... |
LI5: What is 0% financing, and why should I be interested in it? | Let's say you want to buy a $1000 TV, but you don't have money. You can *finance* the TV, and pay the store like $100 a month until it is paid off. Usually, the store charges interest for this, so you might wind up paying $1100 for it. But with 0% financing, you don't pay any extra, just the original $1000. It's a good... |
What is the maximum capability of the strongest missile defence system now? Why is it not enough to stop MAD? | One big problem is that if a missile defence system would be strong enough to stop MAD, the people owning it would keep it a closely guarded secret so we wouldn't know about it. |
What is the purpose of modern water towers and how do they work? | They do the bulk of pressurizing the water system. Water doesn't like being compressed and will try to level itself out. When people pump water to the top of the water tower the water in the rest of the system is trying to drain out till it's even. If you pump it up higher then the water could ever be it will constantl... |
why did the football commissioner got booed while holding the super bowl cup? | He and the owner were good friends until it came out that Tom Brady was having footballs slightly deflated so he could grip them better. Owner got fined a million dollars and a draft pick to make it go away in an apparent handshake agreement but the commissioner kept pressing and eventually Tom Brady got suspended for ... |
If the eardrum detects vibrations, why can't we hear certain vibrations like moving your head or being punched as loud noises? | Constant exposure to a sound will lead to adaptation to that sound, meaning you don't hear it like you did at first. Our brains are also hardwired–to an extent–to filter out our bodies' constant, benign noises. You can find accounts of people who were born blind and then had hearing implants installed who were amazed a... |
How and why is fighting tolerated and even considered part of the hockey culture when it's banned in every other sport for obvious reasons? | In older times in hockey, the best players would score a lot of goals. So opposing team would have big guys hit the good players a lot, resulting in them being stunned or injured. Hitting is an integral part of hockey, and the sport wasn't willing to give that up. So what do you do if your star player is getting hit? Y... |
How can I tell what tier a college is ranked as? | I am assuming you're referring to the US News & World Report college ranking system. _URL_1_ Also _URL_0_ |
How are tattoos permanent if every cell in your body is replaced every 7 - 10 years? | Tattoos are nonliving material that sits between layers if your skin. You body does eventually push a lot of the material out, that's why tattoos fade over time. |
There have been many stories recently about multivitamins being ineffective. But I have a family member who had an iron deficiency, was prescribed an iron supplement, and it worked. What gives? | If you have a problem, then taking something for it works. If you don't have a problem, taking the same stuff doesn't make you more fit or energetic. Multivitamins are criticized as unnecessary, not as ineffective for those lacking necessary vitamins. |
why do loud sounds obscure quieter sounds? | audio critical bands" which will hopefully give you a good start. Edit: grammar and formattingThis stems from how our hearing works. We got tiny cells in our ear that react to sound. Every one of these cells only reacts to a specific frequency of sound. Sounds are usually comprised of many frequencies overlaying one an... |
What causes the tingly feeling in a limb after it has "fallen asleep"? | It's called parasthesias, and it happens when nerve cells are dysfunctioning, whether from ischemia, physical compression or something intrinsically wrong with the nerve cell, e.g. Vitamin B 12 deficiency or hypothyroidism amongst other things can intrinsically damage the nerve.The limb "falls asleep" because the circu... |
What would be the benefit to Great Britain if it were to opt out of the E.U? | The biggest effect of the UK's entry into the European Union was that of a fundamental shift in English law. Although UK domestic law is generally uncontested, no longer is UK law the complete binding law of the land. The EU's decisions can trump As the UK never took on the burden of adopting the Euro as currency, inde... |
What does HR 4681- 2015 Intelligence Authorization Act, specifically section 309, actually mean in plain English? | Incidentally acquired information is simply information that is gathered indirectly while gathering other information. For example: The CIA is monitoring internet traffic from an IP address they believe has been sending information to terrorists abroad. This IP address happens to be a public computer at a library and t... |
Why can I imagine all kinds of non-existent things, but it is impossible for me to imagine a non-existent color? | It's like playing with Legos. There are thousands of pieces and you can create things that are not printed on the boxes, but all of those pieces came from something that your brain can conceive and has experience with. Any stories, or creatures, or anything else that you make up in your head that doesn't exist are all ... |
How do Jeopardy contestants seem to know such a wide array of miscellaneous topics? | i generally ace the first round due to a great junior high school education and a love of learning odds and ends. i get maybe 25% on double Jeopardy but I'm guessing the contestants that do well had superior educations. it's not THAT difficult if you have a solid grounding in the subjects that often repeat like history... |
How does being struck by lightning work? | Pretty much, yeah. Most of the time it's [from the top] but it can be from the bottom too. The electricity is trying to travel across the air gap, and air is an insulator, so it follows whatever most conductive path it can find. [Lichtenberg wood burning] follows the same principles. Don't try that at home by the way, ... |
Why are people superstitious about doing something | Finding patterns was an important evolutionary adaption that allowed us to survive in ancient times and allows us to do science now. In caveman days, someone might have noticed that when the days start getting shorter, winter was coming and that means its time to prepare and that man might have saved his tribe. On occa... |
Why do wire transfers at banks take up to 2 business days when they should take no more than a few milliseconds? | If you are talking about ACH payments, it's actually because of how clearing houses handle transactions. The largest clearing house in the US is called DTCC. The industry standard for clearing is T+3. That is time of the transaction plus 3 days, but the industry is progressing towards T+2 which will be the new standard... |
in the world of adblockers how are websites still earning money by ads. | I would imagine a majority of the people who use the internet don't know about/choose not to use an ad blocking program like ublock, ad-block, ghostery, or any of the hundreds of other programs that serve a similar function. |
How America can sustain copeous amounts of debt. But Greece went on the verge of economic collapse due to a small fraction of that debt? | Because the US can reasonably be expected to pay its obligations. The same can't be said of Greece, which has little chance of repaying its debts. |
Why does the UK have so many brands of cars? | It may seem that way as you're unfamiliar with those brands, but similarly in the UK most people are fairly unfamiliar with the common US brands here: Cadillac, Buick, Chevrolet, Chrysler, Dodge, GMC etc You cant directly buy GMC, Buick or Dodge AFAIK and you can only buy certain models of Chevy, Cadillac and Chrysler.... |
Why does your body feel weak when you have a fever or you’re sick? | Because you have to use your energy to fight the reason you're sick. Your immune system is using the glucose on your blood rather then your muscles, then you're tired. The same occurs when you eat too much, because your energy is sent to your digestive system and you feel sleepy. |
Why isn't the data on a black box saved 'in the cloud'? | No doubt it will be one day. You'd probably need a dedicated satellite constellation to do it though. Very high cost that no one airline would ever front. |
Am I legally allowed to build a spaceship and launch into space? | There are private companies that launch satellites on a fairly regular basis. But the FAA has some regulations you'd need to get around. |
How do disk errors occur on computers? | 1. Software. OS bugs, bugs in applications, viruses or any other software can cause bad writes. This can be seemingly random if it's some weird bug that occurs only if the stars align. 2. Cosmic rays can strike the drive directly or the RAM and flip bits which are then written to disk. The probability of this happening... |
How in the holy hell do you solve a rubick's cube? | Never completed one myself. But mathematically, there's only 1 solution analysing the corners will give you that solution and then it's a case of moving the squares to get that solution. In the simplest terms of course. Easier said than done |
What seperates modern art and some of Picassos works from ordinary scribbles? | Some questions to consider about the type of art you're describing: 1) Are you sure a toddler could draw it? Look closer; there may be technical skill involved that isn't immediately apparent. 2) Is technical skill a necessary component for a work to be considered art? 3) What themes could the artist be trying to explo... |
Why is there a waiting list for digital book downloads? | Most publishers won't sell an ebook to a library. So there are companies mainly one named overdrive that sells ebooks to libraries. They create a lot of artificial inflation.The library has to probably pay for each "copy" it has. If it has 5 copies only 5 people can have it checked out at a given time, hence the wait l... |
Why I have to shit before I even finish my first cup of coffee. | I think the OP understands that coffee is an acidic stimulant. We all get the need to shit after drinking coffee. But I think the OP is wondering after drinking coffee regularly for a few days, you don't even need to finish the cup for the shits to come rolling through. Like I'll have a couple of sips and then MOVE OUT... |
Flinging rocks from the Moon to the Earth | Sort of. What she's talking about is essentially a meteor - if you toss a big enough rock from above the earth toward the earth and it doesn't disintegrate, it will cause a huge impact. It doesn't have to be a rock tho, it can be any object. If you're looking to cause mass destruction, A better and much more likely sce... |
Why do rich or famous people often get more lenient sentences? Shouldn't they be sentenced to the letter of the law, no matter how good their lawyer is? | Do famous people really get more lenient sentences than Joe public? What's your data? You are exposed to famous people on trial, but never see the Joe public cases that get lenient sentences. I don't think there's any evidence famous people get better treatment than anyone else. |
If any of us would be teleported to the past, say circa 1500, would we cause a major technological or scientifical breakthrough? | You would be arrested as a madman, if you were lucky. If you were less lucky you'd get burnt as a witch. |
What would happen if you remove all the other planets from our Solar System and kept only Earth, Moon and Sun in it? Will Earth survive? | Remember that something the size of Mars once hit the earth and it still survived, though a few chunks fell off to form the moon. The earth is extremely tough and difficult to destroy. Of course much smaller impacts would kill off the human race but that's not what you asked about. |
How did a Boeing 787 travel faster than Mach 1 this week? | That's its speed relative to the ground. But since the air was moving along with it , it was not supersonic with respect to the air. |
Why can't reptiles regulate their bodyheat but mammals can? | A reptile requires about 1/20th the energy of a similarly sized mammal. That low of a metabolism just doesn't produce enough excess heat to drive thermal regulation. On the upside, it means they require a lot less food. |
Why have gas prices been dropping so sharply lately? | On top of being a lower-demand season , the US is producing more oil .US imposed sanctions on two rivals who are heavily dependent on high oil prices So to punish Russia for Crimea and supporting Syria, the Saudi/Americans alliance is flooding the market with oil, crippling oil prices, which hurts Russians and Iranians... |
Why is it easier to stay awake till 6 AM, than to wake up at 6 AM? | It isn't universally true. Many people wake at 6 all the time who would nod if they tried to stay up all night. Many people have different experiences of sleep, tiredness and difficulty in rousing.It has to do with your sleep patterns. If your brain can easily exit a sleep state, you will find that waking up at 6 AM is... |
why have humans evolved to only be required to consume such a small percentage of their body weight daily relative to some other animals on earth? | The most simple answer is because otherwise, we would've gone extinct, and we nearly did. Our large brains do require high calorie diets. Fortunately, our ancestors figured out how to use tools to get at goodies; like a stick in a termite hill, or using rocks to smash bones that large predators left behind to reveal de... |
Why is it that we can use cow manure as fertilizer, but not human shit as fertilizer? | Manure from carnivores is not considered healthy or as rich to plant life as manure from omnivores. There are varying issues with carnivore manure from bacteria and viruses that can harm humans and other animal life, to the fact that humans ingest chemicals in their diet that doesn't make for the best fertilizer. Carni... |
How do harmonics on string instruments work? | [this picture will we usefull for my explaination.]. When you pluck or bow an open string it vibrates in one big loop, like the first line at the top. The nodes is at the bridge and the nut. Let's say for easy math this is 100Hz. Holding your finger muting the middle of the string creates a new node. Now the string is ... |
How can I have dreams full of information I don't actually know? | Among lucid dreamers, there's the recurring question of whether it's possible to obtain information through the lucid dream. It's usually resolved with a simple check, like having a friend write a random letter on a piece of paper, and then trying to read it while in LD. Usually the text is either unreadable or complet... |
Why do people get so worked up about things that don't affect them? | People, particularly people who don't have much personal accomplishment, often overidentify with things external to them, and take those accomplishments as their own. Cultural groups, sports teams, and media are frequent choices. Once they have invested a large amount of self esteem into their choices, they affiliation... |
how do organizations (business or government) in general validate if a person's signature is real and not just a doodle? | A signature does not have to be a name or anything. It can be a doodle. The hope is that the doodle is consistent for the same person can be used to show that the person signed the document. The government/business isn't running hand writing recognition to see whose name it is. They are merely using it as proof that yo... |
Why do theatres and retailers in the US dislike the NC-17 rating? | Why do you think it's better? The reason that they don't like it is because they won't make as much money on them. Theater owners want to make a good profit, and an NC-17 movie won't bring in the crowds that an R movie will, and a PG-13 movie brings in the biggest crowds of all. |
if I am overheated would I cool off quicker in a cold room or a cold pool? | You sweat to help cool the body. But the skin is the largest organ, so when in cool water, your temperature will decrease much faster. You'll continue to sweat into the pool until your internal temp lowers enough. if you can't hop in a pool, run your hands under cold water for 3-4 minutes - the cold water will cool you... |
Why is it cheaper to buy in bulk? | The markup per-item might be less, but you're still paying more. This translates into a larger profit from the sale, even if the margin is slightly less. They want you to shell out the extra bucks to buy the bulk option, and thus will knock off a little of the per-item price to encourage you to do so. |
Why do dreams always end right before the most exciting part? | I don't think they do. It is just that the shock of missing the best part is one of the things that lets you remember a dream at all.To answer your question, I'm going to start from a bit of a wide angle and talk about what dreams actually are. There are multiple theories surrounding this area, but the relevant one her... |
Can someone explain to me how the US government works? | Unlike the UK, where the head of state is the Queen and the head of government is the Prime Minister, the President of the United States is both head of state and head of government. The President is also commander-in-chief of the military. State governments operate essentially like the federal government does, only fo... |
the difference between computer science and software engineering. | If you compare chemistry to being a chemical engineer it might make more sense. In regular chemistry you do most of your work in theory and everything works out. All of your conversions are 100% efficient and you know how everything should react with everything. In chemical engineering it's the practice aspect of it. Y... |
How does money laundering work if your intent is to become a tax cheat as well? | No, you can't launder money while not being taxes on it--the whole purpose of the exercise is to legitimize it. If you actually spend all that money, it will be apparent your income is much higher than claimed. See: Al Capone. People try it, but it violates the golden rule that you shouldn't commit more than one crime ... |
why some people have naturally curly hair and others straight? | As a person with a natural 'jewfro', I too am curious about this: while we are here, has anybody figured out how to straighten the curly hair? |
How are humans infested with gut flora, when our immune system should be killing them? | Gut flora enter the human body through ingestion. Colonization may begin in the womb, but it really takes off after birth. In vaginal births, the baby will be exposed to some of the mother's gut bacteria when passing through the birth canal. In Caesarian births, the baby begins ingesting bacteria from the air. As for w... |
how "100% money back guarantee" products make money | They're either THAT confident that their product is great, or they're THAT confident that the vast majority of people can't be bothered to actually return it. Either way, unless they get MASSIVE amounts of returns, they make their money.Forgetfulness helps. If you used the product, by the time you get around to the ret... |
Why are we attracted to only certain people ? Why are some people considered ugly while some are considered attractive when basically everyone is just skin and hair? | Facial symmetry has been shown to have an effect of ratings of attractiveness in human faces.[1][3] More symmetrical faces are perceived as more attractive in both males and females, although facial symmetry plays a larger role in judgments of attractiveness concerning female faces - source _URL_0_ It doesn't take too ... |
Why is there a focus to raise min wage instead of creating more working class jobs? | Inflation is related to how much people are getting paid, but it has more to do with the actual volume of dollars in existence. Imagine I have 100 dollars, and five employees, and I pay them each 10 bucks. I am left with 50 and they each have ten. Now imagine I double the number of employees I have. I still have to pay... |
How can a sailboat reach a speed, which is more than twice of the original wind speed? | You are not being blown along in a sailing boat. You're being sucked along. As the wind pushes into one side of the sail, it creates an area of high pressure. With lower pressure on the other side. This imbalance creates a force on the sail, the lateral component is compensated for by hull design and foils. This is whe... |
How do old countries outside of the U.S. study their own history? | I'm sure that in the US even a student that doesn't pick up an elective study gets more than a single year of American history study in their education. However with regards to your question, the general trend in the study of history is that the further back you go, the less recorded detail we have about events. In ter... |
Who are the Kurds and why are they such an important people? | This one is all me! The Kurds are the largest 'stateless nation' at around 32-35 million people! Stateless nation meaning that they are an ethnic nationality that does not have a country of their own. So think Germans have their nations of Germany and Austria. Kurds are NOT Arabs, Persians, Turks, or anything other tha... |
How did they figure out what part of the blowfish is safe to eat? | Starvation can be a good motivator. Also the blowfish venom paralyses your tongue so if you eat the wrong part, you'll know. |
Why is nipple exposure considered to be so vulgar in media? | Because universally, female breasts are found to be sexually appealing. There's nothing wrong with that, but in our modern, increasingly sexualized culture it would make most depictions of breasts/nipples the equivalent of softcore pornography as it's likely to cause sexual arousal. It's also the reason that in most pl... |
Why you have to pay tax on a used car bought from a private seller? | Because you're going to drive it on public roadways, and so you pay a tax to help cover the cost of the infrastructure. If you're not going to drive it on a public road, it doesn't need to be registered, so no tax. |
Can you please explain how a subpoena works in regards to being ordered to testify verses pleading the fifth amendment? | You can only plead the fifth if answering the question would incriminate you for a crime. And there are limitations even there. For instance, the defendant in a trial can only plead the fifth if they have not taken the stand. But if they choose to testify, then they can't just answer questions for the defense and then ... |
why is it that TVs only used to be in black-and-white and what did we change to make them in color? | It was actually color TV technology was around from pretty much the beginning of television in the 1920's-1930's. As soon as inventers delevoped tv which was black and white at first they started to develop color TV. The problem was transmitting that to the consumers television. The camera had to be a color TV camera a... |
Why does the return trip usually feel shorter? | Something to do with the way the brain processes information. On the way in, it's all new, and keeps more of it, on the way back, you've seen all of it, so only a few scraps are deemed important enough to matter. |
why it's advantageous for companies to pay employees biweekly? | You think biweekly is bad? I work for the state. I get paid once a month. I get so much money on payday, then I get to be sad, as almost all of it goes to bills, and what's left has to stretch a month, with a wife and 2 kids. |
in Hawaii, how did Spam become one of the staple foods to that island state? | Spam is a vestige of the massive Naval operations on the islands during WWII in which there were tens of thousands of sailors coming and going along with their supplies which consisted of many canned/packaged food products including Spam. Hawaii also has relatively little land to raise livestock, so the more meat they ... |
How can Pandas survive on a diet of 99% Bamboo while humans have to eat a diverse range of food?. | courtesy of _URL_0_: > As the nutrition level of bamboo is low, giant pandas take four measures to meet their needs. The first is to eat bamboo in huge amounts. The second is to choose the best variety and plant part according to season. For instance, they take tender parts of the bamboo, which have more nutrition and ... |
Why do we throw random medications at depression to see which will work? | I'm absolutely no expert. However, if I was to make an uneducated guess: 1. We don't exactly know how the brain works. 2. It's difficult to determine how the brain works due to accessing a live working brain. Our observation methods are limited. 3. Because of aforementioned lack of access, we think of the mind as a mys... |
Why a developing country like India have cheaper health care then developed country like America? | 1. Everything is cheaper in India than the US. There are in-depth economic reasons for this, but just know that it is the case either way2. Quality is lower 3. Overall, less healthcare services are consumed, thus lower total spending - someone struggling to scrape by isn't going to go pay to see a doctor just because t... |
Why don't busses have seat belts? | My bus driver says the seats are designed so you hit the seat and don't go flying. But unlike seat-belts the seats can't be adjusted for different sized passengers. They're generally for children, so are teenagers at more risk on a school bus? |
Why do grocery stores display so many goods out front, before you even enter the store, where they could easily be stolen? | I've noticed the goods I see out front at my grocery store are big and would be hard to steal. Like lawn chairs and grills. |
What should I know so cops won't use my ignorance of my rights against me? | If You're 5, then all you need to know is your mommy and daddy's address and phone number.Blocking a road where there is civilian traffic without a permit does not constitute a "peaceful protest". And also, a lot depends on your state. I know in my state, another cop can testify on behalf of the cop who pulled you over... |
Why do phones come programmed to film vertical video instead of just horizontal regardless of how you hold it? | The sensor is fixed to the phone housing; you can't just reprogram it so it always films horizontal video unless you had some sort of motorized sensor housing |
Australian Politics - Upcoming election | I'd also like to add that we aren't America, you don't vote for a leader you vote for a local member. You should talk to your potential local members and see what they will do for your region. No point voting for the labour party if you like Bill most or LNP if you like Mal the most. You should vote for the local membe... |
How different is Japanese lettering to Chinese | A lot, yet they're similar because historically they were the same characters. There are essentially two main differences: - Japanese text uses three different types of characters. Ideograms, complex characters, there are tens of thousands of them. Used for words: nouns, verbs, anything containing meaning. Then there a... |
What happened to chat rooms? How did they go from such popularity to being virtually non-existent? | My theory is that chat rooms were a grand new technology at the time, the first to instantly connect us to strangers so we went crazy with it until we realized it was pretty boring and useless. Now, if we want to discuss a specific topic we rely mostly on forums that don't demand real-time responses. All the creepers o... |
How do your teeth detect cold and hot foods when it's just a bone? | There is a nerve inside your teeth that detects pain, otherwise you would just ruin your teeth because you wouldn't be able to detect anything at all. |
If America isn't investing more money in Space programmes why is Privatisation a bad thing? | /u/Draculix is right. But I want to add another layer regarding privatization. NASA has a the best Return on Investment of any government agency by a milestone. [Here's a fun infographic] That is, for every dollar we spend on NASA, between $7 and $14 is returned to the economy. This means patents, research and discover... |
What was happening in the US and Canada in the timeline that The Revenant movie was set? | This was around the period of America's westward expansion, after at-time United States president Thomas Jefferson [bought an insane amount of territory from Napoleon], opening up a whole new two-thirds of a continent for Americans to explore. Long story short, there were animals that were exclusive to this territory t... |
Why do humans, for the most part, tend to find unhealthy foods more satisfying than food which is good for you? | Taste buds actually do find healthy foods if you define healthy as things that would've been good for our ancestors. One thing you have to keep in mind is that problems relating to obesity are relatively recent and have only gotten particularly bad in the past few decades. That's only enough time for a couple of genera... |
Why do people with Dogecoin seem to donate a lot of money | Most of the people who use Dogecoin are very nice people, and don't mind giving away something that is not worth that much. Plus, it's fun :) |
Why are vision and dental considered separate from health insurance? | In the US at least, optometrists and dentists are separate from doctors and bill separately from hospitals. You can have medical insurance but not vision or dental for a lower monthly premium than having all three. If you don't wear glasses you probably don't regularly need vision care, so you wouldn't want to pay for ... |
Why is there a limit on how big animals/insects with exoskeletons can grow? | Their respiratory system doesn't scale well. Imagine a chicken truck. It has cages with chickens in it, and the chickens are close enough to outside air that they can breathe. Now imagine a chicken supertanker. You'd need a more complicated system to keep the chickens from suffocating. In mammal chicken supertankers, t... |
Why do some people deny that the holocaust ever happened, when there is proof that concentration camps existed ? | Those who deny holocaust are not denying in the sense of whether it happened or not, but they said it's exaggerated and the number of victims are highly overestimated. |
Why do we find humor attractive? | Humor, much like art, is a form of lekking behavior that males can use to attract females. Lekking behavior refers to animal behavior that is used to attract mates. In non-human animals, any time an animal is engaging in behavior that expends energy but does not enhance the animal's survival or childcare, it is likely ... |
Why are the 9th & 10th amendments of the U.S. Constitution so rarely invoked? | The Tenth Amendment is invoked constantly. It's so common that it has a name: *states' rights.* This is considered in nearly every Federal law, each of which must avoid overreach into something that the states claim is their right. Example: the Federal government cannot require states to set a particular speed limit. I... |
Are programming languages all in English? | Well, there's a language called [Brainfuck] , which bears no relation to any human or animal language and a variation of that called Ook! in which all commands are Ook! and variations thereof. |
What was the first flavored water humans drank/created (e.g. tea, beer, etc.)? | Beer, definitely. Barley, rice, wheat - all cereal grains that could be used early on for primitive beers. There is evidence in very early China, Egypt, Mesopotamia of varying beers being developed as early as 7,000 BC or so and written records of it later on. Tea has been around in China for several thousand years but... |
Why can women have an abortion but the father be forced to play child support | I think the reason is to protect the mother and child should the man initially welcome the pregnancy, then-- as has been known to happen-- decide he doesn't want the responsibility or any relationship with the mom, after it's too late to abort it. That said, there should be some cut-off point where either party can bac... |
Why do teachers with an MBA 'HAVE' to be paid more? | When you work for the government , there're a pay scale based on three main variables : education level, years of seniority and their actual responsibilities. |
Why do we experience deja vu and what is it exactly? | I've read that its a sensory lapse. There's a hick up where one aspect catches up to what has already happened giving the illusion that this has already happened before. |
How is it that games like LoL and Dota are still basically hacker-free, while CoD games have hackers within hours after launch? | Killing an enemy in a FPS is largely down to mechanical skill and a cheat can make you 'perfect' at that. Killing an enemy in a MOBA is down to descision making, not something a cheat can do better than a human. Not yet at least.Because of how the games process data. Most of WoW and LoL is processed on Blizzards and Ri... |
the cleaning process of a surgery room | It's probably less clean than you think except for maybe a neurosurgey OR. Floors are mopped with an antimicrobal soap, most things are wiped down, barriers are switched out. The main point for most ORs is to stop the spread of patient to patient infections. Those are the ones we worry about the most. Nothing is ever 1... |
What the hell symphony conductors actually do. | The conductor is like the director of a movie. The actors technically do all of the work. They each have their own lines just like each musician has their part to play. Very often though, they are focused only on their part. And as performers, if left to their own devices they would probably try to out-perform the peop... |
why do games need a screen that say "press start"?? | It's common practice for games and programs in general, to acknowledge the presence of the user. So everytime you press that < Start > to begin, it mostly jots down or timestamps the time you started playing your game. This is exactly true when it comes to online games in consoles, like Destiny, to have your login coun... |
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