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[NSFW] Why censor a woman's chest? | Sex is taboo, and by extension so is showing body parts that have been heavily sexualized. A woman's chest isn't special in this regard. It's taboo for exactly the same reason as the butt, penis, and vagina. |
Graph Theory. What exactly is it and what are some of its applications? | Graph theory's essentially the mathematical study of connections between things. It's not necessarily about x-y graphs or curves that you'd normally imagine but more about points with lines connecting some of them like on a detective or conspiracy theorist's pin-board with bits of string connecting things. But obviousl... |
Why do illegal immigrants go to college since they can't get jobs in the United States after graduating? | Let's take this as an opportunity to remind ourselves of the value of education. An American education is extremely valued around the world. What one does with it is limitless. |
Why are movie stars able to be frequently recast in many roles, but the careers of the stars of popular TV shows often seem to fizzle out when the shows end or are cancelled? | After seeing someone in the same role for many years, you grow to associate the actor with the character. When it's just a 2-2.5 hour movie you'll watch once or twice, you don't really have a strong association to a character. With that said, if you have someone in a role for several films , it's hard to get away from ... |
Why is making a nuclear bomb so hard? | It's actually not that hard, to get a better sense of everything involved, watch the excellent documentary Countdown to zero. I can;t find the exact quote but there is a professor in the docu who has his undergrads design a viable nuclear device . It also states that a nuclear bomb can be made by any terrorist group fo... |
Why would Russian oligarchs need to launder money through Americans? | They're rich in rubles, but since many face international sanctions, and wish to avoid international taxes, they have to launder money to be able to have access to dollars, pounds, and euros. |
Where exactly does the cost for a video game come from? What if you have all the equipment needed, then where does it come from? | I can provide a very generic budget that resembles that of one of the programming teams I worked with in the past. They designed an application that is currently being used by one of the largest anime distributors out there. They had, as I recall: * One project manager, salary between 100 and 120K a year* One lead deve... |
Importance of coral reefs. | Coral reefs are entire communities of marine life. They are the basis for a complex ecosystem and when the coral dies, the whole thing collapses. And it takes a long time for a new reef to be made. It's like cutting down a whole forest. It's important to also understand that life in the ocean is not equally distributed... |
Why is it that some people resort to self-harm as a way to deal with their depression? | Used to cut when I was a teenager and I didn't let anyone see it because it was for me not for attention. I was in a lot of emotional pain and had lots of confusion in my life. Cutting numbed the pain and sort of centered me for a bit. Plus everytime I got in hot water it would hurt again providing more relief later on... |
How the Obama talk, which has 159,313 upvotes, is not higher all-time than "Test Post Please Ignore" with 26,753 upvotes. | I think it is the upvote to downvote ratio. The test post has a 5 to 1 ratio where the president's AMA an almost flat 1.6 to 1 ratio. |
What actually keeps time in my computer when it's turned off? | There's usually a small watch battery in the motherboard that runs the computer's clock even when it is off. |
How are rollercoasters or their prototypes being tested? | You use sandbags and crash test dummies to make sure that the ride won't do anything crazy like seriously injuring people who ride it, and then typically park employees get on next to ensure the safety of the ride. Engineers also design the rides with certain safety specifications in mind so that the rides don't achiev... |
Why do we feel ashamed about our bodies?
(further elaboration inside) | On a basic level, I think it's because that once we gained rationality, there was a part of us that was fundamentally disturbed by the irrationality of our sexual aspect. The way we can't help being aroused in certain situations, and the way that is obvious to others . It's our animal side fighting against our rational... |
Why is MoviePass considered unprofitable / unsustainable, while UK theatre chains have been offering this for years? | In the US the pass is $9.16 . Most movie tickets cost around $9, sometimes even double that depending on the area, and MoviePass still has to pay that ticket price for every person who comes to see a film. They lowered the membership fee to raise the number of members they have, and that worked, but that also means the... |
Why is one of my nostrils 90% blocked, even when I don't have a cold? | If I'm understanding the question correctly This is normal. Your body controls the sinus pathways so that one is always getting temporary relief while the other is in primary use. |
Why do Computer Scientists use variables in their writing? | I agree that it's silly if it's used when it isn't needed, but it would be a good way to introduce those variables in a discussion if they will be used in code samples. Just like in mathematics or physics when the text will be followed by equations that use those variables. So, it makes sense if you are discussing some... |
how do large companies buy other large companies? Who gets the money? What happens to the employees? Is every company for sale? | Any company in the public stock market can be bought. The one who owns most of the share owns the company. Usually, there are friendly and hostile takeover. In the friendly case, the board of company A agrees to be bought by company B and stocks share are bought/exchanged with the support of the big stocks owner. In th... |
Who uploads all the torrents and do they get anything out of it? | If they're cracking, everybody knows it was them. If they uploaded something that isn't normally protected, they are sticking it to the man. As to who uploads a torrent? Whoever makes the first torrent, and seeds it first. It can be carried on by anybody afterward. |
Why is suicide illegal and can land you in jail if you don't succeed? | I don't think it is illegal. It was, because of the religious idea of 'only God should have the power over life', but it has been decriminalised in most western countries, although it is still illegal in many places around the world. Having it as a criminal offence does seem very counterproductive - I hardly think that... |
why does it matter what way you put batteries in? Why does the circuit care which way the current is flowing? | It matters for electronics, because they expect the electricity to flow in a certain direction, and it won't work if it flows the other way. For an electric motor with no electronics, it will just make the motor go in the other direction. If you have a battery operated handheld fan you can see this first hand |
If AC current switches direction, how does it move? | When you get electricity from the power company, you aren't getting electrons. You don't need to because you already have plenty of electrons in all of the wires and connections that need power. What you don't have are moving electrons. It is these moving electrons that provide electrical energy. The power company move... |
Why do PCs seem to get slower with time, even if you just keep using them for the same tasks you've always had? | Multiple factors at work: * Perceived speed, as computers get faster we perceive older computers as getting slower. * Breakdown of mechanical components, mostly hard drives getting slow. This is why an SSD especially can bring new life to an older PC. * Operating system clutter, errors. Older software sometimes doesn't... |
How did Romans tell the difference between iron pyrite and real gold? | Weight, flammabilty and of course one thing: try to melt or smith pyrite. You'll only smash it to pieces. |
Why does it cost more for higher internet speeds to the IP if it uses the same cable for all different speeds. | Because you're willing to pay more for it. Period. All this stuff about infrastructure and switches and shit is totally secondary. It costs that much because you're willing to pay more for faster speeds. |
why is it legal to make street legal cars/bikes that can be driven at speeds higher than the speed limit anywhere in the country ? | It is also a safety issue. Imagine you are going the max speed limit and someone drifts over into your lane. You wouldn't be able to speed up temporarily to avoid a collision.If the engine is designed to max out at, say, 65mph, then actually driving it at 65mph will put a lot of strain on it and will probably get poor ... |
Why can some people fall asleep faster than other people? What goes on in the brain? | A related question. Can anyone explain why I sometimes struggle to stay awake in meetings and other similar situations? When I say struggle, I mean the only thing keeping me awake is when my head drops because I have fallen asleep and it wakes me up - for a few seconds at least. However, when I go to bed, I'm always wi... |
I think they're called 'for profit' colleges, but I'm not sure. Places like ITT Tech and University of Phoenix: why are they bad? | There was an AMA a few months back from a professor for an online college. He said that he was told to pass people that shouldn't have passed, and that he wanted to urge people to go to a real school but couldn't.one of the truest values in university education lies in the exchange of ideas; being able to talk to your ... |
Why are the video files movie theaters use so much larger (100+ GB) than the files that are put on blu-ray discs which are excellent quality? | The theaters files are uncompressed. Each frame of the film takes just as much data as all the others. When a movie is turned into a DVD or a Blueray, the computer does not store the entire film. Whenever there are six seconds where the camera is utterly still except for a dancing skeleton in the central part of the sc... |
Why are home games so important in sports, and why do analysts make a big deal when a team loses at home? | Teams typically have an advantage playing at home. Crowd noise, field configuration, even specific rules they all benefit the home team. Common wisdom says if you can win at home, and go 50-50 on the road, you'll have a shot at the championship. If you lose at home, you need to question your championship aspirations.In... |
Why do we have the strength to lift our partner but not enough to carry a gas cylinder or anything similar weight or less | Another opinion is how much you can realistically put the weight over your center of gravity and bear the weight across your frame. You don't curl your significant other then walk with them outstretched. If you were to carry a 50kg sack of potatoes that you could heave over your shoulder, it would be much less difficul... |
How can we "feel" when someone is staring at us? | We can't. This is called confirmation bias, and it happens when you pay attention to the times it works and forget about the times that nobody turns out to be looking at you. It's not a real effect, but conformation bias is very good at making random noise look like a real pattern |
Why does wood turn black when it is burnt? | Your hypothesis is correct. If you put a lump of wood in an airtight container and put it over a fire you will be left with a lump of charcoal - which is predominantly carbon. Just make sure the pressure can escape or you will have made a bomb. The process is called pyrolysis and the gas coming off the wood is actually... |
How does Wikipedia avoid abuse? | There at eplenty of articles run by certain wikipedians who are, shall we say, less than diligent when it comes to the truth. There's an Indian cult leader whose wiki page mysteriously doesn't mention crimes he committed because it's guarded by a high-up wikipefian who just reverts any changes he doesn't like. TL;DR Th... |
Why aren't low-cost, gas run, high mpg (42+mpg), cars like the 1994 Geo Metro still in production? | Market forces. American fuel Is cheap so people don't care about mpg. In Europe 40 mpg is considered unimpressive. I have a 7 year old estate that easily gets 50 mpg. |
If all the world's wealth and assets were redistributed evenly among every living being at noon tomorrow, how much would I have? | If you're talking straight up money, it's about $12,000/person. Not a whole lot. However if we're talking all financial derivatives, it's more like $120,000/person. Now we're talking. But you said assets, like, as if all the buildings on Earth, all the land on Earth, all cars, all boats, all planes, etc. everything? I ... |
What is it called when you learn a new word and then suddenly it seems like you hear the word very often soon after learning it. | Hey man, [I made a quick video to explain it!] If you prefer reading I'll run through it here: - It's called the frequency illusion, and it's down to two psychological processes. - The first is selective attention! This kicks in when we learn a new word, concept or thing. We then subconsciously look for it! - Once we s... |
Why I'm always incredibly tired in class, but the moment I leave I'm rejuvenated? | Personally I think it has to do with blood flow. Sitting for so long settles everything and gets your brain in sleep mode. I find as soon as I stand up I am immediately rejuvenated. It's a pain since there isn't much opportunity to do so in the middle of class. |
Why does it seem that snoring is much more common among older people than young people? | They're more likely to have sinus, throat, or other respiratory problems that would create snoring sounds. |
Why is there no "% daily value" for sugar on the Nutrition Facts label? | I don't think sugar is a *nutrient*; it's just a molecule that is energy dense. So it adds to the total calories without giving you the materials you need for other body processes.Because if they did it would severely curb sales on products. The ideal sugar intake is very low compared to how much they put in foods/snac... |
Why are older Cubans so set against opening up of diplomatic relations between the US and Cuba? | It's not just older cubans. I've talked to 2-3 younger than 30yo cubans at school and even they are against it. Reasons cited is there is no freedom of expression there. Everyone for the most part is poor and the government is fascist. |
Why is the SATA III standard (6 Gb/s) needed if standard r/w speeds are much lower? | Because you can have multiple drives on a SATA host. It doesn't matter much if you have a single drive, but if you have several drives, you'll need a faster bus speed to avoid becoming I/O bound. |
Why is the most accurate and precise way to read a babies’ temperature is through the rectum? | Watch how the nurses do it in the hospital. I'm guessing they'll use the infra-red ones that go in ears. Is it the most accurate? No. Is it accurate enough? Absolutely, and it's *way* more convenient.Off topic, not answer, breaks ELI5 rules and will get deleted, but need to be said. Congratulations!', "Because a baby c... |
Why aren't new games for Nintendo 64 designed and created? | 3D games take quite a bit more effort than 2D games. In the Atari era, it was common for a single person to make an entire game. As graphics got more elaborate and games got longer and more complex, you started needing at least a programmer and a dedicated artist, then usually a team, and eventually a whole studio. The... |
Where do deleted files go when you delete them? | There's a YouTube channel called vsauce. I've seen a few ELI5 questions that are explained very well on that channel. OP's question is actually the title of one the videos. I'd give a link but I'm on mobile. Hope this helps. |
What exactly is happening when your muscles get stronger, allowing you to carry more weight? | The reason for all of this is due to the body's natural ability to adapt to stress. When an untrained individual all of their gains initially are going to be from your central nervous system learning how to fire the nerves better and not from actual muscle growth. In about 5-6 months you get to weights that actually ex... |
How and where are under-the-ocean internet cables are laid down and how many are there? How and Who fixes them when it breaks? Who pays for them? | They lay in bundles on the ocean floor. They actually have it on a spool on a ship and unwind it along the length of the ocean. They're paid for by a consortium of countries and companies. _URL_2_ They actually go out to the middle of the ocean and pull it up to fix it. The fibre is in bundles. What they do is find a s... |
why is it not possible for an overweight person to stop eating for a while and just live off their bodyfat for a while? | That's totally possible, but there are going to be many health issues that go along with that. |
How do people get addicted to things like sex, eating and shopping? | You can get addicted to just about anything. However, if that addiction isn't harmful, society isn't going to care that you're constantly doing it, and it will go ignored. |
Why do airlines board seats from the front to back and not the other way around? | Most airlines have frequent flier programs that give perks to people to fly a lot, specifically preferred seating and boarding first. If you do both of those, that means people in the front are going to board first anyone, which defeats the purpose of loading back to front. And if you *don't* let those flyers board fir... |
Why does the moon look bigger when it's rising or setting? | It's because of visual cues. It's in parallax with trees/buildings and shit. When it's high in the sky there are no cues to tell you the relative size.Optical illusion, when it is closer to the horizon it appears bigger. But it is actually the same size on the horizon or in the middle of the sky. |
Why we get those sore spots on our tongues after eating a lot of sugar. | I was curious about this too so I looked into it. According to one website I found, lots of sugar causes an overgrowth in bacteria , which causes the sores. But I couldn't find any more reliable sources to back it up. The website mentioned something called Oral Thrush, which seems to be an extreme version. |
Since placebos work, why can't we reproduce similar results just with sheer willpower? | You already can arguably. There's entire self-help seminars, self-help books, websites, DVDs, youtube series; all dedicated to the power of positive thinking & talking about how much it can help you. Then you have, like, monks & mystics that claim that their mastery over their own mindstate & all that stuff makes them ... |
Why do Asian people wear face masks when in Western countries? | I'm from northern China, people I grew up with wear face masks only in winter because people generally do not drive, and the cold air can make breathing difficult. Also it covers a large portion of the face so it provides more warmth. |
Why do goods seem to be much more expensive than they were 100 years ago? | They're not. The value of our currency is just inflated. Consumer goods are much, much cheaper than they have ever been before. |
Why do expensive hotels have private wifi for sale while crappy motels have free wifi? | In addition to charging $10-$15 for wifi, that one charge only covers ONE device typically. So we usually have three people with three to five devices in the room at one time. The fee also only covers a 24 hour time span. Which means a minimum of $45 a day for wifi. But when you're on a nice vacation, +$300 a day room,... |
Why aren't cars made of steel or something stronger than aluminum so that the entire car, including the front, keeps its shape during crashes? | Older cars don't compress as much in a crash, and people are more likely to die because they continue to move when the car stops. Newer cars are _intentionally_ designed with [crumple zones] to absorb impact. The car crumples and it slows the passengers down more gradually reducing the risk to passengers and drivers. N... |
Obamacare to someone from the UK | In the UK there is the National Health Service which is available to **everyone** in the UK. It is a very simple process to get health care and buying needed medicines can cost from nothing to the current price . The UK has a very simple health care system and everyone in the UK has the right to health care, nobody can... |
How does medicine cause suicidal thoughts? | When medicine is tested everything that the test subjects go through is listed as a potential side effect. So if you're testing a depression medication and while taking it a test subject's depression gets worse and they start to have suicidal thoughts, that gets listed as a potential side effect. |
There are laws in certain states that prevents feeding the homeless. Am I outlawed from feeding someone with a home too? | If there's a law that requires restaurants to be registered with the city and to meet certain health code standards, that law may also apply to people who want to feed large groups of homeless people. It might sound nice to feed 200 homeless people in your church kitchen, but if they all get salmonella, you haven't rea... |
Why does food smell more when it's warmer? | Our sense of smell involves molecules from the thing we're smelling leaving that thing and traveling into our nose. Warmer items tend to evaporate more easily, and more molecules from warm food end up leaving the food so that we can smell them. |
What does 3d printing mean to the normal consumer? | At the moment 3D printing to the normal consumer is going to be very limited, especially since the only cheap options available are ones that use ABS and have limited resolution. Even in industry 3D printing is not always an option due to the high costs that come with using them. However in the future when the technolo... |
How come my camera can pick up vertical and horizontal lines on the television but my eyes can't? What am I seeing? | It's because of the way your TV 'draws' the picture. An average TV has around a 60hz refresh rate. That means the picture on the screen is 're-drawn' 60 times a second. However, the way your TV renders the next frame is it changes each row of pixels in turn from top to bottom. . As it does this every 60th of a second, ... |
Why do Xbox One/PS4 games need to be installed to the hard drive, but every console before this generation you could just put in a game and play. | Blu-Ray discs store a lot of data , but they're not very fast to read- the Blu-Ray drives in the Xbox One and PS4 can only read 27MB/s meaning it will take half an hour to actually read all the data off a full disc. Your choices are either install the game to the hard drive or have the world's longest load screens ever... |
Why did NASA end the Space Shuttle program when they didn't have a successor spacecraft ready? | Funding, which is the answer to all of NASA's problems unfortunately. :. The last several years the only flights the shuttles were making was to the International Space Station, and since Russia offered to let us ride shotgun on their Soyuz spacecraft there was no sensible reason to keep pumping money in to the shuttle... |
Why in open world games does the terrain around me look massive but it then only takes minutes to traverse what looks like it should take hours? | To start off, I'm just a high-school student. I have no real knowledge on game development. HOWEVER:There are a few things which have a bearing on this. 1: Game designers tend to make characters move faster than humans actually do. I'm going to do a bit more examining of Skyrim in this matter, and I'll get back to you ... |
Why do doctors try to stop the swelling of an injury if the body's healing-reaction is to create swelling? What do we know that our bodies don't? | Your body tends to respond to different levels of injury or illness in the same area of the body in the same way. The problem is that your body doesn't know how far to go. Some times, your body over-reacts, and the overkill of the reaction can be more harmful than good. Swelling is supposed to immobilize an inured body... |
Why is the sex humans have so different from other species? | False premise. You really haven't been exposed to much animal sex I'm guessing. The first time you hear two galapagos tortoises banging their shells together while the male groans so loud you can hear it on the other side of the zoo for 15+ minutes straight. Well you get the idea. |
How to apply for a job in your mid-teens? | Contact a recruitment agency if you are struggling to find work on your own. They normally have a nice database of positions that need to be filled and will prep you for interviews etc. An easy to read, short and to the point Curriculum vitae is essential when applying for jobs.Try have a copy on email and 2 or 3 neatl... |
Why x to the power of 0 = 1? | I don't know why other than it just is but here's the maths that basically show it. 3^3=27. 3^2=9. 3^1=3. The pattern says that 3^0 would equal 1. Regardless of where you start from.The best way to think about it is what happens if you divide exponentials: x^7 / x^4 = x^3 x^9 / x^2 = x^7 What happens if you divide x^7 ... |
Why was Europe "lagging" in scientific discoveries and knowledge during the medieval period? | The Middle Ages certainly weren't dark as in Dark Ages. There was some decline in technology and many books were lost during the late Antiquity. No one really knows for sure why exactly that happened. One could argue that the collapse of the Roman Empire had something to do with it, but the Eastern Roman Empire lost ju... |
how do we see things that we imagine? Is it like a screen over our eyes or something completely different? | What they're just finding out about sensory memory is that your brain doesn't store a picture of the Mona Lisa. It stores a copy of the raw electrochemical signal that your eyes sent to the vision center of your brain, before the vision center interpreted it into a picture. When you remember what the Mona Lisa looks li... |
How do people get money if their country has no old-age pension or they have no claim for it | Don't live beyond your means buying things you can't afford with credit cards. Start saving early. Make wise investments to build your savings. This isn't fool proof but it's a good starting template |
How can a pitcher strike out four batters in one inning? Please be specific. | First base can be stolen. It's very hard and pretty much required the catcher to fuck up because otherwise he can always throw the ball to first in plenty of time. In this case, the batter missed the third strike but the catcher dropped the ball or something. The batter was able to steal first. The pitcher still got cr... |
How did humans evolve to eat cooked foods? Why don't we still eat raw meat like other animals? | Humans didn't evolve to eat cooked foods. In all likelihood the regular supply of food for early humans was threatened at some point which led humans to cook foods which would normally would have been deadly to them. In other words, cooking foods became necessary for survival. This would have been particularly advantag... |
When I lay down and stare at my wall sometimes and everything in the room seems to look very far away until I look around again, what's happening? | Yes I think I've experienced a similar thing. Not sure if this is what you're feeling, but when I was younger Id be trying to go to sleep, my eyes closed it would seem like i was focusing in on something only to all of a sudden be zoomed out to some sort of floating external view. It was an extremely uncomfortable sens... |
Why are dentists, optometrists, etc. not part of the "standard" medical community? In other words, why doesn't all insurance cover vision/dental? | It all depends on where you are -- in Germany, where I grew up, dentists and eye-doctors etc are all considered part of the standard medical community. There, health insurance plans usually cover any work by them like they would work other doctors do, if it is 'necessary.' They would not cover stuff that's just cosmeti... |
Why does being in the sunshine make you sleepy? | I find that if I'm sleepy/run down or otherwise depressed that when I sit in the sun those symptoms seem to reverse. :shrug: |
How did I forget how to speak my native language? | Lingustically speaking, comprehension is much easier than production. I can read a sentence in French and kind of get the gyst of it, but if I try to write something in French, it'll be pure nonsensical jibberish. For whatever reason, with language you either use it or lose it. At one point, you may thought in tagalog,... |
How did the British empire handle its colonies more efficiently than the US handles Iraq/Afghanistan? | The US hasn't tried to colonise Iraq or Afghanistan. There's a difference between a drive-by invasion and coming to stay. |
Why didn't groundbreaking civilizations arise around the equator? | It is generally accepted that the [Fertile Crescent] became the seat of so many civilizations because it was A) close to the birthplace of humanity in Eastern Africa, and B) it has a higher population of naturally occurring grains and grasses that led to agriculture. There was just the right balance of climate, resourc... |
Why does it take so long for some electronics to turn on? (e.g. Computers, phones, gaming consoles) | There are good answers here so far, and considering all that you can then summarize it like this: The developers behind the whole user experience of these devices developed comprehensive operating systems and programs in order for the experience to be as rich as possible. This means there's a lot of code that has to be... |
What would happen if North and South Korea reunified? | Lots and lots of North Koreans would flood south, looking for work. Most wouldn't find it. South Korea would have a huge problem with indigent people needing support and shelter. They may In the north, all of the government would need to be restructured. A huge military would need to be decommissioned. Remember all tho... |
Why is it still so expensive to call internationally, when i can download free apps and do it for free? | It's all down to the cost of termination. Let's say you want to dial a UK mobile number from your mobile in the US. - You key +44 xxxxx in your mobile - Your mobile provider terminates the call on it's international gateway provider - The international gateway terminates that leg of the call on it's counterpart in the ... |
How is "Paying off the National debt" possible if the national debt is sold as bonds? | Talk of paying off the national debt like we are in some sort of crisis as a family with unsustainable debt is just that, talk. Politicians conflate national debt with personal debt because people respond to it fearfully and are swayed, so the politician hopes, against whatever spending measure said politician is again... |
why is new antibiotic development not profitable? | It's not an economic thing. It's a biology thing. Bacteria face evolution such that those resistant to the drugs killing it move on and reproduce. There are very scary bacteria at the moment that are very resistant to the drugs we use to kill them. It's not that science knows how to kill them and refuses to. It is a pr... |
How is it possible that movies that are playing in cinemas aren't constantly leaked? | Because they are heavily encrypted. They are programmed to only work during the timeline of its theatrical run, they are encrypted to work on only a single projector, etc. you can't connect these hard drives to you computer and play the file. |
Lots of species developed eyes to "see" but how did they know there were something to see in the first place ? | The answer is that no organism knew, it just happened to work out there way. By a random mutation, some bacteria reacted to light by moving away. These bacteria didn't die from getting zapped by the sun, so they bred and the ones who didn't react died. So now there are some bacteria that are light sensative. Now anothe... |
Why is the show Twin Peaks considered a classic? | > Twin Peaks was groundbreaking for bringing high concept storytelling to primetime television and beginning to reverse thought that Hollywood movies were superior to television in this respect. > It was generally believed before TP that audiences wouldn't invest in a 'deep' television series with an extensive mytholog... |
Considering the consequences of inaction, why is the environment's trajectory not at the forefront of today's politics? | It's always cheaper for an individual to ignore a problem that affects the group--we as a species will benefit if we all act; I as an individual will benefit if I leave the action up to the rest of you. |
Why IS the underside of the pillow always cooler? | 1) it's in the shade. there is no light hitting the bottom side. so any minute thermal transfer from light/sun/etc. wont' hit the underside 2) it's also protected from convection heat transfer. any ambient warmth in the air won't transfer to that side. 3) if the ambient temperature is cool, it will also be cooling your... |
Why can the paparazzi not be arrested for stalking? | I am surprised at this point that congress has not addressed the issue of paparazzi conduct and the privacy of individuals. I am all for freedom of the press and investigative reporting. However, in this situation there needs to be limits as to how invasive the paparazzi are allowed to operate. Yet we have laws that ap... |
What would happen to you if you if every part of your body except your head was submerged. Would you die? Would your skin melt off? | You would start having a pretty bad time after a few days. While the human body can survive being mostly submerged for extended periods eventually our skin starts to break down and that is 100% not good. We're land creatures not sea creatures.World War I soldiers whose lower legs were immersed in water in trenches for ... |
How do rock climbers anchor themselves into the mountain or rock wall? | If you're lead climbing you don't anchor above you, you're always above the last spot you clipped into or nuts that wedge into crevices temporarily to attach to. Sometimes climbers will drill and place bolts themselves, but this is generally frowned upon unless you have the owners permission. More or less by judgement.... |
How do outdoor one way mirrors work? | They work the exact same way. They both reflect some of the light. Since the light from the sun is much brighter than the light from inside, more light gets reflected back out than light gets through from inside. So the sun's light drowns out the inside light. |
how do architects or engineers account for the weight of everything that people may bring in apartments/offices, so that the building doesn't fall apart from the accumulated weight? | One common mistake is made with fish tanks. Water is very heavy and a large fish tank is a very concentrated load. Some people have gotten them and had them crash through the floor into lower apartments. Typically this is with older buildings though. Many structures nowadays are vastly over engineered so that they don'... |
How was the first computer software made? | You don't necessarily need a piece of software to create more. Having such software just makes the process a *lot* easier. I'm simplifying a ton here, but since all software is just ones and zeros in a row, the first piece of software was created by stuffing some ones and some zeros into a computer.Modern complex softw... |
Why are possessive apostrophes dropped from place names? | Pike's Peak" or even "Pikes\' Peak"? No matter: the BGN decreed that no place name should have punctuation marks in it, and so it's "Pikes Peak". |
Why is your brain so bad at using your non-dominant hand? | **TL;DR**: *It isn't that your brain is bad, it's that it never had to get good unlike it did with your other hand.* When you are a baby, there's a point where you've mentally developed enough to realize HEY I HAVE ARMS AND LEGS I CAN MAKE THEM MOVE WOW HOLY SHIT, and mom and dad are wildly entertained by your massive ... |
why would OPEC reduce oil production to "support" the low/falling oil price? | Not necessarily. Oil producers don't have unlimited reserves, and once oil that is cheap to extract is used up, they have to move on to oil that is more expensive to extract. So when they produce more to compensate for low prices, they burn through their current active reserves more quickly, and have to move on to less... |
Why does it take a year to produce a 2-hour-long movie when it takes the same amount of time to produce a 12-hour-long season of a T.V. show? | They take the same amount of time roughly. It only seems like shows come out quicker because you have more content. While TV shows technically have more content, feature films are usually more expensive. Take Breaking Bad. Season 1 was shot, edited and released in about a year or so. Each episode costs $3 million and w... |
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