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How in the film/musical 'The Producers', having a flop would make more money than a hit. | They raise money for the play by selling shares in the future-profits, so that people who invest in the making of the play expect to get a pay off at the end. However, they sell many more shares and raise a lot more money than they actually think they'll need, on the basis that when the play flops the investors will ac... |
How did Obama put this new gun law into action with no vote etc | read the second amendment and try and think of how this would violate it. Unless you are saying you are unfit to have a gun, even under the somewhat specific circumstances surrounding the second amendment. Specifically the entire amendment and when 'bearing arms' is appropriate, hint it's not written as being all the t... |
What does the data that is collected and creates your personal online profile actually look like? Is it just code? What are the main peices? | The answer depends on how deep you want to go. Data is just information that can take up many forms. Almost all of it could be represented with text and numbers. Number can be displayed as is, or plotted on a graph, and compared against other numbers. If we look at words for example, you can read them on paper, or on a... |
How can people who make documentaries set up meetings with dangerous people? How do they convince criminals to get recorded? | You ask them. How do you convince bodybuilders to get recorded? How do you victim's to get recorded? How do you convince anyone to get recorded? Most documentaries about freed criminal revolve around either their experience in prison or what led them to be in prison . If you ask someone who believes they were wrongly c... |
How do people enjoy spicy food? Why eat for punishment? | Capsaicin is the chemical that makes spicy food feel hot or painful. Peoples' tolerances differ. Most people who consume spicy food feel a pleasant tingling or heat that is not excessively painful. |
Why do car batteries die from not being used? | Vehicles have a number of electrical systems that are always on or otherwise requiring power . These slowly draw power from the battery and reduce the charge in the battery. If left too long, the battery won't have the amps to power the starter motor. |
Carbonated water (or sodas in general): Where does the bubbles come from?? | A lot of people alluded to this but basically the CO2 is dissolved in the water. This is very similar to when you dissolve sugar in water. However the difference between these two is that you are able to dissolve sugar in water at 'normal' conditions e.g. room temperature and pressure. For CO2 the pressure must be rais... |
How would I have been treated in the 1940s under segregation as a light skinned Puerto Rican? | You'd likely tell everyone you are white and live like a white man.If you looked white, you 'd be treated as white. Nobody would care about your name, just how you looked. The darker you were, the more likely you 'd be treated as "colored." But it would be very inconsistant, especially for someone who was a race other ... |
Why is there so much variation in the appearance of humans and relatively so little among animals? | They do, we're just not trained to see it. Even within our own species, we tend to develop a much more refined ability to distinguish between individuals of our own 'group' than other groups, which is almost completely down to time spent within that group ). Scale that up to entire species and the effect just gets more... |
why does light from artificial light sources not form a rainbow when it's raining? | You could totally get rainbows from artificial lights through a prism. Water droplets are just a way to get a prism-like effect. But depending on which kind of light source you use, it might not really look like a rainbow because you won't have the same wavelength distribution as with the Sun's light.You need a point s... |
Why do pregnant women crave to eat inedible things? My wife wants to eat bath bubbles and keeps a cup with her that has the smell of my body wash. | It can sometimes be caused by iron deficiency or other nutritional deficiencies, but not always. We don't know the exact cause. It's actually a semi-common side effect of pregnancy. The condition is called Pica. Pica is the practice of craving substances with little or no nutritional value. Most pregnancy and pica rela... |
If stars have a spherical shape, why do we draw them with 5 points? | I could type and type and type an answer here, but I'll let MinutePhysics give you a much more fun answer. Enjoy! _URL_2_", 'We're not drawing them as they actually exist in reality, but as how they appear to us through Earth's atmosphere. The light traveling through the air bends and distorts the light so the star app... |
does bleach remove stains in their entirety or just masks the color? | My understanding is that bleach actually denatures/damages chromophores so that they no longer reflect any color or reflect colors we cannot see, thus why bleached items appear white. The blood is still there, it's just that its color reflecting molecules have been changed so you don't see red anymore.Most bleaches are... |
What determines what art is a masterpiece? | A lot of art is judged within the context in which it was produced. Where at the time it was something 'new' and 'innovative' in the art world. Exploring new concepts that can be done with various media. Kazimir Malevich is a nice example of this. His work is butt-ugly. And especially his later supernalist works are bo... |
"Speed monitored by aircraft" signs on the highway | Some times there will be two lines painted on the road the guys in the aircraft will time how long it took you to get from one line to the other, and if it's too fast they will either send a cop car after you or mail you a ticket |
What does "cash drying up in this economy" mean? | Depends who said it, when and why. What they might mean is cash flow. People aren't really lending to one and another as much lately, which means they don't really have as much to invest. |
Why do some cellphone front cameras take 'mirrored' photos? | All conventional cameras [[and eyes]] produce upside down images, so everything's being corrected one way or another. So the choice of how to orient the image on a software camera is entirely a matter of usability. When the output of a front-facing camera [or webcam] is shown on the screen right beneath it, the end res... |
Why is 2,147,483,647 the largest number for most computers? | 32-bit computers can handle 32 bits at a time. Instead of being numbered 1-32, these bits are numbered 0-31. Since each bit is one of two possibilities, 0 or 1, the largest number it can handle at once is 2^ - 1. Similarly, a 64-bit computer can handle numbers from 0 up to [2^-1]. |
Why are NFL teams not spread out evenly? | The teams exist where there are enough fans to support them. Let's say, on average, you need 5 million fan per team for the team to make enough money to survive. New York city and surround cities have a population of around 10 million, so they can support 2 teams close together. Most big metropolitan areas, though, onl... |
Is breaking the seal a thing? ... If so, Why? | nope. it ain't a thing. alcohol makes you pee.Of course it is, never take medicine or eat from jars of food if the seal is broken. It might end up being nothing, but what if someone tampered with it. |
Why is "short" a more commonly used adjective to describe an amount of time than small? | Time is perceived on a scale of distance, where it can be far off or close to you. It's similar to how we quantify direction . Instead of saying something is 1 mile away, you could say it is 1hr away. It was likely seen as less of an 'amount' of something when english developed, as people had a lot more time on their h... |
In the event of war with Russia, how vulnerable are our aircraft carriers? | I served two years on a carrier as a Deck officer and Bridge watchstander.. Carriers are no longer -- and haven't been for years -- survivable in major conflicts. There have been close to half a dozen publically reported incidents during wargames of allied nation submarines avoiding detection by carrier battle group es... |
Why does Google's Deep Dream always end up seeing dogs? | One of the neural networks that comes standard with the software is a network that was trained on images of dogs — hundreds of thousands of images of dogs. So, when an image is passed to it, it passes back an image altered to show what it has been trained to recognise — the common graphical features of dog heads. It tu... |
Why does Target have to pay a settlement to 47 states related to the 2013 data breach? Why not pay affected customers? | It's easier to pay the states first and let them pay the affected customers. As the saying goes, ain't nobody got time for that. |
why do people pay large sums of money to kill animals for fun? | It all depends on what you mean. For the sake of argument I'll assume you mean hunting. One thing you may not realize is that lifelong hunters rarely spend anything more than what it costs to get a licence for a specific animal, and ammunition for their rifle. This is because of the culture that surrounds the hobby/spo... |
Do any documented cases of animals becoming suicidal exist? If so, why does it happen? | Yes, since 1800's at least. There was a dog that kept throwing itself off a bridge and every time it got rescued, he did it again until it finally drowned. Similar thing is going on at Overtoun Bridge, though that has been linked to strong smell of mink. Bears used in bile harvesting farms are known to starve themselve... |
Why can apps like dominoes/UBER find your cell's location precicely but police/fire/ambulance cant? | Apps like Uber can find your location because your phone is actively telling the app your GPS position. A voice call does not have any protocols that could transmit your GPS position automatically, and let the receiver automatically get your coordinates. Emergency services can find your approximate location even if you... |
Why is 1 to the power of infinity undetermined? | If you take the log of it you get log) = ∞ log = ∞ *0. And if that's not enough, you can do that again. log = log + log = ∞ + -∞. This is undetermined, since ∞ + -∞ + 1 = + -∞ = ∞ + -∞, so if it wasn't undetermined that would lead to a contradiction. |
Why do we feel sometimes more tired when we sleep more than usual? | Your body has a natural Circadian Rythym which is what helps to regulate your sleep schedule. When you sleep later or get up earlier it can mess up with your Circadian Rythym which would put you in a different cycle of your sleep. This leads to you feeling sleeper even though you've slept more. |
A car with constant speed means sigma Force=0, but yet i will feel the pain, why? | Yes, according to Newton's equation F=M *A, a car moving at constant velocity means that no forces are being applied to it. If you were to push the car in any way, then it will accelerate in the direction of the force. However, if the car were to hit you, then two things will happen; first, the car will apply a force o... |
Why is there no *grass roots* movement against Saudi Arabia like there was outrage over apartheid? | The Right doesn't often criticise Saudi Arabia because it's a regional ally of the US and the EU, and it's a serious oil producer. It's on our side. When it does, it's very rarely Saudi Arabia that's the real target - right wing pundits will refer to the problems Saudi women face, or the barbarity of the justice system... |
Can someone explain the hotel rating system? | 2 to 2.5 star hotels are the best if you like free amenities. You go to the nicer hotels and you'll be paying 10 bucks for breakfast, 10 bucks for internet, and 10 bucks for parking.Are you Gustave H., of the Grand Budapest Hotel, in Naplesbad? |
If I dropped a pillow from 14,000 feet, what would the impact be like? | A pillow would reach terminal velocity when dropped from around 50 feet due to its shape. So it doesn't matter if you drop it from 50 feet or 14,000 feet - it will hit the ground with the same force. So it would not have much of an impact. |
Why can't I feel treble like I can feel bass? | Here's another thing to consider: our bodies are a soft mass of jelly and bones, and soft materials will dampen high frequencies more than hard ones. You can put your ear to a train track and hear it coming from miles away, or you can eavesdrop on conversations on the other side of paper-thin drywall, but cover yoursel... |
How much does my vote matter? | As a rule, unless you are an undecided voter in a swing state , your vote doesn't matter much in the presidential election *as an individual*. However, if you and a lot of people you know are voting, that can maintain/swing party advantage in your state. This is why voting matters: it's not you as an individual, but ra... |
Why are most screws either flathead or Phillips? Why not just one or the other? Are there advantages to different head types on screws? | Don't know about the US, but in Europe, Philips have been phased out and replaced by pozidrive, which are similar, but grip the screwdriver better. Philips were actually designed to slip, so they wouldn't damage driver bits on automated assembly lines. The only time you will find a slotted screw is if the screw is bras... |
How does bump starting a car actually work? | Lets start with how an engine works. You have pistons which compress gasoline and then it gets ignited. The explosion drives the piston back, which cause a different piston to compress gasoline. But when an engine is stopped you can't compress the gasoline. Modern cars have when is called a Starter Motor, which is an e... |
Why is it that often when you have a medical problem where you can’t do something consistently, the recommended treatment is to do it consistently? | The problem: you have trouble getting to sleep at a reasonable hour, and you have trouble waking up in time to get to work. The natural thing to do: stay up until you actually feel tired, don't set an alarm, try to do what feels natural. The solution: force yourself to go to bed at a reasonable, consistent time, and fo... |
Why do we no longer see bench style seats in cars? | Comfort, in part. Having separate front seats allows each to be adjusted to the comfort of the person sitting in them. I'm pretty certain bench seats can't be adjusted but even if they could, you'd only be able to adjust them as a bench. So if you have a front seat passenger and a driver with very different heights, so... |
How is it still profitable to make porn when there is virtually endless, high-quality porn online for free? | You don't have to pay for them to make money. Look at Youtube, it's free, and people still make money on it. The tube sites have HELLA ads if you haven't noticed. There are also cam sites which are very popular, where people donate and use a micro transaction system. The paywall sites are slowly going the way of the Do... |
What are REITs(Real Estate Investment Trust)? | It's an investment trust that invests in real estate to turn a profit. Some manage actual real estate or some manage mortgage related assets. What makes a REIT specifically a REIT is that a company can file to pay taxes as one: in which they do not have to pay taxes if they distribute 90% of their income to shareholder... |
If you were to speak into a megaphone that had another megaphone in front of it.. What would happen? | The microphone of the second megaphone would overload and the amplifiers would 'clip'. An amplifier has a power supply that has a certain voltage. The transistors in the amplifier control how much of that voltage is connected to the output, and the speaker. When there is too much input, the output is directly connected... |
Why do public transit busses have no seat belts but in cars and school busses, seat belts are required to be built in and worn? | the vast majority of school buses don't have seatbelts because a) they are easily turned into weapons by schoolkids and b) the seats are spaced apart in such a way as to keep kids from bouncing around in the event of a crash. in addition it makes it easier for kids to escape should the bus overturn. |
Why is torrenting/filesharing looked down upon when it's ok to obtain the same things at a library? | > I can go to a library and get x number of books, CDs and movies for free. Which you then give back to the library once you're done with them. If you make copies of them while you're borrowing them, you're breaking the law. This includes taking music directly off the CD onto your MP3 device. When you download, you mak... |
When a group of people go into a room with chairs and sits down, leave the room, and come back the next day, why do they all sit in the exact same place? | If you pick the same seat as last time then you have the smallest chance of being in someone's chosen seat.Humans are "[creatures of habit]", as the saying goes. It's not just a human thing, as habits can be formed in other animals, shown by [Pavlov's dog conditioning], and adorably in [*Willy Wonka and the Chocolate F... |
How did Microsoft's flops such as Windows ME and Windows Vista get past QA/QC to the public? | In software development, you have these things called functional requirements, basically a list of all the things the software is suppose to do. The role of QA is to ensure that the software meets the functional requirements. If you get buggy software, that's due to bad QA. But if the software is just poorly designed, ... |
If muskets were so inaccurate, why did armies stop using bows and shift to firearms? | Muskets were more powerful, more reliable, and could have bayonets attached in order to serve as a spear as well as a ranged weapon. Attempting to use a bow as a melee weapon is not a great idea unless you're really desperate. |
Why do people feel the need to cross their legs while sitting down? | I've heard an explanation that old people like to put their feet up, because as they get older, their circulation begins to falter and it helps the blood exit their feet. If it weren't related, I'd be surprised. |
What exactly is it that oxygen does for us? | It provides a way to extract energy from food. Your body digests food using similar reactions to what how a fire burns, and with the same result: a release of a lot of energy. Of course, digestion happens a lot more slowly, which is why you don't burn up and die. |
IRAs, Roth IRA, and 401ks | IRA's and 401k's use pre-tax contributions, but you are taxed on withdrawals. IRA's are set-up personally and 401k's are offered through an employer. Roth IRA's are set up personally and contributions are post-tax, but withdrawals are not taxed. |
How is it that we can take our pulse and not completely block out veins/arteries when we do so? | You may temporarily reduce blood flow when you do this, but the body isn't *so* delicate that this would hurt you. |
how does different type of petrol affect your car speed? | That's the octane rating. It affects how cleanly your gas burns, now how fast you go. Higher octane fuel is better for your engine but won't really affect top speed. |
Do different species perceive time as being faster or slower? How about different people? | If you slow down the sound of a grasshoppers chirping by a factor of an average lifespan of humans vs grasshoppers, it sounds eerily like a choral band. Doesn't directly answer your question but it's interesting to think about ! |
Why can't any FBI agent arrest Jared Kushner for lying on his security form? Who is responisble for enforcing this law if any other government official lied on this form? | Because perjury has a much, much higher burden of proof than just 'Did they lie?'. They needed to know it was a lie at the time and the lie was made maliciously. Simply being wrong or mistaken isn't remotely close enough. That's _very_ hard to prove.I get really annoyed at all the "We caught you illegally filling out t... |
my new microwave came with a metal rack, how does it not blow up? | Like the title says, there's a metal rack that fits the inside of the microwave. It looks just like a mini version of an oven rack and slides into the microwave the same. The instructions say it's for being able to microwave multiple items at the same time. How is this possible if any other piece of metal will throw sp... |
How can headphone amps power 600 ohm headphones with very low output impedance? less than 0.1 ohms | What do you think input impedance and output impedance mean? Or rather what purpose do you think they serve under your current understanding? Impedance doesn't equate to power delivered. I think you may be misunderstanding what this particular metrics behavior is. |
Why am I compelled to pick scabs, even though I know it hurts / is unsanitary / etc? | Whenever you hurt yourself, even a little bit, your body produces endorphins. These are opiates, which make you feel good and are addicting. Even if you don't really notice, your body craves more. This causes you to compulsively need to repeat the action that lead to release of endorphins. Same reasoning for compulsive... |
Why do so many little kids pronounce the "R" sound like a "W"? | nearly all of the sounds we produce in speaking are formed by having things in the right place at that point it's just the timing of exhaling with those configurations. L's and R's are made by moving those things so there is an extra level of timing involved. |
Why does Google allow software like adBlock on chrome, if they obviously loose alot of potential money from sites like youtube? | They didn't for a long time. But in order to not allow ad-block they had to ban all third party apps. That made Chrome much less popular. So they decided that by allowing apps in general they could increase the market share by more than the revenue they would lose from people using ad-block. |
There was a major earthquake in Mexico. Why can't earthquakes related to the same tectonic plate be expected in other places in the world? | Rock is relatively malleable over very large distances. Just because there was a release of pressure near Mexico doesn't imply that it will move anywhere else, at least any more than is already expected along fault lines. |
Why do parents keep pressuring their children to go to college and take out school loans when there are all of these statistics about then national loan debt. | Because there are also a lot of statics about the lack of earning potential if you don't have a college degree - _URL_2_ > The economic analysis finds that Millennial college graduates ages 25 to 321 who are working full time earn more annually—about $17,500 more—than employed young adults holding only a high school di... |
Why do some people really enjoy watching so-called "tortureporn" movies? (Saw, Hostel, etc.) | Don't look too into it. Have you watched any of these horror movies with some friends? Either making jokes the whole time about how ridiculous the film is, or just even seeing one of your friends shit their pants during a scary scene. Also, these films are great for dating too. Of course a girl is gonna bury her head i... |
why ducklings are yellow but adult ducks are white. | _URL_4_ Strangest white I've ever seen. Disregarding that detail though, the color of a duckling's down and feathers are determined by genes.And depending on those genes a duckling can be [yellow], [Yellow with brown] or [mostly brown]. And as I've already show adults can have feathers of a diffrent colour. This diffre... |
Why does the US have such a large portion of users on most websites, sometimes the overall majority, when they only make up 4% of the population? | Do you go to many Chinese language websites? Probably not, unless you read Chinese . When you go to English websites, you find a lot of users from English-speaking countries. You do see a disproportionate number of Americans, as Americans love the Internet, but it's not as large as you suggest. |
-ish explanation of what happens when you "set foot" on Jupiter | I don't know how you don't have more karma for this took quite a bit of work to put this together in such an easy format. Thanks! |
Why do people stare off into space when in deep thought? Is there a scientific reason behind it? | Definitely not a scientific explanation, but I think it's the same reason why people turn off the radio when they're lost or why they close their eyes if they really want to listen to something. Perhaps the brain has a certain amount of bandwidth and that every sense you're actively engaging takes up some of that bandw... |
How do movies and TV shows re-enact people snorting cocaine? | I don't have the answer because I would say powdered sugar but that would hurt. I do want to say that I bet has to some movie where the coke was real. |
why do windshield wipers go from right to left. Is there an advantage or engineering reason? | Not all do. Older cars and trucks had them where the both whispers started in the center and traveled in an arc to the outside of the windscreen.But as time has gone on windscreens have gotten more angled to be more aero dynamic, that change made the wipers bigger to the point where to advoid interference the wipers ha... |
Why aren't the numbers 11-13 and 15 standardized like every other number (i.e. oneteen, twoteen, threeteen, fiveteen) | It's different in Romance languages too. Spanish uses once, doce, trece, catorce,quince, deiciseis, deiciseiete, deicieocho, deicinueve. |
How does lightning happen? | When water droplets inside a cloud bounce into each other, their electrons become loose and gather at the bottom of the cloud. Since electrons carry a charge of -1, the bottom of the cloud is now negatively charged. The water droplets go to the top of the cloud. They were neutral before electrons were removed. Remember... |
How cups and other plastic items change color in response to temperature change. | Ohhh, I know about this. You are asking about thermochromism . Think about water. Just above 0 Celsius it is a liquid and just below it is a solid. That is a far from exact analogy to these dyes, but it shows how things can have two very different properties based on a small temperature shift. Something similar is happ... |
Why do passenger car tires have speed ratings up to 186 mph? | > Don't governors limit speeds long before a driver could hit those top speeds? It depends on the car and modifications done to it. > If I'm a regular person, driving on highways that top out at 70 mph, why would I need tires designed to go up to 110mph faster? Tires are important, so you'd want to maintain standards t... |
Why do science labs always so often use composition notebooks and not, for example, a spiral notebook? | The spiral notebooks are too easy to remove pages from, which is why I personally wouldn't use one for lab work. I would imagine a hard cover bound book would be more difficult to lose pages from, either accidentally or on purpose |
The use of the word "Mouth Breather" as a derogatory word. | It's very loud, and if someone has bad breath, that's easier to smell. I have a deviated septum, so I'm self-conscious about it as well, but it's something to take note of and practice. |
How can there be a hybrid of a tiger and lion (liger) but not a human-chimp hybrid? | For the same reason there are tiger-lion hybrids but not tiger-dandelion hybrids. Tigers and dandelions are to genetically different to produce viable offspring . Humans and chimps aren't as far apart, but its still far enough that you can't get hybrids Tigers and lions are both members of the genus *Panthera*, as are ... |
How come almost everyone (human) in the world has diffrent faces, yet almost all (Let's say deer) look alike? | This has to do with how we are good at recognising each other's faces because we routinely interact with other humans for comfort and survival. If we interacted with deer as regularly, and if our survival counted on it, we would be able to recognize specific markings and differences in deer. So the deer really just all... |
How do you get green eyes? I understand dominate and recessive genes. But my teacher never went into green eye traits, only brown and blue. | The model your teacher gave is oversimplified, there isn't one gene that determines eye colour. Imagine lots of and lots of genes all going through the same punnet square and then the results of all those will impact eye colour. This means instead of one of two options, there are lots |
Advertisements. How do they actually increase sales and influence customers? | * As others have noted, **you can't purchase something until you know it exists.** If you think of a traditional sales funnel that moves consumers from awareness to consideration to purchase , this would be advertising for awareness. Not all advertisements expect to generate sales immediately.* **Advertising can also m... |
Why do people who have college loans seem shocked by or unable to pay their loan amounts? | Because it is likely the first loan they will ever have. $30,000 in debt is nothing like saving up $2500 from a part time job to pay cash for a used car. $400 a month doesn't seem like much, but the instant you move out and start adding in all of life's other expenses you weren't paying for before, $400 a month for the... |
Why do businesses (like coffeeshops) maintain an open wifi network that prompts a pop-up where you have to enter a password anyways? | With a connection to the wifi with a password, it's quite difficult to keep a track of statistics and usage . With an unlocked router and authentication through a website, statistics, monitoring and payment become a lot more easier and doesn't require the staff to be trained to troubleshoot issues . |
how someone could get caught by a wildfire | Have you ever tried running down a mountain? Its not a race track, there are rocks, trees, bushes, holes, hills and all manner of things to slow you down. Often hikers are HOURS away from safety at this rate, even if they're only a couple miles away. Not to mention that wild fires are VERY unpredictable. It might seem ... |
If jellyfish do not have brains what drives them to stay alive as a species such as eating or reproducing? | It's just what they do because of their genes. The jellyfish with genes that caused them to not want to eat or reproduced all died off leaving the ones we see today. It's not even that they necessarily get rewarded for it like we do it's just what they do. If you notice their drive to stay alive isn't very strong you c... |
If I am on a flight from Toronto to Japan, why would I go around the world rather than just fly across the North Pole. | They used to fly that way. It was called the concord. In and around 98? I have no idea why they stopped. It does make more sense doesn't it. |
What is American cheese? | It depends what specifically you are referring to? Are you referring to Kraft Singles? If that is what you are referring to, then, sorry, but that is not actually cheese. If you are referring to say Boar's Head American Cheese, then that is a blend of various Cheddar and Colby Cheeses. Velveta, Kraft singles, and thing... |
If a British Citizen committed a minor crime in the US, what could happen? | In practice you'd probably explain you didn't know the law, say some british shit in a funny accent, and the officer who stopped you would have you pour out the drink and go on your way. Open container is generally a municipal citation; if the officer did decide to ticket you, you'd have to pay a fine. The good news is... |
Why do some people smoke all their lives and drink and not get cancer and live a long time while others who don't drink or smoke die early of cancer or other illnesses? | This is probably a case of confirmation bias. The man who lives to be 90 and smoked sticks out not the non smoker who lived to 95 as the non smoker who dies of cancer in his 30s would. Also smoking raises your chances drastically of various illnesses but it's not 100% and cancer can be caused by many things for example... |
Why can my Mexican grandmother and father eat extremely spicy food, yet I, a Non-Mexican Canadian, can not? Shouldn't the gene of being able to handle spice pass on to me? | Chilli isn't a flavour. Chilli acts on the pain receptors. So that spicy taste is actually pain. My dad can't handle any spice, mum can handle a little. I can eat lots of chilli. I used to hate it when I was a kid , but my friend and I used to have a contest on who can eat the most chilli powder out of korean noodle pa... |
Why do I fall asleep easily while listening to music, but I have trouble falling asleep next to someone who is snoring? | Another explanation could be that music has rhythm and we are naturally at ease by rhythm. When you listen to music you like, you are able to predict the next sound you will hear, since humans are quite good at pattern recognition. When you anticipate the next sound of your favorite song, this activates the reward cent... |
Why is there an FDA ban on accepting blood donations from gay men? | I'm not a scientist but the way it was explained to me by one, is that basically, no test for HIV is going to be perfect. So we can expect that HIV positive blood will statistically be used at some point . Since homosexual males are one of the biggest groups of HIV positive individuals, the idea is to cut down on the t... |
How did soldiers in the World Wars have time and or enough safety to create massive trenches? | I just came here to say that digging trenches is the most exhausting work I've ever done. Digging like 120cm took me 8 hours in army |
when Asians speak English as their second language, why do they pronounce their L like an R. Is the "L" sound not used in their native language? | It's the other way around in Korean. There's no R sound and is replaced with an L sound. My parents gave me a name that they cannot pronounce. |
why it doesn't matter how much you spend on a HDMI cable, and then how some retailers end up charging so much? | Side Story: I was at PC Richards getting a TV for my job when I saw them promoting Monster HDMI cables by showing the same movie on two TV's. The TV with the monster cable did look MUCH better than the other one, but that was only because the other TV was connected with composite cables. |
Why is Neil deGrasse Tyson such a reoccurring figure on Reddit? | He's basically like the hype man for science these days, kinda like Bill Nye. He summarizes new scientific discoveries in a way that makes the public interested in them kinda like how sites like yahoo or buzzfeed get attention. He can take the major points and make them interesting to the average listener quickly and c... |
How do countries that are at war with each other interact in the UN? | The ties at the UN are with the UN. If the two countries are on the same committee, they will likely go to the same meeting so as not to 'lose face' and to keep an eye on the other one. The embassies in each others countries are the ties that would get cut.There is a big difference between people interacting profession... |
How can Donald Trump, with most of the Republican party damning him, still lead in the straw polls? | When last I heard, there were more than a dozen serious contenders for the nomination, and then about a dozen more people who are only halfheartedly running. Trump has a small, but very vocal number of supporters who will vote for him and no one else. The rest of the candidates have all of their votes split. Finally, i... |
Aside from commercials, how does a show having high ratings yields profit? | If a show has lots of viewers then it means more people are watching a channel. Commercials can also advertise different shows on that channel which creates a larger viewer base and therefore even more money from commercials. The most popular shows can be sold as well, so another station can profit from it's success. T... |
Why can't employees confront shoplifters? | Legally, they can. But it can be a bad idea for a number of reasons: * if the employee is wrong, it can lead to bad publicity, especially if it looks like a civil rights issue* if they are wrong, and use force, that is a crime* if they are right, and use too much force, that is a crime* if they are right, and do everyt... |
What stabilizing gif does and why its used? | To create a smooth video/gif. I'll give an oversimplified example. When you record a video, it will have some shake to it, say 10% of the frame is moved left/right/up/down, your program takes the frames of the video and tries to have the center object of what's being recorded in the center for all the frames. If the fr... |
How do I set up my own website if I don't have any programming skills? | I'll second the advice to not use GoDaddy, but that said - there are a ton of sites where you can host a website where tools are provided so you can design the site without knowing how to design a website. Blogspot or Wordpress are two pretty popular options. I don't know if you can use your own domain with blogspot, b... |
If health care costs are much higher in the U.S. than other developed countries, where is all that extra money going? | In addition to the privatized system others have pointed out, I'd also like to mention that doctors have higher salaries in the U.S. compared to other countries. [Here's an interesting article] from the NY times that does a comparison. I am not saying that they are richer or better off. Keep in mind that other countrie... |
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