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How did people used to wake up early before alarm clocks? | Back before alarm clocks, there wasnt much artificial lighting either. So you'd go to bed at night, in most cases. This made it easier to wake up in the morning. Everyone alive right now cannot conceive of a world where we didn't have the ability to create light on a whim as it suited us. But until very recently, the d... |
The Elizabethan poor law and why it is still relevant today | It was repealed by the General Rate Act 1967, so I'm not sure why it is still relevant today outside of history books. |
How are White House news agencies chosen? | While the White House decides, for security reasons, which individuals can gain access to the building, the White House Correspondents Association decides where the people sit in the press briefing room. So, it's a little bit both of the government and the industry itself, though heavily tilted towards the industry. |
How come we still can't make suits that can be washed normally? | Any suit immune to these problems with machine washing will cost more. People that are willing to pay more for a suit are more inclined to receive a better look or fit in exchange for that money. The greatest priority for the majority of suit wearers is visual conformity, and wearing a different material, likely with a... |
Why do credit card companies still send offers via snail mail.... to everyone?! | Im more likely to open a envelope i get in mail than to open some credit card email offer. Im guessing most of america drags that garbage into their house like i do and it sits on a table till im throwing things out. So its pretty much always around when people need it and that's what the CC company is counting on. Its... |
Texas is running out of lethal injections- how/why, can't they order/make more? | As the US constitution forbids cruel punishments, there are only a few drugs which may be used for lethal injections. The idea is that those drugs guarantee a „clean death”, which is, according to the Supreme Court, not a cruel or unusual punishment. These drugs were chosen in the seventies, after the suspension of the... |
why stimulant and depressant drugs wont cancel each other out | I think its because stimulants and depressants simply 'feel' opposite. Underneath the hood so to speak they are simply chemicals reacting and doing stuff to the brain/body. It is not like a stimulant increases chemical-A in the brain and a depressant lowers it, I think its more like a stimulant increases A-B-C and a de... |
how to navigate 4chan. I am lost. | Explain this like you're **5**, huh? Well You can navigate it when you're older.Hit reply on the thread, and you can refresh that thread there. To reply to something on the thread, click the number like > > 424827817 and scroll to the top to reply. When replying to the thread in the e-mail field put "noko" to follow th... |
How does Google make money on apps such as Google Classroom, which they advertise as free and say they don't use advertisements. | Some of the services a company like google offers are truly free. It's possible they aren't making much or any money on it. Why they do this is to give their brand more recognition. If you make google programs available everywhere then people get more comfortable with google's programs and platform. Then when people ha... |
Why does Scotland want to leave the United Kingdom? | The majority of us don't, it's just the vocal minority who are trying to tear us apart. Sources: Scot, also [this] , [and this] , [this too] , [there's more!] |
Why is Cyprus still split in half. | Brief history: * Cyprus essentially becomes a British colony in 1878 * the British grant Cyprus independence in 1960* sectarian violence between the Turkish and Greek Cypriots breaks out soon after, and is an ongoing problem* in 1974, a coup overthrows the Cypriot government, and seeks to become part of Greece* Turkey ... |
If the large size of dinosaurs were attributed to the abundance of oxygen during that time, why didn't the mammals grew big like the dinosaurs after the comet strike. | They did! The blue whale is the biggest animal known to have ever lived. There used to be huge land mammals as well, but they all died out several thousand years ago. It's generaly believed we hunted them to extinction. _URL_2_ _URL_2_", 'The large size of dinosaurs is not attributed to an abundance of oxygen. During t... |
Why do I have bladder shyness? | Yeah that's something I never understood. Someone walks in while I'm taking a piss - no problem. Someone's standing behind me in line fuck.I read somewhere on here that reciting math problems in your head helps. I tried it and it works most of the time! And I know my multiplication tables pretty well again! Its a win-w... |
What causes that distinct old person smell? | The smell is due to nonenal and is associated with aging. It is found only in participants aged 40 and older, nonenal is a component of body odor that is produced when omega-7 unsaturated fatty acids on the skin are degraded through oxidation. It's not due to poor bathing, it's not water soluble so you can't just wash ... |
How does a hostage negotiator convince the hostage-taker to release the hostage? | Well a good amount of time is involved in these circumstances sometimes. They try to figure out how to convince them that giving up hostages are in their best interest. They bargain with them because eventually the hostage-taker will need something. Or, they want to find a way to escape, so they might try to bargain a ... |
why is a healthy body weight not directly proportional to the height of a person? | People aren't quite cylinders and they're not quite spheres . That leaves you somewhere in the middle, where the volume change is greater than 1:1 with height, but not a lot greater. In less math-y terms, tall people bones are almost universally wider too.Because various components of a person have different mass ratio... |
Is there anything inherently "natural" about a base-10 counting system? | It's most likely that it was because we first counted on our fingers. There's nothing really special about the number 10. |
How can scientist find a cure/vaccine to ebola in a so small time when instead we still haven't found a cure/vaccine to HIV? | I don't know much about ebola but HIV has some features that make it ridiculous difficult to handle. It can mutate really, really quickly, so it can react to most obstacles you put in its way. It also hides in, then attacks, immune cells. Without effective immune cells, it's harder to fight any attacker. Additionally, ... |
When you're on a trampoline with another person why do you bounce higher when they do a double jump? | You can do the same with bouncing balls. Drop a tennis ball. Drop a basketball. They bounce a certain amount. Now put the tennis ball on top of the basketball and drop them at the same time. The tennis ball bounces much further. You're putting extra energy in the system with the double jump. |
Why do sites like Youtube and Amazon impose restrictions based on country? | Its because of money. In the case of playing copyright material its usually a lack of licence, IE music videos not being able to monetize themselves in NZ so the licence isn't paid for. For tax reasons, if the company doesn't have the infrastructure to deal with a country its not familiar with. And a lot of the times i... |
The US Constitution and the Second Amendment. Why is a subsequent amendment so important that it cannot be revoked or rescinded? | > If the right to bear arms was so important, why wasn't it included in the original constitutional document? The argument was that since the original constitution didn't grant the federal government the power to restrict the right to bear arms, there was no need for an explicit stating of that right - it was implied. ... |
Everyone knows it's ridiculous that stores have Christmas decorations up before Halloween and that radio stations play Christmas music in November. So why do they keep doing it? | People don't leave your shop just because your decorations are ridiculously early. They do, however, get more spendy for Christmas. People like the music and tune in for it. Radio is ridiculously-directly consumer driven.I dont find it ridiculous. I work in retail and find customers are more pleasant when xmas shopping... |
Shouldn't many more of us have bed bugs? | Those stories are very true. I just got done dealing with an infestation. Its become an epidemic: _URL_0_But no, you're not just lucky. Currently, you have a better chance of having no bed bugs at all. Only around 15% of apartments currently do. Also keep in mind that you may have bed bugs and not know it. For some peo... |
Why do airplanes have to switch off the interior lights when they go in to land? | As most have said it's to ensure that your eyes are adjusted to lower light in case of an emergency. Lights in the plane are dimmed to match outside conditions during take off and landing. Apart from the mentioned, the lights dimming and opening all blinds is done not only for adjustment but also to make it easier to s... |
Why does America spend as much on their military than is spent on the next 11 largest, especially considering that they are allies? | They don't have to spend because we do. If we stop spending, they will have to step it up. And then they will rival us.America use it as a bargaining tool to get what they want, also it is used to bring "democracy"In the very broadest sense, it's just a modern version of FDR's WPA. It's a work program that offers emplo... |
Why being a virgin is usually considered a bad thing in American tv. | The reason is because the shows are trying to relate to the people watching. Some shows connect with people who aren't getting laid but would like to. Many guys want to have sex after age .12 so they potentially have a huge contingency. |
Are there any noteworthy differences between a name brand medicine and the generic version? | Chem professor told me certain medications involve ingredients that can have negative effects if the molecules are arranged a certain way. Name brand might have a machine or secret method to align the molecules or pick out the negative ones so there's less chance of there being side effects when it is taken while the g... |
How do poops and farts work together in the digestive system? Are they lined up in a row or can a fart overtake a poop? | Just to add to this, why is it you can continue to fart when you're desperate for a poop, but no poop comes out? Is that poop creating godlike amounts of methane right at the end of your digestive system? |
If people having an education is good for the economy, why doesn't the government just make education cheaper/free | Who's paying for the school, teachers, books etc? There is no such thing as free. |
How come some keys on a keyboard can't be used together with the ^ symbol? | Diacritic marks over letters such as ê are used to modify the way a particular letter sounds when it's used in a language. The reason that you can't use the combination on your keyboard is because that letter isn't used with ^ in any language. As an aside, the semi-fictional band Spinal Tap use an umlaut over the lette... |
Why, if internal body temperature is 98.6, people seem to be most comfortable in 70-80 degrees (F)? | Your body needs to get rid of internal heat, not preserve its internal temperature. If you stand in a 98 degree room, are you not uncomfortable? We shed heat by sweat and air circulating around us . |
What happens to that .1 percent of bacteria not killed by antibacterial hand soap? What are they? Could they be dangerous? | My guess is that the 0.1% acts as a buffer for the manufacturer against any legal issues arising from that one still had bacteria on their hand after using the soap. It wouldn't be exactly 0.1% per se, but 99.9% feels more secure than 99% , but not as spammy as 99.999% |
How does sound not get distorted in a moving medium? | Ever try to talk someone on a really windy day? It's not just that the wind is loud, your words are literally being blown away. |
Why can't we just cut a cancerous tumor out? | yes you can if it's in one place. however, are you sure you got every single cancerous cell? surgeons still operate based on optical vision. even magnified, you can't separate one cell from another adjacent one. can you be the tumor is localized and isolated? because if you cut it apart, it's going to start running eve... |
Why does it seem like people from the 40s/50s had distinctly different voices than people today? | I've always picked up on it too and never could explain what I heard. On tv and movies it was almost like the female's voices were always softer.Smoking Lucky Strike and Pall Mall filter less.If you're talking about what I think you are, you're talking about movies and tv from the 40s and 50s. You see, at that time, pe... |
Why do universities charge so much on tuition yet claim they need donations for new buildings and such even when they have a large endowment? | It costs a hell of a lot of money to run and maintain a campus. If it were a public school you could simply look up what the budget is. It's possible your school provides that information online as well. Should check it out. I think all universities look for donations when doing large construction projects. That's why ... |
Why is it that liquor can be used to sterilize wounds, but it wreaks havoc on our insides, like our liver? | Because it's brutal. When it sterilizes your wounds it's acting a bit like chemo - kills the bad stuff, but does sacrifice some of the good stuff along with it. Further, when you _ingest it_ you get 100% of the alcohol in to being processed by your liver, which is taxing. When you rub it on your skin a good portion jus... |
Is is bad to eat a lot of fruit while trying to lose weight? | I'm assuming you mean bad as in keeping you from losing weight, not as in bad for your health. First let me start by saying eating lots of fruits/vegetables will be good for losing weight and will improve your health. Generally, losing weight is very simple. Your body needs to use more calories than it takes in. So, to... |
Why does your urine smell like coffee after drink a cup or two of it? | I can't even get through one cup of urine, let alone two. Your body isn't processing all of the stuff in coffee. That's what peeing is for, really. |
Why do most people tend to procrastinate, despite the fact that completing tasks earlier is much more comforting & less stressful? | I can only really speak for myself but the basics boil down to 2 things, firstly immediate satisfaction vs prolonged satisfaction, Let's use an example of each. Video games and going to the gym. It easier to visualize the satisfaction I will get by playing video games now then the satisfaction I will get from going to ... |
How did the drug cartel become so powerful in Mexico? | Mexican government is weak, underfunded and corrupt - especially at the local level. Local officials are likely to take bribes & let things slide under the radar. Local citizens are likely to work for/with drug smugglers because it pays better than what they're doing. Eventually, the cartels had shitloads of money & lo... |
what causes sponges to be as absorbent as they are compared to others? | Assuming by 'others' you mean other materials, it's because they are full of tiny holes and chambers. Liquid is drawn into the chambers by capillary action. |
Why do wheels look like they're rotating backwards when they pick up speed, then return to a forward rotation when they slow down? | It's an aliasing effect due to the fact that the wheels are spinning at a rate that is faster than our eyes can pick up. It can happen in everyday life or in films. Essentially, our eyes sampling rate is below what is known as the Nyquist Rate. P.S. when this happens in films it's because the camera is sampling below t... |
Why is murder always the most severely punishable crime? | It's simply the most permanent way to harm someone. I do agree that there are other ways to harm people that should result in harsher sentences.if reincarnation was proven true would murder still be as severe? |
Does there exist a "now" at long distances? | Tehcnically speaking 'now' doesn't exist for short distances either, but the effect is of course more pronounced over large distances. Time passes differently for all observers depending on their acceleration, speed relative to each other and the gravitational field they are in. Speaking about a right now just doesn't ... |
Why is swelling as a response to an injury a bad thing? | Swelling, while normally a helpful part of the body's immune response, can be very dangerous when it occurs in an organ whose volume is restricted, namely the brain. Since the size of the brain is constrained by the rigid bones of your skull, any swelling or accumulation of fluid can compress your grey matter and lead ... |
how do dogs and cats view their owners? | Here's what I understand about dogs and cats: Dog > This person gives me food, shelters me and takes good care of me. Therefore, this person is my God! Cat > This person gives me food, shelters me and takes good care of me. Therefore, I am this person's God! Learned this from another post so credit goes to that :3 |
Why do we hear so much about garbage islands, but can't see any on Google Maps? | They are not actual islands but areas where there is a certain high amount of plastic in a liter of seawater. The world's garbage accumulates in certain areas of the ocean because of currents ). If you go there by boat you will encounter a lot of garbage floating around or on the beaches of nearby islands. There are mo... |
Why do people get blisters, and why is there an urge to pop them? | You shouldn't pop them because of the risk of infection. I am not a doctor nor am I recommending popping them. That said, I get blisters all the time at work and I have found that they hurt way more in the short term if you pop them but they scab over and end up healing faster. |
Why is it that great minds who people actually like can not become leaders in today's politics, but completely anonymous people who we don't even know can. | Most great mind wouldn't bother with such garbage. An if they would, they don't have the time or connections to make it there. It's all about money. |
Why does a room being kept at 70 degrees via air-conditioning feel colder than a room being kept at 70 through heating? | Rooms aren't heated/cooled to a particular temperature by blowing that temp air into the space. Furnaces send 100 degree air out, while A/Cs blow 50 degree air, each of which mix with existing air until it reaches the desired temp. So you'll feel that hotter or cooler in spots since the heating isn't uniform across the... |
Why do humans have visible sclera but no other mammals do? | You can barely see the whites of my Vizslas' eyes. I've read Vizslas were bred to have this trait as it camoflaughes their eyes with their coat and nose and fingernail color. Vizslas are a hunting breed, which makes camoflogue a desire able trait. Wild animals may have evolved to this for the same reason. Edit: I can't... |
Why is Dubai so crazy wealthy and futuristic? To what degree do citizens share in this wealth? | Not explaining all of your questions, but may it be because they are trying to find alternative income methods for when the oil runs out? Assuming most is oil money, there doesn't need to be dept? The inequality might be in different parts of the country. Note that Dubai is a city, in the country United Arab Emerates. ... |
Can a president in the US run twice if they weren't elected the first time? | The constitution is very explicit in answering this question. They may not run if they've served two whole terms, or one whole term and at least two years of another . Once they've met their limit they cannot run for either president or vice president and cannot be elected nor sworn in. They could, in theory, be appoin... |
Why do they blur out all brand names on Mythbusters (and other shows)? | On shows like Mythbusters , brand names are blocked out mostly because the people who produce the show don't have the time or financial/legal support to seek out these brand name companies and make a deal with them. Network TV uses brand names even when it has nothing at all to do with the content of the program, becau... |
Why do cameras have white-balance adjustment, if human eyes don't? Why not just take the photo as the human eye sees it? | If you need to be convinced about the way the eye adjusts perceived colours according to nearby shades, look at [this image] What colour is the centre tile of the top face, and the centre tile of the front left face? Now look at [this image] If you're still not convinced, load the image into a paint program and use the... |
How come state capitals in the US are usually not the state's largest or most important cities? | The times change and cities with them. Some of the capitols were the largest once. I live in Chicago, which is the third largest city in the country. Springfield, the state capitol, is tiny in comparison. However, when Springfield was made the state capitol in 1839 Chicago was a fledgling city, while Springfield was mu... |
Why a war against North Korea would be so much easier to win now as compared to the fifties | There is no chance China will join North Korea. There's no incentive. The US is China's largest trading partner and North Korea is a whiny kid who nobody likes and has nothing to offer. North Korea's military is outdated and can't support a standing army for an offensive because of the lack of resources. Sure, they hav... |
Does Apple have enough money to create their own financial services (compete against Visa/Mastercard/Discover/Amex)? | Apple has about $160 BILLION in cash right now, according to Google. More than enough money that they could outright BUY Visa, Mastercard, or Paypal, among others. They don't really need to, though. |
How/What could the Church of Scientology possibly sue HBO for? Why did HBO need 150 lawyers for it? | The Church of Scientology is very sensitive to information which may present the church in a bad light . They have many rich and powerful members, and their primary tactic is to launch an onslaught of lawyers until they get their way. They achieved tax-free status by doing this to individuals at the IRS, and it remains... |
why do people say "you were fat back then" when i weigh the exact same thing as i did in the pictures they were referring to | It could be due to the fact that typically, in pictures, because they are wider than they are tall, people consequentially look heavier. It's also possible you've added muscle mass, and lost fat.Weight and fat content are completely different things. You can probably assume that people are noticing that you have more m... |
Why are many americans afraid of socialism? | One of the longest and most crucial eras in our history was the Cold War, during which we constantly preached against communism. If you know anything about the effects of communism, I'd say we had a good reason to. However, many consider all flavors of socialism as being the same thing, and so they have a knee-jerk rea... |
From a marketing standpoint, how does having your company name/logo displayed at an event or team banner help your business? | > Are they hoping people will see their company name and want to buy their products? Is it simply just getting their name out there? In simple terms yes, that's the basics of advertising. |
If a movie has grossed more than its production cost, and many years have passed since its release, why don't they make it freely available on YouTube? | Because $100 million is less then $101 million. Everyone is money hungry. That's just my opinion.Because they still get money for showing the movie on tv or netflix.I'm gonna say something different to others. Whilst it's true about royalty etc., I think one of the main reasons is to make sure the films sell initially.... |
In 2011 the UK rejected a new voting system in a referendum. In 2015, everyone is complaining that the system is undemocratic. Why didn't they take the opportunity to change it? | You want A. You are offered either B or C. Which would *you* choose? Choose carefully, now. Don't waste this opportunity. And don't *ever* complain again about not having A. |
How can a single site, like YouTube, host such a ridiculously huge amount of content? | Sites like Facebook, Youtube, etc use distributed file systems like Hadoop to store vast amounts of data across lots of different servers. It effectively allows you to scale content by decentralizing it. Here's a link:_URL_0_ A techie can probably explain better - I just play one on TV. |
How do we know that everyone sees the same colors? | There's no reason to think we don't. The neural makeup is the same, the wavelengths are the same, our brains react the same to them. There's no discernible difference that would make us think that the wavelength of red would be perceived as green to you. Or whatever. |
What actually happens if you ignore medical bills? [USA] | Don't take legal advice like this on such a serious matter from Reddit. See a lawyer or legal aide. There are usually some free services available for getting basic advice for people in your situation. Also compared to a $14k bill, shelling out a few hundred for proper advice is worth it. There are ways of dealing with... |
Why does college cost so much more now than it used to? | Government involvement has provided a seemingly unending supply of funding which allows students to choose essentially any university regardless of cost. In order for universities to compete with each other and attract students they have to spend a lot of money on campus life, student centers, etc that they previously ... |
Why do some colours make popular surnames (like Green, Brown, Black), but others don't (Blue, Orange, Red)? | I've known a Tuesday, and a Wednesday, but never anyone named after another day of the week. I've also known an April, June, and Mae, but never a February. Rose and Lilly, but no Daffodil. |
What is the U.N.? | **UN does not have supreme power.** It's more of a club that almost all nations are a part of. Sometimes the club can decide to act together, and sometimes they don't. There are several nations which have veto power over most actions in the UN. The US is one of them, so the UN can't do a lot of things without the US ok... |
How are nukes used? Are they fired from a silo or dropped by a bomber plane? | Silo, dropped from plane, carried via cruise missile, shot out of a cannon, shot as a grenade off a rifle, shot out of a mortar .. We're humans we can kill each other in so many fascinating ways.Nuclear weapons can be employed in any way any conventional explosive can. Missiles, bombs, artillery shells, torpedoes, etc. |
Why did High School Grads look so 'Adult' back in the 60's, 70's, & 80's, but today they look so child-like? | people used to actually play out in the sun, smoke cigarettes, and drink early on. all of these things along with the clothes some people pointed out tends to make them look older. just being out in the sun alone ages the skin. people seem to forget that in this modern world we don't get outside almost ever, we don't h... |
We know life evolved from complex carbon molecules but how did they come alive? | The molecules didn't come alive. The molecules in your body aren't alive, they are no different than they would be outside of your body. Life is a complex system that needs many parts, but none of the parts themselves are alive. |
Why do we have emotions | Emotions help with the bigger picture of social and therefore evolutionary survival, yes! But those examples you mention are not traits that simply carry on to the next generation Babies are capable of developing all possible extremes of emotions, like most things we know, it's only through experiences and concepts tha... |
The rate-fixing scandal currently engulfing Barclays bank | Here's what I don't understand. The banks set LIBOR. They get to choose what it is, at least from what I can understand from all the explanations going around. So they've chosen to set it at a rate that's highly profitable for them? Douchey, sure, but how does that damage anything? For 99% of people, the LIBOR rate is ... |
Medics ! Chemists ! Why is paracetamol bad for my liver, and ibuprofen bad for my stomach ? | Ibuprofen functions by inhibiting an enzyme called cyclooxygenase, abbreviated COX. There are three kinds of COX enzymes, called COX-1, COX-2 and COX-3. COX-2 in particular is part of the body's system for mediating pain in inflamed tissue. By inhibiting this enzyme, you feel less pain. The problem is ibuprofen is not ... |
What are DDOS attacks? | A DDoS attack is an attack where a website's servers are overloaded with requests, thus preventing the server from responding to many people. It's a way of shutting down a website by flooding it with traffic. An ELI5 analogy: If your website is like a little grocery store with, say, five open registers, then *normal* t... |
Graphene, Graphite, and why one is an amazing super-material and the other is pencil lead and skateboard layers? | Because the way atoms and molecules are attracted and bonded to each other in a substance is a HUGE factor in the properties we see in that substance. Graphite, graphene, diamond, buckyballs, carbon nanotubes are all just carbon atoms in different configurations. Oddly enough those configurations kind of behave how you... |
why is heating something on a low heat for a long time not the same as heating something at a higher heat for a shorter amount of time | Because temperature is related to the average activity level of jiggling molecules, kinetic energy, and there are a lot of activity thresholds in chemistry and physics. For example water boils at 100° C; you can't make it boil by heating it for a longer time at 80° C. The reason for this is a certain threshold of jiggl... |
If you are traveling Northeast at 100mph are you traveling north at 50mph and east at 50mph? | I would tell him to think about it as a graph. You can actually add up velocity by drawing out the velocities and connecting them. So, going 50mph north and 50 mph east would result in a right triangle with sides of 50 mph. Which means we can determine the resulting velocity using the Pythagorean theorem. We get about ... |
What assurance do we have that services like gmail, snapchat, facebook don't/can't view our nails, snaps, chat etc.? | Unless you use what is called end-to-end encryption, anybody who has access to the pipeline can read whatever is included in the email. Certain programs, like Enigmail, which I use, can encrypt your email content into a block which is unreadable to anybody, unless they have the key to decrypt it. The sender and receive... |
Why do communist countries call themselves 'democratic republics'? | > As the Soviet Union expanded its influence into Eastern Europe in the early 1940s, Moscow created the idea of “people’s democracies” in order to distinguish new Leninist republics from previous bourgeois regimes, but at the same time reaffirming the Soviet Union’s superiority in socialist construction and as the cent... |
Why is lobbyism normal in the US? What's the difference to corruption? | Way too complicated answers. It's normal because multi national corporations and the establishment have bought off the process, rigged the system and made it normal. What is the difference from corruption? Nothing, except that they don't call it corruption. In reality, it absolutely is, and until that system changes th... |
Why do I only get car sick when I'm a passenger and never when I'm a driver? | Your brain is receiving mixed signals. Your ear is telling your brain that you're moving but your eyes may not be reflecting that same signal . Try looking out at the horizon when a passenger. That's how I resolved my car sickness. |
why swearing under oath would make you tell the truth.. | Two things: * if the defendant is on the stand, he can refuse to answer under the fifth amendment, which says that someone cannot be forced to give testimony which will be used to convict him. * if a witness has some reason to lie during a trial, being under oath makes it a crime to do so, so they are obviously still a... |
Where did the aversion towards unibrows come from? | Partially because human facial recognition depends on two eyes, two eyebrows, a nose, a mouth, etc. and if someone doesn't have all of those it can cause similar reactions to the Uncanny Valley; partially because most humans are naturally attracted to symmetry ; partially because unibrows are more common in foreign cou... |
why are microbeads from cosemtic products so bad for the environment? | You know how in the news there's plastic bags in the ocean and the sea creatures are eating it up and dying? Basically the same problem. Well the Micro beads are also plaastic, and after you use them and flush then down the drain, they might end up in the ocean as waste. Sea creatures eat it and they get sick as they c... |
Which side is Turkey on? | Well, like any country, they are first and foremost on their own side. So, what are they doing? After multiple warnings to Russia not to fly over its airspace, Turkey took action against violations of its airspace. What's going to happen now is that Russia will scream, other countries will urge restraint. Talking head ... |
Why do develop countries still borrows money from other countries, like usa borrowing from china? | The US issues bonds which are available for purchase by anyone. If someone controls the equivalent amount of wealth they can purchase a bond, it doesn't matter the condition of their home country. I'm not sure why one would think that would be a factor in the sale |
Why is the "deep web" not as widely used/known about as the normal internet, and why is it not illegal to use? | I could bludgeon you to death with my phone. Should phones be illegal? I'm being facetious, obviously, but we don't make things illegal just because you can potentially do illegal things with them . It sounds like you're confusing the deep web with the dark net, by the way. |
Why does my dog pick up sticks in her mouth and carry them around? | I'm very curious about this myself. When I was young mmy childhood dog would gather sticks by herself whenever we went to the cottage. She wasn't playing with anyone, she would just find a stick she liked and bring it back to the pile. When we left after a week it looked like a beaver dam. This happened year after year... |
What is AM radio used for and why is it so uncommonly used? | AM radio was the first common way to broadcast audio content . It's easy and cheap to build the equipment, and it also travels a long way. The problem is that it offers generally poorer sound quality. |
Why do public bathrooms have gaps along the edges of the door? | They don't where I live. Maybe stating the country you live in will yield better answers, as the premises of your question heavily depends on it.Airflow, occupancy, and safety. Going to bathroom can be a pretty stinky and moist business, so having the ability for air to flow around and move away any smells and dry up a... |
what is practical about a 3D printer? | Depends on the context. In business: It allows for pretty rapid prototyping. You can churn out a small part or something similar and mess with it without having to send an order somewhere to have a prototype made. It can also be useful in environments where supply chains are poor, like your example of space travel. Say... |
How can a company like Amazon never make a profit, and yet it increases in value? | Amazon has so many businesses that they can lose money on one when they expand into the market. The company is profitable as a whole, but profit is accounting, while bills are paid in cash. From operating their businesses in 2016 Amazon generated $16,443,000,000 after expenses. They then invested 9,876,000,000 into new... |
What the male actors do when he have to do a sex scene (not in a porno) ? | Like for the nudity and no penetration when there is an erect penis, if not erect but still there to rub against a nude woman? There's various things. They wear sock things, or they can green screen it, they wear underwear and CG it in. Is that your question? |
Why do people with severe Migraines or Cluster headaches feel like drilling their head is a perfectly sane idea at the moment? | Yessss drilling a home in my head seems logically like it would help because the pressure is so intense. Another thing is popping my eyeballs out of the socket. I had one last night that was so bad I couldn't stop thinking about popping them out with spoons. So much so that evidently I searched it on google don't remem... |
What does "marked" bills mean? | Marked bills are literally marked. Law enforcement will put a small seemingly unnoticeable mark before parting with money. If another agency picks up the bill after it's been spent and reports it , law enforcement has a better idea of where the bad guy went with it |
why does a 1080p movie, on a 1080p screen, have black horizontal bars at the top and bottom? | aspect ratio is the result of dividing the horizontal pixels or lines by the vertical pixels or lines. e.g. 640 x 480 = 640/480 = 1.33 = 4:3 1600 x 1200 = 1600/1200 = 1.33 = 4:3 1280 x 720 = 1280/720 = 1.78 = 16:9 1280 x 800 = 1280/800 = 1.6 = 16:10 1920 x 1080 = 1.78 = 16:9 now, resolution is cited as the # of vertica... |
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