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Humans have an internal instinct to survive, yet certain cells in our bodies are programmed to die (apoptosis). How does this duality occur in one organism? | If cell death allows for an organism to live longer then it seems like it would help us survive. If cell death wasn't a thing we would all evtnually have cancer |
Confused Canadian - How do I shower in Europe? | If a hotel has a shower head in the bath and nowhere to mount it on the wall, you'll find it's actually just a bath, with an extra shower head for washing your hair with. You're not meant to shower with it. As for the rest, I think you're just extrapolating out from a few cheap hotels to millions of homes, which will n... |
How do trees know to grow up? | Can't give you a technical answer but I do remember doing a project when I was in school where you had a bean seed and grew it in a container where the light was on the opposite side of where the seed was and the plant would grow slanted trying to get to the light.This phenomenon is called phototropism, which is a kind... |
From a psychological standpoint why does something like karma mean so much to me(and others)? [Serious] | Humans are social beings. We are dependent on being in a group to survive. If the group like who we are we are accepted in the group which is important for our survival. Getting upvotes is a digital version of being accepted. It's also important to stay accepted in a group. This is why people also follow norms in a soc... |
Why does water act as hard as concrete if you land on it after jumping from a high enough point? | Water is heavy, and that means it has a lot of inertia. Moving water quickly takes a lot of energy. When you hit the surface at a high speed the water doesn't have time to flow around your body, so during the very brief moment of impact it feels unyielding. |
Why does staring into bright lights help me sneeze? | Photic sneeze reflex is what i believe it's called. I have this, love it when i can rip 8 sneezes off in a row. |
How does Alka-Seltzer work? | It doesn't counteract the acid a whole lot, and you wouldn't take it if you felt fine anyway. If you eat a lot of acidic food or drinks, then the balance gets thrown off, and its too acidic. Then you would want take an alka seltzer to basify it just a little, to get the acid levels to where they should be. |
What are the best tactics for monopoly? | The orange properties should be your priority. They're right after jail, so everyone released from jail will be landing right on them. Railroads are also priority because of the Chance/Community Chest cards that direct people to them. Don't use house rules for free parking and landing on Go. More money circulating in t... |
What causes someone to become allergic to something that they weren't allergic to before? | I would also like to know this. I have a friend who has become celiac over the years but was able to eat pizza and bread no problem before. Maybe it's like they've always had an intolerance to it before but it just progresses with age until it becomes a full blown allergy? |
What feature of sound waves allows the same music note to sound different in quality from instrument to instrument? | So first of all, a sound is a wave that travels through a material . A sound can be defined by 3 features, its frequency, its amplitude and its tone. The frequency determines if the sound will be high or low pitch. The amplitude gives you an information over the volume, if it will be hearable from afar or no. Also ther... |
Why do Americans support amnesty for illegal immigrants? | > But it seems that I can just go to America and squat there for the rest of my life? Have you been here for 5 years? Have you registered as a citizen of the US? Based on what you've said in your post you don't meet the requirements for 'amnesty', which this isn't.I would say that you would probably get a better respon... |
What is the cause of those 'pings' you hear after turning off a car? | You have a lot of metal bolted/welded to metal in a car, a lot of it gets really hot. Some parts cool faster than others. What you're hearing is the colder piece shrinking and moving, while still tight against the hot piece. Think nails on a chalkboard, pressed much harder but only one micrometer jump at a time. |
Why were there ever 13 colonies instead of just one "British North America"? | It's easier if you think of the English colonies as competing companies, because that's what they were. Some of the colonies were more directly controlled by the government, but the earliest ones were founded by private investors who had been granted a mercantile charter. In fact, that's the origin of the modern joint-... |
How are casino croupiers (especially roullette) able to calculate large sums so quickly? | It's really not much to remember there are only 35:1, 17:1, 11:1, 8:1 5:1 to think about.With a split Balckjack gets more complicated, the trick would be to multiply the bet by 1-1/2 move the decimal and add 2x the bet. example:$1 split = 1.5 move the decimal = > 15 + = 17 You get very good a quickly recognizing how mu... |
How do companies find, choose, and start using a sweatshop? | Company wants to sell shirts. They take bids from various factory owners on who can provide shirts at the cheapest wholesale price. Most offers are for $1 a shirt. One guy says he can do $.50 a shirt. The company goes with $.50 man who is able to make shirts at that price because he treats his employee much worse than ... |
If the Big Bang expanded the universe in a fraction of a second, doesn't that mean it traveled considerably faster than the speed of light? | We think that the universe expanded very, very fast just after the big bang began . In fact, it expanded many times faster than the speed of light. Most people know that nothing can go faster than light. This isn't entirely correct - what it really means is that you can't accelerate matter to the speed of light . Space... |
Why are eggs in US washed before they go to stores, while in Europe they're not? | Can't speak for the rest of Europe but Salmonella has been all but eradicated here in the UK thanks to animal import laws and vaccinations plus the eggs we buy are generally clean and spotless. A friend of mine owns a flock a geese and trust me-- when you first collect them it can be a toss-up between a clean one and w... |
The enigma of professional basketball. | Aside from all the technical stuff that has been so well explained here, basketball can be a beautiful game to watch. Pro basketball players are among the most skilled athletes on the planet. They make amazing moves, doing incredible things with their bodies, with no special equipment . It's a fast paced game where som... |
Is humans being a night owl or morning bird a thing? What factors influence which the type of person you are? | Each day is 24 hours, but our internal clocks are not all the exact same. They are all around 24 hours, but given no external factors some people have longer circadian rhythms than others. In fact, research has found most people's internal clock to be ~25 hours, making them night owls . These differences mean some peop... |
Why is the combo of ibuprofen and alcohol so bad for you? | It's acetaminophen that doesn't mix well with alcohol. This is because both are metabolized in the liver. The liver can't handle both at once so you end up damaging your liver and having a more pronounced effect from the alcohol. Ibuprofen is metabolized in the stomach and generally doesn't interact with alcohol. |
What do people mean when they say "I can understand X language, but I can't speak it"? | Speaking a foreign language is complicated by the years of your muscle memory speaking your primary language. If you are familiar enough with a foreign language, understanding it when heard or reading it becomes automatic much quicker than speech because you have don't have to juggle the mental part of translating from... |
Why can't we improve the hardware of consoles such as playstation or xbox like we can with pc's? | The whole point of the console is to be an enclosed, controlled environment for Microsoft/Sony/Game developers. That's what makes it a separate platform. Without it, it's just like any other PC. Plus, making it up gradable, with slots and removable modules, makes it more expensive to produce. The later iterations of th... |
Quantum numbers, orbitals and the correlation to the periodic table | The entirety of quantum mechanics can be summarized in one single equation: the Schrodinger equation. Depending on how we solve it with strict conditions set such as energy, momentum, and total potential energy, etc we can arrive at different solutions that describe the shape of where electrons can be found in an atom.... |
How can builders put up a house in a couple weeks, but it has taken my state 25 years to? Construct a 67 mile stretch of road in a loop around Charlotte? | This isn't specific to Charlotte, but generally speaking, 1) a beltway around a city is a heck of a lot more planning, engineering, zoning, land acquisition and construction than a house; 2) highway construction has to comply with a mass of federal, state and local laws and permitting processes, like the Clean Air Act,... |
How is the U.S. getting away with drone strikes in Yemen/around the Middle East? | Generally speaking it has to do with 1) The strength of that government's military 2) Their diplomatic clout with other nations. Lets say the US carried out a drone strike in Germany. It would be very VERY big news. Dozens of eye witnesses, likely somebody would maybe have it on camera. On top of that Germany is a memb... |
What are the differences between cannabis sativa and indica in terms of scientifically observable effects on the body/mind? | All I know is fuck edibles tho.. had me lying on the couch crying not to eat edibles ever again lol and I'm a huge pothead too.I have medical cannibus access. I can pick any type of weed.. When I smoke indica I know I won't be getting too much done too quickly. I get a full body buzz and a full state of relaxation. It'... |
Difference between computer science and programming? | Computer science is the entire field of figuring out what computers can do, both theoretically and practically. It contains diverse subjects including theory of computation, data structures and algorithms, computer architecture, software engineering, artificial intelligence, numerical analysis, networking, parallel and... |
How do beach stores make money? | Stores don't need to be unique if there's enough business for all of them. A McDonald's and a Burger King can both operate right next to each other as long as there are enough people buying fast food to keep both of them in business. |
How Facebook knows to suggest my music teacher from 2 years ago with whom I have no mutual friends | I'd like to add that if you have the school you attended on your information, and she has the same school as an employer, that might be plausible. |
How is it possible for the US debt to be more than all forms of currency on the planet combined? | Is this in reference to the physical currency post on DiB? Not all currency is physical; there is a significant amount of it that essentially only exists on electronic ledgers and in bank accounts. Furthermore, because of the nature of the US debt, the fact that there literally isn't enough physical money to pay for it... |
if a new col(or/our) would ever be discovered would screens be able to display it? | Computers can display all visible colours. They just use different amounts of red, green and blue light. Coputers can't display light out of the visibe spectrum, so if a colour outside of the visible spectrum was discovered, computers couldn't display it, but we couldn't see it anyway. |
Why do we taste eye drops after inserting them? | You know how you get a runny nose when you cry? Your eyes and your nose are connected. You know how it's really difficult to taste things when you have a stuffy nose and can't smell them? Your nose and your mouth are also connected. |
Can we patch up the holes in the ozone layer with manufactured ozone? | Also, ozone is toxic. You can't just release it to the atmosphere, you'd have to haul it all the way to the ozone layer which would cost astronomical amounts.Why would we do this? The hole in the ozone layer is recovering as we speak. NASA expects it to be fully recovered by 2070.There are three big global problems reg... |
why do most canned fruits taste essentially like their fresh counterparts, but peaches taste completely different? | I think that might be just your perspective. I think that aside from texture, peaches taste remarkably similar fresh-vs-canned Pineapple is a big one - almost night-and-day difference there. Another possibility is quality. The best picks of any fruit will be delivered fresh as produce. The next tier goes to canning. Af... |
Why does methamphetamine use ruin your teeth? | If I remember right when you do meth your mouth get's really dry for a long time it starts to rot, as you don't have saliva to wash away food particles, like sugar.Drug-induced xerostomia and bruxism are thought to be the two foremost contributing factors. Other frequently cited factors are poor nutrition, eating too m... |
Why do high profile criminals who we all know are guilty get the service of the best public defenders? I.E. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev | Black comedy joke: Because the cops missed his heart and brain. Actual answer: Lawyers tend to specialize in certain types of law, so the same ones will keep showing up for similar high-profile cases. It's a matter of lawyers being high profile because of the sorts of cases they take, not necessarily because clients ex... |
Why does it take so long to withdraw the US' troops from the Afghanistan, Iraq, and the other countries they're in? | As stated there are the issues of not pulling out and leaving a power vacuum, but there is the issue of the logistics that needs to be considered. The 24 hour estimate is probably incorrect, that just isn't possible from a landlocked country. But a lot of the logistics used in Afghanistan were brought in by land, the v... |
Why is Adobe Flash so hated? | Web Browsers use a combination of Javascript, HTML, and CSS to control what they display. We've created standards for them, so that HTML and CSS will display the same in Firefox as it does in Chrome . Back in the day , there were a lot of things that HTML and CSS just couldn't do, like show an embedded video, or have a... |
Why do famines happen? | There are several things that go into causing a famine. One of the big ones is abiotic stresses like drought. If all the plants die because there is no water, then there is no food to eat. Another one is biotic stresses like bugs, fungi, and viruses. These can spread through the crop and, once again, no food. These are... |
Hows is the Commission on Presidential Debates legal? | Who, otherwise, is going to put it on? The government? That's never been a function of the government, nor should it be. The government is not meant to handle _all_ important aspects of life and needs an extremely compelling reason to get involved in something like that. |
Why is it recommended that you start drinking beverages with the lower alcohol content and then steadily raise it (beer - wine - whiskey), and why is it bad to do the opposite? | The only real issue is personal judgment. They say beef before liquor because typically you'll go to a bar, drinking three or four beers, and then switch to shots or something. You're already drunk, and you'd proceed to get drunker. If you are drinking sensibly it doesn't matter. Every heard of a boiler maker? You coul... |
If urine is sterile, why can't we drink it? | You can drink urine. People in survival situations sometimes do. But the thing is that it's full of waste products that your body wants to get rid of, so while it conserves water, it also puts all that waste back into your body, and it all has to be processed out again. Returns diminish rapidly after that. |
Why do smokers get a calming response from cigarettes when they are distressed, nervous, or anxious; when it seems like nicotine (a stimulant) should have the opposite effect? | There was a study done that determined it was partially based on how you inhale. Unfortunately I don't have a link. But smokers fluctuate between both uses. |
How do we have awesome pictures of the milky way, when we have never been out of the milky way to take pictures of it? | A lot of times the pictures you see representing, yes I do mean representing, the Milky Way are just pictures of the andromeda galaxy. It's estimated to look very similar to our galaxy and is almost perpendicular to us, which makes for good pictures |
Do you sweat while you swim? | I would assume so. It's a natural response of the body if it get over heated. Even in cold areas. |
Why couldn't oil companies and gas stations keep gas prices artificially high during the recent period of over-production of oil? | If one gas station kept their prices the same, and another dropped by just 10 cents, everyone would go to the other gad station! So it's a cycle back and forth until they meet.Petroleum engineer here They do. Right after the market crashed a major refinery in Indiana "needed" huge repairs. Effectively throttling the su... |
what the hell was Nintendo thinking when they designed the Nintendo 64 controller? Is there any logical reason why the included the third handle? | The only explanation I've come up with over the years is that some games play better with a joystick, and others with the D-pad. The third handle allows for easy switching between the two, without cramping them together. |
how would you get rid of tapeworm? | Meds. Kill it, then shit it out. There are natural remedies that would certainly hamper a tapeworm, if you google it. Of all the fucking things, I know of a pet wallaby in Australia that would lick ash trays clean. The vet was impressed by the animals instincts, the nicotine was killing it's then discovered tapeworm. |
How can companies like Amazon go so many years without turning a profit? | Amazon is constantly reinvesting in itself. Say they make $100 in a year. What they do is take that $100 and use it to buy stuff to make themselves better. So they take any profit they make and spend it so in the end the profit is $0 but they have made themselves $100 better. Its more complicated then that in the real ... |
Why do diseases kill their hosts if their evolutionary goal is to reproduce and stay alive? | Actually, that's why diseases kill their hosts fairly slowly and symptoms usually don't show up very quickly. They get a free place to breed and come into contact with other breeding grounds as long as you're alive. It'd be like jumping from island to island and stripping them of resources to survive. As long as you bu... |
why does the U.S. refrigerate eggs when most of the world doesn't? | Because if the baby chickens hatch, they can nibble on the lettuce or carrot stems i have conveniently left by the eggs! S'cuuuuute! :) |
Why does is matter if I'm using encryption/privacy measures if all the traffic is kept by my ISP anyways? | It's encrypted on your computer before it crosses their systems, not after, so they can't see it. Also, they DON'T have the power to break modern algorithms - they would need more computers than there are atoms on earth. |
How do courtroom TV shows work? | Most shows operate as described in the comments here, but [Gloria Allred's show] uses actors and scripts. No real legal complaint there. |
How are those ships put inside bottles? | Basically the body of the ship is thin enough to fit through the bottles mouth and all the sails are collapsible and when it's in the bottle they use really long tweezers to fold up the sails and boom there you go. Or very rarely they're built inside of the bottle |
Can we claim self defense and fight back if a cop is going over the line? | If you fight a cop, be sure to kill him. After the fact, it will be your word against his. If the court hears his version, you're fucked.More and more patrol cars are carrying hi tech video cameras just to avoid lawsuits. But some of the dummies that are in them forget that and , as in Minneapolis, pay out huge sums of... |
How did every culture on the planet at some point in their ancient history invent the concept of teas? | I'm not sure why you think every culture invented tea. It's well known and well documented that tea was invented in China and spread from there. I have never heard anybody believe otherwise . In fact, we can track when and how it was spread pretty well. It's pretty incredible how bad some of the answers give here are. ... |
What exactly is your body doing during sleep to generate/recover energy for use the next day? | Hormones such as those for growth are released in certain phases, hence one possible reason why we need more of it pre-maturity and less in later life. You aren't going to get a fully acceptable answer here because no one really knows. The consensus seems to be a sort of psychosomatic rejuvenation occurs, like giving t... |
Why do we need REM? Why could't we just close our eyes and dream? | I just saw something much more mundane. Every cell in your body takes in nutrition thru the blood and excretes waste via the lymphatic sytem. Except for your brain. The cell density in your brain is highly concentrated. If there were a lymphatic system, your head would need to be 8 times it's size. So the problem of wa... |
Why do graham crackers (Honey Maid, generic brands, etc) still come in flimsy, non-sealable wrappers? | Dante forgot to put it in the Inferno but there's totally a level of hell for the people who design food packaging. |
Since space is expanding, what is it expanding into? And if it isn't explanding, what's keeping it from doing so? | Literally everything is moving away from literally everything. There's no reasonable way of explaining that but assuming that the space itself is expanding. |
If some Oysters can filter 15 gallons of water a day, why are we not putting oysters in highly polluted rivers like the Thames? | Because if the water is too acidic, they just flat out die trying to filter it. It's a big problem in the pacific northwest, which isn't nearly as polluted as the Thames. |
What are the advantages and disadvantages of using turboprops over turbojets? | Because it's very efficient and an equivalent piston engine would be larger in size. Jet turbines are very compact for the amount of power they give out and turboprop and turbofan engines make use of the jet in order to power a propeller or the vanes of a turbine in order to move air. A jet engine is less efficient bec... |
Why is the ZIKA virus so dangerous? | Because pregnant women who get the virus are having babies with abnormally small heads and brain damage. You're right the symptoms make it seem way less severe than most of the other pandemics, but the risk to babies is severe.Its not just any birth defects it is babies are born with shrunken heads. This means that the... |
What is the current vetting process for allowing immigrants/refugees into the United States, and what deficiencies were there that would necessitate a ban on immigrants/refugees from certain countries? | There is a curious lack of analysis on this subject in the media. Americans keep being told that we need more vetting of refugees, when they don't even know what the current vetting process is. This is just another example of our collective contempt for facts. Without knowing what the facts are, people take sides and e... |
What is this Hyperloop that SpaceX is building and what purpose does it serve? | To be clear, it's not SpaceX that's building it. Elon Musk popularized it although apparently he did not conceive of the original idea. The company that's actually building it is wholly separate from SpaceX. One of my friends just got an offer there, so here's hoping he's a good engineer! |
How do potholes form and how do they hurt my tires? | Just water usually, doesn't need to freeze. Once water gets under the seal, the alternating weight of vehicles causes a pumping action which seperates the tarmac from the base. It's very much like fracking used in gas mines. Hitting the sharp edge of something is just inherently bad for tyres. It can distort the intern... |
How does non-scratch glass work? | usually by not being glass. the most common way is to put on a chemical coating that's much harder than glass. the particulars vary with brand, there are all sorts of minerals that do the job. |
How do countries get themselves out of debt? Is it possible for a country to achieve zero debt? | Norway is not only out of debt, but has a surplus of over $8 billion. They're using it for all sorts of good things, such as investing back in local businesses, and one of the largest pension funds in the world.in 1835 the us gov. paid the national debt, did not last long before they got in debt again though |
Back in the 90s there were a few vehicles that came out with 4 wheel steering. Why didn't this become a thing? | Low demand had it disappear for most regular passenger vehicles, it did exist in cars from the early 1900's and just became more popular from car manufacturers in the 80-90's. It's still used for larger vehicles like farming and busses, and I believe the BMW 7 series still uses a form of it, along with some other luxur... |
How come we don't fortify junk food (e.g. candy, soda, fast food) with vitamins/nutrients? | Junk food is characterized by more than just that it's not very good for you. It's also *cheap*. Those two things go hand-and-hand really: This country subsidizes corn production so much that high fructose corn syrup is cheaper than water. Fortifying it with vitamins and nutrients would make it more expensive. |
Why humans are so inclined to seek any form of "drugs" | They're fun, feel good, and if used correctly can be effective tools for exploring your thoughts and feelings. |
Why are gas stations still advertising gas as unleaded? | The only place I believe you can buy leaded fuel is an airport. It still exists and can case damage to modern cars emission systems. I would speculate it clears manufactures from liability if someone where to fill their tank up with it, or add it as an additive. Tetraethyllead was added to fuel to increase fuel stabili... |
How do deep sea creatures withstand the pressure? | You don't feel pressure as an absolute. You feel only differences in pressure. So if we go deep, the air behind the eardrum is 1 ATM and the water is higher pressure so we feel that difference. Deep sea animals have all their tissues and fluids at the same pressure as their environment, so there is no pressure differen... |
Why does "bumping" or "hitting" a gadget (I.E. a calculator) that is running low on battery or isn't working, magically make it work? | Maybe I should start slamming my gas chromatography machine at work against the wall if the calibrations don't come in.Oxidation due to the metal on the battery and device being different. Or cold solder joints that have lost contact with their pads/connections; hitting the object jostles them and can reseat the connec... |
Why is there so much hate against Comic Sans font? | It's pretty much just a circle-jerk at this point by people who fancy themselves typographers. It's sort of like how people like to think they are photographers because they hate HDR. _URL_0_ |
Are there any music genres left to create/discover, or has that facet of music run its course? | It's hard to say. Although mathematicians have calculated that we're like several orders of magnitude away from having recorded every possible combination of notes. On the other hand, only a small portion of these combinations of notes will actually be music, and only an even smaller portion will be enjoyable music. Bu... |
Why are camera lenses circles but the video/pictures are rectangular? | First off, to address the circular lens question, a sphere does the best job of uniformly redirecting light where you want it to go. If lenses were any other shape other than some form of a part of a circle, you would get very strange, fractured views of what the camera is looking at. Now, as for the rectangular image ... |
. Why do many employers give their hourly employees sporadic, weekly-changing, temporary schedules? | I know a lot of hourly workers that *don't* have this issue. It really depends on how quick employee turnover is in those fields. Making a schedule that will work for everyone, and can still allow for covering of missed shifts takes a while to figure out and get down properly. If you can't go a month without losing an ... |
How is edible seaweed (nori) made and why is it edible? | Removed as not ELI5 material. See [Rule 2.] This seaweed is a plant. Like many plants it is edible. You can literally just pick it up out of the ocean and eat it. ELI5 isn't for everything; this post may do better in a different subreddit. |
Why is it more ok to show nipples in movies/TV shows but it's so rare to see genitalia? | I think that's because nipples are seen as less 'bad'. We see man-nipples all the time and our social rules grew as such that we don't consider them sexual. Woman-nipples are seen as sexual, however not in every culture and to a lesser extent: in some cultures breasts are not seen as sexual and not always covered up, w... |
Why are we told for example it is -2 degrees Celsius but feels like -10 degrees Celsius? | They're generally talking about something called the wind-chill factor. Air is a great insulator and if the wind isn't blowing, the air immediately around your body stays in place so it stays warmer. When the wind is blowing, it sweeps away all that air and replaces it with colder air in the larger environment. On top ... |
Why can't companies just buy enough land or real estate and make your their own state and provide themselves tax incentives (especially that Disney already made its own city)? | Buying enough real estate for the rest of the union to even consider allowing a company to be it's own state purely for the tax incentives sounds like a really expensive way to avoid paying taxes. It's much easier to offshore your profits away from the public eye and join the ranks of the collection of companies who ha... |
Why do you want to keep swelling down? | Because the swelling itself can cause additional damage. Swelling usually happens when extra fluid gets packed into a certain part of the body, but there's only so much room for it. When that area gets too full of fluid, it can put a lot of stress on surrounding tissues and joints, increasing the odds that you'll tear ... |
Why is it so sexist for women to not be allowed to play Augusta National, but women's only gyms are kosher? | I don't think this is really an apples to apples comparison but it does illustrate a legitimate gripe: that feminists, in general, are against anything that is men only, while they see no problem with female only groups. If it is ok for women to have a female only gym where they can exercise without worrying about men ... |
What would happen if 2 planets collided? | Of course it wouldn't be the same. If earth was approached by a more massive planet, gravity would shift significantly as it got closer. Basically this phenomenon already happens every day on a smaller scale. The gravity of the moon affects the oceans causing the tides. |
Why are young children so susceptible to crying over the littlest things? | Best way I've ever heard this phrased: For young children, every unfortunate thing that happens to them is literally one of the worst things that has ever happened to them in their entire lives.Children cry because it gets attention. Before you could ask for anything specifically, if you were uncomfortable or needed so... |
What is preventing Toronto from acquiring an NFL franchise? | There are 2 reasons: 1. Greed. The Buffalo Bills object because they don't want any closer competition. They also try to convince the other owners that they can capture more of the Toronto-area market and make the team more profitable 2. Greed. Companies often won't have those profits count towards their US revenues an... |
Why are you sometimes more tired after sleeping more than necessary? | There's another one on here I read a few days ago. I'm too tired for digging but basically you sleep in cycles, so like a 7 hour cycle for example, if you wake up in the middle of it you'll be more tired than you would if you woke up after. So if you sleep a whole cycle and then wake up in the middle of a second cycle ... |
if the U.S. Government is supposed to separate church and state, why are politicians allowed to publicly state their religious views and act on those views while making policies or voting in congress? | We have a separation of church and state, but that doesn't mean that there's a separation of church and politics. |
Why is the Queen of England's husband not the King of England? | as most english traditions go, it goes back to some dark routes. basically a king has more power than a queen, it's done to stop people marrying in, to rule a country after he's married the queen, then done away with her, or over-ruling her decisions. basically it was done to protect the country hundreds or years ago w... |
What, if anything, is the difference between a hick, redneck, good ol' boy, hillbilly and country bumpkin? | I haven't seen it mentioned that the distinction of a hillbilly from other country folk is that they live in the mountains. Hence *hill*billy. They come from the Appalachian region mostly, but also can be found in the Ozarks. |
Why does water taste differently based on the cup's material? (Glass is tastier the Steel which is tastier than plastic cups ...) | It's actually two different reasons. Steel tastes different because metal ions alter the pH of the water slightly. Plastic cups change the taste because when the plastic cups are formed, there are still left over monomers and short oligomers which are in the plastic matrix but not really connected to it. These chemical... |
Why is a census necessary in the US? Can't specialized software from the social security department and the IRS do this job automatically for most of the US? | Part of the census is recording where everyone in the US, legal or not, lives. Including people who don't pay taxes, and people who don't have social security numbers.Article 1, Section 2 of the constitution calls for an enumeration for the purposes of assigning representatives. In essence, it is requiredThe Census is ... |
Why is "bastard" an insult? | Consider a woman who has children with, and has built a life upon, a certain man, her husband. All marital assets are assumed to be passed down to those children, not any other children born between that man and another woman. In days of yore, those children would have no claim to those assets. Those children are basta... |
Why does the United States have such massive military expenditures when compared to all other countries? Are there reasons to where the money is going? | Because there's a military-industrial complex who makes sure that the USA's military expenditure never goes down and money doesn't get spent on other things. Even since WWII these guys have been looking for ways to keep money coming to them, looking for more useless wars to waste US lives on. You can read more about it... |
Considering that humanity and civilization originated in Africa, why then does it remain so undeveloped and behind in terms of technology and medicine? | Political reasons. Outside powers long colonized Africa and stripped it of its riches, and oppressed its population, stunting its growth. It takes stability, freedom, and the buildup of capital to create a society safe enough to accumulate wealth, technology and higher learning. All the good stuff flowed out of Africa ... |
why're all the contestants on the bachelor/bachelorette always look pretty much the same? | There is a science to what most people find appealing. Symmetrical faces, specific bone structures, etc. It's the same reason super models all look kind of the same. |
What do the new net neutrality rules mean for a person like me; a normal lower class dude that just wants the internet service he's paying for? | > to hold their internet service providers accountable when they're not providing the services you're being billed for. You're being billed for **up to** 15 MBps, or whatever. This bill doesn't help with that sort of weasel word shenanigans. What it DOES help you with is you'll have options to buy Netflicks, hulu, or o... |
How is stepping on the flag illegal if any form of non-violent protest is allowed by the constitution? | It's part of the Flag Code, which is technically law. But there are no punishments for it and there can be no punishments for it due to the First Amendment. The Flag Code just exists as a way to codify how to treat the flag with respect. But you have the right to not treat it with respect if you so choose. Edit: For mo... |
What is Scientology and why do people seem to hate it so much? | It's a for-profit cult known for being extremely litigious. They're disliked primarily for using the legal shielding granted to religions to engage in a wide variety of damaging activities.Search, my friend, and see a vast cornucopia of previous responses to this exact question in ELI5. |
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