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People say the Quran is about peace and love, and that Terrorists take certain texts out of context. What texts are those and what context are they mistaking it for? | The Quran is a long book that says lots of different, contradictory things. *Some* passages say, very explicitly, that you should kill non-believers. It's not ambiguous language. But *some other* passages talk about treating [at least] all Jews, Christians, and Muslims as your brothers and sisters.Honestly, same deal w... |
Why when we are put under pressure to think of something, we can't. | Try moving this to /r/askscience A fully scientific answer for this probably wouldn't be too hard to understand , and you'll get a better response there |
why is it that training diapers velcro is the opposite direction than regular diapers? | Maybe as a slight obstacle to kids to prevent them from removing them as easily if they don't like them? |
What just happened to Reddit for the last ten minutes? | CSS file wasn't being properly served to users visiting the site. The CSS is a file that tells the browser how to format the text and where to place the text. Without it you end up seeing what you saw. Why wasn't it being served properly? They could have pushed out a new CSS file to their content delivery network and m... |
why is it legal to be a prostitute in Canada, but illegal to buy a prostitute? | It's a new wave of thinking on the matter that originated in some European countries. The idea is that the act of soliciting prostitution is a violent act by a man in a position of power against the woman, who is powerless . The thinking goes that prostitution is not like other services because of the general taboos su... |
American phone numbers have letters in them how does this work? | On phones you'll see the numbers represent some letters. For example 1 = abc 2 = def 3 = ghi and so on. So if the number was 123 - abc it would be 123 - 111 |
Why does it take a fraction of a second for my body tell my brain about a sensation on my skin, but 20 minutes to tell it that I'm not hungry any more? | The fullness signal is actually a really complex and interesting one. What happens is you eat food, the energy it goes into your blood and fills up your muscles, then it fills up your fat cells. When your fat cells get some of this energy, they release a hormone which your brain reads and this makes you full, and more ... |
Fucking currency markets, how do they work? | It is best to begin by examining the original purpose of the foreign exchange market. It arose as a way for businesses and governments to exchange currency. Speculation was introduced to reduce the uncertainty in price. Speculation is the buying and selling of currency pairs to earn money on fluctuations in price in be... |
How do objects, e.g. satellites, stay in orbit? | Satellites stay in orbit, because they're moving very fast sideways. They're going so fast that the earth curves away from the satellite, faster than gravity can pull the satellite downwards. So it stays there, at the same height. |
or 35, How did cats come to know how to cover up their crap, as opposed to other animals not doing so? | Two sides: - It's a submissive behaviour, openly pooping would be the behaviour of the dominant cat in a feral cat colony and large felines often do this. Since you are, though the cat often acts otherwise, the dominant one in the home, this in part encourages this behaviour. - It's a protective measure. Remember that ... |
How is compressed air made? | By using an air compressor? Although what is in your can is actually a chemical mixture, as air won't compress to a liquid in the conditions imposed by a standard aluminum can. |
How is someone considered over-qualified for a job? | If you're overqualified for a job, you know you could be making more money elsewhere & are likely to be unhappy in your job and leave as soon as a better opportunity comes up. An unhappy overqualified worker that feels the work is below them might actually be less productive than a happy, challenged worker that is moti... |
Why is it so expensive to go to university in the United States of America and why does it keep getting more expensive? | Because both private and public universities require tuition fees in the US. Since most student can't afford their degrees, they resort to taking out loans. Those loans are guarantied by the government to ensure more people get enrolled and get an education. This makes lenders more willing to give out higher and higher... |
why do old men wear their pants so high? | Ever seen any movies from the 1940s? People who were in their 20s-30s back then wore their clothes the same way. It's just the style they grew up with. |
a trade school diploma/certificate is sub-par to a 2 year community college degree | A trade school diploma/certificate shows that you are skilled in a particular area and have the knowledge/experience to engage in a specific type of profession . This is a great qualification for specific types of occupations, but it's effectively useless at demonstrating your level of general knowledge and capacity to... |
What exactly would happen should a nuclear missile be detonated? | There are three basic mechanisms of injury for the bomb. The first is the concussive blast itself. This is what creates big mushroom cloud you see. It sends out a huge shockwave that blows everything apart for kilometers around. The second effect is heat. It's like when you open a hot oven and get a blast of hot air in... |
Why does it take time to uninstall a program from my computer? | Because sometimes many changes are made, not just to files. These changes need to be reverted. Like how you put a new chair in a car, it also takes time to remove it. Unscrewing and such. I've noticed Blizzard installers tend to not do this, and uninstalls are quick.The uninstaller has to figure out what all the files ... |
LI5: How does my iPad run in complete silence? | The iPad has no moving parts. The sound of a desktop/laptop computer comes from cooling fans, spinning hard disks and other drives . The iPad doesn't have any of these. Here is somebody taking an iPad2 apart: _URL_0_ |
- How my dog knows it's me coming to the door, before he can even see me. He barks at everyone BUT me, but he has no line of sight on me. | I can tell my boss is walking down the hall at least 30ft away, her heels just click a certain way. I'm sure your dog knows how you walk.The same way I can tell which person is moving around the house without looking by the way their footsteps soundIt might be smell in a combination with other reasons. Dogs have a much... |
What is the logic behind not having a headphone jack in the new iPhone 7? | Apart from helping to promote sales and adoption of Apple's new AirPods? Removing the 3.5mm jack is generally one of the necessary modifications to electronic devices in order to make them water-resistant .I work for a major IT hardware manufacturer. Nobody knows the real reasons outside of Apple boardrooms, what they ... |
If extraterrestrial life has been to earth, Why would governments world wide have them classified, or denied. | The common conspiracy theory explanations are: * to prevent people from panicking* to keep dangerous/profitable alien technology in the hands of the exclusive few* because the aliens *are* the gov't Of course, this overlooks the single most likely explanation aliens visitors aren't real. |
Why do some people still believe the landing of the moon was staged? | Some people live their life as contrarians who will oppose anything the Government says or does. It's the #1 reason why vaccines should never be made compulsory by the Government, it will potentially cause not just the anti-vax idiots not to take them, but the anti-Government crowd too.Its the "I'm cool because I know ... |
Why is raw meat so dangerous to humans, yet all other animals have no issues with it? | Other animals are full of parasites. If you'd like to be full of parasites too, go ahead and eat raw meat. It's not that we *can't* eat it, it's just that we know better. |
Will Medically extending/saving lives plateau NATURAL Human evolution? | No, evolution doesn't only go 'up' or anything as our environment and everything changes, we'll still have changes in who procreates and who doesn't. |
why is Cymbalta withdrawal so devastating that a class action lawsuit was filed for sufferers what is happening in the body to make you "feel brain zaps" | Cymbalta withdrawal, like most SSRI withdrawals can be pretty devastating if you don't step down. Stopping cold turkey is misery and can be dangerous. Cymbalta seems to have some severe withdrawal symptoms, but any antidepressant that is serotogenic can cause these symptoms. Benzos , antipsychotics, and tricyclic antid... |
Why does smoke from the tip of a cigarette taste so foul? | Because it hasn't been filtered yet. The smoke picks up some flavor from the rest of the tobacco that it it passes through and the little cloth filter smooths it out further. |
( sorta ) What does the liquid in female ejaculate ( squirt ) consist of and why / how does it happen? (NSFW ) | It's not simply urine, despite what everyone who hears about the study but didn't read it wants to tell you. It's similar to urine. It has some of the same chemicals that urine has. It's not urine. |
Why do we crave sugary and fatty foods and not sugar and fat? | You don't eat enough unprocessed sugar or fat in order to crave it directly. You just crave the sources that get it to you. |
How/what can police recover from a damaged phone? | The phones on board memory is flash. Flash memory chips can go through the wash and still be readable. Source: I don't check my pockets before doing laundry.> How do they extract data from a broken mobile phone Some phones internal memory is just an SD-card without the plastic case, soldered to the main board. Even an ... |
Why can't the UN security council vote out members/vote in members so it remains 6 parties? | There is a way to overrule the security council in the UN General Assembly: _URL_0_ However the security council would still be in charge of executing that decision, and you're back to where you started from. |
Why can’t we smile in pictures for passports and other official docs? | Smiling can obscure facial features that useful for ID'ing someone. The goal of a picture for a passport, driver's license, etc is to make it easy to identify the holder, not for the holder to present a nice picture of themselves, so smiling is discouraged/disallowed. |
Why is letting your car run close to empty "bad for the fuel pump"? | The fuel pump uses the gasoline it pumps as both coolant and lubrication. Since you can't turn the pump off running the tank dry can damage the pump. |
Europeans "discovered" a lot of new things when they made it to the Americas like chocolate, tobacco, tomatoes, etc. Did they find anything that different in later discoveries like Oceania? | Because Australia is hot and dry most of the year, much of the native flora is very hardy and native fruits and vegetables are rare. The ones that do exist aren't very tasty, although there are some exceptions. Small fruits such as [quandongs], [riberries] and various plums are about the extent of fruits and vegetables... |
The Buddhist concept of Anatta | Anatman? I think these are the same thing. It's the concept of no-self. That whatever makes up you or I as an individual is really just an illusion created by your senses. It follows that you shouldn't develop attachment to this idea of self. I had a nun explain it to me once with a cloud. When we see a cloud that look... |
Why do people throw their shoes onto telephones wires | There's a lot of urban myths surrounding this. Most of them involve the presence of drugs or other crime. In reality, all it means is that somebody didn't really want those shoes.Where im from in Australia they used to do that as a mean prank to someone, never happened to me myself, not sure where the urban myths came ... |
How does packet switching work? | Generically, a switching device has a table of addresses or address groups which reflect destinations for an incoming packet. If a packet arrives such that the destination address isn't in the list, the switch sends out a request to find out. Then at arrival, the switch reads the address on the packet header, configure... |
Why do we show our teeth as a sign of friendliness when most other species do this to show aggression? | It's important to note that there are plenty of cultures in which a smile conveys negative emotions or connotations - annoyance, embarrassment, insincerity, etc. Such a strong connotation between smiling and positive emotions is mostly a Western cultural construct. Edit: Google Search for relevance in Russian, Samoan, ... |
How did we get to the moon with computers so weak compared to today | We got to the moon by sitting on top of big rockets! The computers didn't do that much. The course was calculated by hand ahead of time. I'm not sure you'd even need a computer to go to the moon, if your analog timing circuitry was sufficiently accurate. A modern wristwatch probably has the computational power needed t... |
As a right handed person, why can't I do even the most simple things with my left hand or foot | In addition to what the others said: Using your left hand you see things from a mirrored perspective. If you eat something with your right hand, you will most likely tilt your head a bit to the left. Eating with the left hand will make you tilt your head to the right. Since you aren't accustomed to this point of view, ... |
how are non human species, who have no distinguishing physical characteristics from one another able to tell which are their children? | There have been studies that show, time and time again, that people have a hard time recognizes other humans that are not the same race as them. It's not that those people are not distinguishable, it's that we can't always tell immediately. |
Why is California not investing in desalination plants? | you mean like Carlsbad: The United States' largest desalination plant is being constructed by Poseidon Resources and is expected to go online 2016.[141] It is expected to produce 50 million gallons a day to 110,000 customers in San Diego County at an estimated cost of $1b.Concord: Planned to open in 2020, producing 20 ... |
Why aren't we sexually attracted to our siblings or parents? | Imo its more a cultural and societal thing because there have been plenty of cases of incest and lusting of or after family members. I think the average person is gonna take any of those feelings and bury them deep down though it's not gonna be something that a person would openly admit to.I look exactly like my dad an... |
How do mathematical powers work? | > Why is 1^k = 1. Where k is some constant. If you have some extra time explain in a less ELI5 way as to why 1*k = k, thanks! Power is as you said, just shorthand for multiplication by the same number, which in turn is shorthand for addition. 1^k means 1 multiplied by itself k times, and since 1•1 equals 1, it doesn't ... |
How do 'illegal' websites such as The Pirate Bay earn money with ads? | As noted in another thread, sites like this do not host illegal content; they simply let users find find out how to connect to a peer network and provide information about the collection of files. Also sites like PirateBay are hosted in countries with different, not-US laws and thus aren't necessarily subject to the sa... |
At what point does a program/software qualify to be called an AI? | I went to conference where one of the developers of the game Alien: Isolation was speaking. He said that to satisfy the marketing promises, they had to have some sort of AI. So they put in that if you attack the alien with a flame thrower, it won't approach you head-on again if you have a flame thrower out.That was lit... |
Is there a way to determine how much pain someone is in using technology? Do our brains react differently or the same despite each individuals unique pain tolerance? | They actually already kind of can. Pain is subjective to the one experiencing it, but you can get an idea of how much pain a person is in, by their vital signs. Of course this doesn't work on a life threatening level as the blood pressure and heart rate drops, but usually the higher these are for some, and the elevated... |
How does disney still own the rights to Mickey Mouse? Shouldn't it have expired a long time ago? | Funnily enough, the law keeps changing to extend copyright just before Disney's earliest copyrights would expire. I couldn't possibly suggest that lobbying from Disney has anything to do with that, but the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act is often known as the Mickey Mouse Protection Act. |
Why are January and February the coldest months (in the Northern hemisphere) when the winter equinox is in December? | Residual heat left from earlier months. Similarly, it's hottest around noon, but AC units run the most around 3 PM. |
What would've happened if people did not panic during the Great Depression? | It probably woulnd't have been as bad. The stock market did crash and at the time margin requirements were only 10% so people who were heavily leveraged couldn't pay back their brokers who couldn't pay back the banks backing them, And you had the dustbowl which decimated middle America And this was before the Glass Ste... |
How much smoking is bad? And will I ever get back to normal? | In short, yes, there is some permanent damage. Here's a simple graphic that explains smoking recovery . [image] |
When can a judge overrule the jury's decision? And if they can do it, what's the point of the jury? | There are very few instances where a judge can override a jury. First, are directed verdicts. In criminal matters, a directed verdict can only be entered for an acquittal. This generally happens when the prosecution provides so little evidence that no reasonable jury *could* return a guilty verdict. The judge looks at ... |
Is there a biological or social reason as to why there is always a line for the ladies restroom as compared to the mens? | It's an architectural engineering problem. Men have the ability to urinate while standing in a normal, upright position. For women, it is more efficient and hygenic to urinate while seated on a toilet . Because a standing urinal takes up far less space than a toilet stall, given an equal amount of space, you will be ab... |
the back story to MadMax: Fury Road | Basically it doesn't matter. You don't need to know the Backstory to fully understand or enjoy Fury Road. Max Rockatansky is a wandering Road Warrior, scarred by a bad past, in which his wife and daughter were murdered. All of his adventures on film except for the first one happen in no exact order, Fury Road could pot... |
How are old video games (like Super Mario for NES) only a number of kilobytes in size? | The short answer is that they did a lot less. The code that implements that actual rules and gameplay isn't too much of a problem size-wise, it's mostly just shuffling around numbers representing scores, positions of objects, and so on. You can fit a passable chess AI in less than 1KB. Modern games get big because they... |
Why am I so incredibly mean imediately after I wake up from unintentional sleep? | If you mean unintentional sleep, rather than being woken unexpectedly in some way other than your alarm going off, well, in either case tbh, I guess it could be that the sudden change of situation and an understanding of not much more than 'something is wrong' at a very deep level could kick off the basic 'fight or fli... |
Why do I feel better when I work out compared to when I lay on the couch all day? | The best I understand it is that when you don't exercise, your body thinks that you are trying to survive hard times, like droughts, prolonged natural disasters etc. where hunting and generally doing all the things our Stone Age and pre-human ancestors did to survive on a daily basis. This means your body stops spendin... |
Why don't nicotine addicts crave the drug during sleep? | Because, during day time, they don't only smoke when having withdrawal symptoms. It's more than just nicotine addiction. Smoking is also a behavioral pattern. Without a cigarette they don't know what to do with their hands for instance. Or what posture to assume. If it would only be nicotine, nicotine gum or nicotine p... |
Anti-aircraft flak seems dangerous to people on the ground. | Presumably if you've noticed bombers heading for your city, you've already sounded an air raid siren and civilians are in shelter. Plus, the terminal velocity of AAA rounds is only so much. It can certainly do damage coming down, but not as much as when it's fired.Its a risk vs reward issue. The risk is dropping some o... |
Fire temperature and how it works[E] | You're asking a /r/askscience question. There isn't much of an ELI5 answer to your multiple questions. Different fuels burn at different temperatures. Energy produced by that fuel will vary by the mass of fuel being consumed. More fuel at one time equals more energy However, the mass of one match won't be enough to mak... |
Why do different types of alcohol make you feel different things? | I'm not entirely certain that's an actual phenomenon as much as it is the placebo effect. I don't drink all that often, but as far as the placebo side of it goes: Different liquors have different connotations. Whiskey is usually attributed to drunk irish men, but that isn't always true. |
Some bees have developed a way to kill hornets. They COOK them. How can such a complicated behavior evolve? | Bees are very closely related, because each of the non-queen bees in the colony shares 75% of her genes with her sisters across the colony. Because they're very closely related, it's evolutionarily much easier for them to evolve very cooperative behaviors. |
Why do software sometimes crashes? | > Why do not programmers fully test software before selling it to you? Because it's effectively impossible. One huge problem is that you are developing for a system that isn't testable. So, I might make a program on my computer but there is something in your configuration that messes things up. |
In the 1980's, cars pushing 90hp were barely able to meet federal emissions requirements, now production vehicles with well over 700hp meet all restrictions and the requirements are stricter today. | Technology evolves is the simple answer. Even in the last say 10 years or so big strides have been made in fuel efficiency. In gasoline engines we now have direct injection that run very high fuel pressure to atomize fuel better, which results in a more efficient burn. The design of combustion chambers have greatly imp... |
The British political system, what it consists of and how it works | The British have a parliamentary democracy system. This means the legislative body is the Houses of Parliament, once again split into a Lower House and an Upper House. Members of the commons are elected from their constituency, of which there are 650 across the UK. This takes place when an general election is called, w... |
Why are mice so bad to have kicking around your house/apartment? | Mice die if they don't eat. So if mice are kicking around, they're getting into *someone's* food.I am pretty sure that there feces can be incredibly harmful. |
What is catnip, what does it actually do, and are there other 'nips' for other animals? | GREEN OLIVES! to a cat it has the exact same properties as cat nip, give your kitty one, or put the juice on your fingers and approach- *^happy ^kitty ^:)* i didn't answer your question, but i find this to be relevant |
Why don't game designers just use real world physics equations in games? | My fluid simulation that took 90 hours to simulate for 10 seconds of actual video tells me game engines just aren't powerful enough to render and calculate things in the time frame needed. |
why are there so many unwed teen moms in the UK if birth control and abortion are state subsidized and available? | Some people just can't be bothered to take care of themselves even if the resources are available. Some teenagers with a history of parental neglect and abuse want to have kids so they can finally feel a nuclear family connection, even if they have to be the parent. You see that a lot in foster kids.The teenage pregnan... |
How did soldiers avoid killing allied soldiers in the chaos of war when hand to hand combat was the main method of fighting? | I read once that there just wasn't a whole lot of killng period back in the days of shieldwall battles. Alexander the Great supposedly only lost 900 men on his various campaigns. Battles then were basically hours-long shoving matches. Again, this is only what I read in a book called 'On Killing' by Lt. Col. Dave Grossm... |
What exactly is Delta-v? | The Greek letter Δ is used to symbolize a change. The v is shorthand for velocity, and what's used as the variable in equations to indicate velocity. Therefore Δv is the change in velocity of an object, or in the instance of Kerbal, the effort or work needed to change the trajectory of an object since velocity is the c... |
why does a partially downloaded video torrent turn into datamosh? | When you're downloading a file via bittorrent, you're not downloading it beginning to end; you're downloading it in various pieces - any one of which can come from anywhere in the file. Your video is jumping around because that's the data you have. |
Why we (the U.S.) can't agree on the effects of minimum wage on the economy? | > Economists can't even agree on what would happen if it was raised. Isn't this just mathematics, or is there something deeper here? It something much, much deeper. Economics is a weird discipline in that there is no real way to perform objective, controlled experiments. Rather, you have to look at what happened and tr... |
Why the current president (assuming they still have eligibility) automatically gets the nomination from their associated party... | Not sure about a technical answer, but the easy answer is that the party wants to show unity and support for the current president and they don't want him to waste time with a primary campaign instead of doing his job of being president. |
Why my teeth are rotting out of my face, despite constant brushing. But 100,000 year old cave men in museums still have all their teeth. | Dentist here. Cavemen didn't eat sugar. The bacteria that live in your mouth eat sugar, and produce acid, which is what actually causes damage.Because of sugar.If you want to know more of how bad sugar is for your teeth, just look at this highly unethical experiment _URL_1_ As a side note you can see how companies try ... |
Why don't other countries have military bases in the U.S? | Other posters saying the US won't allow it aren't exactly correct: we do have foreign military bases in the US but they're all shared with existing US bases - which is actually the case in a lot of the countries the US has bases in. For instance, the German Air Force shares a base with the US in Holloman Air Force Base... |
Why can't we find a way to disrupt the cell membrane of incurable diseases such as ebola, in order for it to go under apoptosis? | The problem with Ebola specifically along with some other retroviruses is that they are viruses. They don't have a cell wall until they infect your cells at which point they splice themselves into your DNA. you would have to target your own cells which would kill you. |
Why any country would ever need more nukes than can destroy the surface of our planet (as many have already)? Aside from fighting aliens, obviously. | MAD, Mutually Assured Destruction. Let's only focus on the US and Russia. Both sides only having 1 nuke isn't a big enough deterrent against going to war with each other. So you loose a single city from a enemy nuke, big deal. Having 10 nukes gives the enemy a chance to destroy some of them, either through hitting your... |
How did humans discover the act of sexual intercourse? | We didn't. Sex predates humans by 1.2 billion years. The immediate ancestors of our species had sex just like we did. There was nothing that needed discovering. |
Either the universe continues indefinitely, or it has an edge somewhere, both boggle the mind to imagine, which is correct? | There's a third option of finite but closed, and so without edges. Like the surface of a balloon.Sort of like finding the edge of earth, no matter how far you travel, you’ll never find an edge for earth and you might even end up where you startedWhile it is impossible to confirm, to the best of our knowledge the univer... |
- In the movies when they want to disarm a bomb, why don't they just cut all the wires? | Here is the thing, bomb makers don't want to make the bomb simple. They will probably put more than 2 or 3 wires on it. Electricity is can move faster than someone can cut all of the wires. If you cut the wrong one first, you're screwed. I think this was answered before. Yep, [here you go :)]", 'I'm no bomb expert, but... |
Why does McDonalds have limited time flavors if they are popular? | A fast food restaurant works by having a limited number of items available. The more different ingredients you have, the more space you need, the better trained your staff must be & the more likely something goes bad before it's used. Tossing in a limited-time product only adds a *slight* amount of recipe/inventory and... |
Was Fetal Alcohol Syndrome a Problem Before Modern Water Treatment? | FAS is caused by excessive constant alcohol abuse. Older brews had a much lower alcohol content. They probably did have it back then for the people who abused it but didn't know what caused it and or it was never recorded. |
Why do all the official NASA videos show them using outdated operating systems? | Just like any business, you don't fix what isn't broken. What benefit do you get for upgrading to Windows 7 or 8? Frankly none. Explain again why you want to spend millions upgraded thousands of computers for zero benefit? |
What is the difference between a checking, credit, and savings account? | A checking account is what you generally use day-to-day. When you buy something in a store or online, or withdraw cash from an ATM, you'll most likely use your checking account. It's called that because, until fairly recently, writing checks was the most common way to use it, but that practice has become less common wi... |
Why can't I taste "notes of vanilla and tones of earth and honey" when I drink red wine? | The skeptic in me says it's because nobody can. I remember seeing blindfold tests where wine connoisseurs couldn't tell the difference between renowned wine and cheap wine. |
Why is it so hard to wake up early even though we've had the same amount of time sleeping? | Could just be waking up during a rem cycle versus after one. If you go to bed at say, 815, and sleep for 8 hours, or go to bed at 915 and sleep for 7, you'd feel just as well rested because of the rem cycle. However if you went to bed at 845, and still woke up the same time 7 hours or so later, you'd feel more tired th... |
Why do soldiers wear berets? | They're really just ceremonial. The US no longer wears Berets outside of dress uniforms or other special occassions. We just wear the [Patrol Cap] when in regular uniforms |
What keeps a library like system from working in other areas of capital? | I'm actually afraid today's library services would have been much harder to implement today. Libraries have ancient traditions and are just accepted as part of our culture. E-books are currently a big issue in the library world as publishers attempt to not define them as books so they can charge libraries more for them... |
when a submarine/boat is flooded from the bottom, where does the air go? | In submarine's operating deep underwater, it is possible for a single breach in the hull to compress all of the air into a tiny pocket. There is significant risk of a fire when this happens, as any spark can set of a large explosion. |
Chomsky's Linguistic Theory. | Language isn't learned, it's an instinct, much like a bird building a nest, or a spider making a web. Most animals have their neat little trick, and ours is language. Learning words takes time, but hearing ideas and trying to convey them is an instinct; the brain is wired up to try and figure out how best to do this, a... |
Why are we less cognitive when aroused | /u/CaptainGloom makes a good point. Further, the fundamental point of sexual arousal isn't to choose a good partner, but to spread your genes to the next generation. Nature doesn't care about who it's done with, just that it happens. I think that if we thought about it too much, it would never happen. I think that high... |
Why are some people at such good shape at really old age and others are not? | I'm never sure how much of this is from healthy habits, or from a lack of stress, or genetics, or a combination. I use my maternal grandparents as an example of this all the time. They fled Belfast with my mother in the 1970s, which wasn't a wealthy paradise at the time, and then lived not much above the poverty line. ... |
Why are NCAA football stadiums usually bigger than NFL football stadiums? | Black outs. If a top college team doesn't sell out they might be a little embarrassed but if an NFL team doesn't sell out the game isn't broadcast locally. So they need to sell out. It's more complicated than that but it's a huge reason that hasn't been mentioned yet.How many NFL teams could sell 100+k tics for each ho... |
Gills. Just, everything about them. How? What? | Gills work by flowing water over them to extract the oxygen. Theyre basically super thin membranes that allow the oxygen in the water to diffuse into the blood. That's why they look like many filaments, to maximize the surface area for this diffusion. Now, getting this water over the gills is the hard part. And there's... |
Bidets.... Sooo many questions.... | Arabs have a hose thing where we spray with it and clean with our hands, and I don't think there's too much water absorbed or any significant amount of water that remains to have to use a towel. And you could just pull your pants up like normal.As someone who always uses the bidet at home after defecating I'll try to a... |
if people use alcohol as an example for why marijuana should be legal, why is the one legal thing the most dangerous drug out there? | This is a commonly posted topic here. Please see [these previous posts.] If they don't entirely answer your question, you might create a new post witha more specific question. Try our handy Search function sometime. :-)For best results in most cases, use 2 or 3 general, common wordsthat refer to the key concepts in you... |
What makes a more expensive display (TV or Monitor) better than a cheaper one? | As to what the difference is between el-cheapo, and a quality monitor, most of the time it's going to come down to quality of electronics. As to why your text looks like shite on a TV, compared to a monitor, you need to realize what the numbers 1920x1080 mean, and that is that there are 1,920 1 pixel wide lines running... |
Fracking and why people are angry about it | Fracking in the US right now is not very regulated. Fracking involves drilling down very deep to get to the natural gas deposits - far below the normal depth of the water table that has the drinking water cities use. However, sometimes drillers can screwed up the drilling process, and their concrete tunnel to the natur... |
Why can't you lock your phone when listening to youtube, but you can with other apps such as soundcloud? | Because Soundcloud is an audio player and as such doesn't require a screen to be on to used fully. YouTube is meant to be used as a video viewer and as such would require a screen to be on to use. Why waist time adding extra functions to an app that aren't needed in its primary function. |
How do extreme solar flares cause earthquakes? | Solar flares and their patterns of occurrence do not line up significantly with major earthquakes. The two aren't related. |
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