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Does your body break down food and liquid the same way when it has been mixed? | You've just basically done the stomachs work for it by using a blender. Your intestines won't know the difference. Nutrients, minerals, and water will be absorbed into your bloodstream and solid waste will be excreted. |
How can Uber drivers claim that they are employees when they seem to meet all the criteria for being independent contractors? | An important criterion of what makes an independent contractor is that the contractor decides how the work is to be done--he gets the job done per the contract, without being told how to do it. As [the Department of Labor] notes, "a worker’s control of his or her own work hours is not necessarily indicative of independ... |
Save the animals/Kill the animals (Awesome games done quick / AGDQ) | At the end of every AGDQ, super metroid is run. There is a section during an escape sequence near the end where there are some animals that you can either let free , or leave them . People can vote one way or the other to pick which one the runner does.In a speedrun obviously the runner wants to do the most optimal str... |
If you can't legally give consent for certain things, how can you commit a crime when you're intoxicated? | You're right that most serious crimes require that the defendant have "intended" the outcome or at least have been grossly negligent with respect to the possibility that it might occur. This is called a "mental state" requirement. In general, the fact that you were drunk can be used to demonstrate that you lacked this ... |
How does our body actually lose weight. | You breathed it out. You inhale O2, you exhale CO2. That extra C matters. When your body is metabolizing, besides what comes out in your urine, most of what you're losing is being breathed out.A friend recently linked this article to Facebook, which while not directly addressing your question might help going a long wa... |
How are the warnings on asphalt/gravel trucks valid? | > I don't understand how this would make you not liable It doesn't. The *law* makes them not liable, and the sign is just a reminder of that. Though I should definitely clarify that what the signs are referring to, and what the law covers, is **road debris thrown up by the truck's tires**. They are absolutely responsib... |
Why do TV shows now divide themselves into yearly "half seasons" instead of yearly seasons? | Fall spring is divided into two because usually there is more holiday programming, and in the case of the US football heads into the playoffs, which decreases viewership of competing shows. And by splitting it into two, they can potentially create more viewers through reruns between and hold onto viewers through cliff ... |
What happens to the money seized from major drug busts? | The defendant whose money was seized has an opportunity to prove that the money was obtained legally and not through criminal activities. If the court buys his story, they'll return it, if not, the state keeps it and funds victim funds or other state programs |
why do people with sleep paralysis experience similar events? | Every night when you sleep you enter sleep paralysis, it's what keeps your body from moving so you don't hurt yourself while you're unconscious ) The mind and the body mostly don't communicate with each other. Yes, your brain is controlling your bodily functions but the body has little communication with the higher cog... |
What are the difference between a therapist, a counselor, a psychologist, a psychiatrist, a psychotherapist, and any other similar job title? | A Psychiatrist is an MD, he is the only one who can prescribe meds A Psychologist is a PhD, they are the only ones who can administer psychometric tests like the MMPI. The can also do psychotherapy. A counselor generally holds a Masters degree and is either a licensed clinical social worker or a marriage and family the... |
Why is a 20% drop the magic number for being in a "bear market"? | It is a little bit arbitrary but the basic thinking is that in order to reap the same financial benefit of Bull markets by switching to Bear tactics you need to be able to project a resurgence equal to the normal growth that happens in Bull markets. 20% return is a **very** well performing stock in a Bull market, so wh... |
Could someone explain to me the meaning of Laplace transforms LI5? | "Daddy, what's a Laplace transform?" "Play with your truck, son."', "My memory of Laplace transforms is very dim and maybe wrong but I think it is basically just translating one form of equation into another form that is easier to solve because it divides up the original equation into its simplest parts, and then trans... |
Why is dentistry a separated from conventional medicine in medicine schools? | Because dentistry is highly specialized and does not deal with a number of problems which doctors need to be trained about, as well as involving a number of tooth-centered issues that doctors don't need to know. I would assume. N.B. I'm not either of those professions, so .. |
Why don't plants keep greenhouse gass levels from rising? | There is most likely a rate limiting step. Meaning that photosynthesis can only convert so much CO2 to O2 at a time. Things like enough sunlight, water, and a place to store the excess glucose it creates are all things that can slow the process down', "Plants just don't live on CO2. They also need trace nutrients from ... |
Why there are more men in the prison population than women | I know the OP is probably American, but I only know the England and Wales figures well enough. Here, 95% of people in prison are men and 5% women. So part of it is "men commit more crime": last year, there were 351,150 court proceedings involving females and 1,139,135 involving males. The rest of the difference is the ... |
why Guitar Hero / Rockband died. | IMO it's because there isn't much room to expand on the core gameplay. Sure you can add more songs, but are you willing to spend another $50+ dollars on basically the same game? Not to mention that the equipment can also rack up the price . Once everybody played Guitar Hero/Rockband, it lost the sense of novelty that f... |
The difference between the DOTA shop and paid mods | I assume you are talking about the Steam Skyrim Mod Debacle of 2015? The DOTA2 store is curated by Valve, each set of items is only allowed into the shop once approved by the Valve. The Skyrim mods were the wild west. People were uploading mods with copyrighted music without having the rights, people were talking someo... |
Why are college sports so popular in the US, but not so much in other countries, in regards to their own colleges/universities? | I don't know about other sports, but the youth system for soccer works differently that the youth system with sports in the US. In the US, a football player will play in high school, go on to play in college, then get drafted by the NFL. With soccer in Europe, the team signs the player when they are still a kid. For ex... |
Who do people always try to take down big torrent sites like _URL_0_, but you never hear anything about them trying to shutdown the torrent uploaders like YIFY-Torrents or NosTeam? | Yify and NosTeam are much smaller than PirateBay and much more low profile. It just isn't worth the time and effort to shut down the smaller sites at this point. |
How to change how I drive to get better fuel efficiency | Speed up slowly. Don't use the air conditioner unless it's necessary. Keep windows closed. Keep a large lead in front of your car to the car in front of you Drive so that you don't have to use your brakes. Drive so that you drive slowly and steadily rather than start and stop. Clean and/or replace your air filter, chan... |
Why when people get a traumatic injury the people helping them tell them to "Stay awake" or "Don't fall asleep" | Because a sleeping person cannot report if they anything has changed, and you can't tell if they became unconscious due to their injuries. Being asleep doesn't make things worse, it makes it harder to treat the injury since the injured person can't describe their symptoms if they're asleep. |
Why is insider trading harmful/bad? | It's a crime, because it allows people to beat the market in an unfair way. Insiders know what's going to happen in the market before it happens. Because this information is non-public, it is seen as putting the average investor , at a disadvantage, since the average person generally doesn't have access to the insider ... |
Why does 'wanderlust' exist in humans? | It might have something to do with our animal instincts. we started off nomadic. In constant search of resources. So it seems likely that our biology plays a critical part in our wanderlust. Its could also be a more poetic way to describe our need to find and know things because we are self aware. |
Why does water turn white when splashed around? | Tiny air bubbles in the water make it appear white - it isn't anything to do with hydrogen bonding so much as more debris in the water. |
What happens to the citizens if the country goes bankrupt? | If a country goes bankrupt, that means it took out loans and cannot pay them back Countries have done this before - the USSR did it in 1919, claiming it was not responsible for debts incurred under the Tsar. Argentina did it back in the early 90s. Once that happens, nobody is going to loan that government money ever ag... |
If Reddit is a huge diverse community full of different opinions, why do we always see the same interests and opinions upvoted so much? | Reddit serves many purposes for internet users. It is a recipe book, a porn site, a mass blog, a news outlet, a social thread, and many more. But foremost, it is used by a younger generation that generally have similar attitudes to society. While people from all backgrounds use the website, it is dominated by a group o... |
How can a person have 8 pack abs when theres only 6 rectus abdominis? | Actually you just have 1 rectus abdominus muscle, which is split in the middle longitudinally by linea alba . And there are tendinous insertions horizontally that gives the impression that you have 6 different muscles. There are normally 3 of these insertions, hence 6 bulges, but some have 4 of them making a 8-pack.It'... |
When bananas rot/go bad, why do they just get a really strong banana scent instead of smelling bad? | Bannanas don't go bad untill their skin is blue moulded that's when they will smell bad. Society is convinced green or just yellowed Bannanas are fresh. Bannas are optimal when 50% blackend. |
Why are Michael Jackson's kids white? | They are not his biological children. He arranged to have a donor provide the sperm which impregnated his "wife". |
If two countries goes to war, what will happen to the country's citizens that happens to be in the other country? | In most cases, during the buildup to war the various countries embassies would encourage their citizens to get the hell out of hostile nations.I'm not sure about what would happen today, but during WW2 Japanese citizens in the USA were put into internment camps. |
Why do people not like Final Fantasy X2? | Because it was so different to FFX, and that there was absolutely no point in it. FFX was a complete story, and there was absolutely no reason to carry it on. It was a cash grab, and people knew it.because the story plainly sucks and is ruining FFX's story. Also WTF ending. Seriously, the only good thing in FFX-2 compa... |
Why did so many once-popular berries suddenly disappear from modern (US) consumption. Boysenberry, gooseberry, mulberry, etc. | These berries are still available. But these days most Americans get their food from huge corporations that transport food hundreds or thousands of miles before selling it. They don't like to sell tender, delicate fruits, because they get squished in transportation, and don't last long on the shelf if not bought quickl... |
Why isn't there any German counterpart of reddit, 9gag etc. despite Germany having one of the most computer-literate population in the world? | I was under the assumption that reddit was international. If that is the case why is a counterpart needed?', "What does being computer literate have to do with it. Maybe they just collectively decided they don't need silly websites like this one.Since no one has posted the right answer yet, I'll do it. In Germany you a... |
How come if I say to myself before I go to sleep "Wake up at 6am", I wake a few minutes before 6am the next morning? | what the you must be some kind of wizard or somethingIt's a form of self-hypnosis. This is a talent that most people can learn. You might also want to try telling yourself, "I want to sleep for X hours" and see if you wake up after that period of time. |
how do blu-ray rip torrents of movies get online long before they are released on disc? | I used to pirate shit all the time. When it came to movies, r5 at the time was always your best bet. Not sure if this is still the case. R5 is basically a region where the dvd would be released in say Russia months before release in say the US. People would rip the movie and dub the English audio over it. This audio co... |
Why do so many politicians abuse their power ? | You are assuming they are good in the first place. To reach that level of political success you have to have some moral flexibility. The more you delve into ends justifying means you become more of a sociopath/narcissist to the point where you do no think the consequences apply to you anymore. At least that is what hap... |
How are venom antidotes made and how do they work? | The original way I believe was that A small, tolerable amount of the venom who be injected into let's say a horse. This would be done over and over in safe tolerable amounts until the animal developed antibodies to the venom. The would then extract these from the animals blood and store then for use in a person who was... |
How do you trade stocks on the stock market? | You open up an account with a broker, give them some money, and tell them what you want to buy. They'll purchase the stock for you. If you ever want to sell, reverse the process. But don't just go do this without first learning about managing personal finances and how to best invest your money. Just buying stocks that ... |
Perpetual Motion. Is it possible? | According to Thermodynamics second law - a system will always "try" to reach equilibrium. that means that you will always lose the amount of energy in the system. So in our case perpetual motion is possible only in an **idle system** . You should note that the energy is not usable, as using it will mean withdrawing ene... |
Why is silver considered healthy and even holy? | Silver has natural antibacterial properties which gives it some medical uses. I wouldn't recommend trying to eat any though. As for silver being holy im not sure. Do you take this from needing silver to kill a werewolf?", 'Silver, along with gold, is one of the few metals that is found pure in nature, and they both can... |
With the advent of HTML5 and its ease of use with MP4 videos, why don't we just abandon .gifs altogether? | Gifs were never meant for video in the first place, but they DO have a purpose as a static image file. They're universally supported by just about every browser, also. HTML5 is wonderful, but there's still a huge portion of the world that uses obsolete browsers on outdated computers. I think we all know of a family fri... |
On a piano or a keyboard, why aren't there black notes between every two white notes? Why does B-C and E-F notes not have a black key between them? | Keyboards are based on major scale - that's the notes that you might know as "doh-ray-me-fah-so-lah-tee-doh". The thing is, the gap between those notes aren't equal. The gap between the third and fourth note, and between the seventh and eighth note, is only half as big as the other gaps. The keyboard is based on a scal... |
Why, when installing a game, loading a level, etc does the progress bar not move smoothly? | One rule is that you can't predict how long an arbitrary program will take to perform a task without first executing it. You can only guess, and it is not as simple as counting bytes. To estimate correctly you would need to know some very specifics things about the inner working of the hardware, operating system, frame... |
Why there's almost no researches trying to create new devices which could allow us to explore the bottom of the ocean? | Your statement that no one is trying is false. I think most of the limitation keeping us off the sea floor currently is technological, or more specifically materials science limitations. We don't have anything to make a submersible out of that can both withstand the pressures experienced at the bottom of the ocean and ... |
How to magic tricks involving 'free will' work? | Can't say for this particular case, but these sorts of tricks always boil down to either them planting their amazing prediction after the fact or being able to give the illusion of a choice where none really exists. Penn and Teller did a series called 'Fool Us' with a few tricks in the same vein and often they at least... |
Why don't we have World's Fairs anymore? | We still do the next one is in Italy. Best start planning your trip _URL_0_ This is more words because my first post got autimoddedI worked at the Minnesota state fair this year and a bunch of people were wearing shirts and handing out flyers to get one of the next world fairs in MN. Apparently wenhave a good chance .I... |
Why, on the news, is there a large delay for live feeds across oceans but we can play Xbox live with people around the world with seemingly instantaneous response? | Live TV broadcasts use geostationary satellites which orbit 22 thousand miles up. So a satellite feed has to go 22,000 miles from the broadcast truck to the satellite , then 22,000 miles back to the broadcast center. If the broadcast is from very far away, then it may need to go truck > satellite > satellite > tv stati... |
Whenever I read (or sometimes even just glance at) a book or look at my phone while being inside a car, I fall ill too carsickness. Why? | It is the same principle behind any motion-sickness like sea-sickness. It is a disparity between what you see and what your motion-sensors in your ear feel. Your body tells you that you are moving, it feels the vibration, the little bumps and swings of the car. Meanwhile, your eyes are focused on something static that ... |
Why do sounds become "robotic" when passing through a fan | I used to do that as a kid! To understand what happening there it's essential to understand that sound travels through a given medium in waves. What's happening there is your voice is you are causing vibrations to travel in a wave through a given medium . Since the fan disrupts normal air flow, that wave is also disrup... |
How does the extra air in potato chip bags actually preserve the chips? | The "extra air" is all nitrogen. It lacks the things in our atmosphere that cause staleness.By being an air cushion. Well, nitrogen cushion, really. You can test this yourself. Open a bag of chips. Put as many as you can in a ziplock bag, when you seal the bag, make sure there's as little air as possible. Now, carry it... |
the difference between carburetors and fuel injection, torque and horsepower, and how a supercharger and a turbo work. | All of these things? Really? **The difference between a carburetor and fuel injection:** Carburetors work by suction. Like slurping your soup from the side of your spoon into your mouth. Fuel injection is like squirting soup into your mouth with a spray bottle. A fine mist of soup! **Torque and horsepower:** Torque is ... |
why does adderall make me sleepy instead of hyper? | There is really now way to answer this question without knowing a lot more about you and your dose First you could try switching brands. Secondly it could be because you actually do have add and are taking a low dose that clears your mind and calms you down. |
How do olympic athletes like Ryan Lochte fit 10,000 calories into their stomachs? | They eat a lot of high calorie foods, and they eat a lot of meals. High tier swimmers might eat 4 or 5 big meals a day, plus snacks in between. They burn calories like crazy too. |
What makes blue ink more memorable than black ink? | Our minds ignore what we deem to be expected and predictable information. It's the same reason why you can often drive an entire commute and not remember the drive when you get home: your brain immediately forgets the routine stuff that you see every day. Blue ink is different than black ; your brain makes a mental not... |
How do people learn their native language? | Mimicry and watching a lot. Parents talk, and babies listen even when we don't think they're paying attention. Sounds that get a response are reinforced, so they make them more often. Eventually parents start pointing to stuff and making sounds, so the babies pick those up along with the object association. Abstract co... |
Why do humans enjoy watching other humans have sex? | Don't quote me on this but I remember in psy classs that our neurons fire when we look at or imagine something. Similar to when a guy sees another guy get kicked in the balls. They can "feel" his pain because the mind simulates it. I am thinking a similar thing happens in our mind when we watch sex. Our brain fires the... |
This whole Bayer/Monsanto merger, and exactly whats up with Monsanto in general. | Monsanto is a big American farming supplies company, particularly of GM seeds. Bayer is a big German chemical company that does some of it's business in agricultural products . The desire for the merger is driven by the fact that food prices are currently falling and the market for agricultural products is tightening, ... |
A few genuine questions about depression. | No such thing as a dumb question. So, depression can be confusing because we use the word "depression" and its\' alternate forms to both describe a psychological disorder, and to describe an emotion that we all go through. The key difference is in the outside stimuli You will naturally feel depressed about a loved one ... |
why do pigeons and some other birds bob their head as they walk about? | Accord [to this website] it's also to stabilise vision. Pigeons and some birds don't track movement like we do so moving their head quickly from place to another helps them build snapshots of the world around them. Maybe a bit like a ballerina twirling - if they spun their head around at the same speed as their bodies ... |
why when laying down we can breathe to raise our chests or our bellies? | With a bit of practice you can breathe either mainly from your chest or from your stomach area . You probably breathe more with your diaphragm when laying down because that is the method your body uses for deeper, more relaxed breaths but with practice you'll be able to breathe either way at any time that you want to.S... |
How does the title of a classical music work? why are they so long? | Many musical compositions made my famous composers are given first a number based upon what kind of composition it is. For example, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 was the ninth symphony he wrote. There are other concertos, rhapsodies, fugues and such he may have wrote, but symphonies are different just like movies are diff... |
What's going on when a huge chain of comments on a popular thread have all been deleted? | The mods probably "nuked" it. They have functions that will let them easily remove entire chains of comments. Some comments that are fine probably get removed in the process, but it's just easier to do a mass delete of ones that are mostly bad rather than cherry picking. |
- Why is there no cure for herpes? | Viruses are difficult to treat in general, and Herpes is particularly problematic. Viruses function by entering your cells, hijacking them, and turning them into factories that pump out more viruses. Because viruses use your own cellular processes to reproduce, drugs that target a viruses reproductive life-cycle in ess... |
Why do politicians not support Obamacare other than the 'tax' argument? | There are many arguments against it, but two of the biggest are: 1. The way the Constitution is set up, the United States is designed to be 50 independent states, with an overarching federal government to regulate relationships between them. The Commerce Clause of the Constitution says that the federal government can *... |
How do we wake up without an alarm when we've always woken up with one. | Your body's internal clock is actually quite accurate providing you have a good sleep routine. Your circadian rhythm controls certain proteins in your body , changing the levels throughout the day. Essentially, low levels mean you get sleepy and higher levels tend to do the opposite. Generally about half an hour or so ... |
How do speed cameras work? How do they determine your speed? | They bounce either radar or a laser off of your car. The camera then checks the wavelength of the reflection of that radar/laser. Due to the Doppler effect , the faster you are going, the lower the wavelength of the reflected beam will be. It measures the wavelength of the reflection and calculates your speed based on ... |
Why do dinosaurs have feathers when they were so huge and didn’t fly? What were they adapted to be used for? | Feathers are basically a modified scale. They serve many functions including communication , insulation from both heat and cold, and flight. The use most dinosaurs would have had would have likely been the non-flight benefits, but some dinosaurs did fly and likely used them for that too.There are plenty of birds that d... |
When the San Bernadino shooting happened the news said it made the stock market "worry" and caused a small loss. How does a shooting spook a stock market? | We are never sure about cause and effect with the stock market. Often the talking heads on TV feel they must link the stock market averages to specific events. In reality the stock market goes up and down. Supposedly it is due to rational decisions made by a multitude of investors. But it certainly does not seem to act... |
Why do people keep stealing iOS and Android devices when they usually have some sort of passcode to use them? | Most phones can be factory reset to restore the phone to initial factory condition without a passcode. The reset process also deletes any user data, so the passcode is still useful as it prevents access to any personal information including emails, phone numbers, photos, possibly financial documents and stored password... |
The Westboro Baptist church. | They are a hate group. If you want proof, google "thank God for dead soldiers" and the famous "God hates fags"For a child that has learned the basics of Christianity:"For some reason, they don't believe that Jesus loves everyone, like it says in the Bible. They instead just listen to their preacher, who thinks that eve... |
Why monitors, screens and video trasmisions are red/green/blue if green isnt a base color, shouldn´t it be yellow ? | There are two types of colour mixing: additive and subtractive. To tell which kind you're using, add two colours together and see whether the result is darker or lighter. With paint you tend to get a darker colour, this is subtractive. With light you get a lighter colour. This is additive. The primary colours for subtr... |
Why was George Zimmerman acquitted?I know about the stand your ground law, but why was it determined to be self defense? (kind of late, I know) | In the US justice system, you are innocent until proven guilty. Zimmerman put forth the defense that he was attacked, feared for his life, and used the gun to defend himself. There was not enough evidence to contradict this claim, so he was acquitted.A lot of it was due to the fact that in a case like this, the only th... |
Why can cable channels say words such as "ass" or "damn" but censor "hole" and "god"? | A couple things are in play here. One, American cable channels don't *have* to censor anything. They don't fall under the domain of the FCC, so they can air pretty much anything they want. What keeps them from doing that is their desire to not upset their viewers and sponsors. Two, the words "asshole" and "goddamn" are... |
The New Zealand and Australia Rivalry | The histories of the two countries are similar and they are quite similar in many ways today. For mine it's more of a sibling rivalry thing rather than an all-out hostile rivalry. We Australians have long prided ourselves on our toughness, resilience, friendliness and ability to box above our weight-class when it comes... |
Why do bass frequencies seem louder when you are behind the speaker? | it's because the other frequencies are a lot more prominent to the front of the speaker. it's not that the bass is harder around the back, everything else is just quieter, so it seems to have more boom to it. |
what do rich people get in return for donating money to someone's presidential run? | Ultimately, they get money back. By supporting a candidate, they hope the candidate, if elected, will help pass laws favorable to the giver. The laws they hope for will help the givers' business interests make more money, make money easier, or pay fewer taxes. *there is no other reason for business interests to give mo... |
What is the benefit of washing clothes on a non-cold cycle? | I think the general consensus is that things that get dirtier like undershirts, underwear, and towels get cleaner with hot water. But, colors can fade faster on heat so cold is recommended. If you get brand new white t's, they'll stay whiter if washed with other whites on heat. If you wash them with everything together... |
why will some things not load on my phone when using wifi, but immediately load on my cellular network? | All Internet traffic is moved through "routers." These little boxes control the flow of traffic between your device, your host and the Internet. When you send a request for a web page, your host uses a variety of tools to route that request. It's entirely possible that the way your cell provider routes the traffic is b... |
Why is there an apparent war between PC Gamers and Developers? | Ignoring piracy when answering that question is kind of counter intuitive because its the single biggest reason. Pirating on PC is significantly easier then on any other platform. Developers see this as disincentive to working for that platform. It's also harder to develop for PC because there is a huge amount of possi... |
Why do people have favorite colors? | because we are not robots? humans dont need a reason for everything. we like certain things more than other things because the sum of our life and experiences and surrounding turned us into the persons we are; each with a unique personality which have unique opinions on things such as colors |
How come we can eat and enjoy cheese but spoiled milk makes us sick? | Cheese is inoculated with the specific strain or species of bacteria and molds. It's aged in a controlled temperature and humidity. The exterior is coated in salt or wax to prevent random bacteria, yeasts and molds from establishing colonies. Spoiled milk is a grab bag of random bacterias that establish a colony in it.... |
How did cats develop a taste for fish? It would seem like a very odd natural prey for them especially considering they don't like water. | Cats don't have a very sophisticated sense of taste. What they like is determined almost purely by smell. That's why anything that is oily and has a strong protein smell attracts cats |
How did the Ural mountains form? | The mountains were formed by the collision of the European and Asian continental plate, [like this], about 300 million years ago. That plate boundary isn't really active anymore.there absolutely is 2 tectonic plates that collide there ..300 million years ago. now those plates are together and are part of the bigger Eur... |
What exactly does it say about a country when their currency is worth more than another's | People throw around terms like the dollar being "strong" or "weak" when the terms should be cheap or expensive. If the dollar is expensive it means things that the US produces is expensive relative to things other countries produce. So there is an incentive to 1)Not buy US made goods and 2) based of 1, an incentive for... |
Can a healthy woman with no income get Obamacare? How does one get it? | Obamacare isn't a thing you can get, it's a nickname for a huge law. But if you don't have any income you should already be eligible for medicaid, if not that you can probably get your health insurance paid for or partially paid for through the healthcare exchanges. The system is designed so that the poorest of people ... |
Why is eating before bed so bad for you? | It isn't. Or it is. Depends who you ask, and they may chance their answer from one month to the next. Any real, concrete research on this is really hard to find; at least any that doesn't look like it might be incorrect based on other decent-looking research that concludes the opposite. Some nutritional guidelines are ... |
Blood Pressure. If you cut someone's neck who has high blood pressure does their blood spray further than someone with low blood pressure? I just don't know what it means. | It's a bit of a gruesome example, but - yeah, at least for a few seconds. Blood pressure is just the pressure applied by the blood to the walls of the blood vessels. |
If two objects depart each other in opposite directions going a little over half the speed of light each, would they be visible to each other? | It will be redshifted, but only because the object is moving away from the source, not because of the source moving away. This is because the photon of light that departs form an object does not care about the velocity of the object it came from, but it will still be blue or redshifted by the velocity of the object det... |
Why do we cook different meats to different temperatures? For example, why is it 145F for steak but 165F for chicken? | The diseases common to beef are more vulnerable to temperature than the diseases common to chicken; nothing dangerous in beef can survive above 145F, while salmonella can survive up to 160F.You can eat steak extremely rare you can't do the same with chicken or pork. There's another reddit thread that explains that the ... |
How do horses and cows sleep standing up without their legs getting tired? | First, cattle usually lie while sleeping. Horses can do this too. Secondly, this is a part of their anatomy ). I'd provide an analogy: when you sleep you are not completely relaxed, you can't pee or poo because there's a hormone that prevents you from doing this and makes sphincters tight. Finally, both these animals d... |
Today is National Mac and Cheese Day. Where do all these National (insert random thing here) Days come from? | Industry groups, individual companies making shit up, and internet commenters making shit up. Of course, businesses can sometimes buy political declarations making it official. But sometimes the lie just becomes the truth. |
Why do artificial flavors (grape, blueberry, etc) taste nothing like the actual fruit? | Taste of strawberry for example is a a complex combination of chemicals. Slight imbalance of proportions will screw it up. It's not easy to replicate, especially the distinct aroma. |
Why beers don't have twist tops | Popular question here. _URL_2_ _URL_3_ _URL_4_ _URL_5_ _URL_1_ _URL_0_', "There are two reasons: 1. Is the cost of the equipment to apply twist tops is a more expensive. Not a big problem if you have the volume. A little less affordable for craft beers. 2. More importantly, over time, the quality of the seal on a twist... |
Why are more attractive and taller people viewed as more credible, trustworthy, and powerful? | You may subconsciously associate them with your parents which are figures of authority.Also our brains could be wired to subordinate to physically big and attractive individual. We have spent at least several 10 of millions of years as more or less social animals. It must have left something in our genomesI read once t... |
why isn't there a more popular reusable lighter option? | huh? like a zippo? or like every refillable lighter?', "there is. it's called a zippo. widely popular |
Why doesn't Dubai have taxes? | Because they don't need it. The government makes enough money off of selling the country's oil to do everything that they want to do. |
Why shouldn't I be worried about the mounting US debt? | blueskies15 means well, but is wrong. He is talking about soveign debt, the debt nations carry, like it is a regular family credit card. This is far from the truth. The video below explains debt really well in a cool way, just remember its a complicated issue, it isn't as simple as "all debt bad". [Watch this!]', "Ther... |
Why is the term "midget" considered offensive, while the term "dwarf" (which reminds me of non-human species from fantasy) is not? | Because there isn't a disease called midgetism. There is a disease or disorder called dwarfism. Its a medically used term._URL_0_ > Old English dweorh, dweorg , duerg , "very short human being," If anything, the fantasy race ought to be the ones offended by being called Dwarfs.dwarf is similar to the word autist. It is... |
What're those perfectly circular or rectangular patches of land that we see out the window of an airplane? Why're they so perfectly shaped and how do they make it so symmetrical? | Circular patches of land come from crop irrigation. _URL_0_ They pivot from a central well, creating a circle. Rectangular land patches are just from surveying, you typically find two points and draw a straight line and many properties are square. They are also conducive to planting crops in rows, or laying out sidewal... |
Why is it that (at least to me) when texting, ending sentences with periods feel or 'sound' more hostile than ending sentences without any punctuation? | Somewhat subjective but I'll still give my insight. If you're communicating in a format where people normally don't add punctuation, adding punctuation stands out and stands out as a conscious decision, as opposed to a necessary part of a sentence. Adding a period in a situation like this thus can sound like it's a con... |
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