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If someone who wasn't trans got a sex change, would they also experience gender dysphoria? | Yes. If they weren't trans, then their birth gender matched their mental gender, everything lined up, happy cis person. But if a cisgendered person, for whatever ridiculous reason, decided to have a sex-change, then they'd feel the same gender dysphoria afterwards and for the same reason -- their biological sex and the... |
Why do they keep having climate talks, when clearly nobody is doing anything? | Because they make people think that things are being done. It gets the politicians faces on the nightly news. It gets the same job done, politically speaking, without the backlash that actually doing anything would produce. Of course, the planet will still boil, but that won't happen until after the next electoral cycl... |
[META] Can we please actually try to answer questions and not reinforce misconceptions? | Reddit uses a democratic system to distribute karma. So, the most popular answer will always get more votes than the most accurate. That's just the way Reddit works. To change that, there would need to be informed moderators to remove the incorrect answers, so that the votes were distributed amongst only accurate answe... |
If the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, why do airplanes fly a curved trajectory? | Because the Earth's surface is curved and to fly a straight line would require burrowing through the ground. A straight line following the surface of the Earth looks curved on the usual projection of a curved surface onto a flat map.The routes they fly are called "great circles". A great circle route is the shortest ro... |
Does a VPN really protect my identity if I use facebook or spotify in the background while having it on? | A VPN will encrypt your traffic and make it appear to original from a different IP address. An eavesdropper would be unable to discern you identity from snooping traffic, and people you connected to would only be able to see the VPN's IP. Facebook would know it was you, because you gave them you username and password, ... |
Why is needing to pee such a strong impulse when compared, for example, to hunger, that in your dreams you actually dream of needing to pee and not of being hungry? | You've never been truly hungry. The pain of true hunger is not something you've experienced, but you probably often wait too long to pee. Maybe you drink too much water before bed. If food were a daily challenge for you, it would occupy your brain at every level. |
Why are bubbles round? I know it sounds silly, but seriously, why is a sphere the 'default' nature shape for bubbles. | A soap film tries to minimize its surface area due to surface tension. If there's air trapped inside, it can't collapse in on itself, at least until the bubble breaks. It can still minimize surface area for the contained volume. In removing undulations and flattening the surface with air pressure pushing on it from the... |
Why does it hurt when you bite your tongue on accident but when you bite it on purpose it doesn't hurt at all? | Your teeth are capable of biting chunks of flesh off. However, if your brain knows your tongue is there, it will keep you from using much force when biting on it. But when your brain doesn't know it's there such as when the tip or a side gets caught while chewing, that inhibition isn't there, so the bite gets a lot mor... |
How does a cell phone benefit from a 64 bit memory bus? Most of the flagship phones with this only feature 1 through 3 gigabytes of ram at most. | It can transfer twice as much data in one clock cycle. It's not just the addresses that are transferred over the bus - the data to read/write also needs to be transferred. |
Rome coliseum, what are the walls in the ground made for? | They were sub-floor levels. There was a floor on top of them, like your house's basement. They were holding chambers for gladiators and animals used in the games, and hallways so people could move around under there like a stage crew. Looks funny now because the floor is gone. |
Why are violent, illegal, and immoral topics socially acceptable when they're in song lyrics? | People either: 1) don't actually listen to the lyrics ; 2) pretend to themselves that the artist doesn't actually mean whatever's in the lyrics; or 3) don't think the lyrics are immoral. |
How do mobile companies like Verizon and Sprint decide on data charges? Does using more data really cost them more money? | There is a limited amount of data that can be transmitted per tower. If too many people are using their maximum bandwidth, it will be capped out and it would effect everyone's throughout. Think of everyone having a straw. That represents how much data they can receive over the air. Now think of a larger pipe. This repr... |
Why does drinking salt water cause dehydration, but when you go to the hospital for dehydration they give you an IV of saline, a solution that contains salt? | If you insert normal water in your veins, you'll die. Normal water has a lower amount of particles in it than blood, causing your cells to expand until they explode. By adding 0.9% natrium to the water, the amount of parts is the same. That's what my biology teacher taught me. |
How do they film continuous shots of actors being thrown from buildings? | Yup, CGI is that believable, especially in a scene like that, ostensibly in darkness. But it's also possible to use a crane to point the camera downwards and have it zoom along with the object. It's also possible to film a clothed dummy falling on an actual car. And with digital tools, splice the shots together pixel-p... |
Why does time perception change as you get older? | I think there's few reasons: First - life become more routine, you go to work and/or college. You know what to expect usually. Second - your brain's memory store only strong memories, but everyday things getting archived and then trashed one day. You can easily remember your first sex or first car, but you can't rememb... |
Why does it cost $10,000-$25,000 to adopt an infant human? | My parents spent about $25,000 adopting me. They hired a private licensed adoption agency, which assists in hooking up birth parents and adoptive parents. My parents had to pay application fees, lawyers fees and court fees and also paid for the full pregnancy medical care of my birth mother. The process takes many, man... |
What's to stop someone from broadcasting a radio frequency that is already taken by a local station? | The law. And that's about it. But you'd be surprised just how many legal hoops you have to jump through before the law is fine with you transmitting anything.That is "pirate radio". And nothing really stops someone from doing it, other than the fact that you'll get found and get in trouble with the FCC fairly quickly. ... |
Why does freshly squeezed orange juice taste so different from orange juice in a carton? | Not an expert, but after drinking juice from grandma's trees it's hard for me to drink store-bought and I've pondered the question a lot. Store bought juice is mass-made. This means: The juicing is done by machines. This means there isn't someone watching to make sure that none of the pith gets into the juice. Pith=bit... |
Why is a virus not considered to be a living thing? | A virus isn't and is considered a living thing. It's sort of a limbo on where it's placed. It's considered living because it has it's own DNA to be able to make copies of itself. All living things have a code that makes them what they are. It's also considered non living because all it has inside is DNA/RNA. It doesn't... |
why do computer take awhile to start? | Because they check the good functioning of each component, then loads from the hard drive to the RAM the useful informations , etc..It's just like it takes some time to launch a new application |
How are there not billions of fruit flies all over the grocery store? | What most people think of as 'fruit flies' are, in fact, vinegar flies. These animals are attracted to rotting fruit, which is their food source. Fresh, partially ripe fruit doesn't attract them much, and cold fruit, which doesn't give off much smell, doesn't attract them at all. Take the fruit home, allow it to warm u... |
What happened to the economy the first time the government raised the minimum wage? | The minimum wage in Australia is $16.87 and our economy has generally performed better than the U.S. and Europe . Having high minimum wages does mean that our cost of living is a bit higher, but we also don't have anyone who works full time and can't afford rent, food, transport and other basics of life. I don't unders... |
Why don't cars have a barrier to protect their undersides? | Some do, or you may be able to add one. They are called [skid plates]. Most cars don't come with them though. |
What happens to clinically insane people after committing crimes that if a non-insane person did, they would receive the death penalty? | Clinically insane doesn't matter, you need to be *criminally* insane. Criminal insanity means you are so detached from reality you can't see that your action are wrong. If you attacked a snake person who was using mind control beams to steal your precious bodily fluids, cleverly disguised as your mailman, that would be... |
If speakers make sound by pushing air, how come we can hear that speaker if it's enclosed in a box? | The ability to carry sound is nothing special to air, it's just that air is the main medium that's important to us. A sound wave is a set of areas of high and low pressure. Even if it starts in air, when it reaches a surface it causes similar oscillations in the new material. These may look different, particularly bein... |
WTF is this "crumple" and "fold" business with toilet paper that everything keeps talking about? | What toilet paper are you using that allows you to only use one square while consistently ensuring that you don't get shit on your hands? Or do people just accept that sometimes shit will get on their hands? I wouldn't be surprised if that was widely accepted or anything, but I grew up using about 3 squares a wipe for ... |
Why does putting lotion on dry skin (specifically hands) cause it to burn? | You might have an allergy. I don't use lotion usually ever but when I do get it on me I don't have any reactions like that |
Why can there be toys in cereal boxes in the USA, but are Kinder Eggs and Kinder Surprises illegal? | It's based on the size of the pieces the toy is made of. Kinder Eggs used to include small pieces that assembled into a toy. The pieces were small enough to be considered a choking hazard so they were not allowed to be old in the US. Recently Kinder Eggs replaced the disassembled toys with single piece toys like tops a... |
Why was the Roman Army so effective/unbeatable? | In short they were professional soldiers. You really can't compare farmers that fight one season who have poor equipment to roman soldiers trained 24/7 with the best gear. By being trained they could execute complex maneuvers, even basic stuff like feign retreat is not possible for a peasant army , not crack when the l... |
Why do some many workers in factories fear becoming union? | When I worked for a grocery company here in Florida, we took a vote to unionize. The vote failed to pass and every single one of the guys that voted *for* the union was fired within 6 months. No one knows how the company knew who voted what, but they did know. So one by one those guys got fired for stupid stuff like be... |
Is it possible to produce a vaccine if you have a subject who is immune to a virus? And if so, can you explain me the process of creation of the vaccine? | In short, no, a vaccine cannot be made from someone who is immune. However if you can find out how they became immune that can lead you to the right solution. Some common vaccine creation methods: 1)Use a harmless strain of a virus, thus creating antibodies that will be effective on the more virulent strain but not inf... |
I have heard that the death penalty is more expensive than life in prison without parole. How is this possible? | Suppose you got sentenced to death. I hope that never happens, but in this case, it did. Since you can't plead guilty to a death sentence, you get a procedural review. This means that a higher court has to look at your case and then agree that you were given all the rights that the Constitution promised you. That revie... |
When I first learn a word, I see it a billion times in the next two weeks. | It's a form of bias - people are very good at recognizing things that are important to them and ignoring things that aren't. When you learn a new word, it becomes more important and you start noticing it. The same thing happens when you buy a particular type of car .holy shit, I thought I was the only oneThere's a stor... |
The reason behind that sudden and intense fear when misstepping on a staircase in the dark | Your brain likes to overreact to things to save your life. This is the same reason why if you tilt your chair far too back and it falls, you feel like you're falling off of the tallest cliff in the world.Every moment of every second your brain is making predictions. It predicts that each step will land, that it will co... |
How does dyslexia happen exactly? Do others animals experience something like it? | As I understand it, dyslexia isn't limited to problems reading/writing, but is a learning disability that relates to how a person consumes and processes information. This is a really interesting question, and I hope someone that has more info than me gives a good answer. |
If the FDA (US) so strictly vets new drugs for safe use on humans, why then do TV adverts contain so many warnings against side effects? | They test to make sure that the drug is better than the thing it's curing. That doesn't mean it's completely harmless. Most of the side effects are quite rare, but they have to list pretty much anything that anyone on any of the studies reported experiencing while taking the drug.They are required by law to inform peop... |
How do crematoriums ensure only the one person's ashes are in the urn? | Mortician here!You are correct, while we do all we can to get as much of your loved one as possible from the retort , there's no way we can get every bit out. So yes, a tiny bit of remains is the remains of someone else. |
Why are the new games coming out unable to be cracked? Ex: just cause and hitman. | Manufacturers have been trying for decades to prevent people from cracking their games and obtaining a copy for free. Just like any other business doesn't want people stealing their products. Pretty much everything eventually has been cracked, but it can take some time, as the constant war between developers trying to ... |
Why is there WAY more snow in the northern hemisphere than in the southern hemisphere? | For reference, the southern tip of South America is about far south as Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England is north. 55S vs 55N. That's nearly all of Scandinavia that's more northern than South America is southern. The 55N latitude also cuts through Labrador and Newfoundland and Alaska, so anything about that is ocean in the ... |
The difference between a sleeper hold and actually killing someone by choking them. | My guess is the difference between the lack of blood and lack of air . When a sleeper hold is applied, it looks like the trachea has space in the crook of your elbow, but the veins are still compressed by your bicep and forearm. When you're choking someone you're more likely to crush the airway, even if you're still co... |
Explain the origins of tentacle porn? | It has existed since the 1800's: _URL_0_ Japanese people just have a very liberal view on sexual fantasies. |
How do they know how many people watched the Super Bowl? | It is estimated. Nielsen families have boxes, like a cable box, that record what they're watching and who is watching . These results are then used to project the number of viewers. |
Explain semicolon usage like I'm a fifth grader. | [When dinosaurs agree on something, they'll often high five each other; dinosaurs are all about high fives.] |
How do magnets not violate the conservation of energy? | Something to add to this discussion -- the OP is trying to describe permanent magnets. Permanent magnets are made. There is no material in the universe that, when grouped together to form an object, inherently become permanent magnets. As outside magnetic force just forces the molecules of magnetic materials to align w... |
Aren't we impeding natural selection when we save animals that would have otherwise died, such as baby birds and even people? | Yes, and it's self-perpetuating. I have a thyroid disease that requires daily medication. I'd be worthless or dead by now without it. Instead, I'm a doctor helping other people like me live healthy productive lives instead of dying off. Muwahahahahahaha! |
What is involved in receiving the transmissions sent from probes or rovers in space and, if secure, why aren't the data streams open or free to download by the public directly in real-time? | The signals sent by these probes in deep space are so weak by the time they reach earth that it takes very specialized and sensitive equipment to even be able to pick up traces of them. If someone had this technology I imagine they could make sense of the data if they knew what to do with the data. |
Why does heat gather and sit at the top of my bedroom? | Possibly poor insulation in the attic above the bedroom? I'd get up in the attic and be sure there's adequate insulation. |
Why is OPEC allowed to engage in price fixing / collusion? | Who's going to stop them? No entity has any jurisdiction to stop them from price fixing. They are basically a trade alliance by a bunch of oil rich countries and they all agree that for economic benefit they should act together.They are not subject to US anti trust laws. You might like to know some US companies are not... |
Was sunburn a common occurrence before sunblock was invented? | No, because those who worked in the sun back then worked in the sun every day for the rest of their lives. Their skin adapted to it and got darker [tanned]. The reason why we get sunburned today is mainly because we aren't used to the sun. We only get outside and stay outside for an hour a day, so that is what our skin... |
Why do we hate on gluten so much? | Its like when 'diet' versions of food products came out. Marketing is extremely powerful these days, advertisers know how to whip up a trend |
What kind of mechanism do mosquitoes use to successfully find and penetrate veins so fast? | They sense you through the CO2 and heat your body puts out. They don't need to find a vein, as they feast on the the capillaries of the skin. Their mouths are basically hypodermic needles which allow them to quickly puncture the skin. |
If we increased minimum wage, where would businesses get the extra money to pay their employees? Wouldn't they have to increase prices, negating any positive effect of increasing wages? | People on minimum wage only get raises when minimum wage increases. Businesses raise prices, but don't pass it on to their employees. The problem with raising minimum wage to $15 is that there are a lot of jobs out there that are currently paying their employees that much and they probably won't raise salaries too. Why... |
What happens now that we have a tweeting president who can just delete his own tweets? Isn't everything out of his mouth a matter of public record? | It really doesn't matter if he deletes them, his Twitter is backed up by quite a few archives. |
Why is it that humans have to wear clothing while animals do not? | Most mammals either have thick fur, thick skin, blubber, or some other way to protect them from various weathers. We don't, sure there are some people more hairy than others, but it doesn't do as well as fur. |
Lifeguard here, why does 80 degree weather feel hot but 80 degree water feel cold? | In both cases, the body's temeperature is higher than the environment's, so heat flows out of the body. Heat flows faster into water than into air because liquid water has a higher thermal conductivity. The human body does not experience temperature directly but it feels the rate at which heat flows out of the body. Th... |
Why do hot showers feel so nice when if room was the same temperature, we would feel uncomfortable? | In an effort to redeem myself, here's an actual answer. The actual temperature is not important. It is the material's ability to absorb heat that is important. Air is not very good at absorbing heat from our body. At around 70ºF, the point where air can no longer take heat from our body is reached, and we become uncomf... |
Why the skin on a penis is darker/more tanned than the skin on the rest of the body? | You guys realize this happens to women too, right? A lot of times you'll notice nipple color matches the genital area.the darker the flaccid penis the bigger the erect penis? . my penis skin is normal skin colour . What kind of cancer do I have?', "Does this also explain why the anus area is darker? < whispers > it's n... |
Wikileaks latest leak; TISA | Here is a [good video] about how they want to/have been using both TISA and its predecessor GATS to privatize formerly public services irreversibly. For example, here is a [paper on GATS's influence on US healthcare reform]. TISA is supposed to complement GATS, the previous services treaty. Here is the [Wikileaks analy... |
Why are the Super Bowl adverts such a big deal? | The Super Bowl is basically an unofficial American holiday now, even non-football fans participate. Over the years, the commercials have become an odd tradition like how most other holidays have spun traditions that had little to with it originally. It's the most watched event in the States every year and the ad space ... |
If water is so essential to our survival, why have we not evolved a taste for it? | When you say evolved a taste, do you mean like why don't we just absolutely love it and always want it? |
How does the Goodyear sphere wheel work? | It doesn't work. It's just a concept tire, and doesn't actually exist yet. . |
How was Jean-Baptiste Lamarck wrong in his theory of evolution? | Lamarck theorized that traits that are gained during an individuals lifetime can be passed on to offspring. The classic example is a giraffe that stretches it's neck further to reach leaves higher on a tree. According to Lamarck, that giraffe's offspring would have a longer neck than it's parent, because of the work th... |
Why do girls like the smell of my sweat? | Your sweat has pheromones in it. They can't pick out the pheromones, it just shows up as liking the smell for unknown reasons. Since you're not looking to have sexytimes with yourself, you don't notice them. |
What causes light to travel at different speeds through different mediums? | Yer not alone in askin', and kind strangers have explained: 1. [ELI5:the speed of light through different materials. ] ^1. [ELI5: Why does light slow down in water or other mediums? ] ^ |
Why is infrared light used to keep food warm when UV light is higher energy? | You're confusing something. UV light is higher energy *per unit* only. If you put the same amount of energy into producing ir light, you'll get the same amount of energy as with UV. There will just be 'more light' with IR, fulfilling the same purpose. As for why IR: UV can start to get into ionizing radiation, which de... |
Where does all this Charity Money Go? | You're entirely right that not all charities are equal. There are sites available online that provide ratings about the efficiency of charities. However, your original comment sounds very odd. Charities cover beyond helping poverty as well. If you want a massive success story from someone on poverty assistance, you can... |
Why do we get old if our cells are always remaking themselves? | Your cells are playing telephone with your DNA and every new copy is off by a little bit until it's more or less gibberish. |
Why do we feel better after we cry? the chemical part if there is any | Crying and feeling any sort of pain releases endorphin into your body, it's a natural painkiller that helps you feel good. It's to help take the edge off of any pain. But at the same time dopamine is being released, it's a hormone that normally is only released during sleep or relaxation, it's your body's way of tellin... |
What happens when prescription medication expire? | Medicines lose their potency over time. I remember reading that some medicines actually get more potent instead of less, but I don't remember which ones. **NOT MEDICAL ADVICE:** My father is a physician, and has told me on many occasions that you can generally keep pills a full year past the expiration date on the bott... |
Why was the recorder taught in elementary school? | A recorder is possibly one of the cheapest instruments you can buy. It's quite affordable to give a large number of students a recorder. They're also virtually indestructible, which is probably a bonus with children.It helps band directors know which students have good fine motor skills. Teach recorder in 3rd, start ba... |
Instead of battery technology, why do Smartphone companies only upgrade cameras, processors, memory, etc yearly? | Most recent smartphones last a day on charge. Usually people charge their phones once a day so it's sufficient for most people, not very much required. |
What is the REAL reason for that curtain between economy class and business class? | The curtain isn't to keep you from seeing how good business class has it. It's so they don't have to see you. The airline thinks they would find it depressing. |
Why does February have 28 days when it could borrow two days from January and March, leaving us with seven 30-day months and five 31-day months? | I think the better question is why haven't we switched this up yet? 13 months of 28 days is 364. A full lunar cycle is somewhere around 29.5 days, iirc. I don't want to run all the numbers, but at a glance it seems like the lunar phases would move around about as much on that plan as they do now, so that's hardly an is... |
In games like Mario Party where choosing numbers are involved, what determines those numbers? | Could you be a little more specific? I'm a programmer so I can probably answer your question. |
- Are speed bumps designed to damage your car if you go over them too fast? | If you hit them too fast, the suspension will pack down and you risk smacking the front plastics of the car into the ground. Properly shaped and sized speed bumps shouldn't do any damage as long as you slow down enough. Most speed bumps should be driven over at less than 20mph.No, speed bumps are designed so that if *y... |
Why is everyone in Japan so concerned about declining population when real estate is already scarse and overpriced. It seems that they already have too many people. | I think a lot of their population is older people, so eventually there will be too many people that don't work/pay taxes.Thats like saying "Well theres so many children in the world, its no big deal if a ton just disappear" Population decrease is never good. It decreases your country's relevance and makes it harder to ... |
How does international law determine "war crimes"? Why don't they just forbid all warfare, and require diplomacy to settle all disputes? | If you take a rather heartless perspective, warfare is a form of negotiation. The material and human cost of war is the price paid to accomplish certain goals of policy regarding foreign peoples. While it costs a great deal, the purpose between nations is that it costs your opponent's more than they are willing to spen... |
Why/how does hair on say your chest or face stop growing at a certain length? | The hair doesn't stop growing, it grows at the same rate until it falls out. The fact that it looks like the hair has stopped growing is an illusion of sorts, eg. if you've just shaved, your hair is maybe 0.5mm so then if it grows to 1mm, you are likely to notice that difference as it has just doubled in size . However... |
How do a little run-down motels in off the beaten path cities stay in business | What's your proximity to a major city? Is your town maybe a perfect equidistance on the way to a popular destination? Also, keep in mind that they probably have very low overhead costs, If they've been in business for over 50 years, their financial situation could be quite stable and maybe all they have to pay for is w... |
Why is Japanese manga in black and white but American comics are in full color? | Manga is often used as a cheap throwaway style entertainment in Japan. Americans tend to collect issues while Japanese folks don't. We use the products a little differently. |
Why do seemingly all old people have no filter even if they were polite when they were younger? | Here is a classic poem that explains part of the reason: When I am an old woman I shall wear purpleWith a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer glovesAnd satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tiredAnd gobble u... |
How are tattoo artists exempt from law? | Copyright law is complex, but in practical terms, the lawyers will go after the big fish and ignore the small fish, it's not worth their time. Are you gonna pay a lawyer $200 per hour to go after a tattoo artist for making a $50 tattoo of Mickey, or is it smarter to go after that t-shirt printer that just made 40,000 t... |
What's happening when we hear or see something, but none of the information "sticks" when we aren't focused? | I'm not going to pretend to have spent a lot of time on the subject. Other people have better insight than I have. Veritasium made some compelling points the other day:_URL_0_ Follow up:_URL_1_ |
Taxes for rich, and what cutting them (like the republicans want) and raising them (like the democrats want) entails? | /u/CyberBill did a great job of laying out some of the taxes and how they relate to the rich vs the poor, but left out Capital Gains Tax. **Capital Gains Tax** is tax on something that you buy and then sell for a profit a year later or longer . You pay this rate INSTEAD of income tax. A lot of rich people make most of ... |
Why do police not use hybrid vehicles to save on gas during idle? | Couple of things: 1. The only way there would be savings is if they only replaced cars as they broke down and needed replacing anyway; otherwise you're spending $30k+ to replace a perfectly functional piece of equipment. 2. Hybrids are more expensive than gas-consuming cars. 3. Police cars need fast acceleration, which... |
What was/is the point of a middle name? | Depends on your culture or heritage. I have a friend from the Czech Republic that doesn't have one and an Iraqi friend that has like 20. |
How come game companies like Blizzard still can't launch an online game with out terrible server issues? | As a whole it is not worth it to plan for a 'flawless day one release'. Its very similar to building your own PC. If your only playing League of Legends and WoW, do you really NEED those two top of the line video cards linked together on an i7 motherboard with all of the fixings? Or can you just get away with a 770Ti a... |
Why is it the prosecutor's goal to convict rather than to find the truth? | It isn't really. Prosecutors are ethically required to drop cases where they aren't confident the defendant is guilty. |
LI5: Explain fashion / fashion shows to me please. | Runway fashion tends to be about ideas. Coture fashion tends to be about getting as many of those ideas into actual products as possible. Coture fashion is very expensive because of limited designers, and limited demand. Street fashion is what gets down to people who cannot spend thousands of dollars on a dress. It is ... |
How does the president moving into the white house work? | off topic .isn't it true the president gets paid something like $400k a year? This is *peanuts* compared to the responsibility that rests on his shoulders, but 400k nonetheless. Also I believe they are given secret service protection for 10 years after their term as president, which in today's world doesn't seem like t... |
Why do archeologists, when recording a trench, not just photograph and then carry on, but have to draw it as well? | Very often you run into situations where different layers of deposits visually look the same and can only be defined by very slight texture changes. It's also fairly common for soil color changes to be so subtle or gradual that they're not readily distinguishable in photographs, especially when the photos are being tak... |
What causes my body to have random spasms? | Most commonly it's an imbalance in electrolytes. The major ones are sodium, potassium, and calcium. All 3 conduct signals between nerve cells and are responsible for creating the electrical action potential that powers all your muscular cells. Magnesium is also hugely important but doesn't have the same nerve-conductin... |
What happens to air trapped in space? | First, vacuums don't suck. It's a common misconception and it might seem like a needless distinction, but it's actually the higher pressure that pushes rather than lower pressure that sucks. Anyway, it just goes into space. The gas would escape from whatever opening exists and disperse into space. Depending on where th... |
Everyone loved Ronda Rousey before she lost a fight and now everyone seems to have hated her all along, why is this? | For Rousey, it was a bad weekend. She came off as a bad sportswoman insulting and refusing to touch gloves with the even tempered and good natured Holm and then fought a wild, dangerous fight that didn't show sufficient respect for her opponent's ability. And just like that Rousey is now history!\ufeff |
The reason that giveaways/contests have the phrase 'Purchase not required.' and then have an alternative method of entry (usually mailing in a postcard). | The laws are different if you have to pay to enter and then they have to abide by gambling laws. If you don't have to pay then it's a sweepstakes which has different laws. Some jurisdictions are more strict, in [many parts of Canada] it needs to be skill based to not be gambling, so they stick a math problem on it. |
Why does certain pop (like coke and pepsi) make the texture of my teeth feel uncomfortable (smooth and sticky at the same time)? | I'm pretty sure that weird teeth feeling is due to the phosphoric acid in coke and pepsi and other cola type drinks. _URL_0_", 'I'm from Texas. It's not pop, it's all \'coke\'. As in "Y\'all want a coke? Yeah. What kind? Dr. Pepper"', "Switch to coke zero. I used to be against it.. but I've gotten the coke zero cherry ... |
How do game shows have so much money to just give away to contestants or buy expensive prizes? | Advertising $$, game shows are relatively cheap to produce and since they don't have to pay big money to any professional actors they can afford a nice payout. |
I'm Muslim, I only hear about the Israel-Palestinian conflict from the Palestinian perspective. What is the Israelian perspective? | You have to remember, everyone's almost always the protagonist in their own stories. You can see this especially in modern day propaganda in coverage. Example: You see this headline in a news source: _URL_0_ What actually happened? A palestinian stabbed a pregnant Israeli woman and a neighbor shot him. Another example ... |
What happens when your eyes itch, do our eye balls have nerve endings or is it actually the underside of our eyelids that itch? | Loads of nerves in the eyes themselves, not just the eyelids. They're particularly sensitive to all sorts of things and need a quick way of alerting you something is amiss. Source: 5 eye surgeries, ulcers, and probably 100+ hours one-on-one with ophthalmologists from around the country. |
what is actually happening when an itch becomes unbearable? | This isn't really an ELI5 explanation, but I recommend this article. Itching is in the brain. _URL_0_", 'Generally, an itch is an irritation caused by a histamine reaction. Histamines are naturally occurring chemical compounds in your body that causes a "response" from your immune system, generally caused by an allergy... |
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