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If generic brands for prescriptions exist, why do the name brands not get taken off the shelf due to price, or are sold at all? | First of all, prescriptions aren't 'on the shelf', they need to be prescribed by a doctor and filled by a pharmacist. As far as your question goes, the answer is slightly different depending upon if you meant drugs in general, or prescriptions in particular. I'll split this into OTC and prescriptions. OTC:1. A certain ... |
In basketball, why does following through with your wrist increase your chances of making the basket? | From personal experience, it allows you to make a consistent shot every time. If you don't follow through, you may stop your hand at different points causing the ball to go all over the place. |
When make the gas pump run without you having to hold it, how does it know when your tank is full and to turn off? | There's a small tube that is in the larger gas pump nozzle. When the tube is covered by the rising fuel, it provides enough pressure to click open the device holding the pump lever. |
Why does caffeine give us energy? | Caffeine works by changing the chemistry of the brain. It blocks the action of a natural brain chemical that is associated with sleep. Here is how it works. When adenosine binds to the receptors in your brain it is telling your brain that it is time to go to sleep. Caffeine binds, and sticks, to those receptors and blo... |
What exactly did the nazis have against jews? | They made convenient scapegoats. There was already antisemitism in Germany of course and the Nazis played upon that. They convinced the German population that while they starved the Jews ate, while they couldn't afford anything the Jews hoarded, etc. It was all bs though. Germany's Jews suffered just as much as everyon... |
Why is it that, with terrorist attacks being less frequent than in the past, people are now more terrified of it? | I think that the media is getting really good at scare mongering. Didn't a british-american company get caught making fake terrorist videos a couple of months back? |
What is a Nebula, and why is it not absorbed into some stronger source of gravity? | A Nebula is a cloud of gas and dust, usually Hydrogen and Helium, but others are possible. When stellar radiation hits the clouds, they can ionize the gasses and create a wide variety of color. As to why they're not absorbed by some other source of gravity, they are-- but remember space is huge and there might not be s... |
Why are polls trusted as predictors of a political race? | Because statistics. As long as you randomly select the 6000 people, you will almost certainly get a good answer. The country is pretty evenly split between two parties. When a pollster calls a random person, they are essentially flipping a coin about whether they talk to a supporter of one side vs the other. How likely... |
If a 4 legged table wobble whereas a 3 legged does not, why aren't we making more 3 legged tables? | Whether a table wobbles by itself is just one factor. Another is whether it's stable when a heavy load is applied to some point. Consider the polygon made by the table's feet, any load on the top that hangs outside that polygon will tip the table over if it's enough load, and the further the overhang the less load need... |
How is electricity consumed when its used? | For electricity to do anything, it has to move electrons. Moving electrons requires power, stuff you move the electrons through doesn't like having electrons moving through it, so it's going to resist it. Thus you lose power. |
Why do some people say exercise isn't effective for losing weight? | They say it mainly because diet is FAR more important than exercise. Your hour of exercise a day can be defeated by a couple sugary snacks during the day, or eating too large a plate for lunch. Now overall you'll be healthier with an exercise regimen even if you don't curb your diet, but you probably won't lose any sig... |
Why are Prince William's children above Prince Harry in the line of succession? | For the same reason the Prince Henry and William are above Prince Charles's brothers and sisters . Royal succession travels 'down' the family tree before it travels across. In other words it goes first from parent- > child before it travels between siblings. |
would the placebo effect work the other way round? Why? | No, the drug will still work. The only thing I can think if is that it may be possible that your body doesn't recognise it as having worked if the placebo effect is reversed and your body will display recreatabke symptoms |
How do they determine that medicine is suitable from a certain age for example 12 year old and higher? | That just means that they only bothered testing on children of that age. The labeling & testing requirements for OTC drugs are rather extensive - you can't just guess. |
Can employers see my high school aNd college grades? | It's fairly common for your first employer out of college to require you to send them a copy of your college transcript, in which case yes, they'll be able to see your college grades . |
Why does eating "junk" food after a long time of eating "clean" wholesome food result in discomfort in the body. | i always think about it the same way as i get used to wearing crappy shoes and don't even realize the negative side effects. Then i buy really nice high quality shoes they are comfy and my feet feel good and walking is easy and feels awesome, then i buy crappy shoes again and all the sudden my feel are killing me and e... |
How does Escrow work? | Not sure if this is how you mean it, but my first thought was escrow in terms of a home mortgage. Aside from you paying for your mortgage you also have to pay taxes and insurance. The lender needs to ensure that you have these things in place and paid for in order to protect their investment. When viewing your mortgage... |
Why screens are measured diagonally rather than by width or height | Most screens have a standard ratio between width and height . So - with some math - you know everything with just one number. Also, marketing likes to give you a big number, and the diagonal is bigger than either side. |
Why do perfect squares and square roots seem to work out in many different physics equations? | A few reasons: - Equations dealing with changes over time often use calculus . In most cases, these operations add or subtract an integer to an exponent. Integrating x gives 1/2 x^2 . A good example are the kinematics equations where integrating acceleration due to gravity twice gives x =x_i + v_i * t + 1/2 * a * t^2 .... |
What determines whether a person sleeps on their back, side, or stomach? Is it just habit? Can we change the position we sleep in over time? | You can change your sleep behavior. Unfortunately I don't know how we end up one way or the other. I have light OSA - [obstructive sleep apena]. I was a back-sleeper when it was diagosed, and I switched to being a side sleeper to reduce the impact of the OSA. Now I sleep comfortably on my side. |
Why is assisted suicide illegal in Italy? | It's illegal in most places. One reason is that many religions say that any kind of suicide is a sin. Another reason is that we don't want people being pressured to end their lives. |
How does the president campaign and do presidential work at the same time during an election? | His campaign pays for some aspects of his travel for campaign purposes and thus he can be in Air Force one working until they land some place and then he campaigns for a few hours and then back on the plane. He and Romney are like CEO's and have many people who do the planning and then tell him what he needs to do wher... |
Why didn't Native Americans in North America leave impressive ruins like the Incas did in south America? | I'm gonna go ahead and guess the climate in Central and South America allowed for people to settle down and build cities easier than could be done in North America. |
Why are feminists extremely active in the US, but little is said about the treatment of women in the Middle East? | There is plenty being said about the treatment of women around the world. Most of it doesn't look like Feminism to you because you have a preconception of what 'Feminist' means. [Malala Yousafzai] is a 'feminist' fighting for greater rights of women in this gross over-simplification of world politics you have commented... |
Why does the way you cook food add calories? | Well it depends on what you add when you cook it. For example if it is fried then that means you used oil which is very high in calories. If you bake something on the other hand, you don't have to add anything. The calories aren't from the method, but the ingredients. |
Why is snow white but ice is colorless? | Look at a glass of water. Notice how it's easy to see straight through it, but the edges stand out. Light can pass through the center pretty easily, but around edges, it starts to reflect in all kinds of crazy ways. A block of ice is much like the glass's center - usually a smooth surface with few edges. Nothing for li... |
Why is the U.S. the closest ally of Japan even after WWII? | There are centuries of rivalry between the various countries and peoples. Then, during ww2, Japan invaded a lot of other surrounding countries. They were pretty ruthless and brutal about it, to the effect that most of the people in surrounding countries had a lot of animosity. After the war, the US and other powers wan... |
Ok so i just started working at pizza hut and my question is: Why do people from india always ask to cut their pizzas with a clean blade? | Clean blade ain't got no beef or pork on it.You should always cut every pizza with a clean blade. Food allergies, and contamination are serious. The reason they specifically ask is that many do no not eat any meat.Some Indians don't eat beef. Frankly I think it's a good idea for everyone to request one for their food. |
Why has the US never really spoken out against Saudi Arabia's public beheadings, but strongly denounces ISIL when they behead someone? | When someone is beheaded in Saudi Arabia, they're being sentenced to death by a court of law for committing a crime. When ISIS has beheaded someone, it was for political shock value. The person they killed was innocent.Saudi Arabia beheads criminals with a quick sword stroke. You could actually argue that's a more huma... |
How do ratings agencies like S & P and Moody's make money? | Let's say you go to the supermarket and walk through the candy isle. You see that there is a chocolate bar selling for $5000 dollars. You're not sure if it's actually worth that much. You decide to pay another person to do research and find out the actual value of the chocolate bar. It turns out that the actual value i... |
What exactly can workplace IT staff see, besides my browsing history? | Assume if you enter it on a keyboard, they can see it. I doubt a company would save entire video records of sessions, but a keylogger isn't too hard to install and store what it records. Whether or not they would actually do that though is another story, and one I wouldn't be able to answer.I once asked this question o... |
How does NASA or other space agencies "discover" the space? | They sent the images back from Pluto by radiowaves. They were then picked up by giant receivers. And no planet has been discovered that is millions of light years away. Millions of light years away is outside of our own galaxy and past other galaxies. The furthest planet we've discovered is something like 25,000 light ... |
Why do humans need to be taught about sex while other animals just know what to do? | It's a recent development. For nearly all of human history, humans learned about sex the way rabbits or any animal would: Seeing it happen. Plenty of mammals mate out in the open, allowing anyone to figure out how it works. Even after humans moved indoors, the one-room dwelling was standard, and parents weren't likely ... |
Why do people wear "business" clothes to corporate jobs? Why not just regular weekend wear? | Perhaps my company is an exception, but we are a professional work environment with a general salary here around 50k, and we have a casual dress code. I wear jeans/hoodies/t-shirts/shorts/flip-flops on a regular basis. The only time they ask we dress up some is when big wigs are coming to visit. Management understands ... |
Why will a network not rent/sell the rights of cancelled shows to independent movies makers who can continue the story for fans of the show? | Because sometimes owning the rights to something can prove more valuable. Let's say you're the network that owns the A-team. It's cancelled on the 80's and sits on a shelf. Then, 30 years later, 80's shows are getting turned into big studio movies. That property has matured to be worth a lot more than it would have bee... |
Fracking Chemicals - How much more effective are they than fracking with water alone? | So, to start with: all fracking is done with a mixed fracking fluid. The fluid has to contain some kind of a 'proppant' to hold open the cracks made by the fracturing process. Sand and ceramic sand are commonly used, and aren't considered an environmental hazard. The fluid itself is only sometimes water. Water is slick... |
Why are most Asian people unable to handle alcohol? | Try drinking Baijiu with a Chinese person and you'll change your mind about that.What are you to referring to specifically? The "asian glow" or alcohol tolerance?They lack an enzyme for breaking alcohol molecules apart', "I went to my Korean friends wedding and the only things to drink were whiskey and Coors Light. No ... |
How does air traffic work? | pretty much the way cars stay out of each other's way. Aircraft generally dont fly whereever they please, they fly along predefined routes called airways. They track each other with onboard radar and all aircaft stay in touch with each other and controllers. More info:_URL_0_ |
How does a minimum wage increase kill jobs? | This is a controversial, politically charged subject and many well-respected economists disagree with each other on it. The traditional idea is that you perhaps have a limited number of dollars to spend on labor, so if each person costs more, you will have to hire less people. Pretty simple, right? But in the long run,... |
How Do Space Programs Re-Supply the ISS if a Scheduled Shipment Fails (a la ANTARES)? Are There "Backup" Re-Supplier Ships in Case Something Like This Happens? | They always make sure there's enough supplies extra that they can make it to the next resupply without major issues. And they make plans to ration if there are two failures in a row. Coincidentally, there a Progress resupply launching tomorrow and a SpaceX Dragon in about 6 weeks. There are 4-6 months of supplies on th... |
Why when we workout too hard we feel dizzy? | It's often hypoglycemia too. But he's right lie down and raise your legs and you'll feel better. |
how do Venus fly traps work and why can't the animals just force their way out again? | Try to force an oak tree trunk out of your way without tools. You'll find it difficult. The construction of the Venus Fly Trap is quite strong, in comparison to the strength of the insects it catches. |
Difference between a socialist and a democratic socialist. | A pure socialist would want everything owned by the government and doled out based on need. This would include all industry. Think of a country like Venezuela, where the government took over several industries to use to finance such things as feeding their people. Venezuela is actually a federal presidential republic, ... |
Why is it so difficult for the United States to believe that North Korea is capable of successfully producing the Hydrogen Bomb? | It is a lot harder technically to build a hydrogen bomb than a normal nuclear bomb. A hydrogen bomb is set of by a normal nuclear bomb, so if it doesn't work correctly there will still be an explosion. I read somewhere here on reddit that North Korea reported that they detonated a miniaturized hydrogen bomb, that could... |
What happens exactly to electronics when exposed to water? | There are good explanations already, but I want to stress a crucial point: Water and electronics are a fine combination as long as they're powered off. Some people even clean old gunky arcade game printed circuit boards in the dishwasher. As long as the electronics are very carefully dried right after cleaning and befo... |
Why is Mexico so corrupt ? | Because is now at the point of not return, all the economic-politic system is corrupt and the system itself ensure to keep it that way. The answer of /u/Indigofly is quite accurate, the inequality is the root of all this problems, some people are just waiting for the first chance to steal something, and instead of feel... |
How does HIV lead to AIDS? | HIV is the Virus, yes. It shuts down your immune system, crippling your body's ability to fight the common cold. *Edit*: Without looking it up myself and just going from memory, I think what it does is infect your 'T' Cells, who's job is to recognize things in your body that should not be there and direct White Blood c... |
electric cars. Even though there are no emissions, isn’t the electricity used to charge it a result of a coal-burning plant? | 40% of it is coal. The other 60% is *way* cleaner. Plus electric cars are much more efficient. Even if an EV were purely coal-powered it'd still be a tad cleaner than a Prius because of the gains in efficiency.Well, if that power comes from a renewable source like wind or solar - or at least a source without emissions ... |
Why do dogs and cats lean their head to the side when puzzled? | Can't remember exactly where I read it but they're trying to read your facial expression; especially dogs, who can read human emotion by looking at the left side of a human's face.Correct me if I'm wrong. |
Why do Asian tourists wear medical face masks? | They are used if: You are sick and don't want to spread it. You don't want to get sick. Their is a lot of pollution and you don't want your lungs to die. |
What are the differences between different types of missiles/rockets? | The terms tend to get used interchangeably. When you're talking about weapons generally the difference is guidance. A missile is guided. It flies *to* it's target. A rocket is unguided. It is launched *at* the target. Though unguided missiles and guided rockets exist, so the general rules isn't always true. Ballistic m... |
Why are car horn buttons installed directly over airbag inflators in many cars? | Carn horns in steering wheels were the norm decades and decades before airbags came along, and habits are tough to change. And considering the horn is an emergency warning device, you tend not to want to move it to someplace where someone doesn't have the reflex to hit it when a hazard presents itself. In the early 199... |
Why are voter ids bad, but gun ownership permits good (US-centric)? | Showing and ID is nothing like being issued a permit. The idea is when the government decides it's going to confiscate all the guns in the country, all it has to do is look up in the database who has a gun permit. If it was just showing an ID to buy a gun, like showing an ID to vote, there wouldn't be a problem. There ... |
Why isn't the draft considered involuntary servitude? | It is. It hasn't been used since Vietnam, when the baby boomers came awfully close to going from continual civil insurrection to some thing worse. The Draft is culturally related to fuedal lord levies or naval press gangs, things we wouldn't allow today. It's justified by the logic that our country may face a threat ca... |
Why isn't it socially acceptable to commit suicide? | Mostly because people will be sad if you kill yourself. You can't have not wanted to be born, you didn't exist. |
How do schools in Britan keep teach the Revolutionary War differently? | They don't teach it. The history curriculum in England, for example: _URL_0_ Key Stage 1 is around ages 5-7, Key Stage 2 is around 7-11 and Key Stage 3 is around 11-14. So that period of time isn't even taught until you're likely around 13/14, and there's a lot of other events which could be covered from that time so m... |
When burning a candle, how does the wick not burn up really quickly? | If you put something flammable on your finger and light it on fire, your finger doesn't burn until that flammable fuel has been exhausted. The wick is a delivery mechanism for the fuel of the candle which soaks up the wax. It can only soak up so much of it, so the wick tip burns off when there is no wax in it to burn. |
why are interest rates so low | If you have money, you'll be less likely to put the money in the bank - rather, you'd spend it elsewhere. If you don't have money, the low interest rate makes borrowing money appealing, since you don't have to pay back as much as if the interest rate is much higher. Either way, setting the interest rate low ) encourage... |
How can it be too cold to snow? | Because extremely cold air doesn't hold much moisture, which is required for it to snow. That's why Antarctica is one of the driest deserts in the world. It's too cold for it to snow! The Sahara desert actually gets *more* precipitation than Antarctica. |
How do professional boxers have (decently) long careers if they're getting concussed everytime they fight? | To add to flipmode_squad's comment, boxers also only fight a few times a year. Sometimes only once. |
Why do we sometimes instinctively know we're being looked at, even though we can't hear or see the person looking at us? | Its like strawberries. Think of how if you eat a bunch of strawberries some will be mushy and yucky. You won't remember all the bad yucky strawberries, just the delicious ones. You will always think strawberries are awesome, kind of like you think you have superpowers. Sadly, you don't. But we can pretend! Lets go pret... |
Why haven't wealthy tiny nations like Monaco and Luxenburg been conquered and plundered so far? | Because we don't live in the middle ages anymore. Countries don't just go around plundering each other. Now, economic ties are much more profitable than military occupation. |
How does sound proof padding work? | The single square isn't there to sound-proof anything. It's there to control the reverb or echo in the room. Sound-proofing means preventing outside noise finding its way in , but the enclosed space itself might have a long reverb. Think of a church with massively thick stone walls. Very little sound might leave or ent... |
If Redbox can rent me a physical DVD for $1 a day, why can't they allow me to stream it online for $1 as well? | It's because publishing companies are horrible people that want Redbox to pay an insane licensing fee. To rent a physical DVD out to someone, Redbox simply needs to buy a DVD for $20. They can then rent out that DVD an unlimited number of times. After renting the DVD for 21 nights, they make money. The publishing compa... |
If not steroids/PEDs, how do we continually set world records in running, swimming, etc.? | As for the 100m I think that the surface they are running is more advanced than let's say 10years ago. Also the improvement in trainint methods and science behind training has improved |
Why does the Heritage Foundation consider Denmark, Canada, or Singapore to be more free-market than the USA? | It is **economic freedom** index, not a conservative orthodoxy index. Singapore has a lot of economic freedom, as long as you aren't selling gum on the subway. Denmark, like most Nordic countries, has the government directly implement a lot of the government's social policies. Rather than having the government mandate ... |
Why are some people much more tolerant to spicy food than others? | Some people are saying its a tolerance build up, and I think that is part of it. However, I have always been able to eat spicy foods, and yet I barely notice the heat most of the time. Other people I know try and eat medium salsa, and its like their mouth is on fire. I'm not a scientist or anything, but I can make an e... |
How does sitting close to the TV affect my eyesight? It's not like I have to strain to see what I'm watching because I'm nice and close. | I don't think it does. It affects the view of everyone else in the room when a kid sits in front of the tv. And parents use that as an excuse to make you move. |
how does the "internal clock" work? | Mine doesn't work it seems like, I always fall asleep later and later every day, so eventually I sleep during days instead, and then back to sleeping during nights. |
Why does the air at night smell nicer/different? | I'd like to point out that many of the times when people say the air smells better are times when there are fewer cars on the road. Fresh air smells good, man. |
Relative to wages, are some things really cheaper now than they were in 1900? | Yes, many things are cheaper in terms of labor, and not just electronic gadgets. Here's a good look at a broad range of items from the Sears catalog in 1975 and 2003, calculated in terms of hours worked. _URL_0_ In addition, air travel, postage stamps and air conditioners are cheaper. |
why are currency symbols at the beginning of the amount in writing but at the end in speech ($5 vs five dollars) | I suspect the speech has always led with the numeral and the written form is an accounting notation. On a ledger, where all numbers are currency, but some are in different currencies and amounts, it would make sense to put the symbol first, so you don't get confused and start adding pounds to francs, or pounds to shill... |
Sexual harassment at different locations? | Why would the location matter at all? You complain to the one that hired the person. Or, you know, just stop spending time with them touring all the damn McDonald'ses around. |
What is BMI? And why is (or isn't) it important? | BMI is a useful first approximation of your weight related to the government target weights. It's a statistical measure and it doesn't necessarily apply to every individual, the bodybuilder with BMIs of 30 are a good example, but it is a rough estimate to whether you're at the governments target weight, or over/under i... |
If so much money is raised for Cancer research, why have there been no breakthroughs in a long time? | False, my lab is currently about to move to human trials for already safe for human use drug that can help detect breast cancer earlier by binding to dopamine receptors in cancer cells. So now women don't have to lop off their breasts. |
Can you starve yourself to death by running marathons? | You would burn out and probably pass out if you did this. Most likely you would not die if you received medical attention quickly enough. So this is assuming you're not running these marathons in some out of the way rural area. Marathon runners will eat more calories than normal people for this reason. |
People of Reddit that work in an I.T department, what can you actually see? | In theory the IT department could just put a complete monitoring software on the computer and absolutely everything could be logged down to the buttons you pressed on the keyboard. There's no safe assumption of privacy. If they aren't using software on the computer itself they'd have to go to a great deal of effort to ... |
How animation in western cartoons works | First they draw the 'story board' which has all the dialogue and major movement. Next, they create the models in a program like adobe flash . Finally the animators draw all the movement that happens between the frames. This is why western animation is more expensive and smoother than anime or family's guy. Try pausing ... |
Why does Comcast want to slow down the web? | They make a huge amount of money from cable TV. The internet makes streaming a cable channel very inexpensive . Comcast is terrified that in a few years cable networks will attempt to sidestep them with things like an independent version of HBO Go, that doesn't require a cable subscription .They want to slow things dow... |
What would happen if someone destroyed the U.S. Constitution? | If you destroyed the Constitution, the government would be destroyed and the country would fall into chaos. However, the Constitution is *not* the physical document. The Constitution is the rules. Think of it like being the laws of physics. What would happen if you destroyed the laws of physics? The entire universe mig... |
If the price of oil is going down to $70 per barrel, why is the price of gas still so high? | It takes time for changes in the world price for oil to get through to the retail level. Refineries have inventories of crude oil bought at higher prices and contracts to buy oil at an earlier fixed price to take delivery on and use before they start using the cheaper oil. It's also in the interest of retailers to wait... |
why are women not attracted to fat men when it shows an ability to provide for the child? | It's a cultural thing. In poorer cultures where most people are thin due to malnutrition fat people are considered attractive due to their ability to provide. However, in rich cultures where even homeless people can get enough to eat being fat can be quite normal. It's those who have the free time to exercise, and the ... |
Would placing the handle of a door closer to the hinges help make them resistant to pets? | Not likely, since pets who manage to open doors usually do it in a two step process - first, release the latch so the door opens part way, then push it open, as opposed to releasing and pushing in one motion. It wouldn't make it any easier for the animals, admittedly, it just wouldn't make it more difficult by a signif... |
What do I do if my company is asking me to do something unsafe or immoral or else I'll lose my job or be pulled off the project? | I think this is more suited for /r/legaladvice. But my guess, cover your ass in every way possible. Talk to your supervisor/ his supervisor/ about what you've been told to do and how you feel about it. If they agree with the original order, then really start covering your ass. Especially if it's illegal. Get in writing... |
The difference between the Sherrif's Dept. and the Police Dept. | In addition to what other said. Sheriff were created to bring law enforcement to the US in a time where cities were relatively small and most of the country was made of county with a bunch of small village in it. Today, in rural area their role stay the same because Village don't have enough people in it to be able to ... |
Why can't different species of animal mate? | Some can - like horses/donkeys and tigers/lions. Most can't because of physiological reasons , genetic reasons , or instinctive reasons . |
What are the mental health effects of being a celebrity? | you 've got to re-establish your presence online, it doesn't matter if the content's good or not |
How does one optimize a game through coding exactly? | Ok so let's say you wrote a calculator function that adds two numbers and for whatever reason it took 10 lines of code to perform that calculation. Optimization is basically rethinking the problem so that you can re-write your add function to do that same job in 5 line . Less code equals faster run time. There were a l... |
Why do helicopter blades make the choppy sound they do when they are spinning around at a constant speed? | Real simple version: Each time one of the main rotor blades goes by the tail rotor there is an interaction between the flow coming off each. The down flow from the main rotor crashes into the sideways flow from the tail rotor.About the worst case is a 2-blade main & a two-blade tail, both turning slowly. Which is why t... |
Why does gold have value? Could a critical mass of people just decided that gold has no value? What would happen? | One of the chief reasons that gold was prized so highly in early societies is that it doesn't really corrode. The concept of making permanent the images or symbols that gold is shaped in was extremely attractive to the higher caste of early civilizations. This made it a very desirable material for religious and cultura... |
Why is it that when I'm sick, one of my nostrils can become completely congested to the point where I can't breathe out of it, but the other one always stays breathable? | I've removed your post because this question [has been asked and answered] many, many times in the past. Please use the search feature before submitting. Many thanks. |
If some say Gender is a social construct, why is it important to those same people, that they need to be identified as a particular Gender? | If you're referring to trans people, we *don't*, as a rule, say gender is a social construct. We say gender **roles**, as distinct from gender **identity** are. |
Why do some cars need premium gasoline while others are fine using regular? | The difference between cheap regular gas and premium is how much you can compress the fuel vapor before it spontaneously combusts. In a gasoline engine you never want the fuel to spontaneously combust. You only want it to happen when the spark plug fires. If you run your engine at a higher compression ratio you can get... |
Can psycedelic drugs make you experience "new" colors? | No. You would be correct about colors being defined by wavelengths and them thinking the color is new. Various drugs do invoke oversaturation of color though, which is a common cause of exactly this, due to the fact that you wouldn't normally see something like a small dark red ladybug as a bright red spot on the wall. |
Why is pink a feminine color? | Actually, pink being feminine does appear to be cultural. [Source!] 100 years ago, pink was not at all gendered colour, at least in Western society. > Although blue is sometimes used to denote males you don't see women avoiding the color like how men avoid the color pink. I'd say this is also cultural. Women generally ... |
Why do dvd players have regions in which disks will work instead of every disk being compatible with every dvd player? | because the prices for those dvd's vary depending on where you are. they don't want people buying dvd's in cheaper regions then reselling them in more expensive regions. |
How do ads inside of apps make money for the developer? | There are advertising companies who other companies pay money to to have their ads included in a series of banners. But it's not just a flat rate, the companies pay based on a number of impressions , interactions and fulfillments . Different services break it up differently, but you always get more money for an interac... |
Usenet, and how to start using it... | Man, I'm starting to feel old. When I used Usenet, it was a discussion forum. |
How does 'Anti-Paparazzi Scarf' work ? | To add to what people have already said, the scarf is so reflective because it is made with thousands of tiny [retroreflectors] - reflective surfaces designed to reflect light directly back to the source. This reflects more of the light from the flash directly back towards the camera, instead of just reflecting the lig... |
Why is it illegal for Americans to travel to a foreign country to have sex with a 14 year old even if the age of consent in that country is 14? | How would the authorities even know if you did something like this? Its seems rather unenforceable. That's a word right? |
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