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What makes a tesseract four dimensional? | The best way to begin to understand this is to look at 3D in a 2D setting. So, a 3D object has length, width and depth. You can easily picture a cube. A 2D object has length and width - a square. Now try and imagine a 3D cube moving through 2D space. Since 2D doesn't have depth, the only two things you see are length a... |
Are farm subsidies in the US still relevant or necessary, and what would happen if they were removed? | Whether they're necessary is up for a great deal of debate. The farm industry will certainly tell you that they're essential, but I would bet that most people would vote it down if it were put up for public vote. If they were removed, you'd likely just see the cost of those goods go up as the cost to farmers was increa... |
At the risk of sounding really ignorant, Is is homosexuality gender dysphoria? | No. Gay men don't want to be women. They are men who fall in love with other men. They can be very masculine by traditional social views, but rather than fall in love with women, they fall in love with other men. |
Is there any truth to the generation old belief that staring at screens too long will damage your vision? | Old screens used to emit ionising radiation at short distances. This is the reason 'sitting too close' to screens is regarded as damaging, although modern screens do not emit radiation.From wikipedia: Computer vision syndrome is a temporary condition resulting from focusing the eyes on a computer display for protracted... |
Why does driving long distances make people tired? | Probably because your eyes are moving so much and looking at things that move constantly. It tires your eye muscles if you aren't used to It. |
why does hold music always sound so scratchy and glitchy, even over a clear phone line? | For VoIP it is because music on hold uses a low bit rate codec. It decreases the total amount of bandwidth you need if you don't implement multicast. |
Why the brain works on even numbers or 5's. | It's simply because the number system we're used to is based on tens. We have ten digits, 0 through 9, and when we need to represent 10, we use two, and when we need to represent 10x10, we use three. 10 divides cleanly by 2 or 5 and so we've all gotten used to dividing by 2 or 5, it feels normal to us and we've all mem... |
There are multiple ways to extract the salt from seawater - why is this method not solving the water shortage in Africa? | Massive corruption, theft, and negligence are a way of life in Africa. It's very difficult to get anything done over there. |
What is up with those absurd fashion shows showcasing horribly weird designs that no one can, or would want to, buy? | It's sort of like those concept cars that companies put out, they won't make one that looks that, it's just an attention grabber. |
Why do relatively small animals like sea turtles have such large lifespans compared to huge animals like elephants? | First time poster so this isn't going to be flashy. Most animals life spans are dictated by the size of their heart.All animals have roughly 1.5 million heart beats in their life time; a mouse's heart beats much faster than that of a cat < dog < human < elephant and therefore, use up their allotted heartbeats sooner. I... |
why google translate rarely works right with more than 1 word | Sie war rot" and "Es war rot." It really depends on what "it" is, because in German nouns can be masculine, feminine or neuter. A computer would somehow have to "know" what "it" is, but how is a computer supposed to know that? Basically, human languages are simply far too complex for modern computers to deal with. The ... |
Getting sick when the seasons change? | I used to work in a lab that had contolled air with HEPA filters. Every Spring for a few weeks, the air quality would get worse and we'd have to change filters more often. The technician explained that the melting snow would expose the rotted leaves which caused an uprise in mold spores in the air. I don't know if the ... |
Why do most products have a "Made in (country)" label? | People want that information, some countries don't trade with each other so if you see something made in a country that doesn't trade with the country you live in it might be contraband or counterfeit, also some people don't want to buy from certain countries for moral issues, some countries don't pay enough to their w... |
Was Che Guevara a good guy or bad guy? | I was going to try and reply to this myself, but I felt I couldn't sum it up quite right. I think this [video] does a wonderful job. |
If a person hit by a one ton vehicle going 70mph will likely be obliterated, would you have the same result with a 210 ton object impacting at 0.25mph? | Forgive me for rambling a bit, I'm a bit out of it A 1 ton object at 70 mph has about the same kinetic energy as a 78400 ton object going .25 mph . This works as a measure of how hard each is to stop As for the damage of the impact, that is more accurately modeled by the acceleration due to the impact. A person weighs ... |
The US gdp is around $18.6 trillion but our spending us only $3.5 trillion, where does the other $10 trillion go? | GDP is the total value of all economic activity, but the government doesn't get all of that. It only gets what people pay in taxes. Total government revenue for fiscal year 2017 is currently estimated to be about $3.6 trillion. |
How do we know how the Romans pronounced Latin words? | From my university Latin class we don't really, and that is why it's a dead language because no one really knows how it's supposed to be spoken. We can infer from other related languages, how words might be pronounced but we don't know what the proper accent would be or anything like that.From Wikipedia: > The ancient ... |
Why weren't there war crimes investigations for the nuclear bombings of Japan? | You have to realize that most people would have been quite happy with a complete genocide of Japan at that time. And there was no such thing as CNN, _URL_0_, etc. So nobody else in the world even cared for the most part. Hey just let me get back to feeding my family and I'll be happy. Japan getting nuked was what they ... |
Why do we shield children from sexual content, but not violent content? | My thought is that one is easier to explain than the other. Violence is fairly black and white. It's easy to explain to a kid that hitting, hurting, killing someone is bad. Don't do it unless you are helping/protecting someone else. As you get older the rules of violence don't really change. Sex is more complex. It can... |
Why it's very hard to open the freezer right after you close it? | When you open the freezer, it lets cold air out. This cold air comes into contact with your skin, causing your muscles to contract slightly. The effect isn't noticeable under normal circumstances, but this contraction causes a temporary 'fatiguing' effect. If you attempt any kind of lifting or pulling motion, you have ... |
Why do we as humans form patterns of bad/unproductive habits? Why are we indeed Creatures of Habit? Why is it so hard to break bad/unproductive habits? | Learn how to form good habits and replace the bad ones gradually. Allow yourself to change your routine. Try to accomplish at least one new thing per day. Remember that it takes 21 days to form a new habit. So pick one habit to change and work on it. Don't try to fix everything at once. Objectify the issue and realize ... |
How can illegal immigrants in CA get a drivers license without getting in trouble for being here illegally? | You don't even have to know how to drive to get a license in CA. Source: I am on the roads with these asshats. |
Why is there a limit to the amount of magnification we can achieve? In other words, why can't we visually observe things beyond the atomic level yet? | A short answer I can think of: to visualize something you need to receive some type of feedback off of the object. To see something with our eyes, light for a source bounces on the object and into our eyes - which our eyes decode and thusly we can see. For a clearer picture, one can use a smaller particle to bounce off... |
How can the same species of fish live in so many different lakes? Shouldn't we have more unique lakes with unique species as the lakes acts as closed enviroments? | five hundred-year" or "thousand-year" flood. While those would be disastrous for towns, those time scales are nothing compared to the scale of evolution. So if a flooding spreads fish all over every thousand years, you're going to get similar populations in the flood plains.In norway you get fish like trout in the most... |
What is "subnetting" and why is it important for network professionals? | Yo ho ho! Yer not alone in askin', and kind strangers have explained: 1. [ELI5: What is Subnetting? ] ^1. [ELI5: Subnet masks. I just don't get it. ] ^1. [ELI5: Subnetting ] ^1. [ELI5: Subnetting ] ^1. [ELI5: Subnetting ] ^1. [ELI5: Subnetting? ] ^1. [ELI5: Subnetting and Supernetting [Details inside] ] ^ |
I know that 'error 505' is a connection issue when loading a webpage, but why 505? Are there other ones out there that I haven't seen? | Http response codes are categorized into different groups, based on the first digit in the code: 1xx: Informational responses 2xx: Success 3xx: Redirection 4xx: Client errors 5xx: Server errors These response codes are given to your web client by the server, and are part of the HTTP protocol. One of the most common one... |
How raising taxes helps the economy? | It can harm the economy by requiring people to pay more of their income to the government, meaning they spend less on everything else. However, it can be planned out to help the economy through several means. Some basic ones are: 1. Funding government agencies so they can hire more people. This creates jobs, lowers une... |
what happens to kids with autism or related disorders when they grow up. | My brother is high functioning and an adult. He has a very set routine and doesn't like it when it is disrupted. He enjoys his alone time. He prefers single-player video games to multiplayer, since he has a hard time predicting other people. He loves analyzing anything and everything, which probably led him to study co... |
Is hitchhiking any more dangerous today that it was in the 70s (in North America)? What changed since then? | Crazy serial killers in the 70's. Same as today. More ways to know about everything going on in the world now. |
How has my heart kept on beating incessantly since I was in the womb while the rest of my muscles become tired after relatively short periods of work? | After a 1min google search The heart is another type of muscle , it has more mitochondria , so it doesn't get tired source: [google] |
How exactly do 'low-cost' airlines make money? | [Here's a video explanation] in case you're interested. The short answer is that they find ways to reduce costs or increase revenue by eliminating luxuries and variations. Planes fly between cheaper airports with minimal time between flights. Planes are the same size to reduce the need for specialization and to get bet... |
How is saving to The Cloud different from saving to Servers? | Essentially it's the same thing. However, the Cloud *will* be available on the Internet. A server *may* be on the Internet, or it may only be available on a local network. And a Cloud service may offer other features, such as document editing or viewing in your browser, which you wouldn't get with a server.Mostly it's ... |
Why are there several mandatory injections for schools? | university is basically a giant dirty ass brothel. There are so many more ways for viruses and bacteria and bad things to get spread mainly because you're now living with people who most likely have never had to clean up after themselves .I wish they made them all take a flu shot yearly. |
In Cars how exactly do companies like Overfinch and AMG operate? Can they just be called Customisation companies? Are they a separate entity from say Range Rover and Mercedes? | AMG is part of Mercedes. Its their performance brand like Shelby is to Ford. I don't know what Overfinch is. |
Why is it that major internet service providers are starting to add bandwidth limits? Shouldn't service get better and less restrictive as infrastructure improves? | They have figured out that in America they have an effective monopoly. It's too hard for a company with ideals not matching the current ones to join the market place. So they have decided together to not compete with better service and instead work on ways of getting more money from the consumers with limited investmen... |
What is 'The Satanic Verses' about? Why was it so controversial? | frogsfrogsfrogsfrogs is correct, but there's another reason behind the controversial nature of the book. In the book, there's a town called Jahilia, and in this town there's a brothel, where men pay for sex. Also, the brothel's prostitutes are all named after the wives of Mohammad. The reason that this seems like one o... |
How is the sun on fire if there isn't any oxygen in space? | It's not on fire. Stars are powered by nuclear fusion. The fusing of two hydrogen atoms together to form a helium atom. This process releases lots of energy but takes lots of pressure to start. This process makes larger elements also like oxygen.The sun is not undergoing combustion, like earthly fires. There is a proce... |
How do high schools get away with using NFL logos as their own? | No NFL team wants to come off as that asshole team who sues high schools. Not to mention it really wouldn't make any sense for them to do it, as it would just be robbing themselves of free advertising. |
why the USA doesn't use chip and pin like the UK does. | US has strong fraud protection laws on credit cards. The big advantage of EMV is it cuts down on fraud, but there wasn't really a big push for it in the US since consumers didn't have to worry about fraud anyway and the cost of switching was more than the cost of dealing with the fraud. Most card providers are starting... |
Why do the elderly prefer cars with styles such as the Crown Victorian and the Grand Marquis? Am I missing something? | It's because they're comfortable, and old people have back and joint problems. Vibration is bad for your body. My father won't drive in my car because the suspension is too rough; what I consider a relatively smooth pavement, he criticizes me for finding and hitting every bump in the road. He won't sit in my mother's c... |
What would a studio do if a major Hollywood star died midway through filming a super expensive blockbuster? | They have several options: 1. Change the script to accommodate the new circumstances. This can be done easily if the actor has finished most principal shooting .2. Use clever photography and special effects to finish the character's scenes .3. Switch actors and reshoot the relevant scenes.4. Swap actors and give some e... |
What happens when we "get a song stuck in our heads"? Why does it happen? | my auditory cortex has Daft Punk - Get Lucky burnt in for the past few days She's up all night 'til the sunI'm up all? night to get someShe's up all night for good funI'm up all night to get luckyWe're up all night 'til the sunWe're up all? night to get someWe're up all night for good funWe're up all night to get lucky |
What are the main differences between cartoon and anime? | Whenever I get asked this question I always reply in the same way. Take as an example a boot and a normal shoe. Now, they are both similar objects, their purpose it's the same, but would you call a boot a shoe or viceversa? Would you say they are the exact same thing? You wouldn't. For anime/cartoon it's the same thing... |
What precautions does the ISS take during a meteor shower? | Here's the top answer from [last time this question was asked], by /u/katinla: The ISS is shielded, just like most satellites and spacecrafts. Impact of a meteor is quite unlikely - they are very sparse even during a shower. The concern is *micrometeoroids*, and yes, there are lots of them during meteor showers. Shield... |
Why Greece is having sooo much financial problems? | The situation in Greece is really not all that complicated, Greece has a corrupt, inefficient economy and a very similar political system. For years they spent far more than they could afford, in part because of cheaper lending rates available once in the Euro, however they were only able to get into the euro in the fi... |
Why is it so painful to have background checks at gun shows? | If you don't feel you get an adequate response here, you might try /r/guns", '1) What if you are not purchasing anything? Our background check system is backed up enough as it is, and it will discourage people from just shopping around. 2) It is illegal to transfer guns via mail. The main reason is that its expensive a... |
The different schools of economics | If I can ask a similar question: can anyone send me to a place to explain inflation to me? Like why its so important/necessary and so on? No idea where to look for that. I'm 21 and none of this economic stuff makes sense to me. |
why is it necessary for there to be law enforcement in trucks? | The one's I've seen are for carrying stuff. The police have an increasingly diverse lot of stuff they like to have on hand in special situations. Rather than try to stuff it in a car, they toss the casses in the back of a truck. Same reason most truck owners have them.Are you talking about trucks as in pick ups? Often ... |
Why do so many toy manufacturers have the battery cover screwed in instead of just a little latch-thing? | Your post already says explained but I don't see mentioned here the fact that a lot of toys have the lids screw on so that young children can't simply open the cover and get to the batteries.I would bet it has to do with how the part is molded. Most plastic parts are made in a mold which is essentially a big block of m... |
Why do people romanticize the heart? When and how did that start? | It's at the center of the body, and it's something you can feel through your skin. Plus, it speeds up in emotional situations.When people experienced some emotions like "falling in love" their heart would beat super fast. This was taken as the heart is what's controlling your emotions and constitution. |
Why do characters in anime/manga get nose bleeds? Where did this idea start? | I believe the current top comment by DoubleDot is the closest to the truth. However, I think a major detail still missing is that it isn't simply sexual arousal but also embarrassment. Culturally, Japan seems a rather odd duck when it comes to sexuality . There is this increasingly present sexual aspect to much of thei... |
How is Tokyo's metro system so much cleaner than New York City's even though it moves as many people and has almost as many tourists? | The reverse is a better question, if you ask me. Virtually everywhere outside the 3rd world is cleaner than NYC. Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan are spotless. Most of Europe is quite good - London, Paris, and virtually all of Germany and Switzerland. The San Francisco BART and DC Metro are pretty good. Hell, even the Chica... |
How exactly does homeschooling work? | The homeschool parent has to register with the state as a private school. The requirements to graduate depend on the parent. Most parents look at the requirements of the colleges in the state to base their requirements on. The parent will make a transcript and a diploma for their child. End of year tests are required, ... |
Why does my heart/chest hurt when I'm really sad? | I think the question asked in eli17 terms might be why/how do I have a physiological response to emotional stimuli? Sadness and anxiety included. I'd very much like to know also. |
How do mobile services, that are disabled while in airplane mode, interfere with an airplane? | Aside from issues with the plane, it is also a heavy load on the cell network. To connect and make calls, cell phones communicate with cell towers, which cover the phones in a certain radius. When a phone moves across the edge between areas covered by two towers, the towers communicate to keep a potential connection fr... |
How come sometimes when I'm not hungry, I eat something small and become hungrier? | I'm sure there's more to it, since my knowledge only comes from entry-level Biology, so anyone feel free to jump in or correct me. As far as I remember, we can say that it's because of this funny stuff your liver makes called glycogen. When you eat a yummy meal containing carbohydrates , your blood sugar levels rise. Y... |
Why do some NFL teams train in places besides their home state | Actually, with the exception of the Cowboys and the Saints, all the teams have training camps in their home states, and most in their home towns, or fairly nearby anyway. _URL_0_ As far as why they'd go somewhere else facilities for a bigger number of people, advertising outside your area, less distractions a variety o... |
Did Human Evolution stop because there is no "survival of the fittest" anymore? | No evolution is constant. The change that ha happened is we have gone from natural selection to a more artificial kind of selection. We don't choose mates based on biggest male wins.Evolution did not stop and it never stops. There are no "breaks" in evolution between different species or types of species. The reason yo... |
Compression. How the hell do they work? (Music production, check inside for more info) | You compress because you have some part of your music that has both loud and soft parts, and you can't find a way to make them both sound good together. So what you do is find a way to make the loud parts less loud, which makes the puzzle of how to fit that piece in easier. However compression can have some significant... |
why do sites need a credit card for a free trial? | So that they can start charging you after the free trial is over, and hope that you forget to cancel before that. Also, so they aren't getting bots signing up for the website. |
Why does blurring an image in Photoshop/GIMP take a few seconds, yet various UIs and games can blur backgrounds and other stuff immediately? | There are a few factors. * The game has a higher processing priority on your computer. * The game is rendering blurred graphics as opposed the image software that is taking an existing image and applying some algorithm to blur it. * The game is creating flash and trash graphics that get displayed for one frame and then... |
How we know the speed of light? | One of the first ways they did this was to look at Jupiters four major moons. When their orbits were observed there were some oddities that didn't quite match up. The problem was solved by realizing that the disturbances were the result of the moon being in different parts of it's orbit. When the moon was closer to us,... |
Why do everybody seems to bash the Frenchs? | It's very much a stereotype much like any country gets. Americans is either fat and lazy or a bully, the English are stiff and proper, the Polish are morons, etc. People like to latch on to these for humor. And honestly it can be funny so long as it isn't taken seriously.In WWI, the French were pushed back into their o... |
What are those tiny, little, barely visible bright red bugs that you see walking on concrete or rocks? (Northeastern America) | I've always seen them on brick a lot too. Here's an article explaining what they are. Watch out - they bite! _URL_0_", 'Explain like you are 5? They are bugs, now go wash your hands.I swear I'm sitting outside of my flower shop on a cinderblock. Read this slowly stood up and it's covered in the little guys. Upvote for ... |
How do motherboards and circuit boards get completely ruined by electrostatic discharge (ESD)? | The total amount of electricity is small, but it comes in one sudden surge that the circuits aren't built to handle. The chips on your motherboard are probably designed to handle 5 volts or less. Static electricity can be upwards of 20,000 volts. The current is really low but the're coming in with a lot of force. That'... |
Why does it seem like all the radio stations go on commercial advertising at the same time? | At least by me most of the radio stations are owned by the same company, so I suspect that is so that if you change the station you're still listening to an ad, so they can get more ad revenue. |
How less than $1 a day can "save a child's life". | You aren't the only one contributing. The money is pooled. And considering how much a lot of those charities skim off the top, I'd be surprised if half of that dollar is making it there.Purchasing power parity. One dollar might be able to buy 10 local currency, which can provide a substantial amount to supplement their... |
Why have we only discovered less than 5 percent of the ocean? What about the other 95 percent? | After a couple hundred feet light no longer enters the ocean so the majority of life lives less than 200 feet from the surface. Life does exist lower, however there is significantly less stuff to see. The deepest human divers can only go to about 1000 feet below the surface because of the water pressure. 1 gallons of w... |
Why do people feel the need to lie when asked questions they don't know the answer to? | I imagine a fair bit of it has to deal with the knee-jerk reaction to be helpful - or atleast appear helpful. I trust most people do so sincerely and that it's only once they've started that their brain gets distracted or overwhelmed past their immediate snap-decision expectations that they get ahead of themselves and ... |
How do CEOs like Elon Musk, pay their bills on only a $1 a year salary? | Public company CEOs often receive a large percentage of their compensation in the form of option and stock grants. The CEOs accepting the token $1 salaries are usually sitting on plenty of options/stock that they can exercise/sell if they're ever in need of cash. In the specific case of Elon Musk, he also invested $50+... |
What property of matter is it that determines what color the item is. | The easy answer to your first question can be found here: _URL_1_ As to the second question, try _URL_0_ It's not great, but that's a bit more complex than your first. |
what is the difference between 4X4, all wheel drive and four wheel drive? | To expand on what jg271487 about AWD being on 'all the time' There are many different awd systems, and most of the awd systems on cars these days are not 'full time systems'. That is to say the car is FWD until the AWD system detects slippage, and then it engages a clutch which sends power the rear wheels. Two common A... |
Why does a place like a hospital need to advertise? | You know that one guy down the street who always does good things, but for the most part people ignore him? If it weren't for you parents you wouldn't know about that guy? Well, people like to talk about bad things. Bad things travel fast and freely. You need people to talk about good things and sometimes you have to b... |
If all life is constantly evolving, why are all species so distinct? | what is a half-evolved chimp person? I don't know what you mean by that. chimpanzees and humans share a common ancestor. |
If explosions in space can't happen(Movies), why doesn't the vacuum of space put out the sun or at least solar flares instantly? | There's no *fire* in space because there's no oxygen. But the sun isn't a ball of fire, it's a series of sustained fusion reactions. In addition, explosions can still happen in space, they just won't look like explosions on Earth . |
On YouTube, why does Part 1 of a series of videos seem to link to parts 3, 4 and so on, but not link to Part 2? | I believe it's because the videos appearing are based on an algorithm rather than actually being chosen by anybody, so that leads to YouTube selecting a more popular video, or one with higher ratings from the same publisher, rather than it just reading the videos as if they are in a series like they are intended. |
How certain resolutions like 480i, 480p and 1080p became standard and not for example 600p or 900p? | These resolutions have become standard, since TV's generally have a 16:9 dimension . 480p, 720p and 1080p are just multiplications of this dimension. In [this] chart you can see the dimension stays the same for all the formats, it only became bigger over time, since TV's got bigger. Broadcast companies generally broadc... |
Why is 1KB 1024 bytes but 1KM is 1000m? | Techincally, 1 [**kilo**bit] *is* 1000 bits. It's one [**kibi**bit] that is 1024 bits. |
If marijuana is still illegal nationally can't the government just invade Colorado January 1st and arrest a ton of people? | Yes, but then the democrats lose colorado so ain't happening. However expect a few raids over the next year as they claim colorado is exporting weed to other states. |
How do banks make profit from "free" products? | For a lot of these, hoping for people who aren't 100% financially responsible. Checking account: fees they don't tell you about. ATM, overdraft, etc. Savings account: using your money to be able to loan out more money Debit card: hidden fees, more chance for overdrafts Credit card: Interest! Hoping you make the minimum... |
Why is oxygen spelled O2 instead of just O? | O refers to the atom of Oxygen. O2 refers to the oxygen molecule which is two Oxygen atoms bonded together. That's the natural form of oxygen on its own. |
Martin Luther's Ninety-five Theses and why were they important? | Luther's Theses were essential for the split of people who were displeased with the Roman Catholic Church. They pointed out issues that he held with the way the church worked, including Indulgences, basically bribing the priest into forgiving your sins, so you can go to heaven. This allowed Protestantism to form, which... |
[META] is a search too much to ask? Ok, how about a quick glance at the top 25? No? | Funny how reddit works, last time I replied with ''why didn't you just search first'' I was downvoted to oblivion. Apparantly reddit's search engine is so bad that it justifies being lazy. Barely a month later, I see this pop up. |
If you were to draw the universe as a circle on a piece of paper, what would be outside the circle? | The circle would expand infinitely in all directions at the speed of light and would be filled with infinite numbers of concentric circles since every time you try to draw the universe, the universe includes the drawing, and the next one would include both drawings, etc. There was no 'before'. Time starts with the big ... |
RSA algorithm and public/private keys | Another way of looking at it is the familiar box analogy. Imagine you want to send a briefcase of information to your friend across the US but need it to be locked so that thieves can't see it. Obviously you can't just put your own lock on there and send it because your friend doesn't have your key to that lock. The bo... |
How does a spinning object create electricity? (Like a windmill etc) | if you take a loop of metal and turn it inside a magnetic field, it will generate electricity. The more loops there are, the more electricity is generated. Also, the faster the turning, the more electricity will be generated. This is how a generator works. If you attach a generator to a windmill, the wind will turn the... |
; How come carbonated drinks taste horrible when flat while other sugared drinks like Kool-aid, tea, and Gatorade taste fine. | I quite like the taste of cold, flat Coke. Especially in the morning if i'm hungover.Edit - it does need to be really cold though. |
What is the appeal of the haiku? I understand its rules, just not why they would make a sentence cool. | The idea is to make a beautiful poem that evokes nature and the seasons, while being incredibly brief and sticking to a specific format. That makes it a challenging writing exercise. If you just write *anything* that has 5-7-5 syllables, it may fit the format, but that doesn't make it a decent haiku. |
Why do some people have dark circles under their eyes all the time? | I was born with dark circles, and I've heard from my mother that my eyes apparently leak blood and pool in the skin under my eyes? I'm not sure if this is right, or if it's the weak muscles under my eye.Some people just know how to party like a RockstarBecause I am very tired all the time. |
what determines a stocks price other than people buying and selling that stock? | A company can chose to buy back it's own stock to increase the price, or issue more or split the stock to dilute the price. Anything that significantly changes the companies assets or liabilities will impact the stock price, along with changes to dividends, govt regulations, voting rights/class structure of the stock, ... |
Can anyone ELI5 the philosophy of Aristotle? | Previous two are good, but let me say a little about how Aristotle thinks about ethics, or how we should behave. Lots of people today think about right and wrong in terms of things we specifically do: is this thing I'm about to do a good or a bad thing? Aristotle thinks about that a little differently. He doesn't look ... |
In extremely cold weathers, why is it that we layer 3-4 and sometimes more pieces of clothing for our upper body, but not do the same for our lower body? | When we get cold our blood focuses on heating our organs and core. The simple answer is that we prioritoze our upper body because that's where all of our vital body parts are. |
Credit Scores & Building A Good One | Great answers so far. There are lots of factors that go into calculating your credit score. Only credit agencies and FICO know the exact formula, but we can break it down into the following: * **What kinds of credit?** - This includes, credit cards, mortgages, car loans, student debt, etc.* **How long have you had it?*... |
Why aren't video games released across multiple platforms more often? | Different platforms requires different code. PC is especially troublesome because the vast array of possibilities in hardware make it very hard to make a streamlined release. I believe the original Halo was ported to the PC and it was a horrible port from what I've heard. But more than anything, it's a money thing. Mos... |
Why is it that people tend to wake up right before their alarm clock goes off. | It's mostly the protein thing that jhaake said but you may also consider that you probably check the time repeatedly throughout the night and forget about it and pass back out when you find out that its 1:45 am. When you check and it says 6:10 you pay attention and wake up. Source: checked my phone at 5:44 am today. |
I suffer from depression. It comes and goes. But is always absent during my periods. Why is that? | Totally don't know the answer to your question, but I recently saw something on depression that may help - see Food Matters excerpt - _URL_0_ |
What is the difference between FBI and CBI? | Different jurisdictions . The FBI is a law enforcement agency of the US government. The CBI is a law enforcement agency of the State of California. It's specialty tends to be in helping other law enforcement agencies with major investigations by providing experience that smaller law enforcement agencies might lack. |
Why do people who throw knives hold them by the blade and not the handle? | That's just Hollywood. I used to be an avid thrower and I held by the handle. I could throw by holding the blade but it's dangerous and felt unnatural. |
American gun laws, Canadian gun laws, and the difference between them | I'll speak as a Canadian with my possession-only licence. In Canada guns are for hunting [Handguns] are essentially useless for killing game because they are inaccurate, so they are restricted, ammunition for hunting nor incendiary or explosive or flechette rounds. Magazines for hunting , attachments and in storage the... |
How scientists can determine if a planet hundreds of light years away may support life. | Here's my try.A lot of years ago, scientists discovered that if you hold up a triangle-shaped piece of glass to the light, you can see the colours of the rainbow. Scientists figured out that different types of glass and other stuff showed different amounts of different colours. In fact, the gases that make up our atmos... |
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