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Why are so many computer programs still 32-Bit instead of 64 bit? | There's no major reason for much software to move to 64 bit. The only reason you would really migrate is to allow bigger numbers to be used in the system, but in things like web browsers that rarely matters. Ask yourself this: when will your web browser ever need to count something outside the range of -2,147,483,647 t... |
- How does somebody become paralyzed? | Paralysis is commonly caused when the nerves that send signals from the brain to the limb are damaged. There are medical causes, including birth defects, and mechanical causes, like crashing one's motorbike. Being paralyzed from the legs down might be caused by spinal cord damage in the lower back.Think of your spinal ... |
Why can't we see the core of our galaxy with our naked eyes? | There's interstellar dust that is opaque to the visible spectrum of light. There's enough of it between us and the galactic core to block our sight of it. However, using telescopes that see in infrared, for example, the core can be seen as the dust doesn't block infrared.The actual center is blocked by dust between us ... |
If water and ice both have transparent properties, why is snow white? | Isn't it because water is clear, the multiple facets of a snowflake refract and disperse light in a way that blends it together to make white |
What’s the benefits of using 32-bit Windows operation system over 64-bit Windows operation system? | most people are familiar with desktop video settings in windows. Like if you want 16.8 million colors, you need 24bit video to do it, and 256 colors only requires 8 bits, and 16 bits can encode 65,000 colors. The bits in a CPU and a piece of software work in a similar fashion. The 64 bit operating systems can access hu... |
For help with weight loss, why could we not just "force" ourselves to consume a lot of really healthy food? | We absolutely can. If you fill your environment with healthy foods that are easier to obtain than fattening ones, and/or if you set a rule that you may not eat any fattening item until you've eaten a certain amount of filling healthy ones, that actually works. |
Why are array operations (e.g. MATLAB/Numpy) so much faster than using loops on an entire array? | Modern computers have support for array operations *in hardware.* There's no way for a software procedure to compete with that. |
Why as a modern society do we worship celebrities and sports entertainers while intellectuals like academics and pilosophers seemed to get a lot more recognition in ancient times? | I don't think that's true. Sportspeople and entertainers have been popular for millennia. The Roman chariot races have been mentioned. Mozart was highly popular in his time. And so on. And conversely there are some academics that are quite well known today. Stephen Hawking, Brian Cox, Neil DeGrasse Tyson.There has alsw... |
Why do humans have allergies, and why does it seem like they're so common in the US specifically? | There's a theory that being excessively clean/isolated when young prevents the immune system from learning about things that are normal and do not require an immune response. |
Why does my skin itch after lying in grass | Depending on where you live, could be Chiggers. Nearly microscopic red bugs that think you're tasty. They suck. [Chiggers]", 'Simple, you have a grass allergy. I have one too, and I also get little bumps if I lie in the grass.I'm going to explain it like you're 15: It's called Allergic Contact Dermatitis. Basically, yo... |
Why do people keep working in sweatshops for two dollars a day? Is there literally no other job they could be doing instead? | Sweatshops are located in densely populated areas such as Bangladesh, Cambodia, where finding a decent job or any other alternatives is incredibly scarce. $2 is just enough for them to earn enough money to eat 3 meals a day, and live in a slum. Unfortunately that's how thousands of people live and there's not much to p... |
Why do countries still use the imperial system for measurements? | Hmm. 0° Celsius is 32° Fahrenheit, the freezing point of water. 'Different countries' is also a little misleading. Almost everywhere in the world uses the metric system, only very few countries still use imperial system, one of them being the US. There are maybe two or three others. |
How do people not bleed to death when they have surgery? | You're typically asked not to eat before a surgery, especially any surgery on your digestive tract. Food and other things get your blood moving and pumping, and not eating helps slow that down.I got another follow up question for example, They will perform surgery in the heart. Do they break the rib cage so that the co... |
Why does being molested as a child trigger so many predictable negative behaviors later in life? | Abuse of any kind can and does affect the developing brain. It doesn't affect daily ability, but it is a change visible on MRI. They're learning more about this all the time. They've also found people attacked as children have higher rates of autonomic responses like tonic immobility if attacked again later in life. Ad... |
How do the military check the medical history of people who only recently came to a country? | The military doesn't check your medical history, but they do perform a quite thorough physical at MEPS before allowing you to enlist/commission. They'll ask you about your medical condition and if they found out you lied they will discharge you under fraudulent enlistment . |
Why does Dubai look so devoid of human life in many pictures | Dubai is a pretty lively place actually. It's the biggest city I've ever been to. lol It's way too hot there though. I don't know if you already knew this but it is next to Saudi Arabia. |
Why can some computers run videos of a game when they cannot run the actual game itself? | A video is basically just a sequence of pictures. Show this picture, then this picture, then this picture, etc. There's compression and other things like that to make it more efficient, but that's the gist. When you play a game though, the game doesn't know ahead of time what pictures it's going to show you. It depends... |
How do tabloids like the National Enquirer stay in business when anyone can use the internet to check if their stories are BS? | The readers don't care if the stories are fake or not, they're just in it for the entertainment. See also: pro wrestling", 'People sometimes like hearing BS. It is a form of entertainment and people like hearing things they want to hear.You have stumbled upon the great secret: The people who read that stuff don't fact ... |
The survivability of a gunshot wound | Since it's just a robber that means he is untrained and has a low caliber weapon. Chances of surviving are very good assuming you get to the host Opal and if he didn't hit you in the heart or brain. You'd be surprised how good our surgery and treatment now is |
Why do we accept the euthanasia of our pets as an act of mercy but (overwhelmingly) do not euthanize our human relatives? | I really hate these ELI5 posts that obviously have no clear answer and are only questioning why something isn't the way the OP thinks it should be.Why not let it them make the choice to painlessly end their own life and die with some dignity, rather than insist they allow the ravages of some terrible disease runits ful... |
why do visa and mastercard have such a strong hold on merchant payment processing? | Credit Cards started as a method for merchants to outsource credit to a third party that had a better understanding of the customer's creditworthiness. Once their payment-processing hardware/network grew, they had a oligopoly on payment processing. They began charging fees to the merchants. McDonald's initially resiste... |
What is, and what is wrong with AmazonS3? | To add: When we sent requests to the S3 server, we would get unspecified errors just telling us that it didn't work. To quote Amazon: Update at 2:08 PM PST: As of 1:49 PM PST, we are fully recovered for operations for adding new objects in S3, which was our last operation showing a high error rate. The Amazon S3 servic... |
How do mentally handicapped individuals deal with sexual urges as they reach puberty? | I work as a direct care worker for the mentally handicapped. We have clients from 16-85 and the entire spectrum of mental handicaps. Im talking infant level all the way to legally functioning. Autism, downs, trama, plus a ton more.\r\rI've had nonverbal autistic clients with toddler level IQ whip it out in the middle o... |
How were operating systems developed? Wouldn't a preexisting one need to be in place to type the code? | Let's say you have a really big oak tree you want to cut down. You could try pulling it out with your bare hands, but you probably won't have much luck because oak trees are strong and this one is particularly large. You realize, though, that you can pull out saplings with your hands fairly easily. You gather up a few ... |
The "edge" of the universe, and why there isn't one. | The best way I've seen it explained is like this. One of the most widely accepted theories is that the universe is infinite in all directions even micro seconds after the big bang the universe was infinite. It is just space itself that is expanding. Think of two number lines on one number line the space between each nu... |
What is this whole "Ayn Rand" stuff many people come across but "Thought it was cool at 15 but got over it by 21"? | Nonsense reasoning for the myopically self-entitled. Don't expend your critical faculties bothering with it. It's witless rubbish, and Ayn Rand was exactly as much of a hypocritical shambles as any other self-revering psychopath who attempted to put big words around nothing. There's a reason why she's a bit of a laughi... |
Why Bad script are accepted in Hollywood big productions. Is there no one to double check them ? Bad dialogue, Plot hole, etc... | If you saw the movie to make these criticisms then it doesn't really matter to the studio all that much; you saw it, you paid for it, their aim was met. A lot of movies aren't planning to be cult classics or a cherished gem of the decade, they just want to turn their profit and go home. If enough people get into the th... |
Why do lethal injections need to be sterilized? | people like to pretend their executions are humane more than they care about actually making them humane that's why they use lethal injections in the first place: they take longer and are more likely to go wrong and cause suffering compared to methods like the guillotine, but it looks so much more detached and clinical |
Why are most or even all toilets made of ceramic material? | Well they're made of porcelain and a toilet really only has to be three things. Sturdy sanitary and pretty cheap. Porcelain checks all those boxes and the white color gives the illusion of it being sanitary. |
Why gaming companies want to remove gameplay videos and "let's-plays" from YouTube? | If you mean the current issue the problem is on YouTube's end. There are companies, I know Blizzard for one and Capcom may be another, that were horribly confused when they started getting complaints that they filed claims against games they have given permission for. Some, mostly small indie devs, were getting claims ... |
How does a helicopter actually attain lift? | If you've ever held your hand out the window of a car on the highway you've experienced the effect that lets planes and helicopters fly. When you tilt your hand back you feel it lift up because the wind is pushing against your hand at an angle, forcing it up. Now instead of moving forward in your car, imagine your car ... |
how does someone get access to all the music in the world to be able to start a business or app, much like I < 3 Radio. [technology] | IHeartRadio is owned by IHeartMedia, which used to be known as Clear Channel Communications. Clear Channel/IHeartMedia is owns the largest number of radio stations in the country, over 850 if Wikipedia is still accurate. So if you're already a huge stakeholder in the music business, you already have the contacts with a... |
how do we not fall out of bed when we sleep? | You ever get that falling sensation while sleeping and jolt yourself awake. That's your leftover monkey brain thinking your falling out of a tree. |
How is is possible that supermarkets can have an own-brand version of nearly everything and can sell them at such lower prices? | They aren't making those products they hire contract manufacturers to produce them. A factory that makes cookies may bake chocolate chip cookies for Kroger one day, peanut butter cookies for Costco's Kirkland brand the next day. The same factories might even be making Chips Ahoy for Nabisco, too. The equipment is the s... |
How does whipping cream create butter? | cream is fat suspended in water Water and fat don't normally like to mix, but it can be achieved with what is called an emulsion- milk and milk products like cream are natural emulsions When you whip the cream too much, you break the emulsion, and the fat is able to separate from the water and clump up as butter. |
How long until a vacation turns into illegal citizenship (if at all)? | It varies based on the country and where you are traveling from. Some places will allow you to travel for up to 6 months as a tourist, others require specific visas to visit as a tourist and when that visa expires you're time is up. You really need to look up the specific place you want to visit and find out what their... |
If they can make sweet diet drinks with no carbs or fat, how come they can't do the same thing with a candy bar? | Any drink you can buy is essentially made up of water + flavorings . There is no fat there to remove in the first place, and once you remove / replace the sugar - you the remove the carbs. Easy-peasy. Food on the other hand - *all* food mind you - is made up of three basic components . Protein, carbohydrates, and fat. ... |
Why should I open a savings account when the interest rates are ridiculously low? | On top of what has been said, the savings account is for cash on hand, but putting money into a savings account actually costs you money. You may make that $2.50 in interest, but you'll likely lose 2-4% due to inflation year over year which is far worse than gaining .05% interest. Diversifying long term savings into ot... |
What is the difference between rarity and scarcity? | Scarcity is usually just artificial rarity. Diamonds aren't rare, but there are only a few companies that mine them, so they use that to make us *think* they're rare. |
Why does continuously mixing cement, like in the back of a cement truck, stop it from hardening? | It doesn't. Concrete sets by chemical reaction. The rate of setting is determined by the precise mixture of ingredients in the concrete and any special additives , as well as temperature. The cement truck will get filled with dry materials, have water added, and set mixing. The concrete will be tested for consistency, ... |
Why do cold showers make you hyperventilate? | Your body doesn't know that it's stepped into a shower. It just knows that it suddenly got cold and wet. As far as your body knows, you just fell into a lake. To be safe, your body has to assume you just fell in a lake. Your body thinks that it's about to go under. It forces you to take as many rapid breaths as you can... |
What is it about the works of famous Abstract Impressionists like Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock that make their work "good," as opposed to some random shit anyone else could draw? | I've heard it is actually hard to reproduce the work of Pollock without carefully studying his technique. In that regard, he developed a new way of doing something that can be incorporated into other work.I like Rothko and Pollock, but when I was first starting out in art school my 2D Design teacher helped me out in un... |
Why is some military and police headgear designed to be worn with a "chin" strap that sits between the chin and the lower lip, not under the chin at all? | Most of the time its a ceremonial thing. Easier to make it look uniform across everyone, and fewer adjustments to make everyone's fit properly. It can be a bitch though for say the musicians who have to play with it like that.Cause anybody that would willingly wear it would willing follow any order no matter how stupid... |
How did the suit become the worldwide pinnacle of men's fashion? | Rich people used to wear shiny, flashy, coloured clothes to show how rich they were. See Louis XIV. _URL_2_ Then the enlightenment happened and people decided the highest form of life was to be rational, scientific, grounded and serious. They didn't want to be like the older generation. Beau Brummel started wearing bla... |
Why won't airlines let me give my ticket to someone else, as I can with a sporting event ticket? | to prevent a third party from purchasing tickets when the price is low and filling the seats later. Travel agents would buy up blocks of discounted seats, disrupting the airlines' pricing system and cutting their profits. |
What separates me for making an overpriced "luxury" item? | You pretty much hit the main points. You take a product that is of high quality to begin with . Then you find a way to market it so that it enhances the customer's image if they buy it. Celebrity endorsements certainly help. Other marketing techniques are also used though. |
How are dark matter and dark energy not just copouts / fudge factors / begging the question? | Dark matter and dark energy are not universally accepted. There are many avenues of research in trying to resolve the discrepancies. One of the hypotheses for the rotation problem is MOND, or Modified Newtonian Dynamics, which is essentially what you're proposing: our model of gravitation is inaccurate on galactic scal... |
How do weak and strong currency affect prices of goods when imported or exported [in this situation, new cars]? | I'm only going to talk about one of these. > Canadian-built Chrysler 300, built in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, exported to Australia. Currency ratio = AUD/USD, USD/AUD. Strong Australian dollar AUD, weak US dollar USD. Chrysler is an American company so it books its profits and losses in USD. When the AUD is strong as c... |
What is an insurance? | You've pretty much got it. Generally, you insure yourself against something which is both unlikely, and bad: a car crash, your house burning down, a part of your body that's essential for your job becoming injured. The insurance company work out the chances of it happening, and the amount they'd have to pay if it did h... |
Why is it bad to wash your hair with shampoo every day? | The reason is because you don't actually need to do it. Your hair produces oils naturally, and it only gets greasy because of the shampoo. The shampoo strips all of the oils away, so your hair needs to overproduce oil to make your hair stay healthy. And this cycle goes on and on, so that your hair starts to feel very g... |
How are vegetarian diets better for the environment? | To produce meat, we have to feed the cows/chickens/whatever plants, but through living and pooping they waste some of the nutrients in the plants. Thus, it's less wasteful to just eat the plants ourselves. |
How is walmart able to exist and thrive with a policy of "no unionized workers" when it goes against basic workers rights? (Canadian here so as per Canadian law please.) | The basic gist is that the union laws are outdated for the modern world. Every union attempt thus far has been on an individual store level. So, when a store votes in a union they just close the store. The workers take them to court, and the workers tend to win. The last case went all the way to the supreme court, and ... |
How and why we feel the emotion, "boredom" whenever we aren't doing anything? | Probably because Blue Bell can't seem to get their act together. How long can it take to get Moo-lennium crunch into my local Kroger? |
What is the EU's relationship to the governments of individual European countries? | The EU is unique in that's kind of a combination of the UN and a Federal style of Government. First, each member of the EU is a sovereign nation and has a fair amount of autonomy. This is like the UN. On the other hand, the EU has a Parliament . This Parliament is the lower house of the EU Legislature. can pass laws wh... |
Why are we not charged for using GPS? | after the Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was shot down, Reagan made GPS free for civilian use. ps. i'm surprised all 4 other comments didn't mention him at all. i don't like him as a President, however, you've to give credit where credit is due. |
How do blind people know where to find Braille in public places? | In America, the Americans with Disabilities Act specifies the height that braille signage must be from the floor. IIRC, it's based off average heights of intended targets . Next time you're out, look at the signs, they are all at the same height, and are easily reached. Blind people are typically taught the amount of r... |
- How do those who are paralyzed or without use of their legs drive? | If they can afford it they buy a car with hand controls instead of foot pedals. That's what my cousin did after his accident and his legal settlement. |
Why should regular people care if presidential nominees aren't confirmed? | A top-level leader is supposed to do a number of things, but the most important ones are: to provide a vision for how to achieve the goal of the organization; to create the environment where that vision will be achieved; and to take responsibility for the actions and inactions of the organization. Sure, any organizatio... |
Why is it so difficult to desalinate water? | It's not difficult. It's just difficult to do it for a large amount of water over a long time. Desalinating water leaves behind the salts that were dissolved in the water, and salts are really notorious for eroding away mechanics, so it is difficult to automate what to do with these salts after it's done being removed ... |
how did the Kim dynasty begin? | Kim Il-sung was a minor rebel leader in Japanese occupied Manchuria in the 1930s, commanding a mixed group of Chinese and Korean guerillas trying to expel the Japanese from Manchuria and Korea. The Japanese kicked the shit out of these groups and almost all the rebel leaders died. Kim was one of the few survivors but h... |
Why do we have to sign the back of a debit card? | In addition to being able to compare the signatures as a fraud protection, signing the card is your acceptance of the credit card's/banks contract. If you actually read the MasterCard/Visa merchant agreement, it says that merchants are supposed to refuse an unsigned card/ask the cardholder to sign it, because an unsign... |
The current MLB hacking case/scandal.. | Here's what it boils down to: Allegedly, a member of the Cardinals unlawfully accessed a computer system owned by the Houston Astros. Regardless of anyone's definition, this is hacking and it is illegal. The people who did this were apparently tracked to a home in Florida which has been known to house members of the St... |
After their extinction, why did dinosaur type creatures not evolve all over again? | Evolution takes place in an environment; different organisms compete to best survive in an environment, and it is their adaptation to it that drives evolution. The environment of the earth after the dinoasaurs died out was different from that when they first evolved - for one thing, there were all those dead dinosaurs!... |
Why do humans like to watch other humans dance? | It's a legacy of mate selection courtship rituals. You watch someone dance to judge their performance in order to chose them as a partner for reproduction.not all like this . some like but some little not like .I'm a human and I don't like to watch others dance.What a stupid generalization. I prefer watching my dog pee... |
Why are dogs' ears all floppy when they're puppies but stiffen up when they're adults? | Babies have floppy ears also. It's like the car wash. Anything that could get broken off or damaged going through the tunnel is soft so it won't get damaged. You should feel human baby ears. Sometimes you have to tape them because they're rolled up or folded. Then like a small puppy they harden.Great story on why domes... |
Of all the things he's claiming, what exactly could Bernie Sanders do in 4 (or 8) years if he were elected? | At an absolute minimum, he could exercise veto power whenever Congress tries to do something stupid, like expanding the NSA's ability to spy on innocent citizens. As far as positive change goes, it would depend very much on who controls Congress. Though actually he'd probably be appointing some Supreme Court justices, ... |
Why cant they make food zero calories, like they do with soft drinks? | The biggest part of soft drinks is water, which has zero calories. By substituting sugar with synthetic chemicals, we can trick our brains into thinking water and those chemicals taste like sugar, without providing the chemical energy that sugar has. Food is much harder, because it has something drinks don't - texture ... |
Is a Solid State Drive (SSD) basically a Hard Drive made out of RAM? | Sort of, except it doesn't use normal RAM chips, it uses another variant of memory chip called Flash Memory. Advantage: unlike RAM it doesn't lose its contents when the power goes off. |
Kissing. How did it originate, become so universal, and why is it pleasurable? | I'm fairly certain that its origin is biological, which is why it is so universal both among humans and animals . The benefit it gives for humans is the swapping of all sorts of information through spit like pheromones and does compatibility testing of immune systems. You are more likely to become attracted to a person... |
What is that "heavy" feeling in my chest when I don't feel like I got enough sleep? | Likely its a crossfire between your body's attempts at staying asleep to get a full rest by keeping your body relaxed and at a slower deeper breathing rate. Happened to me this morning too |
What would really happen in terms of employment and the poverty level if the federal minimum wage were to increase? | While you might assume that raising the minimum wage is great, 'Hey, more money for everyone at the bottom', the reality is more complicated. Raising the minimum wage will often cause lower overall employment, companies will begin to substitute labor for other goods. For example, say you run a fast food joint, that emp... |
What is space-time? Why do physicists talk about space-time as one thing and not two completely separate things? | This is the explanation that I remember best: You must have made an appointment at some point in your life, or had one made for you. Let's say your appointment was at Dr. Frankenstein's office, today at 4pm. Now imagine if your appointment was JUST for 4pm - with no location noted. Or, if it was at Dr. Frankenstein's o... |
Why does "He was a tall thin man" sound fine but "He was a thin tall man" sounds awkward? | Zag - zig Cross - crissBad Big Wolf Kat Kit Bar There's a reason we *know* it sounds wrong. Read this: _URL_1_ |
What's the difference between migration, emigration, and immigration? | A movement of people from one country to another is a migration. A movement of people out of one country is an emigration, and the movement of people into a country is immigration. Think of them like transfer, uploading, and downloading. Any one of the three implies the other two, but they're used depending on who you'... |
What would it look like if the Earth had a second moon the same size as our current one, and they collided? | Not sure how scientifically accurate it is, but Neil Stephenson sort of dealt with this in 7 Eves basically, we'll all die all the bits burning up in earths atmosphere would cook us all in a matter of weeks. |
What is Netlflix's Content Delivery Network (CDN) that they want ISPs to sign up for in order to make Super HD and 3D movies available to their customers? | Netflicks CDN literally ships a bunch of computer equipment to the ISP, That means if you use that ISP. the data comes from the equipment sitting right there, 1 or 2 network jumps away from the viewer. your ISP doesn't have to pay to get the data there, it's just ready to give to you, the customer. at super-fast rates. |
Why are sports such as american football and basketball played predominantly by African Americans? | They genetically tend to be more athletic. One speculative reason as to why is honestly pretty terrible. I've heard the argument that it stems from slavery. People essentially bred slaves to be strong etc. Not sure how much it actually factors in but I've heard the argument. Simply put African Americans tend to be fast... |
Why are some large cities like Austin, TX, Chicago, IL, and Atlanta, GA so under-represented in most media? | Do you mean TV and movies? Chicago does get represented a fair amount but in general, they pick locations where there is interesting scenery, urban cityscape, and where people could have applicable jobs. Also, practical considerations about being able to film are considerations LA and NY obviously have the easiest abil... |
What's the use of orgasms ? | in men its necessary to expel the semen; In women it may be vestigial - a result of some of the male apparatus being there, i suppose a bit like men having nipples The whole 'well evolution would want sex to be nice' thing may be relevant but is at best just a part of the explanation |
What does a panic attack or anxiety attack feel like? | Effects can vary but a true panic attack absolutely cripples a person. Their brain is spinning up to the point that it interferes with proper processing of external stimulus and the person pretty much shuts off until they can get past it. Your heart speeds up and you can feel nauseous. Sometimes you can't catch your br... |
California's worst drought in 500 years. What's going on? | For the last 13-14 months there has been a high pressure weather system in the Pacific ocean that has effectively blocked most of the winter storms that California normally experiences. It has been this way long enough that California has not been able to replenish the many reservoirs that the state relies on to hold w... |
why can't we see the stars when we're in a city? | You cannot see the stars because of something called [Skyglow]. In turn Skyglow is usually caused by the city's [Light Pollution]. Sky glow occurs because when light from a city goes up, sometimes the light hits a molecule in the air. It then gets reflected back down, sort of like how you can sometimes see a reflection... |
Where did last names come from? | Fun Fact: people in certain parts of the world do not have last names, only a first name. When immigrating to a nation that requires two names, they often use their village's name of the name of their father as their second name. |
How can dollar/99c stores exist? | When a dollar store is selling brand name products, often the size of the product is reduced, so you're paying less and also getting less. Another reason that they have lower prices on brand names is that they buy inventory from stores that go out of business. Their cost is lower than getting it from the regular distri... |
What does the universe expand in to? | This gets asked a lot. Some great /r/askscience threads : [What is 'Space' expanding into?] [So if the Universe is constantly expanding, what is it expanding into?] And my personal favourite: [I have some questions about the big bang]", 'Okay, Hank Green address this pretty awesomely. Watch it! _URL_3_ Edit: You can st... |
Why does Mexican food have a reputation for giving people diarrhea? | Mexican food itself doesn't have that reputation. Rather, people who aren't Mexican and who don't regularly eat Mexican food prescribe that reputation. It's not like people in Mexico are constantly wondering why they have diarrhea. Your gut adapts to what you eat; the microbes inside grow and flourish depending on what... |
If caterpillars completely turn into a gel in their cocoon, how is it that they don't die? And how are they still the same animal? | tagging onto this: How did this transformation come about in an evolutionary sense? One of the common arguments against evolution is that the human eye are way too complicated to have simply evolved . Neil deGrasse Tyson did a fantastic job in an episode of cosmos explaining how the eye could have evolved. Any idea how... |
From a big height, how do we jump to save our lives? | If you know the snow is deep and soft, I imagine landing feet first, slightly relaxed would work best. Hard ground, the tuck and toll technique is probably best. I've jumped at most around 5 meters down into deep snow, from the roof of our cabin in the mountains, wearing ordinary winter boots. I think there was probabl... |
Why doesn't Arizona observe daylight savings time ? | A quick google search revealed this Many people in Arizona including many businesses, farming communities and people with children, preferred to remain on MST throughout the year because daylight saving produced no personal benefits for them. They had tried it for one year in the 1960s but there was so much negative re... |
How does virtual space allocation for stack, heaps, code, data work exactly? | All of the code itself goes in the part labeled instructions. Local variables go in the stack and are popped off when you leave scopes. When you call malloc you get memory in the heap. Pages are just sections of memory that are moved in and out of different levels of caches. The program is abstracted away from this and... |
What's the difference between a $10 bottle of wine compared to a $100 bottle? | You are paying for particular flavors and other qualities that you expect of the particular region, grape or style. The biggest houses have their signature styles. Because they have particular styles, they might not be quite what you wanted or expected so price is not a good indicator of what you're going to like. My r... |
Why do all Windows installation wizards look fundamentally the same? | Nullsoft NSIS" and "Innosetup" - these are the most common tools that get used. Also, if you're using a higher-level language or big set of helper libraries when you code your main app, you can't write your installer with those same tools - because the installer program itself won't run if they aren't already present o... |
When ill, we cough uncontrollably during the day, but during sleep we don't wake up get forced to cough? Why? | When I'm sick or have bad allergies, I cough uncontrollably at night. It's horrible and I usually need to take a cough suppressant to get any form of sleep. Just my anecdotal experience, but there you go. |
Would somebody be able to swim in Mercury and if so what would it feel like? | I've seen a photograph of someone doing just that in an old issue of National Geographic. He had only sunk about an inch into it. He was really sitting on it, rather than swimming in it. |
What is 'vocal fry' and why does it bother some people, but not others? | The voice has 4 different registers. The one most people speak in is called the modal register, and the one below that is the vocal fry register . The vocal fry register is known for sounding really growly, and you'd be surprised at how often you hear it in music. It's used a lot in country music as well as in metal mu... |
What is the point of cutting up cancelled credit cards? | Places used to cut up customer's cards, as directed by the credit card companies, when the cards had been cancelled, stolen, over limits, etc. I don't know if this practice is still used. I remember having to cut up a few customer's cards, and holy hell, were they fuming! -Cutting up your own cards, when cancelling/clo... |
How did 'good weather' become synonymous with hot weather when just as many people prefer colder weather? | We are descended from agricultural societies. Weather below freezing was a slow death to them, since you couldn't grow crops if the ground froze, if it was 100 degrees F it would be hot and a lot of crops would die if it was sustained, but it would still be a lot better than winter. And no one calls super-hot weather g... |
what did planned parenthood do wrong that is causing the government to flip out. | The latest round of video editing and feigned shock at things totally legal by the GOP and subsequent attempts at defunding Planned Parenthood is just a continued attempt to attack the root of their anger; Roe v. Wade. Roe v. Wade gave women dominion over their bodies and that has always angered hard line conservatives... |
How can dogs bark for a long time without their throat getting sore/losing their voice? | Same reason humans can talk all day without losing their voice: our vocal cords were made for talking, whereas dog's were made for barking. |
Is Evolutionary Psychology bullshit, or is it real science? | I, too, would like to see a detailed response here. My ex used to criticise the shit out of it because you couldn't perform experiments that would disprove it. I found that hard to disagree with. I think it's more of a conceptual framework than a testable hypothesis, although you can certainly make convincing arguments... |
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