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Why do people start to feel sick when reading in cars? | Your senses don't agree with each other on your movement. Your eyes are focused on what you are reading but see the landscape moving with peripheral vision. Your ears also tell you when you are going over bumps, accelerating, and turning. It's hard for your brain to decide how you are actually moving and thus hard to a... |
How does the moon cause tides? | Earth's tides are caused by gravitational pull of the moon. All matter in the universe displaces space causing it to attract other matter. Infact even you, sitting at your desk reading Reddit, your creating an gravitational attraction to the objects around you. It's so small that nothing actually moves. Now the moon, b... |
What happens to IP rights/licenses when a company goes under? | The company goes under because it can't pay its debts. The creditors divide the company between them and sell off everything they can. If there's something they can't sell, the creditors own it. There might be some games whose IP is owned by a bank or a venture capitalist who won't ever use it. I've heard of one game w... |
What's keeping hardware engineers from going all-out? | > What's keeping hardware engineers from going all-out? Because they have already gone all out before. All the easy improvements that could have been made have already been made. We experienced massive computation growth for 20 years 40 years ago, now it is simply hard to find places where to improve. |
How come cars don't use a smaller-sized battery nowadays? | Lithium car batteries are slowly coming up in popularity. They are smaller and lighter than lead acid batteries, and last much longer. But they are also much more expensive than lead acid batteries. Since lead acid batteries are pretty reliable and since the supply of lithium is almost entirely dependent on one source ... |
Why do American and European cities default to using the direct metropolitan city for population whilst Australian Cities default to using the metro population | Measuring city population by total is completely arbitrary and irrational anyways. Look at Boston, my city. Within the boundaries of the city are ~670,000 people in 86 square miles. Meanwhile, Houston is 627 square miles and has 2,400,000 people. It is considered to be America's fourth largest city. See, the boundaries... |
Why is it so dangerous to consume human meat? | The issue is that, if you consume meat from your own species with nervous system tissue in it you run the risk for prion disease. In cows, it's Mad Cow disease. In humans, it's Kuru. |
how a DJ set with multiple DJs work | We talk. A lot. I play with a friend fairly regularly, and we're constantly giving time remaining, various future picks, figuring out where we want the night to go, stuff like that. Last gig we both played, we also had to do an emergency swap of my side, because one of the house players died entirely. Thing had to be r... |
what does tl;dr mean? | I feel like googling it would have been faster to answer this question then asking the question. But tl;dr is too long, didn't read. It using follows after someone posted a wall of text and they gave a short summary for people who weren't going to read it. |
When not on a channel, why do radios make static noise instead of it being just silence? | The universe is filled with radio sources strong and weak. Our sun emits electromagnetic waves in all frequencies . Additionally, electrical appliances, powerlines, etc. also emit some radio waves. Broadcast from a nearby frequency may also bleed in through the band-pass filters. All of this contribute to the white-noi... |
Why do buildings always seem to fall apart faster when no one is in them for a while? | If a home is occupied, the occupants are likely going to notice something like, for instance, a leak in the roof, and take steps to repair the leak and clean up any water that leaked in. In an abandoned building, these minor problems are left to fester, and it allows for what would cause little to no damage over a few ... |
What is Falafel like? | It's kind of like a hushpuppy, but the inside isn't as soft or as sweet. The flavor is pretty neutral, plus the garlic and parsley that's added, which can be significant. |
Can a child look nothing like either of their parents but look exactly like their grandparent(s)? | I'm male. My mum is female. But HER father was male. I guess genes sometimes skip a generation.Every person is a combination of genetic information from their biological parents. And guess where those parents got their information, their parents! Basically, certain physical traits can "hide," we call them recessive, th... |
Why are industrial power generators 3-phased? Why not 1 or 2 phases, what's so special about it? | There are a few answers here, but IMO none of which actually ELI5 and the ones that do, are not very good. There is so much to the actual generating of power that the inherent background needed for a full understanding is over a 5yo level. So here's my attempt : & #x200B; Most generator power that is created from heat ... |
Why did some civilisations develop left-to-right writing, whereas some developed right-to-left writing? | Also, top-down vs. side-to-side, and I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think there are any bottom-up written languages.I can’t speak for other languages, but for Chinese, the tradition is to write in on bamboo slates, vertically from top to bottom. When a slate is filled, it is removed so ink sm... |
-How do spiders know that even have the ability to make a web and then actually do it? And how do they all make them with the same general shape? | I'm in total agreement with what has been said, but nothing here addresses the engineering design of the web and the consistencies for each species therein. Web designs are quite complex and at the least they imply some type of feedback loop for the spider to know where it is in the construction process and what is the... |
How come when you skip sleep the whole night, you no longer feel tired towards the morning? | You also get a peak cortisol release from your adrenal glands in the morning. Your body is designed to work in cycles as well. Your body will begin its waking process around the same time each day, it's enough to generally wake us if asleep, or make us feel a little more alert if already awake. |
why can’t you text 911? | You can in some jurisdictions now! As others have said, location is the biggest issue, so you'll have to include this. I believe many phones with wifi call/text or advanced calling are including your wifi calling emergency location as the emergency location sent with texts over wifi, but I'm not 100% sure that's correc... |
What determines which body part gains more weight ? | Theres a study that measured Tennis players bodyfat % in there arms and after a prolonged period of time, the dominat arm ended up the same BF % as the other arm that wasn't used at all. \u200b Now, they also did a controlled study, with four different groups of men, all on the same food regimen, all eating at a defici... |
What is happening in our vocal cords/throat when we lose our voice | I'm not certain but I'll attempt a materials approach explanation. Tissues in the body are semi elastic, semi plastic. Meaning they can handle a stretch and pop back to original shape in a small range, and over that range they become plastically deformed . Then there's the other wrinkle that biological tissues can slow... |
How does microfibre cloth work and why is it better to clean glass with than other cloths? | it's very soft so it doesnt scratch the glass, and it doesnt break apart and leave little specs of itself on the glass. and simply having a cloth that you only use on one surface is good too because it'll stay cleaner than one you use for everything |
why would a company owner/ CEO want to have a board of directors? | This is the corporate hierarchy: shareholders > board > CEO At the end of the day, the shareholders run everything. They can replace the board and CEO if needed. The shareholders don't want to interact with the CEO constantly so there is a board of directors to interface between the shareholders and CEO. |
How do the calorie counters work on things like treadmills? Are they accurate? | If you're inputting your weight, they're accurate enough. Calories are a measure of energy, and the treadmill can calculate the amount of energy it takes to move a body of a certain mass a given distance. Using this, it's certainly enough for calorie counting and decent estimations.They work by knowing how much energy ... |
Explain Like I'm Five is looking for moderators! | Applied :) Edit: Removed for not enough explanation so here we go . I've given my time and effort to the extensive questionnaire to ensure my position within the ELI5 team. =)", 'I just filled it in. Thanks for the opportunity :D FYI, do we have to put u/ before our username cause I did not do that Do I have to be 18+ ... |
Why do reproductive organs need to be covered in a hospital xray but not at the airport? | Most airport machines are metal detectors, no radiation at all. The next most common thing is a mm wave scanner, these waves go through dry stuff like clothes, but not wet things like people. Third most common are backscatter X-ray machines. These use a low power, so that your body can reflect them back . All these sca... |
What are Twitter bots and why are they often associated with trolls? | Given that this question could be seen as dealing with current events, I'll direct you to r/outoftheloop. I hope you find your answer! |
Why does a 4k video on a 1080p screen looks better than a 1080p video on a 1080p screen? | Are you talking about streaming video? The bitrate is higher for 4K content. Youtube for example, uses a kinda low bitrate for 1080p that doesn't work very well for all types of content. |
how a refrigerator works in regards to thermodynamic equilibrium | It just moves the heat outside. There are exhaust coils on the back that dump the heat. Common fridges work on the principle of things shed heat when you squish them down and take it back in when you let them expand again. If you've ever used a spray can of something and the can gets cold, this is why. The fridge just ... |
Why are cans more recyclable than plastic bottles? | To add to/explain/confirm/put in other words what Bacon said; Plastic doesn't just _melt_, it's molecular structure gets altered. Have you ever sat with a lighter and tried to melt plastic? You'll notice that a lot happens to the plastic when melting. Also, don't do that, playing with fire is bad. This is because, as B... |
Why do mobile companies (Verizon, T-MOBILE) throttle your speed after certain amount of data? | All data transfer has costs. Electricity, equipment, overhead, bandwidth, all of this has expenses attached and by limiting the amount of data transferred the company is limiting their costs. Back in the early days when fairly little data was used on average it didn't cost all that much to offer unlimited data plans, m... |
Why do companies like Verizon work so hard to limit customers internet usage? | **Please read this entire message** --- Your submission has been removed for the following reason: * Questions about a business or a group's motivation are not allowed on ELI5. These are usually either straightforward, or known only to the organisations involved, leading to speculation . ---If you would like this remov... |
how does signing something with PGP confirm the authenticity | PGP uses the RSA encryption method. RSA encryption uses two keys - a public key that is widely available to everyone, and a private key that the user must keep secret. Anything encrypted with the public key can only be decrypted with the private key, but thatnks to the way the maths for RSA works, anything encrypted wi... |
Why do some brands have different names on East/West coasts? Example: Rallys/Checkers, Kroger/Ralphs | Marketing Maybe in one region it's called one thing but in another region there's already something called that, or something too similar. Maybe in one region the name is too difficult to say due to change in dialect/accent. Maybe it's the result of multiple companies merging together. People don't like change.I’d susp... |
how do boat anchors work at sea? | An aircraft carrier creates a lot of drag due to its displacement So it's not really at fear of drifting in calmer currents too much. I've done swim call of a 225 foot Coast Guard cutter in the middle of the pacific and we didn't drop anchor all the time. No point. One thing people don't always realize is an anchor doe... |
How do human populations end up having nearly 50/50 male-female ratio? | I'm not sure if the question goes deeper than the other answers suggests, but if so, and the questioner wants to know why the probability is 50/50, than I too would want to know why. It seems that possibly a population with less men than women could also work considering reproduction, but maybe the 50/50 thing emerged ... |
Can the internet be shut down? Why or why not? | Yes, but it's hard. The signal runs though cables which can be cut and stop it. However the network is able to automatically adapt to changes, so if you block the fastest way between two places it will reroute though other places. If you cut all possible connections you can stop the internet. Interestingly you can also... |
why is our appetite so limited in variety when it comes to breakfast!? | My guess is it's more cultural than anything else, and in relation to that like u/aceecee said availability of resources. When travelling in Japan they have things like fish, pickled vegetables and rice for breakfast, it felt super strange to me, I couldn't get the thought 'this is dinner food' out of my head, probably... |
why are addicts not put to sleep until their withdrawal symptoms disappear? | If you medically induce a coma, you'd have to have a catheter, IV, feeding tube, and someone to change your diapers and wipe your ass for you. If you want to pay for all that be my guest, but insurance will not. Also withdrawal symptoms can be objective, like vital signs, but are also subjective, like anxiety and insom... |
How are modern day CPU's or GPU's designed? | There's generally four different groups of engineers that work to bring a new chip to market. One group designs the circuits. Another designs the fabrication process to build it. Packaging figures out how to encase the system to protect and install it , while testing develops the systems to validate a chip coming off t... |
How does an electric current produce a magnetic field? | It's one of the fundamental laws of the universe. An electric current is the movement of charged particles. A charged particle creates an electric field. A changing electric field creates a magnetic field. So the moving charges are causing the electric field to change, and therefore a magnetic field is created. The rev... |
Why cant water enter the boat thru the propellers shaft? | Because is has a shaft seal to prevent it. There is loads of information about shaft seals on t'internet Off you go! If you get a shaft seal wrong, you either have to have good bilge pumps or abandon ship. A famous military contractor fcuked up the shaft seals on some of the UK Navy's vessels the other year which cost ... |
How "voice training" affect larynx muscles and vocal cords biologically? | Voice teacher here! There are exercises and things you can do to both to increase your resonance as well as improve how your vocal folds function. Breathiness is caused by the folds not fully coming together when creating sound. Very common in teenage women especially, but could happen for a variety of reasons. If you ... |
How does eating high fibre food prevent us from getting constipation? | There's two kinds of dietary fiber. Insoluble, and soluble. The names tell you a lot. Soluble fiber can dissolve in fluid, and it will provide a gel-like consistency to the bulk of the stool, effectively helping it slide along the intestines easier while they contract to push it further along. Insoluble fiber will not ... |
Why rainbows are arched and what factors decide their dimensions? | You know how a dog whistle is silent to humans, but dogs can hear them well? That's because dogs are sensitive to sounds frequencies outside our ears' ability to detect. Similarly to sound, light is a very wide spectrum and the part our eyes can see is relatively narrow. The colour of light is controlled by frequencies... |
Why is depth perception easier with 2 eyes but worse with 1? | Depth perception comes from a variety of different mechanisms. Some of these require two eyes, some require one. For instance, steropsis requires two eyes, your brain is comparing two images from slightly different angles and uses the difference to triangulate distance. On the other hand, motion parallax can be perform... |
if hospitals have to by law treat you when you enter the e.r. what's the point in paying the bill since next time you go they will still have to treat you? | The hospital can still try to collect on the debt, and having hundreds of thousands of dollars in delinquent medical debt can have a huge impact on one's credit history . Plus if you have insurance, even if they don't pay for the hospital visit, providers will be far less willing to negotiate/forgive debt.This is why i... |
Would it be possible for conjoined twins to run for president of the United States? | In the USA, at least, conjoined twins are legally considered unique persons. This means that Twin A could run for President and potentially win, and Twin B would not be considered President. Of course, that's all we can say to the hypothetical. Until it happens, we can't really know exactly what would go down.only one ... |
Psychologically, why is it easier to adopt several habits slowly and one at a time instead of taking them all up at once? | It's said it takes 22 days to form a habit. Anyways to answer your question, think of your brain like a computer .. say you are downloading things that are 1GB in space. You downloading speed is 500MB per minute . so to download one thing it would take you 2 minutes. If you are downloading 10 things that are 1GB each, ... |
If dust in houses is mostly caused by dead human skin cells then why are old abandoned houses always so dusty? | Dust is always in the air moving around and it settles when undisturbed. The difference between an abandoned house and an occupied one is that, there's no disturbance and dust settles on surfaces so that they're more visible.The majority of dust is actually tiny particles of dirt which tend to find their way inside a h... |
How can amazon prime carry / get any item anywhere in the world within 24 hours? | They can't 1-day delivery is only available for a small subset of items and only in certain areas. Amazon maintains a number of warehouses and logistics affiliates across the globe. Its most popular items in urban areas are stocked locally for fast delivery to Prime customers. If you order a set of tractor tires to Tah... |
Why do batteries not recharge themselves? | There's energy loss as the battery powers whatever it's connected to. Energy gets converted from current into the light and heat of a lightbulb, for example. To get that energy back, you'd need a device that converts that light/heat back into current. I'd love to be more precise and explain your diagrams for you, but m... |
If antibacterial products like Lysol and Listerine kill 99.9% of bacteria they come into contact with, are we not creating a strain of immune superbacteria descended from the 0.1% that survive? | If you shoot a bunch of humans in the head there's a slight chance a few of them survive, but that doesn't necessarily mean they or their kids are immune to being shot. There's a few things at play here: * The survivors might have been lucky or protected by others * The ability to be immune to bullets is not an easy de... |
Why is gravity now not considered a force, but a space-time curvature? | Hmm let me give this a shot. I've been obsessing over Space/Time literature and I'm trying to make sense of it as well. From my understanding the fabric of space distorts depending on mass. Mass effectively curves space and slows down time the closer you get to the center of mass. The byproduct, so to say, of this phen... |
Why is a lottery considered a tax on the poor? | Well-off people don't expect to win, so they are okay with buying a ticket every so often to dream, knowing they'll be fine even if they don't win. Some impoverished people see it as their only way out of poverty so they play it a lot, depending on a win and not being okay with losing.Rich people don’t buy lottery tick... |
How do spammers get and circulate my cell phone number? | At one point one of them got it when you put it on some form or somewhere else that wasn't completely secure. From there it was put on a list somewhere and that list has been spread and sold to as many people as will pay for it, and it only gets worse from there. |
If gaming consoles are basically computers, why do game developers have to develop games for PC *and* consoles? And why can't a PS4 run PS3 and PS2 games? | Because the system software and hardware is wildly different. The current gen is the most PC like gen so far, with the Switch being closer to phones and tablets. Previously, they used very different processors which games had to take advantage of - because of this, games were much harder to develop for since there coul... |
Why aren't animals dinosaur sized anymore? | High co2 content created alot of plant material for food.The warmth of the time.An evolutionary arms race between the size of herbivores and carnivores. Big herbivores don't get eaten so carnivores get bigger to eat them.Well in all honesty, the largest animal to ever exist on this planet, the blue whale, is still aliv... |
How come electric car batteries, aren't recharged by the keneitc energy of the wheels moving? | If you want to charge the battery off turning the wheels, then you have to increase the resistance of the wheels turning. Which means you need to spend more energy to turn the wheels. So you'd basically be using your battery to spin the wheels to charge your battery, losing some of that energy as heat with each step, a... |
How does computer/phone/radio hardware recognize and differentiate between wireless signals? | Basically loads of signals are present in the air around you at all times. The device you use to tap into the signal you want acts as a filter of sorts. All of the signals hitting the antenna of the device induce a signal in the device that is essentially a carbon copy of the original signal being transmitted from the ... |
How does the body "regrow" a fingerprint after injury? | Friend was working in a sandwich shop and during the lunch rush cut her finger, a piece of the soft pad on the end came completely off. She grabbed a band aid and put it back on, put on a new glove and kept working. End of the shift she had a look and it all seemed ok, not much blood and it wasn't hurting so she decide... |
Why does your body accept foreign objects (titanium) and reject others? | Biomedical material science is a very complicated subject. The easiest explanation is that it comes down to how our bodies attack foreign materials, how long materials can last in our body, and what effect those materials have on us as our body breaks them down. Your body doesn't actually 'accept' titanium, but your bo... |
How does the Aurora Borealis move and change colors. | I've also recently learned you can be directly under Aurora Borealis unlike a rainbow because it's not a refraction of light and was also told you can HEAR it! totally blew my mind. |
When did humanity begin actually recording the year? | We had different year numbers. Even today Judaism and Islam have their own year numbers: it's currently year 5778 in Judaism and year 1439 in Islam. Even North Korea has it's own year number: it's currently year 107 there. |
Why can colors be represented as a circle (red to orange to etc. back to red) but from a wavelength point of view, red and purple are extreme points? | The idea of color comes a lot from human eyes. In the eye, there are generally three types of cone cells that respond with different amounts of signal different wavelengths. Simplified view here: _URL_8_ with more color here _URL_8_ _URL_8_ shows that most colors do not match a wavelength. For instance, brown does not... |
Why on cruise ships do drinks not spill when the ship is rocking? | They do if the rocking if intense enough, but it doesn't happen often. Usually the force is small enough compared to the size of the ship that it isn't an issue.Most large ships have stabilizers to keep the boat steady, some are even controlled by gyroscopes. Still, heavy seas can certainly cause enough motion to spill... |
Where does the idea of breathing into a brown paper bag when panicking come from? | It comes from hyperventilating. To start: Normal fast breathing associated with panicking is not hyperventilation most of the times. Hyperventilating is ventilation that is higher than necessary to maintain normal blood gas levels. When doing so, your blood pH will be affected. When breathing in a bag, you'll re breath... |
How is one capable of distinguish between black and white people just by the facial structure (e.g on a coin)? | Completely accurately? Good luck with that. It's not going to happen. But black people are more likely to have larger lips and a wider nose. You can play the odds, if the fate of the Earth ever depends on it. |
How is the brain able to visualize rotations? | > Do we have any evidence that other animals are capable of object visualization and manipulation? There is evidence that animals learn what an object is like by investigating it, and are then able to think of new uses for it. [See this study]. There was another study done on birds where two cups were placed on opposit... |
I read that lightning produces enough energy to power a city. Why can't we harness the power of lightning as a form of clean energy? | Batteries take time to charge, in order to capture the power from a lightning strike, you would need a way to store the energy and have it trickle into the battery storage. This would be like you have a water tower, and you can use a nozzle at the bottom to fill up a bucket of water . If you were hit by a tsunami, the ... |
How does defogging the windshield work? | For best window defogging you need hot, dry air. The best way to get this; 1. Temp selector to full hot2. Fan on full speed3. A/C on Most cars automatically engage the air conditioning if you select window defogging mode. Most cars don't even tell you, meaning the A/C light stays off. |
why does our sun appear yellow/orange, while distant stars appear whiteish / blue? | The color of the stars depend on their temperature. Hottest ones are blueish, colder ones are yellowish. Also, it's a common thing to put an orange filter on sun photos so that the details are more visible. |
why can our buttholes feel spicy food coming out? | > pretty sure we don't feel anything if I cover my skin with chilli You do, but only the more sensitive parts for the normal peppers, guys shouldn't cut peppers and then go to the bathroom. Hot food makes your lips burn . And I have definitely have cut very hot peppers and my hands burned for a few hours after. For mos... |
What is it about Maths that makes it the most commonly disliked subject in school? | I think it's a combination of things: * most young kids don't take studying seriously at all, and don't get the basics down very well * school gives you almost no opportunity to circle back and revisit things you missed earlier on * most math teachers in elementary/high school don't have a clue what they're doing * man... |
How do electromagnets actually work? | The electric field and the magnetic field are two perspectives of the same thing. The electric field accelerates charges.The magnetic field rotates charges. When charge A is at rest it's producing an e-field. As charge B enters the e-field it's accelerated in the direction of the e-field as witnessed from the reference... |
If vomiting is meant to be the body's defense against eating harmful things, why can too much motion (e.g boats, cars, rollercoasters) induce vomiting? | The short version: Our bodies didn't change much from 1000-2000 years ago, back then it was hard to find a rollercoaster, and usually even boats were rare. Body confused - > Body sais it's poisoned - > Body does its defense against poison. |
why are car wheels so much smaller than bicycle wheels? | > Wouldn't car engines more easily push the bigger wheels? For gearing, it should be the other way around. A direct-drive bicycle would work best with a wheel around twice as big , while car gearing would be best with direct drive with a wheel about a quarter as large. This is because the engine rotation speed differen... |
How does general anesthesia work? | Ok, so there are two major ways to induce general anesthesia.1. By using depressants - this is type of drugs that desensitize your nervous system. You feel pain when your pain receptors get stimulated hard enough. Depressants make it so it really hard to stimulate pain receptors to te point when you organism will perce... |
What is about being petted that pets likes so much. Also why does it seem to extend to some none domesticated animals | Currently there is some research going on that there is a signal that goes from hair follicles to our brain that makes us feel happy when the hair is stimulated at a certain speed. The research has been done with humans and is now being done with rats. The speed of stimulation is thought to be key because if you do it ... |
If the sensation after eating spicy food is caused by capsaicin imitating the sensation of heat, why does drinking water help temporarily? | Capsaicin will lower the temperature at which you feel a burning sensation. After eating it your own body temperature is enough to fell hot. When you drink water it will briefly lower the temperature of your mouth, stopping the burn for a while. As other have said capsaicin isn't water soluble, so it won't be washed aw... |
Why does espresso coffee taste terrible after 4 hours of sitting at room temp and warming it up to drink? | I don't know why, but in my experience allowing espresso to cool slowly makes it taste awful. If you make too much fresh, pour the leftover over ice immediately and put it in the fridge. It will taste much better later as an iced coffee. |
How is the US able to get away with such a huge debt for so long? | In many cases even in personal life, lenders don't really care how much you owe, as long as you can pay back what you owe as agreed. The US has a stellar credit reputation, and lending to the US would be one of the most secure investments one could make. |
Why does Down's syndrome give very defining physical characteristics while other genetic disorders don't? | They do, Down's syndrome is nothing compared to the other trisomies. For example Patau syndrome. Note before googling: could be disturbing for some people.There are also a lot of other genetic developmental diseases that have characteristic facial features besides Down Syndrome. Babies with fetal alcohol syndrome has a... |
How does a random number generator randomly generate numbers? | It technically cannot. I mean, some programs pull random parameters from things like ethernet activity, CPU processing % or things like that, sometimes people will actually use stuff like a live video feed of something like a street something like that but usually a properly random number generated by a PC itself isn't... |
Why tranquilizer darts have a fluffy red tail thing? | They don't always. If they do it is likely for visibility, particularly for the purposes of film which is where I suspect you are getting all your information about such darts. The presence of some sort of fluffy substance on the back of the dart has two purposes. First it blocks the barrel of the dart gun so that the ... |
Why do eggs boil and solidify from inside, instead of turning into gas? | The proteins that make up eggs denature. They're all coiled up into specific shapes that make up the goopy appearance of a raw egg. Heat causes them to unwind and unravel and that forms the solid stuff you end up eating. The same thing happens to meat - the soft texture comes from intact proteins and when heat unwind t... |
Does mass speculation of a recession precede an occurrence? | Sort of, but not in a meaningful way. There will always be speculation whether or not it will rain tomorrow, and the longer since the last rain, the bigger that speculation will become. But that doesn't mean speculation is a good predictor of rain. |
How do people die from too much plastic surgery? | Surgery carries inherent risks of infection and anesthesia mistakes. These are greater for longer and more invasive procedures, but also present for seemingly minor operations. Those risks are magnified when you're getting budget surgery done in a van in Guatemala because no reputable surgeon would agree to mutilate yo... |
what’s the difference between a virus and a bacteria ? | Bacteria look like potatoes, viruses look like bent up paper clips. Bacteria can be killed by antibiotics. Viruses cannot Bacteria are goo-parts floating in a sack, viruses are kind of like a string of beads. Bacteria can be good or bad, viruses are almost always a pain in the ass. If you get an infection it's bacteria... |
What happens if someone in the United States accidentally receives classified information without clearance? Are they legally liable if they use or share the information? | The United States doesn't have an Official Secrets Act. This is important in this context because it means that disclosure of classified information is only prohibited to people who have security clearance. In the scenario you describe, the government employee who provided the classified information is in deep trouble.... |
What are the simplified arguments for and against a flat tax rate? | One key argument against a flat income tax is that because lower income individuals have a much larger marginal utility for an additional dollar than those with higher incomes, a flat income tax would act as a regressive tax, placing a huge burden on low-income individuals. . This is why some states, like Georgia, exem... |
Morphine for end of life | It's used to ease the pain of someone who's dying just like it's used to ease the pain of a person that isn't dying but is in great pain. To give someone an overdose to end their suffering is illegal if that's what you are asking but it doesn't mean it doesn't happen. |
What is the proposed "heat death" of the universe? | If you know your middle school science, you'll remember that gases like to expand and fill the entire volume of their container. Well, on a macro scale, the universe is hypothesized to work the same way. The way things are now, with big clumpy objects like planets, stars, and galaxies that's now how the universe wants ... |
do pain relievers actually get rid of headaches or do they just mask the pain until the headache subsides? | Pain relievers can work both ways, and some simply work with that much understanding about why. Every medication is simply a chemical reaction between the drugs and how your body responds. Some people might respond well to masking medicines, and struggle with feel good kinds. While other people can be quite the opposit... |
How is a baby able to pick up a language so quickly, without even knowing what language is to begin with? | Time and context. Babies take generally about two years to even begin to speak a language, and they're surrounded by the language every single day of their life. If you throw an adult into a foreign country where nobody speaks their language, I'm pretty sure that after two years they'll be even better off than the baby... |
Why do some objects float? | Density Objects float because they push water out of the way and that water pushed up on them. If they're less dense than water then they'll push enough out of the way before they're completely underwater, if they're denser than water they won't and they'll be fully submerged", 'Ships float because they are mostly holl... |
Since our mitochondrial DNA is separate/different from the DNA in the nuclei of our cells, how are cells able to produce more mitochondria with the different DNA when they divide during mitosis? | Mitosis is nuclear division only. When the rest of the cell divides, the mitochondria will be split between the two cells such that one cell has about the same amount as the other cell. From there, the mitochondria undergo fission and can produce more of themselves for the next cell cycle. They have their own separate ... |
Why is it that people say that there is no such as a traditional “American cuisine”? | it all comes down to the definition of 'traditional', non? for me american cuisine is unique due to its playful inclusiveness and experimention. Compare that to italian cooking, super traditional and but also rather strict on experimentation . maybe the lack of a traditional Tradition is a great quality. |
Why does all medicine, regardless of its flavor, taste awful? | Grape Dimetapp tastes like Grape Crush. Generally, if a liquid medicine tastes terrible despite flavoring, it's because the ingredients are so foul-tasting that adding flavoring simply doesn't help. Tussin with Dextromathorphan , for instance , is a particularly foul combination. |
Why isn't there a focus to lower retirement age in America? It seems psychologically daunting to work almost 50 plus years to be eligible for all of your retirement funding, like social security. | Look at the state of the economy of some European countries which had similar policies to what you're suggesting. Examples Greece, Italy, Spain etc |
How does your phone automatically know which police station to call when dialing 911? | Cell phones are always connected to cell towers, which know which station is closest, it doesn't change. in the past, with landlines, they were just linked to specific 911 centers via physical location, which also didn't change.This is routed using a FCC mandated service called Enhanced 911 ). When you dial 911 on your... |
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