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Why is reddit so pro-bicycle? What about the types of people who bike attract them to reddit? | It probably has more to do with the fact that people who are into cycling will talk about it, but people who aren't don't care enough to comment, so you end up seeing lots of positive discussion about bikes, but no negative because nobody cares.I guess it's easier to be a cycling enthusiast. Other modes of transport ar... |
Why TV-series often have a different director every episode. | Guest directors don't have the kind of power that a movie director may have. While a movie may be mostly the director's vision, many television shows are more the writers vision. A guest director can't really mess with the canonical structure of the show.The prep work that a director has to do for each episode would be... |
911 planes. If the two planes that hit the twin towers did not go through either buildings. How come the plane that hit the pentagon went through 3 structures (6 concrete walls? | Steel is stronger than concrete. And the plane had more velocity due to flying at a downwards angle. Extra line Extra line ExtralineCivil engineering student here, skyscrapers have far stronger supports than low-level buildings like the pentagon, concrete crumbles under non-compressive stress , steel is stiffer and gre... |
Why when I hear a loud noise I tend to blink? | Reflex - if the cause of the noise was close there's a chance it might cause debris to hit your eye. |
Why do shady companies not work on making their company less shady? | It is cheap and it works on exactly the kind of people they want as customers. If you will fall for that, they can sell you anything as a follow-up.I can only assume because they're still making plenty of money being shady. It might seem obvious to you and me but there are a lot of people who still fall for those thing... |
Why did Homo sapiens evolve to have less hair than most land mammals? And also, why did we retain the hair on our heads and parts of our faces? | One theory is that the loss of hair makes sweating more effective, allowing humans to run for a longer time than most other animals. Early humans would chase an animal for hours until the animal had a heat stroke. This is called "persistence hunting."Humans have approximately the [same hair density])_URL_0_) as Chimpan... |
Why USA hasn't ratified the Convention of the Rights of the Child? The only 3 UN member countries that haven't are Somalia, South Sudan and USA. | Mostly because the US isn't big on being told what to do by other countries. Some sticking points to the convention are agreeing to not use the death penalty or life in prison on someone under 18, and the US isn't prepared to make that promise. |
Why if our core body temperatures are the same, do some people typically feel more hot and some more cold in the same room? | It's a combination of all the previous given answers. Although they all provide good answers to why people differ in core temperatures , they fail to mention *why* your gf thinks it's cold but you're not. You already know that people differ in metabolic rate, skin thickness and so on. But let's assume you both have the... |
Why do we find some faces immediately attractive, and others "acquired taste" faces - seemingly average at first, but very attractive after a while? | Personality might play a role in this A semi attractive person with an amazing personality is more appealing to me than a supermodel with no personality whatsoever. |
What's going on when your leg, arm, foot, etc. is "asleep" | Nerves are tissue fibers inside your body. Electrochemical reactions propagate along these fibers like dominos falling over, from one cell to the next to the next. This is how sensations get from your limbs to your brain. When you put pressure on these nerves, the propagation of electrochemical reactions is hindered. S... |
What's the big deal about Elizabeth Warren? Why does Reddit like her so much? | Because despite being a politician, she's not a sellout and is actually a decent human being.Elizabeth Warren is a law professor with a background in banking/consumer finance law. She was selected by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to be a member of the committee overseeing the Troubled Asset Relief Program . During ... |
Why don't most supermarket checkouts use a single line feeding into all the registers? | Because imagine how long that one line would be. Imagine trying to navigate shipping carts in a confined space like that. It works in banks because it's only a person standing there, so you can queue up 20 people in a small area by doing that snake-style lineup. |
Are tonsil stones the result of infections that targets the tonsils or something else? | TL;DR the stones are just calcified junk the pockets of your tonsil caught. GROSS. Oh man. I hate these things! They're actually a result of your tonsils catching debris. The little pockets on the surface of your tonsils catch this debris. While it's stuck there, it begins to harden and calcify. And BOOM, a tonsil ston... |
The Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme | Basically like this, Bernie Madoff was a well known banker that would often times tell people that he had these giant hedge funds and assets that were a sure thing. He had people fake accounts for him and 20-30 years of documents were faked for an audit before he was arrested . He would often go to rich clients, many o... |
What's the point in signing the credit card receipt after a purchase? | In some places they do actually take your card and match the signature on the back to the signature you write on the receipt. It also gives you a vehicle to dispute a charge you didn't make - if someone writes a completely different or obviously fake signature it can be proof that it wasn't you who signed it. Some plac... |
Do celebrities get paid to be on talk shows to promote their works or do they pay to be on talk shows? | Yes but not in the way you think. Most the time its written into thier contracts that they have to do pr. So when somebone gets 20 million to do a movie the pr is part of the work for the movie |
How can rocket boosters push things foreward and navigate in space when there is no atmosphere to use? | You would need an atmosphere for things like paddles and propellers. Because they have to push air to work. Rocket thrust is different. Equal and opposite reaction, right? The rocket fuel or exhaust goes out the back *and pushes the rocket forward*. The force only has to act on the rocket, not against another mediumYou... |
How do airlines overbook flights if there is a set number of seats? | Airlines really hate taking off with empty seats - that's basically money that they *could* have earned, but didn't. So if there are last-minute cancellations, there's a really good chance of empty seats, which they hate. So they instead book more seats than there actually are. If a plane seats 100 and they sell 110 se... |
How a self proclaimed territory like Liberland can officially be recognized as a country? | Other recognized states recognizing it. If some 'real' country made a public recognition of them and opened diplomatic relations or something that would basically constitute a recognition of them as a sovereign state. |
Why can't the United States just bombard Syria with cruise missiles from afar and not put boots on the ground? | "Hey look, that country is having issues we care about, but why directly get involved? Just push some buttons, throw some million dollar armament at them and show them who's boss" Any country whose crisis plan actually reflects that deserves hatred. Regardless of global opinion we are not that country.That's mostly the... |
What makes one Internet browser faster than another one, despite being used on the same Internet? | Several issues: * To view a single web page, you are actually downloading lots of different files . Some browsers are able to find and download those files more efficiently.* Even after you download all the content, the browser must then render it . Some browsers are faster than others at that.* Some browsers have fast... |
Why is computer memory always in multiples of 8? (8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, etc.) | Because those numbers are powers of two. Computers address memory with binary numbers. It makes sense to have memory in amounts that line up with powers of two because there's no saving in address space if it doesn't. That is, 7KB takes just as much address space as 8KB. |
What is happening when someone gets "double jumped" on a trampoline? | The combined weight of the two people make the mat stretch further than one person alone could and when it snaps back the lighter person usually gets throw higher as a result. |
Why does modern electronics and appliances have a rounded/curved shape while older electronics and appliances have a squarish/block like shape ? | Ergonomics partly. The other part will be influenced by advancement of technology. Parts get smaller and more compact , and that means people started housing things in whatever shapes they could produce, whether for comfortability, aesthetics, safety or otherwise - **in a competitive technological market, why wouldn't ... |
How the "Red button" used by Sky (for example) works | As well as being a device that decodes satellite TV signals, your Sky box has a number of other functions. In particular it is connected to the internet, so it can send data and signals back to Sky's servers, and it has a small dedicated computer inside which knows how to display overlaid text and video. So when you pr... |
Why do babies/toddlers experience pain when teething but as older kids there is minimal if any pain when permanent teeth are coming in? | The first time around the gums are intact. The teeth are tearing through gum. The second time around there are already cavities in the gum, making it easier. Adults can and do experience pain however as wisdom teeth tear through gum. |
How does the Akinator site/app so accurately guess characters/people in so few questions? | It works because many people already answered the questions thinking of the same person as you. Akinator remembers all the answers of its users and uses them to learn what questions and answers lead to what person. If you try describing a very obscure/unknown person akinator will not be able to guess them because not e... |
What makes us want to vomit when we see or smell something disgusting? | Evolutionary impulse to avoid contaminated food is the common theory for why we have a tendency to do that. If we see others getting sick, or smell things that are clear signs of contamination then we are likely exposed and purging ourselves is a precaution that saved our ancestors from also getting ill. Over time the ... |
"No Purchase Necessary" | At least in the U.S., giveaways, sweepstakes, and similar contests are regulated like lotteries and other gambling. Making a sweepstakes "no purchase necessary" allows the company organizing it to avoid some onerous regulation. |
- How do schools decide what books to study for exams? | The exam board the school subscribes to will provide schools with a lot of choices of books to study. They are typically the same with minor changes year on year, iconic books that have a lot of imagery and allegory; with controversial themes or areas of contention that can be discussed and debated - not only to introd... |
What's the difference between Medicare and Medicaid? | Both programs provide health insurance, and they are in practice operated by a joint [Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services]. But there are a lot of differences. Medicare is a program for the elderly and certain other groups. Medicaid is a program for low-income people and their children. Medicare is purely federal... |
Why does drinking a lot grape soda turn my shit green? | After typing grape soda and green poop in google I believe that the blue food coloring used in grape soda turns green when it reacts with the bile in your stomachWell, first we need to wash your mouth out with soap for using that kind of languageBlue food dye mixes with bilirubin to produce greenI once made a spearmint... |
why are young kids so flexible? When do we loose these skills, and why? | This one's simply to do with the amount of bones a new born baby has around 300 bones but in early adulthood you only have 208. The fusing of bones would clearly limit flexibility. This explains why a lot of young boys can do the splits in youth but lose this ability in later life! |
if aliens show up right now, what is the plan of how we talk to them, assuming they don't speak any human language | You may be interested in the [Voyager Golden Records]. They're a series of images, language, and music engraved onto records and put on the Voyager spacecraft. They include the location of the Solar System in the Milky Way, the characteristics of the various planets, depictions of anatomy, and humans doing various thin... |
Going off the idea that we never actually 'touch' anything how can something like a knife be sharp, is it just the magnetic field around it that's sharp? | It breaking your structure with its more cohesively bonded structure. Imagine a boat in the water. That displacement is your cut. I think.> what we feel when we touch something is actually just our atoms being repelled by the atoms of the other object You're probably thinking of particles as tiny little spheres that *c... |
Why do our voices sound completely different when we first wake-up? | When you wake up, do you also stretch your arms, and legs, maybe yawn a bit? When you sleep your muscles tighten up, so you need to stretch them. The same happens with your vocal chords, basically just another muscle, but when your chords are tight, your voice is altered. A nice big yawn and yell really helps clear tha... |
Why do we use the word "boot" for turning on a computer? | There is a problem with computers where they need to start programs to run, but they need running programs to start programs. Computers solve this problem by storing a program in special memory which the computer is hard-wired to load first. This process was once called boot-strapping and that was shortened to \'bootin... |
Do smaller animals perceive time at a faster rate than humans? | Generally the smaller an animal is, and the faster its metabolic rate, the slower time passes. Our focus was on vertebrates, but if you look at flies, they can perceive light flickering up to four times faster than we can. You can imagine a fly literally seeing everything in slow motion. _URL_0_ |
Why are laws for the public interactions with police held to a higher standard, than police with the public? | I'm surprised by that example, spitting is a misdemeanor in California. Anyway, to answer your question, the it is a higher crime to attack *any* emergency employee while they are doing their jobs. This includes medical and fire personnel as well. Punching me in the face off duty In a bar is far different than punching... |
Do we still need Toenails? | Something I can answer! So more likely than not, we 'd be fine without toenails. They don't offer much benefit in today's human. They're basically vestigial at this point. However, that doesn't mean we're going to lose them one day . There's this misconception with evolution that "if you don't use it, you lose it." Thi... |
Why are student loan interest rates so high when compared to other rates? | Because a student loan has no collateral. If you can't make the payments on the car, they can take it back. They can't take back your education. |
why exit wounds are larger | A bullet carries a huge amount of kinetic energy. As it impacts something it initially punches a neat hole. The bullet then slows down as it tries to force it's way through the denser medium , at this point it may distort, flatten and slow even more. At this point it is transferring a lot of the kinetic energy to the f... |
The differences between First, Second, Third, and Fourth Waves of Feminism | The way I keep it straight in my head: First wave is a woman's right to be a person. Owning property, getting divorced, voting, basically having an identity beyond being an extension of some man. Second wave is a woman's right to do whatever a man can. Have any job, hold positions of leadership, etc. Reproductive freed... |
How does a park like Disneyland know when everyone has left the park. | They actually have an after hours crew of around 600 that maintain the park. If someone were left behind, they'd be caught. |
Why/how do scents evaporate or diminish? | Smells are simply particles that diffuse into the air, bind to receptors in your nose and activate them. Purely by random movements these scent particle will continue diffusing until they bind to or are trapped by something. To use your pie example, some of the scent particles will bind to others things , making it so ... |
when animating characters, do they record the dialogue first and make the animation match, or vice-versa? | I believe they record first, then animate. That way they can put in the little motions the actors make with their face or bodyMost of the time the voices are recorded then animation is takes place. This gives more freedom for the actors since they are not restrained by the animation. But sometimes especially in video g... |
How do they make fireworks colorful and explode in shapes like hearts? | It's actually quite simple. The different colors are just [different metals] and compounds used, which oxidize in those color ranges. The shapes are just made by arranging balls of pyrotechnic compound within the shell in whatever shape you want. These are commonly called stars and are most often [arranged uniformly] s... |
Why aren't there public referendums/votes more frequently? | They are wildly expensive. When one US state holds one special election with just one question, the typical cost is in the millions of dollars. In addition, most citizens don't take the time to participate, nor to become well-informed on the issues. E-voting, if people felt it was safe enough, could drive down the cost... |
Why can we eat almost any part of most living things without incident, but eating some brains and cows with mad cow disease are dangerous to us? | This is because of prions, which are infectious misfolded proteins. They exist only in the brain and are transmitted when someone/thing eats infected brain matter. The prions cause the host's proteins to misfold, causing cell death. This creates the characteristic spongy brain associated with prion diseases like Kuru a... |
Why currency appreciation is bad? | If you are in a position where your economy depends on cheap exports you would want to keep your currency relatively weak compared to your trading partners. Because if your exports get too expensive, they'll go somewhere else and you won't have an economy. |
Why do electronics manufacturers use abnormal screws instead of simple Philips Screws? | Come on people.. think about this one. Automated assembly means that you have machines working to insert and drive those screws. Bits like triangular or Torx are much better for this as they won't slip and the screw will stay locked into the bit better. This prevents stripped screws and allows better automation on the ... |
How does our brain train us out of instinctually shitting our pants? | If you mean when we're afraid, the brain itself doesn't. Fight or Flight reflexes are ingrained into almost anyone, and, usually speaking, you won't actually shit your pants - it's a hyperbolic statement about fear because children just don't have that amount of muscle control yet, and smelling bad made you bad food to... |
Why does it sound like music is coming from direct center when two speakers are positioned equally on the sides? | One explanation is that it's impossible for any two natural things to make exactly the same sound. Your brain can calculate the spatial origin of a sound because of the tiny differences between what one ear and the other ears hears. If the sound is reaching both ears simultaneously, then the most probable cause is a so... |
Why do many known geniuses/people who have high IQs are usually possessed with low EQs/social problems? Has it got something to do with parts of the brain compensating with another? | It's a myth made popular by tv. In college, I met many geniuses. They were heavily mixed between out going and introverted. Obviously some fit along the autistic spectrum, but that is really not a lot. What tv show about geniuses have you been watching recently?", 'The brighter you are the less inclined you are to spen... |
Why do some TV series seem to have different writers and directors for every episode? | Each episode is written by one person then the writing staff get together and go over what has been written and make changes. Due to Writers Guild rules only one person is allowed to be named as writer. The director decides where the cameras go and what the actors movements are. Directing is a long job and it's easier ... |
Why does "beheaded" mean "having the head removed" but "bespectacled" means "wearing glasses"? | because etymology of this two words is different: bespectacled: 1742, past participle adjective from be- + spectacles. beheaded: Old English beheafdian, from be-, here with privative force, + heafod ). Related: Beheaded; beheading. |
Why do talk show guests who have shirt microphones change to a big hand mic when singing? | Hand mics can pick up a greater range of pitch; singers pull mics away when singing louder so they don't distort. Plus they are used to performing live with a mic in hand. |
How do internet providers get internet access | The big ones built the networks, and the small ones lease access to them from the big ones. The internet is just a series of network connections like what you have at work that lets all of your machines talk to the servers to send email within the company. So a company like AT & T put fiber trunks in their service terr... |
How do endowment scholarships work? | Yes. The payout of the endowment is dependent upon the market. Currently, it sits at about 3.75%, which changes year to year. So this year, the payout will be about $3,750 for a scholarship. If it were at $200,000 then the payout would be $7,500. How many students receive a scholarship or how much the amount of scholar... |
If left untreated, how does cancer kill a person? | Organ failure, usually. Cancer cells generally do not perform the functions of the cells they're supposed to be - so a cancerous muscle cell doesn't contract properly, a cancerous kidney cell doesn't filter properly, and so on. When cancers spread around the body , they displace cells that *do* do their jobs, and cause... |
Why do blankets make us warm? | We are warm. We are the source of heat. We walk around at almost 37°C. We warm the air next to our skin inevitably, same as a hot coffee warms the coffee mug. Clothes keep this air close to our skin instead of letting it dissipate and minimally increase the temperature of the room. This means that the air close to you,... |
why does white clothing yellow after placed in storage for a long time | It can be too much bleach, which causes fabrics to deteriorate over time, it can be inadequate washing or rinsing, decomposition of whitening agents or dye while in storage, or it can be acids present in storage containers, seeping into clothes and staining them. Source: _URL_0_ |
(From the US) What is a constitutional crisis? | A constitutional crisis arises when a party inside the government does something that isn't covered by the constitution , or willfully ignores the constitution over the outcry of critics and the courts. As the Wikipedia article mentions, the Civil War was a constitutional crisis because the constitution didn't say that... |
What are the benefits to holding votes in the middle of the night? | I assume you're talking about the US congress, but also it's a concern for corporate boards, nonprofits, and other collaborative bodies. Two reasons: one benign, and one not. The benign one is that sometimes you just want to get the thing done. Everyone has been talking about it for 13 hours, it's now the middle of the... |
What is Taoism exactly and what does a Taoist believe/practice? | Try [The Tao of Pooh.] That might be suitable for a 5yo. Otherwise "it is what it is" pretty much sums up TaoismThe "stream of life" analogy is frustrating if you don't yet have a frame of reference for it. The Tao, or the Way, is how everything is going whether you like it or not. When you're in conflict with it, you ... |
This is going to get ugly, but what are the arguments for Islam being a religion of violence and war as opposed to say, Christianity? | There are a lot of hypocritical arguments that condemn the Quran for promoting violence but forgive Bible passages that say the same thing. I'm sure you've heard them so I won't say more. One more more reasonable argument compares the lives of Jesus and Muhammad. For the most part Jesus was a nonviolent preacher who to... |
How come there are no or barely any stars visible in pictures of the moon landing? Wouldn't the stars be more visible since there isn't light pollution? | There is light pollution, lots of it, it's day time on the moon in those scenes. Just like here on earth the sun over powers the dim distant stars, but of course the sky isn't blue on the moon because there is no sky, just more space. Also the moon is pure white so It can make you snow blind. The astronaut's visors whe... |
How can a role like Heath Ledger's "Joker" be hazardous? | It's a mental thing. A lot of actors thoroughly and fully immerse themselves in their "character" so they can portray them as accurately as possible. Some get so deep into it that they could have trouble coming back out when they're done - if you live it enough it becomes YOU - and the \'character\' becomes part of the... |
Why does time feel so much longer when exercising compared to other activities? | The Theory of relativity. The same reason time seems to pass In a blink when you're enjoying a night with friends, yet seems to last an eternity during the last 10 minutes of work. |
What exactly was Obama responsible for doing during his first term, good or bad (without bias if possible)? | friend posted this online during the most recent campaigning season _URL_0_', "Well, young Eli Anyhow, I think the best single example I can give you, is something that happened, not even a year after he became President; in 2009, he won the Nobel Peace Prize. A lot of people though that was a bit silly- even the Presi... |
Why does an automatic watch - a device that tracks something as simple time - such an incredibly intricate series of tiny cogs, levers and pendulums on the inside? | I think you are looking at it from the perspective of modern technology. Now a days the mechanical complexity of most products is a lot lower than it would have been before computers. For example look at a [mechanical calculator] . Now a days you can still buy very complex watches because it's just impressive, and a ni... |
What makes cloud black? | Large amounts of cloud. Clouds appear white because they scatter incoming light in all directions. So regardless of which direction the sun comes from, some bounces off and reaches your eyes. But when you have enough cloud or a dense cloud, their effect on light is so much it can't pass through. If the light is coming ... |
Why do worms come out from the ground all the time when it rains? | The simple answer is "because they can" Normally a worm near the surface would turn back because it was too dry. But when it's wet their adventures can bring them to the surface. And for every worm who makes it to the surface there's about a hundred more that don't bother. If the rain really chased them upto the surfac... |
How can you "save a child for 5 cents a day," but American medical bills will put you in debt for years? | Well there are a few reasons. One of the major ones is that a lot of those charities are often referring to food aid. In the US, if you're shopping in bulk, you can often get a single serving of cheap rice for about 5 cents or less even at the supermarket. If you take HUGE bulk into account, buying a countries worth di... |
after traumatic injury, why do scars develop, instead of healing without a trace? | Avast ye! Yer not alone in askin', and kind strangers have explained: 1. [ELI5: What is scar tissue and why does it develop? ] ^1. [Why do some people scar more than others? ] ^1. [ELI5: Why can't scars heal? ] ^1. [ELI5: What factors determine whether a cut will heal properly or leave a scar? ] ^1. [ELI5: If you cut y... |
Why is online privacy so important in making online purchases, when job applications and resumes have much much more personal information on them, yet they're freely uploaded/sent usually unencrypted? | Mainly because online purchases contain your credit card information / method of payment info. Your resume doesn't have your credit card number and ccv and expiry date on it |
Why are there so many abandoned cars in the woods? | Drive car into woods, file a stolen vehicle report, collect insurance money. same reason they wind up in water bodies as well. Insurance fraudI 'd like to address the "30 years ago cars were simple to fix" part: 30 years ago, your average automobile had an engine that would need rebuilding a lot sooner than the cars we... |
how come when someone is in the shower and I use the sink, it freezes the person in the shower, but if I flush the toilet, it scalds them? | When you use the sink you use hot water, which lowers the pressure in the hot water pipes. this means the person in the shower gets less hot water and thus more cold. The other way around, the toilet draws cold water to fill up the tank, thus lowering the pressure of the cold water, the person in the shower now gets mo... |
Why can't buying a car be as simple and pleasant as buying any other commodity? | because normally people don't have the money or available credit to buy cars the way they buy groceries. Car dealerships have to see if anyone is willing to loan you $25,000 to buy something. |
How do digital artists, or anyone who works online earn money? | I did some free lance graphic design for awhile. I'm cheap since i cant print the designs myself, since i'm just starting out, but i can easily format them to be printed elsewhere. Had a guy commission me to design stickers, t-shirts, and a few other things. We met in person, as protocal, since i work localy. I'm easy ... |
How houses are numbered. | By lots, I think. For instance, if you could fit two houses in between the first house on the road and the second one, the second house's number would be 4. On long roads, the numbers get really high because there are many many lots.Generally, in modern cities, the house are numbered the same way everywhere: You take a... |
Basic Fashion Advice for Men | Belt and shoes should always match, that is correct. If your bottoms and top did not come together, the general rule is one is light-colored, one dark-colored. Jeans are universal. Hard to go wrong with jeans. Clothes that are too big are almost as bad as clothes that are too small. Cheap clothes, if worn correctly, ca... |
How golf handicaps work/ factor into play, and how they're calculated | A golf handicap is the average score you shoot over or under par for a round of 18 holes. A person with a +8 handicap will, on average, shoot a 80 on a 72 par course. A person who consistently shoots around 70 for a round of golf will have a handicap of -2. Generally handicap is not something you should concern yoursel... |
can Cats see Rainbows? | Studies have shown that cats have some colour vision so they would be able to see the colours of a rainbow. Their colour perception is probably more limited and is definitely different from human vision so the colours would look different to them. Note that even totally colour-blind creatures can still see rainbows. |
Why won't the US Government release how many Americans were on board the Malaysian flight shot down over Ukraine? | "According to a statement published on the airline’s website Thursday night passenger nationalities were as follows: 154 Dutch; 43 citizens of Malaysia; 27 from Australia; 12 from Indonesia; 9 from the United Kingdom; 4 each from Germany and Belgium; 3 from the Philippines; and on from Canada. The nationalities of 41 v... |
What could cause lights in the sky during a thunderstorm which isn't lightning? | It's lightning that you couldn't see, being reflected off the clouds. Very likely cloud-to-cloud lightning. |
Explain the movie Prometheus and how David knew everything he did. | That movie wasn't very well written, but that part was kind of explained and depending on your suspension of disbelief, that might be enough . Anyhow, aliens made people and kind of helped in developing early cultures, giving them language among other things. David studied all known dialects and languages and thus coul... |
Why do people sometimes get goosebumps or shivers when listening to music. | Dear god I hope someone answers this thread because this happens to me all the time especially after just shaving my legsI'll give you the sidebar from /r/frisson > Have you ever felt a sudden, passing sensation of excitement, a shudder of emotion from an epic moment of a song, or a climax of a movie? That is what is c... |
How does 220 volts AC work? | The wire that was originally at +110 alternates to -110, and the one that was originally -110 alternates to +110. Actually it is -155 and +155, because 110 are not the peak voltages, but rather the RMS average voltage. But that isn't very ELI5. And things are different outside the US, too. |
Why do some rap artists continue to use homophobic language (e.g., "f*ggot") in their songs even after they have come out in support of lgbt rights? | To paraphrase Louis C.K.: "It doesn't mean you're being gay . it just means you're being a faggot." In a lot of communities, the word has sort of lost any meaning related to homosexuality and has just become an insult along the lines of "jerk" or "idiot." The gay meaning may be there, but is used less commonly or only ... |
What is freemasonry and why is it so significant to history? | When you look back at history, you recall the evils of the Inquisition and the Reformation very bloody times of history where 'the church' tortured and killed people just for wanting a different religion. The church was very powerful and influenced politics in most countries in Europe during these times. Among the peop... |
Why are humans the only species that needs brush their teeth? Do other species' teeth rot and fall out faster than humans? | We're the only species who has invented stuff like Twinkies, Ho-Hos, Nutella, Toblerone, Reese's Pieces, sugar cane cola, macadamia nut ice cream, rocky road, cherry jam, Dr Pepper and honey chai latte. |
Why do you get tax breaks when married? | You don't necessarily. You get tax breaks for owning a home and having kids, but my ex wife and I lived in an apartment. When we filed jointly we got much less than we would have had we been single. |
If Denuvo-protected games are uncrackable, why can MGS5 be played? | Lets say that the game its a house. Denuvo was a lock to the the door. They found a hole in the wall, the lock wasnt craked yetNothing is uncrackable. It might be difficult, but saying it's uncrackable is like saying "I 've never had a problem with the car, so it'll never break down" |
How Does Acne medicine actually get rid of acne? | Topical treatments like salicylic acid cleans the pore very well and prevents them from being clogged. If that doesn't work you can get Accutane, it shrinks oil glands and prevents skin from producing oil so there's little chance for pores to get clogged . In addition it slows down the production of skin cells so there... |
How do phones/computers/tablets keep time while they are turned off? | They don't, in most cases. If you take the sim card out of a cell phone and turn it off, it'll likely have the wrong time. This is because the first thing the device gets from the carrier is the current time. Non cellular devices have a little battery that keeps time even while off. |
Why do urban areas in USA consist of multiple cities and towns while european cities usually create a single urban area? | In Europe, large cities grew up from towns that grew over a large period of time and either annexed or merged with other nearby communities naturally. In the U.S., towns were formed and grew quickly under a modern legal architecture where they remained separate governing entities. Note though that even in Europe large ... |
basic rules of Dungeons and Dragons? | D & D is a game of cooperative storytelling where one person sets up obstacles and the others portray one or more characters who must defeat those obstacles . The person who makes the obstacles is called the DM, or Dungeon Master. The core mechanic is the twenty-sided die, or d20 as it is known in the game. For almost ... |
The tension between politicians such as Boris Johnson and the public? | Boris was a key figurehead behind the vote to leave the country, something that 49 percent of those who voted voted against are a little bit irritated with. Furthermore, many see the his large involvement in the referendum to have a pretty hefty political incentive, in that he would most likely use this as a power grab... |
What's different about HBO, Showtime, etc that enables them show virtually unrestricted content where other channels must censor nudity, certain language and situations? | They are premium channels. You pay specifically for that channel, so they don't have to follow nearly the same rules as public network broadcasts. There are also premium channels that literally just show porn 24 hours a day. |
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