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if the NSA is collecting so much data about everything, why is the crime rate so high? and clearance rates so slow? | Aside from the fact that the NSA doesn't deal with domestic crime. Close to 40% of the world population is using the internet these days. Collecting data on several billion people is one thing. Actually going through it and building cases that can be prosecuted is another thing entirely. We neither have the manpower no... |
If a criminal receives the death penalty, why do they often put them in prison for many years before killing them? What's the point of waiting so long? | Historically, especially in the days before DNA testing, there were instances of innocent people being sentenced to death. In the worst case, evidence of their innocence came after their death. In better scenarios, they would have been freed in time. As others have stated, all condemned prisoners receive an automatic a... |
Why doesn't it feel the same as a professional massage when you massage your own muscles? | It does feel the same if you're good and the angle's right, but the effort you put into it pretty much kills it. I still like to massage myself, a few people have told me that it looks rather inappropriate. And they haven't even seen me massage all the secret spots. |
Why do some people need 8 or 9 hours of sleep, while others get along fine with 5 or 6 hours? | This has to do with REM cycles and diminishing return. If you keep a proper schedule you can get by on much less that 8 hours. Each additional REM cycles refreshes you less and less and you only get 'refreshed' during certain periods in the cycle. Also there is a difference between getting plenty and just enough to get... |
How albums get leaked weeks ahead of their official release date | Here's an article that I wrote that explores how albums leak and their impacts. Hopefully this sheds some light on what everyone is saying below_URL_0_ |
Why have 10 ELI5 links shown up on my front page just now despite the fact I'm subscribed to 50 other subreddits including all the major default subreddits? | If you're actually subscribed to 50 other subreddits, it's because reddit users that don't have reddit gold can only have 50 subreddits at their frontpage at one time - it rotates hourly. Apparently, it has just selected ELI5 to be on your frontpage rather than the default subreddits, and so it dominates your frontpage... |
Please help me understand the difference between being sad and having depression. | The difference between my feeling depressed vs. sad/blue is that a depressive episode interferes pretty significantly with my every day life. Along with the significant, all-encompassing melancholy, and possible suicidal ideation, comes lack of focus, exhaustion, intense apathy and a sort of paralysis All that combined... |
Why do people become more awake after a certain point in the night? | How about if I stay up all night with out sleep, I am very tired between 6am to around noon, then I'm suddenly with more energy and able to continue on the rest of the day, albeit with mild delusions", 'From what I remember from a psychology class I took a few years ago: It's got a lot to do with biological rhythms. Yo... |
what happens if anyone were to successfully launch a missile at the US? | It depends on where you live. I'm between to priority targets, so I'm boned. If you don't live near a population center, you have time.Not as screwed as most people believe, actually. Depending on the scope of the attack and the range from site-to-target, the US National Missile Defense program could protect us against... |
why is the skin on a bald/shaved head so shiny compared to the skin on the rest of your body? | Follow up question I'm going bald and want to shave my head. How do I prevent a shiny head?", 'When I was younger I truly believed that bald people buttered their head to achieve this look.The skin is thinner on top. Easier to push oil through. Hair helps absorb and cover it up. That's why you notice it on a bald perso... |
Why do they "need" to kill horses when they get a leg broken? | Its hard for the broken leg to heal. Horses arn't designed to lay down for extended periods of time, so the horse has to stand until the bones heal. Horses are very active, and the leg can easily rebreak if another horse tries to play with the injured horse. Horses weigh a lot , so with one leg of support gone, that me... |
Why you cannot make a super computer by adding lots of CPUs and ram together? | To add onto what others have said, you might be wondering why supercomputers aren't built very often. Simply put, they aren't very great value. You pour in a few million dollars for hardware, a few million more for the structure, and need to pay crazy amounts for cooling, power, and other ongoing costs. After all this,... |
Are mental illnesses curable? | Since no one yet has touched on the actual scientific answer to this i will briefly. Mental illnesses are generally caused by a chemical inbalance in your brain, one of the most common forms of anti -depressants/anti -anxiety medication caused the brain to produce more serotonin meaning we generally feel better. this e... |
Why are people against voter id laws in the US? | The most controversial laws are not about registration, where you do have to indicate you are eligible, but rather about the voting itself--proponents want to establish a requirement to bring a government-issued ID card to the polls, for example. This will exclude some voters, whether it is because they do not have an ... |
why is my hair brown but my beard is red? | I have blonde hair everywhere, except my pudes, which are red . So when there is a rug, it doesn't match the curtains.I have brown head hair, a red beard, and blonde hair on my extremities. And half brown, half blonde eye browsWell this also explains my blonde hair and red beard. Sometimes around Christmas I liked to b... |
Why Every Time I Consume Caffeine, I Always Get Sleepy? | Caffeine are known to have a calming effect on people with ADD/ADHD, so that's one option.Same happens to me. Would like to know why though. Although drinking coffee in the morning is fine, it happens very often at around midnight when i want to stay awake and "study" i get myself a redbull or a nescafe ice coffee, and... |
Why is perpetual motion an impossibility? | Note, there are machines that might **appear** to have perpetual motion, but this usually indicates a power source that you simply have not identified yet . Most claims of perpetual motion are scams with a small % being re-discoveries of existing energy gathering that isn't actually perpetual motion.I thought about a w... |
What are food stamps and how exactly do they work (German with no clue here) | In Germany, if you're unemployed and sanctioned by the jobcenter for not complying, they can also give you food stamps to make sure you're not wasting the money on drugs etc. |
Why does a broken neck which causes full body paralysis not cause the heart to stop beating, or the diaphragm to stop pulling air into the lungs? | Depending on high the break is, your heart will cease to beat and lungs to function as well. A break at C1 will be catastrophic and results in death. The paralysis that you mention comes about because the break in your spinal cord means that nerve cells connected to your spine can't get the message from your brain. It'... |
Why is dead weight (unconscious person) so heavy when the person's weight doesn't change? | The weight of something small and carried cradled to your body, like a small dog, doesn't really alter how hard it is to carry when dead, because it is all concentrated in your arms and supported by your core either way . But if you have something with more expansive weight distribution, you need some cooperation from ... |
The Observer Effect (quantum Physics) | which one? Schroedinger's Cat or the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, or the behavior of photons?", 'Unless you just make up whatever facts you want about something, the only way to learn about it is to actually touch it in some way. Touch it with your hands, hit it an make it make a noise, or bounce light or electron... |
why is pink treated as it's own colour when light blue and light green don't? | turquoise is sort of it's own color. Mint less so, but is still recognized as a color ", 'I suspect that someone can explain it in better detail than I can, but here goes. As others have stated color "perception" has to a far amount to do with culture/upbringing. Which is correct. Particularly in how colors are "divide... |
Why do people treat Beef Wellington as some special "showstopper" of a dish? Pigs in a blanket isn't consider so much more fancy than regular hotdogs? | Why is a Cadillac/Porsche/Audi considered better than a Kia/Hyundai/Ford ? They are all just cars, right? Quality/extra features cost more. A true Beef Wellington doesn't use hot dogs and canned crescent rolls. It uses a prime cut of beef, customized condiments, and puff pastry ", 'Have you ever had a proper Beef Welli... |
Why do high schools test you on every chapter when colleges/universities only give two exams? | In school they test each chapter to make sure kids are following so far. In University you're supposed to be more of a grown up and give your best to not fall behind. |
Why can I play online games with zero lag with 11 other online players in a 1080p game at 60fps but a webpage is often very slow to load? | A multiplayer game is much more optimized in terms of the amount of data that it needs to send than the average web page. Also, the netcode of a good game has all sorts of stuff built into it to try to compensate for lag. If the game doesn't get some packets that it's expecting to tell it where another character went, ... |
Why is listening to sad music when sad so comforting? | Most sad songs aren't JUST sad. They give some meaning to the sadness--like, they are sad and beautiful, or sad and comforting, or sad and profound.Humans are social creatures, not solitary in general. When we are feeling strong emotions especially. Sadness brings with it a feeling of solitude and vulnerability, so eve... |
Who or what is ISIS? | They're probably not a concern outside of the region of Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. However what's particularly frightening about them is not just their unprecedented brutality , but that they're a splinter group of the al-Nusra Front, which is al-Qaeda affiliated. ISIS fundamentalists are too extreme even for al-Qaeda! B... |
Why I should not be scared shitless on commercial flights. | You only hear about the unsuccessful flights on the news, and that's not as often as you think. Think of how many successful flights happen every day. Its a very rare chance that something goes wrong. |
How does manufacturer pricing work? Can a business charge more than the price on the item packaging? | The retailer/vendor can charge whatever they want. Suggested is the key word in suggested retail price. In some cases there are actually laws that prevent a manufacturer from forcing a retailer to sell an item at a specified price because it represents a vertical restraint of trade. That being said, if the suggested pr... |
Why and how does alcohol make people do things they normally wouldn't do? | Best part of this subreddit. Asked to explain drunkenness to a 5 year old didn't result in the drunkenness of a five year old. Eat that 4chan. |
Why did the ancients decide Gold was so valuable? | > Why gold instead of something else that's difficult to come by, like aluminum? For one, aluminum is the most abundant mineral in the Earth's crust, and its availability is due to its reactivity with other elements. You need something that's _rare_, but not _impossible_ to extract easily . |
China has been growing @ 7-10% for the last 40 years (give it or take). Why is it that China needs to slow down to keep a healthy economy? | India is a +1 Billion nation with developing status that is growing with 7-8% annual growth based on domestic consumption mostly. China wants to gradually appreciate RMB yuan when it's domestic indigenous titans are mature enough to handle foreign competition for domestic market share. For example, in India, the top 5 ... |
If the USA had the capability to fly a nuke to Japan in 1945, then why can't North Korea do the same to the US? | You're asking if NK could strike the US via a bomber?? In '45, the US had island-hopped close enough to Japan to base big bombers within striking distance. The US also had air-superiority, and could therefore strike at will and the Japanese couldn't do much at all about it. NK has no possessions near enough the US to u... |
Why does sleep paralysis usually only occur when sleeping on one's back? Does it have to do with blood flow or the inner ear? | I've definitely gotten it before in different positions, but I can tell for sure my position has a lot to do with it. |
When we test potential medical treatments on animals such as rats, how can they ensure they will transfer over to us humans? | They can't guarantee anything, of course. They use animals which have a history of success in such experiments with high likelihood of positive outcomes. Then they proceed with caution. |
What are the limits to the things the American president can decide single-handedly without approval from anyone else? | The way the US government works, Congress makes laws, the Executive branch takes action, and the Judicial branch sorts out what actions and laws are legal and constitutional. Effectively this means that the President's power is not limited by scope or field . He cannot write new laws, i.e outlaw or legalize something. ... |
why can a light tap or flick or what have you on my testicles hurt pretty bad, but ball-slapping sex doesn't hurt at all? | I honestly feel it's because during sex your balls contract a little bit inwards. When you are just hanging around and you get flicked, the things that connect your balls to your body are exposed, but during sex you are high and tight. |
How card chips are safer than mag stripes if you can just swipe your card anyways | So, two things: 1. Eventually, the stripe should go away once everyone's switched to chips. 2. These days, it's really more of an incentive for the banks and merchants, rather than you. For any major credit card, you aren't responsible for any fraudulent charges on your card, so it's just a minor inconvenience if a car... |
why do people get the urge to write obscenities on toilet cubicle walls? | It's like reddit. You're anonymous and a bunch of people you don't know get to read whatever you'd like to share. |
Why do some overweight people sometimes tend to readjust their shirts when they walk or even sit down? | When you're fat lengths of shirt get caught up in the width. The material doesn't naturally stretch |
why did people who literally had the dirtiest bloodied jobs, like butchers and doctors traditionally wear white? | Nearly every HVAC technician, plumber, and electrician shows up to work in a light grey T-shirt. We're a mess 24/7. We're covered in oil if we even touch an oil furnace or boiler. We're covered in sewage, rat shit, mud, and dead animal after a foray into a particularly bad crawlspace. We get coated in rust from touchin... |
What the hell is going on when you see the actors credited as 'Executive Producers' in a TV show? | In some cases actors are given producer credit rather than a raise.This keeps production costs from getting out of hand due to salary demands, but let's the actors make up the money on the back end, including a share of sindication money for years down the road. |
What's with all the initial silent "k"s in English, e.g., "knead," "knife," "know"? Were they ever pronounced? | ~~p~~sychology" and "~~k~~sylophone" . But even though we changed the pronunciation, we continued spelling these words the old way. English has never had a proper spelling reform -- not for hundreds of years -- so our spelling is now badly out of sync with our pronunciation. |
How did scientists come to the conclusion that the Universe is expanding? | The best evidence is from the study of galactic redshift. Basically, we can tell that galaxies are moving away from us because we see their light as being redshifted. If you study enough galaxies then you'll see that the farther away from us they are, the more they're redshifted. This means that they're moving away fro... |
If most last names were based off of the person's profession, place of birth, or father, then how and why did a last name become something you inherit? | I think it also had to do with legal issues. If you're one of 20 Johns in York, and you buy land, being able to prove in court that you are the John who bought that land, and that Bob, your son inherited it means that a single name is no longer good enough for legal purposes. It would be the same for taxes, liscences, ... |
Why did Civil War soldiers not use revolvers exclusively? | The revolver design was used in rifles at that time. _URL_0_ There seems to have been reliability issues with the possibility of chain fire, where all one shot ignited all the chambers and could be potentially quite destructive. Chainfire was a problem with a handgun revolver too, but less risky to the user because han... |
Why are zits and acne so hard to solve? It's right on the surface and there's a hole that leads right to the problem. What's the hard part? | Reading the top comments on this thread everyone seems to say that cutting out dairy is key. However, when I have my worst outbreaks is when I'm camping and hiking and am eating no dairy! Is it just that some of us still get acne even after cutting out dairy or am I the only one? |
Does the opioid-related "prescription drug abuse epidemic" exist outside the USA? What makes it such a huge issue there and not so much elsewhere? | Yes it exists. No, it's not quite as severe. Why? Availability is arguably the number 1 factor. For quite some time I saw patients getting scripts for #180 Percocet for routine dental work, or #120 Norco for a sprained ankle in the ER. Prescribing has been reigned in MIGHTILY over the past decade or so, but much of the... |
Would gears on an electric motor in a car help in any way? | The first Tesla model, the Roadster, was going to have a 2-speed transmission for a long time and they only gave up on that when they couldn't find a transmission that would work. It was a significant problem in the development of the Roadster. They actually shipped the first cars with the 2-speed transmission, locked ... |
Would a long system of gears transfer power/information faster than light or electricity | I'm no engineering doctorate, but I'm going to assume the last gear won't move at all. The amount of friction you'd need to move each additional gear would build up along the line till the amount would overwhelme the teeth of the gear, locking them in place. If this was overcome, atoms don't move faster then light. A r... |
(camera help) what the F Stop and Aperture are and how too adjust them (if you can) | it's also good to know that a full 'stop' of light is referring to a doubling or a halving of light. for example an F-stop of 2 will let in twice the light of f2.8 exposure is often referred to in stops. same with shutter speed. if someone says their lens image stabilization is good for 2 stops that means 2 stops worth... |
What happens if you're caught with fake bills? | Whoever is left holding the bag is out that money. If you sold a bike to me, and I paid you in what turned out to be fake bills, I still owe you the money for the bike. In turn, if I can find the person who gave me the fake bills, I can get my money back. But unless it can be traced back to the original counterfeiters,... |
On the topic of water, how did people before survive with non-filtered water of today? | There have always been clean natural water sources - These sources aren't as clean as the filtered water you buy in a store, but they are certainly clean enough that they won't kill you or make you ill. Examples include many mountain lakes and properly dug wells. In the past, people who had ready access to clean water ... |
Why don't phone manufacters make a phone that doesnt need a case? | Because the phones ideally don't need a case. The use of gorilla glass and advanced materials is meant to be enough to maintain a useable, beautiful phone. Dropping the phone is a PEBKAC problem, not manufacturer. We aren't meant to carry the phone in pockets with keys, drag it on the ground, let kids play, etc. Realit... |
Why are there a bunch of things on amazon that cost $99,999.99, when that is clearly not the intended price? | Don't know about Amazon, but a lot of eBay stuff is way overpriced for money-laundering reasons. That 100 dollar guitar priced at 1000 will be bought by a dealer from himself or a colleague in order to wash that amount of money.Ive also heard that sellers jack up there price to something ridiculous when they run out of... |
Why is it that certain sounds like rain or the constant noise of a fan seem relaxing and help some fall asleep? | I've always heard that noises like fans/rain/wind emulate the sound of the womb, lulling us to sleep by calming us like the sounds of the womb calmed us before we were born |
Why in the wealthiest countries, like Japan, population is declining, while in the poor countries, like Bangladesh, population is exploding? | In Japan specifically, the declining population is in large part due to the fact that fewer people are entering relationships. For some it's a hassle to be with someone else. In general, it's hard to meet people in Japan. And Japanese women are starting to wake up and realize they deserve more respect than what Japanes... |
Why are you asked in an interview "why do you want this job?" | They know you want money and experience, but they want to know that's not the *only* thing you want. They're looking for someone who will be a good fit into their culture and team, they're looking for positivity and an understanding that you might be looking for a longer term relationship with them than just a year or ... |
Did the US really create the Islamic State, and if so, why? | U.S. didn't directly. Their actions in the Middle East caused frustration and were the reason ISIS was created. Also, they used to supply rebels with weapons which led to ISIS fighters getting a large portion of them. The pentagon also had a program where they trained rebels and some of the trainees ended up in ISIS. T... |
How do gunshot wounds work? [serious] | It ain't just where you were shot, the force of the bullet also makes a difference. Force is generated by size and speed . Really big bullets can do damage by ripping up a lot of things internally. Really fast moving bullets can create a wave throughout your body and shake up everything internally do to the force gener... |
Why does my dog need to be vaccinated yearly, but my vaccinations last for life? | They don't. You get vaccines annually for things like the flu, and whenever you travel. The same with dogs, they get vaccinated for things like rabies. Which has the tendency to mutate similarly to the flu, where older vaccines tend not to do much. |
How come 911 works when there is no cell phone service due to being in a remote area. | It might be that there is service, but it isn't provided by your particular provider so your phone won't connect to that network except for emergency calls. |
How does radiation poisoning kill you? | think of cells like tiny books , the radiation then punctuates wrong words or changes the letters so the book doesn't make sense anymore, |
Why do we not desalinate our ocean water as a viable resource for water? | Taking the salt out of seawater isn't easy, it can be done but it takes a lot of energy/money to do. For the vast majority of the world it's perfectly sufficient just to wait until it rains and try to collect as much water as you can when it does .Certainly that is done. It is not a perfect solution because it is expen... |
Powerball odds are now 1 in 175,223,510. What can that be compared to? | It's about the chance that if I pick two random people from the US and Canada, one of them will be you. |
Why do the spouses of celebrities get so much money in the case of divorce when it's clear they wouldn't make near so much money had the relationship never happened? | Because California is a shitty fucking state and screws the husband six ways from Sunday. No I'm not bitter. |
Why do schools in the US close when theres "cold" weather? | Our school closes when it's below 10 degrees Fahrenheit because of how cold it is for our bus riders waiting outside. |
I heard diet soda with zero calories can still lead to weight gain. How? | Postdoc researcher here-- I study this very topic! The main reason sweeteners are thought to promote overeating is because they teach you to underestimate the caloric content / satiation of sweet foods. Normally sweetness is a good signal of carbohydrates , but sweeteners --particularly diet beverages which offer sweet... |
Blood. Why can 0 be used on all groups but not all can be used on 0? | Imagine everyone is having soup, but people are picky about seasoning. Some people can only stand salt in their soup , some people can only stand pepper some people can stand both and some people can't stand either ). Considering that it's always possible to add seasoning but not to remove it, you should be able to ded... |
How come high magnitude earthquakes off the coast do not always cause huge Tsunamis.. What are the factors? | Imagine you're in the bathtub. Your legs are like tectonic plates. Depending on how they move, including the direction of the movement, the force of the movement, the speed of the movement, that will determine the overall splashiness on the surface. Source: have a five year old who takes baths. |
why does Kim Jong Un and the Kim dynasty keep their people secluded? | They aren't the only rulers who want to keep their own people secluded, look at the isolationist, xenophobic foreign policies of Edo era Japan and Ming Dynasty China . It's about preventing foreign elements from influencing the people into uprising against the regime. |
How come when you take pictures/videos of a computer screen, there are dark bands that show up on the camera? | Depending on the image sensor of your camera, or the speed of the shutter both physical and electronic, the camera itself will scan the sensor a line at a time and sweep up and down to capture the image, or a physical shutter moves across the sensor letting light in through a small moving area. The image on the LCD, CR... |
Why does college cost so much in the U.S.A? | You don't pay sticker price. Public institutions aren't as much as the private ones, because they're subsidized by taxes. Private ones like to say they're worth 50-60k and oh look, we're giving you 20-30k off with scholarships. Both give financial aid in the form of loans at worst, grants at best, and work-study progra... |
Why can't I just lay in bed with my eyes closed for eight hours to get a full nights rest? | Sleeping isn't shutting down for the night, it is an active process. You may be unconscious but your mind is very much at work. We are not entirely sure why we sleep, though it is known that there is a strong connection between memory and sleep. There are lots of competing ideas as to why we sleep, none are confirmed y... |
How can an HD television signal be beamed into my home and received with nothing more than an antenna, but internet video requires a high-speed connection for even moderate quality? | Correct me if i'm wrong, but I believe that a simple explanation is that one is a signal, and one is data being downloaded. So, you are receiving a signal of a video being broadcast when you watch TV - not streaming the content to your TV as such. When you are on the internet you are downloading the video as data, in p... |
deliberate homelessness - just why? | Some people really love being homeless, there typically is a huge community that one becomes apart of when they are homeless. The homeless don't really judge and if you have a mental illness it's not a big deal because a lot of other people do to.A lot of it, from what I gather anyway, comes from being overwhelmed by t... |
Why does it take a few days to get DNA tests complete for the NY escaped convicts but it takes months to get DNA results in sex crime investigations? | I work in a forensic DNA lab and if a case/sample is submitted urgently we have 24/48 hours to do it . However, the quickest we've done it, from receiving physical exhibits in the labs and examining them, through to comparing them to people's DNA profiles from the national database and reporting any matches to force is... |
why is it that when we get really hungry/haven't eaten in a while food no longer seems apetizing? | Stomach gives up, so brain transitions into not-eating mode and begins to shut down digestive process, etc. The process is what causes hunger. First need to gently remind belly that it needed food , then you'll be hungry shortly thereafter when the engine spools up |
Why do we have different countries with left handed drive and others on the opposite side? | There's not a lot of difference. People adjust to either way pretty fast. Given that, it's the same reason US doesn't use metric system: it might not be ideal, but it kinda works, and changing it is a huge pain in the ass. |
How come text on websites doesn't ever affect the website's code? | You're typing that in locally, not on the server. The HTML is already loaded into your own browser and has already been rendered. Note that there *are* in fact plugins that *do* let you do exactly what you said - but you're still not changing anything on the *server*. |
If whales breath air, why do they die when they 'beach' ? | Whales are monsters, if they learned to walk on land they would form street gangs and it would be the end of life as we know it that's how it will end. Whales. |
If there is clearly a market for women's clothing with proper pockets, why are they so scarce? | Oh this again. It's something we discuss at every meeting of the Patriarchy. Here's the bottom line - If women start wearing too many pockets, they're going to be able to carry stuff. If they can carry stuff, they're going to want more stuff. If they want more stuff, they're going to start demanding more pay which they... |
What would happen to North Korea if Kim Jong Un died unexpectedly? Who would take power? | It would likely get messy pretty fast, but during his prolonged access his sister Kim Yo-jung was increasingly visible in the government, and it's being suggested she may be next in line. Alternatively Kim Jong-un's older brother Kim Jong-chul , could still have a chance. |
With all the satellites in space, how do we keep them organized? | In short: we don't do much actively, and we only kind of care passively. The earth is mondo big, so there's enough room up there that the risk of 2 satellites hitting each other isn't massive. Basically, people check to make sure that there isn't anything like the ISS already in a given orbit, and then go ahead and lau... |
why do some languages have upper and lower case letters. | I know this doesn't answer the question but you might find this interesting. Hebrew has special variations of some letters that you only use at the end of a word. |
Why does 81° water feel so much colder than 81° air? | Think of objects as sponges that can suck heat from your body. Some objects are very good sponges that suck a lot of heat up. Other things are bad sponges that are not very good at sucking up heat. Water is a much better heat sponge than air. It sucks twenty times more heat from your body than air can. Metal like iron ... |
Why are the hairs that grow in moles thicker and blacker? | I don't know if this is the right place, but it's related: I have one eyebrow hair that grown to a good 3 inches in length, while the rest stay at their 1 centimeter length. Literally one, it looks a bit like [the Monarch], but just over my right eye. Pisses me off |
What has come of the Russia/Crimea situation? Is the Crimean peninsula now part of Russia? | Yes, Crimean peninsula is now part of Russia. Russian constitution was amended to list it as one more region . According to the Russian law, there is no difference in formal status between city Sevastopol and St Petersburg. Or between Crimea and Novgorod area. You need to cross Russian border to get to Crimea, while yo... |
Why does ELI5 exist when we live in 2016 and you could just google the answer? | Three reasons:1)that sweet, sweet reddit karma 2)when people actually answer the question as if they are talking to a five-year old it is hilarious. 3) Often questions come up here that I wouldn't have thought to look into myself. |
How come in Tests we strictly can't bring notes etc. It's not like after we're employed we aren't allowed to bring in notes to do our work is it? | It depends on the class. For instance, the majority of my law school exams were open-note/open book. The theory was that you'd always be able to look up laws; the important part is your analysis and understanding. |
why are certain string instruments fretless and how on earth do you play notes on them with any accuracy? | Wow, so everyone is answering how you manage to hit the right notes, and that is simply accurate muscle memory, but there was a second part to your question. > Why are certain string instruments fretless When you are talking about string instruments frets are actually a rather new concept. They are basically a way to l... |
Why does the sensation of getting your head scratched from someone else feel better than scratching your own head? | When you get pleasurable, physical contact from other people, your body releases hormones like oxytocin and other chemicals that make you feel good. Your body doesn't react the same way when you 'scratch your own itch'", 'Well in the case of monkeys, scientists have discovered that social grooming, i.e. cleaning each o... |
Why are there always religious fanatics picketing sci-fi and comic book conventions ? | ?? This must be very recent; I've been to dozens of cons, including most Worldcons, and I've never seen religious picketers. |
How does water boarding feel like drowning? | Bonus question, aside from it feeling like you're drowning and your natural reaction to that - how harmful is being waterboarded? |
Why are terrorists in Mexico as crazy as ever but the US has to police the middle east like it's our own backyard? | Loaded question is loaded. Because the terrorists in Mexico stay there. They aren't an active threat to us. |
Why is history so eurocentric? | Same reason the news doesn't talk about the classroom that wasn't shot up. The world mostly didn't change from one generation to the next outside of Europe. They had some huge amazing wars in Asia, but really nothing changed as a result. The border of China is similar to what it was when Europeans were still running ar... |
How come so many European written languages like French, Spanish, German use accent marks, but English doesn't? | oe" and "ue" ; similarly, the character "ß" is just a different way of writing "ss" after a long vowel -- and in fact, in Switzerland, the "ß" is almost never used. In Spanish, the letter "ñ" is considered a different letter from "n", and comes after it in the alphabet . Spanish does, however, have stress marks to show... |
How can 20 year old movies like Jurassic Park and Terminator 2 have really convincing special effects, whilst the CGI in newer films looks completely unrealistic? | To add upon everyone's comments, look at a phenomenon called uncanny valley. Basically there's a point where things look very good but our minds reject them because we notice the tiny flaws. We are very attuned to seeing minor differences, especially in faces |
What is so great about Mister Rogers? | He's like the wonderful, kindly grandfather to multiple generations of children. He'd invite you into his home, to sing songs and meet with his puppet friends and learn how to be a good person. He told children they were loved, and told them how to love others, and he really *meant* it. What could have seemed schmaltzy... |
If depression is often linked to a lack of serotonin and anxiety to too much serotonin, how come the two occur together so commonly?( | Most commonly one causes the other. Serotonin doesn't play as big of a role as you may think. Yes, anxiety and depression cause a chemical imbalance, but they both decrease your serotonin levels. That is why you may be prescribed an antidepressant when you are diagnosed with anxiety and vise versa. Also, people initial... |
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