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How is blood circulation restored after an amputation? | Imagine a large river, with lots of streams and tributaries that take those water to smaller streams and those to even smaller ones. Let's say you dam one of the larger streams. With no exit, debris, like logs and branches completely dams the outlet stream. The river diverts the water to other streams, which, in the bo... |
What does putting chalk on my pool stick actually do? And is it stupid not to use it? | In addition to preventing the tip of the cue from slipping, you can also chalk your bridge hand to help the cue slide through your fingers easier. In either case, you won't need to be told to use it. You'll know. |
Why is the AR-15 not considered an assault rifle? What makes a rifle an assault rifle? | Here's a good video explaining the difference between an Assault Rifle and an Assault Weapon - and it pretty much indicates why gun laws don't work : _URL_35_ |
Why I have never ending acne on my face but every other part of my part has perfectly clean and clear skin | God Knows, back in the day my acne was only one spot, a huuuuuuge spot in my nose, I'd blow it out only to have it reappear few days later. I'd only have one at a time but the goddam thing had an infinite respawn. |
When soaking a portion of skin with a wart on it in apple cider vinegar, why does only the area with the wart hurt and not the regular skin? | Had one on the knuckle of my thumb, tried freezing it a few times, didn't work so well, got drunk, froze it again and excised it with nail clippers and pliers, didn't come back, would not recommend!", 'Ymmv but using duct tape over the course of a week and a half got rid of the ones on my thumb. Freezing them is such a... |
Why can't you buy wine at a supermarket that's really cheap, and not aged, then age it yourself at home? | You can for sure. The point is that the 1963 Chateau Fancypants was already a sweet bottle of booze and there aren't that many of them left, hence their higher value. |
Why is it, that cgi-heavy movies don`t take more data to be safed on DVD or on a hard drive? | The CGI has already been done on computers. It's not done by code on the disc or a digital copy. Those simply contain the visual information. To better understand, why do you think it makes sense on film, but not in a data format? |
How can teachers (legally) deny you the right to go to the bathroom (in the US) | Legally, you can get up and walk out of the room and go to the bathroom whenever you want. Something you learn later in life is something I'll always remember from Achewood many years ago: being in trouble is a fake idea.Ugh, as a teacher I am so sick of this coming up. It always turns into "my teacher is such an assho... |
Why do we have to sanitize our drinking water when other animals don't have to? | one reason is that some animals are naturally good at not getting sick because nature made them that way. people get sick more easily because we know how to avoid sickness better than animals, like by washing and cooking food, so our bodies don't have to be so good at it. another reason is that animals, including peopl... |
People who regularly use ELI5, why didn't you just google it? | ELI5 isn't really for getting answers. ELI5 is for browsing by 'new' and laughing at agenda motivated, snarky, 'questions'.ELI5 why salt is so salty when i have a cold. Googled that today with no answer. Question is a bit high-brow for askscience.When I've posted its been for feedback and discussion.. Not so much as so... |
Why are human eye colours restricted to brown, blue, green, and in extremely rare cases, red, as opposed to other colours? | Without any pigment, everyone's eyes would appear blue—it's structural coloration due to the [Tyndall effect], basically just the way the light bounces around in your eyes scatters more of the short-wavelength stuff outward, same way skim milk or smoke have a vaguely bluish tinge to them. |
Why is '10 items or Less' wrong? | I'm not sure if it is wrong or an archaic rule that's kept. Basically less is for figurative amounts but fewer is for literal amounts. There is less snow on my roof but fewer snowmen in your garden. |
Why can't I tap a different beat with each foot at the same time? | You can. Not difficult. One simple way to demonstrate this would be to tap both your feet on alternating syllables of the phrase 'not difficult' providing that you tap both simultaneously on 'not' Example: not-diff-i-cult LR- R -L-R In this example you're tapping pulses with the left foot in 4/4 and pulses with the rig... |
We've all seen it in movies; when someone's throat is slit, what actually happens? What causes the death? Is having your throat slit always fatal? | As long as the don't cut one of the arteries on the side of your neck and you can get medical attention farely quick, then you can survive. But if they cut the artery, then most likely they'll die of blood loss and/or suffocation. |
Why Russian lawmakers are so anti-gay. | Much like the Jews, the gay people have traditionally been easy to scapegoat. There's not many of them, they're not like us, they are *those* people, they could be anywhere, they tend to be in cities, etc. The Russian lawmakers are in a precarious situation, but they like to project strength. Their weakness is in the c... |
I understand that all life on earth comes from a single cell, how did that single cell come to exist? | The answer is that we don't really know. There are some interesting hypotheses about it, and people are doing good experiments, but while we've made some progress in understanding abiogenesis, we haven't got the whole picture yet. |
If I had a law degree why should I hire an attorney? (Civil Cases) | 1. Different lawyers can have different areas of expertise. 2. It can be difficult to be objective when you're personally involved, and another pov can be beneficial. 3. You may be able to get a discount by offering to do some of the research yourself - whether this works will depend on the lawyer you've approached. 4.... |
From a business POV, why would McDonalds only give out 20 packets of Szechuan sauce and at limited locations only? | It's a classic Bait and Switch. They're hoping you will try one of the nine other sauces and their ~new white meat chicken tenders with buttermilk breading.~", 'It’s marketing. Rick and Morty built it up and then McDonalds underdelivered. Anyways I am at the location in LA that had sauce. A fight broke out and they’re ... |
Why doesn’t pointing a camera at the sun directly damage it, like our eyes get damaged? | They do get damaged, you just usually don't point them at the sun sufficiently long. If you do so, as was the case in the last solar eclipse, you get damage like this - _URL_1_ |
Why do speedometers always exceed a car's top speed? | Part of it is trying to impress, but there's a bigger reason: cost. That automaker makes a wide selection of cars, and it makes more sense to have a few standard speedometer displays rather than make one specially for every mix of engine/body/etc. |
Why do we mostly consume chicken eggs, cow's milk, grape wine, and wheat bread? | As somebody else mentioned, yield is a lot of it. I'll add that this is because of all the time and effort spent domesticating these species, and engineering them to produce the highest yields and most desirable products. Thousands of years of selective breeding have gone into making cows that produce unnatural amounts... |
why does cancer only seem to get worse once people are diagnosed? | Between the stress, and the placebo effect that can be enough to have a detrimental effect on people. Combined with treatments like Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy, the side effects from those can really make a person tired, nauseous, etc. These treatments are generally not kind to a person, though under the circumstance... |
What is that sensation in your forehead when something like a finger or pencil is really close? | I have this too but my boyfriend doesn't know what I'm talking about no matter how hard I try to explain. I like to say it's because he has no soul :)", 'When you repeat something often, or when an event is particularly salient , the brain physically changes on the neuronal level, and chemicals/electrical signals becom... |
The cable companies arguement to "Data Cap" my monthly internet usage is to prevent congestion of the system during peak hours. Can it really be congested? | Yes and no. Congestion during peak hours is indeed a real problem. But if congestion during peak hours gets too bad, people will stop trying to use so much bandwidth during those hours . If they only cared about peak-hour congestion, they'd institute pre-emptive throttling during certain hours, where they lower your ma... |
Why do we look down on HGH users when it is perfectly acceptable for women to use hormone replacement therapy. | I've never seen someone be vilified for taking hormones prescribed to them from a doctor for a legitimate medical purpose. |
What makes Snopes the authority on whether claims are true or false? | Look up a Snopes article and read it. You'll see that they do research and cite sources. If you stop at the line that says if it is true or not then you are doing it wrong. |
Emergency broadcast test. Do they also work while connected to Netflix? | They don't, the Emergency Alert System was created for broadcast media. I would think they will create some mass text like they do for Amber Alert's in the future. |
Why is our writing voice often so different from our way of speaking? | Basically, it's much easier to go over your writing and make changes until you like the way it sounds than it is just think about your words and get them all out in one try. |
Why can I instantly tell a movie from a tv show or Youtube video? | Most movies are shot at 24fps and wide, they are blurry/soft. Other shows are shot on cameras with higher framerates, they don't have the movie 'softness' that you are used to. That's how you are able to tell. This is of course in addition to the budgets - the lighting and angles get a lot more attention on a movie set... |
How has Gamestop not gone out of business yet, in a similar fashion as Hollywood/Blockbuster Video? | Most of their sales are going to be consoles, which still have a large base of people who aren't downloading their games and like their discs. Second, they allow people to trade in games for tiny amounts of credit, and then sell them back to other people at 3-4 times what they paid for it. Which gets more people coming... |
"Why does fire wiggle?" (question from my 5yo son) | I'll just put this here. _URL_2_ The winning video for the question **ELI10: what is a flame?**", 'You see, son, when a fire loves oxygen very much, some times it wants to show that love by doing a wiggly dance on a stack of firewood.I read this as 'why does my fire wiggle', and thought incredible wordplay while readin... |
Why does it snow even though it is 34-35 degrees? | Sometimes there's snow on the ground when it's 50 degrees out - it takes time to melt! It's colder in the upper atmosphere, so it just doesn't have the time to melt while it's falling. |
why do you have to check in for your flight if you already bought a ticket? | Well I know when people don't show up they can sell the ticket for cheap. Then they get your money and someone else's money. |
How to solve a Rubiks cube? | There are several different methods, actually. When you buy a Rubik's cube, it comes with step by step instructions on how to solve it. I believe the solution usually included is the one where you solve the cube layer by layer. So basically, solving a Rubik's cube can be as easy as following a recipe. |
How people can take a photo of the milky way in the night sky | A thing that hasn't been mentioned is that people use long exposure to capture enough light to see it. |
If the function of life is to grow, reproduce, and continue indefinitely, how does that explain diseases that kill the host (and hence themselves)? | A lot of the most deadly micro-parasites to humans didn't evolve to naturally live in humans. For example, Ebola lives mostly in bats, which it tends not to kill. While some deadly diseases are endemic to humans for the most part, a lot of the most deadly diseases came from other animal populations. |
How does Mastercard know my clothing size? | They may be able to tell the sizes of clothing you purchase, but they have no idea in hell whether you are buying the clothes for yourself, a gift for your sister-in-law, or as a donation to a homeless shelter. So, they don't know if the sizes you purchase are YOUR sizes. |
Why People Think That 9/11 was an inside job. | In addition to the things people have already said, I'd also like to draw your attention to the pilot episode of the X-Files spinoff, [The Lone Gunmen]: > The pilot episode depicted a plane being flown into the New York World Trade Center; it originally aired six months before 9/11. Foreshadowing a number of conspiracy... |
If any kind of data can be represented by a string of numbers (or, effectively, by one long number), how can anyone own a number? | Having a number doesn't give you the ability to replicate content. Translating a number into content is not an easy task. From the legal standpoint, if only physical media was able to be copyrighted, there would be less motivation to develop digital content. Open source is an excellent model, but I think there is some ... |
Why are masking/duct tape used on windows during hurricane? | Here's a tip from someone who has lived in hurricane country for most of his life: don't ever put duct tape on your windows. Duct tape adhesive is a huge pain to get off glass, you'll be spending *days* getting your windows clean after the storm. The tape won't keep the glass from breaking, all it does is protect the o... |
Why can’t the Panama Canal just dig a deep canal and remove the locks? | The tides on the pacific side are pretty extreme, varying by 7 meters between extreme high and extreme low tide. The result of this would be a very large wave pushing its way down the canal, this is not ideal and would likely destroy a lot of ships Plus, you'd have to dig the canal down another 26 meters and most of th... |
Why is there little to no atheist representation in US congress? | What ever happened to that separation of Church and State? It really shouldn't matter God if any someone follows if they run for a public office. |
What do we know about the effects of long exposure of the human body to high gravity? | There's a [rumor] that fighter pilots have more daughters than sons . Not really sure it's well substantiated , also don't know if it has to do with G forces, or just stress. |
My daughter asked why are there bubbles in soda water. I told her it's elves' farts. | Don't feel bad, when I was a kid my aunt told me the balls in tapioca pudding were the clear gummy bears' poop.If it makes you feel any better, in the case of beer, it actually is yeast farts |
Do horses really need to be put down if they break a leg? If they do, then why? | One thing that hasn't been mentioned is the callous but practical consideration that if you own a racing horse that can't race, or a work horse that can't work, you will be wasting money by feeding a useless horse.Depends on the break. Some bones can be screwed back together and heal quite well. Horses can come back fr... |
Why can one not see 3d with monocular vision (one eye) | The brain uses a number of means to estimate depth, combined under the term depth perception. Some of these, like convergence, require two eyes. Some, like relative size, work with just one. If you just have one eye, you lose access to all the binocular 'tools' your brain would use. All other things being equal, this w... |
Why is Floria Man a thing? | Florida has open arrest records, making it more easily reported when weird or noteworthy crimes occur. News stations like to report on things that will generate news, and they get a list of things that happen in Florida that they can read through, rather than having to investigate themselves. Basically, weird shit happ... |
How do peoples lives get ruined by a game like WoW? is this for real? | I play WoW a lot and I can quit any time, really Let me check my mail first, oh cool, now I have enough gold for that cloak I saw in the auction house. Let's enchant that. Just got a PM from a guildie looking for a dps. Can't wait to see what my dps is like with this new cloak. Just got new boots off that boss. They lo... |
How come a confession isn't considered a strong enough basis for a prosecution after a mistrial ? | Firstly, the acquittal was the correct decision AT THE TIME. Whatever happens since may be different, but at the time of the decision, there was insufficient evidence of the accuseds' guilt. Secondly, even ignoring double jeopardy, a confession alone might not necessarily be enough for a trial. Perhaps the confession w... |
What's holding us back from truly photorealistic cgi? Lack of computing power or artistic skill? Both? | This is actually an interesting question. We already *have* truely photorealistic CGI. 99% of movies these days have CG used in many major ways - even romantic comedies. Things like putting a crowd in a stadium, adding and removing things or people from a scene after the fact, or replacing a stuntman's face with the ma... |
How do cities know how big to make the sewers for future growth? | I worked in the finance side of my municipalities water department so a slightly different perspective. We work closely with developers to identify where they want to place communities and at what pace they want those communities to grow. From there we plan infrastructure based on their projections along with our own m... |
Why does nobody play man to man defense in soccer? | For all the reasons everyone else has stated, but also due to the offside rule. If a defence was to play tight man-to-man, an intelligent attacking side could simply have one forward push his defender to the by-line and therefore open up the entire rest of the pitch for other attackers to exploit. Also, a soccer pitch ... |
Everyone seems to like Harry Potter, can someone explain to me what's good about it without giving spoilers? | It's definitely geared towards kids and young adults, so if you read the books looking for even a hint of sophistication, you'll be very frustrated. But, if you can get a little bit into the mindset of the intended audience, the depth of the universe can be fascinating. If you're into hardcore sci-fi and fantasy , I do... |
How does China justify censorship to its citizens? | Most people in China have no idea there is censoring at all. Or maybe they know about it but it really has no impact on their daily life. Like as someone living in America, do you really care or know about things happening in Beijing right now? or Japan, or Russia? Probably not it's just not relevant to your daily life... |
Why the USA waited so long to enter WW2 | So, just roughly, it's not complete. The US had a rule saying that they should not get involved in fights not concerning them. Meanwhile, Japan, Germany and Italy had a deep friendship saying that if anyone fights with any one of the three countries, it means you're starting a fight with all three. Meanwhile, Japan wan... |
What is the purpose of 'Press any button to start' screens in video games? | Read somewhere that if there's not an opportunity for player interaction within a predetermined time period, the media can't be considered a game. |
Why does it feel so much more satisfying when falling asleep when you're not supposed to, compared to when you're actually meant to fall asleep? | I've noticed this when staying up late to study for a test, it always feels so much better going to bed before I actually finished studying, than when I'm done studying and ready to sleep. |
Why are there so few aircraft remaining from World War II? Aircraft were built in quantities that are hard to comprehend, yet many models have vanished entirely. | I'm not an expert so take this with a huge grain of salt, but I do work in naval aviation and live close to the largest naval aviation museum in the country which is full of WWII era aircraft, which I visit quite often. And what I've seen/heard repeatedly there is that during that particular war they didn't have the lu... |
Why do people sometimes find things more funny when they become tired? What is happening in the brain? | Psychiatrist here. More speculation but I disagree with Josheva's thought. I think the more tangible explanation can be a mild delirium at play. With our perceptions altered from sleep deprivation, we are slightly less in touch with reality than our well-rested peers. Things appear strange and absurdities and oddities ... |
How did the US and Canada, two countries with similar colonial and geographic backgrounds, end up so different in terms of political cultures? | They aren't even that geographically similar. The vast majority of Canada is either tundra or coniferous forest, compared to the grasslands, deserts, and deciduous forests that compromise the US. |
Why is the launch price for the Nintendo Switch nearly $100 more for Australian buyers? Even converting the US price to AUD equals $394 D: | The Australian price of 470 includes GST. US prices don't include sales tax , so that Australian price is actually AUD 423 once you exclude the sales tax, which is only 20 USD higher when you do the conversion, which covers the fact that shipping to Australia is more expensive.Is the american price you saw including sa... |
how/why is suspension with pay a form of punishment? | It's what they do when they suspect you've done something wrong, but they're not certain. Government works different from businesses - the reasons for firing someone must be clear to everyone. So until they're certain, they send the suspected person home and run an investigation to make sure the person did something wr... |
How does the Boston bomb suspect afford such high end defense? | Pro bono work in a high-profile case always pays much more in future cases than any fee. You really can't put a price on the publicity. These lawyers' phones ring all day after a famous trial. Look up any well-known lawyer. There is always a high-profile case in their past, and it's probably the one that kick-started t... |
Why is space exploration so important that we spend billions of dollars on it. | Humanity not dying on this rock. Seriously. You and I might not personally make it out of here, but some day, for a variety of plausible reasons, humanity will need options. We can, and should, become better stewards of Earth, but we should also have the sense to diversify. This planet is robust, yet fragile, and we ar... |
when my phone or computer freezes what's happening 'behind the scenes'? | I'll give you an analogy: You're baking a cake by following the steps as written in a cooking guide. Suppose, for the sake of simplicity, the steps are: 1.) Ready the ingredients, 2.) Mix them, 3.) Bake. Now each of these steps will be divided into sub-steps . If for some reason, you're unable to complete step one, you... |
If the law of conversation of energy dictates that no energy can ever get lost then where did it come from in the first place? | I saw something one day that all energy the universe has is zero when summed. There is something like positive energy and negative energy. When they colide, they vanish. So we kind of came from nothing and May come back to nothing when precisely made colisions happen. I really don't know if it is true. I would be happy... |
Why can't I, the one in control of my brain, make myself forget bad memories? | You don't have root access. Your consciousness is the product of years of software updates and patches. |
Why do my cats meow at me, but not at each other? | Not sure how true this is, but I've read that cats treat us like they treat kittens, which includes meowing. They meow for kittens because their ears can't hear higher pitched or more subtle noises, and they don't understand the subtleties of other forms of communication |
Is it possible for someone to enter a house through a chimney à la Santa Claus? | With old fashioned chimneys maybe yes, but it has to be a very skinny person, Santa definitely wouldn't fit. In the past chimney sweeps used to be kids and they would actually get into the chimney. Horrible job. |
What is the point of Kirchhoff's First Law? | Yeah it's basically common sense if you already have an understanding of current and voltage, but it's pretty fundamental too. It's kind of comparable to conservation of energy because it's sort of common sense but also important for solving certain problems. If wire A splits in two , then I_a = I_b + I_c. Someone who ... |
How do luxury watches like Rolex keep so many stores open when you hardly see anyone ever walk in there and buy anything? | The rolex shop by Hyde Park has a security guard right by the front door to keep the riff-raff out. The front window display is also pretty restrained. Wouldn't be surprised if most purchases are done by appointment there. |
why did cans stop being stackable? | Not entirely sure of the full explanation, but one advantage of that can design is that a can opener will work on either the top or the bottom. That might seem like a stupid advantage to get while giving up being able to stack them easily, but opening from the bottom is worthwhile. It is more sanitary to open from the ... |
Why do concerts generally start so late? | A lot of times the concert doesn't actually start later than they planned, but later than they advertised. If you ask the venue what time the show is scheduled to actually start and finish they will often tell you the real time EDIT: classical music concerts start later than advertised to minimize disruptions. People a... |
Why do bombs "whistle" when they are falling. | Most bombs/missiles don't make a whistling sound. Some gravity bombs , such as the V1 used during WWII, make a whistling sound due to air moving past fins on the fuselage that are there to stabilise the bomb's flight path. |
how do games know when they have been pirated? | There's a few different checks that can be generated: - CD keys- Hardware ID - Specialised Hardware And they can be checked: - Offline - Online Activation - Online Login A good old example to look for is Mother 2 copyright protection, a NES cartridge which used multiple layers of checks", 'It has evolved over time. Ori... |
How do services such as Spotify and Overdrive make sure that you don't permanently download their material? | They can't, like at all. All you need to do is create a virtual sound card, get your browser playing to that, and pipe that into your line-in. You can then use the windows sound recorder to get a copy of that. |
Why do Americans make fun of Canadians so much? | Canada is like family. I can make fun of Canada, but I'll be damned if some Russian's gonna say shit about 'em. |
How to be a responsible adult? | This has been deleted because this forum isn't the right place to ask for suggestions of this kind. Try /r/askreddit instead. Thanks. |
Why aren't there any "positive" diseases? | I'm going to offer that by definition a disease is a negative condition. The concepts I think you're reaching for are **adaptive mutation** and/or **symbiosis**. |
Why can't dopamine be manufactured? | They basically do manufacture dopamine. In fact, a popular drug treatment for people with parkinson's is 'L-DOPA' which is technically the pre-cursor to dopamine which causes the body to produce more dopamine. There are also synthetic chemicals which can mimic neurotransmitters in the brain . There are also other ways ... |
Let's suppose the internet no longer becomes neutral. What is to prevent another open "internet" from cropping up and taking its place? | [Last mile] infrastructure is prohibitively expensive to construct. It's theoretically possible to build an entirely new Internet-network using a large mesh of wireless routers, but this requires widespread adoption and some sort of long-range solution between nodes. |
- What REALLY causes computers to slow down? Can it be stopped / reversed? | LI5:Your father buys you a toybox and puts a few wonderful toys in there for you. You can easily find the toys, and love playing with them. After a month or so, you get a new toy, and put it in the box. Month on month, you add new toys to the toybox, and sometimes you leave the box or the instructions for the toy in th... |
Why do singers wear headphones when they perform? | It's so they can hear the other instruments and thier voice so they can maintain correct rhythm and pitch. |
I see squirrels all the time, all over the place. How come I never see squirrel poop or even the act of squirrels pooping? | It's because if you have a pizza and a banana and you want to eat the pizza first, you cannot eat the banana meanwhile so that you can only eat one at a time UNLESS you eat a banana pizza.We have big trees by the driveway with a lot of squirrels It is not unusual to find their pellets on the cars in the morning', "[Her... |
Why is it easier to dry off after a bath than a shower? | Lots of theories here. I think there's something to the humidity idea, that would certainly contribute. More moisture in the air could certainly affect the evaporation rate, and would also lead to more moisture condensing on your skin as it got dry. More important though is that your entire body is submerged when in a ... |
How/why are college sports so big in America? | When you think about English teams, they are all rooted in geography and local culture. You support Maidenhead because you're from there etc. For college sports, this is the only time some people get to support a team that a) is based on where they are at so they can actually go and see games b) can't be relocated on t... |
Why gas stations aren't subject to prices needing to match what is advertised? | I have never ever had this happen to me. Are you sure they aren't advertising cash/card holder prices? If so, they still have to advertise it as cash pricing. [Here are two examples from gas stations by me.] Even if this wasn't the case, the price displayed at the pump is the one you are paying, it really doesn't matte... |
How do most Americans seemingly always know what compass direction they are facing? | Most Americans don't know. Your watching fictionalized TV shows that are trying to convey directions that an audience would be able to visualize and so it's not benificial for them to use street names that 99% of the audience wouldn't be familiar with or left and right all the time. |
What stops animals from enjoying music the way humans do? | Animals just don't have sophisticated brains that can make complex mental connections. For example, a shark cannot look at its prey and think 'I wonder what it's feeling? Or, 'could I become friends with it?' A shark is wired to see prey and instinctively think 'eat'. It's not that sharks are overly aggressive or I'll-... |
How did flashing your lights twice to warn others of police become so widely known? | Up here in CT , it can mean anything from there's a cop up ahead, to there's a god damn deer just standing in the road again.What I think is even more interesting is how drivers in Japan use their hazards as a way to say thank you when you let them merge into your lane.Flashing lights is the more efficiant method to co... |
Our bodies can create an embryo that assembles into a young body full of new cells and repeat the process. Why can't our bodies skip the embryo step and just renew itself? | Let's say you're building a body with legos. Starting from an embryo you're using all these shiny new blocks straight from the box. Plus, you're starting with nothing. It's easy to plan and build the blocks from each other right where they should be to work together. As my lego person gets older, some of these blocks g... |
If i bark/meow at my cat or dog, do they think of us as a fellow dog or cat? or do they know we don't really do that? | I tend to have words like 'No' 'now' work for my cat. If I have her on my stomach and won't let go, I wait till she vocalizes a 'no' and I let her go. She know's If it's a regular meow, I say 'NNnoooo' she'll change the way she meows so I'll let go. It's sad and depressing. lol. I used to hate cats until I got her thou... |
Why isn't min wage a big concern for Europe and Canada? | Speaking for Sweden, we don't have a government mandated minimum wage however we do have unions. Everyone who is legally employed is part of a union and is there by working under a union issued contract in which the minimum wage along with many other things are stated. |
Why does Chris Hadfield's version of "Space Oddity" require a license/contract but tons of other covers on YouTube do not? | Compulsory licensing. In short, it allows you to make a cover, send a notice to the copyright owner , or the copyright office if the copyright owner cannot be determined, saying that you intend to distribute/sell copies of it, and 30 days later start selling/distributing it. You must then pay a set percentage of the pr... |
Why do most people resort to talking about the weather in conversation? | Weather is something that everyone deals with and it's generally uncontroversial. As you mentioned, it's a simple, boring topic that people can talk about quickly, requires no prior knowledge or followup, and can be dropped immediately. |
Why does masturbating help clear out my sinuses out? | sinus congestion is caused by inflammed sinuses. orgasms do all sorts of interesting things to your body, and it's possible that those hormones can reduce the swelling in your sinuses.Not sure. Never heard of this. But I might speculate that masturbating increases your breathing rate, which helps to clear out your sinu... |
In the US, what do you do if you are seriously ill but can't possibly afford treatment? | I believe people are usually still treated for emergencies, but then just end up with crippling medical debt and related financial disasters afterward .People apply for Medicaid. Failing that, they try charity hospitals and free clinics. Failing that um |
How is it possible for us to know that dogs see in black and white? | Dogs don't actually see in black and white. Color blind means that they don't see certain colors, just like humans who are color blind. _URL_1_ |
What keeps the clouds from settling down to the Earth's surface? | Think of the atmosphere like layers of liquids in a glass. The oil and water separate. The deeper into the atmosphere you go the denser the air is. The moisture density in the clouds isn't heavy enough to sink further down. |
Why has college become so ridiculously expensive | You set up an orange juice stand for the kids in your neighborhood. Most of the kids in your neighborhood don't get allowance, so you charge a nickel a glass because that's all most kids can afford. One day most of the parents have a big meeting and decide that all their kids will all get a $10 a week allowance. You se... |
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