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Why didn't Seattle run it? | I'll tell you ..as soon as I order my shirt .hat ..beach towl ..DVD ..collectors plate .binder of the plays used .a snuggie and anything else being whored off by _URL_0_ |
Why have we not been back to the Moon since 1972? | To add to the other points, unmanned missions are generally much cheaper, much less risky, and can do more science. We've sent numerous satellites and probes to the moon since the last Apollo mission, including GRAIL which just ended, and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which is still in orbit around the moon. There'... |
the people on the internet who say that we should all adopt gold and silver backed currencies instead of "fiat money" | One could argue that the invention of fiat currency was the realization that silver and gold backed currency didn't have any true intrinsic value either. |
This is just a reminder to please search before asking your question here. | And remember, sometimes reposts are acceptable. [example using the oldest post] EDIT: Actually, looking at that list only the second most recent one has a remotely useful answer for what Occupy Wall Street stands for. The next closest consists of someone explaining that they haven't yet come up with a solid list of dem... |
Why are there so many controls in a plane cockpit? | A lot of fairly trivial tasks are handled by computers now, and this trend has been increasing for decades. However, pilots feel a lot more comfortable when there are manual overrides for everything. Occasionally, when things really fuck up, this does end up saving lives. Also, as vini said, it helps scare away people ... |
I read Amazon isn't profitable, and yet, i just learned it's CEO is the third richest man in the world! Can someone explain what is going on at Amazon? | Let's say you had a sure fire way to double you money each year. Year 1 you borrow $20K, and wind up with $40K, $20K after paying back the loan. Year 2, you take that $20K, and borrow $20K more, and have $80K, $60K after paying back your loans. Year after year, you do the same thing, rolling your money over and borrowi... |
What were to happen if NK shelled Seoul and killed a few thousand people, but threatened to use nukes on the US if they intervened. | North Korea doesn't have the delivery capacity to even splash the pacific, let alone the American west coast. Also, America has a large contingency on the south Korean boarder, i got back a few years ago from Seoul after a two year tour there . Trust me, Pyongyang would be wiped off the map within minutes. Maybe an hou... |
Why does my cat lick things uncontrollably when I pet him? | My dog does this a lot, I always assumed it meant she was content. She does it the most when she's sitting with us, and even more when we are petting her. It's pretty gross. |
Why cant cats be trained? | I think it has to do with the fact that cats are not as domesticated as dogs. We've been breeding dogs much longer and obedience was one of the traits we selected for in dogs. So they are much more genetically selected to be trainable. This hasn't happened that much with cats.They can actually. I read that there was a ... |
Why can animals walk the day theyre born, yet it takes humans about a year? | It is due to our large brain in relation to the body, which in turn means we evolved so that we are pretty much useless at birth and remain so until the body catches up and is able to support the head well enough. We need the large brain to do all the stuff humans grow up to excel at. Being so dependent at birth is obv... |
Why do we feel the urge to stay in bed even though we've had more than enough sleep already? | I find this really interesting. Half of the year I cannot get out of bed for any reason, and sleep for 13+ hours and if I do force myself to get up it's physically painful almost. The other half of the year I jump up well before my alarm clock and can feel amazingly refreshed with only 4 hours of sleep and get up and s... |
What is a citizen's arrest? Under what circumstances can one be performed? | Are you allowed to citizen's arrest a police officer? I've heard that you can, but in every story I've read when someone tried to the cops would just beat them up and arrested them. It might be a myth, idk. :/ |
Why do flies keep landing on the same spot, even when repeatedly being put in danger at that exact spot? | There's something there that it wants. Either what it thinks might be food or a place to lay eggs. |
What is cognitive behavioral therapy? | yeah it's learning techniques to combat thoughts/actions that are characteristic of bad mental health. i had it for depression/anxiety and for me was about combating spiralling negative thoughts and targeting problems in a way that made me find them less intimidating, for example breaking things down into bitesized pie... |
Why can't we just cover all rooftops with solar panels to provide the world with energy? | Solar panels cost energy to make and cost energy to install and cost energy to dispose of. So they only make more energy than they cost if installed somewhere where it makes sense to install. Too much shade or a bad orientation or a bad climate and solar panels would lose more energy than they make. But we certainly ca... |
Why is Islam the fastest growing religion in UK ? | The growth isn't necessarily due to people converting. As the statistics [here] show, Muslim women have more babies on average, so even if no one converts the next generation will have more Muslims and a higher proportion of Muslims.Christianity isn't growing because it's pretty much saturated. Everyone that was going ... |
why can't we come up with an efficient solution for cleaning up orbital space junk? | There are efficient solutions . The main problem is that there isn't a 'space' country with appropriate property laws, everyone wants someone else to clean it up . |
How can websites like "Teefury" sell t-shirts with copyrighted characters on them? How do t-shirt copyrights work? | I work for a small company designing t-shirts and I had wondered about reproducing other companies characters. I was lead to believe that it was ok as long as it was being produced as an artistic recreation or, as some said, a parody. Providing that you aren't using the original copyrighted image i.e. screenshot of a f... |
If I am poor, and get a life threatening disease, do I just die? | It depends. I work at a hospital, and we do everything we can to get coverage for uninsured patients because it is in our best interest to do so. Our Financial Counselors and Case Management will help patients obtain Medicare and/or Medi-Caid whenever possible. If coverage isn't possible, in many cases the hospital wil... |
How does the mainstream media get away with saying Hillary won the debate when virtually every poll days otherwise? Isn't this a blatant misrepresentation of facts? | You have to be careful what polls you look at. A lot of online polls are not scientific; their respondents are self-selected. So the fact that a candidate tends to win those polls could mean nothing more than that that candidate has a lot of enthusiastic online supporters who like to vote in online polls. That's not ne... |
Why do so many democrats/liberals like Ron Paul? | Really the only reason I have to like him is he has always been consistent on his political positions. I wouldn't vote for him based on a number of his positions, but at the very least I can respect him for not being pressured into towing party lines. |
Why do some dogs kick their back leg when you scratch them in a certain place. | I'm sure it's an unconcious sort of reaction. Maybe pressuring a nerve or something. Similar to how your leg kicks out when the doctor taps you under your kneecap. ^ Pure speculation |
How did they come up with the theory that a Mars sized planet, Theia, collided with early Earth creating the moon? | That theory's more plausible than it sounds at first. Let me explain it a bit better. I don't think it's accurate to call it a planet. It was an [Earth trojan] which is in many ways more like a moon. It orbited a [Lagrangian point]. This is a stable orbit that's 60 degrees off of the planet, so it makes a right triangl... |
My three day old daughter is asleep and judging by eye movement she is dreaming. My question is Do babies dream and what do they dream about? | What do you dream about? You can't possibly judge what a person is dreaming about.\r\rDreams are often based on the kind of activity you do through the day..\r\rFrom wiki:\r\rDreams mainly occur in the rapid-eye movement stage of sleep—when brain activity is high and resembles that of being awake. REM sleep is revealed... |
What is a reverse mortgage? How does it work? | The simplest way to think of it is you are selling your house back to the bank. Instead of paying a mortgage every month, the bank pays you until they own the house outright once again. It's a tactic for older people with inadequate savings to get a source of income. The rules vary depending on the bank and location, b... |
What did Debbie Wasserman Schultz do that has a bunch of people calling for her resignation? | I think [this article from 2014] sums up the general opinion of many Democrats about DWS, and it's really only gotten worse since then. She's basically out there for herself and is willing to ride whatever wave she thinks she can to promote her own political prospects. She's managed to alienate pretty much every big mo... |
How do you acquire a taste? | I'd say that you need to associate it with other things you enjoy. Perhaps hanging out with friends and such or good food. |
Global Warming and the Green Zone(please read more than title) | Alas, the Earth is not uniformly covered with fertile land. Particularly in the South, the region you're referring to is almost all water. Just the luck of geography. In the North there is some land, but then it's water all the way to the pole. |
Why are so many elevators operating in a seemingly inefficient algorithm manner? | In one of Knuth's Art of Computer Programming volumes, he recommends that the reader watch a bank of elevators and describe its algorithm. He said it would be surprising. |
Why is Lego so expensive? | Companies exist to make money. They sell things at a price which maximises their profits. LEGO could sell their stuff at a lower price, but you can be very sure that the price they're selling it at is carefully tuned to maximise profit. Any more and sales would fall, any less and the increase in sales wouldn't be offse... |
How dental health contributes to cardiac health. | I think there is a better connection with cardiac health contributing to dental health when we talk about medications . If you have hypertension, clotting problems, or have suffered from an ischemic stroke or thromboembolisms , your doctor might put you on a blood thinner like warfarin or heparin. Now if your blood get... |
How does camera read QR Codes so accurately? | Certain posts mentioned the redundancy and error awareness of QR-Codes. Here is a great example what you can do with QR codes without harming the information they cary: _URL_0_ The BBC in there is obviously not part of the message. It's just added to an ordinary QR. However, the redundancy is high enough to recover the... |
The sound my speakers make when my cell phone is close to them. | Just to jump off of this because it's kind of similar We used to have a model of computer at my old job where, if you leaned your cell phone against the front of it right under the power button, the computer would shut off if you got a call. Like - hard shut off, as if you held the power button down for however many se... |
How does a Christian rationalize condemning an Old Testament sin such as homosexuality, but ignore other Old Testament sins like not wearing wool and linens? | Jesus came to fulfill the Law not abolish it. And as you said, you cant pick and choose what parts of the bible you choose. You are taking out of context what it means. I don't see you quoting that love is the greatest commandment |
Why isn't Wikipedia full of crap? | Some great responses here, but I'd also like to add that Wikipedia, while generally holding itself to a high standard, does have instances where it is not reliable. [This is an example where a completely fabricated war was on Wikipedia for five years.] There is also a problem where it is sometimes difficult to change f... |
Why don't we have World's Fairs anymore? | We do, except they're not really called world fairs. They're called EXPO's. I went to a giant facility dedicated to the EXPO in China. It's pretty empty, but they have a nice zoo.It still exists and will be in [Milan] next year. I am going. Remind me in a year and I will tell you how it was.We still do have world's fai... |
How did cats develop a taste for fish? It would seem like a very odd natural prey for them especially considering they don't like water. | Cats are obligate carnivores. Fish are meat. Also whoever told you cats don't like water is very misinformed. Cats are very good swimmers, and are well known to hunt a variety of prey in the water. EDIT: auto-mod said my original answer was too short :)", 'There is a gorgeous Fishing Cat species that lives in Southeast... |
Why can I whistle in tune but cannot play/understand bars and chords on an instrument? | Those people have been practicing the instrument longer than you have, and have an idea of how to make the sound they want with it. They've also probably experienced a lot of trial and error in reproducing it how they want, and there's a good deal of improvisation to go along with that. |
Why is Nuclear energy so controversial? | Because when things go bad in a nuclear reactor, it's really freaking bad. Also, in my neck of the woods, coal is the preferred energy source because of the many coalfields in this state. The proliferation of nuclear and renewable energy meant less dependence on coal, which meant less manpower/employees were needed to ... |
VIDEOGAMES - Why is Final Fantasy 7 (seemingly) the most popular in the franchise?? | There's a few reasons. Many of them come down to it being some people's first experience of the Final Fantasy series. * It was the first one to come out in Europe. So there's a lot of people in many countries that probably wouldn't have had a chance to play any of the earlier ones, or maybe hadn't even heard of the ser... |
If the Manhattan Project was able to create nukes in only 7 years, 70 years ago, how could it seem so difficult for Iran to create them? | In short. Money. The Manhattan Project had a $2 Billion budget during WW2. Which in 2015 USD is $25 Billion adjusted for inflation. It also employed 130,000 people, and consumed 20% of the total US electrical output. That sum total represents 7% of the total Iranian GDP per year. Secondly talent, I don't want to start ... |
What will happen if Congress can't figure something out by Thursday? | In all honesty, as much as Obama has said he wouldn't do it, if these morons in the House actually let this happen Obama will find a rule that would allow him to raise the debt limit without the House. If the choice is destroy the country's economy OR really p*ss off Congress and set a bad precedent - the dude's going ... |
Why do cheeseburgers cost more than hamburgers if the rest of the toppings (lettuce, tomato, pickle, onion etc) are free? | Because dairy products are more expensive than the other vegetable toppings. Also, because people are willing to pay extra for cheese. Most people wouldn't pay extra for onion lol.Cheese is not free. Dairy products are actually fairly expensive. |
Why do Star Wars fans love Boba Fett so much? | He's a very strong silent type with kickass armour. Also he's one of the only characters to actually have spoken up against Darth Vader and that means he has some major balls. The fact that he's a mando is really kinda secondary though since the whole mando culture started in the fans minds with him. However he is elev... |
Why can't people agree on medical facts? | The biggest problem is that science is imperfect, and the media tends to make loud proclamations about studies long before the scientists thinks it's time to be as certain as the media comes across as. Take the low-fat paradigm, for instance. The story is very long, but basically, a government comittee in 1977 decided ... |
Why is AIDS usually connected with homosexuality? | Anal sex causes more tear than vaginal and is [much more likely to cause transmission]. I've anecdotally heard, from gay men, that gay men are more promiscuous, however I can't find any data to back that up ATM. Perhaps someone else can chip in? It's obviously potentially offensive thing to say, I don't mean to offend. |
In what circumstances could inflation be seen as a good thing? | The Federal Reserve has a dual mandate. It has a 2% inflation target, but it also wants to keep unemployment low. If there was a 0% inflation target, then they would start fighting inflation much sooner. The Fed usually fights inflation by raising interest rates. Raising interest rates also slows the economy down which... |
How did the Baby Boomers "screw up" the economy? | > Everybody is talking about how 30 years ago a single person working at McDonald's could afford more than a doctor today. This is nonsense and you should disregard anybody who tries to tell you it's true. |
Why don't I have cell reception in hospitals? | Ive noticed this as well, but I am currently admitted right now into a new hospital and have amazing service. Plus there's free wifi so that's always nice. My best guess has always been crowding, there's a lot of people and a lot of phones being used in a small area, but I have no idea what I'm talking about. |
Why is it so hard to rebuild your credit? | As someone that has had debt not paid it doubly sucks for the lender. Not only do they have their own bad things out of their control but now because you aren't repaying them they are losing money because of your issues too. If you have a better way of telling whether someone is likely to repay debts I'm sure the credi... |
How does hit detection work in first-person shooters? | Send out a raycast in the direction the player is facing. Was there a collision? What's the Object type? Is there a function to handle that? Call it. |
Why do we have fancy unhackable standardized lotto machines but when it comes to voting we're still in the 1980s? | Why would you think lotto machines are unhackable? Pretty much anything is hackable, with or without physical access. _URL_2_ _URL_2_ As far as voting goes, most regulations are determined at the state level in the US so standardization is very difficult to do. Also making sure it's clear to you that there's no concret... |
Why do you have to fast before getting certain blood tests? | All I know is I'm tired of having to go through the same process my mother tends to go through getting a fasting blood draw. Namely getting stuck multiple times because of rolling veins, and having to regularly use a 'butterfly' needle to draw the blood. I am diabetic, never on insulin but I have always taken pills to ... |
Why do Americans generally not learn any second languages? | Well, only 3 European languages have ever had any sort of major foothold in North America- English, Spanish and French. Since English has been kind of the world's default language, there hasn't been much needto even pick up a second, let alone more. Most places in America, you can drive for days and everybody still spe... |
Why aren't urinals used in households? | It would cost more to put in a second plumbing connection, and you need the space, but for people who could afford it, I don't see why they haven't caught on. Having a urinal would *absolutely* end the toilet seat war, maybe people just haven't twigged to that fact. It should be noted that even women--with a little car... |
Why don't we launch rockets into orbit along the equator? | The US doesn't own land at the equator and they are the primary launcher of rockets. In order to do what you're proposing a country at the equator would need to have a space program or the US would need to make an agreement with a country at the equator. Given that the technology in the space program tends to be pretty... |
How does my horoscope always seem to relate to something happening in my life? | Let's see. I just pulled mine up > When someone starts a heavy conversation today, it may be an attempt to get closer to you. Huh, so someone attempting to engage with me may be attempting to engage with me. Shocking. > Don't shut down or be afraid to share, but don't let yourself be forced to say more than you want. N... |
why does it take a large investment to create a social networking site?...Shouldn't one just advanced Web design? | Most of the money goes into sever capacity. Nobody is going to adopt your new social networking site if it is down most of the time because your servers are overloaded. Additionally, you are also going to need a budget for advertising because nobody will come to your platform if they don't know about it. |
How can 3rd-party sellers on Amazon sell their products cheaper than their standard retail price? | a combination of lack of expensive overhead that needs to be paid for, and Amazon's business model. Places that have storefronts have to pay a huge amount in extra workers being hired to staff them, along with power bills, insurance, potential OSHA fines, and general property costs. All of those have to be offset in or... |
"I received this product at a discounted rate in exchange for my unbiased review." | The FTC has rules for what you can/can't do for endorsements and testimonials. Often, to play it safe, it's better to say that you received it for free for testing. Source: _URL_1_ and _URL_0_ |
Why do people often look for a consensus in order to determine the validity of something, specifically in science, when historically, there have been many instances of the general consensus being wrong. | Because the instances of the consensus being wrong are rare, especially compared to how often the loan crank challenging the consensus is wrong. Also, in most of the examples you mention, the consensus theory isn't wrong so much as incomplete. The earth *can* assumed to be flat for most day to day purposes. The contine... |
Why is taking a caffeine shot not doping. | It's all about what the organization running the event *says* is cheating. Many organizations consider caffeine by injection to be a banned performance enhancing drug but others don't. I think with caffeine its difficult because banning the oral consumption of caffeine for athletes would be unreasonable despite it bein... |
If we could know exactly how much gold was in a gold mine, would we need to mine it? | I think in some sense, no, you wouldn't have to mine it. If you owned the property, and you could tell someone exactly how much gold was there , you can bet that you could sell that land for a lot more than an equivalent plot with no gold. Also, the price would essentially fluctuate with the price of gold, since that's... |
Why do so many Americans circumcise their children? | I hope this changes because, as a female who's tried both, the uncut ones just feel better. |
How come some people drink till they collapse, without throwing up? Yet, if I reach certain point of drunkness it always ends in the toilet. | Not exactly an explanation for a five year but here it goesThere are two enzymes in the body responsible for breaking down alcoholFirst alcohol dehydrogenase converts the alcohol into an aldehyde which then becomes processed further by aldehyde dehydrogenaseSome people have a genetic deficiency of aldehyde dehydrogenas... |
Why can't our bodies prevent tooth decay without the help of toothpaste? | Our bodies can actually prevent tooth decay without the help of toothpaste. Toothpaste is mostly to make your teeth shinier, whiter etc. Decay is created by certain bacteria. Those are destroyed with saliva. So those bacteria create a thin film so saliva can't reach them. The point of brushing your teeth and flossing i... |
In carbon dating, why do we assume that the ratio of Carbon 14 and 12 in the atmosphere has always been the same? (or for the last 60,000 years) | Most of the carbon 14 comes from carbon in the upper atmosphere interacting with cosmic radiation, then precipitating back down to be fixed by plants during photosynthesis. That interaction happens at a more or less predictable rate. Cosmic radiation happens at a normal rate and hasn't really changed much in the last f... |
How do certain words become "swear" words? | How does the bible/Christianity enter in to the situation? It seems like controlling language is an attempt to control the population. I realize that isn't an explaination but more of an outlandish claim. Please discuss |
Why aren’t dominant traits always more common than recessive traits? | Yer not alone in askin', and kind strangers have chimed in: 1. [ELI5: if blue eyes are recessive then how did they manage to originally spread to so many people? ] ^1. [ELI5:Why haven't dominant genes completely replaced recessive genes through evolution? ] ^", 'Certain phenotypes may be less desirable to mates even th... |
Why is Mexico so underdeveloped compared to the US and Canada? | Central and South America have a long history of American backed coups. If there's a leader who wants to improve life for his people at the expense of American industry they are removed. |
How did the Atlanta International Airport become the busiest airport in the world, when it is the ranked 40th by population in the USA? | Because it is Delta's main hub. Airlines use a hub system, where they route most of their flights through a few airports. Cities like NY and LA are not very centralized, and their airports have no room for expansion, so they make poor hubs. Cities like Atlanta, Dallas, and Denver, one the other hand, are more centraliz... |
Why do colleges/universities have sports programs in the first place? | I think some of the more cynical responses here are misleading. Money is not the sole purpose for sports at universities the same way it's not the reason middle schools and high schools have sports teams. Sure, it plays a much larger role, but the argument that it is solely about money misses the point of extra curricu... |
Why do cars travel in packs on the highway, even when there are no traffic stops to create groups? | Former driving instructor here, I can add a little something. Some of the responses here aren't wrong, but they're leaving something out. Humans are pack animals by nature, and since most of our driving is done using subconscious habits, we often revert to what's in our nature. We used to hunt in packs, live in packs, ... |
Why is it that whenever I eat a bigger than usual supper, I wake up ridiculously hungry? | Well I'm not sure if any of this is true, I'm just going off of what i already know since this is eli5 and not askscience When you sleep, your body goes into a fast since you aren't eating for more than 8 hours and are sleeping. When you eat a large meal or eat very close to when you wake, your stomach had been full fo... |
How does an oven heat to 200°C, yet we don't get burnt by the air when we open it? | Air is a fantastic insulator and, lucky for us, transfers the oven's heat relatively slowly. If you don't linger, it doesn't have time to burn you. It is also why it takes so long to preheat. Interestingly, broiling is more dangerous because it adds radiant heat which can essentially bypass that insulation. |
Is light directly affected by gravitation, like objects with mass, or is it indirectly affected through the bent space? | Those are not separate things. Gravity makes space bend, that's how it affects things. So, some thing. |
What specifically do people mean when they say a song/abum has good "production"? | If you can't hear the vocals well or the symbols are too loud or the bass is too weak or fade outs aren't smooth or the volumes between songs aren't consistent, etc., that is poor production. An album with good production doesn't have those sorts of problems. |
How does water come out in diarrhea? | To add on, the people saying that diarrhea is used as a defense mechanism are not entirely correct. It MAY be used as a defense mechanism, but we aren't fully sure about that yet. The main reason for diarrhea is this: bacteria or viruses cause ion transporters to be upregulated in the intestinal wall, leading to things... |
Why do Presidential candidates "suspend" their campaign? Does this mean they could suddenly return at some future point? | What if one of the other candidates suddenly had to drop out of the race for whatever reason? It ain't over til it's over. |
Why is Comcast's acquisition of Time Warner not a violation of anti-trust laws? | The reason is that nobody enforces anti-trust laws any more. There's too much money from lobbyists into the pockets of our legislators and regulators for this to be stopped. |
How can Donald Trump go bankrupt multiple times but still remain a millionaire? | Didn't Donald trump say if you owe the bank a million dollars they own you but if you owe the bank a billion dollars you own them?", 'Figure I'll mention this here. Donald Trump is not a remarkable businessman. Donald Trump inherited a substantial fortune from his father **in 1971 when Donald inherited his father's com... |
Why does being "over qualified" discourage people from hiring you? | They don't want to spend the time to train you when the chances of you leaving soon are so high. Hiring someone involves a small investment; if you're out as soon as possible, it's like they're losing their investment with little to no return. Of course, not everyone who IS overqualified is going to be out asap, but th... |
What happens when I get goosebumps from a song, scene in a movie, real life event...? | Goosebumps are caused by the muscles that make your hair stand on end, which evolved in mammals to make them appear larger when they feel threatened. Those muscles involuntarily contract when you're emotionally stressed, giving you goosebumps. |
How come so many Windows installs / file copies, etc get to 95-99 percent complete in 2 minutes... Then take another forever minutes to finish? | The progress bar is not accurate.Because difference of hardware and software to be installed it's very hard to calculate exactly how long it will take. So the progress bar is is made of steps, step 1 copy files counts for 10% extracting files also 10% etc. The last few percentage in these cases are usually updates whic... |
Why are humans so much less hardy than other animals? | It's not humans that are weak, it's humans that live in modern societies based on division of labor and affordable commodities. If you look at cats living in our cities they also are weaker than their relatives living in the wild, and many wouldn't even be able to survive if not by eating bugs and lizards. There are hu... |
Is there always a star or a "glowing Orb" in the middle of a planetary system? If yes, why is it so? | Also the only way we can detect exoplanets is by looking at their stars so even if it was possible we wouldn't know about any.By definition a system has a star in the center. If you ignore that specific wording, there are planets that for one reason or another lose orbit of their home system and can drift through space... |
Why do women stay with the men who beat them? | Tons of reasons. * they're afraid of his retaliation if they try to leave * they have children and don't want to put them through a divorce * they think they deserve it * they think domestic violence is acceptable * they think it might stop at some point * they still have a strong emotional attachment despite the abuse... |
In the U.S., how can a state allocate a higher percentage of its budget towards education, and then rank so poorly in educational funding? | As others have stated, it's down to how the money is used. A very common problem I've seen in Missouri is teachers go to school to learn how to teach, but usually don't know the subject they are teaching. Situations I've seen personally: * A person trained in physical education trying to teach chemistry* teacher traine... |
why does whiskey get greater with age? And does it get better indefinitely? | After six or seven years the whiskey has pulled as much flavor from the barrel as it's going to get. Greater ages cost more to produce, and so consequently cost more to buy, but are not unequivocally better. They are however mixed to a different recipe depending on the age and bottle, so you may prefer a 12, 15, 18, or... |
Why did it take so long for the concept of zero to be discorved in some parts of the world? | zero != nothing The concept of nothing is pretty universal. You have one apple, you eat it, now you have no apples. That is nothing new. The real concept of zero is using it in a place-based numerical system. Early systems, like Roman numerals, were additive, a bunch of symbols that got added together to get a value. I... |
Why does releasing an empty bow shatter it? | > Why doesn't the energy just turn into sound and vibrations of the bow string? When you strike an object with a hammer, some of the hammer's energy will turn into sound and harmless vibrations. But a lot of the energy will actually deform or shatter the object, if you hit hard enough. Same with the bow. The various pa... |
What is the usefulness of 3D printers? | There was research done that suggests 3D printing can save consumers thousands annually. There are really small and cheap things you can make, like stands, handles, and small tools. Dollars to buy, cents to print. There are even more elaborate print objects, like I've read about a shower head can be printed for ~$2.50 ... |
How are IQ tests biased against black people? | I'm not sure if this is a joke or not.But let's get one thing straight.Just because the majority of a country who takes an IQ test happens to be black, doesn't mean that their scores are low because they're black. The scores are low in that country because the education system and probably healthcare system are shit. F... |
I'm a pretty sounds sleeper. But 90% of the time I do wake up in the middle of the night, it's within 3 minutes of 3:30am. Why? | Whenever you sleep you have a cycle of going from a light sleep into a deeper sleep and it goes back and forth. During the light sleep periods you are very close to waking up, and some people do wake up for a minute and go right back to sleep with an uninterrupted sleep cycle. If you go to bed around the same time then... |
Why are perfume ads all uniformly bizarre? | Because you can't smell things on TV, and because most people don't understand the nuances of odors well of do describe perfume with any precision. TV gives us sights and sound. It can convey other sense if we are familiar with them, the feel of a fresh towel or the smell of sizzling bacon. But perfumes, almost by defi... |
how do people afford to survive once they're unemployed? | I'm currently unemployed and i can just say living of the parents. I'm not happy about it but that and the small amount I get from benefits are basically how I survive. |
Why is it worse to drink alcohol while on certain medications? | Not a doctor, but I'll give it a shot. Picture your liver like an airport, it can only land a certain amount of planes at any one time . No matter if there are 10 planes ready to land, the airport will still take them 1 at a time. Now, in the meantime the planes have to circle around until your liver is ready for them.... |
Why does cold air make us sick? | It doesn't. Some viruses are more prevalent in winter, and *prolonged* stress from being constantly cold longterm could possibly suppress your immune system a bit - but going out in the cold for a while presents no disease risk whatsoever. |
Why have recent season of shows taken breaks as long as half a year?(Breaking Bad, Doctor Who, Revolution?) | I'm pretty sure BrBa did it just so we'd be stuck for months with the image of Hank taking a poop. |
Why is there such a wide gap in the intelligence of homo sapiens and every other organism? | Animals such as chimpanzees are almost as intelligent as us. Their IQ is equivalent to an averaged 3~6 years old child. But the utility of IQ grows exponentially. With a little more intelligence, we start to learn to preserve knowledge and educate, and then we become ever more intelligent. Other animals are close, but ... |
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