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Most people I know have a dominant hand they do everything with, but I don't. I write with my right hand, and do everything else with my left. Why is that? | Same here. I write with my left but everything else with my right hand. Guitar, cutlery, tommy tankin'. No idea where it started from, just always happened. |
Why do I feel like my long term memory gets better, I'm more driven, think more clearly and I'm more peaceful after 4 in the morning, with no sleep? | I can't answer this but I might be able to help you refine the question. What it seems like to me is there is an optimal level for everyone's brain to work at for creativity, productivity and just general clarity of thought. Certain things affect this like sleep, chemicals in the body, drugs. I think the question is ho... |
Why was the SI shoot not considered nudity? [NSFW] | How is it nudity? she's clearly wearing a bathing suit.Who says it was *not* considered nudity? Looks like nudity to me. |
Whats going on between Tumblr and 4Chan? | It's the perfect match really. Tumblr loves being offended, /b/tards love to offend. They could feed each other forever._URL_0_ Good stuff for those who wanna know and see pics from /b/ and /pol/Reading through the comments/explanations here and this is just ridiculously corny . |
How will new gun laws prevent mass shootings? | I don't think they would. In the UK, WW2-era weapons regularly show up in criminal investigations. This is nearly 70 years after the war ended, and longer than that since people were widely allowed to own firearms without many questions asked. The US is saturated with firearms. It might take a couple of centuries for a... |
The true difference between horsepower and torque, and towing capacity and such? | Torque and horsepower are both measures of power, but mean different things. Torque is *momentum,* which is power at a given *moment* in time. Horsepower is *work,* which is a measure of how much total momentum is built up over a period of time . If you don't have enough power/momentum/torque to even begin pulling a tr... |
Why is it not possible for the world to have just one currency? | Who's going to control it? You'd effectively be nominating a world leader here so be careful. |
Are there any POSITIVE effects of global warming? | There might be, in certain areas. Shifting ocean currents and weather patterns could make some places more hospitable, although since people generally don't live in inhospitable places the comparative human effect would be less. Global warming is generally bad because it makes climate and weather less predictable, and ... |
How can I get around the internet filter in Saudi Arabia? | _URL_1_ Just install that and you're good to go. Please don't watch videos or torrent on it, you will slow the system down for everyone using it. |
Why are Cowboys called Cowboys and not Horsemen? | To add to what is already mentioned here, there's already a meaning to horsemen - it refers to military cavalry. Cowboys don't fit that definition. |
Why does squeezing my head tightly relieve headaches? | I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this but applying pressure activates inhibitory neurons. Like when you bump your elbow and then rub it to make it feel better. _URL_2_", 'Slightly related: Tinnitus sufferers can sometimes get rid of the sound using this method; _URL_3_Holy shit you beat me to this. I was gonna ask th... |
How does a clicky top pen prevent the point from drying up? Isn't it still exposed to just as much air? | You figured it out. It's to keep them from marking things when you are not using them. |
Speaking for America, why do we eat meats like chicken or pig but seem so appalled by the thought of eating meat from other sorts of animals? | Get your ass away from the coasts and into the rural Midwest we don't eat dogs, cats, or horses --- anything else is fair for kill it & grill it.Same reason why people living in other countries, such as India, are appalled and disgusted at the thought of eating beef. Cultural differences. |
How do terrestrial ant colonies survive torrential downpours without flooding in and drowning them? | Check out these guys here, they are casting abandoned colonies with aluminium: _URL_1_ You can see where the tunnels go upwards again, water wouldn't necessarily be there, so they could hang out in an airbubble there. I suggest watching 2 - 3 videos from that channel, different types of ant dig completely different nes... |
Why do we feel extreme chronic pain? Wouldn't a little pain feel good but it seems like a chronic pain would lower our survival skills | Natural selection is all about tradeoffs. Pain is largely a pretty good system for avoiding tissue damage, and therefore staying fit enough to reproduce. Animals without a strong pain response were at a disadvantage. Sure, those with a stronger pain response took on some increased risk of pain that wouldn't go away, an... |
Why are shaving razor refills so goddamn expensive? | There's plenty of good answers, but in short, yes it is a razor company conspiracy. You can fight the system by switching to shaving with an old school safety razor. Check out /r/wicked_edge if you're interested! |
Why do those who lack empathy murder? | I know people who lack empathy without killing other people - it's not so simple a question as that. |
How did society withstand the sun prior to sunscreen? | It's pretty recent since we've been informed of the dangers of UV light. My 52 year old dad never wore sunscreen as a child, and because of that, he's had skin cancer and bi-annual trips to the dermatologist. I can only imagine that skin cancer was one of the many factors that contributed to the lower life expectancy b... |
Why do we still dock dog tails? | For a lot of pedigree breeds, docking is traditional. Its not impossible to enter an undocked dog into competition, but its unlikely to be as successful, so a lot of pedigree breeders do it when they're puppies", 'For some hunting breeds that are still used for hunting ie Brittany's, short hair pointers, etc. When the ... |
When we laugh really hard, why do we feel the urge to clap our hands/slap our legs/hit something? | I used to think this was something instinctive, like how blind people smile when they're happy, even though they've never seen someone smile. In college, I developed a keen interest in psychology and sociology, and started looking into stuff like this, just to better understand the human mind. We learn a lot of 'social... |
Black is possibly the last colour you want to be wearing on a sunny day, so why is the burqa often this colour in such hot climates? | I live in UAE, near the Oman border. I have Arab friends and have asked them about this. Black abayas are not a universal among Arabs- in Oman the women wear bright colors. It seems to be something that migrated over from Saudi. Why? It's a variation on why women grow long fingernails. It used to be that a woman with l... |
What does meta even mean? | Meta denotes something or a situation that references a near-identical type of object or situation, like information about another type of information , research or analysis of other research , a play about putting on a play , etc. It typically denotes a cyclic reference as a prefix, indicating that the root is repeate... |
Why men get sleepy after orgasm? | Honestly I don't get sleepy after an orgasm. Usually after sex I feel energized. Largely because sex is an activity and exercise which gets my blood pumping. But also the tremendous calming relief that I feel after an orgasm liberates me to pursue other activities by letting me focus on them and fully enjoy them. My be... |
EIL5: How can Netflix's servers handle streaming Arrested Development today, but EA's servers couldn't handle SimCity? | Because this isn't Netflix's first rodeo. They have been streaming stuff for years, and streaming a new show isn't any different from what they are already doing. And while it is a big deal, I doubt AD represents a particularly big spike Netflix users watch stuff when they want, not when it gets released. EA, on the ot... |
Why does an ad load instantly, while my video takes over 3 weeks? | Personal thoughts here but I think it's because of your location. It probably needs more time to connect to youtube main server and since your ad is based on your location, it loads faster because ad is loading from your location. |
Why is fighting more acceptable in hockey than in other sports? | I've never tried to reply to a ELI5 but now I can finally relate. So, imagine you arrive at the city park. You and your best friends wind up playing a game vs another group of best friends from the next town over. Your friend Mike is the best at the game, dominating everyone. John, the big kid on the other team, doesn'... |
Would movements of "Titans" or other huge creatures really appear slow to us, like in all those video games/movies? | Also, regarding any walking giant, their gait would need to be slow if their feet were to remain on the ground. Walking is effectively a controlled fall - gravity acceleration would be the same regardless if size, so a larger walker would take longer for the foot to reach the ground again after lifting it to take a ste... |
why do americans adopt from africa/china/russia and not locally? | Well, we're not allowed to adopt Russians anymore. American orphans are generally in pretty high demand for families, so there's a long waiting list. Also, they're expensive due to such demand. Children from Africa or China - its easier. Less regulations, the countries *really dont want* or *need* them, there's a LOT o... |
Why can't we get to absolute 0? | interestingly enough, because of how we define temperature, we *have* created 'negative kelvin' in the lab", 'Because it would require all movement on an atomic / particle level to stop. This would essentially amount to the destruction of energy, which is impossible. Energy can only be transformed. |
Did survivors of the black death gain resistance or immunity to it? And if they did, did they pass any down to their children? | It depends on what disease it was. If it was Yersinia pestis, which is the dominant theory, the survivors did probably get at least some immunity to it. There is a vaccine against Yersinia pestis. I don't know how much data there is on how effective it is or how long it lasts. Plague isn't a very common disease anywher... |
Why does the quality of audio files suffer the louder you make it? | Because the noise also is increased, and its sound can often be noticed more because of the brain's desire to seek patterns in all incoming audio/visual stimulation. So when we hear noise our brain tries to focus on it to make sense of it, and it has significantly greater impact on our attention than the sounds we can ... |
How can people with metal braces, screws, plates in their body go into MRI machines? | I have a titanium knee and femur and they still do MRIs on that leg. It's not magnetic, though the metal scrambles up the scan so the image is really fuzzy.I had two MRIs when I had braces. I was worried about this too. Nothing happened. The most I could say is that I felt slight vibrations when I had my neck MRI, and ... |
how a product can have a money back satisfaction guarantee. | I don't recall the product, but I spent about $25 on some product and I was really let down. To claim a refund I needed: -Original store receipt -Bank statement with my name on it showing purchase -A written letter describing complaint, *notorized* -Sent via certified mail. Yeah, no. My afternoon is more valuable than ... |
Why do animals kill those of their own species if their one goal is to breed and prevent the species from extinction? | An individual's goal is not to prevent the species from extinction. Often an adult male will kill offspring unrelated to it, in order to get access to the female and allow it to reproduce its own offspring. As a result, the 'killer' is more fit and the parent of the killed offspring has lost fitness, fitness being refl... |
Why is weather so unpredictable? | The Earth has a very finely balanced climate. The temperatures change with the seasons, but in quite narrow ranges. Even though the Earth spins, the surface is super smooth, much smoother than a billiard ball. The net result is very sensitive. The fronts and pressure waves that move the weather represent very small rip... |
Why does going cold turkey from alcohol kill you compared to other substances? | Hopefully a medical professional chimed in with the WHY. My wife was asking me about this 2 days ago, and I didn't know, so this question is timed right for us. I understand alcohol and benzos can cause seizures, but WHY? Why do these two kill you if you have a serious dependency and then quit cold turkey? |
Why do "No shirt, No shoes, No service" signs not include pants? | It is lawful to be in public without a shirt or shoes. It is not lawful to be without pants. The signs don't need to address something that is already illegal. The signs just cover things which are legal in general but not allowed on the premises. |
Why are the sides on a ship called Aft, Port, Bow, and Starboard, instead of Front, Left, Right, and Back? | Other answers aren't wrong, but as a pirate I'd like to provide another perspective. English is a mash-up of several different languages and cultures. The culture of seafaring evolved rather separate from other English-speaking groups. As with medicine or software, extensive technical jargon developed and became common... |
Why do people play "games" in their heads? | It's a combination of boredom and ritual. It's also a bit obsessive compulsive in some cases, like when you start doing it habitually and aren't thinking about initiating the game, that's *a bit* obsessive compulsive, but *not* OCD. |
Why hotdogs are not a normal item at fastfood places? | Burger King used to have a hot dog years ago but it probably wasn't popular enough so they got rid of it, tacos too. |
What does conditioner (for your hair) actually do? And how does it do it? | Hey buddy,I work for a specialty chemical company that sells formulations to a lot of different Home and Personal Care product manufactures. Essentially what a conditioner is doing is adding some kind of polymer to your hair, which gives it a better ability to retain moisture. One conditioner may use a bunch of other i... |
If millions of Native Americans died from European diseases that they had never been exposed to, why didn't American diseases spread equally terribly to Europe? | To be fair, the New World did give the Old World tobacco. which isn't really a disease per se, but is certainly a facilitator of ~~one~~ many. |
Why/how do some people hold the belief that only white people can be racist? | Only whites can be racist and only men can be sexist is just some tumblrtard mumbojumbo. I've never met a person in real-life that doesn't notice sexism or racism for what it is, rather than attaching a bunch of conditionals and double-standards to decide whether or not racism is *actually* racism |
Why, historically, do socialist countries often experience economic collapse? | There are several reasons. I personally am a fan of hybridization between capitalism and socialism because while they both have some decent advantages, their purest forms have massive weaknesses. To start, all economies are environments, they change, and those participating in the economies must adapt. Natural selectio... |
What are the major arguments for and against installing a flat tax system in lieu of the United States' current tiered income tax scheme? | Lets say there are two people and the flat tax is 10% Person 1 makes $10,000 and person 2 makes $100,000. After taxes P1 now only has $9,000 while P2 still has $90,000. While in theory it seems more fair to have a flat tax but you've hurt the purchasing power of P1 a lot more then then P2. The difference between what $... |
When people talk about NSA Spying, who is actually looking through your personal data and why are they tracking you? How does anyone have time to search through every persons private life? | Most of the time, nobody. The data is collected, and algorithms hunt through it, looking for items of interest. Those are flagged for further study and , a human analyst will actually look at it. Alternatively, an analyst might decide he needs to look at what Joe Blork has been up to, so he can summon up all the calls ... |
When the large Baby Boomer generation begins to die and their homes flood the market, will real estate prices drop dramatically? | there won't be a sudden dying off of mass numbers of baby boomers, and actually i think you'll find that many will sell their homes prior to dying, either to downgrade or to move into elderly communities. I am of the opinion that their homes will depreciate significantly, largely because of the state of the millenial g... |
If I shoot a basketball, and miss, 1000 times in a row, would I get better because of repetition or would i just develop bad muscle memory? | Regardless of what everyone else is saying, you would get better. As you observe the ball, your brain will pick up on the physics of it even if you miss. As long as you are trying and paying attention, you're going to walk away with a better understanding of how the ball interacts with the world and thus a better under... |
What benefit does a game being a console exclusive have? Wouldn't reaching a wider audience on all platforms make more money? | console exclusive means you only have to make the game run on 1 device, so your testing is vastly easier. you don't have to test the game runs the same on multiple different hardware configurations. making money is a secondary consideration after making sure the product works. If you target everything available, you ha... |
How did the United States get to be so wealthy? | The entire rest of this thread has no idea what they are talking about. The reason why the United States is so wealthy is because it has so much natural wealth. The biggest part of this natural wealth is the Mississippi River Basin. It's a river network that cuts through vast swathes of farmland, and is wide and deep a... |
How do Sheep get overgrown, to the point where health issues arise? | They didn't evolve that way naturally, they were specifically bred to produce as much wool as possible. Wild sheep don't produce so much wool. |
When I get that random, stabbing / shooting pain in in my chest that doesn't let me take a deep breath... what's actually happening? (And is it normal?) | Have had these on and off since early teens and still do although less frequently. Stabbing sensation, no longer than thirty seconds, happens randomly during non-strenuous and sometimes strenuous activities regardless of how healthy I am. Tons of people get it, and it's perfectly normal. Your doctor will probably say t... |
How did people figure out how to domesticate yeast thousands of years before germ theory? | This is pure speculation, but in the case of yeast, beer might be the answer. There are records of brewing as far back as Mesopotamia, leavened bread, I think, only came later. See, in brewing, you're left with a layer of gunk on top of the fermented beer that is mostly yeast. Early fermentation was a matter of luck, j... |
If antibacterials kill 99.9% of germs, why haven't our bodied become almost totally populated by offspring of the .01%? | It's really late, but the short answer is that you can never get rid of what your 'normal flora' . It helps keep other organisms in check . Also, your skin serves as a huge part of your immune system and if they can't get in, they won't have the water, nutrients and moisture to survive for long periods of time. |
Why does skin still burn when contacted with heat AFTER it's been damaged by heat? | Some great answers, I'd just like to add. Cold water that's of course not near freezing like tap water, helps to dull the nerves around the damaged area and make it less painful, it also helps slow down the agitation of the cells caused by the heat, if you don't cool down the burn fast and for a 20 minutes or so, the c... |
What causes drunk munchies? | Alcohol is actually really 'energy dense', about as dense as fats . When your liver processes alcohol, it doesn't 'turn' this energy into ATP but instead, the energy is 'released' as NADH . Now normally NADH is produced alongside ATP and this process is regulated, but production of NADH due to alcohol detoxification is... |
why I get the feeling of "I am so hungry I could vomit" | There have been other threads related to this. It's most often from the drop in blood sugar resulting from not eating. Blood sugar levels frequently throw off a lot of bodily rhythms and can cause a whole host of issues. Once you get it under control, the nausea will go away. I struggled with this for a while. _URL_0_ |
When lightning hits the ocean or a lake, why isn't everyone in it shocked? | I live in a State with many lakes, grew up on a lake and I don't believe I've ever seen lighting strike a lake. A tree on shore, or a boat on the water. Doesn't mean it doesn't happen but the lightning I'm familiar with occurs from cloud to cloud, within a cloud and a ground strike. If you find out something, I'd be in... |
Why do some states, like Massachusetts, prohibit the sale of alcohol on certain holidays? | Mainly since they haven't been modernized. Though more and more states and local communities and counties, seem to be increasingly moving to get rid of them. They still exist in some ways, though . |
Why does the stock market respond to falling oil prices with sell-offs? Shouldn't every sector that uses energy to make and ship their products see increased profits? | It's market reaction, to give you the absolute simplest explanation. The movement is not so much based on what happens, but what people *thought* would happen, and their reaction to the reality. Oil plummets, people panic, all hell breaks loose.Lower prices suggest less is being used. If less oil is being used, that su... |
How are so many pirating sites for streaming/downloading TV shows and movies not being taken down when they are so accessible and easy to find? | The internet is world wide. The location of the server is when the law applies. A server in Iceland or Sweden or any other country is not subject to other countries laws. Just because the US says that a file is illegal, doesn't mean it is not allowed on the internet. That is why many hosting servers are not in the US. ... |
Why doesn't society like loners? | This is because the people that talk in public are extroverts. An introvert isn't as likely to take a public stance on any of this, so we have less of a defense. |
How is it legal for states like Tennessee and Texas to ban atheists from holding public office? | Others have noted that it is unconstitutional, but requires a court challenge from someone with standing to strike down the law. I want to add that the disturbing thing about this is that a challenge like this nowadays also requires a huge amount of money and time, so it's effectively impossible for anyone other than t... |
Why does it, when having a headache, hurt while shaking your head. | Long story short inflammation in an enclosed area that doesn't allow for expanding means any extra jiggling will just further activate nerves. |
If the moon's gravity is strong enough to shift the tides, while is it imperceptible to us. | The tides are a result of the gravitational difference, not the absolute gravitational strength. The gravitational difference between our body parts is so minimal that we don't feel any tidal force. If you would dive head first towards a black hole, you might feel a tidal force, because the gravitational pull is much s... |
Why is it I feel more comfortable walking around while im on phone? am I alone in this? | I do the same thing and have always wondered why. I always guessed that it was because it's a habit to move away from other people while talking on the phone as to not be rude. |
what is the difference between objectivity and subjectivity? | They are antonyms. Subjective information that is - by definition - based on personal opinion and feelings. Objective information is information that is not based on personal feelings. 1. Objective - the sky is blue2. Subjective - the sky is beautiful It is NOT about factuality or accuracy. Objective information can be... |
Why are newer PC games so bad at alt-tabbing? | This has always been and issue and it mainly has to do with teh way the graphics api's handle going full screen. Both direct x and open GL can make optimizations while in fullscreen mode that improve performance. Alt tabbing abruptly interrupts the program and the gpu has to start drawing everything else again which ta... |
How can the DEA schedule CBD as a schedule I drug? Can they not be sued over this misrepresentation? There is science out there showing medical benefits. What's going on? | The pharmaceutical industry will not allow you to treat your illnesses with a plant they don't have to process for you. They must make a profit from you. |
Why do franchises like Call of Duty continue to do so well despite adding so little new content? | Because we keep buying it. Why should they take a risk with the series when everyone's still willing to dole out the dollars for the same formula each time? EDIT: Grammar |
Why is soy milk white, but soy sauce black? | Soy milk is from the Breast of the noble soy bean. Soy sauce let's you have creepy premonitions about future events. |
How kids can grow up bilingual an not confuse languages | LPT: if you are going to teach your child two languages, only one language can come out of one adult. For example. I'm white, wife is Mexican. When we have a kid, she is only going to speak Spanish around the kid, with me only speaking English. But I will ask my wife questions in English and she will reply in Spanish",... |
Why was Unidan banned? | The reddit rules are very strict about 'vote brigading,' that is, if you click a link from a subreddit like /r/SubredditDrama, /r/ShitRedditSays, or any other 'meta' subreddit and then vote, you'll likely get banned. The admins see this as 'brigade-voting.' Essentially, they believe that if you don't come upon a post o... |
why is there a lot of hate for Dr. Phil? | The show exaggerates on many situations and feels like the news media, in which it's only in it for the views. Not reality. |
Why do animated people tend to have 3 fingers + thumb? | It's to avoid the [uncanny valley.] When we see a 5-fingered hand we associate it with a real hand, but it's an animated cartoon so it doesn't look *quite* real. The result is it borders on the line between fake and realistic which causes a visceral, almost scary reaction from viewers. 4-finger hands look more cartooni... |
Why do some European countries still have monarchs and do they have any governing power? | Belgian here, First of : Yes, its traditional. Do they have power? Yes and no. * Political power : He 'forms' the government and he 'fires' the government. However, as far as I know he has always gone with what the ministers proposed . I'm sure you heard about the recent inability of our government to actually make pea... |
Why aren't the obvious inhumanities in North Korea receiving as much attention as the holocaust currently does? | The two things aren't comparable. The Holocaust was a deliberate attempt at the industrial extermination of certain ethnic groups. Whilst a lot of what goes on in North Korea is utterly abhorrent, it is not on the scale, nor is it based on the same ideology, as the Holocaust. Why doesn't it get as much attention? Well,... |
Why is cooking on a gas stove so much better than electric? | Some places don't have a gas infrastructure, so everything is electric. Induction is the best of both worlds - instant heat like gas, cost effective if you don't have the infrastructure, and safe . |
Here in the UK why don't we have fire hydrants? | The numbers on the sign: The top number is the size of the water main.The bottom number is how far away it is. Older signs used inches and feet, newer signs use millimetres and metres. It's pretty easy to tell the difference, because you're unlikely to find a 3mm water main ;)", '[We do, the black H on the yellow sign ... |
if any of 7 newly discovered planets turn out to be habitable by humans, how would it impact the future of earth based on the fact that it's 40 light years away? | Well yes, 40 ly is quite far. So the near future probably won't change that much. But we would probably focus on trying to build better ways to travel there instead of focusing on finding more habitable planets.Gives us something to aim for. The proverbial carrot.At least one with of those planets has to be a paradise.... |
why does tensing your legs help you reach orgasm? | I have a feeling this has been answered already But, from my perspective as a urologist The muscles involved most directly during an orgasm have closely linked nerve roots/nerves to those innervating the muscles of the upper leg. Specifically, these will be the adductors of the leg . As an example, in men the obturator... |
Why are people still being born with wisdom teeth if they don't fit in most modern mouths? | Like others said . They won't cause you to die and or be sterile, so the genes will keep getting passed on or it's a communist plot", 'People are starting to not have them.i know a guy with 2 and my dentist told me some people have none. |
Why does breaking the sound barrier create a sonic boom? | Sound moves at a specific speed through air. When you break the sound barrier, the sound stacks up because they are all going the same speed. Imagine you have a gun that fires bullets that go the speed of sound. You can shoot a bullet every second, so when you're shooting at a target, one bullet hits it every second. N... |
Why do some Christians say the only credible translation of the bible is the New King James? | People get wrapped up in the legalism of the word than the spirit of the word. I have never met a person under 60 who was fixated on the KJV who didn't have other issues. At the end of the day its a personality issue more than a religious issue, its a certain personality type. |
How our brain produces "pictures" such as when we are dreaming or remembering a past event | it's brown". Your brain assembles all these statements into "I'm looking at a tree in Autumn". When you sleep and dream, your brain is rewiring and moving data around. You "experience" a dream but it's just random input from things in your life. |
Norway gave $1bn to Brasil for essentially nothing. How is this any different if Brasil suddenly decided to print $1bn of money? | Let's say there are a certain amount of reais in the world.Think about the number of reais brazil has compared to the amount in the the world as a fraction. If brazil printed more, both numbers would increase. Which causes inflation since the amount brazil has and the amount there are in the world would both increase. ... |
Who would be responsible for an accident caused by an autonomous car? | That very question is why self-driving cars aren't anywhere NEAR as close to being on the roads as Google would have you believe. It's likely to slog out in the courts for many years. And wait, let's double down on that: a self-driving car sees a sudden hazard, somebody running out in the street or something. Not enoug... |
Why is it that most people / doctors will tell you to "drink plenty of fluids" when you are ill? | Remember when we had sand in the bathtub? Remember how we had to get a pitcher of water and pour it in the bathtub? And then the water chased the sand down the bathtub. But then we had to get more water, because the sand wasn't all out. Then finally all the sand went down the drain! The sand is like the germs in your b... |
Why is the US concentrated on eliminating ISIS when there's drug cartels right in their back yard (Mexico) that kill more Americans annually than ISIS? | As far as human rights violations go, the Cartels score at maybe 3 or 4 Hitlers out of 10, if it's ever definitively proven that they executed that busload of school kids and it wasn't just the police themself, they might gain another Hitler. ISIS on the other hand is raping children, publically executing children, car... |
How/why do windows and doors not cave in under the pressure/weight of the water from a flood? | The pressure isn't that excessive at 30cm deep. Also in the UK, by law any exterior glass within a certain distance of a handle to an entrance to a building has to be made of toughened glass to prevent break-ins so that window will probably stay put even if the water were level with the roof of the establishment. |
What real value does a stock market provide? And what value does high speed trading provide to that market? | Short answer: for the common investor, it adds no value and in fact reduces the value of investing. For large institutions and the people doing the high speed trading, they get an unfair advantage and make money by arbitrage by buying and immediately selling fractions of seconds. The dollar difference may be on fractio... |
Why do some foods taste better hot, and other foods taste better cold? | To be fair I don't have a concrete answer, but I would guess it's because a good portion of how things taste is related to smell. When foods are warm more compounds are probably floating around in the air and that translates to emphasis on different parts of the food's taste. |
Why can't we start re-pumping the heart once it is stopped? | You can. CPR keeps the heart beating after it stops. Also, that's what defibrillators do. It shocks the heart back into beating. However, after just a few minutes of no heart beat, a person undergoes brain damage because no oxygen is getting to the brain. If you start CPR almost immediately on a person whose heart as s... |
Why are white hairs a different texture and frizzier than normal hairs? | Diminishing Melanin molecules are replaced in the cuticle layers by much larger oxygen molecules. Not everyone who grays has crappy texture. Naturally curly and/or medium to coarse hair is most likely to go whacky on you. Keeping your oil moisture level as well as your water moisture is key. Think of a new, wood plank ... |
If a baby was born deaf. How and/or what language will the baby develop in the mind that is responsible for thinking and processing information? | Some of my friends work at a boarding school for Deaf kids in another country. A lot of the kids that come to this school are from *very* poor families, and sometimes don't have any exposure to language before arriving at the school for kindergarten, nor good access to hearing aids/cochlear implants before coming to th... |
Why do we have to have our wisdom teeth taken out? | You don't. In fact having them removed is quite risky, which is why they should only be removed if you've had severe problems. The risks of removal include damage to adjacent teeth and permanent nerve damage. |
How come the radiation from Chernobyl has made the region uninhabitable for thousand of years to come but people are living in Hiroshima and Nagasaki? | The bomb dropped on Hiroshima contained 140 pounds of uranium, the one over Nagasaki about 14 pounds of plutonium. Chernobyl's reactor 4 held about 180 *tons* of nuclear fuel. Hiroshima had about 2 pounds of fuel scattered around the land , Nagasaki had about 12 pounds. The area around Chernobyl had 7 - 10 tons of fuel... |
How do streamable and other video sharing sites avoid being flagged for copyright. | Safe harbor laws. Basically if you run a site where users upload content, you're not liable for whatever your users post, so long as you take it down if you get a DMCA copyright infringement notice.Can someone explain to me why this is on the frontpage with 26p and two comments?Edit: well, three comments.The techniques... |
Why aren't members of NAMBLA arrested? | You can also legally be a member of a neo-Nazi organization, which advocates a lot of things which, if actually acted upon, would be cause for arrest and conviction. So far at any rate, you can't be prosecuted for what you think — only for what you do.There is a great book on this topic called "The Last Undercover" by ... |
How do sleepwalkers know where they are going or what they are doing when their eyes are closed? | I sleptwalked from 5 to about 20yrs old. Sleepwalking was very much like being on drugs. I would be very aware of my surroundings,, but they may not appear to me to be what they really are. For instance, if I was talking to you, I may think I was talking to someone else. It is like being in a dream that overlies realit... |
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