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Why is it that when I get little sleep I feel nauseous? | I had this problem as well, and what I found was that, the reason why you feel nausea is because you are essentially dehydrated. Your body produces saliva in cycles and while you sleep it produces almost no saliva at all. If you wake up during one of these cycles your body won't be able to immediately get up and get go... |
How did humanity survive in nature for over 100,000 years in nature with such helpless, useless babies that work as beacons for predators with the amount of noise they make? | If you read some of the tribal stories written by first people you may read in a few of them a strategy that moms used to protect themselves and their babies from harm. They would partially smoother their child every time they cried. Soon the child learned to not do that at a very young age, read a few days to a week o... |
Why doesn't "Tornado Alley" build more resistant buildings? | People that get hit worst by tornados generally don't have a lot of money. The places that get the worst damage are places that already couldn't afford the strongest houses. I heard once that trailer parks are cooler than other neighbourhoods, and tornados hit the cooler areas outside a city worse than the city itself.... |
Styrofoam is a petroleum product. Cups are made of styrofoam. How does putting piping hot liquids (such as coffee) in to a petroleum product remain safe for human use? | Unless you heat a fluoropolymer to over 300C it is pretty safe. Like, chew it up and eat cereal bowl full of it and all you have to worry about is it being abrasive to your insides. Won't cause cancer or anything.Above that point, though Poly flu is nasty stuff. Source: I read the Material Safety Data SheetsSeriously, ... |
How did game devs create games in the 70s/80s? | Highly recommend watching [David Crane's postmortem on creating Pitfall for the Atari 2600] . EDIT: super cool part, using a polynomial counter to create all 256 screens of the game in just 50 bytes of code", 'Originally, games were hard coded onto chips using digital logic. This could only produce simple games like Po... |
Why do the pixels get distorted when you take a picture of a computer screen? | They're pretty small, so they form a [moiré pattern]. The grid of pixels in your camera doesn't line up with the computer pixels.On top of what others have mentioned about moire patterns monitors can look messed up because of refresh rate. Your monitor is actually flashing light over and over really fast, "refreshing" ... |
With separation of church and state, why do we have to swear on a bible in a court of law? How is it even allowed? | I have twice been in situations where I had to legally declare that I was telling the truth to a lawyer. Once in the States, and once here in England. Both times I was asked if I wanted to swear on a bible, but I declined. My question is, if it's not a requirement and doesn't actually make a difference to your declarat... |
Why have classrooms switched from having black chalkboards to having white marker-boards? | Because dry erase boards look nicer, erase more cleanly, don't require dusty as fuck clapping of the erasers, don't get chalk all over your hands, and are magnetic, among many other advantages. |
Why is my ring finger so much weaker than the rest of my fingers? | You don't use it enough. Same thing will happen if you do curls with one arm more than the other. Start playing a stringed instrument or do some simple exercises everyday and you will train it away. |
How does one recognize when conspiracies ACTUALLY exist? | A conspiracy by itself is a group of individuals or organizations working together to do something harmful. Thats an every day thing. If you are talking about when a conspiracy theory becomes real, its when you have the evidence to substantiate the conspiracy. There are a few plots throughout history where something th... |
Is Coca Cola addictive? I try to quit drinking it,but i can't. How can I quit drinking soda? | Slowly cut yourself off from it. Find a reason to quit drinking, such as trying to drop a few lbs, which will happen if you're successful or health reasons. Switch to drinking water. It may suck at first, but after a while you'll start to crave it instead of the soda. Caffeine may have an influence in why you're having... |
Why, besides personal preference, are people anti meal replacements like Soylent? | The mechanical action of chewing is essential for proper digestion. Even if you consumed all the right nutrients your body wouldn't be able to digest it as well, and it would actually be really bad for you if you did it long term. |
What has changed in the past several years that we are now more of aware of the effects of gluten? | I think it is just the knowledge now that there is a medical problem. I'm 40 years old and I have Celiac. As far back as I can remember I used to always spend 4-5 hours per day on the toilet. I just thought that was normal and my family didn't think it was not normal. I never put 2 and 2 together to figure out that whe... |
Why don’t we harvest spider silk if it’s so strong? | Because it is super hard. You can't just farm spiders like you would farm for example bees. [Here is a picture of a piece of cloth made from spider silk] It is the largest spider silk cloth ever created and it took years to make, because any individual spider only produces so much silk. this literally took millions of ... |
Why are Guantánamo inmates who are cleared of all charges still not being released? | In the US, politics is more important than law or morality. Politicians don't want to take a bath for anyone wrongly imprisoned if those people are seen as bad. Especially Obama.Because anyone who can spend 9 months in a us detention camp and not emerge a militant terrorist is mentally unstable and needs to be detained... |
Why isnt the Royal Family still ruling the United Kingdom. | Technically they still do. Queen Elizabeth is still the head of state for the United Kingdom, and bills do not become law without her approval . The parliament serves at her whim, and she has the power to dissolve parliament and call new elections. These are her powers in theory. In application, the British monarchs do... |
How does eating more portions throughout the day make you lose weight more than just eating less, (ie. One meal)? | It doesn't. What makes you lose weight is a caloric deficit between what you consume and what you burn off daily. You can eat all your calories at night or break it down into smaller meals to feel full, but neither way matters to weight loss.If you eat 5 meals totaling 2000 calories in one day and then eat 1 meal equal... |
Why don't we eat carnivores | Quality of meat. Carnivores tend to have very sinewy dense meat that just isn't very good or easy to digest. You could and some places do eat it but it's not that we don't but that we have better more delicious options. |
why anyone has manual transmission cars when automatics are easier to use? | Because things that are easy to use aren't what makes life fun :) Some of us see driving as a skill we like to perfect, and we like doing difficult things to challenge ourselves. Otherwise, you could ask, why do people climb mountains when you can take a helicopter, or, why run the Boston Marathon when you could just t... |
Nowadays we need to use toothpaste but what was past's toothpaste? And why animals don't need it | A lot of people in the old days were just missing lots of teeth. When you watch TV shows and movies set in medieval times the fact that everyone has a full smile is as unrealistic as the fact that they're all clean and look like Hollywood models. As for animals, there are a few factors at play: * Wild animals eat less ... |
I'm currently watching Jurassic Park. How do we/they know that the T Rex's vision was based on movement? | They don't, that was made up for the film. That scene in the movie also ignores the T. Rex's sense of smell, which we can tell based on the size of the nasal cavity. |
Why is Russia carrying out air strikes in Syria? | _URL_5_ There is a pipeline planned that will run through Syria. If it runs West, then Europe will have a competing supply as now they get their gas from Russia : _URL_4_ Russia has an interest in the pipeline running East, the West has an interest in running it West, and they are fighting a proxy war and supporting th... |
So what are you supposed to do if someone drinks a flaming drink that then catches fire? | I always thought you were supposed to let the fire burn out before you take the shot. I don't know from experience because I'm too much of a pussy to try it. Saw that girl on reddit a while back who burned her chest and face all to shit trying a flaming shot. That's all it took to scare me away forever. No bueno.> So w... |
Why are mechanics often thought of as shady? What can be done to improve it? | Very often it's because a person will bring in a car with one noticeably broken item and five other damaged or severely worn parts they have no idea about. When you're hoping for a quick and cheap repair and are told you should be fixing several things for a lot more money it seems very shady. |
Since no one reads the terms and conditions, what's to stop the likes of Facebook including a piece in which you agree to give them your house? | For British people it is called an 'exclusatory term'. It's basically what makes contracts stay realistic because if there is something in the contract which is absurd or exceptional it has to be made known to the customer. By made I mean they literally have to directly tell you about i.e. ringing you up and saying it.... |
If IQ is standard deviation, why isn't there a ceiling that no IQ can surpass? | In theory, the right tail of the curve approaches the x-axis but doesn't touch it. In practice, there are so few people beyond a certain point on the IQ scale that it breaks down, and it's hard to say what's being tested at that point. I recall reading, though I'm not finding it at this moment, that scores beyond 180 o... |
What is a multicentre, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 1/2a clinical trial / test? | Multicentre = ??? randomized = randomized double-blind = Doctors/researchers don't know who is getting meds/placebos, and subjects don't know what they're being tested for. eg: offering subjects a fat reduction pill study, but *actually* testing for depression. placebo-controlled = some subjects are getting no medicati... |
Why did America lose all it's factory jobs and industry? | Globalization. American workers can't compete with somebody in a developing country who's willing to work for a small fraction of the pay and no benefits or safety protections. And in a few years those people in developing countries won't be able to compete with machines who work for no pay. |
Why do I get canker sores in my mouth when I'm stressed out? | Personally, my mouth gets tense when I'm stressed. I chew the inside of my cheek and my jaw gets tense. |
How does so much oil exist on Earth? | If you believe that all the O2 in the atmosphere was formed as a byproduct of some form of photosynthetic organism fixing carbon, which is the currently prevalent theory; then there needs to be enough fixed carbon , lurking somewhere, such that when burnt it would consume all the atmosphere's O2 . Even if you don't bel... |
If we 'get rid of' ISIS, won't they just reappear? | ISIS' primary goal is the recreation of the medieval caliphate. A central point of this is that the caliph must control territory; This is why ISIS didn't actually proclaim a caliph until after taking several major cities. This makes them different from many other terror groups, such as Al-queda, in that they must cont... |
Why does Netflix offer better content outside of the united states? | Because networks are reluctant to license out current, popular shows like Rick and Morty to competitors in domestic markets where they are popular. All that would do is poach their ratings. However, they might not have a solid foothold in other countries to get viewership and monetize their product, so they license out... |
why is Amtrak the only way to go cross country by rail, and why is it so expensive if it is a government owned company? | * Amtrak is only designed as primary transportation in the crowded east coast, out west is it more from pleasure travel, where being on the train and seeing the countryside is part of the experience* it takes days to travel coast to coast by train, longer trips mean they have to provide meals and sleeping accomodations... |
How does advertisements actually profit? I find it hard to believe that they actually cover the cost that it took to run. | Actually, advertising is all about hitting the right person at the right time. Obviously, ads fall on deaf ears when it comes to most of the people, but, as /u/oxencotten mentioned, it primes you as far as brand awareness is concerned and, the next time you actually need whatever it is they offer, you may look them up.... |
Why is there a sensation of travelling, like being on a car or riding a train, after consuming alcohol? | It's called the spins my friend. It's when you drank enough to mess with your brains ability to sense balance. Aperently if you set one foot on the ground while laying in bed it helps your brain register that you're laying down. though I've never tried it because I'm usually too far gone for that |
why do people generally consider going to bed at 1am and sleeping until midday a worse sleep than 'regular' sleeping hours? | I believe some of it stems from rural areas before indoor lighting was common. If you wanted to get work done you HAD to make use of daylight. Sleeping until noon wastes half the daylight you could have used. So, the people living on farms back then knew that sleeping late was wasteful, and they taught their kids, and ... |
How would raising the Federal minimum wage NOT create inflation? | 1) Rises in minimum wage weakly correlate with increases in unemployment, so just because minimum wage is higher does not mean that the total population has more to spend. . 2) inflation is an average of changes in prices. Since minimum wage employees are more likely to spend on certain kinds of products and services, ... |
Why is being overweight so much more common now than it was 40 years ago? | One factor I'm not seeing mentioned much is our ever more car dependent infrastructure. In the past 40 years we've seen a huge increase in the number of isolated residential suburbs where it's nearly impossible to run errands without a car. There's no walking or biking to the grocery store or to school because they're ... |
Why the Quenn Elizabeth receives much more press attention than her husband (King?) Phillip? | Hubby's not the King. Under the arcane rules, a man can't marry up to the kingship, because that would put him in a position of power higher than that of the familial heir. Elizabeth is the daughter of the last king. Philip gets the title of Prince, and Duke of Edinburgh. Charles could be King, and his son after him. K... |
Wife just got me started watching Glee from season 1. How the hell has the character of Sue not been fired and buried under the weight of a thousand lawsuits? | Sue is the best part of Glee and you better not sue her!!! Or I'll Sue you. |
Why is everyone fighting so hard to raise the minimum wage to $15/hr? Wouldn't that just increase cost of everything also? | This is a commonly asked question here. Please see answers among [these previous posts.] If they don't entirely answer your question, you might create a new post witha more specific question. Try our handy Search function sometime. :-)For best results in most cases, use 2 or 3 general, common wordsthat refer to the key... |
Why are drugs much stronger than heroin (like fentanyl) allowed to be prescribed/taken medically, but heroin isn't? | The drug schedule doesn't necessarily reflect good science - that's why. For instance, Marijuana is a schedule I drug, but many people would argue it does have medicinal properties Many people were critical of the scheduling on grounds that it exists merely to punish undesirables and that it creates a permanent group o... |
Why can so many people count backwards with ease, but can't say their ABCs backwards? | It's a question of practice and practice alone. I memorized the alphabet backwards a while ago as something I could do to win bets against idiots, and it's not all that hard after about a week or so. Try it! You might even earn some free beer or money! Z, Y, X, W, V, U, T, S, R, Q, P, O, N, M, L, K, J, I, H, G, F, E, D... |
How complex can sleepwalking be? | It's hard to draw the line on 'most complex,' because it's hard to draw the line on 'asleep.' Is it sleepwalking if you do something with full awareness, but then don't remember? Nah. But that can happen, and for a whole host of different reasons. Sleep interacts with memory encoding in strange ways. Or maybe you're ju... |
Why can illegal immigrants protest about immigration issues without being arrested? | The constitution doesn't exactly protect the citizens of the USA so much as it stops the government from doing certain things. Police can't break up a peaceful, law abiding protest. Period. It doesnt matter who is protesting, government officials cant come in and stop it. |
With so many safety precautions and modern technologies in place on aircraft, why have there been no survivors of recent crashes? | If the plane manages to glide to the ground, the speed it is going is at least 500kph for big planes. If you remember how low the engines are, even the slightest instability, espetially when landing on water, will make one of the engines dig in and act like a giant brake. At that speed it's more than enough energy to r... |
Do morbidly obese people burn through all that fat before starving? | You can be suffering from dangerous levels of malnutrition well before you even look skinny, the stuff in body fat is not enough by itself to keep a person alive. This is counter intuitive to most people's thinking, and medical professionals are now expected to use a malnutrition risk assessment process to help identif... |
Why can't we right click and save a video just like when saving images? | I usually just use developer tools to find the stream and then just use that stream's URL to save a copy |
Why are airlines allowed to overbook their flights? | Was that plane IAD-SEA on Friday evening? I was one of the bumped people. In this case some higher-up at the airline decided to replace the plane with a smaller one. Usually they overbook, but not by as many as 16 people. |
Do any other animals care about the temperature of their food like we do? | My corn snake won't eat a thawed dead mouse unless I warm it to body temperature. Room temperature won't do.If you think about it liking warm food makes sense biologically. Since freshly killed meat would still have some warmth from the body versus cold - long dead meat. |
How should I teach a 5 year old what it means to be humble? | Instead of being humble, teach him to be proud of actual accomplishments, and to never be proud of things he didn't do. |
Why did pirates bury their treasure? or were depicted to bury their treasure? | It wasn't really treasure, it was just food that they were hoarding. But worms moles always got to it, so by the time the pirates got back to it, it was pieces of ate.TIL everything we know about pirates is actually just made upIf they just left it on the ground, people would just take it, see. |
In America, why is soccer so big with kids, but completely ignored by adults and not as big as the NFL or NBA? | Simple answer: Because the appreciation of soccer only began as a cultural phenomenon fairly recently. For a long time more traditional sports like baseball, basketball and American football were predominant. This isn't just happening in the US. In Cuba, as a land once occupied by the US military, baseball is hugely po... |
I'm not supposed to buy wireless surround speakers because the wireless signal is unreliable and the timing/phase might be off, right? Yet modern pop music arena concerts use wireless mics. What gives? | > I'm not supposed to buy wireless surround speakers because the wireless signal is unreliable and the timing/phase might be off, right? What's all this, then? |
How can I fall asleep on my arm and cut off circulation for hours on end, and have it be just fine a few minutes after waking up? | What's scary is, it might not be. As others have said, it is the nerves that are damaged, but it can be circulation too, but there's a small chance that you don't get use of the arm back. It's commonly known as 'Saturday Night Palsy' and it's caused by compressing the radial nerve, but you can damage the nerve doing th... |
Why lotto winners almost always take the smaller cash prize instead of the annuity? | First time posting in ELI5. I used too much math for a five year old. Money becomes less valuable over time. If you can't use a dollar for a year, it has a frozen time lock on it and is less valuable than a dollar. People prefer prizes without frozen time locks. |
Why do people keep blaming Obama for the things he wasn't able to accomplish instead of congress? | This is annoying. You're not asking a question- you're putting a question mark at the end of a sentence that expresses your political opinion. You even acknowledged that you understand why Republicans are critical of the President, and that you were already being bothered by The Daily Show and SNL's rare criticisms of ... |
Why is it that I always think of the best ideas right before I go to sleep, and why can't I ever remember them in the morning? | Because you don't keep a notepad and pen besides your bed. Invest in a note pad and pen, write stuff down. See if it really is as good as you imagine or whether it's just the ramblings of a sleep deprived brain. ????? Profit or Loss. |
How has Russia's airstrikes these past few days been so effective that the ISIS fighters are retreating and panicking, but almost a year of US airstrikes couldn't even produce such a similar effect? | Propaganda and grey lies. It's easy to claim they killed 1000 fighters when no one can check. Use 9 bombs against FSA and one against ISIS, double or triple the number of casualities and claim they were terrorists hence ISIS members. |
Why do I get motivated to turn my life around whenever I'm ready to go to bed? | You look at the day you've just had, and realise you've wasted another 24 hours. You're one full day closer to death, and you've done nothing. You fall asleep, knowing that you will probably do nothing again tomorrow, and if you didn't even wake up, the world would be no worse off. At least, that's what I feel every ev... |
Why are groceries more expensive in poorer neighborhoods? | Define poorer neighborhoods. If you're talking about inner-city poverty, everything is more expensive in a city. Living costs are generally higher in cities than their rural counterparts because there's a higher demand to live in cities. If you're talking about poverty across the same environment , items aren't exclusi... |
How do we know our eyes see the colors the same way | We can't really tell, but there is speculation that my red could be your blue. It's weird, since we can point at something and agree on its color, yet when I say red, and you say red, I could be seeing your blue as my red. Or my green as your red |
Why are reusable rocket engines cost-effective? The space shuttle (also reusable) cost a ton to maintain. | The shuttle itself could bring delicate things back from space in a controlled landing. A lot of things had to go right to ensure that, and as we know, not all of them went right all the time. The reusable engines are just engines, and aren't dropping from orbital height. They just need to land gently, but they can fli... |
Why is it that some phone apps which use the camera have horrible focus and take crappy pictures compared to the stock camera app? | depending on the app, the default one may be designed specifically for your phone's hardware, wheras the ones in many apps will be very general to coer a wider range of hardware- and, often, won't have much money put in to the actual interface software A better app that functions above and beyond stock might cost more ... |
Why do we elevate a sprained ankle? Isn't blood GOOD for it? Why should we be draining it away from the injury (if that's the point)? | Good question. Also makes me wonder about anti inflamatory medicine.. Isn't inflamation a part of the healing process?.. |
Why do different countries have different netflix selections? | A big part of it is licensing restrictions, similarly to how movies don't premiere overseas until well after in the US in many cases. Other countries might also have various laws that forbid certain movies and TV shows from being viewed there. |
Whats the difference between Christianity and Orthodox Christianity? | This doesn't directly answer your question but it might help you see where things diverge and how they relate, none the less it's very interesting to look at and might raise some questions you didn't know you had. _URL_0_ |
why are there so many more 'simple' medical procedures available for humans than there are for animals? | It depends on the owner and the vet to be honest. A cat with two paralyzed legs can survive you can adapt two wheelers for it if you take proper care of it but it takes time and money and owners are not willing to do that for their pets. I wouldnt have put that cat down by what you are saying, only if asked. But also i... |
Why are we told to exercise damaged muscles to restore normal function, but wear glasses for our eyes? | Eyes are organs, not muscles. Your ability to see isn't based on the musculature around your eyes, which are quite strong, it's based on the exact physiological makeup of the eye organ. Without surgery, there is really nothing you can do to fix the physiology of your eyes, so continuing to strain them will not help. In... |
Why aren't commercial airplanes getting any faster? | Drag is based on the square of velocity, so increasing speed dramatically increases fuel consumption. The only reason to increase the speed of planes would be if it granted a competitive advantage in the marketplace to compensate for these increased costs. However, it generally doesn't. It's a lot easier to save time a... |
Why do many TV advertisements seem to have nothing to do with their products? | They're selling you a lifestyle or experience, not a product. Ever heard of the saying 'Sex sells'? That's why you get adverts like a woman making orgasm sounds while washing her hair. |
With all the evidence leaked out, why can't the people of USA sue the NSA for breaching their privacy? | Because the NSA hasn't done anything illegal. That's the biggest problem in all of this; everything they've done is totally sanctioned by the law. Doesn't mean it's right, but it's not illegal.For the most part, they were acting in accordance with the law. Laws passed by our Congress. That we elected. "*We have met the... |
Why do women generally make much more noise in bed than men? | Men always feel embarassed to let their feelings show! Especially when it's something kind and emotional. Men don't like anyone to know they're succombing to something, or not in control of themselves at the time. Making sounds of pleasure would show weakness, and therefore seem a bit sissy. Sissy to them anyway. Ever ... |
What's the religious situation in the US? | The Westboro Baptist Church is just one church, and it's not even a particularly large church . The only reason why anyone knows they exist is because of the extreme lengths they go to in order to protest against things that they don't like. They aren't a religion or even a denomination, they're just a tiny group of cr... |
Why i cant we (UK/EU/US) just go to war with ISIS and be done with them already? | Look at the countries already involved in the Syrian Civil War: _URL_0_ Russia, China, North Korea and Iran all have a stake in continuing Bashar al-Assad's Shia / secular Ba'athist regime, while the US and several European countries support rebel groups fighting Assad. When those countries who have been historically a... |
What does America get out of its relationship with Israel? | A voter base for elections. Israel has a HUGE lobby and a loyal voter base. It's more the case that no president can afford to NOT support Israel right now, as their party would immediately lose any upcoming elections at any level if they took a harsh stance on them. |
How did people learn to code on their own in the 80s? | Remember what the Internet does: it doesn't create information, it just makes information more easily accessible. The information still existed in the 80s, it was just in different forms - books, magazines, computer clubs, etc.I started with BASIC on a c64 in late 80s. The computer actually came with a "programming" se... |
Why can I buy a $4 coffee almost everyday without thinking twice but it is a huge deal to pay $0.99 for an app? | Because you make poor financial decisions when it comes to coffee, based on a combination of addiction and convenience. You're more level headed when it comes to apps because you can't be addicted to an app before you buy it |
Why we don't eat animals at the top of the food chain. | Efficiency. To farm predators, you're going to you have to farm prey for the predators to eat anyway. So why not just skip a step and eat their prey? |
Why do large American cities like New York and San Francisco smell bad? | San Francisco has been having a problem with light poles falling over because they rusted out from the urine accumulation. I would imagine it's the same for most metropolitan areas that are packed into a tight space.I live in SF. It only smells like pee/poo. You know, lots of homeless people and not much rain to wash i... |
Why did the US fail in Vietnam and why is never really taught in schools? | That is two very complicated questions. You may want to try them one at a time in more appropriate subs. I don't think there's any way to ELI5 the reasons behind America's failure in Vietnam. I'm not sure there's even a historical consensus on that one, so you're going to get a lot of competing opinions. As for why it ... |
Why do movie theaters still use film reels when there is other technology available? | Like people have said, most don't. Those that do, probably do so in part because it costs a lot of money to upgrade equipment like that. The studios may also be incentivizing it to some degree, because it's much harder to convert something from film to digital than it would be to rip the media from a digital DCP drive ... |
Is it possible to laser-cut a mirror? | Yes! I've done it before. What you do is reverse the image and cut from the back side of the mirror |
how does a drug deal “go bad”? | Running a drug smuggling operation is an illegal business. You can't seek redress from the court if you've been wronged like Apple can if Samsung infringes on their patents. The only conflict resolution besides dialogue is violence. |
John Deere telling the Copyright Office that farmers don’t own their tractors | Its more akin to buying an iPhone and only being able to use Apple branded earphones and chargers and cases. An earphone is an earphone, not complicated, but DRM software only recognizes expensive Apple branded earphones. A battery charger is just a charger, but it'll only charge with an Apple charger. |
Why does cold water quench my thirst better than hot water? | Cold water is not better in terms of hydration, in fact it's worse. But immediate satiation effects have nothing to do with how much water your body needs to balance salt levels and regulate blood pressure. Satiety is determined by your stomach sensing that it's full of water. Cold water is less readily absorbed, and a... |
Why do certain artists have hits but then go into obscurity? | Hits are hard to predict, and sometimes the stress of having a hit- and the massive change of life needed to capitalise on that hit- can mean you suddenly aren't able or don't want to follow up on it. I'll use D'Angelo as an example. He puts out one album that does fairly well. A decent hit single on RnB charts. Follow... |
Why does it seem like every new movie that comes out sets the box office record for the opening weekend? | just to add, today's movie have extra income from 3D, fake IMAX, IMAX 3D, and 70mm IMAX. these options adds to the ticket prices thus add to the whole income. [this] is the list for box office records adjusted to inflation |
why do flies do that evil hands rubbing together thing? | The guys from the popular Stuff You Should Know podcast did one on house flies. You can play it from their website [here]. It's entertaining and worth listening to. They're very fascinating, nasty little creatures. |
Time isn't real. | Time is real in our sense of the two words. It's not necessarily linear, even though we perceive it as such. |
How does DRM work? | sadly, were i to give you the details on how specific types of DRM function, i'd actually be guilty of violating the DMCA. |
What happens if you're sent to jail for a crime you didn't commit and evidence that you're innocent pops up years after you get out of jail? | [One redditor who was in jail for 18 years for a murder he didn't commit actually had an AMA]. This isn't really ELI5 but check it out if you're interested. |
How on earth can people control robots that are in Mars when the distance between the two planets is millions of miles? | The short answer: slowly. They use radio signals to communicate, just like you would if it was somewhere closer, but there is about a 15 minute delay . Anything they tell the rover to do, it must sit and wait for 15 minutes to do it, then the results of that take another 15 minutes to get back. Because they knew this w... |
Why do you have to register under a party to vote, and why would anyone not be permitted to vote however they want? | In most countries, each party selects their own leader and then people register to vote or are automatically registered to vote and then simply choose the party/candidate they want to win. In the US, it works a bit differently. This is largely because it's not the party that selects its own leader in the US, but rather... |
Why is the word "up" used so often in seemingly inappropriate ways? How can I "give up" or "fill up"? | Maybe it's coming from other languages? In german give up - > aufgeben. auf = up, geben = give.Fill up would be auffüllen. |
What causes those little random itches on your
body? | this is most likely very wrong, but when i was looking into lucid dreaming, they mentioned that when you resist those kinds of itches and lay perfectly still, you trick your body into going into sleep mode because it thinks your brain is asleep. so maybe those little itches are tests your body puts forth to see if you'... |
Why do public schools have teachers teach subjects they aren't proficient in? | Sometimes there's no one else available to teach that subject. In my high school French class we didn't have a real teacher for most of the year. We had a couple who didn't speak French, and one who was the Spanish teacher. |
Why do you lose alcohol tolerance if you take a break from drinking? | There could be two reasons to this: 1. Alcohol is metabolized by the body via the liver. The liver has particular enzyme that breaks down alcohol into non-toxic by-products that could be excreted by the body. This enzyme is limited in the amount of alcohol it can breakdown. Getting exposed to alcohol for a short period... |
How have the Patriots made the playoffs every year except for 1 in the past 16 years when the NFL is built to prevent dynasties? | The Jets, Dolphins and Bills have been coached, GM'd and owned by the NFL's equivalent of the short bus for most of that time which certainly made Brady and Bellichick's jobs easier. |
How do American Zip Codes work? | The initial digit indicates the postal district—a group of states in the same part of the nation. The first three digits indicate the *sectional center:* the big city that sorts mail for that area. The final two digits are a portion of a city or they indicate a particular small town that's served by trucking the mail o... |
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