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Why is it, when people are drunk (often in films), they offer them coffee? | Coffee doesn't sober you up but it keeps you from drinking more alcohol and, since what you're talking about is coffee served in a mug or coffee cup, it keeps you wherever you're at while you sip the coffee so you have at least some time to sober up before you get behind the wheel of a car. |
the wealthy create new jobs vs the middle class creates demand which drives job creation. | Let's ignore the marketing slogans used in the past to pass legislation. These words carry a lot of emotional weight that is not relevant to a logical discourse on taxation and economics. The issue is one of fairness. If we take all the resources from lands owned by indigenous peoples and don't compensate them in some ... |
Why doesn't the U.S. military send soldiers to the favelas in Brazil? | risk/reward. The US gains nothing from this. Also, without Brazil's request for aid, its essentially just an invasion of Brazil, likely to start bigger wars. |
time signatures in music. | DoingItForDebussy is not correct with the bottom number. As others have said, the top number tells you how many beats there are in a measure, and the bottom number tells you which note value is one beat. Time signatures can be categorized into a few broad categories. The ones most are familiar with are **simple** and *... |
Why do normal, healthy people eventually die? | A person whose organs repaired themselves *perfectly* would live forever by definition. But even the healthiest human's body can't repair itself perfectly. Think of your body like a car. The more you use it the more you're going to wear out the pieces it's made of. Maybe a belt snaps one day, so you duct tape it back t... |
When drinking, why do I feel sober after puking | you don't feel sober. you feel less sick, so by comparison your improved condition feels like sobering up. you're still very drunk though. puking doesn't lower your blood alcohol level. |
What are tax exemptions/what to "claim" on your W4? | I personally find it important not to loan the government my money interest free. I shoot for owing them on April 15th. That being said nothing is wrong with paying something throughout the year. To answer your question I would not claim zero in your situation at least claim one. If you don't expect your annual income ... |
Whats the big deal about Karma on reddit? | There isn't really one. Its just a dickwaving contest. I've heard rumors of companies offering to buy peoples accounts if they have enough karma, but I don't think that's very common. |
How does enlightment differ from not giving a single fuck? | I don't understand how the philosophies are necessarily different. With one you are injecting a curse word into it. So maybe it is an adult vs teenager thing. However, you can still be in the Now and give a lot of fucks about many things. |
Why are homeless people almost always men? | It's because women can offer their bodies in exchange for a place to stay. A man will usually allow a woman to live with him so long as it benefits him sexually, and maybe even non sexually . So long as she's willing to fill the role of pleasing him sexually whenever he wants he will generally keep her around until she... |
Why do some bugs with no defense mechanism, such as crickets, make so much noise? It seems like it would just attract their predators to them. | They may not care. In my area every year there's fields where you can find several crickets on every square foot. About a month later they disappear. Either they're good at hiding or just enough make it to lay eggs and that's all that matters.No defense mechanism? Have you never seen a cricket jump? |
In areas where there is a waiting list for organs, why isn't organ donation mandatory? | This is actually a human rights issue. While it may not be apparent these days, you have complete control and ownership of your body. Mandatory donations means you have no say in what you own. That is a dick move. They're violating one of the core values of justice and law. In the states we talk about life liberty and ... |
How is my work office able to draw so much power without breaking or melting something? | To begin with, an office building as a whole uses wiring designed to handle more power than a typical residential building. In addition, each small area in an office should have it's own electrical loop whereas, in your house, you might have one loop per room with an extra loop for high power items, such as the microwa... |
Why you get the munchies when you're high. | Marijuana causes the release of leptin a hormone to stimulate hunger, normally it gets inhibited after a while to stop us being hungry, but when high it's uninhibited and constantly being produced thus we go and go until we reach a food coma |
Why is DDOSing so hard to stop for big companies? | Because to a server, a ddos attack just looks like especially heavy traffic, even to a human looking at server logs, its hard to tell if its malicous traffic or legitimate traffic. There isn't really a good way to counter an attack. If you just shut down the service you did their job for them. Banning people from conne... |
Why do some meds say to drink a glass of water with them? | To make sure the pill/capsule gets into your stomach. This way, it ensures you correctly swallow the medicine, and it's further instruction to keep people from suing if they choke . |
If thinking uses brainpower which needs energy from the body, does this mean thinking can help burn energy and thus help with weight loss? | Most of what your brain does is unconscious, like regulating your heart rate and breathing rate. That is always operating and requiring energy, so thinking 'harder' can increase the amount of energy the brain needs, but not by much because it doesn't represent a high percentage of brain activity at a given time. |
If we stopped selectively breeding dogs, and just let them do their little doggy thing, would dogs eventually start looking like wolves again? | There's no advantage to looking like a wolf. There are other [Caninae] such as coyotes and foxes. Dogs would mongrelize to one or more species of medium to large canines. |
how can two trees joined by a branch exist?? | It's called [inosculation]. It happens when two branches touch and by rubbing together wear away their bark. Once the inside of the branches touch they can stick together and grow as one branch. This is possible because trees do not have an immune system similar to animals.Trees can grow around wires or poles. They are... |
Why are some hard drugs more harshly stigmatized in society than others? | I think because there are some different stereotypes connected to the drug in people's minds. Cocaine, for example, is a quite expensive drug AFAIK and therefore is more likely to be consumed by wealthier people. This doesn't trigger the same image in one's mind as drugs that are in connection to poverty and being home... |
How does the text on the top of light bulbs not produce a shadow? | As already noted, light travels like a wave and slightly diffracts near a surface. If it's hard to imagine light like waves, have a look at [Veritasiums video about walkers]. A simple example of how light diffracts around any surface is by holding your hand close to the wall in a room with a single lamp. The outline of... |
If the eustachian tube is conected to the pharynx why cant we breath through our ears? | Semi-related to this but I've had fluid trapped behind my right eardrum for a few weeks now; been to the doctors about it, who suggested holding my nose and trying to force air into the eustachian tube to try to drain the trapped fluid. I don't really understand why though, if the tube is so small that not much can pas... |
Do trees die of "old age"? | In a sense, I suppose many do. Some don't. [Pando is most likely at least 80,000 years old but might be up to 1 million] |
What causes us to feel a vibration from our pocket as though our phone has received a call or text when it actually didn't (aka, phantom vibrations)? | In certain pairs of trousers, I feel the vibration alert in the opposite pocket to where my phone is. The phantom phenomenon also often happens in my opposite pocket. I can't think why this would ever be, structurally speaking.I always thought it was leg fat getting fatter.Interesting side note: I keep my phone in a po... |
Why is there a Galileo's plaque and some Lego minifigures on the Juno spacecraft, when NASA plans to crash the whole thing into Jupiter at the end of the mission? | Eh, just done out of honour and respect I suppose, it's a small sculpture so it isn't a big deal And possibly a momento for future civilisations to possibly find, I know we have sent some things out into space for other life forms to find |
Why does the U.S. government contract out all of its work? Why not just do it themselves? | For the same reason any business would use a contractor - there's someone else who can do it better, faster, and/or cheaper. |
Why doesn't the federal government just fix the American internet problems by breaking up the oligopolies and actually make the ISP's compete with each other? | The major problem is that in many areas, there's exactly one option for broadband access. Breaking up companies doesn't help in that circumstance. |
Why was Microsoft criticised for bundling a browser and media player with their OS, but is Apple allowed to bundle a computer with their OS? | Legally, tying arrangements are only a problem if they involve tying a product that dominates its market to another product that doesn't in an effort to stifle competition in the market for the second product. Apple does not dominate either computer or OS market, so tying one to the other isn't legally a problem. In th... |
The importance behind referencing works in specific styles. Is it really better than just writing down a website or book name? | The most important things about a citation are that you're giving credit to the original author and that you're giving your reader an easy way to check that information. It may seem like overkill to list the publisher, edition date, etc. of a book or journal , but the info that's on page 55 of one edition may be on pag... |
Why, all of a sudden are people "allergic" to gluten? | Other than Celiacs disease - they aren't. Stupid people hear something, assume it's causing every problem in their life, and even though nothing has improved they will swear up and down that living a gluten free lifestyle makes them feel better. |
Why do you get so hungry from smoking weed? | Am I the only one that doesn't necessarily get hungry, but food tastes amazing and my appetite is greatly increased when high. EDIT: lmao increased appetite as in I can eat a lot more when im high, and dont get full as fast as when im sober.In the Michael Pollan book "The Omnivores Delimna", he talks about how weed act... |
. Why do whales breach with a huge jump...Just for fun? | I read it's sometimes to get rid of the small parasites attached to the whales skin. The force of hitting the water on the return will help dislodge them |
If you were stumble across an undiscovered island, what would you have to do to make it your own country? | You'd have to be able to claim it by being there and then defend it by force. In theory you could request recognition from various governments but in practice they wouldn't bother listening to you unless you had something valuable they wanted and in that case, you'd have to be able to defend it by force. |
How can a judge in Texas block an executive action the president has made? | You would be wrong :-p Judges get to declare things unconstitutional. The US doesn't have a court system like Europe. |
Why when first smoking Marijuana, the effects are basically null? | Hell, I was high as a kite the first time I smoked. 30 minutes after I started I couldn't get out of my chair. |
Are police allowed to search my car when they pull me over? | If they have reasonable cause, yes. I believe police officers have a recorders so they can't just stop you for funsies. |
Why do actors fake eating on TV and movies, rather than just eating the food? | I'm no expert, but I assume they'll need to re-do every act tons of times and they don't want to buy a dozen bananas, let alone forcing the acter to eat a dozen bananas.Because a scene can be shot and reshot dozens of times. Think of how much food the actors would have to pack away. |
How does a VPN change my location and IP address, even though I'm still going through my router? | It creates a tunnel to the vpn router from your provider and all your info goes out from there. Along with everyone else's data so it is very hard to track at that point. |
Why is false advertising illegal in the 'real world' but everywhere on the internet? | Just to augment what everyone else is saying here- In the U.S., consumers don't have standing to sue for false advertising--only competitors can. Consumers, when faced with false advertising may report the culprit to the FTC or may sue under a different theory of recovery after purchasing the product or service.False a... |
Why is titanium flammable? | The oxidation of titanium gives off heat. When the titanium heats up, this reaction proceeds faster and faster. This produces a fire, one that is quite difficult to stop. As for why shavings and powder are flammable. It's the same reason why leaves are more flammable than a log. The oxidation reaction is limited by sur... |
Why is the AK-47 so goddamn popular worldwide? | Of all the weapons in the vast soviet arsenal, nothing was more profitable than Avtomat Kalashnikova model of 1947. More commonly known as the AK-47, or Kalashnikov. It's the world's most popular assault rifle. A weapon all fighters love. An elegantly simple 9 pound amalgamation of forged steel and plywood. It doesn't ... |
Why do companies still use FAX machines? | In addition to other points people have made, some companies consider their fax log that says 'transmission successful' proof that the document was sent, and the time it was sent, important evidence for companies that rely on time sensitive transactions. |
When really angry, why do some people feel better if they do something destructive, like screaming or hitting something, sometimes even to the point of hurting themselves? | Actually psychological experiments suggest that destructive release of anger generally makes one more angry and aggressive. I don't have the source at the moment, but I could find it relatively soon. I actually learned this in psychology class. |
how come I'm hungrier by noon if I had breakfast than if I didn't? | Your belly is still asleep because you haven't thrown a bagel at it. Wake it up and it wants to play the lets make acid and melt stuff game. |
How does banning big denominations of currency combat the problem of black money? | Forging smaller denominations provides less profit than larger due to the costs involved, making it less appealing. It doesn't stop it, it just makes it less common. Though for example 1/4 of £1 coins in the UK are fake. And £1 doesn't buy anything. However, they are relatively easy to fake. Which means newer coins are... |
Scotch, Bourbon, Whisky, Brandy, Cognac, Irish Whisky, Rye, Southern Comfort. What's the difference? | Lots of misinformation here. I'll go over the broad strokes. Scotch - made in Scotland with malted barley. Must be aged 3 years or more in oak barrels. Used ones are okay. In fact, a lot of scotch is aged in used bourbon barrels. bourbon - must be made in the US. a lot of people seem to think it has to come from bourbo... |
What makes the eerie ringing noise you can focus on in absolute silence? | Do you listen to a lot of loud music or are you around a lot of loud noise at your job? If so, it's probably tinnitus. |
A friend shared this about toxins leaving through your feet, is any of it accurate? | It's completely batshit-bonkers. But if you really want to prevent more kidney stones then drink more water.[relevant video] - bigclivedotcom disassembles an electronic gadget that claims to extract toxins through the feet. |
why is electricity something that needs to be conserved? | There are two aspects to this problem : consuming electricity, and producing electricity. Once produced, electricity must be consumed immediately, as it is difficult and very expensive to store it. It is one of the reasons why renewable energy isn't that widespread : solar and wind power generation is VERY dependent of... |
On TV, why do people talking about sports get priority over a show like the Simpsons? | I'd say read up on the Heidi Bowl. An American football regular season game that got cut off in the last couple minutes to a program of the movie Heidi. Within those two or so minutes, the losing team came back with a huge upset, and only a select few got to watch that happen. _URL_0_ [EDIT]: posting while half asleep ... |
What happens if someone dies halfway through rewriting their will? | The stuff gets divided up per your legally executed, signed will unless someone sues the estate charging that the will no longer reflected your intentions and that the first will wasn't valid for X/Y/Z. |
Why do we use capital punishment but not corporal punishment? | That's actually a pretty good question. I would guess that corporal punishment is considered cruel, but I have a hard time believing that capital punishment is not cruel also, especially as our efforts to sanitize it have colided with other ethical problems and led to several botched executions recently. |
The difference between trap, dubstep, house, and the other styles of EDM music | Dnb or drum and bass has a rhythmic bass that slows down and speeds up. It's a fast rhythm for most of the song though. My favorite of the sub genres of dnb is liquid dnb, which has a lot of melody similar to progressive house. |
Why are things like homework and writing papers so hard to start (psychologically). | You might have ADD. I have ADD and a few of the primary symptoms include difficulty in transitioning between tasks, procrastination, and poor impulse control. For me, it's especially difficult to turn away from the computer and Internet because finding a new, interesting link stimulates our reward centers when doing ho... |
What exactly happens when (in movies) the police trace a call and why can't they do it if the call is less than a minute long? | That's a great question and I've wondered it myself. I'm not an expert on the subject but I have a hypothesis. It probably takes seconds to trace a call now where as it took longer when analog and hybrid technologies were immature. So Hollywood probably adds this in films only to create suspense. Again, just an uneduca... |
What makes a person a "narcissist"? | An academic explanation isn't going to serve you, since it's failed you before. It seems that's what everyone here has managed to give you. Instead, read the stories on /r/raisedbynarcissists, /r/NarcissisticAbuse/, /r/ManagedByNarcissists/, and /r/RBNAtHome. You'll get it. My fiancee was raised by a narcissist, and re... |
Why does the earth's axial tilt cause such drastic temperature fluctuations (except at the equator) yet its orbital distance from the sun does not? | Orbital distance doesn't change very much. The difference is is about 3% between minimum and maximum . Axial tilt causes one part of the earth to face the sun while the opposite side gets almost no sun. So at the poles, this means either perpetual daylight or polar night, without any sunlight for weeks or even months. ... |
How dogs are able to sense and know when something medically wrong is about to happen in a person before it actually happens? | I don't know the answer to this but I'm constantly in awe of how well my dog perceives my mood and my more 'negative' feelings. If I am even a tiny bit anxious when I'm walking her she is immediately on high alert. If things are smooth sailing, she is happy as ever just sniffing stuff. I love that she can feel me feeli... |
Since most communication can be done with a wifi connection, why haven't Internet service providers put cell phone companies out of business? | > You really don't need cellular service in order to communicate nowadays with apps like Skype or Facebook calling. Because Wifi is basically no where compared to the coverage of the cell network. I take 10 steps out my apartment and my wifi is gone. |
Why a Semi-Colon needs to exist | This isn't really going to explain why it needs to exist but give you a real world example to the best use of it I have ever seen in my life _URL_0_ |
Why do countries increase tax to reduce govt budget deficits instead of decreasing it? | Reducing taxes doesnt necessarily increase spending and lead to more tax revenues, as it's obvious that a tax rate of zero would bring in nothing right? So there must be some amount of taxes that if you lowered further would bring in less money, same with the other end. |
What is it like to smoke marijuana? | I used pot for pain. I have back and wrist pain. Pot doesn't get rid of the pain, it just takes my focus off of it. The side effects are a nonissue. I eat more, sleep a little more, and laugh a bunch. The same cannot be said for pills. I'm not going to die of an overdose, nor would I suffer some horrific organ damage. ... |
why my 4 year old laptop is much slower now than when it was brand new, even if I reformat it? | To be a little more technical, your CPU has millions and millions of tiny operational gates made out of relatively fragile material. Though electrical instead of mechanical, heat and use can change their electrical properties. When non-critical components of the chip fail, the result is slower performance This si basic... |
why do mountains look blue when they're far away | since it's ELI5 not ELIsomeone-that-can-read-multiple-paragraphs: blue wavelengths wiggle and around a lot, and because of that tend to hit particles and bounce into our eye, for every 1 particle a red wavelength hits, a blue wavelength hits 6. Distant mountains aren't always blue though, it's just the parts that aren'... |
Why do dogs love to ride in cars, but cats generally hate it? | I don't have an explanation for you but I'm fascinated by how universal the love of car rides is among dogs - it's as if 10,000 years of domestication with humans has been for the invention and prevalence of the automobile, an invention that is only 129 years old. |
When people say we lost $24,000,000,000 during the US Government shutdown, where did it go? | Some of it is just terminology, and some is point of view. If you failed to win the lottery this week, would you claim that you had lost a million dollars? Some people think that way. If you adjusted your withholding so that you didn't get a big tax refund after the end of the year, would you say you'd lost $2000? Some... |
Could all the countries in the world working together realistically invade the US by force? | With nuclear weapons, maybe. Depends on who got off the first shots, how successful countermeasures were, and so on. Without, no. Why was already explained in the other threads posted a day ago asking about this, but the short version is that the US is so geographically isolated that an invasion is incredibly difficult... |
Can mobile phones actually interfere with a flights navigation equipment? How? | Under normal conditions, no. However, electronic devices do not always work the way they are supposed to. I have seen cell phones transmit outside their assigned bands, and I've seen cell phones transmit so hot that they were blasting side band noise that should never have happened. Further, I've seen other things happ... |
Why was the best plan of battle on D-day to send thousands of men to almost certain death? | They weren't being sent to almost certain death if you look at the casualty reports. I mean yes certain individual units took crazy high casualties, but overall, something like 75% of the troops would come through without injury. |
Why do so many lullabies and nursery rhymes contain such dark material in the lyrics?? | Because they were written during a time when darkness and violence were much more normal than they are now. Medieval Europe had the same murder rate as modern Detroit, but without guns. A third of babies didn't live to grow up. Women and children were property. A lot of people died in spite of doing nothing wrong, but ... |
Why do humans take to music so well? | Is this a dog asking? I'm sure my dog has the same type of question.I work in a recording studio for a living and have studied the physics of sound etc for a number of years. Two of the best explanations i have seen for why we engage with it so much is, a) As someone on this thread already said, we enjoy patterns engag... |
Why hasn't anyone been back to the moon? | Moon dust and politics. Moon dust destroys equipment with it's sharp edges. Also, getting to the moon was just a political statement to the USSR. China had a rover there, though. |
The Queen of England. Her role in politics and government. Etc. (I'm from the USA) | More of a diplomat than a ruler at this point. After all, getting to meet the queen would be awesome, and make other countries' politicians feel cool. Meeting just an ambassador is less cool. |
What makes the computer run fast? | Not a fan of the answers here I'll attempt my own. For a computer to run smoothly it really only needs ONE thing; Free resources. These resources are processing power , short term memory , Long term memory , and communications between these systems , and smooth external communications . Limiting any of this will drasti... |
Why didn't the European settlers enslave Native Americans instead of importing African slaves? | I believe that they originally attempted to enslave Native Americans to work on plantations, but they died en mass because of disease and other reasons. Because of this they began to import African slaves, apologies if I'm incorrect. |
What would happen to the Earth, and humans, if our sun went supernova? | you never specified where the supernova would occur, so i'll theorize for it occurring anywhere in our solar system instead of just the sun. we would be killed by radiation and eventually vaporized along w/ earth. in all likelihood, gamma radiation. no. the radiation would be traveling at the speed of light and would k... |
Why is it so hard to properly tax big businesses, and why can their dodging of tax through money overseas not be acted on? | Because the U.S. is a minority of countries that tax corporations/citizens on the money they make overseas. Big businesses just choose to keep their 'HQ' in places with low taxes because it's completely legal. Blame the laws. |
From what I gather, Wikipedia seems to be a fairly neutral source. What prevents the polarization of facts on Wikipedia? | Two main factors come to mind: 1: Although Wikipedia is editable by anyone, there are content and style guidelines. One guideline is that content needs to be presented in a neutral way. Edits that are overly partisan are generally recognized and changed. And 2: the very fact that Wikipedia is editable by anyone. Presum... |
How are doctors able to see sick patients all day, but not get seriously ill? | Most patients aren't more injured than sick, and those that are often aren't sick because of an easily transmittable virus. Unless they're disease specialists, a big chunk of the patients of most general practitioner doctors are seniors with worn-out joints, injuries rather than sicknesses, people with hearing issues, ... |
Miguel Cabrera signed a 292 million dollar deal. Explain where baseball gets all it's money? And how when making less than NFL? | Quick answers:25 men on an MLB roster, 53 on an NFL roster. Also, MLB players' salaries are limited for the first 6 years in the majors. |
Why asphalt smells terrible when it rains. | Several things cause it: One is certain bacteria, which produce things called spores when the soil or dust on the asphalt they live in becomes dry. When it rains large amounts of these spores get kicked up out of the soil into the air, and they have a distant musty odour, which is what you can smell. Another reason is ... |
How a currency can just be invented? Ex: Bitcoin | God doesn't have a treasury department in the sky you need to go through or anything, you just start giving out tokens and say 'this is money' and you have a currency. A guy made bitcoin, maybe a team. The code was written to do the various things the bitcoin network does and miners were able to start mining, and thus ... |
Why are cavemen always depicted as covered in mud and dirt when all animals groom themselves and keep clean? | The humans that have come out of ice proved this incredibly wrong. You have to adjust the narrative to earlier hominids to get closer to the condescending view again. Even then I think it's like you say, we're talking about a proud animal that is more intelligent than most. We still have stone age cultures around, and ... |
What is the best way/position for humans to sleep? It seems we are always giving ourselves muscle and spine issues due to poor sleeping practices. | My chiro tells me to sleep on my side with a pillow between my legs and to get as much of the head pillow under your neck so your spine forms a straight line. I've always put a pillow between my legs because it makes it more comfortable, but putting my head farther into my pillow so it goes under my neck was a game cha... |
why is x the most commonly used variable? | I believe because it doesn't represent *too* much else other than a variable. m is metres, h is height, capital R is range, a is acceleration, t is time etc etc etc. X is just occationally distance, so it isn't as confusing. |
Why do car companies care so much about Presidents Day? | Well think of it this way, presidents day is in February. This is the first time of year that car companies can do huge deals on their new incoming models; leases on new 2017's etc. Also, it is a great time to get rid of old stock leftover from the previous year to make room for the new models. |
Why can an animal poop and not wipe and be perfectly fine, but a human must wipe or endure "the rash from hell?" | If you get enough fiber and squat when you poop, you can get away without wiping. Or so I've heard. |
Why people still think Jews run Hollywood? Where did that come from? | Gary Oldman has said it.Mel Gibson has said it. They are both in Hollywood!Marlon Brando has said it.John Travolta has said it.Even Spike Lee has said it lol.Most Western media corporations are owned and run by Jews. It's fact. Look it up. Next time you see a piece of media. Look at the name of the person who made it o... |
Why was Brian Williams shamed into taking an hiatus and the same doesn't happen to FOX News anchors? | It seems he lied about his personal experiences. Now if you wanted to catch out Bill O'Reilly in something similar you'd have to dig through his past and prove something like he deliberately broke the law when he was a kid and started his own house painting company in the summers. Actually, I'd be interested in what yo... |
What should be long: the distance for taking off or the distance for landing a plane. | Only on an aircraft carrier does a plane take off differently than it lands. The amount of distance needed for a plane to take off depends on the altitude of the airport, how much weight it's carrying, direction and strength of the prevailing winds, etc. Plus you didn't say if you need a safety margin factored in or no... |
- Asking honestly, why is having to show ID to vote voter supression? | You already have to provide proof of your identity to register to vote. So why should you then have to provide proof again? You have plenty of time leading up to voting day to get your ducks in a row and get the things you need to register because there's a much more lenient registration time period. But, it's November... |
why are spiders and bugs in places like Australia, Africa, South/Central America so damn huge. But in America, we seldom see that. | Besides several good answers already here, it most likely depends on the length of the warm period during a year. Shorter warm periods means insects and arachnids only have so much time to reach maturation and reproduce. Most insects can't survive the cold and must lay eggs that can tolerate winter. Longer warm periods... |
Why do we get sexually aroused by certain non reproductive body parts? | All of those you mentioned are signs of sexual health. Big breasts show an ability to nurse children. Big butts and thighs are signs of being able to hold the weight of a child during pregnancy. The reason we still find all of these attractive, even on an unconscious level, is because for most of our human existence we... |
Why shouldn't I press the popcorn button on my microwave when cooking popcorn? | Because different microwaves do different things when you press the button, and the manufacturer doesn't want to deal with complaints of burnt / unpopped popcorn from people using microwaves whose popcorn buttons cook too long / too short. |
From a practical, material viewpoint, what could an average person with no special skills or available resources except time do make the world a better place for everyone to live in? | A better place for everyone is a bit difficult, but a better place for some is easy. Plenty of volunteer positions everywhere that won't need a lot of skill. If you really want to share the wealth though, you could do something like litter clean up. That certainly benefits everyone. |
Why am I always so tired after a day at my call centre job? | I've worked in a call center for almost the last 4 years. I've found that changing my diet and exercising relatively frequently has given me tons of energy. I still sometimes get drowsy on long boring days but when I get out of work and get moving again I wake right up.My wife never understands why I am so tired after ... |
; why are we attacking the FCC over the companies who want to raise the prices? | The companies don't have a choice. They have a responsibility to their owners to maximize profits beyond all other considerations, within what the law and regulations allow. It is their nature, you can't attack that. The FCC *does* have a choice, and some degree of responsibility to citizens. In this area, they have ac... |
Why is laughing often a spontaneous reaction when narrowly escaping from something potentially harmful? | I think Vsauce looked at laughter and suggested that when you're being told a joke, the signals in your brain are being led towards a specific outcome or conclusion. When you hear the punchline and it turns out to be a conclusion you aren't expecting, the excess energy is released as laughter. As Bruce Willis says in L... |
Why can't people shake off depression? | If you're playing football & get the wind knocked out of you in a tackle, that's something you can just shake off. If you break your leg, that needs medical attention. People that have never been depressed tend to think of depression as being the same thing as being sad, a momentary emotional blow that you just need to... |
Why is a drone strike considered invariably worse than an f-16 pilot dropping a 500lb JDAM? | You don't send a fighter pilot into another country you are not at war with to bomb a village. that will just not happen, mostly because of the political concequences if the pilot gets stranded. For some reason, the millitary is fine with doing the same with drones. |
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