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Why is printer ink so expensive, while wildly coloured labels/product packages are abundant and apparently cheap? | Other posters have pointed out that ink jet printers need small, precise nozzles to dispense ink. When ink jet was initially invented, each ink cartridge had its own nozzle. It was the nozzle itself that was expensive, not the ink per-se. As ink jet technology became more popular, the cartridges were redesigned so the ... |
Why is magnetic resistance stronger than magnetic attraction. | Not a scientist or anything, but I think the resistance should be equal to the attraction. One just perceives the attraction as stronger because it's passive, whereas holding them together requires effort. |
How we know every human being has a unique fingerprint? | We don't really know that fingerprints perfectly are unique, but we do know that enough variability exists in fingerprints to say that the chances of two people having the same print are very very small, given a reasonable sample size. |
Why does wool retain its insulating properties when wet, but other fibers (such as cotton) don't? | Cotton is a plant. It doesn't care if it gets wet. Sheep, on the other hand, need to keep rainwater off their skin so they can stay warm. So wool naturally evolved to insulate the sheep from the wetness.The insualtion comes from trapped air. Wool has natural oil on the fibres so that the water tends to bead on the surf... |
What's the legal basis for the rulings on Judge Judy? | Also, the parties are sometimes given a stipend for shows like this, and also collect royalties each time it airs, so they all come out OK. And there's a perverse incentive for them to act crazy, so they get aired more often. I'm not sure if Judge Judy's show pays, but I know other shows like that do. |
When jumping from a falling object, am I essentially jumping from the point the object is at or is there extra forces involved? | You are 'pushing off' from the object you're leaving.You share its velocity up to the point where you 'push off'.In the case of a the falling plane the most you can reduce your velocity relative to the ground is how hard you can jump less the amount you change the velocity of the plane.Not likely to make a whole lot of... |
How can I see a movie trailer (Suicide Squad) that basically looks like the movie is "done" but the release date is more than a year? | My sister got a lead role in a small budget locally filmed movie, so I know a little about this from what she's told me. Filming only took a few months. However, yes, there really is that much post production work. Not sure about huge Hollywood films entirely, but for my sister's movie all the actors had to go back to ... |
What will happen if we try to land on a gas gaint, like Jupiter? Will we come out from the other end, never being able to land? | The Galileo probe entered Jupiter's atmosphere. Due to the immense gravity of the gas giants probes enter them at a really high speeds , so they need huge heat shields to survive. Afterwards you just have atmosphere without any surface below - but if you go too deep, pressure and temperature rise so much that no probe ... |
Why is FIFA's corruption largely condoned? | Getting to the heart of the question: because the corruption benefits many of those in power in their respective countries. FIFA is a federation of Football Associations . That is, all of it's power comes from the football associations in it's member countries. Each country gets an equal vote on the important decisions... |
How my friend does this... | i can do that. all you have to do is compress the air in your mouth then release it slowly. the 'smoke' you see is just water that condenses in the air. i have no idea why people would click their tongue though, i think its to make the trick look more complex.Its the same as if you twist up a water bottle and pop the c... |
When is sampling stealing? | As long as the song is noticably different from the original, it generally counts as a remix, parody, cover, etc. All of which are covered under fair use. As for what constitutes noticably different, there isn't really a solid definition. Take Nightcore for example, Nightcore is just raising the speed and pitch of a so... |
When someone is choked until unconscious, what separates them from waking up (like in UFC fights) and dying? | The amount of pressure needed to collapse the arteries in the neck is pretty low. If you push directly on both arteries in the neck, you will stop blood flow and the victim will pass out within about 15 seconds. If you let go, the artery opens back up, blood flows, and the victim wakes up. If you don't let go, tissues ... |
If there is a risk of raw food contaminating ready to eat food when cooking, why do we not use bleach or antibacterial cleaners to wash the dishes containing the raw food? | Either I don't understand your question or you are saying that you don't clean dishes that have had raw food on them before putting cooked food back on them? You really should be though |
How does refinancing work? | Not an expert, so bear that in mind, but . The way I understand it is that after you have some equity in your home , you refinance for the full value of your home or the original loan amount. You use part of that new loan to pay off the original loan, and you pocket the extra . I you're really good/lucky, you refinance... |
How did Adolf Hitler come to power? | The fallout began with the end of world War 1. Instead of a common ground type scenario, Europe wanted to get as much retribution as possible. Russia literally took buildings from germany, and the Germans were footed with a bill to cover the destruction. It left Germany and it's people without honor and now, without ho... |
Why do horseshoes getting nailed into the hooves of a horse, not hurt the horse? | Contrary to what was said in a few different comments, horses' hooves actually do contain living tissue but it is not in the area where the nails are driven into the hoof. Nails should not leave the hoof wall so the horse will feel no pain. Nails are driven up and stick out of the horse's hoof until the farrier bends t... |
Why does my body "get used to" cold water, but not cold air? | You do get used to it. I live in North Dakota and haven't had a coat in the last three years. |
Why is Effexor so hard to get off? | I can't give a why answer BUT I had a horrible time getting off Effexor. Added 10mg of Prozac and then after a few weeks I could stop Effexor with no side effects. It absolutely works.I was on wellbutrin and effexor together. I tried to, very slowly, ween myself off effexor first. I found that i would snap at people wh... |
Why is Bob Dylan considered to be such a transcendental songwriter? | i think one of the reasons dylans more popular songs sometimes sound trite to the modern ear is because they are so well-referenced in culture that they're familiar before you hear the song. EDIT: to actually answer the question, i think his lyrics display a combination of intellectual prowess, emotional honesty, and p... |
Why does self harm make people feel better? | It's like smoking a cigarette. You feel like you need it. You're so emotionally numb that you need to feel some physical pain, let the endorphins rush through your body to pull you out of the numbness. When you realise you're no longer numb for a short amount of time you crave it. |
How do one-time pads work and why are they impossible to crack? | There is a logical function XOR which works the following way 1 and 0 = 1 0 and 1 = 1 1 and 1 = 0 0 and 0 = 0 A one time pad is a random string of 0s and 1s at least as long as your message is converted to binary What you do to encode your message is use the XOR function comparing each bit of your message and the one t... |
Why do some micro USB cords charge certain devices but not others? | I'd also like to know, can charge my phone with one but not my ps4 controller. Annoying as hell |
Is it bad in any way to pee in the shower? | You clean out your bum in the shower - as much as you'd like to think you got it all with toilet paper, there are those bowel movements that nothing but a shower will fix. If these particular particles are fine and dandy for a shower, I would hope to think that sterile urine is just fine as well. In short, as long as y... |
How do soldiers in the military not go deaf after about a week of deployment? | I was Artillery. We had earplugs issued to us, but you can't hear fire missions or orders when wearing them. The solution was to put in one and plug the other ear. The problem with this is that you don't always get that other ear plugged. I have hearing loss in my left ear from my time in. This was non combat training,... |
What does it mean to say a cousin is 'removed'? | It has to do with what generation they allign with relative to you. 1st cousins are the separate children of siblings 2nd cousins are the separate children of 1st cousins A 1st cousin once removed would be the relationship between you and one of your parents' 1st cousins. |
If a group of, say, children were raised alone in total silence, with no external exposure to language, would the children develop a language between them? | There's a case study of two twins who were very isolated and they did create their own language. You can also see this often with siblings who haven't been isolated from anyone, so I would imagine that a group would definitely come up with at least words, if not a cohesive language. By this I mean that they'd likely co... |
why convicts and felons aren't allowed to enlist in the U.S military? | Being convicted of a felony is seen as a character flaw. Since the US military is being shrunk and unemployment is high, the military can be pickier about who they select for enlistment. For many military jobs you're required to have a security clearance, and felonies are like kryptonite to being vetted for a clearance... |
-American redditors, why is your president only allowed to run the country for 8 years? | There didn't used to be a term limit on the president. George Washington, the first President of the United States, set the precedent by not seeking a third term. The only presidents who ran for third terms were Teddy Roosevelt who didn't win, and Franklin Roosevelt, who actually won a fourth term before he died in 194... |
Why are there so many ladyboys in Thailand? I find it hard to believe that there are so many MtF trans people. | It's to do with the attitude towards homosexuality amongst conservative thai people. If you're gay, it must be because you want to be a woman , so it becomes more acceptable to live as a woman than be out as a gay man. |
How do other people slow down my connection speed? | You don't have an exclusive collection to the internet that is all yours. You have a connection to a box somewhere in your neighborhood that all your neighbors also connect to. That box has a maximum bandwidth it can share between all the people in your neighborhood connected to it. If too many of you try to connect at... |
What is the counter argument to police officers not wearing body-cams? | In addition to what others have said, there are privacy concerns with respect to victims/witnesses/bystanders as well. Victims, in particular, may be discussing sexual or physical abuse or family issues. There are obvious concerns about videos of these conversations being mandatory, and whether victims might withhold s... |
Why are car bumpers/fenders made to be hollow? Why not make them out of something like rubber? | See also[ELI5: Why aren't cars made out of safer material?] Which gets the same kind of answers so is plausibly the same question.It helps with crashes. This allows the bumper to collapse into itself absorbing some of the impact. |
Why is bestiality porn easily accessible on the internet if it's illegal? | There's a difference between the *act* being illegal and the *recording* of the act being illegal. Take a look at [this] table of state-by-state laws regarding zoophilia, the recording of zoophilic acts, and the sale and consumption of those recordings. Note how while most states ban zoophilia, relatively few ban the r... |
What are those LED-like tubes around the lens of a surveillance camera? | They are usually IR lights - the human eye can't pick them up when they are illuminated but the camera lens can so they work kind of like night vision |
If water is actually 1/3 oxygen why aren't there scuba diving masks that filter the water into oxygen? | Creating oxygen from water in a portable setup isn't really practical or possible. Also, it isn't very good for you to breathe pure oxygen. Scuba tanks for most recreational divers are just compressed air.The amount of energy required for electrolysis for the product would not be as applicable as compared to compressed... |
Especially in the winter when there's snow on the ground, why does everything have a blue hue to it just before sunrise and sunset? | Why, especially right after a snowfall, does Winter's night sky take on an oddly rosy pink hue?", 'Blue travels at the shortest wavelength and is scattered the most, which is why the sky is ‘blue’. I’d imagine it’s mostly the same thing, but factoring the reflective surface from a pure “white” substance like snow. Not ... |
Why do people who generally don't workout get more tired than those who do? What causes our body to become more "in shape" and able to withstand more physically? | Imagine Uncle Joe needs to get the newspaper everyday from his lawn. He is lazy so he stays in his slippers. Overtime leaves start collecting on his lawn, making it harder to walk to and from his mailbox for the news. Joe takes the same path to and from the front door to the mailbox. Overtime the leaves in that path ge... |
Why do stars twinkle while planets don't? | Imagine you're looking down on two lights at the bottom of a pool. One is a tiny little LED and the other is a big fat glowing orb. Disturb the surface a **tiny** bit and the LED will seem to move around dramatically, but the big fat orb will seem to stay relatively still. |
Why some musical notes do not have a sharp/flat in between them like E and F or B and C | The distance between E and F & B and C are half steps. The distance between A and B. C and D, D and E, F and G & G and A are whole steps. E and F **do** have sharps/flats between them but no one says them because E sharp is F. And F flat is E. The best way to see this is on a piano, where half steps have no black keys ... |
how can humans successfully terraform a planet for us to live there. | We could just move Venus so that it share's Earth's orbit around the sun. Eventually it will cool off. |
Why did it become tradition for women to take the surname of the man they were marrying? | Because we're a patriarchal society. In matriarchal societies it's often the other way round, but they aren't as common", 'And not so much a tradition as a law. Women were often considered property and if they married they had no choice but to take the patriarch name. This may not apply to royalty, of courseBecause tha... |
Why some pimples feel like whiteheads but never are, they just have an infinite amount of oily clear liquid. | I feel I am in the minority with my strategy but it seems to work wonders. I only get a pimple or two a year and when I do I let it run its course. This meaning I don't touch it and eventually washing my face/body in the shower pops it, washes all that off and then in a day or so it is completely gone. I may be wrong, ... |
Why are artists like Van Gogh and Picasso famous? What makes great art great? | I was in Edinburgh last weekend and I went to see Picasso's expo at the modern art museum. It was incredible. Picasso is great because most of its work is original, innovative and incredible by itself. Just imagine, the guy decided one day that he's not going to represent a face normally, he's going to draw it at the s... |
Why is the technology in today's wireless keyboards, mice, and game console controllers so extremely better than today's TV remote? | The other two have answered this effectively already but I thought I'd summarise itThe main difference lies in how much money people are willing to spend on the device and how well the device needs to perform, so it uses infra red amd dumbswitches, cheap and easy With a v remote, you don't want to pay much and you don'... |
How is scurvy not more commonplace today? | Ascorbic acid is so cheap that a lot of food makers just chuck it into their products so they can say it contains vitamins. Since it also helps prevent oxidation it's often part of the preservative package. |
Bourbon, Scotch and Whiskey | whiskey refers to a bunch of hard liquors made from distilled grains bourbon = corn irish whiskey = barley dried in the sun or in kilns scotch whiskey or just scotch = barley dried over peat fires rye whiskey or rye = made from rye, generally a bit harsher and spicier that's pretty much all you need to know imo unless ... |
What is a government shutdown, and how does it happen/work? | When I was in the military and we had shut downs it just meant I didn't get paid but I was still expected to go to work. |
Why has no one made a major film from the first person perspective yet? | So games have you control a character, to see through their eyes makes sense. But you don't control a movie, it would just be super jarring and odd to see from a first person view. The closest you get in movies is camcorder / lost footage style movies. |
Why do all animals, even insects, seem to go nuts over the red dot? | Hadn't heard about insects going crazy over a laser dot. Anyone has anecdotes?", 'This will be buried, but I have to mention, that laser pointers are extremely dangerous to dogs and cats. They can cause serious OCD, reflection obsession/fixation, shadow obsession/fixation, etc. So be careful, and do not use laser point... |
If you can get a Prenup to protect your assets in the case of divorce, could you do the same to protect your assets from child support? | Child support is intended to provide a portion of the cost of raising *your child*. It has exactly nothing to do with the assets that were protected in the initial split. The only way to avoid supporting your child would be if your ex-spouse agreed to allow you to relinquish all parental rights. The way the state sees ... |
how does calling 911 work if it's the same number across the United States? | Any call you dial that connects to the public switched telephone network is evetually handled by a telephone switch. One of the things programmed into the switch is a table called a _dial plan_ that determines how calls are to be routed. Part of the dial plan will be instructions that say when the first three digits di... |
If people are scared of Ebola spreading from Africa why isnt travel out of Africa resticted? | Also economically it would totally deStroy all goods transports,contacts flying around , general meetings etc and that is a really big step to take to fend off 4000 people, I think you might've asked abit naivily and short thoughted:) |
How is Time Warner Cable only worth $45 Billion but a simple app like WhatsApp is worth $16 billion? | Simple way to see it is, anything is worth exactly how much people will pay for it. People pay for things based on real and perceived value. It is fairly easy to figure out the WTC value: it is a public traded company, so the easiest way to figure this is to multiply the price of a share by the number of shares. A bett... |
Why can I tell in old cartoons (and some new ones) when a drawn object will move or not by the end of the scene? | These other answers are kind of right.. the non-moving images were drawn on a background layer and the foreground moving image on the celluloid. The reason they LOOK different is because they are different mediums and require different paint types because of those mediums. The celluloid held a certain type of acrylic i... |
Why in US people who pro guns say that they need guns for protection but in all mass shooting there no reports of civilians shoting back(protecting themselves) at assaliants? | Having a concealed weapon provides a potentially useful option if you're attacked, but it's tricky. When violence starts, you don't necessarily know where the bad guys are or even WHO the bad guys are. If you see a guy shooting, he might be the bad guy, but he might be another guy who was concealed carrying and trying ... |
Is inhaling helium baloons safe? | Inhaling from the balloons is safe I think, but there was a girl in my area recently who died taking helium straight from the tank. Ruptured her lungs. So don't do that.It can be very dangerous, and [has killed before.] |
why cars can't be bought online or in a depot with many brands? | The money isn't in the sales. The money is in the service. The only reason to sell cars is to encourage you to come back there for service. Service requires extensive training and familiarity with the intricacies of the particular brand and occasionally the model of car. Plus their parts department keeps a stock of fre... |
If a scope on a rifle is placed above the barrel and therefore the line of sight is parallel to bullet trajectory how does the crosshair and bullet align at every distance? | Gryphon is half right. When sighting in a rifle, you choose one distance. For me it's 100yards. Because typically the bullet hasent had time to drop more than a little bit. Although that depends on the grain of bullet. I'll get to that later, but you sight in at 100yrds, you fire a few down range. The first shots are t... |
What makes hot air look “squiggly”? | Transparent materials all bend light slightly when it enters or leaves the material - this is called refraction. You've seen it with a straw in a glass of liquid, and you see it with lenses and prisms. Air refracts light as well, just a little, and the amount it does so depends on how dense the air is. When you have ai... |
Why are professional poker players allowed to wear hats/sunglasses/headphones during the game? | The same reason teams don't tell the opposition what play they're going to run. If you can't have some defense why even play?", 'They give you very small advantage against most crowd That being said it might provide a bit of advantage . So why not everyone uses it? People just do not care enough to get this bit of extr... |
What's the difference between a motel and a hotel?? | A motel is a hotel catered to motorists that are in-transit rather than a destination. They're typically setup for simple room and minimal services. Hotels on other hand are much more higher scale in room quality and services. Hotels are graded by services they provide, which may include laundry service, restaurant, co... |
Why do older people come across so badly/cringingly on social media? | Because there's a learning curve. I've had a Facebook profile since it came out, back in 2004. It's evolved SO much since then, not only the type and degree of interaction options available, but the settings as well. As it becomes more complicated, I learn simultaneously. I'm sure it's that way for most people. We also... |
If a website asks you to provide an email address and password, what is to stop them from using that password to attempt to get into your email? | There's no technical reason they couldn't do that. There are business and legal reasons why they wouldn't want to but that's a different scenario. Any reputable website should be storing your password encrypted but you first have to send them the unencrypted password so they can encrypt it for you. This is one of the r... |
Why the Black Lives Matter protesters shut down Bernie Sanders twice? | He's certainly more progressive than his opponents, but [he's been relatively quiet on the issue of police brutality against Black Americans:] > Most Black voters want the answer to one question: What is Sanders’ plan to address the police brutality crisis in the Black community? So far, he's acknowledged that there is... |
why has human development into the modern age been so fast, when for millions of years it's been so slow? What triggered it? | Language. For millions of years, there was no efficient way to transmit knowledge. Every generation had to basically relearn everything from scratch. Parents could place their offspring in situations that would facilitate learning, but it was all trial and error after that. But once language evolved, you could tell you... |
Why Communism looks great on paper but has always failed in real life | It looks great on paper because everyone gets everything they need; there is no class of struggling poor people existing at the same time as a class of obscenely rich people. HOWEVER, human nature prevents it from succeeding in reality. As the person below said, why go to school to be a doctor when you'll end up making... |
Why is the US congress so much less rowdy than the parliaments of places like the United Kingdom, let alone places like Taiwan? | It's important to understand that the first clip you posted of the British Parliament is during a weekly session where it is a little acceptable to be rowdy. It's called Prime Minister's Questions and it is a time where the Prime Minister is required to sit and be questioned by the members of Parliament. An ELI5 would ... |
What exactly is a headache and what causes it? | I've had a tension headache for almost two years. Note that it's not several headaches; I got a headache and it just never stopped. A friend of mine gave me what I thought was a crazy hippie tip, but for reasons I have yet to look into, it works for me. Grab a hold of the tip of your finger, and just sit there applying... |
ELI: why can't you see the fog that is immediately around you? | Fog is made of tiny water droplets in the air. Light bounces off each droplet in such a way that, if you look through the droplet, you won't be able to see through it. Instead it will look white, or whatever color light is nearby. If there's only one very tiny water droplet in the air, you won't notice it, which is wha... |
Why is "investigative journalism" considered dead? | Imagine you're walking through an apple orchard. There are apples everywhere. On the branches at the top of the tree, are golden, juicy, perfect apples. Everybody wants one of these apples, this is what everybody's idea of an apple is. This is what an apple should be. But it's super hard to get to, a lot of effort, tim... |
When TV shows use really good music from really unknown groups, how did they find it? | Generally speaking, people who make tv shows tend to be artistic people and live in music hubs so they go to a lot of shows which are often headlined by indie acts. If they like the act then they offer a opportunity to that band. Also another important reason is that using music from unknown group is a lot cheaper than... |
How do parents decide that babies need glasses? | I don't think I've ever seen a baby with glasses. I think the most common sign that kids need glasses, is that they are having trouble in school . |
Why do countries in the Middle East / Western Asia hate the Kurds and the idea of 'Kurdistan' so much? | Simple. The Kurds occupy big chunks of turkey, Iraq, and Syria. If Kurdistan became a reality, it's possible those countries will lose big chunks of their country to the new Kurdistan. Losing territory is pretty much the worse thing for a country, since all a country is at the end of the day is territory. |
Visible light has more energy than microwaves, so why do we use microwaves to cook food? | It's frequency is at the perfect wave length to effect water directly. Since water is in almost everything that you would want to cook it still functions as a great way to heat food up. This is also why microwaved foods have different taste and texture to baked foods. When a food is baked it's being heated by the surfa... |
Why is tupperware wet coming out of the dishwasher, when plates and glasses are all dry? | It has to do with thermal mass. The glass and ceramic have the ability to hold onto, and release, heat slowly. Once hot, they release heat over time. This aids in the ability for them to help evaporate water in the dishwasher during the dry cycle. Plastic, on the other hand, is a poor heat conductor beacuse of its low ... |
Why do tightrope walkers carry bars perpendicular to their body and how does it work? | Have you ever tried to walk along a curbstone or a picnic table seat? It's hard, isn't it? What do you do when you're trying to balance? You reach our your arms. But why? Well, when you tilt your arms, you can control your balance better. This is because all your body's weight is centered around one spot. If that spot ... |
Why do I need an ISP to connect to the internet? | The big networks work with large-scale infrastructure and capacity and don't like to deal with small individual customers. So instead sell/rent huge chunks of bandwidth to the ISP's who take care of the distribution to individual end-users. Each ISP can then connect and market as they think is commercially viable. It's... |
how countries like Germany and Japan rose from ashes to world industrial leaders in less than 40 years? | To ELI5, It's all about education, solid foundation. So, if the government invest $5 back into the local communities, they'll get $15 back in return. Now, in some countries, a government invest $5 and they won't get $5 back. |
Why does someone gets hypoxic when on an unpressurized aircraft above 10,000ft, but doesn't when on the ground at the same altitude? | For instance, I've slept at almost 5000 meters in a hotel in my way to do some activities in the high lands of Peru, and never felt hypoxic. However I'm sure that if I'm at the same altitude in an unpressurized aircraft, I will get hypoxic, as it is highly common at this altitude.Any explanation to this? Cheers |
why is the nails on the chalk board sound less irritating to me when it's my nails creating it? | The same reason that your farts smell good to you but awful to everyone else. I think that's a serious answer BTW. |
Why is gentrification considered bad? | It's both good and bad. Cleaning up neighborhoods makes prices rise. So we're bad if we ignore low income neighborhoods and we're bad if we improve them. |
medieval warming period and global warming | The Earth has natural variability in its climate. We are able to observe the Earth's climate through longitudinal data like ice cores and tree rings. Those data along with contemporary observations about the climate indicate overwhelmingly that the Earth is warming, principally in response to human introduced greenhous... |
Why does it take significantly more force to get an object moving on a flat surface than it does to keep pushing it after the initial movement has begun? | When you start pushing it, you need to use enough force to get the object moving. Seems obvious, right? The more mass the object has, the more energy you need to put into it. But that energy doesn't disappear. The object will continue moving in that direction forever, unless something acts on it. Something does, of cou... |
Why isn't there just one federal document (passport, driver's license, SS#, and birth certificate)? | A driver's license is not issued by the Federal Government and there is no reason why it should be. Social Security and a passport are unrelated so why would they be merged? |
Whats the hate with fedoras over in the western world? | It's not that people hate fedoras, they just hate the type of people that typically wear fedoras. Edit: fixed grammar. |
How Goldman Sachs is ruining the world. | It's not so much that they alone are ruining it. It's more that they're a very useful accomplice to those that are, and that they happen to be making a lot of money while accomplicing [sic]", 'It's a variation of "Money = Power". Goldman is good at a) making money; b) raising money. People are willing to stretch their ... |
- I'm sort of ashamed, but how does the menstrual cycle work? As in stages of cycle length, the reason for it, the emotional altering it does, etc.? | There is a growing vampire-baby inside every female, and once about every few months it gets frustrated at its captivity and tries to get out. It stabs and bites, clawing its way out, with no sympathy for its human host. The body is amazingly resilient, however, and within about 50 years, it kills the freakin' monster. |
What is happening when I "zone out"? | Also, when you zone out, is it physically observable? As in, does it look like you're still looking straight ahead or do your eyes look cross eyed and manical? |
Trident has on their gum packaging that their gum is good for teeth. Is this true, if so how? | I guess so. I think it has to do with the fact it doesn't have sugar. It's not necessarily helping your teeth rather not decaying them. |
Why is exercise that increases my heart rate considered good, but medication and narcotics that increase my heart rate are considered bad? | Narcotics like nicotine actually narrow your blood vessels, and exercising I think actually makes your heart stronger. Your heart is beating faster because your vessels are smaller when you do drugs, and your heart's beating faster because your body is working harder when you exercise. The smoking has other effects on ... |
why do tolls exist? | Another thought is that there simply isn't enough money from taxes to keep up with maintaining/constructing roads. So tolls are an added tax, but they are more specific to users of that specific road, rather than having that tax imposed on the entire public.I thought you said "trolls" in which case the answer would be ... |
Outside of bribes, fancy cars, and donations, how do lobbyists wield so much power over Congressional representatives? | Here's a good way to explain it:I am running for congress. I need a lot of money. Some of my money comes from individuals who can donate a little here and there, but it's not enough. Along comes this big industrial company who says they will fund a large chunk of my campaign because they like my position on some things... |
How do sleep tracking apps work | Smartphones have whats called an accelerometer inside of them. It's how your phone tracks it's orientation to know when to rotate the screen to landscape mode. It's also used in some games where you tilt the phone to do certain actions. It can also be used by the sleep app to track your movements. When you're in REM sl... |
Why are we focusing on curing cancer and not replacing the organs affected by it? | In some special cases this can happen, but organ transplantation is poorer choice than other modalities - it's much more prone to fail and carries more risks to the patient, including life-long immunosuppresing therapy. |
why isn't fishing considered animal cruelty? You're basically catching them by a hook and "drowning" them with air. | The current state of animal law is that anything common practice is by definition not cruel. If it's not unusual, it's not cruel. That's how animal industry survives - it's generally horrific. I like to recommend *Death on a Factory Farm* which is an HBO documentary which follows an under cover investigation. Of course... |
Why is most popular or mass produced beer considered low quality? If they're so bad, why are they so popular? | Quantity > Quality Plus it's cheap and easy to get a lot of. Why get a 10$ 6 pack of fine quality micro-brew when you can spend twice that on like 30 Bud Lights?", 'Low quality is very different from bad. You will not find a more quality controlled beer than Bud. The science that goes into it is amazing. Why they waste... |
Why do farmers choose to grow GMO? | Because, as a [meta-analysis of 147 studies] showed, GMOs increase yields by 22%, reduce pesticide use by 37%, and increase farmer profits by 68%. Edit: Also, > India a farmer commits a suicide every 30 minutes and so on. So why then they simply are not growing regular seeds then? This is the same rate as French farmer... |
Why such a high age limit to rent a car compared to other age limits? (Smoking, drinking, etc.) | Because corporations are legally allowed to use statistical data to their advantage . I've also seen hotels where you have to be 25 and over. The United States has always had a strangely distrustful attitude towards young people. It's one of the last few developed countries in the world that still has a drinking age of... |
How do producers of movies like Jackass and Borat acquire consent of the people they film? | Sacha Baron Cohen also said that for his films, because they know ahead of time who their intended targets are, they have them sign the consent form *before* they get humiliated, when they're much likelier to get a signature.Similar question: How does "To Catch a Predator" work around that rule?', "[From the Jonny Knox... |
why are cartoon characters drawn with only three fingers and a thumb? | Cartoons tend to have simplified features across the board. Dots for eyes, a little nub for a nose, a squiggle for hair. Have simplistic features and ultra realistic hands would look out of place, so you simplify the hands, too. At first glance, you don't notice the difference, like you would with two fingers, so it wo... |
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