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Why can't internal organs be itchy? | Because our skin has nerves that are responsible for the itch signal to our brain, other parts of the body don't contain these nerves.As someone with major food allergies and a history of anaphylaxis and asthma, it certainly feels like internal organs can itch! |
Why are folks living in urban areas more likely to be liberal? Conversely, why are people in rural areas more likely to be conservative? | Better education in metropolitan areas. The religious orders have less power . Diversity of colour, religion, orientation in metropolitan areas. Basically if you're out in the boonies, your social exposure is a lot more focused. If conservo-dad doesn't want you to be friends with 'that brown boy', it's a lot easier for... |
Why is it that when my phone vibrates, the vibrations feel stronger if I hold it in a looser grip rather than a tighter grip? | Just imagine it was a kicking and screaming kid. Is it easier to hold them tightly or loosely? Tightly. Why? Because they can't build any momentum. |
Why are people from the southern states (US) perceived as less educated than their northern counterparts? | I'd like to add that I think there's a bit of a brain drain away from the South. Highly educated people often find the north more welcoming economically and culturally. |
Why do different alcohols make me feel different drunks. | The alcohol itself probably isn't to blame, but flavorants and mixers probably have a mild effect. Sugar, caffeine, anything that might effect how your body absorbs the alcohol or how your brain functions. Taste might make you drink different drinks at different paces, too.The people nerd-flexing about "ethanol is etha... |
How does the TV viewership calculated ? How do they know I am watching the TV program ? | So do this mean if I watch something mindless because it's hysterical, yet damaging that I am giving them ratings? Or do they need to tell me when my cable box is marked?", 'This topic is 19 hours old so I doubt anyone will see this explanation. I work at a small network in europe and this is how we do it. With every T... |
What exactly is that cramp in your side you get while running? | It's caused by your lunges expanding too rapidly, and pushing on other parts of the inside of your body .When you warm up better , your lungs will expand more gradually to support the oxygen requirement. If you're super un-fit, then there could be a case of no amount of warming up is enough to stop your lunges from not... |
Why are we making our expedition to mars a one way trip? | When you're launching to the outer reaches of the solar system, you need more fuel at launch and a faster rocket than if you're just dropping a satellite in low earth orbit. Mars has no resources that they can use to make fuel, so anything used for a theoretical return trip would need to be carried with the space craft... |
If identical twins share the exact same DNA and come from the same egg, how could they possibly have different physical appearances and personalities? | Because DNA is not the only thing that alter physical appearances. Your behavior, food, hormone, sponaneous mutation, many others littles thing and randomness And i've read that scientist explain some difference between twin with physics when they are in the womb. |
How can cats and dogs tell when their owner is sad, and why do they try and comfort them? | Research has shown that when looking at human faces dogs look at the right-hand side face of the first , called “left gaze bias” . Human adults do this when examining facial expressions and when shown a face with differing expressions will tend to base their opinon more strongly on the right hand side of the face. It's... |
how serious is the Russian economic collapse, and does it have implications outside Russia? | Russia's economy is relatively small and heavily dependent on oil. With the fall of oil prices being as large as seen in a very long time, their economy loses on a very large export. The decline in the ruble and pressure on the financial system from its debt has started to cause inflation. Russias economy is fairly ind... |
Why is it that walking on a ledge hundreds of feet in the air is extremely difficult, while walking on the same ledge a few feet above ground is no problem? | Vision/depth perception is an important factor for balance. You can try standing on one leg or on your toes with your eyes open and then again closed. It is a lot harder with your eyes closed. When standing on a ledge your eyes might not be closed but the ground is so far away that it's not much of a helpful reference ... |
Why don't humans have natural ways of cleaning their teeth while other animals do? Such as dogs who can just chew bones to keep their teeth clean. | I heard you can clean your teeth by chewing twigs, and some more 'primitive' tribes for want of a better word do use this technique. Don't know if it's a particular type of twig you have to use or not |
Why People used Muskets over Crossbows | Another interesting thread would be the use of the musket over the rifle. The British army used the Brown Bess, a .75 Cal, smoothbore flintlock musket from 1700 onwards for over 100 years. These muskets were used in formation firing ~4 rounds a minute in volleys.The Baker Rifle was a slower firing but far more accurate... |
What is the Every Student Succeeds Act? What does it want to change in K-12 education and how is it better than No Child Left Behind? | Spends a lot more money and creates new federal programs, from the right's viewpoint: _URL_6_ It also eliminated some programs:Adequately Yearly Progress that required that all students achieve proficiency by the 2014-15 school year, or have a state risk federal sanctions. Also eliminated the “highly qualified teacher”... |
Given that the public is aware that car exhaust fumes contribute to global warming and general pollution, why isn't there a greater demand for cheap and economical electric cars? | There *is* great demand for cheap and economical electric cars, there's just very little *supply* of those kind of cars. Most electric cars are quite a bit more expensive than gasoline cars that have the same same range and power. This may change as LiIon batteries slowly become less expensive. That's really the big th... |
Why do we still look through microscopes instead of displaying the image on a high resolution monitor? | Those are common, mostly when multiple people need to look at them together, or the image needs to be either saved it transmitted electronically anyway. But if her eyesight is poor, displaying it digitally isn't going to save that. You still have to look at the screen with your same eyes. An optical eyepiece has more a... |
What does the term "meta" mean? | It comes from ancient Greek, where 'meta' means after, but it doesn't mean that anymore. It more or less means self-referential in the context that Reddit uses it. |
What is the point in providing First and Last months rent if you are signing a contract anyway? | you still owe the money .on paper. money on paper doesn't mean it's in the landlord's pocket. what happens if you decide that you don't want to live there anymore and just move out without telling the landlord and stop contact? he loses out on a month of rent. another month of finding a new tenant. legal costs of pursu... |
How do sim cards work and why do we need them? | A sim card is your subscriber identity module and it contains part of a 2 part key that is necessary to join a mobile network. The SIM is used for the cryptographic authentication and handshaking with the network and it is one of the reasons why it's not possible to listen in on peoples wireless telephone conversations... |
What happens when a poor person steals/damages your property? | You get your property back if it still exists, but otherwise you don't get anything. You could try to sue them but if they don't have any money then it's pointless.I think they have to become your butler. |
Why do alcoholics stop drinking entirely instead of drinking less? | For people in AA it is a common understanding that the excessive drinking is not the disease but a symptom of the disease. I see people all the time replace their excessive drinking with excessive . So I don't have a problem with alcohol I have a problem with moderation. So I don't want the reminder, I just abstain fro... |
The perpetual conflict between Israel and Hamas. | Britain captured and controlled the region in WW1. This was unpopular with the native Palestinians. Britain then gave up control at the end of WW2, and the country was spilt by the United Nations into Israel for the jews and Palestine for the arabs. This was not popular with the arabs who rejected the plans. A war star... |
Why do coaches (NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA) get fired for their team coming in second, but most far more losing coaches keep their positions? | Expectations. I'm going to use the English Premier League as example. If a team like Chelsea who have been one of the best teams in England and Europe recently are expected by the fans, the owners, the players, the media to win the league then a say fourth place finish is very underwhelming. A team like QPR are either ... |
Why are bees so important to the worlds overall ecosystem? And what will happen if they all go extinct? | Bear in mind that honeybees aren't the only kind. While the European honeybee is in danger, there are other bees that are not. If the honeybees all died out, native bees would fill in the gap.Bees are one of the larger groups of pollinators, which are necessary for plant reproduction and the production of fruit and see... |
If NASA sends a spaceflight to Mars which is live transmitted from the flight, how will we as spectators experience the delay from when the spaceflight starts on earth and to when it reaches Mars? | I think you're asking what it will the increasing delay *look like* if a *continuous* feed is arriving from gradually further and further away? It will depend on how much data is sent at a time - there is no such thing as analogue broadcasting like that - there will be a frames per second rate or packets of data at the... |
Am I correcting in assuming that Apples iOS is based on a 7+ year old frame work. How long before they have to completely redo the OS instead of making incremental changes? | I would say only when there is a radical shift in the hardware paradigm. Moore's law is more at risk than it has ever been as we hit the nano scale and eventually software will have to provide the efficiency improvement instead of relying on hardware. FYI, as others mentioned the core is UNIX which is actually about 40... |
Non-American here, why are television broadcasting times shown in formats such as 8/7 Central? | > Or are the public just too daft to convert time? Oh look, another European who couldn't pass up an opportunity to insinuate Americans are dumb.Most networks have an east coast feed and a west coast feed. "8/7 central" is short for 8pm Eastern, 8pm pacific, and 7pm central. While the central time zone does not get its... |
How the fuck did Puerto Rico amass $70 Billion in debt?? | Here's a great podcast that talks about what happened - mostly due to Taxes and the failed Puerto Rican Bonds. _URL_1_ U.S. tax code - Section 936 – Basically gave tax breaks to manufacturers to set up show in Puerto Rico .But these tax cuts were temporary and apparently the U.S. Treasury missed out on $4 Billion a yea... |
Why can't we donate money to NASA? | NASA's budget is very large relative to anything we can relate to in our everyday lives. Crowdfunding can't raise billions of dollars. |
Why are glass knives not commonly used to bypass metal detectors? | You can put any knife you want in your checked luggage at the airport. The main reason why people aren't sneaking in glass/wood/ceramic knives through the metal detector is because they are simply there to catch a flight to go somewhere! They aren't going on a plane to try to hijack it.There are lots of other things yo... |
Why do me teeth feel loose? Are they really loose, temporarily, or is my brain just playing tricks on me? | They're supposed to move a very small amount, imperceptibly to the eye. This happens because if they were perfectly rigid in the gums they would chip and break very easily. Below the gumline they have a lot of what appears to be almost a furry coating to them which interfaces with the gum and keeps them anchored while ... |
How come chess computers can beat people at chess by such a huge margin, yet "intelligent" AI in video games is so hard to get right? | We'll leave aside, FPS, racing games, RPGs, whatever. Building AIs for those that destroy even the best players is pretty easy. If you can beat the AI in one of those games, it was handicapped in some way. RTS games are basically the one place where building good AI is hard. Hidden information messes with them, a chess... |
Why do websites (reddit) try to force mobile users to the mobile site, and push app downloads, what difference does it make to them? | If you enjoy using the mobile site, in theory, you'll end up using the site more. Serving the homepage of Reddit to a phone is also wasteful if you're serving the whole thing. |
Why is it considered rude to keep your hat on indoors? | My mother demands that hats be taken off indoors because if you don't, you're bringing ghosts into the house. . O_O. GHOSTS. Can't risk that shit. |
Why are big creatures like Giants portrayed as moving slowly just because they're large. | I think there's something related to the momentum. For the same momentum, the velocity must be lower if the mass is bigger.Have you seen how fast ants move? I bet we seem pretty slow to themGravity accelerates everything at the same rate, regardless of mass, assuming air resistance is negligible. This is the classic "f... |
If someone receives a full organ transplant will the organ be eventually replaced by the host's cells or will it remain as the the donor's cells for the rest of the host's life. | No. And actually in some cases, it might lead to very interesting scenarios. I had leukemia when I was younger and went through a bone marrow trasnplant from my brother. Since your original bone marrow is destroyed before this procedure , it was fully replaced by bone marrow with my brother's DNA. Bone marrow produces ... |
Why is the Reddit community's comments so much more intelligent than the Youtube community's comments? | I guess it's because Reddit is halfway built on comments and post like these that are made specifically for people to comment and read others comments. While youtube you are just there for the video and the comments is just too many to keep track of so people feel protected I guess. ", 'Because reddit users show their ... |
If it's bad for the battery for a computer to be plugged in while at 100% charge, why can't the charger detect a full charge and disconnect the power? | Newer computers do this, but start to charge the battery again after it falls below some value. My guess would be that setting that threshold as low as possible would give the best lifetime to your battery. What I don't understand is, shouldn't there be a setting to disconnect *the battery* and only use the AC power to... |
How do emergency rooms work? I recently went and was told the wait would be around 14 hours. Seems like a lot of people could die within that time range... | I was always told that you should never complain about being kept waiting in A & E because if it was the case that you didn't have to wait it would mean that your injuries were life threatening. If you are waiting then you are going to survive. |
Why does our hair turn gray when we age? | It's kind of like when you put a new ink cartridge in a printer, when you first put it in the color is vivid. As you print off more pages , the color starts to fade out of the original color.Our hair is normally gray, but our body colors it in. As we get older, our body stops making the color for our hair. |
What is "breatharianism"? How does it work? Is there any science behind it? | There is entirely zero science behind it. It doesn't work. There is absolutely no mechanism for humans to be able to live without food. The lady ended up losing tons of weight and eventually had to stop. She did drink tea and milk, which allowed her to go on for a surprising length of time with no food . |
How do drivers of semi - trucks and buses manage to make wide turns with out their tail end hitting anything or falling off the road? | You learn how to do this. When you make turns you rely on your mirrors. You don't start turning until your trailer is half way past the turn and you always turn into the outside lane. I have a CDL license. |
Why can you cut branches off a tree and they'll grow back, but you can't cut the tree down and have the stump grow a new tree? | Not true. I've cut down three trees in 10 years and all three grew suckers. I killed all the suckers except the strongest. The trees were cut down due to one breaking in half in the wind and the other two were killed by bugs.My grandmothers wooden fence which was years old and had been creosoted many times, sprouted a ... |
Why can't my ISP block https websites? | They can block by domain or IP address, but they can't see the content of the site when you're using https, because it's encrypted, and so they can't perform keyword filtering. Some organisations use a man-in-the-middle attack, which allows them to decrypt https traffic, but browser settings must be altered to allow th... |
If you are short-sighted, is it better for your eyes/eyesight to wear your glasses in front of a computer screen? | I'm short sighted to an extent, I only really need my glasses to read far away things like road signs but I absolutely do not wear my glasses when I use a pc and very rarely use them at all if I'm not driving. |
What are "knots" in your back? and how do you "get rid" of them? | It's sad this thread turned away from the actual question I still would like a better explanation", 'My job requires me to pour over medical records a lot. I was reading one for a man who injured his back at work and went to a chiropractor to have an adjustment done on the lumbar spine. The next day he was admitted int... |
Why don't American go to College/University in Europe? | As an American about to start studying in Germany, I'd say there are a few reasons why it's not that common: **language barrier:** At American high schools, people usually only take about 2 years of a foreign language . Even if you take courses in English, you probably want to be able to do stuff outside the classroom,... |
What is the pre-TSA screening line I see in airports now, and doesn't the lower security of those lines defeat the purpose of stopping terrorist? | I think there is a background check before you are approved, and the only major difference is that you get to keep your shoes on. The real benefit is that you get to skip most of the line. Airlines have a priority lane for customers that fly with them often with precheck someone who doesn't fly often can skip the line ... |
in the absence of post-death reward or punishment, why should I care about ethics? | It's directly up to you. If you have no fear of reprisal then the only thing stopping you is you. Either the imposed guilt, or the idea that others would think less about you, or even hope for your soul . The absense of law does not right away lead to a breakdown of society. In small groups, anarchy is often seen as th... |
if grains are the largest portion of the food pyramid, why is eating a low-carb diet considered healthy/a good way to lose weight? | In addition to the fact that the food pyramid is largely bullshit low carb diets don't just cut out grain - they cut out processed sugar, which is a huge culprit in obesity.The Food Guide Pyramid was created in 1992 and was replaced by the MyPyramid in 2005, which was replaced again in 2011 with the MyPlate guide. The ... |
Evidence for evolution that a five year old can understand | When something is born it has some of the traits of its parents. Occasionally when something is born it's traits are different from its parents due to an error before birth. Most of the time these errors are bad. Sometimes they are good. When an error is good and that child reproduces, that error will get passed down t... |
When and why did we get so obsessed with hygiene ? | > There's a lot of social rules that I find controversial, especially considering the fact that humanity evolved without hygiene for millions of years. There was certainly hygiene in pre-historic humans even if it is not the same as we do now. One only has to look as far as other animals to see acts of hygiene. For exa... |
How come we don't feel the weight of our bodies? | I do all the time. Perhaps it is my chronic nerve pain but I feel pretty much every step, every roll, every turn. I feel it when I shift my weight. I'm confused by this question. Am I not normal? |
What makes the English Language so popular? | English is spoken by the people of one current superpower and one former superpower . Each of those countries had a number of colonies where they taught English as a second language and the influence of English speakers has not waned much in the past 200 years. I don't particularly think that English is easier to learn... |
Why is space travel important? | Not an ELI5 but I think [this letter] from Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger, then-associate director of science at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, to Sister Mary Jucunda, who had written to him asking how he could suggest spending billions of dollars on such a project at a time when so many children were starving on Earth, in... |
If all human cells replace themselves every 7 years, why can scars remain on you body your entire life? | Human cells don't replace themselves every 7 years. Different cell types regenerate at different rates. I believe that muscle cells replace themselves once every 10 years at birth, but this declines rapidly as you age. By the time you die, only about half of your muscle cells have been replaced. Your intestines are rep... |
Why did humans seemingly evolve to be unsuited for living in nature? | We evolved for running around in plains and savannahs. There are African tribes which still practice the style of hunting that made humans effective predators: the endurance hunt. You don't need to be faster than a prey animal, you just need to exhaust it as a group. Animals will bolt and zig-zag when frightened, so sp... |
Where do large shareholders get their day to day money? | The answer is in [wikipedia]. > Several top executives in large businesses receive a salary of one dollar. In place of a salary, the executives receive stock options.[1][2] So it's not only that they already own stock, they also receive additional stock options every year. They can exercise those options and sell the s... |
Why do people who run auctions use that weired rolling voice where it's impossible to actually hear what they're saying? | There are actually a huge number of lots to get through. Depending on the auction, they may easily go through more than 100 per hour. So that's less than a minute to sell each item/lot. The auctioneer introduces the lot by number, states the description of the lot, comes up with a opening bid , then bidding occurs and ... |
Why do American wall plates for switches use Flathead screws instead of Philips? Why do we use Flathead screws for anything? | Even though this is answered, I have a different answer I'm a bicycle mechanic, I work in a shop. You can dig in a flathead further than a phillips. It's almost impossible to strip one. Plenty of mechanics, trained ones, use the wrong size phillips on a screw and end up messing up the screw, and thus sometimes renderin... |
How are journalists and authors prevented from strategically editing people's quotes and completely changing their meaning? | In principle, they could be sued if it were serious enough. But more practically, their reputation would be on the line, and they'd be blackballed. No one would risk hiring them, and no one is going to risk talking to them and being misquoted. On top of that, unless there is proof, if it devolves into a he said/she sai... |
How do companies avoid tax using the Double Irish/Dutch Sandwich arrangement ? | Irish law says you have to pay the relevant tax to the Netherlands, Dutch law says you have to pay tax to Ireland. Then when it comes time to pay your tax neither country wants it, both governments know about this, and allow it because it brings in a lot of business that the countries otherwise wouldn't get. There is e... |
how do all you can eat buffets make money? | The food is produced very cheaply and your average customer doesn't eat enough to break even with what they pay so the restaurant makes money. They also don't generally have to employ as much staff, further reducing costs.I have been kicked out of an "all you can eat buffet" twice AMA |
Why cant I see the number in colorblind tests but I can see all the individual colors and shades of colors? | You are definitely at least partially colorblind. Go see a doctor about it. Like everyone else has said, being colorblind just means you can't really tell the difference between specific colors. If your brother is colorblind, there is at least a 50% chance you are also colorblind |
How do some websites keep you from navagating back? | One trend I've noticed is that some websites don't send you to a new page when you click a link, they just change the content of the page you're on by hiding what you were looking at and unhiding the next portion. It was a lot more popular back when Flash websites were a thing, since all parts of a Flash site all took ... |
The music theory behind the "four chords" Axis of Awesome song (Song link in comments). | Pjoernrachzarck's comment was great, and I'd like to address something they mentioned: that WHY these progressions sound good is a pretty contentious topic. Vihart attempts to explain why some sounds and progressions sound better to us than others: _URL_4_ |
from an evolutionary stand point, what is the point of the psychedlic chemical (psilocybin) in magic mushooms? | It's a poison. A defence mechanism. Edit: mushrooms don't seed, they have nothing to gain by being eaten to propagate, they release spores I think.So therefore in order to spread, they just have to survive to maturity, so like toadstools or other poisonous plants, they need to keep animals away, hence the poison |
How do trains move on the metal tracks when the wheels are made of metal? | The tracks ARE slippery , particularly given the wheel's metal-to-metal contact. But you can walk on slippery ice, including starting from a standing position, as long as you try and move slowly to start. That's the way trains work - they accelerate very slowly, which creates enough friction between wheel and track for... |
How do Adderall, Ritalin, Concerta help increase concentration? ELI5. | I'm a biologist with adult ADHD-I and I learned the exact scientific reason some time ago. To the best I can recall, brains of individuals with ADHD tend to over-actively use up the chemicals that the brain uses for things like reward, motivation, happiness, attention, and the like. Since these chemicals are consumed s... |
Why is everyone so excited about the NASA Juno mission? | It's neat. We launched a satellite that made it to another planet for observation. It's taken quite awhile to get there. What's not to be excited about? Go NASA!", '[The Pale Blue Dot] sums it up nicely. |
How do we measure things in light-years? | People in astronomy and astrophysics don't use light-year very often , they tend to measure in parsecs. As for how these extreme distances are measured, there's the triangulation that twelveparsex mentioned, but that only works for things that are nearby. If they're further away you're going to have to use other method... |
Why is it that a seemingly neglibile change in average temperature can have such a massive effect on overall global temperatures? | The easiest part to understand that has the most impact is picture if the average winter day was 10 C warmer and how that might not only keep glaciers from maintaining their size, but reducing in size dramatically. Cold water introduced to oceans affects currents dramatically, smaller ice pack increases solar energy ab... |
has any civilisation of any size not come up with the concept of names for individuals? | Look up Burmese names. The individual gets to choose their own name once they are old enough. 'U' means 'man' in Burmese so a lot of men are called that. U Nu is a famous Burmese leader.Have you not heard of marklar? We are marklar |
What happens to the human body during long periods of running that runners can't control their bowel movements? | Yes, this can happen at times, but it is definitely the extreme minority of runners kind of like some power lifters poop themselves when dead-lifting. My personal experience; having run cross country and track through high school I was basically running for 10 months of the year. Track we didn't really run long enough ... |
. How do they restore old movies to HD. | Just a quick one, HD now is 1080. Film which was used to store older movies is around 3000-4000 in resolution. So it's already pretty much HD, just a little touching up. |
How do we get hot water so fast for the shower? | Most homes have a water heater -- a super-insulated tank about 40-60 gal. that heats the water and holds it at its heated temp. [They look like this], are about 2-3 ft wide and 5-6 ft tall, usually found near the furnace or other mechanicals. When you turn on the hot faucet, the water from the tank flows to the shower ... |
Do I *really* need to wash my lettuce when it's been sitting in the grocery store getting misted on all day? | That mist is not washing the lettuce, it's just keeping it wet which helps keep it cool and fresh. There can be all kinds of germs/bacteria on the outside or in the folds of the lettuce. Washing it is probably a good idea.That mist will have been picking up sneezes and dust from the mice and farts and stuff, and washin... |
Even though studies show that speeding only reduces travel time by a few minutes, why do people continue to speed all the time, putting themselves and others at great danger? | Two things. Speed doesn't really kill Differences in speed do. If all cars travelled the same speed accidents would be far less frequent. Secondly, I have found that it's fun to drive fast.This fantasy assumes everyone has the same skill, attention span and intelligence. |
Why are countries like Greece so against the austerity measures proposed by Germany? | Because they *hurt*. Austerity basically means the gov't has to spend less money which means fewer jobs and less benefits for the people. Many will become unemployed and lose everything before their economy can correct itself. And those people vote, and when they do, they like politicians who promise to stop austerity.... |
How come I can sing really well in the shower or in my car, but when I sing anywhere else I sound like a dying cat? | Cup a hand behind one ear while singing, you'll be able to hear yourself in open areas and can adjust your pitch accordingly. Having a good ear for pitch and tone helps as well. |
Why is every country I hear about in debt, who are they in debt to? | One thing thats important to understand about national debt is that it doesn't work at all like personal debt. Personal debt obviously has a shelf life, since a person is going to die eventually, while a national debt can exist in perpetuity. So while on the face of it a situation with everyone being in debt to each ot... |
How does human trafficking work? | Actual prosecutor here. So far this thread discusses sophisticated international human trafficking, which is a problem. But there's a simpler, domestic market. The big issue is a brute force combo of kidnapping and pimping. Trafficker finds 14 year old girl in Kentucky, drives her to Arizona, and makes her fuck random ... |
Why is being a "flip-flopper" a bad thing politically, when it seems like a good thing to change your opinion based on newer/better information? | The short answer is because we expect our leaders to have all the answers, and changing your position is a sign that you don't. The long answer is that a politician can change his or her stance on an issue, especially in light of new information, but it can and usually will come back to bite him or her based on the rea... |
How Is Math A Universal Language? | A different approach than others here: Math is the science of patterns. Numbers are just one part of that. We notice that adding 3 of something to 5 of something gives us 8 of that thing, no matter whether that thing is apples, sheep, or iPhones. We notice that all right triangles obey the Pythagorean Theorem and that ... |
Why do the police oppose being video taped? | They have a difficult job. They are human and they make mistakes. At my job, when I make a mistake, my boss tells me I screwed up and tells me not to do that again. If my mistakes were recorded and put online, I might look a little silly. And I might make a few more mistakes because I'd be self-conscious about being re... |
Why, when someone dies from something that does not permanently damage anything vital, they can not be "restarted" or brought back to life? | Explain like you're five? Easy. Blood carries oxygen to all parts of the body. If you lose significant amounts of blood, your brain is starved of oxygen. The brain cells die very quickly without oxygen and that is not fixable.The problem is that our definition of "vital" gets fuzzier when you talk about the brain. You ... |
How can Putin continue to deny sending supplies and troops into the Ukraine despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary? | The vast majority of information you see is misleading. Most people see people in Russian uniforms or Russian tanks and conclude that those are Russians, and then report that. It's actually easy to find Russian uniforms in the Ukraine though, especially in the east, and Ukraine has both Russian tanks and their own tank... |
How do we not run out of keys? | Think of if you found a key on the ground. Yes, it has a match, but the chance of you finding that one match is very, very slim. A lot of car keys use a very close match. The whole idea is that the chance that you would find a key randomly and find it's match is very, very rare. |
Exactly how much more knowledge than a video game developer must you have to write the engines they use? | Really depends on what your goal for the engine and the game your making with it is. You can have a very rudimentary code only engine up in running in a few days maybe weeks but getting an engine with the feature set and usability of something like say unreal or unity takes years really and these engines never really s... |
Why are milkshakes always the most expensive desert items on a fast food's menu? | Drinks are where fast food gets their largest profit margin. Soda has an obscene profit margin where you're bringing in over 1000% over cost. My guess is this: Let's say the cost of ingredients for a large soda is $ 0.15, and the cost for ingredients for a large shake is $2.15, they would need to sell the shake for $2... |
Why has there been such an outcry by N Korea over "The interview", but shows like South Park and SNL can openly mock Kim Jong-Un without any threats of this magnitude being made? | It's possible that N. Korea was not involved there's a probability that one of the hackers was a former Sony employee looking for revenge. _URL_0_ _URL_2_ _URL_1_ |
What would be a more effective way to learn a language - watching foreign films with English subtitles, or English films with foreign subtitles? Why? | Any films in foreign language with foreign subtitles. This way you'll learn both spelling and pronunciation. Having either part in English would be a massive waste of time. Like most ESL, I've studied English exactly this way. Games, books, movies, shows - all in English, with a translator on standby. Fallout 2, Morrow... |
Why does total amount of upvotes rarely exceed 4,000, even though there might be 1,5 million users in a subreddit? | Something one of the admins once said, but now seems to be long since forgotten, is that once a post passes about 3000 points the Reddit algorithms will dump 500 automatic downvotes on it for every 500 or so extra upvotes. In effect, once you pass 3000 it's very difficult to accrue any more points at all. The reasoning... |
Why does switching around the dying batteries in my remote make it work again? | Batteries work via a chemical reaction. There is an electrolyte gel in the battery that keeps the charge flowing from one terminal to the other, but eventually the chemical reaction has happened enough times that the electrolyte 'fills up' and charge stops flowing. Moving the batteries around / shaking them up / even j... |
Why are ATMs in places likes bars, clubs, and casinos always from third parties with high fees rather than well-known banks? | Because these are usually areas where it's not convenient to say, leave the area and go to a different ATM. Since they're a captive audience, they can charge higher ATM fees and the establishment gets a cut of that fee. If they say, added a bank of America ATM there and charged only $1.50 for non-BoA cards, that's mone... |
How is the chaplain of the US congress not a violation of the separation of church and state? | Nothing says that they must be separate. Just that a religion can't be forced on the people. I'm assuming the chaplain is there for those who want it, and ignored by the rest, just like chaplains at hospitals and the like.There is significant debate about the meaning of the Establishment Clause. As you see, some beleve... |
What are American Eagle's new "Skinny Skinny" jeans? | AEO is my sister's client and she built the form that collects people's emails when they try to buy it. Said they sold out within seconds of sending the email out. If it is a joke, then they even have their employees fooled |
Why do we have 2 different kinds of screwdrivers? | There are actually lots of different types of screw heads, not just those two. People invent new types all the time because they believe they're an improved design , but the old ones also stick around due to common usage. Usually, more complex screws are used for parts that aren't meant for easy access , while simpler ... |
How is it that the United States is a secular state but the phrase "In God We Trust" still appears on our money and in the House Chamber | The US Constitution's 1st Amendment give you freedom OF religion, not freedom FROM it. The US Constitution is full of religious terms/phrases but never forces it upon the citizens . So the Government CAN use religious text and imagery, but it cannot force you observe/obey it. So while our money can have the text 'In Go... |
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