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what makes a Pub different from other bars. | In Australia a typical pub will serve food as well as alcoholic beverages. There are lots of tables/seating and usually pool tables and darts in the same general vicinity as the bar and the dining area. Music consists of live bands or soft playing music. Some pubs, depending on the time of day and day of week, have no ... |
Why do feel a lot of emotions in our stomach? | Because you have to poop. Go on, poop. you'll feel better.Because our stomach is a prick. Source: Crohns Commando. |
What do antidepressants do for people who are not depressed? | When the VA was trying to diagnose me with everything except what I had , they put me on SSRI's--a decision which turned out to be a huge mistake, because that class of drug sends me straight into orbit and keeps me bouncing off the walls like they are trampolines. As someone else noted, you have to be careful with bra... |
Why hasn't a male contraception pill been put on the market yet? | Basically, you're trying to hit one egg once a month, hormonally. Then try to hit billions of sperm being manufactured constantly, and GET THEM ALL. That's bad odds, especially considering evolution has made the most of male sperm trying to kill other male sperm to impregnate mammals with multiple sex partners for the ... |
if meat consumers ten times as much resources as vegetables why isn't it ten times as expensive? | 1) Subsidies. The types of plants used to feed animal stock are highly subsidized and therefore cheaper to the end consumer. 2) Marketing. If the price of ground beef at your grocery store is $1/lb more than your competitor, customers will notice. But if your eggplants double in price, people won't really care. 3) Exte... |
If the majority of the population (so it seems) is against drones/spying/etc. and the people who make these laws vote for their constituency, how do these laws/policies stay around? | Because that majority isn't writing letters and making phonecalls enough to make the politicians who could potentially bring legislation to bear to make those kinds of changes do something about it. In the end, we can all piss and moan all day long on forums and facebook, but unless there is a collective effort to reac... |
Why the hell can't my iPad(offline) be an am/fm radio? | So, tablets and computers have come a long way. There's software to do almost anything! The trick is, certain things must be handled by hardware. Things like wifi require wi-fi receivers and the hardware to capture the specific type of hardware used in your router to send the signal. Your phone actually uses different ... |
Why is it Super Bowl XLIX and not Super Bowl IL? In my mind, (50-10)+(10-1)=49 is more complex than 50-1=49 | Roman numerals consist of I, V, L, etc. You can't take I from L, just like you can't take V from C. You can only subtract from the next biggest numeral. |
Why is lead used to protect against radiation? | lead is effective and cheap and abundant. the heavier elements beyond lead are not cheap. they're mostly very very rare elements compared to lead. |
How do dollar shops stay in business? | I know buying bulk is a large part of what makes them possible. A lot of them do end up going out of business though. Here's the same question asked before: _URL_0_ |
Why are people racist? | They are taught to be. Usually it's their parents but also teachers, friends, pastors. It all stems from an idea that world leaders came up with. Tell everyone they are bad, evil, stupid, lazy, not human beings and you can do whatever you want to them.Because their ego demands them to be better than someone else .and t... |
Why isnt 'I have black friends' acceptable evidence to disprove racist claims? | Keep in mind, racism takes a lot of forms. It's possible for people to stereotype a race in both positive and negative qualities, and it's definitely possible for someone to be racist against their own race. 'Racism' doesn't mean that you hate all people of a certain race, but that you stereotype them based on their ra... |
Obamacare Point-By-Point - Part 5 | My family owns a small business. We currently have about 55 employees. We've talked to other business owners, insurance brokers, doctors, nurses, anyone we can think of really, and the first place I find ANY useful information is reddit! I have no idea why you decided to take this on but it's tremendously helpful! I've... |
How each new season of the show "South Park" can parody current event while it takes a year to be released ? | South Park doesn't take a year to make all its episodes. They make them practically on the fly, maybe a month before the episode is premiered. This is extremely difficult and likely very taxing, but it helps them stay up with current events very well. |
Why are endangered species a big deal? | The bald eagle is becoming an extinct species, but I cant really think of a good reason it would matter if it went extinct. There are billions of carnivorous birds, one species wouldn't really matter imo. Probably for moral reasons, is why people care. |
How come that a handful of carbon, oxygen and hydrogen atoms combined in different ways have so varied effects and uses? | It's not necessary the kind of atoms a molecule is made of, but it's rather the shape it will have, which allows it to dock to or interact with other molecules. |
How do chess games between some of the best in the world very often end up in a draw? | So what's the use of playing chess after you mastered it? Until there is something to learn ok, but after that what's truly the appeal? It's not like there are patches or smth like in strategy games of today |
Why manual car drivers change gear at a very high rpm (6k+ rpm typically), while automatic cars shift up at a rather low rpm (below 4k) | They don't. You can't generalize when a manual/automatic shifts. Automatic shifts, depending on how you're driving it. My truck, for example, shifts around 6000 if I floor it. Driving normall, it shifts around 2500-3000. When floored, it basically shifts to stay in the powerband of the car. ie, the car produces the mos... |
Why do Muslims move to progressive countries then demand the culture accommodate their extreme conservatism, sometimes to the point of violence? | Mostly because people immigrate to other places for economic reasons, not because they don't like the moral ideals of the country they left. For many Muslims, things like dress codes for women are heavily ingrained in their culture, so they don't want to give it up and view governments that try to forbid it as infringi... |
How do people save 90%+ on groceries by extreme couponing when most coupons are for a few dollars off and "cannot be combined with other offers/coupons"? | Mostly, it's by looking out for the shop that made a mistake and forgot to put that warning on their coupons. |
How people start professional automotive racing? | Many start by racing go-karts. From there, some progress to car racing on road or oval courses. If you're good enough, you might progress to stock car or open wheel cars. There's multiple stages within each of these 3 categories, and the transition to professional racing can happen in any of them. |
Why does everything that moves in outer space seem to move at extremely high velocities that could never be attained on Earth? | It's all about the frame of reference. You are moving at the same extremely high velocities from the point of view of these outer space objects. It's just that everything around you is moving to a similar speed as yours. And it's only natural to be this way otherwise it wouldn't stay around you. Think about that, if yo... |
Why do the police need to keep a criminal on the phone for so long to trace them, or is that Hollywood ruining my perception of reality? | Forensic student and mobile engineer here As far as I know, it is not possible get your geographical location like they do in films. By that I mean, get a lock on your phone and follow you using Google Maps ^^. This isn't possible at least using the cellular network. Could be possible using GPS though? There is a techn... |
what is the Christian explanation for believing homosexuality is a sin because the bible says so, but still eating pork and wearing clothing made with two materials etc.? | All this theological high talk is interesting, but let's call it as it is. People want their religion to support their personal opinions. You can interpret the Bible to support opposing viewpoints on lots of moral questions. Some Christians think that homosexuality is wrong and they try to back up that opinion with scr... |
EIL5: Why doesn't the independent candidate ever win in presidential elections? | Your question has touched upon the fundamental difference between the American-style electoral system and its European counterpart . Here are the key differences: When a voter goes to the polls in America, they vote for candidates; in congress, legislators are separated geographically through states and districts. In G... |
why the US needs a Marine Corps when the other three services could potentially fulfill its role. | Each branch of the military has a different focus, a different job. In extremely broad strokes, the Marines may be good at taking land, but they are not equipped to hold and keep that land. Part of the reason they are good at taking land is specifically because they are not trained for it, nor are they maintaining or t... |
Why does anybody prefer to buy bonds with negative yield instead of just keeping the cash? | I don't think it makes a ton of sense, but seems like it would come from a place of big fear? If you have cash in the bank, the bank can go under/fail and you lose whatever cash isn't insured by the government. If you have cash in a vault somewhere, someone can steal it, or it can be destroyed by an accident or fire. A... |
Why does pure Oxygen kill you? | it only does that if the pressure is too high. during the missions to the moon, the astronauts were actually in a nearly pure oxygen environment, but they used a pressure that was different than that of the normal atmosphere. to answer your question takes a little explaining. your lungs work on osmosis. osmosis means t... |
I'm in my mid-twenties and I've never owned a pet, can someone explain the appeal? | Someone's momma robbed her child of a childhood. ;) I know pets can't have a conversation with you, but they make the best companions. They are always there for you. Coming home to a happy dog after a bad day at school saved me. They can't talk, but you can see they love you unconditionally. There is also a physical co... |
Why earth maps have always been drawn with the "North up / South down" orientation? | I feel like we used the stars to navigate at one point, using the north star as a reference of true north. Plotting a course relative to something that's always north probably reduced the amount of lost or missing verses at one point |
Why are headphone jacks suddenly thought to be obsolete? | There's no way I'm buying an audio device w/o a headphone jack. I have a decent pair of headphones and if I can't use them w/ your product, why would I buy it? |
how are laws prohibiting the sale of alcohol on Sunday legal and not a violation of the separation between church and state? | No offence but shit like this makes the US seem so backwards. Who the fuck are the government to not let me buy alcohol on a sunday? That's my business, not theirs. I have nothing against the US, but it just has these really weird blotches of oddness. |
In the first Kingsman Movie, how do they shoot/edit the Church scene to make it look so awesome? | This YouTube video by Aaron Field explains what makes the fight scene so badass. It's the same as what others said, but a watching the scene at the same time does help! _URL_0_ |
How do we know what color the dinosaurs were?Maybe they were red with polka dots instead of grey/brown? | In the case of feathered dinosaurs, we can sometimes extract certain colour pigments from fossilized feathers. We can analyse these pigments and find out which colours the feathers were. For example, we know that Anchiornis had black, white and red feathers. With non-feathered dinosaurs, we just don't know, though some... |
How are child actors safely incorporated in to movies with explicit content (e.g. Schindler's List or horror movies)? | If the child does have to interact with the monster, they will often introduce the child to the actor and let them see them put into make up. They show the children that this is just a dude that's not going to hurt them. I think they did something like this in Insidious with the kids and the red faced guy, IIRC. |
Why does it matter if Barak Obama is a Muslim? | Because it matters. One of the main reasons I never considered voting for Romney was because he was a Mormon. Mormons have strict views on certain social issues and since he never confirmed or denied where he stood in relation to his moral upbringing, I was left to make assumptions. Same with being a Muslim. Sure, ther... |
How does stunt glass work? How are people able to just dive through it without getting sliced up? | When you crash through regular plate glass, it breaks into large triangular pieces that resemble heavy knives, which then proceed to fall onto you. Stunt glass breaks into tiny pieces. It'll probably scratch you up if you fall onto the pieces, which is why stunt people are still used for these scenes, but the stunt per... |
Why do phones have enough battery to show you the picture saying that they're out of battery? | Phones don't always go down to zero %. Often, they will reach about 5% but display it as zero. If you want to really have that picture go away, wait till your phone dies and keep trying to turn it on. After a while it will stop responding to your attempts and not function at all and you will have seriously hurt your ba... |
how do demolition companies knock down buildings in cities with dynamite without destroying other buildings and having all the rubble fall in one place? | They carefully calculate and simulate the position and strength of the explosives. For a rather low building it's placed to destroy main holding structures from the middle so that the building would collapse on itself, with outside walls falling inwards, from its own weight. For higher, quite simple shape buildings, de... |
How can feet be sometimes colder than room temperature? | We don't feel what temperature something is; we feel the rate heat flows between us and whatever we are touching and in which direction. If your hands are warmer than a table then you will feel heat flowing from your hands to the table and this is what we mean when we say the table feels cold. Your feet feel cold becau... |
Why understanding a language is so much easier than speaking it? | I have trouble with this theory for adult language aquisition. For babies, I think we all can agree they require verbalisation and feedback to learn language. They listen, repeat, then observe the reaction. Over time, language develops. However, for adults, it's so different. When I learned my second language, I rehear... |
If cooking oil is a carbohydrate and sugar is also a carbohydrate, why can I dissolve sugar in water, but not oil? | As everyone else has said, oil isn't a carbohydrate. But, the *reason* it can't be dissolved in water is because each molecule of the oil has two side: a water-loving side and a water-hating side. So all the water-loving sides arrange themselves on the outside of any droplet of oil while the water-hating sides cower on... |
Why is appearing "desperate" socially unacceptable? | Because desperate people usually have very few options they are usually perceived as being completely reliant on others, in some capacity or another. And nobody, whether it be a prospective employer or a potential lover or friend, wants that kind of responsibility and expectation placed on them, especially if things do... |
Why do large numbers before the decimal point get separated by commas in groups of 3, but numbers after the decimal do not? | Because the notation is stupid and values after the decimal point should totally include comma separations for readability. Now, most of the time there's no good reason to include that level of precision, because typically the number has error bars larger than that anyway. But on rare occasion it does matter. And when ... |
If a computer hash is procedurally generated, and will always result in the same output given the same input, why is it considered irreversible? | It's irreversible because it's destructive, information is lost in the process. The only way to reverse a hash is to plug the hash into a database and hope that someone has entered one, and only one input string associated with it. Hashes are of a constant data size regardless of the length of the input. For example, t... |
why are my mom's mortgage backed securities worthless if only 20% of mortgages failed? | It's hard to say without knowing detail, but one likely factor is [**debt subordination**]. This is simpler to explain if we ignore the whole mortgage securities complication and just look at it as loans between friends. So imagine this: our mutual friend Joe comes to us both and tells us he needs $100. You and I agree... |
Why Google plus failed or is failing? | Personally I think it's because it was invite only during the initial hype. I know several of my friends wanted to try it out but by the time they could actually use it, everyone had forgotten it existed. |
Why do people use carpet in their homes? | Lots of reasons. Sometimes it's for aesthetics, but they can also reduce noise and protect the floor. Constant walking will wear out any surface and it's a lot easier to toss down a new rug than it is to replace a floor. Small rugs in front of doors can also take the brunt of the mud/salt/whatever being tracked in by p... |
Why is 3D printing products usually cheaper than the normal way of making the product? | Volume. If you want to make money by producing something, you usually need to set up a production line. That's expensive. If you want to make your money back, you either need to sell a *lot* or charge a lot . With a 3D printer, you have relatively cheap setup with which you can go ahead and produce a *single* item, bec... |
Why is it not considered animal cruelty to kill insects? | Because there's no way to raise money from people killing insects, because they aren't cute and most people don't have them as pets. No money = no problem. |
I'm watching 'Grave of the fireflies' at the moment and I'm curious why the US Nuked a city and not a military complex. | Nagasaki was a major military port. Factories manned by civilians producing munitions and vehicles and warships. Soldiers aren't the only one contributing to the war effort. |
Why do they tell you not to have a hot bath on the day of a blood donation? | Is this a relatively new instruction they give? I used to give blood 4-6 times a year , and don't remember ever having been told this.You just lost a bunch of blood. Your blood pressure is low. A hot bath or being in a hot environment in general drops your blood pressure. Stack the two together and you pass out. Into w... |
How do low income workers get by in places like Manhattan? | Umm they probably don't live in downtown Manhattan, and if they do, they live in rent-controlled housing. Hundreds of thousands of people travel to the city to work menial jobs. |
What makes the number e so special and why is it used as the base of the natural logarithm? | When you think of special numbers, the two that often come to mind are 0 and 1. They are special because addition and multiplication are important to us. How are these ideas connected you ask? Because 0 = 0 + 0 and 1 = 1 * 1. That's pretty cool! So what does e have to do with this? Well, e really isn't as important as ... |
Black Bars on 1080p Screen | There is no such thing as a black bar, there is only the absence of program material on portions of the display based on the presented media's format. I'll go take my meds now. |
Why do bees make honey, and why are they not angry that we are "stealing" it? | Bees do get very defensive when you bust into their hive. The way beekeepers work around this is two-fold. First, they either use smoke or sugar water to calm the bees. Bees rely upon smell passed between drones to figure out what's going on. With smoke or sugar water, you can disrupt their ability to respond to the th... |
Why is the iPhone's 1 GB RAM touted to be able to compete with more than 2 GB RAM of Android phones? | Because Apple isn't trying to convince Android users to switch and get the new iPhone. They're trying to convince people who own the OLD iPhone, and compared to that, it's a big upgrade. |
If an overweight person lost all the excess weight overnight, would they be relatively muscular from the exercise of carrying around all the extra weight? | To an extent. As a fat man I can say that arms and chest and back muscles would look normal, legs and abs would be much larger. If a fat person ever let's you, feel their legs. They look massive and fat but they are very large and hard. |
Why aren't we supposed to put Q-Tips in our ears and how else are we to reach that level of cleaning without them? | I don't know that answer to that, but I can tell you that I haven't cleaned my ears since I was 8 years old. I'm 33 now. I've never had an ear infection or any problem what so ever. |
smokers should relate to this. Why do we feel the urge to smoke after a meal or while drinking alcohol? | I do know that nicotine inhibits the release of insulin from the pancreas - resulting in high blood sugar levels. I'm not certain if this has any effect on the desire to smoke right after eating, but it seems like there could be some correlation there. |
Why are pools cold in the middle of summer? | A few things - For one, water heats up more slowly than the air, so all else being equal, the temperature of a pool will lag behind the changing season. Second, the water is out warming up all day, but it's also cooling off all night. So it will never get quite as hot. Finally, it might *feel* cold, but it could well b... |
Why has it been decades since the last "classic" Christmas song or movie? | Elf is already a classic. I've seen it on tv already several times and know many older folks that like it", '"All I want for Christmas Is You" by Mariah Carrey is widely considered a Christmas Classic, despite being relatively new when compared to some others.The embodiment of '50 Christmas tradition is the 1954 film W... |
What was the reasoning behind dumping Bin Laden's body at sea? | They didn't want to make him any more of a martyr, and didn't wan to provide a specific location that would become a site for pilgrimage. > Furthermore, is there any reason to believe that that was not really what went down? I am not aware of any specific evidence to support this. But compared to faking the moon landin... |
If the USA consistently ranks so far behind other nations in education, why can't we just study the top 3 and copy whatever it is they're doing so well? | There is evidence that when you compare apples to apples, the US doesn't actually do worse. Factor out impoverished kids based on free or reduced lunch program enrollment in both countries and the US generally does better than Finland, for example. Also, you can get a better education in the US than you can in Finland,... |
How significant is the Cubs winning the World Series in the world of baseball? | MLB = EPL Instead of a double round robin, the MLB plays 162 games in a season and then the top 10 teams go to the playoffs. The World Series is liking playing the FA Cup final 7 times. There's no Relegation/Promotion, so the teams will always be around. In the EPL, there are giants and minnows . While the MLB has has ... |
What the difference is between a normal CPU (e.g. Intel i5/i7)and a server/workstation CPU (Xeon series) | > But why would I not want one for my gaming PC? What's the difference? You could use Xeons for gaming if you wanted, ideally you want 3.3Ghz+ clock speed I believe is the point where it becomes redundant, although they can't be overclocked and consumer grade Xeons have no integrated graphics either, although there was... |
Why do some people get very hot when they are sleeping? | No clue why this happens -- I've tried changing my diet, my bedding, stopped drinking and smoking The only thing that helps is cold showers right before bed. Seriously. Full cold, five minutes, full coverage, spinning in circles screaming like a little girl if you have to. |
Why do some jobs still pay their workers even after they are fired? | People have mentioned severance packages, but another more common reason is earned time. Let's say you earn 15 paid sick days a year, and those days roll over. After 10 years, you never take a single sick day, and then you get fired. Your job owes you 150 paid days you never took, so they will either cut you a check fo... |
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't it be remarkably easy to get people arrested by carrying a usb stick with child porn and dragging it onto other peoples computers? | It's possible to program a USB to auto run a program when plugged in, some smart people will have such things blocked, but dumb people won't You could get all the stuff on there with s program to modify the dates . But all the effort to make that code could be spent on making a program to slave the computer, which most... |
I just purchased a home with a loan... Please explain to me how interest rate works. | I don't want to criticize you but that sounds like the sort of questions you may have wanted to research before committing to spending that much money. Your question is hard to answer without knowing the details of your mortgage. |
Why are Army Officers less prone to PTSD than soldiers ranked below Sergeant? | They aren't less prone. Officers get PTSD at the same rate as junior enlisted. You don't see it as often in the news because there aren't as many of them to begin with. |
If I have a high quality image and I printscreen and save it as another file, would it still be the exact same quality as the original image? | I don't believe so. When you think of a high quality image or an image that is fit for printing you are usually talking about an image that is 300 PPI . This is actually better quality than a lot of monitors, so the image file itself is of higher quality than what you are looking at. If you take a screen shot of a pict... |
How do babies get air in the womb? | People breath to get air/oxygen in their lungs. In the lungs, the blood gets oxygen in and carbon dioxide out. Oxygen is spread throughout the body via the blood. Baby's get all their oxygen and good stuff through mom's blood. Mom's placenta gets lots of good stuff, oxygen, from mom's blood and gives it to baby. |
If DNA contains informations about our whole body, why can we not regenerate certain body parts if they gets removed? | at each time during development the body is at an unique configuration it won't ever see again. the DNA instruction produces the configuration and depends on it to progress. there are no instructions to recreate these configurations once the development is completed. |
Using they in place of he/she | It is used because there is no gender neutral singular noun. We just don't have a word for it yet. |
What exactly is going on when in "high math" there are just letters and symbols, no numbers? | It's all about context. Imagine walking into a garage and seeing a saw, some lumber, and some screws. If you know how to build a book shelf, you may get it, and know exactly what's going on. The symbols and letters are the tools of math - and by extension physics. If you see the proper equations on a board, it is the s... |
What is the "body buzz" you get from narcotics and hallucinogens and why hasnt someone made a safe drug that produces those effects yet? | A lot of drugs are actually very safe. Heroin and methamphetamine used to be prescribed. The main danger is to keep the buzz going, you have to take higher and higher doses as our body build up a tolerance and that's when the dosages become dangerous. Even if the substance isn't addicting, a psychological addiction can... |
Why does everyone make a big deal out of disposing of Tesla batteries, when normal cars have batteries that you have to dispose of twice as often? | I guess because there's a lot more of them in a single car. And lead acid batteries are very frequently recycled as there's a healthy market for recycled lead and prices are high. It's normal to swap out a car battery and have the old one recycled. Lithium can also be recycled, arguably more reliably than lead, but the... |
If illegal content is so easy to find on the internet, how does it not get taken down by authorities? | The biggest thing about this is that the internet is decentralised. No one person has control of it. It's like walking around your neighbourhood - you can go where you like and it's up to each property owner as to how high the fences are . No one can stop you from looking around but someone could potentially follow you... |
Why are people against convicting people for filing false rape accusations? | As for why people are against it, you've likely heard people say that X% of rapes go unreported, and that the US population has problems with people believing a rapist's side of the story over a rape victim's. The thinking is that, by going after people who commit perjury, it's going to worsen these problems. People mi... |
Why does Coca Cola help when I have a stomach ache? | The syrup part of the coca cola coats the stomach which helps relive the nausea symptoms. Emetrol is basically a simple syrup. I typically use flat sprite for nausea when I don't have any ondansetron around. |
Do we actually have to use shampoo? Would my hair become weaker if I didn't use shampoo? | There's no need to use shampoo, but depending on your hair type and length, it can make your life easier. Your scalp produces natural oils called sebum, which moisturise and protect your skin and hair. Shampoo is a detergent; it reacts with oils and makes them soluble in water, so they're washed away . That's why most ... |
During the battle of Jutland,the British Guns kept misfiring.This was allegedly due to a Coriolis force.Yet the Germans never complained,and nobody has heard of it-since or before.What actually happened? | I think you are mixing up the battles. The closest thing I found to that was a reference to the Battle of the Falkland Islands in 1914. If you remember the more recent histories, the Falkland Islands are in the southern hemisphere. The British used their artillery tables for the northern hemisphere and were missing at ... |
Why is it that after a long car ride (5+ hours), I feel really tired the whole day although I did nothing? | This may be completely irrelevant but it may be a thing: When riding a motorcycle your body is preparing for a crash and producing hormones for this case. This is one of the main reasons riding a motorcycle is quite exhausting . Maybe this is the case in a car as well? |
How do flocks of birds and shoals of fish communicate to make instant and sharp turns in the same direction? | Programmer here. When trying to model and replicate this sort of behaviour in computer systems it turns out that this is a sort of emergent behaviour. To be more specific this means that a set of simple rules leads to some much more complicated larger scale patterns. If you're looking for more detailed information you ... |
The high pitched ringing sound when you're in a quiet room. | I'm pretty sure it's a normal condition from just plain living, as the nerves in your ear get worn over time . |
Why are breeding female dogs considered to be 'ruined' for breeding if mated to another breed male? | > Bonus question----I was once told that the reason our two mixed-breed dogs----who were littermates---looked completely different was that it was possible for a dog litter to have two fathers. This seems completely ridiculous to me but could it possibly be true? True. It's also true of people--a woman can have twins t... |
How can I recall fractions of dreams I had as a kid but can't remember some recent memories? | This should be tagged psychology. Memory is rather reconstructive. If the childhood dream had a high emotional impact, your brain believes it's more important so each time you accesses the memory it's cementing that impact. Furthermore, you probably aren't remembering the dream very accurately, because you're reconstru... |
Why isn't there toothpaste that's "Whitening" & "Enamel protection" & "3-in-1 plaque defence" etc. Is there actually a big difference between them all? | I've been a little depressed ever since having to use the sensitive-teeth stuff. It works, but is expensive, and the generic has almost no minty freshness. Ahhh first-world problems. |
Is it actually worse to eat refrigerated food without microwaving it? (Burgers, pizza, chicken, etc.) | It's not the nutritional content being destroyed. It's simply bacteria. Bacteria have a chance to grow again. |
What is the science behind cryogenically freezing someone? Is there any real hope that a cryogenically frozen person will be revived? | ELI5? Ok, you know how frozen vegetables are mushy and don't taste quite the same as fresh vegetables? Now imagine that same thing happening to your dead brain. That's the reality behind cryonics. |
Why does wellbeing lower drug-abuse rates? | There's no need to escape from the self when the self is content. Very few people who take drugs are satisfied with their lives. |
Why are unpaid internships legal, while workers working at a place for anything less than minimum wage is illegal? | For it to be legal , an internship has to be providing training to the intern and not providing direct support to the business or replacing the work of paid employees. That means they're not allowed to use the intern like an unpaid worker, but have to including the intern in work in a way that provides them with educat... |
Why is body odor 10x worse when wearing polyester (Dry-fit, tech shirt, etc) clothing ? | Interestingly enough, we're playing around with an antimicrobial treatment for cotton apparel. I'll have to tell the production guys to completely soak the armpit area |
how does electric current know which path Is the path of least resistance | a path of high resistance won't let electrons through as well so electrons will pile up behind it like a traffic jam and the passage will be slow. if there's an alternative route, they'll all fall through quickly. it's like if you had a chute of marbles which split into a network but some of the tunnels were lubricated... |
Why do only edible substances taste good? | It's quite obvious if you start thinking about it. The brain knows which chemicals are nutritious to us, so it makes them taste good . That's why cellery doesn't have such a good taste. To the contrary, pork tastes good because it has a big nutritious value. |
How does a rice cooker know that the rice inside it is cooked? | /u/unicoitn was correct, but I figured I'd elaborate some. Rice cookers change to keep warm once a certain temperature is reached. That temperature can ONLY be reached once the water has boiled away. So adding more water keeps the rice cooker on for longer.I have owned a number of rice cookers over the years, and in my... |
Why do marriages get harder as they go on | I don't think they do. I've been married 26 years. We get along way better now than we did when we were only married a few years. We got past the rough spots and now things are great. |
How does noise canceling work, and can it hurt your hearing by actually adding more sounds and decibels to your ears? | Sound waves are sinusoidal. Think of a [sine wave] , it varies between a peak and a valley. Noise cancelling produces a sound wave that is exactly the same, but 180 degrees out of phase meaning at the same time that the original sound produces a peak, the noise cancelling system produces a valley and instead of a valle... |
Why is that teachers need years of college to teach kids, while parents don't really need any higher education to home school? | Why do we let people fix their own plumbing but require licensing for professional plumbers? Why do we let people drive their own kids but require a commercial driver's license for bus drivers? There's a big difference between doing something with your kids, whom you know and are responsible for, and being trusted to b... |
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