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What volume of water is required to drown a human? | I've heard 6 inches of water is enough for a person to drown in. Imagine someone walking, tripping on something, and knocking themselves out upon impact. Their face is perfectly positioned in a puddle of water, but their unconscious body cannot do anything to create a flight response to it, so they lay there, therefore... |
Why it's easier to burn paper starting at the edges vs. trying to burn the center of the paper | Fire needs three things: Heat, oxygen and fuel. In the case of paper, that's the fuel. The edges of a sheet of paper are exposed to more oxygen and when you place the heat there it will catch much more easily than in the center. |
How did Japan make such a quick and powerful cultural and economic comeback following the dismantlement of the imperial government and culture? | Don't forget that Japan did *not* surrender unconditionally; they surrendered on condition that they could retain their emperor. So there was some continuity of government.Because Japan was already one of the most advanced industrial countries in the world before they were defeated. |
How do ants survive enormous falls that would kill us? | It's because the height doesn't scale. A 1m drop for you and an ant are the same, even though the distance is larger compared to the ant than it is compared to you. The fucked up thing is if you were 100 stories tall, and you hopped a bit, say, 10 stories, the impact would probably make a splashing sound.I think it has... |
If you can build up a tolerance to poisons by taking small amounts of them, why can't you do the same with cigarettes? | While there's definitely harmful chemicals in cigarettes, the main issue with cigarettes is that you are inhaling smoke in your lungs regularly with both damages your lungs and leaves physical deposits in your lungs. |
Why are Hispanics included as Whites in statistical polls instead of being considered their own independent demographic like Blacks or Native Americans? | Nothing about racial categories makes sense, and that's because race is a social, not biological construct. |
How do we figure out exchange rates for currency? | There are trading exhanges that work similar to a stock market, with people constantly buying/selling currencies for other currencies. Basic changes supply and demand causes the fluctuation in prices relative to each other. So if there's suddenly way more demand for Yen because everybody just has to have the newest Pok... |
How has Banksy managed to remain so anonymous? | As an expert on this matter, by having 15 years of online anonymity and having created several compelling works of art using sidewalk chalk on private property , I can tell you that Banksy remains anonymous because no one has a reason to expose him. Like Cirque Du Soleil, he doesn't have any true competitors, his team ... |
how the Flint water crisis even came about. | Flint was using water from the City of Detroit. Detroit's water was fairly clean, or at least had a low acidity. They switched water sources and started treating water just for themselves. The water treated by Flint ate away at the lead pipes and leeched the lead into the water. Because of the corrosion, all of the lea... |
How did early lifeforms know how to procreate? | Humans may not know what sex at birth is but I don't think you'd have to tell them in order for them to figure it out. We're not sexually mature at birth, but that's what puberty is for. Sex is advantageous not because it's easier on each individual, but because it allows for much faster evolutionary progression becaus... |
difference between iPhone jailbreaking and Android rooting | It's worth noting that until very recently, Windows allowed root access by default. This contributed a great deal to Windows' reputation as being virus-ridden. Most users really do need protection from themselves.Jailbreaking bypasses code signing restrictions and allows you to execute "unauthorized" code. Root gives y... |
After all the human rights violations, how is Qatar still hosting the world cup? | As stated, it comes down to the simple fact that FIFA is extremely corrupt. As long as they are making their money, they look the other way on human rights violations and deaths. After all, it's not THEM being personally inconvenienced, so why should they care? |
What exactly happens genetically that causes mutations and birth defects in children born from incest? | Valid answers [here] and [here]. However, keep in mind that incest does not automatically equal mutant frog baby, even between siblings or parents/children. It increases the possibility, but it's not a guarantee. It's only when you repeat very close incestuous relationships for breeding over a few generations that thin... |
-How do plants move to face the sun? | This is more in response to the second question, though I'm not sure of it quite gets to the heart of it. Sped up videos of plants show that they actually move around a lot; the following video shows how they pull off more complex movement, like climbing. _URL_1_ |
how come houses in England are made of bricks where as American houses are made of wood? | And in Scotland buildings are made of stone. I'm pretty sure folk just used what was available. |
Why are corporations willingly hurting the economy by replacing workers with robots? | It's the obvious thing to do. If they don't, their competitors will and put them out of business. The key is to figure out how to make this work in our favor rather than destroy the economy. |
Do people actually see photos when they imagine stuff? | This title isn't so great but the article is pretty cool. It might describe what you experience _URL_0_ |
Why do men seem to be more affected more from a cold/flu? | To give a stereotyped answer to a stereotyped question: When a man is sick, his SO will take care of him, his house, their kids, etc. When a woman is sick, everything will just fall apart, leaving a mess for her to deal with when she gets better, so it's just easier for a woman to suck it up and do what she has to do e... |
Why does everyone hate windows ten so much? | My current setup with windows 7 works just fine for everything that I do on a regular basis, and I believe quite strongly that if something isn't broken there's no point in trying to fix it."Everyone" is a bit of an exaggeration. There are plenty of us who are quite content with it, particularly once the intrusive stuf... |
the answer to Elon Musk's riddle. | The part of this riddle to be concerned with is the 1 mile west. When you are walking east and west, the only place on earth that you are walking in a straight line is at the equator. The closer you get to the pole, the sharper the arc you are walking when going east-west. Think of it as your shoulder is always pointin... |
Is intelligence like height, i.e. some people will be taller (more intelligent) than others due to genetics; or are all humans born with the same capacity for intelligence? | We don't know. It seems likely to be a combination of genetic and environmental factors, but we don't even know how to *measure* intelligence objectively. |
Why do colleges and universities charge (often high) application fees? | To discourage people from applying if they're not really interested in attending. They don't want to process applications if there's no point. |
why General Petraeus needs to resign over this affair? | Most of the stuff people have said in this thread is true, but none of that's why he HAD to resign. The real reason is that when the CIA or any other agency that deals with classified stuff finds out that you've done something that could compromise your security clearance, it conducts a mandatory investigation to make ... |
How does Cantor's diagonal proof proves that Real numbers are 'more infinite' than Naturals? | One key is that reals all extend to an infinite number of decimal places, even if you're just padding zeros at the end. This allows you to ensure that your constructed element is clearly not a member of the set. You can't really do the same thing with integers. |
How can a fighter jet force a (kidnapped) airliner to land? | That's exactly how they would force it to land. The other day, I saw the movie Executive Decision on TV. Watching it is like a walk back in time -- it's clearly pre-9/11, because the airplane is known to be a threat to people on the ground, and the leaders wrestle with the morality of shooting down a plane full of peop... |
why marijuana triggers panic attacks for certain people? | Well I can't answer your question but I can offer insight. I have been smoking pretty constantly; multiple times per week, if not every day, for several years. I have heard of stories of panic attacks and had a good friend have one in high school during his first time trying weed, but nothing even remotely close to one... |
What are Interfaces actually used for in Object Oriented Programming? | Interfaces are one way to create [polymorphic] behavior with objects. In ELI5 terms, interfaces allow you to use something without knowing how it works or what, exactly, it does. Just as you can use a toaster without knowing that is uses a nichrome heating element. You put bread in, you press a button, and out comes to... |
How did humans become the dominant species? | Who needs large claws if you have a spear, who needs to run fast if you can shoot an arrow, who needs to physically fight a lion if you can manipulate fire to scare it away. Human evolution is pretty much the epitome of intelligence over physical power, we ended up very intelligent and not that strong because we didn't... |
What happens in the human body when someone just decides to pass away? | Like others have said. It is a conscious effort to stay alive. It really all goes to the ability to override your bodies limitations. E.g. you can still do another set of curls even though your muscles are screaming that they can't. You can continue running even though you are actually totally exhausted. And then you a... |
How does it feel to see with both eyes? | Having two eyes gives you depth perception because your seeing an object from two slightly different angles, and that difference let's you perceive depth. It's similar to how you have two ears which let's you figure out where sound is coming from based on hearing it from two different locations |
How did animals give birth on their own before they were domesticated? | Long story short, they didn't need us before we domesticated them and started directing their breeding. Furthermore, most animals in the world still give birth without human help. |
why consoles can't mod games like GTAV on PC | On the hardware side of things: Generally speaking, mods increase the amount of processing power that you'll need to run the game, since you'll need to run **both** the mod and the game simultaneously . Since consoles have a specific amount of processing power that the developer has already optimized the game to use, t... |
Why are curved stretches of highway tilted? | It's called super elevation. It's partially to help keep vehicles on the road so they don't go flying off the outside of the curve. It's also because a road has to drain water. A 'flat' road will usually be higher in the middle and slope to both sides so that water runs off. If you had a curve and the outside lanes wer... |
Why does the Star Wars universe seem to show no technological advancement throughout the stories? | Part of it is, you're used to things from the 20th century, where we had mass change on a continual basis. For much of humanity's existence, we did not have all that much change. Also, most of what you're shown is the rural areas, which won't be very advanced. If you have a lot of poor people, barely getting by, they w... |
How does a rocket engine work? | The rocket is not pushing against the ground. It's pushing against the rocket itself. Think of a rocket engine as a controlled explosion that creates pressure. By letting the pressure out of one end, the resulting pressure on the inside of the rocket chamber provides thrust against the rocket itself. This is why they c... |
Why does hot water clean things better? | It depends on what exactly you're cleaning; sometimes, there's little observable difference at all. But on many things, hot water has an effect of softening, melting, and dissolving -- more than cold water, or at least faster. Example: recently cleaning up after cookie decorating, using cold water. It's hard to get hot... |
why can't we extract drinkable water from ocean , when there is water scarcity? | We can, it's call desalination. It just consumes a lot of energy, and thus money so it's not practical in many places. It also has environmental repercussions, you are dumping a massive amount of very high salinity slurry back into the oceans and this can impact wildlife. |
if evoloution ensures that only those who survive to produce offsping, why are flys and other insects still attacted to those blue zappy lights? | The blue zappy lights have only existed for 50 years tops. You have to consider that a huge amount of the inesct population will never be near humans. They's mostly all in Manitoba, Northern Ontario, and the territories. |
Why do some food service workers such as those in supermarkets have to wear gloves and hairnets, but chefs in restaurants and food prep in a McDonald's doesn't? | There are several layers of stuff telling employees what they have to do. First is the law. This is usually not very detailed, and it rarely dictates behavior. This covers stuff like physical safety. Second is local ordinances. This is usually much more detailed, but it still doesn't dictate behavior at the employee le... |
What is the purpose of shadowbanning? | Well with a normal ban they can just make a new account, they can do that with shadow bans too, but they have to figure out they're banned first |
How can people bond with big cats and become friends but I've had my cat for years and he's still a dick to me? | Either you just have a picky cat , or maybe there's something about how you do things, or the presence you give off, that's not pleasing to cats. Maybe if you had a big cat they would be a dick to you as well. Or: it's just a case of Cat Rule #1: All cats are assholes.I would think its because they feed the big cats hu... |
How do geosynchronous orbits occur without falling to earth? | Geosynchronous orbits are much further out than normal orbits like those of ISS or most satellites. Objects there don't need to move as fast to stay in orbit, the force of gravity is less. |
[biology] Can injection of telomerase into humans create longer life spans? | 1) Yes, we can. 2) AFAIK there are no indications that telomerase injections would cause us to turn into a massive ball o' cancer. At worst, it could make that scenario a little *more likely*, but again, AFAIK there's no evidence it does in reality. Also, telomere shortening's effects are less about cell death, more ab... |
Why do cats and dogs drink water by scooping it with their tongues, while humans drink by sucking it up? | Cats and dogs have mouths that open up considerably, and noses on the edge of their snouts. To drink water by sucking it up, they'd have to submerge their whole mouth, which puts the nose underwater. When they would try to take in water this way, it would come through the nostrils. Humans have a nose above the mouth, a... |
Why does it look like my head's been leaking battery acid whenever I change my pillowcase? | You may be a robot. Often robots are programmed to believe they are human. You couldn't know or acknowledge that truth, but certain evidence such as this will at least attune your processors to the possibility. |
Why is it that companies are allowed to operate as monopolies in America, e.g. people only being able to get Time Warner/Comcast and no access to any others? | It is an infrastructure thing. If another ISP wants to enter TW/Comcast's territory, they have to install all of their infrastructure, which is expensive. |
What exactly does radiation poisoning do to our bodies, and how does medicine cure it? | Radiation poisoning is basically random damage to cells throughout your body, for more details see [this comment of mine]. Medicine cannot really cure any of that. It can treat some of the symptoms and prevent those from killing you while your body repairs itself, and it can support some of the body's repair efforts, f... |
why does the president get a paycheck? | They do a job, so they get paid. It was established by Article II Section 1 of the United States Constitution. It does not specify an amount; however, it does say that the amount cannot be raised or lowered during a president's term. Given that, yes, they legally have to be paid. |
Why do restaurants sign exclusive deals with pepsi/coke but convenience stores carry both? | The company they sign with usually services the machine for free as part of the exclusivity contract. Ice machine broken? Call Pepsi, the maintenance guy will fix it. Free. It's under contract. Syrup dispenser all fucked up? Call coke. The maintenance guy will fix it. Free. It's under contract. The whole Damn machine c... |
What is a straw man fallacy? | Here's where the name comes from. Bob says that he can beat up John. Bob gets some straw, shapes it to look like a man, and dresses it up like John. He then proceeds to beat the crap out of this strawman. When he's done, he claims that he has successfully beaten up John. Of course, the strawman isn't John, so Bob never... |
Why do I get a headache when I sleep in/lay around for a while in the morning? | Your headache could also be due to oxygen deprivation due sleep apnea. If I sleep 7-8 consecutive hours, I wake up with a wicked headache that wouldn't go away all day. I was just tested sleep apnea and did a trial run with a CPAP machine and slept a good spell without incident. It might be worth checking out.Your wife... |
Why does the US protect against self-incrimination(5th amendment) | You seem to answer your own question a couple times. > I can understand not being able to coerce information out of someone > because you are innocent until proven guilty it's the duty of the state to prove you are guilty That is the answer. You had it in you all along. |
Why the drinking age is 21 in the United States; and also why nothing has been done to lower it to 18 like it is in pretty much every other country in the world? | I don't get it. 18 is when you become a grown up. You can sign legal contracts, get drafted, get a job, etc. Buying alcohol? Big no no. It seems a bit hypocritical for me. Either change the age of majority to 21 or put alcohol buying at 18.You have to be consistent in these kind of issues. Doesn't make sense that you c... |
Why do chefs wear those tall white hats? | What I dont understand is why chefs wear such white clothing? Seems like it'd be a real bitch to clean. |
How does private jet works with a customs and Immigration ? If someone owns a private jet, what's stopping them from flying it to Mexico and landing there without needing Visa ? | Radar, presumably. They'd notice the plane and track it and wonder why it didn't declare itself. |
Why do italians 'salt' their boiling water before putting the pasta into it | Son, if anyone knows how to cook pasta, it's the Italians. You're doing it wrong, she's doing it right. |
What exactly does LSD do to your brain? | Don't ever look in the mirror It's too much to handle. I looked at myself and was terrified of myself. I think it made me facilitated a change in my personality. I wasn't happy with who I was when I looked in the mirror. All my insecurities, short comings, and douchebaggery was there laid out in front of me. It made me... |
Why is leather considered more ethical than fur? | Because bunnies are cuter than cows. It's the same reason that North Americans are outraged that other countries consider cats/dogs food animals, but happily eat all kinds of other animals.Here's what I believe: We live in a culture where furry animals are valued more and we generally think they are cuter and easier to... |
What would someone with a chromosome combination of YY look like? | Think of it this way. Like others have said, without an X, it doesn't become human. The X is required for life. females are XX, but each cell only uses one of the Xs and the other is inactivated and never used again in that cell's life. Which X is inactivated varies. So the Y addition in XY makes a male, and the male o... |
How are roads named officially? Is it picked by the government or the people? | I guess it depends on where you live and what kind of street is. Also, some countries want to privatize the streets, as some political parties in Germany are trying to do right now to earn some money. In these cases you can literally just buy the street and then you can name it whatever the f--- you want. What I person... |
Why don't all notes have a flat and sharp? (IE: why is there no Fb?) | 3", etc. Using just a number system, you can see that 1-sharp is 2, 5-flat is 4, etc. Now out of those 12 notes, we have constructed various scales, the most common of which is the C scale. The C scale consists of notes 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10, and 12. Those are the notes that we 've taken to giving letter names. So note 1=C... |
The difference between ibuprofen, advil, and tylenol. | OP: The distinction you're looking for is between acetominophen , ibuprofen and acetylsalicylic acid .Advil and ibuprofen are [chemically identical]. This means that they will work equally well, assuming that you absorb the same amount of active ingredient from each preparation. It also means that the risk of overdose ... |
Why aren't taxes just done automatically? | It could be possible for the IRS to provide a pre-filled form using the information they have, but that may be discouraged by the tax preparation companies. And for the majority of filers, they have numerous free options for filing out federal returns, although they require manual entry of many forms. However, for some... |
One in the hand is worth two in the bush | It's stating that it's better to have one dead in your hand than two live in the bush. It's a caution to take what you've got and run instead of gambling on unknowns.Real world example: "I have ten sales calls this week." "I made a sale this week." Which one is more valuable *right now*? |
Why do we have the urge to speak to babies in a "baby voice?" | [Studies have shown that from birth, infants prefer to listen to infant-directed speech, which is more effective than regular speech in getting and holding an infant's attention. Some researchers. . . believe that baby talk is an important part of the emotional bonding process between the parents and their child that h... |
What's the argument against charter schools | Very, very simple explanation: Why not just make ALL the schools good enough so ALL the kids get a good education? Don't just let the smart/hardworking kids escape the awful school they would otherwise go to.Three things: 1: They are desired by some religious groups and may people feel taxpayer dollars shouldn't be mix... |
Why are there so many British actors in American television? | Productions that are going to be filmed almost entirely in Europe, like GoT, will have a larger amount of European actors. Otherwise, I don't really think they're over represented. |
Why do ads play smoothly on streams, even though the content stutters? | It depends on the site specifically. In most cases the web site owner doesn't host the adds themselves, they contract with someone else and leave space on the site for the ads to fit in, or in the case of streams play the ad before the video. In many cases the ads are hosted on a Content Delivery Network . A CDN is sev... |
What is REDDIT GOLD like? | Doesn't look like anyone else mentioned it, so Reddit Gold also gives you the option to display 100 subreddits instead of the usual 50. So if you are subscribed to more then 50, a default member will only see a random selection of this 50 when they come to reddit. The random 50 changes every half-hour I believe. With R... |
why everyone hates Michelle Bachman | One important thing to note is that NOT everyone hates Michelle Bachmann. She won the Ames straw poll, she is the leader of the Tea Party caucus and she has a dedicated following. As for the people who do hate her , it's because she is an extremist Christian conservative who is opposed to gay marriage, wants to ban por... |
Why do companies push to install their mobile app when you visit their website? What sort of information they get from their app vs a web visit? | It's a multitude of things more than just getting information from the user, though that is a reason. Most tech companies do not like the web, it's messy, unsafe, and difficult to build experiences. IOS and Android offer a solution to this but it comes at the cost of reach. Everyone understands how a website works. So ... |
Why is it that most people get more emotional when they see animals get hurt as opposed to seeing other humans get hurt? | Movies! for years we've been subconsciously trained by the media to ignore the dead bad guy and focus on the good guy killing all the bad guys and it has made us a little less sensitive towards real blood.. and when an animal gets hurt in movies, its always an emotional scene having influential emotional music that jus... |
How do people make aimbots? | I saw a good explanation so I won't try to write another, but if you want to learn more, a program called [Cheat Engine] has built in tutorials to teach you more about how game hacks are made and how to make your own. You can start with something simple like an infinite ammo hack and then use what you learned to make m... |
Why isnt China's population declining if they have had a one child policy for 35 years? | China has an overall mortality rate of 7 in 1000, so seven out of every thousand people die every year. As long as for every thousand people eight babies are born the population will grow. It's on average getting older because fewer children are being born, but not to the point of increasing the mortality rate above th... |
Do programs like Lumosity have any measurable benefit to cognitive abilities? Or is it all just hype? | I'd like to weigh in here with some very little undergrad information I just learned, but basically going to back up what everyone else is saying. You'll get better at lumosity, but it has no real measurable impact on plasticity or fighting off alzheimers. Sorry no references.If it improved performance on things that a... |
What are the logical reasons for keeping the penny? | Zinc miners/manufacturers - Keep a large and lucrative customer. The US mint spends a lot of money on the material to make pennies. While Zinc won't go out of business, companies don't like loosing any customers period. Change Dependent Charities - People would give less to them if the change was rounded up/down. Regul... |
Why do people sometimes groan and mutter aloud while thinking of an embarrassing thing they said or did? | It's cognitive dissonance. It's because you're mind can't hold two ideas about yourself at once, you generally view yourself as the type of person who wouldn't do such an embarrassing thing, or you would ridicule people who would do a similar thing, so your mind rejects that instance which is essentially what happens w... |
Why did Assad use chemical weapons to attack his own people? I know he's very corrupt, but what's the point of this? | This is just speculation, but I believe that Assad was testing Trump. Tillerson had said that the Trump administration would back off of the idea of regime change. In Assad's eyes, that means Trump is weak and he can do whatever he wants to. He tested this idea with a relatively small gas attack. Assad knew that if Tru... |
Why does the hair on our head keep growing, while eyelashes and eyebrows, etc, stop? | My eyebrows have accelerated as I age. I have to have them cut when I get my hair cut. And those little hairs in my ears ? Don't even want to go there. |
Sound doesn't travel through space. It's a wavelength. Light travels infinitely without degrading and it's a wavelength. What gives? | > we'd hear sound, then microwave and radio frequency then eventually colors That was bullshit. Sound is the vibration of a medium with non-zero mass. Light is transmitted by photons, massless particles. Them being waves is the only commonality between them. |
How and why can the EU claim water doesn't prevent dehydration? | Although water with a specific electrolyte content can actually prevent dehydration, this is probably just a bogus claim, and probably is meant to scare the customer into buying this particular brand. The case is the same as with cholesterol-free vegetable oil: it's not cholesterol-free because it's %BRANDNAME%, any ve... |
Why do mosquito bites leave bumps and getting a shot at the doctors office doesn't? | Mosquitoes inject a chemical* into the site of the bite which stops the human blood from clotting. The reaction of your body to this chemical causes the bump. Fortunately shots at doctors office don't use such a chemical. * I think the chemical is called heparin. |
Why do people find things funny? How did humanity develop the ability to perceive things as humorous and why? | It's a release of tension. Steve martin talks about it well in his book. I wish i had the rest of the quote. What if there were no punch lines? What if there were no indicators? What if I created tension and never released it? What if I headed for a climax, but all I delivered was an anticlimax? What would the audience... |
What are the dangers/benefits of having a low birthrate and a large percentage of your population over the age of 65? | In biology, what we can see from [Japan's age demography graph] is that the population is mostly unstable and with significant degrowth. This is different than say [Germany's] which is almost completely stable. Also, this is different from, say, [Pakistan], which is unstable and rapidly growing. All areas have a maximu... |
Spain and France have the same time zone, why is Great Britain in a different one? | For Spain it's that Franco changed the timezone to be in solidarity with Hitler in WWII and it just kind of stated that way. Doing everything way later than normal is just part of the culture now. |
Why are some doors hollow? | Because they're cheaper. It saves home builders money to use hollow doors in the interior of a house. |
Why do British colonies seem to have turned out more well-off than colonies of other colonial powers? | So first off, there's a fundamental difference between settler based colonies like the US, Canada, Australia, etc. and resource based extraction colonies like Peru and Nigeria. Simply put, England was far more willing to allow colonies to develop structures for their own benefit when the colony was primarily run by whi... |
Why do most men find lesbianism to be so attractive? | We like women. What's better than one women? Two, my friend. Two. And don't forget the sandwiches.Two twats, four tits, no dick. Next question? |
Why does water on the street vaporize even though its temperature never comes close to 100 °C? | Think of a box full of ping pong balls. Now start shaking the box a lot. You're imparting a lot of energy into those balls, and they're flying all over the place, most of them shooting out of the box. You'll soon end up with an empty box. That's what happens when you boil water. The water molecules have a ton of energy... |
Why do various recreational drugs have such different effects, if most of them do the same thing: release more, or inhibit the reuptake of dopamine or serotonin? | As it's been mentioned before.. this isn't a question nor an answer for a 5 year old. I just wanted to add that there is much more to drugs beyond the currently explainable science. If a drug is capable of taking your mind out of your body and in to another dimension this is evidence of extra-dimensional activity that ... |
Why do grape flavored things never taste like grape? | I just wanted to add, because the other commentators already answered your question, artificial banana doesn't taste like the banana most people are used to either. IIRC we normally consume the Cavendish banana, but the artificial flavor is derived from the Gros Michel variety instead. |
How people are able to travel so cheaply? | There are some good deals that you have to find. In Spain and the rest of Europe is easy with low cost companies. However, try to find a website or Facebook page that gets and helps people with this deals. It's important to be humble and book cheap rooms. It depends on the county you're traveling to, but there are good... |
How can people be held responsible for knowing the law when it's basically impossible to know it all. | Now, let's say you and I go toe-to-toe on bird law and see who comes out the victor? |
How does stress cause hair colour to turn white? | The simple answer, prolonged stress can change the way your body works. Keep in mind this is not the old wives tale about being so scared your hair turns white, but prolonged stress can cause noticeable physiological changes. The issue stats with the body's natural reaction to stressful or high pressure situations, the... |
Why aren't African countries more commonly used for Manufacturing? | It's done already, Morocco for exemple used to have a blooming textile industry before companies moved to China for cost reasons. Now that China is getting more expensive, some manufacturers have moved to Kenya. Besides manufacturing, a lot of call centers and IT jobs are outsourced to Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Seneg... |
Why you can't take pictures in museums using flash? | The flash won't damage the paintings if it's once or twice. But when you have thousands of visitors, sometimes a day, it can over a period of time. |
How will $15 federal minimum wage NOT cripple small businesses? | [See #3. #2 also applies.] Mostly it's because of decreased employee turnover and increased spending money. If more people in your local economy have more money to spend, they're more likely to blow it on bowling/pizza. Plus it costs way less to keep the employees you have than to hire new ones, even if the wage is rai... |
why are foreign movies never widely played in america? | As for your follow up question, a large proportion of the movies here are German dubs of American or otherwise English-language movies. That's also why no one here pays any attention to the lip movements when watching TV because we're conditioned from an early age that they don't need to fit what is spoken. We also lea... |
Why are the elderly so susceptible to scams which are incredibly obvious to younger people? | I truly believe that older people can make themselves keep up. I'm knockin' at the door of 70 years, but I have purposely tried to keep my mind as sharp as possible. One reason: I don't want to be an older person who gets scammed. Maybe when I'm 90 I'll slip up, but for now I try to keep up, including being fairly comp... |
Why are new cars considered "less reliable"? | They aren't really. Survivorship bias. They made just as many shitty disposable cars back in the old days. All the old cars still on the road are expensive and very well put together and maintained. The shitty cheap ones that were beat on are all in the junkyard. |
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