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How can one prove that the world outside one's consciousness is not non-existent and that other beings with similar consciousness levels exist?	Folks commenting so far are close and it is true that you can't really get to a proof, but your options are fewer than they are making it out to be. If everyone else is a simulation or if everyone else is a zombie .or even if everyone else is just in your mind..etc there must still exist a separate consciousness to make those things appear separate from you and consistent from the one awareness you are aware of. If that is so as it must be then there is your proof that there is another consciousness other than the one you are aware of. If THAT consciousness must exist then why bother denying the consciousness of the folks you CAN see and CAN interact with? Basically, all alternatives to multiple conscious entities requires a hidden conscious entity . If that entity must exist when you deny the consciousness of all other apparent conscious entities, then it is more likely that all apparent conscious entities exist as you no longer have a reasonable basis to believe that other consciousnesses don't exist they clearly must.You can prove this by understanding that consciousness is a property of the physical brain; that is, it arises from the patterns in electrochemical activity. These patterns, at their most basic form, are created from the interaction with external stimuli: electromagnetic, chemical, gravitational properties of the "outside world." In other words -- > no outside world, no mind. Of course memories/thoughts interact with themselves and that's where the real complexity and beauty of the mind arises, but there is no such thing as memories without your neurons, there is no such thing as color without objects reflecting energy , there is no such thing as music without time. The more you understand the basic laws of physics, neuroscience, biology, evolution, the less paradoxical this whole topic becomes.Because they fucking hurt when you run into them and you weren't expecting it.
When a new word evolves (eg iPhone, google, autotune) how are its properties in other languages decided?	faxear".Japanese is a phonetic language. They have 2 alphabets . The alphabets are identical except drawn differently. One alphabet is mainly for foreign words. Foreign words usually become a phonetic version in the Japanese alphabet and then used as such. It's also very common to just see the english named word too for companies or brands. like iPhone will be written as iPhone. Sometimes long foreign words will be shortened to a few syllable word. Personal Computer will become pasokon. Example of difference in between 2 alphabets as such: Pasokon in the alphabets areぱそこん\u3000or パソコン
How is it that we create dreams in our sleep of bizarre or extraordinary imagination, however conscious thought hardly achieves such imagination?	When we are asleep our brains no longer having to deal with all our sensory information as much as when we are away. This frees up a lot of 'processing power' in our brains. Our dreams are in fact reproduction of thousands of experiences and memories, things we've seen in films, places we've been and even things we've thought up in more conscious states. Every face you see in a dream is in fact a face you have seen before . Dreams are hugely affected by watching movies and tv, in fact people over the again of ~60 will often dream purely in black and white.
How do skyscrapers get demolished?	You take it apart in the opposite way it was built essentially. In places where using explosives to bring down a building is not permitted such as Toronto, this is how it's done. Though it is a very expensive way to demolish a large building. A lot of the times the building is gutted and refurbished / renovated to suit the new needs such as a condo tower.
Why is there so much hate between feminism and men's rights activists if they both claim they want equality?	They disagree on which gender is the victim of gender inequality, and which gender benefits from and/or is to blame for that inequality. Here are two ways of thinking about this. 1. Let's say I'm doing something that I think is within my rights to do. But you perceive my doing that as an infringement on your rights. So you try to stop me from doing it. Now I feel like my rights are being infringed upon. So I try to stop you from stopping me doing the thing. We each think we're the victim in this situation, and we each think the other one is to blame. 2. Another way to think of it is in terms of equity, as opposed to equality. [Here] is a well-known graphic to summarize the difference. Short Person thinks it would be fair if they had two boxes so they can watch the game, same as Tall Person. Tall thinks it's not fair, because Short has two boxes and Tall has none. Tall isn't paying attention to the game, they just care about the number of boxes, while Short thinks the number of boxes doesn't matter, as long as they can both watch the game. Feminists and MRAs both believe themselves to be Short , and the other to be Tall , and so each group wants more boxes than the other group thinks they deserve. Edit: formatting, and added below: Of course, there are other issues that feminists and MRAs focus on that have little or nothing to do with each other, i.e. things that are perceived to harm only men or only women, but are not believed to be the result of the other's action. I don't mean to suggests that these issues are not important to their respective movements, but that is not generally where the conflict is coming from.
How did the Democratic Party transition from the slavery party to the left-wing, liberal party of today?	The big flip occurrd in the 1960s, and ushered in the sixth party system in the history of the U.S. There were a few factors involved, among them the [Civil Rights Act] in 1964, strategies employed by Richard Nixon's campaign in 1968. In particular, the Civil Rights Act was _hated_ by a lot of Southern Democrats; almost none ) voted for it, while Northern Democrats voted 145-9 in favor, causing a lot of Southern Democrats to abandon the party entirely . Compare the maps for [the 1960 election], where the Democratic John F. Kennedy won most of the South as well as New England, to [the 1968 election] where Republican candidate Richard Nixon took the entire south except for Texas.
What is hair, how does it grow and how can shampoo "repair" it?	This website by L'Oreal [gives a great 'tutorial' about hair science], it explains about the structure, the composition and the 'life' of hair, and looks like it has really good diagrams and explanations.
I will either die or not die in the next moment but i dont have a 50% chance of dying.	Hand her a deck of cards. tell her to pick a card. clearly under her logic, there is a 50% chance of her picking a king of hearts the next time she draws a card. Make her draw several cards, each time re-inserting the drawn card into the deck. count how often a king of hearts appears in reality. point out how it did not appear half the time, despite there being 50% chance of it happening. . If we just map it out it is quickly very obvious that this logic of hers does not work. if there is a 50% chance that a king of hearts appears then there is a 50% chance under the same logic that any card appears. Thus, the odds of drawing any king is 4 * 50% or 200% chance. under her logic she would have to be able to draw two kings from a deck of cards by drawing one card. she's performing a very naive logical fallacy.
Why does wetting paper permanently disfigure it?	Actually, it doesn't. If you re-wet the paper you can use a steam iron to re-flatten and dry it.
Why is the air at night more 'fresh' than in the day?	I love going out at night because of the freshness. To answer your question, just from my own experiences I'd say:- It's colder at night cause the sun isn't out- There are less people out at night, so there are less cars on the road contributing to air pollution, less people out smoking, less restaurants cooking up food, etc.Higher humidity pulls fine particles out of the air. Air is dryest during the day so all that smog is just floating around above the ground.
what are moles on our skin and why do we have to be careful about not damaging them and risking cancer?	To the best of my knowledge I believe it's sun damage that can cause cancer on moles but I would still like to know why moles are such a risk when involving damage
if we breath in oxygen and out CO2, how does mouth to mouth breathing work?	The air we breathe in is not all oxygen . The atmosphere is a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide and other gasses. Oxygen makes up roughly 21% of that mixture in the air we breathe. When we inhale, our body consumes some but not all of that, so when we exhale, the oxygen concentration is down to about 16% which is still enough to help someone who is not breathing on their own.
It's 2017, Why hasn't aeronautics advanced to the point of extremely quick travel on a commercial level already?	_URL_0_ Basic answer is speed costs fuel and therefore money. Not enough people were willing to pay the price premium to travel that fast. A 777 already cruises at mach 0.8, that remaining 0.2 isn't worth the expense. Teleconferences/video conference and such have replaced the need for high speed travel for business travelers, vacationers don't mind a slower flight that's cheaper.
Why does some technology (laptops, phones, etc.) run slower over time?	Some things still have moving parts. Hard Drives are still rotating disks and like any machinery it'll wear down from use. Solid State Drives aren't moving parts and work like a flash drive.The biggest hardware issue I can think of on a PC which would slow down a system is gradual hard disk failure. Sectors on a hard disk can become corrupt, and the OS will fail trying to read them. Or reading can become extremely slow. The OS might try to repeat the attempts to read a sector, slowing or halting the system while these repeats are attempted. Hard drives generally are rated in a number of hours before they will generally fail, and usually a drive will eventually fail at some point. If you ever hear clicking sounds coming from your computer, it can be from the drive header thrashing back and forth. If this sound is heard, or reading files locks up the computer, it is a strong warning that your drive might completely fail soonHard disks. They have moving parts, and are always spinning when you use them. They slow down over time and eventually crash. They have estimated life spans. Solid state drives have no moving parts and will not slow down over time.
Why Europeans like F1 and Americans Nascar?	NASCAR has cultural roots in America, particularly in the south. It started with bootleggers modifying stock cars to be able to outrun law enforcement during Prohibition. They would occasionally get together and have competitions to see who had the fastest car. Even when Prohibition ended, this car culture continued. A modified stock car was much more accessible to the average kid in the south than an F1 car, so that's the kind of racing America grew up with.
Why did we bomb a country that was just attacked by their own president with chemical warfare?	Well the specific target in the country was the Shayrat airbase in Syria. The Syrian Air Force, which is thought to be the perpetrators use this airbase to fly it's missions.Donnie Moscow needed a win after two smackdown by the courts on his silly immigration orders and his failure to repeal Obamacare after 8 years of preparation
How does government agencies eavesdrop on internet traffic when there are so many safeguards against man-in-the-middle attacks?	You mention HSTS, SSL, TLS, etc - All these can be subverted if you have the correct manner of decoding SSL. Just because nobody knows of any weaknesses in the current versions of SSL/TLS, doesn't mean the government don't have the ability to decrypt them.. ;-)
How many years could a nuclear winter plausibly last for?	Be weary of input on this topic. There's a lot of hysteria and pseudo-science being pushed. If people aren't talking about the likelihood of counterforce vs countervalue strategies, groundburst vs airburst, current building codes vs 1945 Hiroshima, current stockpiles vs in the 1980s, etc, don't listen to them. The answer is that nuclear winter is possible, the severity ranges from nothing to deep shit, and the most severe cases could last decades. The problem is that for these severe cases to be possible, we'd basically have to conspire with Russia to intentionally create them.
Who is Ann Coulter and why is everyone so cautions about her AMA?	I'd never heard of her until today so decided to youtube her and came to her [Paxman interview]. While her beliefs are completely disgusting and twisted that woman can argue effectively
Why has the Church of Scientology decided to use L. Ron Hubbard's WW2 record as the focus of their new advertisement campaign when that has specifically been called out as fraudulent?	Ex-members say Scientology advertising campaigns are mainly for show for current members. Scientologists give ass loads of money to the church, spending money on an ad campaign gives the church a talking point on how hard they're trying. Because it's geared toward current members, they can say all the crazy shit they want. They all fail though. Scientology is withering away from within, members are leaving and very few people are coming in. It's all about keeping current members now.
How can I run multiple programs simultaneously if I only have a single core processor?	It doesn't - it just switches between operations as best as it can. If you pull up your task manager/process list on your computer you'll notice dozens and dozens of different processes running - far more than you have cores.
Why are women's clothing sizes all over the place while men and children's are pretty much standard?	If you tell someone you wear a 32 pants, that sounds fatter than telling them you wear a 5. And, if you buy a size 5 at 10 different stores, you'll probably have 10 different sizes.
What bathroom is a transgender person supposed to use?	How did the father know that the person was a transgender? I ask because my brother-in-law is transgender and I would never have had any idea if my wife hadn't told me. As far as the legality of the issue the courts have so far ruled that a person should use the restroom that best identifies with their chosen gender identity. The cases I am aware of involve transgender students in schools being denied access to a certain gender's restroom. _URL_0_ Also OSHA outlines the fact that employees are under no obligation to justify their gender identity to their employer, and courts have ruled to support this. _URL_1_", 'Trans people should use the bathroom they identify with. I think confronting a person makes more trouble, as everyone who goes into a bathroom just wants to piss and get out. Why complicate it? How did he know this person was Trans anyway?Just remember. Transitioning your sex is a long, painful, and expensive process. Nobody goes through all that just to get access to the other bathroom. One should not assume things. Many in the LGBT community and especially Trans folk have been victims of sexual abuse.honestly, just let them use whatever bathroom they feel like using. If you don't like it, just wait in the stall or outside. The transgender person probably feels just as awkward as the people in the bathroom as them. America doesn't really have a law on gender, bathrooms and sex. And just remember that Lesbians can use the same bathroom as women, despite being sexually attracted to them.You appear to have a preexisting view as to which bathroom a transgender person should use. Thus this is not a concept but a debate question. The post is being removed and locked. r/changemyview is more of a debate sub, r/askreddit is a sub for polling the views of Reddit', "I don't think there's any law regarding using the 'wrong' toilet even if you think that situation is wrong. Why would you confront someone for needing to go to the toilet?
Why did the weather radar show a flash of extreme weather over Phoenix, Ariz., and then nothing five minutes later?	I managed to get a clip of OP's radar hiccup. _URL_0_ That is weird! Considering the massive area hiccup that looks much larger than bugs or birds.
Why do so many people NOT vote?	Imagine you are in a group of 5 people, and you want to decide where to have dinner. The problem is, you really hate mexican food, but you know that some of the people in your group really like it. In this scenario, you would vote against mexican food because with such a small group of people, the chance that your vote could be the one to decide where to go to dinner is pretty high . In a country of 300,000,000ish people, the feeling is that there are SO many people, that your vote wouldn't matter anyways. Even if you vote for one person, if he loses by a million votes its not like your vote mattered anyways. So people don't vote.
How will driverless cars be protected against cyber attacks? What will be stopping a terrorist or hacker from gaining control of multiple driverless vehicles and turning them into remote controlled weapons of mass destruction?	They aren't on a network so they cant be hacked from the outside. You'd physically have to catch a driverless car and break in. Also there are bound to be hard wired safety features. Things like proximity sensors that will slow or halt the vehicle regardless of weather the main os is compromised.They could be, but the more realistic option is that the cars will be a self-contained entity, with cameras to see obstacles, rather than relying on some sort of massive GPS to position all the cars.
How Basic Income would work. In the context of an ever automated world.	Basic income is taking some tax on automation and redistributing it to everyone. Everyone gets the same amount. If it is replacing other social safety nets, then it should be at least the amount those beneficiaries would have received. If it isn't, then it is just an even split of whatever earmarked taxes are collected. It doesn't need to be enough to live from . Taxing automation would not necessarily stop companies or people from switching over. The switch should save some percentage of production cost. As long as the tax is less than those savings, then there are still some savings to make the conversion worth it. However, I think it's impractical to try to monitor when automation is being used and when it isn't. There would be too much debate over what counts as automation and what doesn't. Instead, figure out which industries have been increasing productivity by increasing automation and increase taxes equally within each industry with exceptions for small businesses. Also, let the taxes increase over time to scale with automation.
Why can Anime Shows like Naruto go on for seemingly forever but a show like Legend of Korra had to be cancelled?	It's all based on viewer ratings. Korra is not as entertaining to viewers, on average, compared to The Last Airbender. The producing studio was not making enough money out of it, so it go cancelled. Naruto has a consistently good story and lots of viewers, both in Japan and internationally. Lots of viewers = lots of money. It also makes a lot from merchandise sales. So the producers keep the show going and there's even talks of spin offs. Long running anime can suffer the same fate as Korra when their quality goes down and viewers lose interest. An example of this is the cancellation of Bleach before the story reached its intended end.
If hand sanitizer kills 99.9% of germs, why don't we use it instead of soap?	hand sanitizer kills living things , but it doesn't get rid of all the dirt, viruses and now-dead bacteria on your hands. Washing them physically removes them and flushes them down the drain.Alcoholic Based Hand sanitizers only kill germs, they do not perform the elimination of the wastes that will still accumulate on your hands without additional steps. Its like throwing away garbage in the bin next to the counter. Ok you threw it away, but that doesn't mean the smell is going to go until you dispose of it properly. Its a temporary solution to stop the spread of germs and disease, however does not eliminate Filth. Soaps on the other hand, along with washing, lathering, and drying properly Both kill the germs on the hands, and dis-infect the hands by "eliminating" the waste and removing them completelySoap and detergent, at the most basic level of its function, reduces water tension, effectively making the water "wetter". This then allows dirt and such to be removed.
What's the deal with wisdom teeth?	What if you don't get them removed? What have humans done in the time before modern dentistry?", 'It has to do with us eating more meat. Think about how useful it would be as an early human who would likely loose molars during their middle years to have some teeth pop in just about the time they fall out.
Why does the sun make your skin darker but it makes your hair lighter?	I would image that the sun is bleaching your hair but your body's reaction to the sun is to try and protect itself a become darker. Your hair is already dead and needs no protection.
How can it be okey to write a news article that states "X% in the world has Y" when they probably only did the test on a smaller group?	The article about green eyes is not news it's an advertisement for contact lenses disguised as a news article. The % listed don't add up you only get about 70%. At the end of the article it lists a company selling contact lenses that can change your eyes. Als9 it's ok as there isn't a whole lot of regulation on what the media print within reason.
what the big deal about Ron Paul is	Remember how years ago you wished your parents wouldn't tell you what not to do? Ron Paul was the same kind of kid, except he grew up and his opinions haven't changed. Mom and Dad shouldn't be able to tell you what not to do, as long as what you do doesn't interfere with anybody else.
How are iPhones just as quick as other flagship phones when other phones have quad cores, more GHz, and more ram?	The main reason behind this is the diffence in programming.iOS apps are native apps, which means their code is being compiled to specific code that runs on apples processors. This includes optimizations by LLVM for their chips, which might offer specific intructions.On the other hand, most of the Android apps are written in Java. While Java itself is a good language, it is compiled to some kind of intermediate code and after starting an application, that intermediate code is translated to native code for the platform and then executed. This requires additional computing power, and is a process that does not scale very well across more cores.With the latest version of Android there is a new runtime for apps, which tries to tackle that problem and finally make the overall experience of android better. Source: I'm a Software developer
What is chromcast and is it a viable option to replace tv?	Our Chromecast is great but it interacts very strangely with our sound system. We have a Pioneer SC-61 elite receiver and plug the Chromecast into the USB port. It works great but for whatever reason, TV and music played using the Chromecast don't engage the subwoofer. If we use Netflix , we get a very different sound than if we use Netflix via Chromecast. I'm curious to hear if anyone else has gotten this problem.
I have heard the GOP can pull their nominee down before the election and replace him with someone else. Can someone explain this?	The delegates are bound to vote for a specific candidate at the convention as a result of how the primaries or caucuses went in their state. Since Trump has a majority of those bound delegates, he's the presumptive nominee. So, how could it change? Because it's the party rules that bind them. Who can change the rules? The delegates. When do they have the opportunity to change the rules? At the convention, before they cast their votes for the party's nominee. So, theoretically, the delegates could change the rules so that to are no longer required to vote for Trump.
Who wrote the bible?	I'm sorry I don't know enough to write up a good explanation but wikipedia does have a good article on bible authorship here: _URL_0_ I tried checking simple wiki since this is ELI5 but it didn't seem to have such a good article focusing on how the bible was put together/written.
Why do we say someone was "in" a movie, but "on" a TV show?	on this radio station" Use "in" if referring to a something specific. ex: "in this episode
Why are horses put down if they break a leg during a race instead of rehabilitating the injured animal?	Like everyone else has said, it's very difficult and very expensive to keep a horse's weight off of the injured leg. It basically involves keeping the horse in a stall in a sling so that they can not move or bare any weight on the break. Then, to keep other joints healthy, one would need to manually move them multiple times a day. Additiaonlly, it will take months for the leg to heal. This is already sounding a bit tedious, right? For a companion horse whose owner is rich, healing broken legs is sometimes an option. Now, your questions was about race horses. Horse racing is first and foremost a business. Even after going through the long, expensive procedure to heal the leg, the horse will never be entirely sound again and he will never be able to race again. The economic gains of healing the horse do not out weight the costs. So instead, the animal is put down. Edit: Unless the racehorse is famous enough for the semen to be collected for artificial insemination, which is another business in itself. Still, most horses with broken legs will be put down.Broken horse leg wont heal fully , like a human leg. Meaning that if they recover, they wont be able to race again. In serious cases, they may need to be euthanized.So the consensus in this thread is that it just can't be done without great expense, suffering, etc. Fair enough. My question is: Is it common for non-racing horses to break their legs?", 'This google would have answered all your questions: [why are horses broken legs put down]And how about Giraffes? or Zebras, for that matter?', "TIL If horses break a bone they're fucked
How does weed killer 'know' to kill weeds and leave everything else alone?	Because in order to kill anything with chemicals, it has to bind with the right molecule. In this case, only the weed has it while the desirable plant remains unaffected. Simply because there isn't a molecule the weed killer can bind to
Why does the American government not use the anti-trust laws as often as they did in the 19th centuries?	Changes in technology happen fast enough that monopolies are hard to sustain. For example consider that Microsoft was attacked by the US Government for allegedly misusing a monopoly position, but now they don't seem to be running the computer world nearly as much.In large part because anti-trust was viewed as a political/social tool. For example, when the Sherman Anti-Trust Act was passed, a big impetus for its passage was a belief by supporters that business should be small and local to maintain a certain national character, sort of the business version of Thomas Jefferson's view that the U.S. should be populated by yeoman farmers. This viewpoint meant that bigness itself was always bad, and led to decisions where a corporation that had created a monopoly simply by constantly offering excellent products at a competitive price was still broken up or fined simply for being big. Nowadays, the prevailing viewpoint is that a monopoly is ok so long as the company in question is using its monopoly power to continue to innovate and offer great products, and so long as they aren't using their monopoly power solely to run other companies out of the market. In other words, the discussion revolves almost entirely around economics. As to the Bell case, part of the reason those cases haven't happened lately is because technological innovation keeps making them irrelevant. Bell was broken up into the "baby Bells", smaller companies that were forced to allow their competitors to use their infrastructure for a fee. The thing is, what really opened up the phone market, increased competition and drove down prices wasn't the break up of the company, but cell phone technology which allowed the various successors to actually compete much more aggressively.
Why can't we explore the oceans' floors? What technological advance must be made to make it possible?	I believe it's mostly attributed to pressure. Let me break down some numbers for you to try and give you an idea of how much pressure is actually involved At sea level, the air is putting 1 Bar of pressure on your body. You don't feel the air pressing on you because the fluids in your body are causing an outward pressure that is about the same, effectively cancelling it out. Once you start descending into the ocean, every 33 feet increases the pressure on your body by another 14.5 PSI. The deepest part of the ocean known, is located in the Mariana Tench, and is 10.911 kilometers deep, or 35,797.2441 feet. At that dept, the pressure on your body is around 15,729 PSI, or about the same weight as someone holding up 70 commercial jets.
How is KFC getting away with not revealing their secret herbs and spices? What if someone is deadly allergic to something they don't want to reveal?	I used to be a manager at a store in Australia, and can confirm that if your a customer asking for information for allergies sake we can either provide you with an allergens fact sheet which are available at the front counter or give you a number to contact a hotline that tells you whether that particular ingredient is used. Further info: _URL_0_ Also before you ask I don't know the secret herbs and spices but there are some pretty good knock-offs on the interwebs that I've made at home. Not just limited to the original recipe either.That "secret blend" of spices isn't as much of a secret as it is a marketing termMaybe they reveal it to the FDA or something?', "Have you heard of anyone having an allergic reaction to KFC chicken, besides maybe to the gluten? If they were using something that is documented to cause allergic reactions, then maybe you'd have an argument to force them to divulge, but just because the general public doesn't know doesn't mean the USDA/FDA haven't screened it. How often do you go to a restaurant that publishes a full ingredients list for each of their dishes? The only reason you're noticing this is because KFC advertises it.The bag they come in has 7 listed, and "spices" as the catch all for the remainder. You could probably get a more detailed list if you tried calling headquarters, it's the exact proportions that are the big secretThey're called "Trade Secrets" They're usually taken in the place of patents when disclosing a company's formula, recipe, process, etc can have detrimental effects on the company. Ie. the formula for KFC or Coca-ColaI believe foods with known allergens must contain warnings as part of the nutritional information facts.
Why are there many conditions that prevent one from being able to see or hear but none really that affects someones sense of smell?	Due to significant untreated sinusitis in my teen years, I had no sense of smell in my 20s and mid 30s. I finally had surgery to repair it. I had significant polyps on both sides, a deviated septum and each of the openings to my sinus cavities were almost completely scarred over with excess tissue. It's been about 5 years since I had it repaired and I can smell, however my sense of smell isn't the sharpest and I still have a hard time identifying what smells are, unless the source is in front of me. For example, sitting down to a meal at a steak house, I can smell the steak in front of me and know it is a steak, but if there was just a steak smell in a room I could tell that I like the smell, but could usually not identify it as steak", 'There is a genetic disorder than causes people to lose their sense of smell, in most cases the person has never had the ability to smell in the first place and have been that way since birth.
Why does the sun hurt your eyes if you look directly at it, but not if you see it in your peripheral vision?	Your eyes are lenses so if you look at something, the light gets focused onto your retina. If you look directly at the sun, the light hits your most used area of your retina and it's focused more strongly. If it's in your peripheral vision it's likely still burning your retina, but more to the side and it's blurrier so the damage is more spread out.
Why do children cry when they experience physical pain but adults rarely do.	How much pain you feel is relative. The very first time you got injured, it hurts more than anything you have ever experienced so you start crying As you experience more of life, you'll end up with even more painful experiences so when you scrape your knee again, it doesn't feel as bad. There's also a factor of conditioning where you can resist your own urge to cry. However, if you close yourself too much to pain, you'll realize it's difficult to feel anything.
Can We Melt Diamonds?	In 2006 Scientists at Sandia National Labs melted the first diamond into an actual liquid puddle of diamond. It took the labs Z-Machine, which is the world's largest x-ray generator which created pressure 10 million times greater than the deepest floor of the ocean. The end result was a puddle of liquid diamond. Yes .you can and we have melted diamonds. Source:_URL_2_
If multivitamins "don't work", then why do foods fortified with vitamins/other like milk and vitamin D or salt and iodine actually work to decrease deficiencies?	In addition to what's been said, there's also the matter of bioavailability. Many multivitamins use the cheapest and least bioavailable type of each vitamin or mineral . And form matters too--taking a fat-soluble vitamin in a tablet form without eating any fat is a waste, it won't be well absorbed . Edit: a word
Why can't or aren't humans being cloned?	What would be the possible benefit of cloning humans? We can make humans just fine without cloning, and we have no need of cloning them. That won't happen until there's a need for it to happen--whether scientific, environmental, business, etc--and until then, it won't.
why do new airplanes or newly update airlines still have cigarette ashtrays in on the planes when smoking has been outlawed for a long time now	Aircraft parts certification process. The seats get certified as they were originally designed. It sounds stupid, and it is, but by taking out the ashtray the seat would no longer be in conformity to its certification. So they just get tacked shut and it's good.The reason they are still there is because if they change the structure of the air frame or interior of the aircraft, all of the modifications must be approved by the authority of the country . This process is very very expensive for all of the paper work and legal hoops. Its simply cheaper to keep the original design. The company i work for operates simulators requiring aircraft part, some of these parts easily run from 5k to 150k. A simple switch can easily cost anywhere between $200 and $700 mainly because that switch is "certified" for flight. Hope that helpsPeople also use them to dispose of stuff like candy wrappers. One must also remember that the aircraft market is a global market. An aircraft might be sold to another part of the world, where smoking is allowed, and there it would be needed. Since the major airlines often "pass along" their older aircraft to smaller, third world airlines, retaining the ash trays might make them more attractive to buy down the line.I think the answer is very simple: Your 'new' airline is using old airplanes with a fresh coat of paint on the outside. Airplanes built 30 or 40 years ago are still in service. I've never seen a new aircraft with ashtrays in the arm rests.
Why do actors get so much money?	Lately reddit has just been people bitching about how there are others who make more money than them and how the rich don't deserve to be rich.
Why does time-travel not work?	The problem is that we have no understanding of it. We only have theories which aren't absolute. Until we find a form of it like an outside force that introduces it to us we have no way of achieving it.
What is Kratom, and why is the DEA so interested in banning it?	As a side note, it acts on opioid receptors while not being an opioid/opiate itself. As a result, it stimulates some of the same effects as opiates without the negative side effects. On top of that, it's been said that it acts as a coupler that increases the potency of other drugs, like weed, cocaine, mushrooms and etc.
Why does America use the most impractical measuring systems?	There's no benefit to switching them for most people. Conversions are harder than metric conversions, but they're not that much harder. Even if they were supernaturally difficult, it doesn't matter because just about everyone has a way to do instantaneous conversions via their phone. Hell, even if that wasn't possible, how often do you really need to convert units anyway? Metric is used by most international businesses and STEM fields , but for everyone else, changing is just a waste of time and effort which won't bring any real reward.
What is a Polestar, how can I spot it in the night sky and how is it significant/used?	A Pole Star is a star that happens to line up with the axis of the Earth's rotation, and as a result it serves as a pretty objective measure of which way North/South is . Furthermore, based on the star's angle of elevation , you can figure out how far North/South you are, as the higher the star is, the closer you are to the axis of rotation. In the Northern Hemisphere, the pole star is the triple-star Polaris, which is very very close to the northern polar axis, and which is also a relatively bright star making it easy to find. In the Southern Hemisphere, the pole star is Sigma Octantis, but this star is pretty dim so it's more common to use the Southern Cross constellation, which can be used to figure out approximately where the southern axis is.
Mortgage repayment - why can't you take out a longer mortgage then just repay it quicker to save money?	As far as I'm aware, you can do exactly this. You agree to a minimum payment for a loan, but never a maxium; if you want to pay twice your mortgage every month to get it paid off faster, you are more than welcome to do so.
Why do people hate Nickelback so much?	In my opinion as a Canadian, we don't have many Canadian bands who are known internationally. Nickelback isn't the worst band ever, but neither is it the best, and we hate to see Nickelback representing Canadian music on the world stage while our favourite bands never seem to be in the spotlight.
Why do so many teachers demonize Wikipedia?	I'm a teacher and I'm actually fine with wiki. As a place to get an overview, as a place to find links to primary or peer reviewed sources, as a great explanation of many topics in language my students can digest. I just don't want it referenced Ina bibliography- anything worth referencing on wiki came from somewhere else, and the site hyperlinks the reference for goodness' sake. I want my kids to check the original source and the context, not just quote second hand info. Also, sometimes there is specialist knowledge that wiki doesn't explain, because it's a reference for everyday understanding. If I want my kids to give me an in depth answer, wiki isn't usually detailed enough.
If an ambulance is responding to a call and on their way they see a hit and run/car accident what is the EMT's priority?	It's a triage situation. If they're already responding on a time sensitive issue , they're going to blow past it and call dispatch for another ambulance. If they're responding to something lower priority, and see a high priority incident, they'll defer and call dispatch for another ambulance for their original call.Responding Fire and Ambulance crews can exercise discretion when responding to an alarm. In short, if they happen upon an incident with a higher degree of risk to life and limb, they may stop and offer assistance. in the case of the homeowner who lost their house as a fire truck drove past responding to a fire alarm at a school. I would have done the same thing. A school full of kids is a higher priority than a single home dwelling.These guys are all correct. I will usually slow down, and take a look. If it is 2 people outside of their cars walking and talking on their cell phones, I will just wave and drive on. County dispatch is usually already aware their is a crash. But, if I pull by and I see someone slumped over a steering wheel, it becomes different. Then it's a question of whats worse? If I am on the way to a drunk guy who calls every day for nausea, yeah, I am gonna stop for a minute and tell county. If I am on my way to a ped seizure, I will usually let county know the location of the accident and keep going to my call. One time on the turnpike on a rainy day, we stopped for 2 accidents on the way to the accident we were originally dispatched for. We ended up at the hospital with 2 patients and a dog. It was a 3 ring circus. lol.
Why a trip to Mars is more feasible than Venus, and what a trip to Venus would entail.	I'm not completely knowledgeable on the subject, but I believe the Earth's momentum as it orbits the sun greatly assists in sending objects to outer planets while making it much harder to visit the inner ones. Hopefully someone can come along and expand.
- Why are the rings of Saturn, which are presumably just floating Rocks, perfectly lined up in a huge ring instead of crashing into the planet due to gravity?	Think of it this way: There used to be way, way, way more rocks going in every which direction and speed. Almost all of them, just like you would expect, crashed into the planet, flew off into space, or crashed into other rocks. But some of them just happened to be going at exactly the right speed and they were going in exactly the right direction so that they didn't quite fall into the planet, fly out into space, or hit other rocks. That exact direction and exact speed happens to be small band around the equator of the planet.
How do animals perceive man-made objects?	In the wild, you are in danger of being eaten-alive at literally any second. Just try and imagine what that's like! Now, imagine something big and scary-looking coming right for you. You can assume it's benign and take the risk of getting eaten alive, or you can assume it's a predator and run. Now, which option is more likely to see you live a long life and have lots of kids?
When animals are fighting, why do they sometimes pause in the middle of the fight and stare into empty space?	It's going to be hard to get an objective answer to this question since none of us can ask an animal but most fights are prefaced with a lot of posturing and displays of strength. When opponents are unevenly matched a fight is more likely to be avoided which benefits both animals since they risk injury if they actually fought. If they are more evenly matched then it might result in a fight or if one of them feels cornered or defensive a fight is more likely but once the fight begins, both animals are seeking to win and any chance to end the fight without risk of further injury is a benefit. So after trading a few blows it's not uncommon for a pause while they re-evaluate each other and if their opponent is more capable than they thought they might break off the fight.
Why are men's clothes sold with clear measurements in inches or centimetres, but women's clothes have arbitrary numbers for sizes that can be totally different between shops and labels?	If a mans a 36 waist he's a 36 waist. He doesn't care, and if he does, he fixes it. With women they try to make the sizes sound appealing to get them to buy impulsively. That's why women's sizes are different. If a woman is a mans size 36 they aren't going to call it 36. There is no size in men's clothes called double zero. Women want to feel pretty. If you can make them feel pretty they spend money on your stuff.
What makes some wines better than others? Why can some bottles be 10 bucks while others over 100?	Wine is just a variety of food.The more you drink different types and qualities of wine, the more you will appreciate the difference. Honestly, people posting on here that there's no difference between a good wine and a bad have no idea. It's like saying that there's no difference between a Big Mac and a chef cooked meal in a top restaurant, it's just that McDonald's employs cheap workers and the restaurant doesn't. Would you rather eat a $4 Big Mac, a $14 Gourmet Burger, or a $40 truffle-infused concoction by a renowned chef? The differences between wines are just as large.
Why haven't there been any manned missions to Mars yet?	The logistics and fuel for planning a manned trip to Mars is extraordinary. We don't even know if a person can spend 1 year alone in a spacecraft. Planning is taking place but this itself would take years to do.1) The flight to the Mars would take months. Any normal person would go insane in such a tiny spaceship for so long. 2) To make it worth the trip, the astronauts would have to spend days, or even weeks there. The logistics of transporting food, water, and air for such a long stay plus the round trip would be prohibitive. 3) Mars is about the size of Earth. It would take a rocket with around the same power as the one that got them off of Earth to get them back into space. There is no way to give those astronauts the ability to get home, unless we sent a dozen rockets ahead of them with the supplies and tools they would need to build a rocket to get back home, which in itself is a near-impossible task.People have been listing reasons why going to Mars is hard and while their arguments are true the real reason why we haven't sent a person to Mars is that it would incredibly expensive and there is very little to gain. I would argue that the moon landing with 60s technology was much more difficult then a mars landing with current technology but the US had the motivation of the Cold War combined with a relatively robust post WW2 economy. It is hard to justify spending billions on a program to send a man to Mars when robots are safer and more efficient. If we had a good enough reason to go to Mars we could do it.
Why isn't the state liable for the rapes/assault that occur in prison? Can inmates sue if they are not adequately protected?	I worked for an attorney who had a client in prison . Prisoner A had been raped multiple times by Prisoner B, who was friends with one of the guards. Prisoner B had obtained A's SSN and the home address of A's family, which B used as a threat for A not to report the rapes. The friend guard once saw A after B had forcefully put makeup on A's face; the guard just laughed, despite it being obvious that A had not done that to himself. Because A feared for his family and knew that the guard was friends with his rapist, the first time that A was asked about any violence from B, he denied it. After that, despite the risk, he did begin to pursue a lawsuit in order to pay for the PTSD therapy he would need after being released from prison. Following this case, I was angry with the attorney for not fighting harder for A. The attorney explained that no jury would believe A after he had denied what was happening . It was so sad: the correspondence was handwritten letters on yellow legal paper from A and brief, typed letterhead responses from attorney. So, yes, inmates can sue. But if no one else is fighting for them, they will not win their lawsuit.
How could Caitlyn Ricci successfully sue her parents into paying for her college education? Is it a legal requirement for reasonably wealthy parents to pay for their children's college tuition?	The news articles I read suggest that the decision was based on a New Jersey case called Newburgh v. Arrigo. Here's more about the Newburgh case: _URL_0_
How did Tony Hawk become a household name while all other skateboards are mostly unknown?	Because he was marketable and started marketing himself from a very young age in the 1980s. The very few other pro skateboarders willing to do the same in the 80s and 90s just didn't do it as well as he did", '"..his mother says that he was "so hard on himself and expected himself to do so many things."[4] One time, Hawk struck out in baseball and was so distraught that he hid in a ravine and had to be "physically coaxed out" by his father. His frustration with himself was so harsh that his parents had him psychologically evaluated at school. The results were that Tony was "gifted," he tested with an I.Q. of 144.." From his wiki. He's smart and driven?He was much more marketable than other skaters because he was clean cut and had better upbringing than most skaters who portrayed the alternative lifestyle. He became a household name because he is a because the media wanted him as the face instead of drug using, swearing, tattooed, punk.It's just like how Michael Phelps and Shaun White are household names. People remember people who are the best at what they do. Tony Hawk was an amazing skateboarder for a very long period of time and was the first to land a 900 . He has also been great at monetizing his success with his video games and brand, which has kept his name around longer.
Why is an adult male's attraction to adolescent girls considered socially taboo in Western societies despite the fact that these girls are at their height in terms of attractiveness and fertility?	It's a societal norm. But it's not based on nothing. The brain of adolescents has not developed fully, so they are not capable of the same kind of decision making as adults. An adult can easily take advantage of that.Most important reason is that teenagers are not emotionally or mentally mature. While they are able to make their own decisions, society has implemented an age of consent because science has proven this.Because we don't live in a society that needs girls reproducing at such an early age anymore. Girls evolved that kind of pubescence because our ancestors needed girls to be having babies as quick as possible. They'd have like 5 kids just so 2 would live. Nowadays girls are waiting longer and longer to have kids.
Why can't we save the North Korean people?	Even if we did, it's 20 million or so half brainwashed, unskilled and malnourished refugees no one wants on their hands. It's sad, really.
Why did America violently revolt, while the other British colonies didn't?	Quebec was largely French Catholic and had a lot of French speakers. The British cut them a pretty good deal in the Quebec Act of 1774, so they didn't have a lot of reason to side with rebellious Protestant Anglos who were anti-Catholic. Washington really thought Nova Scotia would join the revolution. The British had expelled the Acadians from there a couple decades earlier and moved New Englanders in, so the people in that area were also largely Protestant English speakers. There had also been small uprisings against British rule in the 1770s in Nova Scotia. However, they ultimately didn't join for a few reasons. For one, survival in the harsher, less developed land took priority over political disputes for a lot of the settlers. For another, the natives living in the area had grown tired of the constant European warfare between the French and British and were happy that the territory was under the control of a single European power was over. They made it clear to the Nova Scotians that they would join the British to try and keep the peace should another war break out. Finally, the British had a large garrison in Halifax that would very likely have crushed any ground forces the Nova Scotians could have raised and the British navy could have prevented American reinforcements from arriving by sea. The Caribbean colonies were too far away to really join in. The Americans wouldn’t have been able to get supplies or reinforcements to the islands and the islands were too small to draft a military of their own that could hold out against the British. Furthermore, Britain had an incredibly powerful navy that could have dominated the islands easily. A lot of Caribbean elite also lived in Britain so there wasn’t as much support on that level.
Why isn't minimum wage in the US tied to the dollar inflation rate?	My problem with the idea is primarily, but not solely, statistical. Part of the problem is that inflation isn't a single thing that you can easily look up from a table, and your estimate shouldn't be constant over large regions of space or time. It's extremely complicated and you'll fall headlong into monstrous politics every year. Every group will have its own statisticians, and it'll be ghastly. It'll probably do more harm than good. If we think gerrymandering in map boundaries is bad, the same thing will occur with demographic boundaries. We do usually choose to tie estimates of inflation to a single measure like the consumer price index, but even the choice of representative items is truly debatable. There are real questions of which index or set point in purchasing power is fair. For example, perhaps someone on minimum wage is only purchasing something because that's what minimum wage allows them to purchase. Did you know that the purchasing power of slaves has remained fairly constant over time? They get the same gruel they've always gotten! And medication isn't included in their CPI, because they don't ever buy any. Besides, surveys are unlikely fine enough in time or space to capture real variation. The cost of living can rise or fall dramatically in an area if something happens to the housing market or if the price of gas changes, and sometimes it's only clear over a period of years that some shock has occurred. It's a good idea in theory. It's a bad idea in practice, because it puts another statistical tool in the hands of people who use statistics poorly.
Why are we unable to make gold artificially?	'Twas oft asked here. Ye may enjoy these: 1. [ELI5: Why can't we make gold in a lab? ]1. [ELI5: How is gold naturally formed? Why can't we make it in a lab? ]1. [ELI5: Why can't scientists create Gold? ]
Why do they make you remove your laptop from the case or carrying bag when going though the security check-in?	When I traveled out of the country a year ago, they had a sign saying that if your laptop would not power on, it would be confiscated. Why is that? Why is it a big deal if it doesn't power on? The battery may just need charged. I mean obviously I could have just plugged it in with the charger and everything would have been fine, but what if I didn't have my charger and had a dead battery?
why does a pimple, when not quite ready to pop, hurt SO bad when you squeeze it?	If you think of the pore like a volcano, and you squeezed the top of the volcano, the lava would move to the place of least resistance. So either deeper into the ground or just sit in the middle and create pressure So if you squeeze the top of your pore, the puss from the inflammation is going to go deeper into your skin or nowhereWhen you can just begin to see the lava, you can pop it. There's no point in making your face a bloody mess if you're not going to get all the puss out. So just wait for her to breach. That last sentence sounds like the most vile pickup advice ever.
How does current and voltage get "stepped down" from a wall socket?	So I'm an audio engineer with a little knowledge of electrics so my knowledge my be off base. If so someone please correct me. But as I understand it amps is more like a capacity. Think of your outlet as a cup with 10 amps in it. You plug in a thing that takes up 1 amp. Now the cup has 9 amps in it and so on.Plug in something else that uses 3 amps. Now you only have 6 amps left in the cup. So your laptop isn't converting the amps down. It's just only useing 1.8 of the available 10 amps. This is how I understand it. If I'm wrong I apologize.
How do life insurance companies make so much money when the commercials say people can get plans for $23 a month and get them $500,000 if something happened to them?	Profit = $ - $ * $ - $ Turns out the chance you'll die for any given month is really low. You could argue that their entire job is to calculate the chance that anyone in the group will die each month and charge you slightly more that your share of that risk. If you have big enough numbers, the individual risk chances average out into predictable numbers. Just like how a gambling house is almost guaranteed to make money given enough rolls of the dice, insurance companies are making a lot of bets that bad things don't happen.
Why can't the U.S. hold their market hostage for companies that outsource a lot (through tarriffs, etc) to solve its economic problems?	This might open the door for a lot of corruption. Our government is made up of human beings that are nothing i0f not corruptible. When regulating international commerce like this, you're allowing politicians to make decisions that affect how a ton of money moves around the globe. This seems like a recipe for disaster to me. Edit: the issue isn't with the plan, it's in the execution. If Apple set up a bunch of fake factories to abide by the law, and payed me to look the other way, I'd probably take the money.
Why is it so common for people, while speaking on the telephone, to arbitrarily wander from room to room and about the house?	It is a product of the sudden reorientation of certain aspects of our evolutionary development. For thousands of years it was uncommon for us to interact with people that were not of close proximity. Therefore when you are talking on the phone, your brain begins to panic. Your unconscious mind sends signals to your body to search for this mysterious invisible soul you are conversing with. You embark on a journey to find this mysterious invisible soul, only to find that the answer lies within. You are an anxious bastard and probably haven't been laid in months. Source: university of broscience", 'Hypothesis :You walk around because you are trying to find the person you are talking to. This is the same reason why you open your eyes extra wide while talking to someone in a pitch-dark place.IIRC I remember this being explained as the idea of a "line of thought." You tend to follow patterns/lines when you walk around while on the phone just as you are trying to create a through-line of the conversation and string your thoughts together. Then again, this could have all been bullshitPersonally, I find myself a better communicator while moving around. Walk and talks are awesome because it stimulates my brain. An interesting observation I made was how some people tend to sway back in forth when in a talking mood. Example: _URL_3_ I guess this is why rocking chairs were invented?Because I seem to be the only one that knows to shut the fuck up when someone else is on the phonethe people that do this have latent psychic potential. they walk around because they are searching their brain as if its a building with multiple rooms', "I do it Because I don't like people listening to me on the phone.
propulsion in the vacuum of space	It may make it easier to think of it the other way around. THe propellant ejected at high speed does not push against the vacuum, it is pushing against the rocket. That's where the action/reaction connection is . Think of it as glueing a firecracker to a ping pong ball. The ball will be launched, not because the expanding gas pushes against the surrounding air, but because it's pushing against the ball.
If somebody gets SWATted, can they then be charged with another crime (like possession) resulting from the police just barging in?	I know it happened to the popular YouTuber Whitebou7thst, he got swatted and the police found his pot who subsequently arrested him and his girlfriend for possession. In my opinion, it's pretty ridiculous that we still grant law enforcement the right to arrest us for weed. Edit: repost but I'm keeping it up.
CDN subdomains (like on Facebook, memegenerator, etc.)	The subdomains are used because browsers used to only make 2 connections at a time to each host, and subdomains are counted as separate hosts. Modern browsers make more connections at once, but a CDN is still important because it spreads out commonly accessed data over more machines, and also geographically. So if you're in Vermont and the website you're accessing is in California, the CDN might serve images to you from Boston, which will result in less latency.
When converting Black and White to color, how does someone know what colors to use to match the real colors?	Former graphic design major here. Maybe someone else can give a better explanation. You don't know really. If possible the designer will try and find out what the colors were through other references, but most of the time its just what looks best.
Why are Jews treated more like a race than other religions?	Jews are a nation, like the Greeks or the Romans, more than they are a religion. If you were born a Greek, you'll always be a Greek. If you are born a Jew, you'll always be a Jew. * Even if you stop practicing Judaism.* Even if you becoming a devout Athiest / Christian / Muslim* Even if you do things which are against the Jewish religion Source: I am a Jew.
spilled boiling water on my finger, it hurts a lot but there doesn't seem to be any damage on the surface so what exactly was damaged?	> what exactly is damaged The trust the nerves in your finger and brain, had that you wouldn't do something dangerous with hot stuff.In reaction, they're giving you incentive to not reiterate.FYI- use lavender oil to eliminate burn pain. Miracle worker.
How clothing retailers can get away with such astronomical markup.	Imagine you have a really cool toy that you found for $5. It's so neat that you decided to buy 10 of them so you could sell them to your friends. Now, since you're really nice, you might be happy to sell them for $7 . So you sell the first one to a good friend for $7, and he goes to school and everyone wants one. But there's only one they know of, and your friend has it. So they offer to buy it. Your friend doesn't really want to sell it, but people keep offering him more and more money; and finally the rich kid in school says he has to have it, and offers him $50! Your friend figures $50 is a lot of money, so sells him the toy. He doesn't share the profits with you because he bought it for $7 fair and square, and shouldn't have to. But now you know that there are kids out there who will pay $50 for your toy do you keep selling them for $7 or do you sell them for $50 each now that you know you can get it?", 'They can get away with it if people choose to pay their prices.
The difference between lifting free weights and lifting on the machine.	A lot of people in the gym have it twisted, machines are for advanced lifters that want to target and isolate aspects of their body they find lacking - not only are free-weights more effective, they're also required for safety. Starting with machines is basically a recipe for musculoskeletal disorders because your muscles and nervous system become capable of outputting more power/torque in a real world scenario than your joints and ligaments can safely handle. At a certain point, your body limits muscle growth to the most underdeveloped muscle in an attempt to stop injury. This is why you can only get so big in your upper body without doing leg day, and why you can only get so big with machines alone.Free weights are a more complete workout and will give the best return on use. machines are used sometimes to isolate muscles, but more generally because they tend to be saferMachines use about 30% as much muscle fiber which in turn causes your body to release less anabolic hormones. You gain more mass strength and stability using free weights. Machines only use the prime movers Source: certified trainer
How ISIS can hold a military parade, have massive amounts of military hardware without US intelligence knowing where to locate such military gear and then attacking...	Here is the short of it all: Coordinating a manned or unmanned strike package for logistics degradation is dependent on analysis of data from intel timeliness is critical, else it's a waste of effort . Coordinating a manned or unmanned strike package for degradation of leadership is usually based on immediate intel that can round the clock eyes on target till armaments package is delivered. tl;dr: timing is important oh, so.very.very.important.
Why are talking animals so ubiquitous in children's media?	Because animals are easier to draw poorly. This is an uncanny valley thing- the closer that something is to looking human without being 100% right, the more unnatural it starts to seem, and this makes people uncomfortable. By using animal traits or outright animals, you avoid looking human altogether, so if things aren't quite right, it doesn't trigger that unnatural feeling Also because it's easier to make characters distinctive when you go outside the pallet of humanity and allow for more shapes, more colors, etc. and you avoid the only six faces problem
The structure of middle eastern music	I'm not an expert on the topic, but one system I can tell you about a rhythm method called Konokol. In Western music we have measures of a set number of beats but the idea of Konokol is that you have groupings of notes set around a constant pulse. So turn on your metronome and subdivide by groups of 2, 3, 4, 5, etc. If you've got the head for it, you can stretch these groups across multiple pulses to create phrases. For instance, a very common rhythm in western music is 1-2-3 1-2-3 1-2. In Konokol, the pulse of the phrase can either be on the first 1 and the second 2 or it could be altered so that you have a measure of 3/4 with two triplets and two eighth notes at the end. Polyrhythms are also common, such as 2 against 3.You might want to try asking over in /r/musictheory I am sure if you ask them to ELI5 they will try to accommodate as well :)
In the US how does construction scams like "no shows" work and how does it tie in with unions?	A no-show job means that the construction company employs 10 guys to do a job, but actually only has 9 people show up. The guy who doesn't show up has a no-show job . The job gets done, but the buyer ultimately pays for the extra guy but it's not obvious to the buyer that they're paying. It can either be a way for a mob to pay an illegitimate employee in a legitimate way or a collection from a company that owes the mob a favor .
What is the point of 4-way Stop sign intersections?	I'd argue that I miss 4way stops. There's something extremely alert inducing about them, and it enforces a behaviour of 'waiting your turn.' Strangely though I know that the British could not cope with this. Traffic lights are literally everywhere, many times completely unrequited, just because we wouldn't be able to wait our turn. You should be glad. Waiting 1m30 for a light to turn when you can see it's safe to go is extremely frustrating!!!
How does free webpages make money?	Most don't. The ones that do make ad revenue and sell your IRL information when you click on to them.
How did the officials connect the two brothers to the Boston bombings?	The guy that lost both legs that was being helped by the guy in the cowboy hat , ID'd the suspect when he awoke in the hospital. [Source]", 'I like how everyone has abandoned "like I'm 5" and we're now using this as "AskReddit except less full of foolish people."They viewed numerous photos before and after the bomb. They surveyed each persons reaction and found the bomber suspects to be very different from the majority of the crowd. Plus, I forgot, but one of the suspects was seen in footage and photographs fumbling with his phone not more than 30 seconds before th explosion. They were also spotted without their backpacks not much time after the explosion.There's not a single response so far that explains how the brothers were identified. A victim saying what a bomber looked like or pictures of the bombers still doesn't let us know who they are, it just lets us know what they look like.One victim, Jeff Bauman, gave a description of the older brother + there is video of the younger brother dropping his backpack shortly before it blew upThere was someone who was injured and said he saw suspect 2 set down the bomb and 2 minutes later it went offReading the full text of the charges explains it to a certain degree: _URL_2_
Why is flashing headlights to warn others on the road about a speed trap illegal?	Depends on local law and the DGAS factor. In our Department, traffic safety is considered a city priority. So every work week we get assigned an hour of traffic detail, typically speed enforcement. Whenever someone does the ol' high beam flash, it just keeps me out of traffic court. In other words, the DGAS factor is high. I actually forget the name of the charge for doing this here. It's something like, failing to dim beam or something like that. Not worth my time to write it.
Why is it that in the eyes of some people the white part is yellow?	My mother has this. It isn't a liver issue though, her sister stabbed her in the eye with a yellow felt tip pen.
- What exactly is nuclear waste? Why can't it be broken down and why is it so dangerous?	Nuclear power works by splitting atoms to release energy. The left over, split atoms are the nuclear waste. These are radioactive because after they split, they have too many neutrons. You can put it into a special type of reactor to change it to stuff that's dangerous for only a couple hundred years. But that's the best you can do.Nuclear power generation requires the use of fuel rods, which after being used, become "spent." Those rods are still "hot," both literally and figuratively since their temperature is extremely high for a long time but they also continue to be radioactive for a long time as well. Some of these rods can be reprocessed/recycled back into use, but that is a practice not in use in the US. Current practice is storage of the spent fuel rods on premises at the nuclear reactor site, as even the transport of those materials is risky to the public and the environment. If you were to get close to these rods, you would become irradiated yourself, and that radiation would cause burns on your body as well as organ failure in just a few days. You would appear to age very rapidly as long as you survived. What I described above are radioactive elements. There are also the non-radioactive substances which have been irradiated by proximity to nuclear reactions, aka soil and water which are contaminated intentionally as part of the cooling process. Those too require storage, and it's still typically on the reactor grounds. There are plans to build permanent storage facilities in remote parts of the country, aka far West Texas, but those facilities have yet to achieve proper containment and transport procedures.In short, it's material that is still radioactive but not to a degree where it is still useful in reactors. Because we have yet to develop a means of causing radioactive decay to occur at any rate other than it's half life, which is the amount of time it takes for half of the material to decay, we're stuck with lots of radioactive material that doesn't have much other use.
If the games aren’t “rigged” how do gambling casinos make massive profits? If house and player odds are the same, wouldn’t they just break even in the end?	Because house and player odds are not the same. Every game is at least slightly in the house's favor. The house plays every game so their chances of winning will meet the expected chance of them winning and over time they will make a profit
Why you shouldn't put sharp knives in the dishwasher.	I believe it's more to do with the fact that in a dishwasher the knife can be pushed around by the water jets and shoved into shelves and other cutlery, possibly dulling it or damaging it.My knives came with this badass warning: "These knives will not be hurt by washing them in your dishwasher, but they are so sharp that they may damage your dishwasher."

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