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Why aren't dashcams being incentivised on a massive scale by insurance adjusters? | There are insurance companies, in the UK at least, who offer young drivers cheaper insurance for installing a telematics box in their cars. This box will give the insurance company details on how you drive, the types of roads you drive on, your mileage, your braking, your acceleration, and if you take breaks on long jo... |
What's stopping me from building a rocket, landing on the moon and claiming land or the Moon itself as mine? | Because your post isn't asking a simplified conceptual explanation, but rather for an answer, it has been removed. You should try /r/answers, /r/askreddit or even one of the more specialized answers subreddits like /r/askhistorians, /r/askscience or others too numerous and varied to mention. Rest assured this doesn't m... |
Why is it that when my feet are cold and I put them under my covers, they start sweating but they're still freezing? | I've never once in my entire life experienced this under any sort of cover or blanket. I am generally a very warmblooded sweaty gorilla but despite that my feet have a strong tendency to get cold and stay cold once they are cold. Putting them under a blanket slowly warms them up, zero sweating. Strange. [Male][40's]", ... |
Why do we get the feeling that we want to jump down when we stand next to a cliff? | Take up a extreme sport, abseiling/rockclimbing, hanggliding, jumpsuit, etc. Honestly can't say why you feel like jumping but maybe you can change it to a safer thrill seeking hobbit. |
How come cops still handcuff people that have been showered in bullets and are clearly dead. | Short answer: protocol Protocols exist for a reason, you can't just decide when to adhere to them. |
what will happen if teneesee or texas secede? | Short answer: They won't. It's especially humorous people think a state secedes from the Union by petitioning the government of that Union for permission to make its own government. That's not how it's done.In addition to everything else said, the Dallas Cowboys *et al.* would have to get work visas to play road gamesI... |
Why is it that cynical and pessimistic people sound more inteligent than optimistic ones? | protip: they don't sound more intelligent. they just sound cynical and pessimistic.I never got that impression. Many scientists at my university are very optimistic about the future . |
How a waiter can lose money if someone doesn't tip | A waiter's employer usually pays them around $2.50/hour. If they do not make the equivalent of minimum wage with tips their employer is legally obligated to reimburse them. However, servers generally make more than minimum wage every hour in tips, meaning getting reimbursed up to minimum wage because of shitty tippers ... |
How can someone sleep on their arm and cut off the blood supply for 8+ hours without any injuries? | Among other things, the premise itself is wrong. You don't sleep in [one position] for 8 hours. |
Why can we HEAR our joints crack? How does sound escape the inside of our body? | Sound actually travels faster through solids than air because the next molecule to be pushed by the wave is closer in these media than in a gas. So sound speed is gas < liquid < solid. That's all to say that it just goes from your meat space to the air space with a change in the medium, but no real problem for the wave... |
Why does blood not stick to human skin like a permanent marker, but will stain things like clothes so bad? | Blood comes off of clothes if washed with cold water. Hot water actually makes the blood stains permanent. It's a matter of what is being used to remove the stain. To remove a permanent marker stain, alcohol, being a favorable solvent, is a good alternative. Same way water for blood. What happens with hot water is that... |
Why is suicide illegal and the right to die such a controversial topic? | It's not beneficial for the human race as a whole, to want to die. Also, people just don't want to deal with the disturbing thought of it happening and would rather pretend that it doesn't happen. |
Why was salt so valuable in the past? | Salt does a lot of things desirable in the past. First, it's a preservative. In the past, people didn't have refridgerators so meat would spoil. Salt would prevent spoiling and keep it tasting good. Second, Salt made food taste good. The availability of spices was much more limited than today. There weren't a lot of wa... |
If plants can convert Carbon Dioxide into Oxygen, why can't we create machines to do the same thing to control the amount of CO2 in the environment? | Actually, the trees convert CO2 into trees. Trees, like most living things, are called carbon based life for a reason. Look at the size and mass of a tree. The majority of its mass is from carbon atoms. The carbon atoms came from the air. So, a tree, which can weigh many tons, will contain many tons of carbon. That car... |
Why is holocaust given more importance and exposure than any other deadlier events in history? | 1) The atrocities happened within Western Civilization. What happened in China, Cambodia, Armenia and yes Russia is not Western Society. Hence culturally we have a closer affinity to the perpetrators and victims of the holocaust then say a poor villager in Rwanda. 2) To totally discredit the idea of National-Socialism ... |
How can experts find the source of a fire from inspecting a burnt down house? | They look for things like accelerants. Gasoline and other accelerants leave distinctive marks and make fires burn in specific ways. Special tools can be used to indicate the presence of an accelerant, and testing on the burnt remains can determine which one it was. From scorch marks and damage, it's easy to see where a... |
Before the internet what did the average person use a computer in their home for? | Commander Keen, Magic Pockets, Hugo's House of Horrors, and the spray paint tool in MS Paint. Fuck minesweeper and fuck solitaire. |
Why do we 'never forget how to ride a bike' ? | You still get rusty. At the beginning of summer/spring I'm not as good a biker as I am at fall. That actual act of riding a bike is simple enough that you remember the basics. |
Why did humans evolve mentally when every other species evolved physically? | I read somewhere that we improved our mental abilities thanks to the fire. After the discovery of fire, people didn't need to hunt or look for food that much. In addition with cooking we could use more of the nutritions in foods. With less hunting people had more time to think about stuff which developed intelligence.J... |
Why don't they use Koko the Gorilla to teach other gorillas sign language? | feed me" or something else that she knows results in a banana, all being different ideas when signed, but all the gorilla is actually thinking is "I want a banana", not anything she actually signed. |
Why is it so difficult to design an advanced AI in strategy games when there is a chess computer that can beat grand masters? | Programs that play chess well don't use AI. They aren't reasoning from the rules in some way that's trying to simulate how people play. There are far more efficient algorithms for chess, and the best programs have large database of move outcomes. That's only possible, as others have said, because people have been study... |
Why are some animals considered "cute" and others not (psychological)? | Some people find 'cute' animals cute because of how reminiscent to babies and children they are, like their naiveté, playfulness and slow movements. Other factors like large eyes and soft fur are seen as more trusting/endearing because predators and hurtful things are the opposite usually . |
Which is better to use? A credit card or a debit card and what are their advantages/disadvantages? | Credit card is better. A debit card is linked directly to your bank account. if it is stolen or whatever, and someone buys things with it, that's money you will lose permanently. If that happens with a credit card, if you can prove that it wasn't you who purchased those items and report you card stolen, you don't have ... |
Why we still use the standard USB size so much. | Because computers and laptops are so much bigger than mobile phones there hasn't been any real pressure to use the small versions, [even though they exist] . Another reason is that because there are a lot of USB devices that have a large USB plug built in, any computer that had small USB sockets wouldn't be able to use... |
how and why civilizations/cities build up in layers over time? | The reason they do it is that location is usually a strategic location eg a hill, allowing the city to be easily defended. Also, it might have rich resources surrounding it so it's built there", 'Sometimes the new rulers have reasons to tear down old structures, here in Peru the spaniards built churches on top of Incan... |
Why are mosquitos unable to spread HIV and AIDS? | Mosquitoes spread malaria because the malarial parasite can migrate from the mosquitoes gut to it's salivary glands. HIV cannot. If a mosquito ingests HIV, it will be digested in it's gut. Any residual on the proboscis will die within minutes. |
Why does the quadratic formula work? | You can work it out yourself. The trick is something called completing the square. If you can get one side of a quadratic into the form ^2 then you can solve it because you can then just square root both sides. So what is ^2 ? Well just expand the brackets ^2 = = x^2 + 2dx + d^2 So what you're looking to do is turn one... |
when you flush a toilet, how does the water get sucked? Is it by a vacuum or the just the additional water that is added | All these are correct.The word I don't see is gravity.That and potential energy. The water in the tank is put there under pressure, lifting it up into the tank. Now that water has potential energy. When you operate the flush mechanism, the water falls, pushing the contents of the bowl over the s trap and the water cont... |
If cancer is caused by your cells making errors when they duplicate, won't all multi-celled organisms, provided they live long enough, eventually get cancer? | That's actually one of the arguments as to why cancer is on the rise. There are so many conspiracies about microwaves, GMOs, pesticides, birth control, etc. causing cancer. But it could simply just be that now that human beings are living longer, most end up getting cancer eventually, since other things aren't getting ... |
How does the Earth stay spinning at a constant speed after all these billions of years? | The Earth's rotation *is* slowing down due to gravitational interaction with the moon. Every century the slow down makes the day get longer by about 2 milliseconds. Things like tsunamis and el Nino can also affect the speed in tiny ways. The dinosaurs probably had about a 23 hour day and in another couple of hundred mi... |
Why do people hate Comic Sans? | If we're arguing about what font is appropriate as a people and not whether blacks and whites should use the same restroom, well, I'm just gonna go ahead and call that progress", 'People always need to rage on something, and comic sans is widely overusedBasically it is an ugly unprofessional font. Most people like thin... |
The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics and why people think it disproves evolution | The second law of thermodynamics deals with entropy--basically, you can think of it as saying that a closed system tends towards disorder over time. And they say that that disproves evolution, as for evolution to have happened, things have gotten more ordered over time. Of course--the first part of that was that thermo... |
How does the circulatory system handle/adapt to the loss of an extremity or limb creating apparent dead ends in the veins? | There isn't only one path through the body. Cut off/stop the flow in one way and it will take another path to continue to circulate. The blood has millions of paths through the body to take. |
How is the decriminalization of all drugs in a country beneficial? | In addition to what other people commented, the criminalization of drugs caused a problem that is often overlooked: the use of synthetic drugs that mimic the effects of the sought-after illegal ones to skirt around the laws. These substances, known as designer drugs or research chemicals, have little to no testing done... |
Electoral College Why Do We Need It? | It's a vestige of the colonial times. It would have been impossible for every person in every small town to directly vote for candidates, so they would agree on who they as a town wanted and sent people to vote for the candidates on the town's behalf. |
Why shouldn't I use accelerant to start a fire? | Because it could start too quickly, maybe even explode, and burn you before you can run away. There are safe things you can use, chosen or designed for the purpose, that will catch fire easily but won't burn too quickly. The traditional tinder and kindling - things like dry grass and leaves, and small pieces of wood - ... |
what is wrong with the FIFA organization? | Let's say the president of fifa the owner of a cruise company and each country owns a boat. The president accepted bribes to send holidayers to the smaller poorer and the boats with bad rights every 4 years instead of the more suitable boats |
How and Where do websites store their massive amounts of content? | Places that look something like [this]. Just big ol' buildings filled to the brim with rack upon rack of computing equipment and hard drives, cabling and enough A/C units to keep the whole system from overheating. Running a big datacenter like that is a big job and there are quite a few specialist jobs for the people w... |
Why don't we launch rockets off mountains? | Imagine that you are wanting to get somewhere fast. So, what would be more important -- starting a few feet closer, or already going fast when you start? The speed is a big, big deal. You don't think about the speed that the Earth is rotating at, because it's irrelevant to you as you're stuck here by gravity. But it's ... |
How can people drive from one point to another point without remembering every detail of it? | You have a short term and a long term memory. Unless you run into something driving usually has nothing that gets put into long-term memory. Same with walking somewhere. Your brain knows you don't need any of that info long-term. It's like a computer with RAM and a Hard Drive; with your brain deciding when to Save or n... |
How are unpaid internships even legal? | Depends where you are. In my country they're not. But the power imbalance between the company and the intern means few people would bring it to court. The intern wants a job and fears being blacklisted from the industry as a trouble maker. |
What is an IPA, and why does it seem a lot of people are on the IPA bandwagon train? | It's a beer with extra hops. People like the intense flavor; it's the beer equivalent of putting hot sauce on your food. |
How does Google Maps obtain my computer's exact location if my computer doesn't have GPS? | Locates you through IP address. Since it's an address to you, google follows the virtual roads aka the Internet and finds your location. |
Why I don't wet the bed after dreaming of peeing at an older age, but I used to when I was a child? | 1. Your sleep self learned what real peeing feels like vs dream peeing feels like 2. Your bladder is larger than it once was, and therefore doesn't really need to pee as often", 'I believe it has to do with the development of your detrusor muscle. This muscle is able to be somewhat controlled voluntarily, allowing you ... |
Why do presidential election campaigns need to raise so much money? | it's an arms race. if that guy has 5000 commercials, you should have 5001. barack's campaign isn't hurting for cash. but it pales in comparison to romney's advertising does buy votes as most people here have said, but it only works to a certain extent. here's an article discussing some of it: _URL_1_ |
Why are satellites and the likes covered with gold foils before thier launch? | But gold melts easily - wouldn't it just melt off during blast off? EDIT: Down voted for asking a question? |
Why poultry is more dangerous to consume raw than beef? | In addition to the reasons in other answers here, due to their small size dead chickens are often processed in unsanitary ways. It's easy to keep a cow's intestines intact and separate from the muscle tissue because everything is so much bigger.Salmonella made its way into the reproductive system in chickens and is muc... |
What happens to our bodies during say, a car accident, that makes time "slow down"? | Actually whenever we perceive we are physically or psychologically threatened an inbuilt, reflex, alarm-system in our brain triggers the release of electrical impulses and a variety of hormones. There is a complex hormonal cascade of over 30 stress hormones, such as adrenaline, noradrenaline and cortisol, which have a ... |
Why do countries need gold (like the gold in fort knox) to maintain the value of their currency? How does this work? | Contrary to popular opinion, a currency NEED NOT be backed by gold by most countries' central banks any more. It used to be that way long ago, but since the price of gold itself was moving, central banks of various countries had to do enormous juggling to maintain their respective exchange-rates. As a result, the [Bret... |
Why is porn legal but prostitution illegal? Isn't the only difference one is being filmed? | First I'll say I agree it's a stupid rule, but: Prostitution is one person paying another for sex. Porn is paying someone for the right to distribute images of them having sex. No one involved is actually paying for sex--the customer is only buying pornography, and the pornographers are basically paying for content the... |
Why McDonald's is expected to pay a living wage. | Because companies that make billions of dollars every year can afford to pay their employees living wages, and still make an incredible profit. But how will these poor execs afford to buy their children a third Ferrari if they pay their employees a living wage? Unfortunately for McDonald's employees, the main flaw in C... |
Why do sci-fi films depict big explosions in space as a ring instead of a sphere? | If something happens in a movie and you don't think it makes sense, it probably happened because it looks cool. |
Why is a bottle of orange juice less expensive than than the oranges it would take to make that much orange juice? | If you feel like reading through it, [this pdf] has an exhaustive list of US quality standards for oranges used for orange juice, depending upon what it'll be used for. But when it comes down to it, crappy old oranges make for perfectly fine orange juice. Especially frozen orange juice concentrate. Kinda like how you u... |
Has anything actually changed since the Edward Snowden leaks of 2013? | If anything most intelligence agencies globally are increasing their stronghold ever since leaks. Other than public outcry and lively online discussions there isn't any concrete change in policy anywhere.Conspiracy deniers have switched their tune from "the government isn't spying on us" to "of course, they 've always ... |
When I am falling asleep, why do I suddenly know that turning over will be more comfortable and can't sleep until I do? | I don't think it's much to do with nerve damage or anything of the sort, as I'm assuming it's not pain or discomfort of that sort that leads you to roll over? and if you don't does it hurt in the morning? If you've ever looked into lucid dreaming, it's explained that before you sleep, your brain will send you signals t... |
The courtesy of men standing up when women leave a table. When was this actually done and when did it die out? | I remember my father asking us boys to do that when my mother left the dinner table probably in the '50s. I do believe but am not certain that I did so on my earliest dinner dates. |
Why do children pick up the accent of their locality, rather than their parents? | My friend moved from England and has an American accent, but when he talks to his parents it's extremely EnglishEdit: autocorrect was automistake", 'There is some exceptions. Irish Travelers can live among settled Irish people, yet the children of Irish Travelers still maintain their traveler accent. I live in a middle... |
If Russia is denying that the troops in Crimea are theirs, why would it be an international incident if someone attacked them? | Because they _are_ Russian troops, and just because Russia isn't claiming them as such doesn't mean that people attacking them wouldn't provoke a response. The fact that this would imply a change in position over what those troops really were doesn't matter. Being consistent when it goes against national interest is no... |
How are Audi & BMW able to take jabs at each other without getting into trouble? | if they don't sue them, where's the problem? europe is bit different and it's long lasting war. there is no way to find who started that and both are doing it. so why even bother? |
What is happening physiologically when I listen to individual instruments in a song? e.g. when transcribing | _URL_0_ > The cocktail party effect is the phenomenon of being able to focus one's auditory attention on a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli, much the same way that a party goer can focus on a single conversation in a noisy room. |
Why do flies like landing on humans? What are they getting out of it? | I can tell you the notion that flies on you = you stink isn't necessarily the case. Flies flock to you when it's hot because you're sweating and they want the moisture, not because you smell . If you go outside shortly after having a shower you'll soon be swarmed by flies as well. |
Why don't desktop computer have their own battery? | Components used in laptops aren't just designed to be small, they're designed to be more energy efficient than desktops. So a desktop would need a much bigger, more expensive battery bank to get the same running time as a laptop. Most people don't have power outages often enough to really care about whether their compu... |
How come `60s technology got us to the moon but today`s tech cant get us to Mars? | We could easily make it. Well, 'easily' make it. It is possible with the technology we have, and if we don't have it we could get it fairly quickly IF we had the funding, but we don't. If you want to know more about the funding involved then [this video by Neil Degrasse Tyson] explains perfectly why we had the budget t... |
Do missiles detonate when they are fired at the ocean? How do [the agencies firing the missile] know that there aren't boats in those areas at the time of impact? | For test runs that require a detonation responsible agencies provide ample warning to potential craft, generally have boats and other vehicles in the area to check on unexpected traffic AND they'll do it in areas away from shipping lanes that have been designated for this testing. For less responsible agencies or power... |
Why do guys grow hair on their chests and backs, but girls have none? What's the point of even having any in those places? | Many women have all of that, just in lesser amount of course hairs. That's when waxing and shaving constantly comes in. |
What effect will Mt StHelens apparently refilling with magma have? | Tangentially related but I figure people in this thread might be interested, [Pulitzer-winning article on 'the really big one in the PNW. |
Why do dogs "fetch" only to have the item they fetched thrown again? | They're trained to do it, and it's a fun bonding activity for both the person and the dog.because dogs can play, too. they enjoy the chasing and the finding. |
Why Miley Cyrus gets away with smoking marijuana on TV? | probably because nobody cares about miley cyrus. if not that, perhaps she's only faking to look cool. |
Why are concert volumes so high? | I've wondered about this too. Related CMV thread: _URL_0_ The simplified answer from that thread is that live drums can be naturally very loud, so they turn everything else up to keep it from being drowned out by the drums. Makes some sense, though of course it's no excuse if the band doesn't have a drummer!", 'Gotta t... |
Why did knights wear armour if they knew swords would pierce them? | A good set of armor was way more effective than modern media would have you believe. If it was useless it wouldn't have been around for as long as it was. |
Why is Fox News the only network covering the Benghazi hearings live? | One media outlet is running with the story because it appears that Hilary Clinton, the President, among others lied about their knowledge to save Americans under attack at the embassy and they are trying to cover up what they knew and what they did about it. What does all of this mean? It shows the American citizen the... |
How are "in-shower body lotions" at all effective? | Are they effective? Oh lordy, yes. With regular lotion, I am dry 30 minutes after I slather it on. With the in shower lotion, which effectively 'seals in' moisture from the shower, my skin is still supple and silky at the end of the day. So, anecdotally, hell yes it works. |
Why do we still have circumcision? | While it originally had some health benefits long ago, today it's really more about tradition and cultural/religious norms in most places where it's practiced. |
Why did everyone decide paper money should be rectangular? | Because it's the most obvious choice. It's the most efficient way to cut paper without wasteI guess square could be an option tho |
ELI 5: when someone has cancer, what exactly kills them? | How about for someone who is 5 years old: Cancer cells are cells that forget to die and forget to stop growing when they don't need anymore. Spots in your body overgrow. They are called tumors. The tumors get in the way of other organs. Body systems get invaded by tumors taking up space and die. |
If polygraphs are known to be nothing more than a carnival trick, how and why are so many government positions REQUIRING a polygraph in order to get hired? | If torture doesn't provide actionable reliable intelligence why is it still used and promoted? I think maybe the answers are similar? Like a cultural lie that we keep telling ourselves so it keeps being believed by many to have value even though we pretty easily prove otherwise. Both are tools just not with the purpose... |
What is the largest known individual object in the universe and how you can understand it's true scale? | YV Canis Majoris is the largest known star we have observed. It's as wide as our solar system.The Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall, a galactic filament between 6 and 10 billion lightyears long. |
If humans don't naturally drink milk as adults, and neither does any other adult animal that I know of, why is it important that we have dairy in our diets? | It isn't. A reason dairy is suggested as a key food is because it makes it far easier to meet requirements for calcium and other nutrients. It's also more cost efficient to get most of you calcium from a glass of milk than to do so by eating huge amounts of green vegetables, which may be somewhat expensive depending on... |
Why is Windows 8.1 Considered the 'Worst' Microsoft OS? | It's almost certainly because of the Metro interface. When first installed Windows 8 has a touchscreen interface and no start menu, and many people hated that and found it difficult to work with. It's very quick and easy to fix that though, to install a classic start menu and disable the Metro UI, at which point Window... |
How do fridges work? How can energy be used to make something colder than it's surroundings? | Fridges produce more heat overall. But they can change the gradient of hot to cold. They can make the inside colder and the outside even hotter. Put your hand behind a fridge. It's quite warm. And there's a lot of hot metal back there to cool off in the room's air. In vague terms it's done with condenser equipment. If ... |
The human body produces enough heat to bring half a gallon of water to boil in 30min, what do our bodies do to produce so much heat, especially when idle? | It's all hidden in the chemical reactions. When A+B is converted to product C a part of the energy transfered in the chemical bonds is released as thermic energy . And when we say peoducing heat, its basically the side effect of a LOT of different reactions producing heat. The body can regulate the metabolic standard o... |
Why is it when I take a road trip the "going" portion seems to take longer than the "coming back" portion even though it's the same route and distance? | I don't know about any serious studies, but in addition to those things already mentioned, I would think that because you're more excited in anticipation on the way there time would seem to pass slower than on the way back when you're tired and relaxed. |
How is carbon dating done and how can we know if it's reliable? | Carbon dating is only one method of dating things. For older things, we tend to use other methods, most of which are based on radiometric dating. As the other commenter points out, carbon dating only works on things that were alive but other methods tend to work on igneous rocks . Igneous rocks are great, because they ... |
when does an act of self defense turn into assault? | If you keep going after its evident you aren't in danger anymore or unnecessary force. If someone is pushing you and you punch them, it's all good, if you punch them and they go down and they can't stand up straight like they'd have birds and bells floating around their head if they were in a Loony Tunes cartoon and yo... |
How did prostitutes manage contraception before modern methods? | In the late 1920's, women would douche with Lysol disinfectant after sex to prevent pregnancy. This usage was promoted and marketed by the makers of Lysol. _URL_0_ |
Why do people (and apes in general) have two breasts/nipples, given that they're most likely to have only one child at a time? | You're assuming evolution is happening for a 'reason'. It doesn't. We have 2 nipples because a long time ago, when human-like things started to exist- humans that were the same on both sides were more likely to survive and make babies. Evolution doesn't have a goal- it just goes with whatever is working. It is easy to ... |
Why are we always told to make sure someone doesn't swallow their tongue when they go unconscious or have a seizure, when it isn't actually possible to swallow our tongues? | That hasn't been protocol for years and if you stick your fingers in the mouth of someone having a seizure their jaw can clamp shut and you lose your fingers It is also impossible to swallow your tongue as it is attached to the floor of your mouth.That advice goes back to the days when cutting a snake bite to let out t... |
Why cancer is so hard to cure. | There's a bunch of kinds of cancer and they closely resemble normal tissue so it's hard to identify cancer cells in the first place and it's hard to develop medicine that kills cancer cells without killing the good cells. |
How hard is it for a sniper to shoot a moving target? (I'm thinking Kennedy) | If you look at this [map], you can see that Oswald had a much easier shot than even most of the comments are indicating because he chose his position **very** carefully. Note that he does not really have to lead in the horizontal plane. This is a difficult shot even for a relatively slow moving target. But because of w... |
What are the key differences between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders? | Please note that Hillary has changed her viewpoint on major issues many times. Bernie has been fighting for the same policies and beliefs since the 60's. The main goal is to get a president who will put policies in place that you agree with, but personally, I'd like a president who actually believes in those policies. ... |
Why is it so common for europeans to speak english as a second language? | You probably would have had English as a second or third language in high school. Which gives you the basics. After that, you are far more exposed to English then any other langauge . Hence, you practice that skill more. Once it became the most common one , it has become the default language between europeans from diff... |
How come pregnant women have heightened senses? Especially smell to a ridiculous level. | Most likely it is an evolutionary response. It would make sense that a pregnant woman who is better able to smell rotting/ poisonous food or perhaps a smelly predator could avoid those dangers over a woman who can't smell as well. Living longer means more babies. Yada yada yada pregnant women are more likely to have a ... |
What do we REALLY know about stretching, as it pertains to exercise or athletic activity? | I am trying to get into the lotus position and researched a few weeks ago on best practices. From some of the peer reviewed articles I looked at It's better to stretch and hold that position than to bring it back and forth. The minimum hold time is about 20 seconds. After about 30-40 seconds of holding that position, t... |
If the brain lacks nerve endings for pain, how do we feel headaches? | It's everything else in the head. Large blood vessels, meninges , the numerous muscles in the area, and other stuff can all transmit pain signals. In truth, though, there's a lot we still don't understand about various forms of spontaneous headaches in terms of what's hurting or why anything happens in the first place.... |
What are some meds in blister packs and some are loose in bottle? | Here in the UK there was a legislation in the late 90s that over the counter pain killers could only be sold in packs of 16 . This was an attempt to reduce overdoses and was proven to be successful. There was also a study that blister packs further reduced overdose rates. The theory was that people would be less likely... |
If people are often able to crack big security systems, such as banks' ones, or internet protocols, what makes it that difficult to crack slot machines and that kind of things? | I don't think there's anything really difficult about hacking a slot machine, from a programming point of view. The hard part is doing it in a casino with a camera trained on every machine and security guards every few feet. Slots aren't connected to the internet or anything - to mess with them you'd have to physically... |
Why does my nose stuff up when I sit/lay down but clears instantly when I stand up? | I suffer from a simlar affliction, and the root cause, as it turns out, is muscular tension working its way through your body, such that your nasal air passages become constricted when sitting. The best way to rememdy this is to get exercise! Specifically, yoga. Watch this video and try to follow along: _URL_0_ It'll h... |
Why California's K-12 public education is so bad. | BREAKING NEWS: You'll get an excellent education if you live in a wealthy area of California.This is just my own personal experience. CA high school graduate here. I went to public schooling my entire life. Graduated HS in 2004. In my experience, I feel like I learned just fine. In retrospect, as a greenhorn HS graduat... |
Why do movies use CGI when older movies like TMNT and Jurassic Park looked better and more realistic? | I would dispute that the effects in those movies looked more realistic, that's a subjective point. But to answer your question, CGI is cheaper and easier.*Jurassic Park* was a big budget blockbuster. Not only did it have a huge special effects budget, they had a huge *editing* budget and highly skilled people who were ... |
Why do Teenage/Young Adult men dislike sleeping in a bed with each other when women do it regularly? | I shared beds with my bros well into adulthood. Because, gay or straight, I don't hang out with rapists so who fuckin cares?", 'That voice in the back of our heads that calls us fags anytime we do or about to do anything that is close to being gay or feminine such as touching hands or ordering an appletinieThe boner is... |
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