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What happens to medicines when they reach their expiry date? | Most medications remain fine and OK to take. There are a few exceptions though. _URL_0_ > An update on the Shelf Life program published in 2009 established that 88 percent of tested medications worked fine more than five years past their expiration date, which admittedly just confirmed previous research. The more perti... |
Why do we need different currencies in the world? What's the worst thing that can happen if we had just one global currency for every country? | The advantage of multiple currencies is that if one country has economic booms or busts they can tweak their currencies so they are worth more or less to either slow down or speed up their economies. Take Greece as an example. If they were still on the Drachma, they could devalue their currency and make their exports c... |
Why does the wind always flow from the ocean to land at a beach and never the other way round? | Land normally heats up faster than water. During the day, the air above the land also gets warmer and rises, causing a slight low pressure to develop above the land. The air above the sea doesn't warm up as much, so is at a slightly higher pressure. The onshore breeze is the air moving from high pressure to low pressur... |
Why are we afraid of things that go bump in the night? Or to put it another way: Why are we afraid of things we know aren't real? | This happened to me this morning, lolBasically it's how our brain deals with superstition. The first humans needed to be careful during the night in order to detect possible predators or potential danger, this ability has prevailed, but now there's very little chance of a cougar jumping on us while we sleep.When someth... |
Can you naturally reproduce the effects of drinking an energy drink by long-term diet change? | I've found cutting out sugar, especially from soft drinks, has made me feel more energetic. Also keep well hydrated and try to keep your vitamin intake high, most importantly vitamin B12. Hope this helps! |
Did the Greeks look at the gods as actual beings or more like representations of different elements of the world? | Herodotus recounted actions of deities as if they were real entities and not fictional personifications of natural forces. For instance: > The Scythians who plundered the temple were punished by the goddess with the female sickness, which still attaches to their posterity. I seem to recall some more direct intervention... |
Why do bibles, dictionaries, etc use thin bible paper over normal grade paper. | Because those books are really long. Using normal paper would make them physically larger and heavier. Having to hold a bulky book is much less comfortable for the reader.Essentially, so the book will be smaller in size. Most books that do this are attempting to be compact. Its for practical reasons. The Bible, diction... |
How does cannabis affect the accuracy polygraph results? | I know Marijuana increases your heart rate. ProTip. If you need to fake a polygraph tighten your asshole for every question you answer honestly and relax when you lie. It gives a false stress response when you tell the truth, so the regular stress response you give when you relax doesn't show a change.Polygraphs measur... |
What's the symbolism of Easter Eggs? | Not sure but I'd say it had something to do with the pagan rites of spring before Christianity was established in full. Eggs=fertility, people think of fertility in the spring etc. I assume it is just something that christianity co-opted. |
What's going on with Italian politics right now? | In Italy they voted on two things: Senate and Parliament. Basically Bersani won the Parliament and Berluscone won the Senate. Look at the Senate as the boss of the Parliament. If your boss likes you, he will allow everything you do, because you've got the same mindset. However, if your boss completely disagrees on ever... |
Why is French so complicated? | Chinese is horrid because you can't tell how to pronounce a new character. English is known for its bizzare amounts of homophones. French has lists and lists of conjugations to add to words when you want to refer to different subjects, i.e. he, she, they. Welsh just looks like the sign writer was sneezing or something.... |
how is it "wasting" water by running your tap down the drain? | You aren't wasting \'water\', Earth, and most watersheds are a closed system. You are wasting "clean water" it takes energy and resources to deliver clean drinkable water to your faucet. The waste is in expending that energy when it is not necessary.In some areas there is not enough clean water to meet the needs of the... |
How are mice cloned? | There are two theoretical categories of cloned animals: cellular clone and genetic clone . A 'cellular' clone would be taking some cells from an animal and growing a new one from it. No one knows how to do that , although we've been doing it with plants for centuries, even millenia. The way animals are actually cloned ... |
Why do we not have a society with two shifts - a day and a night shift? All the machinery and offices are just sitting around doing nothing at night. | Basically because most people enjoy sleeping at night.we do but it's only viable for the jobs that just need any person to be there and not a specific person to be there. they usually have 3 8 hour shifts or 2 12 hour shifts. |
The meaning of 2/10 n/30, or 3/15 n/45 in accounting terms | It has to do with a % discount of payment due if paid within x timeframe. So 2/10 n/30 means you'd get 2% off if you paid your bill within 10 days, otherwise it's full price and it's due within 30. Source: freshman level math with business apps course. |
How exactly Martin Shkerelli defrauded his investors. | He did not make his investors more money. He paid them off with new investors and then paid those new investors off with funds from one of his companies. |
How do labor unions work? | One guy walks up to his boss and says "Pay me more or I quit!" The boss fires him. The entire factory, represented by one guy, walks up to the boss and says "pay us more or we all quit!" Not wanting to lose his entire workforce and possibly be put out of business, the boss caves. This is how basically every worker righ... |
Why are all animals symmetric, yet plants are not? | Actually, not all plants are asymmetrical , and not all animals are symmetrical . And no animal is truly *perfectly* symmetrical, of course. But I get your point. Some degree of symmetry is important in animals because we have to *move around*, with a complex nervous system intact. And this is easier when you have a 'c... |
Why would Apple want to make their own chips for Macs? What is wrong with using Intel chips? | Part of it is that Intel is profiting from chips that Apple buys from them. *If they have the up-front money to invest* and technical skill to produce them as cheaply as Intel can, they can keep the money that would otherwise be profit for Intel. Intel chips also use the x86-64 architecture which has been the standard ... |
how did some animals develop the trait of using venom? | Venom evolved from saliva, which has enzymes in it. When an animal bites another animal, any of those enzymes that get in the wound which provoke a reaction in the prey's system might make it easier to kill the prey. If that helps the animal hunt and survive to reproduce, its saliva traits will get passed on. Over time... |
How do we determine the nutritional values of food that we eat? | I can answer the calorie part: basically it's burned to see how much energy is released. "A calorimeter is a piece of equipment designed to measure the energy released or absorbed during a chemical reaction or phase change. Food calorimetry allows us to determine the number of calories per gram of food. In this activit... |
What happens when someone dies to access their password-secured accounts (e.g. checking account, email, financial portfolio)? | I used to do wills/estates before moving to IT/IP, so here's how it works: 1. You can only use a Power of Attorney when the person is alive. Once they are deceased, a PoA is no longer valid and the attorney/executor must derive their authority from the Will. 1a. If the testator is still alive, the Power of Attorney for... |
What is Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and how is it caused? | Breaking down the definitions of the individual words is the best way to understand medical terms: * Chronic: Repeated or reoccurring over time. Not a single instance . * Traumatic: Causing injury. * Encephalopathy: "Encephalo-" means related to the brain. "-pathy" means pathology or something abnormal or harmful. In l... |
What is it that makes humans like listening to music? | You sort of answered your own question in regards to the random noises. We don't listen to music because it's special, music's special _because we listen to it._ Like any art, the fact that humans find meaning in it is the only thing separating it from random noise. As for _why_ we like some types of noise over others,... |
How does the Earth's crust not collapse under the weight of huge buildings? | Large buildings are given special underground support structures called *foundations* that spread the load or anchor it to strong, stable layers of the crust. Deep down, the crust is made of rock and other strong materials which are already under countless kg of weight, and won't be hurt by a bit extra. |
How does a microSD card or USB stick store information? | A [flash memory cell] has a little isolated bit of conductor embedded in an insulator. Various clever techniques are used to detect how much static electric charge is trapped on that "floating gate", and to inject or remove charge when you write a new value. Density is determined by how finely-detailed we can manufactu... |
How does one day shipping or same day delivery work? | For large distances, airplanes. If you overnight something a long distance, it will first be flown to one of the major hubs , and then flown to the airport near the destination, where it's taken to your local facility and placed on a truck for delivery. For short distances - like the warehouse near you to your house, i... |
How do car manufacturers pick what what side to put the gas opening on? | The gas cap is always located on the side opposite the exhaust :) Except on those cars that have an exhaust on both sides, or 4 in the centerI recall an older car I once owned whose gas tank filler port was located on the rear of the vehicle, accessible from either side, and was accessed by flipping down the license pl... |
What is the biological origin or need for a creature to be dominant on one side or the other (ie, left- or right-handed)? | Good question - no one is 100% sure. But most likely it's just a matter of practice. If you do an activity only with one hand, you essentially get twice as much practice doing it as each hand would get if you were ambidextrous. So you are limited to only doing it with one hand, but you can presumably do it much better.... |
Why is being a "snitch" such a bad thing? | Because it implies a lack of trust within a group that share a common interest of unifying factor e.g As a student if my friend freely admits something I did to a teacher then he has betrayed an existing trust, both to me and to other students in our classBecause it imples that you are loyal to the authority rather tha... |
How does the NFL Draft work? | Selection order is inverse order of how well teams did last season; the worst-record team goes first, and the Super Bowl winner goes last. However, picks can then be traded between teams. Players don't *have* to play for the team that drafted them, per the 13th Amendment. However, no other NFL team can sign them that y... |
In the case of video games, why is there more than one company on the box and what do each of them do? | There a lots of logos from different companies. When a game is developed the developer will not just use one type of technology to develop nor will they develop every aspect of the game from scratch. What you see are the companies that make technologies such as 3D graphics engines, sound engines, physics engines and al... |
How does Rogue One fit into the Star Wars universe? | Rogue One will tell the story of how the Rebellion stole the Death Star plans that Princess Leia was transporting in the beginning of *A New Hope.* So it fits into the few months or so immediately before Episode IVIf I am not mistaken, it is the story of hows they received that plans for the death star. I occurs betwee... |
Why are F1 cars so much safer than normal road cars? | Harnesses designed to prevent injury. Helmets designed to absorb collision. Fire retardant suits to protect the driver. Body shells designed to crumple and absorb the damage while protecting the driver. Walls designed to absorb and transfer impact. Medical teams that are dispatched within seconds. Millions of dollars o... |
Why does it take my pharmacy 30-40 minutes to fill a prescription? | It's not necessarily not busy just because nobody's physically there. There could be a bunch of people who called in ahead of you, or who call while they're filling your prescription. For some things, there's also additional oversight required; the pharmacist might have to confirm that you really do have the prescripti... |
how my girlfriend can be colder than me all the time until she is under a blanket/asleep at which point she becomes a human space heater? | because science. remember that your body senses the *rate of heat exchange*, not the temperature. She feels "warm" to you because she is losing her own heat really fast, and therefore it's going into your body rapidly. Your senses register that rapid absorption of heat as if it's "hot". In reality she's just getting co... |
How does a company poach an executive from another company? | There is a concept called [tortious interference] in the law, usually captured in statutes. Most basically, it says that there are certain behaviors that go beyond normal competition and can be the basis of a lawsuit. One of the commonly recognized forms of this is inducing someone to breach a contract. I don't know th... |
Why do people develop such a strong connection with professional sports teams that have absolutely nothing to do with them? | People are tribal, and always have been. We associate with and express loyalty for all sorts of groups and ideas: schools, celebrities, books, political parties, religions and so forth. "Us vs. them" is as old as civilization, and professional sports are a safe, socially-acceptable way to express that latent, very huma... |
What creates different textures on the molecular level? | It is all about imperfections. Most every day objects, like clothes, are made from smaller parts, like cotton fibers, and the spaces between them give them a texture. Wool sweaters have a rough texture partly do to these "macro-imperfactions". There are also the "micro-imperfections", which are like the fibers that mak... |
Why does different accent exist even among people speaking the same language? | It is usually a regional thing. Just like I am from the northeast and me and my family are mostly french I pronounce the word "aunt" like aw-nt where most other people pronounce it like ant. So it is based, I think, on the way people around you say certain words. Languages evolve like many things and people living apar... |
How are people going to acquire oxygen on mars? | Two basic ways. First is bringing some oxygen to the planet by compressing in it tanks. Another, more long term way is making "earth-like" chambers on Mars like greenhouses. Throw some plants in there, and woo oxygen.One of the Mars Rover's experiments is testing the production of oxygen using the Mars atmosphere . Mor... |
What happens when you get a "Charlie horse"? Why do they hurt so much? What should I do to reduce the pain? | Muscles work by contracting and then letting go. When you get a "Charlie Horse" or a cramp, the muscle contracts but then doesn't let go. When the muscle keeps firing like that, it starts to burn stored energy less efficiently, creating a buildup of lactic acid in the muscles, which causes pain. The contracted muscle m... |
If there was an earth shattering disaster, would ISS astronauts flee the station, or wait until supplies ended and die? | Unless an ISS astronaut is reading this thread, the only answers you can possibly get are pure speculation of equal quality to yours. So pick one. We don't know. |
If someone is questioning whether something is a placebo, does it still work as one and why? | There are some studies, [one cited in Wikipedia] , that suggest that a placebo can still work even if the subject is aware that it's a placebo. This is ongoing research. Of course, placebos only work if the condition is amenable to a placebo in the first place. It's not magic e.g. it's only going to work where this som... |
Why do people sometimes CC: themselves on emails? | For their own records, plus to make sure the email actually sent and went through the email system instead of sitting in their outbox/sent items folders.In addition to it being easier to find something in an inbox vs in sent items, not all email servers keep sent items as long as they keep inbox messages. Many email se... |
Why do seashells sound like the ocean when you put your ear up to one? | Yarr, the ocean is my favorite place! And yer question be [answered by those what came before ye.] |
What exactly is HAARP and why do people believe that it is used to manipulate the weather? | HAARP was a research program to study the ionosphere with the aim of bouncing radio waves off of it for long range communication. Long range radio communication has always been subject to the conditions of the ionosphere and amateur radio operators have often capitalized on favorable ionosphere conditions to extend the... |
Why is that if you pour a liquid out of a mug, it defies gravity and just runs down the side instead of pouring out normally? | Surface tension - the liquid "sticks" to the surface a bit. Gravity still wins, the liquid just runs down the side of the mug first. If you tip the mug further, surface tension is not strong enough to divert the liquid, and it will pour normally. |
Why do some toilets flush waste better than others? | A regular toilet uses gravity alone to get the bowl to clear. There is a mid-level model that has somewhat of a pressure assist and above that are models that use a jet of forceful water to assist the flush.Also more generally, the plumbing of the building will affect its power. I live in an old Danish house so when I'... |
TOR and why should I use it if I don't need to do anything Illegal? | _URL_0_ Does a pretty good job. And it is used to protect your anonymity. Just because you're not doing anything wrong, doesn't mean you're OK with people spying on you and invading your privacy. |
Why do squeamish people get sick when seeing something gory? | I can only speak from my own experience on this. I have a relatively weak stomach. I'm not sure when this developed, because I was raised on violent video games and action movies. I am no stranger to seeing gore, but over the years I have developed an aversion to it . For me, the issue is that I have a vivid imaginatio... |
What actually happens to my waste when I flush the toilet? | The effluent or "final product" IS NOT pumped back into the pipes. The only time effluent is reused in America and most developed countries is for irrigation of golf courses and lawns in drought prone areas. Also "100 different ways" is a bit exaggerated. *source- licensed wastewater operator. Edit NEWater out of Singa... |
how do people make subtitle files for bit torrent released movies? Does someone have to sit there and and transcribe the movie in real time or is there software that can automate the process? | You have to actually make closed captions. Be it from an original show or otherwise. This is actually a major issue in the TV/Film industry to make sure your stuff has closed captions available , and to have a company who goes through it and does the closed captioning [Here's] an interesting video on someone doing it |
What functions do D3 and 2 have in automatic cars and what situations should I be using them? | Those are your "low gears". They're good for climbing steep grades, towing, and you can also use them as an "engine brake" when you're going down a steep hill so you don't have to hit your brakes as much and wear them out. |
How does watching a footage of video games doesn't require as much graphical resources as playing the game itself? | It's the difference between showing someone a painting you already made. And actually having to make the painting . When you play a video game the computer needs to "render" the image. It actually has to **make** the image. Which requires a ton of math. The image you are seeing where you playing literally *didn't exist... |
What causes pins and needles and what biologically happens when we feel them? | Are you talking when your arm falls asleep kind of feeling? Lets assume you are. One of the jobs of your nervous system is to constantly send signals to your brain about what's going on. So your arm, for instance, is sending signals to the brain: things like, it's cold in this room, or someone is touching your arm, or ... |
How was super bouncing in Halo 2 possible? | It is a software defect, caused by their imperfect attempt to take old software and teach it new tricks without rewriting it. _URL_0_ |
How the long exposure feature on DSLR Cameras work. | Essentially, the camera is a light detector, and the more time the shutter stays open, the more light info it has. Then, using that info over time, the camera interpolates one image where the spots that were lit the most over time are the brightest and voila, more exposure. The problem with that, however, is that the c... |
Why aren't clouds rainbow-colored? | Sometimes they are! And it was one of the most beautiful things I ever saw [circumhorizontal arc clouds]Clouds are white because they diffuse and scatter light. Basically, all the colors of the rainbow are hitting the cloud, but the cloud "mixes them up" by reflecting light all over the placeThey are. Just, not all the... |
How can a knife be sharp enough to cut to the touch or without even being felt? | Your skin is filled with nerves to detect damages. If a nerve cell is damaged it will tell the brain about it. But cells are actually bigger then people imagine. And sharp knifes have a very thin edge. Most microscopes can be used to see individual skin and nerve cells but even electromicroscopes might have issues seei... |
Why must Trademark, Registered Trademark, Copyright, etc. symbols be placed on ALL visual representations of the object that is under said trademarked, etc. | Copyrights are implicit, but being explicit about it helps solve a problem before it starts - you're distinguishing your work from one that might be in the public domain, for example. As far as trademarks are concerned, by law, if you don't protect it, you risk losing it. For example, if Target lost it's trademark, the... |
The painful little bump you get on your tongue sometimes. | These are enlarged taste buds and commonly known as lie bumps. The cause is unknown but it is assumed to be from medical conditions and/or treatments, damage from teeth or objects placed in the mouth, or certain foods. They usually last several days and can be treated for pain using pain relieving gels. Some people act... |
If the sun suddenly disappeared, would the earth spin around nothing for 8 minutes? | We would spin for 8 minutes. Everything is on that delay. And of course we would not know that we were spinning around nothing because the light of the sun would still be coming to us. |
How do dicemakers know which numbers to put on which sides of a dice? | Opposite faces of a dice equal 7. So the side with 6 will have a 1 on the other side. The side with 4 has 3 the side with 2 has 5 on the other side. I’m not sure what betting dice are but in a casino dice are balanced so they do not favor 1 sideTraditionally, opposite faces add up to the same number . Otherwise, as lon... |
How do gift cards for multiple restaurants/stores work? | It gets split up when you purchase an item. When you purchase a gift card at Swiss Chalet, you're really purchasing fake-money only usable at Cara Operations' stores. I'm sure in Cara's accounting books they have a big bucket for all the giftcard money. Once it is used at Swiss Chalet goes out of the Cara account and i... |
Why aren't people more concerned that Greece will exit the Eurozone? | You've pretty much summarised the situation; the only thing you've left out is that Syriza can't answer these questions either. Secretly the EU are shit scared of Grexit because it creates a precedent and other EU states may vote for parties which aspire to the same solution - and that will effectively be the end of th... |
How is the U.S.A. having the biggest economic boom in its history? | It depends on how you measure it, but we aren't there yet. In terms of GDP growth the largest in the US history was in the early 1950s after WWII, where GDP was at 6.9%. The current economic "boom" is 2.2%. That doesn't even crack the top 5 "booms". In terms of length the longest on record was the 90s, the boom lasted ... |
How do animals give birth without any medical help? | The placenta separates itself. Even humans births, it's not medically assisted. The placenta and umbilical cord is still attached to baby when it exits the mother. It's not required to cut the cord. it's actually recommended NOT to cut the cord until minutes after birth. The cord will still have blood in it until it pu... |
Why do mobile "map" apps require data or internet connection to be used in addition to location services, when separate navigation devices need only connect to a satellite? | Stand alone navigational devices that use GPS only need the GPS signal because they have the maps stored inside the device. Map applications need the network connection to load the map data from the internet to provide context for your GPS location . |
why has the Keystone pipeline bill been delayed in getting passed into law? | Environmental concerns, public opinion, and safety are the three big reasons. Public opinion is probably the biggest. I find people are really split on the matter, some people are super pro pipeline, others aren't as keen. There is plenty of research on pipelines, both from the companies building them and groups who ar... |
Do eyes get tired from moving constantly during REM sleep? | No. your eyes do that all day when you're awake too. They move around 100,000 times a day or so, and they're doing it constantly. they never get tired. |
Why exactly IS oil in the United States so expensive? Is there a way around this issue if politics didn't have any influence or is the issue actually in the lack of oil supply? | Well, oil is a global product and the price of a barrel of oil is roughly the same everywhere in the world. If you mean gasoline, you might be surprised to learn that the US is actually among the very cheapest of all the developed countries in the world. The average price of a gallon of gas in Europe is $7.75! A lot of... |
How comes I occasionally see the future in my dreams? | This is a very common phenomenon. There are two causes: 1. Your mind is trying to hard to predict things that seem likely to happen. Sometimes you guess right.2. Memory is much more unreliable than it seems, and even more so when it's the memory of a dream. Your mind will actually adjust your memory to fit with what it... |
How does a drug cause suicidal thoughts? | This may sound strange but one of the reasons is that severely depressed people lack the energy and motivation to kill themselves. Once an antidepressant drug starts working a lot of them get more motivated to kill themselves. > Most suicides occur within about three months following the beginning of “improvement”, whe... |
Why aren't any elevators designed so you can press the buttons again to undo the floor selections? | There is an anti nuisance feature that can be enabled on some control equipment that will determine if this very thing occurred, and cancel all car calls. But this has to be requested by the owner. The control equipment has to have this software or ability of courseI'm going to guess because there are enough people who... |
Why do stripes look wonky on videos? | In real life, spots on a line can be anywhere they want. In videos each spot has only 1080 places it can possibly be. If the line is perfectly straight, they will line up nicely like that, but if not, the recording device will have to choose a spot to put each part of that line, when really it should be between the two... |
Why can't you make emergency calls with communication apps like Skype? Having WLAN access in areas with no cellphone reception or landline isn't exactly an unlikely scenario. | When you're on something connected to the Plain Old Telephone System , every entry point has a distinct 911 call center it is supposed to go to. Landline in your house? They know where to route it. Cell phone on a tower in a back road? They know which tower you're pinging off of, and so which call center to route you t... |
How do cats know when it is going to rain or storm? | They don't. I have 2 cats that have free access to the outdoors. And when a sudden rain storm arises, they come back in soaking wet. They have no clue it's about to rain. |
Why do objects from far away look blurred/shaky whenever it's hot? | As the sun heats up the earth hot air starts to heat up. Hot air is less dense than cold air so it rises up, and since hot air is less dense than cold air, it will cause the light to change direction slightly. As a result, you see what looks like a wavy blurry scene which actually hot air rising up and messing up the l... |
Why do butane torch lighters need a minute to work after filling? | Butane lighters commonly use a sponge-like filling to absorb butane, it takes a small amount of time for the butane to reach the wick |
What's more harmful, eating shitfood only in sunday and saturday, or eating same amount of it splitted into 7 days. | Consuming the shitfood over a shorter period of time will give you a higher glycemic spike, which is bad. It also has to process more nasty ass ingredients in a shorter period of time, which is harder on the body. It would be like drinking a fifth of vodka over one night and getting shit faced, or having a drink every ... |
Why do some adults feel attracted to children and not people of the same age range | In short, we don't know, and the fact that the ideas of child sexual abusers and the stigma that comes with that is so tightly bound to the idea of pedophilia is a severe blow to doing good research studies to find out the actual causes. As is we're pretty sure there are some biological issues in the brain that are lin... |
Why is Chinas biggest bank on the verge of default and what does this all mean for them and for us? | you mean [this]? though, a few points: 1. ICBC is **the largest Bank** in the world in total Asset. iirc, a tad lower than **USD $3 TRILLION**.2. the "thing" that might default is a loan trust from a struggling coal company. ie higher risk = higher return. in this case, ~10% in return.3. the whole trust is worth $0.5 B... |
Why are spent nuclear fuels still dangerous, but no longer useful? | Nuclear power works by splitting large atoms. When you split them, the two smaller pieces you get are random, they also tend to be unstable. Some are so unstable they are radioactive. Some are so unstable they produce heat . Nuclear power is by splitting the atom. But the dangerous part is the radioactive by products.N... |
How did animals such as chameleons evolve to be able to change their color? | These animals survive by hiding. The ones that hide best live to have more babies. Lots of animals hide to survive, whether this one or that one evolved to change it's colour is basically simply random. It probably started with *much simpler ways* of changing colour *a little bit*. Things like pumping more or less bloo... |
why do we feel the intense need to swallow food in our mouths, yet we can chew gum without that urge? | The urge to swallow comes when the food is mashed into a sort of runny paste that can very easily be swallowed. Try chewing up a piece of bread, but then use your tongue to mash it back into a single big mass, you'll probably notice an urge to chew it up again before swallowing. Also, try eating some really dry food. Y... |
Now that the GOP controls the Senate, what can we expect for the future? | More gridlock. They have a majority, but not a 2/3 majority. Expect very little to happen for two years.Basically nothing, and I'll give you two competing explanations for why nothing will happen. 1. The GOP will pass bills that they like only to be vetoed by Obama and they won't be able to override the veto because th... |
Why does a equivalent Tesla Model S cost so much more in Switzerland than in the US even though the Swiss Franc is valued higher than the US-Dollar? | Tesla cars are made in the U.S. and therefore have to be exported to Switzerland. Most imports, especially for luxury items, are going to be more expensive than domestic goods. The value of a currency has nothing to do with the set priceBeacuse of import costs, and might be higher taxes. Also the Swiss dealers want a c... |
Why is Shakespeare's work always studied in high school? | Those plays are basically the foundation of modern literature, almost everything that came after was influenced by them. Part of their importance is the beauty of their language and their hilarious pins, so translations would lose a lot of what makes them so good. In other words, it's more than the plots that are impor... |
Why is it safe to eat beef tartare, but we absolutely have to cook ground beef to a certain temperature? | Beef Steak Tartar is cut from sirloin or round and is minced all by hand to keep the possibility of contamination low. Hamburger meat is usually the scraps that are left behind that can not be processed into other cuts, there have also been instances of not quite pure beef being thrown into the meat grinder, spinal cor... |
how come when i leave my fully charged ipod in my car on a chilly night, in the morning the battery is dead | its not dead, its just cold. When it warms up, it should be fine. Everything moves slower in the cold, including batteries. My year-old iPod touch will drain about 40% if left on standby over night. Perhaps your iPod is older so it's battery won't hold a charge as long, and thus runs all the way down to 0% overnight ? ... |
When constructing the Great Wall, the bodies of deceased workers were used as filler, but after they decayed wouldn't the wall have lost structural integrity? | This is one of the greatest misconceptions of the Great Wall history. The origin of this mistake is a Han Dynasty poem about the Great Wall where you can read "Dead men’s skeletons prop each other up." So many people thought that it literally meant that deceased workers were used as filler but it meant instead that so ... |
The concept of "state rights" and why does it exist. | State's do have rights. In fact, really early on we didn't have the Constitution, we had the [Articles of Confederation] instead. This was really heavy towards state's rights and away from the Federal government. The Federal government couldn't even tax! and it's been deleted.When the US first became a new nation, it b... |
How do you know where to go when you're in the middle of an ocean with nothing but clear sky? | With an accurate clock and some way of measuring the angle of the sun to the horizon and the correct data tables you can get a [surprisingly accurate fix of your location]. |
Is there any advantage to using stucco over brick or siding in coastal cities? | In states like California, you can't have brick buildings due to earthquakes. Homes need to be wood or steel-reinforced concrete. You could have an approved brick-looking façade, but making your house out of brick and mortar would crumble and fall in even the smallest earthquake. |
what does AP see when someone using WISP mode on their router | The AP will see only one device. However you probably might want to spoof the MAC address on the WAN side of your router to a laptop or something so your dorm admin can't identify your router. |
How can the american constitution be wildly popular while the system of governance it has created is wildly unpopular (especially Congress) | Different people like different parts of the constitution. People who constantly harp about how great it is and how horrible it is that various politicians trample all over it, many of them try to ignore parts of it that they find inconvenient for them, or dismiss alternate interpretations of various passages as obviou... |
Why GPUs go up to like 7 GHz but CPUs top out at around 3.8 GHz. | They don't. First of all, the GPU clock speed is almost never over 2GHz. What you're looking at is the graphics card's memory clock rate, not the clock rate of the GPU cores. In addition, the number you're looking at is the datarate- how many pieces of data can go to the graphics card per second. On GDDR5 RAM, that num... |
What's the point of one-penny/one-dollar discounts? | It's a ploy to make things appear subconsciously cheaper to the buyer", 'This question concerns one of the most frequently asked topics on ELI5, so it has been removed. Try the searchbar next time pleaseIt has a psychological impact, as the mind tends to crop the numbers nor round then. |
How did nail polish become a thing? | In Ancient Egypt and a few other ancient cultures the wealthy lacquered or otherwise painted their nails as a sign of status. The fact that they were able to afford the make-up and lived a leisurely enough life that they did not have to use their hands for labor thus breaking/damaging them was a major thing for the wea... |
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