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why aren't there zip lock bags in cereal boxes? | Zip lock bags cost a few cents more to produce and those few cents would make no difference in sales. You might like having it but you arent boycotting them for not having it and you wont change your buying habits to get it, so it would be silly to waste money providing it to youMalt-O-Meal makes bagged cereal that is ... |
Before the Big Bang, Origins of Time | **What existed before the big bang?** Without getting into any math, imagine time as an extra dimension of space .Before the universe started, everything was at the same place, it took zero time to get from anywhere to anywhere. Effectively time doesn't exist since there is no way to measure it . An analogy somewhere o... |
How do computers keep track of time when turned off and on completely? | There is a battery on the motherboard. It is just like a watch battery. If it dies, the computer does not keep time when unpowered.There is a battery on motherboard, called the CMOS battery - it is much like a battery that's in watches. When you turn the computer off, the CMOS battery powers the nonvolatile CMOS memory... |
Could the USA completely resist a land invasion launched by both Russia & China? | The Americans have the best navy in the world. The USA has around 1500 naval ships, eleven of which are aircraft carriers. Russia and China also combine to about 1500 ships, but only combine to make two air craft carriers. Furthermore, if the Chinese and Russian armada managed to get close to the American mainland, the... |
California above ground pipes. What are they? | Those are water control valves for that areas water distribution. Because it doesn't freeze like it does in Illinois, you don't have to burry them which makes maintenance and repair much easier. |
What does it mean when juice is "from concentrate"? | The company that takes the lemons and squeezes the juice out of it also takes out a lot of water and the pulp. this is the concentrate. it then gets transported to [wherever it is used] and water and pulp is added again. makes it easier and cheaper to transport since water is available and concentrate has a longer shel... |
Why does the mouth of a milk carton smell like spoiled milk, even though the milk itself is still fine? | Because it's at the top in small amounts close to open air. All that combined causes it to spoil faster. |
Why is the urge to vomit a common reaction when you smell something horrible? | Vomiting is a reaction meant to expel something from your stomach that is hazardous. So if you taste something that your body believes is poisonous, it will trigger a vomiting reaction to protect you. But smell and taste are closely linked . Since these senses are so closely linked, the vomit trigger that is linked to ... |
How does strong light serve to ‘bleach’ colour from a picture or photograph? | _URL_0_ TL:DR UV light contains enough energy to break down the chemicals that cause the pigment. The smaller molecules that are formed aren't coloured. |
When I have something in my eye and blink repeatedly and it "goes away" where exactly does it go? | Blinking repeatedly produces tears that allow the eye lash or dust or debris to be flooded so it isn't still stuck to the eye. If it is small, the ducts in the corner of your eyes can allow it to flow into your nostrils. Eye lashes won't fit, and will generally come out on your hands when you rub your eyes.When you rub... |
Why is it that upgrading a phone or a computer to a newer operating system typically results in the device performing worse or slower? | Because phone companies use planned-obsolescence to slow down older devices artificially in order to push newer devices. OR Because newer software is more taxing on the hardware than older versions was. Both of these have some truth in them, I recall several instances where it was claimed that around the release of new... |
Why are petroleum based lotions discouraged with new tattoos? | They tend to 'drain' the color of tattoos, and it also blocks the cells from getting air, which is necessary for proper healing and regeneration of the skin. |
Why are Americans so offended by nudity, sex and porn? | Look at the immigration history of the USA and you'll get some idea. English Puritans, Scots Calvinists, Irish and Italian Catholics, and more recently the rise of Evangelicalism in the African American communities all hung-up on "morals" and fond of telling people Thou Shalt NotWhy are Muslims offended by bacon? *It d... |
What's happening when your ears "pop"? | Its equalizing the pressure in your ear with the outside pressure. Just like cracking open a can of ~~beer~~ soda. I like to close a water bottle on the ground and open it at 6000 ft or so. Its mildly entertainingThe pop is equalisation of pressure between the middle ear and the outside. Normally this is automatic, bec... |
How come when you drink pop(or carbonated beverage) while eating something spicy, your mouth gets hotter?? | Because soda is water based. The active ingredient in hot things is capsicum, which is fat soluble. So when you drink water or soda you are actually purifying the hot experience by washing away anything water soluble. If you want to lose the heat, drink milk which has fat in it. |
why are people so mad about Trudeau pulling out of Syria and accepting refugees? | Because many people don't want to accept Arab Muslim refugees into the country on the grounds that it will either create security issues or in some way "damage Canadian culture." I, personally, find this to be kind of strange given Canada's very long history of being very open to refugees. |
why do Canadians get their milk in bags? | Wait, what? Canadians get milk in bags? Oh. So they do Cultural thing. Canadians decant their milk so to speak, and pour the milk into a jug. The bags are only a litre, so it doesn't go off due to consumption, and it's very easy to pour the milk out of a bag and into a jug. So. Price of the packaging combined with cult... |
What is happening to muscle tissue during a "cupping" massage? | Cupping is the practice of creating a relatively low pressure within a sealed container, drawing skin and underlying flesh up into the cavity due to the difference in air pressure. The origin is in traditional Chinese medicine where it was believed the practice would increase blood flow and thus the healing flow of qi.... |
If Hemp produces paper and and other products cheaper, which means more profit, why hasn't the Tree Cutting (Logging?) Industry pushed for legalization? | I think you mean the pulp and paper industry, which is separate from the timber industry. The simple answer is that, despite the hype from hemp enthusiasts, it simply isn't as economically viable as other materials for paper making. It does grow very quickly and produces useful fibers, but it has major drawbacks. First... |
What is happening when you put something metallic in the microwave? | Microwave energy can cause an electric current in metal objects. Metal in certain shapes will accumulate substantial electric charge, if the charge becomes greater than air can resist the electric energy will jump to nearby conductors which causes the light show. |
Why do fashion shows show off ridiculous clothes? | The stuff they show isn't intended to be purchased and worn by consumers. It just shows what designers will come up with on a clean sheet of paper with nothing holding creativity back. Further, these radical designs typically show certain design elements that will be toned down and carried over into a consumer line in ... |
How are box office earnings reported by movie theaters, and how are the total earnings calculated? | Most of the money taken for a ticket goes to the movie studio, and the theater makes their income off of concessions. The theaters must report ticket sales information and pay the studio their cut, so it's actually relatively easy for the studios to publish earnings numbers.I 'd like to know why theatres and movie stud... |
Why do humans require more diverse foods as we grow older, rather than relying on breastmilk? | Breast milk contains many important nutrients designed especially for needs of an infant, like immune factors, fatty acids, and digestive enzymes. Breast milk is otherwise not particularly nutritious though it doesn't contain many of the vitamins and minerals a growing body needs for development of bones and muscle, so... |
Why do I look better in the mirror than I do in pictures and videos? | Studies show that people prefer the mirror image of their face to their actual face. We see the mirror image of our face more and so we grow more comfortable with that image. Since most people have slightly asymmetrical faces, our brains prefer the familiarity of what we look like in the mirror compared to our actual a... |
How does one 'occupy' a territory? | You spread your troops/police force/militia/bandidos throughout the area in which you wish to occupy. Define it as yours loudly and denounce/arrest/kill/oppress those who disagree with you. Wait 100 years for it to become your de jure land. - source CK2', "It's very simple. Move in with men and guns. Kill those who cha... |
How do firefighters make sure their controlled burns don't get out of control and make the forest fire worse? | By using the wind and fire breaks to their advantage, along with proper planning and mitigation techniques. They wait for a calm day, and dig what looks like a trench in the ground to keep the fire from spreading. The width of the trench will vary depending on what is being burned, as well as wind speeds, and weather f... |
.com is for commerce, .org is for organizations. But is this enforced somehow? | No. Of the original top level domains, only .edu and .gov had any actual enforcement to them. Today, some of the country codes have *some* enforcement, but that comes down to the discretion of the countries themselves. Edit: And .mil, thanks to radwolf76 for the correction! |
Why can't you really taste something until you breathe out of your nose? | A good experiment to try this out would be to bite and chew a slice of apple while holding a slice of pear right under your nose. In that moment you realise two things: 1. Even though you're eating apple it "tastes" like pear. 2. You are a proud owner of a fruit moustache.A fair amount of what we think of as taste actu... |
Why do American power plugs have holes in them? | 1) The little holes in the ends of the prongs mate to little bumps on the internal contacts of the outlet. This makes a more positive connection that is less prone to wiggling loose. 2) They are also use for "locking out" equipment so that it cannot be powered up while it is being worked on. There are special locks tha... |
What made Mike Tyson a great boxer? | As far as his career, he was just fundamentally a good boxer, he had great skills taught to him by great teachers. It wasn't easy to get solid hits in on him, he was really tough, and he hit hard enough to wipe someone out in just a few hits. If you look at his record, he won almost every single fight he ever participa... |
A lot of toddlers have a physical reaction to eating something they really enjoy (usually a little dance of some sort) Why do we stop doing this as grown ups? | Things aren't as exciting as you get older. It's natural to quit being so excited over something when you experience it over and over again.I still do sometimes. I do happy dances sometimes too when I achieve something or get a good gift.Social norms, and at that age toddlers don't really have shame or embarrassment. T... |
How are medication names as well as their generic names chosen? | Medication names are a marketing thing. Advil, praxor, viagra, etc. The generic name is a biochemistry mash up of the chemical/actions that make up the active ingredient. There is also an actual chemical name for all these drugs as well, but they're not fun. For instance: Name brand: AdvilGeneric: IbuprofenChemical: -2... |
What ecological disaster happened on earth in the movie “interstellar “ ? Is it an actual possibility ? | There was a fungal or bacterial blight that was killing off crops. In the movie they mention that it "breathes" nitrogen, or something like that. They don't really go into detail , but basically all of the food crops.were dying off because of the blight. It's a possible scenario, but largely improbably.The precise caus... |
"Capitalism contains the seeds of its own destruction" | Have you ever played Monopoly? You and some friends all start off with the same amount of money. Then, as the game progresses, some people get more money, and some less. One person becomes a land tycoon, and start making money hand over fist, slowly eliminating another player. This goes on until one person has everythi... |
How does filibustering work? Why doesn't someone just interrupt them because they're rambling on? | Part of the rules which make the orderly discussion of bills possible is that when you "have the floor" you won't be interruptedAnyone care to explain it like I am a five year old non American?The rules say. Unless you cede the floor, you hold the floor. |
When the 12/24h clock-based time measurement system was designed, what determined what would be appropriate placements for each hour of the day? For instance, why is 8AM the start of the work day? | The 12-hour clock was invented way, way before there were such things as factory jobs and office jobs. In the system we know and use today, noon was when the sun was at its highest. Generally, there were six hours before noon and six hours after noon, and the night didn't really have hours. The Romans had a system wher... |
How can someone own a internet domain,and what is stopping me from just taking one. | You register a domain for a certain period of time. What stops you from taking my domain from me is a key code that I have to get from my registrar that prevents transferring the domain from my registrar to yours.How can someone own land? What's stopping you from just taking some land? Rules.domain is just text. There ... |
Why do subjects that people dislike so much get so much attention? (Kanye, Bieber, 50 Shades) | Because they don't need a majority of people to like them. They just need a passable market share. They do things that appeal to a target demographic. It doesn't matter much if 40 year old men hate Bieber as long as 14 year old girls still buy the albums and go to concerts."The more you hate it, the stronger it gets." ... |
How do humans almost always know the "perfect" amount of power to place on a throw to get the object to it's intended target? | Practice. For every football you see hit some receiver 50 yards away, there were 10,000 missed passes. Over time humans develop a sense what they can accomplish after doing it so many times over and over.Generations of natural selection. Back in the day, if you wanted to eat but couldn't aim accurately, you'd never be ... |
How does China & Hong Kong factories make money buy selling super cheap electronic accessories ? | It may costs them only $0.15 cents to make the cable, by mass producing thousands of them at a time. Usually, they make very long cables, and cut them to desired lengths, actually. Then they ship them in bulk to a distributor, who then mails them to you sent on huge shipping freightersLow quality control, tendency to u... |
How did the confederacy find support to go to war with the union and secede because of slavery, despite the majority of the troops not owning slaves? | The south didn't secede because of the movement to abolish slavery. They seceded because of Lincoln's desire for slavery to not expand. There wasn't really a significant movement to end slavery altogether before the civil war started. The southerners who fought mostly weren't slave owners because most southerners didn'... |
Why does everyone say to drink lots of fluid when you have a cold? | Your immune response to a viral infection is more demanding on your body than if you weren't actively fighting an infection. Simply put, you need more fluids and electrolytes to build the things to fight the injection. It's also easier to not want to eat or drink while you're sick adding to the lack of proper hydration... |
Why is humanity divided almost evenly into 50% men and 50% women? | This is called Fisher's Principle, or these days Evolutionary Stable Strategy. Wikipedia sums it up perfectly: > Suppose male births are less common than female. > A newborn male then has better mating prospects than a newborn female, and therefore can expect to have more offspring. > Therefore parents genetically disp... |
Why is there a culture on Instagram of people asking complete strangers to follow them? What are people seeking when asking for followers? | The simple answer is that they want attention.People seeking attention. People with actual adventure and excitement in their lives don't need stuff like that. It's basically there to fill a void that a person feels. |
Why are interplanetary fuel stations not implemented? | As others have said, at some point you have to get the fuel into space. If anything, splitting it up into multiple trips and having it stored is much more complex and time consuming. The only situations where your plan makes sense are: 1) The ship in question is too large to launch from Earth and must be assembled/fuel... |
[Meta] on answering questions based on fiction | You kind of have to base each answer on the question. If it's a question like "Is BB-8 actually an astromech droid, or does he have some other purpose?" then you 'd describe what we know about the new robot. "How does BB-8 work as a physical prop?" then that's something different, and instead point to what people suppo... |
Why are humans, arguably the most dominant species on Earth, so dependent on their parents for such a long amount of time compared to unintelligent species? | We're so helpless as children because we have giant brains that need to develop before we can function. Those giant brains, however, are what are responsible for us being the dominant form of life on the planet. |
How do they test nuclear weapons without endangering the whole world, as we're often told nuclear weapons would do? | Back in the early days nuclear weapons were tested out in the middle of nowhere. Bomb ranges in Nevada. Siberian wastes. Tiny Pacific atolls. [Space.] Eventually the world's nuclear powers agreed that they should do *something* to try and conceal the nuclear fallout from these tests, and underground testing became the ... |
What is the purpose of a credit score? | A score is just a numeric quantification of your credit worthiness, often provided as part of a paid service to consumers. Most lenders do not care about a score per se, they look at everything to determine exactly what terms of a loan they will offer. Being "on good terms with banks" isn't a precise statement. Banks a... |
what is the psychology/explanation/analysis of the "money shot" in porn[SEROUS] | Ejaculation within the woman isn't visible for filming. When the medium is visual and audio there is a limited way of displaying that the act is completed.This post has been removed because it contains a "serious" tag. This is not a reddit-wide tag, and on ELI5, *every* post should be interpreted as "serious." That bei... |
why do animals in a fight suddenly take frequent, concerted casual breaks? | Animals don't like to get hurt, because unlike humans most of them have shockingly low pain tolerance and can't really heal wounds well. So in most cases they fight briefly to make it clear to the opponent they aren't welcome. They keep it short so they reduce the chance of getting hurt, and will see if the opponent ch... |
What differentiates smoking hookah from cigarettes or cigars? | A hookah is a water pipe. Smoke is forced through water, cooling it and to some people, making it less irritating. Many people think it is less harmful than smoking, but there isn't clear research showing that is the case. The [Centers for Disease Control] has a page on it, but they are clearly trying to persuade rathe... |
When is self defense legal in the USA? | You are justified in using force to stop the credible threat of imminent force against your person. For example if you were struck and you needed to fight back to prevent further attack it would be justified. On the other hand if you were just struck once and had no good reason to think the attack would continue, your ... |
If universe expands how can it be infinite. Doesnt it mean it has a ending and its getting bigger always? | No, it's likely both infinite and expanding. Imagine a rubber sheet that extends infinitely in all directions. On this sheet, put a grid spaced at 1". Now, imagine stretching the rubber sheet so that the grid is now spaced at 2" by stretching it everywhere at once. The space between the grid lines has increased, but th... |
The moon is bright enough to be seen from 240,000 miles away even in daytime, how could astronauts look directly at it during the lunar space landing? | The moon is just acting as a mirror. It is not producing it's own light. Take a regular mirror. Turn on a bright light. Set up the mirror about ten feet from the light. Now stand about ten feet from the mirror and look at the light in the mirror. Not too bright to look at. Now get right next to the mirror, less than a ... |
How do brand new authors submit their books for publishing? | Option 1: Self-publishing Generally via an online service that lets you self-publish as an eBook. There's also companies you can pay to print your books but this is generally a bad idea. Option 2: Submit your work to an agent. If the agent likes your work enough that they think it'll sell decently, they'll represent yo... |
How does city planning work? | Most cities have buildings and streets in place long before traditional city planning is established. Cities will grow organically until they are large enough to require a planning department. Once that department is necessary they will usually designate land for commercial or residential use. Larger cities will have v... |
Why is it that some people eat a lot and exercise little, but don't get fat? | - Differences in metabolic status .- Difference in body size. The more mass, the higher base need for nutrients, particulary muscles.- People don't always know everything about another persons diet and real exercise, so they might overestimate/underestimate themselves compared to others. |
Why different alcoholic drinks have different glasses/shapes | Style, fashion, whatever you want to call it. Because they look good, and some have a distinctive shape that has become associated with a mixed drink. No functional reason, generally. The are some rationales for beer, wine and champagne glasses and cognac snifters. Beer mugs are descendants of beer steins, which had li... |
Anal orgasms (male and female). Do the genitals need to be stimulated in order to achieve orgasm? | It depends entirely on the person. Orgasms happen in the brain. The genitals are wired to the brain in such a way that stimulation can lead to orgasm but it isnt the only way to trigger it. Some people can even trigger orgasms just by thinking about it.No, genital stimulation isn't required for orgasm. Currently dating... |
Why has every month this year been "the hottest on record"? | ELI5 shouldn't be "give an answer like I'm 5". To cite "global warming" as the catch-all explanation to a warm globe is trite and not well thought through. *That's obvious*. What needs to be explained is *why*. And the *why* is that we had a particularly long and hot El Nino. The heat of the El Nino we are now exiting ... |
How does the weatherman/woman know where to look on the chroma key when reporting? | They do look off camera to see the things the viewer is seeing. How awkward/smoothly they can pull it off depends on their expertise and experience. Take a look at [this random example] from youtube. He spends most of the time looking off to the side as he is gesturing to the map. It doesn't come off as awkward because... |
What are some of the implications of broadband providers being able to sell browsing history now? | If you ever want to run a political campaign in the US you can simply buy the browser history of your voters and know pretty well what they think. Thus you can make better political campaigns targeted at individuals. If you tell a lie in public you will be called out on it, but if you tell a lie directly to a single pe... |
If it has been common knowledge for years that pipes providing water to Flint, MI need to be replaced, what reason could there be that action hasn't been taken? | Action is being taken, but replacing an entire city's water distribution infrastructure requires a combination of money and time, and there may not be an infinite supply of the first.Action has been taken. They switched back to the Detroit water supply a few years ago and have been working to replace pipes ever since. |
How do animals understand images on screen and reflections? | Some animals can. F.i a common test of the self-perception of an animal is to place a spot on it when it is asleep and place it in front of a mirror. If the animal sees the reflection and tries to remove the spot that means it has self perception and objective thinking and is perfectly aware that the animal in the mirr... |
Why do smartphones feel the need to reload an entire webpage when you switch between two tabs? | The browser software in the phone only has so much memory available store the page you are on. If the page is too busy, the safest thing to do is toss the local copy and reload it. Phones just don't have the resources of desktop computers. |
how is it that the super bowl became such a massive TV event with million dollar commercials? | Take the most popular sport in the US. Now make it the championship game, put it on television on a prime day where most people are off work and voila. you have the making of the biggest show of the year |
How do chemicals like formalin or formaldehyde preserve organic specimens in jars? | When body parts decompose it is because they’re being broken down by bacteria Formaldehyde and other embalming fluids work by “fixing” the cells such that the bacteria can’t break them down. It does this by reacting to connect the primary amine group in a protein to a nitrogen of another protein or DNA molecule. |
How does terminal know so quickly that there is money on a proximity card? | It depends on the card. A credit/debit card is "dumb". It contains all its information on the magnetic stripe, and that basically just tells the reader the card number, expiration date, issuer, etc. The reader has to query a centralized database to learn anything about how much money the card holder can be given. Some ... |
Why does Microsoft give Windows 10 away for free to Windows 7 and Windows 8 users? | It's part of their different monetization strategy. Rather than selling Operating Systems, they now sell software . In fact, since the Windows 10 operating system is shared between phones, tablets, holographics ,computers, and even the Xbox, it means Windows get an extremely big market. So every system that works on an... |
How do sleep positions determine how we fall asleep? | It probably comes from early childhood habits. And I'm sure you could train yourself to fall asleep in a different position if you had to, but why bother? What would be the benefit? |
why can 90's TV Sitcoms, like "Friends", be re-released in full 1080p resolution, but other sitcoms like "Seinfeld" are stuck in SD forever? | Seinfeld is in HD on tv all the time. Looks great too, seems like they spent good money to upconvert it |
What makes a surface reflective? | Firstly lets talk about why things are certain colours. In secondary school, it's not taught but what does happen is that in an atom the electrons jump from one shell to another. They do not stay on the same electron shell. In order to do this, they need energy and where better to find that than light. Certain waveleng... |
What exactly goes on in my TV screen when I am regulating brightness, sharpness, contrast etc.? | The terms are actually not what you think they would be: Brightness is the max brightness for white, it affects highlights. Contrast is the min brightness for black, it affects shadows. Sharpness deepens black-ish pixels and brightens white pixels to falsely mimic actual sharpness. Actual sharpness has actual contrast,... |
How do the time zones work and who decided where the zones begin and end? | Standard time is on your clock so every day has 24 hours and every hour is 60 minutes and every minute is 60 seconds always. Solar time depends on the sun. The rate of Earth's rotation is constant but it is not related to the rate of revolution which is cyclic. So during certain parts of the Earths orbit it has to rota... |
How can having bad credit can affect your chances of getting a good paying job? | Bad credit can be very real indication you did not manage your finances and debt well. If i'm hiring someone to manage my company's money, and you can't handle your own finances, why should I trust you to handle mine? |
Why do soldiers need to break step on bridges so it doesn't collapse but people in a club can dance to the beat of the music with no such consequence to the building? | Bridges have long spans of not having anything underneath them, so they can be very susceptible to resonance. Buildings are smaller than bridges and the floor is often build right on the ground. That said, nightclub collapses are not unheard of.Fun fact. This is an urban myth. It's not possible to create constructive w... |
How do compression sleeves or shorts help you and your joints? | Imagine taking a bunch of pencils and dropping it on the floor. Now imagine tying a rubber band around the bunch of pencils and drop the bundle. The bundle will fall as a single unit, but the pencils without the rubber band will fall in different directions. There's a chance that while running, jumping, dodging, throwi... |
Crabs regrow limbs; Why do we eat the whole crab, and not just the limbs? | If you go through all the effort to catch the crabs, simply getting a few legs per crab isn't worth the risk.I have a feeling PETA would flip. Hell they got mad at Obama for killing a fly on TV.. |
Is the thing in Oregon with the militia taking over a building important? Why or why not? | On one hand, it is an armed force that has taken American buildings from Americans. On the other hand, it is a group of civilians fighting for what they see as freedom. How the government deals with this situation is important, but the actors and the location itself is unimportant. |
The process of a U.K. Citizen emigrating to another country | You go to the country you want to move to and see what requirements they have for you to move there. That could be holding a visa, having a job to go to, a certain amount of savings, or what. E.g. currently, there isn't really much that you'd need to do to move to EU countries. However, moving to Australia involves a c... |
The humpty dumpty song never said he was an egg, then what the hell were the kings men trying to put together again? | I can't remember the exact story, but 'Humpty Dumpty' was a cannon which fell from a height and broke. Edit: [A link]", 'Hungry Dumpty was the name of a cannon which fell off of Colchester castle', "And how the hell did all the king's horses help in that situtation? Horses have thumbs and fingers back then?", '[This wa... |
Why there's no supersonic business jet, or even there's no supersonic commercial plane at this moment? Is it very inefficient to fly at supersonic? | I grew up in a country where supersonic military jets would fly overhead on a somewhat regular basis. If you 've not experienced a sonic boom, consider yourself lucky. You may be thinking "How bad can it be?" - it's as if bomb went off really close. It's loud enough that windows rattle and stuff falls off shelves. Basi... |
Why is some ice scream still mildly soft even though it's been in the freezer for a long time? | for 3 main reasons The first is that a sugar base tends to disrupt the formation of large ice crystals in water based liquids, meaning that its really hard for large ice surfaces to form on a sugar rich ice cream. The second is that proper ice cream is rich in cream, meaning its rich in butter/milk fats which do not cr... |
Why does my butt hole burn after I eat spicy foods? | Spiciness is caused by a chemical called capsaicin. This chemical is not always digested. If not digested, it will burn on the way out for the same reason as it burnt on the way in. I don't know what causes it to not be digested. |
When coffee gets cold in a french press, it still tastes great. When coffee from a coffee machine gets cold, it tastes disgusting. Why is this? | Hey! Former barista checking in. It has to do with the oils. Oils are used to roast the beans. By using a French press you use a brewing method called "full immersion." Drip coffee is well, drip coffee. Coffee from a French Press is noticeably slicker than coffee from drip. These oils contains higher levels of coffee f... |
How does a DDOS attack work? | Basically imagine 1000 people walking into a store and demanding information from customer service. The guy doing a return won't be able to get through, that's the idea. Except in this case we have computers asking for information from a server. |
How are doctors able to announce H.C's diagnosis of pneumonia without violating HIPPA laws? | > How are doctors able to announce H.C's diagnosis of pneumonia without violating HIPPA laws? Because she authorized them to announce it. It's not against HIPAA to talk about a patient's health with their permission. |
Why are some subreddits designed really well while the front page of reddit looks like a 5 year old put it together? | Curators of subreddits have the ability to adjust the CSS styling of the content. While the same engine powers the backend, the admins of certain subreddits have gone in and tweaked the style codes to match their content and userbase The front page and the more general subreddits don't typically do this, and instead re... |
Why do pianists still use physical sheet music and turn their own pages when a digital monitor could free up their hands and simplify the process? | Professional pianists do NOT turn music, they either memorize or the venue provides a page turner. I was a page turner for a music festivalThis reminds me of a joke about how NASA spend a million dollars inventing and creating a pen that could write in a zero G environment while Russia just used a pencil.Roland are [wa... |
Why has Tiger Woods gone down in golfs world ranking so much these past years.What factors have caused this? | The direct answer is pretty simple - he's not winning as much. But there's a number of reasons behind this. For one, talent is not perfectly reliable. It comes and goes as time passes. Tiger isn't golfing as consistently and as effectively as everyone else, due to a combination of age, injuries - he's lost a fair amoun... |
Why do they still have family members identify bodies at the morgue? Do they have the option to just do DNA testing? | It is much cheaper to have someone ID a corpse rather than DNA testing and not everyones DNA is on fileCODIS only contain the records of 10 million people, there are 300 million people in the USA.You are pretty much an alphanumerical serial number to every organisations you are a member. Mistakes can happen at any mome... |
Why when you yell the word elephant when you can tell someone is about to sneeze, does the sneeze get stuck or the person loses the ability to sneeze at that point? | It has nothing to do with the word elephant. Yell anything at someone when they are about to sneeze and it will have the same affect. My SO says bless you before I sneeze and most of the time it prevents my from sneezing. As for why it works, that is because a sneeze is a reflex the body has. You can stop a sneeze by i... |
The Prenda lawsuit saga. | [Wiki] does a pretty good job of breaking it down, but here's how I understand it: Joe Schmoe downloads some copyrighted porn on bittorrent. Prenda Law "represents" the copyright holders of said smut and investigate the downloading. Prenda Law gets the IP Address of the downloader. Prenda Law then goes to a federal jud... |
(In the UK) why do we not need a TV license to watch TV shows on iPlayer? | The reason for the exemption for laptops not connected to the mains is because of battery powered portable TVs . If you had a TV licence at your home it also covered you for battery-powered portable TVs. A laptop counts as a portable TV receiver as long as it's running on its own batteries. It's pretty archaic now.1) I... |
Why is Subway using antibiotic free meat a bad thing? | It'll hit consumers and farmers in their pockets. Animals raised with antibiotics in their feed grow faster and cost less to manage. That's not to say it shouldn't be done - doing away with it seems to be the correct thing to do, but industries don't like change. |
Why are dogs no longer found in the wilderness? | There are dogs in the wilderness; they're known as coyotes, dingoes, wolves and foxes. Modern domestic dog breeds are all descendants of these species that have been bred to have certain traits and split off into subspecies.A dog is a domesticated wolf. Dogs were never a wild animal, humans tamed wolves and over time t... |
Can there be competition within a system of socialism? | Socialism leaves plenty of room for competition. Remember that socialism is not the same as communism. I live in a socialist country and we have plenty of competition in the economy working independently of the government, but of course we have regulation and laws to ensure fair competition. |
If the earth travels, why do sounds on the Earth not naturally experience the doppler effect? | To experience Doppler shifting, you have to have relative motion to the wave. If you are at rest with respect to the source of the wave, there will be no Doppler shifting. Since everything on the Earth moves together, we don't experience Doppler shifting of any wave sources due to the motion of the Earth in space. An s... |
Why do we moan? | A lot of instinctive noises, like cries of pain or laughter, evolved as a means of universal communication. If you hear someone screaming, you can't really mistake that for anything else, and it doesn't require you to share a language or even have a language. That's why laughter for example can sound so similar even ac... |
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