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Why can’t we remember much from our infancy? | Because when we're born our brains are still not fully developed so all the neural pathways aren't fully formed yet, including motor skills and memory.The infant frontal lobe isn’t developed enough to form memories. The brain is wired for survival. |
why do drive-thru speakers have such poor sound quality compared to phones, TVs, etc? | They were installed in 1996 and there's never been a reason to change them. They also need to be rugged and survive years of direct weather exposure, sound quality was never the primary engineering concern. |
Why do Reddit and other websites push their app so hard? | Well, you kinda explained it in your question. Ads. Ad revenue, redirects, etc. It's simple to install an ad blocker on a PC, not so much on a phone.I would like to know that too. I understand that an app might be slightly more efficient because a lot of the site information is already offline, but why actively make we... |
If a single dose of meth makes people high for days at a time, and it doesn't cost a lot, why do meth users go broke and sell everything? | A single dose doesn't get you high for days at a time. A single dose makes you ask yourself why you ever decided to be sober in the first place At which point you fix your lawn mower while saving your marriage right before you vacuum your ceiling. |
Why the female Mexican beheading victim did not resist | Perhaps she felt that she could retain some dignity and demonstrate a defiant strength by remaining calm under the imminent threat of death. Or perhaps she was partially sedated. Or a number of other possibilities. Not everyone goes out kicking and screaming. Some accept their fate and would rather not prolong the last... |
Why are LEGO sets so expensive now? | Lego sets have always been expensive. You just didn't notice it when you were a kid because it was your parents buying them. |
Does the chance of getting Heads in a coin toss increase as I get more Tails? | No, the chance of getting head is the same with every throw. The throws are independent and are therefore 50/50 every time. However, the chances of throwing 3 heads in a row is 1 in 8. This is because 1/2 X 1/2 X 1/2 is 1/8. You can see that each throw is still 50/50, the odds simply stack up. The chances are the same ... |
What's the situation with the Falkland Islands? | The Falkland Islands, located off the east coast of Argentina, were initially uninhabited when they were first discovered 1600. In the years that followed, the British, the French, the Spanish, and the Argentinians all tried to settle the island. The British took control of the Island in 1833. Since then, the Argentini... |
Why the U.S (and any other countries who
aren't just appeasing the U.S), support Israel so
unquestionably, at least at a government level. | This has been asked many many times, you could just do a search. There are large Jewish and Christian segments in the US that support Israel on moral and religious grounds. During the Cold War, the US supported Israel as a counter to Soviet advancement in the Middle East. The US also supports Israel because it works a ... |
Why do some foods make you "bring it to a boil" only to immediately have you turn it down to a simmer? Why not just simmer it? | Because that's how you can be sure that the water is the right temperature for simmering without having to measure. To simmer means to cook something at a temperature just below boiling, where bubbles are still forming but the water is not vaporizing. To get to that point, it's easiest to first go up to boiling and the... |
If anger is considered such a negative and bad emotion that brings trouble and we need to avoid it, why do we have it in the first place? | Back in Caveman times, anger/aggresiveness was needed to funnel all your phyisical strenght so you could fight off other tribes or predatory animals. It was usefull then, it can still be usefull now', "Think you might have been mislead a tad. Anger is a wonderful emotion. Without anger what would we be as species? Well... |
If we can have physician assisted suicides, why are there sometimes major malfunctions when administering the 'death penalty'? | Physician assistant suicide is often phenobarbital, something people would OD on back in the day. One single drug, gently knocks you out and kills you without any dramatic stuff. It basically amps up the brain receptor that says "chill out neuron" so your whole brain chills out, till it knocks you out, and your respira... |
Why is it called 'suicide' instead of a phrase such as 'auto-homicide'? | _URL_0_ > "deliberate killing of oneself," 1650s, from Modern Latin suicidium "suicide," from Latin sui "of oneself" , from PIE *sw-o- "one's own," from root *se- + -cidium "a killing" . So basically, 'suicidium\' in Latin literally means \'A killing of oneself\'**ELI5:** "Suicide" and "homicide" are borrowed from Gree... |
What causes the warm sensation/hot flash when you get Cat Scan dye? | Not sure if this is the case, but I would get the same sensation while getting a saline solution after donating plasma. The saline solution was room temp, about 70°F. My body was considerably higher, around 98°F. The cool liquid gave a warm sensation. Yes this is counterintuitive. I'm not sure why. |
What causes a second wind? | One theory: Endorphins - A second wind may be the early release of endorphins into your body. In reaction to the earlier part of your workout. Mental - After passing a certain checkpoint or mental barrier in your mind. The knowledge that you can overcome problems or are achieving something, can cause a second wind. Sor... |
What argument(s) have courts used as a "legitimate state interest" for banning gay marriage? | In Utah they used a variation of the "Please, think of the children" theme. The Utah AG's office argued to the court that the State has an interest in promoting child birth and stable families, and that same-sex marriages hurts the institution and somehow dissuades opposite-sex couples from marrying. Never mind that: *... |
What does Donald Trump do? | Donald trump is not a self made Billionaire. He was basically set from the day he was born to inherit a 100 million dollar real estate company. He still manages real-estate today as well as dabbling in the realm of hotel/casinos/condos and even television. His wealth primarily comes from Real-estateHe [Donald Trump] is... |
Why are some people so bad/good at accents/mimicry? | A few factors I guess; longer exposure to a culture and it's habits, being a phonic learner, a generally good ability to pronounce words, and a solid understanding of different language structures. An understanding language structure makes the difference between and accent and a racist accent. |
Why do stomach bugs like the Norovirus appear to spread rapidly amongst passengers on cruise ships? | **VERY** cramped spaces, cleanliness isn't usually up to par, and nowhere to escape the outbreak. Ships may look big, but they're actually very, very small. You fit 5,000 men on a carrier and every one of them is in a 6'x10' room sharing bunks. They work in the same cramped spaces, they eat in the same cramped spaces, ... |
How do astronauts measure their mass in zero gravity? On earth, all scales measure the weight (gravitational force), then divide it by 9,81. | NASA has a [contraption] for this purpose. Simple answer is that to move an object you apply some force. If you can measure the motion of an object and control the force, you can calculate its mass. The longer, more elaborate answer is [here] |
Why is it that when you're cutting something in a sawing motion back and forth, it is easier to cut then just pushing down? | Mechanical engineering student here. When you're splitting something you're basically separating the microscopic adjacent layers that the object has into two parts. When you're sawing you're actually removing a layer bit by bit. The thickness of the removed layer is equal to the thickness of the sawblade. This is why w... |
can a tone deaf person differentiate between 2 tones? Or they are just unable to reproduce a tone they hear correctly? | Tone deaf isn't a real medical thing. It's really just a euphemism for someone who can't sing well, but does so anyway. Regardless of the reason. I think, therefore, that both definitions you use could be reasonable. |
why rubbing your head after banging it helps in reducing pain? | When you whack your head, your nerves are sending pain signals to your brain. Nerves can only send one signal at a time. By pressing/rubbing on your head, you override the pain signals and replace them with pressure signals. That's why as soon as you stop, the pain comes back. |
why certain cuisines are more famous than others? | Someone I worked with asked me why the French are so important to cooking. I started asking him the names of the various items in our professional kitchen. Indeed a huge amount of them are French. You used the word "cuisine" which ain't no German. Cooking techniques, from the Bain Marie to the Coq au Vin, Sous Vide alw... |
If you have glasses, is it better to play video games with or without them (and not being able to read everything without needing hard focus of your eyes)? | You should always wear your glasses or other types of corrective lenses as much as possible. If you don't, the eye strain from trying to focus can cause tension headaches. In addition, not having your glasses on can make you prefer one eye over the other. This means that one eye will get worse vision as you prefer the ... |
Where do my atoms go when I die? | They stay right where they are. At an atomic level there is no difference between a living person and a dead one. Soon your body will be consumed by bacteria and animals, and you become food. In a billion years the atoms that made you up will be spread across the world as various new thingsAll your Carbon is going to g... |
in a D.U.I. sobriety test, what are they looking for? | There are a few common tests that Law Enforcement officers use to determine if a person is sober or under the influence of alcohol. * Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus: this is where the officer moves a pen along a horizontal axis and the person follows it with their eyes. If the persons eyes begin to twitch before the normal ... |
how major corporations (Apple, News Corp etc) avoid paying so much tax? | _URL_0URL_1URL_3URL_2_ These are the most used schemesAnother thing companies can do is cut deals. For example. Walmart wanted to open a store in a town near where I lived. They made a deal where they wouldnt have to pay property tax and some other stuff. They argued that having a walmart would provide greater benefits... |
The sequester and its impact on the national deficit / debt | First the sequester: It all started in july 2011 in the fight over the debt ceiling. Republicans and Democrats couldn't agree on programs to cut, so they pointed a gun at their own heads called the "Fiscal Cliff." The fiscal cliff gave the Republicans and the Democrats about a year and a half to try to find stuff they ... |
Why do shower curtains move in towards you during a hot shower? | Those who proclaim it has to do with heat need to read this:_URL_0_', "1. Hot air is less dense than cold air. The hot water heats up the air, dropping the pressure. The relatively cool air outside has higher pressure. Basically, it attempts to equalize the pressure by moving some of the higher-pressure air to the low-... |
How does the vision scale work? | This is just a guess but my understanding has always been that these numbers are based upon averages. 20/20 means you're on par with other people's average eye sight. While something like 20/15 means you can see things from a distance of 20 feet that would take an average person 15 foot distance to see/read the same th... |
How exactly do enormous companies route their financial to pay such a small amount of tax, and is this procedure feasible for smaller organizations? | Depends on the company but in short, companies only pay taxes on profits. This is different from income tax where you or me are taxed on ALL income we receive. So if a company makes $100 but has $100 in expenses than they have $0 profit and $0 tax. With that means a profitable company can reinvest their profits into in... |
Why do neo-nazis and other far right groups in Europe, hate jews today in 2015 | Reasons for antisemitism have generally stayed the same as they were in the past. Jews are believed to control most of the financial and media outlets in the world because they have a history of getting into bureaucratic jobs. Many cultures also view the jews as arrogant people for their belief that they are the chosen... |
How can companies/products like Dr. Bronner's, Nature's Path cereal, Trader Joe's Hemp Protein Powder, hemp milks, and others produce and sell consumable hemp products in the US? | I run a hemp soap company so I'm actually pretty well versed in this field. Hemp is a very close relative of psychoactive Cannabis, however industrial hemp does not contain any THC and therefore is free to use. Currently in the US it is quite difficult to get a permit to grow hemp so most hemp products in the US are ma... |
Stock Options, calls, puts, index, and indices. | Option - a category including calls and puts, as well as more complex versions of the same Indices - plural of index - Call - If you own a call on a stock, this gives you the right to buy the stock at the price that was agreed when the call was written. For example, if today's stock price for MYINC is 50, I might write... |
Do vaginas just leak constantly? | Yes, they do leak constantly, but it's generally pretty clear. Underwear keeps normal discharge off your clothes. The clothes you got have been stained by menstrual blood. Somebody's pad or tampon leaked :(", 'Probably from somebody on their period, when a girl’s on her period she constantly leaks menstrual blood so if... |
Why is reinstalling Windows the go-to solution for so many problems on the PC? | > Why is reinstalling the operating system almost always among the suggested repair options for Windows computers? This seems tremendously inefficient Imagine you have a white wall. You've used up all your dulux paint to paint it. People keep drawing on it, and you buy another another brand of white paint to patch it u... |
Why do downloads always seem to stall once they reach 99%? | Depends on your browser. Older versions of Internet Explorer would download the file into a temporary folder. When the file was finished downloading it would then copy that file from the temp location to wherever you wanted to save the file while telling you it was only 99% done. Copying a file from one folder to anoth... |
Super Ego, Ego and Id. | The id is your desire for this cookie. The ego is your practical plan to get this cookie. The superego torpedoes your plan because it's my cookie, and stealing is wrong. Munch. |
How can bacteria get into the gut after birth to form the gut flora? | Every breath you take, every move you make, those bacteria are everywhere. How many times should you wash your hands but do not? There is speculation that bacterial spores travel across interstellar space. There is also speculation that being too clean means children are not exposed to enough challenges for their immun... |
Why Is My Voice So Deep In The Morning? | Because while you sleep your vocal chords have time to relax and loosen up. Loose vocal chords produce deeper voices. Once they get warmed up again, your voice returns to normal. Try holding a rubber band taut and plucking it. Now loosen it up a bit and try the same thing. |
Why is it so difficult to repair hearing loss? | We 'd have to regenerate individual hair cells, and making humans regenerate *anything* is not easy. We have a ton of tiny hair cells in our ears which produce the sense of hearing, and too loud noises can "jam" them. |
Google runs both Android and YouTube. Why is voice recognition so good when I do "Okay Google", but so poor at automatic captions? | The captions are programmed differently to voice recognition, it's one thing for the computer to take in the words for a few select commands and translate them into actions but translating full videos of dialogue on the fly is prone to problems, especially when you consider how little time it has to think about each wo... |
I get why we as humans need to feel pain, but why can't we control our brains to lessen the pain after we're aware of the wound? | There's no particular advantage beyond your personal comfort, and a lot of potential disadvantage, like the ability to ignore injuries. You being comfortable isn't especially important to your survival or reproductive fitness. But being aware of injury, as well as restrained from continuing to aggravate injuries, is in... |
Why do we find the smell of some inedible things appealing? E.g. Petrol, paint | One reason could be that people sometimes associate certain odors with pleasant experiences or happy times and as such the the smell reminds us of these feelings. For example the smell of gasoline and those old timey cars at some amusement parks. Another reason could be some of these substances give off vapors that pro... |
Why do people squint their eyes when trying to see something far away? | Squinting helps focus the light and cuts out the "extraneous" visual stimuli. _URL_0_Squinting helps especially if you are nearsighted. It reduces the area from which light enters the pupil. With a larger pupil light coming from the same place can enter the eye at different locations. Now, if the lense in the eye does ... |
- What is the difference between linear polarized light and circular polarized light? | I think it is beast to think circular polarization as two linearly polarized light together. [Here are few good animations] By combinign two linearly polarized light at 90° angles you get circular polarized light . |
How are kids allowed to use abusive language in movies? | maybe morally, depending on your personal beliefs. theres no legal issue with children cursing.No. Because they're portraying realistic children. Plus, it's not like it's a Disney movie with them swearing off. It's a movie for people who are already swearing themselves |
why public opinion polls, such as the Gallup poll, are considered to accurately reflect the opinion of the sampled population? | It *is* assumed they cause substantial bias. The media just don't report it, the same way they report changes within the margin of error as significant. |
How come on maps showing plane routes the curved lines always go north then south, why not straight? | Ahoy, matey! Yer not alone in askin\', and kind strangers have explained: 1. [ELI5: Why can't planes just fly from one place to another in a straight line? ] ^1. [ELI5: Why do Asian flight routes go way up North of Russia? ] ^1. [ELI5: How exactly do planes compensate for the curvature of the earth when they are flying... |
Time Warner Cable and Comcast merger. Why has it continued even as the FCC reviews its validity? | Because they don't have to stop, and they have a long road to go. Merging two companies is an extraordinarily complicated process and that's just for two small companies. A merger between TWC and Comcast is likely to be one of the most complicated legal things ever. Since its going to take them years to fully accomplis... |
the reason milk doesn't separate. | Milk does separate. We force fresh milk through a process called homogenization, where we force the milk through a very fine screen that breaks the large globs of fat into many small pieces which stay dispersed in the milk rather than floating to the surface. Unhomogenized lightly pasteurized milk is delicious. You can... |
Why do these warning labels show up on a lot of consumer goods, and why do they mention California? | California has a lot of direct democracy. What that means is that every time we go to vote there's usually a few items that are either laws or constitutional amendments suggested by voters who collected signatures and got their thing on the ballot. "Prop 8" which redefined marriage and became a national issue, was such... |
When we inhale O and exhale CO2 where does the Carbon come from? | Short answer: From our food. Main purpose of our body is to make energy. Eating and breathing are two limbs of a process. To produce energy from food, the carbohydrates are broken down and this break down produces energy Now this breakdown can only take place in presence of oxygen. So food from digestive tract and oxyg... |
How is the federal reserve conspiracy debunked? | The Federal Reserve doesn't have shareholders. All of it's money is from the government and all of it's money belongs to the government. Myth: Busted. Also, that is not even close to the function of the Federal Reserve. One of it's jobs it is to buy US bonds back from regular US bondholders - that's how the government ... |
Taking certain medications with food | Oftentimes, taking medicine with food helps prevent side effects, such as upset stomach that can happen when taking antibiotics, or metformin.You're told to eat food when consuming medication to help offset any potential problem that could come from consumption. Eating helps reduce the chance of retroperistalsis or vom... |
Why do we have laws against child labor, but still allow child actors? | Child actors, at least in the US, are subject to strict work and study schedules to ensure that they don't get exploited. There are rules that say they can't work more than X hours per day or after X time at night, for instance. |
Why do we say Merry with Christmas but Happy with all other holidays? | In England they do say Happy Christmas. Which is odd since you 'd think the word "merry" would have originated in Merry Olde England. |
Why are liberals on the "left" and conservatives on the "right"? | This custom came from the French Revolution. In France, the members of the National Assembly that supported the King sat on the right side while those that wanted reform sat on the left. Therefore, conservatives became right wing and liberals became left wing. |
How does psychological medications (antianxiety, antidepressants, etc) cure patients illnesses? | It's also worth noting that these drugs aren't really "cures" in the sense that they don't make your illness stop happening permanently. It's not like a bandaid, where you take it off and the cut is gone. If you stop taking these medications, your serotonin will go right back to its previous low levels, and you'll fall... |
How come Idubbz gets a pass for saying the N word but other people don't? | I think it has to do with him refusing to give the word any power. He kind of explains it in his Tana Mongeau content cop . Personally, when he says it, there's no malicious intent. He's not using it as an insult or thrown at anyone so idrc what he says. I just wish he'd put out more kickstarter crap. |
What causes pee to come out? | Your bladder, where urine is stored, is made from elastic type material and squeezes it out like a balloon.There are a 3 main muscles involved. The first is the detrusor muscle, which surrounds the bladder. Normally it's relaxed and allows the bladder to expand and collect urine. When you pee, it contracts, forcing uri... |
Electric cars don't need oil changes like my gas car does--how are they different? | Electric cars have significantly fewer moving parts, the most significant being the motors. These don't wear so easily like combustion and combustion byproducts would hurt gas cars. They don't have transmissions, gears, or engines that are all prone as points of failure. |
why do emotions trigger certain chemicals in our brain? | To put it simply, emotions don't trigger chemicals in our brains. It's the other way around. Chemicals changes in the brain cause reactions - these reactions are what we consider emotions. The specific reaction/emotion itself is heavily influenced by culture. Ex. If someone cuts you off while driving, someone from the ... |
why it stings to pee after ejactulation | Um, it doesn't? I sometimes get the split stream when there are sex juices partially blocking, but that's it.Your semen contains alkaline chemicals that are designed to protect your sperm from two harsh acidic environments: the female reproductive system, and your own penis. The inside of your penis is not actively pro... |
Why does pizza make grease? If I don't cook it am I still ingesting the grease? | The grease is the fat that was already present in the cheese and meat. If you don't cook it, it's still there, hidden. |
If Libertarians run as Republicans in the US, why aren't more Socialists, Greens, and others openly running as Democrats? | "libertarian" is a philosophy, "Libertarian" is a political party. Some libertarians feels there political goals are best met by being active in the Libertarian party, some do not. Similarly, "green" and "socialist" are philosophies, and many who hold to those philosophies are Democrats. "Socialism" has become a politi... |
Insider trading is illegal. Making decisions about what shares to buy and sell on the stock market based on information you have is not. ELI5 Where the line between them is. | Insider trading uses information that people in the marketplace can't get. Trading on information that is publicly available is legal. But using secrets from within the company that are not available to the public is illegal. |
why are carpenter's pencils rectangular? | The lead doesn't break as easily, it's easier to sharpen with a knife than a round pencil, and probably most importantly you can set it down and it doesn't roll away. |
How is it impossible to counterfeit digital money (or Bitcoins)? If it isn't impossible, why hasn't it been done before? | No. That's the beauty of Bitcoin ). At the heart of this type of currency is the blockchain, which is just a list of transactions that anyone can view--you can take a look at this page to see an example of what a page from this register looks like. This works off of a pretty simple principle: If I know that you have 5 ... |
Why do coaches of various sports dress like they do during games? | I think a lot of it has to do with what the coach is doing. During a game Basketball, Hockey, and Soccer coaches just stand there and coach the game. They present themselves as professionals and wear a suit for the same reason I wear one at my job. Football and baseball coaches are more hands on. They actually warm up ... |
Why can a 'dumb' calculator do floating point/decimal math better than a modern computer CPU? | I think this depends very much on the specific calculator you are using. Some do use floating point, and will have similar behaviour to computers. But one of the ways in which calculators can be different is that instead of using floating point, they can use Binary-coded decimal. Because most calculators have fixed inp... |
Liability and Worker's Compensation Law | That's a complicated question that depends on a few things like which state you're in and whether you had preexisting conditions that were part of the cause of the bad reaction. Since this sort of thing is highly fact and jurisdiction dependent, it's hard to give a general answer. In most cases if the treatment was sol... |
How come some pimples on my face hurt to the touch and others don't? | It all has to do with the amount of swelling and the speed at which it swells. So pimples form quicker and larger causing increased pressure of the local tissueAs a person who used to have massive acne; some pimples are just a tiny collection of puss, while others are actually cysts that ooze out puss, can grow pimples... |
why do people cyberbully when they don't even know me in any way? | Because if they knew you, you would be human to them, and they wouldn't cyberbully you. As a faceless tag on the internet, you are not a person to them, so they feel safe bullying you. Or as popularly expressed, people+anonymity=assholes |
How can a drug like fentanyl be multiple times stronger than something like morphine when they bind the the same mu receptors | The difference in strength between morphine, heroin and fentanyl arises from differences in their chemical structures. The chemicals in both bind to the mu opioid receptor in the brain. But fentanyl gets there faster than morphine — the almost-instantaneous byproduct when the body breaks down heroin — because it more e... |
Why don't stars burn all their gas all at once even if they take several millions of billions of years to make? | Go light a bucket of gasoline on fire, it'll take a few minute to burn depending on the depth/width and whatnot. Now imagine something hundreds of billions of times larger. |
How does a movie like John Carter (where the box office gross is higher than the budget) considered a financial bomb? | The reported cost of a feature is its production cost. It doesn't typically include marketing and promotional expenses, which can sometimes nearly double the cost. |
How does criminal profiling work? | This is massively dependant on when you are and what sort of crime you're looking at. I'm in the UK so ymmv. A set of characteristics may make a person more at risk of committing a crime -previous offences, for example. These shouldn't matter in a court of law, but may be used to target youth programmes and stuff to tr... |
Why does everyone not have blue eyes since it "usually" wins over brown eyes. | It's the opposite. Blue eyes loses to everything else. So for a person to have blue eyes, they can't have **any** of the genes that lead to green/brown/hazel/etc color eyes. So if two of those people have a kid, obviously they won't pass on any genes for the other eye colors. To get a little more technical, the basic c... |
Why do prices end in .99 or .95 rather than a whole number? | I remember reading as to the reason why they do it. It's something along the lines of if you see $19.99, you still see the item as only 19 dollars rather than 20 bucks. So when they sell a car for $29,900, I guess the mind likes to think that it's only 20 something thousand dollars rather than the full 30k. I have no s... |
Why do babies sleep so much when compared to adults? | Growing makes you tired. I always know when my kids are about to have a growth spurt because they start eating and sleeping more. |
Why do certain bank transactions take 3-5 business days to complete even though it's an online transaction? Isn't it all automated? | Verifications. Banks are very very careful not to process incorrect transactions immediately. They give lead time for people to cancel it either through reports by whoever lost the money, or through internal qa checks.It's a hangover from the days when checks needed to be cleared, and the mail handled routing across in... |
The dying bee issue, and what civilians can do about it besides fear monger. | A guy from [Crown Bees] did an AMA on reddit about a year ago. Afterward, I bought bees from them for my sister's birthday. They hatched and bee'd it up all summer, we have high hopes that we'll get another good crop this year. |
How can scientists know which number vertebrae dinosaur spinal fossils are, if they only find one or two vertebrae and it's from a species we've never seen before? | The skeleton is a basic fundamental part of vertebrates. It is often conserved with vestigial limbs long after their utility is gone. Remnants of limbs are found in whale species. Giraffes have the same number of neck vertebrae as other mammals. A lot of changes can occur in the shape and size of a bone. But it can sti... |
What do the people in the bobsleds do when going down the track? | The push at the beginning is extremely important, and being able to sprint very fast while pushing a machine that weighs a few hundred pounds takes some muscle and athleticism. I'm not saying it's the hardest thing in the world, and I’m not saying that these positions are as competitive as some of the bigger sports, bu... |
Why do we get sick more often when it is cold out? | When it's cold, it's a combination of: -People being huddled together in closer proximity, breathing each other's air, taking in each other's expelled airborne droplets. -The cold and DRY air outside irritates the respiratory tract, especially amongst the nasal conchae, making it "raw", and therefore easier for a virus... |
Is there enough paper currency to support every person, and business in the United States withdrawing their money all at the same time? | Not by a long shot. The amount of money on the books in various forms exceeds the amount of physical cash and coin by a multiple of several thousand. The money supply is broken up into various categories, like *M0*, which is the amount of physical currency, *M3*, which is long-term and very large deposits . Other categ... |
Villages in very remote parts of cold countries, with no farming, industry, tourism, etc - how do they make enough money to survive? | The village almost certainly only exists because there was some reason for it to exist - some natural resource, a tourist attraction, a stop on the way to somewhere else where a market or an inn would have brought in money, and so on. The reason will vary from one place to another. I googled the coordinates you gave, a... |
Why do so many people get knee injuries? | Knees are essentially a weak point in your frame. They undergo constant wear and tear whenever you move, they bear a good portion of your weight, and as a joint at the connection between two large bones they are only connected by cartilage, which is weaker than bones and those more liable to tear and break upon impact. |
How to fugitives on the run go to a new place and get settled in with a new identity? | > How to they find jobs? Also when applying for a job, how do they get away with using an alias? Cash in hand work that don't ask questions.some labor jobs are easy to get, no skills required and cash paid at the end of the week as long as you can be ready to work on time and do the work they pay cash no questions aske... |
What is the appeal of the film "American Psycho?" | It's a critique of yuppie culture, which encourages and rewards sociopathy. Every character in the movie is purely self-interested, caring only about their social status, because that's the only way to get ahead in New York yuppie culture. This results in every one of them being interchangeable and bland. Their collect... |
Why don't we have all politicians announce publicly which lobbyists they receive benefits from? | I would like to see them wear patches on their clothes like NASCAR drivers showing who their sponsors are. - that's about physicians, not politicians. That being said in many cases contributions to political campaigns are pretty widely known . So 1) we do know a huge chunk of the campaign contributions they get and 2) ... |
What is a tree made out of? | It comes from the air. The tree absorbs carbon dioxide from the air, uses the carbon to build the majority of its mass, and expels oxygenElementally tress are mostly hydrogen, oxygen and carbon. Chemicals components are mostly water 50% by weight, cellulose fibers and sugars. Trees are plants and their cells have tough... |
If we were able to teach gorillas sign language, would they be able to teach us the structure of their language of vocalizations? | We have taught certain gorillas some sign language before but i don't think we have learned that much about their “spoken“ language . So i'd say no. You'll have to draw your own conclusions from that because it is still rather speculative.So yeah that's all i can really offer as an answer: We don't know for sure. We ha... |
How laser cooling works? | Strange concidence. A minute ago I was adding lots of ice to very hot brewed tea, to make iced tea, when I started wondering if there was a process, not so different than microwaving things to make them hot, which would allow us to quickly cool drinks and foods. Imagine putting a warm six-pack of beer in an appliance i... |
Growing up in the Philippines, I have never met anyone with a nut allergy, yet it seems to be very common in the US. Why is that? | In countries such as the U.S a lot of parents sort of assume their child is allergic to nuts. I read an article from a study done in a school once where less than 5% of children whose parents declared their child had an allergy actually had one. What this does is actually create allergies - if someone has never been ex... |
How did people in the 50's and 60's look so good when their diets were basically bread, cigarettes, donuts, and bread? | It was before the era of corn syrup: dirt cheap sugar that has been added to everything. It's in your tomato soup. |
Why are some plants considered hardy to 20˚ and some to -20˚? Isn't it all the same below freezing? | No, water does get somewhat denser if it is frozen at colder temperatures. Additionally many plants have chemicals and enzymes in them that lowers the freezing point of the water in their cells. So the water in them might not freeze until the temperature is 10, 0, or as you state -20.There's more than one way that plan... |
What's the purpose of the rubber lining between concrete blocks on roads/sidewalks? | Concrete expands and contracts quite a bit based on temperature. So if you lay concrete slabs very close together when they get hot they will expand into each other and crack. The easiest way to deal with that without leaving gaps between slabs is to use a rubbery compound that can expand and contract with the slabs an... |
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