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Lip-syncing/miming as a practice widely-accepted both by fans and the music industry? | Because you are thinking about pop concerts the wrong way. Think of live pop artists as performers for the night instead of musicians. The concert is just an elaborate stage show. There is still singing, by the wayDepends on the performer, some "singers" cannot actually sing very well and rely on post processing and ar... |
why does Japan have such densely populated cities even though their landmass is huge? | Japan is very mountainous. Mountains take up the majority of the landmass. It's not easy living in mountains.Population and not everywhere on their island is liveableIf you have a city, with good job prospects, people are going to move to the city. Then they stay. Even more jobs/better prospects appear, so more people ... |
How does a new species start | Basically, you have species A, right? Say they're on an island or something and the island begins splitting up. Now, one half of species A is on a part of the island that's densely covered in jungle while the other half is on a area that's all plains. Species A now have new differing predator and prey species, as well ... |
If atoms are 99% empty space, and everything is made of atoms, what are we actually seeing when we look at something? | Electrons interacting with light. It's not even the nucleus, the nucleus gives the atom its physical shape, but the light we see from something comes from light's interaction with electrons. |
How does the trillions of dollars of debt actually affect us? And does it affect our gold reserve? | It doesnt affect us, and gold reserves are irrelevant.> How does the trillions of dollars of debt actually affect us? It doesn't, because the net productivity and GDP of the US are vastly greater than the debt. > And does it affect our gold reserve? The gold reserve doesn't do anything, and is entirely detached from th... |
Why does slow-cooked meat have a different texture than quickly cooked meat? | Because cooking meat for an extended period of time allows for more of the protein to be broken down, which leads to it being more tender. |
Why is it that fast-food is drive-thru, pizza is delivery, and Chinese is takeout? | Chinese is also delivery. They were traditionally delivery before pizza was. And pizza places offer take out. And all three have sit down portions that also allow you to place an order to go.Burgers don't keep like pizza or Chinese food. You can put Chinese in a paper container and as long as it stays warm it is fine. ... |
Can images be "photoshopped" by messing with their code | yes it's possible. but you need to understand how the data is stored to represent the image. it would be different for every file type. ie bmp, gif, jpg, tiff, etc. you would need to know which bits represent which pixel and which bits represent the color, etc. what you are trying to do is basically create a photo edit... |
Why do we find fails funny? Especially when people are getting hurt? | As Mel Brooks once said "Tragedy is when I hurt my finger, comedy is when you fall in an open sewer and die."I wonder this too, because I must be missing whatever it is. Videos of people getting hurt, even much of AFV, make me feel deeply uncomfortable to the point my stomach hurts[Vsauce2 did a similar video on this.]... |
why are there posts on Facebook that are just pictures but they are actually 30 second videos of that picture? | With videos you can select preffered audience and target demographics better. Also facebook has reported 135% increase on clicks on videos versus pics advertising webpages so it might be people thinking they are gaming the system and not understanding why they are clicked on more. If anyone has a better answer listen t... |
how is the light from my Kindle any different than light fro a retrolit screen? | I'm not sure if you're talking about the backlight on a Kindle, or the visual properties of the eInk screen. The reason the e-ink screen under ordinary lighting conditions doesn't give you eyestrain is that it naturally takes on the lighting characteristics of the environment. In bright sunlight it'll be bright and hig... |
Why are items (ie- aspirin, band aids, and other cheap med stuff) so outrageously expensive when received through a doctor or a hospital? Is this why insurance costs so much? | Its a vicious circle caused by people being uninsured. Hospitals, specifically emergency rooms, can't turn people away from receiving care, whether they are able to pay or not. When somebody has an expensive surgery, they don't have insurance and can't pay, they usually file for bankruptcy, and the hospital eats the co... |
what would happen if a commercial airliner attempted a barrel roll? | On one of the very first public demonstrations of Boeing's jumbo jets, the test pilot [did one] on what was supposed to be a simple flyover. The [executives] watching from the ground were pretty concerned, and he was told never to do that again by Boeing's president. Peppy was reported to be overjoyed. |
What is Tupper's Self-Referential Formula and how does it work? | The formula is [this], and it's called self-referential because if you pick the right value of k to look at then the plot of it looks like [this]. In fact what it does is plot all possible 17 pixel tall bitmaps in a predictable sequence, so if you pick the right place on the y-axis to look, you can find any image you l... |
with all of the flooding in Texas how are people not being electrocuted staying in their houses, standing in water near electrical outlets? | When a short is caused on the electrical grid, the local breaker goes. Thus, there's generally not electricity where flooding has reached the electrical wiring. Water is actually an insulator, but dirty water is conductive. Humans are more conductive, so the issue isn't really standing in water, it's standing in water ... |
why is it that we can pleasure ourselves but not tickle ourselves? | Both genitalia and other body parts have the same mechanism for detecting self vs. outside touch: A copy of the stimulus is created and the predicted sensation is compared to the actual sensation. The nerve cells that come from the genitalia are in addition highly sensitive to touch so that any kind of touch can elicit... |
Why are snails so slow? | "speed is better for survival". No. Just look at plants. They can't move at all and there are way more than animals', "Speed uses energy. A snail doesn't need speed because they have a hard shell to discourage predators. It's better for them to use their calories to produce a lot of offspring to ensure passing their ge... |
where do tv shows & movies get music? | Television editor here. The majority of music on "reality" programming and most basic cable shows comes from the libraries of a few companies: Audio Network, Jinglepunx, etc. These companies compose a shitload of music, production companies acquire the licenses to all or part of their libraries, and then the company an... |
Why are string instruments so prevalent in music? | Many genres of music use string instruments because 1) western pop music has been heavily influenced by the emergence of the guitar as a leading sound and hence include the guitar/bass in almost all songs, 2) worldwide there are *lots* of string instruments that each produce different and unique sounds and mainly 3) yo... |
National debt. What does "debt" really mean, and to exactly who or what is it owed? | I *really* don't want to come across as self-aggrandizing, but this exact same question came up a few hours ago. Is [this answer I gave then] helpful to you at all? |
Who is Jeremy Lin and why suddenly am I hearing about him all day, every day? | People like underdog stories and Jeremy Lin is the newest one. * went to Harvard, so he can continue to play ball.* First Asian American who has any success in NBA.* won the last 7 games and he is pretty amazing )* a humble man that praises his team instead of saying something like "I'm the best" after scoring 38 pts w... |
Why does my urine give off a wave of heat when I pee? | Your internal body temperature is 38*C. Thus your urine is about that warm. The outside world rarely reaches that temperatureBecause inside your body is warmer than outside your body. |
How human babies became so helpless. | Short Answer: Its the price we pay for our brains. ELI5 terms Long Answer: Humans have big brains. It takes A LOT of time and energy to grow these brains. If a human baby was to wait in the womb until its brain was fully developed the infant would be far far too large for the mother to carry it much less birth. Our evo... |
- What do you do when the air condinitioner is broken in the house and you want to cool off to make sleep possible? | If you have a window, put a fan on it, let that sweet ass fresh air in, even during the day, you don't want to stagnate yourself with no airflow during the hottest days", 'Currently in this situation. Open windows, turn furnace fan “on” to move air around. Turn ceiling fans on also. Have cold beer, try and go to sleep.... |
Is there any difference between "name brand" gasoline (like Shell or Sunoco) and the other, cheaper, companies? | No. They literally come off the same truck.Sometimes. Refineries will sell to pretty much any buyer if they have supply, so the same refinery that supplies Shell or Sunoco may also supply a cheap station, in which case it's exactly the same fuel. However, the name brand guys may have a particular additive that they req... |
If our stomach acid is so strong, why doesn't it dissolve our stomach? | Sometimes It does, or at least irritates the stomach if not dissolve. Ulcers? not fun. Luckily, our stomach has a coating of mucus that prevents any harm from occurring. The mucus blocks the acid from dissolving the walls of our stomach. A natural question you may ask is, what occurs when the mixture leaves the stomach... |
How do we know, and how can we calculate that the speed of light is approximately 299,792,458 m/s? | first of all the definition of a meter changed based on the speed of light, making that an exact value by definition. but regarding your question, one experiment is to shine a beam of light onto a rapidly spinning mirror. when the mirror hits an exact angle the light will be reflected towards a distant mirror, and in t... |
How is "fashion" a thing? | People are all around variable, just like all other aspects of life where there is variety comes preference. There's certain music, accents, speeches, habits etc that people love or don't. Fashion is just another one. There are some humans that will think a kimono is just the most elegant and practical thing ever. For ... |
How is lithium produced in the sun/stars? | For the original stars in the Universe, there was only hydrogen and helium. When a star forms over time due to self-gravitation, the increased pressure will increase the temperature and around 7 million kelvins the star will start thermo-nuclear fusion. This process starts with Hydrogen "burning" which takes 4 protons ... |
How do people who were born deaf learn to speak? | Speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, lip reading, facial expression and non verbal language recognition, hearing aids or Cochlear Implants. Might take 3 years, might take 10 years. Might be a person's whole life. |
Supply and Demand in relation to markets with infinite Supply (downloads). | By pricing it at a certain amount, you effectively limit supply. At $0, you can "sell" the maximum amount of units, and every increase in price theoretically reduces sales. The key for the seller is to find the price at which will equal the greatest amount. None of this takes into consideration the "value" of marketing... |
Is listening to music while studying beneficial in any way? | [This study] shows three benefits which I personally agree with. I summarized it for you * Background music improves your mood and enhances perception while working * Music makes you feel calmer * Music can help you focus ', "Music can act as a pleasant filler noise, especially if you're very familiar with it. For exam... |
When your cell phone has no service, why can you make an emergency call but not call or text anyone else? | Your carrier allows you to connect to their towers and their towers only, so if you're not within range of one, you'll have no service. Emergency calls can be placed through any carrier's towers, as well as some reserved for other things, so you will almost always have service, unless you're way out in the middle of no... |
the ideas and significance of Thomas Aquinas. | This is almost impossible to do and keep short or in the scope for a five year old, but basically Thomas commented on and integrated the thoughts and ideas of Aristotle into Christian thought. To get an idea on how much of an impact this has had, remember the line at the end of this exchange in the Star Trek movie: _UR... |
How can Finland afford to give every citizen 800 euros a month? | The US spends $13,500 per capita on social programs. Any first-world country could easily afford to given its citizens a 800 EUR/mo basic income. However, in the case of Finland the basic income is intended to replace most other public benefits. It's sort of like how the US started giving people food stamps as opposed ... |
Why do a lot of guys like girls who are younger than them? | Women have a smaller window for fertility, so men are instinctively attracted to women who can provide them with offspring. Men have a wider window, so women are attracted to men who can care for offspring, which often means older men.One reason is reproductive ability. At least historically, a woman's best childbearin... |
is increased heart rate and blood pressure by using stimulating drugs necessarily a bad thing? | No. People drink caffeinated drinks all the time. These cause mild elevations in pulse and BP and for most they are harmless. It's a matter of degrees. How elevated? What underlying health issues does the person have? How often is it happening. Things like that. The problem with abusing stimulants is that it's hard to ... |
How do pubs get their names? | Basically, in the days before everybody could read, public houses were distinguished by the signs, which would portray some distinctive image, like an animal or the portrait of the monarch. And so people would arrange to meet "at the sign of the white horse", for example. Pub signs might depict anything: people, histor... |
What is that IG company going to do when they have to give out 300k swimsuits? | the cost to make and deliver the swimsuit is nowhere going to be near $30. In addition, you can think of the money that is "lost" is the same as if they spent millions of dollar advertising. In my opinion, giving out swimsuits is a better way than paying for an ad space, since you will wear the swim suit and act as a w... |
What is "Single-Payer Health Care?" | An evil, socialist health system where health care is equal for all. See: Most of the 1st world, such as Australia, Britain, Canada, etc. Basically, the health care providers can be privately run, but the funding is provided by the government. This makes health care largely free in most cases. Also, the US is the only ... |
How do areas of high/low pressure affect the weather? | Hey mate ! The positions of high and low pressure centers can greatly influence a forecast. Fair weather generally accompanies a high pressure center and winds flow clockwise around a high. This means that winds on the back side of the high are generally from a southerly direction and typically mean warmer temperatures... |
If Microsoft Word can automatically turn off caps lock, why can't/don't other programs automatically use other keyboard functions? What's stopping them? | Most importantly, why would they? What benefit would that have? What value would it inject into them, the user's experience, or the world? I gather most program do not even think of doing that, because that would be a plainly useless thing to do. |
why is the Apple logo always taped over in movies and TV shows? | Probably because they didn't have any sort of product placement deal and the producers want to protect themselves from a lawsuit. Showing a trademark is illegal if it gives the appearance that the brand whose trademark is shown sponsors or supports the show in which it is shown . Normal use of an item with a trademark ... |
Why do some viruses (like the flu) have vaccines that have to be administered yearly, while other viruses only need vaccinated against once? | Influenza evolves rapidly over the course of a year, so the common vaccines become ineffective between seasons. Hence new vaccines have to be be developed and administered each yearViruses evolve into new strains and it takes time to "update" vaccinations. The flu vaccines available at any given time are to protect aga... |
What specifically SETI is looking for when crunching data through BOINC, and how will they know if/when they find "it"? | When you're looking at basically noise , patterns will stand out. In the depths of space, patterns can mean intelligence. They can also mean explained phenomena, like [pulsars], but in short, anything that sticks its head above the noise is what they're looking for. Anything that could be life, or intelligence. |
The difference between dog types and dog breeds. | There is indeed a dog DNA test available that purports to tell you the dog's breed mix. Not sure how much credence I place in it! Dog type describes what that dog and others like it are bred to do. Husky type might include malamute and other working dogs of that type. |
Do insects with multiple eyes combine the images into one? | For bees, 3 of their eyes are just to see how bright it is. They don't see objects from them, just the intensity of light. You can compare that to closing your eyes and turning your head towards and away from a light source. Their other two eyes are filled with between 6,000 and 7,000 "mini-eyes" which are connected to... |
Hos is it possible that there exists more virtual money than "real" physical money? | Money is an abstract concept, which we use to equate one type of labour to another. Basically, that’s how we know that the wheel spoke maker has contributed enough to the economy that they can extract a loaf of bread from the economy. Physical paper money does not hold inherent value, it’s just a paper medium which car... |
why European rugby players suffer less concussions than a NFL player but where no protection whatsoever? | If you dont wear a helment. You dont lead with your head. You use the shoulder or anything that isnt your head.. Wear a helmet.. And then you start to feel like hitting head first might be a workable idea. If boxers didnt wear gloves, There would be a lot less brain trauma too.. Because it would actually hurt to punch ... |
What causes males and females to have different handwriting? | Scientist here! It's actually a very simple deviation based on hormone levels. Women have higher estrogen levels which causes heightened reactions in the primary somatosensory cortex to certain visual stimuli. The typical female handwriting reflects this, as it contains more soft curves based on the eye movements set f... |
If bacteria develop resistance to antibiotics then why are rubbing alcohol and hydrogen peroxide still the go to for cleaning wounds? Is there something about these chemicals that prevents bacteria from developing resistance to them? | Because alcohol and antibiotics kill bacteria in two very different ways. Alcohol kills bacteria immediately then evaporates off. The alcohol doesn't stick around long enough for the bacteria to adapt to. Also, alcohol kills bacteria by destroying the whole bacterial cell. It's like a bomb; bacterium can't adapt to pur... |
Why can't Great White sharks be held in captivity without dying? | They can. [Monterey Bay Aquarium] has had six of them! However, they are hard to keep, because they must constantly swim forward in order to keep oxygen in their gills. Providing space for something that big to *constantly* swim must be a challenge.I don't know about great white sharks specifically, but I do know about... |
Is my reflection what others truly see? | _URL_0_ watch this video, it will explain everything. VSauce is amazing and he explains in very great detail why we look different in pictures than mirrors! |
What exactly is a "bot"? | A bot refers to a computer program doing something that's intended for humans to do, like playing games, visiting websites, registering for websites, writing comments or whatnot. Eliminating them is difficult because they are essentially pretending to be humans. Sometimes they use separate bot user interface, so if som... |
why is a certain political party in the U.S. Trying to eliminate Federal funding for Planned Parenthood? | A lot of the hard core GOP base strongly opposes Planned Parenthood's stands on abortion and birth control. Go after Planned Parenthood is a way to try to earn their support. It's not about justification, it is about politics. Also, the argument can be made that supporting Planned Parenthood's non-abortion related serv... |
Why do I get a random, sharp pain out of nowhere but then it just goes away? | I think its a sot of gas-induced pain. I get them a lot, and that's what I've been told by various people including doctors. If you take in a lot of carbonated drinks or other gaseous foods, try cutting down a little. Before I forget, I should mention I am not a doctor and what I was told may not apply to your situatio... |
Why can the average person hop on the internet and listen in on Police scanners? Isn't there ever sensitive information that shouldn't be known to the public? | I'm a police operator/Dispatcher. The information that goes back and forth on the open radio channels is 99% public information. We have encoded sub channels for private info. Every once in a while someone will give out private information on a public channel by accident, but it doesn't happen very often. |
Discrete Probability (Cryptography) | Not much about cryptography, but I'll tell you what I know about 'discrete' and statistics. A scale or a set of numbers is discrete when it is countable. This means that the set of all positive integers is discrete, but the temperature of a room you're in is not discrete, it is continuous, because theoretically you cou... |
What can we expect the James Webb Telescope to teach us or discover? (Launching in 2018) | Beyond being the largest space telescope yet, what makes JWST special is its sensitivity to infrared light rather than visible light. This is why the mirrors are coated with gold instead of silver or aluminum. The ultra sensitivity to infrared light will allow JWST to see farther away and detect the first galaxies that... |
Why is it so hard to clone humans? | Cloning a sheep was not 'no problem' it took a lot of effort and still has a substantial failure chance. It took 434 attempts before they got a successful embryo, and even then they had 1 successful live birth per 277 fertilized embryos. By and large, attempts at human cloning have more hurdles due to ethical constrain... |
The Qatar crisis. What happened since the gulf was on the brink of war? | Saudi Arabia views itself as the King of the Persian Gulf, and the tiny states along its borders are its puppets/proxies/vassals. Qatar, which has been hurt by the House of Saud's decision to keep oil prices depressed for years now in order to kill off the American fracking industry and simultaneously fuck its chief ri... |
Why is it possible for me to fall into a deep sleep while Im listening to loud music on my headphones? | I have mix of music on my mobile and it's mostly death metal or varients of metal genres but has all kinds of stuff on it really even some Police and Bill Withers I can fall asleep and stay asleep with my earphones on regardless of noise level or tempo. I personally think you're brain shuts it out completely as sound i... |
Why do thunderstorms occur less in the morning ? (Not during the night) | Thunderstorms are caused by rising columns of warm, moist air. Since the sun mostly heats the ground , there's more rising warm air during daylight. |
Why does the color of a heat sink affect the heat emission? | Things that are good at emitting electromagnetic radiation are also good at absorbing radiation, and the other way around. A material can have changes inside it that result in it emitting a photon , and the same changes in reverse that allow it to absorb a photon. White things are good at reflecting radiation, rather t... |
What does "White Van Man" represent? | "White Van Man" is British tabloid speak for a working class blue-collar tradesman, such as a plumber or builder. Typically this kind of person is self-employed and therefore owns a van to carry himself, his tools, and his materials to and from jobs. Vans come in many colours but are frequently white. The stereotypical... |
Why is my university's internet so much better than anything I can get for a reasonable price? | Well if you are at a more tech-heavy university , you may find that you have very fast internet. But your internet back home is nothing like that! Why is that? Think of it like water pipes under your house and the school. If your house wants water, you will have a small pipe from one company, and you will have a slower... |
Why is it good to have a constant trade surplus | A country with a trade surplus generally gets richer, because there's more money going in than coming out. |
Redbull & Alcohol. What is happening to our brains when we combine them? | Alcohol is a depressant in that it slows down the central nervous system. When you're drunk you lose balance, become more emotional or angry and violent, and become tired. Red Bull has caffeine which is a stimulant in that it increases central nervous activity. However, when you take both at the same time, the alcohol ... |
If two people carry a weight down the stairs, who is carrying the most weight ? The one downstairs or the one upstairs ? | Generally, it will be the one downstairs. If they're on level ground, carrying a couch whose weight is distributed equally, they're both carrying the same amount. As the ground starts to tilt, more of that burden gets shfited to whoever ends up on the downstairs side of it. Eventually, as the ground shifts enough, the ... |
Why did Osama bin Laden orchestrate the attacks of September 11, 2001? | Bin Laden had a lot of beefs with the U.S., and yes, support of Israel was one of them. In 2002 he wrote a Letter to America where he basically said that the creation and subsequent support of the Israel was a crime against the Arabs in the region. Another motivating factor was U.S. military presence in his home countr... |
Why is milk so satisfying after eating things like chocolate and peanut butter? | likes dissolve likes. Highschool chemistry, I don't remember 100% because I don't use it. Polar substances like water dissolve polar substances like sugar. Non-polars like oil, fat, gasoline, etc) dissolves non-polars. We've all seen this, oil doesn't mix with water. Chocolate and Peanut butter have fat which don't dis... |
How can a seismometer be sensitive enough to detect an earthquake on the other side of the earth without being affected by local vibrations (i.e. People walking, cars, construction, etc.) | They are affected by local vibrations. The trick is to pick out the patterns. Earthquakes have a distinct pattern that can be seen through the noise. For this reason, seismometers can also be used to detect nuclear blasts because of the unique pattern. |
How is it that RFID stickers work without any batteries? | Passive RFID tags use an effect of electromagnetic induction in process called [resonant inductive coupling] which was first used by Nikola Tesla. Inside tag you will find a LC circuit tuned to the same frequency as transmitter. It allows tag to get an energy from nearby field created by transmitterThe RFID tag receive... |
Why early pendulum clocks only had the minute hand? | Minute and hour hands are the only hands NEEDED on a clock. A second hand really is useless unless you're timing something. You don't say "it's 3 minutes and 7 seconds" you say "its 4:15" |
Why does the brain control body functions contralaterally, and is this true of all species? | It has to do with our nerves! Our nerves cross on their way from the brain down to the effectors . There are actually a few theories as to why the nerves cross to the other side of the body. The one we learned about in my neuroscience class was that basically when we went from 4-legged to 2-legged in an evolutionary se... |
HDMI and why devices are either only input or output. | A master/slave setup is much easier to implement than a fully bi-directional one Your TV only needs to know how to take the HDMI signal and display it on the screen, it doesn't need to take a signal and figure out how to encode it for the destination screen. Since your TV is likely to be a display/slave device this is ... |
Are energy drinks really that bad for you? | just lots of sugar and caffeine. no they arent that bad in moderation, they certainly wont kill you but your water consumption should outweigh your energy drink consumption at least like 10:1It's not really about the energy drink as much as it is the caffeine in it. Caffeine is a drug, and like any drug, you can take t... |
Why is it that, when looking at them from the ground, planes do not seem to be going very fast at all when landing or taking off? | It's a perception thing - like the closer you are to something, the bigger it looks. The further away you are from something, while it is covering a large amount of distance in a short amount of time, it is only covering a small amount of your full vision spectrum. |
Why does a ball (soccer ball, netball etc.) bounce? | Elastic energy! When the ball makes contact with the ground, the leading edge stops, but the rest of the ball still has kinetic energy, so it squishes. The ball doesn't want to stay squished, so it reforms into it's usual shape, which has the side effect of giving upward kinetic energy. The more elastic the substance, ... |
How can cell phones have a front camera of only 2 megapixels, yet it still records in HD? | 720p is 1280x720, which is 921,600 pixels. 1080p is 1920x1080, which is 2,073,600 pixels, or almost exactly 2 megapixels.720p is less than 1 megapixel. 1280x720=921,600. If it's a 2 megapixel camera, it should have the resolution to do 1080p, since 1920x1080=2,073,600. |
I am American, what does "take the piss" mean for Brits? | It's to mock someone. Not just Brits, but Aussies as well. *Don't worry about him, he's just taking the piss.* |
Why can't we take a photograph exactly representing what we see? | You see in 3D, cameras see in 2D and almost all photographs are 2D. Your brain is a super high performance image processor, and it's able to extract excellent 3D image structure with your eyes. A picture that could fool your brain is beyond current technology. Your eyes have variable resolution, and at their highest re... |
Why does my digestive system fail to fully process capsaicin during its journey? | Capsaicin does not fully breakdown in digestion. To my understanding, the 'immunity ' to spicy food is actually nerve damage. The capsaicin receptors have essentially been worked too hard and the nerve endings die off. If someone else could verify, that would be splendid, but if I recall correctly this is accurate. |
What does pulp mean when referring to a movie? | Um, why are all the answers talking about grades of paper? Yes, the term comes from the cheap pulp paper used to print old paperbacks, magazines, and comics, but that doesn't really explain why it gets applied to movies. The comics, paperback books, and especially story magazines were inexpensive and lowbrow compared t... |
Why are the Dallas Cowboys in the NFC East, when Texas is known as a southwestern place? | The main reason the cowboys werent moved out of the nfc east is they have very strong rivalries with several of the teams in the east. Rivalries are important in football. A team with out rivalries is a boring team to be a fan of. |
Why does the average price per kWh change based on usage? | You pay for two things in your electricity bill: 1) The infrastructure and equipment and labour involved in servicing your address, and 2) The electricity you use. is a fixed amount, and does not go up as your electricity use does. So the more you use, the smaller the cost of is per unit. |
How come archaeologists all over the world have to dig below ground to find history? Where does that topsoil come from? | Good question! I'm an archeologist, and I had this same question once upon a time. Say I was out hiking and I dropped a pen. That pen lays on the forest floor and gets covered by leaves and some loose dirt when it rains the next day. Then those leaves get covered by more leaves and snow. The leaves just on top of my pe... |
What excactly is a mole and how was it discovered? | A mole' is a unit of measurement]. The amount of 'things' in a mole, that number is 6.02 x 10^23 -- science geeks celebrate at 6:02am on 10/23 every year in honor of the mole. The date really doesn't have anything to do with the discovery of the mole, or physics itself, it is just where the calendar lines up with an un... |
The Great Purge of Russia/Soviet Union. | After the Revolution and the Civil war, there naturally were a lot of people unhappy with the new Soviet state. Some of them left the country, but many stayed and slowly rose to important positions. Additionally, It turned out that many people directly involved in the revolution, were really only good at that. They hel... |
If the information age has made more information freely accessible than ever before, so why are textbook prices going up? Shouldn't it be the other way around? | pearson education is the largest educational company in the world and produces the vast majority of textbooks for school. like any huge corporation that has been around forever, they can bully their way to ensure their archaic way of doing business never stops because profit |
Can someone explain how this Pong game was made? (link inside) | The image you linked to shows the plan to a computer. It does all the things that any computer does, like read in the signals from a controller, count scores, draw graphics. But there is a small difference: This computer can only execute one "program": the pong game. So why does it look different from your computer? Be... |
Why do computer screens appear to have that warped effect when a picture is taken of them? | One common cause of distortion is because the screen refreshes its image line by line, and a digital video camera reads the image sensor line by line as well. These rates are usually out of sync, meaning that one frame of video will show more than one frame from the monitor. |
How do statin drugs prevent your liver from making LDL? Am I off base for thinking that it seems incredibly unwise to eff with the liver like that? | They can definitely damage your liver. Plenty of medications can, which is why some of them say you must get your liver tested every X number of months when you're on them. It's a matter of cost-benefit. The risk of liver damage is lower than the benefit to your overall health. |
Why don't our lungs clog from all the tiny things we inhale? | In addition to the lung clearance provided by the ciliae there are tiny cells in the alveoli wall called macrophages whose task it is to basically "eat" rubbish and get rid of any foreign bodies. |
Why is it cheaper to buy food in larger quantities? | The packaging costs for small sizes to large sizes of many products are not really that much. In fact to package three to four standard size units is much more than packaging the same amount of product in one large containerOne of the reasons is that it gives an incentive to spend more. If someone is going to buy 1 box... |
ssri and how they change my mood | Psychiatric* Don't want her to think you have telekenesis. SSRI - Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor sort of explains itself. Your brain uses this chemical called serotonin to talk to other brain cells. Each brain cell will fire an electrical signal that releases these chemicals called serotonin that talk with othe... |
Why do most movies that have sequels only end up in trilogies and not more or less movies? | Your premise is flawed. Most movie sequels are sequels to one previous movie, and that is it. Then there are franchises of 4+ movies. Trilogies are fairly uncommon. Regular sequels are trying to capture the appealing nature of the first movie, and they fail. So you have the majority being a 2 picture franchise. If sequ... |
How do I distinguish between Directing and Cinematography and between Directing and Editing? | The director is the ultimate decider. He/she hires all the other collaborators, and he has final say. So the director brings on a cinematographer because he likes their vision and trusts them to make it look good. Some directors let the DP do what they do with little interference. Others are more involved. The final pr... |
How is inflation arrived at by a country if the gov't would print a lot of money? | More money = money is worth less = higher prices . Printing more money doesn't actually fix anything. |
What does Carbon based life mean? | All of our biological molecules are Carbon-based. This means Carbon forms the main component and "backbone" of all of these molecules. Without Carbon, these biological molecules cannot exist. Because of its chemical properties, Carbon can form bonds to FOUR other atoms, which is a high number . This ability to bind 4 o... |
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