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Why do Amazon's prices change so frequently? | A lot of Amazon sellers use pricing bots, where they'll price something for X dollars more or less than their competitors, which they can get buy with if they have a large amount of feedback and good recognition so people will feel more comfortable buying from them. Sometimes they'll even not actually own the item, if ... |
Why do things like supplements and exercise "take time to work" to make you feel better? | Given that most supplements are 100% placebos, let's talk about the few that aren't. The most common active ingredient the FDA will allow is caffeine. Typically, you don't start feeling better when you take caffeine, but instead feel almost imperceptibly worse when you don't have it. Taking it makes you feel better by ... |
Why is harvesting rain water illegal. | Okay typical harvesting of rainwater usually isn't illegal. Whats illegal is trapping large amounts of water on your land. So you cant go and build an artificial lake to catch all the rain on your property. This is because in many places farms depend on the water that would have run off your property into streams. Simp... |
Why are we so irritable when we're tired/hungry? | The short answer is that eating food raises your blood sugar: and specifically your glucose levels. When you eat, your food is broken down into glucose and either used immediately or stored for use later on. As your brain relies on glucose to operate, if you don't have enough, you lose your cognitive functions. Interes... |
Why cant we break the light speed limit using an enormous 3rd class lever? | Let's say you have a lightbulb instead of a laser. Light emitted towards point A might hit point A *at the same time* as light emitted towards point B hits point B even though they are a great distance away. But those are not the same light. It's not light moving from point A to point B, instead light is directed at po... |
Why are migrants already in France trying to get to the UK? | Illegal immigrants try to get to the UK from France and other countries over there since, they get better treatment from the government while something is done with them. In the UK they will often be given housing, food and healthcare while they are either given a visa/asylum or deportedI see previous posts and all I c... |
What is “Doxastic agency”? | /u/Hardcore90skid is almost right. Agency is the power to do something and doxastic means 'having to do with belief'. So doxastic agency is the power we have over our own beliefs. For example, doxastic voluntarism is the idea that we can choose what we believe. So I could choose to believe that my Aunt Matilda lives in... |
Can someone explain how homosexuality is beneficial to a species? | Would you rather something was beneficial or *fabulous*?', "Homosexuality, for our species and where we are on populous numbers, is more a benefit than a loss at this point but not by much. To me, not a scientist, benefits include:* levels our population growth, but only by a couple percent* increases adoption need/wan... |
Does shifting quickly up in manual car REALLY save gas? | A really really good driver can save gas with good shifting, but 99.999% of drivers are not that good. I think the average driver would be hard-pressed to beat a modern automatic transmission.Saving gas is all about driving smoothly and appropriately for the conditions. Yes, changing gear at 1500-1750 rpm will use less... |
Why do soldiers learn how to march? Is there any benefit to them knowing how to walk "in step"? | Tradition and discipline, it helps indirectly in the field. Being able to execute precise maneuvers on short notice with a small margin of error comes very much in handy. Being able to understand something shouted in shorthand and act on it inside a fraction of a second as the grenade is still in the air or whatever co... |
Why are swords or other melee weapons seen as more child-appropriate than guns? | Swords aren't really common in our society. Guns are. Encouraging children to play with toy guns could potentially teach them that guns are toys. [A surprisingly large number of people are shot by children] who don't understand that guns are not toys. While the adults who failed to secure the guns are clearly the ones ... |
Since it has been proven that the water of Flint Michigan is toxic, why hasn't someone gotten a lawyer and filed a class action lawsuit? | There are a few class-action suits revolving around the Flint water situation, including one being led by the famous water-safety activist and legal investigator Erin Brockovich. Here's the problem: these lawsuits keep getting dismissed. There's a district judge, John Corbett O\'Meara, who keeps dismissing any and all ... |
Why induce labor in pregnant women past their due date instead of just letting the baby come on its own? | 1. When the baby gets too big, it can require surgery to get it out. 2. You can make less of what the baby needs. 3. What the baby is using to live can begin to fail. 4. Insurance reasons: Since is is now standard practice to induce if you are a bit late, any complications arising when they deviate from that norm leave... |
How do hormone fluctuations cause pimples? | Testosterone is produced by both men and women; when too much is produced, it isn't able to be used where it is needed so it makes its way to the skin, where it binds to special receptors. The testosterone in excess levels causes skin to be more oily and the excess testosterone is removed from the body through the pore... |
Why don't tv shows/movies show real websites like Google and Facebook? Why use fake websites that look like them? | Because you gotta call them, ask for permission, sometimes they ask for a certain fee, have their PR people see if their product is being used in good faith, all that paperwork and time just isn't worth the trouble. You can literally have a mock up site with basic functions working in one or two days and pay the guy 20... |
Why do theater kids refrain from saying the “M-word”? | It is an old superstition that saying the name "Macbeth" will bring misfortune on a show, actor or theater. Most of the time they say "The Scottish Play" instead. |
Why do we not vote for which police officers work for us? | Do you have any clue how many officers are on the force in an average sized town, let alone a big city? It's hard enough to get people to vote for a couple pages of state, local, and national representatives. Imagine trying to get NYC residents to individually vote on each of the 34,500 uniformed officers in the NYPD. |
How come one's water bottle can get murky and others remain clear? | If you mean after drinking from it for a bit, it's the stuff that leaves your mouth and goes into the bottle when you drink from it. |
what are the sanctions against Iran and what are they supposed to do? | So you don't get an unanswered question here we go. The sanctions are usually enforced by a group of countries or in a national basis. For Iran they were the ban of exports to Iran ; the ban on imports from Iran; the freezing of financial assets of iranian individuals and companies abroad. The general objective of sanc... |
How does the check engine light on cars know to come on? Does it only cover certain problems ? How does it work? | You car has a computer that is connected to many sensors throughout the vehicle. Most drivers don't need to know what is actually wrong with the engine , so it's far easier to have a single "Get someone to check this out!" light than to provide a detailed explanation. A mechanic can connect to the computer to find out ... |
What would happen if the moon suddenly disappeared? | Depends on how exactly that happens. Assuming we don't have any sudden side-effects: Tides would get smaller, all the plans of humans returning to the Moon suddenly get awkward. The moon wouldn't be visible in the sky any more. Apart from that: not much. Over very long timescales , it would influence the axial tilt and... |
How come humans get grossed out by odors while animals don't? | Animals also get “grossed out” by certain orders. Cats aren’t very fond of vinegar for example. The difference in us and them is they aren’t as dramatic as “we” are. They don’t like a smell, they will shy away from it. “We” have too make it known it’s not a pleasant odor. I think in part it is a way we communicate info... |
What is the evolutionary importance of crying when distressed or sad in humans? | Crying was a way to signify to those close to you that you were scared, injured, or in need of assistance without alerting predators.Its hard to describe how powerful your childs crying is. I can tolerate the crying of my 6 month old daughter for about as long as I can hold my breath. After that, I become an animal wit... |
What is happening to us biologically when inspiration strikes? | We know very little about how the brain works , so I think the best answer is that a certain neuron or set of neurons is triggered in a particular manner. Another way to say the same thing is: a certain type of electrical impulse reaches a certain part of the brain. I find it hard to say more than that without guessing... |
Is there anything stopping YouTube or Netflix from gaining television rights for the Premier League or NBA? What about a pay-per-view system where we can choose to watch individual games? | No, nothing stopping them, probably in the next few years you will see Netflix dive into sport , and try and getting Nfl, nba and the premier league. IF it was 10$ a month to watch any sports game + all movies, that wouldn't be a bad deal. |
How can you have 3-5 pounds of beneficial bacteria? | E. Coli isn't the only beneficial bacteria in humans, and E. Coli is a relatively small bacterium compared to others that live inside us E.Coli on average has a mass of 1×10−15\u2009kg, whereas the average human cell is 1×10−12\u2009kg. Most other bacteria fall within that range. |
What is this extra number in this time-stamp? | Um what's the context? In film editing contexts, the last number denotes the frame count; a 24 frame-per-second production will show that number count up from 0 through 23. |
Why does the odometer not go to 0 rpm when the car is parked? | You mean your tachometer, the one that tracks rpms the odometer is the one that tracks distance travelled and can only go up. Unless you jack up the Ferrari and run it in reverse. The _tachometer_ doesn't reach 0 because the engine is still rotating. If it wasn't, the engine would be stopped; outside of the small super... |
What are parabens in beauty products made of and their function? Why are so many products advertised as paraben free now? | Parabens are a family of preservatives, the name is an abbreviation for **para**hydroxy**ben**zoate**s**. The reason manufacturers started to produce and advertise paraben-free products was because of a study that found that parabens had similar effects to estrogens in rats and another study that found parabens present... |
Why does bleach massacre bacteria, but bacteria haven't adapted in billions of years to defend against it? | Bleach destroys protein, the fundamental building block of all life. Bacteria can't get along without being made of protein -- it's what they are. They could evolve a protective coating, but bleach occurs *very rarely* in nature, and such a coating would get in the way of everything else the bacteria needed to do. |
how cemeteries make money once they are full. | At our cemetery you buy a piece of land for 15 years. After 15 years the grave is emptied and filled with a new coffin. This way the cemetery has a fairly constant source of income.In some states, a cemetery has to set money aside in a trust fund to pay for future maintenance once it's no longer active. They basically ... |
How can Fibinacci do stuff like this? | It has nothing to do with Fibonacci, and there is no missing piece. This is actually a trick. The image is not a triangle! The hypotenuse of the overall triangle is actually slightly concave in the top image, and convex in the bottom image, and that accounts for the apparent extra space. You can easily see this if you ... |
What would happen if every person in the world didn't purchase anything for an entire 24 hours? | Nothing. Think about it, sure we all buy things everyday but sometimes it's only things like coffee or lunch etc most people can all go a day without visiting a store if we had to just think of public holidays where everything closes. Of course this depends on knowing when this would occur. Think of it as a world publi... |
Did Exodus happen? Were Jews actually Egyptian slaves or is total bullshit? | Currently, archeological work in the Sinai Peninsula was unable to find any evidence of the Exodus, they also failed to find records of the Israelites' bondage in Egyptian records. Currently, the theory is that Israelites were Canaanites who originated in the hill regions of Northern Canaan . These people later spread ... |
Can you slowly descend from space (maybe use of a jetpack?) and not burn up in the atmosphere on re-entry? | If you're not orbiting to begin with, there's no heat upon re-entry. Those private space trips being developed by VirginGalactic et al never achieve orbital speed of 17,000 MPH, so they just go up and come back down. It's the deceleration from *orbital speed* that causes the serious heat. > say he had enough fuel to re... |
In boxing what is the difference between a "punch" and a "power punch" | A "punch" is a blow delivered primarily solely by the strength of the arm. A "power punch" involves the twisting of the torso to import greater momentum. |
when one has a cold, how does snot keep regenerating even shortly after blowing one's nose? | You've got eight sinuses connected by nasal passages, spread out over the whole top half of your face, and they can all produce and store snot. So, after you've blown your nose, more snot just runs down from another sinus, and you have to blow your nose again almost immediately. Repeat until you've cleared all four pai... |
Why does it seem flies can get in through the smallest of holes, but can't even leave out of the door? | Their short term memories are complete shit so they actually don't know how they got somewhere they just instinctively look for a place to eat, shit, or breed which may very well be your house or car.\r\rBasically, when a fly comes into your house it is instinctively entering because it found a space to explore. It'll ... |
Why don’t cars use one large cylinder versus a V6/V8/V12 for additional horse power? | There is an optimal size for a cylinder at a specific RPM, you'll notice most cars don't have cylinders much over 0.6L, and most are around 0.5L. A huge cylinder would have a lot of issue. It would have very low RPMs so it would be very rough. It would have a huge volume and likely not completely combust the fuel in th... |
Someone explain the "Crazy Card Trick" website and how they know my freakin' card?! | First time I 've seen this, the cards that they show at the end when they say thery 've removed your card are all different from the ones before where you "mentally pick" one of the cards. They remove all the cards so your card will always be taken awayNone of the 5 cards shown at the end are the same as the original 6... |
What did Justinian's code do for the Byzantine Empire? | Not an expert, but here goes nothing: The Byzantine Empire inherited like a millenium of laws from the Roman Empire/Republic/Monarchy. The sheer volume of all this, plus the fact that a lot of it was contradictory, plus the fact that a lot of it was obsolete, made it confusing and difficult to use for governance. Justi... |
How and why does constantly licking your lips make them get dry and cracked? What is in saliva that causes this? | Water dries out your skin by removing the natural oils your body produces to keep it lubricated. Your saliva is mostly water so if you repeatedly lick your lips over a period of time then you'll end up dying them out. Same reason why you put lotion on after take a shower. |
Why doesn't my dog pay attention to tv? | Probably just doesn't interest it. I know dogs who love watching TV, particularly Animal Planet. And who bark at other dogs on the TV.If you could lick your own balls, how much TV would you watch?', "I always heard that they can't see any images on the screen, but the anecdotal evidence doesn't agree. We had a puppy th... |
is there any reprucussions to eating only the complimentary chips and salsa and leaving? | It certainly wouldn't be illegal, but it's pretty obnoxious. It's not like they can prevent you from leaving without ordering anything, but if you made a habit of it and the restaurant got wise, I would say they would be right to ban you. At the very least I would leave a tip for the waitstaff who brought you the chips... |
the differences between all of the Judeo Christian faiths/religions/sects. | Judaism is the oldest form of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic religion. The Jewish people follow the Torah, and they believe they are God's chosen people. They believe that, one day, a messiah will come, bring peace, and lead them back to their holy land. Their holy book teaches them how to eat, act, clean, behave, etc., t... |
Why does extreme cold make objects more brittle? | Heat is energy, and energy dictates how far and how quickly molecules in an object are moving. The colder an object is, the closer to stationary those molecules become. When molecules don't move as much, they are less capable of recovering when pushed around. Think of it as a more extreme example of water vs ice. You c... |
Why are people left dangling from the chopper during an emergency airlift? | Depends on the helicopter. Some helos arent equipped with a hoist, or the helo with a hoist isnt available. Also, a helo with a hoist requires an attendant which adds the the overral weight. For minimal weight, a helo with one pilot and an attendant on a cable can be used, a pre-deployed cable can also be used for vert... |
Why Non-Consumer Facing Companies Advertise At Sporting Events | Business to Business Marketing is still an effective way to build or reinforce brand awareness. Think of fi this way - IBM sponsors golf tournaments not to make you as a consumer think of them one way or another - but to make it seem to their actual customers that they are a substantial player. They get to put the pres... |
Before phones were popularized, how were the police informed of a crime taking place? | Walking to the sherrif's office/police station and letting them know. Some areas also had police call boxes in high traffic areas like parks that would connect you with emergency services, in America at least you can still occasionally see call boxes around although I've seen more fire call boxes than police. For the m... |
what is machine learning and how will it affect us in the near future? | We borrowed the principle of how we improve our domesticated animals through artificial selection, and applied it to the digital world. Say, you want a computer to play Pac-Man. You show it four directions, A, B, C, and D, and you want it to give you a direction it thinks it should travel at. So you create a random alg... |
Why is it that, on electric fans and other appliances, the order of the settings is OFF, HI, MED, LO? | The motors need a lot of power to start from a stop position. Low power sometimes isn't enough power so the best choice is putting it on high as the first step. |
How can the camera wobble whilst reniaining focus? | The video is actually using two cameras next to each other, and blending the photos in editing.Can't you tell by the look in their eyes? ;O |
Why do people always do the opposite of what you ask them to? | Confirmation bias. You only remember the times people mess up simple instructions, and you do a lot of requests so they mess up a lotWhen you say something to any person, they are hearing the words you use and comparing that with what they EXPECTED you to say. And which one wins depends on a lot of factors. If they are... |
Why do cold sores sting? | Herpes actually infects the nerves themselves, so it's a combination of direct stimulation of the pain nerves and stimulation by swelling. |
How have demagogues risen to power in formerly functional States? Why have citizens given them power? | Fear and stress leads to a narrowing of altruistic behaviour. When this happens it leads to increases in racism and nationalism which pit the majority against everyone else.This is when autocratic demagogues shine, playing on patriotism, protectionism, get enough support to get elected or otherwise gain power and forme... |
If people hear their own voices differently, then how do impersonators know when they're doing a good job? | I mean it sounds different, but not hugely. Especially when youre doing a voice thats not your normal one, its pretty easy to tell if you're doing a good job. That, and you can just record yourself and play it back |
Why does chewing aluminum foil cause a shocking sensation where dental fillings are present? | You're creating a rudimentary battery inside your mouth. The fillings are one metal, the foil is another type of metal, and your saliva acts as an electrolyte. Ions move from one metal electrode to the next and this is an electric current."Galvanic shock." Had a dentist murmur that to me when he went scraping around a ... |
Why does a diabetic attack from hyperglycemia cause the breath to smell like acetone (nail polish remover) | Insulin is a signal to body tissues that glucose is available for burning or storage. A person with type I diabetes, has lost the ability to produce their own insulin. As a result, their body gets no signal that glucose is available for use. This causes two problems: 1. glucose builds up in the blood to toxic levels. 2... |
Why is there a house advantage in Blackjack? | In blackjack you have to go before the dealer, so in situations where both of you would go bust, the dealer wins. This increases their odds. I'm not sure about any other advantage that the dealer has.Because you must act first. If you bust, the house wins, no matter whether their hand actually beats yours.Its an approx... |
Why does the same temperature feel different on different things? | You body can't feel temperature directly. What you feel is the rate of heat transfer. Air has a very low heat capacity, and heat transfers to air fairly slowly . Water, on the other hand, has a very high heat capacity , and conducts heat pretty well. So when you place you hand in 70-degree air, heat from your hand slow... |
why are the youtube search results so different on my phone v. my computer? | The difference is the available content. Certain videos with copyrighted material aren't available on the mobile Youtube app. It's up to the individual copyright holders to decide whether they want their content to be available on mobile devices. As for why they wouldn't allow it, beats me. You'd have to ask the copyri... |
Why can't all the residents of Flint, MI just have their water shut off so they don't have to pay the bills? | I don't know about Flint specifically, but not having working utilities can be enough to make the house legally unfit for habitation, and you can be forced out of the house until the utilities are working again. |
Why do people with loads of money still attempt to earn more money? If you have millions in the bank isn't that more than enough? | Generally I would say that people who are millionaires tend to have a high performance drive. They desire to always perform better. This is what made them wealthy in the first place, and this is what makes them desire ever more wealth. You can always do better. Furthermore, once you reach the level of being a millionai... |
What does the BAR in slot machines stands for? | The BAR symbol now common in slot machines was derived from an early logo of the Bell-Fruit Gum Company. The payment of food prizes was a commonly used technique to avoid laws against gambling in a number of states, and for this reason a number of gumball and other vending machines were regarded with mistrust by the co... |
Does having a sedentary lifestyle affect your height? | Wolff's Law says that bones grow in accordance with the amount of stress or exertion placed on them more activity = more bone stress = healthier growth. I don't know if this directly affects bone length but could be a contributor? Probably also some metabolic and subsequent hormone issues at play as well. |
Energy Drinks - The pros and cons | The biggest downside I see is that's it's easy to establish a dependency on them. This can end up hurting you physically, physiologically, and financially. Some energy drinks taste pretty good so people may drink them with a meal or when they are thirsty instead of water, milk, juice, etc. It's also most common for the... |
Why is it physically painful to be woken up suddenly? | It isn't, I think seeing a doctor would be in order.Sounds like you might suffer from an ailment. From my personal experience, it sounds similar to sleep apnea. It is a condition where you have problems breathing while laying down. It can interrupt sleep cycles and cause pain and trauma upon awakening. |
Why are people against the activation of telomerase in human cells? | Normally cells are supposed to die after they replicate a certain number of times. Telomerase allows those cells to avoid that type of death. When a cell doesn't respond to signals to die and keeps growing out of control, we call it cancer. So activation of telomerase is an indicator that the cell is cancerous. |
what would happen if everyone all just decided to stop paying their bills? | The total collapse society. Companies that provide services that are billed for would stop receiving revenue. Yes, they could sue to get their money, and they'd win, but it would take long enough that if *everyone* did it, every power company, ISP, natural gas company, etc. would go out of business. So now the world ha... |
What (if any) are the benefits of having grass or moss growing in soil on your roof. | There are a lot. They're energy efficient. They're plants, so they improve air quality. And depending on the construction, they'll likely last longer than a conventional roof. Now, that makes them sound great, so why don't we see them everywhere? There are cons too. The construction is expensive. Leaks and water damage... |
Why does wine need to be stored on it's side? | Only wine where the bottle is closed off with actual cork needs to be stored on its side. The reason is that the cork otherwise dries out and won't seal correctly any more which will make the wine go bad. Modern bottles that are closed off with a screw cap or synthetic cork do not require being stored on their sides. |
What does it mean in a book, like the book of James Audubon's paintings, when it calls the drawings plates? | Audubon painted the birds and then had the paintings engraved onto copper plates so that they could be reproduced. _URL_0_ |
Why does only half of your body become paralyzed after a stroke? | A stroke is when blood flow in a part of the brain is cut off. As one side of our brains mostly controls one side of our body, damage in one area will tend to only impact motor skills for one half. |
Why do people often wander around when they're talking with someone over the phone? | This is type of hypnosis. When we are in a phone call much of our attention is diverted to the person we are talking to. When this happening, our body involuntarily wanders. A good example is something I see from an AskReddit post a few weeks ago. Basically, get in a full fledged conversation with someone, and while th... |
Why are we normally either left handed or right handed and not ambidextrous? | Anecdotal, but teachers weed out the ambidextrous. I had a friend who could write with both hands, but the his elementary teacher insisted that he use one hand or the other. Every-time he would switch hands his teacher would yell at himI find anecdotally that many of the people I know who are left handed have more ambi... |
Why does my 8 years old son shows much more affection, love and tenderness when he is about to sleep? | When he's been sent to bed he's trying to forestall the inevitable by using delaying tactics. He knows you respond positively to his display of affection. Waking up, he's greeting you the way he's seen you greet your wife when you first wake up. He's copying your behavior. |
How can someone (such as a comedian/movie star/musician/etc.) admit on that they use illegal substances without getting in trouble? | The same reason Arnold Schwarzenegger has not been arrested for the thousands of people that he's murdered in cold blood, despite the fact that we have hundreds of hours of proof on HD video of him committing those crimes.No, it's not an admission of guilt, because they could be lying, and there is zero proof other the... |
Morning sickness related to pregnancy. | next to a few uncommon reasons such as hormones relaxing your stomach and that causing your stomach to produce too much stomach acid , an increase in salivation that tastes bitter and get ingested during your sleep, which can cause nausea, and low blood sugar caused by the placenta taking up lots of energy, morning sic... |
Why isn't their a standardized test to make sure a presidential candidate is knowledgeable enough to hold office? | > secret committee of 20-40 Because then control of this committee is implicit control over access to the presidency, and since it's secret, that would make it very corruptible once someone learned who was on it .Because this is what conventions and debates are for. Formal written exams are highly artificial and genera... |
How do companies like Comcast and AT & T get around the anti-monopoly/antitrust Sherman Act (USA) of 1914? | It is not illegal to have a monopoly. What is illegal is to use your monopoly in certain specific ways to stifle competition. So long as Comcast and AT & T don't do that, they do not violate the anti-trust act.comcast/att are not monopolies. they have competition. and due to the nature of their services, having more co... |
In the US, what purpose do highway weigh stations serve? Do all tractor trailer trucks have to stop at them? | They are there to ensure that trucks are loaded properly and that safety regulations are met. They make sure the driver hasn't been awake and driving for 15 hours straight. They make sure that his trailer is safe to be on the road and that the axles can handle the load it is carrying. A severely overloaded truck is a v... |
- Why does time seem to go quicker when your having fun? | It's the other way around. You perceive yourself as having more fun when you are doing things quickly. Seriously - they did a study. _URL_0_ |
How is instinct transmitted? | > Just wanting to know if there is any scientific answer at the moment. wouldn't AskScience be a better place to ask this, then? :/ sorry, offtopic but I get the impression people have started using ELI5 as if it were AskScience |
What does it mean to "build", "package", and "deploy" software? | Building is compiling all of the software. The build process usually builds the main program/s as well as its libraries. Compiling takes computer code and translates it into machine code. Compilation is always targeted toward specific "architectures" usually 32-bit or 64-bit, depending on what machines you intend to us... |
I just learned the "right-hand rule" for magnetic force. Why is that the way it works, rather than, say, the "left-hand rule." | It's a convention. The equations would be the same, with a negative sign thrown in in a few places, if we used the opposite convention. Mathematically, it's what we call a choice of orientation.the "why" of fundamental forces is far beyond even most BS degrees. the reason current in a wire causes magnetic fields at all... |
why does your stomach feel like it is knotting up when you are under emotional stress | I think when you are stressed, the body is designed to get rid of everything in your stomach, by vomiting. You're being hunted, no time to digest, the weight is just slowing you down! Or, you're poisoned, get rid of what you just ate, it's bad for you! |
the Progressive party and their ideals, if you'd be so kind | Which progressive party? There are quite many. Progressivism in general seeks to change society through common/government action. It is in this sense the opposite of conservativism, which seeks to maintain society as is or revert to what it once was. As with everything in politics, these terms can rarely be taken at fa... |
How do Apple retailers sell their products at the same price as the Apple site? | Because the markup that Apple make on all of their products is 'huge'. They can easily pay the operating fees of their shops, pay all their staff, etc and still make a profit as the margin on each item is so high. As for the web site, do not underestimate the logistics that sit behind it. Whilst they dont carry the cos... |
If black is the absence of color, and white is every color put together, how are the two combined to make gray? | I once had a red and white pinstriped shirt. At a distance it looked pink, but within an arm's length it was obviously red and white. Similarly, gray is a mixture of black and white pigments. If you take a gray object and magnify a tiny bit of its surface, at some magnification you will note that its surface has many t... |
How does a CPU do 'math'? | I'll just leave this here. _URL_0_ It's too late for me to write a further explanation. |
Who is the "Bad guy" with Time Warner cutting CBS. | I'm not sure there necessarily is a "bad guy". This sort of negotiation happens a lot, and usually both sides play to fault to some extent. What's going on, is contract negotiations. They need to reach some middle ground of how much one wants to pay the other/how much one wants to get from the other. When neither side ... |
Why do bananas have fruits but don't have seeds? | [Bananas do have seeds]. However, we don't eat these kind of bananas. The bananas we eat are sterile, thus, don't have seeds. |
why governments keep making cuts and why they cant just pay for teachers and the NHS etc | The government - whatever the country - has three ways to get money. Taxes, but tax rises are generally unpopular. Selling natural resources, but many countries either don't have natural resources or have let private businesses control them. And borrowing. But in recent years many voters in some countries, including th... |
What's the difference between the different type of glasses for alcoholic drinks? | White wine glasses are designed with long stems so you hold them by the stem in order not to transfer body heat into the wine Red wine glasses have a wide mouth so your nose will fit in it when you take a drink so you can smell it, they area also bowl shaped so you can swirl it which helps oxidize the wine Beer glasses... |
Why human babies take so long to learn how to walk compared to other animal babies. | Human babies take a long time to develop because they are born less mature than other animals. Why is this? Humans have one major advantages over other animals: Advanced tool use. This requires a big brain and free hands to manipulate things. Walking upright gives us the hands free, and narrower hips help to walk uprig... |
What does "It is a violation of Federal Law to use this product in a manner inconsistent with its labeling" typically mean exactly? | Toilet bowl cleaner, like most disinfectants, is going to be classified as a "pesticide" by the EPA. The EPA has a specific rule called the "Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act" that generates the specific wording in question. That law also puts a fair amount of work on the shoulders of the manufacture ... |
Why do some words have silent letters(knight, knitting, pterodactyl)? | It has to do with our lovely mutt of a language. English has been influenced over the years by German , French/Norman , Latin, and Norse. If you compare old English with middle and modern, you'll see how incredibly different they are over time, of necessity taking on random weirdness that doesn't make much logical sens... |
If your insured deposit in the bank only covers $250,000. Where do rich people keep their money? | They spread it out among different banks, foreign banks, and financial assets . A lot of the time, when you hear "X person is worth $25 million," it doesn't mean they have $25 million in cash. That number is their equity: Assets minus liabilities . |
Why are cereals in the US fortified with B12 when our country consumes so much meat? | I don't know for sure what the particular reason is. Many foods are supplemented with B12. I guess one possible speculative reason might be that it's known that a significant portion of the population is vegetarian, but most vegetarians do not carefully choose their diet according to needs such as B12. While it's not p... |
Why is it when a program is "frozen" and you click the exit button nothing happens, but when task manager is used, it immediately closes? | The exit button in the program sends the program an instruction; if it's hung it may not receive that instruction. The task manager cuts it off from 'outside'. To use an analogy, you've got a drunk guy at the bar who's getting really smashed. Clicking 'exit' tells Jimbo to stop drinkin', which he might or might not eve... |
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