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How does South Africa have - at least in law - such strong LGBT rights? (compared to the rest of Africa) | In the post-apartheid era, all forms of discrimination is against the law. The constitution that was written in the new Democratic era has a bill of rights that says “everyone is equal before the law and has right to equal protection and the benefit of the law. Prohibited grounds of discrimination include race, gender,... |
Question about the Godfather (spoiler). | It was purely for vengeance. Plus if he didn't take care of Carlo Michael would look weak. No one would respect someone who let's their sister get smacked around. |
What are the Mayday Protests? | May Day is a traditional workers/union/socialist holiday. Socialism and capitalism are philosophies generally seen as being at odds with each other. The whole "Occupy Wall Street" movement is anti-capitalism . May Day is a good time for people that are supporters of the OWS agenda to have pro-people/anti-business prote... |
Why do consumer prices not go down (groceries, products, etc), when gas prices go down, but always go up when gas prices go up? | It is probably just that you notice the increase in price more than the reduction. Taking milk as an example the bureau of labor and statistics data shows that price drops in gas are reflected in the price of milk. You can compare historic prices for a variety of products here: _URL_0_ |
When did wall-to-wall carpet gain popularity and why are carpets so popular in some countries (At least, here in the UK they are very popular)? | My source for this is [this excellent post], which I remembered seeing in /r/AskHistorians . Carpeted homes were associated with luxury, in addition to its built in benefits of being warmer and more comfortable. Innovations in the middle of the 20th century allowed for mass produced carpets instead of relying on expens... |
If VR gaming requires strong hardware to run, then how is it possible for Xbox One to support VR? | It's not that it suddenly turns off and can't be turned back on if the hardware isn't good enough. You just don't get the polygon count or frame rate you would have liked if your hardware isn't good enough. Expect VR games on the xbone to have lower polygon counts and less visual effects than the same game if it comes ... |
How to work out properly? | /r/fitness has a really great [getting started] post that will answer most of the basic questions. Most of gaining or loses in weight involves diet. They say 80% is diet, and 20% actually working out. Best of luck on your new health choices. |
This microwave engine that is not theoretically possible...but has now passed some sort of test in Germany. | Several teams have developed different approaches to explain why they think cavities full of bouncing microwaves could produce thrust. Robert Shawyer, inventor of the EM drive, explains it with a mixed bag of theories and concepts, some applied incorrectly and some that haven't actually been integrated with each other ... |
Why is Canada's population almost 10 times less than that of the U.S. despite being neighbours, similar culture, and size? | Their climate plays a huge role. If you look at a map 90% of their population is based/living within 100 miles of the US border. the rest of the country is livable, but will take a lot of work. the Winters can get extremely cold. -30F so the people do not live up there. Since the limited space the population is much sm... |
Why did Asian languages develop to be more tonal rather than say be like Romance languages? | I read somewhere a long time ago that it had something to do with how humid the air was which allowed for tonal languages to be more possible |
Why do people with cancer feel better shortly before passing away? | Much of the discomfort of an illness comes from the efforts of the body to combat the condition. For example if you have a cold the fever, the cough, the mucus and inflamed respiratory tract are all due to the body trying to kill the cold virus. If the body wasn't fighting the virus it wouldn't be very unpleasant at al... |
The forces/vectors acting on the ocean that results in waves | As the moon orbits the earth, it's gravity pulls on the oceans creating a tidal bulge. The areas closest to the moon are pulled more than those father away. This is what creates high and low tides. Smaller, individual waves happen instead of one giant wave because the water is broken up by wind and other factors causin... |
Why are bees always out stumbling around like they are drunk this time of year? | Some days are warm and some are cold. They are coming out to see if it's too cold to get any work done. In a few weeks they will be settled down into a more calm dormant phase of the year. |
Why do humans need to be taught about things (such as sex) that other, dumber animals instinctually know about? | They don't. Humans don't need to be taught about sex in order to have sex. They need to be taught about sex in order to have sex *responsibly*. . Do you have another example?", 'My sex ed class covered every way possible NOT to get pregnant. Guess the adults in charge back then had more faith in biology and teenage lus... |
On Shark Tank, why are "Mr. Wonderful's" non-equity deals laughed at by the other sharks? | An equity investment shares in the costs of the venture. A royalty is taken off the top. Growing businesses are usually capital constrained , so removing an innocuous sounding but rather substantial amount of the net margin from gross margin, sucks away a substantial portion of income that could otherwise be invested i... |
Why can we only see the dust particles in the air under sunlight, but not under any other kind of light? | You can most certainly see dust particles under other lights. It's just that the amount of light shining through a window is significantly more than can be generated by most other kinds of lights in relation to the ambient light, so it is more obvious. Take a dusty pillow into a dark room, shine a flashlight and then h... |
Why do we have a more painful reaction to extreme heat, than extreme cold, or the absence of heat. | You're comparing kind of cold to really fucking hot. Grab dry ice and you'll immediately damage your finger just like touching a stove. An open flame used in household stoves is around 800° to put your question into perspective, a more even comparison would be -20° and boiling water their closer to even ends of the sca... |
why do my eyes tear up when I take a poop? | You are simply suffering from your loss, I understand bro, I understand "Bearing down" stimulates your vagus nerve and the parasympathetic nervous system. which causes tearing up, snotting and lower heart rate among other things. This is why people with heart conditions are often found dead on the toilet.I'm also tossi... |
Why are people against voter id in America? | The issue isn't that being able to identify voters is bad, it's that historically, the method of providing voter ID has been discriminatory. That is to say, rather than some method with easy access to everyone, it tends to a form of ID that the poor, minorities, or other groups have a barrier to receiving. This can be ... |
What would happen if I were to inject saliva into one of my veins? | It's a natural body substance, so it wouldn't damage you by itself. However, it might not be sterile, so it could be carrying a lot of nasty germs in it, and they might give you a life threatening blood infection. So best not to try this. You might end up in the hospital or dead. |
Why do strobe lights make the world seem like it's in slow motion? | It basically cuts your vision into many short lived, rapid "frames", similar to an old camera, only at a slower frame rate. You only get to see quick flashes around you, so you only see a portion of what you normally would. It appears slower because your brain has only a fraction of a second to process this information... |
What rules govern the way phone numbers are created? | You want to read up on the North American Numbering Plan, NANP. _URL_0_ Area codes can't start with 0 or 1. The exchange also can't start with 0 or 1, and if the second digit is a 1, the third digit can't also be a 1. And a few more rules like that also. |
What is the origin and purpose of literary third person ("our" or "we" instead of "my" or "me") in older writings? | Well, when it's used by a monarch or, sometimes, an important religious figure , it's the "pluralis majestatis". It apparently started with popes, actually. Its first use in English was in the 12th century, when King Henry II, during a difficult conversation about a power struggle between the Catholic Church and the mo... |
How did my plain ice tray produce an spiked water ice cube? | [Ice spikes] are pretty cool! They happen because water expands when it freezes. When ice cubes are forming in your freezer, they freeze from the outside in, and occasionally the outside will all freeze except for one small hole. As more of the water turns to ice, it's pushed up and out of the hole, and as it in turn f... |
Why do some people who do things really well think they do it badly and vice versa? | It's the [Dunning-Kruger effect.] It's a cognitive bias leading people who are unskilled not to realize that they lack skill. |
Why don't nocturnal animals feast on sleeping animals instead of hunting for other nocturnals? | They certainly will if they happen to find a sleeping animal, but when finding a place to sleep, animals tend to find cozy hiding places, so they're far from the ideal bait, because they have to be actively searched for. Other nocturnal animals, on the other hand, are actively moving around and giving themselves away, ... |
How exactly do these ''ddos squads'' take down big companies websites and servers with ease ? | Imagine the company server as your brain. You are sitting in a room full of people and every person is asking you questions but they don't finish the sentence, your brain is still waiting for them to end their sentences after a few minutes your memory gets exhausted and you are not able to concentrate anymore, your bra... |
why is anything with sugar in it sticky? Let's say I spill pop/soda on my hand why then does my hand get sticky? | I believe it is not necessarily the sugar itself that is sticky, take for example, granulated sugar. It's basically the same consistency as salt, until you add liquid, once that liquid gets added, it seems to create a bond with the liquid that is slightly elastic and that's where the stickiness comes from. Just based o... |
Why are coconut water cans so thick? | Because they're not carbonated. Cans that are internally pressurized can be made thinner, because the pressure prevents dents. But non-carbonated beverages require thicker cans. |
What would a vote in favor of Scottish independence matter in terms of the United States? | The UK is a very close US ally, typically siding with the US instead of Europe. Part of the reason Scotland wants independence is they feel they have more in common with the social democracies of Europe than with the UK. So an independent Scotland would probably have a closer relationship with Europe than with the US, ... |
How is the helium escaping from the volcano in Yellow Stone enough reason to believe it can erupt? | In reality theres no sure fire way of knowing its going to erupt soon until, you know, it erupts. The thing could be completely inactive for all we know. Also, dont worry, because its completely out of your controlAlmost ALL helium on Earth came from a single source: radioactive decay of mostly heavier element like ura... |
How is the "global" debt 57trillion? Which planet do we owe? | You're only looking at one side of the balance sheet. Global *net* debt is, of course, zero. |
Why are exoskeletons on small creatures and not large ones like elephants? | It has to do with breathing. Arthropods breath through spiricles or book lungs. They don't actually breath, air diffuses into these tubes. This limits their size. Structure function. Love that bio/zoo! |
What is a golf handicap? | Par might be 72, meaning it should take about 72 strokes to finish all 18 holes. I always shoot around a 92. My handicap is 20. My dad always shoots about a 77. His handicap is 5. If we want to play together, especially if we want to bet, why would I bet? He's gonna kick my ass. So instead, we bet that I can close that... |
What causes the warp effect? | Any image that you see at any instant is not only made up of the light coming into your eye at that instant, it's actually made up of all the light that came into your eye within the last 60th of a second . If you are looking at an ball that is not moving, and you are also not moving, then all the light that comes into... |
If for-profit companies cannot use unpaid volunteers, how does Reddit rely on unpaid moderators? | The difference is that we don't take instruction from the admins. A better way to think of us are people who set up groups of facebook. Sure we can ban people from the facebook groups and set up rules, but we're not volunteers for reddit. |
Why does urine come out yellow and not green or blue? | Only certain specific foods and some medications change the colour of your urine to a colour other than yellow. When you drink a blue drink for example, most of the time your urine won’t become blue because the molecule that makes the drink blue doesn’t pass through into your urine. Beets contain a pigment called betan... |
Why do I have ginger beard hair? | In short, genetics. You're a carrier for the recessive gene that's responsible for red hair. Red heads have two copies of it – you only have one. This is why so many men have red beards but far fewer have red hair.Red hair genes lurking. You might have a grandkid with red hair. It skipped a generation in my family, but... |
Why do most animals look alike (among their species) but humans are so different from one another - in facial features, color, body size etc.? | if you think people look different, please watch game of thrones with me and remind me who is who. goddamn crackers all look alike. or if you're asian, please watch the Raid with me and do the same thing. |
Why don't we just stay in daylight saving time rather than changing clocks twice a year? | I believe this biggest concern is safety. If we did not change the time going into winter season, kids would be going to school in complete darkness. In Toronto, ON, without the time shift, sunrise would occur at 8:50pm on Jan 13, 2014. I believe the main concern would be safety of people travelling to work/school etc ... |
How are dictionary editors capable of compiling EVERY word and defining each one? | There's a really cool book about this called [The Professor and the Madman]. Short answer: The very first dictionaries didn't try to have *all* the words, just the ones that were hard to spell or made you look smart. Later on, most dictionaries would also include a bunch of basic words they thought everyone should unde... |
What happens to underground creatures when it rains? | Some of them actually close the entrances when it rains. But mostly it's a much smaller problem than you imagine - the water is simply soaked up by the soil. A *seriously massive* downpour can add up to 10cm of rain in a short time. For most kinds of soil, that amount is easily soaked up by 1m of soil. And most animals... |
Why do we make children go to bed at a certain time rather than letting their bodies natural progression put them to sleep? | In my experience as a mom, it takes about two minutes for the kid to skip past the natural falling asleep phase, and then they are into a manic stay up half the night routine. That means they don't wake up in the morning on time for going to school or me getting to work on time. So, an appointed bedtime ensures everybo... |
How can our brain store so much information and not reach a point where it can’t store anything else? | Human brain is estimated to have more than 100 billion nerve cells called neurons, which is about the number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Each neuron is connected to other neurons by up to 40 000 individual connections called synapses. So from the beginning there is a huge amount of information it can store. Then ... |
How does the lamp on my charger change from red too green when it is finished charging? | The red Light turns off and a green light turns onBi colored LEDs typically have three wires. Two are positive and one is a ground. Put voltage to one of the positives and the red part lights up, and the other wire is green. The circuitry monitoring the charge can switch which wire it powers. |
How can someone be, for example, 10% Eastern European, rather than 12.5%? | Few people are "Full english", or "half" something. You get 50% of your DNA from each parent, 25% from each grandparent, 12.5% from each great grandparent, 6.25% from each 2x great grandparent, 3.125% from each 3x great grandparent, about 1.5625 from each 4x great grandparent, and maybe .78% from each 5x great grandpar... |
Why I can get consistently better speeds through VPN than without | It may be a matter of throttling; your ISP by default places a limit on specific traffic that goes through those pipes of yours but what your VPN does is to encrypt it so that it cannot be identified by your ISP to hence be shaped. This occurs most often with torrents, but users also report it happening for video strea... |
How can my laptop still tell me it's out battery, if it's out of battery? How many times would it have to tell me until it's 100% out of battery? | When your laptop says it's out of battery it's not actually out of battery. When a lithium-ion battery reaches 0% it will no longer be able to hold a charge and will need to be replaced. To combat this anything that uses a lithium-ion battery will under report it's power level. So when your laptop says it's at 0% it's ... |
If measles was considered eliminated at one point, how did it come back? | Short version herd immunity kept it at bay. Then the anti vacs made a bunch of people loose that immunity. The disease was able to find a carrier then spreadSome ignorant parents have neglected to vaccinate their children to avoid them becoming autistic . Now that doubt and fear has been created amongst the exceedingly... |
How does Thyroid Malfunction make a person fat? | > How does Thyroid Malfunction make a person fat? The thyroid produces hormones which regulate the body's metabolism. Our metabolism is the rate at which we burn our fuel, our food, in order to power the processes of our body. You can think of it as the fuel pump in an engine, if the metabolism is high then more fuel t... |
what Anthroposophy exactly is, and how it ties in with homeopathy. | > "Anthroposophy, a philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner, postulates the existence of an objective, intellectually comprehensible spiritual world accessible to direct experience through inner development." - _URL_0_ From a cursory look it appears to be tied in with homeopathy in the sense that they are both sources of ... |
Why do so many huge companies continue to use very old computers and software when it seems the benefits a system-wide update would outweigh the associated costs? | The biggest factor is risk. Many large corporates *hate* risk. Even if there'd be a benefit of doing something, there's a very small risk that it might go wrong, and the consequences of it going wrong could be major. This risk will be enough to stop that change from happening. Another big factor is that corporates are ... |
Can someone hallucinate a sound that could not be produced in the real world? | This could also be a philosophy question: Is a hallucinated sound a sound at all? My ELI5 answer would be if a sound is the wiggling of the air smacking into our ears, a physical thing in the real world, then, no. You can't hallucinate real things into existing in the real world If a sound is a neurological phenomenon ... |
In cryostasis, wouldn't your cells and vessels burst because the water turning to ice would expand? | Yes, which is why it isn't very feasible for humans and other mammals. However, various "cryogenic" companies actually drain all of the blood from a customer's body and replace it with an anti-freeze like substitute to reduce damage from freezing. They also rapidly chill the body to minimize the formation of large ice ... |
Can the penis get fat? Why does the penis never increase in size when you get fat like the rest of your body? | Almost all of your penis is spongey organs that fill up with blood and really don't get fat. I'm sure the skin around it collects fat, but there's not much of it in relation to the entire dick.Girth doesnt change with weight, length does. As the pelvic area gets more padding the length decreases. |
How is the freedom status of a country rated? | According to _URL_1_, there are four areas that the freedom index looks at in order to assign a number: Rule of law,Government size,Regulatory efficiency,Market openness. For each of these areas, they look at criteria, and choose a rating based on descriptions that have been created before. For government size and effi... |
Why cant we breed peaches / nectarenes without seeds ? | There are a few types of seedless fruit: *Hybrids* like seedless watermelons that fail to develop seeds only when two strains are cross-bred. They must be re-bred for every generation. *Mutants* like bananas, that have a genetic malformation that prevents seed formation. These cannot reproduce at all and must be cloned... |
Why do most little dogs seem to need attention while big dogs don't? | It's not really just little dogs, but poorely trained dogs. People are much more likely to pickup and coddle small dogs which instills that need for attention into dogs. You can get the same thing with big dogs if you spoil them as well.Mmm.. my German shepherd is a huge attention whore. Has to be front and center at a... |
How does an "Instagram Model" make money? | I think they get sponsors and then hawk their crap to their followers. Ex: just finished working out with my new Toxi Tea Extract pills by FU labs. It feels like I converted 5 pounds of fat into muscle already!!! Gotta try these!!!People with large social media followings are often paid as part of "influencer marketing... |
What is the design difference between a football and athletics stadium? | The general consensus is that athletic stadiums put too much of a boundary between the crowd and the players. This is because the running track pushes the supporters further away from the pitch and the players.. It may not seem like much but that distance can often lead to a hollow atmosphere. Another complaint is of t... |
How do network "ports" work, why did I have to use "port forwarding" on old games, and why don't I have to anymore? | A port is just a number that is attached to each packet of data, which the computer uses to say where it's going. When a computer wants to use the network, it registers itself with the network stack and says what port it wants to use. Any time the computer receives data addressed to that port, it sends it to that progr... |
Why are banks still closed on weekends? | More and more banks are open some hours during the weekends. But in the end, the majority of banks don't make their money from consumers. The real money is made from businesses, many of which operate mon-fri. So they are going to structure their business to meet the needs of the ones actually bringing in the money. Whi... |
Why do we feel the urge to destroy stuff when feeling frustrated/angry? | Well, anger is one of the strongest emotions, and one of the emotions that get you into fight & flight mode. This releases a load of hormones, that make you pumped up and ready to fight, whatever that made you angry. A normal way of getting this feeling out, would be breaking stuff, even if its an inanimate object, whi... |
How hard is it to actually shoot someone | It depends on your level of training. For a novice it can be very hard and depend almost completely on luck depending on what kind of gun you are using. To a trained army / police officer, it can still be challenging, but you shouldn't have a hard time hitting a stationary target. Moving targets can be very hard to hit... |
How do people manage to "not let their emotions get to them"? What does it mean? | They feel emotions, but don't let them impact their decisions. For example, if I get angry with you, but don't punch you in the face. It's not about turning off emotions, it's about having self-control. |
Why are the prices of TI calculators so high relative to the 10+ year old hardware? | TI aggressively pursues the educational market so that teachers teach using their calculators, tests are written with their calculators in mind, and textbooks are written for their calculators. Their vendor lock-in lets them overcharge for calculators. Apple is another company that focuses on the education market and d... |
How can someone buy out a company? | You are confusing the *owners* with the *managers.* The company's plan to stop the takeover was formulated by the managers, who wanted to keep running the company. But they are not the owners. The owners are thousands of other people and companies -- anyone who "owns stock in" the company is a part owner of the company... |
When did humans unanimously decide our genitals were inappropriate to show in public? | I am so glad you asked! I can't believe I know the answer to this If you're asking WHEN humans started wearing clothes, it was somewhere between 150,000 and 200,000 years ago. We didn't know this until very recently, because almost all clothing artifacts left by early humans rotted away over the millennia, leaving no t... |
What is the Monster Hunter series, why is it so popular in Japan, and why is it such a big flop in the US? | The monster hunter series is a very time-consuming handheld game that can be played many different ways, and is on the psp. In japan, the psp is vastly more popular than it is in America. Monster hunter is one of the premier games on the psp, so naturally, many people have it. But why is it SO huge? I think it was firs... |
If unhealthy and fast food can make us so unhealthy it can kill, why does our brain allow it? | Evolution programmed us to live in a world of scarce food resources, but most of us don't live in that world anymore. Our biology hasn't caught up to our reality. Thing things that we tend to crave are relatively rare and hard to acquire in the wild, and very concentrated and efficient food sources. So before we learne... |
How does desalination work? Doesn't it leave us with a pile of salt that potentially makes the rest of the available water saltier? | Yeah, you can easily sell the salt. I mean, we use it everyday in most food products You are correct. The extra salty reside is called brine. The brine can be evaporated to produce crystalline salt or it can be pumped back into the ocean while will dilute it. |
Why is one of our hands more dominant than the other? | Yours might be. I have a hand that I prefer to use, rather than a hand that is dominant. I also have the advantage of being able to do most things with both hands. I write with my right, I throw with my left, etc. Im pretty balanced when it comes to using my hands and it's great to throw people off by using the other h... |
Why is it that our memory can remember things that we dont want to remember but it takes a long time for it to remember what we want to remember | Traumas are very important for your development, whether you like it or not. If you 've done something very stupid when you were a teenager, your brain will torment you with that memory to make you think twice before doing it again. Also, for example, if your cat dies your brain will "store" that suffering and again wi... |
Why does music evoke so much emotion? | If there were a simple answer to this question then neuroscience would be so much easier. In the absolute simplest terms I can conger. Its a combination between environmental development and evolutionary bias. To simplify that. We learn to like music, and there are some parts of music that are ingrained in us. A lot of... |
Why wasn't North America as advanced as Eurasia was? | One theory is a lack of domesticatable animals. CGP Grey has an excellent pair of videos about it if you'd like to learn more. I'll link them in just a second EDIT: _URL_0URL_1_ |
Why does a blacklight make light clothing glow? | Blacklights put out a good bit of UV light just above the top of the visible spectrum . Even the frequencies we can see are not very visible because our eyes are not super sensitive to those wavelengths. The pigments in your clothing do what is called *fluorescence*. That is: they absorb one frequency of light and emit... |
Why do cinder blocks have holes in them? | Cost. Making them solid doesn't make them very much stronger but adds significant cost. Also n some construction, rebar is embedded into concrete poured into the stacked blocks to add strength, which would not be possible if they were solid. Being able to add strength only where necessary minimizes cost. |
How is a person's net worth estimated? | Add the estimated value of everything they own . Subtract the estimated value of everything they owe . The result is net worth. How do you get those estimates? Some of them are easy: cash and loans have exact values. For the rest, you'll have to figure out how much they'd sell for. Publicly traded stocks have known pri... |
Why do you have to take antidepressants for life and how is depression an illness? | Depression is hard for me to grasp as an emotion but as a illness it makes a lot of sense. For me it is very easy to act happy or sad but actually feeling anything is pretty rare. Similarly people who have chronic depression have physical problem with their brain that makes them exhibit their symptoms. It has little to... |
How can someone survive with just 1/4 of a liver in the case of a transplant? | Simple answer is that the liver regenerates slowly over time. As long as you don't stress it out you could live a fairly healthy life, while you wait for it to grow back. If you ever did you would only be able to drink water and would have to monitor your diet very carefully. |
How can Bitcoins be stolen if all transactions are stored? | Bitcoins are transfered by digitally signing the transaction. If the hacker knows the private key can sign a transaction and move them to their own private key. The transactions are visible to anyone but are psedonymous. Then hackers use tumblers to mix themAfter obtaining bitcoins, you can obfuscate their origin by se... |
How do gas pumps know when your tank is full and when to stop fueling? | The nozzle is actually 2 hoses, 1 for fuel that's put into the tank, and a second one for returning air/vapors in your car's tank to the gas station's tanks. As fuel fills up your tank, the venturi action of the air up the other hose holds the valve on the nozzle open. When the tank is full, the venturi action stops, a... |
Where did volcanoes as science projects in movies/TV shows originate from? | They are visually impressive and easy to make. You make a science project that has an action part to it, something that will be interesting on camera. Mixing baking soda and vinegar to make an "eruption" makes for a much more interesting science project than showing how food dye gets carried into carnations or other su... |
why would any animal evolve to eat meat when they could just eat plant matter which is both more abundant and easier to hunt for? | Meat is more energy-rich than plant matter. Herbivores have to essentially eat all day while carnivores don't.Imagine a world where every animal eats only plants - all the animals competing with each other for the limited plant resources to survive. Then introduce a single meat eating animal into the mix - that animal ... |
Why does American television show naked babies bottoms, but won't show a grown person's? | one is sexualized, one isnt. Some people will be aroused by feet anyway, its just how it goes. our society has decided baby butts are ok as long as they arent used in a sexual theme. If the watcher wants to find it sexual, thats their business. with that said, you can find plenty of adult butts on tv, I recall NYPD Blu... |
Radio stations in the USA - why are they designated names like KBBL, WBBR, WCPR etc? | Every radio station in the world has a call sign -- an identifier that is unique to that station. In the US, the call sign is part of the public branding of the station. For the most part, stations that start with W are east of the Mississippi River, and the ones that start with K are west of it. |
How do researchers in the humanities analyze the responses from Likert scale questionnaires? | You can associate the individual responses with a score or simply code responses as "positive or negative." Once you have a number attached in some way to responses you can then do things like hypothesis testing . Standard deviation is a measure of how much variability there is in a set of numbers. Specifically, it is ... |
why do girls (generally) have neater and more appealing handwriting than those of boys? | Girls and boys develop their accurate muscle movements at different times. However they are taught how to write at the same time. Boys accurate muscle movement develops later so when they learn to write they can't physically write as neatly or have to work a lot harder in order to do so. |
What is Amazon Prime? | Amazon Prime is a membership program offered by Amazon. For a yearly or monthly fee, you're a member of this program. Membership means you get to view a selection of their streaming videos for free and get free shipping when you purchase products from certain third-party vendors that sell merchandise through Amazon. Pr... |
Why do Americans say 'spit' instead of 'spat'? | \'Spat\' is used in the US both to describe a minor argument , and as the past tense of 'spit\' . I'm not sure what instance you're referring to, or who we're comparing our usage of the word to. Can you provide a sample sentence where you believe we use the word 'spit\' when it should be 'spat\'? |
Why are cold ocean waters more nutrient rich than warm waters? | It's not so much the fact that it's cold that makes it nutrient rich, but the fact that it's sourced from the deep ocean . Marine productivity is concentrated in a fairly shallow surface layer where light is able to penetrate. For most of the ocean, nutrients are the limiting factor so nutrients are effectively complet... |
What's the difference between Sound Editing and Sound Mixing (in regard to movies) | Audio engineer here. **Sound Editing** -- the audio in all movies is divided into three elements: music, dialogue, and sound effects. Typically, in a big-budget Hollywood production, you would have at least one crew assigned to each element. So, one crew is responsible to record/gather/edit all the dialogue, another cr... |
Why is M. Night Shyamalan hated? | If you've watched The Last Airbender cartoons and then TRIED to watch The Last Airbender movie, you wouldnt ask this question.M. Night start out with a lot of promises. The Six Sense, Signs, Unbreakable are great movies. back then, people even called him the "next Spielberg". however, i guess his ego got the best of hi... |
why are so many people on reddit socially awkward? | I think it's a combination of 1) the fact that socially awkward people spend more time on the internet and less with friends in real life and thus post more on reddit and 2) it being a sort of running gag where people will exaggerate or fake their social awkwardness because it is expected of Reddit users. |
If I order a Dominoes pizza online, is that process tracker actually responding to any kind of actual status changes registered or more of just a generic timer that plays out regardless? | I have a friend who works at Dominos, he says the tracker is genuine, they have to sign off when every step is completed. BTW, if you haven't had their pizza with the garlic Parmesan sauce, you haven't been living up to your Dominos potential.It is actually pretty accurate if used correctly. I was a manager for over a ... |
why everyone is scared to be sued by PETA. do they usually get their way in court? | To the extent that people are, it's because even winning a lawsuit is an enormous and expensive pain in the neck. But I'm not aware that people tend to be especially afraid of PETA beyond the fact that PETA has a reputation for being kind of lawsuit happy. |
Why is Cisco Systems, Inc. buying $15B of its stock back? | There are two schools of thought 1. They have nothing better to do with their money, no growth opportunities 2. They think that their stock is a bargain and want to increase their share price.The primary goal of a corporation is to maximize value to shareholders. If you are sitting on a lot of cash and you don't think ... |
Watching the Olympics and the shirts for the Olympic Athlete from Russia team literally say "Olympic Athlete from Russia". Why is this in English and not Russian or Korean? | English is the world's most popular second language. At an international event, you want people from lots of countries to understand your message. |
What happens to an eye lash if you can't get it out of your eye? | Your tear fluid will coat it, and your blinking action will get it out of your eye. It may fall off the eye entirely, or it may be pushed into the nasal sinuses through the tear duct . |
What Stephen Hawking just proposed in Stockholm | Ok so I read something about this. It's like this: pretty much once you are past the event horizon, you can't get out because even light becomes trapped in the black hole. He proposes that there is still a way to retrieve any "information" that is past the event horizon. For a ELI5 example, if you fill a sink full of w... |
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