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Adding -ded onto certain words | This kind of word is often said by children. First children learn words individually. They'll learn \'look\', then they'll learn \'looked\', and treat them like separate words. Then, they learn rules, like adding \'ed\' to the end of a word to make it happen in the past. Often, you'll hear kids "overgeneralize" these r... |
What is the difference between "Drive" and "Overdrive"? | [Drive] and [Bachman Turner Overdrive] are rock bands of the 80's and 90's. BTO was more of a classic/hard rock band and a lot more popular and produced classics like "Taking Care of Business" while Drive wasn't nearly as popular. Drive is American while BTO is Canadian. For the car transmission, Overdrive is regular d... |
What exactly is going on when you feel your stomach drop out, (when on a roller-coaster/airplane in turbulence), and how exactly does your bladder cause pain? | For the example you gave involving coasters and plane turbulence, the feeling comes from brief weightlessness during "free fall." Normally your stomach and intestines are settled in the abdominal cavity from gravity. In the short moments on a roller coaster or in a plane during turbulence when you drop these organs are... |
How can Donald Trump claim bankruptcy when he's one of the richest Americans? | Trump doesn't declare bankruptcy, his corporations do. Corporations are independent "people", so his casinos can declare bankruptcy, while not impacting his real estate corporation etc. etc.a. even very rich people can go bankrupt if they spend more than they have. Especially rich people that have paid for two extremel... |
Why do bad smells linger around and last longer than good ones? Just mildly curious... | Because your brain evaluates smells. Good smells are hints for good things , and stop being important after you found the good thing. Bad smells are an indication of danger , and stay important even after you noticed them - a lingering smell of smoke is an indication that there's fire in the vicinity, after all. EDIT: ... |
why do a lot of non-native speakers of a language tend to speak that language in a higher pitch than their own language? | I'm actually the opposite. When I speak French or Spanish, my vocal pitch is lower than my English speaking voice. I couldn't tell you why with any scientific evidence. But I do have a theory. Confidence is often expressed in vocal pitch. Maybe they are less confident in the foreign language. Or maybe they were less co... |
Could anyone ELI5 what the significance of this headline is: "Greece Deal Triggers $3B in Default Swaps"? | Greece and the rest of the Eurozone brokered a deal that gave some holders of Greek bonds 25 cents on the dollar. It was optional for some, but mandatory for others. Some of those people paid for insurance against default, called a credit default swap. Since it it was mandatory, it is consider a default, and the insure... |
How do spiders spin their webs? | Spiders fascinate me. One of the things they will do when they are young is stick their rears into the air and spin out silk to form a parachute. They then allow the wind to carry them into an area away from their hatching sac and fellow hatchlings. Spiders cannibalize each other, after all. To bridge a gap, spiders ca... |
why would analysts publish buy/sell recommendation for stocks? | First, often they do put their money where their mouth is. These are people who work as internal analysts for investment houses, or people who just publish about their own investments. Second, many analyst recommendations aren't better than a lay opinion. Last, and the answer to your question, is that the thing you are... |
Nail Scissors. What's special about them? Why shouldn't I use other types of scissors? | I only learned last year that lots of other people don't use nail clippers. Scissors are just so wrong for cutting nails.. |
How does a person know where their body parts are located, (nose, mouth, etc.) without looking? Such as eating popcorn without taking eyes off movie. | It's called your proprioception sense, and it's provided primarily by 'stretch' receptors in your muscles that tell your brain how far the muscle is extended. Your brain then knows where your limbs are, and can use that to build a map of where the rest of you is . |
Are people that live in countries where terrible things happened or that lost wars taught the same history as the country that won or do they pretty much ignore the fact? | I live in Germany, and here kids are taught about the history of the World Wars - especially the second - in great detail. The Germans are very, very adamant about drilling the horrors of the Third Reich into the heads of kids, to make sure that it never happens again. There is no sugar-coating, no withholding of infor... |
Why is it that when someone's photo is taken and they look at the camera, it looks like they are staring right at you no matter what angle you see it from? | When you look at a picture from an angle, it just makes the picture look thinner, and nothing else. If you do that with a face staring at you, then it looks like a very thin face that's still staring at you. |
How and why does milk spoil, and why does it taste so awful? | Milk spoils because various bacteria start growing in it, converting milk to bacteria poop. Predictably bacteria poop is often not tasty.When milk goes directly from the mammary gland into the stomach, it is difficult for bacteria that naturally occurs to multiply fast enough to the point where it can make you sick. Bu... |
Why do we have to "play dead" while being viciously under atack by a bear? | Playing dead will work if you’re being attacked by a mother grizzly defending her cubs. At that point, she has no interest in eating you, only getting rid of the perceived threat. It is the wrong thing to do if you’re being attacked by a predatory bear. Especially a black bear. In that case, you're going to want to fig... |
Why does a page that failed to load end up loading as soon as you hit the back button? | The browser is waiting for all the data to finish transferring before it renders it. Hitting back stops the transfer and it renders the page. If you hit the stop button it would have the same effect. |
Why do USB sticks or SD cards fail so easily while built-in flash storage like in smartphones etc. seems to be indestructible? | It's normally not the flash that fails in removable media, it's the connector. If you took those flash chips off of the media and put them onto a different one, all of your data is still present and easily accessible. For your phone, the chips are going to be on a well connected board where the interface isn't going to... |
How do contact lense work? | Contact lenses work exactly the same way that glasses do.Depending on whether you are near or far sighted, they will either bend the light towards or away from your retina.The reason they can be so thin in comparison to glasses is because of the distance between your retina and the lens. The smaller the difference, the... |
Why do people pass out/feel like they're about to, if the suddenly go from very warm water to very cold water or vice versa? | It's because of the mammalian diving reflex. We experience bradycardia and vasoconstriction. Essentially all of our oxygenated blood is shunted to vital areas only. This conserves oxygen allowing us to endure the cold water for a longer period of time for the best possible chance at survival. Unfortunately in non life ... |
In images of the human body, there are veins that appear to branch off of arteries and other veins that appear to just end. Where does the blood go? | If I remember correctly that is where they attach to the muscles to transfer oxygen and haul away waste. |
what happens to posts that make the front page? Do they slowly drop down or just dissappear after a certain amount of time? | When sorting posts by 'hot' time is taken into account when ranking them. To see the posts with the most upvotes independent of time sort by 'top'. To more directly answer your question they slowly drop down as the time factor in the equation of their rankings increases. |
- How did we verify that gravity has a speed? | It was a theory that came out from general relativity. When people started to apply the new theory of general relativity on different mechanics to see if they could find a flaw it was discovered that the observed motions of Mercury were much closer to the calculations if you used the fact that gravity were limited to t... |
Where did the depiction of pirates with an eyepatch, a parrot, and a wooden leg originate from? | I believe the work that popularized this image of a pirate was *Treasure Island*. Long John Silver had a parrot. He had a crutch instead of a wooden leg, since his leg was cut off at the hip. I believe eye patches were mentioned in some capacity, but it's been ages since I read that book. How common these things were i... |
What is "interest rate" in (Macro)economics? | It's reimbursement for the opportunity cost you've incurred by having capital on loan. Not an economist, just a guy.Think of the interest rate as the time value of money. Most of us want our money now, not later, so if we loan it out, we expect to get more back later to compensate for waiting. The top chart shows an eq... |
What happens to my blood from the time I donate to infusion to the recipient. | It is handled by paid staff. The only donations is by you and volunteers who pass out the cookies. All the equipment is bought. The hospital is billed for the product it receives and passes the bill onto you or your insurance company. The components are separated. The red goes into something called PRBC, packed red blo... |
When obvious trolls are obviously trolling, why do people reply? | The internet is full of both trolls and self-rightoues douche nozzles who think that the world will be a better place if they can change some idiots opinion on reddit. As long as the douche nozzles exist the trolls will always be happy to watch them stumble over each other to let him know online how much they hate himU... |
Why doesn't the ISS or orbiting satellites ever collide or get hit with misc space junk? | They do collide with space junk. That's why they have to be built to withstand collisions with small objects flying at very high speeds. When explosions happen in space, there's no air resistance to slow down objects after they are thrown at such high velocities. So there are things orbiting earth at hundreds of miles ... |
How do software patents work? | Obligatory: "They Don't". Basically people who make laws tend to suck at technology, their lack of understanding results in bad laws. Lack of understanding extends to the patent office. The Patent office isn't set up to actually research and reject patents submitted to them. Since it costs money to file, and they are l... |
Why do dogs have so many health problems? | Not all of them do. Many breeds, though, especially 'cute' breeds, are naturally predisposed to issues because they were breed into stupid bodies. Things like the skin folds on a pug's face aren't good for them, but we think they're cute so we breed them to look like that. Some breeds aren't as stupidly built because o... |
If a car is regularly oiled and driven well what stops it from driving indefinitely? | Metal fatigue and chemical reactions, continuous low-grade impacts, and friction. The issue is that oil helps lubricate, but it doesn't lubricate PERFECTLY. Even with regular changing and careful driving there will still be the odd particle that gets into the car's engine and scrapes around a little in there. That help... |
- How is a grand jury selected? Why do they exist? | The purpose of a Grand Jury is to look at the prosecution's evidence, and determine if there is enough evidence to conclude that a crime was in fact committed. Having never served on a Grand Jury, I can't tell you much more than that, like how you get selected, or how the procedure works. Further, most Grand Jury proce... |
Would a Death Star actually be feasible? How much energy would be needed? Possible to fly? Etc. | The Death Star is supposed to be 160 km in diameter with the second death star supposed to be significantly bigger. At that size it would be the size of a very small moon or an asteroid. Wikipedia has a [List of Solar System objects by size] Natural object with the same size apparent weigh around 4 quadrillion metric t... |
How come, when I yawn sometimes, saliva comes shooting out in a stream? | You have what are called sublingual salivary glands. Sometimes you'll squeeze the muscles surrounding the tubes that lead out of those glands, causing the saliva in there to squirt out, like water out of a rubber ducky. Yawning is one of the actions that can accidentally squeeze those tubes. It's commonly called gleeki... |
the difference between small block, big block and hemi engine. | Big Block engines use a larger engine block size than small blocks. Think of it as an ice cream cone. The bigger the cone, the more ice cream it can hold. A hemi engine refers to the shape of the combustion chamber. Instead of a cone, you have a bowl which fits the icecream perfectly. A hemi head is completely round an... |
Why don't/can't 100% electric cars like Tesla recharge themselves while in use like a standard car battery through its alternator? | You mean, why isn't an electric car a perpetual motion machine? Because thermodynamics. If you added a generator, it would take additional power to rotate that generator. The power you would get back would be less than the power used to rotate it, again because thermodynamics. TANSTAAFL. |
Why does medicine such like anaesthetic and painkillers make you constipated? What are the chemicals doing to your body to stop the poopin'? | Opiates basically act on the gut to reduce the movement of the gut that moves your poops along, reduces the secretions that the gut makes, and absorbs more fluid from the poop. So it dries them out, and keeps them in a long time. |
Why is cardio good for heart health? Wouldn't it just wear the heart out quicker? | The heart is a muscle. The more you work it out, the stronger it becomes. But just like any other muscle, it's not wise to overdo it. |
why do the insides of space stations always look messy? | No, what you are seeing is uber-cleanliness. EVERYTHING has a place and is constantly strapped into its place. In 0G, everything that's not strapped down will inevitably float away and make a bigger mess elsewhere. Nothing falls, nothing stays put, and *everything* bounces. The reason it looks so messy is that there is... |
If policemen have to wear body cams they can't turn off, what do they do when they have to go to the bathroom? | Cameras can be turned off. They need to be to change a battery or download footage. The rules are not to turn them off while engaging the public.On duty? No, that's the whole point. That being said, they aren't going to show an officer taking a piss unless it is directly applicable to a case . |
Is drinking 3 3% alcohol beers in 3 hours the same as drinking 2 4.5% alcohol beers in the same time span? | Overall, you'll still get the same amount of alcohol. But, since you are drinking more other stuff with 3 3% beers, you will digest it a little more slowly. That means that you'll get slightly less drunk but you'll stay drunk for slightly longer. |
how come places have sales and sell stuff for only $1 | Their system might not allow for a zero dollar sale. They also still have to track all tires for inventory management. Also management can pull up sales to see how many of those deals they sold. Edit- Grammar. I can't believe I mixed up They're and Their |
Why are all NFL punters white? | Because being a punter isn't cool, so young blacks, even if they are proficient at punting or kicking, move to other positions so they aren't held in disdain from their peers.Normally, I would call out blatant stereotyping, but .all of them really ARE white!', "Not enough black people don't make the soccer team in high... |
Why does uploading slow down my whole internet? | Downloading stuff is essentially a fast sequence of > "Here's stuff you need to memorize, there's thing A, then thing B, then thing C, then And finally, we have thing Z. Did you get all that?" > "Yeah" > "Okay, so, here's how it continues, there's thing 1, then there's thing 2, and then thing 3, then And finally, we ha... |
Please ELI5 how does LSD/psilocybin make you see visuals. | Would like to add that it doesn't make you see dinosaurs or anything thats not there. Its more what you do see- the wall or ceiling etc can ripple or breathe. Its more a distortion of vision than seeing actual things that aren't there. This is from experience not sourced. But I've heard people saying oh I saw thus gian... |
Why do movies and music CD's have the same
prices as their competitors while those of practically
every other product vary drastically compared to
their competitors? | There's no real "competition" - if somebody wants a Katy Perry album, they *want* a Katy Perry album & they're not going to buy a Led Zeppelin album simply because it's a few dollars cheaper.Good question. I guess this is a combination of several factors. Firstly, while peoples opinions of various artists/movies may va... |
What's the difference between cops and sheriffs? | Police departments have a jurisdiction of a city. Sheriff departments are responsible for all of the unincorporated areas of a county. Funny story: My dad worked for LAPD. Sunset Blvd was the border between LA city and unincorporated LA county. He'd drive down his side of Sunset, and tell all the hookers to cross the s... |
Why do they always call it "scrambling the jets" instead of just "launching the jets" | The phrase originated with the Royal Air Force in the Second World War. Because long range detection of enemy aircraft was difficult fighter pilots had to be ready to launch on very short notice. That meant wherever they were, and whatever they were doing, when the alarm sounded they sprinted to their fighters. I imagi... |
why do wi-fi devices sometimes end up self-assigning IP (169.254.xx.xx) instead of the router's default (192.168.xx.xx)? | A 169.254.x.x is an APIPA IP address. This generally occurs because there was a breakdown in communication/response with a DHCP server. The usual fix is to correct any network configuration issues to ensure access to DHCP server or correct any DHCP server configuration issues. Quick and basic things to check on the net... |
Cotton candy grapes... just.... how? | From the company's web site: > How did you get Cotton Candy grapes to taste like this? > We achieved the astonishing flavor using all-natural breeding practices. We breed for flavor, continuously experimenting, trying out a wide range of cross-pollination combinations. Frankly, we were stunned when we discovered a new ... |
What happens when somebody drinks themselves to death by drinking too much alcohol in a short period of time? | Essentially, alcohol works as a depressant for neural activity. The alcohol molecule binds to receptors on your neurons and reduces the overall neural activity in different parts of your brain. This usually begins on the outermost regions of the brain, your prefrontal cortex, which is in charge of your logical, rationa... |
Why did Spanish become so widespread in Spanish colonies, while French turned into various creoles languages? | The French colonies in the Americas did not tend to become independent. Instead they were transferred to the control of other powers . These powers sent their own colonials in and the languages blended The French were all about trading, especially throughout the Caribbean. The Spanish, unified under the Catholic banner... |
How can ants carry so much more than their own weight? | After millions of generations with a reduced size, it only seems natural for the strongest ants to survive and make their colonies thrive, after all, their main purpose is to bring food to the colony. Their exoskeleton is quite strong and their cephalic musculature and their pronotum play an important role in enabling ... |
How to wax my rocket | Put a good sized dwallop of it in the palm of your hand. Grab your rocket and, depending on the rocket itself, either rub it in vigorously or gently/slowly, primarily using up and down motions, although some twisting is allowable also. Be careful though, The rocket may explode, particularly the nose cone. If so you wil... |
Why would 30g of fiber per day help someone lose weight? | Fiber makes you feel fuller for longer so you're less likely to overeat and/or gorge yourself on junk food. Most junk food/snacks don't contain dietary fiber therefore you eat more of it to fill up and not long after you want more because you're not full anymore. |
How do "acquired tastes" develop? | If you are young, it could be because taste buds "mature" as you age, and you like and appreciate sour, tart and bitter flavors more. If you are well into your 20s when you first try something, the way it becomes an acquired taste is by repeated exposure. The first time you had it you didn't know what to expect and you... |
What determines whether the sunrise/sunset will be colorful or not? What determines its vibrancy? | Dust and other 'pollutants' like sulphur dioxide or even water crystals. These things scatter the blue and green light passing through, leaving bright oranges and reds. |
Why does ice melt when we sprinkle salt on it? | Pure, distilled water when frozen melts at 32 degrees F/0 degrees C. By introducing impurities, such as salt, into the ice the bonds between the ice molecules become weaker, lowering the temperature that it will melt at. A lower melting point means that the ice will melt sooner. Standard road salt allows ice to melt do... |
Why is it so hard to kill the remaining .1% of bacteria with disinfecting wipes? | These companies don't advertise 100% bacterial elimination because they are protecting themselves against litigation. Let's say you have this super rare, super resistant bacteria that you introduce to a surface. You then use the anti-bacterial wipe to disinfect the surface. Then, you purposefully wipe that bacteria tha... |
Why haven't main battle tanks' top speeds gone much past 50 MPH? | Tanks are heavy artillery. They don't need to be particularly close, in fact it might be better if they are out of the range of sight entirely, given that you can perform parabolic bombardment. As a result, high mobility isn't required -- just enough to make it competitive with conventional vehicles like trucks. You're... |
Why are storage bin capacities measured in gallons? | probably because cubic feet is too large of a measurement for the type of plastic, portable storage its used for. There's 7.5 gallons to one cubic foot. you can see how this would get clunky with too small a measurement. Also, gallons takes into account crevices, and non uniform formations. like containers that are tap... |
Why do the inside walls of a microwave oven remain cool? | The range of electromagnetic wavelengths emitted by your microwave oven that are used to heat your food are particularly good at exciting water molecules , but not so good at exciting other types of molecules . Also, the metal walls of the microwave act as a [Faraday Cage] and the microwave energy basically just bounce... |
Were the events at Nanjing a massacre or a genocide, and why? | Massacre vs Genocide. A Massacre occurs when one group wipes out another group. It references the overwhelming power of the one group over the other. Often times this means that the group being massacred is either helpless or innocent. It makes no distinction on why one group is killing the other..it simply is. Genocid... |
Why does your stomach grumble | From _URL_0_ A stomach rumble, also known as a bowel sound or peristaltic sound, is a rumbling, growling or gurgling noise produced by movement of the contents of the gastro-intestinal tract as they are propelled through the small intestine by a series of muscle contractions called peristalsis.[1] A doctor or nurse can... |
Why aren't there more airlift rescues from higher altitudes on Mt. Everest? | Mostly because of altitude. Helicopters can only fly so high before the air gets too thin to generate lift.What u/Ender505 said. Its way too high for helicopters to operate. They also have a lower hover ceiling than a cruise ceiling. Helicopters create lift not simply by spinning but also by moving through the air. A h... |
ELI Five: Why do people wake up when you stare at them? | They don't. Most likely they either wake up slightly every once in a while or something you did woke them up a bit. Once they wake up a bit, they will pick up on the fact that you're looking at them and that will cause them to wake up more and stay awake. If you weren't looking, odds are they would just fall back to sl... |
What was the reasoning behind exempting the POTUS from federal rules that prohibit executive branch employees from participating in matters in which they have financial interests? | There are restrictions on the president, mostly in that he isn't able to accept any sort of gift from foreign governments, ~~which is why he will be donating profits from his international businesses since keeping them would violate the constitution. It becomes more complicated with his domestic businesses since even a... |
why some gifs load like mini videos on mobile | If you are referring to imgur's gifv links or to gfycat links, they look like videos because they *are* videos. imgur and gfycat automatically convert uploaded gifs into videos. |
when girls exercise, why do our abs feel cold even when we are sweating? does this happen to guys? | I'm a guy and this happens to me from time to time. When you exercise your body is focused on pumping blood to the muscles that you're using. So if you're running your body wants to get blood to your legs. While your body is focused on getting blood to your legs, it cares less about digesting food in your stomach and w... |
Why do streets always appear wet in film and TV even if it isn't raining? | It's an old trick. It makes the roads look better on film. They actively spray it down with a hose to make it look shiny. Source: watching Terminator 2 with production note subtitles on. Very interesting stuff. |
What exactly would happen if all mosquitos were wiped from existence? | Malaria would be eradicated for one and campers worldwide would rejoice. Many experts postulate that nothing harmful would happen if mosquitoes were to go extinct, as other insects would take over the functions mosquitoes currently serve. Nobody knows for sure, though, ecosystems are incredibly complex constructs and t... |
How does a flamethrower work? | You wear a backpack that has 2 tanks: 1 full of gasoline, the other fully of high-pressure gas like CO2. You have a nozzle, which is essentially a pipe with a lit flame at the end of it, and this pipe is connected to the gas tank with a hose. When you pull the trigger, CO2 gets pumped in to the Gas tank at high pressur... |
Why did the Fertile Crescent become a desert? | Well, first off the Fertile Crescent isn't in Europe; it's in Asia and Africa. It refers to the watersheds of the Tigris, Euphrates, Jordan, and Lower Nile rivers. More to the point, the Fertile Crescent never became a desert. Parts of the Tigris-Euphrates watershed is experiencing desertification due to Saddam Hussein... |
What was the first thing to have blood in its body? | Technically the fluid inside a cell is "blood", so the first living single-celled organism had blood in it, just not red blood. |
Why are guns legal but switch blade knives are illegal? | Because laws are not necessarily logical or moral, and in fact are often very arbitrary. I have no idea why people don't understand this. |
How can a mother be charged with child abuse for harming her unborn child (e.g. drug usage, alcohol consumption), but abortion does not fall under this category? | Because abortion means that the mother decides that she's not going to be having a baby. Drinking or doing drugs while harboring a child means that the mother agrees to keep that child but is not giving it a safe environment. |
Why are oils like Coconut Oil and Olive Oil are called "Virgin" oils? | Virgin oils are those from the first pressing of the nuts/olives. After this they processed so more oil can be squeezed out. The oil from subsequent pressings is considered a lower quality and cannot command the premium which virgin oil does. |
Why do dogs feel the need to obey their masters? | Dogs are a bit like marines. They don't question orders, they just carry them out to the best of their ability.They are pack animals. If you are a good dog owner then they see you as pack leaderDogs are descendants of wolves, with wolves a social hierarchy is important to survival, humans trained and breed the ones tha... |
Why is it common to see things like Siamese strawberries and other fruits but very uncommon to see Siamese twins? | Without even going into how does siamese fruits/vegetables and siamese humans occur, or whether it's even the same thing , it's easy to blame natural selection on this one :As animals, being siamese twins is a significant impediment to survival, whereas for fruits, it basically changes nothing. |
How do helium transportation trucks calculate their net weight? | Exactly the same as regular trucks. And they're heavier. This is because the helium is pressurized so that the volume of the helium gas at atmospheric pressure is more than the truck's volume.Helium is normally floats because it is not dense at atmospheric pressure, but when you condense it to extreme pressures, that i... |
what my dog could possibly be looking for before finally doing his business? | asking the *really* important questions! i think they are looking for a "unmasked" or unscented location to mark. and the eye contact i think comes from more of a curiosity at why you are watching themSnakejawz is right to an extent. > "This smells like me . Yeah, this is okay . This.. This does NOT smell like me. Woul... |
Why does our accounting of years count downwards in BCE, then back up in CE? | We started with CE, just a way of counting up years. We needed a starting point, so the year of Jesus's birth seemed like as good a choice as any. When historians wanted to talk about things that happened *before* then, they had a choice: pick a date much much farther back, or go backwards from that same anchor year. S... |
What is the (physics-based) purpose of the angled pieces of trim above the door on the exterior of my plane? | Probably tracks water away from the door if it's raining. A little will get in, but the roof of the plane has a decent surface area and all that water has to go somewhere. |
Why is dental health so important for humans but seemingly unimportant for wild animals. | Because animals don't eat things like sugar filled food or drink coffee or alot of other junk that humans eat to rot there teeht |
Why is being in contempt of court a crime? | In some ways, the judicial system requires that people respect the authority of the courtroom for a trial that is as fair as possible to resume. |
Why is it common for simple chrome extensions to have so many files of code | Amount of code is a very difficult metric. Number of files is pretty meaningless. Breaking code into lots of small files makes it easier to understand and does little else. Lines of code is a better metric, but still full of problems. int a = 1, b = 2, c =3; is one line. While these lines do exactly the same thing: int... |
Why does chocolate taste worse If you drink water first? | When you eat chocolate, the cocoa butter melts in your mouth, causing the tasty chocolate flavors to coat the taste buds. If you have water in your mouth, the chocolate will either not melt or else it will melt and then seize up into a tight, solid mass because water interferes with the way cocoa butter solidifies. Eit... |
Why do we feel the bass like thumping in our chest and it is like we are not hearing it? | Your ears are tuned to directly hearing down to about 20 hz. Anything below that will still have an effect on your body but you won't directly hear it. For example, the air in your lungs will be affected and you can feel it that way. |
Why are furry creatures who lick themselves clean not constantly gagging on hair? | They developed specific physiologies from their repeated lickings that prevent things like immediate gagging, but that doesn't exclude them. For example, a cat will occasionally throw up a hairball. This is the exact hair that they licked off themselves. It's just stored in the digestive tract until a good time to hack... |
Why do hair dryers heat up so quickly, and why can't we use the same technology in car heaters? | Hair dryers are very inefficient and use an enormous amount of electricity to get hot so fast. Car heaters use the heat of the engine to heat the car gradually. For a car to use hair dryer technology it would cause a huge draw on the electrical system and battery of the car which would shorten the life of both. In addi... |
What is Apache Tomcat and what purpose does it serve? | Like Apache or nginx, it powers websites. The difference is that Tomcat powers websites that use the Java programming languageIt is a piece of software that acts as a webserver. It does more or less the opposite of what your webbrowser does. It is a program that runs on some computer that you and connect to with your b... |
What would the (unforeseen) implications be on the consumers and car manufacturers if Tesla was allowed sell it's cars freely in the US? | Dealers, the middlemen, get fucked. Like they should, because all they do is make the process tedious and horrible.You're asking for others to predict **unforeseen** implications?", 'What kind of answers are you expecting? It would make it easier for Tesla to sell the cars. Edit: *Too easy.* Soon everyone spends all th... |
the Observer Effect in Quantum Mechanics | There is no "observer effect." It's a myth. Here's a simple example: If you shoot electrons at a phosphorescent screen, points of light will appear where the electrons hit. If you shoot those electrons through two precisely machined slits in a barrier, an interference pattern will form on the phosphorescent screen. Thi... |
How do earthworms end up on the sidewalk after heavy rainfall? | Once the soil they live in becomes saturated, they are at risk of drowning. They don't aim for the sidewalk, they just aim for above ground, and you don't see all the ones in the grass. |
The Plot of the Film 12 Monkeys and it's bizarre ending. | Bruce willis character is a prisoner that's being sent back in time to discover the virus that wiped out most of humanity. In follow the army of the 12monkeys, he find they're not the source of the virus. The virus is spread by another lab scientist. Bruce willis tries to shoot the guy, but airport police shoot him dea... |
What means "Industry 4.0"? | What means [Industry 4.0], you asks? Industry 4.0 is current trend of automation and data exchange in manufacturing technology. Includes cyber-physical system, the Internet of thing, and cloud computer.[1][2][3] Industry 4.0 create what we call "smart factory". In modular structure smart factory, cyber-physical systems... |
why do facial muscles(such as the ones near the eye) just randomly start twitching and lasts days? | Dehydration causes electrolyte imbalances. This causes random firing of neurons that innervate muscle fibers causing them to twitchYou need more potassium and magnesium in your diet. Drink lots of water and salt your food. Take supplements if you can. |
Its January in Pennsylvania. Why are there birds chirping? Didn't they all fly south? | No, only migratory birds fly south, and not all birds are migratory. Some stay over the winterAccording to [National Wildlife]: > Among the first groups of birds to move north are waterfowl: ducks, geese, and swans may begin migrating as soon as frozen lakes and marshes start to thaw. Even in the northern states, flock... |
What exactly is the difference between analog and digital? | Analog and digital are generally used when describing electronics, and in particular, the electrical signals inside them. An analog signal is one that can take on any value in a range. Imagine using a rotary dial to turn up the volume on your speakers - the dial allows the sound coming out to be loud or soft, or any va... |
Why we forget dreams shortly after waking. | Essentially you forget dreams because they aren't consolidated after waking up - basically the brain says 'this is non-essential information so I'm not going to remember it'. This can change depending on whether the dream itself was extremely vivid or emotionally charged. Alternatively, if you actively think about what... |
What does liter measure when talking about engine size? | It's a sum of the actual volume that each piston cylinder can hole when the piston is at the bottom of it's stroke. For example, my personal car has a 4 cylinder 2liter motor. This means that at the bottom of each piston's stroke, the volume of the cylinder is .5L. **edit** just to add a bit more info.. the volume of t... |
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