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- Cop confiscates student's backpack with $50,000 in it? | You don't know any details, but supposedly this thing happened? There's just not enough here to answer you. Could've confiscated it as evidence, could be attempting forfeiture, could be a lie you heard. Who knows? Not me, and not you, apparently. |
Why do some financially stable people have multiple credit cards? | I have multiple credit cards and carry no debt from month to month. I use a Discover cashback card as my primary card. I also have another Visa card that has travel rewards. In addition, I have two debit cards and another Visa credit card I haven't gotten around to cancelling yet. I have multiple credit cards for two r... |
What does shorting something in finance actually mean? | It means selling the share at the current price even though you haven't bought it yet, with the plan to buy it at a future date at a lower price . Of course, if you cannot buy it at that date it is going to cost you whatever you CAN buy it for, which will count as a loss. In some ways, all stockmarket trades are gamble... |
How does the NSA plan on putting terrorists on trial when they themselves are using illegal means of tracking? | The NSA has no plans or authority to put terrorists on trial. That isn't even *approximately* their job, they are a surveillance agency. As to the Justice Department putting terrorists on trial, that has not been the favored method so far, except in the case of terrorists actually caught in the US. The neocons in the B... |
Why are there more photons per second in longer wavelengths than in shorter wavelengths of the same power? | The more energy a photon have the shorter the wavelength. So if you have a short wavelength, each photon will carry more energy so if you have the same amount of energy per second you will have less photon per secondShorter wavelength photons have higher energy, so it takes fewer of those photons per second to achieve ... |
Why do Americans target illegal immigrants but not the businesses that hire them? | The whole kerfuffle about illegal immigration is to rile up working-class voters who feel their jobs are threatened so they'll vote Republican. If the GOP actually cared about it, we would have done something 30 years ago *because it was an issue back then, too*. It's just one of those issues they like to bring up ever... |
Why do some people have bad handwriting and some people have good handwriting? | From my experience, I have horrible hand writing because I'm trying to write faster than I can because my brain is so far ahead of where my hand is. It may just be some people don't think as far ahead into their writing as others do |
Why is a carbonated drink so excruciatingly painful to drink for more than 3 seconds? (Why does carbonation hurt) | It's most likely because carbonic acid is soaking into tissues. Carbonation is carbon dioxide dissolved into water which forms the carbonic acid, which then spontaneously breaks down into water and carbon dioxide again when the liquid is no longer under pressure. While drinking, the acid levels on the nice soft wet tis... |
The rules of laundry? | Whites get washed hot, warm, or cold, hot if they're really quite dirty or you want to keep then super white. Bright colors get washed warm or cold. Dark colors get washed cold. The reason for washing cold is to keep dyes in the fabric. Same with drying - If it's colored, don't use high heat. Some special fabrics need ... |
Why is Reddit a .com if it's not related to commerce? | Said domain restrictions aren't really in place anymore -- they were more like guidelines that we decided didn't really matter. |
Why is it bad to drink alcohol with a straw? | **protip**: I always teach new bartenders to put 2 bar straws in each drink because it encourages faster consumptionThat's just some macho bullshit regurgitated by people who take Mad Men way too seriously. In the immortal words of Humpty Hump: "Doowutchyalike!"', "Straws are for girl drinks, you don't want to become a... |
why is chicken is cooked differently in Chinese restaurants? | well this is a part of the answer but the reason the Chinese cook stir fry's is because for the past century the average Chinese family has only had access to small amounts of gas that they use for cooking. So they cook their food very quickly on high heat. and avoid cooking large chunks of meat. |
What's the difference between University of Blank and Blank State University? | In most states, Blank State University indicates a land grant college, which were schools pushed by federal legislation in the 19th century. These colleges were designed to teach practical skills like agriculture, engineering and sciences. This contrasts with the more liberal art education found at the University of Bl... |
What is it about eating something spicy that, "clears your nostrils"? | The vapors get into your nose and are interpreted as an irritant by your body. It then proceeds to try to flush it out by churning out mucus. The burning sensation of the chemical capsaicin is a pain response, not a taste. |
What's the point in having arched feet? | Too much of an arch will cause you to put a lot of weight on your heel. Which causes pain.Too little will cause issues with posture and issues with walking, since they can't support your body properly. It makes your legs rotate in when you take steps.Humans are very good walkers and pretty good distance runners. We are... |
Why /r/all is filled with TPP posts. What is it and why the sudden popular posts? | TTP stands for Twitch Plays Pokemon. There is a stream on _URL_0_ where users can type b, a, left, right, etc to control a game of Pokemon. As you might imagine, thousands of people trying to do this yeilds interesting results. |
What's the reason behind Google's acquisition of military robot maker Boston Dynamics? | Google has not been a solely information-based company for many, many years. They have moved to application, with interests in self-driving cars, phones, internet infrastructure, etc. My idea of their business interests is that they want to be in the forefront of technology, and what could be more futuristic than robot... |
What is google bombing? | Google isn't "smart", it just guesses what words mean by how often they're related to other words. Google bombing is the practice of constantly linking to something with unexpected words, convincing Google that the two things are related. Let's say you get a bunch of people to post links to Johnny Depp's Wikipedia page... |
How and where are all those YouTube videos stored? | In short, they're stored [here] > How exactly do you store that many MB, GB, TB, ? Firstly, we're talking exabytes. 1 EB = 1,000,000 TB. By comparison, one normal-size photo is roughly 0.000000000003 EB in size. All the DNA in the average human body probably takes up about 10 EB. All this data is literally stored on an... |
What do therapy dogs do? | First, there's a difference between therapy dogs and service dogs. Services dogs are trained and registered and they provide help with certain disabilities -- things like guiding the blind, alerting the deaf, helping people who are disabled, or sensing when someone has low blood sugar or is going to have an epileptic f... |
What does the confederate flag represent nowadays? | Southerner here. To most young people today it symbolizes being proud of your Southern heritage, being wild and free, and being part of the 'good old boys'. Think about how kids rebel against the 'establishment' in all sorts of ways . It's pretty similar. To most people that weren't raised in the South, it only represe... |
when you kick a soccerball, which takes energy, where does the energy go after the ball stops rolling? | It is exactly like that, yes. Friction changes the kinetic energy into heat, and thus the air is now warmer by a tiny, tiny amount. There are also other factors, like some the energy pushes air around a bit and makes tiny winds, but the air does contain more energy after |
Why does the skin on my arms turn purple with normal colored spots when I'm cold and bright red when I'm hot? | When you're hot your blood vessels move nearer the surface to shed some of the excess heat. It's one of the natural defensive mechanisms against overheating; sweat is an obvious one, breathing out through your mouth is another . When you're cold the opposite is true; your blood vessels retreat inwards to keep the warmt... |
Why has the New England region kept it's nickname for so long? | Why not? Plenty of other places have done it; we still have Nova Scotia despite it not being Scottish in any political sense, New York is still New York despite having little to do with York, etc. It's easier to keep up the naming rather than change now. |
Why does every show with two people in the title end with the person with a Y in their name? | Meter. We tend to find regular meters more pleasing and/or memorable. One well-known poetic verse meter is called "trochaic." A single "foot" of trochaic meter is a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one. Well, a one-syllable name followed by "and" is going to read as stressed-unstressed, and two-syllable name... |
Why are there no 7, 9 or 11 cylinder car engines? | From a design standpoint, car engines have cylinders that are placed symmetrically or in a line. A 7 cylinder engine would be very long. They have done 4,5 and 6 cylinders in line. |
The conflict between Iran and Israel and why many disagree with Israel's actions against Iran. | The reason why many disagree with Israel's actions against Iran is because they are illegal and because Iran does not pose a threat to anybody. Iran's nuclear programme is entirely legal. A country is being punished and threatened for exercising its sovereign rights. |
How do people manage to film themselves guzzling full bottles of hard liquor in one setting without getting a dangerously high BAC? | My guess is as soon as the camera shuts off they are shoving a finger down their throats and puking the majority of it back up. Or it's not real liquor. Food coloring + water |
Evolutionary wise, why are we so attracted to ass? | The attraction men often feel has to do with those traits that will aid in child birth and child rearing. So breasts become obviously attractive because of their feeding properties. Hips are more obvious because they widen to allow passage of the baby. The reason that ass is so attractive then is that it aids in carryi... |
Blinking Yellow Traffic Lights vs Blinking Red Lights @ Four Way Intersection | Blinking yellow light means that you proceed with caution. You don't have to stop. If it's a blinking yellow light you have the right of way. Red light means to stop and proceed when it is safe to do so _URL_0_ This is the correct answer. |
Assassins Creed story arc with the Apple and Pieces of Eden. | A guy over on /r/assassinscreed recently posted a couple of excellent synopses for all of the games. Warning: they do contain NSFW language - or language not suitable for 5 year olds! [Assassin's Creed 1] [Assassin's Creed 2] [Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood] [Assassin's Creed: Revelations] |
What is molarity (and involved Chemistry terms) | A mole is a substances molecular weight in grams. A mole of water is ~18 g, because a molecule of water has a weight of ~18 atomic units ). Molarity refers to home many moles of a substance is dissolved into 1 L of solution. NaCl has a molecular weight of ~58 g. If you dissolved that much in a solution, it would be a 1... |
Game engines: what are they and why are new ones always needed? | So let's say you run a game studio that is making two very different games. One is a cute adventure game for kids where a princess has to rescue her animal friends from an evil witch. Another is a bloody shooter where a battle hardened soldier has to save the world from vicious aliens. Now, these games are wildly diffe... |
What do research firms like Gartner and Forrester do? | They do research they think companies want, and it turns out they do. Data on, say, the way the wind is blowing in the adoption of tablets rather than desktops/laptops is very valuable if your company needs to decide how it'll allocate resources on some upcoming relevant project. |
Why is there such a large difference in people handwriting? Why are some people seemingly born with neat handwriting | Same reason some people are born naturally smarter than others. Some people are just predisposed to being more naturally dexterous than other people. But that doesn't take into account practice. Someone with neat handwriting may have practiced for hours upon hours upon hours. Similar to typing, some people just get rea... |
How do viruses and colds form and where do they come from? | First, the condition known as the "common cold" is a viral infection by any of several hundred different species of virus. The rhinoviruses are the most common culprit, but there are other viruses which can produce the same symptoms. Second, if you're asking where the actual viruses that infect us come from, the answer... |
How can emotional distress cause someone to faint? | When your brain gets overwhelmed, sometimes it decides that the best thing to do is to just shut down for a while and hope things are better when it turns back on.First let's discuss why people faint. Pretty much what happens is your brain isn't getting enough blood flow so your body tries to fix this problem by knocki... |
ELIM: Why are the JSTOR not open for free to the public? | It costs money to edit and publish scientific journal articles. If they were all open for free to the public, how would publishers get that money? |
On US roads, when they do construction but after they're done the road isn't new, what did they do? | could be the the road shoulder, could be drainage culverts and piping, or even just taking samples to survey future projects |
Why does some food taste better in certain geographical locations, like bagels always taste better in NYC, cheesesteaks in Philadelphia, bread and pasteurized in Paris, etc? | I could probably find shitty bagels, cheese steaks, and bread in all of those locations just like I can find good bagels, cheese steaks, and bread in Ohio.Well for NY bagels and really all NYC bread is because of the water. Go north 50 miles and any local bagels don't taste nearly the same", 'there are only two explana... |
Do you instantly die if you get shot on the head? | > What parts of your brain can be shot and not be fatal? In theory, most of the outer layer, particularly of the front region. These parts of the brain tend to deal with higher-level cognitive functions, sensory perception, and motor control. While all vital, you can survive without portions of them . What will general... |
Why does switching video size on YouTube stop/interrupt the download progress? | Because changing the video size changes what's being delivered. It's like if you were asking someone to send you a book one page at a time in the mail, and at first you ask for just a cliffs notes version. So they send you the first 12 pages of the synopsis, and then you decide you want the full version of the book. No... |
If the Conquistadors brought diseases to the new world, how come they didn't bring any diseases back to the old world? | They did. Syphilis is a disease they brought back. The thing you missed is that it was a 3 month trip or longer across the ocean. Any deadly diseases they caught would have killed them long before they made it back to Europe. And deadly diseases did regularly kill settlers.There's a couple of things to consider Because... |
Dimensions (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.) | Okay, I'm going to give this a start; although someone will undoubtedly come up with a more efficient explanation. The easiest way I can think of to understand dimensions is through the familiar ones. The three dimensions that make up 3D which is what we see objects in, are commonly described as \'Height\', \'Width\', ... |
Why is the first 100 days of a new president's rule such a big deal in the USA? | Presidents often feel like they have momentum or mandate after being voted in, and they haven't yet gotten bogged down in unforseen messes . Also, it is just a hand way of saying "here's what i care about most." There isn't anything magical about 100 days, it's just a nice round number that is short enough to stay focu... |
What is single payer healthcare? What type of healthcare is Obamacare? | > What is single payer healthcare? It's a system where the government acts as a health insurance provider, paid for via taxes, and you don't need to have health insurance through a private company. > What type of healthcare is Obamacare? Obamacare isn't a type of healthcare. "Obamacare" is another name for the "Patient... |
Why would a book explode violently when being crushed by a hydraulic press? | Crushing the book requires an immense amount of pressure. Since the pressure has to build up, the materials start to pull away from each other. Since it's not a tearing motion, it doesn't separate until there's so much force built up from the material pulling away from itself. Once the material does in fact separate, i... |
Why is string theory such a widely known (possibly believed) theory if there's no evidence for it? | We know a lot more than we can prove basically. For example, there is no way there was going to be such a huge effort to search for the Higgs if people weren't almost certain it was there. For example assuming that Higgs exists gives you correct results in calculations and even made some predictions which people tested... |
How can an appendage be reattached to a body? | Apart from the risk of infection, most tissue will re-heal. They connect things like arteries to recirculate blood flow, and then bingo, it all works out |
What is the difference between a US ounce and a UK ounce? | They're not the same unit of measurement: a US fluid ounce is about 4% larger than an imperial fluid ounce. It gets worse, though, because one US pint is 16 US fluid ounces, but an imperial pint is 20 imperial fluid ounces. It's difficulties like this that have led to the widespread adoption of the metric system: it's ... |
Why are some special effects in movies "too expensive" to make? | The amount of computer time and how many people are needed to do it. You can't make a movie like Transformers on 1 computer and have 1 person do it. You need thousands of computers running for months with a large team. A lot of the deals in Hollywood are done so that bills are only paid once a movie makes money and the... |
Why are domesticated dogs so easy to teach commands but domesticated cats are not? | because dogs are social pack animals willing to listen to an alpha male and cats are not', "Dogs and humans have a particularly special relationship. The point that dogs are pack animals while cats are not does have something to do with it, but it's not the whole story. In a study where dog puppies and wolf puppies wer... |
Why do different cultures differ in direction of reading and writing? | Not an expert, but from what I understand, we're not entirely sure. But we do have some pretty logical theories: One theory is that the use of stone tablets was most common in the Semitic region and the languages there [Hebrew, Arabic, Assyrian, Aramaic]. For proof, we take the examples of the Ten Commandments, or even... |
How can there be more than one lines in an elements line spectrum? | First let's make sure you know why a color is made at all Been a while, this is simplified, etc. Light = energy. The amount of energy determines the wavelength. The wavelength determines the color. So where does the energy come from? Electrons changing orbitals. Basically. You'll get more detail some other day. Think o... |
Before dental hygiene was suggested, how did people take care of their teeth? | In Arabic cultures, before the advent of the modern tooth brush, they used what's known as a miswak, essentially a teeth-cleaning twig. It's still popular in many muslim countries. _URL_0_ |
What exactly is the purpose of all of the random arrows, letters, and numbers I constantly see spray painted on sidewalks? | Could be both. When you "call before you dig" they will mark the underground utilities. Usually colored flags in grass and paint on the cement. Edit: a word |
Why do I want so much sleep? | Possibly several causes, although every person is different. Firstly, you may have inconsistent bedtimes. You mention going to sleep at 9 or 10, but if you ever have nights where you stay up really late, even once a week, it is enough to make your body try to compensate with extra sleep. Heck even varying your sleep ti... |
Who paid for Cern? Who orchestrated the entire idea/project? | CERN was formed after 12 European countries signed a treaty agreeing to combine their scientific research agencies into a single organization in 1954. They've expanded a lot since then, and many non-European countries, like Russia and Japan, now participate as cooperative observers. Most of their funding comes from gov... |
Why do most games on the Appe Store require higher IOS? | When developing an app, updates to the OS allow the developer take advantage of these changes. If you are running an old version of an OS and the program is expecting certain features to exist while running then there may be issues. This could be efficiency in memory management or just how to interface with the data st... |
why are some states completely paralyzed by 1-2 inches of snow? Is their infrastructure really that unprepared for it? | Yes, their infrastructure really is that unprepared for it. Places like Alabama get snow so infrequently--and when they do it is almost always all melted by the mid afternoon--that it doesn't make financial sense to spend taxpayer money on plows and salt warehouses. But it isn't just the inability to plow/salt roads. P... |
How are cockroaches able to survive nuclear apocalypses but die when hit with cockroach spray? | Cockroaches couldn't survive nuclear apocalypse. The explosion itself would kill roaches, just like any fire would. Radiation is less of an immediate threat to roaches than to humans, bu it would still kill them. Cells are most sensitive to radiation when they are dividing. Humans and other mammals have cells that are ... |
How do screens display brightness that seems to glow? | Care to link to the video? One way to have a brighter "white" is to add some blue into the mix, pixels use an additive color model though. |
why music is so much more enjoyable while under the influence of alcohol and other drugs. | Well, there's a couple reasons for that. On a basic level, music is stimulation, it is entertainment, and most drugs that people take recreationally tend to make things more enjoyable because they make them more stimulating to you. Most drugs tend to make things more overwhelming and visual because you can forget about... |
how does the blood brain barrier work? | While "blood-brain barrier" sounds like some sort of membrane surrounding the brain, it actually refers to the specialized structure of the capillaries in the brain. [Here's] an image that gives you an idea of what the BBB really looks like . To answer your followup question, the brain still gets oxygen in spite of the... |
Why was an iceberg able to break through the steel of the Titanic? | Just think of simple physics. Force is mass multiplied by acceleration. When the Titanic met the ice, it tried to accelerate the ice using its mass The forces acting on the steel were tremendous and enough to tear rivets and welds.Poorly formed rivet heads, unfortunate placement of iceberg's.. abutments for lack of a b... |
Idea for r/explainlikeimfive: how to separate opinion from fact | Is this a trick? How can I answer this without giving my opinion', "I don't need someone to tell me they are giving an opinion or fact. Everything is an opinion until I can personally verify it. People should try to avoid making biased statements while answering a question. [This Socialism post] is a good example of ho... |
What actually goes on when humans suppress the urge to.. use the bathroom ? | Your bladder and colon are of course controlled by muscles, normally they can maintain a relatively relaxed position. But as you get "full," the waste begins to press on your insides, be it your bladder or colon, putting pressure on your muscles. Its similar to holding a weight in your hand and holding your hand out, y... |
I keep hearing in the news that uk supermarkets are struggling to stay afloat, with some reporting losses. Yet my food prices are still going up, where does all this money go? | In the UK, the traditional supermarkets are having to compete with low-cost supermarkets such as Aldi and Lidl, which are relatively new to the market. Because the low prices in these new supermarkets are attractive, especially since we're still feeling the effects of the recession, the supermarkets are losing business... |
Can someone explain to me what the higher education bubble is and what happens when it bursts? | The worry is that there are way more people with degrees than jobs that require people with degrees. Especially in non-Stem/engineering fields. There is a reason people joke about an arts degree gets you a job at mcdonalds. This is a problem because those people still spent a ton of money to go to higher education scho... |
What is the difference between cultural appreciation / appropriation? | Cultural appropriation\xa0is the adoption or use of the elements of one\xa0culture by members of another culture. Cultural appreciation is the understanding of another way of life or upbringing. In response to your "white guys can't wear dreads" anyone can do anything, and the individual, denying the other person's rig... |
Why everyone is so scared of a terrorist attack at the olympics? | * There have been two terrorist attacks in Russia recently * The group that perpetrated those attacks has said they were planning an attack at the Olympics * Sochi is near places where a lot of terrorist activity goes down * There's a lot of people in one place expecting joy and celebration, which is a prime target for... |
What is Pussy Riot, and what is going on that concerns it? | As stated previously a punk artist collective. However their list of grievances is somewhat longer than anyone here so far has said. Part of the issue is many of their activities take place in masks so it's hard to press charges against any one person, and people drift in and out of the group. So I believe they're maki... |
How do we map images from the non-visible color spectrum into an image we can see? | Colour maps. A digital camera returns some value from it's sensor, and a computer relates that to some value it sends to a screen using a colour map, and we see a colour. There's really two ways to do this. One way is to just map the intensity, how bright the light is in whatever invisible spectrum. This can be mapped ... |
Why do we still learn as we do hundreds of years ago? | We don't learn the way we did 100 years ago. Not even close. Teachers were not using powerpoint even 20 years ago. Unless you think people can stricly learn from a computer, teachers will always be necessary. I'm not sure why you think nothing has evolved with the way we learn. How would you like it to work? |
What's the deal with prison labor in the US? | I did a project on this a few years ago. Here's some of what I remember, but there's others much more qualified than me to speak to it. Products: Tons of products, name a large company and they probably use prison labor to some extend. Payment: seriously like $0.25 an hour, the rest of the money goes to the prison to f... |
How does double jeopardy work? | Yes. The issue is you can't be tried for the same crime twice. Not that you can't be tried for the same type of crime. The first charge was the rap of miss smith on the night of the 11th, not just the general murder of miss smith. Just like if a rapist raped you at multiple different instances, he'd get multiple differ... |
How does one encode data into DNA? | an inkjet printer embeds short fragments of chemically synthesized DNA onto the surface of a tiny glass chip. To encode a digital file, researchers divide it into tiny blocks of data and convert these data not into the 1s and 0s of typical digital storage media, but rather into DNA’s four-letter alphabet of As, Cs, Gs,... |
Why aren't there 100 seconds in a minute and 100 minutes in an hour? | THE DIVISION of the hour into 60 minutes and of the minute into 60 seconds comes from the Babylonians who used a sexagesimal system for mathematics and astronomy. They derived their number system from the Sumerians who were using it as early as 3500 BC. The use of 12 subdivisions for day and night, with 60 for hours an... |
Why do I have the feeling of floating when I try to sleep after spending all day on roller coasters? | regular traveler here, so I've looked this up before. it's basically the same as 'sealegs' - sailors swaggering all over the place on land, after having been on a ship for a long period of time. when on a ship or in rollercoasters, your brain compensates for the constant movement throughout the day. after a while, it's... |
Why can't they keep the ISS orbiting forever? | To be there forever it needs to be boosted into a higher orbit every now and then to prevent it from reentering due to atmospheric drag. It needs to be at an accessible altitude so it has to be rather low. If it was higher it'd orbit for longer but be harder to get to. |
Why the DMV is considered hell? | You have 10 to 15 people waiting on a mindless task that is complicated by short staffing and bureaucracy. Then, you get a damn number. The number is normally associated with letters. You must wait. Someone is taking a shit and someone is out to lunch . So, you wait. All you had to do was pay your tag fees online to sa... |
How is it I can remember even the smallest details of something that happened 10-15 years ago, but I can't remember what I ate for breakfast or if I locked the door? | Scishow explained this and I am no scientist but from what I got out of the episode was that your brain deletes information it feels it doesnt need. Otherwise we would go nuts remembering every face we see walking down the street. Sleeping helps with this memory organizing. |
How is elasticity measured? As in, what sort of units are there? | The elastic modulus of an object is defined as the slope of its stress-strain curve in the elastic deformation region: λ = stress/strain where λ is the elastic modulus; stress is the force that causes the deformation divided by the area to which the force is applied; and strain is the ratio of the change caused by the ... |
How are territorial borders decided and drawn out? | In a very general definition: if borders are a straight line they've been made by someone looking at a map and drawing that line; if borders meander all over the place seemingly at random then they're nearly always following some kind of natural landmark, such as a river or a mountain range.It has to do with back befor... |
What is actually happening when you get a brainfreeze? | you have a nerve in the roof of your mouth called the trigeminal nerve. its job is to register a lot of pain when it gets too cold. the purpose of this is to keep you from dangerously lowering your body temperature by ingesting too much cold stuff too quickly. you can cure it quickly by warming the nerve back up by pre... |
Why does it make more sense to use rubber tires with air in them than something more sustainable? | because its actually pretty tough to beat air. Firstly air is really light, so by filling a tire with air, you get a lot less rolling weight which greatly affects the fuel economy of a car, and well as braking distance. air is also great at absorbing impacts. because air pressure increases as volume goes down, it makes... |
How do people live when comatose? | > I get that they're hooked up to IVs with glucose, but isn't that just sugar water? Doesn't the body need proteins and fats and vitamins? They actually get feeding tubes shoved down their throat to pump mashed up food into their stomach. They don't need to be conscious for that to work. |
Why exactly does rubbing your tongue on another person's tongue (a.k.a. making out or French kiss) feel so good? | Lots of nerve endings on the lips and tongue, to which you're applying a gentle, warm, soft stimulus. So it does feel good on a purely physical level. More than that, though, kissing is extremely gratifying on a psychological/emotional level. The knowledge that someone *wants* to be kissing you is a confidence boost an... |
why such widespread poverty still exists in the 21st century. | It has become institutionally acceptable for American Corporations to lay off literally millions of people and then ship those jobs overseas while paying maybe $3 a day. The reason other countries accept these jobs goes back to the complicatd post ww2 cold war era of **de**colonization and subsequent **neo**colonizatio... |
How can items feel solid if their atoms contain more space than stuff? | It's because when you touch an object you aren't touching it as such. It's the electrons around the atoms in your body/hand repelling the electrons around the object and you are simply feeling the repulsive force. VSauce did a good video on this concept _URL_0_ |
How exactly does a bank work? How does some place that holds onto my money help me get more money and what do they get out of it? | What they do is they take your money and lend it to other people. These other people usually have "collateral" . When the bank gives money to other people, they charge interest, basically meaning that they get back more money than they gave. They might give a small amount of that extra money to you. So what happens whe... |
Why is radioactiveness always associated with the color green? | It is mostly the green phosphor that was added to radioactive luminescent paint. They made a paint that included a radioactive element and with a green phosphor. This was applied to things like clock faces. The radioactive stuff gives off radiation, which excites the phosphor so that it glows greenBecause early in the ... |
What exactly is the CERN several terabyte collider data leak and what does it mean to a casual person? | It wasn't a leak, it was deliberately released to the public. It is the data set for scientific experiments done with the particle accelerator As a laymen, it has no impact on any aspect of our lives. For scientists, it's exciting, because they now get access to data from equipment they can't use first hand |
Why do plants continue growth throughout their entire life while other organisms reach maturity and stop growing? | The main reason is that we, have a tendency to move around alot. Therefore we cannot drag with us alot of mass. Therefore it is much more reasonable to maintain a certain size, so we can hunt, gather and generally just move around. Plants on the other hand is noget able to move. Therefore they can grow to which ever si... |
How can websites like aliexpress offer their products so cheap with free shipping all over the world? | Chinese government actually subsidy cost of shipping to support exporters, so that's why they can send you item you bought for 0.1$ with free shipping. Longer explanation would be that they ship in bulk with pay per volume and not per item, so they don't care it's actually one small item for one customer, but anyway it... |
Why is US election day not a holiday to increase voter turnout? | Better question: why don't we vote on weekends when almost everyone already has the day off? Why does a vote have to occur in only one day? You can't tally all the votes in one day anyway. The reason they vote on Tuesday is that all the riff raff will be working. They'll be late to work if they try to go before, and to... |
If the director's cut is different from the theatrical cut, then whose cut is the theatrical cut? | In filmmaking, there is a concept called final cut. Whoever has final cut can contractually say what the theatrical release is. The directors cut is the version the direct thinks best exemplifies their vision of the story. At some point, powerful directors were given final cut in their contracts. That means the directo... |
Why is it that people who are woken up in the middle of a nap seem panicked and confused? | You have sleep cycles that alter your physiological states. If you wake up from the middle of one, your physiological state can be quite different from awake , so you don't deal with the situation in a normal awake way. |
How can we have conversations with ourselves? | It's one of the most interesting and difficult problems in evolutionary psychology. How did we evolve a consciousness as well as language? Language seems to be intimately tied up with consciousness, because all of our thoughts are expressed internally as silent utterances. We're such social animals that we've literally... |
How do profitless tech start-ups such as Snapchat or Instagram make money? | > but what profit do the other companies see? A userbase. If you aren't paying for it, then you are the product. Applications that are free and not ad-supported are typically destined to be sold. The developers will develop an application and get as large a user base as they can, they then turn around and sell that app... |
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