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The Sects of Different Religions | There are people who think god is the sun in the morning. They don't play with people who think god is the moon at night.Not for all different religions but for the religions of Abraham it is best explained [here]: > Think of it like a movie. The Torah is the first one, and the New Testament the sequel. Then the Qu’ran... |
Why is the 2 party system so dominant in US politics? Will it change in the foreseeable future? | The two party outcome is pretty much unavoidable in a "first past the post" system, and pretty much unavoidable when you have a small number of seats being contested . CGP Grey to the rescue: _URL_0_[This Video] should help explain it. Tldw: The candidate with the most vote wins. The more candidates their are, the less... |
How exactly does a capacitor work? | A capacitor is very simple. It is 2 conductive plates, with an insulator between them. If you push electrons onto one plate, they will repel electrons from the other. But as electrons have moved on to one plate, that plate will have a negative charge. As electrons have been removed from the other, that will have a nega... |
Why do all bubbles eventually burst? | All other potential reasons aside: Evaporation and surface tension will get any bubble that survives the other effects. A bubble is a very thin layer of liquid, and holds its shape with surface tension. When you blow a bubble and it pops off the stick, all the bubble molecules are bound to each other. Each molecule pul... |
Why/when did we start calling Emoticons Emojis? | They're actually different! Emoticons are ~technically~ just these: :) :. So if your computer supports full unicode, and it gets told to show character number U+1F618, it should show a smoochy emoji face. |
Why can't I run fast in my dreams? | It's a very common thing for people to experience in their dreams, and we don't really know why . One possible explanation I 've read before, however, is that your sense of how fast you are moving is dependent upon sensory input which your brain is not receiving . When you're in REM sleep , parts of your brain responsi... |
Why do car batteries last a long time, but go flat if you leave the lights on over night? | It's a rechargeable battery. When the engine is running, the alternator is able to use the power from the gasoline engine to recharge the battery. If the engine if off, the alternator is off, and the battery drains without being recharged. |
Why do professional fighters "hug"? Is that any kind of defense? Does that have something to do with any rule? | I think you're referring to the clinch. In most forms of karate, the clinch is a position from which you perform a lot of throws or strikes . In boxing, it is a defensive move to make sure that you do not get an uppercut or hook to the face.Because they're pretty much constantly at the point of exhaustion, and it's sho... |
Why do we blink in response to loud sounds we anticipate? | A loud, sudden noise would indicate something has fallen, exploded, or occurred that could possibly cause you harm, many of times from shards or debris. Your eyes are delicate, and that's your body's response to keeping your eyesight functioning as well as possible - which was even more essential to surviving and thriv... |
How do physicists know that time exists? | Thought experiment: if suddenly everything in the universe stopped moving, no atoms smashing into each other, no synaptic exchange in our minds -- would time still be moving? Probably not. Time is just a way to measure change. A label for motion. |
What make heart muscles different from leg muscles, et al. so that they never get fatigued? | Practice. Repetition. The heart muscles are accustomed to their regular activity -- they've been doing that all their life, and although it doesn't seem like much of a rest to us, they get a bit of rest between each and every beat. Heart muscles do fatigue when they're asked to do more than normal. When your heart rate... |
Why is a repetitive motion, such as drumming a finger on the table, annoying for others but not for ourselves? | Those type of actions are about soothing or entertaining yourself. You get positive feedback from the noise or motion. Other people just get an annoying click, tap, or track suit rustling as you bounce your leg up and down in 3rd period noise. Great for you as it works out your nerves, not for others because it's just ... |
Why do people like to lean backwards in a chair to just before the point of tipping over? | When you lean back in your chair you change your center of gravity. At the point just before falling forwards or backwards you are perfectly balanced over the central part of your body. This makes us feel centered, balanced, and grounded. So ultimately we are chasing the feeling of being stable when we'll most likely e... |
Why did US Congress pass a law to ensure all helium in the US National Helium Reserve is sold by 2015? What benefit does this have? | In 1995 We had gathered a stockpile of over 1 billion cubic meters but had also racked up a debt of $1.4 billion doing so. The law was not to sell off all stockpiles, it was to start selling off the stockpile until that debt was covered. It was all part of a plan to privatize the harvesting of helium and get the contro... |
If U.S. Currency isn't backed by anything, how does it hold any value? | because we all agree it has value. at this point, no currency is backed by anything. not a single currency still in use that is backed by gold or anything tangible. They exist on the credibility of their govt and society. Its convenient to have an intangible unit of trade, and as long as you have critical mass of peopl... |
why do my eyes appear to 'change color' depending on my mood? | Eye color does not change based on mood. The way the eye reflects light off of the iris does though. Although it is somewhat possible over time based on light activating pigments in your eye, short and quick changes in color is usually just an illusion. |
Why do objects, like my couch or a coin, feel bigger than they look if my eyes are closed? | Your hands are not 'tricked' by distance, like your eyes.On top of that, your field of view tricks your mind into processing an object within an entire scene - a couch is viewed in the living room - which is larger. |
Why is medical knowledge not part of the standard educational curriculum? | Next you will want to teach them about budgets, savings, diets, exercise and sex. It is hard enough to get them to learn the basics like greek gods, cursive and algebra I am not sure we can squeeze in your pet projects. Sorry.What, you mean slip in something that's actually useful. Good God bee_hawk, how dare you havin... |
Orcs, goblins and Uruk-Hai. What are the differences? | An interesting question with a complex, if not interesting answer. Orcs were created by Melkor who was himself a sort of god. It is thought that they were created through the capture, torture, and eventual breaking of Elves which resulted in the Orc. Another theory is that Melkor decided to create a race himself in res... |
Why do porn sites/tubes have to only have 18+ girls, when in many US states and Europe the age of consent is 16 or 17? | Pornography or prostitution is usually considered a more radical life choice than simply having sex and they want people to be more mature before making such a choice. Therefore it's usually 18 for both regardless of age of consent. |
How were the pigeons that carried messages in the old days trained? How did they know where to go to deliver the message? | You raise the birds at the destination. You have a roost for them, let them fly for exercise, etc. Then you carry them to the place you want to send messages from. When you let them go, they fly back to their roost.Homing pigeons only know how to fly back home. If you want someone to be able to send you messages, you s... |
Why is the theory of relativity so famous in pop culture? Why do so many people (of nearly all ages) know about it? | General relativity, special relativity, and mass-energy equivalency are truly revolutionary ideas. We're talking more revolutionary to our understanding of what the universe is than saying "what if we pre-sliced the bread?" was to consumerism. Essentially, Einstein took all of classical physics with time, matter, and s... |
In bright light, why is it easier to shut off one eye and have the other wide open? | I'm not sure. Used to work in visual neuroscience, and this is my best guess. I'd love if someone has a definite answer though! I think the main culprit is visual glare. Light travels in straight lines, but you get glare when light is scattered in a disorganised pattern . Your brain has to process everything you see, a... |
why al qaeda chose to target the united states? | I'm by no means an expert on this topic, but I'll see if I can shed a bit of light on the topic. In Al Qaeda's early years still part of the mujahideen they were actually funded by the U.S. to fight the soviets who were helping the afghani governments tighten their grip over the region against these rebels. At the time... |
When does a negative personality trait become a mental problem? | There is indeed a lot of subjectivity and discretion when it comes to diagnosing mental illnesses and it's very much done on a case-by-case basis. Unfortunately, there isn't a simple test to definitively determine whether someone is suffering from a mental illness or personality disorder; it's mostly based on the subje... |
Why can we recognize so many celebrities and fictional characters if the human mind is only supposed to be able to know about 200-250 people? | So the first thing you have to understand is that it's not about 'knowing who they are'. It's about maintaining a certain level of relationship with people. The numbers were actually 100-250 initially and were called Dunbar numbers named after the psychologist who studied the phenomenon later other researchers, mostly ... |
Why are mixed blacks in the US considered black no matter how much they are mixed while this does not apply to other races? | The answer is all political. For some though, it depends on how they grow up. I had a friend who was half black but grew up with this mothers side of the family who is white. He didn't really identify as black. Currently its very political. Black community don't like when half black people identify with a different rac... |
How can eating half a pound of chocolate make you gain 2 pounds of fat? | > How can eating x weight in food produce a greater number of weight gained in fat. Fat is made up of cells, and those cells are filled with water in order for their bits to move around and function. The chocolate bar isn't going to be stored as a raw chocolate deposit in your flesh. Chocolate is pretty complex a snack... |
What is a company valuation? | It doesn't mean the company has $4 billion in the bank. It means the **estimated price of the whole company** is $4B. Another way of putting it is, the valuation is the sum of: * all the things the company currently owns: money in the bank, computers, office stuff, inventory, etc. This is fairly easy to calculate, but ... |
Why the cost of manufacturing products (namely electronics), go down so quickly. | Keep in mind that a lower manufacturing cost is not the same thing as a lower retail price. 1. Economics. Things are priced high when they're new because people are often willing to pay more for the "hot new thing." This is because newness has some intrinsic value and some social value. A PS3 gets its price cut in half... |
Why is it that when you speed a video up, it gets higher pitched? | Sound is vibration of the air interpreted by your eardrum. Fast frequencies are interpreted as being high pitched. Low frequencies are interpreted as low pitch. Speeding up a video increases the frequency of vibration relative to unsped up and raises the pitch. |
Why do they have to shut the subway down when there's a snowstorm, shouldn't the underground portions still be able to keep going? | For one, you need people to drive the trains. You can't keep the subways running if you tell the drivers they can have the day off. For two, if you shut down the mass transit, you tend to keep people home. Keep people home, and you have less of a need to have cops, ambulance drivers, taxis, etc on the street.And they a... |
What is happening to our bodies when we see something that makes us "cringe"? | Cringing is a form of empathy. If you see a child crying on the street because he lost his parents you feel bad, sometimes even physically, because you can imagine how it feels for the child. Empathy is our instinct to put ourself in somebody else's position. Watching a movie where something incredibly sad can make you... |
...I saw a news story tonight where a child had a double hand transplant; as a Biochemistry major in college I struggle to understand how is this possible? | Arm transplants have happened as well, in general we haven't done a lot of limb transplants but conceptually it's just the same technology that lets us do any organ transplant plus the technique we use to reattach severed limbs in accidents. It's unlikely we will do any foot transplants any time soon, because the drugs... |
4K quality (what seems to be the next step up from 1080p from what I have seen) | It's the next-gen HD resolution. You had it right. Its not particularly important yet though as there is almost no 4K content being made, and very few things are capable of displaying 4K currently. In 5-10 years it'll probably be much more relevant. |
How do different languages share the internet? Is there a Russian language internet, Chinese language internet, or is everything translated from one page? | No, a website will be the same no matter where you load it ). If you search through Reddit, you will find many subreddits where people communicate in their own languages, like Russian Cyrillic or Kanji. However, some sites have built-in translation and Google Translate can translate an entire webpage, just enter the UR... |
How do people who fast/don't eat or drink for longer than usual people not die? | > Eg: like that indian bloke that didn't eat for 70 years. Spoiler alert: He eats just like anyone else. He *claims* not to eat, but that claim is ridiculous. There were two "tests" performed, but the first showed that he lost weight during the 10 days that he was being monitored, and the second test allowed him to gar... |
how does someone like bill gates keep all of his money? | His net worth is largely tied to his investment holdings with Microsoft, although he more than likely has investments elsewhere. As the share price of Microsoft fluctuates daily on the market, his net worth fluctuates with it. If Microsoft has a particularly bad quarter, he publicly lost a lot of moneyMost of his money... |
How are special effects (CGI) in movies created? | What kind of effects, specifically? The eli5 version is that you use computers to animate something. There are very sophisticated programs that can help calculate exactly how those animations move to make them appear realistic. They don't draw it in frame by frame, they essentially animate all the parts and then use th... |
Why do some brands prefer "price upon request" in magazines/advertisements instead of just telling the current price? | There are various reasons. One of the most common is that the manufacturer prohibits wholesalers and retailers from advertising prices openly to avoid price-fixing and price wars. |
Why is it easier to lift living beings of say, 20kgs, than an object of 20kgs? | I'm going to speculate that you're talking about the difference between lifting, say, a four year old child and a heavy box filled with books. Where you can grasp the object has a lot to do with it. You get a better hold on a child under the arms for the initial lift than you typically do with a giant box. Your arms ca... |
How effective was the Great Wall of China at keeping Mongolians out of China? | The wall served two main purposes: stopping raids and providing warning of attacks. It wasn't really meant to hold back a large invading army. It was pretty easy for nomads to raid Chinese farming villages in the north with just a few men. The wall was someone effective in deterring that because it's hard to destroy a ... |
What is the difference to my body if I eat 5000 calories one day and zero the next vs 2500 for two days? | It has been suggested that the human metabolism has evolved two modes of operation, activated by calorie intake. The first is *grow mode* where plentiful nutrients are flung about the body and as suggested the body replenishes itself. The second is *repair mode.* Activated by a lack of calories, the body scavenges nutr... |
How is NSA software undetectable? | A properly designed root kit installs before the OS loads, so it controls everything the OS can see. It can perfectly disguise itself because it can block any information the OS might use to detect it. |
Why aren't professional body builders who take steroids arrested? | To be arrested on any kind of a drug charge requires possession or buying/selling. The fact of having taken an illegal drug is not something a person can be arrested forDoubt this answers your question in the way you 'd hoped, but Imagine if EVERYONE who broke a law was arrested We already stuff our jails with petty cr... |
Did NASA disprove or set back global warming? | First of all, an article can link back to any trustworthy source it wants, but it doesn't mean that the article is using that source correctly. It seem to me that the article is trying to say that since CO2 is reflective, it must be cooling off the earth. Is CO2 reflective? Yes. Does it cool off the earth? Heck to the ... |
Why are some of the things that the horoscope says about some signs so accurate? | They're designed that way. I'll give you a horoscope right now, you ready? You have a great need for other people to like and admire you. You have a tendency to be critical of yourself. You have a great deal of unused capacity which you have not turned to your advantage. While you have some personality weaknesses, you ... |
Why is China still a developing country despite it's massive economy? | Because most of its citizens are still poor, subsistence farmers or low skilled factory workers, etc. The economy is massive but their population is ALSO massive. Their per capita GDP is about 1/7 that of the U.SMost of the wealth is dispersed on the coast. While it has a huge economy, there’s a lot of internal strife ... |
How American Politics works. | Large corporations send lobbyists to bribe people in Congress and the Senate to present and vote for bills that will be profitable to them. Politcians tell their base what they want to hear in order to get elected and then just continue to pander to corporate interests, because it's very profitable for them. All the wh... |
how self driving Tesla cars navigate so well? | A lot of expensive and advanced computing systems which include multiple cameras, ultra sonic scanners, radars and a butt load of processing power. _URL_0_ explains it best. |
why is plastic a good insulator? | In that specific case, it's because plastic film is non-porous. That is, it's a solid membrane that doesn't let air through. Fabric on the other hand has all these tiny holes in it between the threads that can let air through. |
What exactly do economists do to "Seasonally Adjust" unemployment figures | It's pretty chill, iirc. Step 1: Data You want the average unemployment each year for 10 years or so, and the average unemployment during the test season for each of those. Step 2: Ratios In each year, figure out how much bigger or smaller it is than usual during the season. Like, if it's 1.1-1.3 times the unemployment... |
Why is there such a high concentration of religious conservatives in the South in the US? | The northern states were mostly farm colonies, and the southern states were mostly exploitation colonies. Those kind of places in the world tend to be poorer, slave colonies that tend to not have had a strong secular system set up, so you get a larger amount of church control over things due to lack of qualified leader... |
Why couldn't Verizon's network handle simultaneous voice and data until relatively recently? | That was a limitation of their non-LTE technology. CDMA is a different technology than GSM and I think CDMA was more voice optimized. Their 3G technology was unable to handle things simultaneously - likely since data browsing wasn't as big of a priority - GSM has wider adoption and their implementation included that ca... |
What is the difference between the titles Great Britain, England and the United Kingdom and is it proper to refer to someone as English or British? | England is, well, England; Great Britain includes England, Scotland and Wales; the United Kingdom includes England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland[this video should explain all that and more]', "Here's a [simple Euler diagram] and an [expanded one] that adds the relationship of the Commonwealth and Crown Dependen... |
Hindu deities, how are there so many versions of the same gods? | So, let's talk about you. You're a person, probably a student somewhere. No matter where you are or what you're doing, you're always you. But! You're not always the same you. When you're at home with your parents you act one way. When you're at school in class, you act another way. When you're hanging out with friends ... |
Why did Bill Clinton remain in office after being impeached? | Impeachment just means that Clinton was officially accused of misconduct. It does not mean that he was actually found guilty of such misconduct. Remember, in the US, the House of Representatives determines if the President should be put on trial. If the House of Representatives determines that this is the case, the Pre... |
When I plug my headphones into the microphone port, why does it work? | Headphones and microphones are remarkably similar in design. The headphone's speaker diaphragm moves in response to sound and this drives a current which moves through the cable. This is also how basic microphones are designed.Speakers and Microphones are essentially the same device working in opposite directions. Spea... |
What exactly is Nihilism? | In general it is the belief that there is no inherent purpose or value in existenceNihilism is the idea that nothing has objective meaning. Often it has religious implications - when you think nothing really means anything the idea of a deity is hard to swallow. Alternatively some people believe that there is inherent ... |
I have to empty my 5 gallon dehumidifier in the basement every day. Where is all that water coming from? And if I didn't have a dehumidifier where would it all go? | The water your dehumidifier produces is actually drawn from the air around it. The air contains water vapor that moves into the air from the earth around the walls and floor of your basement. Concrete absorbs water fairly easily. The water moves through it and eventually evaporates into the air on the other side. Your ... |
What was/is so special about the Vitruvian Man? | It connects the "natural" with an idea of "math and science". This is significant as it represents a key concept in the renaissance - we begin to see a connection between the fabricated world of math and science and its ability to describe and model the real world. |
Why don't you wake up sleepwalker? | A lot of people believe if you wake them up, they'll have a heart attack or something else horrible. These claims are overstated. A normal healthy person is very unlikely to have anything bad happen to them. It will probably confuse or disorient them. Depending on how they react, they might try to defend themselves and... |
Upgrading PC and I don't understand what parts my motherboard can handle. I've never built a PC before and I don't understand a lot of the terms | You need to shop for a socket AM2 Cpu and DDR 2 ram. I wouldn't spend too much on a video card because you are most likely going to be bottlenecked by whatever Cpu you use. |
What can the military do if the president attempts a hostile takeover? | How would the president conduct a hostile takeover without the military? Also a takeover of what?If by "hostile takeover" you mean "military coup", we can only hope that the military understands/remembers that they are beholden to the Constitution, and not to the President. If the President were to issue commands that ... |
Why are jokes against women considered "sexism" or "misogyny" but jokes against men considered funny and "feminism"? | Largely for the same reason that people think it's funny to ridicule the president or rich bankers but may get a bad taste in their mouth if your jokes mock homeless people. Or more generally, why *good* satire punches upwards, mocks those with power and privilege, rather than than going after those without. But most o... |
How does one get college scholarships and how do they work? | There are multiple kinds of scholarships. Many scholarships are applied for. If you google "scholarship search" it will pop up several tools that will help you locate scholarships that you may qualify for. These require you to fill out applications and say why you deserve the scholarship, but they can be quite helpful.... |
what black heads are made of, and why some people get them more than others | Your skin has millions of glands on its surface that secrete an oily wax known as sebum. This is completely natural, and serves a natural lubricant for your skin to prevent chafing and dryness. Many plants have a similar waxy coating on their leaves, which helps prevent dehydration as well. These glands can sometimes g... |
Why are train tracks covered in stones? | Not all are. A great deal are, but there are some areas where it's dirt, and other where it's cement. But it's because stone offer the most support. Dirt can get washed away as mud after a torrential downpour, stones don't do that as often. You even still see trains have trouble with areas that have a lot of dirt aroun... |
How exactly do we know what human-based climate change is a major reason for heavier storm seasons, and not the planet heating up naturally? | That is a pretty meaningless question. If you had to load up a shelf with 50 pounds of rocks and 50 pounds of jellybeans and then the shelf broke because it could only handle 75 pounds how can you be sure if it was the rocks or jellybeans that broke it? You can't, that doesn't mean anything. There is natural heating of... |
The difference between glass and crystal | [This] is probably better than trying to explain it. From [here] > The difference between crystalline silica and silica glass is shown in these simplified two-dimensional projections. It is readily apparent that much of the ordered arrangement of crystalline silica is lost in the glassy form. But the glass retains enou... |
Why is the tech market considered a bubble and what are the precursors to when it is likely to pop? | Some people think the tech sector is a bubble because many companies are trading or being bought for a very large multiplier of what they are currently earnings. People are forecasting very large earnings in the future for these firms even if they aren't making much money right now. If it really is a bubble who can kno... |
Why does cheese go hard when you melt it then let it go cold? | When you heat the cheese up past a certain point, moisture is released, which when it cools down, makes it harder as it is more dense. Water in cheese makes it softer. |
Why was Spelling a Core subject in Elementary school but no longer in Middle and High school? | Spelling never really gets any harder. Vocabulary just expands. It would be like having addition class.Most would have had spelling wrapped into English. Spelling is a subject that is integrated into all the rest, the early focus on spelling is to give you the foundation moving forward where it will be built upon in ev... |
why some people are more susceptible to bug bites than others. | IMO as someone who gets attacked by Mosquitos It might have something to do with the way your body releases Carbon dioxide and your blood Mosquitos are drawn to Co2 so if your body breathes out a higher concentration of it, those monsters are more attracted to you. Even while walking next to someone I get bit more ofte... |
How does a toilet actually flush from water being added to the bowl? | [Toilet Crossview] for reference. As water is added to the bowl, it rises up the pipe following that blue line. When enough water is added, it overflows the other side and gravity takes over. That water overflowing creates a chain of negative pressure and the remaining water/contents of the bowl are basically sucked ou... |
Why hasn't David Miscavige (and the rest of Scientology for that matter) been investigated by the police yet? | Scientology in the past have made it a point to go after people personally if they don't get what they want. . They even tried to infiltrate law enforcement . This hasn't stopped the FBI though. However, since they are classed as a religious group, a lot of their actions are viewed as 'religious practices'. Not to ment... |
What determines the color of the meat of a fish? | This is covered in good extent in book called Modernist Cuisine. I recommend to read that. Meat and fish are red/dark usually for the same reason blood is red. Its the oxygen carrying molecules that make it red. Now this means that from the color of the meat you can see what is the purpose of those muscles in the anima... |
Why can't you be born with dark skin colour if your parents are white (and vice versa)? | Skin color is genetic, like hair or eye color. If your parents aren't coded for it they can't pass it on to you. |
Timbre, or how I know the difference between the sound of a piano and the sound of a violin | Ordinary musical sounds are actually quite complex. We think of a trumpet as playing one note at a time. But it really plays one "fundamental tone" with many "overtones" due to the way that it resonates. This gives a trumpet much of its distinctive sound its "timbre". The overtones are multiples of the fundamental freq... |
Is it just a coincidence that 'Who', 'What', 'When', 'Where', and 'Why' all start with 'Wh' or is there a reason? | There is a reason. Specifically the grammar of PIE marked interrogatives with a prefix that sounded like 'kw'. . As PIE morphed into English the 'kw' prefix became 'hw'. Say both sounds together and notice how similar they are to actually say. Over time the order of the hw got swapped around, and the pronunciation simp... |
Why can't the world have one currency? | There is no reason we couldn't, it wouldn't even be hard to implement if we got 100% buy in from all countries. The problem is that having your own currency is awesome. You can manipulate it to control inflation, interest rates, and other economic factors. You are somewhat detached from other countries, so their econom... |
My nearest major city has a road grid that is *slightly* angled off East West. Is there a practical reason for this? | From what I can tell of the [article on the "Hoddle Grid, it's not a continuation of the original infrastructure, which has a different angle meant to match with the Yarra River. That same article implies that the *slightly* off angle of the rest of the city is aligned with what magnetic north used to be, 8 degrees off... |
As a German with not much knowledge about the US, please explain why Florida is so often made fun of/spoken badly about | There are laws in Florida that arrests are a matter of public record so they end up in the newspaper. Every state and country has idiots doing stupid things but in Florida if they get arrested it goes in the newspaper for everyone to see. This makes it seem like these things happen way more often in Florida when really... |
How are torrent-hosting sites simply not shut down for copyright violations? | Generally because there is nothing hosted on a torrent site. The street equivalent is knowing a guy that can get access to anything. You walk up to him and say, I want some weed. He tells you to go into that red door. Someone else wants to buy booze. He tells them to go into that blue door. Cops come up and try to arre... |
How can cord cutting not build a case for companies to fight net neutrality or raise prices in general? | The cable cutting movement is a tiny portion of total customers. As long as the vast majority are maintaining their combination package, the small number that purchase only one or the other are no big deal. What I find funny is the number of so called "cable cutters" are using the same provider for internet that would ... |
. How do news organizations benefit from being biased? | Being partisan can build them a loyal following. People like having their preconceived notions affirmed. Going to a news source where they have their notions affirmed over and over can gain them very loyal watchers. Plus, it allows advertisers to to very specifically target their advertisements. Go to Fox News and see ... |
why cant NG (naso-gastric) or similar be used as a weight loss option? | NG tubes come with complications. They are not meant to be long term solutions, and would also seriously impact quality of life . More permanent options, such as tubes that go straight through the abdominal wall into the gut, are easier to hide. But they also come with their own set of complications and require surgery... |
If a sizable spacecraft was hovering over earth, would we be able to see it? | You can spot satellites and the ISS from the ground already. They look like shooting stars, but you can see them.All the previous answers already confirmed that you can see spacecraft if they are large or close enough but saying a spacecraft was 'hovering' as in your question bothers me a bit. All satellites have to mo... |
How come sometimes when I blow my nose, and there's a lot of snot, I can't get it out no matter how hard I blow? | You have hairs in your nose that detect when dust and other particles enter and makes you sneeze , the mucas dryes and attaches to them like an anchor |
Why does a hearing a recording of my voice sound different to me then when I hear myself talk? | We hear sounds as vibrations hitting our ear drums. When we hear most sounds, these vibrations travel through the air and into the ear canal. Our own voices also vibrate through our bodies, creating a slightly lower pitch. When you hear a recording of your voice you are missing this extra level of vibration that lowers... |
How did the asterisk end up being used for correcting an incorrectly spelled word? | I think that relates to their use as footnotes. An asterisk* after a word refers to a passage at the bottom of the page which has clarification or extra information regarding the word. I think that with the advent of instant messaging, the method gained popularity as a corrective footnote. The first asterisk of the pai... |
What methods of timekeeping were used before the hour became widely accepted? | In the New Testament, the Roman "watches" were used for night time measurements. They were generally three of our hours long, so the first watch was from 6 PM, then 9 PM, Midnight, and 3 AM to 6 AM. Early Jews divided the night into three watches of four of our hours each. But the Romans also divided the day into twelv... |
considering recent events, what gives the mayor of Baltimore the power to impose a curfew? | The riots impose an immediate threat to civilians, and thus to ensure public safety a mandatory curfew can be set in motion. As long as it does not interfere with emergencies or work, there is 0 issues with it, and it doesn't. Think of it as a smaller scale version of night time curfews during WWII. |
Why do most dogs seem to love beer? | My dog isn't picky. She likes anything even vaguely edible, including paper. I've also known dogs that would eat dirt and rocks, so beer really isn't that weird in comparison. |
How does your brain change from when you are a kid to when you are an adult? | Physically the brain is almost done growing by like age three or so. The brain only gets slightly bigger afterwards. However as you getting older, the brain develops. This means when learning the brain makes new electrical paths. For example, when a toddler is learning to fine tune their motor skills, the electrical im... |
What makes Cuban cigars so sought after? Can they not be grown on another Caribbean country? | It's partly that the soil and climate in Cuba are pretty well unique. Sure tobacco grows everywhere, but exactly where it grows affects it, just like any other crop. It's partly the specific varieties and cultivars of tobacco we're talking about. The tobacco grown from Cuban seed is still among the most prized in the w... |
How can you watch a video while you are still downloading it? | Essentially a torrent is just downloading your file in lots of little fragments from other computers. If your torrenter is set up to request and download these fragments in order, assemble them, and then you play them almost immediately after that, then it does give the impression you're watching it as it's being downl... |
Why is incest such a common trope in porn? | It's taboo , it's something that could arise out of a real life situation , and it strikes the chord of "when sex was still new and exciting" . Even if you're icked out by actual incest, it's kind of the holy trifecta of arousal. |
Why do some salon style shampoos and conditioners have a warning that products purchased from anywhere other than salons could be counterfeited? | The salons get to put a large markup on those products and dont want you buying them elsewhere', "Apart from what is explained already, it was probably a problem at some point. Growing up in South East Asia, there's a few stores that sells 'pro' hair products but their authenticity is often debated. |
How are game engines built? | Game engines are more tools that make it easier for a person to put a game together without worrying about the bare basics of rendering or physics in order to get it to work. > why can't they be improved instead of having to build whole new ones? Most of the time they are improved instead of building new ones, but the ... |
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