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how does your brain decide you like/dislike a certain song? What influences that? And why do we all like different songs?
Basically, it comes down to sensing versus perceiving. Generally everyone senses the same things the same way, from vision to taste, excluding those with sensory deprivations . Perceiving is a different story. It's all in your head. We attach meaning to different sensations. Like when you see your SO and get happy if you're in a great relationship. Basically you attach meaning to different sounds you hear. People tend to like major keys that are consonant, but of course not all because different people attach different meanings based on their experiences! Hope this helps, this is the first ELI5 explanation that I've done! Feel free to ask further questions!
How do LED thermometers work?
Op are you talking about Laser Temperature Guns/thermometers?? If you are: the laser doesn't have anything to do with the temp, it just aligns the sensor that is located right next to the laser on the front of the device.An\xa0infrared thermometer\xa0is a\xa0thermometer\xa0which infers temperature from a portion of the\xa0thermal radiation\xa0sometimes called\xa0blackbody radiation\xa0emitted by the object being measured. They are sometimes called\xa0laser thermometers\xa0as a\xa0laser\xa0is used to help aim the thermometer, or\xa0non-contact thermometers\xa0or\xa0temperature guns, to describe the device's ability to measure temperature from a distance. By knowing the amount of\xa0infrared\xa0energy emitted by the object and its\xa0emissivity, the object's temperature can often be determined. Infrared thermometers are a subset of devices known as "thermal radiation thermometers".
How is the 3D effect created in movies?
You need a second camera that is filming from a slightly different perspective, just like humans can see in three dimensions because they have two eyes set slightly apart. You play back footage from both perspectives at the same time, but the viewer wears polarized lenses which filter the image so that the left eye sees one thing and the right eye another. You may recall older 3D using colored lenses for the same purpose. You can also process a standard film to give it computer-generated 3D effects. This is a lot cheaper than filming a real 3D movie, but the result tends to be ugly.
Why is sleep so comfortable shortly upon waking(especially when you have work/school/etc)?
When you wake up in the morning, you get something called sleep inertia. It's the groggyness you feel up to two hours after you have woken up. It's a "false" kind of sleepy, which makes you want to stay in bed. This combined with how comfortable your warm, soft bed is, makes it so darn hard to get up. _URL_1_ _URL_0_ edit: a wordAn object in motion tends to stay in motion, while an object at rest tends to stay at rest.Well, in one situation you're trying to fall asleep. In the other you're trying to wake up. And nobody wants to go to work or school.
What happens to your body that makes you dizzy when you get up too fast?
When you stand, blood briefly pools in your lower extremities. Your body undergoes what is called vasoconstriction, to equalize the blood pressure pretty quickly, by squeezing blood back up into your body. However, you have a brief period of insufficient blood in your upper body, leaving you to feel faint. People occasionally *do* faint from this in fact, if the effect is severe enough. This is called orthostatic hypotension.
What would happen if an asteroid the size of the moon hit the earth?
The asteroid that may have been responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs had a diameter of about ~~170~~ 10-15 km. The moon has a diameter of about 3,500 kilometers. I'm not a scientist so I won't pretend to tell you exactly what will happen, but I think that it goes without saying this would be a catastrophe unlike anything seen before.
My grandparents live in a small town, where all of the older residents have a land line number that begins with the same three numbers. Why is it the same?
Jesus christ, are you trying to make us feel old, OP? That's how ALL land line phone numbers used to work. If there was less than 10000 lines, they all belonged to the same exchange. You'd get 555-0000, next person got 555-0001, next person got 555-0002. You kids and your cell phones and skype and hoola hoops and pacman video games and Zima
Why Nuking a asteroid that is headed for Earth is not a good strategy.
Let's start by assuming that we have the nukes to fracture the asteroid. It may be a long shot, but nukes release a *lot* of energy and asteroids aren't necessarily as solid as a typical rock on earth. The big thing is that the Earth is still being hit. When you break an asteroid into two pieces, the energy of the original asteroid just gets split between the two, so all of that energy is still headed towards Earth. This is equally true of breaking it into 2 pieces and breaking it into a million pieces. You're not going to reduce an asteroid to sand-sized pieces, but even if you did all of that sand is going to hit the Earth. This could be bad in and of itself as all of that energy gets transferred to the atmosphere in the form of heat, although that is probably not an apocalyptic event in and of itself. However, the bit thing to realize is that the asteroid isn't going to be split into a billion pieces the size of pebbles/sand. There are going to be *lots* of pieces that are still large enough to make it to the ground. By breaking the asteroid up you are just spreading the destruction over a wider area of the planet's surface. This would be like replacing a cannon ball with grapeshot--it's still highly destructive. Ultimately nuking an asteroid would probably have *some* positive effect, but if all of the pieces are still hitting the Earth then it's not really worth it. By contrast, if we find an apocalyptic asteroid with the Earth in its sites we can send a sapcecraft to it to alter its orbit ever so slightly so that it doesn't actually hit the Earth. If we detect the object early enough then the change to its orbit would not have to be that much.
Why are Canada Geese called such instead of Canadian Geese?
Because it's their name, not their nationality. If I live in New York, and my name is Bob France, you wouldn't call me French.
Did Rob Ford actually help the city of Toronto?
[Here's a good article that goes over the positive outcome for Toronto] tl;dr: While Ford's campaign was based on "stopping the gravy train", he never found one. Gravy leaked out of small cracks in municipal government. Ford saved $100,000 here and there by combining depts, etc. Didn't see it mentioned in the article, but ~$12mil saved by privatizing garbage collection. Started MUCH needed repairs on the elevated Gardiner Expressway . Nothing came out of it thanks to council and provincial government, but Ford was adamant about adding and expanding subway lines.
Why do basements/cellars tend to attract mold and mildew so much?
A cellar is usually colder then the outside as it is kept dark and surrounded by cold dirt. Humidity is based on not only the amount of water in the air but also the temperature of the air. So when air gets down into the basement and gets cooled down its humidity increases. All life needs water to thrive. Basements with a lot of humidity will have a lot more humidity so it is easier for mold to get the water it needs.Mold and mildew thrive in locations which are dark, moist, and cool. Basements are often a perfect environment for mold and mildew because they don't see a ton of sunlight, are usually cooler than other parts of the house, and are usually moist environments especially when they are unfinished.The best habitats for mold and mildew are cold, dark, and humid. In a basement, away from the light of the sun, it is all three . That makes basements a good place for them to grow.
Is it possible to have more than one type of flu (bacterial or viral) running in your body at the same time?
Just to clarify a little more "Flu" does not just mean illness. It is specifically illness caused by *Influenza* viruses. In fact \'flu\' is short for \'influenza\'. The term "bacterial flu" is misleading because it means a bacterial infection occurring because your immune system has been weakened by the flu virus. So you can't have bacterial flu without having "actual" influenza caused by the influenza virus. So your answer is in your question. You can only have what is confusingly described as "bacterial flu" if you have viral flu. If you're using the word "flu" to describe any illness with similar symptoms then yes, you can definitely have as many infections as you would care to pick up. It will eventually kill you. Immune disorders are such a problem because you end up with every disease and infection out there and it becomes impossible to stop the sufferer getting sick and dying from any and all kinds of infections.
What is the difference between "Partly Cloudy" and "Partly Sunny" forecasts?
Partly Cloudy means blue skies with some clouds Partly Sunny means a cloudy sky with some occasional sunI actually found the answer thanks to NOAA, here it is: Partly Cloudy:Between 3/8 and 5/8 of the sky is covered by clouds. Partly Sunny:Between 3/8 and 5/8 of the sky is covered by clouds. The term "Partly Sunny" is used only during daylight hours.
Why do humans express ourselves creatively?
**TL;DR**: *We have intelligence and spare time and a desire to accomplish something and to leave something behind or give something to other people. Being creative uses the first to fill the second and fulfill those desires.* In terms of flair, this isn't so much about culture as it is biology. The first reason is that we're a thinking animal that isn't driven solely by instinct. We have thought processes that very very routinely move us out of the realms of "automatically do X when the environment is like Y", which cause a caterpillar to munch when placed on a leaf or a deer to run when it hears a loud noise. Then there's our lifespan and living standards. We do not sleep or have to search for food and shelter and comfort and mating every single second of every single day. We have "down time" and the intelligence to both use that "down time", and want to use that "down time" somehow or we'll get bored. Finally that intelligence causes many of us to seek creative satisfaction, and to serve some purpose. We want something called \'fulfillment\' out of life. It can be a public form of fulfillment for some where they're recognized by others for what they do, a feeling of pride for having helped others feel better by doing an excellent stand-up comedy or rap song or dance routine that spreads joy, or an entirely internal drive which causes someone to feel very satisfied when they have accomplished something creative like completing a work of sculpture. All three things - time, ability enabled by intelligence, and the need for some form of personal fulfillment, lead to creative expression. And the level varies greatly from person to person, dictating how central that need is to the way they live their life.
When people go outside to take a breath of fresh air, why does that help calm them down?
Going outside firstly removes the trigger and stimulus that's causing the stress - and so they can get out of an emotionally charged situation. Fresh air may also be a change in temperature, so they have a different physical response too, and that may help them breathe deeper, giving the stress hormones a chance to disperse
I just read the Brian Banks story; Why are women who falsley accuse men of rape hardly ever if at all sent to prison?
If they were proved, in a court of law, beyond a reasonable doubt, to have knowingly and falsely accused someone, they do get sent to prison.There is a difference between a false accusation, an accused raper being found not-guilty, and being criminally liable. It is possible that someone gave false witness that they reasonably thought was true. Alternatively, there may have simply not been enough evidence to prove it was rape, but it also does not mean the person was lying . Finally there is the case where one party intentionally lies to try and get the other in trouble . In this case it would be criminal liable and the accuser could get criminally prosecuted.
How is Yahoo still a top 5 most visited website?
A tremendous number of browsers came with it auto-homepaged in the earlier days of the internet. It was the preferred way of accessing search functionality when the web really started taking off, and it had excellent branding. And that stuck, and stuck hard. A whole lot of older users have it as their home page, so every time they browse the web they start there because that's what they did ten or fifteen years ago.
What exactly are Reddit bots and who runs them?
They're automated computer programs. Whoever writes them runs them. Anyone can write a bot and read Reddit posts and reply. Automoderator is a special bot that's written by Reddit staff
What does the term "too big to fail" mean?
It's a commonly used phrase to mean "this company is so big and does so much business that if it were to fail and go under, it would have massive negative effects on the economy as a whole." For example: We have a lot of banks in the US, but we have some *really really big* ones, too. When those banks started to fail, they were big enough that they caused massive, very bad effects to the economy of the *entire country* and frankly even extending out to foreign countries as well. Since those companies are *too big to fail,* the government needed to step in and help them to not fail in order to prevent another Great Depression.
If your voice sounds higher than what it sounds like to you, how can you sing the correct pitch?
Practice listening to yourself and *actually* hearing your own voice. Singing in a small, acoustically live room can help. I recommend purchasing some pvc pipe and making a small phone shape so that you can sing into one end and have it projected directly into your ear. I can almost certainly assure you it is not a biological problem.
Why are there no Grape flavored Yogurts?
Chobani made a grape yogurt, but I don't think it sold very well. Grape and yogurt doesn't really mix in a way that is large scale marketable to consumers. Yogurt can be kind of sour, mixing that with grape is not a flavor many people can get behind.
Please ELI5 the concept of IPOs and what are the effects of this IPO to companies that did not previously have this.
IPO = Initial Public Offering Could also be called "Taking a company public" ELI5 version - You own a company. It is not small, but not as large as you want it to be. You could borrow money from a bank in order to grow your business, but for a bunch of reasons banks are not always willing or able to loan you large sums of money. Instead, you offer to sell ownership of your company to the general public - in the form of shares - in exchange for their money. In effect, your company is now partially owned by private individuals and investors, and you have more money to invest in further business development. There are huge legal implications of this. Every country has security laws which must be followed when you take a company public. This is mostly to prevent abuse of the public through various scams and insider trading.
Why is tinfoil (aluminum foil) so heat resistant?
Heat resistent in what way? If you refer to "Why doesn't it melt", simply because it's melting point is incredibly high, much higher than your grill can produce . If you are instead refering to "Why doesn't it get super hot to the touch" then you're building on a wrong premise: it isn't heat resistant at all and does get hot. It gets just as hot as the food underneath it. However tinfoil is so thin and so large that any heat that it does have dissapitates into the surrounding air almost instantly. Things that have little mass cannot hold as well to their energy as more massive things, and things with large surface area cool down faster than things that have lower area.
Why do french fries taste good while they're hot and nasty cold?
Your tongue can detect basic flavours only: sweetness, saltiness, sourness, etc. Most of what we call the sense of taste is actually sense of smell. The smell of food while eating comes from molecules being carried from the food into your nose via the back of your mouth. Food that is hot gives off loads of these molecules, but food that is cold gives off hardly any. Hence a large part of the flavour of food is lost when it is cold, so your fries no longer taste as good.
How are we able to measure space?
There are several methods to calculate the distance of a celestial body. Which one is used depends on the exact circumstance. Here are some of the most important methods: --- * **Parallax**: Earth orbits the sun. In the process of this orbit, we change our position in space relative to a celestial body Using trigonometry, we can calculate the distance to the celestial body in question. * Advantages: very precise for close objects, no complicated instruments needed. * Disadvantage: only possible for close objects --- * **Spectral emission**: Stars emit photons with specific wavelengths based on the material they are fusing in their core. We can identify the composition of a star by analyzing those photons. Due to the expansion of space, however, the wavelengths of photons emitted very far away get redshifted. That means, their wavelengths get longer the further they travel. By comparing the wavelengths of the photons we *measure* to the wavelengths the photons *should have* we can calculate the distance those photons traveled. And thus the distance to the celestial body. * Advantage: Possible over longer distances * Disadvantage: The object has to be bright enough so we can measure spectral lines reliably --- * **Standard candles**: Standard candles are celestial bodies of known luminosity . We know this luminosity due to the characteristics of some bodies By comparing the absolute brightness to the apparent brightness we can calculate the distance to the standard candle. By identifying standard candles in distant galaxies and nebulae, we can infer the distance of those structures. * Advantage: Possible over long distances * Disadvantage: We need to find standard candles ---
Why do I always wake up early after a night of hard drinking?
It also messes with your sleep cycle. I'm afraid I can't remember exactly how it goes about doing this, but I saw a documentary where the person who the sleep-scientists gave several large glasses of red wine ended up staying in REM and light sleep relatively longer, and only attaining deep sleep for a short time before coming back into lighter sleep at an early stage than normal
What the Drake and Meek Mill beef was all about.
Meek called Drake out for using a ghost writer . Drake got offended and started a one-sided twitter war while Meek sat back and laughed. Drake made a dis track, Meek still sat back and laughed. It's a joke because it's like watching a 3 year old throw a tantrum and tell their parents they hate them and they're running away forever while the parents are like "yea, sure, uh huh, finish your juice sweetie".
Why are porn sites more likely to infect the user's computer with viruses than other sites?
Impulse clicking. People are more likely to ignore warnings to see a naked chick than to read an insurance quote. The are also more likely to be embarrassed about what they were doing and not report it. Scammers know this, are are much more likely to use porn sites to deliver malware[It turned out religious sites were the most likely, when accounting for the number of sites out there.]
Why do loud noises seem to physically hurt? Is it all in our brain signals? Do deaf people feel pain from them?
Pain is how our body signals to our brain that we're in a situation that's potentially causing us harm, so we're motivated to try to get out of that situation. Loud enough noises can physical damage your ear, and as a result, we've evolved so that somewhere before the threshold of damage to our delicate ear parts, a loud enough sound will cross a pain threshold. That pain is your ear telling your brain that being around these loud noises is bad for you, and you should try to get yourself away from them before your hearing is damaged.
How do carnivores like Tigers and Lions get enough nutrient balance by only eating meat?
One, By eating things like blood, skin, organs, bones, etc. Obviously that animal they ate *contains all vitamins and minerals required for that prey animal to live* so consuming all, or most, of a prey animal will include a wider variety of vitamins and nutrients. Humans can do this too, for example fish liver oil, whale blubber etc,. Whale blubber contains high amounts of vitamin C. Two, Different animals have different dietary needs. We primates require Vitamin C in our diets but we can manufacture other vitamins , many other mammals, including cats and dogs, *can actually synthesize their own vitamin C* so it isn't a dietary requirement. Cats require vitamin A from animal sources, they cannot process carotenoids into vitamin A. Dogs, and us, can eat a carrot and make vitamin A. Different animals have different needs and different capabilities to manufacture vitamins or to dietary input into essential compounds.
Why does some food get freezer-burned while others don't?
Packaging. I wrap my stuff in plastic wrap, then foil, then a ziplock baggie and I never get it.
How do we measure calories in a product?
I hope you're talking food here, because my answer relies on that Short answer: very poorly Real answer: calories are a unit of energy, the amount required to heat one gram of water one degrees Celsius at standard temperature and pressure . So to measure food calories, we light it on fire and see how much the temperature of our system changes, and we can use that to measure the energy in the food Problem 1: we aren't firey pits that burn everything we eat, we do complex biology and we can't actually process everything, so the numbers are generally imperfect estimates Problem 2: we can't measure all samples of a single thing. Any item can vary wildly in sugars and fats, even between say, two bananas, and so our numbers are just an average of a pretty small sample
Nowadays most money is digital, what prevents a bank to edit its computer records with another trillion $?
Digital money isn't just a number in a spreadsheet, it's an accounting of where the money came from. If there's no log showing that money was debited from one account and credited to another, it's not really there. Banks are regulated, audited, and taxed. Sure, a banker with enough seniority could probably create some fake money, and get away with it for a short time. But they wouldn't get away with it forever, because the numbers just wouldn't add up and before long somebody would figure it out and they'd go to prison.
How and why did the body associate tears with sadness?
Without getting too technical, the short version is: When you are sad, your body released hormones through tears that can help you feel better.
Why does the sky look grainy at dusk?
Just a slight malfunction while rendering the night sky. Projecting a holographic observable universe isn't easy work, you know.
Why do colors combine to make other colors?
Colors are a response your brain makes to picking up certain wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation striking receptor cells in your brain. When this happens, those cells send signals to your brain, and your brain creates the image. Certain combinations of stimulation on those cells cause your brain to generate different colors, to help further discriminate, because this is a beneficial evolutionary adaptation . Color itself is not a property of light or anything. Rather, a product of your brain interpreting it.
How does electronic currency mining work?
Simplified, with bitcoin, the "coins" are a long chain of solutions to a convoluted math problem. Each coin has to be discovered mathematically by computing out the problem, and it's designed so that each new coin's problem is harder than the one before, and that only a set number of coins will be discovered. After that, the coins are to be used as currency. Until then, as long as each coin is valuable enough, there's money to be made by devoting lots of computers to working through the problem to find the next coins. That's bitcoin mining.
why is the Wilhelm scream so overused in movies?
It's an inside joke/running gag. Sound mixing is a very tedious job, so they like to have fun. Like how Pixar movies almost have "A113" in their movies.
When dieting and losing weight, is there a universal right way? Also do cravings mean something? And other ?
The right way is to utilize more calories than you consume. All diets that succeed do this, all diets that fail, fail to do this. People may be more or less effective at eating less calories, or at burning more, but the equation is always the same. It is possible that combinations of foods make you feel better or worse and that these things enable you to stick with it more. It is certainly healthy to avoid HF corn syrup in general, but from a pure weight loss perspective it is not all that important. Cravings can certainly happen with sugar swings, but again thats about your ability to sustain a pattern of reduced calorie intake and increased calorie burning. Eat the right number of calories. Then eat a good balance of foods. Exercise. That's the recipe for both health and weight loss.
Why "Gravity" Does Not Exist
Newton said gravity is a mysterious force that affects everything with mass. He didn't know what causes this force but he did create some useful equations. Then Einstein came up with General Relativity. He says that mass bends space-time and that's why things are attracted to each other. For Example, if you put 2 heavy balls on a trampoline, they warp the trampoline and move towards each other. This is just an analogy, but it helps give you the idea. This warping of space-time has some other side affects, which allows General Relativity to predict and explain thing that Newton's law doesn't .
Some genes, increase the likelihood of getting certain diseases (like cancer) why?
It's kind of misleading to think of the gene as being exclusively for cancer-causing purposes. Typically the "cancer genes" people talk about are variations on a gene that codes for sometime useful. Like when people say they have the BRCA1 gene , they don't actually mean they have a genetic sequence in a place where everyone else has nothing. Everyone has a BRCA1 gene, it's just that normally it codes for tumor-suppressing proteins. In people with certain mutations in that region, however, the proteins that it codes for are not produced correctly and thus do not properly suppress the uncontrolled growth of cellsYou 've just opened a can of worms I 've avoided all my life. So, "cancer genes" are usually involved in the replication process of DNA. Simply put, the proteins they produce can promote replication, inhibit it or stop mitosis to fix errors that occured in the process. Alterations in these genes can cause uncontrolled replication which makes it VERY prune to errors and increases the chances of it becoming dysplastic and eventually becoming anaplastic .
What are the primary cost saving mechanisms of single-payer systems?
If you think about what a private insurance business looks like right now and notice that a huge expensive fraction of it provides no actual care, or even actively works to AVOID providing care, you'll start to see how single-payer systems can be more efficient. I'll list some costs associated with private health insurance which are absent or greatly reduced with single payer:1. Agent salaries and commissions 2. Phone center employees and facilities3. Billing infrastructure and salaries4. Website maintenance 5. Advertising salaries and media buys6. Legal services; compliance, contracts, civil suits, mergers, etc.7. Adverse legal settlements8. paperwork to customers 9. Every single contact between insurance co. and health care provider, you pay for both sides of that interaction . Also, inevitable protracted conflicts are costly.10. Actuarial analysis/business planning11. Executive salary12. Company profit!
- How Do Solid State Hard Drives Work?
Flash drives work by having individual cells that are left with an electrical charge by depositing extra electrons that is maintained even after power is removed. It's almost like a tiny series of microscopic batteries that is either set positive/negative or negative/positive. From an answer about general storage: _URL_0_
Why do floppy disks and SD cards have a mechanical lock switch to block access, when anyone can just flip the switch and access the data inside?
The lock on floppies didn't deny access to the data. It locked out writing over it. It's more a a precaution to keep your data safe from yourself.OP confirmed for 5. The security hole on floppies prevents it from being written to accidentally, not from being read. Same with the SD cards.
What is the definition of life?
All known life has a few things in common, organisms have these in common: they're composed of a cell or cells, undergo metabolism, maintain homeostasis, grow, respond to stimuli, and reproduce. There are a few things that seem to do a few but not all of these processes, like viruses, which is why they're classified as nonlife or as some kind of intermediate gray area between life and nonlife. We don't necessarily "know" nonlife mutated into life sometime in the past, but we view it as the most likely scenario because we do know that the Earth once had no life, and now, today, it does have life, and also because we know the processes it would have to undergo are theoretically possible.
Is there any benefit to washing your hands before going to the bathroom?
Well, if you are handling something that you shouldn't get onto your mucus membranes, it might be a good idea to wash your hands before wiping your ass. Like, for example, if you are cooking with chili powders.
Why does good cellphone service/4G come and go, even in the exact same location.
Could be a number of reasons. Most commonly: 1. That is because cell coverage is a "breathing" network. As more people use the tower the less power an antenna can allocate for you so the coverage shrinks. As people log off or move out the more power an antenna has and the better your service will be. This is especially true if there is rough terrain between you and the tower. 2. Your between two towers or two "sectors" aka antennas of the same tower. You could constantly handing off between two towers which causes your tower to fluctuate. Also if your between two antennas the same hand off occurs. The more antennas and or towers that can talk to you the higher the noise floor or pollution and the less good signal you get. 3. The tower your at isn't maintained well. We have metric reports on cell sites where we work and can usually trend when problems occur. Your provider may be out of fucks to give and won't spend the money to dispatch a tower crew to fix. Source: I work for a tier 3 regional carrier engineering department as a director for 10 years and launched CDMA/evdo/lte.
Distillation as it pertains to alcoholic drinks
Once the liquid that they are making the liquor out of has been fermented, and has alcohol in it, then the alcohol needs to be concentrated. Alcohol has a slightly lower boiling point than water, so they heat the liquid to just below the boiling point of water. The alcohol boils off while the majority of the water remains liquid, separating the two. The alcohol vapor is then cooled and condensed back into a more concentrated and higher proof liquid. Then they generally age it in a barrel.
Are magnets just found or does man make them be what they are? How does this happen?
Both, magnets occur naturally and we can make them. So electrons are like fanbois and ~~neutrons~~ protons are like hot babes. The bois orbit in the friend zone of the babes, never getting too close, never getting too far away either. If a bunch of babes and their bois go to a mall, and there's a sword outlet on one end and a Victoria's Secret on the other end, then the bois are going to generally head towards the sword outlet, and away from the lingerie shop due to embarassment. At this point, if someone shoots a size-Large anime T-shirt into the front of the crowd and the fanbois start to excitedly pass it around and it swiftly gets passed towards the sword outlet. This is what we call magnetism. Now sometimes the fanbois happen to be arranged nicely, such as in the food court. This is natural magnetism, and generally what you see in ferromagnetism . Sometimes you have a Victoria's Secret nearby and this is called induced magentism or paramagnetism. Now sometimes everyone is randomly scattered around but you have some bro dudes walk by that the babes are attracted to but the fanbois try to get in the way. After the bros leave, the fanbois are still standing in the same spot, and this can be an example of magnetic domains, or using magnets to create more magnets. I hope that was as entertaining as it was explanatory?
Why do we cover railway tracks with rocks ? Does it improve the stability when a train goes by ? (due to the vibrations)
Although it doesn't look it, the ballast is pretty solid. It distributes the load from the passing trains, keeps down unwanted vegetation and enables water to drain away. This last one is very important. Where I live, there was some flooding back in May, and parts of the railway line were submerged. The water, having just washed down from the hillsides, was very muddy, and so the ballast is caked in mud. And so right now the line is closed for a couple of weeks while they clean the ballast. This is because the mud is preventing the water from draining away properly. In the winter, the wet mud would likely freeze, and water expands when it freezes: and so it might actually lift the tracks slightly. If we have a winter where the ballast freezes, unfreezes and freezes again a few times, that could loosen the tracks and make them dangerous.To my knowledge. Its actually to help deal with water. the rocks make it really hard for water to pool around the tracks and help to prevent moisture damage and in some environment ice build upThe rail ties sit on the rocks to distribute the weight of the train. It goes like this. Train wheels distribute to the rail, which spreads the weight to several ties, which distribute the weight to a larger ground area. The rocks help disperse the weight to a greater area rather than just the footprint of the tie.
Why at high speeds on a highway with the window down create s fast pulsating air sound?
Have you ever blown air over the top of a bottle and made that cool "hum" noise? If so, I'm sure you 've noticed, the tone gets higher pitched with a smaller bottle, or with more liquid in it. The same thing is happening in your car, only on a much larger scale, which is why the tone is so low . The window is open, acting like the opening of a bottle. The rest of the car is essentially sealed and mostly empty inside, acting like a container. Travel the right speed with the window open the right amount, and that reverberation will occur just like you were blowing the right speed over the mouth of a bottle. The technical reason this happens is because air pressure drops as relative speed increases. The air inside your car is "not moving" and is "high pressure", while the air outside is moving at whatever speed the car is, and is relatively "low pressure". Basically, the air outside sucks out some of the air inside, which makes it speed up, which drops the pressure, which makes some of the air outside come in, before repeating over and over and over.
Why does it take longer to develop professional baseball players than professional football or basketball players?
The average length of a professional baseball player's career is longer than that of an NBA or NFL player, largely because the athletic skills needed don't drop off as dramatically once the player gets into their mid to late 20s. So, since a baseball player has a longer career, they can take longer to develop the skills.
China's one child policy and their economy
The one child policy was that if you had more than one child you would be fined, and then more heavily taxed. They did not take and kill children. You are correct that without a population growth high enough to at least replace the populace they are looking at economic collapse. That is why this year they changed the law to be a 2 child limit before you start facing fees and heavier taxes.
Is it possible to have any more than 3 spatial dimensions?
There are only 4 dimensions that we can experience . Other dimensions can exist in mathematics at least. The problem is that we cannot properly imagine these dimensions, since our minds cannot truly comprehend/ visualize a fourth spatial dimension. We can sorta represent 4D object in 3D, just like we do with 3D objects in 2D but there is nothing in our universe that expresses 4-dimensionality in any meaningful sense
Why do things with lower resolutions look bad only after seeing something higher in resolution?
Because the brain is really good at filling in blanks. You're not seeing the picture itself, you're seeing the thing it is a picture of. You don't see a collection of brown and green pixels, you see a tree. It's not until you have something to compare it against that you notice the difference.
Why do new cars smell the way they do?
because of left over chemicals from the plastics and the leather or faux leather treatments are evaporating into a mostly sealed environmentThat sweet sweet smell is just a bunch of plastic chemicals that are probably as bad as smoking a cigarette.
I tried to sign up for health insurance through _URL_0_ but I don't make enough money to get subsidized...what do I do? [from Florida]
If you do not make enough money to get subsidized, you may make little enough money to qualify for Medicaid. Unfortunately, due to Florida's decision not to expand the Medicaid program, there is a gap between the maximum income to qualify for Medicaid and the minimum income to qualify for subsidies. If you fall within this gap, you probably will not be able to get affordable insurance.
how come there is thunder/lightning during storms but during blizzards/snowstorms there is no thunder?
Actually, there is! [See this!] That said, the reason you don't usually hear thunder during snowstorms is because snow actually suppresses the sound! It basically absorbs it, since it's just fluff in the air, drastically reducing the distance it can be heard! While a regular thunderstorm can be heard for miles and miles, a thundersnow is limited to just 2-3 miles of sound. As for why it's so rare to see a storm like that? You need moisture in the air to produce a thunderstorm. In the summer this is easy, as warm air holds water better. Unfortunately, or fortunately, cold air holds less moisture, and as a result you need special conditions for thundersnow. A warm, wet front trailing or leasing a cold front can produce it. Places like the gulf of Mexico will see it more often, due to readily available warm moist air!
Power button on a smart phone
I suggest that you read a few button tutorials for embedded systems like arduino or raspberry pi. The processor can read the state of the buttons at any time. So they do this in a loop. When they notice the button is pressed they start a timer and wait for the button to be released. By measuring the time it takes for you to release the button they can do different functions. To save on battery they might not do it in a loop but rather have an interrupt logic in place that will signal the CPU whenever the state of a button changes and make it run the button checking logic. There may also be additional logic on the circuit board that detects if the power button have been held down for some time without the CPU reacting and do certain functions like toggling the power. This can be useful if the CPU have crashed or if the device is out of powerIt is worth noting that a smartphone power button is not a physical on/off switch like a typical light switch, but instead something more akin to the key of a keyboard - when you press the button a piece of software in the phone registers this and then performs the appropriate task, which can be programmed to be different depending on how long the software determines the button is pressed.Software. If the button wasn't pressed on the previous time, but is now, save the time. If the button was released and press time was < 1 second, turn off the screen. If the button is still being pressed and more than 1 second elapsed so far, show shutdown screen. If the button is still being pressed after 5 seconds, perform a shutdown.
Why are most holiday messages depersonalized?
It's so that the card won't be limited to being from a single person or a group. "Wishing you a happy holiday" can come from either your single brother or from both your grandparents. If it said "I wish you a happy holiday," groups and couples wouldn't buy that one, and vice-versa. So the company that makes the cards would have to make multiple versions of the card. That incurs additional expense-- and, simply due to chance and demographics, one version would outsell the others, so they would have to try and calculate how much that discrepancy would be, in order to not produce not enough or too many of each one. Much easier to just make them more generic, so they make sense coming from either individuals or groups. The people giving the card can add personal messages that make any vagueness clear, anyway.
Why do people use American Express credit cards?
American Express is a very Customer-Oriented card program. The individuals that actually carry and use the card love it, generally speaking. Many merchants, of course, hate it. However, there are a few merchants that do like taking AmEx, even though the commission is higher. AmEx is more like a "Club" card than a regular credit card. On the opposite end of the scale, "Visa" is accepted by almost every business in the world -- even your Sister -- Ummm that's a joke :) AmEx is far better, in my experience, at rewarding brand loyalty. My current AmEx has no fees, anywhere in the world -- no exchange fees, no ATM fees, no telephone call fees. Every time I rent a car with the card, I'm fully covered, even to the point of having a car delivered directly to where I'm standing within 12 hours. I had a strange charge on the card one time. I called the AmEx service desk. I told the rep that I had a strange charge on the card that I did not think was accurate, and I will explain it to you "SHHHH! Mr. Speedy1! You don't need to explain anything. We don't want you to waste your own time. The charge is coming off the card this very instant! If the hotel doesn't like it, then they can go pound sand!" I swear that I have never spent more than One Minute -- yes, 60 seconds -- on the phone with AmExWhen I signed up for my American Express card I got 3% cashback automatically deposited into a savings account that earned 5% interest. Not a bad deal. Since then the economy has taken a dump and the card no longer offers that benefit, but I hesitate to switch because it helps my credit by having such an old account.
Why does inbreeding increase the likelihood of birth defects?
Everybody has bad genes in them - I remember a scientist quipping that there are enough genetic defects in the human genome to kill a person several times over. However, all humans get two sets of genes, one from each parent. As a result, many of the 'defects' you might have in your genes are simply overridden by the working copy you got from your other parent. However, when you inbreed, you've got two people with very similar genetics, which means that its more likely that they'll both have identical copies of a defective gene . That means the offspring is more likely to receive both copies of the defect from their parents, losing that protection that normally came from receiving two sets of chromosomes. Do not that inbreeding doesn't increase rates of mutations, just the likelihood of genetic defects that are already existing in the parents being expressed fully. Also, this question gets asked a lot. Use the search bar next time.
Where is all the water going?
The problem isn't that we're losing water, it's that we're just using clean freshwater faster than it's being replenished. You remember hearing in the cowboy stories about how great the Rio Grande was? [This is what it looks like today] after it's been dammed up for irrigation & drinking water up north.
Is it possible for new major cities in first world countries to emerge and be as populous as the current ones?
Theoretically, cities build up for many reasons, but a key is economics and demographics. There is a dual causality to these. Cities with good demographic conditions can create good economic opportunities, and vice versa. Basically what you need is economic opportunity, or some major demographic shift. For example, Fort McMurray has increased its population by 10 times in the last 40 years or so. Because there are good jobs there. Also many of florida's fastest growing cities were from Retired people moving in from the north.
The recently annonced exotic hadrons made of 4 quarks.
{Quarks carry color, antiquarks anticolor. These colors can be red, green or blue, RGB, and ofcourse also antired, antiblue, antigreen. Mesons are made of 2 quarks, a quark and its anti-quark, so that the resulting meson will be colorless Baryons are made of 3 quarks. The exotic hadrons are made out of more than 3 quarks and that could be done like so: 4 quarksR, aR, B, aB 5 quarksRGB R aR So yeah normally the 4quark hadrons aren't more stable than two mesons of 2 quarks. so we call it exotic }-ish", 'Im really annoyed by these overly complex ELI5 questions. People come here asking them and expect in depth ELI am a high school graduate answers. Ask /r/askscience
Why are Canadians considered to be one of the nicest people? Did anything special happened? Is Canada such a nice place to live in?
We help people all over the world. Many countries have been helped by our peacekeeping efforts. And we are generally polite. We even won many battles during the world wars and even hid the Dutch princesses in our country while the nazis invaded them. They send us 100,000 tulips every year in appreciation. _URL_0_', "Canadian culture values politeness in public. It's part of the national identity, along with peace, order, and responsible government, winter sports, multiculturalism, and disdaining the loud variety of patriotism the US is so fond of.
How I can tell if it's safe to click on a link here in Reddit w/o someone doing it purposefully to get my IP
Guy threatens suicide, someone tries to help, guy is mad. What?', "You can't. If you are worried just click links from sites that you trust, or get a vpn.
can anyone explain this magic trick
If you are asked to pick a number between 1 and 10, statistically most people pick the number 6. Do this trick enough times with enough people and eventually you'll hit the jackpot.There is the possibility the guy just went around to random people, either using the same color-number combo, or random each time until he got one.
Why can't we send someone with a piece of paper and a pencil to map the Paris Catacombs?
Because he would end up dead in few minutes of course. Seriously, there are maps of Paris catacombs , they could be incomplete because things can change and nobody cares about extra dead-ends.
Why does our body seem like it's exhausted when we oversleep?
REM cycles. You oversleep, and your body's internal clock gets screwed up so it rolls over to the next cycle and thinks you need to sleep. We need sleep to give our bodies time to repair without need for action, so they can do it freely and easily. Studies have shown that we can also solve problems we were thinking up the day before during sleep. It's basically a system repair daily to make sure we're good to go for tomorrow.
Does the FBI really have a magical Google like in Criminal Minds?
No, that's ust to make TV interesting. Dozens on people sitting quietly in cubicles for days or weeks searching for the info doesn't make good television.TV > "Garcia, find me any man named David who lives within 4 miles of a 24 fitness who grew up in a home with an alcoholic mother and an older brother." *7 seconds, and four key strokes into uberdatabase later* > "Okay, I 've got two names for you." Reality > "Garcia, find me any man named David who lives within 4 miles of a 24 fitness who grew up in a home with an alcoholic mother and an older brother." > "Got it. I'll get back to you as soon as I find something." *Get list of 24 hour fitnesses and addresses. Search dmv records, voter registration records, property tax returns, sexual offender registry. Cross reference those with with the fitness club addresses, sort the results. Assign detectives to look into the backgrounds of everyone who shows up. Dig through old court filings, family services paperwork that's not even scanned in, interview neighbors, coworkers, acquaintances, etc.* 3 weeks later. > "Okay, I 've got two names for you."', "In seconds? No. That's TV. But obtaining and aggregating this data is pretty much what the NSA does.
How does the numbering on interstate exits work?
Varies by state In some states, the exit corresponds with what the mile marker is. So if the exit is at mile marker 25, it's exit 25. In case of multiple exits or new exits added at mile 25, then it's subdivided into exits 25a, 25b, 25c, etc. In other states, the exits go in numerical order for the duration of the highway. There's an ordering system which runs east-west or north-south from lowest to highest. So the first exit is exit 1, second exit is exit 2, and so on til the end. When new exits are added, that's where you see exit 2a, 2b, 2c, etc.
Why do we see spots in our eyes after looking into a bright light?
It's called an [afterimage]. Your eyes get all tired out looking at the same thing for so long, so your receptors need to take a break. It's kind of like how your body gets used to the feeling of clothing on it all the time.
Why is it so common for kids to dislike vegetables
Maybe it depends how it's prepared, I'm from europe and my entire family could make delicious vegetables, I always wondered why on earth in American tv shows/films/sitcoms kids hate vegetables 99% people I know love, exception is Brussels sprout, it's abomination and should be banned
Why is smell the most nostalgic of our senses?
Basically because the area of the brain that processes smells is the one closer to the area were memories are stored.
how do Wii remotes work? You point them at a small black bar and you can move the cursor anywhere on the screen.
Actually, you can replace the sensor bar with two candles. The sensor bar is simply a device that emits infrared radiation, the Wii remote has an infrared sensor inside hs detects where the IR is coming from. Using that, it then uses Bluetooth to send that info to the Wii where it is displayed on the screen. Candles emit enough IR as well.
What happens when my eyes focus on my reflection in my phone screen then switch back to the screen?
The light field that exists in the three dimensional volume between your eyes and your screen contains many different patterns that correspond to different images at different locations. By pointing your eyes in a certain location and adjusting the shape of the natural lens on the front of your eye, you select out only certain light rays in this light field and bring them into focus to form an image on your retina. The light from your face is always reflecting off the screen and reaching your eyes. But if your lenses are shaped such that your focus is aimed at the screen, the light from your face reflecting off the screen is out of focus because it comes from a different depth. Even though the light from your face seems to be coming from the screen, it is actually coming effectively from behind the screen because it is a reflection of a light pattern created in front of the screen. Therefore the light pattern from your face has a different effective distance then the light created by the screen. So you can focus on the distance corresponding to the location of the screen and only see the image created inside the screen, or you can focus farther away on the effective distance of your face and only see your face.
How do computers built inside minecraft out of blocks work?
Computers are essentially huge state machines. If you can store some sort of state and describe how to transition from one to another, you have the fundamentals of a computer. Modern computers use microscopic transistors, but you can also represent state with all sorts of things such as Minecraft blocks that can toggle between two states. Then using the red stone as wiring to describe how to transition from one state to another, you have a state machine.
Is it possible to thrive on a 100% fungus based diet?
Mushrooms are, indeed, awesome, but they don't have all the nutrients you need. They're very, very low in fat, for one and carbohydrates . Mushrooms can definitely be good for you , but you can't live just on them, I'm afraid.
Why can't you use dialysis for threating blood poisioning og high amounts of carbonmonoxide?
Carbon monoxide is a lot smaller than the impurities that a dialysis machine can handle, smaller than your kidney can handle. The problem is that it is attached to the blood as oxygen should be, not merely in your blood stream as well. Its not a bad idea, the scales just unfortunately don't work.
What is the difference between Netflix's New Releases and Recently Added?
Recently Added means that the content has only been added to Netflix's library recently but may have aired/been released on other platforms at any time before. New Release means the content has only been released on other platforms recently.For example, if Netflix added a tv show from the '60s yesterday, it would appear on Recently Added but if they added a season of a tv show that aired earlier this year, it would be new releases.
What is the difference between sutures and stitches?
Same thing. Medical people usually call them sutures, and general public calls them stitches. The word "stitches" has a connotation of being on or of the skin, but same thing.
From an evolutionary biology standpoint, why do we enjoy music at all, and "good music" in particular?
# pobody's standard evolution response This comment is a RES macro. You are seeing this because your post or comment shows a misunderstanding or misrepresentation of one of the concepts of evolution described below. * Evolution is a very simple process. 1. A random mutation occurs. 2. If the mutation is *beneficial* to survival and/or procreation and *hereditary*, organisms with the mutation have an advantage, and the mutation will show up more often in the descendants. If the mutation is *detrimental*, the offspring will have a harder time. If it's *neutral*, it may or may not continue to show up. 3. There's no step 3. * Evolution does not have a will, plan, design, or intent.* Evolution has no impact on anything that doesn't deal with *survivability* or *reproduction*. Evolution will not make us into godlike athletes with six arms and the ability to see through steel because those things do not help with *survivability* or *reproduction*.* Evolution does not produce perfect solutions. Maybe the right mutation simply hasn't happened. Maybe it wasn't beneficial enough. Maybe the only member of the species to have it was hit by a truck. It's too *random* to discuss "why hasn't X happened?" or "why is X not optimal?" In any case, it is an ongoing process.* Evolutionary pressures are different in different environments. This is the whole point of speciation and what Darwin was going on about. Evolution causes multiple different answers to similar problems because it's random and environments are different.
How do blind people know they are gay?
They know they are gay because they feel attracted to members of the same gender as themselvesI honestly thought this was a stupidass question at first, but after thinking about it, are we really attracted to anything other than looks that are varied by sex? Personality can pretty much be the same either way. Maybe the voice as well, but IDK.Body image is not the only thing that determines how attracted you are to someone. Their behavior and personality factor into it as well. So if you're a guy and the way another guy talks or acts is arousing, then you might be gay; no vision required.What you're suggesting is that all people born blind logically should be asexual because they can't be physically attracted to someone because they can't see them. But we can be attracted to smell, voice, personality, touch, many different things. The simplest answer is because much like straight people, they are born that way. It is an instinctual desire. They "just know".Its actually a pretty good question because at the Georgia academy for the blind, I don't remember one of those blind people being gay, I wish they could see this thread.
If a cold is a viral infection, then why did paracetamol make my throat less sore?
Paracetamol doesn't do anything to any disease . Basically all over the counter drugs are just there to mask symptoms. Sometimes treating symptoms is very important, like reducing a fever if it is too high, but they don't cure the illness.
What determines what a planet or other celestial body is made of?
As I have come to understand it it's gravity. more massive elements tend to wind up closer to a solar's center of mass in comparison to the lighter elements. This all happens when the emerging solar system is still a cloud of particles. So once these particles get pulled together in to planets you'll get planets with more heavy elements in the planets closer to the star and the planets with lighter elements further out.
Why does sweat smell different coming from the forehead instead of the underarms, or the underarms instead of the feet?
There are a few things to consider: where the sweat is coming from, how that part of the body is dressed, and how long since it was washed. Your feet are stuck inside shoes for most of the day so there's a bunch of bacteria that live there going to town on your delicious sweat, the funky "Foot smell" is a bi-product of their feast. Your armpit has a certain type of sweat gland called an Apocrine gland which is there because we're apes, that as well as regular, scentless sweat, also exude oily pheromones which can have a certain odour, and if you don't wash it there'll be a bacteria party in there too which causes B.O. These glands are also in a few other places, your groin, ear, eyelids , taint, nipples The reason the rest of you doesn't sweat stinky sweat is because sweat from the rest of your body doesn't smell unless bacteria are given a chance to chow down on it. You can also sweat some odour from foods that you 've eaten, onions and garlic break down into sulfur compounds in the body and can come out in sweat, just as they do in your breathBacteria in the armpit have a nice place to fester under your armpit whereas forehead sweat usually evaporates too fast for any bacteria to grow.
How/Why does cracking a glow stick "activate" it?
The ELI5 is this: A glowstick works by mixing two liquids which undergo a chemical reaction that produces light. The two parts are kept separate by a thin, fragile division inside the stick. Bending the flexible outer part of the stick cracks the inner division, allowing the two fluids to mix and start producing lightA glowstick cut in half would look like this: ---------------------------------------- Plastic Organic compound Glass H2O2 Glass Organic Compound Plastic -------------------- Cracking will break the glass and lets the chemicals reactThere are two substances contained within the stick. When they combine, they undergo a chemical reaction that produces light. When you crack the stick, you break the barrier separating them.A glowstick actually has two separate compartments with two different chemicals. Cracking it breaks the barrier and mixes the chemicals which then react. It's why you can make it glow brighter more quickly by cracking it multiple times, or by throwing it in the freezer to slow down/stop the reaction and then resume it later by thawing it out.
How is Noise Pollution dangerous?
Beyond the reality is that long term exposure to loud noises leads to deafness. There is a sense of social propriety as well. Just like you shouldn't walk down the street naked, and not let the smell of your shit disturb your housemates, you should show respect to others with regards to sound as well.
how come things that are blurry due to motion in rel life can look clear in mirrors?
Our eyes are simply better at tracking motion that is further away. From the perspective of your brain, the fan in the mirror is twice as far away from you.I doubt the mirror has anything to do with the phenomena you're describing. In your example as pictured, the camera is capturing more direct lighting from the angle in the mirror.
"Click Bait" sites?
They're obnoxious because their goal is to get as many eyes on their advertisements as possible. They write headlines that make you curious and them force you to look at as many pages as possible to drive up their advertising revenue - each new page serves up a new ad that they get paid for. Because they make money while being cheap and easy to run, lots of companies are copying the business model.Ad Revenue. People make money from tricking people into looking at their ads. The sites are crappy because there is no reason to spend time making them good if they are never going to have real contentSay there's an "article" with a list of things, and the list is a presentation that you have to click the slides through. Each click adds to the web traffic of the site, which makes the value of ad space go up. This answers the second question. They're popping up in crazy amounts of volume because there's money to be made. Advertisers are buying up the rest of the webpage to display ads to people. Advertisers want to reach the most people possible, so they look for websites with lots of web traffic. Because advertisers are trying to get your attention, they'll be as obnoxious as possible. Click bait articles and sites can boast higher amounts of web traffic, therefore being able to sell the ad space for more moneyWeb sites can make money with ad placement. The higher the internet traffic the more they can charge. The longer the traffic stays on site the more they can charge for ad placement. Clickbait is either usually crap that hooks us into a site. They do that with overstating claims **Grapefuit a weight loss Super food** or by making you angry over nothing ***Jeb Bush and Hilary Clinton both agree on WHAT!?!?!?*** The sites promote miseducation on science and current events, making us all stupid, because those of us not hooked get bogged down by everyone else misinformationMore importantly, how can click bait be destroyed?
Why are 3d models used for games, in a T-Pose when not in use or before an animation ?
It's the best way to model or sculpt it. it's also more or less a standard, so you can easily take a skeleton from another model and place it on your working model. It allows for easier deformation modelling too. You can also model a character with their arms down, but then when you want to animate those arms upwards the deformation becomes a lot harder to get right.
How did it come to be that baseball would be played during the spring and summer, football during the fall, and basketball and hockey during the winter?
* Baseball - outdoor sport, needs good, dry weather* Football - originally a collegiate sport, played during the fall semester* Basketball - developed as an indoor sport to be played when the weather was bad* Hockey - outdoor sport that required frozen surfaces
What is stopping 911 dispatch centers from adopting texting capabilities?
Phone calls are live data stream. Its transferred in real time. Text messages are not. They're queued and sent whenever the network wants.. When the network is busy, like after a disaster, text msgs are delayed minutes or hours later
Why all the hate for Joss Whedon's handling of Black Widow in Avengers: Age of Ultron?
She got captured and put in a cage by a male villain. Partly because ScarJo got pregnant during filming and they had to write her out of some action scenes, but when the only woman on the team is the one who gets kidnapped and needs a man to rescue her, it seems off. That, combined with the addition of a romantic subplot annoyed people who liked that for once, a female lead in a film didn't need a love story to be cool. Oh, and the line about being sterilized got interpreted by some fans to mean "Because I can't have kids, I am a monster." Instead of as "I can't have kids, because of the horrible things they did to me, which resulted in my being a monster." Which offended women who thought this meant Whedon was treating women as baby-factories who have no worth unless they are pumping out children. So this, combined with the internet amplifying people's anger and rage, lead to so many angry tweets.Feminism, in theory, is okay but many feminists take it too damn far way too frequently. I was looking at a an article about NASA and their plan to handle people that lose their shit in space . There were at least 50 feminist comments that were complaining about the article because the associated picture showed a woman astronaut. Here's the thing it was former astronaut Lisa Nowak. They didn't feature her because she's a woman, they featured her because she's bat shit crazy, drove hundreds of miles in a diaper, and attempted to kidnap the wife of a fellow astronaut that she was having an affair with. THAT'S why it was her picture, not because it was a woman. Not everything is a gender battle that needs fighting.> In addition to his comedic output, he has been a staunch and vocal supporter of people such as Anita Sarkeesian who have faced systematic campaigns of online harassment. I find it hilarious the Verge cites this as an example when the writer of her show [went on a rant about what a misogynist Joss Whedon is.]
How is Russia able to afford its current modernization program?
The available resource right in mainland and doesnt have to import, Russia with its vast land is very resource rich, so it's more cost-effective to self supplying some of the industries, making the product costs lower comparing to other countries. Furthermore, the cost living in Russia is lower than other western countries, although their social welfare isnt as good, but still acceptable in their own standard. And finally, being a somewhat "dictator ship", they can easily cut the money at some departments and transfer it to their higher priority one. It's the same with NKorea, where 60% people in starving thread, and still can launch rocket, although quality is questionable. Russia is way more bigger than NK, and has more experience in dealing with trouble from WW2. In motherland everything can happen.
If cellphones are replacing landlines, why aren't there versions of white pages for cellphones? How are landlines any different?
Problem Is there are multiple cell phone companies, so if each had their own book it would be incomplete and inconvenient to have to look through 5 books to find a person. Land lines used to be one company in an area generally. It was a weird deal because they were a company, but a utility and basically a monopoly. Even after it was deregulated it still stayed much the same. And even if someone does somehow arrange to get one combined cell list, it's still going to be very incomplete because people could choose to be unlisted and a large percentage would. I know I would.
What causes certain wines to make your tongue feel "dry" after taking a drink?
Chemical compounds called tannins in the wine are the culprits. They're found in most plants and are also what turn tea brown.
what is the theory behind juries? Why can't judges just make all the decisions?
The idea behind juries is that you don't want to turn judges into an elite ruling class that has total power over people. That kind of power is easy to abuse. Plus, laws are supposed to be a reflection of society itself determining what rules it wants to follow, so having "society itself", in the form of a jury of the accused's peers, determine whether or not the law was broken seems only fitting.Basically, to get every single case to be treated as unique. Human brains are so hardwired for pattern recognition that we frequently see ones that don't exist . As skilled as judges are, they are not above the most basic human instincts. You might say the same problem applies to juries and you'd be right, but the difference is that members of a jury are selected from the general public whereas judges are all quite close knit. The bias problems that arise are less likely to hold a majority and therefore less likely to hand out unfair judgments.
Why did the Earth form with just a single continent?
It didn't . I'm guessing that you're referring to Pangaea which is usually the starting point when teaching about Continental Drift, however the continents were separate before they formed the supercontinent Pangaea. In fact, Pangaea is actually thought to have been the seventh or eighth [supercontinent].