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How is being a Redditor different or any more 'special' (or less so?) than regularly browsing any other forum? (genuine question, I'm not trying to be a bitch)
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It really doesn't make you any more special than someone else on another forum. Reddit has its bad subs and their users, just like 4chan has its bad boards and their users. I suppose reddit has a more progressive, liberal stance towards things with a *generally* friendly and welcome user base, which may give it a more favorable reputation. Again, being a redditor doesn't give you any sort of special status - subscribing is free!
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What exactly is zero point energy
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Let's say that you have a ball and it behaves like a particle. From physics, we know that the total energy of the ball is the sum of the kinetic energy and its potential energy When the ball isn't moving, it has a minute amount of KE even though it should not have *any* kinetic energy at all. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle forces it to have a minimum "inherent" KE that allows the uncertainty principle to exist. Zero point energy is this "inherent" minimal KE, otherwise known as the energy of the ground state. Because of quantum fluctuations due to the HUP, it is impossible for a particle to have no KE at all. Ergo, it is impossible to thermodynamically induce absolute zero. Technically, I shouldn't even be comparing ZPE to KE because it is possible to have no KE and still have ZPE. But for the purposes of this explanation, I will make this mistake. Thus, the total energy of a particle is its KE + PE + ZPE.
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How do prisoner exchanges during war actually work?
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The reasoning for doing a POW swap are worked out in advance. Generally the prisoners are walked to the border and then let loose to walk to the other side. Or they are moved to a mutually agreed location and then let go. It all kinda depends on who they are and the parties. Some times there isn't one. In WW2 in japan the japs had treated their POWs so bad that once it was announced that the japs had surrendered the guards at the POW camps just left and let the POWs on their own. _URL_0URL_1_
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How (or why) is the US Federal Reserve not an actual part of the government?
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The Federal Reserve is essentially a government agency that is operated privately. It was created by the government, it's leaders are appointed by the government, but it is independent. This is often referred to as being "independent within the government." By making it independent and quasi-private, the Federal Reserve can run monetary policy more efficiently, without every single thing being politicized and subject to constant interference and squabbling from politicians. This isn't to say that there's no oversight, just that it's less silly.
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Why hats used to be so popular in the 1920's and 30's
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Hats have been popular articles of men's attire from ancient times until 1960. Most men throughout history wore a cap or hat whenever they went outside. In 1960, President-Elect Kennedy attended his inaguration hatless and thereafter fashion changed rapidly to dispense with headgear except as environmental conditions required. From about 1920 to 1960 men found it increasingly hard to use hats as an article of fashion due to the headroom in cars. As the headroom got smaller, hats got harder to wear. First the large tophat style hats vanished, then even smaller fedoras. About the only place men still feel comfortable wearing headgear in transport is in the cab of large trucks.Yes, this question has almost everything to do with transportation modes. As walking and public transport became the modes for the poor, rich people stopped wearing hats because they are not really needed when you drive your own car.There's some fashion documentaries which are pretty interesting. _URL_0_ Basically fashion used to be very rigid and unrelaxed but historical figures through history have relaxed fashion and the hat took off with it. The tie is also on its way out as you see people like Mark Cuban not wearing ties.
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why Verizon workers are going on strike?
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The Verizon employees who are on strike have not had a contract since August of 2015. Negotiations with the company have not produced the results they felt were appropriate and they have elected to strike based on that. Some of the issues they have raised are wages, pension freezes, Verizon working to make it easier to dismiss staff and move jobs overseas, among other thingsThey are also striking in protest of talk that Verizon wants to outsource a lot of their jobs to other countries. Big companies love outsourcing because they can tap into foreign, cheaper labor. On one hand, the foreign companies appreciate the jobs, on the other, they are usually vastly underpaid, and foreign intervention makes their economy more unstable. All around bad news for the current American employees.
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Why do omelets and scrambled eggs taste differently even though I put the same ingredients into them?
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First, texture has a lot to do with food. The sensations of chewing, moving food around in your mouth, and taking a bite-sized solid piece of omelet versus a fluffy bit of scrambled egg with a lot of air in it will add to a difference in flavor. Next, your omelet usually has a big chunk of "other stuff" in its middle whereas the scrambled egg approach would have little bits of other things all throughout them . This changes the way those additional bits cook and exchange tastes with each other, changes their moisture content, and changes the distribution of flavours that you get in each mouthful. Finally, scrambled eggs are mixed around and they're cooked very uniformly without a "browned" exterior, but omelets usually have a little more deep-cooking in their exterior surface, and its different more-burned chemicals can result in a different flavor profile.
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Why aren't independent votes counted in the presidential primary?
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Right now the parties are voting to pick who they want to run for president, as private entities. They may want to exclude non-party members, for instance to avoid letting 'guerilla voters' bump up a cataclysmically bad candidate so that the party will nominate him/her, and then lose in the general election. You aren't currently voting *for president.* When that time comes, you can vote for whoever you'd like.
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Why does cereal need to be in a bag in a box when dry pasta doesn’t need a bag before being put into a box?
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We want cereal to stay crisp, because we don't intend to cook it before eating it. And because it has loads of rough surface area, it absorbs humidity fast.
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Can Chinese writing be "sounded out?" How would someone read a word that they've never seen before.
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No, mandarin and cantonese are not phonetic. If you can't figure out the word, you have to look it up or use context.They're logograms , like hieroglyphs. But yeah, there's often much, much less phonetic information "given" in a character than you 'd get with an English or Korean word. Some words you can guess at their pronunciation, like 羊 is pronounced yáng, and 洋 and 氧 are pronounced yáng and yǎng respectively. The incorporation of the 羊 is supposed to be a "hint" as to how the pronunciation goes, but it doesn't indicate tone. But mostly, characters are learned through the system I just showed you: pinyin. That's also how most people type in Chinese, btw. It's a romanized alphabet, using a lot of the letters we use in English, and a couple we don't like ü. Then, you indicate the tone of the word with one of four accent markers, which goes over a specific vowelIf you are talking about standard written chinese, simplified and traditional, no because the characters represent ideas as opposed to sounds, however you can transcribe the sounds of the various languages and dialects using pīnyīn or other romanisation systems. Also the Chinese characters are ideographic[Pinyin] _URL_0_ It is possible to transcribe the sounds of Chinese characters in a way that those familiar with the Latin Alphabet can make sense of. However, as others have correctly pointed out, there is no way to "sound out" an unknown character.
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Why do charities build new homes for the homeless/under-privileged when we already have a ridiculous amount of vacant homes in the US that could be fixed/don't need fixing?
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You can't really ask the government to just let you take existing but currently uninhabited homes like that, it'd basically amount to stealing from the owner. Some places have laws about letting property be considered properly 'abandoned' in which case any supposed owner that fails to maintain the property can lose it to someone that does, but that's not universal or necessarily easy. Ignoring that, though, where are these empty houses? A lot of them are somewhere pretty useless for a homeless person. Having a home doesn't mean much if you can't get a job in the area to hold down the home. Just giving homes to homeless people and calling it a day won't really work - you have to address the fact that most homeless people are facing issues of which being homeless is more of a symptom than a direct problem. Mental health issues, disability, inability to get work, etc.
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How is the speed of the ball measured immediately in sports like cricket?
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They use a radar gun, just like the ones police use. They use the doppler effect to measure speed of the ball. You can buy one at many sporting goods storesA laser is projected at the ball and the delay before it is reflected back is measured. Compare any two data points and you have velocity.
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In today’s society, why is adopting a child not more encouraged than having your own and adding to an already over-populated planet?
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Biological drive to reproduce, and societal drive to pass on a family legacy. It's basically that simple.
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What causes me to have extremely poor facial recognition skills?
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You could have some degree of face blindness, _URL_0_ Which is an issue remembering people by their faces. In person, other cues like their voice, stride, context of meeting, and personality will clue you in, but there is no such benefit from photos.
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Why is anal sex called anal sex and not rectal sex? (NSFW)
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For the same reason oral sex is not called throat sexKnowledge is knowing the difference between the anus & the rectum. Wisdom is not caring that people are going to constantly get them confused.
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Why don't babies have morning breath?
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I'm guessing it has to do with teeth. Before babies have teeth, there's less surface area for bad breath causing bacteria to cling to, hence no morning breath. Being on a liquid diet probably has something to do with it too.
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Why does it hurt so much to get kicked in the balls?
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Evolutionarily, our whole purpose in life is to live long enough to raise children, our genes don’t really care what happens after that. Our entire pain/reward system has been tweaked to this purpose. You ate? Good job, here is some dopamine. You skinned your knee? Bad job, that could get infected and kill you have some pain. Based on this logic, pretty much the worst thing you could do is damage your ability to reproduce, so your balls are absolutely packed with nerve endings that will send intense pain signals to your brain if they sense injury, because losing your reproductive ability is equally as bad as death.Because you are hitting an exposed organ that is virtually outside of the body. I'm sure getting hit directly on any other organ would hurt just as much if not more.Things that don't reproduce die out, so the species that exist today are species that are good at reproduction, by process of elimination. Natural selection has selected for "being good at making more yous." If your balls get ruined, you can't make more yous. If it was easy to get to the point where you couldn't make more yous, you probably wouldn't exist by now, or not exist for much longer. So the body is *very* adverse to ball damage. I might go so far as to say all of human civilization, art, and science, is a fancy carrying case for sperm.
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What happens to medicines beyond their expiry date that they turn unsafe for consumption?
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Most everything has chemical reactions as they age. Some medications get weaker so the medicine simply stops working correctly. Some become more powerful so you risk overdose. And some completely change and can either lose their effect or become toxic.They don't become unsafe for consumption at their expiration date, that is just the date at which they're guaranteed that they haven't degraded in terms of potency you could take Tylenol that's a year expired and it's safe, but might only be 90% as effective.Medicines are usually organic materials which break down over time and when stored at high temperatures they break down even faster.They don’t become unsafe, the active ingredient just gets less and less so they no longer serve the purpose for which they were created', "So, this is why my doctor has me store my bi-polar/manic medication in the freezer - it's just for emergencies and might not be taken for years.
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how are people in many societies expected to find love and marry by their early 20s?
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Basically, when everyone is aware they must be married by 21, people compromise and settle quickly. Some of the prettiest or most socially dominant people in highschool would have first pick, then their friends would feel the need to catch up, and so on, until very nearly everyone had someone just because it's not fashionable not to. Imagine if you could only ever sleep with your highschool prom date ever again, and if you didn't have one, that was it, you would have to go become a monk. You would imagine that a lot of people would make do with a decent prom date, and that sometimes people would marry only out of fear of being alone.
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Why is Ellen Pao hated?
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Since the subreddit ban wave reddit decided she was satan, and never really came back from that. Some people believe she's commercializing reddit and steering it away from its roots. Personally I don't think we have the information to read her character one way or the other.
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Grafite and diamond are made of the same thing. Why one is transparent and other not?
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In a diamond, the carbon atoms are all neatly lined up in a crystaline structure. Photons entering the lattice work from the right angles will pass right through it virtually unimpeded. In graphite and other forms of carbon, the lattice work isn't there, and the atoms are in what you'd call a pile. So photons encounter resistance no matter where they hit it.
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How can you identify musical meter?
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Other repetitive patterns, such as loudness of notes, in pop music, bass and snare drum hits are closely synced to the meter. Listen for arpeggios on bass, guitars or pianos that are multiples of the meter. If music is less rhythmic, like just long slow legato notes on violins or synth pads, it will be harder to recognize. There is a less emphasized "downbeat" for you to find
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How do bees make such perfect hexagons?
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That is just what happens when you cram a bunch of circles together. Bees make circular/cylindrical containers for their honey and eggs, since those have the most volume to wall material ratio. When these are all smushed together you get hexagons.
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Why have I never heard of someone getting heart cancer?
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It's just a very, very rare form of cancer so it's not heavily talked about. _URL_0_ Apparently the drummer of Kiss died from it, though.
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Where does the energy go to when you have a fully charged device and it is still plugged into the wall?
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This is how I've been told to think about it: it's not that the power plug is PUSHING power out to the device, it's that the device battery is PULLING power from the plug. When the battery is 'full', it stops PULLING thereby eliminating any further flow of electrons. Can anyone confirm?
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What causes a mob mentality?
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It is herd mentality. I nature it goes like "everyone else is terrified and running away so I should also be terrified and running away". There for in an angry mob everyone around you is angry, shouting and swearing ect so subconsciously you also feel you should be doing just this. Such mentality, as you called it, causes angry crowds to do things that individuals wouldn't and riots emerge.There sure is! It's called group theory in psychology.Basically, when we see a lot of people doing something, we think it's the thing we should be doing too, even if it's something we wouldn't normally do. We do this because we have an innate desire and need to fit in with society, because we're social creatures. This is evident in the case of flash riots at sporting events, and even in smaller groups when someone offers up a bad idea/suggestion and no one says anything about it, because the person to their left or right nodded in agreement. If other people think it's good and right, then we should, too. For a fun experiment, get your friends together and form a line outside of a business, like a coffee shop. Watch as newcomers and strangers start forming up behind you, even though they could just walk in and be served.Shame is an emotion that prompts us to conform to the group to avoid being exiled. Our affinity to being social was evolutionary wired because an outcast was more likely to be eaten by a predator or have a harder time foraging. In a mob, each individual diffuses responsibility thinking that someone else will likely have the courage to think/act properly. The mob confers a degree of anonymity. Self awareness blends and we start to merge our identity with the group. Any antagonism or deviation gets misconstrued as a personal attack. Group think supplants our own individual critical faculties and the flow of ideas becomes bona fide.
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Why Mexico did not become a powerful nation just like Canada or the US?
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As a Canadian, I think the word you're looking for is *affluent,* not powerful.
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Why can't we freeze food twice?
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This is a myth. You can freeze and re-freeze food as much as you 'd like, because the freezing process kills bacteria. The optimum temperature for bacterial growth is close to body temperature or higher for many bacteria . This is the "danger zone". What you don't want to do is refrigerate food over and over again. Or freeze a giant meal, reheat the whole damn thing and let it sit out on the counter for a while, then refreeze the whole damn thing again. If you take a meal out of the refrigerator, heat it a little, then put it back in the refrigerator, you're bringing the temperature up into the "danger zone". If you do this over and over again, you allow the bugs to multiply a lot. Freezing rapidly can kill these bacteria. But you also have the risk of the toxins from the bacteria in your food . Check out the [USDA's page regarding leftovers] before Republicans remove it from the website. The best thing you can do is take leftovers as soon as you eat the food and separate them into smaller quantities for freezing. Then only bring out one portion at a time, heat it and eat all of it. Putting it back and forth into the fridge can be dangerous.It's to do with how many times food goes hot to cold/cold to hot. Every time it does the food goes through the optimum temperature zone for bacteria growth. So this increase the chances of I'd poisoning.
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How do some foods make you gassy? Where is the gas coming from?
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Some types of sugar consist of a bunch of different sugar molecules chained together. For example, starch consists of long chains of glucose molecules, and has to be split into single glucose molecules by an enzyme. However, different types of sugar require different enzymes for this job, for example lactose requires an enzyme called lactase, which some people don't have. For some types of sugar however, nobody has the required enzymes. These types of sugar can however be broken down by bacteria in the guts, which use it as an energy source. In doing so, they produce gases.
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The Duluth Model in relation or application to domestic violence
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Basically the Deluth model states that if a domestic violence call occurs then the man gets arrested to ensure safety for the woman. This generally occurs irrespective of who called the police or what the story is when the police get there. The men's lib movement sees this as a very bad thing and in areas where it occurs as described they are correct. However, like most other claims of discrimination in the modern west its impact is overstated in my opinion. It's kind of like quicksand, you probably grew up thinking quicksand was some kind of super death trap yet the mundane reality is that it has very little effect on your life unless you put yourself in specific circumstances for it to become a problem.
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What do the reduced salt signs on highways and roads mean?
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Highways are sprayed with a salt solution in winter to prevent the formation of ice. Certain sections of highway are near water supplies and protected wilderness areas however. These sections are salted less in order not to contaminate the surrounding ecosystems. They put the signs up to warn you that because there's less salt, there will likely be more ice.
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How did Lou reed's Liver fail on him caused by years of drug use and drinking if he has been sober for many years already?
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I am, of course, not Lou Reed's doctor but I'd imagine it's because livers, although very miraculous in their regenerative capabilities in some ways, aren't perfect. As we age our organs, and all of us really, degrades. If it didn't we'd never get old. It's easily possible that he damaged it to a certain threshold way back when, and this threshold was above the functional level, but close to disaster. Then he aged a bit and the damage from years ago caught up with him.Organs fail all the time, and the risk increases as you age. A nondrinker can experience liver failure, and Keith Richards is still alive for some reason. A lot of it has to do with genetic predispositions.
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Why does travel in a bus/train make me feel tired?
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I believe it's from the constant adjustments your body has to make from being bumped around. You never get the opportunity to sit still like you would on a couch.Stress may also be a factor, in addition to the physiological impacts the others stated. Feeling tired may be as much a mental situation in some cases based upon hormone balances. If you are nervous and view travel per bus/train as nerve-wracking, adrenaline productiob may increase during the experience. When done, instead of pure relief, you also feel more tired.There is a phenomenon called 'place lag,' basically the temporary disorientation of finding yourself in a new place. Your brain need time to catch up and reorient, and that takes resources. Decision fatigue is also an underappreciated part of travel. Making decisions is taxing. It uses up resources. That is why people like to do things like take the same route to work every day. It eliminates the need to make major decisions. Many people have anxiety around travel, over all forms of transportation and destinations. It doesn't have to be as dramatic as a massive fear of flying. It could be things like: Will I have a relaxing holiday? Will my hotel be okay? What if it isn't? Will I be able to find my around? What if something happens? Will everything be okay at home? What if I miss something at work? This sort of thinking is very fatiguing. I seriously question the muscle microadjustments thing. Your body is constantly making adjustments and dealing with gravity and stuff every second of the day, not *only* when you travel.The same is true of planes and cars, at least for me. It may be from sitting in a confined space for an extended period of time. I find travel exhausting, but so worth it.
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If women's cycles sync up when they spend some time together, wouldn't every women be theoretically on the same monthly cycle?
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I think they would have to spend a lot more time together than you imagine, like maybe live together and spend a lot of time outside work/college with each other also.
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Why can't they make space elevators with propellers on them to reduce tension forces?
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That would only work in the atmosphere, where the propellers have something to push: air. But the cable will experience the same amount of tension above the atmosphere, where there is no air for the propellers to push. The only real solution is to find a way to manufacture, in large quantity at reasonable cost, a material with the necessary tensile strength.
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How did gold, silver, and bronze specifically become the iconic symbols of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in competitions.
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Being both common and given value. Bronze is a mix of copper and On mobile, but I want to say iron. Looks nice, but isnt all that valuable. Silver is more valuable, but tarnishes. Gold is a symbol of wealth and purity, and is the most valuable of the three. Other materials are not as common, harder to work with, or either too valuable to give up, or too cheap to mean anythingEuropeans have used gold, silver and bronze have as coin metals since ancient times. They only really learned about platinum in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Why does clips of American news seem such poor quality on UK TV?
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The UK and the US have two different systems for broadcast TV signals. The US uses a system called NTSC, and the UK uses a system called PAL. PAL is slightly better than NTSC to start with, but converting an NTSC signal to PAL degrades it even further. All the major US networks now broadcast an HDTV signal as well. That should be directly compatible with an HDTV broadcast in the UK and the quality should be indistinguishable. But I have no idea what the agreements are between the US news outlets and the British news outlets to exchange video clips so it may be that whatever source you're using for news is limited to NTSC clips.It is usually footage they found on the Internet posted by somebody that was there. Unless you actually saw a reporter.
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How is topsoil formed and why does it take so long?
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Soil is formed as leaves and stuff fall, also ferns, but once they fall, detritivores will break down material. Eventually it lets it’s nutrients go down to lower levels of soil O is the organic matter, C is bedrock IIRC.So first off, how many leaves do you think fall in a square foot of land at any given year, because that can be a major limiting factor. Also Temperature and Humidity also play a role, higher temperature gives more energy and water helps to break down and leech nutrients.Soil scientists will dig holes to look at the layers and they can also give a good description of the land. For the USA you can google, web soil survey, and look for a parcel of land that you are interested in and get a report about the predicted soils in your areaBecause soil takes so long to form some states like Idaho have listed it as a public resource, so you can’t do damage to it, in a forestry setting, you can’t run a machine too much on it. Washington kinda protects it, but more on the side, Washington has protections for the fish, which in turn protects the streams with a forested buffer, like 150-200’ wide from the stream bank, and also you can’t let too much sediment get into the stream from logging roads or erosion up stream. The constitution gave states the right to manage their lands, other than national lands, so they have different rules between each state, Washington has one of the bigger rule books.
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Why can't we flush toilets with saltwater?
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That would necessitate two different water sources coming to your house and an additional plumbing system to keep your toilet separate from your sinks, showers, etc.It's perfectly possible, however as someone else said a separate piping system is required. Most toilets in Hong Kong are flushed with salt water.We could, but we don't because toilets are connected to the fresh water supply and running salt water through that is a bad idea. Changing that would require separate plumbing which as I'm sure you will understand is hella expensive to install after the fact. There are, by the way, some places where toilets are flushed with some source of "dirty" water but it's usually limited to a single buildingBecouse the pipes will rust from the salt water. The reason is that the process of rusting involves electrons moving around, and electrons move more easily in salt-water than they do in clean water. A simple test of this is to see how easily current flows in clean water it does not), and then add salt to the water . :)You would need to install a second seperate plumbing system in your home and have salt water pumping stations and treatment plants. Salt water destroys expensive difficult to maintain machines very quickly.
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Why is the Universal Basic Income in Switzerland a bad thing ?
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Switzerland is one of the wealthiest nations per capita on Earth. It achieved this feat in spite of being a landlocked country with pretty but mediocre land by offering an extremely business-friendly environment with low taxes. Thanks to this, even the poor of Switzerland are better off than the poor of most other countries. The money for basic income must come from somewhere. To obtain it, you must raise taxes. The only place this tax money can come from is from the wealthy as taxing the poor would defeat the purpose. The wealthy are highly mobile. Lower tax jurisdictions like Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, and Monaco are all close by. If the wealthy leave, their current taxes leave with them. Additionally, businesses will choose to expand in other nations, and move operations as Switzerland is already a terribly expensive place to be. Finally, this redistribution takes money from those who invest in growing an economy, and gives it to those who will primarily consume. It would reduce future economic growth that benefits everyone through jobs and class mobility. As the wealthy and businesses flee, the country becomes poorer, unemployment rises, and basic income becomes unsustainableIt is the ultimate eventuality so we better start to prepare for it now. We are all progressing technologically and sooner or later all the lower end jobs will start to vanish with increasing automation. The biggest market of employment of min wage is fast food. That market will eventually goto automation maybe in a decade or so. That alone will create massive unemployment. Basic income will allow people with no skills to either learn new skills and move to higher up jobs without worrying about going homeless and ending up on street. Basic income is where we are heading whether we like it or not. There simply cannot be enough jobs for everyone. Without basic income and no jobs is a recipe for violence and upheaval.
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How did we get metal to think? How does it know what the 1's and 0's are? Is it at it's core mechanical?
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You might be referring to [this quote] about computers "thinking". [Here is a really good video] where people build a computer out of domino pieces. You can clearly see that those dominoes perform calculation, but they do not "think", it just happens because of the way they are arranged. Metal does not think either. A computer does not think. A transistor puts out electricity depending if you give it electricity or not. After all, it does not know what is 1 or 0. It is all just a bunch of transistors that electricity goes through, which in turn do calculations. A computer doesn't think "what is answer to 2 + 2", you just put electricity into it and it gives out the result. Computer seems to think, because programs on the screen somethings say such things. "Waiting to download
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Why is soda a soothing chaser for alcohol?
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The carbonation helps to disperse remaining alcohol from the palate and tongue. Plus, it has a sugary taste.Alcohol is hard like a brick. So it's like you lick a brick and want to get that taste out of your mouth. So you want something soft like a sponge or soda to wash that taste from your mouth.Soda has a lot of sugar in it, which helps to "sweeten" the taste of whatever you are drinking. This counteracts the harshness of the alcohol you are drinking. Also, the carbonation helps to disperse the alcohol from your throat, which makes the drink more palatable.
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Why does America have such a weird voting system?
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By comparison, Americans would think it weird that in parliamentary systems, you literally have no say in who becomes the head of your government. Our system is a first-past-the-post system, in which case there is mathematically no reason not to have just two big-tent parties that cover a wide amount of the electorate. It doesn't matter if you win or lose by 1% or by 20%, a loss is a loss is a loss, and a win is a win is a win. Many have issue with the FPTP system, and want it changed, but doing so is probably going to require a Constitutional Amendment, which would be rather hard to pass. It also doesn't help that the two major third parties in the US are both rather insane, and thus are marginalized because of how crazy their party members are. Case-in-point, Jill Stein is on record stating that wifi hurts children's minds, and her party held that vaccines cause autism right up until this Spring. In addition, Gary Johnson is considered a moderate by his party and barely won their nomination, and yet he wants to return the US to a commodity-backed currency, and believes that we shouldn't fight global warming because the Sun is going to destroy the Earth in a few billion years anyway.
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How did herbivorous dinosaurs get so large while have so little protein in their diet?
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Part of what allows Herbivores to grow as large as they do is that the Digestive Systems in Herbivores are optimized for extracting every bit of protein available from the food they eat. Their digestive tracts can also make some proteins from food that lack proteins. A good example is a a cow's Digestive Tract: It has four stomachs, all for getting the most nutrient possible out of every bite. Also, plants aren't necessarily devoid of protein. Plants have Keratin, which most predators, and humans, can't digest. Herbivores however, usually can digest it. This greater diversity to what a Herbivore can eat allows them to have access to a surprising amount of protein and nutrients.The largest land mammals are still all herbivores.First of all, animals don't use proteins from their food to use as building blocks. If they did, then animal proteins would have to be the same as plant proteins, which they rarely are. Instead, they break down ingested proteins into amino acids, then use instruction from their DNA to assemble them into their own proteins. As it happens, most plants are a poor source of protein but they do contain amino acids. They also contain something more important to sustaining herbivores, *cellulose*. Most ruminants have a complex digestive system that consists of multiple 'stomachs' that are used to ferment the cellulose to extract useful nutrients from it. A *symbiotic* relationship with various bacteria that live in the animals digestive system has developed. These bacteria ferment and break down the cellulose and in the process they reproduce, multiplying greatly in number. The animal then eats the results of this fermentation, bacteria and all, which it uses to sustain its own vitality and growth. TL;DR - bacteria are the main source of protein for many herbivores.
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How does Square Cash instantly send money to your card, where as a deposit or check from your company can take days?
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You're comparing two different cash methods. Payroll uses ACH transfers, while Square Cash uses the debit card network. Square cash works by instantly debiting the sender's bank account, just like if they used their debit card at a store. The sender instantly receives the money, as it is treated like a debit card refund. Debit card transactions have to work fast because funds need to be confirmed available at point of sale. If there's no money availble, the purchase will be declined. When your paycheck is transfered to you, it uses an ACH network, which is a large conglomerate of bank transfers using your bank account number and bank routing number. It is essentially a digital check. These transfers are done in batches, and take longer to process, usually take at least 24 hours. TL;dr: Square cash uses debit cards while payroll uses digital checks
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What is Murphy's Law. How did it come about. And in what everyday concept these laws can be applied.
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Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. It's not really a law of nature, just a saying. It's not named after anyone specific, just check the wiki page for it. It's not so much applied as a law, just a thing to keep in mind. If you design something that works 99% of the time but that 1% of the time it kills someone, you need to design that flaw out. Tl;Dr is a saying, engineers like it because sometimes we build things that hurt people.How can it be applied? "About the time i fix my car, it'll get in an accident and be totalled" --murphy's law really works for us cynical types.
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How is lucid dreaming possible if dreams are simply a construction of the mind created in a matter of seconds?
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Because your subconscious moves and thinks at a much faster rate than your conscious mind. If a dream that only lasts for a few seconds in reality can seem like it lasts hours in your dream state then it's quite obvious your subconscious can keep up with the speed of its own creation.
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How does light transfer data in optical fibers?
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When data is transmitted over a wire, the wire is turned on and off very quickly. Thousands of times per second, it checks if the wire is currently on. If the signal is off, that is interpreted as a 0. If it's on, that's a 1. Light travels through fiber optic cables. It's basically done the same way, but instead of electricity it uses flashes of light.
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Can anyone launch a satellite? Or are there laws claiming space territory?
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Per the [Outer Space Treaty] of 1967, governments cannot stake a claim to territory in space—so yes, space is indeed borderless. However, to get to outer space, Spacex's rockets first have to pass through the airspace directly above the US, which the Federal Aviation Administration *does* have jurisdiction over, thus requiring their approval.
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Why do people relate their feelings and decisions with heart when they are completely related to brain?
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In ancient times people believed the seed of your emotions was in your chest because whenever you are angry, stressed, scared, excited, etc. you can physically feel something happening in your chest that correlates to that emotion .
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How is child pornography taken down so efficiently from all over the web while it's so easy to find for instance pirate movies & TV series?
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Police actively enforce the Child Pornography issues so its forced to go much much more underground and its generally illegal everywhere. Piracy is a copyright issue. A police officer cant arrest you for just being in possession of a digital copy of a movie. The owner of the copyright has to put a claim against you etc. Its more complicated and then they can charge you etc. It just being online isn't in and of itself illegal right off the bat.
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what do the different temperatures on a washing machine do to my clothes?
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Hot water generally cleans better but ages the clothes faster. Unless it's stained, I wash cold/cold and hang all my good shirts, shorts, and pants to dry. Warm *should* wash fastest, since it should fill the washer faster. YMMV. If you follow the care labels on your clothing they will last a lot longer than if you warm wash everything and machine dry everything on normal or heavy settings.
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Google hasn't helped, what are the true reasons a cat hisses?
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To threaten an imposing or suspected danger, to make it clear it means business and will attack or defend whatever is being contested with aggression, to notify others it is angry, and signal others to stay the hell away and scare off potential enemies. They hiss when they are angry, territorial, startled, in pain or in other distressIt's a threatening/warning sound. The cat is worried about something and it fully prepared to kick it's butt if it doesn't go away. It's basically a "Last Warning" kind of thing. Cats don't have a harsher warning that doesn't involve actual violence.
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When a court orders an individual to pay restitution in the millions of dollars, how much does that person actually pay?
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The person collecting will go through a process where they seize the person's assets. There are restrictions to what they can seize, like I think they have to leave you one vehicle and after they've done that, potentially garnish wages. For the most part though, everyone involved knows you're not going to get three million out of your average joe. What's more important, though, is that there will probably be an appeal. Now, the odds aren't actually great that the apartment complex will get three million again . BUT they've already shown they have a very strong case and the judge is willing to find in their favor. So what happens? They figure out how much they CAN get from the guy, and go settle for that amount. Maybe half a million. The guy says, well shit, it'll ruin my business but at least I won't be miserable having one car and a studio apartment the rest of my life. And he takes the deal. This is great for the plaintiff because they know they're never really getting their three million, and they don't have to go through a lengthy collection process, appeal process, and wait on garnished wages. They just get a lump sum of half a million dollars.
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What is the margin of error?
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in statistics, its very hard to get an exact number. Most of the calculations for certain statistics come with that factor, a margin of error. Its basically the amount of possible variance in the answer. so 20% with a margin of error of 5% means the actual answer could be from 15%-25% but its definitely somewhere in there.I'd suggest reading up on margin of error as it relates to physical measurements. It's easier to understand and a lot more cut & dry compared to the wild and woolly area of sociology. If I make a physical measurement, say measuring the length of Trump's longest hair using a ruler, I might come up with 10.4 cm However, I know that between my eyesight and the fact that the marks on the ruler are only ever millimeter, the real answer isn't actually 10.4 cm, though it might be close. So based on the ruler having 1 mm marks, I might say that while I read it as 10.4, it's probably between 10.35 and 10.45 or .5 mm up or down. I'd express this by saying 10.4 +/- 0.1 cm Now let's say I'm want to add the lengths of two of Trump's hairs. One at 10.4 +/- 0.1 cm and another at 8.6 +/- 0.1 cm. When you add measurements, you add their margins of error, so you get 19 +/- 0.2 cm for the total length of the two hairs. So basically margin of error in polls is the same concept but applied to stated preferences.
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how do silencers on guns work?
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The bullet is launched out of the gun by an explosion that superheats the air and produces a loud BAM sound. The gas/air that carries that sound wave doesn't have anywhere to go except out with the bullet. A silencer basically extends the barrel and helps that "explosion air" diffuse in other directions so that the resulting explosion from the gunshot is much quieter. Movies and games that have a "pew pew pew" sound with the silencer attached are doing it wrong - it really is still an explosive sound, just heavily subdued, like a brick hitting a sandbag or somethingThey’re a little louder than they are portrayed to be in movies one thing most people don’t know about suppressors, is they are really uncomfortable to use. When you shoot guns with them , the suppressor causes a lot of gasses/gunpowder to travel back through the firearms receiver and sprays right into your face every time I’ve shot guns with suppressors, after about 30 shots my eyes would be stinging, and watering , and I could barely see5 year olds love balloons. Firing a gun without a suppressor is like popping a balloon. If you were to untie the balloon and let the air out slowly, yes you might get that hilarious fart sound, but it's much quieter. The hot gas in the barrel expels through the suppressor, slowing it down as it reaches the outside air. When the bullet leaves the barrel, the hot gas escapes at a higher pressure than outside air pressure. Other ways and ages to see it are opening a can of soda quickly vs slowly. Also for adults, opening a champagne bottle by popping it open or slowly releasing the built up carbonation inside. Same concept all aroundExactly like a muffler for a car. “Loud” is heat and pressure. Creating baffles allows the hot gas to expand, when it expans it cools so by the time the round cones out of the suppressor, most of the hot angry high pressure gas is gone.
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why aren't all toilets tankless (like the ones in commercial buildings)?
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Homes generally do not have access to the high flow water sources required to make one of those toilets work_URL_0_ TL;DR Insufficient flow in residential water systems to trigger the siphon effect to clear the bowl.
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Why do Republicans want to repeal The Affordable Health Care Act so badly?
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It's not really a giant health insurance plan, it's a bunch of reforms to the health care system, one of which being an online marketplace where you can buy private health insurance. The main issue that Republicans have is that one of the reforms is that having health insurance is now mandatory, and there will be a tax penalty for anyone who chooses not to buy it.
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Why are we grossed out by the thought of our family members having sex or masturbating?
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For sexually reproducing species, incest is often problematic because closely related family members are likely to share genetic problems with you that are then exacerbated in the children of incestuous couples. For this reason, many species have some sort of control against incest, typically behavioral. In humans, that control is revulsion at the idea of having sex or even thinking about sex with people who we had close contact with growing up. If we were not disgusted by envisioning family members engaged in sexual acts we might instead be aroused. This would create an evolutionary pressure against the aroused group because their children and their children's children wouldn't be able to breed as well and the family arousal trait would be out-competed by the the family disgust trait.Reproducing with close relatives is associated with a high frequency of birth defects and other genetic issues. This led to the evolution of human sexual behavior that generally excludes attraction to close relatives. Otherwise this type of reproduction would be very common, considering how much time we spend around close relatives.
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Why do sour foods make faces move involuntarily?
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Many sour foods are poisonous, we are programmed to reject sour foods with "disgust", same as when you see other unhealthy things like feces and Kanye West. There was a good BBC Horizon show on Disgust years back. I found this article. _URL_0_', "> By a combination of direct intake of hydrogen ions and the inhibition of the hyperpolarizing channel, sourness causes the taste cell to fire action potentials and release neurotransmitter. basically what this means is that the sour item actually causes the nerves in your face to fire making the muscles they control contract. it's like you drank liquid electricity to break off creating an electric reaction.)
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Why are dreams so much more vivid if you wake up during them?
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Your brain actually tries to forget dreams. Most people have more than three per night, and forget most of them. If you wake up during a dream, your brain hasn't had time to try to forget it. Partially forgotten dreams, either by waking up before the memory has faded or by the mind failing to completely forget it, will seem much duller than a fresh dream.
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Why don't people get drunk on rubbing alcohol?
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Ethyl alcohol sold as rubbing alcohol is denatured. Meaning it's mixed with poisonous and disgusting tasting substances to make it undrinkable. The additives are also selected to ensure that it's difficult to purify the alcohol with distillation.People do. However, in some locations, such as the United States, it is treated with additives to make imbibers ralph it up, spit it out, or otherwise not want to drink much of itStores will not sell you ethyl alcohol unless it has been denatured, . It is denatured by adding enough other ingredients that you would become sickened if you drank it. You can get drunk on rubbing alcohol, and go blind. Do not do it.
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Why is reading so encouraged and preached to be the best thing you can do for your mind?
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Your perspective is limited by the thoughts you can think with the knowlege you already have. Think of a spotlight pointed at the ground at night. The main body of light is your current t knowlege. The outside aura of light are new connections you could possibly make with your current knowlege. Books expose you to thinking in new ways and very in-depth knowlege of other people. Because of the slow rate of reading you have plenty of time to absorb lots of information. I also have heard many times that watching something on a screen bypasses parts of your brain and you more readily accept the information as true without first questioning it against your current base of knowlege. Not sure what truth is in this but it seems somewhat accurate due to personal experience.
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Why Bing is so poor compared to Google search engine and showing no sign of catching up or improving
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Bing is actually excellent at certain things. But my interest in it is usually short-livedGoogle has the first to market advantage. During the 90s there were hundreds and hundreds of search engines that were receiving big giant corporate bucks. When it was found that their user base wasn't responding to advertisement models properly they all folded and Google bought out any of them with decent technology. To that end, Google is an amalgamation of all the hard work of 100 search engines rolled into one. All the widgets have been very important in their success. Their being able to incorporate _URL_0_, Wikipedia, and other sources as widgets has made them a class act . Bing is a second to market alternative. Much like Google's older competitors it doesn't actually matter how many users it has. If you search "Mount Everest" into Bing and Google you get identical results. I don't simply mean identical as in same pages. I mean the format is exactly the same. They both have a side widget from Wikipedia. They both have the same top ten web sites. They both have Images plasted in the middle of search terms. When you offer a service that is exactly the same, first to market always has the advantage especially when both services are free. Google+ and Facebook are essentially the same thing. Google+ in some ways offers better service than Facebook to due its mass integration with Google's network. But since Facebook was first to market it is more relevant. Services like Snapchat and Twitter have more active users than both services because those services offer something different.
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Why does only your own saliva take out your own blood in fabric (like a tshirt)?
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Not true at all. Even if saliva can remove blood , whether or not it comes from the same source as the blood makes absolutely no difference.It's not just your own, but saliva in general has a lot of enzymes that will break down molecules in blood. So it's the enzyme action that does it.
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Exactly how is smoking weed different from eating edibles. Not in your mind but chemically.
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When you eat it it gets processed by your liver into 11-hydroxy-THC. Which is said to be 5 times more psychoactive than when you smoke or vaporize cannabis.The active ingredients in smoke get absorbed directly into your bloodstream inside your lungs. The active ingredients in edibles have to be digested before they can have an effect. Not everything digests at the same speed or as efficiently, but what you breathe is all absorbed at the same time. So the effect of smoke is faster and you get all the different compounds at once, whereas with edibles it's slower and different psychoactive compounds hit your brain at different times.
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Is Irish a race or a nationality?
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That's ridiculous. Irish is a nationality. They might say those kids aren't Irish because they don't have the right accent it don't follow the traditions, it happens in all closed communities, but they are as Irish as the taoiseach . It has nothing to do with race.
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Why don't highways have designated cruise control sections/lanes?
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People still have to enter and exit this section unless they are to stay in it eternally. Traffic speeds and slows from congestion purely from people making adjustments to change lanes. Consider that the range of speeds people travel down a highway doesn't vary that much normally. The thing affecting them is this merging.
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Where do the newborn babies in television come from?
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Most babies you see on TV are actually a lot older than you think. Most are at least a few months old.Casting agencies. Note, that those newborn babies you see on TV generally aren't newborn babies, unless you are watching a show that is putting a lot of focus on a premature baby in which case they often use dolls. Most 'newborns' on TV are actually a few months old already. There are a few shows that use actual newborn babies. Call The Midwife is one. They constantly have to find new babies to use though, because they can only film them for three days before they are 'too old'.As stated before, casting agencies provide babies that are a bit older, but they specifically look for twins and triplets. Filming reculations are VERY restrictive on how long infants can "work" - in California, babies up to 6 months old can be on set for two hours with just 20 minutes of filming - so it's helpful to have a couple identical babies on hand to switch places so more footage can be shot per day. As for looking truly "newborn," the babies are covered in a mixture of cream cheese and jelly to simulate amniotic fluid.
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What exactly is a leasehold and freehold in UK property? How is it possible for you to buy the leasehold but not the freehold on a house?
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It would be unusual to buy a leasehold house. Leasehold properties are usually flats. The freeholder owns the building, and the land on which the building is built. You own a lease on a particular property within that building. Basically, this means you rent your property on a 125 year or 1000 year contract, except that unlike a normal rental property, you actually own this lease and have the right to sell it to someone else. Normally when you own a leasehold property you have to pay a maintenance fee to a management company. This covers the cost of maintaining the building, paying the gardener, keeping the lift running, paying for the upkeep of the private gym and the cost of the concierge Additionally, you have to pay ground-rent. This is literally just a rental fee. Some places charge a small annual fee, maybe £100 or so. Others charge what is known as a "peppercorn fee" - a nominal amount which would, once upon a time, have literally been a peppercorn, but now it's more likely to be £1. In contrast, if you own a freehold, then you own the land outright. You don't pay anyone anything unless you choose to, but of course you will need to pay to maintain your property unless you want it to fall apartBuying a leasehold is buying the right to use the land for a set period of time. Often this is a hundred years or more. Obviously the length of the freehold will affect the price you pay. In addition you will be required to pay ground rent, this is often a very small amount each year. If you buy a leasehold you are buying the right to use the land. With freehold you buy the land outright. It is yours forever.
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How do colorblindness correction glasses work?
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The website for the company that makes them has a pretty good explanation. Basically what happens is you have four types of light sensors in your eye: red, green, and blue cones plus rods. Their affinity to register light of different frequencies is shown [here], which basically means that a photon at 420 nm is very likely to set off a blue cone and less likely to set off a rod, while a photon at 500 nm will likely set off a rod but almost certainly won't set off a blue cone. When the different colors of cones fire you see different colors, and when the rods fire you see white. When you see yellow it's because both your red and green cones are firing at the same time--every different color you can perceive corresponds to a different ratio of different types of cones firing. The rods are mostly used in dim light, so bright white light is caused by all the types of cones firing about the same amount. Now, colorblindness. The issue with red-green colorblindness is that instead of having different frequency responses, the red and green cones have about the same frequency response in colorblind people. That means that any light causes them to fire the same amount, which makes red and green both look yellow. The glasses take advantage of the fact that the frequency responses still aren't exactly the same--they just overlap much more than they're supposed to. The glasses use nonlinear effects to make light with wavelengths shorter than 550 nm have even shorter wavelengths, and light with wavelengths longer than 550 nm have even longer wavelengths. That means light that should normally stimulate the green but not red cones, when passed through the glasses is shifted far enough towards blue that it really does stimulate the green cones more than the red .
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if cameras take square photos, why are the apertures round?
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You've sort of got it the wrong way round. The camera LENSES are round, because round lenses bend light much better. But the film the image is captured on is rectangular, for the same reason that all pictures are usually rectangles, easier to frame and they are easier to put onto walls. Modern camera sensors have just continued this. Also when light is bent by a round lens, the images around the edges are often distorted, by using rectangle sensors you are just cropping these out and getting a better image.There is a square area at the back of the camera that opens and exposes the film when the shitter is released, with digital the mirror lifts up when you press the shutter, and a square digital photo sensor is exposed. The aperture only lets in light and the image, what goes on the film/sensor is the final square insane', "Lenses are round, because round glass elements transmit light the best and provide the clearest image out the other end. apertures are round because round apertures work well in round lenses, and also provide pleasant looking results in photos. A [square aperture would cause square shaped blurry objects in out of focus areas in the shot] which is distracting and somewhat unpleasant. A round lens puts out a cone-shaped beam of light that resolves the image into a circle behind the lens, and then the sensor/film that captures the light is rectangular shaped, and sits in the center of that image circle. Images are shaped the way they are because of roll film, generally. A circular piece of film/sensor would technically capture more area out of the total projected image circle, but it's hard to make a roll of circles that tie together the way that a roll of rectangular frames of film does. They're also a lot harder to print and display. The outside edges of the projected image circle also suffer from vignetting and issues with diffraction and fine detail, and generally the crop provided by the rectangular film/sensor inside of that image circle crops out the best portion of the image, and leaves the dark/blurry/aberrant portion of the image.
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What has caused Brazil to become as major of a country as it is?
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They have a large area, large exploitable population, lots of natural resources, and are politically stableThey have the single largest land mass in South America, the single largest and most fertile river basin in the world, natural resources of just about every kind, it has been stable for decades without a coup and is the second largest population in the Western Hemisphere.
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Why do they say to "breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth" when exercising?
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When you breathe in through your nose you're filtering the air before it goes into your lungs, and pulling it through a smaller opening, forcing you to inhale slower taking deeper breaths. You exhale through your mouth because it's a bigger opening and you want to get the 'bad air' out as fast as you can. Your nose also helps regulate the temperature of the air you're breathing. When it goes in your mouth it goes very quickly into your lungs, and if it's too cold it can be jarring to your lungs. I'd guess, when it's way too hot out, like today, it also serves to cool it down a bit.
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What would happen if NATO broke up?
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Well nothing immediately. But obviously each member state would be more vulnerable to attack, with a particular problem to the Eastern European countries.
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The naming conventions of sea vessels, HMS, SS, RMS etc.
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AHT\tAnchor Handling Tug AHTS\tAnchor Handling Tug Supply vessel CRV\tCoastal Research Vessel C/F\tCar Ferry CS\tCable Ship DB\tDerrick Barge DEPV\tDiesel Electric Paddle Vessel DLB\tDerrick Lay Barge DCV\tDeepwater Construction Vessel DSV\tDiving Support Vessel/ Deep Submergence Vehicle DV\tDead vessel[1] ERRV\tEmergency Response Rescue Vessel[citation needed] FPSO\tFloating Production, Storage and Offloading Vessel FPV\tFree Piston Vessel FPV\tFishery Patrol Vessel FV\tFishing Vessel GTS\tGas Turbine Ship HLV\tHeavy lift vessel HSC\tHigh Speed Craft HSF\tHigh Speed Ferry HTV\tHeavy Transport Vessel IRV\tInternational Research Vessel ISV\tInternational Space Vehicle LB\tLiftboat LNG/C\tLiquefied natural gas carrier LPG/C\tLiquefied petroleum gas carrier MF\tMotor Ferry MS \tMotor Ship MSV\tMultipurpose support/supply vessel MSY\tMotor Sailing Yacht MT\tMotor Tanker MV \tMotor Vessel [citation needed] MY\tMotor Yacht nb\tNarrowboat NRV\tNATO Research Vessel NS\tNuclear Ship OSV\tOffshore Supply Vessel PS\tPaddle Steamer PSV\tPlatform Supply Vessel RV\tResearch Vessel RMS\tRoyal Mail Ship or Royal Mail Steamer SB\tSailing Barge SS \tSteamship SSCV\tSemi-Submersible Crane Vessel SSV\tSailing School Vessel, Submarine and Special Warfare Support Vessel[2] ST\tSteam Tug STS\tSail Training Ship STV\tSail Training Vessel or Steam Turbine Vessel SV\tSailing Vessel SY\tSailing Yacht or Steam Yacht TEV\tTurbine Electric Vessel TIV\tTurbine Installation Vessel TS\tTraining Ship TSS\tTurbine Steam Ship or Twin Screw Steamer TV\tTraining vessel there are also prefixes for certain countries
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If Republicans are such terrible leaders (responsible for govt shutdown, etc) why are they still elected?
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In the US, people tend to think everyone in congress is a bunch of idiots except their guy. The guy they voted for is the one voice of reason trying to find common sense solutions and everyone else is out for themselves.Everyone wants their voters to think the other guy os truely awful when the reality is that everyone is merely meh. Republicans aren't AS bad as you have been lead to believe, and so it isn't THAT hard for people to convince conservative voters that Democrats are worse. Everyone sucks a little, so you play up your strengths and play up your oppenents flaws.
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How does Medical Residency and Internship work after med school
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To be clear, your first year of residency is referred to as 'internship,' and yes, you are paid. You are a doctor, and you are expected to see patients in the hospital and clinic, and do whatever else physicians in your specialty do on a day-to-day basis . You're supervised by older residents and by your staff to help you avoid fucking up too badly. You also read and study a ton, attend classes and conferences, take outside training as needed in your specialty, take exams, teach younger residents and med students, etc and so on. Basically it's like working two full-time jobs plus taking a full college course load. Welcome to the Jungle.
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What is blood type? Why is our blood different?
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Not quite 5, but I'll give it a shot. Blood type refers to the type of cell marker that exists on the outside of your red blood cells. There are 3 types- A, B, and O. If you have A, B is considered foreign so you will have anti-B antibodies. The same can be said for A if you have B type blood. If you have O, it is neither A nor B so you make antibodies for both A and B. AB blood types have no antibodies since both types are present on their cells. Type ABs are referred to as "universal recipients" because they have no antibodies in their blood and can therefore receive any type of blood without fear of the body rejecting it. Type Os are the universal donors under most condition but this can vary depending on other more complicated factors since as I mentioned before they have anti-A and anti-B antibodies. These types are genetic. A and B are dominant to O, and if you get an A from one parent and a B from another, you will be AB .It's kinda like [this], except when the right block goes through the right shaped hole, it gets stuck and you can't remove it from the box. Your own bloodtype has blocks that don't match your box, so they can't get stuck inside. Other bloodtypes, however, have blocks on their surface that WILL match your box, and WILL get stuck inside. Type AB bloodtype has no boxes, and so can take blood from anyone. Type O has no blocks, so it isn't as much of a problem for them to donate blood to anyone else. Their box does match all blocks, but this doesn't detriment health too much, because generally, there are much more blocks present than there are boxes.
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why do body parts hurt long after an injury is healed, especially when the weather changes?
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Well, I don't know about bone fractures. Most of the Pain - > Weather predictions I've seen have been about joint pain. The most common explanation is that damaged joints respond to changes in atmospheric pressure. Rain, and especially large storms, are accompanied by a drop in pressure. That pressure drop causes damaged tissue to swell up. The swelling tissue causes the joint to ache and alerts the person to the impending weather change.
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Why is my graphics card so big compared to my CPU?
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Your graphics card has it's own RAM. Your CPU's RAM is on the motherboard. Technically you're counting the GPU, it's board, and RAM, and cooling stuff as one thing. So if you do that with the CPU too, the CPU is much bigger since its board is the motherboard.
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Why are terraced houses in New York and possibly other places elevated?
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They have lower levels besides the main entrance, they usually go below street level. Every place is different, but I would assume that the underground pipping as well as water level do not allow for basements of considerable depth, which is why he main level is above street level. These lower levels have their own exterior door and are rented outFor some of the buildings they were built before modern sewer and road systems so the lower part is where the street level was when the building was built. As they laid down sewer piping or other systems and paved roads they built the road up instead of digging out the existing road. For some the building were build with servants entrances being on lower levels and people of importance entering at the second floor. For some buildings they were not able to get full basements built and so they have what is known as a half basement.
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Why does daycare cost so much when the teachers are paid so poorly?
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It's for much the same reason that private schools are very expensive: teachers' salaries are only a small portion of the costs of operating the business. Add to this these costs: * Supplies* Rent for the facilities* Administrative costs * Taxes* FICA/Medicare for employees* Training for the teachers* Liability insurance* Legal counsel* Employee benefits * etc.Thats a great question! I am a teacher and my pay sucks. Daycare can be upwards of $8000 a year. Hm .perhaps its a racketBecause other costs such as rent, electric, liability insurance, and the fact that there is a restriction of no more than 3 children per teacher, mean that there are limited economies of scale.
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Why do we feel hot when the air is as hot as or colder than our internal body temperature?
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Because our bodies don't just sit at our preferred temperature. Humans are warm-blooded; we produce heat constantly as a byproduct of the chemical reactions in our body that maintain our metabolism. That means that we have to constantly get rid of heat at the rate that our body produces it just to stay at the same temperature. Otherwise, we'll overheat and possibly die. When the air is near our internal temperature, the rate at which we lose heat to the environment slows down. When the air reaches our internal temperature, we can no longer lose heat the normal way, and we have to sweat, which allows us to lose heat via evaporative cooling.
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What is the weight of gravity in pounds and how to find it?
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Gravity is a force, while weight is the effect of gravity on a given mass. You cannot convert gravity in to weight. It's like asking me to tell you the speed of your car using only the measurement of how much gas you have in the tank.
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Why can't "We the People" petition to have the NSA shut down (and it actually work..)?
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That would be a [direct democracy]. The United States of America is a representative democracy, the people's voice is heard by proxy of their representative.That site is a parody of a placebo.
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Why can some humans survive thousands of feet while others die after a short fall?
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It all has to do with mechanics and overall health. If you're reasonably healthy, well built, and happen to land the "right" way so that your body can absorb the shock of the landing, you may be bruised or even break something but you should be ok. Meanwhile, a leading cause of death in old people is falls. Older people have far more brittle bones and the like and it's much easier for them to fracture something and lead to even more internal damage. There's also the mechanics of the fall. If you fall in a way that you can use the momentum to "correct" the fall , you should be alright. But if you fall maybe a short distance and land on your head with nothing absorbing the fall or getting rid of the kinetic energy that really damages you, you're going to be injured or die. Bear in mind that falls are basically vertical collisions. Some people can survive being hit head on by a truck while others die immediately in some other wrecks.They don't. If you survive a crazy fall like that it's because you got insanely lucky with tree branches or something. Humans can't survive a fall like that, it's physics.
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Why don't we sue politicians for broken election promises as breach of verbal contract?
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There is a saying that a verbal contract isn't worth the paper its printed on. But beyond that humorous quote, there is a better reason. An elected official can simply say that the situation or information changed in the time between the campaign and the vote, which is a great defense, because that's how we want our representatives to act.
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Why can't they make a cheap car that is made of basic parts internally, but looks high end externally?
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The look of a Lamborghini does cost lots of money to make. Lots of weird shapes in the metal and plastic. Expensive materials, etc. It's not just the engine that is pricey. What you're describing is basically a kit car, which are available and hobbyists put them together to be exactly this. People who like sports cars don't just like how they look, but how they handle and accelerate and lots of other things. Your average person might want a Lambo in their garage but probably don't want to get stared at or ooed and ahhd at driving it around town, and would probably be terrified of parking it in a public place. Most people don't like nearly lying down in their driver's seat like you do in a lambo. They like to have a place to put a bag of groceries, or a couple other people or kids. That said, there are plenty of cheap sporty looking cars out there.Companies don't do this, because that would devalue the "good cars". If your shitty car can look like a high end car. Why buy a high end cars.
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EL 5, How is it that "polar bear" clubs can go swimming in January and not die of hypothermia?
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They basically just go in and out of the water, and they're prepared with towels and warm clothes as soon as they're done. Even in near-freezing water, it takes at least 10-15 minutes for hypothermia to happen. Also, at least in the bigger polar bear clubs, there's medical staff around in case of emergencies.Further, the problem with cold water normally is the shock of falling in as opposed to the actual cold. Hence the importance of preparation.
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Til Death do us Part. Do religious people believe they are all single in Heaven?
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This is coming from a Christian perspective, but marriage is seen as an earthly example of our relationship with Christ, we find fulfillment in caring and loving on our spouse and we get the benefit of them doing the same for us. Now once we get to heaven we are completely and entirely fulfilled by God for He is our ultimate desire of the relationship we were seeking on earth. Now we still get to chill with our loved ones but it marriage is no longer needed like it was, sorry if that was too preachy, hope that makes senseChristians do. When people asked Jesus who a widow that had remarried would be with in heaven Jesus answered that there was no marriage in heaven. So the line in the traditional Christian Marriage vows of "till death do us part" reflects that beliefMormons don't. Marriages performed in temples are called sealings. The last line of the ceremony is "for time and all eternity" and not "til death". You can also be sealed to your children, so family units remain intact. There will still be single people of course, including those not sealed during mortality, but they believe even after death those who didn't have a chance to do it will receive the opportunity via proxy ordinancesDo all religious people think the same things?
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Vulgar Latin and it's difference between Classical Latin
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Vulgar Latin uses more vocabulary that made it into modern Romance languages, and the sentence structure is often more like the modern Romance languages too. So stuff like: occasionally, you'll see the relative pronoun used to mark indirect discourse instead of accusative + infinitive constructions. The pronunciation is also different, but that probably won't matter in your class. Most people I've spoken to have said they found Mediaeval Latin 'easier' than Classical Latin. And the subject matter is often more church-focused, so you'll run into lots of new ecclesiastical vocabulary often borrowed from Greek ), or new meanings for old words
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I've never seen a fat bird. Is that because flying is vital for them to survive so natural selection kills them or because birds simply don't get fat?
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People commenting here don't know what they're talking about. Birds do get fat the closer you get to the cold extremes . You've never seen one because, I assume, you haven't been to these types of places. Furthermore, you wouldn't know how fat the bird is until you kill and butcher it, but I promise, there are fat birds. Yes, flight is a big part of their survival, but so is fat in the cold weather. As with most things, there's a balance. When colder season come, birds store fat. Not enough that they cannot fly anymore, but they do store fat. When it's time to migrate, a lot of that fat gets burned off.
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How does paracetomol work?
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The mechanism of action for Paracetamol/acetomenophen is not entirely understood. It *probably* inhibits COX, which is an enzyme that is part of the chemical pathway for chemical pain signals in the body. Inhibit the enzyme, the body makes less pain-signalling chemicalsWhen you have a fever or other inflammation going on there is an abundance of prostanoids being produced at the site of inflammation. This group of chemicals is responsible for inflammation and vasoconstriction among other things. Now your brain typically interprets this signal as pain or soreness. Think how sore an inflamed sinus is! paracetomol, or acetominophen in the states, acts by inhibiting the enzyme that creates these protanoids. Therefore stopping the pain and inflammation response at the source.
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Why is "I don't like sand" line from Attack of the Clones considered so bad?
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It's supposed to be Anakin's smooth line to use on Padme and it's just so derpy and cringeworthy. Lucas has such a tin ear for dialogue that Harrison Ford said to him, "You can type this shit, George, but you can't say it."
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Do you need a computer to create a computer?
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Assuming that all humans alive today survived, there's a tremendous amount of knowledge and experience that could be used to quickly bypass lots of steps along the way. As an example of this, check out [the best Commodore 64 games] from the mid 1980's, and compare that to the winners of the [2010's Commodore 64 Demoscene] where people take all of the advances in programming from the last 30 years and apply them to old hardware. It's true that modern computers are designed and built in part by computers, so it 'd probably take several years to rebuild simple computers by hand, then use those to build more and more complex computers from there. But it 'd take far less than 70 years to "catch up" because we have the advantage of knowing the full history.
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What is more environmentally friendly forced air hand dryers or paper towel?
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New air dryers are more environmentally friendly than paper towels. Older dryers might not be, because they use more power.For the most part, the air dryers are better in terms of energy. They cost less to run and you don't have to keep putting towels in them. Lots of people don't like them, though, since they take longer to dry. In any case, I suggest this ted video: _URL_0_ - he talks about the different techniques used for drying your hands with paper towels .Air dryers are more environmentally friendly than paper. Paper is more hygienic - air driers spread germs everywhere.
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why does all music attach me to something thats occuring in my life and make me feel nostalgic even a weel later?
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Because that's effectively how your brain functions. Your brain is a collection of neurons that fire in sequence. Your brain is always being adjusted, new connections are formed as you 'learn' new 'information'. Essentially, your brain is correlating an experience of life with the auditory experience of that specific music. So when the neurons for that music are activated the adjoining ones referencing that memory/experience are fired in tandem. Your brain does this for pretty much everything. I say 'game' you think 'fun'. I say 'car', you think 'travel' or 'speed'. The only difference is that it isn't language it's music. So yes I'd go as far as to say this is normal. It would depend on how often you listen, the time difference between the experience and the listening session, as well as how long you hold on to specific tracks of music.
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What is the point of having a complex password? If someone figures out your password what does the complexity change?
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It makes it harder for someone to find out your password. It's not difficult to build a computer system which tries your username, with a password that's a word from a dictionary, over and over again. Such a system can go through a whole dictionary in a couple of hours. This method of finding a password is known as a "brute force" attack. So using a word from a dictionary makes it easy for someone to find your password with this method. Using a long combination of letters and numbers, which don't form a single word, makes a brute force attack impossible. With a password just 10 or 12 characters long, the number of possibilities, if you don't have a dictionary to work from, is so huge that it would take a lifetime, literally, for a brute force attack to be completedThe point is that it is supposed to make it harder to figure out your password to begin with. It is a defense against brute force, dictionary, and hybrid type attacks. For example, most passwords are between 6-8 characters. If I want to guess all such passwords just using letters , that's 20 billion possibilities for 6 character passwords, 1 trillion possibilities for 7 character passwords, and 53 trillion possibilities for 8 character passwords. When you introduce complexity, such as numbers and symbols all of those "52"s become "72". So 20 billion becomes 140 billion, 1 trillion becomes 10 trillion, and 53 trillion becomes 722 trillion. So you are increasing the difficulty of such attacks by a factor of 7 to 13Having a complex password makes it more difficult for anyone to figure it out by chance
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Why do some downloads not show file size and / or ETAs?
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When you make an HTTP connection, there are a bunch of pieces of metadata that are sent before the data. One of those is Content-Length, which tells your client how long the data portion is going to be. If you don't see a file size in a download, it means the server didn't send a Content-Length header, so your client has no idea how much data is going to come, and it just needs to continue receiving data until the server stops sending it.
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