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What is the point of internet contests, does anyone actually win?
I won an Xbox 360 with Connect from an internet contest about 5 years ago, Mars candy corp I think. I entered like 20 times. It was legit, they just emailed me, I signed a form and they just mailed me the the Xbox. Then I sold it to my sister for $300. Best deal ever.
When countries with different currencies trade with each other, where along the line is the currency actually switched?
Generally when they agree on a price they include in what currency. If a German company wanted to be paid in euros then the American company would have to trade USD for euros at a bank, currency exchange business, or other businesses who offer the service and then pay. Countries do have reserves of foreign currency but that is more of an "In case our currency completely goes down the drain, break glass". It isn't so private companies can buy goods with it. No they don't just print off other countries currency. What happens most of the time though is if two countries have differing currencies then they just use USD. A lot of banks keep reserves of it as it is fairly stable so companies don't have a problem getting a hold of it.
Caisson disease (the bends) and why the reverse doesn't happen (an astronaut going from low to high pressure)
They're in a pressurized environment so there's no pressure change. Submariners don't get the bends either, for the same reason. Anyway the difference between space and sea level is only one atmosphere so it wouldn't be an issue anyway. You've done a one atmosphere change at something like ten meters underwater, to compare.
What happens when people fall asleep on their arm and it becomes unmovable completely numb?
A nerve is getting pinched, blocking signal from reaching the brain. It's relatively harmless, but is uncomfortable Be careful with this. I did it at university and now have a blood clot in my shoulder for life.So there are a couple of factors at play, related to both blood supply and nerves, and in fact the microvasculature that supplies blood to your nerves. Compression of the nerves supplying your upper limbs can lead to a reduction in the tiny blood supply to the nerves, as well as compression of he actual nerves although this is actually less of a factor than people assume. This reduction reduces nerve function both coming back to your central nervous system and from your brain . If the compression is held for long enough, it is in fact entirely possible that the lack of oxygen to the nerve causes long term damage. This is a well known phenomenon, and there is actually a phenomenon called Saturday Night Palsy by emergency physicians. People get very drunk and pass out, and due to the effect of the alcohol don't move and adjust their arm position like normal, and this can lead to quite extended symptoms. For more detail have a read of _URL_0_
Why do german and scandinavian languages use different letters for ö/ø?
swedish and icelandic use the ö/Ö however, a likely explanation is that Ø came from latin Œ , and that the slash was just a different way to write it. as for why the difference, it's theorized that the Ö was used in old norwegian texts in order to distinguish between the short Ö/Ø sound and the long Ö/Ø sound. related is the cyrillic letter Ө, which makes a similar sound in some languages such as mongolian and kazakh.
how the show moonshiners works and how it is legal
* All they show is people hauling clear liquids around that is not sufficient proof of a crime.* Large portions of the show could very well be staged.It's a docudrama - think of the individuals on the show as actors playing the part of moonshiners. ", '[anwer from last time I saw this] I dont mean to sound rudeI 've noticed they never actually show anybody pitching yeast. There's never any proof any add the ingredient that actually makes the alcohol. Tim also said in an interview something like "How they going to arrest me for something I did five years ago?" so it's possible they shot all this years ago and he's not currently Moonshining . So they very well may have no evidence he made Moonshine because they don't show him adding yeast, and any product that might have proved it, if he's telling the truth, is long goneIt's another fake "reality" show being broadcast because they are too cheap and uncreative to make anything intelligent.I've heard two: * It's fake* It was recorded a few years ago, so the statute of limitations have passed
How "clicks" become a legitimate form of profitability for websites
Advertisement. The general theory is that ads are worth more if more people see them. An ad seen by 1,000,000 people is more valuable than an ad seen by 1,000 people. If an ad on your medium is going to reach more people, you can charge more to take the ad, so you make more money from ads. Of course, it's turned out to not be a very good measure by itself. Views aren't the same as click-throughs , and even click-throughs aren't the same as sales. But views *can* lead to click-througs and click-throughs *can* lead to sales. Targeting your adverts is important: if men never go for your ad, then advertising at an audience of 1,000,000 men and women isn't as useful as advertising at an audience of 500,000 women.
Why do we call illegal immigrants undocumented immigrants?
No drivers license, no SSN, no finger prints, no shots, etc. Things required to have for work permit, green card, citizenship.
Health Insurance for those that have not elected in 2015
If you want to get coverage for 2016, the exchange should be open til December 10. The cost of coverage really depends on how much subsidies you're eligible for.
How does countries calculate its land area?
These days the most accurate answer comes from GIS data. This basically describes the shape of the country as a polygon, i.e., a shape made up of a sequence of straight lines connected together. There's a simple [mathematical formula] to determine the area of a polygon. There are some minor complexities involving islands, lakes, islands in lake, lakes in islands in lakes, and so on, but these can be handled with care.
why isn't hunting lions and other endangered animals banned world wide?
Well, first off, lions are not an endangered species. Important to draw a line there. What makes a lion different than a deer, duck or elk? Sport hunting of animals is a pretty common behavior and there is nothing intrinsically different between any animal we choose to hunt for sport. The truth is that we kill animals all the time, be it for sport, meat or to remove a nuisance. In fact, hunting animals can often be beneficial for the herd. Deer in the US will breed to a point where they begin to exhaust their food supply - culling the herd is actually good for them overall. As for endangered species, sometimes killing them is good as well. Take the rhino that was hunted a little while back. He was becoming too violent and was detrimental to his herd. Killing him was better for all the other rhinos. The people to protected the game preserver sold the rights to kill him to earn a bit of extra money to fund the preserve. Since he was going to die anyway, it was win win. You can be morally object to any animal killing or just hunting in general, but its a moral argument. There are many others that don't have those objections. That is why it is legal.
Why don't snakes choke when they devour large prey whole / is it ever possible for a snake to choke ?
Yes, snakes can choke. Sometimes they start to swallow a prey, and when startled or find that it is too big, they reverse the swallowing process. It's usually not healthy for the snake to do repeatedly, and can hurt the snake. Also, snakes have a special extendable tube trachea they push forward to the front of their jaw when swallowing a large prey. It's like a snorkel for eating.
How metropolises such as Phoenix, Tucson, Las Vegas, other southwestern U.S. cities, get enough water to supply the huge population with no lakes or rivers near.
All these cities share water from the Colorado River under an agreement called [the Colorado River Compact]. it is carried through the area by pipelines.
How does Cadillac's "Super Cruise" autonomous driving work?
The car looks at the road and it looks at you. If it understands what it sees on the road, it stays in it's lane and a safe distance back from the car in front of you. It both steers and controls the speed. If you stop looking at the road, it slows to a stop in its lane. It does not change lanes, or follow directions, or anything else like that. You are still driving, it's only steering and working the gas/brake.
How reactors don't melt if stuff going on inside them hit millions of degrees?
What's going on here is they keep the stuff that's millions of degrees from touching anything else, and they only use very very tiny amounts of the stuff they're heating up. The most common way of doing this is to trap the little wee cloud of hot hot stuff within a very strong magnetic field. Because it's not touching anything, the heat it contains isn't conducted into the structure around it that's generating that magnetic field, and they can keep pumping more energy in. When they release it, there's so little hot stuff there that it doesn't really heat up its surroundings enough to damage them.How do you actually measure these kind of extreme temperatures?', "Turn your oven to 400ºF. Now let it heat up. Put your hand into the oven, that's 400ºF. Now touch the side if you dare, it's also 400ºF. The air doesn't burn you because it has less molecule density than steel. And even though the heating element reaches 400ºF quickly, it takes time for the oven to heat up because of that same lack of air density.
Why can't your phone use wifi and 4G/3G together?
[You can do it on Android] In general it's undesirable because mobile bandwidth is far more limited. Something like watching youtube in high quality could easily use up all your limit in very little time if you fail to notice. It could also result in you being charged a lot of money, and people tend to hate this kind of thing.
What is the dark web vs. deep web? How exactly do you get there? And how dangerous is it if you don't know what you're doing?
the dark web refers to the part of the internet that requires using the TOR routing service to gain access. Once you have access it is much like the rest of the internet only generally targeted towards much more shady things and conversations that people want to remain anonymous for. the deep web refers to all parts of the internet that are unindexed, that is to say are not publicly accessible to just anyone. Every page and post on reddit if properly searched for can be found on google and therefore indicates that it is indexed. Companies have many web pages, documents, and data that require special credentials and logins to access. The deep web refers to all of these various pages and locations. If you're a member of a private forum that requires you to log in to see information, congratulations, you've been to the deep web and there is nothing dangerous about it. If you've downloaded the TOR software and connected, congratulations you've been to the dark web. the level of dangerousness is correlated directly with the activities and websites you visit, though largely harmless you may find yourself on a list at some government agency :p
why do we move our arms while walking?
The real reason is balance. Unlike most animals, we're bipedal. Try running with and without your hands and arms behind your back. I think you'll be able to tell the difference. Basically you have to use your torso to balance without your arms helping you. It's possible but less energy efficient. > Arm swing in human bipedal walking is a natural motion that each arm swings with the motion of the opposing leg. Swinging arms in an opposing direction with respect to the lower limb reduces the angular momentum of the body, balancing the rotational motion produced during walking. _URL_0_ > Scientists know there is a mechanical benefit to the motion: Swinging arms counterbalance the momentum of a person’s legs, providing stability to the runner.
How do people keep "discovering" information leaked from Snowdens' documents if they were leaked so long ago?
The documents were given to journalist/lawyer Glenn Greenwald. Snowden did this because he trusted Greenwald not to release any documents that would put anyone's life in danger. Greenwald is going through the documents and publishing them slowly to ensure this and to only show documents that implicate government wrong doing. edit: I should spell his name correctly.edit 2: Thanks for Gold! Only been here a month and I am grateful that anyone at all cared what I have to say.
why do collegiate athletes from military schools (Army, Navy, Air Force) need permission to play in pro sports?
When a person is accepted into a service academy, they don't pay any tuition but they make a commitment to serve a certain term of years in their chosen military branch after graduation. If that player is drafted by a pro franchise, they can ask the military to defer or waive their service requirement which in this case the Navy agreed to do.
What causes us to wake up right before the alarm goes off?
Your body has proteins that act like grains in an hourglass. When they run low your body knows it's time to go to sleep. While you sleep the hourglass fills back up until it's full enough that your body starts to wake up. If you keep a regular schedule, your body's natural cycle will start to sync with your artificial cycle so your body will start to naturally wake up at the same time your alarm clock is set to wake you up.We're not even exactly sure why we have to sleep in the first place. We do know that the brain checks in on its surrounding environment throughout the night as a "safety" check. That could have something to do with it, but hard to say. We know very little about the intricacies of sleep. ***someone may have theories, but concrete answers are unlikely.The same way you are able to tell what time is it without checking your watch. You count in your head, it's just not fully conscious.
What causes red-eye in pictures?
Side note: most noctural animals have a special part of the eye called the [tapetum lucidum] which helps reflect light onto the retina. The color hue reflected by the animal's eye is commonly used to classify the organism or determine types of creatures present in a biological night study/survey.
Why does notebook power supplies have no vents? Would`t it be more efficient if present?
Laptops are portable. They're constantly getting stuffed inside bags with other shit. If you had vents on the power brick, it would open up opportunities to "stuff" to get in there that could be worse for heat transfer than the plastic casing. Even worse, if a paperclip or staple got in there, you 'd be looking at an electrical problem involving 110V wall powerI mean the "brick" itself like this one _URL_0_ *Sorry english is not my native language
What exactly is happening when I put a cup or bottle to my mouth and suck the air out?
You aren't creating a perfect vacuum, but you are reducing the air pressure inside the cup, causing the ambient air pressure outside to hold the cup to your face.You're not quite creating a vacuum, but you are decreasing air-pressure within the cup/bottle by sucking air out. Since the air-pressure inside the bottle is less than the pressure outside the bottle, you get the "suction" effect. Note: It's not really "sucking" your lip in. It's actually the pressure of the atmosphere around you that's pushing your lip into the bottle. Your lungs are not strong enough to create a total vacuum. Additionally, a typical glass bottle would break were you able to suck all of the air out. The surrounding atmospheric pressure would be too great and would crush the bottle. This doesn't happen normally because the air inside the bottle is at the same pressure as outside the bottle, so the air inside is pushing back against the air outside with the same amount of force Air weighs a massive amount, when you suck all the air out of a beer it "wants" something to fill that void. In this case, the closest thing was your lip that gets "sucked" into it. Suction is just creating a really low pressure area, and you 've done that by sucking all the air outYou are reducing the air pressure of the cup by sucking air out; you are not creating a vacuum, human lungs are not that strong.
How can my iPhone emit any sound it wants?
Information is stored as a series of 1s and 0s in a iPhone. This is called binary data and you can represent virtually any piece of information as binary data including sounds. To recreate these sounds from the data this data has to go through a series of electronic circuits. The first one being a Digital-to-Analog Converter . A digital signal of the data is sent through this circuit and the output is an analog audio signal. This audio signal now goes through a second circuit called an amplifier. This recreates the audio signal at a more powerful level. This more powerful/amplified audio signal can now be sent to a loudspeaker where it will be used to drive the coil of the loudspeaker, moving the diaphragm and creating the sound wave.
What does a CPU do when it's idle?
Nah, that would keep the CPU busy in the sense that it 'd draw power, dissipate heat, and spin the fans as if it were doing real work. Well, perhaps a bit less, since it doesn't need arithmetic, memory, etc units to spin a nop loop and it will power them down, but nop loops still aren't the "right" way to do things these days. So what is the right way? Let's look at linux. Apparently the platform-generic routine is pm_idle and the x86 implementation is [mwait_idle] which calls an x86 instruction [MWAIT]. The more traditional instruction would be HLT, and from the [Stack Overflow] comparing the two, user2665185 explains the difference: > The HLT instruction implements the shallowest idle power state available for an individual thread, whereas the MWAIT instruction allows you to request all available idle power states as well as sub-states. So we can rank the solutions on a modern processor: nop loop < HLT < MWAIT EDIT: poking a bit deeper into this it looks like there was an IO based mechanism between HLT and MWAIT, and that there's an acpi routine acpi_cpu_idle which ideally improves on what MWAIT can offer by tying off-CPU idle actions into the CPU idle state.They're full static. At a zeroth order the cpu stops processing instructions until an interrupt occurs . Various processes may have timers or waiting on real devices [network/disk] so they wake up with interrupts. After that the CPU can clock down . In some cases go fully static this is called clock gating. After that the CPU can also power off .
Why can't web services simply scale up by buying more servers?
Think your way through a simple example, tickets to a concert. There are 10,000 seats in the auditorium, and some algorithm that says which seats are "best". You make a web program that accepts how many seats the customer wants and shows them the three "best" options for seats of that group size. With one server, this is easy, and users take turns looking at seats. With two servers, this gets a little more complicated, since you can't sell the same seats to two people. That means you need a third server that keeps track of the seats that are "sold
Could the supreme court end birth right citizenship without a constitutional amendment?
It's pretty doubtful, since there's not much wiggle room in the 14th Amendment. The only exemptions are to people who are not "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States. At the time, that referred to most Indian tribes. But since all Native Americans have been US citizens since 1924, that clause now applies only to children of diplomats.
Why were animals SO much bigger back then?
When you say back then I'm going to assume you mean millions of years ago, and more specifically the Carboniferous period . The reason organisms were much bigger then is due to the increased oxygen levels within the atmosphere allowing much larger organisms to be supported. An example of this that is quite interesting is the giant insects such as Arthropleura which are giant Centipede's around 3m in length and around 30cm wide. This website has a photo of the tracks left by one, the 2nd photo down. _URL_0_
Sarepta announced their new drug, Exondys 51, will cost $300,000 a year. How can patients afford the treatment? Who pays for this?
Insurance companies mainly are the ones who pay. Drugs are expensive, especially new drugs there's a lot of cost involved, and this is a rare disease if they're going to be able to make back the costs of development and testing they need a big price tag.
Why does antisemitism refer only to the Jewish people even though the term "Semite" encompasses both Arabs and Jews?
Because the term was coined by people who used it to refer to groups that specifically hated Jews , not groups that hated Jews and/or Arabs . _URL_0_
Why don't we breathe in fully (deeply) with every breath?
At rest the body does not require a lot of oxygen. It would be a waste of energy to expand the lungs fully each time we took a breath. Also try taking multiple deep breaths at a time, you'll start to feel quite light headed!", 'There are a lot of ways to breath and male / female breath different. E.g. men tend to use their stomach and woman their chest¹. However, you can actually use both muscle groups and many more. So fully breathing in is a muscle-intensive task. Have you ever noticed what you do after a run? You usually firm up your body with your hands. You actually do that to use muscles you usually use to move your arms to move your chest, just to get a little bit more air into your lungs. Extending your chest to the maximum is obviously too much of a hassle to do it more often than necessary. ¹ The way male breath is more efficient by the way. However, it is somehoProbably because that's all the oxygen we need in "normal" conditions. Our lungs are built so that they'll be able to provide enough oxygen under intense and more physically demanding conditions, and that capacity is more than we need most of the timeIt's important that we have "extra capacity" to increase our oxygen intake when needed and to decrease it when not needed . By "pacing" our intake we use the optimal amount of energy for our current level of need.
Why can time be dilated or compressed but never go backwards?
Yarr! Yer not alone in askin', and kind strangers have explained: 1. [ELI5: Why time moves forwards, not backwards. ] ^1. [ELI5: Why is time travel backwards not possible? ] ^1. [ELI5: What causes time to move forward? ] ^1. [eli5: How can we know if time travel is/isn't possible? ] ^1. [ELI5: Why we cant travel backwards in time. ] ^1. [ELI5: Why time travel cannot exist ] ^1. [ELI5: Why can we travel forwards in time but not backwards? ] ^1. [ELI5:Why can't we turn back time? ] ^", 'Literally all of them. Without linear time all laws of the physical world fall apart. Our current understanding of the universe does not allow for actions to run in reverse. I believe the strongest assertion comes from energy expenditure/thermodynamics.
What is the psychology behind competitiveness?
Dominance. Usually being the best puts you in a leadership role. Leadership means success. And humans usually tend to strive for successIt is definitely a tribal mentality that typically benefits everyone has a whole. If you are more competitive and "assertive" you typically are more successful at obtaining and maintaining control of resources and power/influence. Since Humans evolved as a tribe, it was clear that the more assertive hunters and gatherers were getting more resources. It also made it so leadership wasn't called into question as frequently which can cause issues. The unfortunate thing that evolved with this was the "win at all cost" mentality. That is the part that is detrimental to progress.
Why do we rely on donations from the public for disaster relief? Isn't this the government's responsibility?
> Shouldn't the government be able to fully fund disaster relief without relying on contributions from the general public? If you want to fully fund disaster relief, that means convincing voters to raise taxes, or cut spending elsewhere. getting Disaster funding is notoriously tricky. No one wants to pay for it until it happens , and no one wants to subsidize areas that are disaster prone. If federal funds are used, it means places that don't get hit will pay for something only FL/Texas would use. Voters in Wyoming might not be super keen on that. > I believe the federal government should pay for these resources - even if they just cut a private company a check to feed/temporarily house/etc. victims. Our tax dollars should cover this. If you think it should- great! convince other voters. Right now, you're in the minority. The government does do quite a bit for relief. It's just not fully funded. It's not a question of whether the government can or can't. It can, but people don't necessarily agree with you. > I'm focused more on why the public is being urged to donate to disaster relief - which goes to companies like the Red Cross. The Red Cross in turn pays for food, water, etc. to help people during disaster time. The idea is that the federal government covers the bare minimum of what people want federally covered. However, private donations are encouraged for people who feel more should be done. This allows people who wish to help more, to do so. The people who don't, don't.
the "Super Congress"
The Debt Ceiling bill that was approved by Congress and signed by President Obama today created a special joint committee of Congress. The committee is to be made up of members from both the House of Representatives and the Senate and will have a total of 12 members, 6 Democrats and 6 Republicans. The job of this 'supercongress' is to find 1.5 trillion dollars to cut from the national budget by Thanksgiving. They then write a bill detailing the cuts and it gets sent to the House and the Senate for approval under a closed rule , no fillibustering in the senate , and passes by a simple-majority . Implications: 12 dudes get to determine what to cut and what to save. Then the rest of Congress gets to simply say Yea or Nay. If the bill doesn't pass it goes back to the 'Supercongress' for another attempt to appease a majority.
Why are non nicotine electronic cigarettes illegal for minors?
The are thinking that it may be a gateway back to the time when smoking really did make you look coolMost likely because they dont want to receive phone calls from angry mothers that think its as harmful as real smokingit probably falls under paraphernalia. Just like bongs and pipes are not allowed to be bought by kids either.
What criteria do ingredients need to meet in order to be classified as "active/medical"?
It needs to enact a physiological change on your body, as opposed to simply being processed like normal food. The change has to be noticeable and measurable, and often directed towards a specific medicinal goal.
Why does it sometimes feel like time slows down and and I have enhanced reflexes?
Everybody here is correct, apart from the Witcher guy, and the bug dude, but nobody has explained why time seems to slow down. Our bodies measure how time passes by the amount of information it processes. The more information the brain is processing, the slower time goes, and the less information the brain is processing, the faster time goes. This is also why time passes quicker when you are not zoned out: because you are not focusing on your environment and are thus processing minimal information. Adrenaline kicks all of your senses into overdrive, and the amount of environmental stimulus you are capable of processing increases dramatically, hence the illusion that time has actually slowed. This enables you to respond in a seemingly impossible time frame. This is called hyperarousal . I can remember being hit by a car seven years ago with photographic accuracy, because in the instant before impact, adrenaline was erupted into my bloodstream, causing all of my senses to sharpen and allowing my brain to process all information as it was being received, and it created a response that saved my life. Everything that happened in that moment is permanently etched into my mind, and some people have difficulty revisioning such situations. I just find it funny that my last thoughts could have been "bugger". You should see a doctor if this happens frequently for no reason: adrenaline induces the physical responses that other people have commented on, and these can be stressful on the body if they occur to frequently.This usually happens when your brain senses that you are in danger and to assess the situation better it 'slows down time' and enhances your senses
How come humans need to eat three times a day to sustain good health?
Eating three times a day is a relatively new thing. Eating once a day was quite common throughout most of civilised history, and before that eating once every couple of days may have been quite common. Humans are warm blooded mammals with a high basal metabolic rate . We much eat quite a lot of food in comparison to other animals. That large amount of food can be eaten in one large amount rarely, or in small meals frequently. EDIT: Why is it that humans require so many calories? Our brains and we are warm blooded . Our brains use about 20 - 25% of our daily calorie use.
What's the problem with loaning money for college in the states?
Our education system is in complete meltdown mode. So here's the deal - all college students have to fill out a FAFSA . The FAFSA tells you how much you can get in government grants and how much of a federal loan you qualify for. Here's the issue - until you're 24 ~~~~, you don't qualify as an independent student, meaning you have to provide your parent's income on your FAFSA, making it impossible to get grants, and the amount of federal loans available drops The only way to become an independent student before that age is to get married, have a baby, join the military, be an orphan, or get legally emancipated from your parents. Now, if your parents aren't actually helping you pay for school, then the only place left to turn is private bank loans. And without a co-signer, a college student without a lot of built up credit ends up with an outrageous interest rate. After a couple of years, private banks no longer want to give you a loan. Then, you're basically dead in the water. This is exactly what happened to me. EDIT: Checking my facts *after* I post. Silly me.
why does chilled water taste refreshing and sweet but warm/hot water taste disgusting?
Have you ever tried room temp kool-aid? Different temperatures have an effect on the sensitivity of different receptor cells on your tongue. [Here's a good article on the subject]", 'Is your question about acquired taste and personal preference?
How do we determine the directional source of a sound?
I think it has to do with the time difference between one ear hearing the sound first, then the otherAudio engineers began working on this problem when they began generating stereo music. They learned to produce a pleasing stereo effect using two sound tracks going to separate speakers. They did not work on vertical discrimination because they did not put in vertical speakers. As you say, our brains use two ear inputs to determine sound source. Part of this is audio memory. We turn our heads slightly and our brains compare the difference in sound. This is part of our brains anatomy. We are the descendents of ancestors who analyzed their audio input well. We can still be fooled as with stereo. When digital sound was introduced and the CD fromat was designed there were provisions for four separate audio tracks. But the existing recordings were stereo so two tracks were not used. Converting to recording four tracks and playing four tracks never really caught on. Now we have completely digital recordings in MP3 format. many people accept lower quality music than in the past. Special recordings can be made and played for situations such as amusement parks seeking a 3D effect on a ride. You can still listen to very good recordings in different formats if you sought them outDue to the shape of our heads and ears, a sound from in front of and to the left vs behind and to the left would be heard differently in our right ear. The main portion of our ears is open towards our front, focusing on sounds coming from in front of us, the little flap thing also helps in this regard.
Where did the phrase "1 Mississippi 2 Mississippi" come from?
The idea is that it takes one second to say Mississippi. So if you want to time something in seconds, you count it out while saying Mississippi.
How can companies make food taste so consistent?
I actually found ketchup tastes very different in different parts of the world at McDonald's.TL;DR: they make a lot at once, the same way every time, and they test it to make sure it is the same. Most companies have very specific recipes they use to create the taste of their food. Additionally, the food is created in large batches, and each batch is tested by highly trained testers to ensure that batches are consistent in flavor . Since only a few locations create the strawberry milkshake mix used in McDonalds restaurant, they all use the same recipe, and they are checked against master samples by skilled tasters, they are able to provide a consistent taste to you.
Why does the body store fat (or so much of it) if we can not realistically live off what the fat cells provide, why not have a cut off point?
Too much body fat was never a health concern for 99.999% of human existence. It is only a concern now because of how much food we have access to and the sedentary life the modern world has made. Evolution only kicks in to traits that affect reproduction or survivability *until reproduction*. Evolution does not made things "better" for us, or make things more idealPeople can live off what fat cells provide. If you are severely obese you can live months without eating anything. However that is not suggested because you will start to miss some minerals and vitamins that you need. But it will keep you from starving for some time.
; Why do two headed snakes seem so common?
It does happen with other animals, and they tend to not survive. Snakes are basically a tube with a digestive system so they deal with issues pretty well. When you only have to eat once a month, fighting with your other head isn't as life-threatening.
The difference between mutation and evolution.
Mutation is a naturally occurring phenomenon within DNA. As mutation occurs, certain traits change. If a new trait makes survival more likely, this trait is likely to become more widespread throughout later generations of a population. This is an aspect of evolution. TL;DR: Mutation that leads to beneficial traits is a cause of evolution.Mutation is to evolution as sentences are to paragraphs. Mutations are, essentially, the building blocks of evolution, as evolution cannot exist without mutation. After building up a large number of mutations as normal, a population may be considered to have evolved from a previous state. For example, let's say that a mutation occurs allowing some humans to safely endure radiation levels that most humans would consider mildly dangerous, but to people possessing the mutation, these levels are as dangerous as spending a moderate amount of time outdoors on a sunny day, which is to say, not significantly dangerous. Over time, this group spreads the radiation resistance trait to their offspring, with other mutations appearing along the way. In 10,000 years, these humans may have evolved, through these accumulated mutations, to such a point that a human from this year could not produce offspring with them, or perhaps only to the point that any offspring of human and these neo-humans is sterile. The differences in appearance at this point may be akin to the differences between cro-magnon humans and modern humans. Not much, but distinct all the same.
Why people keep saying that banks/bankers are bad?
If you're referring to the banks that helped cause the financial crisis in 2008: * Many took the money people put in the bank and used it on investments they didn't understand and still didn't understand because some ratings agency said they're okay, winding up losing a whole lot of the money people put in the bank.* Many gave out loans to people without actually actually checking if they were telling the truth. In other words, they loaned your money to someone without checking to see if they could pay it back.* In the midst of the recession, the government loaned them money at near 0% interest rate with the expectation that they would then take that money and loan it to small businesses to help the economy recover. They didn't do that and used the money they borrowed to pretend that everything is okay.* Despite all this, they pretend that they know exactly what they're doing and complain that the real reason is there are too many rules telling them how to behave properly. That's why I don't like them. Other people may have other reasons.
Why does my body get covered in goosebumps and why do I feel light headed / relaxed when I'm really enjoying a piece of music or song?
There are two competing theories on this. One, listening to music triggers the same reward pathways as addiction and reward, coating your striatum in dopamine. Your brain can predict what's going to happen next in the music, so it's anticipating the dopamine shot before it actually gets it, and it's that moment between the anticipation and the reward that gives us goosebumps. Two, the amydala reacts uniquely to music, acting as if it has 'real' triggers. However, your brain knows that this isn't 'real', so is constantly shutting that down before it becomes a true fight-or-flight reaction, so we get the hairs-on-end physical reaction without the adrenaline.
Why was Super 8 film such a popular format at its time and even when it was already outdated?
It was cheap. The projectors were cheap, the cameras were cheap, and the film was cheap. As a kid, I had an 8mm camera and projector. No sound, but I made a lot of movies with it. Before the Hunt Brothers tried to corner the silver market, it only cost a few dollars to purchase the film and have it developed.
Why would an asteroid collision wipe out life on earth?
> but would it stay there for so long that we would all freeze to death? Your bigger worry is starving because all the plants have died out due to lack of sunlight. But yes it would stay up there for months AT LEAST. Assuming you weren't caught in the blast or any of the earthquakes or megatsunamis such an impact would cause of course.
Why should we drink ~2L of water a day if most of it just goes straight through us?
It doesn't go straight through us. Water is used by many of the bodily processes we go through on a daily basis, and in addition the water that we don't "use" is used to wash out waste and transport waste away, as well as help act as a heat sink inside our bodies. Water is useful in many functions and very little passes straight through the body without being used by at least one functionInterestingly, we drink the amount of water that we do drink because our kidneys are so inefficient. They can only excrete the waste substances to a maximum concentration, so we need a large amount of water to allow our urine to be excreted by our kidneys. Of course there are other reasons why we drink water. It is important to stay hydrated, and a lot of water is lost through exercise and heat.It also takes out other waste with it, we don't just pee out straight water even if it is clear.
How does Tiger Balm work?
It has capsaicin, which is the same chemical which makes hot sauce spicy. Capsaicin mildly irritates the skin, which basically distracts the brain from whatever else was hurting in a process called counter-irritation. With the brain distracted, you don't notice whatever was hurting quite so much, so it hurts less.
How to drive a car with manual shift.
You can write pages of text explaining how to work the clutch or how to pick the right gear, but you wont learn much without actually trying it in real life. Very much like learning about riding a bicycle from a book. There are two additional things you need to worry about while driving manual. First is picking the right gear. You start on a lower gear, which is high torque, but low speed, and slowly progress to higher gears which are lower torque but higher speed. If you come to a up-slope, you might need to lower your gear for a bit. With experience you can tell when to change gears from the pitch of the engine sound . The general rule of thumb is to shift-up when RPM reaches upper limit and shift-down when RPM reaches lower limit. If the RPM falls below a certain value, the engine can turn off. The second thing is the process of changing gears itself, which is where the clutch comes into play. The third pedal, the clutch pedal needs to be depressed whenever you're changing gears and slowly eased back in for the gears to mesh properly. Again, the only way to get this right is to practice.ELI5? There's a third pedal on the left called a "clutch." To shift gears you press down on the clutch, while lifting off the gas pedal. Then you shift gears and release the clutch while pressing down on the gas.
What's the difference in a violin and a fiddle?
_URL_0_ > A fiddle is any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin.[1] It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music. Fiddle playing, or fiddling, refers to various styles of music. All violins are fiddles, but not all fiddles are violins. Basically, a Fiddle is a category of stringed instruments, specifically the category that is played with a bow, not picked or strummed.Who is playing it. They're the same thing fiddle is just an informal name for a violin. Check out the wikipedia [link]
Why is it considered embarrassing to get an erection in public?
The same reason it would be embarrassing if you sneezed and got snot all over yourself, if you had sudden diarrhea, or vomited. These are all normal bodily functions but are perceived as embarrassing by our culture. Also, anything related to sexuality is inherently perceived as embarrassing. It's the same reason it's considered taboo for a woman to walk around shirtless but OK for a man to.
Why do cars have blind spots (dead angle)? Can't we design side mirrors that would help eliminate this problem?
You actually can set up mirrors on a regular car to eliminate blind spots. Most people just set their mirrors up incorrectly.You can get a blind spot mirror to put on your mirrors: _URL_1_ Some cars have blind spot enhancements on their mirrors where the outer rim is a wide angle mirror: _URL_0_ This can be clunky. The Accord even has a camera mounted under it's mirror which is used to show a visual of the blind spot and distance. _URL_2_
Why do most people sneeze in groups of three?
I disagree with your premise that most people sneeze in groups of three.I'm with NC_Law on this. Most people DON'T sneeze in groups of three. I usually only sneeze once, on rare occasions maybe twice. In fact I don't think I've met too many people that do this either.
Why do redditors watch 'my little pony'
Hahaha, this question again. The answer is pretty simple: The show is *actually good.* So far in Season 2 they 've had - a fight with a god of chaos - Two big musical numbers - temporarily turned evil and beat each other up, - shot-for-shot recreated a Star Wars scene - set off a rainbow-colored nuclear blast - snapped a bear's neck, - had a *severe* psychological breakdown - and referenced the Big Lebowski. And we're nine eps in. Basically, it's not the old pony show at all. It still has it's cute moments but they're enjoyable because they don't talk *down* to you, and rarely hammer you over the head with a moral. The writers are all talent from other cartoons or other "real" shows; the result is characters with some depth, actual conflicts, and a fleshed-out almost Harry Potterish universe it's like nobody told the ponies they're ponies. I never thought for a second I 'd like it either. But I do!', "I watch it because it's fun and cute. The [/r/mylittlepony] [FAQ] has some more answers. []", 'People watch TV shows because they find them entertaining.
Why do we still have daylight's saving time?
Daylight savings time is actually what allows you to get more sunlight in the evenings after work. Now that it's the end of year, we're done with daylight saving's for this year, so it seems to get dark earlier. Supporters of daylight saving's time like it because it shifts the time when it's light out to later in the day, when outdoor activities are more common. There are also arguments that it saves electricity, though that's still up for debate.
Why the sound of a thunder can be heard for a couple of seconds, although the lightning strike itself takes much shorter time to happen?
Ever wondered why sometimes you hear a super loud crack that's quick? Other times a rolling boom that goes on for awhile? Some of it is echoing, but a large part is the orientation if the lightning itself. If the lightning bolt is entirely parallel to you , then once it strikes and generates the sound wave, the wave hits you all at once. Now imagine if the lightning bolt stretches from somewhere close to you to someplace far away. You get a sound wave that hits you from the bit of lightning closest to you and you continue hearing the wave as the rest of the sound comes. To clarify, if the bolt of lightning is oriented like a baseball bat on it's side, aka you can see the full length of it, you will porbably hear a louder crack as the entire wave hits you at once. If the baseball bat is on its end, where you can only see the tip of the bat and nothing else, then it's entire length produces a sound wave but each point of the bat is at different distances, so each sound wave hits you at different times creating the rolling thunder effect. This is stupidly simplistic, and lightning can fork and twist and turn into all kinds of shapes. It's intensity can be stronger or weaker, it can run parallel to the ground or perpendicular. All these factors, and many more, all shape the sound you hear. Another main factor is wind. It blows sound around quite well, especially since lightning is frequent during storms that create wind. Hope this helps :)", 'Thunder echos off of anything it hits, like hills or buildings, so its effect seems to stretch out as you hear all the echos shortly after the initial hit.
What does the word "dank" have to do with memes?
"Dank" in this context literally refers to good-smelling marijuana. It's a pretty popular term amongst stoners which caused it to become popular amongst some teenagers, who probably used the term "dank memes" non-ironically at some point. Because it sounds so silly the term "dank memes" became a meme itself.To my knowledge, 'dank' was originally a description used with other things; as well as a fun word to say. It then became associated with memes, and became a meme of it's own.
What are ACH transactions, and how is it a bad system?
I wouldn't call it a bad system, just an outdated one. ACH is the system that US banks use to transfer money to each other. The system is run by the Federal Reserve Bank. When you request to send funds to an account at another bank, your bank sends the cash to the Fed, and the Fed then sends the funds to the receiving bank. People don't like the system because: - The Fed acts as a middleman, so there is a lack of privacy in the transaction.- The transfer isn't instantaneous. There are strides being made to speed up the process, but it can still take up to a day for the Fed to move funds.- Its a legacy system developed forty plus years ago.
I get how prime numbers work, but why are they important?
For a long time, they really weren't important. The study of prime numbers was seen as "pure mathematics": the rules about them were consistent, but couldn't really be applied to anything "real world". Relatively recently , prime number have been found to be useful. It is very easy to multiply two primes to create a "composite" number, but very hard to factor a composite into primes. This imbalance is the basis of public key cryptography, which is a way to share information secretly without needing to share a specific secret key. To explain public key cryptography, imagine a lockbox that can be locked with one key and unlocked only with a different key. To receive messages secretly, you only need the unlock key, which you never need to share with anyone, ever. On the other hand, you don't care who has access to the locking key, you can give it away to everyone without worry. The most common public key algorithm is reversible, too If I lock the lockbox with my secret "unlock" key, anyone can unlock it with the public "lock" key. This is useful for digital signatures if the box is unlockable with the "public" key, it proves that it was locked with the "private" key, which is proof that it was locked by me.
how did humans clean their teeth before toothpaste?
some didn't like most parts of Europe, like a lot of poor people don't. other places used to use tooth powder and their fingers. a bit like charcoal, like in india they call it monkey powder. but in middle east and Muslim country they used to use miswak due to the prophet pbuh recommending it. and still do. it's the twig of the salvadora persica tree. and it's broken, then end made bristly like a toothbrush and then used to brush the mouth, gums, throat etc. it's been proven to be more effective than toothpaste and toothbrush in killing oral bacteria. but it does require access to fresh sewak tree to use, which is rare in the west. you have to realise before the farming of sugar and sugary foods, most people did not have oral health problems. most people did not have access to enough food or alcohol or sugar for oral hygiene to become the serious problem that it is now. so people weren't losing their teeth so easily till the industrial and slave revolution.
Why do sunsets look incredible after nasty thunderstorms?
The refraction of light from all the water vapour in the sky due to cloud cover and high humidity means brighter and more dramatic colours for us as the sun sets. Each water molecule acts kind of like a prism, distorting the light into different colours. A similar thing happens after a bush fire, with a smoky sky making a stunning red sunset.
What are the steps to becoming a Professor?
- Get a bachelors degree, get a masters degree, get a doctorate. - Fill out lots of job applications and then go on lots of interviews. - Publish papers, write a book or two. - Fill out lots more job applications. Go on lots more interviews. - Get hired at a community college as an adjunct professor for 25K per year. - Become depressed because that is what employees at McDonalds make.Get a PhD. This requires a ton of work on its own. In my field, philosophy, just getting into a PhD program us difficult. Programs have hundreds of applicants but only accept a few students. Complete your PhD. No easy task. A year before you finish, go on the job market. Even people who come from top ranked schools cab be expected to be on the market for a couple of years. 85% or so will only ever make adjunct, which is part time, more work, no benefits. Get a tenure track position. Publish. Publish. Publish. Publish. Essays. Books. Conferences. 5-6 years in apply for tenure. If you get tenure, congrats, you are an assistant prof. If you don't get tenure, your career is over, as other departments don't want to hire someone who couldn't be tenured. Academia is stressful and unforgiving. I'm working on my PhD in philosophy. My gf is in genetics. It sounds like from her that hard sciences are far less depressing.
why video games are always released on Tuesdays
I honestly have no idea why games are released the way they are, but I'd like to point out a few things. As far as I know, the Tuesday release is North America only. Europe is Fridays, and I think Australia is Thursdays. I'm not sure about Japan. And it seems to me that releases for Nintendo systems are always released on Sundays.
Why isn't there an affordable working printer out there yet? They all suck.
Most printers these days use the "razor blade business model". They sell you a printer for the least amount of money they can, then make their profits on the consumables . This exploits the fact that most consumers are sensitive to the initial price of an item, but not so sensitive about the ongoing cost of operation. It also exploits the fact that consumers have few good ways to judge the quality/reliability of such a product before they buy it, and that few of them pursue the few such resources that do exist. These give the printer manufacturers incentive to make a product that works just well enough to survive the warranty period and to make it as cheaply as possibleThere is no consequence for them not to make a crap device.
Where are all of the foreign domain names?
Generally, they're used by people who speak that language, and you presumably are reading English content. If you're making English-language queries on _URL_1_, for instance, you'll be shown results that are in English, which are far more likely to be hosted on English-language domains. If you were to search _URL_0_ for something in Japanese, you'd be a lot more likely to see domain names that are in Japanese.
Why on some mornings it is a struggle to get up, but others I am jolted to begin the day.
This can be the result of being woken at different stages of your sleep cycle. If you're woken during stages of deep sleep, you will feel very tired and sluggish. If you're woken during the lighter stages of your sleep cycle you will feel fine. Most adults have sleep cycles that work in approximately 90 minute intervals; so an ideal nap is around 90 minutes of sleep. It also means if you wake up naturally 10~15 minutes before your alarm clock goes off; you're probably better off just starting your day than falling back asleep and being woken during a deeper stage.
The difference between a capacitor and a battery?
A capacitor stores energy in the form of an electfical potential difference between two metal plates. A battery stores energy in the form of modified chemicals which can easily release the energy at a later time. Capacitors are cheap but lose their charge quickly; batteries can store energy for extended period of time but are more expensive and break down.
How did milking a cow first come to be? When did someone decide that drinking a cows milk was a good thing?
Nobody is really sure and it happened a very, very long time ago. Way before we have any surviving records. In fact drinking milk from animals may have predated cows even existing. It's likely some clever prehistoric dude saw a young animal drinking milk and figured there might be some food there. People are pretty clever about finding food. People started keeping these pre-cow animals around for their good milk and tasty meat and eventually the modern domesticated cow was created.Baby cows survive on that milk. Baby humans survive on baby milk. To hungry proto humans, it seems like a fine meal.
Why is California experiencing such a horrific drought?
!!! ITS THE LIBERALS !!!!! j/k There has always been times of drought in California. Northern California isn't as bad as southern, but historically there has always been drought. If Abbott Kinney has looked back more than 100 years, our water delivery and retention systems would have been different. Regardless, this one might be one of the longest that we've seen in a while. Hopefully the El Nino effect will refill a bit of our aquifers, but I think that we need to rethink our water retention systems into the future.
The difference between breathing ‘through your chest’ and ‘through your stomach’.
Breathing through your stomach: Mainly by contracting your thoracic diaphragm , which increases the volume of your thoracic cavity and draws in air. Breathing through your chest: Mainly by contracting the muscles between your ribs , which again increases the volume of your thoracic cavity and causes air to be drawn in. "Mainly", because most of the time, you use a mix of both, slightly contracting your diaphragm and your intercostal muscles. And even if you "breath through your chest" your diaphragm will contract, too. We can do this because a) sometimes our body needs ALL the air it can get. And using two different methods at once is more efficient and b) safer, because if one fails you still got the other one
. Why does food packing say "Use by" a certain day rather than "Consume by" a certain day. How else should I be "using" my cheese wiz?
"Use" takes many fewer letters. Since the message isn't essential marketing to get you to buy the product, the less space it uses the more is available for MarketingThe date you use a food product and the date you consume it might be different. For example, I might use an egg to bake a cake one day, but I might not consume the cake for several more days
How do tabloid papers like The Globe get away with running obviously made up stories about public figures?
One way is to word everything as a question. So if your headline reads "Is Kim Kardashian a Hobbit?" then nobody can sue you because, hey, you're just asking questions. Another strategy is to use so-called weasel words. Instead of saying "Kim Kardashian is a Hobbit", you say "Some people have claimed Kim was a Hobbit". See? It's not you, the tabloid, saying that she's a hobbit, its\' "some people" saying that, and you're just reporting what "some people" are saying.
Why are people's political opinions mostly based on emotion rather than reason, facts and logic?
Here we go with the facts and logic arguments. Not your fault. If someone believes something, the sheer fact they believe makes it true to them. It may be true to you, but it's true to them. People can base their beliefs on any basis they want. It's called democracy. Now when we are all required to have the same belief well then that's where we have a really, really big problem.
How would the davson+danielli model of membrane structure look after freeze fracturing was performed on the cell?
Frozen? No really Membranes are not identical. They differ in thickness and the ratio of proteins:lipids.Membranes have distinct inside and outside layers Other than predicted by the model, the membrane proteins do not have a very good solubility in water - in fact they are amphiphatic, meaning they have hydrophilic and hydrophobic regions. The hydrophobic side is anchored inside the membrane.When the membrane proteins would cover the lipid bilayer, their hydrophobic regions would be in contact with water, which destabilizes this construct. Even if they would be oriented towards the membrane, they would face towards the hydrophilic heads of the phospholipids causing the same effect. Additionally the proteins would also seperate the hydrophilic phospholipid heads from the water. So there is no real stable solution in embedding the membrane with proteins. The act of freezing membranes of unequal thickness would not cause those membranes to become uniform, therefore the cell would deform and fracture during the freezing process.
Why do the majority of Americans believe that Henry Ford invented the automobile when in fact he did not?
Give it a few decades and you will have kids that think Steve Jobs invented cell phones. While Henry Ford did not invented cars, the model T was the first mass produced model that was affordable to the regular people. Basically, he was a great marketer.Because in THE UNITED STATES, we're the center of the world. For one, the K-12 public school system isn't the most diligent and, sometimes, students aren't the most studious. Facts get sckewed and distorted. Besides the vary pro-US propaganda going on, added to the fact that history isn't a priority for the majority of schools. All those things, throw them in a broth of ignorance and a possible disdain for intelligence in general, well that leads to . . . a very off kilter view. For Henry in particular, largely, it's due to the fact that he revolutionized the American auto industry. He introducing many Americans to an affordable, practical mode of transport from what was, at the time, an expensive luxury.
The plot of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas(movie)
It is the story of a journalist who goes to cover a story about a motor cross race. He gets distracted by his drug use. The movie meant a lot to me but the message is more up to you. To me it seemed like the message was finding yourself, even if you have to fail along the way. It is based of Hunter S. Thompson, famous journalist. I am not totally aware if I got this right, just my opinion.
ELI 5: How can it thunder and lightning without raining?
Lightning is a static electrical discharge between the clouds and the ground. Thunder is caused by the expansion And contraction of air superheated by lightning. Neither of these things are in any way dependent on rain falling at the time.
Does the principle of confidentiality between a doctor and a patient also holds in the other direction?
As an MD the answer is no. This allows the patient to attack the doctor, not only in the courts, but also in the press. The doctor can not refute the publicly aired allegations. This is not uncommon.
Why do numbers come first in Alphanumerical order?
Because they are traditionally sorted by the ACSII code and special characters and numbers have lower values than letters. _URL_0_ Some systems may sort by different rules.
why do churches get freedom from taxes
Not just churches, but all non profit charitable organizations can have tax exempt status. There are certain legal guidelines that they must follow.In the United States any non profit organization is exempt from paying taxes, because they don't have ownership that is pocketing the profit, instead the profit is either reinvested back into the organization, or goes to funding whatever their mission is. This is in contrast to a business or corporation who has a proprietor or shareholders, who are the owners of the business or company, and are entitled to collect the profit.
Why do liquid detergent and fabric softener bottles use such small print when labeling what they are? (Image examples in post)
Because the manufacturers want you to be brand-loyal: to wash your clothes not with "detergent" but with **Tide**, to soften them not with "fabric softener" but with **Downy**.Well they do sometimes. With larger brands like your examples, they are basically printing the minimum requirement for product identification, while keeping their packaging aesthetically pleasing. For them, it's more about brand recognition than product identification.
Is there a "best if used by" date for Nuclear Bombs?
Yes, well it's not really "used by" it's more of a "change oil after X years". The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration , which oversees the U.S. nuclear stockpile and production complex, is funded at $8B per year. Most of that money is spent on NNSA’s Life Extension Program where the stockpile of nuclear warheads and bombs is continually refurbished. Existing warheads are certified annually to be safe and reliable.Yes, it's best to use them within the first 10-20 years. So if they are about to run out, definitely think of some way to use them before it's too late. It would be a shame to just let them go to waste.
What happens when you're in the navy/army reserve and your day job interferes with your ability to do the navy/army job?
Legally almost all jobs have to give you time off for military service.If he has to go then he goes, and his next in line takes his spot till he comes back.
If heat rises, why do mountaintops often have snow in places like California and Hawaii?
Hot air rising is the exact reason why there is snow on mountain tops. Imagine a little cube of air at the ground surface. There is some amount of water vapor in this cube. The air is hotter than the surrounding air , so it begins to rise. As its rising, the pressure of the air is decreasing, so it begins to expand. As its expanding, the temperature starts to drop . Now, as the temperature is decreasing, the cube is also losing the ability to store water vapor. Eventually, the cube will rise high enough to where it will no longer be able to contain the amount of water vapor it started with, and it will begin to get rid of the excess water through precipitation . Generally, by this point, the temperature will be low enough so that it will stop risingBecause they are higher in elevation. The higher you go in elevation the colder the air temp becomes. The earths crust traps some of the energy from the sun and keeps the area closer to the ground warmer. There is also less wind resistance high up in the air due to lack of trees, buildings, animals, landscape, and so forth. The lack of wind blocking objects means the wind is free to blow at high speeds with little resistance. Edit to add extra info: The higher you go up in the sky the more oxygen is lost to the vacuum of space, resulting in lower temps.
Why do people/things feel significantly heavier when they relax all their muscles? Otherwise known as "dead weight"?
Somebody answered this last time but basically: A person who is awake will always center their weight automatically, and it makes it easier to carry them and more comfortable for them to be carried. When theyre limp and unconcious then their weight is just left flopping around.It's really just because they become unwieldy, so it's harder to control them. If they are perfectly stiff you can control what muscle groups you use to pick them up . When they are deadweight you are stuck using several large and small muscle groups all together.
How is the worth of a person or company determined?
If you're asking about financial worth: * A person's net worth is the sum of the market value of their assets less the sum of their liabilities. So someone who owns a $300,000 home, with a $200,000 mortgage and a $10,000 auto with a $5,000 loan has a net worth of $105,000. * When governments make decisions they use an estimate of the statistical value of a life . This concept is sometimes used in wrongful death lawsuits, too. * Companies are almost always valued based on trades of smaller parts of them. So if someone paid $1 million for 10% of the company, a reasonable assumption would be that the person would have paid $10 million for the entire firm, so we start with a value of $10 million. Other types of worth are more subjective and can be quite personal . The subjectivity doesn't make these valuation methods invalid, just much much more costly to measure. So they aren't often used.
How bad is alcohol for a teenager?
At 15 your body is still developing, so it is generally not advisable to meddle with your body chemistry too much before it sorts itself out. According to [wikipedia] heavy drinking will mess with your brain and make you stupider, i.e. your memory will be crappier and learning will be more difficult. Besides, alcohol can be quite nasty regardless of age. When someone gets too much to drink, they may lose conciousness which is a state where medical help is required - it basically means you've drank more poison than your body can handle on its own, so you may stop breathing, or simply choke on your own vomit.
What is meant by a Marxist reading of a novel?
In brief, a Marxist reading of a text is one that focuses on class conflict. For example, when you read Oliver Twist, you don't have to think about class issues at all, but if you do, there's a fair amount there.
What caused the division of Czechoslovakia?
Probably a number of things, although the division was quite peaceful -- it was known as the Velvet Divorce. Most people in the country didn't want it to separate; but eventually Slovakia declared independence, the Czechoslovak government agreed to it, and everyone worked to make it a peaceful transition. Czechoslovakia, as its name suggests, was populated by Czechs in one part and Slovaks in the other. Although the two halves were supposed to be equal, there were cultural and economic differences between the two. When, after the fall of communism, democratic political parties formed, each half had its own parties. There is a lot of discussion about whether the separation of the two states was inevitable or not. Czechoslovak politicians argued over whether it should be a single state, or two states in a federation, or two completely different countries; in the end, the "two completely different countries" argument won. It was a peculiar event. Most people didn't want it, but it happened by mutual consent and without any violence.
How do people test the intelligence of A.I?
It depends really what the AI is built to do, a chatbot is an AI that helps you when you have problems with something on a website, when you start looking at other AI's such as IBM's Watson which was put onto the game show jeopardy, it absolutely destroyed 2 previous winners, it was a very intelligent AI. The chatbot that I made last year in my computer science degree was fairly stupid and only reacted to certain things that people said but had phrases that it could output if it didn't see anything it understood. If you haven't already seen IBM's Watson on jeopardy it is something good to watch :P", 'are you speaking of factual intelligence or human level intelligence? I would assume the latter, which would be fairly easy by posing questions that do not have factual answers. When the answer must be a combination of knowledge, thought, and experience, it can be an easy way to test an A.I.'s intelligence level. Take googles chatbot, when asked what the meaning of life is. Since there is no factual answer, it responded "To live forever".They use something called the 'Turing Test' where a human evaluator judges an AI's ability to provide responses similar or indistinguishable from that of a humans.
Why is _URL_0_ telling me that a person whom I know is deceased has viewed at my profile in the last two days?
Thinking logically this can be either of two things. 1. His website profile is obviously not him but a collection of data on a website, so any number of people could have his passwords and loved ones could be going through his things looking for loose ends. 2. The website lied or glitched for whatever reason.
If your neurones make a new connection when you learn something new, would it be possible to run out of space in your brain for new connections to form.
No, basically a neuron is capable of thousands of potential connection to other neurons, your brain is formed of trillions of these neural pathways and they do strengthen and weaken over time. Your brain cleans out old or unused pathways as it develops more. The potential for creating new pathways is always extremely high in our brain and we don't really know the upper limit capacity, but even if you could prolong human life by a significant factor, your brain would never reach full capacity as it would be losing connections as well as creating new ones. Sometimes when you try to remember something and can't do it right away, then it comes back to you later, it's in essence your brain found a new pathway to old information because the old pathway to it was lost. This is an example of how you lose connections, but because there's trillions of connections there is almost always a backdoor to certain information.Applaud the above. Another way to visualize it: Tack 2doz pins spaced out on a board. Tie a string to one and wrap it around a second pin. Then a third. Take another string and do the same. You can continue to add connections without changing the number of pins or space on the board.
What is Asbestos and how do people die from inhaling it?
It's basicly finely shreded naturaly occuring fiberglass. When you breath it in, it attaches to your lungs. You're breathing in glass. Breathing in glass tends to kill you. _URL_0_
In the UK, How did the recovery from the recession 2007-2009 happen?
To be honest, I didn't see any knock-on effect from that "recession" in Scotland. By all accounts, we actually seemed to do very well during this time. Most of the impact was corporate and over-played. I don't really identify this in the traditional sense of the term "recession" where people are actually impacted. Since Big Oil starting playing silly buggers, I am now seeing hundreds of people being laid off, pay being slashed, and house prices are crashing. The media isn't saying much about it though, probably to prevent the shit from hitting the fan when panic sets in.