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How can photochromic glasses change colour with the sunlight? | from wikipedia: > In one sort of technology, molecules of silver chloride or another silver halide are embedded in photochromatic lenses. They are transparent to visible light without significant ultraviolet component, which is normal for artificial lighting. In another sort of technology, organic photochromic molecule... |
Does climate change lead to an increase in extreme cold weather as well as extreme warm weather? If so, why is the average yearly temperature continuing to get warmer? | That's a little backwards. Global warming means all storm systems are larger, in addition to the obvious that average temperatures are very slightly higher. However, larger storm systems means that cold fronts that used to die out as they head south will go much farther, bringing freezing weather to places that infrequ... |
Difference between RAM and Cache Memory | Cache is your fridge/pantry - it stores things you've recently used or intend to use soon, and has a relatively low amount of storage. You can grab things in nearly real-time while trying to cook. RAM is the grocery store that's a mile away. Lots of storage for things you may or may not use frequently, but it takes ord... |
Women's excessive grunting in tennis | Vocalizing while hitting the ball can help a player focus, and it can throw off their opponent's timing. Also, opponents can get clues about how the ball was hit based on the sound the racquet makes grunting is supposed to obscure it. When there was no rule against it, tennis players have been gradually getting louder ... |
What is happening when we hit our funny bone? | You have the [ulnar nerve] passing just below the skin at the elbow with bone under and when you hit a nerve that exposed it hurts. |
Why are some things invented (touchscreens for example, 40 years ago) but it takes so long for consumers to accept them? Price? | Well the touch screen is kind of a bad example here. While it was invented in the 70s, there was nothing for it to be controlled with. Computers were mostly text based until 1992 when windows 3.1 was published. And even then the computers were mostly to slow to have a real benefit from touchscreens. Even today apart fr... |
I literally live in the other side of the American continent, explain me briefly about what's currently happening on America's politic. | A fellow that quite a lot of people dislike is surprisingly in a position to upset a fellow that a lot of people dislike a bit less. You know sports movies? How there's always an underdog team, full of likable kids who band together to beat the odds and defeat the team full of jerks? In this case, the jerk is both the ... |
Why is alcohol and tobacco regulated by the same agency as firearms? Why aren't liquor and cigarettes regulated by the FDA? | The ATF was formed to deal with gun running & smuggling of alcohol & tobacco. They were originally part of the Department of the Treasury and concerned with securing tax revenue, not safety or purity of the productThe fda is a regulatory agency. The atf is a law enforcement agency. |
How would a radio transmission from a planet with a significant gravitational field work? | I haven't seen the movie. Was the planet the other crew was on in motion relative to the Earth to cause time dilation, or was it a difference in gravity? Either way, what they 'd experience is some sort of "redshift" or "blueshift." The radio message would not be lost, but its frequency would either be lower or higher ... |
Why in a room with 24 people do two people probably share the same birthday? | First off there is 1 in 365 chance that two people share a birthday. That means there is a 364 in 365 chance they do not share a birthday. If you have a third man then the chance of him also having a different birthday then the two men is 363 in 365 so the combined chance is /. You then continue adding more people unti... |
Why do some people seem to retain "useless information" without effort, yet recalling someone's phone number can be so difficult while exerting effort to memorize it? | We don't really live in the environment we evolved for. The things we find easy to memorize are the things we find 'cool'. Something like a phone number doesn't trip our primate senses into thinking it's information worth storing, but the destructive power of a photon torpedo? That's kind of like remembering how strong... |
With virtually infinite time, could we use selective breeding to bring out crazy traits in animals? | Provided that those traits appeared at some point, yes. We couldn't breed dogs to have horns unless at some point there was a dog who had the mutation to have horns. The same way that we can't breed humans to have gills, gills have to come around on their own, we can breed humans to all have gills once the mutation pre... |
what are once removed, and twice removed cousins | The "level" of cousin is dependent upon how many generations you are from your nearest common ancestor. So "first cousins" have 1 generation between them and their nearest common ancestor, that ancestor being their grandparents . "Second cousins" have 2 generations between them and their nearest common ancestor, that a... |
bi-racial labels and how the media identifies us | Reddit default subs are a shitty place to ask about racial issues. You might want to find somewhere better to ask if you want quality answers. |
Why does it take at least 15 minutes to fill a prescription? What's going on back there? | The pharmacist is ensuring that the prescribed medication is appropriate and safe before it is handed to you. Is it the right drug for the condition? Is the strength and regimen appropriate? Are there interactions with the patient's other medications to be aware of? Physicians also do make prescribing errors from time ... |
Why is it harder to breathe when walking into a strong wind? | 1) Breathing is a matter of lowering the pressure in your lungs so the higher pressure outside of your body pushes air into your lungs. The greater the difference in air pressure between two compartments the faster the air flow. 2) The faster the wind blows, the less pressure there is. 3) When there the external air pr... |
The relevant differences between totalitarian and an authoritarian regimes. | Authoritarian regimes want to consolidate and centralize power so that governments have all of it. They avoid checks and balances or anything to maintain the government's control. Totalitarianism goes further than that. In an totalitarian regime, checks and balances don't even exist. The state is all that really matter... |
How do music artists split the profit when featuring each other on a single track? | Sometimes they don't. Smaller artists often want to be featured on larger artists tracks and are paid a flat fee. Other times, it is an exchange. Nicki Minaj: "50k for a verse, no album out" implies that Kanye paid her $50,000 for her verse on Monster.They either just do it for love of the music. Like Eminem was featur... |
If Google's spent so much on anticopyright measures on YouTube how come movies with over 1 million hits exist? | Videos are taken down for copyright infringement if one of the following things happens: 1. The copyright owner registers the original with YouTube's automated Content ID system, sets it to block videos it matches, and the system actually identifes a match. This can be harder than it seems, because the copyright owner ... |
How does propulsion work in a vacuum. For instance, how would a space craft propel itself when there's nothing to push against? | Rocket engines in a vacuum operate based on conservation of momentum. The total momentum of any system must remain the same. So if you expel something with momentum in one direction, the rest of the mass *must* move in the other direction . As a simple example, imagine sitting in a sled on very slick ice, and throwing ... |
What makes Cape Horn so treacherous? | High winds, strong currents, and large storms all combine to make for especially treacherous sailing. Keep in mind that treacherous seas were usually named when people forecast by *red in the morning sailor take warning red in the evenin' sailor a pleasin'* Imagine sailing through [seas like this].The seas around Antar... |
What is the purpose of water towers? | To get water to flow up out of the pipes below the ground into your house it needs to be pushed. Now this could be done by using a big pump at the water treatment plant, but the big pump would have to pump harder when more people had water running and pump less when less people had water running. The problem then becom... |
When I was 5, those who were 10 looks old and mature. However, once I was 11, those who were 10 looks young and immature. Why? | i have always wondered this i remember being like 5 or 6 and my brother who was 13 or 14 seemed like a grown ass man. and now a days 13 or 14 year olds look lile babiesI still feel like that with high school kids. When I was in middle school, high schoolers looked like straight up adults but now that I just finished my... |
Why are there so many third world countries in Africa when the continent is considered the cradle of civilization? | Bad climate, terrible leaders, heavily sought after resources, cultural barriers, foreign invaders taking sought after resources, constant border wars, lack of industrialization, anyone got any other reasons?', "When was Africa ever referred to as the cradle of civilization? You're thinking of Mesopotamia |
why can my heaters easily keep my house at a nice 75 when its 15 degrees outside, but my AC struggles to dip below 70 when its 100 outside? | Your heaters are a hell of a lot more powerful than your Air Conditioners An AC unit can move 4-10 watts of heat per watt of power used, but it'll only use a few hundred watts. A big window AC unit might be rated at 10,000 BTU/hour or about 2.9 kW of heat removal which sounds pretty good, until you consider that a 6 fo... |
How quad core (multi core?) works. | It's like having more than one cook in a kitchen, instead of one really, really fast cook. Well, the problem is actually a little more complex: for years and years, they were training cooks just to work faster, but realized that they were getting towards the top of how fast one cook could work, so they decided they'd s... |
Why do some restaurants charge a service fee for larger groups? | Generally because big groups are poor tippers, and are more work for the servers, bussers, and kitchen. It's easier to take and prepare 20 orders from 10 tables spread out over 15 minutes than it is to deal with 20 orders from the same table all at the same time. |
Why is fruit better for you than candy in terms of sugar (if it really is)? | Sugar is sugar. However, a fruit has many other things: lots of water, some fiber, some vitamins, etc. These things fill you up and generally take a lot longer to eat. Candy is not filling, and basically pure sugar so if someone is pigging out on apples vs. candy, they can likely eat a TON more sugar eating candyFruit ... |
What would happen if the earth slowly began to rotate the other direction? | Assuming the transition were slow enough to not throw everybody down , the biggest difference I could see would be weather. All the prevailing winds would flip direction, rain shadows would move to the other side of mountains, and so on. You can see the effect [in South America], where the reversal of the trade winds c... |
How is the average lifespan decided for newborns? | Basically it's a best case scenario of statistical projection. So if people are easily living to their 80s/90s now and medicine is improving and other factors like access to food, water, hygiene are improving you can make a projection based off of that. The problem is they don't account for things like the emergence of... |
Why do donuts have holes in them? | Well, the first thing to note is that not all donuts have holes. There are "filled donuts" which are essentially donuts without the hole . As for why donuts with holes have holes, there are a number of explanations, but as far as I'm aware, noone actually knows for sure. One explanation that's commonly brought up is th... |
Why are house pets not bothered by audio noises? | Phage is right that they're used to the sounds. Think of it like a single crazy person who's on the street every day in the same spot - eventually you just tune them out. Also, the audio that is produced around them isn't natural. It undergoes what's called "dynamic range compression", which flattens the natural loud a... |
Why does my mouth feel cleaner the morning after eating something garlic heavy the night before? | I think it's a coincidence. I'm a dentist. If you brushed properly before you slept you probably shouldn't have had much plaque in your mouth overnight which would 'grow'. It could be the fact your breath was very garlic strong, so you noticed you didn't have plaque when you investigated why. |
Vitamins. How do we know they're there, how do we know what they all separately do? | We *don't* know what ALL vitamins and minerals are in food. Human nutrition is actually a lot murkier than people realize because there is a lot we still don't know. This is also why you get contradictory diet advice everywhere. But what we have figured out is through looking at the chemicals in food, either by how foo... |
Wikipedia says that the ISS orbits the Earth "at an altitude of between 330 and 435 km". Why is the altitude not fixed? | At that altitude, there is actually still a little atmosphere and so the orbit will slowly degrade . Every once in a while they use boosters to raise it back into a higher orbit. The range of altitudes given are the range of altitudes that are considered okay. Plus, orbits are not perfect circles. They are a little bit... |
Why are some mathematical abstractions so much harder than others for humans to grasp? | There are levels of abstraction, because certain abstract concepts rely on others, and thus must be presented later in schools. Can't do calculus without understanding numbers, operators, and algebra, basically. When you first learn an abstract concept, you translate. First few multiplications are indeed consecutive ad... |
How did Jeff Bezos become a billionaire in the ‘90s, when Amazon literally wasn’t even turning a profit? | profit potential. same reason companies like uber, tesla, facebook, ect have massive market value despite little to no profit. Often times its just about getting users/eyeballs/customers, with the presumption that scale/efficiency will eventually produce a profit. |
What differences are there between male and female brains? Of those which (so far) have been tested to always been the case and which vary depending on the subjects? | Here is a page describing some of the difference between male and female brains, specifically an very interesting brain structure call the anterior hypothalamus. _URL_0_ I think the differences are pretty well established,.. I recall this being discussed during my undergrad back in the 90's. The article explains pretty... |
Bug people, what exactly is going on here? | Dragonflies are predators. It looks like that one caught a fly and is feasting on its tasty inner goo. |
why do some people have curly hair while others don't. | It's just a gene trait, along with many others as far as skin tone, texture, facial composition, height, etc. |
Why doesn't air separate into layers of each of its individual components based on density? | It would but air is far to volatile to stay separated. The sun heats the earth as the earth rotates on an axis as it orbits the sun. Everything is constantly changing as warm air rises creating winds that constantly mix the atmosphere. |
What is true socialism, and why do people think it will save America? | Literally nobody thinks it will save America. But certain socialist policies have proven highly effective in the past and in other first-world countries. First, socialism is not a form of government in and of itself. Socialism is an economic model in which the government controls industries and exerts significant contr... |
How can the one dimensional form of Fourier's Law of Cooling and the thermal heat equation be used to model cooling | I expanded the mathematical procedure for the solution here: _URL_0_ I also just realised that I called it Fourier's equation instead of Fourier's Law . Anyway, at the start I used a more complete form of Fourier's Law, though I kept it to the 1D version to not confuse you. A few lines down it gets to the form that you... |
Why can some people sing well, but others can't hit a note to save their life? | I would like to know why people always sound much better to themselves. I can *think* I'm singing along perfectly to a song, then hear a recording and it sounds like someone fisting a bull.I'm pretty sure it's something else than practice. I can't sing for shit and yet still I 've tried alot. It has to be something els... |
Why my head gets foggy/buzzy for a few seconds after I have a really good stretch. | Sounds like you're talking about head rush . Basically, if you've been sitting in one location for a while and then move, the blood pressure in your head drops because gravity pulls a lot of blood into your legs and feet when you stand. This takes a moment to correct itself, and during this time you can lose your visio... |
Why does it "smell" like winter or rain | Because the particles in the air change. spring smells like pollen. Winter cold will suppress a lot of lighter smells but you get smoke from chimneys. |
Why is it harder and harder to get a full night sleep the older you get? | The cumulative effect of a life-time of alcohol, stimulants, sedentary life-style, overeating, rumination, rejection, heart break, loss, regret, humilation, meaninglessness, sadness, rage and the creeping fear of impending deathBecause your brain produces less melatonin as you age. Less melatonin equals less sleepy tim... |
Why don't we just use a different drug for lethal injection? | What ever drug you pick has to come from somewhere, and has to be medical grade. Interestingly enough most drug manufactures don't want the reputation as the company that makes the drugs that kill people. So what ever you pick is going to be stigmatized and therefor hard to get. Ok, so pick something else, well now you... |
What's currently happening with Michigan's water and why? | In Flint, MI almost 2 years ago, the powers that be decided to stop using Lake Huron as its water source and switch to using the Flint River, which to those who grew up in or around Flint is utterly laughable because it's a notoriously brown, murky, polluted mess, but I digress. The switch was done in order to cut budg... |
How are vitamins and supplements, that the body makes naturally, man-made? | Firstly, your body doesn't naturally make vitamins, that's why you need to eat them. Secondly, most of them are just extracted. Most of the things we grow or produce for food, of necessity, have those vitamins in. Sometimes it's easier to just take them out. Thirdly, you can make almost all of them artificially, but it... |
What actually caused the Great Depression? | A lot of things: * In the 1920's low food prices supported by WWI price floors caused a mass wave of farm foreclosures. * The crash of 1929 shook confidence for lenders . * The Fed constrained liquidity rather than easing borrowing, so the economy experienced widespread deflation and a loss of demand. * A few bank fail... |
Why is it ok to advertise alcohol on television, but not tobacco? | Tobacco receives a lot of government oversight because its use, *as intended*, without any overuse or abuse, is *absolutely known* to cause any number of long-term health issues. Alcohol can also be dangerous, but moderate, responsible use has no long-lasting health effects, and it takes legitimate *abuse* of alcohol b... |
How does the strength of a currency work? | The exact numbers aren't really that important. Just because you can trade $1 for 114 yen doesn't mean that the dollar is stronger or weaker on its own. You need to look at the ratio over time. If five years ago you could trade $1 for 50 yen, then the dollar is now stronger or the yen is now weaker, because you need mo... |
What does Russia (and other countries) gains from being part of the G8? | G8 is basically a meeting of the most important industrial Nations to get together talk strategie make deals So everyone benefits who is part of. But as far as I know it is less formal than the G20Its a lot like a parent teacher association meeting . They go to talk about official issues like funding for better gym equ... |
the importance of landing a rocket on a barge | You can launch it again without having to build a new one, or clean salt water residue out of it. It reduces the cost of going to space by a lot.The specific importance of the barge is saving tremendous amounts of fuel.rockets don't propel straight up from their launch pad. After launch they rotate anywhere between 45 ... |
Why do we get dizzy when we spin around? | Your orientation in space is detected by fluid and calcium deposit movements in your inner ear. When you spin around and then stop, the fluid and stuff in your inner ear keep moving for a little while. . So your inner ear is telling your brain that you're still moving. Your eyes are telling your brain that you're stand... |
Planets that are gas giants. | Gas giants keep their form the same way rocky planets do: gravity. But unlike Earth with its separate air and ocean, there are no concise borders between gas and liquid, or liquid and solid on gas planets. If you were to travel into a gas giant, you would notice gas in the atmosphere gradually thicken as you travel inw... |
Why do people try to time pictures instead of taking a video and capturing the parts they want? | Pictures will typically have a higher image quality than frames of a video would have. Videos will often use the fact that we can't distinguish detail as much in a video as we can in a still. |
Why is did mike trout sign a deal for 1 million dollars in 2014 if he is arguably the best MLB player? | He's a pre-arbitration player, meaning he has less than 3 years in the league. Pre-arbitration players don't get to shop around to different teams, they just take what their team gives them or they don't play. Having said that, $1M is the most any pre-arbitration player has ever earned, so it's actually an impressive f... |
How does radium store light? | Radium can only really be said to "store" light in a very roundabout way. Like all heavy elements, it was formed in the vast stellar explosion of a supernova; that's where the energy came from that is now being emitted as light. Radium is a radioactive element - it gives off radiation. This radiation can hit a substanc... |
Aside from the NSA spying, which we've all known or at least suspected for many years, how has Obama messed up? | Disenchanted former Obama supporter here. * His failure to punish any of the illegal shenanigans that crashed the economy* His failure to punish any of the illegal shenanigans that occurred in the previous administration, especially with regard to torture* When it comes to civil liberties, it's not an exaggeration to s... |
why it takes longer to search my windows computer for a file than to google something. | Indexing. Google has a huge, highly optimised database designed for the sole purpose of searching quickly. Even with indexing switched on, your computer doesn't have anywhere near as good a system. Speed. Your query to Google is dealt with by an extremely fast computer - many times as powerful as your home PC. Caching.... |
How a diet of grass, hay, bugs and other things in a pasture can turn cows into huge animals made of protein, fat, and make rich milk. | plant cells have a bunch of protein. but it's not digestable by humans. cows eat 25 pounds of hay a day. and they chew that 25 pounds over and over. and then swallow it and digest it in their stomach. then throw it up and chew it again and again. then swallow and digest it for the 2nd time then 3rd..then 4th. and that'... |
"Prevent radiator boil-over, turn off air conditioner." How does that help when driving up a mountain pass? | If your radiator is already close to boiling over, leaving the A/C on will cause the engine to do more work and generate more heat and push it over the edge. Just because it doesn't affect *your* vehicle doesn't mean it's not a problem for many others. |
When someone sues the government and wins, do tax payer dollars go towards the settlement? Do we pay for the actions of idiotic federal employees? | Yes. Why *shouldn't* taxpayers have to cover it? They voted for the government officials whose job it was to keep the government from doing things it could get sued over.Police Officer here: As long as I follow my training, agency policy, and the law, I have immunity against lawsuits. That's why you usually see "John S... |
What is the process involved in joining the EU? | The prospective state has to meet economic and social benchmarks. If the state has trouble meeting them the EU will help if the state seems serious. After the state meets the benchmarks the state hold a referendum to see if domestic audience wants to join the EU. EU votes to let state in. BTW, anything EU is a horrible... |
Why do the mouths of wild animals (bear, wolves, lions, etc.) smell so bad in comparison to humans? | cause they don't floss and brush their teeth. that bit of tendon that come from the racoon a week ago is still stuck between his teeth. same like when you eat beef stew and that one sliver of meat just got between your teeth. except you use a toothpick or floss or brush it out.If you didnt brush your teeth after lickin... |
Why is Hispanic/Latino treated as a race in the media and elsewhere? | Race is largely a social construct in the country that defines it. In the US, people from Latin America and Mexico are seen to share enough biological, social, and physical characteristics to be considered a 'race'. It's important to understand that while racial categories include an element of biology, they are not so... |
Why are the search results when googling an unknown phone number so terrible? | I actually think google intentionally obfuscates results. Back in the day, googling phone numbers worked *awesome*. It was one of the first "best answer" things at the top of the page. Quite suddenly it stopped working. |
What exactly is Neuro-linguistic Programming? | think of it like a system to "fake it til you make it" and changing how you frame your thoughts. people try to deride it as pseudo-science, but it does actually work on some levels. feeling down about something? stand up straight and speak assertively, youll feel better, things like that. one of the things i took away ... |
What is Obama's reasoning behind drones, and why can't the US just pull its troops out of the Middle East? What will happen? | Drones are typically used to target militant commanders in the hard to access tribal regions of Pakistan. They allow the US to conduct recon in the area for longer periods without the risk of losing a pilot. Drones have also been used in Yemen to target the growing influence of Al-Qaeda in the Arab peninsula. The US tr... |
why does a car battery die if you leave your head lights on over night, but it can last no problem driving 12 hours straight/through the night with the head lights on and music playing? | Because you have an alternator that powers the systems while the car is running. When the car is off, it's draining the battery.The battery is not being used to power anything while the car is running. It is only there to start the engine. Running the engine does not increase battery life to infinity. When the car is r... |
How does "the shot" (birth control) last so long? | If you want to look at metabolism and excretion of any drug, check out the pharmacokinetics section. From the article, I'd guess * Because it binds well to proteins in blood plasma, it's harder for the kidneys to filter out the drug * Intramuscular and subcutaneous route avoid enterohepatic recirculation, where the dru... |
Why does most commercial airplanes are white painted and not a non-natural color ocurring in the sky (clouds)? | Largely its for thermal protection. White reflects more of the sun, keeping the aircraft cooler sitting on the tarmac. Airplanes fly high enough you are marginally more exposed to radiation from the sun. Having a coat of paint protects against that. Also, lighter colours make it easier to see stress fractures or leakin... |
How does anticipation alter my perception of the passing of time? | Your perception of time comes after the time has past. If the whole way to a location you are constantly checking how much longer is left, you will remember a lot of the wait. On the way back, your thoughts are else where and you don't have as many memories of the ride. |
Why is the Australian dollar so weak against the British pound? | No, the Aussie dollar is pretty strong against the pound, currently sitting at 55 pence. It is always a mistake to compare currencies absolute values, as these are a result of history. The difference in this case is because Australia switched to decimal currency back in 1966, and with currency being more valuable back ... |
Instead of using voltage converters, why can't battery manufacturers create batteries to tailor the device? (or why is there no 5v battery but 1.2, 1.5, 9, 12, etc) | The voltage a battery produces depends on the chemicals involved. A zinc/copper cell, for example, produces 1.1V. Doesn't matter how big or small it is, that's the voltage that you get when you make a liquid cell with those chemicals. A larger zinc/copper battery can generate more current than a smaller one, but the vo... |
Why does it feel different to heat my home to 74 degrees than to cool my home to 74 degrees? | There is a big difference, and that is the temperature of your surroundings - walls, floor, furniture etc. The air may be 74degrees, but the surroundings may be colder or hotter. Why that matters is due to mechanisms of heat transfer. There are two ways how heat does transfer: 1. by conductivity - when objects touch, o... |
Why do humans get the same flu? Don't our bodies make an antivirus? | "The flu" is just a very broad term for the actual Flu Virus. There are many strains of it and it is very very good At evolving and changing itself. We have flu shots which are essentially a flu vaccine for whatever flu strains they think are going to be the biggest danger that flu season. As time goes on the virus cha... |
How do build updates work? | When you write software, you write a program in human readable text . That text is fed into a program that turns it into an executable that a computer can actually run. Large software projects can have hundreds, if not thousands of source files worked on by a large number of people. [For example, here's the public vers... |
How fast does new fat form after you've eaten a big meal? | I'll answer your original question 12-24 hours and you'll have stored the excess calories as fat. Depending on the source of those calories the amount of time it take for your body to break down the nutrients differs. If you consume enough calories to gain weight you'll see the weight gain on the scale by the same time... |
How does charging a phone for too long make the battery life significantly shorter? | In modern phones, it doesn't. They have smart systems that stop charging at 100% and let the battery drop some before charging again. It keeps the battery from being damaged. But phone batteries do like to be "exercised" and discharged down to 20 or 30% and recharged from there.If you tried to charge a 100% battery the... |
Why do we feel weak when we haven't eaten? | Once your body kicks into starvation mode , a lot of hormonal changes start. Your liver and muscles start consuming glycogen stores, and then start metabolizing fats and proteins. Your body starts to get really conservative in how it expends its energy - without an epinephrine kick, it won't really commit to most actio... |
If protein is what builds muscle, why do we need to eat at a caloric surplus? | Your body can convert proteins into glucose. If you are in a caloric deficit, then this will be going on. Proteins turned into glucose is protein that cannot be used for muscle. Having a caloric surplus ensures that you do not have a caloric deficit, so very little of the protein gets turned into glucose, so it can be ... |
What's a "Basic Bitch"? | Mainstream; kind of the opposite of a hipster. The typical Basic Bitch is the Ugg and yoga pant wearing girl in her 20s with a Starbucks coffee.Kinda seems like just a female obedient consumer. Likes what she's told to like, buys what she's told to buy. Dead center of the bell curve, biggest marketing target. When I wa... |
- If intelligent life visited Earth, how would we communicate if we assume the scenario that they spoke another language? | Math! It doesn't matter what you speak as intelligent beings one must understand that if you have one thing, and then you have another thing, you must have 2 things. And since we would have the common base line, we can derive everything else. Now they probably wouldn't have numbers like we do, you wouldn't be able to s... |
When someone tells you to see "a doctor," how do you know which kind? | Typically, you'll go to your main doctor, who is a General Practitioner. They're the general "doctor," who have a wide knowledge of many medical things. If that doctor sees something wrong, they might refer you to a specialist. Specialists are doctors, too, but they have a *very* deep knowledge of a fairly limited fiel... |
How does the Volkswagen exhaust gas scam work? | From what I have read , VW knowingly added in a defeat device to their diesel vehicles to turn on the clean filtering system for the exhaust when monitoring equipment was hooked up to the cars. When the testing equipment is not hooked up, the cars give off emissions that are WAY above the legal limit. Some initial esti... |
- Why aren't all of the months in numerical sequence from most to least? | I'm not sure about this 100%, but this is how I understand it: Originally, there were ten months. January and February were originally a monthless period because no crops would grow. This is why September - December are named the way they are . So, February was the "last" month created, and therefore has the least amou... |
Why does putting a wooden spoon over a boiling pot prevent the water from spilling over? | It breaks the surface tension of the water before it spills over the edges.The spoon breaks the surface tension of the water, so bubbles can't form as quickly. It doesn't completely prevent water from spilling over, but it slows it down. |
Water Loss due to Agriculture? | You're right and wrong. The water used in agriculture is not destroyed. Almost nothing we do destroys water permanently. The water participates in the plant's transpiration cycle, is used to build parts of the plant, and is released as water vapor into the atmosphere, where it eventually goes and rains on someone . Or ... |
What causes economic inflation? | Demand causes inflation. People want things. Since there is a fixed amount of things, the price for those things goes up. This rising of prices is called "inflation". A low amount of inflation is considered "normal and healthy" for an economic, indicating growth of demand that is controlledInflation is the devastating ... |
Why do strangers want to follow me on Twitter? | They don't have an interest in following you, they're either ways of getting you to go to some site or they're people who follow you in hopes you'll follow them so they can up their number of followers for some reason this is valuable to people. |
Why do I get drunk easier at home? | In the study of mind altering drugs, there is the idea that the effect of a drug is affected by the "set and setting". This means that people taking the same drug in different social situations and under moods or with different expectations would feel different effects or different levels of effects. So when you are dr... |
How dog show judging works! | There's nothing really the home viewer can watch for, unless they are experts of a certain class of dog. Basically, each breed of dog were bred to perform a certain function which separates the different breeds into classes.. Each judge looks for certain standards defined by the breed type or the class type. These can ... |
How is it at all possible that a criminal could sue if they get hurt in the process of trying to steal/commit crime? | The frequency in which is happens is highly overstated, and even when a lawsuit is successful, it is usually overturned on appeal. Criminals actually seeing a dime from a lawsuit like this is very rare. I can think of two situations where the criminal might have a case: * A non-criminal could have hurt in the same way ... |
Why does diarrhea need to come out RIGHT F*CKIN' NOW, but regular poo is cool to chill for a lil bit? | Because you only get the urge to poop when the feces pushes on the internal anal sphincter. Most of the time, feces is stored in the descending portion of the large intestine, far away from the sphincter, but every once in a while, intestine muscles will push the feces into the rectum where it will push against the sph... |
How do bank stress tests work? | Basically, they take the bank's account/spreadsheet info and run some simulations - stuff like "what if 10% of your customers default on loan payments?". These simulations are able to show whether the bank can cope with a mini-crisis, or whether they should have more money reserved for a mini-crisisMost major banks hol... |
Why is it common for bears to be hit by trains? | Oh there is a simple explanation for this. Bears are the king of their land. They grow up being able to fight and kill anything in there area. Think about. Ever try to fight a bear? You will lose. It is a matter of pride to defeat any foe before them. Eventually some mature veteran fighting bears will run out of victim... |
Why does the urge to pee increases the closer you come to your home? | It’s psychological. Compare it with craving a cigarette. You want it more if you see a person smoking, hear the word “smoking”, or get a random association with the act . Getting closer to home makes you think about peeing, which increases the urge. |
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