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How do they justify using government money to help build new sports stadiums?
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decisions about money are often determined by whether or not the people making the decision think that decision will make other people spend more money on things they profit from. if enough people in city planning / government think a new stadium will bring more people to the city to spend money there, then they do it in the hopes that eventually the city will have a profit overall.Professional sports team can be sometime very important for a city and surrounding. It give prestige to a city, it bring more people in the city, both to live in or to visit, it bring more money in the city, etc. So it give a lot of negotiating power in the hand of the team. The team can threaten to leave the city if they don't help with the cost of the stadium, in that case the city have the choice to help them and secure the presence of the team or to risk them leaving because another city was ready to give money for a new stadium on their territory. The problem is that most economist deny those claims. Studies seem to indicate that professional sport team have near zero impact because it doesn't increase the amount of money spent. Most people have a fixed budget for entertainment and for most team, it doesn't bring people from out of town like a concert would. So usually it end up as a political move. If you are the Mayor that let the profession team go away from the city, you probably won't come back in office next election.
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LI5: Why do we enjoy music?
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[This Ted talk] has some info on that. I would say it has to do on harmonics, how notes relate to each other. In regards to pitch, they're all vibrations. An A4 would be around 440 Hz, when you go up an octave it doubles, so an A5 would be 880. This means that for every 2 cycles of A5, there is exactly 1 cycle of A4. Think of [this] Those lights are each an octave separate. Now, if they were on a less harmonic relation, the frequency in which these lights light up at the same time would reduce.This is in regards to harmony, as for timbre I wouldnt really know why the same melody might "feel" more enjoyable in one instrument than another and how the different combination of instruments would give out different feelings. Think of a melody, it might not sound great, but once you arrange some instruments playing a harmony it usually sounds better. So, my theory would be that it all goes down to the relationship of how often the lights light up at the same time. One light flashing without others doing other frequencies would be slightly more boring, unless it's a simplistic style I would say. Imagine that gif with different colors, and many more lights. Try and picture how different patterns would look and how at a great scale they could even make different combination of colors depending on the patterns. Im not sure if I explained it, I started typing and just drifted off for a bit, hope atleast your knowledge of how music works has increased. Btw, feel free to correct me anyone, I'm not an expert on this.While I don't know the answer to your question, I do know that there are rules to what does or doesn't sound harmonious and if we can feed them to a machine, that machine can generate original music that follows those rules and the result is indistinguishable from what a human would do. If you are interested you can get [more details] about it.
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"Peter's Map"
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You mean the Gall-Peters projection map. It is a map that correctly represents the size of continents. Meaning that Greenland doesn't look as big as Africa on it. While it gets the area right it gets shape, direction and distance wrong, meaning it is useful to compare the size of places but a bad tool to navigate by. Since more typical map projections like the mercator make places closer to the poles look bigger than places closer to the equator some people have ignored the reason why these projections get chosen and declared them to be 'racist' and the Peters map a better alternative. Some extend it and turn the map upside down to further emphasize the point.The Gall-Peters map is weird it claims to show that the world "really" looks like, but it really doesn't, it's hugely stretched out and strange-looking. All you have to do is look at the globe, and you will see how inaccurate it is. No map is perfect, because there's no way to put the surface of a globe directly onto a rectangular surface. But I prefer the Robinson map: _URL_0_
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Why is queen Elizabeth also the queen of many independent sovereign nations (former colonies) ?
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Because those countries have so far not decided to become republics. They are known as the Commonwealth Realms . Many of Britain's colonies did not violently break away from the British Empire. It was a gradual transfer of power until the point they were independent countries. So there was no big overhaul of their constitutions post-independence, nor was there much anger towards Britain, hence they retained the monarchy. Many former colonies have become republics. And a few current Commonwealth Realms have stated their intent to become republics at some point in the future . As they are independent countries, they are free to do that and the UK cannot stop them .
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Why does listening to people with certain types of accents sound pleasing (similar to an ASMR effect)?
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Accents are produced by the vocal pallet being worked in different ways. Some accents fall onto deeper more bassey areas of the vocal pallet cresting a deeper resonant sound which can be quite nice and soothing. Other accents come up through the pallet and have a real tenor quality You can think of it like singing different vocal sounds will produce a response in you based on your vocal tastes.
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I pay a monthly fee for cable TV. Why are there commercial advertisements, and, more importantly, why are movies censored for language?
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You may a monthly fee for the cable company to hook you up to their data-distribution network. Ads exist to pay for individual programs. And movies are censored because the channel that broadcasts them want to censor them. If it's not being broadcast over the air, they aren't *required* to censor them, but may choose to do to to maximize the size of their audience. If you want an analogy to the "paying for cable" vs "ads" thing, it's like the fact that you have to pay for an Internet connection, but you still also have to pay for things like some music streaming services or online game subscriptionsThe advertisement is to pay to make the expensive original content, or to cover the costs of buying the rights to air syndicated old shows. The censorship is for different reasons, usually a hold over from a long ago passed law/regulation back when people cared more about that kind of stuff.
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Why does melted cheese taste different than plain cheese?
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I believe it has something to do with the enzymes and proteins that are reorganized once introduced to a higher temperatureThe matrix of milk proteins that provide cheese its structure break down, and the cheese takes on a creamy texture. Our nervous system is stimulated by creamy textures. The sensations associated with melted cheese connote calorie dense fatI also wonder why freshly shredded cheese tastes better than sliced.I cooked for a while. From my experience in the trade the colder the temperature the less one can taste. Which leads to how I might explain this "change." Faster moving molecules interact with the senses better. Smell is seventy percent of taste after all.I'm pretty sure this has to do almost entirely with the maillard reaction generated from the higher temperature. The unfolding amino acids are now linear residues which have contact with the sugars in the cheese. This generates an array of complex flavor molecules. I would also speculate the flavor would be quite different between cheeses wit various levels of sugar. Something that has been aging for years like a parmesan would have less sugar than a quickly produced American. The additional sugar gets you that very rich flavor. Speculation based on the biochemistry and cheese knowledge. Most likely this is about American cheese. On average, American cheese has a much higher lactose/sugar level higher than other conventional cheeses, which may be why this question was asked. The protein parts get all up in bed with the sugar to create new aromatic compounds. They both go in caterpillars and come out butterflies. Delicious cheesy butterflies. It's not until enough heat enters the system that this reaction can occur. Thats just what were doing by introducing the heat
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Why does the ISS not spin to create artificial gravity?
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One of the points of the ISS is being able to do experiments in zero gravity. A spinning station would defeat that purpose. But also, complexity. More complexity equals higher costs, and AFAIK the ISS already went over its budget as it is.Spinning doesn't just create uniform gravity everywhere like they show in the movies. If the structure is too small. The force felt at the feet would be much stronger than the force felt at the head . This condition causes most people to vomit. Also, the ISS doesn't have an axis on which to spin about to create artificial gravity. It's built like a bunch of tubes connected every which way, so spinning it would cause astronauts in some sections to be pressed flat against the sides and astronauts in other sections to be weightless.
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Why does the glass at the top of my car windscreen/windshield appear blue?
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It appears blue because it is specifically tinted blue to keep the sun out of your eyes without significantly impacting visibility.
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How does eating food stop one from feeling the effects of Cannabis?
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It doesn't. It just gives a burst of energy, but it in NO WAY sobers you.
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How does one body hair (like arm hair) grow so much longer than all the others?
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I have the same issue, sometimes I get one hair on my arm or stomach that grows to be 4 inches or more. Always on my left side, too. I always assumed that it was a mutation. Hair goes through growth and resting cycles and I always assumed that the mutant hair wasn't getting the message to rest or fall out.Most people are completely unaware of the fact that the individual hairs on your head and body grow independently of one another. Each\xa0hair follicle\xa0produces hair based on its specific genetic instruction and can be affected by oil build-up and irritants. It’s also possible that the hair follicles will produce hair that is of a different texture than the other hair follicles. The variance is generally very slight, but if you look closely, you will see some differences between individual hairs. The proof of this is most apparent in the fact that different hair follicles produce differently colored hairs
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If your mouth has more germs than your anus, why is it easier for you to get sick from putting your mouth on someone's anus rather than kissing them?
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Because "number of germs" is not in any way a good indicator of how likely you are to get sick. Your body contains many many billions of bacteria, most of which are actually beneficial to your body. In this specific case, E. coli is responsible for the sickness. Early in your life, one strain of E. coli colonizes your body; your immune system will ignore that strain. But someone *else's* strain will make you sick.Bacteria in your mouth are largely either neutral or beneficial to your health. Probiotic bacteria are helpful in breaking down food. Other bacteria are in there to help protect gum health. The baddies in your mouth typically lead to gum decay, cavities, or bad breath - not things we enjoy, but also not something that will make us sick. Bacteria in your anus are also important. Lots of probiotics there, too. However, there are also bacteria in the gut that are sometimes transported out the bunghole and aren't meant for ingestion. Fecal coliform is the perfect example. Know how sick *E. Coli* usually makes people? This guy is the same family, but it lives in your gut. Things that live in your gut should usually stay there.
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How does the fuel gauge work in a car?
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Go to your toilet and lift the lid off of the water holder. Flush the toilet. See that little floaty thingy? Thats what in your fuel tank. The car takes a measurement of how high that float it floating . Take a volume measurement with the float being the heigh and you get how much fuel you haveAlternative to a "float" there is also capacitive sensors. Meaning that the tank measure the electrical potential between two of the sides. Electricity can flow more easily through certain materials and the air/gas mixture in the empty part of the tank has a distinctly different potential to the area filled with liquid gasoline. The sensor than gauges how empty it is based on the low potential and the high .
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Why are there so many Martial Arts in Asia?
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Asian cultures did not necessarily produce more martial arts. They just preserved them better. However, it's true that in China's case, education in militarized martial arts was more prolific than in other cultures. Folk fighting styles were commonly practiced by all people everywhere, but a high proportion of commoners in China also knew how to wield proper weapons of war. This can be attributed to the difference between Chinese and European monasteries. Chinese monasteries were huge landed estates, filled with a lot of wealth and resources. At many points of its history, the Chinese states were consumed in war with one another, forcing the monks to institutionalize martial arts in order to defend themselves. The Northern and Southern Shaolin Temples were destroyed multiple times, and many monks went into hiding among the general populace to escape persecution, spreading their teachings among the locals. Eventually, many of the folk martial arts they practiced declined in popularity and styles derived from Shaolin kung fu became the norm. The European situation was different, but martial arts still became wildly popular. Wrestling and later fencing was practiced extensively by all nobility, producing dozens of different schools and styles. Some of those martial arts you named are modern. Kendo, Tae Kwon Do, and arguably Muay Thai were all made in the 20th century, though they were derived from older martial arts.
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What exactly is sleep? And why do we do it?
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Sleep is the brain's "clean" cycle. Your brain cells aren't connected directly to the bloodstream. There's a barrier in the way, the *blood-brain barrier*, that prevents random chemicals in the blood from affecting brain function. You wouldn't want your personality to change based on what you had for lunch, for example. This means that the brain cells need some other way to get nutrients and dispose of their waste. So they use the *cerebrospinal fluid* . CSF is a nutrient soup that surrounds and fills the brain. It flows slowly through the brain, and nutrients float around in it to be absorbed by the brain cells. But those cells have to expel waste - they expel their waste into the CSF, too. And the CSF doesn't flow fast enough to really carry that waste away, so it just sits there, building up. By the end of the day, the cells are basically floating in a soup of their own waste products, which is bad for brain function. So the brain enters sleep mode. During sleep, channels around the brain open up. The day's old and grimy CSF is pumped out, and fresh CSF is pumped in, flushing away all those waste products. By morning, you wake up with a squeaky-clean brain.
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When Animals interact with each other why do they not look at one another in the eyes like humans do?
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A lot of animals see eye contact as intimidating. Looking an animal in the eyes can be a way to assert dominance. Dogs will usually try to avoid eye contact with a dominant individual, and they'll look down in submission. Other animals always try to maintain eye contact. Domestic sheep will usually only graze when they can make eye contact with other sheep.
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Is the number of open gays increasing or is the ratio because of the change in times?
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Both. Population increase and the fact that people are not as afraid to come out and say they are because ridicule is less than it once was.Very hard to say. Homophobia means we can't have very good stats because not everyone could tell the truth.
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Why don't we simply desalinate/clean ocean water for situations like droughts?
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It's very expensive currently, and you have the problem of brine left over. The process is not perfect so you don't end up with pure water on one side and salt on the other, you get about half salt-free water and the other half is doubly-salty water, or brine. Disposing of brine is a problem. It is usually put back into the ocean but it needs to be done slowly or it sinks to the bottom and raises the salinity at the ocean floor to dangerous levels for the creatures that live there.
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When something hits me in the nose but doesn't make me bleed, I smell something that I never smell in other situations. What is this smell?
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Iron from blood vessels bursting inside your nose. Your smelling the iron in your blood most likely.Could be micro capillary bursts that means you bleed but not in any way that's going to be noticeable unless you use a fiber-optic scope and look. You could be smelling that. Could be that after getting struck there's a slight amount of swelling/edema and that alters your sense of smell temporarily. Think of it like a concussion for your olfactory nerves.
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How does a queen bee/ant spawn and create their own colony?
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When a hive gets too large they will raise a generation of new queens. These queens then leave the hive at maturity along with a few males and a bunch of workers effectively splitting the hive. This is what is happening when you see a bee swarm . They go and look for a new place to start a hive leaving only a fraction of the workers, some males, and a queen at the original hive. Once they find a place to start a new hive they start laying eggs and thus establish a new home. Some species of ants do similar things. Others grow a single giant colony that only changes if there is something that forces the colony to split. In which case some species of ants will have some metamorph into a new queen, some will feed special foods to larva to make them develop into a new queen.There are breeder ants, I think the queen kills them if she sees them so they avoid her, could be wrong on that. Anyway, they fly very high into the sky, some have reported as high as passenger jets. In the sky they mate and the female breeders land back on the ground and begin to dig a small tunnel where they lay their first eggs and begin their lives as a queen. I'm certain someone below/above will eventually explain this better than I have.
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Why the Fibonacci Sequence is important
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Most people say the fibonacci sequence is important, because phi pops up and that's in nature everywhere. That doesn't really make it important Anywhere, I'm just saying that the fibonacci sequence isn't really important. I mean, it's extremely interesting, but doesn't really make it important per se. It's just cool. That's math. It's cool for its own sakeThey're useful in number theory and for solving certain types of combinatorics problems. In computer science they're used in one version of a merge sort and also for the "Fibonacci heap" data structure. You can also use them to convert from miles to kilometers, but that's just a coincidence. They do have some relation to the arrangement of leaves on a stem or the knobs on a pineapple.It's not necessarily the process that is important, but the numbers. Most flowers have petal arrangements of numbers in the sequence, and by dividing a term in the sequence and its preceding term, you approach a value called phi. Phi appears in some proportions of the body, and some people seem to find these proportions visually appealing. Artists such as Dali used these proportions in their paintings, and some insist that phi can be applied to things like stocks, without too much basis.It shows up in nature all of the time . This was important to many ancient cultures because mathimatics were accossiated with their religions .
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Can a cat/dog comprehend what's on the tv screen?
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I'm going to remove this, as it's not really an ELI5 question. > ELI5 is for requests for easy-to-follow explanations of complex concepts and subjects. That means no questions that are just looking for straightforward answers, *that are subjective*, a request for a guide/walkthrough, or that are objective but not asking for an explanation of an answer. ELI5 is absolutely not a repository for any question you have.
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Why when you donate blood or get blood work done, do they take it from your veins rather than arteries or muscle?
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Taking blood from an artery is possible, but much more risky as you bleed much faster from an artery. You don't get blood from a muscle. In order to get enough blood, you must be in a vessel big enough to draw from. That rules out capillaries . Your only practical option is to draw from a vein.
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What do other languages call the planet we live on?
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_URL_0_ Actually a lot of European languages call Earth some variation of Terra, which is the Latin name for Earth. Scandinavian languages use a variation of the word Jord. All in all, the word for Earth in each of these languages usually has the same literal meaning - ground/soil, land, or both.
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Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
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It's a complex book, and you're going to be hard pressed to narrow it down to a single argument Long story short? It's largely about arguing that things which we perceive to be "fake," or "copies," of reality are in fact completely separate from reality to begin with, and that the thing we assume it to be copying may not actually have ever existed to begin with. Consider running on a treadmill- some people would argue that it's a poor copy of what actual running is like. But really, running on a treadmill is so unlike "real," running that you might question if it's a copy at all, or just this thing that is what it is regardless of the existence of real running. And then, Baudrillard would argue, "real," running itself was maybe never real in the first place, but is this thing we 've come to think is true AFTER the invention of the treadmill- we only think it's real AFTER we have something "fake," to compare it to, even though really, historically, running wasn't a means of exercise so much as it was a means of transit or sport, so "real running," is sort of more fake than the treadmill , which was just this thing that somebody came up with.
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What is hypothyroidism and how does it pertain to obesity?
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Hypothyroidism is the term meaning "extremely low thyroid-ism". This basically means due to something, your thyroid gland does not produce the amount of specific hormones it needs too. The thyroid is huge for the basic "control knobs" that control your entire metabolic process within the human body. When this control structure is extremely lowered, the result is a huge mess of problems associated with your metabolism being slowed down. You might be hungry, lethargic, more insulin resistant, agitated, not getting enough minerals and vitamins, and so on. There's a lot of problems that can occur from hypothyroidism, because one of the most essential glands in your whole entire hormonal system is unbalanced.I've got hypothyroidism. A cheap drug called synthroid takes care of all the related problems for me.
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Why do most people prefer sleeping in a colder room under covers/blankets than being warm without blankets?
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It was explained to me this way, the body goes into a Simi state of hibernation when it's colder. Therefore you sleep better. At least I do.
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Why do some hand lotions burn my hands?
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You are allergic to one or more ingredients in them. Start comparing ingredient list from ones that dint to ones that do to figure out what it is. For example, I can't use products that have tree extracts. It will give me a rash.
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If electronic voting machines are so easy to hack, why hasn't a group exposed the loop hole publicly so that the problem can be solved?
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It's like saying "If a PC is so easy to hack, why hasn't it been solved yet?" They're so easy to hack because they're based on PC's and there are uncountably many ways to do it if you're serious enough', "In order to take something apart to figure out how it works, you have to get your hands on it. Voting machines aren't something you can go down to Walmart and buy nor are they a service you can just repeatedly hammer from the Internet. You'd have to physically steal one or work for the company that builds them to be able to fuck around with them enough to prove they could be manipulated.
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Why do some LED displays seem to "jiggle" if I make a low growling noise with my throat or chew crunchy food?
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You're causing your eyes to vibrate, which leads to the illusion that the LED display is actually vibrating.LED displays blink very quickly because they use multiplexing. Take a typical 7 segment display like one that can be found in clocks or calculators. It's composed of 7 LEDs that together make up an "8" shape. By turning on the right segments, you make numbers from 0 to 9. Now suppose you're making a clock. You need to display 4 digits. Each digit has 7 segments. In total this would be 4*7 = 28 wires. That is a lot. Many cheap microcontrollers dont\' have enough pins for that. So a solution is to use multiplexing. 7 wires are used to select which segment is lit, and 4 wires are used to select which digit is currently enabled. This way you only need 11 wires. The way this works is that instead of keeping all 4 digits constantly lit, the clock very quickly switches between digits, so fast you normally don't see it. Unless you shake your head, in which case the effect can breakHoly shit someone else has noticed this too? I thought I went insane.
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When going to bed after a day at the waterpark, doing rollercoaster or at sea, I can feel the "movements" of the day. Why is that?
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Your inner ear detects your movements and send signals to your brain so you can respond to the situation and balance. Your eyes are also sending similar information. Eventually your brain gets used to the same signals being sent at regular intervals . Your brain starts to expect this movement as normal, and keeps compensating. When you return to land, your brain is still compensating for motion that isn't there. There's lots of other stimulus for the rest of your day at the beach so you might not notice, but at the end of the day when you are in a quiet, dark room with little stimuli you'll feel that compensation again, and feel like you're still rocking. You can override the signal by giving your brain something else to base stability on . You can put your hand or foot on a flat surface and your brain will recognize that you aren't actually moving. Anecdotally, I've found that touching the floor or a table works better than a wall when lying down.
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Why is the number pad on my keyboard opposite of the number pad on my phone?
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> There isn't a definitive answer, but the most cited theory seems to be that the telephone keypad has letters associated with numbers, so 1 2 3 across the top made more sense. Otherwise, the end of the alphabet would be at the top.Calculators, and therefore computer keypads had 1 2 3 at the bottom because it is more ergonomically efficient.Both devices started with a different history. Old adding machines had the small numbers on the bottom and worked their way up. This progressed on to cash registers, and then calculators, and the onto your computer keyboard. While it used to be a long straight line up, as the mechanics and eventually electronics were able to handle faster typing, the shape changed to the compact 3x3 square we use now with the low numbers still at the bottom. Before the touch tone phones we use today, we had rotary phones. Those phones had their numbers in a circle with 1 at the top and 9 at the bottom. When the technology for push button phones came about, they kept the numbers in that order. It is also said the Bell Labs ran a bunch of usability tests and that people found that layout easier to use. They were at one time even considering 2 rows with 5 numbers in each row.Short answer: convention. Both keypads evolved separately and stuck before there were a chance to standardize the two. Long answer: Numberphile [has a good video] explaining Bell Lab's research on the new button layout to replace radial phones. Summary of the video is that people were allowed to choose their own layout and half of them put 1-3 on the top row, and it had fewer mistakes of other variations. Texas Instruments made the few hand-held calculator with 7-9 in the top row which was inspired by desktop adding machines. Nobody saw a reason to change. [Mental Floss] tackled this a while ago.
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Why was there no space or time before the big bang?
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No one knows. We can speculate. We know because of Einstein and other cosmologists that the universe is expanding. Because of this it can be tracked back to a time when it was a single point with infinite density. But we don't understand why or how it happened yet.
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How do comas work?
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There are a lot of reasons for a person to be in a coma, with varying gravity and reversibility, so take whatever I say next with a grain of salt, since it may not apply to a particular situation in your mind. Some comas are caused by damage in nervous structures responsible for keeping the person awake , or even diffuse brain damage after a huge stroke, a long period of cardiac arrest, brain swelling, severe head trauma, and so forth. When this happens, the body may continue to develop it's basic functions, while the structures supporting counsciousness are no longer active
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Why isn't anyone(as in a country) doing anything to help Syria? What is going on?
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Who said nobody was doing anything?_URL_0_ _URL_1_ _URL_2_If you're referring to sending in the troops, that's a much different and much more complicated issue.
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If a plane were to be flying as normal and then gradually on a steeper and steeper slope away from earth, what would happen?
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Airplanes have a ceiling above which they cannot fly. It depends on their engine power and the amount of lift generated by their wings. Yes they could overshoot this ceiling but would falter, stall, and descend. The pilot could regain control and fly at the highest possible altitude. Airplanes use the air to burn their fuel. They can never fly in space. To go into orbit a craft must speed up to about 17,000 miles per hour. This is impossible unless they are out of the atmosphere. To operate outside the atmosphere rockets must be usedAs the atmosphere gets less dense, the airplane's engines will start having problems. Partly because it needs more "stuff" there to push through the jet engines, but also oxygen for combustion of the fuel. So they would sputter for awhile, and if you kept trying to gain altitude, they would just stall.
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Why are the lakes Michigan and Huron not considered the same body of water?
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I live less than 2 hours from the Mackinaw Bridge. They are usually considered to be individual lakes because of their currents around the straights of Mackinaw, making some very rough waters. Lake Huron's current runs counterclockwise along Canada and Michigan while Lake Michigan's runs clockwise along the Lower Peninsula, clashing between St. Ignace and Mackinaw City.
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How does a caller to 911 from California able to give an address from Kansas during the swatting incident? Are 911 operators not local?
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It is very, very easy in this day and age to use software to make a phone call from either an anonymous number or spoofing a number. Even an anonymous call would have to be taken seriously by a 911 operator since obviously they can't risk the chance of not acting on a reported hostage situation. 911 operators are located at or near the area they are servicing.My friend installed an ip phone service at his parents so they could make local phone calls to Canada. From Eastern Europe. They could call a Canadian 911 operator while being on the other side of the world.
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Why does a ship captain face prosecution for abandoning his or her sinking ship?
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I thought he faced manslaughter charges for running the ship aground, which is different than abandoning the ship. I could be wrong though.it's Italian maritime code of conduct that the captain of a ship that is in distress be the last to leave after the passengers and the crew. the Italian code isn't particularly different from that of other countries. in part it aids the safety of the passengers because the captain and his officers should be there to help control the chaos. it's also part tradition of ship's captains having more than a working relationship with the ship.
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why can I not wake myself up from dreams even when I'm conscious of the fact I'm dreaming?
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Are you sure you are actually conscious of being in a dream rather than merely dreaming that you are conscious within a dream?', "TIL being able to wake myself up from a dream is not normal. I couldn't tell you how I do it -- when I decide I don't like a dream, I just wake myself up somehow and dream something better.
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I'm salaried weekly to make the same amount as what a 40 hour hourly wage employee would make. Does the min wage increase (which increases hourly wage) affect my salary?
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I'm not sure what 'salaried weekly' means. I presume it means you have an annual salary, which you are paid an equal portion of 52 times a year. If that's the case, then no, minimum wage increase means absolutely nothing to your pay. It only affects people who punch a clock and are paid hourly.
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Why is the trade deficit with China so bad?
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China makes most of what it needs, and sells most of what other countries want. They have little incentive to buy things from countries like the UK, and we have lots of reasons to buy stuff from themChina has cheaper cost of labor which is vital for an economy with such a huge amount of manufacturing. Many western economies are primarily services. Goods are always needed services less so. Oversimplification.
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Why does alcohol enhance one's taste and appetite?
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I wouldn't say all alcohol enhances taste. Wine of various types can add an interesting and compatible side note to various foods. Cheeses, for example.More than moderate alcohol consumption lowers your blood sugar therefore increasing your desire for food.
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Why can i be injected with radioactive liquid for a bone scan and not get sick?
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It's a very small amount of radioactive material. You are constantly receiving radiation all the time so while this is a larger amount than normal it's not at all enough to make you sick. Your cells can handle it easily. According to this, the amount of radiation you receive from a bone scan is 6.3 mSv _URL_1_ According to this chart from xkcd: _URL_0_ That's about 1/10 of the yearly dose considered absolutely safe for a US radiation worker.
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Why does repeating a word or phrase over and over make it lose meaning in your brain?
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It’s a phenomenon known as Semantic Satiation. It’s just as you describe; one will say a phrase or word so many times that it eventually temporarily loses its meaning. Interestingly enough, there’s also a phenomenon where if you engage in Semantic Satiation, doing the task at hand will become slightly more difficult. _URL_0_ Edit: There’s a more so “explain like I’m an adult” explanation on the phenomenon where tasks become more difficult if you verbally repeat them, but I couldn’t find much as to why Semantic Satiation in specific occurswords only have meaning when you use them with other words so by using it improperly over and over , your brain eventually begins to believe it really means nothing.
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Why do planes often pass the destination airport and land from the other direction?
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As a rule, planes take off and land into the wind. This means the speed over the ground is lower. Air is very much like a river. If you are swimming up the current, you are traveling slower in relation to the shore. Going with the current, you travel much faster. In both cases you are swimming at the same speed through the waterWhenever possible, planes land flying against the wind. This gives them more lift, meaning they can approach the runway and touch down at a lower speed. This reduces the length of runway needed to stop and also reduces the wear on the tires. Of course, this means that if the plane was flying with the wind during the flight, it has to go past the airport and come back around to land against the wind.
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How does a democracy work if the majority of individuals don't understand most of the basic concepts involved within their government?
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Well technically speaking, the US, alongside practically all other modern countries around the globe, isn't a 'democracy' - it's a 'representative democracy'. Effectively, this means the electorate don't *need* to be knowledgable in politics and the economy to make the political scene 'work', as they elect people who are knowledgable in the aforementioned areas. Representative democracies allow for people to be somewhat engaged in politics in a semi-regular fashion, whilst not having to dedicate their lives to being 'politically aware' - people can just get on with their lives. Also, I don't particularly think understanding how the House of Representatives and the Senate influences decision making when it comes to picking a president.
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Why can I not just walk up to a drive-thru window & order food?
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It would be a liability to have pedestrians in a lane built for cars to travel through. If they allowed people to do it they would be responsible when someone got run over* there is a safety issue, having pedestrians in a lane intended for cars* there is a pranking issue, as it is pretty easy to order then run off with a car, you are pretty much stuck', "Probably easier to stab someone through the open window if you're on foot, that's why you see signs that say 'for the safety of our employees, no walk-ups in the drive thru.'", 'Some fast food chains will let you do this after their lobby is closed but the drive-thru is open. I know the BK in my hometown allows truck drivers to walk up since their truck is too big to fit in the actual lane. Depending on your frequency of visits if they know who you are they will be more likely to allow it, especially if there are no vehicular based orders to be filledNot walking, but as kids on hot summer nights we would always drive our bicycles through the drive through. Everyone thought is was weird at first but it caught on pretty quick.
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The recent addition of 80 million years to the age of the universe.
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I think it is unfair to claim that scientists found an extra 80 million years, what they did was refine predictions based on more sensitive data. Using the previous set of measurements of the background radiation the prediction for the age of the Universe was 13.6 billion - 13.8 billion years, the newer, more sensitive calculations place the actual measurement closer to the 13.8 billion year mark. It would be like using a ruler that only had 1 foot increments on it and getting an approximate answer, and then later using a more accurate ruler with markings for centimeters it would be unfair to ask where the extra length came from if all that happened was a more accurate measurement took place.
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What's the big deal about /r/ShitRedditSays?
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There's a common perception that the members of SRS go around downvoting posts they disagree with en masse . Their official rules *do* discourage their members from doing just that so I don't know how true it is, but I think a lot of the hatred stems from that generalization. They 've also developed their own sort of "culture" with in-jokes and stuff that a lot of people take seriously at face value. If you spend enough time actually reading their posts you can clearly tell when they're being sarcastic but I guess the casual viewer can't, so they assume they're serious about everything.
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The new iPhone 6 and if it's better than current phones
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It's a typical Apple release. Incremental improvement in the specifications, interesting new capabilities. In 2014, all phones are powerful, and specs are interesting only when then enable new capabilities. Here's the interesting new stuff in the iPhone 6: * Apple Pay Payment system. Scan your credit cards and pay with your phone; leave your wallet at home. Other makers have had NFC payment solutions, but Apple has the juice to sign up enough retailers to get to critical mass, so this is one that will be widely usable.* Improved camera. Image stabilization. More clever post-processing to improve image quality. Better video capture.* Two sizes, with near-identical features. Bigger and bigger-er.* Improved battery life, especially in the bigger-er one.* Enhanced motion processor, enables more data for fitness tracking* Lots of new features in iOS 8, but they'll be available to recent older iPhones.
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How do pressurized cabins work?
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I assume you mean pressurized **aircraft** cabins. On most turboprop and jet aircraft, the engines produce a large amount of hot compressed air. This air is ducted into the aircraft body, cooled to a comfortable temperature, and released into the cabin. Some aircraft, such as the 787, do not draw pressurized air directly from the engines. Instead, they use separate air compressors, powered by the engines, to make enough compressed air to pressurize the cabin. Pressure is regulated by an electronically-controlled outflow valve that changes its position depending on the pressurization needs of the aircraft. If the cabin pressure is too low, the valve closes down until air from the engines raises the cabin pressure to the desired level. If the cabin pressure is too high, the valve opens up until the cabin pressure drops to the target level. In its fully open position, the valve is able to release air faster than the engines provide it. See [cabin pressurization] on Wikipedia for more information.
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Why is posting your own content considered bad?
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What's frowned on is spamming all of the content from your website to Reddit & trying to use it as a free advertising platform. If you're actually participating in the community & posting interesting stuff , it's not a problem. Imagine you're throwing a party & some asshole that nobody really knows shows up & tries to sell everyone life insurance. That'd be annoying. Compare that with a guy that's friends with everyone and overhears somebody saying they're looking to buy a used car & tells them about the one he's selling. See the difference?
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How is the length of a radioactive isotopes half life determined?
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The halflife of a substance is the amount of time it takes for _half_ of it to decay. So, in the case of Carbon 14, if you start with 1kg of it, you'll have .5kg in 5715 years. Now, you don't actually have to wait 5715 years to figure that out. By observing and measuring it, you can determine the rate of decay and extrapolate what the half life will be. Think of it like the speed of an object. I can say that a car traveling at 100mph will complete 100 miles in 1 hour, but I don't need to wait a _full hour_ to figure that out. If I observe it traveling 25mi 15 min, then I can extrapolate it will complete 100mi in 1 hour.Half life is just a convenient number for measuring decay over time. We can measure the decay over a a couple different shorter periods of time, and we extrapolate from that how long the half life isHow about ELIHighSchooler. If radioactive matter has a half life then the number of atoms over time is a formula: A^ By counting right now at t=0, we get A^0 = A. By counting in an hour Or a day Or a year . Say at t=1, we get A^r. Now we solve for r. Using a little algebra, it turns out the half life is 1/r. And it only took a little algebra. The tricky part is how we count atoms. One way is to count the clicks on a Geiger counter: each click is a particle coming from the decay of an atom.If you can figure out you eat one cookie a day you can figure out how long it'd take to eat half the cookies. You don't need to wait till half of them are gone to figure out how long it took for that to happen. As long as the rate is reasonably predictable and won't change.
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If we could make giant ants, would they be just as strong as small ants?
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No, in fact they would quickly die. In many engineering/biological topics there is something called the Square-Cube Law: If you grow/shrink something some properties vary by the square of the amount you are shrinking, others by the cube of the amount your shrinking. The thing is weight is a property of volume, so that varies by cube.Strength on the other hand is a property of cross section. So say we have a 1inch cube of muscles: 1x1x1 = 1 cubic inch of muscle weight 1x1 = 1 square inch of muscle strenght Lets double the size of the muscle to a 2 inch cube: 2x2x2 = 8 cubic inches of muscle weight 2x2 = 4 cubic inches of muscle strength By doubling the size of the muscle we have halved it's strength to weight ratio. This means that as we increase the size of a muscle we are getting less and less additional gains in lifting ability, eventually it stops being able to lift the muscle itself. Growing an ant to that size would not only prevent it from standing up, the ant itself would collapse into a soup of ant bits, since an ant has no bones, it maintains it's structure through the strength of it's outer shell . Also ant's breathe through their outer shell, and surface area is another vary by square thing.
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Why is "bloody" a bad word?
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"Bloody" is the modern form of of either "God's Blood" or "By Our Lady". It's part of a family of curses called \'Minced Oaths\'. "Gadzooks!" = "God's Hooks" = The cross/nails of Christ. "Blimey!" = "God Blind me" "Zounds!" = "\'S Wounds" = "God's Wounds" And one you will not have heard outside of the UK and AU, "Strewth" for "God's Truth".
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What makes a bad joke bad and why is it viewed in distaste when there is a clear humor?
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Jokes, at their core, are about subversion. The set up is mundane, common, understood. The punchline, a surprise, unexpected. Theres a reason they're called dad jokes. Kids haven't heard them before, puns and play on words that they've only recently gotten comfortable with are novel and fun. As we get older, even jokes we haven't even heard before may become unfunny because though its still something we were unfamiliar with, it wasn't a surprise, it wasn't novel in conception. I haven't multiplied every number ever by 2. But if I've done it enough times, I can extrapolate what would happen. Multiplying yet another number by 2 will get a result that I can anticipate or something I'm familiar with. That's actually at the core of why most professional comedians refuse to apologize and tend to try to push the boundaries, they are always searching for subversion and a counter to expected thought.I think it has a lot to do with the audience and the timing. Especially the timing. Even a lame joke can get laughs if delivered at the perfect moment. That said, if the mood isn’t right or it’s delivered to late, even a good joke can fall on its faceIts not bad, but people who know you or have ecpectations from you are dissapointedYour example is supposed to be a "bad joke"? I'm not sure I understand now if you're asking why certain jokes aren't funny, or why certain jokes are considered to be in bad taste despite being funny.
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Why are meals at American schools so expensive?
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Have you ever been to a baseball game? That same food would probably cost you $10. School lunches are run by a business who is a profit seeking entity. That being said, school lunches are generally pretty cheap unless you're going for the "premium" food such as pizza which is often brought in from the outsideThis may be specific to your school. In many schools meals are very cheap -- so cheap that the staff feel forced to use cheap ingredients.> why does it cost 5 dollars to get a hot dog and chips at a school that would probably cost 3 dollars tops if you bought it at the store? You're also paying for somebody to transport, store, cook, and serve the food at the school. They also give you a place to sit and eat your food, dispose of waste, etc. All that overhead adds to the cost of the lunch that you're not thinking about when you compare the price of the food.
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how dangerous are my uncovered florescent lights regarding UV rays
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Not dangerous. There is a coating in the lamp that absorbs UV raysDo you hug them for an hour or more a day? If not you are probably just fine.
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If women on birth control don't menstruate, why do they have periods?
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I think I know what your asking but here is a correction to your question: Period = Menstruation You mean to ask: "If women on BC don't *ovulate*, why do they *menstruate*?" The answer is they don't. While on standard hormone replacement pills the signals they create will block both ovulation and menstruation. In the standard BC regimen, a woman will take three weeks of hormone pills to block ovulation, then one week of placebo pills . The three weeks on hormones blocked ovulation or the development of a viable egg to travel to the womb and get fertilized, and the week off removes the hormone trick and lets menstruation occur. Newer BC regimens and implants and IUDs remove or eliminate many of these "off weeks" and will block both ovulation and menstruation for longer blocks of time. There is a balance of risks and preferences that a woman must make with her doctor before selecting a method of BC. Many will elect for BC that allows for fewer periods but there is an increased risk of breakthrough bleeds where small amount of the uterine lining will still menstruate and also removes fewer check points to detect BC failure. Thats right, one advantage to the old one period a month pills are they have a failure check built in the schedule, if you go on the placebo week and you don't get a period, you can go get checked for pregnancy with a doctor as BC, pill or not, is never 100% foolproof.Birth control pills stop the ovaries from releasing eggs every month, but they don't do anything to stop the buildup of the uterine lining. When a woman switches to the placebo pills, the loss of hormones causes that lining to break down, just like it would in a normal period
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Why does water have no smell?
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Smell is the best sense for determining the toxicity of something. Because water does not have any toxicity or nutrients, and it is everywhere, humans did not need to evolve the ability to smell water, and so we didn't. Edit: the nose is just a chemical detector. There are certain chemicals that a human needs to detect for survival, such as the chemicals in rotting flesh etc. Humanity evolved to detect those chemicals, and had no need to detect harmless things like water.
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Suppose I'm a vampire. How much blood should I drink until I kill a person?
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I think you'd need to drain more than 40% of the person's blood . Still, as a vampire, if you bit into a major artery, there's a good chance it will continue bleeding even after you're done unless you get immediate medical attention. So you could probably kill someone by draining much less, if you just left them.They'd probably feel pain as you start drinking their blood, and then dizziness, followed by loss of consciousness.How the victim would feel is a tough one, since no one has ever been bitten by one before. It would depend on the kind of vampire mythology you subscribe to and the powers they have.
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How do completely different strands of species all share similar qualities? (Ex: Mammals and Amphibians both developing Eyes in a similar fashion)
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There are two factors at work here: One is **common ancestry**. All living things share a fairly small set of common ancestors. Living things that are more closely related to one another share a more recent common ancestor than things that are less closely related to one another. For example, chimpanzees and gorillas share a more recent common ancestor with each other than either does with beetles. In some cases, common body parts or functions are inherited from common ancestors. This is likely what we see in the opposable thumbs of chimpanzees and gorillas . It's also possible to have **convergent evolution**. In the case of convergent evolution, the same features arises independently in separate lineages. This can happen by chance, and/or because a certain adaptation is very favorable. For example, flight in dragonflies and bats arose independently. We know this is the case because the structures responsible for flight are different in each, and the genes responsible for encoding those structures are considerable different in each.
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What exactly do people mean when they say a game runs on an engine?
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> Is an engine just the basis of a game's physics? That's pretty close, but there is more to it than that. The engine is what takes the *data* physical description of the buildings, the vehicles, the people, the weapons, the lights and the shadows and the reflections basically everything in the universe, and draws it on your screen 30 time a second. Engines take a lot of effort to make. But once they have been created, guns and lasers and magic spells, they all pretty much do the same thing there is no reason for everyone reinvent the wheel once the make a new game. It is cheaper easier just to buy an engine from someone else.
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Why does heating the house to 70 degrees feel so different from cooling the house to 70 degrees?
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Because it's impossible to maintain the room's temperature at exactly 70°F . In reality, when heating you heat the room to around 73°F, and when cooling you cool the room to 67°F. When the temperature cools or heats past a certain point the system turns on again. Also, thermostats are crap, even good ones need recalibrating every 12 months or so. They're almost always off by 2°F or so so house to house won't achieve the same feeling for the same set point.
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why are gun sights always, or typically, red?
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There not. Modern pistol sights often include color dots on the iron sights for easier contrast in lower light conditions, [but can be many different colors, and even combinations of colors]. Even most modern military rifle iron sights are still gun metal black. Red Dot Sights are not as used by the military as Call of Duty would have you believe. They are great for close range where faster target acquisition is essential, and the red dot contrasts with most colors you see on a battlefield. However, at longer ranges they can be a liability, as they add weight to the weapon and add further points of failure .On all of my guns, I have no red sights. They are all either white, glow-in-the-dark/tritium or all black. I honestly don't know of any guns I have fired that had another color sight without it being aftermarket. The only red "sights" I can think of are red dot scopes, which have red colored reticles because it is easier to pick up against a green background than any other color. Green dots are another option because they can show up better in fall and winter when you're looking at mostly reds and browns.
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Given all the technological information we have in the world, why does YouTube just tell me "An Error" Occurred?
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YouTube knows exactly what went wrong. They just have no interest in sharing that with youBecause what specific error occurred and why is not useful information to the end user if there is nothing they can do about it. 99.9% of users would not understand a detailed description of the error anyway.
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Stradivari violins and why they are better than others
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I read about this a very long time ago, but what I recall is: As I recall, it was a *dentist,* of all people, who also happened to be an avid violinist and self-taught luthier, who managed to get ahold of some Stradivari fragments and studied them under a microscope. What he found was that the tiny pores in the wood were first of all completely open and second of all that they contained countless microscopic grains of metallic salts. He surmised that when instruments made from this wood were played, they would resonate with millions of harmonic elements through the open channels, making the sound more vibrant. He eventually determined that Stradiviari himself likely had no idea about this, or any special technique, but rather just happened to soak his starting wood pieces in water that was high in metallic salts. The article I read went on to say that he duplicated the process, intentionally soaking wood parts in water he'd impregnated with metallic salts, and from that built a new violin that sounded extraordinarily fine.
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What happens to children if they don't get adopted?
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They become wards of the state. Bouncing around foster homes and so forth. More often than not brothers and sisters get separated. Unfortunately it is difficult and expensive for Americans to adopt inside the US.
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Despite having similar vocal cords, why do humans have a far versatile vocal ability than other mammals?
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our vocal cords aren't actually that similar. They're built the same way but developed farther than other animals. if you gave a chimpanzee super intelligence, they still wouldn't be able to vocalize like we can. a lot of our nuance, like writing, speaking, art, comes down to our concentration of fast-twitch muscles as opposed to brute strength muscles. These fast-twitch muscles make very tiny movements, quickly, and with reliable motions, we have them all over but mostly in our hands and our lips and faces. With these, we can speak, and can write, both very intricate movements. Our vocal cords also have these. What we gave up for this, is that many of us will never be as physically strong as any other ape. The strongest of us humans is a tuesday for a bonobo. I mean, look at how thin we are in comparison, our muscle mass is not that much naturally. But, we can write and speak, and I like to think that those are more powerful things than just being really strong.
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Why is a constitution important? Why were efforts made to create a EU constitution?
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A constitution helps set basic laws that then can later be adapted with ammendments. It is the basis for a lot of countries because it is the most basic form of written law really. Im no expert though.
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What does refubished mean when looking at electronics? Is it worth buying?
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Refurbished means it has been checked and possibly fixed by somebody who is certified, usually by the manufacture, to do such work on the product.It didn't work when originally built or was returned as defective. The manufacture or reseller had someone look at it and 'fixed' it so it worked and could be sold", 'It generally means that , some parts may have been replaced by the seller or the manufacturer, but it mostly works as expected. You can ask the seller what was refurbished, before buying. There are different kinds of refurbished items. See here for details: _URL_0_ It has tips for the buyer. This is from Ebay, but can be applied to almost any vendor.I've been buying refurbs for years - pcs, laptops, GPS, cell phones tv's, vcr's etc. Only had 1 problem - a Packard Bell destop that went south on me, but that might just have been the Windows Me. I'd guess I'm 30 and 1 overall.
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What does "brought to you by ..." mean on television shows for the company?
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It means that they are a sponsor of the show. They pay for ad time and product mentionsIt means they paid for the show to actually exist, so they get advertising in return.
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How can solid materials like glass be transparent?
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First of all: Glas isn't transparent for all types/colors of light . As you may know, light can consist of different colors, each corresponding to a certain wavelength or a certain energy. On the other hand, molecules have discrete, so-called energy levels. There are distinct amounts of energy they can absorb or emit. So, only if the energy of the light particles matches that of the molecule, then the photon has a chance of being absorbed. To put this more in ELI5 terms: Let's say you are walking down an old mall, and come across a coin-op arcade machine. The machine only has certain slots for coins, e.g. a slot for quarters. . Now, you have a bunch of coins in your pocket, each a certain worth . If you have a quarter, chances are, you might put one in and use the machine before continuing on your business. If you don't, then you're forced to walk past without leaving any money at the mall. In this case, the arcade machine might as well not exist at all, since you don't have the proper coins. Some arcade machines/molecules are more complex and accept quarters and nickels. In this case, you might leave those coins at the mall while your dimes pass through the mall unhindered. And that's basically how transparency works. Glass is transparent for visible light, but certain infrared and ultraviolet wavelengths get absorbed because the glass molecules has corresponding energy levels for these photons.Transparency is simply the ability to let light shine through. Glass does not contain any molecules that absorb or reflect the photons that hit it, so the photons simply pass through the objectYour brick wall is transparent to wifi signals, and wifi signals are basically the same as visible light. They are both electronagnetic waves but with different frequency.
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If we need two eyes to perceive depth, how come I can close one eye and still see depth?
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You can determine depth with what are known as *monocular vision cues*. . Your brain has learned a lot of tricks to help decide what *might* be closer or far away. Texture: Things you know have lots of texture, like grass or carpet if you know that you see a carpet, and it looks smooth, then it's likely not very close. if you can see the fibres, you know it's closer to you. Size: If you know that 2 things are about the same size, say 2 people then the person that seems bigger is usually closer to you. Air distortion: Things that are very far away seem hazy or blurry because you are looking through a lot of air . Overlap: If you see 2 things, and you notice that one thing partially covers the other, then you interpret the one that is partially covered as being behind the closer one. There are a few more, but I can't recall them off the top of my head.
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What is a fiscal year and why do we need it.
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Fiscal years are used by government and some businesses concerning money. As to why they don't use a traditional calendar year, [here is one reason]: > December is a really bad month to try to close out an entire year's accounting books. Accountants and execs are on vacation for large parts of the month, most retail stores are flooded with revenue that takes time to account at the store level and then filter up to the corporate office, etc etc. It also doesn't tell the whole story for most retail outfits; December sales are usually inflated by purchases that are then returned in January after all the hullaballoo. As a result, a fiscal year end in January or even February keeps the entire season's revenues and expenses in one fiscal year.
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How do the Star Wars' (et. al.) Expanded Universes work?
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Most of your questions are answered on the [Wikipedia page] for the Star Wars Expanded Universe. But to paraphrase some of it, and to answer a few of your questions: 1. They do have a hierarchy. If Lucas says it, it is considered **G** level, and therefore canon. If it was on TV it is **T** level, which is below **G**, but above **C** which includes most of the books and games. Check out the Wiki for the rest of the levels. 2. They do have a bible of sorts, more aptly titled [The Holocron]. Which is a database of all characters and events considered Canon. It is kept private as it contains events in planned releases as well. 3. It is a pretty enormous undertaking to try to keep the entire Universe from containing any contradictions. Unfortunately there are certainly inconsistencies. I typically just try to appreciate each work individually, and not get too bogged down in those sorts of details. For instance, they seemed to have taken a long time to figure out what the hell Leia was talking about when she said that Obi-Wan fought with her father in the Clone Wars. Which side were the clones on? Did both sides have clones? What was the war about? I 've even heard that Lando was originally supposed to be a clone, but they just dropped that part. The concept of what it means to be a Jedi or Sith has evolved greatly. The word "Sith" was never even spoken in the original trilogy. In the recent reissue of Timothy Zahn's "Heir to the Empire," the author makes frequent annotations that explain discontinuities. Some are interesting. I actually stopped reading them because they were distracting and really ruined the magic.
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What is happening with the Ebola patients "rising from the dead"?
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They aren't. The people either weren't actually dead, or the stories are complete fabrications. No zombie apocalypse for you.
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Why can't we transfer scents the same way we transfer images?
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Scents are actual physical particles moving in the air. Transferring a scent then requires that you actually move physical things, or that the receiver have the necessary components to manufacture scents when sent instructions. Smell-o-vision is certainly possible. It would just require scent compounds that would need to be replaced as they were used up. Currently there just isn't enough demand for smell-o-vision to support that.
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how a crackws touchscreen can work in some areas but not others on the screen
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The glass part of the screen isn't what makes it "touchable", there is something under the glass called a digitizer that accepts your skin as an input through the glass. If this digitizer isn't broken due to dropping, or physical damage than the area will still accept input
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How do shows like Masterchef conduct so many interviews of the cooks before something is about to happen?
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Just from watching, it definitely seems that the interviews are conducted afterwards. Possibly long after, when the producers develop a storyline from the footage they shot. You can watch closely for hair, makeup, & clothing changes to see that it is definitely not "in the moment". Of course, that means they already know the outcome and are just acting. Maybe that ruins the magic? Sorry.
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When to use "myself" in a sentence and when NOT to.
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Unfortunately, it is grammatically correct. *Myself* is a reflexive pronoun, but can be used as an intensive pronoun People hate it for the same reason they hate exclamation points. While technically okay, they're unnecessary and are only used to make your sentence seem more dramatic.
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How an Action Replay works
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The code you enter translates into instructions, these could range from "only do the next instruction if a certain button is pressed" to "update the figure for health and set it to 9001". These instructions are then inserted into the instructions sent to the games console at regular intervals to make your cheats work.
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how complex mechanisms like the eye evolved.
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Well the eye first started off as just a patch of light-sensitive cells, which would be beneficial to organisms that needed to know where light and dark was . Over time, this patch of light sensitive cells began to pit. The indentation meant that the cells could now differentiate direction based on what portions of the cells were exposed to light. This allowed for not just knowing whether there is light or not, but what direction it's located relative to their position. Gradually, this pit would deepen, allowed for better perception of light orientation. A pinhole would eventually develop, allowing for very fine focused perception of light and even the beginning of rudimentary image perception. For the first time, organisms could begin to 'see' more than just light or not. Specialized will mutate and evolve over thousands of generations, allowing for greater and better perception of light and objects, including structures such as a lense, more specialized receptor cells, and eventually muscular control. Eyes have proven to be so useful to organisms, that scientists believe that complex eye structures have evolved independently around 50 to 100 times in different 'lines' of organisms.
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where bitcoins come from and why everyone doesn't just mine bitcoins for profit
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Basics first. * For each block there is a set bitcoin reward. * Each block is a race to see who can solve it first. * Only one person/group can claim the reward. Now, knowing that, we can also add the following: * Mining is difficult* It takes electricity * Electricity costs money * How difficult each block is adapts to the size of the network. So, what you end up seeing is a sliding scale where the average cost of electricity needed to do the calculations matches the size of the reward. Or: Average * portion of network rewarded = Average So if you have a higher electricity cost in your area, you might not make a profit, since the calculation is based on an *average*. This pushes the average cost for the network down, and further drives out high-cost areas, making a sort of cycle. Now, this ignores the price of hardware, so it's not totally accurate, but it gives a good picture.
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Why do some manufacturers print their own prices on items?
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to prevent strors from over inflating prices. They know how much thier product costs. if someone is selling it for more, the customer knows its not Arizona and does not have those hostle feelings. keeps everyone in checkManufacturer Suggested Retail Price : what the manufacturer *would like* a retailer to sell their product for. Retailer needn't abide by it which is why 99¢ Arizonas might sell for more and why most items sell for less. Ex.$100 shoes on sale for $79.99. Varies depending on deals struck between vendors and retailers. Minimum Advertised Price : the lowest price a retailer can *advertise* a product for as per its agreement with the manufacturer. Ex. Ad language like, "At a price so low we can't even print it!" Useful in keeping brick and mortars competitive with online sellers and helps maintain the integrity of brand image.Arizona does it because it's one of their core marketing points. They're trying to place pressure on retailers to sell it at that price. Other companies, like chips , do it for convenience. It's a lot easier for them to print a price on the bag than it is for the store to put a price tag on it & crush all the chips. A store can always mark other prices or buy unpriced merch.
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Why are posts on Reddit archived and cant be voted on?
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Reddit posts are meant to be contextual - they are interacted with by users in real-time through comments, replies, and up votes. These interactions reflect the situation at the time of the post - comments on the Greek referendum, for example, are based on the relevant information users have now, in June/July 2015. In the future, it may be interesting or informative to look back on posts as what they are - snapshots of perceptions and opinions on a certain issue at a certain time. Thus, posts are archived so that perceptions and opinions of what will be the future do not influence the snapshot of what happened in the past. For example, we will be able in a year to go back and look at what was said about the Greek referendum, without sifting through comments that were added months later once more information was available. Also, changing perspectives can mean that people go back and try to downvote or upvote posts/comments that are no longer true or are now more relevant. This is not really reflective, however, of the post at the time of submission; sure, we may know in a year that the Greek referendum being a resounding 'No' was a great thing, but that's not what people are saying right now; Basically archiving allows for accuracy of record-keeping for the future, and protects people from mass upvotes/downvotes due to future events. I also believe it reduces the server load for reddit to save a static thread rather than keep it dynamic, but I don't know the details as to why that's the case .
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Why is my internet worse at nighttime? When its day time, multiple people are using it (family) but when its nighttime and its just me, it's painfully slow.
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Not a lot of details offered to give a clear explanation, but likely your internet is limited by the hub in your street and the connection your provider has with the world. When it is nighttime in the US, Asia and Europe are activeAs /u/baldhermit said, it all has to due with how many people are connecting to the service point for your neighborhood. If most people are at work/school during the day, you get access mostly unimpeded. Once the kids get home from school and hop on youtube and spotify, it starts to bog down, and the later hours when the neighborhood nerds start torrent downloads things can really go to hell in a hand basket if your node is already oversold and struggling.Well when you use it at night to watch porn you think you're alone. However everyone ese is also watching porn. All of that porn slows shit *down* which results in a buffering message right before the tentacle can finish going up Saber's body and out ofher mouth to slather her chest in tentacle juice. I used to have this exact problem, so I got more RAM for my router. It ended up curing cancer because everyone knows that more RAM is the answer to all problems.
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We attribute pollution to death tolls. Why can't we sue or press criminal charges against the united states government for being complicit in these deaths?
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> We attribute pollution to death tolls. First of all, you have that backwards. "To attribute A to B" means that B causes A, and I'm pretty sure you don't mean that death tolls cause pollution. Second, expecting the government to be responsible for deaths caused by pollution would be like expecting the government to be responsible for deaths caused by car accidents. The government isn't going to be able to just make driving cars illegal, because it would destroy the economy. Likewise, trying to make pollution totally illegal would destroy the economy, because some level of pollution is an unavoidable side effect of industry, and so the only way to make pollution illegal would be to make it illegal for manufature most products, or for most power plants to produce electricity. And third, you can't sue the government unless they *allow* you to sue them. This is called [sovereign immunity]According to the doctrine of [sovereign immunity], the US government cannot be sued, unless it consents to be sued.
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Why churches and banks almost always include the word "first" to their names.
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To establish that they are the first church or bank of that type in a given location. It indicates to people who want to use them they are an older, more established organizationThe "first" this is motivated by being the first in a region; eg, the "First Baptist Church of Hartford" is literally the first baptist church built in Hartford. There are, especially in bigger, younger cities, oftentimes multiple churches after that . The rationale is it's a simple name that communicates your position in the community, and then 100 years later people are like, "Whoa, that's the first baptist church in Hartford? What a fine, upstanding institution to have survived all these years." Banks are similar, but I don't know that I 've ever heard of a "Second Bank of Hartford" - if only because it implies followership. I would definitely want my bank to be the First Bank in a city, though. It would imply, again, a connection with the place that I think many customers would find appealing. _URL_0_
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The science behind two mirrors facing each other, and the amount of images or frames of reference of real life created?
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be careful bro you never know. you might like pull a Doom-esque scenerio, and accidentially open a portal to hell if you witness what is at the end of the endless mirror chain.
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How come Trix stopped making the shape cereal? why is it only circles???
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Well, young 'un, back in the day, *way* back in the day, in the dark ages before the 1990s, Trix *were* round. So, really, what they are now is what they should look like, not your hippity hop fruit shapes. Now get off my damn lawn, you punk kids, or I'll turn the hose on ya ag'in.
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Why can't we remember memories when we were a infant?
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our brains are still developing the ability to interpret and store information gathered from the sense, so the structures required to store long term memories don't exist yet.
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What does a president do in his free time?
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Many read or play golf. Some spend time with their families. GWB liked to go to his ranch in Texas. Many presidents are fairly intelligent individuals who enjoy any number of activities. The problem is that the job of president offers very little in terms of true free time and due to security doesn't usually allow much access to "regular forms of recreation" that a regular individual might enjoy .
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Why isn't dodgeball a popular professional sport?
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There was an NES video game in the 80s that was an international tournament. Of course Russia was one of the final bosses, cause cold war. It was amazing in the ways pro Dodge Ball could be. It would need sponsers, eventually. Start up some local tournaments. Heck, check for a subreddit. There was a paper,rock,scissors world championship. You might have to be the one to get the ball rolling OP.I don't see any reason except that it's not done yet. Anyone?", 'I have no idea, but if you could get the GOP to use it to determine their Presidential candidate it might catch on.
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Surely someone must know: How do blind people use those bird chirping noises to cross the street? How do they know it's not for the kitty-corner side of the street?
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Bob is walking north when he approaches an intersection that he knows has an auditory signal. He wants to continue north. He presses the button and listens for the next auditory signal. There is one particular sound that's used for north-south intersections and a different sound that's used for east-west intersections. When Bob hears the north-south signals, he continues his north-bound walk.
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How does the Leuxs hoverboard actually hover?
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The board itself is a superconductor, kept super-cold through liquid nitrogen. This causes it to magnetically repel ferric metals. Then they stick it on a steel platform so it repels the floor and hovers.
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Why is .3^.3 larger than .4^.4?
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The answer is **0.367879441171442321595523770161460867445811131031767834507** Disclaimer: IANAM Why is an interesting question to answer! I'm assuming you want an intuitive answer as the mathematics is self-evident. I'll try to do this without using [logarithms], though that's probably a mathematicians preferred way of reasoning around exponents. We're talking about x^x between 0 and 1, we can think of the exponent x as a fraction 1/z. So x^ where x=0 to 1, z starts very large and ends at 1 . Why do we want to do this? because remember that x^1/z is the same as taking the z-th root: ^z √x Let's start with x=0.5, which means z=1/2. So ^2 √0.5, Square root! There's something we're familiar with, **we need the number multiplied 2 times** to create 0.5: which is ~0.707. As x goes down from 0.5 to 0, we are taking **higher** roots. So the cube root **we need the number multiplied 3 times** to get 0.333333 : which is ~0.693 We can intuit that we need smaller inputs to get smaller outputs from 0.5 to 0.3, but *why does this number go back up as x gets to 0?* The way I think about this, as we approach 0, we're taking a very high root, **so we the number multiplied many times**. So even if we only need an output of 0.1, **we need the number multiplied 10 times with itself**, which is ~0.794 Why the bottom of this function ends up at the ~0.3678? I don't know if there is a **why** answer, that's why it's a constant! [Euler's number/constant]! Let's look at a [fun graph from Wolfram|Alpha] . As we can see the minimum is at 1/e
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Why are dreams so crazy & random?
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While you are awake, your brain constructs an understanding of what's going on around you with continuous correction and revision based on information from your senses. While you are asleep, your brain constructs an understanding of what's going on around you with almost no correction or revision based on your senses, and so it goes strange.
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Why does vanilla extract taste amazing when paired with some foods , but tastes horrible alone?
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Pure vanilla extract is made from soaking vanilla beans in vodka or other strong clear alcohol, which is why it doesn't taste as good without any sweet flavoring to go with it.
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