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; How do ghostwriters get reputation? How do they prove their ownership on works when getting employed? | they build their reputation through networking, it isn’t uncommon for artists/labels to pass around a GW. also — they prove ownership through credits. if it’s a commercial project, it’s illegal to withhold the credit of the GW. |
What would happen if the whole world switched to one universal currency? | The issue is someone has to be in charge of monetary policy. Someone has to set interest rates and decide when to print more money. The monetary policy that benefits a country in recession is different than one in a growth period. What is good for an oil exporter might not be good for a manufacturing country. Every cou... |
What do astrophysicists understand with certainty? | Basically the only thing astrophysicists know for sure is the stuff they can directly observe and the stuff they can prove with observations or calculations. For example we know for sure the universe is expanding because we can actually see everything moving away from us. What we don't know is exactly how, because we c... |
Why does the software I download always try and change my browser preferences to Yahoo? | Capitalism. Yahoo pays that software installer company money to add "_URL_0_ Homepage" as an installer feature. Yes, we all know you don't really need it. But for little companies who are likely to not make a dollar off you downloading their Freeware, it's a way for them to make a few bucks on the side. |
What would happen if you wore metal jewelry while lying down in an MRI? | The machine is a superconducting magnet of 3-ish Tesla strength, 30,000 Gauss. The Earth's magnetic field is 0.5 Gauss. The machine can accelerate a paperclip at 3-4 Gs, fast enough to injure you. They have pulled belly-button ornaments out of young lady's bodies. Depending on the metal, this could be very bad. Not dec... |
How can mass change in the Mass Energy Equivalence in regards to the Universe? | I think the problem here comes from lack of specificity in quoting Einstein's mass-energy equivalence. The equation that you have quoted tells us the REST energy, E, of a particle. I.e. The energy the particle has purely due to the fact it is matter, E = mc^2 , where m is the rest mass - not just 'mass\'. Now \'at rest... |
Why do we see fruits growing in the wild but never any vegetables? | You probably do, but you don't recognise them. Vegetables look like they do because they have been bred to have large edible parts and their wild equivalents look just like random weeds. [Comparison of a crop carrot and a wild carrot] [Wild cabbage] Meanwhile fruits evolved naturally to entice animals to eat them and s... |
What happens when an Uber Driver gets T-Boned and the passenger dies? | Exactly the same as any other circumstances. The person who caused the collision will hopefully have insurance which would offer some form of compensation to the family. If that person doesn't have insurance, then the Uber driver's insurance will offer compensation. And if the Uber driver doesn't have insurance, which ... |
Has there ever been a person that has flown over Area 51 and got shot down? | There aren't any credible reports of it ever happening. Aircraft intruding into restricted airspace will be denied entry by controllers, and if they persist will be escorted down by military aircraft and the pilot arrested. The military is, for obvious reasons, pretty hesitant to actually shoot down civilian aircraft. |
How do they install plumbing, internet and electricity in old structures and homes that are centuries or millennia old? | I can only speak for plumbing on this issue. First, the contractor or plumber will go to the DPW and request a permit for the job. Next, you need to have your plan in order. A big job requires detailed plans including being up to code. This is the big problem with old houses. It can require lots of renovation to bring ... |
the differences between Chairman, Secretary General, President and CEO. | The Chairman is the head of the board of directors. The Board of directors generally doesn't run operations at a company but makes really big, long term decisions, such as choosing the executives that do run the company. The Chairman generally doesn't have any more power per se than any other voting member of the board... |
Why do lights for your bicycle have an option to flash/blink? | A Flashing light will get more notice than a solid on one, which is exactly the point of a light on your bike. |
What is a multireddit exactly? | I don't have Gold but let me explain what I understand from what I read from Admin announcement of this feature. You have one front page and you see hot posts from all sub-reddits that you have subscribed to . With multi-reddit, you create a custom page with a group of similar sub-reddits. For e.g. you can club /r/fitn... |
What causes my hands to stick to ice when they are wet? | The ice is causing the water on your hands to start freezing. You're actually being frozen to the ice when you touch ice with wet hands. |
How can Kim Davis establish a defense fund when the Liberty Counsel is supplying her defense pro bono? What will happen to the 3+ million if it is not used? | She'll keep it and be "rich" thanks to these mindless mofos that sunk $$$ into it. Maybe we make a o_shrub sspacemansspiff defense fund?? |
Why are gas cans so expensive? | Long story short, it seems to be caused by different types of plastic being used due to government regulations. _URL_0_ _URL_1_', "A few years ago I unexpectedly ran out of gas I had to walk about a mile and a half to the nearest station for gas and a gas can .at that point I didn't care how much the can costs because ... |
Why do we intentionally seek out depressing music when we are sad? | Misery loves company. When you're hurting, it helps to know that other people have gone through the same thing and know how you feel. Probably the person who wrote the music was sad or depressed when they wrote it and getting it out helped them feel better. Maybe listening to the music they produced has the same cathar... |
If humans are natural predators, why don't most possess a natural desire to hunt? And why do some feel remorse after taking an animals life? | Predators don't hunt because they can. They hunt because they must. Feed a lion every day and it won't go hunting just for the sake of it. |
what specifically happens to your eyes when you stare at a light, or the sun for a long period of time? | The way you detect light is that the photon comes in and is absorbed by a pigment, this breaks part of the pigment down in order for it to send an electrical signal back through the optic nerve to the brain. If you stare at an intense source of light like the sun, then the pigment and the complex arrangement that lets ... |
How do radios that tell you what song is on the radio work? | There's a data channel that the station uses to send that info as well as the call letters of the station and whatever else they feel like broadcasting. If your radio is equipped to decode and display it, it pops up. _URL_0_ |
What is really happening when I "jump" a dead car battery? | The reason you are not supposed to attach the black connection to a ground* is that batteries sometimes leak hydrogren gas, which is highly flammable, and the last connection usually causes a spark as the circuit is formed. Spark + hydrogen gas = bad. A ground is simply any piece of unpainted, uncovered metal that is p... |
If I got a head transplant and my immune system was not cool with it, would my immune system reject my head or my body? | The body would reject the head. Immune cells are produced in the bone marrow, and would match the previous owner's immune phenotype. These cells would attack the cells in the new head, which would be perceived as foreign.Can you get a head transplant, or would it be a body transplant?', "Your head. The bulk of you're i... |
How the stock market affects someone who has no money in it | Stock market is allocation of resources. People with money give their money to companies making money in return for ownership. When stock market is up that means people with money believe a lot of companies are making money. When a lot of companies are making money that mean they will need to expend, hiring more people... |
why is a 4k or ultrawide monitor considerably more expensive than a much larger 4k tv? | Monitors have low input lag. This is why you should always buy a monitor if you're a competitive gamer and play games where lag matters. A tv typically has 100ms-300ms of input lag , while computer monitors typically have under 50ms of input lag . |
Why do seemingly all of the pigeons I see have a foot injury of some sort? | It's usually from those spikes that people put on things to stop birds from pooping everywhere, pigeons are pretty heavy and stupid, and there are a lot of them, so in urban areas you often see them with foot injuries from trying to land on the spikes. |
Why is silicon used in computers? | Silicon prevailed because it has superior physical and technological properties compared to the other semiconductor materials.-Silicon is abundant in the earth crest as an ore in the form of quartizite,-There are effective extraction and purification methods of silicon from its raw material.- there are effective and ec... |
Why do doctors not amputate the paralyzed limbs of paraplegics? | I would think this mostly is the patients choice. I don't think I would like to chop off my legs even if they were useless. One tends to get a little *attached* to them over the years (: |
Why do companies like Intel and Lockheed Martin advertise on tv? | Its a mix of getting the attention of those few people that may actually be interested in buying their products, as well as advertising to those who would consider working for their companies There is a business strategy called "first in market advertising." It's been a while since my MBA, but the concept is to keep th... |
The difference between RAM, ROM, and System memory. | Hello, five year old. Ok, so you're drawing a picture on your desk when you decide that you want to go pet your dog. You come back and continue drawing your picture. So, the next day you decide to keep working on your picture, when mom comes in and says she wants to take you to the playground. You put your picture away... |
How do snails get their shells without being near the ocean? | Shells don't simply come from the sea, they're grown by secreting their material. Snails grow their own shells. |
The UEFA Champions League... The format, structure, and anything else I need to know. | I'll try this one.Champions League brings the top teams from around Europe together.Depending on the UEFA co-efficient [here] decides how many places in the competition a country gets. For example, England gets 4 places in the Champions League. But somewhere like Hungary gets less. In England the top 3 teams get automa... |
Why do we put apostrophes on possessive words like something's thing but we don't put one on "its thing"? | He - > his She - > hers They - > theirs It - > its "Its" is a possessive pronoun, and follows the rules of other possessive pronouns. You only use apostrophe S with nouns and proper nouns, not pronouns. With the others it's obvious because they are so different . It just so happens that "it" doesn't change as it moves ... |
Why university fees trebled in the UK last year | University fees have been increasing gradually from when they were first introduced in 1998 at £1000/year. However, in 2009/2010, there was a [review] on the subject of higher education. The review was agreed when Labour objected to the previous round of increases in university fees, and the Tories said they would star... |
Why are there seat belt laws? | If you get into an accident and are paralyzed for life, how much will society have to contribute to your health, housing, food, rehabilitation for the rest of your life? Insurance won't pay for it all. |
How does lactic acid form and just disappear? Also how does it not harm any parts of our body? | Lactic acid is produced in your muscles as a byproduct of prolonged anaerobic exercise. The amounts produced are typically so small it can easily be removed through the bloodstream and processed in the kidneys, and do not present any danger. Certain disorders can cause lactic acid to build up faster than the body can r... |
Why do married couples, civil unions, etcetera get benefits that legally separate couples don't get? | Because the government needs some way to determine who gets those benefits and who doesn't. Civil marriage is a legal status change, analogous in some ways to legally adopting a child; it creates a legally-recognized family bond that otherwise does not exist. |
What creates that odd "burnt electronics"-smell? | Depends on exactly what you mean. The characteristic smell of an electric motor is ozone gas. It's produced by the motor making tiny sparks. The smell produced by failing electronics comes from burning plastic. new radio smells close to the smell? Right out of the box that is probably some plastic off gassing in the bo... |
If dealers sell a new car below invoice price, how are they making money? | There are a few reasons that dealers can sell cars below invoice and still make money. * They usually get additional money from the manufacturer when they sell the car. It can vary, but is usually around 3% of MSRP. So for a $30,000 car, that's an extra $900. * There may be additional incentives that the manufacturer i... |
Why do we feel so exhausted after a long flight even though we basically did nothing. | Our muscles are tired of sitting in one place, with no ability to stretch or move comfortably, for a very long period of time.Our bodies like to move! They like to lift things and stretch and sprawl out. Confining us to tight constrictions with little to do and less room to do it in is a recipe for soreness and exhaust... |
What really happens when parts of our body "falls asleep" ? | Many people seem to think it stems from a loss of bloodflow which simply isn't true. When a part of your body "falls asleep" it is typically from a nerve being compressed for a period of time such as sitting on your foot or laying down on your arm in a strange fashion. Think of your nerve as a highway, one half of the ... |
What is a spartan lifestyle? | In modern usage, it refers to minimalist accommodations with little to no luxuries. Who needs a king-sized bed? This cot is good enough for me. Who needs to hire a profession chef for all their meals? Oatmeal and boiled greens will keep you healthy. That sort of thing. Note: I am not trying to give dietary or chiroprac... |
Why do so many abandoned building photos feature mental hospitals? Why are there so many of these? | We used to have a bunch of mental institutions - partially because we thought that locking up crazy people was the best way to help them, partially because we just didn't know how else to take care of them. Back in the 80s, the government cut funding for them. Unfortunately, we just ended up putting many of these peopl... |
Why are there so many celebrities involved in the Church of Scientology? | Basically, Scientology tells you that being wealthy and famous is GOOD, in fact, it shows your spiritual development. Basically, it's a religion that fits most celebrities.CoS has a policy of specifically recruiting celebs in order to make it appear to be a more legitimate organisation. People who follow celebs tend to... |
Why does your nose seem to get used to smells? | Humans are meant to detect change. If you were noticing the scent of everything in the area, you would struggle to differentiate what is there and what individual things smell like. It is much more evolutionary prudent to be able to smell something new, like an animal approaching, than to smell everything all the time.... |
how can potting soil protect against both over and underwatering? | Potting soil will have nodules in the soil that're made out of vermiculite, pumice stone or some sort of polymer. When you overwater, they absorb more water than the surrounding soil and thus preventing over-watering. Then as the moisture gets absorbed by roots or evaporates, the water slowly releases out of the nodule... |
What excactly is autotune and how does it work? | Auto-Tune users set a reference point – a scale or specific notes, for example – and a rate at which derivations from this point will be digitally corrected. This rate can be carefully calibrated so a voice sounds "natural," by tacking the voice smoothly back to the reference pitch. Or, artists can make the correction ... |
Why is wearing a watch on the right hand considered religious? | I have never heard of this before, I've only heard that men were to wear a watch on the left hand and women on the right.It's really not a religious thing so much as a cultural thing. In Arab countries, the left hand is considered to be "unclean", because it's the one that you wash yourself with after you use the toile... |
Why does extremely short contact with a hot object burn your skin? | Think of your skin as a force-field on a space ship. It can take hits from lasers and missiles and mitigate them pretty well. When a huge torpedo hits the shield , it damages it to the extent that it needs time to repair. . The shield is split up into layers and compartments . When one layer is damaged, another layer m... |
What is Oracle's lawsuit against Google claiming is copyrightable about the Java API? | Copyright does not protect function of a source code. Basically, if you write an algorithm to carry out task A, you can copyright it. However, that only prevents people from copying your code verbatim. If I write a code that runs the same algorithm, I do not infringe your copyright. In the case, Google copied a bunch o... |
How does nature ensure that humans are born at a (roughly) 50/50 balance between male and female? | This is due to the fact that it takes two parents, one male and one female, and explained by Fisher's Sex Ratio Theory, also called Fisher's Principle. Consider 3 generations. 1st generation has individuals which make more females than males. So the 2nd generation has lots of females, and few males. The second generati... |
How does smoking during pregnancy cause birth defects? | When a person smokes, the nasty chemicals in the cigarettes and cigars enter their lungs along with all the oxygen you breath in. Their lungs takes the nasty chemicals into their blood stream. For an adult, this isn't that big of a deal immediately as the nasty stuff is filtered out by your kidneys. However, the develo... |
How do we feel a weightlessness in there bottom of our stomach when we see videos of people falling even though we don't experience any of it physically? | This is due to a sympathetic nervous response, also known as a "fight or flight" response. Sympathetic in this case doesn't mean a response that's sympathetic to the thing you are watching. Sympathetic is the name of a branch of the nervous system responsible for responding to stress. When a caveman needed to fight som... |
How come some artwork seems to be extremely simple, yet is highly touted? | If a complex work of art invokes emotion or thoughtfulness in you it is a testament to the artists abilities and passion. If a simple work of art does the same thing, it shows that the artist is capable of making a statement in a much more subtle way. In some ways it can be more complicated to create a single line that... |
What is Blue Light and How does it affect our eyes? | Blue light is just light with a wavelength that makes it appear blue. They way our bodies work out time is partle based on light, during daytime there is a lot more light especially blue light than at night. This means looking at blue light at night can make it harder to get to sleep. |
In regards tothe Deep Web, what is the sort of content that requires you to go through additional security layers? | The really nasty porn. I know, you're like "I 've seen the nastiest shit you'll ever even imagine". No you haven't. Deep. Web. |
How are elephants able to swim? | Elephants do not have stubby extremities, they have pretty long legs and their joint aren't inflexible. An aligator has stubby extremities and inflexible joints. Elephants for one are fat, they're large and fat and round. They actually float pretty well, same kind of design old fashion ships used to have. Their legs ju... |
Could you rig a game of darts if you had a large enough magnet, or would a magnet that strong be too big to pull to the bulls-eye? | It's virtually impossible. Dart tips are small, and you'd need a large neodymium to even have the proper range to attract a magnet far enough away to change it's path. Too close to the board, and the angle would be too sharp to stick in the board. If you somehow got an amazingly strong magnet the size of the bulls-eye,... |
What I can do to speed up my pc. | There are probably a lot of programs installed and running on your computer that you don't use. These use up resources. If you were five, you can think of it like bringing your toys in the sandbox. The things you need, like a shovel, pale, trucks, maybe a dinosaur or two are like antivirus and other programs you use ev... |
How do (would) radio communications in real time work in space and / or at high speeds. | Radio waves move at the speed of light. Which is far faster then sound.Radiowaves travel at the speed of light. > I can't get how real-time radio chat is possible in, for example, a space vehicle or plane exceeding the speed of sound. The speed of sound is tiny compared to the speed of light . > How did communications ... |
Why aren't sites like Kayak and Priceline cheaper than the original airliner's prices anymore? What's their point then? | Airlines and travel agents used to rely on people not having direct access to fare information. They can't do that anymore, so their fares are usually going to match third party sites. Kayak and sites like it are still useful, because it presents fairs from multiple airlines, and it has a better interface for comparing... |
Why do cats knock things over? | Cats are trying to 'interact' or play with everything. stuff we own tend to be on heights , so they fall down as soon as cats touch them. There are only a few things on the floor the cats can play with, so they've gotten bored. When the cats knock over things, we go to them running and screaming. They like that attenti... |
Is their a psychological or neurological explanation for why fun times seem shorter to time spent doing things you don't want to do? | In my experience, It isn't actually about the activity being fun or not. Its just about whether you bother to take a look at the time that you have spent while doing the activity. For example, while doing a fun activity, we tend to not look at the time too often as we are too involved. On the other hand, when we are do... |
What exactly are "Chemtrails" and on what grounds are the conspiracies based on? | Nobody has responded to the question regarding 'what grounds are the conspiracies based on'. The answer is: general stupidity and lack of education. |
As a girl who loses TONS of hair in the shower and in brushes, how am I not bald?! | You lose around 100 hairs a day naturally, and of course you start growing around 100 hairs a day. If your hair is long, the hair that falls out naturally probably just gets held in by your other hair until you shower or brush it out, so if you don't shower or brush your hair for a day or two, when you finally do it wi... |
What is the difference between limited liability and unlimited liability in business? | Limited liability means if the company ends up owing an assload of money it can't pay, either because they company had bad luck, was mismanaged, or got sued, or whatever, the owners of the company can't be on the hook for personally paying out more than their share of the value of the company. If it's non limited, the ... |
Why are MRI's so huge? why didn't they get smaller in size like computers did?. | MRI's require a strong magnetic field around your body. Making a strong magnetic field requires a large magnet. In some cases, the technology has gotten better and there are "open MRI" machines where what can be made smaller has been, and you no longer travel through a tunnel to get scanned. At the very least though th... |
What happened in Iran since the 70's that caused radical Islam to take control.? | In the 50s, the CIA infiltrated Iran, collapsed their government, and installed the Shah, who instituted some education reforms, but also was a brutal dictator. This isn't a wild conspiracy theory, this is something that our government actually did. Eventually, the Shah made his subjects so angry that a student revolt ... |
Why aren't subscription services like your ISP, Netflix, Xbox Live, etc. required to reimburse you for downtime? | it's in their terms of service that service isn't guaranteed 100%. you don't have a SLA with them.Because in the contract you agreed to, it was never mentioned that they are required to have a 100% uptime.When I have had significant downtime from my ISP, they have credited me for the downtime. All I had to do was call ... |
Why are graves dug 6' deep? | it is the approximate depth that prevents wildlife from digging it up. both as a matter of moving 6 feet of earth and because the gasses from the body will not filter up quickly enough to be detected by scavengers. it's also the approximate height of a human being. a digger could easily assess his depth and also get ou... |
What happens to a prisoner's possessions when they're serving their sentence? | US Answer: Your property is still yours; you just can't physically be by its side. However, you can still give someone power of attorney so they can manage your affairs, and you can hire a lawyer and sue in court. Aside from your physical presence, your legal standing remains the same. The exceptions are 1) the propert... |
How do antidepressants like Celexa prevent orgasm? | I don't remember the exact details now but we actually discussed this in my behavioral neuroscience class. Hopefully the details are enough, but do note this is a very simplistic account of what exactly is happening. Essentially, we 've found out that SSRI's affect more than just serotonin, they also affect dopamine le... |
Why the U.S. government decided to throw Osama Bin Laden's body into the ocean | They didn't want to bury him on land and create a "shrine" for radicalists. Not many nations would have even been willing to accept the remainsTechnically it's a "burial at sea," and it was done in accordance with Muslim law. They didn't want to keep his body and put it on display somewhere since that would only make b... |
What is the G8 and why could Russia be excluded from it? | The G7 was created as a way for the finance ministers or equivalent from the top seven most industrialized and advanced countries to workshop and settle outstanding issues in economic policy. The G8 was created purely because it was felt that Russia should have a seat at the table, since it was still a military superpo... |
How do we have the technology to see nebulae and other features in our galaxy with some degree of clarity, but not enough to get a clear picture of Pluto? | * most galaxies are brighter* most galaxies are bigger* galaxies don't move, so you can take very long exposures Pluto rotates, so things get smeary after a few hours", 'The average nebula is 100 light years across. Pluto is around 1161 km across.Pluto is really tiny, but nebulae are gigantic. Trying to get a clear pic... |
How come some products made with dairy products (like milk in cookies) don't go bad like dairy products do? | The majority of cookie recipes do not contain milk. But cakes do, and cakes do not need to be refrigerated. The baking along with the sugar are enough to preserve it for a few days without refrigeration provided you're storing it properly.We cook cookies. This is far different than just having milk out and exposed to b... |
How come I can take control of my breathing just by thinking about it but can't do the same with my heartbeat or body temperature? | You can consciously control your heart rate to some extent. As for temperature, it's not a single muscle or process, it's the sum of all your cell's metabolism", 'You can control your heartbeat with a process of biofeedback.It's based on the type of nerves innervating the tissue. The diaphragm is skeletal, so it is und... |
How is it physically possible to get all the bowling pins except the center one? | The 5 pin is a common leave because, usually, the 1,2,3,4 5 8 pins are meant to be taken out by the ball. When the ball hits the pocket it can deflect because the pins are heavy. It diverts the ball to one side or the other, and the pins that did get hit take out everything else. Tl;dr - if you leave the 5, it means yo... |
Is being in possession of a hard drive full of torrented media illegal? | Technically no. Distributing it, removing copy protection on it, and downloading it, or anything like that is though. Giving the drive to someone else is illegal, and the ways to fill it are illegal, someone giving it to you is illegal, but actually having it isn't. |
Why do humans laugh? and why does it sound like it does? | If I remember correctly then laughing is meant as a way of signaling others that you're okay with what is happening and aren't getting hurt. Like a baby getting tickled or being playfully chased. This also happens with animals that playfully chase each other. So if you feel schadenfreude it's more about signaling that ... |
Super PACs, Citizens United, etc. | Under federal election law, only certain people are allowed to contribute to campaigns. [Here's a neat table that explains who can give what to whom.] Corporations, foreign nationals, and a few other categories are not allowed to contribute directly to campaigns. What they are allowed to do is create organizations that... |
Is the research definitive? Does cannabis abuse cause emphysema? Where is this decisive research located? | Chronic smoke inhalation can lead to respiratory problems. We didn't evolve to breathe smoke. Cannabis isn't an exception.Here is a review of many different research papers _URL_0_ It appears that emphysema itself has only a small risk increase by smoking cannabis however it has a cumulative effect if smoked with tobac... |
Why is it legal for organizations like the MPAA to exist? Isn't that collusion? | Businesses are allowed to work together, as long as it's not about defrauding consumers, price fixing & stuff like that. There's nothing wrong with forming a trade association to promote their collective interests, allow standards to form and stuff that isn't anticompetitive. The MPAA was formed to help the studios agr... |
Why do suits have a bottom button which you are never supposed to button up? | It is tradition attributed to King Edward VII, who was too fat to button the bottom button. In order to not out-do or offend the kind, people in power started to do the same. Eventually it just became a thing that all people are expected to doAround 1900 in Great Britain, King Edward VII always left the bottom button u... |
What happens when someone who's taking antibiotics drinks alcohol and why is it a bad thing? | It's not. This is just a scare story that doctors used to tell servicemen who they were treating for gonorrhoea, in order to prevent them drinking and whoring until they were cured, thereby slowing the spread of the disease. It's one of those ideas that have been repeated so much that they've stuck. |
How do they take the caffeine out of tea and coffee to make decaffeinated versions? | Most caffeine free teas are already caffeine free. Herbal teas are usually free from caffeine . Black teas usually have caffeine. Coffee on the other hand goes through a chemical treatment process called "decaffeinating" . Usually a solvent is used on a whole bean that leaves the rest of the makeup in tact but leeches ... |
What's the difference between intolerant and allergy. Why can't it be peanut intolerant or lactose allergy? | Allergy is when your immune system is the issue, intolerance is when it's some other body issue like incorrect digestion or wrong chemical pathway. A milk allergy would be your immune system attacking milk like it was an intruder. lactose intolerance is your body being unable to digest milk sugar well and the issues of... |
- Would meat rot in space? | Some bacteria are anaerobic, i.e. they do not need oxygen to survive. So those would continue to cause the meat to rot in space, yes. However it would be much slower, as all the organisms that need oxygen to live like aerobic bacteria or yeast would not be capable of lifeHow big is the meat comet? Does it have an atmos... |
What is that sensation you get in the jaw/mouth when you have not eaten anything is a while and why does it happen ? | As soon as you think of food or begin the process of eating something, the body goes into 'digestive mode' and begins the secretion of saliva, gastric juices and other digestive juices. There are 3 major pairs of salivary glands in the mouth. The parotid, submandibular and the sublingual glands. Saliva contains digesti... |
Why does your brain not mute chronic pain? | Pain serves a purpose, it exists to limit further damage, and anything which 'removes pain\' is a very risky proposition. If you're ignorant of damage, you may continue to damage yourself, and that can be anything from inconvenient to deadly. Evolution itself isn't really perfect or anything, it doesn't have a good way... |
What are "whale trades" that JP Morgan did in London and lost $$$? | JP Morgan had a trader in London, Bruno Iskil, that was known for making extremely large bets on the stock market using very complex ways of making trades. Bets so complicated even his bosses had no idea what he was doing. The trades themselves involved something called credit default swaps, which are bets that a compa... |
How do Majors and Minors in US colleges work? | You take individual courses, such as intro to computer science and so on, each major and minor will have requirements so if there is some overlap or you can cope with the course load you can double major. The major is the focus of the studies, a minor is a semi-focus, not as much as a major but not just a regular cours... |
Why aren't "Ask..X" Subreddits more famous than the outdated Yahoo answers? | Have you seen the answers on those Yahoo forums? My god it's some of the worst misinformation I've ever seen.Because [these] have a much greater entertainment value. |
Mechanically what is the difference between a fixed- gear & single-speed bike? | I write as a rider of "both." Technically, a "fixed gear/fixie" is a single-speed, but slang and marketing has created the distinction you make. I will explain this distinction. Fixed gear bikes, which are raced in velodromes and ridden on the road , do not have a free wheel mechanism in the hub of the rear wheel. This... |
The Holographic Principle and String Theory | I'll link you to a similar concept, and before everyone jumps all over my shit for this I will make the disclaimer that I am NOT an expert BUT, this is a pretty good explanation of dimensional projections in a general sense of the word and may help OP with tackling the abstractness of string theory and the newest simul... |
The difference between Holland, the Netherlands, Dutch people, etc. | Holland is north and south Holland within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, whose people and language are Dutch. |
The Mexican - American War and what was the role of Texas | The short version: Texas breaks away from Mexico. Mexico isn't happy but got its butt kicked in a lot of big battles. Texas joins America. Texas, as a state has a disputed boarder with Mexico. Neither America, nor Texas, nor Mexico can agree where the boarder is. Some small fighting happens around the boarder, mostly l... |
What technology is behind HDR TVs? | Copy/paste from my comment over at /r/hometheater: There are 3 main things HDR adds to regular collection content: 1. **Wide Color Gamut**. A color gamut defines the max saturation a color can have, a wider color gamut means more saturated colors can now be captured and reproduced . The standard for all non-HDR digital... |
What happened to Maverick and Goose's F-14 that caused it to go into a spin and lose control in Top Gun? Is it plausible? | When Iceman pulls away to let Maverick take the shot, the jet wash from the engine disrupted the airflow into one of the engines of Maverick's jet. Because of this the engine had a burnout, meaning that it stopped working. Because of this, the plane was not getting an equal amount of thrust. This caused one side of the... |
What is happening when I accidentally crash an app or a program simply by clicking on the screen or clicking the mouse button when the software is loading? | Not really 'stress', more likely you caused a sequence of events to occur which the programmer never thought of and never planned for. Here's a possible scenario : Since the programmer knows how they expect the program to work, they might wait patiently for all the loading and setup to occur every time they test it. Cl... |
Why are the bonus features disappearing from DVDs? | Cost cutting and probably user feedback. In an age where people are happy to pay for a stream / rent a stream and you just get the film for a set period, studios realise that the effort in producing such content isn't cost effective and isn't really demanded. Plus they've got to pay people to produce the additional con... |
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