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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 country is going to want to set the policy to its own benefit, and that is not possible with a single currency. That's what is happening with the euro right now. Germany has a strong economy, while Greece is in shambles. The monetary policy that helps one country will hurt the other.
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 can't see what is physically pushing things away. By all means gravity should be pulling things together and things should be moving the other way. But the observations say that everything is moving away so we know for sure that SOMETHING is pushing everything away from us.
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 decapitate you bad, but get so hot it left a burn bad. No sane technician would allow such a thing, they would get in tons of trouble.
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\' on its own doesn't really mean anything, the particle must be \'at rest\' relative to something There is no absolute reference frame.The complete equation is E^2 = ^2 + ^2 , where p is the momentum of the particle and here E is the TOTAL energy of the particle. So I think you were getting confused because there are subtleties in the equation that you have quoted that by definition remove the issue you are having. However, I am still not sure quite what you mean when you say "Where E must be constant as a result of the Conservation of Energy ", we say energy is conserved in the universe overall - with some uncertainty as shown by Heisenberg - but observationally, energy is only conserved when we measure from an unchanging reference frame. Now if we follow Einstein through from his theory of Special relativity, to his theory of General Relativity, whether or not we define energy as \'conserved\' depends on our definitions of both \'energy\' and \'conservation\'. This [I think] is because if we have a \'non-Special\' case then we must call take into account of curved space-time and gravitational waves.As just a lowly 1st year undergrad I am not in the slightest qualified to go into further detail EDIT: Formatting and grammar.
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 spread their seeds, so they look tasty and edible even in the wild.
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 I suspect would be against their terms and conditions but I don't know for sure , the family might choose to bring a legal case against whomever they felt was at fault.If the accident was their fault they will be held accountable for the death, generally being found guilty of negligent homicide or vehicular manslaughter. If they other person is responsible then they are the ones responsible, and if it is a true accident no one is responsible. The relatives could also sue the driver, and/or Uber as a whole for wrongful death. They may or may not win the lawsuit.
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 old buildings up to code. After you have your plans set up, someone from the DPW will meet you at the property and review the building and your plans. If approved, you do it. Basically, plumbing needs to be the same in any building, new or old. This requires tapping into the main water line, running pipe, branching it off to various rooms and fixtures, installing toilets, fixtures, etc. When you're finished, you get another inspection. The big difference between new and old plumbing is the lead issue. The word 'plumbing' comes from the Latin word for 'lead'. I forgot what the Latin word is Anyway, current plumbing codes require no lead whatsoever. Old plumbing had lead in the pipes, the solder, and the fixtures. No good.
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, except the power to run board meetings. The Chief Executive Officer is the senior ranking person in an organization, answering only to board. He makes all the decissions of running the company in real time. The CEO may also be the president and the terms may be interchangeable depending on the business. However, if both terms are used in a company it is likely because the organization has multiple subsidiaries doing different things. In this case the CEO is in charge of the entire umbrella organization and a president runs each individual subsidiary answering to the CEO. Secretary General is a term basically meaning the same thing as a CEO but is favored by multinational, non-profit, and political organizations.
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/fitness, /r/running and /r/cycling under a custom title Fitness. Or club /r/jokes, /r/meanjokes and /r/antijokes under Jokes. I recall there are some predefined multireddits already available. Side note: Non Gold members can mimic this feature by using + operator e.g. /r/wallpaper+wallpapers. They can bookmark it and manage them as separate bookmarks while with multireddit, these can be managed within reddit itself. Feel free to correct me if something mentioned here is wrong.
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 I was desperate for one. I feel like most people aren't going to go store to store shopping for a can because they are in need of one right now, thus making the buyer less price sensitive.
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 cathartic effect on people who listen to it.
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 you see gets bombarded by photons, destroying all the pigment and so can't repair the damage, then you're blind.
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 part of the car and attached to the chassis. It could be part of the engine block, a bolt somewhere, etc. Attaching to somewhere other than the battery keeps sparks away from the battery.You're using the other car's battery to provide the energy needed to start your car. If your alternator works, then you can let your car charge the battery up again as normal, and it should take a half to three quarters of an hour or so of normal driving . If your battery died because the alternator died and so is not charging your battery anymore then you'll find the car won't start the time after that. There could be other reasons too, but at this point you ask a friend with a multimeter to check the voltage across the battery with your engine running. It should be 14 volts with the engine running, 12 without. I don't know why you would need to clamp to a ground - the ground is connected to the negative terminal on the battery, so you shouldn't be getting much of a difference between the two.
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 immune infrastructure is not in your head.
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, buy more equipment, rent more spaces. When they hire more people that means they will need to pay higher wages.The stock market affects almost everyone because: - its behavior affects bond market prices, which affect how much you pay for a mortgage or how difficult it is for you to get a loan and the interest you pay on that loan - companies with growing stock prices can more easily attract financing or use equity financing, making it easier for them to hire and expand. Companies with falling stocks often slash jobs to try to become more profitable - even if you don't own stocks, if you or one of your family members has a pension plan, that pension is partially invested in stocks, meaning its solvency may depend on stocks. This includes public pensions which we taxpayers are responsible for - stock returns create investment taxes which increase government receipts and decrease debt & deficits, allowing for more social programs
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 economical crystallization methods for silicon.-Silicon crystallizes in a diamond form with relatively strong bond gaining the crystals relatively strong mechanical properties which is advantageous for mechanical handling and processing.-The energy gap of silicon is moderate resulting in a an intrinsic concentration of about one 10^10/cm^3. Which is relatively low leading to small leakage currents.-The maximum solid solubility of dopants is about 10^21/cm3. Therefore one can change the carrier type and concentration in a very large range for optimum operation of the devices.- Easy doping by the suitable impurities . Development of powerful doping technologies-Silicon dioxide has very superior characteristics enabled the planar technology one of the marking stone in semiconductor industry.-Silicon dioxide is a building layer in the MOS devices which revolutionized the integrated circuits especially the digital ones.-Silicon dioxide is used also as an insulator and passivation layer.-Silicon has efficient response to solar radiation and light.-Silicon has relatively high dielectric strength and therefore is suitable for power devices.
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 the momentum and lead over your rivals. I think the spirit of OP's question is, "If they are so dominant, why bother?" The strategy is to spend just enough money to convince the market that you are indeed the shop to beat. A consequence of this strategy as stated by /u/AgeGuess is business-to-business sales, where the very selective market are key decision leaders who might be interested in a very large purchase of your product. /u/CatRelatedUsername reminded me of a secondary consequence, which is actually an ancillary human resources benefit. By advertising your dominance in the field, you drum up excitement for new talent to replenish the roles or drive growthThey are advertising to other companies. The decision makers of those companies watch TV and the ads are targeted to them.
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 in the cupboard so your dog doesn't eat it and head off. The picture you're drawing is memory. RAM is basically the desk you're drawing your picture on, you can quickly get it at any time as long as you already had it out. But when you go out to the playground, you put your picture in the cupboard - ROM. You can go and grab it at any time but it takes a little longer because you've got to take time to go and get it.RAM is like a computer's short term memory. A computer will store certain things within the RAM and uses it to access this data very quickly. ROM stands for Read Only Memory and this is used for certain data that is not usually meant to be changed. This type of data is generally only meant to be read . An example will be your BIOS or any type of firmware. Your hard drive is the "system memory" that i think you are referring to. Edit: I can't spell.
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 automatically put through to the group stage, with the 4th having to go through qualifiers. Co-efficients is also relevant to whether a team has to go through qualifying. Once the qualifying has been done, the winning teams, and the teams already put through get seeded between 1 and 4 in relation to how good they are. I.e Man Utd would be seeded 1, someone like Anderlecht would be 4. Groups are drawn, there can't be 2 of 1 nation in a group, so Barcelona and Real couldn't face each other in the group stages, and in every group there would be someone seeded 1, 2, 3 and 4. A team seeded 1 also can't be in a group with another team seeded 1. There are 8 groups of 4 teams, each play each other in their group home and away. This years groups can be found [here] The 2 teams with the highest points from the group get put through to the knockout rounds. Anyone can play anyone that advanced now regardless of nation. This is the round of 16. There are home and away legs for this stage. The 8 teams advanced from the last round play now in the Quarter Finals, home and away games. Then the last 4 play in the Semi Final. These are generally the best teams. Last year was Barcelona vs Bayern and Borussia Dortmund vs Real Madrid. Also played twice, home and away. Then the final, and whoever wins gets the Champions League trophy. It's played at a Neutral venue. The Champions League Final is probably biggest game in club football. Whoever wins gets automatic re-entry to next years tournament.
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 from subject to object , so it seems logical that you would use an apostrophe. That false impression is only made worse by the existence of the contraction "it's" for "it is" but despite their similarity, they are largely unrelated words. Sorry, u/slash178 is mistaken, "its" is not a special case - quite the opposite, it matches the rules it is supposed to follow, we just commonly mistake which rules we're looking at. Which, to be fair, is easy to do. English has way too many homophones and homonyms"Its" is a special case. It doesn't have the apostrophe so that it is not confused with "It's" which is a contraction for "it is".
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 start this review in order to appease them. According to Lord Mandelson the review would consider "balance of contributions to universities by taxpayers, students, graduates and employers" to University finances. The review would consider how much students should be charged for attending University. The panel was told to take into account the goal of widening participation. The review made a number of recommendations, many of them relating to the fact that the number of students attending university had been steadily increasing over the years . One of its suggestions was that there should be no cap on university fees. In order to mitigate this, students would not be required to repay student loans until they earn £21,000 or more. The government rejected the recommendation to remove the cap completely, and instead decided on a cap of £9,000. However, they did accept the recommendation that students don't repay their loans until they earn £21,000. The net effect, then, is that students will finish university with larger loans than before. Hopefully this will lead to well-paid jobs, and they will repay their loans, but if they are not successful in finding a well-paid job, they are less likely to have to repay their loan than before.
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 remove it, and that can cause serious problems. Note there has to be something wrong with you for this to happen, it is not the result of too much exerciseCells make lactic acid when they don't receive enough energy. It is like the "Plan B" of the metabolism. For example, during an intense workout, your muscles might make lactic acid to keep up. This is harmless in small amounts. The problem is when there is too much lactic acid. This occurs in serious diseases such as sepsis . Too much acid in the body is dangerous and leads to a series of medical problems .
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 box like the smell of a schoolbus is really just the seats slowly blowing their -ahem- loads. I associate this burnt smell with power supplies and burnt chips and in the case of clearly burnt chips the smell is the burning epoxy package that hides the pixies as they do their workThat smell is probably Ozone, or O3. It can be created from oxygen molecules when exposed to an electrical arc, such as that created by a circuit short. It could also be burning plastic.
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 is giving out at any given time on particular models to help them sell. This is often split between the salesmen and the dealership. For example, if 2015 Honda Civics are about to come out and Honda realizes that many of their dealerships still have way too many 2014 Civics to sell in time, they may offer a bonus of $300 to the dealership and $150 to the salesman for every 2014 Civic sold in the next month. * They may be stealing your trade in. If you are trading in a car that they value at $6,000, but they've convinced you to accept $5,000 for it, that's an extra $1,000 that they're making on the deal. * They may be making enough on the financing to make the deal worth it. This part varies state to state, but in California, dealerships are legally allowed to mark the rate up 2%. That means they can run your credit, find a 2.5% Wells Fargo auto loan that you qualify for, and tell you that the rate is 4.5%. As long as you agree to the numbers, this is legal. The difference between what the bank is charging and what you are paying goes to the dealer. * You may be buying enough accessories that they are making enough money on other parts of the deal to sell you the car at the price they are selling it at. Source: I used to work at a dealership.also, all dealerships have incentives from the manufacturer called holdbacks which are paid to the dealer quarterly, or annually based on sales. those are what actually determine their profit.
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 exhaustion.
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 highway is sending orders to muscles and the other half is relaying sensory signals to your brain. These sensory signals are always firing, it is why you are aware of your limbs at all time even if you aren't consciously thinking about it. If you compress these "highways" then traffic can't get through more specifically the sensory traffic. Therefore what you experience is very strange because you have stopped receiving sensory information from that limb and thus is feels "asleep". It works with motor function too. Ever wake up in a strange position and you can't move your arm because it's so "asleep"? It is because that nerve has been so compressed you aren't receiving sensory information and you can't send motor function to the muscles in that area either. Then after a short period the nerve is able to fire again normally and all returns to normal.
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 chiropractic advice.
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 people out on the streets . Since the institutions were often in remote places, nobody's bothered to come along an remodel them or build new stuff in their place.
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 emulate what they do, use the products they use, and yes - this extends to joining the cults they joinI think of it as a pay-to-win game; only the rich play because only they can afford to do well.Scientology says that giving more money increases spiritual wellness. Give enough money and you get an express pass on to the spaceship come the time of the rapture. Making 18mil a movie means it's not too hard to get a ticket for this exciting spaceship ride, so you can continue paying for hookers and cocaine and still no that you're sorted for the afterlife. It's basically the same concept that the Catholic church used when one could pay their way out of purgatory for their sins. Check out graphs of the levels of Scientology, and it may well end up making a lot more sense.
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. Taste is much more temporary by nature as it is only in your mouth for a short duration. Aside from temperature, most touch works in a similar fashion. think about when you put on a soft sweatshirt. You feel the texture when you put it on, but your body becomes accustomed to it pretty quickly. You may notice it as it rubs against your skin, but if it was static, your body doesn't really notice it. Essentially, its important to detect what is changing not what is there, as changes are what present us with threats and dangers.
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 nodules back into the medium, therefore preventing underwatering.
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 happen quickly and artificially, which results in the warbling, digitized voices now all the rage in pop, hip-hip, reggae and other types of music. Auto-Tune's invention sprung from a quite unrelated field: prospecting for oil underground using sound waves. Andy Hildebrand, a geophysicist who worked with Exxon, came up with a technique called autocorrelation to interpret these waves. During the 1990s, Hildebrand founded the company that later became Antares, and he applied his tools to voices.
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 toilet. So you don't eat with your left hand, and you don't touch other people with your left hand. Thus people will tend to avoid putting a nice, expensive watch on their "unclean" handI had the impression that it was common to wear a watch on the less dominating hand so the watch does not get in the way.
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 moves up to protect it. Lets just say this shield sends feedback to the ship whenever it gets hit . Your hand shield just took a huge hit from touching the stove. Your body immediately sends machines to repair it, these machines release a chemical that causes more machines to flock to the area . This causes the shield to swell , which can actually damage it. The shield can handle lasers all day because it has time to repair itself. This shield has tons of machines working day and night to keep it in good shape. However, the sudden shock of a huge torpedo releases so much energy so quickly, that the shield cannot repair itself at the same rate as the damage. Also keep in mind that cells are mostly water, so energy in the form of heat can radiate through the cell very quickly, however these cells have taken on the role of being your body's force field, so the stove does not damage anything important. It also takes a large amount of energy to repair your skin force-field, so your body uses the pain of the experience to remind you never to touch that hot stove again. Maybe next time that huge torpedo will be picked up on radar and get shot down before it reaches your shield.
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 of Oracle's APIs. Google's specific implementation code was not the same, however, they used the same declaring code and the structure, sequence, and organization. The district court said that those elements were functional and not protected by copyright. The Circuit court reversed the district court decision because how the APIs were structured wasn't entirely functional. There were many ways to implement the function of the APIs. Because Google copied the structure, they infringed the copyrights. It is a little more complicated than that, but that's the general gist.
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 generation males have a lot of females to breed with. Which 1st generation genes are passed along the most to the 3rd generation? The ones from 1st generation parents who made more males. Eventually the genes for making more males will swing back to 50/50.
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 developing fetus, who barely has kidneys or other defenses, is connected to their mother's bloodstream through the umbilical cord. The damage the adult body can shrug off is horrifical damaging to the fetus.
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 something or run from a predator, this is the part of his brain and nerves that helped him do it. When this happens the nerves send signals to your body to make your heart race, and blood vessels squeeze It also shunts blood away from you stomach and intestines. That's where the feeling you are talking about comes in. Imagine the feeling you get called "pins and needles" if you lay on your arm. It's the same idea, bloodflow is restricted to your stomach and it feels those tingles. Because it's something you and your brain don't feel often it gets interpreted differently by different people. Some call it a "pit" in their stomach, some butterfly's, some falling All that to say, a fight or flight response can be kicked off by many things. Watching someone in danger, being scared, being angry, all of those can result in this same feeling. People are susceptible to it from different things to different degrees though. Some people see a drop of blood and pass out and others have no issue being surgeons.
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 it is to create a beautiful masterpiece.
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 just kick and propel them. It's actually not that hard for most mammals to swim.
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, you'd need an actually steel tipped dart, made from real steel. Usually they are made from other metals, despite their name. The rest of the dart would need to be made of a metal with a similar density that isn't attracted to magnets, so the middle, larger part would not be attracted to the magnet more than the tip would, resulting in a sideways hit. This would absolutely fuck over the aerodynamics of the dart. So no. It's not even remotely feasible.
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 every day. You wouldn't want to bring your crayons, cards, video games, or pogs. These are things you don't need and won't use in the sandbox. Bringing them is more work for you, as running programs you don't use is more work for your computer. So my suggestion is that you don't need more programs, you need fewer. I'm not going to tell you to uninstall every program on your computer, since that would make things unstable, but I will recommend looking carefully through your installed programs and uninstalling ones you don't need.
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 at epic space distances work in real time? The moon is, on average, 384,000 km away from Earth. This means that radiowaves take just over a second to travel between Earth and the Moon - almost real time. Space vehicles that are much further than that, for example the Mars probes or the the Voyager space probes are indeed a lot farther away, which is why we can't actually communicate with them in real time - the communications delay between Earth and Mars is between 3 and 21 minutes, and at its current distance, it takes the information sent by Voyager 1 probe over 17 hours to reach Earth.
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 different times, dates, and destinations.Keep in mind that many of these sites leave cookies on your computer, so the more you search.doe a ticket, the more it tends to increase in price. I had a teacher check the price every other day for a month and the average increase was like 15 dollars a week. But if you use a proxy or clear your cache you can get those original prices
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 attention. edit: grammar & typo.Honestly, they are assholes and just want to watch the world burn. I watched our cat jump off the arm of the couch straight ahead, and kick 90 degrees to the side to knock over the lamp. I watched him do it, it was 100% unnecessary and 100% on purpose.Imagine some fuckwit takes you from your family at the tender age of 12 weeks. This thing feeds you, looks after you, pets you etc. This thing loves you, and you do your best to keep it that way but you can't keep that resentment down indefinitely You do your best but every now and then FUCK YOU HUMAN
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 doing a boring activity, You tend to look at the clock every now and then. You mostly look at it every minute on average and that is why we see the clock has barely moved past that 4:20 you saw a minute ago. Trust me, If you dont think about the time while doing a boring activity, It will have the same effect as when you are doing a fun activity.
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 will look like you lost an ungodly amount of hair, but in reality it's just your scalp doing its thing. _URL_0_", 'All hair has a natural life cycle. - Growth - Transition - Resting Then a new growth cycle with a new hair begins in the follicle, pushing the old one out.
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 owners can get stuck having to pay everything the company owes.
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 the machine must be able to generate a magnetic field around whatever is being scanned .
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 led to his ouster in the late 70s, and these students took the government in the complete opposite direction, from secular to Sharia.The 70's were what caused the Islamic regime to take control. The Shah of Iran was essentially a totalitarian dictator that took all wealth of the nation and distributed amongst his inner circle. The CIA propped up the Shah , and once the people found this out they were not fond of the US. One person took control of all this anger: Ayatollah Khomeini. The Ayatollah got everyone in a state of rage to the point where they stormed the US embassy, deposed the Shah, and took over the country. The reason Islam and Sharia law became prominent is because these were the Ayatollah's personal beliefs, and once he was in a position of power, imposing it was a great way for him to hold on to his power. If you want to watch a thrill while learning about the revolution and the hostage crisis, the movie Argo is great.
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 and ask. I've never encountered a downtime on Netflix, and haven't used XBox Live in years, but really, you should read the terms of service of all of these. They don't offer uptime guarantees. You can get a guarantee for Internet service. But, not at residential rates. At that point it's a commercial account and you'll pay much more. Honestly, I am OK with not having a four-digit monthly bill from my ISP.
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 out of the hole under his own power were it necessary.
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 property on your person right before incarceration; these usually stay in the prison, and you pick them up when you leave, and 2) property or money that was either used in a crime or is part of the proceeds of a crime; what happens to these is usually up to statute or a ruling, but you generally don't get them back. EDIT: As Pandromeda pointed out, your property is still your responsibility. If you own a house, you must still pay utilities and property tax; if you own a car, you still need to pay insurance and get inspections; etc. The upside is that you don't personally have to do these, but they still need to get done by someone on the outside, and getting it done is your problem.
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 levels in the brain. This has something to do with dopamine receptors "cosignaling" and developing an affinity to serotonin, and then also beginning to affect the reuptake of serotonin. When males have orgasms, the D3 receptors have to be stimulated. But these dopamine receptors are less efficient because of the SSRI's, so to reach the orgasm "threshold" it takes longer time. And that's a fairly common side effect of taking SSRI's, needing a lot of time to ejaculate / reach orgasm. I can't vouch for sexual interest and arousal, as those actually are probably associated with different brain areas. But the previous information can at least account for why SSRI antisepressants prolong time taken to orgasm.
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 bin Laden's supporters angrier and would probably lead to more reprisal attacks. They also didn't want to bury him on land because they were afraid of al-Qaeda using his gravesite as a propaganda tool. Not to mention that no nation would accept his remains, and burying him on U.S. soil would seem inappropriate.I think I read somewhere that it was dumped into the ocean because that was a custom with his culture and the government didn't want to offend and radical islamist. Go figure", 'They thought that if they buried him, there was potential for extremists to make his grave into some kind of sacred site. By throwing him into the ocean, they avoided that possibility.
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 superpower after all, and the other members wanted to encourage them in continuing to reform their economy after the collapse of the USSR. The G7 still exists and meets regularly. Removing Russia wouldn't affect the group all that much.
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 picture of Pluto is like trying to get a clear picture of an ant through a telescope. If you zoom in, it's out of focus, if you zoom out, you can't see it.
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 bacteria. The cooking of things makes it far less harmful.
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 under conscious control, though there is some autonomic involvement for when your sleeping and such . The hear belongs to a unique muscle tissue type, and is solely innervated by autonomic systems, though you can influence the rate indirectly through breathing and the like. In fact, the heart can be completely autonomous . Body temperature maintenance is pretty complex. Talking about why you can't control that one thing is like asking why you can't control digestion: there's a lot of parts. A lot of which comes from the control of blood blow to capillary beds in the skin. When they're engorged, a lot of blood flows close to the skin's surface, and allows for greater heat loss . To keep warm, blood flow is restricted. However, this is controlled by a third type of muscle tissue, called smooth muscle. Smooth muscle is completely autonomic, with the conscious mind having no involvement. It's the same type of muscle that controls swallowing, intestinal movement, and various other activities. This is, of course, a gross generalization. These systems have more going on than merely innervation and muscle types. There's also various hormones, receptors, and the like that are involved. But this is ELI5, right?
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 you didn't hit the pocket at the correct angle or with enough force.
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 you or someone close to you or in your group weren't hurt. A lot of jokes use that unexpected twist to make you laugh and in the end you think it's funny to tell others that this unexpected event didn't hurt you. This of course stems from thousands if not millions of years ago when you had to express to your hunting party for instance that that thing coming out of the bushes and right at you was a harmless mouse and not a deadly snake or boar.
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 can advocate on their behalf. There's a number of different laws and terms for these organizations, but by and large they're PACs . You're also allowed to donate to these if you've met your individual campaign contribution limit. A PAC is allowed to donate some money to candidates, but not substantially more than an individual person could. What they are allowed to do that individuals can't is take out advertisements either for or against a candidate. PACs can spend pretty much however much they want on these advertisements, however they are not allowed to discuss these advertisements with candidates in any capacity. A lot of people are concerned about PACs because candidates are required to disclose where they get their donations from and the same isn't necessarily true for PACs. Where Citizens United comes in is that it legally recognizes the rights of corporations to contribute to PACs and as a result help finance campaign ads. To understand the Citizen's ruling you need to understand that a corporation is legally speaking an entity created to represent the business interests of its shareholders. The Supreme Court concluded that prohibiting corporations from donating to political advocacy groups is illegal because if you prohibit corporations from advocating certain policies as representatives of their shareholders, then you're taking away the right of the shareholders to advocate for those policies by proxy.
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 tobacco, and it causes many other respiratory problems instead, for example a Swedish study found the risk of lung cancer double. Other risks are chronic bronchitis, increased incidence of cough, sputum production, shortness of breath, nocturnal wakening with chest tightness, etc.There is no research because for the better part of the last century the substance and any research relating to it has been illegal within most First World Nations. There just isn't any reliable data going one way or the other.
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 agree on what acceptable content was so that they could avoid government censors forcing standards on them. This gives us movie ratings, a perfect example of an industry working together while still competing.
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 undone. He was a rather large man. One he did it it became the fashion. Lots of fashion starts with royalty or the famous then becomes standard over time.It's traditional mostly. Like how the cuff buttons on most suits are just decorative. Looking for logic in men's fashion is a losing battle.
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 the caffeine from the beans. [Wikipedia has a pretty good explanation of the various processes] As a staunch coffee drinker I 've always thought that decaf was unnatural, this just proves I'm right, haha.Carbon dioxide , if squished hard enough becomes a liquid . This liquid is a really good solvent for caffeine, but doesn't also dissolve the stuff in coffee which gives it a great flavour. So the CO2 is forced through the coffee beans at high pressure, dissolving the caffeine as it goes. The CO2 is allowed to boil away, and the caffeine is sold to be turned into pep pills. Cheap, nasty decaf is made with water. Expensive, tasty decaf is made with CO2. Real coffee worth drinking is made with steam by an Italian guy, comes in a 1oz cup and contains enough caffeine to make you vibrate.They repeatedly wash the beans or leaves with a solvent that dissolves the caffeine, until the level is as low as desired.
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 having a bunch of indigestible sugars hanging out in your guts.Lactose intolerance is due to not having the enzyme to break down lactose. An allergy is an immune response to something your body thinks is harmful.
- 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 atmosphere?It depends on the environment. In hard vacuum the meat would be preserved pretty well and not rot owing to the lack of water and oxygen in it and it would effectively be mummified.
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 digestive enzymes and also helps in making the food into a ball to facilitate easy swallowing. Thus when you keep some food in your mouth, the salivary glands get 'activated' and start secreting saliva. This sudden neural and somatic activation and the secretion of saliva causes that weird pressure behind the jaw, more so when sour food is taken.
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 to know that pain is "chronic" or not. It just knows that those sensors are sending signals, and so it reports pain. If chronic pain was a big enough issue that it dramatically reduced reproductive success odds, we might see evolutionary pressures towards dealing with that, but it is likely the case that \'loss of pain sensitivity\' would be far more dangerous to reproductive success odds, unless it somehow happened to evolve just \'perfectly\' which is quite unlikely.
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 company or fund will go bankrupt. Gamblers like to use the term "whale" for people that bet massive amounts of money in casinos, and Iskil got the nickname "The London Whale". Iskil made a bad bet in early 2012 that cost his company a lot of money, and the bets were so complex that nobody had a real clue how much money could have been lost. At first it was thought to be USD $2 Billion, but now it looks more like more than $9 billion. \'
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 course you decide to take. I would have thought you can double minor as well, but the university can tell you more specifically. With yours it's likely that there isn't as much overlap, so I would choose either physics or compsci, minor in econ but take classes in the other one, unless the requirements do overlap enough.
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 means that you cannot free wheel a fixed gear bike. Imagine if you will, that the cog at the back is welded to the hub. This means that your pedals will always move at a speed proportional to the bikes speed, as as long as the bike is moving, so are your pedals. What are marketed as 'single-speeds\' are very similar in design, except that the rear cog does permit freewheeling, so if you are at the top of a hill, you can sit and coast all the way to the bottom without having to pedal. Some extra details if your are interested: Debates aside, on a fixed gear bike, because that rear cog is "welded" to the rear wheel, you can slow your speed by resisting the turning of the pedals or by stopping the pedals altogether and skidding the rear wheel. This means that you sometimes see them on the street with no brakes, which is in most places technically illegal but when in a velodrome, is required. Visit the legendary [Sheldon Brown] for more info. Edit - link added.With a fixed gear bike, the pedals are always in motion when the bike is in motion. Fast, slow, even backwards, the bike and the pedals are in sync. A single speed bike has a freewheel on the hub of the rear wheel. This lets you coast without pedaling. It also means you can't slow your bike down just by pedaling slower, you need a hand brake or a coaster brake.
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 simulated results we've been reading lately. Carl Sagan - _URL_0_ Edit: in other words, the new studies have begun to show us that all of the universe that we know and observe is just a projection of the underlying principles at work
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 locals fighting over who's land it actually is. America sends in troop's to occupy this area, claiming its theirs. Mexico sees this as an invasion of their land ohshitwar.jpg American and Mexico go to war. America creams Mexico, but Mexico won't stop fighting America marches into Mexico City, Occupying the Mexican capital finally forcing an end to the fighting. America wins the Texas boarder, and basically the whole western half of the US south of Oregon. The slogan "Don't mess with Texas" becomes a thing.
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 content is Rec. 709 and HDR is Rec. 2020, [comparison image]. As you can see, blue is pretty much the same and red is decently improved, the biggest improvement is in greens. The way this is achieved in television sets is increasing how bright a pixel can get. However, no HDR currently goes past DCI-P3 , [as you can see], it's like the half-way point, it'll be a few years till Rec. 2020 coverage is accomplished . 2. 10-bit Color. In Rec. 709 content, color is 8-bit, meaning 2^8 possible combinations for each color . 10-bit is thus 2^10, equaling 1024 . What this means is there is more precision in what colors you can choose. As an extreme example, let's say you only had 2 choices for red, 100% saturation and 0% saturation , adding in 1 option will allow 50% saturation . So, this means there are more shades to choose from, making your picture more accurate. [I made a relatively realistic comparison image] . This is achieved by fine tuning the power distribution to each pixel, getting each shade to be produced. 3. Peak Brightness. This deals with how bright the max white brightness is. I believe HDR content is mastered at 10,000 nits , but no tv can that bright . Typically, a tv can show a little bit of white brighter than a lot of white. A 2% white screen is the smallest measurement Rtings uses, where anything above 500 cd/m2 is usually perfectly fine for a 2% window . To my knowledge, the Samsung KS8000 and the Vizio P-series are the two cheapest sets that allow full HDR .
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 plane to go faster than the other, meaning that it started to turn . This yawing action was too rapid and powerful and rapid for Maverick to recover and the plane stalled.
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. Clicking on the program or screen issues 'events' that the operating system sends to the current program. Suppose the normal behavior for a mouse click is for the program to make a certain window open up. But you have clicked before that window is created. The programmer has made a faulty assumption that the window will always be created and ready to go when a mouse click comes in. They end up accessing invalid memory and 'boom'. Obviously thorough and proper testing should reveal flaws like this. But because events from the user are 'asynchronous', that is, they can occur at any time relative to the inner workings of the program, it is very difficult to perfectly test for every possible case.
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 content and then edit it. All of this takes time and money. DVD's are sold for so cheap now, studios would just keep losing money on a service that I personally have not used since the 8 Mile behind the scenes battle raps.

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