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how are well known illegal tv streaming sites able to stay up?	These sites do one of two things. They operate in a jurisdiction where it would be difficult to shut them down. If they are ever actually shut down, they simply create a new site and port everything over. It's usually a game of whack-a-mole. With law enforcement trying to shut them down but the sites simply coming b...	[ "There have been instances of users deliberately sharing their TV Everywhere login credentials, or having them sold without their owner's knowledge on the black market, in order to allow others to view programs without subscribing to the channel. Charter Communications CEO Tom Rutledge, and ESPN's executive vice pr...
To what extent was Cannabis consumed for pleasure in the ancient world?	Not quite your question, but [this older link](_URL_0_) might nevertheless be of interest for you.	[ "The Mediterranean region contains the earliest archeological evidence of human use; the oldest known seeds date back to more than 5000 BCE in the Neolithic age with purposes such as food, anaesthetics, and ritual. Evidence from ancient Greece indicates that opium was consumed in several ways, including inhalation ...
What would happen, if you create a perfect vacuum inside a stable container?	> Would the vacuum be strong enough to tear single molecules out of the container walls, or wouldn't it even be possible to create a container strong enough, or wouldn't anything cool happen at all? This prevents you from ever actually reaching perfect vacuum. Not from "tearing apart" the walls of the vacuum chamber ...	[ "A partial vacuum may be generated by increasing the volume of a container. To continue evacuating a chamber indefinitely without requiring infinite growth, a compartment of the vacuum can be repeatedly closed off, exhausted, and expanded again. This is the principle behind a positive displacement pump, for example...
A clarification on the date 13.0.0.0.0 in the Mayan Long Count	My understanding of how this thing got started (I'm trying to find a citation) is that the number 13 comes up repeatedly in Maya numerology because it's considered a lucky number. The ritual calendar, as you pointed out, uses 13 cycles of 20 days. Using this, the novelist Gary Jennings wrote [a fictional novel](_URL_1_...	[ "Unlike the 260-day \"tzolkʼin\" still used today among the Maya, the Long Count was linear rather than cyclical, and kept time roughly in units of 20: 20 days made a \"uinal\", 18 uinals (360 days) made a \"tun\", 20 tuns made a \"kʼatun\", and 20 kʼatuns (144,000 days or roughly 394 years) made up a \"bʼakʼtun\"....
today i read the ocean will rise 4ft due to ever faster melting antarctic glaciers, if this is true how will it affect coastal cities?	The authorities who should be planning for this are fixed in "LaLaLa-can't-hear-you" mode at present, and will probably remain so until their cities are flooded monthly. Knowing how engineers work, it will probably be large pumps and high sea walls, which are then largely ignored and eventually fail for lack of mainta...	[ "Initial press briefings focused on the increases to the estimates for potential sea level rise expected as a result of global warming, with the session led by Stefan Rahmstorf. Eric Rignot, Professor of Earth system science at the University of California, Irvine, said \"As a result of the acceleration of outlet g...
when i accellerate my car, why do i hear high-pitched noise through the aux input when nothing is plugged in?	Its noise off the generator or alternator. Cords like that aren't shielded like other people have said. Its basically RF interference coming from that because its often not shielded. Its usually not something noticed, and the stereo itself has filtering to block it. But when you plug something unshielded into it (y...	[ "No loss occurs when the signals at ports 2 and 3 are in phase and have equal magnitude. In case of noise input to ports 2 and 3, the noise level at port 1 does not increase, half of the noise power is dissipated in the resistor.\n", "Floating grounds can cause problems with audio equipment using RCA connectors (...
can someone tell exactly what it is that obama is doing for net neutrality?	It means that Obama put his hat in the ring and took a stance. That being said he cannot compel the FCC to follow what he wants. Basically after using Net Neutrality as part of his platform in 2008, and then staying on the fence about it for a while, he's finally given an opinion. This could sway the FCC to fall in l...	[ "Obama reaffirmed his commitment to net neutrality at a meeting with Google employees in November 2007, at which he said, \"once providers start to privilege some applications or web sites over others, then the smaller voices get squeezed out, and we all lose.\" At the same event, Obama pledged to appoint a Chief T...
What factors led to (why did the emperor order) the destruction of Zheng He's fleet, end of Chinese exploration, and continuation of Ming isolation in the 1400s?	There were several reasons regarding the fleets themselves: Zheng He's fleets were expensive, the Ming were involved in wars against the Mongols and Vietnamese, the government bureaucracy was quite suspicious of how eunuchs dominated the venture, and the emperors were no longer as interested in the prestige of the voya...	[ "Already in May 1421, during the reign of the Yongle Emperor, an order was issued for the suspension of Zheng He's maritime expeditions, apparently on account of their cost (although the order apparently did not affect the 6th voyage of Zheng He, staged around that time). Zhu Gaochi, as soon as he was enthroned as ...
Looking for advice on a good optical microscope to purchase and it looks like this subject hasn't been covered here yet. What microscope do you use at home?	I don't know of too many scientists that have personal microscopes at home. That being said, the ones that my students used when I was TA'ing were $3000 each and I consider those pretty basic. My lab's microscope was in the $40,000 range, and the confocal I used cost $325,000. For under $200 it will be a cheap "toy" mi...	[ "Microscopes traditionally are the core product of A. Krüss Optronic. The company offers a great variety of stereoscopic and monocular instruments, dedicated to medical, biological, and technical applications, as well as photographic and video accessories.\n", "The optical microscope, often referred to as the lig...
In the "wild west" time era, when a bank robber robbed the stagecoach or a bank, who lost that money? Was it the bank or the individual who banked it?	I can reply to the bank question, but not the stagecoach one. TL:DR: The bank, unless the robbery caused the bank to fail, in which case both. Here's how banking works: banks take deposits from people and lend out the cash to other people. The deposits are liabilities of the bank - that is, they owe that money to the...	[ "On October 8, 1932, the then First State Bank of Cedar Hill was robbed by Raymond Hamilton, a sidekick of bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde. After taking the money, he locked the employees in the vault and made his getaway. When Hamilton got wind of reports that some of the cash had been hidden during the first robber...
How well trained were war and hunting dogs in the Roman Empire and/or medieval Europe compared to today & how did they train them assuming their knowledge & tools for dog training was much less than we have today?	I can't answer with specific reference to the Roman Empire although I suspect that much of my answer is transferrable from Medieval skills to Roman skills. Firstly I'd like to challenge the assumption that "knowledge and tools for dog training were much less than we have today". A good dog trainer needs no tools oth...	[ "Dogs in warfare have a long history starting in ancient times. From war dogs trained in combat to their use as scouts, sentries and trackers, their uses have been varied and some continue to exist in modern military usage.\n", "Early in recorded history there are records of dogs being trained for the purpose of ...
why are most/all sniper rifles bolt action? why can't they use a semi-automatic mechanism like most other weapons?	I could be wrong on this, but the bolt action rifle would minimize extraneous movement that might alter the trajectory of the bullet. Remember that even small fractions of a degree might be the difference between a hit and a miss, so it's important to keep everything as still as possible. In a semi-automatic mechanis...	[ "The choice between bolt-action and semi-automatic, usually recoil operated or gas operated , is usually determined by specific requirements of the sniper's role in a particular organization, with each design having advantages and disadvantages. For a given cartridge, a bolt-action rifle is cheaper to build and mai...
In the early 1500s pre reformation Europe what was the difference between an indulgence and a confession?	Well, Confession is having your sins absolved, that is, return to a state of grace and avoid a path leading to damnation. A reconciliation, if you will. But there is still a need to make up for the consequences of sin, most notably the offense the penitent has caused to God. Now ordinarily this is achieved after the de...	[ "In Protestant Reformation history, confessionalization is the parallel processes of \"confession-building\" taking place in Europe between the Peace of Augsburg (1555) and the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648). During this time prior to the Thirty Years' War, there was a nominal peace between the Protestant and Cathol...
what, biologically, causes lethargy and feelings of being "in a fog"? why do we sometimes feel this way, even with no apparent health issues?	We actually are not quite sure what fully causes the feeling of being tired or lethargic. One simple explanation that has the most proof appears to be that a chemical called adenosine builds up in our brain throughout many of our daily activities. Adenosine is the byproduct of many metabolic functions (such as ATP bein...	[ "Clouding of consciousness, also known as brain fog or mental fog, is a term used in medicine denoting an abnormality in the regulation of the overall level of consciousness that is mild and less severe than a delirium. The sufferer experiences a subjective sensation of mental clouding described as feeling \"foggy\...
how do people remove vocals from a song for adverts for example?	Most songs nowadays are composed using layers on a track. So all it really takes is removing the layer. It's trickier with older songs that didn't use this production method.	[ "\"SingingCoach\" utilizes a pitch recognition technology that was developed by Carlo Franzblau and engineered by his team of programmers. Its technology uses a white tracking line on screen to record and display the pitch of one’s voice in reference to the \"in tune\" bars of the song. This allows the user to unde...
The Arab world around the 10th century is known by many as the(/an) Intellectual Golden Age. What made this area so fertile in scientific advancements, and what happened at the end of the period that may have led the area away from such a reputation?	There are a couple of narratives that attempt to explain this. The traditional narrative proposed by later Muslim scholars is that when the Abbasid dynasty usurped power from the Umayyads in 750 CE, this represented a shift in power from Arabs to the numerically and culturally much stronger Persians. From this, we have...	[ "The Islamic Golden Age was also an important early stage of globalization, when Jewish and Muslim traders and explorers established a sustained economy across the Old World resulting in a globalization of crops, trade, knowledge and technology. Globally significant crops such as sugar and cotton became widely cult...
Who were the first prominent Southerners in government [Congress/White House/SCOTUS/Armed Forces/etc...] after the Civil War and did they face extra issues getting in?	General James Longstreet joined the Republican Party after the war and was appointed as the head of Louisiana's Reconstruction-era militia. He was despised by many fellow Southerners, despite heroic service in the Confederate cause, especially after the 1874 Battle of Liberty Place - Longstreet, commanding black troo...	[ "Francis Strother Lyon (February 25, 1800 – December 31, 1882) was a prominent Alabama attorney and politician. He served two terms in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War after being an antebellum member of the United States Congress.\n", "Thomas Alexander Harris (1826 - April 9, 1895) w...
Pauli's Exclusion Principle - Does It State All Electrons Everywhere Must Occupy Different Energies?	No. It says that two identical fermions (like electrons) can't occupy the same energy state. For example, two spin-up electrons can't both be in the 1s orbital (the closest to the nucleus). However, in two adjacent atoms, the electrons in the 1s orbital will both have the same energy, but still not be degenerate becaus...	[ "The Pauli exclusion principle helps explain a wide variety of physical phenomena. One particularly important consequence of the principle is the elaborate electron shell structure of atoms and the way atoms share electrons, explaining the variety of chemical elements and their chemical combinations. An electricall...
the mafia and all its groups (camorra, la cosa nostra, sicilian, etc.)	I can't give you a run down of all the groups but I can give a general description of the Mafia. Picture Sicily as a schoolyard playground. Everyone's playing and having a good time, but some kids start bulling other kids. When the teacher is told, they don't do anything and mostly just look the other way. A few kids...	[ "The Camorra (; ) is an Italian Mafia-type crime syndicate, or secret society, which arose in the region of Campania and its capital Naples. It is one of the oldest and largest criminal organizations in Italy, dating back to the 17th century. Unlike the pyramidal structure of the Sicilian Mafia, the Camorra's organ...
Is it really safer to let the tap run for 30 seconds before drinking the water?	Generally, modern homes have pipes that are small and water is often in demand. This leads to water that is moved often and never really gets a chance to sit still in one place for too long. The pipes which are made of usually copper of plastic are in themselves terrible environments for many pathogens. The fact that ...	[ "The article quoted Erik Olson, an analyst for the Natural Resources Defense Council, as saying \"This is a really big deal... If schools go over 20 parts per billion, they immediately take the water out of production.\" WASA recommended that residents let the tap run for 30 seconds to one minute before using it to...
How the hell does press & seal wrap work?	“Glass, as well as some plastics, has a net negative charge on its surface, so a wrap that has an opposite charge is going to cling quite well to these surfaces,” [SOURCE](_URL_0_) Another site has a more chemical approach: *"I found that most kitchen plastic wrap is made of low density polyethylene, also known as ...	[ "When the seal is pressed onto the printing surface, the procedure differs according to plant or silk based paste. For silk based paste, the user applies pressure, often with a specially made soft, flat surface beneath the paper. For plant based paste, the user simply applies light pressure. As lifting the seal ver...
In what direction do our eyes look when in complete rest?	I'm a med student. Actually There isn't any specific direction. If i assume complete rest is a "deep sleep" . It's gonna be a REM or Non-REM sleep stages which could be any random direction and our eyes are continously moving fast (In REM) and slow (non-REM)	[ "The eyes are never completely at rest. They make fast random jittering movements even when we are fixated on one point. The reason for this random movement is related to the photoreceptors and the ganglion cells. It appears that a constant visual stimulus can make the photoreceptors or the ganglion cells become un...
how do i shop for and buy my first car?	Look at a bunch of adverts for cars that are the price you can afford. Keep the price on the cheap side. You are only learning about cars at this stage. Pick out a few that you like. It doesn't matter why you like them for now. Make a note of the milage and age of the cars and what condition they are in, e.g. is the pa...	[ "Carwoo was an anonymous automobile marketplace that enabled its users to purchase cars without providing personal information to dealers until after an offer was made and accepted. Once a buyer accepted an offer, their information was transferred to the dealer. Rather than buyers bidding up the price, salespeople ...
After the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, how did Europe manage to continue business as usual so shortly after?	Business as usual in what way? Because Europe really didn't just keep trucking along. The 30 Years War more or less reworked the political landscape of Europe and the way diplomacy was run. You mention the Swedes invading Poland and I think that's a great example of how things changed. At the outset of the war, one...	[ "In the Wars of Religion of the 17th c, 1648, ber Oct The Peace of Westphalia, of the European settlements of 164ood the nature of t8, brought an end to the thirty years between Spain and the Dutch and the German portion of the Thirty Years War. Peace plans were formed in the towns of Munster and Osnabruck, 1648. T...
why do so many large and small companies prey on the poor and less fortunate by gouging them on everyday items and needs?	People with low incomes also have the fewest options in what products they can buy. That makes them a captive consumer base and means that companies can charge them more than more affluent people with more choice in products and services. Poor people are also much less likely to have received a good financial educatio...	[ "Although opportunities are great, many businesses are not taking advantage of them because market conditions surrounding the poor can make doing business difficult, risky and expensive. Where poverty prevails, the foundations for functional markets are often lacking, excluding the poor from meaningful participatio...
why are yellow teeth considered unattractive?	They didn't used to be. Toothpaste and dental care took off though and eventually white teeth became preferable - it equals health and indicates that you take good care of your body and self.	[ "Sometimes white or straight teeth are associated with oral hygiene, but a hygienic mouth may have stained teeth and/or crooked teeth. For appearance reasons, people may seek out teeth whitening and orthodontics.\n", "The discoloration of teeth over time can result from exposure to substances such as tobacco, cof...
If water can only boil (212 degrees) why do simmering liquids boil around the edges?	every molecule is not at that temperature at the same time. It is a gradient from the energy source to the furthest point. When you put a simmering pot on the stove. The heat is transferred from the fire to the pot body which conducts heat really well.the water immediately touching the walls of the pot will get the h...	[ "Normally, boiling water does not boil over. When fats, starches, and some other substances are present in boiling water, for example by adding milk or pasta, boiling over can occur. A film forms on the surface of the boiling liquid; for example, cream can boil over as milk fat separates from the milk. The increase...
what happens in our brains when we hold in emotions and then snap?	Your front brain simulates consequences and chooses the best action to take. When you're emotional, this usually means stopping you from doing something like punting your co workers. Sometimes one or multiple emotions become really strong and it takes lots of effort to stop you from acting on them. Effort makes your b...	[ "Neuroscience has shown that emotions are generated by multiple structures in the brain. The rapid, minimal, and evaluative processing of the emotional significance of the sensory data is done when the data passes through the amygdala in its travel from the sensory organs along certain neural pathways towards the l...
How did people in formerly-French regions of Canada react to the news that France was backing the independence rebellion of their neighbors to the south?	In essence, indifference. The general sentiment was that France had abandoned New-France in favor of the French West Indies, that were much more profitable than the rather onerous North American colony. This is also a sentiment that can be found in the lesser rates of volunteerism in WWI, although at that point, it's ...	[ "Although some Canadians took up arms in support of the rebellion, the majority remained loyal to the King. French Canadians had been satisfied by the British government's Quebec Act of 1774, which offered religious and linguistic toleration; in general, they did not sympathize with a rebellion that they saw as bei...
Are the any sources where I can find events that happend during the last years of Nebuchadnazzer II of Babylon ?	The primary book for the reign of Nebuchadnezzar II is in French (Arnaud's Nabuchodonosor II, roi de Babylone). DJ Wiseman's Nebuchadrezzar and Babylon is useful, as is Ronald Sack's Images of Nebuchadnezzar: The Emergence of a Legend. Vanderhooft's The Neo-Babylonian Empire and Babylon in the Latter Prophets...	[ "It is one of two identified Chronicles referring to Nebuchadnezzar, and does not cover the whole of his reign. The ABC5 is a continuation of Babylonian Chronicle ABC4 (The Late Years of Nabopolassar), where Nebuchadnezzar is mentioned as the Crown Prince. Since the ABC 5 only provides a record through Nebuchadnezz...
how did specific geographic locations become good/high end parts of town and others become bad/dangerous parts of town?	I'm sure you know the three most important words in real estate: Location, location, and location. Nice areas have proximity to some desireable feature--be it parks, the waterfront, downtown, public transit, nice views, historical areas, nice looking bridges, any or all of these things. These desirable features drive...	[ "The original townsite follows a unique design. It is laid out on northeast-to-southwest and northwest-to-southeast roads. It is purported that the reason this was done was to allow sun to come into every room in the home at some point during the day. The northwest-to-southeast roads were numbered and called avenue...
If the earth was to stop rotating around its axes; how cold would the dark side get ?	Planets that "have stopped rotating" are known as being tidally locked. Earth's moon is tidally locked to the Earth, and so only one side faces us at all times. If a planet is close enough to its parent star it will become tidally locked. Observation of exoplanets determined to be tidally locked indicated extreme wi...	[ "Eventually, the Earth stops spinning altogether. The scorching light of day lasts for six months, while the remaining six months of the year are ice-bound darkness of night. The planetary landscape now consists of one ocean approximately 10 miles deep in the north, one in the south and a girdle of land around the ...
Did ancient or medieval armies conscript soldiers regardless of their physical capability?	I have insufficient knowledge of Chinese history and the armies of Antiquity to answer the question from those specific angles, but where it concerns the recruitment and mobilization of the common man in Europe in the Middle Ages, the physical condition was definitely of little concern. I've written about the [approxi...	[ "The army had no regimental structure and the soldiers were not directly recruited by the emperor. Instead, individuals, such as nobles or local leaders, would recruit their own troops, referred to as a \"mansab\", and contribute them to the army.\n", "Until the 11th century, the majority of the conscripts were f...
why is snowden in trouble for whistleblowing? shouldn't whistle blowing be a good thing?	It's a great thing until someone whistle blows you. Then they're a snitch. The government is equating it with giving classified data to the enemy like treason, espionage and the like. Really it's bullshit but that's their reason.	[ "Edward Snowden went to the press with revelations about the NSA due to the experience of previous whistleblowers, such as Thomas Andrews Drake, William Binney, J. Kirk Wiebe, Ed Loomis, and Diane Roark, who initially reported their concerns within the system and faced intense retaliation.\n", "On the heels of th...
How is uranium made into a gas for Gaseous Diffusion/Electromagnetic separation etc...	It is usually worked on as "hex," or [uranium hexafluoride](_URL_0_)	[ "The separation of uranium requires the material in a gaseous form; uranium hexafluoride (UF) is used for uranium enrichment. Upon entering the centrifuge cylinder, the UF gas is rotated at a high speed. The rotation creates a strong centrifugal force that draws more of the heavier gas molecules (containing the U-2...
How fast are we travelling?	There is no absolute reference frame, but the closest there is is the [cosmic microwave background](_URL_0_) reference frame. That is, roughly speaking, how fast we would be moving if we never accelerated since the Big Bang. The sun is currently moving 370 km/s from that reference frame. Earth is moving 30 km/s compare...	[ "BULLET::::- Major Joseph W. Rogers became the first person to travel faster than 1,500 miles per hour, and almost reached 2,500 kilometers per hour, breaking the world speed record at , in an F-106 Delta Dart jet fighter.\n", "The Apollo 10 crew (Thomas Stafford, John W. Young and Eugene Cernan) achieved the hig...
Who was the first comedian?	In terms of early examples of written humour (as it's very difficult to find stand-up comedians without written record), one of the earliest examples is the satirical script of the [Instruction of Dua-Khety](_URL_0_), an Ancient Egyptian work written in the 2nd millenium BCE (Between 2000 and 1700 BCE). It describes m...	[ "The Comedians was a British television show of the 1970s (later reprised in the mid-1980s and early 1990s) produced by Johnnie Hamp of Granada Television. The show gave a stage to nightclub and working men's club comedians of the era, including Russ Abbot, Lennie Bennett, Stan Boardman, Jim Bowen, Jimmy Bright, Du...
What would happen to a person if they slept ~24 hours each day?	I think they already invented it: [coma](_URL_0_)	[ "Randy Gardner holds the scientifically documented record for the longest period of time a human being has intentionally gone without sleep not using stimulants of any kind. Gardner stayed awake for 264 hours (11 days), breaking the previous record of 260 hours held by Tom Rounds of Honolulu. LCDR John J. Ross of t...
Has an American ever been arrested/tried for War Crimes or Crimes Against Humanity?	Apologies to the moderators, as I'm reasonably certain that I am breaking the 20 year rule here. Depends on how you count it. The acts described took place in the mid-90's up until 2003. The trial was in 2006-08, with the appeal continuing to 2010 and post-conviction proceedings well into 2012. *** Charles Taylor w...	[ "He was one of arguably only two Canadians in history to have faced prosecution for war crimes (the second being Omar Khadr, who in 2010 pleaded guilty to what the Guantanamo military commission termed war crimes committed in Afghanistan, though that conviction is under appeal).\n", "After the war, survivors Glen...
what would happen if a country launched a nuclear missile on the us?	The Emergency Alert System (EAS) would be activated over radio & TV informing people to seek shelter. Depending on the launch, it may even be destroyed as soon as it went up. The US invests heavily in Ballistic Missile Defense, using a network of satellites, land- and [sea- based radar](_URL_1_) and [AEGIS-equipped ...	[ "If the United States launched a nuclear attack against Russia (or China), the targeted country would be left with only a tiny surviving arsenal, if any at all. At that point, even a relatively modest or inefficient missile defense system might well be enough to protect against any retaliatory strikes.\n", "BULLE...
the system for numbering interstate highways.	Primary routes have two digits. Odd numbered highways run north and south, with lower numbers in the west and higher numbers in the east. Even numbered routes go east-west, with the lower numbers in the south and higher numbers in the north. Three digit routes starting with an even number are loops within or around a ...	[ "There are 70 primary Interstate Highways in the Interstate Highway System, a network of controlled-access freeways in the United States. They are assigned one- or two-digit route numbers, whereas their associated \"auxiliary\" Interstate Highways receive three-digit route numbers. Typically, odd-numbered Interstat...
if jehovah's witnesses believe there are such a limited amount of seats reserved in heaven, why do they push so hard to get more converts?	Because they believe converting people will get them into heaven. Really, it is just a pyramid scheme.	[ "Despite this position by Islamic religious leaders, Muslims are oftentimes uncertain about whether or not Islamic tradition considers organ donation to be forbidden. This uncertainty stems from ambiguity caused by conflicting opinions among some Islamic leaders regarding this issue. Moreover, a lack of support alo...
Is it possible that Hernán Cortés wrote The Conquest of New Spain?	The authorship of the La Historia Verdadera is something that has been debated a bit more than the author of this article lets on, although I don't know of any other scholar off the top of my head that has made the assertion that Cortes himself wrote the piece. Historians have pointed to the fact that there is very ...	[ "The author of the document is unknown, and is referred to as a Companion of Hernán Cortés (or simply \"The Anonymous Conqueror\" or \"Gentleman of Cortés\"). The account, firstly published in Italian in 1556 by Giovan Battista Ramuso as part of his work \"Delle Navigationi et Viaggi\", has been translated to Engli...
Why did no outside force intervene in the Soviet invasions of Czechoslovakia in 1968 or Hungary in 1956?	Same reason no one interfered with US invasion of Dominican Republic. It was our sphere of influence. Just like Eastern Europe was USSR's. No one was willing to risk global war. During the Cold War it was the countries more distant (Vietnam, Angola, etc) that were really up for grabs and fought over. The Truman Doctrin...	[ "In 1968, the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact allies invaded Czechoslovakia to halt the Prague Spring reforms. In the aftermath, Brezhnev justified the invasion along with the earlier invasions of Eastern European states by introducing the Brezhnev Doctrine, which claimed the right of the Soviet Union to violate the s...
how did diabetics check their blood sugars before personal glucometers?	Glucose monitors have been around for over 35 years. They were just bigger and slower. Before then it was controlled through highly restrictive diets and insulin and oral medicines and everyone kinda hoped for the best. Bloodwork was limited to labs and hospitals.	[ "A history of blood sugar level results is especially useful for the diabetic to present to their doctor or physician in the monitoring and control of the disease. Failure to maintain a strict regimen of testing can accelerate symptoms of the condition, and it is therefore imperative that any diabetic patient stric...
How does our skin know when it’s time to produce more melanin?	I believe it does so in response to cellular damage caused by UV light—hence why tanning beds cause you to get darker. If the cell notices an increase in UV damage, it creates more melanin. Not a very scientific answer as I don’t know the exact mechanism, but I hope that helps a little!	[ "Both the amount and type of melanin produced is controlled by a number of genes that operate under incomplete dominance. One copy of each of the various genes is inherited from each parent. Each gene can come in several alleles, resulting in the great variety of human skin tones. Melanin controls the amount of ult...
Would people living in Europe during the Middle Ages have called their time period the Modern Age, or something else?	Medieval authors tended to divide history into six ages, which were mapped to the first six days of Creation in Genesis (and sometimes to the different stages of human life). Although variants existed, the most common schema came out of Augustine who situated the first age as from Adam to the Flood, the second from No...	[ "The European Early Middle Ages are generally taken to run from the end of the Roman Empire, around 400 AD, to around 1000 AD. During this period, Christianity made a significant impact on European culture.\n", "The history of Europe covers the peoples inhabiting Europe from prehistory to the present. During the ...
Do objects get hotter as they move?	You may be confusing external, bulk, translational motion with internal, microscopic, random motion. They are independent. In a vacuum, an object's temperature will remain the same no matter how fast it is moving linearly through space. It must according to Relativity. Depending on what reference frame you choose, the ...	[ "An object's or space's temperature increases when heat energy moves into it, increasing the average kinetic energy of its atoms, e.g., of things and air in a room. Heat energy leaving an object or space lowers its temperature. Heat flows from one place to another (always from a higher temperature to a lower one) b...
is there a relative speed maximum, which is equal to 2*speed of light?	Yes, there is a relative speed maximum. It's, paradoxically, c. There exists a [velocity-addition formula](_URL_0_) that is a consequence of the special theory of relativity. You can calculate for yourself how fast the planets would measure each other. For example, if both went at half the speed of light, the other ...	[ "In special relativity, there is an unreachable speed, the speed of light. We can add speeds without end, but they will always be less than the speed of light. The sums of all speeds are limited by the speed of light. Additionally, the composition of two velocities is inferior to the sum of those two speeds.\n", ...
at what point did the first cells decide that it was okay to eat each other? and why? couldn’t they have kept dividing just as the first living cell did? did they divide to survive or just to eat each other? or both? what mechanism even decided those?	They didn't "decide". That's a conscious motive that you're applying to the simplest organisms. The simple answer is that you need more stuff to make more cells. Just like building a house, you need to get more lumber, bricks, drywall...etc to build more houses. The easiest way to get the biological molecules an orga...	[ "Some cells divide asymmetrically by budding, for example \"Saccharomyces cerevisiae\", the yeast species used in baking and brewing. This process results in a 'mother' cell and a smaller 'daughter' cell. Cryo-electron tomography recently revealed that mitochondria in cells divide by budding.\n", "In 1847 Theodor...
how can people steer their bikes when they don't have their hands on the handles?	They lean. When you lean on a bike your center of mass isn't over the wheels anymore. That puts a torque on you and the bike. If your bike weren't moving that would mean you would just fall over. Since the bike is moving and you have a lot of angular momentum, it turns the direction that you are moving. NOTE BEC...	[ "A curved fork and angled vertical tubing provides stable, non-twitchy steering, enabling the rider to ride with one hand, while freeing the other hand for signalling or to secure a load on the rear rack. Europeans commonly use the free hand to hold an umbrella or cell phone, or to hold the shoulder of a child ridi...
why do you cry when someone asks you “are you ok?” when you are trying not to cry	because sometimes its the fact that someone is showing you that they care makes it easier for you to let it out	[ "According to John, \"Woman, why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?\" is the first thing Jesus says upon his resurrection. The first part \"Why are you crying?\" repeats the statement made by the angels in . Jesus adds \"Who is it you are looking for?\" This question, which Jesus has asked others previo...
what exactly constitutes the 'art-pop' genre in music?	There was a time, like in the 70's, when the distinction actually meant something. The radio stations were mainly playing "pop" (am stations) and "rock" or "disco" and "r & b" (fm stations) The stuff people were listening to that didn't get play on the radio (outside of college stations) was more "artsy." Think The Ve...	[ "Art pop (also typeset as art-pop or artpop) is a loosely defined style of pop music influenced by pop art's integration of high and low culture, and which emphasizes the manipulation of signs, style, and gesture over personal expression. Art pop artists may be inspired by postmodern approaches or art theories as w...
how are fruit juice concentrates made? if juice comes from the fruits themselves how is it put into concentrated form?	Juice contains water so you just boil it until that water is gone to make a more concentrated juice	[ "The process of extracting juice from fruits and vegetables can take a number of forms. Simple crushing of most fruits will provide a significant amount of liquid, though a more intense pressure can be applied to get the maximum amount of juice from the fruit. Both crushing and pressing are processes used in the pr...
How are cannabinoids metabolized?	_URL_1_ > After smoking, the initial metabolism of THC takes place in the lungs, followed by more extensive metabolism by liver enzymes which transform THC to a number of metabolites. The most rapidly produced metabolite is 9-carboxy-THC (or THC-COOH) which is detectable in blood within minutes of smoking cannabis. I...	[ "Cannabinoid production starts when an enzyme causes geranyl pyrophosphate and olivetolic acid to combine and form CBGA. Next, CBGA is independently converted to either CBG, THCA, CBDA or CBCA by four separate synthase, FAD-dependent dehydrogenase enzymes. There is no evidence for enzymatic conversion of CBDA or CB...
how do remote controlled cars work?	A radio sends commands to a controller in the car. That in turn sends electrical signals to the various motors and solenoids that operate the mechanical parts of the car. This can be super basic in a battery powered car with simple steering, or increasingly complex as you approach full sized gasoline powered vehicles...	[ "A remote control vehicle is defined as any vehicle that is teleoperated by a means that does not restrict its motion with an origin external to the device. This is often a radio control device, cable between control and vehicle, or an infrared controller. A remote control vehicle or RCV differs from a robot in tha...
Why did the vice president switch from being the second place finisher in the US presidential elections to a ticket with the president?	The most obvious answer is the election of 1800, but the election on 1796 had some impact on the 12th Amendment as well . The way the constitution was originally structured, electors from each state had 2 votes each with no distinction for president and vice president. It was also the case that many states decided t...	[ "The President and the Vice President are elected through universal suffrage by the nation considered as a whole. The Constitutional reform of 1994 introduced a \"two-round system\" by which the winning President-Vice President ticket has to receive either more than 45% of the overall valid votes, or at least 40% o...
what's the difference between thermionic emission and thermoelectric effect?	Thermionic emission is the ability of some materials to emit electrons more readily when heated. Electronic vacuum tubes (valves) use heated cathodes to take advantage of the effect. The thermoelectric effect happens when two different metals are joined. Temperature difference can be converted to electric current and...	[ "The electrocaloric effect is a phenomenon in which a material shows a reversible temperature change under an applied electric field. It is often considered to be the physical inverse of the pyroelectric effect. It should not be confused with the Thermoelectric effect (specifically, the Peltier effect), in which a ...
even with the advances in sciences, why is meteorology so inexact?	Because the climate is complicated and modeling it is hard and expensive. Being sort of right is good enough and spending the money to be right slightly more often (meteorologists aren't actually that bad at predicting the weather) isn't worthwhile for, say, a news station.	[ "\"Why did modern science, the mathematization of hypotheses about Nature, with all its implications for advanced technology, take its meteoric rise only in the West at the time of Galileo [but] had not developed in Chinese civilisation or Indian civilisation?\"\n", "Meteorology is the interdisciplinary scientifi...
Why did the Western borders of Tang China jut out?	That extension to the Northwest is the modern Gansu Corridor and some areas along the Tarim Basin. These areas were strategically important because they controlled key overland trade routes with India, Central Asia, and the Middle East -- the proverbial Silk Road. This area was important for commerce, but also strate...	[ "Because Chinese Tang forces in the \"Western Territories\" were negligible, to resist the restoration of the Türkic Kaganate, the Tang government had to accede to the rise of Turgesh, a nation descendent from Abars and Mukri, under the leadership of an \"Uchjile\". In effect, the territory captured by Tang by 659 ...
Pandemics and Quarantine History - Megathread	This current pandemic is falling on a presidential election year in the United States. How did the 1918-1920 flu pandemic affect the 1920 presidential election?	[ "As the pandemic intensifies it gains many names, \"Captain Trips\" and the superflu being the most used. A multi-faceted narrative—told partly from the perspective of primary characters—outlines the total breakdown and destruction of society through widespread violence; the failure of martial law to contain the ou...
when a restaurant runs out of something, why is it "86ed"?	As you'll see in [this article](_URL_0_) there are a number of theories, none of which are confirmed and all of which have problems. I think as the article states at the end that the most likely answer is that it rhymes with "nix," meaning eliminate or negate. Wouldn't shock me to learn that a bit of rhyming slang ju...	[ "In British English, the term \"restaurant\" almost always means an eating establishment with table service, so the \"sit down\" qualification is not usually necessary. Fast food and takeaway (take-out) outlets with counter service are not normally referred to as restaurants. Outside North America, the terms fast c...
why do we sneeze and why would our body cease all other functions to favor one thing?	We sneeze to clear irritants out of our noses. As a multistep process to keep whatever it is out of our lungs. Our bodies are fallible though, sometimes it overreacts. Like seeing pollen as a dangerous intruder.	[ "There is much debate about the true cause and mechanism of the sneezing fits brought about by the photic sneeze reflex. Sneezing occurs in response to irritation in the nasal cavity, which results in an afferent nerve fiber signal propagating through the ophthalmic and maxillary branches of the trigeminal nerve to...
If the mechanisms of nerve impulses is always exactly the same, how does the brain differentiate between different signals/messages and carry out different functions?	In the same way that when your doorbell rings you go to the front door, and when you phone rings, you pick up the phone, even though both of them use electricity to make the ringing happen. Which is to say that even though the physiological mechanisms are the same, their pathways in the nervous system are not the same...	[ "At the most basic level, the function of the nervous system is to send signals from one cell to others, or from one part of the body to others. There are multiple ways that a cell can send signals to other cells. One is by releasing chemicals called hormones into the internal circulation, so that they can diffuse ...
Do you and I see the same colors?	[Is it possible that you and I see the same colors differently?](_URL_0_)	[ "BULLET::::2. Colors that cannot be seen directly from any combination of retina signal output from one place in one eye, but can be generated in the brain's visual cortex by mixing color signals from the two eyes, or from more than one part of the same eye. Examples of these colors are yellowish-blue and reddish-g...
if liquids in containers above 100ml in size can be dangerous (for various reasons), why does airport security dump the contents of said bottle into a bin (with who knows what else) not that far from people amassed in long lines?	Honestly, you're going to have a hard time finding logic in most of the TSA's guidelines. It's more about security theater than actual security. _URL_0_ Basically, the thought is that if people -feel- safe and secure, they'll act safe and secure. And if people -think- security is high, they won't try to bypass it. It...	[ "As of 26 September 2006, the Transportation Security Administration adjusted the ban on liquids, aerosols and gels. Travellers are permitted to carry liquids through security checkpoints in containers of 3.4 ounces (100 mL) or less that fit comfortably in one quart-size clear plastic zip-top bag. This procedure ca...
Was the Dunkirk evacuation a triumph or defeat for Britain?	The Evacuation of Dunkirk was essentially a defeat (and as close to a rout as it got) for the British Expeditionary Force that had its image turned around due to good PR on the part of the performance of the Royal Navy, Merchant Navy and civilian volunteers who helped shuttle retreating soldiers from Dunkirk, as well ...	[ "BULLET::::- 26 May: Around 850 British civilian ships and vessels help assisted Allied forces of Dunkirk, which would become the largest military evacuation in history. On 6:57 PM Operation Dynamo code name for the evacuation of British forces from Dunkirk took place. Hitler also ordered his army forces towards Du...
why do bytes use metric prefixes (giga, mega, etc) if they don't follow metric standards?	Computers like powers of 2, and people decided that 2^10 = 1024 was close enough to 1000 to use the kilo- prefix. But then some marketers came along, and decided they could make hard drives look bigger if they used 1000 for kilo instead of 1024. So things got confusing. There are some alternate prefices, kibi-, mibi...	[ "BULLET::::- Prefixes for bytes are now used in strictly decimal meaning (as opposed to their binary meaning) when describing disk space, such that an indicated file size of 1 MB corresponds to 1 million bytes, as commonly used by hard disk manufacturers.\n", "A metric prefix is a unit prefix that precedes a basi...
Was there a moral justification given in ancient India for the practice of slavery?	Slavery as in West (west of Indus) never existed in India until Muslim conquests into India(Legally). There were no Historical stories which mention about slavery, other than few anecdotes. Due to high population and economical/social segregation of Varna system, Slavery as seen in west was observed in the west alth...	[ "There are some very notable differences between the way ancient punishment was to be administered and how modern punishment is administered in Hindu societies. If a criminal were to confess to a crime, he would received half of the prescribed punishment in ancient India; however in modern India, confessing does no...
what prevents us from just arranging protrons, electrons and neutrons together in any way we like to create any elements we want and make anything we want out of nothing?	It takes a lot of energy to attach and rearrange those pieces. Think about burning a log: you're rearranging the chemicals by changing the bonds between different atoms, so that you turn cellulose into carbon dioxide and water (and some other byproducts). Doing so requires you to add energy to the system (a match...	[ "The RIS process can be used to ionize all elements on the periodic table, except helium and neon, using available lasers. In fact, it is possible to ionize most elements with a single laser set-up, thus enabling rapid switching from one element to another. In the early days, optical schemes from RIMS have been use...
what was the reason to split programs into interpreters and compilers?	Compilers came first, they took your code and brought it down to machine code ahead of time so it can run directly on the processor quickly when you needed it to. Compiling is/was a reasonably slow process and was done on slow equipment so it was good to do it in advance. You could optimize the code during the proces...	[ "Compilers are not the only language processor used to transform source programs. An interpreter is computer software that transforms and then executes the indicated operations. The translation process influences the design of computer languages which leads to a preference of compilation or interpretation. In pract...
how do some studies (referenced) come to the conclusion that smoking marijuana is not harmful to the human body?	Smoking might induce the body to produce more blood than otherwise, but so would doing something like donating blood. Unless we are to accept that the Red Cross is harming donors it wouldn't be reasonable to consider the minor monoxide poisoning to qualify as a harm on such a report.	[ "Exposure to marijuana may have biologically-based physical, mental, behavioral and social health consequences and is \"associated with diseases of the liver (particularly with co-existing hepatitis C), lungs, heart, eyesight and vasculature\" according to a 2013 literature review by Gordon and colleagues. The asso...
Alexander the Great marched all the way to India. How did he supply his army?	So Alexander the Great's great cause he conquered the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Until he passed over the Indus, all the lands he had conquered had either been Persian satrapies or at least within the Persian orbit. This included everything from Thrace, the Levant, Egypt, Babylonia, Assyria, and Persia itself, all high...	[ "Alexander's march east put him in confrontation with the Nanda Empire of Magadha and the Gangaridai of Bengal. According to the Greek sources, the Nanda army was supposedly five times larger than the Macedonian army. His army, exhausted, homesick, and anxious by the prospects of having to further face large Indian...
When showing teeth (in art, photograph and portraits) became culturally acceptable? And why it wasn't before?	The first question to ask is what message the portrait is intended to convey. Through to the eighteenth century, portraits were primarily commissioned by either the clergy or the nobility and so reflected the social norms and customs of those two groups. In particular, open-mouthed smiling in art was considered somewha...	[ "Although oral hygiene was nowhere near today’s standards, white teeth were prized by the Romans, and so false teeth, made from bone, ivory and paste, were popular items. Ovid shed light on the way white teeth were viewed in society when he wrote the statement, \"You can do yourself untold damage when you laugh if ...
what makes white wines "dry"?	There is a spectrum of wines! Both red and white have it. They range from dry to sweet. That's how you get semi-sweet, etc. It's determined by how much natural sugar from the grapes is left in the wine. You can stop the fermentation process early to make a sweeter wine (or add sugar afterwards). If they ferment unti...	[ "The dry white wine is a wine without sugar (the sugar ratio is generally less than 4 grams per litre). It is a wine very difficult to develop because the balance of the wine is based on only two parameters: acidity and alcohol. This is the wine that the consumer refers to when he speaks of white wine without givin...
A question about intelligent life.	With the exception of some very very exotic and speculative reproductive technologies, no. Evolution is just long-term adaptation to our environment. If, say, our brains start getting smaller because we can offload thinking to technology, then that is the process of evolution in action. If the main standard for mate...	[ "Design that favors the development of intelligent life, argues Behe, is not only demanded by \"the most recent findings concerning biological complexity\", but also by discoveries in the fields of chemistry (he uses the example of the peculiar, life-supporting structure of water), and of cosmology (referring to th...
If I have two quantuam entangled particles at large distance, can I change the state of the far-away particle by changing the state of my near-by particle?	No. Entanglement is nothing more than a correlation between the outcomes of measurements. If you measure the state of the first particle, then you will be able to predict with certainty the outcome of a similar measurement on the second particle. It has nothing to do with controlling the second particle with the first.	[ "Now, if the initial state is very localized in position, it will be very spread out in momentum, and thus we expect that the wave function will rapidly spread out, and the connection with the classical trajectories will be lost. When Planck's constant is small, however, it is possible to have a state that is well ...
What's the deal with the pyramids in bosnia?	You'll be interested in my response [here](_URL_0_), as well as the discussion elsewhere in the thread. I and the others definitely welcome follow-up questions. It's a claim backed by a few people with monetary investments (read: tourism) in the site, based on results that have not been replicated by any one else. I'm ...	[ "The 'Bosnian Pyramid' project is alleged to have done considerable damage to the archaeological heritage of the area, which contains ruins of a medieval capital, Roman observation post, and earlier remains. Anthony Harding, Professor of Archaeology at Exeter University and then-president of the European Associatio...
Is beauty a human invention, or do animals differentiate in a similar way?	This is typically called [sexual selection](_URL_0_) and yes, it occurs in many species of animals (humans included). One good example is the tail of a male peacock. The color, size, luster etc, of the plumage works to attract the females of the species (peahens). This makes for a pretty good example because we too ...	[ "In evolutionary aesthetics theory, there is evidence that perceptions of beauty are determined by natural selection and therefore Darwinian; that things, aspects of people and landscapes considered beautiful are typically found in situations likely to give enhanced survival of the perceiving human's genes.\n", "...
how the mpaa can decide what i get to watch?	Because all the major movie producers agree to listen to what the MPAA says. There's nothing stopping some rogue producer from ignoring them, but you'd have a hard time finding that producer's movies.	[ "The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) film rating system is used in the United States and its territories to rate a film's suitability for certain audiences based on its content. The MPAA rating system is a voluntary scheme that is not enforced by law; films can be exhibited without a rating, although c...
Please join us in /r/HistoryNetwork for an Historical IAmA in 190 with Prime Minister Winston Churchill shortly after the Battle of Dunkirk	Might just have to have a look at that...	[ "On 31 May 1940, Churchill flew again to Paris for a meeting of the SWC, this time with Clement Attlee and Generals John Dill and Hastings Ismay. Discussions were held at the French Ministry of War on the deteriorating military situation with a French delegation consisting of Reynaud, Philippe Pétain and Maxime Wey...
how did samsung not notice note 7s exploding in the testing	There are 35 worldwide reports of explosions or fires from Note 7s, 2.5 million were sold. That's 0.14% that have had a problem. Its very possible that its just bad luck none of the phones they tested had the issue.	[ "In the wake of the recall, Samsung, as well as UL LLC, Exponent, and TÜV Rheinland performed internal testing and analysis to determine the exact causes of the defects. Samsung released its official findings on 23 January 2017. Concurrently, the company announced that all of its future battery-operated products wo...
Can you tell me what this is that fell from the sky?	Really great video that should put bugs above in perspective. (Starts slow for first minute but get super interesting) _URL_0_ (1:27 for your answer)	[ "The original stone is believed to have been approximately the size of an automobile traveling towards the Earth at more than 10 miles per second. The fall occurred in the early morning hours of February 8, 1969. At 01:05 a huge, brilliant fireball approached from the southwest and lit the sky and ground for hundre...
network ports and its exact purpose	No, no. Ports are used so the device, identified by it's IP address on the network, knows which application should handle the data, not so that the network knows where to send the data. It's essentially the same as a ship harbour - the IP address is the coordinates of the harbour, and the Port is the... well, th...	[ "The port numbers in the range from 0 to 1023 (0 to 2 − 1) are the \"well-known ports\" or \"system ports\". They are used by system processes that provide widely used types of network services. On Unix-like operating systems, a process must execute with superuser privileges to be able to bind a network socket to a...
israel-palestine war. which country started and why?	well, this could be a brief answer to your question _URL_0_	[ "The 1947–1949 Palestine war, known in Israel as the War of Independence (, \"Milkhemet Ha'Atzma'ut\") and in Arabic as The Nakba (\"lit. Catastrophie,\" , \"al-Nakba\"), was fought in the territory of Palestine under the British Mandate. It is the first war of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the broader Arab–...
how do payday loans pay so fast?	Many Australian banks will offer loan money to customers as soon as they're approved (at least for personal loans, mortgages can be more complex). Transfers between accounts within a bank are also usually instant. What often takes a long time is transfers between banks. [This is complicated](_URL_0_). Payday loan com...	[ "Payday loans originated in the United States and have been growing quickly in the UK market over the last five years. They offer a relatively small amount of capital (usually up to £500) for a short term, often under two weeks on average (or until \"payday\").\n", "A payday loan (also called a payday advance, sa...
Why are certain people always prone to the virus that causes warts?	Viral infections such as those caused by [HPV](_URL_0_) often exhibit latent, asymptomatic phases. The virus may remain in the host for many years, cycling through periods of heightened activity before being suppressed [but not cleared entirely] by the immune system. So, to answer your question: it's not that they are...	[ "Warts are caused by infection with a type of human papillomavirus (HPV). Factors that increase the risk include use of public showers, working with meat, eczema and a weak immune system. The virus is believed to enter the body through skin that has been damaged slightly. A number of types exist, including \"common...
why hasn't the united states adopted a propotional representative congress?	It has to do with the federal nature of our government. One of the core goals of our Constitution was to give all regions of the country a voice in the government. The way that that was done was to create a bunch of separate, winner-take-all districts.	[ "Representation in the United States Congress is \"geographically based\". Moreover, the Founders explicitly designed the House of Representatives to be an institution that reflects local and regional concerns. These inescapable facts, and the actual history and actions of Congress itself, led many prominent histor...
modern art...i just don't get it.	You know how everyone in your class always tries to colour in the lines? Because pictures always look better when you colour in the lines, right? And the sky should be blue and the grass should be green and if you follow all those rules your pictures will always be pretty. ...And they'll all kind of look like everyo...	[ "Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the styles and philosophy of the art produced during that era. The term is usually associated with art in which the traditions of the past have been thrown aside in a spirit of experimentation. M...
How do printers pick out one piece of paper if they are all stacked up?	Rubber rollers with a lot of friction, spread across the sheet. This is really easy for thin sheets. (text weight paper) Sometimes on the bigger industrial printers they are air-fed. A blast of air separates the top sheet and guides it foreword to a rubber roller. I work with these printers.	[ "Single-sided printers can print both sides of the paper by manually removing and turning over a stack of sheets after one side is printed; however, the user has to manually turn the print job over and re-initialize the printing of the document, with care to ensure that the order and orientation is correct.\n", "...
what keeps mail delivery people from taking your packages?	Aside from the fact the packages are tracked and logged, it is unlikely an individual would want to risk there income for a £10 loot crate	[ "There is a small amount of storage fee (1-2 Thai Baht) when picking up the mail or parcel. Keep in mind that the recipient must track the delivery status by themself via Tracking number provided. So it is recommended to deliver using Registered mail or EMS. Since regular mail delivery service does not provide a tr...
Many galaxies are moving away or towards us. Are there any galaxies that aren't moving considerably, or have more sideways movement than in and out?	Measuring the sideways motion of galaxies isn't something we can really do. However there are nearby galaxies with have negligible velocity (relative to us) in the radial direction; in these cases, you can safely assume that their sideways motion (relative to us) is the larger component.	[ "In models of the expanding universe, the farther galaxies are from each other, the faster they drift apart. This receding is not due to motion \"through\" space, but rather to the expansion of space itself. For example, galaxies far away from Earth appear to be moving away from the Earth with a speed proportional ...
what exactly causes websites to display special characters incorrectly (often quotes or ampersands)	Different character encoding standards. Your computer only recognizes the number that's being sent, not the character. Computers only understand zeros and ones. A computer will assign each letter a different set of 8 zeros and ones, but problems happen when two computers use a different system of matching these numbe...	[ "Because many fonts are designed to fulfill the WGL4 set, this set of characters is likely to work (display as other than replacement glyphs) on many computer systems. For instance you are probably able to see all the characters in the table below, compared to the many missing characters that may be seen in other a...
was meat considered to be something just for the upper class in Europe 900 years ago?	Not at all. Medieval peasants grew livestock and used their produce for their own sustenance - chickens, pigs, goats, and cows were all consumed by members of all classes. If they lived near a river or the sea, they would also probably eat fish as well. The difference between classes, as far as culinary was concerned,...	[ "European consumption of meat remained exceptional by world standards, and during the period high levels generally moved down the social scale. But the poor continued to rely mainly on eggs, dairy products, and pulses for protein. Often they did better in the less populated regions, where wild game and fish could s...
why has china not taken over mongolia and korea but shows irredentism when it comes to tibet, taiwan, islands in south china sea?	This is a [progress of China's borders](_URL_0_) through out history. Notice both Tibet and Mongolia were part of China's Qing (1644 to 1911) dynasty. China's Yuan (1271–1368) dynasty was actually Mongols, which of course includes Mongolia. China broke apart into several warring factions after 1911. Tibet, Mongolia an...	[ "Since the 1960s, China had considered the Soviet Union the principal threat to its security; lesser threats were posed by long standing border disputes with Vietnam and India. China's territorial claims and economic interests made the South China Sea an area of strategic importance to China. Although China sought ...
Where did Yiddish as a language originate?	א שיינעם דאנק פור די שאלה! Yiddish is, as the podcast and others have said, closely related to German. It's got loans from Hebrew, Aramaic, Slavic languages, and occasionally romance loans (beyond what exists in German dialects), and it's got pronunciation differences like a German dialect would. It formed by Jews in ...	[ "Yiddish is a major linguistic creation of the Jewish Diaspora, originating in what is now Germany. It is one of many languages that emerged as a result of the migration of the Jewish people throughout Europe, alongside Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), Italkian (Judeo-Italian), Knaanic (Judeo-Slavic), Yevanic (Judeo-Greek),...
if vegetables are good for you, why do soda, chips, and other "junk food" taste better?	Sugar, salt, and fat are critical for the human body to work. Our brain users more sugar than any other part, salt is needed to conduct electricity, and fat is of course an excellent store of energy. You and I are unfortunately a very old model, stuck in modern times. Human beings haven't had a major evolution in 3...	[ "Most vegetables are low- or moderate-carbohydrate foods (in some low-carbohydrate diets, fiber is excluded because it is not a nutritive carbohydrate). Some vegetables, such as potatoes, carrots, maize (corn) and rice are high in starch. Most low-carbohydrate diet plans accommodate vegetables such as broccoli, spi...
notre dame is getting lots of donations to rebuild and they say it's not enough. wouldn't a world landmark be covered in insurance for catastrophe like this?	From my understanding, neither the maximum amount of insurance possible on the church, nor the insurance bond of the construction company doing the restorations, come anywhere close to the BILLIONS it will take to rebuild.	[ "On Tuesday 16th April 2019, the company's Chief Executive Officer, Patrick Pouyanne pledged that Total will make a €100 million contribution to the reconstruction of the Notre-Dame cathedral after it was extensively damaged in a fire. \n", "Since 1905, France's cathedrals (including Notre-Dame) have been owned b...
What was civilian life like during WW2? During WW2 in US was life in country more or less "business as usual"?	It was fairly different. Though as the war went on, people took the restrictions less seriously and there was always a thriving black market. The main differences were the number of men leaving to join the military was very different, the lack of military age males meant for the first time large numbers of women join...	[ "As well, during World War II, the war effort created work in the cities, and returning soldiers were less willing to return to small communities. With the rise in consumerism, \"places like Cheapside...were casualties of an upwardly mobile society\".\n", "Inside the United States, every aspect of life from polit...
what is the difference between knitting and crocheting?	Knitting uses two needles _URL_1_ crocheting uses a hook _URL_0_	[ "Knitting is the process of using two or more needles to loop yarn into a series of interconnected loops in order to create a finished garment or some other type of fabric. The word is derived from \"knot\", thought to originate from the Dutch verb \"knutten\", which is similar to the Old English \"cnyttan\", “to k...

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