Question: Why do injuries tend to hurt more in winter than in summer?

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 Why do injuries tend to hurt more in winter than in summer?

Generally speaking, we feel more pain in the cold because there is a relationship between blood circulation and nerve pain. When its cold outside and you aren’t dressed up for it, it’s very difficult for your body to heat itself because your heart rate slows in the cold as a way to survive. Our nerves are a network that send signals to the brain -ouch- that hurt! As circulation and heat increase our nerves calm down. The cold is more painful because it increases pressure on our nerves and stiffens soft tissues- such as your muscles. This in itself can increase your likelihood of injury (which is why runners do warm ups and wear sweats!)


Question: How was Beringia (Alaska) habitable during the last ice age?

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 How was Beringia (Alaska) habitable during the last ice age?

The arctic can be thought of as a desert. All deserts are full of life, you just have to know where to look. Plenty of humans have set up and lived in arctic areas, such as the Inuit. There are specific strategies for survival in very cold areas that haven't changed much since the last ice age. You stay inside and sleep a lot, you wear heavy clothing, you mostly eat meat, and you adapt physiologically to the constant cold. Back then, there would have been mammoths, which would have been an excellent food source as well. Nowadays, a lot of food is fish and seals.


Question: there's a lot of different laundry detergents available on the market, is there any actual difference between them? (for colored fabrics, white, delicates, etc)

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 there's a lot of different laundry detergents available on the market, is there any actual difference between them? (for colored fabrics, white, delicates, etc)

AFAIK, the only detergent that is "different" is the one for white fabrics - it´s got a mild bleaching agent in it, to make your whites whiter. Other than that, I think they´re all pretty much the same.


Question: Why do we sometimes close our eyes and squint to recall a memory or work through a problem?

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 Why do we sometimes close our eyes and squint to recall a memory or work through a problem?

Reducing the input of external stimuli reduces the current amount of information your brain needs to process. As a result, that extra "brain power" can be put towards recalling a memory or figuring out a problem.


Question: How do the cones in our eyes detect specific wavelengths of light and why can't we just add more cones to expand our internal color viewing range?

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 How do the cones in our eyes detect specific wavelengths of light and why can't we just add more cones to expand our internal color viewing range?

The specific difference is in the proteins called "photopsins" within the cone cells. These three different kinds of proteins are sensitive to different wavelengths of light. We can't "add more cones" because we don't have the ability to synthesize living cells of arbitrary makeup, and even if we could there is no guarantee our brains would know what to do with them.


Question: How do phone games that advertise paying you (supposed) real money, earn that money?

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 How do phone games that advertise paying you (supposed) real money, earn that money?

They earn money from advertisements and end up giving out only a tiny amount of that. You will find that most of those kind of games are some sort of chance games and have a high threshold to actually cash out. It will then usually have something you can buy to increase your chances either with your points or real money. Things like refilling the timer or entering a draw. Some people may be lucky to get a bigger amount, say $50. But most of it will be something like getting 25cents a day if you're lucky. The company may be getting a couple cents per advertisement viewed but for you to gain 25 cents, you end up watching 50 advertisements. Then there's the people who watch all the ads and spend time but then decide that it will take them too long to reach the cash out threshold which is generally set to around $20 or more. For example, you have 100 people who, in total, watched 10000 advertisements which earned the company $100. One of them won $50 and they're happy, the rest kept only getting 25 cents and have $1-5 in their accounts. To cash out, they need $20. So they have given up. So the company gives out the $50 and have another $50 left which will probably never be given out.


Question: Why does the liver have so much more regenerative properties than other organs?

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 Why does the liver have so much more regenerative properties than other organs?

Firstly, the liver is not a mechanical organ like the heart or kidneys. It’s functions are based entirely on chemistry, not on structure. Any liver cell anywhere can do what a liver cell does. So, if you remove a piece of the liver, the liver still works. This would not work for a mechanical organ like the heart, because the structure of the heart is absolutely key to how the heart functions. If you remove a piece of the heart, you fundamentally alter its mechanical properties. Secondly, the liver is primarily tasked with de-toxifying toxic chemicals, and so it is constantly exposed to toxic chemicals. This constant exposure to toxins causes constant damage to liver cells. So liver cells have to constantly replace themselves as they become injured or killed in the line of duty. Put these two facts together (the shape and placement of liver tissue is irrelevant and liver tissue has a high rate of cellular regeneration), and it adds up to the fact that the liver can regenerate itself far beyond what most other organs are capable of.


Question: If I didn’t want to do jury duty, what’s to stop me from saying I’ll find the defendant not guilty despite any and all evidence or circumstances?

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 If I didn’t want to do jury duty, what’s to stop me from saying I’ll find the defendant not guilty despite any and all evidence or circumstances?

Contempt of court charges. Judges don't think you're funny. If you decide to be a dick, you're going to regret it. Because in his courtroom, ain't nobody got a bigger dick than the judge.


Question: How are bottled/canned drinks carbonated?

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After the drink itself is made (water + flavoring) the manufacturer injects high pressure carbon dioxide into the drink. The carbon dioxide dissolves into the water and stays there until you release the pressure when you open the beverage. If you have a SodaStream or watch a video of one in action that’s the same thing, just at much smaller scale.


Question: What exactly does the derivative of function *f* evaluated at a point tell you about function *f*?

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 What exactly does the derivative of function *f* evaluated at a point tell you about function *f*?

If I understand you correctly, you're looking for a real-world, or some sort of practical use of the derivative of a function. Is that correct? If so, consider some function f(t) for the distance an object has traveled away from some object for some range of t. What is the maximum distance it reaches (what is the local maximum of f(t), and at what time does that happen)? What is the maximum *speed* it reaches? f'(t) is an equation of the slope, or rate, of f(t). Solving it for zero (and in a non-trivial example, a little mathematical test) will tell you the time t that f(t) reaches a local max/min (if you think of a ball being thrown in the air, it would trace and upside down parabola, and at the peak of it, the slope--f'(t)--would be zero). Solving f(t) for that time would give you the max distance. f''(t), the second derivative, gives you the slope of the slope of the distance... the acceleration. Solve this for zero, do the little test, and you've got the point (or points) in time that the object goes from accelerating positively to negatively: in other words, the time it reaches it's max speed. Say this is just a ball, and it travels in a perfect parabola, d(x) = 25-(x-5)^2 = -x^2 + 10x + 50 . The derivative is 10-2x, solved for zero, x=5. 5 seconds (or whatever unit) is when the ball is as high as it gets, and that height is d(5) = 25 units. The second derivative is -2, which makes sense because from when the ball is let go, it is always decelerating from gravity. So that can't be solved for zero like the above one... but d(x) is only valid for x > =0, so simple reasoning says that must have been it's fasted speed. d'(0) = 10 units per second: the fastest the ball moves away from the ground. EDIT: to add to this per your last question, the "cue" that a derivative would help here is that you're looking for the maximum or minimum of a function, or being asked for something that occurs at those points of a function.


Question: Why does slice cheese get mold faster than shredded cheese?

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 Why does slice cheese get mold faster than shredded cheese?

Mold requires a few things to grow. The first is a tiny wee little itty-bitty mold spore, and the second is a nutritious perfectly-moist surface, like a hunk of cheese. The more surface area on a piece of cheese and the more air it gets exposed to or contact it has with slicing blades and stuff, the greater the chances a mold spore (or whole bunch of mold spores) will land on a moist spot and grow, and the resulting mold will start multiplying like crazy to the point where you can actually see it as mold. But shredded cheese is different - it's dryer on its surface because they pack it with a little powdered cellulose (same stuff in paper) coating to keep it separated rather than clumping up. And then they add a chemical called natamycin which prevents mold growth too. Double-whammy. Sliced cheese (not the edible oil product cheap stuff) needs to be moister or it'll crumble, so no cellulose. ...and thus no moist nutritious surfaces that are in contact with the air compared to the sliced cheese... ...and thus less moldy ick a few days later when you spot that package in the back in the fridge and fondly remember that insane 4am pizza party from two weekends ago.


Question: Why do people stick their tongue out at the side of their mouth when concentrating or focusing on a complex task?

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 Why do people stick their tongue out at the side of their mouth when concentrating or focusing on a complex task?

I read one hypothesis that it was a social signal for "don't bother me, I'm concentrating on something". This page makes reference to that, and also that it can be an "overflow movement", an "extraneous physical sign that develops while distracted with a particular motor task." URL_0 This page says it's to cut down on the stream of sensory input that comes from the tongue, making it easier to concentrate. Not sure if I buy that, but there it is. URL_2 And this one says it indicates disagreement or ambiguity. URL_1 In short, we don't really know. Or there are many reasons, which is entirely possible when the tongue is so deeply wired into our nervous systems.


Question: How do designer brands start up? Why can't any clothing label call themselves "designer" and list their products for thousands of dollars?

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 How do designer brands start up? Why can't any clothing label call themselves "designer" and list their products for thousands of dollars?

In Fashion Parlance there are two main types of brands: Designer Brands - like Louis Vuitton, Kenzo, Prada, Stella McCartney, and even Michael Kors. These are all brands that are based on an identifiable designer or personality who is at the root of the brand. These tend to be more eccentric, more daring, the 'identity' is at the heart of the brand. The truth is if you're a major entrepreneur, you don't want to create a 'designer' brand unless they already have a recognizable name or are very skilled at identifying what customers want this season and preempting that. So there's another option: Premium Brands - like Coach, Diesel, G-Star, Marlboro (yes, you can dress like your favorite cigarette mascot), Seafolly. They call these 'fantasy' names that give an impression of a lifestyle rather than hinging it to a personality. These tend to be less daring. They are more customer (and supply chain) focused. If you're a entrepreneur or an investor in a Premium brand and the current creative team isn't delivering results, you can fire them. In fact sometimes it's a problem if they become too famous like Tom Ford as head of Gucci, he was very media savvy and made it very clear that he was designing products which caused a problem for the Gucci group as he made himself indispensable once he brought the company back from Bankruptcy. He's even created his own brand under his own name now. > Why can't any clothing label call themselves "designer" and list their products for thousands of dollars? They can and do! Red Bull the energy drink company just created one called 'Alpha Tauri', you got 700 euros to blow on a raincoat? In 2005 cigarette company Dunhill spun off a Luxury Fashion products brand.


Question: Why can't phone service providers offer spam filtering in the same fashion that email service providers do?

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 Why can't phone service providers offer spam filtering in the same fashion that email service providers do?

Because the phone companies wouldn't make money. They buy and sell on a per minute basis of a connected call. Filter out a spam call? That's a few minutes of profit not earned. Email providers don't charge per email, just a flat rate (or ad-supported fee), so they don't care if they deliver a spam message or not.


Question: How come low unemployment rates don't directly translate into higher wages?

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Because wages are also a signaling mechanism. If you operate a business, you've got employees at all levels and you pay those employees enough to keep them happy enough that they don't leave. That means what you pay them is strongly related to their expectations. People expect to be paid around the industry standard for their profession. They expect to be paid in accordance to their years of service/experience. They expect to be paid based on their level in the company. They also expect to be paid more than they were in the past. If you violate these expectations, you'll end up with workers leaving - even if their pay is competitive in the market. So let's say you've got a line of widget wranglers. You pay all of them $10/hour. Unemployment drops and you simply can't find new widget wranglers to replace the ones who retire or drop out of the workforce at $10/hour. So you offer $12/hour to new hires. How do you think that makes your existing employees feel once they find out? Probably pretty angry. So before you can offer $12/hour to new widget wranglers, you've got to give all your *old* widget wranglers $12/hour. Which means giving a raise to all their supervisor so they're not being paid less than their subordinates - which means giving a raise to all *their* supervisors, etc. Now you've give a company-wide raise to everyone just so you can hire a few widget-wranglers. Suddenly a recession occurs. Now you've got a massive payroll you can't afford. But you can't simply cut wages - your employees would feel insulted and leave. So you're losing money hand over foot simply because you needed a very junior level of employee. The alternative? You could have simply not hired that extra widget wrangler at $12/hour and waited it out until you found someone willing to accept $10/hour. The latter strategy is almost always the more sensible one.


Question: If I'm standing still and holding a cup, and I spin around holding the cup, the liquid doesn't spin around with the cup. Why?

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 If I'm standing still and holding a cup, and I spin around holding the cup, the liquid doesn't spin around with the cup. Why?

Well, another way to look at this is: Why *would* the liquid spin? I mean, it's not attached to the cup - just sitting on top of it. What actually happens is that when you spin the cup, the glass touching the water gently tugs the water along with it. This means that the "outer shell" of the water *does* spin. The rest of the water, however, takes a while to get with the program, as the force tugging on it is mitigated by the "shell" acting as a lubricant and allowing the water and glass to slide past each other. Eventually, the water *will* catch up with the glass, and if the glass then stops spinning the water will continue spinning for a while for similar reasons.


Question: Why do a lot of individuals displaying psychosis have similar delusions?

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 Why do a lot of individuals displaying psychosis have similar delusions?

Have you looked into the way [schizophrenia is experienced differently in different cultures ]( URL_0 ) ? Some of the mechanisms are the same, but the experiences are very different.


Question: How does printer ink not bleed through to the other side of the paper?

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It would if you used too much of it. But modern inkjet printers use microdrops of only a few picoliters per dot. There's just not enough ink to bleed through.


Question: Why is water so enjoyable even though it has no taste? [Other]

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 Why is water so enjoyable even though it has no taste? [Other]

All water has a taste. Some waters taste good, and others like Dasani and Aquafina taste like plastic. Tap waters taste very different from city to city, and filtered water tastes different from reverse-osmosis water


Question: Why do I, along with a lot of people I know, find it far more natural and convenient studying from printed papers rather than from a computer screen?

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 Why do I, along with a lot of people I know, find it far more natural and convenient studying from printed papers rather than from a computer screen?

Resolution and screen orientation. Paper has a smoother image as the dots from the paper are finer and can bleed together. And your typical desktop monitor is landscape while written documents are formatted in portrait. Meaning you have to scroll up and down a lot. I once had a monitor on a rotating base, so I could switch the monitor to portrait. That reduced, but didn't eliminate my need to print. Now, I've found a Surface Pro or iPad Pro has high enough resolution and can be oriented in portrait, greatly reducing my need to print documents. And being able to do markups on the screen with a stylus is great.


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The generation of gamete cells (spem and eggs) is messed up by the odd distribution of chromosomes. These gamete cells therefore end up with the wrong mix of genes to create an embry that will survive the mother's biological error-checking.


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The most useful thing I was ever taught by a math teacher was that if you don’t know if/how something works, try it with simpler numbers. Take the equation y = 6x. Obviously your slope is 6, but how did we get there? You’ll notice that in every main function equation the slope (often referred to as “m” is attached to your x value) take for instance slope-intercept form: y = mx + b and point-slope form: y - y1 = m(x - x1). The expression is always x time slope, so how do you isolate slope? you take out an x from the value by division (dividing by an x will lower your exponent by 1) the part about multiplying by the original exponent is a bit more complicated though.


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It's all to do with the type of muscles involved. Your leg muscles aren't being used 24 hours a day 7 days a week but your respiratory muscles are. They both have different functions, one will only be used sometimes and the other will have to be used for the rest of your life. They are built a little differently. Muscles have different types of fibres inside which can be one of two things: a fast twitch which has full power for a short amount of time or a slow twitch which is more relaxed but lasts much longer. The muscles for breathing have a lot of slow twitch fibres and also have a lot of blood vessels to help bring nutrients to the cells and to take away a lot of toxic by-products. When it contracts it contracts with just enough force to breathe but also without causing any extra effort or causing you to become tired. But the moment you force yourself to breathe deeper and stronger or if you're exercising is when the full force of the muscles are being used and the fast twitching fibres take over and tend to get tired if they do too much. These muscles also have a lot of "energy" stored within them so that it will always have fuel to burn and a way to keep contracting. A lot of energy is sent towards the parts of the body that need it the most such as the heart, brain and diaphragm because that's the absolute most important part, the rest of the organs are meh and don't need dedicated fuel reserves or priority. Think of it like this; what's more important, having enough oxygen to live or having enough energy to move your arms and legs? The body will prioritise oxygen and being alive over moving around so naturally we've evolved to make sure those muscles have top priority and will almost never tire out or mess up.


Question: How do flies land on the ceiling?

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I had no clue. Looked it up. They fly normally, lift their front legs over their head and grab the ceiling, then flip the rest of the body up. Then they have sticky glue secreted on their feet to stick. Study showed the walk using three legs so they don't have to work so hard to dislodge all of their feet when walking. The More You Know. 🌈


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A battery is in simple terms, some metal that is involved in a chemical reaction which frees up electrons. This process causes the metal to corrode, serving as the chemical energy source of the battery. The specific vary by battery chemistry and layout, but the corrosion can flake off to reveal fresh metal or some other reaction can occur that clears up the electrolyte enough to work a little more. In short, batteries are chemicals reactions that cause physical change, so various things can happen. Be careful playing with them. [Electrochemistry: Crash Course Chemistry #36]( URL_0 ) 9 minutes


Question: Why is it wrong to call someone 'black' or 'white' when it is perfectly fine to call someone 'tall' or 'short'(they're both physical attributes)?

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it's not wrong to recognize someone's race. People get uncomfortable when it's brought up when it doesn't need to be, because a lot of people bring up race to play into stereotypes


Question: Blue light is suddenly an issue, hurting our sleep, but generations before us watched TV before bedtime, bathed in so much blue light. What's the difference?

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The issue is we have much brighter technology and have actually studied the effects. Previous generations also had black and white televisions or much smaller screens to look at, plus no cell phones so the amount of blue light they viewed was greatly reduced.


Question: Why does hunger come and go in "waves", even if you don't eat anything?

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The hunger sensation you feel is not a result of your stomach being empty, nor a requirement for food. The sensation is caused by the hormone ghrelin. It is produced to stimulate appetite to encourage you to eat. Sights and smells can stimulate ghrelin production, but also learned behaviour in regard to food timing. This is why you will feel hungry at breakfast time, then the sensation goes (regardless whether you've eaten or not) only to come back again at lunch time.


Question: When companies are bought/sold how are billions of dollars transferred and how complex are the transactions?

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Cash is typically transferred via wire transfers, although the sale can include equity in the purchasing company, stock warrants, or a number of other options as well. From the legal side, those deals are very, very complex. There’s a reason you need lots of lawyers on both sides to execute these deals. If you want to learn more, check out the book Anatomy of a Merger. Edit: never mind—see if your local library may have the book. It’s expensive af.


Question: How often has obesity genetical factors, and how easy it it to battle it?

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Genetics determine where you store fat and have some say in how prone you are to compulsive eating, but ultimately the base metabolic rates are about the same for each person. If you eat less than you burn, you'll lose weight. Genetics cannot defy basic thermodynamics. Consider that the obesity rates have skyrocketed in the last few decades. If it was genetic that would imply that a "fat gene" appeared and spread through the entire population in just a single generation, which isn't possible.


Question: What goes on in the brain when someone has mood swings?

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If you can imagine how your mood would suddenly change if I injected you with adrenaline and tons of caffeine, that's also sorta what's happening with any mood swing. In a way, mood swings are not a bad thing on their own: if a bear suddenly appeared and charged at you, a mood swing to fear and fight/flight response is pretty good.we only refer to it as a mood swing when it's socially undesirable for someone to react that way. So what causes some brains to respond "undesirably" with a rush of certain neurotransmitters or patterns of brain activation? For teens, it's probably just because 1) their brains are still developing; the regions that are supposed to control their behavior are not mature yet and 2) they're still learning what's socially appropriate. For adults, some brains are just less sensitive than others. I don't mean emotionally sensitive. I mean in the sense of like game controller sensitivity, or mouse cursor sensitivity. Humans come with natural variation, so some brains are "tuned" to react strongly and very easily to situations that other brains don't. This tuning is some combination of genetic and learned. The genetic part is, for example, that some people naturally have more of certain types of neurotransmitter receptors than others. ... So yeah. Put all that together, you get mood swings in general, and the reason why some people are more prone to them than others.


Question: Why does boiling water soften potatoes, but hardens eggs?

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The composition of potatoes and eggs are different thus resulting in the different changes when they are subjected to high temperatures [via the boiling]. Potatoes contain starches in a compact form known as granules and when they are heated they swell and absorb water. This makes the straches more soft and allows us to digest them easier. Eggs are known as a good source of protein because they consist mostly of protein in liquid form. When these proteins are heated they undergo a process called denaturation which is the breakdown of the original structures of the proteins. The new forms of the proteins then form a solid structure.


Question: How do firms like Bain Capital profit from Toys ‘R’ Us and other companies they buy?

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u/bucksalty is correct in his answer, but I'll add something. If you want to take a look at a private equity buyout that is 1) similar to Toys R Us, 2) more typical (and successful) and 3) also participated in by Bain - take a look at [Dollar General]( URL_0 ), who reported earnings this morning. In 2007, Bain, KKG & Goldman Sachs bought Dollar General which was struggling and failing, took it private, and completely fixed it. They took it public again in 2009. Since then, Dollar General has added ~7000 stores (and it will add 1,000/year for a while going forward), and has added 84,000 good-paying jobs (plus another 12,000/per year going forward) to ultra-rural communities where there are no other jobs. This is obviously a positive thing. Bain/KKG/Goldman, plus a host of other (myself included) have all profited from this turnaround. And before I get the "you're just a shill" bullshit - I'm not defending Bain at all. I just want people to understand that 1) ch7 bankruptcies are pretty rare (if they were common, private equity wouldn't exist), and 2) private equity has fixed **a lot** of companies that you've never heard about. Just be sure to consider all sides of the picture. edit - typo


Question: Does a magnet's force ever run out?

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Sort of. Heat causes molecules to become more disordered, and that order is necessary for a permanent magnet to do its thing. If you raise a magnet above that material's "Curie Temperature" it will lose its magnetism rapidly. At room temperature the effect is much, much slower. Not zero, but very slow.


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'Hot 'and 'cold' are skin sensations. The other skin sensations are 'touch', 'pain', and 'itch'. Each of these can be broken into more areas -- e.g. light touch, deep pressure, etc -- but those are the basics. When you touch an extremely hot or cold object, this also triggers your pain receptors. Your skin and brain respond more quickly to pain, so the first thing you know is, "Argh! That hurts!" From there, the brain has to guess what has caused the pain, so it can take appropriate action quickly. This depends on what you have been primed to believe by experience. If you touched a pan, the answer is probably "it's too hot", but if you touch water then "it's too cold" is more likely. Your brain fills in the gap until the "hot" / "cold" signal arrives. This is one of many ways in which *expectation shapes sensation*. If a freezing cold knife was pressed against you, you might feel momentarily cut; a small electrical shock from a pointy object might feel like you'd been pricked; and, more abstractly, riding in a car is more likely to induce travel sickness than driving the same car. Some portion of these expectations are also subconscious and shaped by evolution: the historic human is much more likely to experience cold water than boiling; more likely to be stabbed than electrocuted; and more likely to be experiencing disorientation due to food poisoning than due to travelling in a vehicle.


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Lots of animals that have more complex brains, like dolphins, rats, and gorillas, have been known to laugh. If the animal is sophisticated enough to have emotions, they can laugh, or their species’ equivalent thereof. It’s often a limitation in their vocal chords or mouth anatomy that prevents it from sounding like a laugh to us. Their laughter isn’t exactly motivated by wether or not something is “funny” by human standards, they’re not going to watch some sort of monkey parody and crack up, but they will laugh in response to joy, or in the case of rats, being tickled.


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The "miles" originally correlated to distance travelled - you might earn 1000 "miles" by flying 1000 miles with that airline. This could then be cashed in for discounts on a future flight at a significantly reduced rate, like any customer loyalty program. Today, "miles" is just the name used for the points earned, as there are many more ways of earning points and there is often no longer a direct correlation to distance traveled.


Question: Why is mint the optimal flavor toothpaste and mouthwash?

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We strongly associate the sensation of mint with coolness & freshness. Naturally, toothpaste/mouthwash companies want you to feel fresh when you use their product, as that will make you trust it more - so they flavour it with mint. Mint contains a compound that is sort of the opposite of capsaicin (found in chillies) - it tricks your body into thinking it is experiencing cold.


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Most often, "deleted" data isn't actually gone. The computer simply removes its reference to it -- like scratching out a chapter in the Table of Contents without actually tearing those pages from the book. Similarly, when new data is written over old data, it may not be enough new data to completely fill the space of the old data. Back to the book & chapter analogy; imagine now writing one page of text into that "deleted" chapter. Because the other 15 pages are still there, you can continue to make decent sense of that chapter.


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Pretend your brain is a library- You dont want all of the work problem books mixed in with the childhood memory books! So, you make sure to organize your library and keep all the books where they belong- that way they dont cause a mess or problem and you can keep enjoying your library. Basically you keep your emotions and feelings in certain areas, that are usually less "well traveled " so that they dont interfere with your daily life stuff.


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Most police departments are taxpayer funded. Where do you think the money is going to come from?


Question: why do they need silence in tennis?

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 why do they need silence in tennis?

In tennis, you will notice the sound of the racket hitting the ball. That sound is a tiny clue as to the speed and spin of the ball, which is significant to the players. Distractions from that sound can alter the outcomes-supposedly. And the crowd needs those sounds to fully appreciate the nuances of the game as well. There is some controversy over the grunting that some players make when serving especially. The grunting is a distraction and also disguises the sound that the receiver might hear to help guide them.


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 If the cold virus is so common throughout the world, and has been for a long time. Why have we not become immune to it?

There is no singular common cold. It's actually manifest symptoms for a wide variety of similar but distinct viruses. Your immune system will usually come away from a cold able to fend off the version you had, but there are so many floating about and in constant flux, that the chances of you only ever encountering that one flavour of virus again are practically zero. So unfortunately it's just a numbers game. There's a whole heap of cold viruses out there to catch. Like sniffly Pokemon.


Question: Why is Christianity, Judaism and Islam called the Abrahamic Religion?

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 Why is Christianity, Judaism and Islam called the Abrahamic Religion?

Because they're all techically the same religion, just at different points in the narrative. They all trace their roots back to Abraham. Judaism stops at the end of the Old Testament. Christianity stops after the New Testament. Islam adds onto the above with the Quran. I know there is WAY more nuance than that, but that;s the ELI5 summary


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When you compress a gas, it gets hot, when you expand a gas it gets cold. Your air conditioner compresses a gas so it's hotter than the outside air, then cools it down to the outside temperature, then brings it back inside and expands it, so it's cold enough to absorb heat from the inside air.


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 Why are we being instructed to use Airplane Mode during flights?

They usually don’t. Back in the old days where there was no regulation for radio frequencies, you could have a radio transmitter that would interfere with the airplane’s own radio equipment. Nowadays there are set bandwidths for each type of device, so commercial phones/devices will not interfere with airplane-grade transmitters.


Question: why do modern vr headsets need powerful pcs to run videogames?

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Modern vr headsets have 2 different screens in them(one for each eye) so thats already double the processing requirements in terms of graphics alone. Also, steady and higher framerates are needed to not only help visuals but prevent motion sickness further increasing the already doubled graphical requirements. There is also extra processing required for motion and positional tracking for headsets and controllers. There are also a few other additional processing additions, but those are probably the most significant


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 - What is the scientific explanation for feeling your heart drop?

It’s a palpitation. When something abruptly interrupts the rhythm of your heart, you can experience a variety of odd feelings. The heart drop feeling is basically a fear-induced palpitation.


Question: How did our measurements of temperature(Celcius, Fahrenheit, and Kelvin) come about?

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Fahrenheit's just weird, so we'll get to him later. Celcius makes sense. People saw that shit could get hotter or colder, and that this was seemingly limitless, so they just picked a point to call zero. For convenience, they chose the temperature that water freezes to be zero and the temperature that water boils at to be 100. That's easy enough, eh? Only later, we found out that there actually *is* a 'coldest temperature' - this temperature turns out to be -273C. *Absolute zero*. It turns out that this temperature is actually pretty important for some physics/chemistry, and so a new scale was invented. Kelvin. They used the same degrees as celcius for convenience, but shifted everything over so that 0 kelvin is absolute zero, so you will never see something at negative degrees kelvin. Fahrenheit is like celcius, but the temperatures chosen were a lot more random. A kelvin-analogue for fahrenheit was made, but because fahrenheit sucks for scientific stuff anyways it was never used much. I forget its name. ------------ Gonna add more in an edit in a bit When measuring things at room temperature, kelvin is overkill, since all of your temperatures will be in the hundreds. As such, celcius and fahrenheit are still regularly used for normal activities. As for other measuring systems, that's its own question.


Question: Why is it that right before we fall asleep our thoughts stop making sense?

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The widely accepted theory is that the brain is going through its thoughts that it had throughout your period of consciousness, causing fragmented memories/thoughts about things that, like you said, are very disjointed and make little to no sense.


Question: Why is clean water tasteless?

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Water is the default solvent for terrestrial life. You have in all the time on your mouth and on the taste receptor cells. So that is the default state and you filter it out as no taste. Even your own saliva when it is in your own mouth do not taste anything even if it contains other stuff then water for the same reason.


Question: If hydrogen was the birth element of all other elements, then what birthed hydrogen into existences?

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 If hydrogen was the birth element of all other elements, then what birthed hydrogen into existences?

Sub atomic particles formed into protons and electrons. Those protons and neutrons became attracted to one another and created hydrogen. The entire history of the world has an extremely simple view of how it worked, but it still is accurate for the scale it is on.


Question: How cold does it get in a man-made vacuum chamber?

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That depends on the temperature needed. Vacuum isn't cold, in and of itself. The small amount of gas in a vacuum chamber can have whatever temperature you want and radiation can be used to warm up any other objects inside.


Question: Hydrogen is the most abundant chemical in the universe, but we don't actually see it. How can people actually "gather" and store it and use as fuel?

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 Hydrogen is the most abundant chemical in the universe, but we don't actually see it. How can people actually "gather" and store it and use as fuel?

Having the ability to see something is not a requirement for being able to store it or use it. I mean, we can't see helium but we can collect and store it. We can't see air but we can store it and separate it into its constituent gases. Most of the hydrogen we collect is as a byproduct of oil and natural gas extraction, but there are many other methods, like electrolysis of water for example. It's all just chemistry.


Question: How far can electricity travel down a power line?

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 How far can electricity travel down a power line?

A far as you like. Some will be lost to the resistance of the line (it becomes heat). That heat is sometimes called I squared R losses, because it's proportional to the resistance (R) multiplied by the the square of the current (I). So you can reduce the amount of loss by reducing the resistance (not really practical) or lowering the current. But how do you send the same amount of power at lower current? Up the voltage! That's why long-distance transmission lines use such high voltages. Which is one of the reasons we use AC power; it's much easier and cheaper to change voltages with AC power than with DC power, so you can transmit it long distances cheaply and with little loss, then make it safe for consumers to use.


Question: How do animals recognize other animals of the same species for mating when some species look very similar?

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Two things: How do you recognise your family/friends? They don't look the same to each other. There is also if two species do interbreed in MOST cases it cannot produce offspring, if it can they are most likely sterile.


Question: What does the vice president do?

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The Vice President has a lot of official and customary duties. Officially, he (it's always been a he) serves as the second in line should the president be incapacitated for any reason. That requires him to attend many of the same national security briefings and be up to date on much of the US's diplomatic and military endeavors since he may be required to act as president at any time. The VP is also president of the senate, and is occasionally involved in procedural matters and allowed to cast a vote in the event the senate vote is tied. He also verifies the electoral vote count. Unofficially, the VP is a high ranking US diplomat, important adviser to the president, and often involved in treaty negotiations and diplomatic visits. These aren't specifically outlined in the Constitution or Senate rules, but has become the primary role of the VP since the mid 20th century


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 why do popcorn companies put the nutrition information for both popped and unpopped bags?

Two factors here, size and absorption. In the US, the FDA ensures that you are accounting for all the food in your package. This matters because when you pop in the bag, you are changing the product in manner that is going to make the *useful* food you get out of it different than what they have to account for. Say what???? So in an unpopped bag, they have X amount of popcorn, and Y amount of fat. Then unpopped info is going to add up all the stuff and tell you what's in it. But when you pop it, you're changing the structure of the popcorn and removing it from the bag. When you do that, you're going to leave a lot of stuff behind. The oil/fat the popcorn pops in gets absorbed into the bag, in a measurable way. They then provide you with the average nutrition information of the popped popcorn *after accounting for the stuff that gets left behind*.


Question: What is the Austrian School of Economics?

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The fundamental principle of Austrian economics is that we can use logic and reason to understand economics without resorting to statistics to confirm our theorems. This is called an 'a priori' science, although the founder of the school, Menger, would call it an 'exact' science. It's worth noting that science in the Austrian sense of the word is more philosophical than our modern day conception, but that's a whole can of worms in and of itself. Beyond the view that we can deduce laws of economics a priori, Austrian economics is radically subjectivist in its normative claims. Another commenter said it is 'good' if a business fails in hard times. An Austrian would be more nuanced than this: you must always ask 'good for who?'. You might say it is good for the economy as a whole, but this misses the economic point that the economy is becoming more efficient when a business goes under. For the business owner, you might say it is obviously bad that he went out of business, but good that he can divert efforts elsewhere now and perhaps make a profit. In short, any value presuppose a valuer, and thus we cannot objectively evaluate good and bad qua economics. In philosophy and ethics, there is no consensus among the Austrians. Readers of Mises are subjectivist in their ethics and economics, while more Randian types are objectivist in their ethics and subjectivist in their economics. I hope this is helpful. Feel free to follow up with any confusion. If you would like to read more consider von Mises, Menger, and their intellectual forefathers, Bastiat, Ricardo, Smith. Good luck!


Question: Why do batteries run out of power, but magnets seem to stay magnetic indefinitely?

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Batteries generate power, and in doing so, the chemical energy stored in them is consumed. Magnets are not a source of power. Just like a rock, If you lift it up and let go it falls. You can do this over and over again, however, and the rock's "go down-ness" is never used up.