Question: how tellurium 128 has a half life older than the universe itself. Weren't lighter elements created first?

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 how tellurium 128 has a half life older than the universe itself. Weren't lighter elements created first?

(category: Physics) yes, lighter elements were created first, but that doesn't have **anything** to do with half-lives. heavy elements like tellurium are created when a star dies in a so-called supernova. half life is a statistical term, an atom can decay at any moment, the half life just says how likely it is. what the incredibly long half-life of tellurium 128 tells you is that it's "basically not radioactive and instead a pretty stable element", meaning you still find almost all of the tellurium 128 ever created.


Question: how is it that so many children, independently come to the thought that they may not step on pavement lines?

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 how is it that so many children, independently come to the thought that they may not step on pavement lines?

When I was little, there was this old superstitious rhyme that said “step on a crack, break your mother’s back.” I’m not sure if kids today also grew up with this though...


Question: how are VISA and MasterCard not the most valuable/largest companies in the world since so many credit card transactions are subject to their fees?

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 how are VISA and MasterCard not the most valuable/largest companies in the world since so many credit card transactions are subject to their fees?

the fees they collect are licensing fees. they don't process credit cards, they don't issue credit cards, they don't loan people money. all those fees are collected and managed by others. Visa and MC are in the business of marketing their brand. (to some degree they support their brands by developing security systems for their cards too.) otherwise the only time they get a fee is when you see their actual logo (on a card or on a sticker on the storefront or on the capture machine.)


Question: What stops someone who wants to get into the US illegally (from Mexico for example) from simply saying they are going on vacation to the US but never leaving?

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 What stops someone who wants to get into the US illegally (from Mexico for example) from simply saying they are going on vacation to the US but never leaving?

Nothing. Overstaying the visa is a very common way (the most common way?) of staying in a country. That's why the wall makes no sense, people don't walk across a vast, dangerous desert if they can just land at LAX and grab a taxi.


Question: What financial regulation has been applied the the World’s largest banks since the economic crash of 2008 to stop it happening again for the same reasons?

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The main change to financial regulation post-2008 is the Dodd-Frank Act from 2010. It created (or restored) restrictions on trading the kinds of securities that caused the 2008 crash. Of course, bankers don't like crashes either, so they rarely happen again for the *exact* same reasons. That's why Dodd-Frank also created a bunch of new agencies and mechanisms to try to find the *next* source of financial instability and quash it. 9 years (even 9 years without a crash) is not long enough to evaluate whether it does this effectively. It also has provisions for how the government is supposed to behave in the event of a crash - the fact that regulators bailed out some banks but not others seemingly at random contributed a lot to the panic that fueled the 2008 crash.


Question: why does heat make you tired?

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Because your body increases blood flow under the skin surface. Your heart rate is actually higher when it's hot. Dehydration can make you feel tired as well. Overheating will limit the amount of physical work you can do (your body communicates it as fatigue to stop you from overdoing it).


Question: What actually gives notes (money) any value?

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The value of the valueless paper is created because it is backed by a government or a people, it represents that much value. It used to be that one dollar represented a certain amount of gold but because America is not off the gold standard it is backed only by the belief that the money has value. This concept is shown well in fallout, where the people use bottle caps as money. They have to inherent value but the people have agreed that it is worth more than the simple material


Question: When they were first trying to break the sound barrier in planes and achieve a sonic boom, how did they know something would actually happen considering they’d never done it before?

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 When they were first trying to break the sound barrier in planes and achieve a sonic boom, how did they know something would actually happen considering they’d never done it before?

There were reports of planes being damaged in combat at high altitude and going into a steep dive before the pilot could parachute out and some weird things happening to the plane.


Question: Why cant gas cars use diesel and vice versa?

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Gas cars can’t use diesel because it doesn’t burn as easily and the engine won’t run well, furthermore it’ll ruin your catalytic converter While Diesel engines could in theory run on anything that burns, they are designed to take diesel fuel which is much more lubricating than gasoline, so the pump will break along with other stuff They both might run on the wrong fuel for a while, but not well and not for too long


Question: How does popcorn work? What makes it explode when the same doesn’t happen to normal corn?

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 How does popcorn work? What makes it explode when the same doesn’t happen to normal corn?

Corn has a lot of sugar in it and a lot of water. At the same time the shell allows a lot of pressure to build up when the water boils inside the corn. Once the shell bursts, the sugars, starches and fibers are exploded outside by the expanding water vapor and then quickly solidify as a foamy solid. Normal corns does not have shells that hold the water back from evaporating, no pressure is build, once the water is gone the starch starts to burn.


Question: How can gentrification be bad for a community?

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 How can gentrification be bad for a community?

So while the house may go up in value the property taxes could also increase. The cost of living goes up. Things become more expensive. The culture changes. And grandfather clauses aren’t always in place. Not to mention that wealthy people can vote for policies and representatives that will repeal protective policy that helps the former residents. It’s not very beneficial to all people living in an area that gets gentrification. Just the current property owners looking to sell and get out anyway.


Question: Why do hot things make everything above them look wavy and distorted?

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Light through space is unaffected by *air*, so things like the sun won't cause THIS specific effect. However, light travelling through our atmosphere - i.e. the *air* in your kitchen - will be affected by this heat, especially over, say, the area of a pot or a fire pit. This change in air speed will also affect the bouncing of light around the room in that specific area. And, because the heat is constantly being carried away from the specific bit of air it came from, it gives the person viewing that area a wavey look as the air itself moves, and the light bounces off of it in different ways


Question: Why does hearing your own voice sound different to when somebody else hears it, or when you listen to it on video?

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When you are speaking, your voice gets transmitted to your inner ear very efficiently by direct bone conduction through your skull, which gives a richer sound than is heard by anyone else (or by yourself in the form of a recording) when the sound has to pass through the air, instead of the bone.


Question: How can films be re-released later in a higher resolution?

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Because they were recorded on film and film doesn't really have a resolution. Film is analog. You can always go back to the original film to get a high resolution version.


Question: Is it more fuel efficient to quickly accelerate to a certain speed and keep it or to slowly accelerate to that speed and keep it?

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Physics tells you it doesn't matter, if you want to take 2 tons and get it from 0 to 67 mph (30 m/s) then you need to add 1.8 MJ of energy. Whether you apply that energy over 6 seconds at 300 kW or 60 seconds at 30 kW, the total energy is the same Engineering then pops in to let you know that you're not working with infinite ideal heatsinks and frictionless bearings and that slower is better, but only to an extent Your engine is most efficient at peak torque, that is when you get the most force from a given volume of air/gas. That point is generally around 3000 RPM while peak power (fastest acceleration) is generally around 5000-6000 RPM. It is most fuel efficient to accelerate at peak torque the whole time then drop down into cruising speed, how fast that has you accelerating depends on your car and the engine. Accelerating much slower than that ends up making things worse because your engine consumes a certain amount of fuel just to keep spinning regardless of load so at extremely low load this baseline fuel consumption can dominate the fuel consumed to give you the power and give really crappy numbers. This baseline fuel consumption is another reason why traveling around at city speeds is less fuel efficient than cruising on the highway even if you aren't stopping, while your car does need less power, its not consuming proportionately less fuel because of this offset required to keep it spinning


Question: How can computers solve algebra without dedicated hardware for it?

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One of the fundamental concepts of computer science is that, with some caveats, any general-purpose computer hardware can be programmed to do anything any other computer hardware could. Practically speaking, there are cases such as graphics cards or sound cards that are designed to do perform large amounts of specific calculations more efficiently than a general-purpose processor, and then there's quantum computing which seems to be able to do certain tasks astronomically faster than traditional computers, but in all of those cases there's still nothing stopping any old processor from doing those tasks, it'll just take longer. In the case of, say, breaking cryptography, that might end up being billions of years longer, but things like that seem to be the exception rather than the rule. The bottom line is that there are very few situations in which you *need* dedicated hardware to do something.


Question: What is a musical key? And therefore what is a key change?

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A key is basically a collection of notes that sound good together. When you write a song in a specific key, you only use the notes from that collection. If you change keys, you change the notes used to write that portion of a song. An oversimplified example would be writing the first half of the song only using A, B, and C then switching to only writing with A#, B, and C#.


Question: During Hyperinflation, How is the Public Made Aware of Lost Purchasing Power so Quickly?

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 During Hyperinflation, How is the Public Made Aware of Lost Purchasing Power so Quickly?

You buy something on Monday and when you go to buy it again on Wednesday it’s dramatically increased in price. Generally there’s no snail mail, email or vmail notification…


Question: Why do some people find mathematics hard no matter how hard they study? for example Geometry. Is there a reason behind why students struggle a lot in this subject compare to other classes?

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One of the biggest challenges in math is it is very incremental. You can probably pass a test on World War II without knowing anything about World War I, but in math, if you don't have a solid foundation, everything built on it crumbles. And by solid, I don't mean remembered just enough to pass a final. I mean true understanding. If you don't have a deep understanding of arithmetic, algebra is going to be very hard. Solving for x gets really hard if you can't remember that subtracting a negative is the same as adding. Similarly, you need to know algebra cold if before you can take a shot at calculus. I once had a math tech tell me that calculus was easy, it is the algebra behind calculus that was hard. And algebra is easy, it is the arithmetic behind algebra that is hard. If you are struggling with all three at once, you are going to have a bad time.


Question: Why does your hand/body part go numb when you lay on it for too long?

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The blood carries nutrients all the cells in that limb, which includes nerve cells. When you cut off circulation for a bit of time, the nerve cells begin to shut down and eventually die. During this shutdown phase, they are unable to send and receive signals, which is why you lose your sense of touch, temperature, and the area goes numb. When you reintroduce blood to the area, the nerves can then send the “something’s wrong” signal, which is the pins and needles sensation you get.


Question: How/why is Elon Musks Australian battery farm such a gamechanger in the energy business, especially in regards to fossil fuels?

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Because energy generation like wind, tidal, and solar aren't consistent. It's easy to shovel coal into a furnace around the clock, but the sun is only out during the day. With large battery stores, power can be generated when the conditions are favorable (regardless of draw) and stored for when conditions aren't favorable. It makes solar, wind, and tidal much more viable for large-scale power.


Question: Where does transferred money go while its processing?

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It goes nowhere. Digital money doesn't exist. Transferring money is nothing more than subtracting a number on one database and adding a number on another one. However, because a lot can go wrong if you get those numbers mixed up, they have all sorts of additional checks to do before adding the number to another database to make absolutely certain that the addition isn't a mistake. Those checks take time. Physical cash may be transferred between banks at a later date, but until then, the banks essentially hold accounts with each other. When someone at Bank A sends you at Bank B £300, Bank A's account with Bank B becomes £300 in debt, which is added to all of the debt Bank A and Bank B have with each other.


Question: The color white reflects all colors. Then what does a mirror do?

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 The color white reflects all colors. Then what does a mirror do?

A white surface is a diffuse reflector. The light that falls on it is reflected in several directions, so it reflects the average light that falls on it in every direction. A mirror reflects the light that falls on it is a non-diffuse way, maintaining the relative position and angle of the light rays.


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 Why is sadness and anger linger with us a lot longer than happiness?

Anger and sadness are emotions caused by a problem and until that problem is solved it's hard to get rid of the emotion. But solving a problem is always worse than not having it to begin with, so even by solving it we are still affected by it. In some cases it is even impossible to solve the problem so we are stuck with the feeling. Furthermore we want to prevent that problem from occurring again, so we stay occupied think about it, reinforcing the emotion. And it might be out of our ability to prevent it, so we keep thinking about it until we finally give up and resign. If we compare it to fear - which imo is a stronger emotion than anger or sadness - we can see that fear almost always has a defined end point. And it is much more in our control to prevent/end it. But at the same time fear that is out of our control is alot more devastating than other emotions. Positive emotions are rarely a problem, so we have no reason to keep thinking about them. TL;DR Problems always outweigh positives things, because they require us to take action. That's why emotions caused by problems are always stronger/more longevity than positives ones.


Question: Does the Sun appear white when you are out of the Earth's atmosphere?

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Yes. The sun emits a wide range of wavelengths of light including all those in the visible spectrum and thus appears white. The high-detailed pictures where you see yellows, oranges, and reds required special filters to take and transpose image data so we can see the details.


Question: Why is electromagnetic induction not limitless energy?

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Lenz's law states that any induced current will always create an opposing magnetic field, effectively limiting the amount of energy which can be induced in a coil to < 100%. This opposing magnetic field is one of natures many forms of maintaining the law of Conservation of Energy. Also, the change in flux from a degrading natural magnet would be so small, the induced voltage would be virtually nothing, so resistance would reduce it to literally nothing. It wouldn't even be enough to power a single transistor.


Question: Why do most people who win the lottery reveal their identities?

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It primarily depends on the state. Most states require the winner to publicly announce their winnings. Other states, South Carolina for example, allow the winners to remain anonymous. Basically, if you want the money then you better be prepared for a photo.


Question: How do they get words or images on latex balloons? What kind of substance is it that it stretches with the balloon?

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It isn't any kind of special ink that magically stretches. They inflate the balloon to its expected capacity and print the image/text onto the balloon while inflated.


Question: What happens to a car battery internally, that causes it to “go bad?”

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Car batteries are two thin sheets of lead alloy, separated by a solution. As the battery charges, lead is plated from one plate to the other. As the battery discharges, the process is reversed. In an ideal world, the lead ions would be perfectly uniformly distributed in the solution, and the plates would remain completely flat. So, that's not how it really works. One plate gets a little bump from random concentration imbalances. That makes the gap between the plates a little smaller. The smaller gap makes that point a more active part of the battery. Over time, a little stalagmite starts to grow toward the other plate. One day, it touches, and the battery has an internal short. Lots of heat in generated, and the plate might be damaged, or even crack and come loose. Not to worry, there are a couple dozen plates in each cell, and the other ones are working fine, for now. Over time, more plates are damaged. that's why it's bad to run a battery dead, this is the stage where the maximum plating effect occurs, shortening the overall life.


Question: Can a particle in the absolute zero state freeze a particle in the plasma state? Will the plasma particle freeze or will the absolute zero particle melt?

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 Can a particle in the absolute zero state freeze a particle in the plasma state? Will the plasma particle freeze or will the absolute zero particle melt?

First of we cannot achieve absolute zero. This is known as the 3rd law of thermodynamics. So your question is invalid. Also when we speak about individual particles temperature and heat stop really making sense. Thermodynamics is a classical theory and to describe individual “particles” we need a quantum theory.


Question: How did all goverments determine how much currency is made to not get inflation?

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I researched this a few months ago so I’ll state what I found. Currency gets their values from the ratio of their supply to their demand. When the demand for the currency is higher than the supply, its value increases. When the demand is lower than the supply, its value decreases. Simple Law of Supply and Demand. Therefore, to avoid inflation of currency, just avoid printing too much money that the demand won’t keep up with the supply.


Question: How can Amazon Prime video know which actors are in which specific seems for every single second of a video?

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Someone actually watches it and tags them. A lot of tv and video stuff like this is just done manually. While it may seem like a lot, people just power through and get it done.


Question: I am sitting in a room with two identical speakers that are producing the same single note at the same volume. One is moving. This should change the way their waves add up, so the combined sound will vary between being doubled and canceled out, yet this doesn't happen in practice. Why?

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> the combined sound will vary between being doubled and canceled out, yet this doesn't happen in practice This *does* happen in practice: I do a demo exactly like this in my intro physics class. However, it doesn't always work as well I'd hope, and the reason why answers your question. Sound waves tend to reflect around the room a lot. So as you move your speaker around, you're hearing the sound from each speaker, plus sound that reflected off the walls, the floor, furniture, etc. These add together in complicated ways, so you almost never get perfect cancellation or superposition of all the sound waves.


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Powershell is the NEW command prompt. Cmd really only lets you run - from a dos prompt - the applications in your path (environment variable) or in the local folder which you normally could run by finding the executable in Windows Explorer. You can "script" cmd by using batch files, but DOS/Windows .bat file syntax essentially is just what you could type line by line in a cmd window, nothing more. In order to interact with files, system parameters, registry values or running applications you'd have to write a cmd executable program to do so. Powershell on the other hand does everything cmd does, but includes support for plugins and scripting - if you like, its very similar to a UNIX/Linux style "shell" - it can launch programs, interact with running programs, can be scripted and provides APIs to maniupulate files, parse file contents etc. if you ever find yourself cursing while you attempt to troubleshoot a complex .bat file, seriously look into Powershell scripting. So much nicer.


Question: What allows heat to cast a shadow?

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Light is bent or refracted by whatever it passes through. In a room of uniform temperature, the light is bent the same way everywhere so you see a uniform image. Heat causes turbulence in the air so the light is bent in a more chaotic manner. You're seeing this as a wavy image in the shadow. This is also what causes mirages and the wavy pattern that one can see on top of a car hood when the engine is hot. This happens not only to light, but any part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Radio signals are disrupted in the morning and the evening, thermal inversion. As the air quickly heats up or cools down, the radio waves are distorted by the same effect. Thus causing a distorted signal and static in the radio program you're listening to at those times.


Question: Why are some allergies so common, like peanuts?

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 Why are some allergies so common, like peanuts?

Because parents have made peanut allergies more prevalent by not giving peanuts to their kids because they're scared they have a peanut allergy.


Question: Why do we need lenses on cameras? What does a photo look like when taken without a lens?

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You can compare it to a box. The bottom is the sensor area, and the top is the opening pointed at the scene you want to capture. If you just simply open the box: all the light goes into the box from all angles. So a specific point on the bottom of the box receives light from a lot of different angles. The sensor would just see a white blur. So the problem here is that light falls onto a part of the bottom from all directions. Pinhole cameras solve this problem. You close the top of the box, and only make a very small opening in it. Then each point of the box only receives light that falls exactly straight through the hole onto that spot. [The image is inverted this way, but that's not a problem.]( URL_0 ) What ís the problem with pinhole cameras is that you block out a ton of light, and we would like to use that light. So lenses provide a way to open the box, let in all the light, but focus it in a way that a single point on the sensor only receives light coming from a single direction.


Question: Who is the World Health Organization (WHO) and what are the benefits/disadvantages of being part of it?

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It's an agency of the United Nations. Its task is to coordinate the response to internationally relevant public health risks, to coordinate vaccination campaigns between countries, to give public health policy advice. There's no advantage to not being part of it.


Question: What is Coinstar and how does it work?

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They're machines that count large amounts of loose change and let you exchange it for more easily spendable paper money. They're normally found in grocery stores and the like. You dump your money in, it counts it, you get a slip which you can exchange for money. The store takes a percentage of the money to offset the cost of running the machine (and some will give you 100% of your value if you spend it in store). As for how you count money, it's just a matter of having a machine that tests the size, weight & magnetic behavior of each coin in order to properly identify it.


Question: Why was Aristotle's successor, Theophrastus, not renowned as his predecessors? Aristotle was taught by Plato, who learned from Socrates

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 Why was Aristotle's successor, Theophrastus, not renowned as his predecessors? Aristotle was taught by Plato, who learned from Socrates

Aristotle et al. are famous because the books they wrote survived for thousands of years. Long after they died, copies of their books were made in libraries in the Middle East and studied by academics in Europe. This allowed their work to be shared widely, translated into many languages, and most importantly, preserved from destruction. By contrast, we know very little about Theophrastus. According to [Diogenes]( URL_1 ), he was a very influential philosopher in his time, and he wrote a massive amount of books on all kinds of topics. However, almost none of Theophrastus's books have survived to the current day. This means we don't know about most of his ideas, and most of the things we do know about him are from other people mentioning his work. > How far Theophrastus attached himself to the Aristotelic doctrines... can be determined but very partially owing to the scantiness of the statements which we have, and what belongs to this subject can be merely indicated in this place. > > [\-Dictionary of Greek and Roman Mythology]( URL_2 ) That being said, we do remember Theophrastus for his contribution in certain fields. He is considered the "father of botany" for his botanical books, *Enquiry into Plants* and *On the Causes of Plants,* which survived to the 15th century and were highly influential in the European Renaissance. Wikipedia article for further reading: [ URL_0 ]( URL_0 )


Question: How were elements like hydrogen and helium found hundreds of years ago without being able to see them?

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Even today we can't 'see' elements but like many years ago we identify them based on their differing physical and chemical characteristics. Melting points, reactivity with other chemicals, electromagnetic spectra, to name a few of the early techniques.


Question: How many potential lethal pathogens/cells are killed by our immune system a day?

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 How many potential lethal pathogens/cells are killed by our immune system a day?

Depends on what you mean by "lethal pathogen." Technically, any microbe can become lethal without our immune system, including innocuous and even friendly bacteria. That's why AIDS is so devastating, microbes that we're normally totally immune to can suddenly take root in our body and devastate us completely. As for a number, I don't think anyone could accurately give you that. A vast amount in all likelihood.


Question: why do we eat maple syrup but not pine syrup or elm syrup or oak syrup?

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We can and do eat birch syrup, walnut syrup, and the syrups of a few other trees. The key isn't as much the sugar content, the key is that the sap needs to be relatively neutral tasting, because of how much it has to be reduced to thicken it. The saps of deciduous hardwoods (maple, birch, etc) seem to work especially well here. As far as why maple, I suspect it just tastes the most pleasant, although certainly it is to a large degree cultural as well - consider by analogy how almost any grain or fruit can be used to make alcohol, yet the large majority of world alcohol is made only using a few specific grains and fruits.


Question: Why is "0! = 1"?

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A factorial represents the number of ways you can organize *n* objects. There is only one way to organize 1 object. (1! = 1) There are two ways to organize 2 objects (e.g., AB or BA; 2! = 2) There are 6 ways to organize 3 objects (e.g., ABC, ACB, BAC, BCA, CAB, CBA; 3! = 6). Etc. How many ways are there to organize 0 objects? 1. Ergo 0! = 1. This is consistent with the application of the gamma function, which extends the factorial concept to ~~non-positive integers.~~ all reals EDIT: except negative integers!


Question: why do certain foods like brownies and lasagna taste better when their edges are bordering on burnt?

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 why do certain foods like brownies and lasagna taste better when their edges are bordering on burnt?

It's due to what's called the Maillard reaction: (copied from Wikipedia) The Maillard reaction (/maɪˈjɑːr/ my-YAR; French: [majaʁ]) is a chemical reaction between amino acids and reducing sugars that gives browned food its distinctive flavor. Seared steaks, fried dumplings, cookies and other kinds of biscuits, breads, toasted marshmallows, and many other foods undergo this reaction. Alton Brown also discussed it in depth a few times in his fantastic cooking show called Good Eats. Great show if you like learning how to cook, not duplicate recipes.


Question: How come when you have spotty cell service, turning your phone on and off airplane mode gives you better service?

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It forces your phone to reconnect to the closest/best towers. Your phone caches which towers it usually connects to and continues to connect to them. Restarting the phone or resetting the communication settings (toggling airplane mode, settings - > general - > reset - > reset network settings (iPhone), etc) does the same thing.


Question: - Why does peroxide poured into a cleaning case to clean your contact lens turn to water overnight, but the peroxide left in the bottle does not?

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 - Why does peroxide poured into a cleaning case to clean your contact lens turn to water overnight, but the peroxide left in the bottle does not?

Peroxide, given the chance, will slowly decompose into water and oxygen. This process can be sped up by a catalyst (the platinum disk in the case), especially if the catalyst is heated. At low concentrations, this is fairly slow and pretty benign. However, more concentrated peroxide (sometimes referred to as high-test peroxide) decomposes so violently that it can be used as a monopropellant in spacecraft, such as Soyuz descent module. It also powers the turbopumps and vernier thrusters on the R-7 (Soyuz) booster.


Question: why does a balloon explode when you puncture it, but does a tire slowly deflate?

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Because a balloon is a thin stretched membrane where tear will spread. A tire is a lot less stretched, thicker and reinforced so it can sustain the forces on it. You can reinforce a balloon with just a bit of tape and then puncture it trough the tape and it will not explode just leak slowly.


Question: How are non-contact thermometers able to determine temperature?

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Because hot objects glow a colour that gives their temperature away. You can see that with red-hot metal, for example. If you could see in the infra-red, you could tell the temperature of cooler objects in the same way.


Question: How do certain mental illnesses (schizophrenia for example) cause hallucinations (both auditory and visual)?

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 How do certain mental illnesses (schizophrenia for example) cause hallucinations (both auditory and visual)?

(1) To the best of my knowledge, we don't necessarily understand *exactly* what causes hallucinations to occur. However, we have identified strong correlates such as hyperactivity of the dopaminergic system, irregular activity of the serotonergic system, hypoactivity of the glutamatergic system, lower hippocampal volume, and many others. (2) To be a stickler, *all* perception occurs only in the brain. You *sense* with the eyes, ears, fingers and so on, but the final product of what you see, hear, and feel is all brain-based. This is precisely why hallucinations feel genuinely real to those that experience them, as the brain activity is equivocal to normal perception. Also, perception does not involve the brain sending reciprocal signals back to the sensory organs. (3) Hallucinations are operationally defined as *stimulus-absent* perception. In other words, no light is reflecting from a surface and striking the retina, and no sound waves are traveling to the eardrum. Essentially, the brain regions responsible for visual and auditory processing are overly active when they should not be. As to why this occurs, leading theories point to a neurodevelopmental perspective which tends towards a prenatal focus (i.e. something went wrong with how those areas were wired, or how those areas are regulated, as a result of harmful experiences while the baby was developing in the womb). (4) The disconnective aspect of hallucinations is addressed by cognitive theories. To greatly summarize, hallucinations may reflect impairments in working/short-term memory, as the person may not remember that the voices they're hearing are their own internal monologue (and interestingly, when we paralyze the vocal chords, auditory hallucinations cease to occur).


Question: Why does spring water taste sweeter than mineral water?

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There are two parts to this: 1. The mineral make-up of the water influences its flavour. A water from any given spring will taste slightly different to the water from another given spring. The same is true for mineral water - depending on the makeup of minerals in that water, it may well be sweeter than water from another spring. 2. The psychological effect. People generally can't tell the difference between tap water and bottled water if they aren't told which is which: URL_0 > hese results indicated that the participants could not distinguish between the two water varieties and that the indistinguishability of the water varieties was statistically significant.


Question: Can people be sensitive to lightning or thunder storms?

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This is a good one. I know that if you were to capture a landscape on film during a thunderstorm and in superslowmotion you'd be able to see tentacles of lightning coming out of the ground prior to the impact of the lightning. For all I know that could cause a static field. Im unsure about the ring if it's possible that would become a conductor or have a current running through it due to that phenomenon. I'm also very curious if people can explain this one. Fun fact by the way. It's better to be hit by lightning directly than a strike close-by. If the lightning starts running along the ground I could go up your leg and down the other. The greater the distance between your feet the more dangerous it will be. That's why you'd sometimes see dead cows without a clear impact damage to the body.


Question: What is the business and occupation tax and how does it work? (WA state)

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Washington State doesn't have an income tax. So what they do for businesses is put this B & O tax on their revenues. It will vary based on what industry the business is in. According to [this link]( URL_0 ) the tax rate is .00471 (.471%) for retail businesses. Unlike income tax, this is a tax on gross sales (revenue) not income. So say you own a restaurant and sell $1,000,000 worth of food. You would owe .471% or $4,710, even if you had $1,100,000 worth of expenses and lost $100,000. In almost all states, if you lose money (expenses are greater than revenues) as a business, you would not owe income tax, but in WA you still owe this B & O. Apparently cities can place their on taxes on top of the state rate as well.


Question: What does “life at low Reynold’s number” mean?

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It refers to a paper that details motion for microscopic life. The Reynolds number is a science/engineering term for the amount of inertia in a moving fluid. Low Reynolds number means low inertial forces, which means viscous flows (like molasses or tar). At microscopic scales, there’s very little inertia. Swimming through water for a microbe is like us trying to swim through honey. Because of this, microbes have to move in ways that don’t use inertia, so they rely on things like a flagellum for motion.


Question: why do certain containers cause the liquid to disastrously pour down the side but others don’t?

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 why do certain containers cause the liquid to disastrously pour down the side but others don’t?

Everyone here is talking about properties of water cohesion and viscosity, but OP specifically asked about why certain **containers** pour well while others don't. That has to do with the type of spout, or the way the glass/plastic is shaped at the top of the container. You generally need a very sharp edge, or a very crisp curve at the end of the spout. The material of the spout also matters, and you tend to want surfaces that your liquid doesn't stick to as easily. If it's just a smooth rounded top, especially of glass, water will happily stick to the gentle flow over the curve and drip right down the sides of the glass rather than slide off the edge for a smooth pour. Sharper edges don't allow this, water can't stick to it and it just pours right off the end. The thing with your typical glass drinking glasses, is they generally have very smooth edges because that feels gentler on our mouths, rather than the more geometrically sharp edges you'd see on something like a plastic milk jug. This is why trying to pour water slowly out of a drinking glass causes the water to disastrously pour down the sides, while pouring the same liquid out of a plastic bottle is successful. The drinking glass has soft rounded edges on the top for a more comfortable feel on your lips, while the bottle has sharper curved edges for pouring. The only other variable is speed at which you pour, a faster pour gives the fluid more energy and forces it to fly off the edge and not drip. That's why if you really have to pour water of a drinking glass, you have to pour it quickly if you want to avoid a mess.


Question: When scientists say celestial objects are X distance from Earth, how do they determine the start and end point of the measurement?

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Generally we measure center to center because that's what makes sense from the standpoint of gravity, and also surfaces are irregular, but because of the vast distances involved, the distance between the center of an object and it's surface are meaningless. I mean, The closest star to us is 41.32 trillion km. The 6,371 km difference between the Earth's center and its surface is difference of 0.000000015%. Also, when we're talking about the distance to other celestial bodies like the Moon or planets, we're usually talking about averages, because planets are always moving closer to and farther away from each other as the orbit the sun, and all orbits are elliptical, which means the moon's distance changes depending on where it is in its orbit.


Question: Why does a nuclear explosion cause an iconic mushroom cloud? How does this happen and why not with other "regular" explosions?

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A lot of explosions do. Its not something peculiar to nuclear explosions. All that's needed is an explosion sizeable enough to throw a lot of particles in the air and you will see a "mushroom cloud" whether its nuclear or not. Edit. I think the idea of mushroom clouds being a nuclear thing is due to all the iconic images of nuclear tests during the 40s and 50s. It just imprints itself in the minds eye. In reality look at images if soldiers in Iraq and Afganistan for instance. When they are blowing up buildings, you can see the same clouds, albeit on a smaller scale.


Question: Why is it that when you go over text with a yellow highlighter multiple times it doesn't get stronger in intensity, but it will for almost any other color of highlighter?

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I believe this is because of the value of the color. Value is the amount of white or black in a given color. Think of value on a scale of 1 (pure white) to 10 (pure black. The lower on the scale a color is, the lighter it's value. The lighter the value, the less change you'll see when adding more light value. This is the same for darker values when applying darker values. Values in the middle or near that change as you add more white or more black. On the color wheel, the majority of the colors are in the middle/darker end of value. But yellow is on the lightest end of value, closer to white. (Example, think of writing a sentence on a white sheet of paper with different colored pencils. The hardest color to see, because its so close to white, is yellow.) The medium of which the color is applied also matters. In the case of paint, the more layers you add, the brighter the color, but that's due to the opacity of each layer as it's applied. Now with highlighters the same logic applies. A yellow highlighter or marker is extremely light in value, and according to value, adding more white doesn't change the brightness. Adding more yellow to yellow doesn't really alter it's value and that's because it 1.) Catches a lot of light. 2.) The amount in each layer is exactly the same or close to it as markers/highlighters are typically controlled amounts of pigment released with pressure. With other colors, you get two different effects. Color that darkens because the color you're using has more dark values to it. Adding more layers makes it darker (you see this with reds, blues, purples). Or, the color appears darker as you add more layers because it doesn't catch as much light, therefore everytime you add a new layer, you are able to see the soaked area catching less and less light (you see this with greens, oranges, pinks, and lighter blues).


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 How come the extreme pressure at the ocean floor isn't making the water boil? (Like high pressure areas on land equals higher temperatures) I've heard the temperature underwater actually goes as low as 33°F

Forget about temperature for the first part. Water is made of molecules. Molecules in liquid water are relatively free to move, but they are still slightly attached to other molecules, so they don't "escape". When water becomes a gas, the molecules escape. If we increase pressure, we constrain the motion of these molecules. Water at higher pressure needs more temperature to boil, because we don't let the molecules escape freely. The second part, temperature. Pressure alone does not increase temperature. It's necessary to compress something (change its volume) to introduce energy (which, in part, increases temperature). Liquids have a hard time changing its volume, so it's very difficult to change their temperature by compressing them. Finally, water at the bottom of the ocean is cold not because of the pressure, but because cold water is denser than hot water, so it sinks. In equilibrium, water at the bottom is colder than water at the top. Edit: Remember, PV=nRT only works for ideal gases. Water is not an ideal gas, especially liquid water.


Question: How Cuba has the best doctors in the world?

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 How Cuba has the best doctors in the world?

Two reasons: 1. Fidel Castro invested heavily in Cuba’s healthcare system after the revolution. They put a lot of money into making sure that they have good healthcare — and good doctors. 2. Cuba is not able to export a lot of resources, because of embargo’s and other bans on trade. Because of this, they see doctors as an export that can’t really be regulated. It’s a really useful political tool as well, all fo whcih gives them incentive to keep their healthcare system at a really high quality.


Question: Why can't we quickly clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?

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Have you looked at the size of the Pacific Ocean? It's over _16 billion hectares._ What size of machine do you think could quickly strain through all that?