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You want spenders to have cash to further the economy. Man with 30 million gets another million, that money is getting invested, not moving the economy. 1000 people making living by the paycheck get an extra 1,000, that money is immediately getting pumped into the economy. Also, you want to encourage people to work, not live off government subsidies.

The short answer, we don’t make as much money as they did. Slightly longer answer: US household median income in 1970 was $9,780 which has a buying power of $64,700 in today’s money. The current median US wage is 61,800, about $3,000 less or effectively 5% less money available per year than they did. Next, median home sale price in 1970 was $23,600 or $155k in today’s dollars. The median sale price in Jan 2018 was $330k; double what they were paying ‘back in the day.’ So, you have to spend on average 25-50% more money to get a home with 5-10% less money. This is all due to wage stagnation relative to productivity and inflation. Or otherwise said, wages did not keep up with the cost of goods and your dollar just doesn’t go as far.

A mole (or melanocytic nevus) is an often benign local overgrowth of melanocyte cells. Melanocytes are the cells responsible for making melanin, a dark skin pigment. That's why many moles appear brown or dark - the large number of melanocyte cells make lots of melanin, which give the mole its colour. There are numerous types, some depending on which layer of the skin the cells are from. Usually you're either born with them or you get them within the first 20 years of life, then they tend to stick around. We go through surgery to remove them for two reasons; either the person with the mole wants it removed for cosmetic reasons, or a doctor suspects the mole may actually be a melanoma - a particularly nasty type of skin cancer. If there's any indication the mole is a melanoma, it's removed, usually with negative surgical margins, which means you cut out an area of skin around the cancer that contains entirely normal cells (so you can be sure you cut it all out and didnt leave any behind). The removed bit of tissue is then sent off for testing to see if it is anything to worry about or not - that's called a skin biopsy.

Men have the same rights as women when it comes to abortion. They both have the right to terminate a pregnancy that is happening in their bodies, within the limits of the law. With current technology, all pregnancies exist in female bodies and that is why men don't get to choose to terminate their pregnancies. Men are never pregnant, so it wouldn't make sense for them to terminate a pregnancy. Saying men don't have a right to abortion is like saying women don't have a right to have their prostate removed. The right is there, they just don't have prostates to remove. What you are talking about is a financial abortion, which is unavailable in most countries. Here, men and women have the same rights too. Neither can choose to financially abort a baby because society has decided that the baby's rights are more important than the parents' financial autonomy. You may argue that financial abortions should be allowed and that is a discussion worth having. Just don't frame it as men and women having different rights because they don't. They have the same rights, but one of them lacks the body parts needed to become pregnant, thus making it impossible to actually exercise the right to terminate the pregnancy.

The best metaphor for this is to imagine the universe is 2D, not 3D, so it's basically on a plane, like stars are painted on a sheet of paper. Now imagine it's not a sheet of paper but the rubber surface of a ballon. Now imagine the ballon is inflating. More and more space (the surface) is created, it is expanding, but it's not like it is expanding "over" empty space: the space itself is expanding. (This metaphor creates some misunderstanding as well, but works well for your question. Here is where it fails: it leads you to think you need some "3D" space outside/inside that 2D "universe"; you don't actually need that to explain our universe).

Do you mean when you hear a recording of it? Most people dislike hearing recordings of their own voices, because they sound "wrong". When you hear your voice as you speak, a lot of the sound is being transmitted through the bones in your head. This leads to your voice sounding deeper when you speak. No one else hears your voice this way. When you listen to a recording, you hear yourself as others do. But it sound unnatural to you.

The exact mechanism by which they amplify the power of the dark side and upset the balance of the Force is unknown, and always has been. Theories abound, but really? The Sith had been actively corrupting the Republic leadership for decades if not centuries in preparation for war, fostering hatred and anger and suffering everywhere they went. And now we know that in addition to that, the Sith had a shrine buried deep under the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, and Palpatine was using that shrine to basically deafen the Jedi to the Will of the Force, spreading its effects and corrupting the Temple above it.

To understand what's going on here, it's necessary to talk a bit about Kodak. Until the early 2000s, Kodak and Fujifilm were happily doing what they do best - manufacturing the top of the line photographic cameras. Yes digital cameras were starting to be produced by competitors like Sony, Canon, and Nikon; but all Kodak needed to do was make better and better cameras of both types in order to stay ahead. By 2010, digital cameras had become completely commoditised, and the only way to compete there became on cost. Worst still, smartphones were wiping out even the digital camera industry, making film doubly obsolete. In the meantime, Fujifilm had successfully diversified to provide imaging for healthcare and pharmaceutical purposes, and commercial document solutions, that meant it's cameras and film segment was now only 15% of total revenue. By 2012, Kodak had already filed for bankruptcy. Since then, Kodak has been struggling along bleeding cash year after year. It tried to play catch up with Fujifilm by moving into the commercial segment, but that failed. In 2018, it announced a move into Blockchain technology to create a cryptocurrency for photographers, which also failed. Now it's announced a desire to use it's film production chemical process to create pharmaceutical chemicals instead. To do this it's being extended a $750M loan (not a handout) to overhaul all its factories. These chemicals it intends to produce seem to be all generics, which is a supply chain dominated by India and China.

Because it was more or less invented there. Distillation was invented in the east but it was used to make perfumes, not alchohol. When the Italians got their hands on the process they discovered they could distil liquor from wine and from there the process spread via the network of monasteries throughout Europe. When it got to Ireland, they made whiskey. Trivia: Whiskey is the anglicised version of an Irish phrase, **uisce beatha** (Ishka Baha), water of life.

We are technically still in an ice age, called the Holocene, which started 2.6Mya. That 3 massive ice sheets (Arctic, Greenland, Antarctic) still exist, and that year round alpine glaciers still exist, is the reason why. Once they are all gone, you could say the ice age was over. We are in a warm period of that ice age called an interglacial period, which is why it isn't as cold as you think of an ice age.

It's an accident. The leading theory is that allergies are the normal immune system responses to actual illness. Since we live in a much cleaner society than our ancestors, your immune system notices it is not getting used enough and assumes that the issue is that it's failing to detect diseases, rather than that the diseases aren't there. So it turns its sensitivity up to 11 and starts attacking random stuff like pollen and food.

Since normal people actually only use a small fraction of the water and most of it goes to agriculture. It is to hoped that the government would restrict the use of water for things like growing alfalfa. Alfalfa makes up 15% of the water used in California and most of it gets shipped to Japan and China. That is right currently while draught is going on the government is paying farmers to export 1/6th of the water used in California overseas. So the sane worst case scenario would be government stepping in and restricting farmers from using water for luxury or export crops like almonds and hay and possibly paying them for their losses. The humans could live of the water California has left even though a server drought. It is the farmers who are going to have serious problems and through them the taxpayers who need to keep them from going bankrupt.

I don't see why it would be weird; it's always nice to stay in touch with people you had a good relationship with. Ask them how they are, how they handled the pandemic, what they're working on right now; tell them about the cool stuff you're doing in your PhD. Just do it, don't overthink it.

It's been ten years since I've read these books, but presumably there was a natural portal to another world. It probably wasn't intentional by some powerful being, but rather these things naturally occur sometimes; think of in Alice in Wonderland, where the portal to Wonderland just naturally occurs in the woods in the form of a rabbit hole. It's not horribly uncommon for various portals to other worlds (be they planets, realms, or dimensions) to just appear in otherwise innocuous places, and they may be temporary or they may be permanent.

One approach is to try to render the narrative that is being presented implausible in some way. For example you might imagine a counter-example or 'edge case' scenario where applying the narrative as given would lead to repugnant or absurd consequences - consequences that you don't think the author you are engaged with would want to accept or which would problematicize other aspects of their philosophy. Of course you need to be careful because these authors aren't stupid and have put a lot of thought into what they're saying. And you also want to be charitable, meaning among other things that you should try to understand and adopt the author's definitions of their own terms. Also, don't be afraid to be wrong, because you are going to be. It's the exercise of engagement that is useful in its own right, and which deepens your understanding through experience.

The darkened skin is a kind of scar tissue. How a wound heals and what kind of scar it forms (light vs. dark, raised vs. indented) depends on a couple of different things that vary during the healing process like hormone levels, wound care, and general health.

The New Conglomerate dogs and the Vanu Sovereignty's tech heads have stolen critical facilities from the control of the glorious Terran Republic. With the advent of rebirthing technology all sides believe (us correctly) that they can capture and defend these facilities in tact. When our troops are cheaper to replace than the bases they assault, why would we risk destroying buildings when we could capture them intact?

Your maximum potential is based solely on your genes. However, in order to reach that height you need adequate nutrition. Anyone eating enough calories to grow and not suffering from malnutrition will grow to their maximum height as dictated by their genes.

The Rule of Two allowed the sith to become more powerful in the long run by eliminating much of the infighting, keeping the sith out of conflict with Jedi, and letting the masters pass on a larger portion of their knowledge to their apprentice. In theory, the master can't be attacked by more than one aspiring sith lord at a time. This means the apprentice has to surpass his teacher to kill him, making every generation more powerful than the last.

2018 US homicide rate: 4.96 per 100,000 people 1991 US homicide rate: 9.71 per 100,000 people We’ve already cut the homicide rate in half in one generation. Where does this false idea that we’ve made no progress and aren’t making progress come from? Not from the data.

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him in so far as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth — whether about the President or about anyone else — save in the rare cases where this would make known to the enemy information of military value which would otherwise be unknown to him.

The Jedi would be persona non-grata, and the galaxy would be in chaos, but the factors leading to it state of darkness and oppression would be gone, so it would be able to eventually recover. Perhaps, after a bit a new Jedi order could emerge and rebuild.

There's no reason they can't mate, apparently dragons are gender fluid to some degree. The problem is that because dragons have been gone for so long a lot of knowledge and research on them has been lost to the ages or is subject to debate, so even if Daenerys wanted them to mate she probably wouldn't know how.

Under normal conditions, nasal mucus is part of the system by which your body inspires air. It is actually a prevention or defense mechanism. When the air goes by, the dust and whatnot sticks to the muscus-lined sides. And then the cilia (little hair) and the mucus move it to the rear of the mouth so that can hawk it up : it's called postnasal drip. When you get a cold, your mucus goes crazy and into somekind of overdrive mode to try to shed the virus or else you got. The mucus-producing cells extracts the "stuff" mostly from your blood (which you have a vast supply) hence the feeling of "TOO MUCH SNOT". You actually produce less mucus than you may think. One experiment showed that on the peak day of a cold the average person produces about 14 grams of drippings, or roughly half an ounce.

First 4WD vs AWD. 4WD is generally used in Trucks and SUVs and is generally not an "all the time" thing, it is just engaged when it is necessary. What takes place is a mechanical locking of the differentials to ensure that all 4 wheels rotate "as one". what this means is all 4 wheels are rotating the same amount which aids significantly in loss of traction scenarios, but you definitely DON'T WANT during daily driving. Wheels need to be able to rotate at individual speeds especially when making turns otherwise tires will get destroyed at best, or at worst you'll end up in an accident or end up destroying the vehicle's drivetrain. AWD utilizes limited slip differentials to enable the engine to drive all 4 wheels at once, which is a happy medium for cars that often find themselves in icy situations. LSDs allow the wheels to rotate at different speeds. now what Subaru offers that others don't: symmetry. The vast majority of a manufacturers lineup is front wheel drive vehicles and then for a premium, you can add AWD functionality. What does this mean? They take their front wheel drive car and slap on a drive shaft and an extra differential and tada, AWD. Subaru only makes AWD vehicles (except for the BRZ which is RWD only) and therefore they make the vehicle with the purpose of being AWD from the beginning. Now in the average vehicle, you have a transversely mounted engine which means the power from the engine comes out towards the driver's side front wheel, That power then needs to turn 90 degrees back towards the rear of the car, 90 degrees again towards the passenger's side, then once in the center, 90 degrees again towards the rear of the car. Every time you have to change the direction of the power, you lose power and create lag. Subaru's use of a boxer engine allows them to not need to change power direction at all before heading towards the rear of the car... therefore the entire drive train and by consequence power output is completely symmetrical. What does this actually buy you? Well Subaru claims a better AWD system; at any rate it certainly buys you more of your engine's power making it to the wheels and slightly quicker.

The ideal in any swordfight is for your first blow to be the fight's last. Blocking your opponent's sword means he can try to hit you back. Cutting your opponent's sword hand off settles things fairly conclusively. Drastic? Maybe. But Master Windu had a reputation of being the deadliest warrior in the Jedi order; if there's any risk of being stuck in a fight with him, you should look for a way out. And Anakin is fully aware that prosthetic hands are available if you need one.

Probably go to Braavos using a smuggler if needed. The Iron Bank has its home in Braavos and banks tend to rely on stability so it's a good indicator that its stable, also the Iron Bank has a lot of sway across the world due to debts its owed. As a successful business man it's safe to assume you have savings in Braavos because of the Iron Bank and the city itself is known for its religious tolerence and openness to diversity so making your home there will be fairly easy. It would be wise for you to also leave a trusted employee or relative in KL while your away to continue your business, if it does get destroyed in a seige or battle so be it, but if it doesn't then, depending on your shop, you might be ready to rake in the money in the aftermath. Even if the war with stannis is decided without the annihilation of KL there is such instability in Westeros it might just be time to leave for good anyway.

Yes, water in the wrong place, basically. Sea level rise is partly from ice on land melting, and partly from the water expanding a little as it heats. But sea ice is floating so melting it doesn't directly raise sea level, although it can unleash glaciers it was previously holding back. Droughts and floods are mainly down to shifts in weather patterns. Even if the same amount of rain falls worldwide, if it stops falling where it used to and starts falling where it didn't there are problems because all the farmers are where the rain used to be.

If we were sure we had all the nutrients (and enough calories to use for energy) then we could live off that. It would be too much to be compressed into pills probably, but some companies do sell powders and shakes that you're supposed to be able to live off of (for example soylent.com). The real question is whether food is providing some nutrients that we haven't discovered yet, that might be missing from this artificial diet.

When you interact with a computer, you're interacting with software that lives in "memory". However, for the vast majority of computing devices, memory can only retain the software while it receives power. There are other storage areas on computing devices that can retain software and data even while powered off. On most computers, that's a combination of BIOS (a special computer chip that contains the basic simple operating instructions) and the hard drive. On a smartphone, it's a special kind of memory that's considered "non-volatile" because it doesn't get erased when the power goes away. These storage places are much slower than normal memory. When a computer boots up, it copies or "loads" the software that it will use from whatever slower storage it uses into its fast storage, memory, so it can operate at the speed you expect.

Take a close look at all the slight variations in way the RNA mutates over time (note: usually they make artificial DNA from the RNA because it's more stable). If two different cases share almost all the same mutations then they're probably closely related. when you look at the small differences between four or five you can begin track backwards which was the oldest in the banching tree of similarities and differences - and which are "cousins" and which have closer "parent/child" relationships.

Yes. The ringing is actually coming from your brain and not your ear. When hair cells in the inner ear get damaged, the brain creates an annoying "eeee" sound becausd it's missing that proper connection. There have been people who had severe tinnitus and got their auditory nerve, from their hearing organ to their brain, cut hoping it’ll make the ringing go away. And they still had tinnitus, if not worse.

Yoda knew that Obi-Wan had no chance against Sidious. Even if both of them attacked Sidious together, Obi-Wan would likely die. Among the Jedi still alive, Yoda was the only one who had any hope of standing against Sidious in battle and living to tell the tale, and Yoda knew it. However, while Obi-Wan would not be much help against Sidious, he would be uniquely suited to tracking down and taking out Anakin.

# Internet IS NOT YET representative of the real world As weird as it sounds, internet is still in its infancy, and had not penetrated society fully. MOST people on the planet never use the internet, or rarely so. Either because they are too old, or too young, or too poor, or live in a country where internet is hard to connect to. Most importantly however, the vast majority of moves and shakers of this world (politicians, leaders, generals, CEO's bank directors etc) rarely ever use the internet and do not participate in its culture. Hence why there is a dissonance between what people write on the internet, what they argue passionately about, and what their politicians end up doing anyway. Internet is the tool of the powerless, and will remain so until the curent 30 year olds grow up to become 50 year olds, and join the cohort of people who actually matter in shaping politics, culture, economy and society.

Other than pinyin, which romanized the pronunciation of the character. There is also the wubi system which codifies the sequence of strokes of the writing of the character. To put it into English sense, the letters a-z are typically treated as atomic elements. You describe 'a' as just 'a'. Nothing less. The wubi system would break apart the writing of the 'a' into: ccw circle, then right-down sweep. 'b' would be: vertical stroke, cw circle. 'c' would be: ccw semicircle. 'd': ccw circle, vertical stroke. 'e': horiz, ccw semicircle Etc etc. Now you can see there's alot of common elements. ccw semicircle, verticals, horizontals. There going to be also left diagonals, right diagonals, hook left, hook right. Each of these can be a key on a keyboard and you can type out the sequence of how to write a letter. once you have each letter's strokes codified, you can then bucketize them by how many strokes it takes to write that letter. 1 stroke letters, 2 stroke letters, 3 stroke letters, 4 stoke letters. now you have a system

The people of Naboo have the cultural notion that children are "pure" and unbiased, and therefore can make good decisions if presented all the information. That is why their Kings and Queens (which are just the terms for their head of state and is an elected position with strict term limits) are chosen from their young. Now that does not mean they are not without guidence. The children who are able to run for election have almost all universally have been trained from a young age in diplomatic schooling programs that teach them what is required of a politician, the minutiae of political dealings, diplomatic practices, and other vital information and training for a political life. They also have a council of seasoned and experienced councilors and cabinet members who have spent years in the civil service, some who have may even have served as King or Queen in their youth. They are able to provide the needed experience and advice to the head of state an can guide them in the decision making policies.

Paint color works by removing light, adding just a small amount of black pigment can darken white pigment a lot because it goes from absorbing \~0 light to more . But to lighten dark pigment you can only dilute the pigment.

Getting data is a small step in seeing if it's working (assuming you have a clear definition of working). This is an important question that very smart people have tried to answer for decades. There has been a fair amount of research done on minimum wages' effects and presumably meta-studies as well. I'd start with a lit review.

I think he and Silver had some kind of personal beef going on, and the old crew were loyal to Silver. For whatever reason, keeping Silver and his friends from having the treasure was more important to Billy than getting it for himself. He'd rather die poor than enrich his enemy. So why not scrape together a new crew and go in secret? Well, Silver ran a pub on the docks, which means he had his ear to the ground. Going by Pew's part in the story, he was actively looking for Billy. If Billy started putting together a crew, especially on a limited budget, there was a risk that word would make its way back to Silver, and then Billy would be doomed.

It's not a Russian name. It's a Chechen one with a Russian suffix appended to the end. This was commonly done for all sorts of non-Russian nationalities in the Russian Imperial days, and they've persisted. Some people prefer to use the non Russified version.

Invoking the free market is a rhetorical bludgeon, much like the terms 'socialism' or 'terrorist', designed to draw an emotional response and not an actual thing that people understand or even truly desire in most cases. I would be willing to wager that only maybe one in fifty Americans who bring up Adam Smith have actually read anything by the man.

Well, you can meet gods and stuff. That's neat. No wars, either. Or any strife, really. Not for a long time. If you're mortal, you won't last there very long, but you'll be at peace while you are.

Mjolnir is powered by magic, specifically an extension of Odin Allfather's power, the Odin Force. Odin is generally regarded as one of the more powerful entities in the Marvel universe, capable of reshaping reality and the laws of physics at will, or even simply ignoring them. Take, for example, the magic that prevents Mjolnir from being lifted by any but the worthy. This isn't a case of Mjolnir being exceptionally heavy; otherwise all you would need is enough raw strength, and there are plenty enough superstrong characters who cannot lift Mjolnir. It is instead a test of moral worth. The Hulk is many orders of magnitude *stronger* than Captain America, but Captain America is generally speaking more likely to be able to lift Mjolnir at any given moment. When it comes to speed, it is likely that the "can never miss" property of Mjolnir is similar. It can *never* miss. Therefor, if it is thrown at a target, it *will* hit it, regardless of if that target is receding at superluminal speed. The occupants of the Enterprise would likely see it coming at them, and eventually accelerating beyond their ability to flee until it impacted them. Another question is how Mjolnir would respond to targets that do not move via traditional means. Would Mjolnir follow Nightcrawler through his parallel sulfur dimension, or would it change directions to wherever his teleport landed him? Also, suppose Mjolnir were thrown at the TARDIS as it dematerialized. Would Mjolnir then leap through time and space to hit the TARDIS wherever it went? An interesting conundrum.

We never see it but considering what other shit protego has stopped it could certainly stop bullets. But that doesn't matter because a gun would take out a wizard much faster then almost any wizard could cast a spell to either defend or attack.

Usually when engineers say something will last for X years, it means that the thing has 95% (for example) chance of still working after X years. It doesn't mean that as soon as the X years have passed the satellite will stop working. This is something people often don't understand when they are talking about planned obsolescence. For satellites there are a couple of limitations on the lifespan on top of stuff just breaking up. First is the propulsion. In geostationary orbit you need a bit of propellant to correct for perturbations caused by the moon and the sun gravitational pull as well light pressure. When the propellant runs out the satellites are placed into a graveyard orbit so that they are out of the way of other satellites. Sometime thrusters perform better than expected, or the rocket is extra precise in its launch so you end up having spare propellant and you can extend the mission. Another thing that happens as satellites age is the degradation of solar panels and batteries. The solar panels lose efficiency when they are struck by radiation and cosmic rays. Lastly sometime the mission duration is tied to the money needed to operate a satellite. To extend a mission you need money to pay the people in charge of the mission. The ground equipment can be very expensive too.

Museums exist to protect _singular_ artifacts and allow people to experience them. A video game (or anything digital, really) doesn't require protection because it can be perfectly duplicated an infinite number of times. You can't do that with a Picasso. Moreover, what would the benefit be? You can't experience a video game in a museum setting - you have to play it to get the impact. Its the same reason that we don't have the original film reels of _Citizen Kane_ on display in a museum - you have to watch the movie to appreciate its importance.

Many people thought like you during WWII. They thought that we would be better off doing nothing. By us doing nothing, tens of millions died at the hands of the Nazis. For you to assume that these terrorist organizations are small in nature and can't flourish to pose serious threats is naive. The reason we haven't seen more damage by these terrorist organizations in the past half century, is because we have intervened. You think if we do nothing to ISIS that they are just going to disappear? We did that for 3 years and they became the strongest force in the region. Doing nothing does not make the problem go away, it makes the problem grow.

No, many species are physiologically similar to people. The same imbalances that cause headaches in humans cause them in other species. Brain tumors give bears headaches. Rats can get hangover headaches. Cats have been disfigured by selective breeding and have sinus headaches.

I would assume that most countries deal with a ton of visa requests in the weeks and months leading up to the purge. Right after the purge they probably have a ton of request for information about emigration requirements.

It largely depends on how close you are to it. The closer you are, the better the sound. It should resemble a loud crackle. But as you move away from the thunder, the sound wave starts to disperse and the sound gets less clear. So you ear a *boom* type of sound. Picture the sound wave as a bunch of people pushing each other in evry direction. After a while there's less of a reason to push people so the *fuzz* in that crowed gets less obvious, less clear.

AFAIK, Spider-Man himself hasn't used the sticking power in an offensive way as you are describing. But his dark and edgy clone, Kaine regularly did. He'd intentionally use the adhesive power of his hand to brand enemies by ripping a layer of skin off their face. The handprint scar left behind was referred to as the 'Mark of Kaine'.

Yes. I’m fact, those for whom Greek is their first language would probably be even more proficient in it than they should be if they were normal kids. They would probably have increased language skills compared to their peers.

they die in this order, from first to last: C -> A -> B. you need proteins because there are amino-acids that you can only get from proteins from food. you need fats because there are 2 fatty acids that you must have but can not synthesize. your body can exclusively use fats and proteins for energy, and there aren't any carbohydrates that you critically need that you can't make yourself. those are the reasons for the order. in fact, i don't think subject B would die at all from a nutritional deficiency.

Mean reversion doesn't require the probability of tails on any individual flip to become higher. Instead, it's the number of flips that causes the average to tend towards 0.5. Suppose you've flipped your 4 heads. Rather than thinking about the next flip, think about the next 100 flips. You'd expect to get something very close to 50 heads and 50 tails, which makes your initial 4 extra heads much less significant. The overall average will be something close to 54/104, or about 52%.

For some people, it helps give them a sense of belonging, especially for people who don’t know their ancestral roots, it can help give them a direction for a culture to explore and adopt. Sure, it’s not the end all be all, but can give people some direction.

It can kill you in two ways. The first way is burning you. In general, current generates heat. If there is enough current going through your body, your body will literally heat up and you will burn to death. The second way - if there isn't enough current to burn you - is the electricity just interfering with your body signals. You brain uses electricity to tell your muscles what to do. Your nerves are basically just biological wires in your body; if you apply a current to muscle it will contract. Specifically, the electricity can interfere with your heartbeat and trigger erratic spasms of your heart. This is called fibrillation, and can often be corrected with a defibrillator. If there isn't a defibrillator nearby, well, you're probably gonna die.

Oil paint is a colloid; the pigment is suspended in a liquid-in this case, a hydrocarbon oil dissolved in a solvent that makes the paint more fluid and easier to move around and manipulate. After application, the solvent evaporates, leaving the pigment and oil. The oil gradually oxidises and hardens. As this involves absorbing oxygen (oxidising) rather than evaporating water, it can only happen at a certain rate, independent of environmental factors like temperature. (Other factors can be manipulated to increase the speed of oxidation, usually by mixing other chemicals like Liquin, a commercial product) Oxygen is also absorbed only through the top layer of the paint, meaning that it has to oxidise before lower layers can do so. This increases the time taken as well.

U.S. law requires the country of origin of a product to be clearly displayed on the product, or on the product's container if it is enclosed. a lot of people also like to have this information available, especially in the US, because due to this law, countries build up a certain reputation for certain products.

> Convincing me that someone can have put more effort and/or creativity into their store bought costume than a self made one. A lot of costume contests end up with poor participation. Say you have a work contest and only 3 people actually participate: * Bob wears a white t-shirt on which he has written the word "ceiling" with a black sharpie across the front. He's a ceiling fan, he says. * Larry cuts two holes in an old white sheet and drapes it over his head to become a ghost; Charlie Brown style * Jane scoured the internet for 3 nights and visited every party, costume on Halloween store in a 90 mile radius to find the perfect Wonder Woman costume. To make it even more perfect, she bought two separate costumes and used the best parts from each because one was good in most respects, but had a lousy plastic shield. Jane has a store bought costume while Bob and Larry made their own costumes. Jane clearly put much more effort inter her store bought costume than Bob and Larry put into their homemade costumes. Jan should be declare the winner of the work costume contest and enjoy every last dime of that McDonald's gift card!

If you could raise a baby that was born 200,000 years ago with modern technology and methods, would they less capable that a modern baby? Would a 50,000 year old baby have the abilities of a modern human?

they probably had more of a 'the muggles discovered new land, eh, let's go check it out and get a gauge on the potentially undiscovered magical properties before they stumble across it' sort of attitude (at least those that weren't just posing as muggle explorers) and ended up staying there

History has shown that politicians who pander to certain segments of society can largely ignore their own criminality and moral shortcomings so long as they utter the right platitudes to pacify their base.

Useful? Many of them have physics bending powers that could be amazingly useful powers for legitimate noncriminal uses. Take a fairly unsuccessful villain like Pyro, who can control flames. Imagine his use to a major metropolitan fire department. Can he control anything else? The rate of chemical reactions, or nuclear ones? Imagine his use to industry! Its just a matter of thinking of all the use these amazing skills can have!

To make it short: Knox was living with Meredith. Both are from upper middle class families from US and UK respectively. Knox is naive and generally only book smart and not street smart. She has her 1st bf while in Italy on a study abroad program. One night she comes back home and finds blood in the house and toilet which isn't flushed. Seems weird enough. Runs back to her bf's house and they call the other Italian roommates. A bunch of low level cops (who are used to investigate petty crimes) show up and are generally incompetent as fuck. Crime scene is already contaminated. After breaking into the room, they find Meredith stabbed. The killer was extremely inexperienced (didn't even bother to cover up, left feet marks, tried to wipe blood with towels and just decided to leave it halfway through). The other roommates fly away to UK or lawyer up pretty quickly. Knox being fucking stupid decides to stay around until Meredith's parents come. Her family sort of agrees because at this point she's just so innocent that no one would think of her as a killer. Bring in a crazy prosecutor who fanatic over satanic rituals, an easy foreign target will easily be blamed. She ends up signing a confession because again, she's just so fucking stupid and doesn't really think of herself as a suspect. She also barely understands Italian so the whole case isn't exactly on her side. The prosecutor makes a weird story about how she killed her flatmate because of a weird satanic ritual and also accuses her bf of covering up. At this point the Italian media doesn't help either because, a foreigner killing for sexy satanic ritual would make any editor orgasm. All this time, DNA evidence points to a common burglar who's conviction would be much easier (he was actually in jail after a separate trial on the same fucking case). The dude must have broken in. Got extra comfortable and takes a shit in the process. Meredith walk in mid-shit and the dude doesn't flush as a result. Tries to leave but realises Meredith has already seen him and will straight up identify him. Kills her.

Luck like domino's power is very difficult to explain. It's similar to spidey sense and temporal manipulations. On a subconscious level the mutation constantly views various alternate timelines and possibilities every moment of every day. Whenever it finds a variation of reality that is beneficial to the mutant in question it merges the mutant into that timeline or brings part of it into the current one. This can also change things seemingly at random as the mutant is unaware of the changes taking place and is unable to control them or how far out the possible changes take place. A gust of wind could be pulled in to shift a plastic bag causing a chain of events that takes a week to manifest itself or simply a defect in a guns loading mechanism can be brought in creating a more immediate effect.

She left the order after losing trust in it after she was falsely accused during a terrorist attack. She went off the grid and didn't resurface until well after Order 66 and began to organize rebel groups.

In the case of 2001 it was actually really clever: They suspended the actors on wires just like a lot of movies used to do, but they built the set sideways and put the camera on the ground pointing upwards. This accomplished two things: First, the actor's body hid the wires so you didn't have to try to remove them in post. Second, the actor's movements drifting horizontally (which, from the camera's perspective, appeared to be vertical) looked WAY more natural than having a stagehand jerk the wires up and down.

The physical attributes and descent, his achievements and the fact that the Republic Army has always been a bit of a joke. Plus they didn't have to kill him afterward, allowing them to use him for other things. The candidate selection was not handled by Sifo Dyas, in fact. After the project was commissioned, Sifo-Dyas was secretly killed and Darth Tyranus took charge of the project. He was commissioned by his master to do two things in this time period: One, find someone who was an effective genetic template for an army that would eventually be gutting Jedi and playing in their intestines and two: Kill a particular rogue Jedi (who was not fallen). Tyranus decided to do both at once and put an enormous credit reward on the head of the rogue Jedi. A public bounty, but a number of mercenaries and hunters got special invitations - among them, Fett. He tracked and defeated the Jedi (Not even killing him, just bringing him in alive). One million credits richer, Tyranus offered him the job of being Clone Daddy to the Grand Army of the Republic. Jango Fett was vetted anyway, but let's stack up his physical attributes: He's a member of the Mandalorians, an ancient warrior culture/race with a reputation for balls-out insanity. He's human, fit, with no major genetic problems. He's just (edit: Embarassed a Jedi), even taking him in alive. Perfect for a thousand thousand thousand clones. Not only that, he's familiar with the training methods of his people, so he can 'consult for the Kaminoans when it comes to training methods.

There are thermoelectric devices that can convert a heat differential directly to electricity (Peltier device - (edit, the Seebeck Effect generates electricity, the Peltier Effect is the reverse. Same device though)) or motion (Sterling engine), but these are actually not as efficient as steam, at least at scale. If you wanted to charge your phone off a cup of hot coffee, sure, use a Peltier device. But it probably isn't going to be powering neighborhoods.

Not much. At least, not much more than they would have already known from history and could have guessed from Maul's presence alone. Even though the Jedi were already aware of the Rule of Two, they were also of the belief that the Sith had gone extinct long ago. So Maul's presence as an actual Sith apprentice would be very troubling, but perhaps not the worst thing they've ever encountered. Because while Maul is imprisoned, they'd assume that the Sith's strength had been cut in half. On the other hand, while Maul was indeed a full-fledged Sith, he still only knew what Palpatine wanted him to know. Maul was more of a blunt object, a weapon to be used at critical times when Darth Sidious needed something taken care of. So he didn't need to know any intricate plans or long-term goals other than destroying the Jedi. Which is something the Jedi have known about the Sith for a longer time period than the Republic has even existed. It was Dooku who got many of the juicy details, and would have been a far more valuable catch a few years later. Hence all the efforts expended to try and capture him, though none succeeded. There's also the fact that Maul would have resisted interrogation, and used his own skill with the force to block attempts to forcibly read his mind. So trying to extract information out of him would have been a long, frustrating, and complicated endeavor. Not impossible, because we know Maul has his limits, but it wouldn't have been worth the effort in the long run.

At least for wand users: It pairs a release of magic shaped by the magic users will with a specific focus word. This word then allows the user to use the shaped magic more easily in the future as the shaping of the magic becomes more of an unconscious action. It also seems to imprint this word upon the collective magical fabric of the universe and allows easier use for others (this is high conjecture but seems backed up by evidence). For example: Snape invented Sectumsempra. He shaped his magic into a sword-like instrument and gave it an appropriate Latin-sounding name. This allows his brain to handle the shaping of the spell in the future without as much chance of backfiring as it. It also speeds up the spell-casting. Harry then reads about this spell and knows it is used for enemies. His brain, already schooled in quasi-Latin due to his use of spells and studying magical history, then connects the dots and shapes Harry's magic into a cutting edge to hurt Malfoy. However, it was perhaps not as effective as it could have been as Harry truly did not understand what the spell was and only grasped the edges of the spells use. This is echoed with the Unforgivable Curses. They are very simple to learn. Most wizards and witches know the spell incantations. But it requires a real intent behind the spell to use it to it's full effectiveness. Avada Kedavra without real murderous intent would just inflict general harm based upon the magical power of the wielder. Crucio would inflict temporary and moderate pain instead of excruciating and unending pain. And so on. TL;DR: It's kind of like writing a program, giving that program an executable shortcut, then freely sharing that executable shortcut with others, who, being schooled in the same style of programming, recognize the shortcut and the general shape of the program and execute it well enough for government work.

The "rhizome" seems obvious to you because you don't seem to get what exactly Deleuze is talking about. The rhizome isn't a "conception of knowledge," it's a way in which things can be organized. Note how the first examples given of rhizomes in the introduction to *A Thousand Plateaus* are all material things: books, tubers, rat burrows, etc. Deleuze isn't just saying that shit is complex, he's arguing that traditional ways of thinking see arborescence as the only way of organizing things when in reality, there're also entirely different, decentralized, and multiplicitous ways of organizing things which can already be seen in the world around us. This may seem a little more obvious to us now since things like the internet are (arguably) rhizomatic, but imagining a completely interconnected organization of things without any beginning or central foundation was far more radical in the 70-80s when Deleuze was writing. Even so, the applications of the rhizome to war, biology, history, economics, etc. that D & G undertake in *A Thousand Plateaus* are still anything but common sense. Hope this helps!

They're evaporites... obviously some mineral on the fence dissolved in water and then precipitated out. Air temperature change would account for the rings as different temp water has different precipitation points. The rings are a dead give-away.

It’s called a photic sneeze reflex, or Autosomal dominant Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst - ACHOO syndrome for short. It is estimated that 17-35% of the population have it. But no one knows why it happens. The best guess at the moment is that it’s because the nerve cells that carry information from the eye and those that carry information from the nose run so close together. As the nerves from the eye are stimulated by bright light, usually to constrict the pupil, electrical signals ‘spillover’ and activate the nerves coming from the nose. This causes the brain to confuse a bright light with a nose irritation, and… ACHOO! In fact, the area of the brain responsible for processing visual information is overstimulated in photic sneezers compared with non-sneezers, which may underlie the spillover effect.

We already have lots of radio transmitters that emit visible light. Your computer screen is one, a light bulb is another...They're emitting electromagnetic waves in the frequency of visible light (along with some others). We simply do not use this light for communication in most cases, because other wavelengths are more useful over long distances, etc.

Excessive attention seeking can also be a sign that someone is unwell. This is why when you receive training to manage mental illness you learn that all concerns are valid. The patient report may not be face valid, but it is almost always indicative of some type of problem worthy of sympathy and help. Someone excessively seeking attention related to anxiety/depression/suicidality etc is not well. That is not healthy behavior and that person can still benefit from understanding and help.

200 years ago widespread electoral fraud ruled politics - gangs were hired to round up voters by force, many voted numerous times in the same vote and the poor were paid for their votes. Back then the average working man had little interest in politics - not the ideas the parties represented or even the expectation that anything would change. There were great politicians but many more greedy and nepotistic ones too, fraud of public finances was common where sweetheart contracting deal made to friends of politicians. Now things are different when most of these old fraudulent practices have been stopped, where the populace is still seen as simply voters but now they are not so easily controlled. Now a politician must walk a tight rope of public opinion making more people happy then pissing off. They are constantly scrutinized by a 24 hour news machine that will look for any way to make a story out of their mistakes. Freedom of Information act allows the media to scrutinize finances and possible nepotism. People now are hungry for change and seek it through politics. To me your view is simply created through rose tinted goggles, you view the success of people in the past through the history books. In their time their "approval" rating was nowhere near as high. How many people did Napoleon kill in wars, how many people back then hated Lincoln for starting Americas bloodiest war and setting free the blacks. Now that the poor have a say and an interest in politics the Politicians must listen to them and be held accountable, one mistake could ruin their career. Politics was never perfect, never can be, but its the best system we humans have ever created for governance.

There's different kinds of regeneration in fiction. In some cases, the body simply has a base state that it tries to return itself to, which might allow someone to remain a certain age, but there's also regeneration that's simply extremely accelerated healing. So, maybe, depending on the canon/source of regeneration.

There are mechanisms that essentially sort them. You see this process on a normal time scale with something like Italian dressing. :) The primary mechanisms are density, and melting points. You have a big pool of mixed elements and compounds just swirling around. In general the denser liquids will settle to the bottom unless disturbed and stirred up. So if you get a pool somewhere that isn't disturbed much, you'll get layers of different liquids. As time goes on it cools. The elements with lowest melting point "freeze" and turn solid, and drift to the bottom as well (solid they are even denser than when liquid). This forms a layer on the bottom of the deposit, a sheet or "vein" if seen from the side. As the pool cools further, the next element freezes out, forming it's layer and so on. The slower the pool of compounds cools, the more time for the different materials to settle out, and more distinct the seperation and layering. If the area cools quickly you'll get grains rather than layers. The faster it cools, the smaller the grains. This is why veins tend to be underground, as the layers of rock help insulate and slow the cooling process, allowing the density sorting to occur.

1. Was this published into the same journal that your version was accepted into? 2. Was it part of the same submission, or did you need to withdraw/fail to meet a re-submission deadline? 3. Was this an undergraduate advisor? Masters? PhD? Employer? I would suggest that if you want to pursue this, you involve your institution's ombuds office rather than a privately retained lawyer.

Not really, in practical sense. Gravitational effects of sound are so weak, scientists are still verifying their findings. If we assume the pressure and composition of air are the same at the "floor" level of a lunar base, the noticeable effects will have to do with: - weaker convection - smaller vertical density differential

People who would say "America isn't great" typically don't do so based on its failure to be a utopia, but because America has actual problems that affect its citizens in a tremendously negative way. It does not matter whether other countries are worse in some fashion, the same way it doesn't matter that "there are starving children in Africa" if you're given an unpalatable meal and don't feel like eating it. For many people, living in America means feeling powerless, feeling continually stressed about whether basic necessities will be affordable, feeling that they will be discriminated against or done violence because of some aspect of themselves that they can't changed, and feeling hopeless some or all of these things will significantly improve for the better. Why should people who feel that way be told "no, your feelings aren't valid, America is great" when it has not been great for them?

Different method of action. Opioids like hydrocodone and Oxy work by binding to neuroreceptors(neuro means brain) which send a depressive signal, which basically means that the signal numbs your central nervous system. I don't remember the exact MoA of the others so to just put it simply, ibuprofen and aspirin work by reducing inflamation in your body, and Tylenol works by simply cutting off the pain signal on its way to your brain

They simultaneously raced to develop the same technology, quantum tunneling, and developed it in two different ways. That's pretty much the extent of it that we know of. EDIT: Aperture's actually the one who canonically stole things, including the Gravity Gun, wall-based medkit things, and HEV Suit chargers from Black Mesa, as seen in "Lab Rat."

Military pilots are securely attached to the plane and willing to tolerate much more extreme maneuvers than commercial passengers. To reduce the "fear of flying" and avoid spilling drinks, commercial aircraft desire a much more stable ride.

Generally, yes. Photosynthesis, of which oxygen is a byproduct, happens in the chloroplasts. The vast majority of the chloroplasts are in the leaves, so a deciduous trees ability to produce oxygen is drastically reduced after shedding its leaves.

So, you're peter parker. Prove you're Spiderman. There are three options here. One: show up in a Spiderman costume and demand royalties. This doesn't prove anything. Anyone can put on a Spiderman outfit. Two: show up as Spiderman, throw some webs around, climb on walls, etc. This proves you're Spiderman, probably, but it also isn't very helpful, because they can't give money to "some dude in a Spiderman costume" Three: show up as peter parker and do some web swinging. This does prove you're Spiderman, but it also proves you're peter parker, and maybe you don't trust a random merch company's secretary with keeping that secret. Indeed, you've now given them obvious blackmail ammo if they don't want to pay you royalties. All three are unideal. If you have a public identity, sure, you're probably copyrighted. But otherwise, you're shit out of luck.

Klingon Opera revolves around a very small number of similar plot-lines and tropes, and is heavily focused on combat. Klingon singing is.... disharmonious to most non-klingon listeners, and the harsh tongue doesn't lead itself to some of the more intricate or delicate movements possible in the "opera" equivalents from other cultures. The fact that a Klingon Opera performance may feature staged battles between actors, unstaged battles between the actors, and out-and-out brawls with the audience.... well... this fact leaves many more "civilized" races unwilling to give the art form the time it would take to develop appreciation. Unnoficially, Canadian Humans are known to LOVE Klingon opera. One Ensign Bukowski, of the USS Ottawa, commented that Klingon opera is "Like a musical got in a fight with a hockey game."

You should know that Iranians are not Arabs (something that they seem to be particularly sensitive about) and have wildly differing histories and cultures. The "Arab world" wasn't really a thing during Alexander's time, it would be 900 years before the nomadic tribes of the Peninsula were united by Muhammad.

The motor neurons that mediate movement aren't perfect, nor are any neurons. In order for a muscle to contract, the motor neuron that is attached to it must fire numerous action potentials (an electrochemical signal). If a motor neuron "misfires" only once or twice, the result is a twitch instead of a full contraction. It's totally normal. Edit: this is usually normal. It's not inconceivable for an illness of some sort to manifest as muscle twitches, but it is vastly more common to be a simple errant firing of a motor neuron.

It's useful for people who want to justify selfishness by painting all actions as inherently selfish. If other people are making you look bad through altruism then if you can make them have the same impulses and reasons as you then that is very psychologically comforting. It can also be useful to portray people who want radical changes that make selfishness and greed harder as hypocrites who are actually just after power and money for themselves. It may not be useful for better understandings of the topic or better debates but it does have it's ideological uses.

This is a common misconception. There is no center of the universe, the Big Bang happened everywhere at once. The point is that *everywhere was very close together.* The entire universe was basically in the same place; not that all matter was in the same location, all **locations** were close together. So the universe expanding is all locations becoming more distant, not mass itself traveling through space. The mass might as well be stationary.

In the comics, Apocalypse's main power is high-level shapeshifting/control over his own body, which grants him near-immortality, superhuman strength, invulnerability, etc. He enhances these powers with vast amounts of Celestial technology (the ancient space-gods glimpsed briefly in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies), which gives him basically any other power he might need, and the ability to enhance other mutants. It also upgrades his natural near-immortality into effective actual immortality, although he does need to spend prolonged periods in hibernation in order to get the full effects - although unlike in the movie, he's been awake at numerous points in history between ancient Egypt and the modern age, recruiting servants during the Roman era and the US Civil War, and having a vicious feud with Dracula in the late 19th century. He likes to claim to be the First Mutant, but this is hyperbole; there's at least one mutant (Selene) who is older than him, and given the odds of the first two mutants being effectively immortal, the chances are there were numerous others who lived and died long before Egypt was a thing.

He wasn't just looking for a Rick and Morty pair to replace, he was looking for a Rick and Morty pair that fixed the gene modding problem AND died immediately afterward. Either or these happening on their own is very unlikely, both of them happening one offer the other is almost impossible.

It is based on the capacitance of the finger. The technology is quite similar to modern touch screen technology which is only able to detect fingers but not gloves. Wood is usually too dry for the sensors to trigger and the metal is too small for it to trigger. This is of course something the designers have to take into consideration. Possibly the hardest thing you can put in them is soaking wet wood for example if you are sawing raw lumber out in the rain but they have apparently been able to set the sensors to handle this as well. However as the SawStop patent is about to expire and competing products have already been shown to the market as being much cheaper to trigger there might be some advantage to triggering on metal as well protecting the blade.

Boston is just a city inhabited by humans. Some of those humans were profoundly impacted by a bomb made by another human. Probably, none of the humans in Boston will ever bomb another city or group of people. The politics and warfare of countries don't enter into it. Boston, as a group of humans, doesn't wage war against the Middle East. Never confuse a nation for its citizens.

You have a rectangular back yard that is 10 by 15 feet. There is a pond in the middle of irregular shape. You want to know the area of the pond. You start throwing small stones toward the yard randomly, and record the frequency of stone landing on water versus dry land. The portion of stones landing on water multiplied by the entire area of the backyard is the answer to the original question. For example, if you threw 100 stones and 43 lands on water then your estimation would be 10 times 15 times 0.43. This is essentially the essence of Monte Carlo: evaluating and averaging randomly drawn samples.

Metabolic activity continuously produces heat as a byproduct. Without a method of dissipating that heat, a person would quickly overheat and die. Normal responses to hyperthermia include vasodilation and sweating as methods to facilitate heat transfer out of the body, but if the surrounding environment is already ‘too hot’ to allow dissipation the heat is trapped in the body and core temperature rises.

Killing pretty much all life in a Galaxy in and of itself was a major undertaking. Tuning the process to effect just the flood may not have been possible while under direct invasion from the Flood. Further more the flood infect their "food" to make more flood. Even if they could kill the parasites, they may not have been able to kill the infected "food." The flood are an Extra-Galactic threat. The Forerunner decisions to wipe out all life, including the bulk of their civilization, was one not just one last FU to the gravemind, but as of saving other Galaxies from the fate of our own.

A choke cuts off the blood supply to the brain causing unconsciousness. You would have to maintain the choke for a much longer period to starve the brain of oxygen to kill a person. Just think of how long strangulation takes to kill a person.