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We are using batteries to store excess renewable energy. Just not the kind of battery you're familiar with. There's something called a flow battery, explicitly designed for grid-scale energy storage. Many companies are racing to commercialize their products to handle the burgeoning demand for renewable storage, using many different chemistries that are quite different from consumer batteries. The main idea of a flow battery is to decouple energy and power. Power is the instantaneous voltage times current, while energy is power over a duration of time. A lithium ion battery has a fixed relationship due to the need for the lithium ions to be within a certain distance of the electrodes. This means in order to increase capacity, you have to increase everything that goes into the battery as well. A flow battery uses external storage tanks of electrolyte that can be of arbitrary size that is independent of the electrode area. The electrode area determines the power, but the size of the tanks determine the total energy capacity. Need more capacity? Just add more tanks. This tech has its own set of challenges, however, and they're not trivial. The main problems stem from electrolyte crossover through the separator membrane, efficiency degradation, and cost of the electrolyte. There are literally dozens of different chemical schemes being explored right now with the aim of addressing these points. Bets are on as to which tech will win out. Chances are, however, you the end user will never purchase such a system. They're designed for utilities to incorporate.

Plato was a part of the problem for Socrates, because of his family links to Charmides (his uncle) and Critias (his mother's uncle), members of the Thirty Tyrants who ruled Athens for a period after they lost the Peloponnesian War. Critias had himself been a student of Socrates'. The Thirty Tyrants oversaw large amounts of executions and the seizure of property of people they thought hostile to the state, leading to the death of as much as 5% of the Athenian population. By this token Athenians were *very* hostile to the Thirty Tyrants and their associates, which included Socrates by way of his association with Critias and Critias's family member Plato. Socrates's association with the disgraced public figure Alcibiades didn't help either.

It is a decimal representation of your subnet mask. Your computer has an IP address. Something like: 10.1.1.2 But this address represents two things: a) your computer; and b) the local network your computer is on. And it needs a way of knowing which part is which.^* To do this it uses what is known as a subnet mask which can be represented in a number of ways. The "slash" notation, followed by a number, is how many 1 bits are in the subnet mask, in the case of /24, that would be 24 1 bits. Remember that computers deal in binary, so... 10.1.1.2 Is actually: 00001010.00000001.00000001.00000010 A subnet mask of 24 would be: 11111111.11111111.11111111.00000000 Each bit of the IP address that lines up with a 1 bit in the mask is part of the network (in this case 10.1.1.x). Each bit of the IP address that lines up with a 0 bit in the mask is a host address (in this case x.x.x.2). Your computer uses this information to determine if communication is destined for the local network (and doesn't need to go through a gateway) or is destined for a remote network (and does). In this case, everything from 10.1.1.1 to 10.1.1.254 would be considered local. All other IP addresses would be remote. \* - Originally, they designed a scheme where IP addresses would fall into certain classes that defined which part was the network part and which part was the host part. For example, if it began with a 10, then the first octet was automatically the network part and the last three would be the host part. This turned out to be insufficient for modern networking needs, so they developed the concept of subnetworking of which the subnet(work) mask allows us to chop up the address any way we want.

I'll provide a brief answer. Phones today are powered by lithium-ion batteries. They rely on the flow of ions (something like electrons, except bigger, slower) through an oily-gel like material (makes them even slower!) across two 'plates' as they discharge to power the phone. When it gets cold, it gets harder to move (just as you'd find it harder to move in the cold) and after a certain threshold, the battery just seizes up and ions just don't move fast enough to provide enough current for the phone. The phone shuts down. This threshold temperature is rather cold, in the -30 ~ -40 C. but depending on the battery, conditions that you were out in, initial conditions and whatnot, you may see it shut off at relatively warmer (~ -20 C) temperatures as well.

They did rot, but because of how they are layered on the roof, it sheds water pretty efficiently (that's how they didn't rot quickly, water shedding ability and tight layering protecting lower layers) and a well thatched roof in modern times can last 50 years before it's beyond use. Historically, at least in parts of England, a new layer of thatch was added to the aging/weathered layer and some houses have been found to have seven feet of thatch on them with the oldest layers being 500 years old.

Some mesons can and do annihilate. The neutral pion pretty much always decays to two photons, for example. However, not all of them are quark-antiquark pairs of the same type. Charged and flavoured mesons have valence quarks of different types, such as kaons, D-mesons and B-mesons. This means they decay via other processes.

It can't communicate information. Stuff can travel faster than c- like how the Universe has expanded faster than the speed of light- but information cannot be transferred faster than c. Quantum tunneling is random- you can't *make* a particle jump a light year away instantly- so it can't transfer information.

> The point of copyright has never been to maximize profits Then why add the extension scheme at all? Just make it 28 years. Any scheme to reward "commercially successful" franchises, flies in the face if the original intent, by allowing the most culturally relevant pieces of media to be more restricted away from the public, and the ones whose creators are actually struggling to make ends meet, get kneecapped.

Almost if not literally *nothing* is **necessary**. Plato and Aristotle are famous as classics because of their wide influence but probably more importantly because, like Kant, working through them is unusually effective at training you to understand how to think philosophically. So is it necessary to read them? No, almost if not literally nothing is necessary. You have to figure out where to spend your time and effort. The most important part is that you actually do spend it somewhere, the rest is grist for the mill. If you want to read classics specifically to prepare for Kant, your priorities should be Hume and Leibniz.

Life could exist out there that doesn't need water. However, most of the life we know of does. We're already looking for a needle in a haystack, if we expand the search to life that doesn't need water then we don't even know what the needle looks like anymore. Edit; apparently some stuff doesn't use water according to /u/chemosynth

The thing about advertising is that it's not so much about logic as it is about association. This clearly doesn't work for you, because you are actively annoyed by these types of commercials, so you associate that negative feeling with the product. But for most people, emotional commercials aren't annoying, they're just fine. The goal of the company is for the consumer to subconsciously associate positive feelings--happiness, family, etc.--with the product. This isn't as cut and dry and logical as "Oh, Folgers coffee brings families together, I'd better buy some." It's just that when you're shopping for coffee and see Folgers among the options, they want you to be familiar with the brand and have a generally positive opinion on it. A lot of it is simply exposure You're more likely to buy a product you're familiar with than one you aren't. Folgers wants to make sure you recognize the Folgers label. It may be irrational, since you don't necessarily know more about Folgers than about whatever's next to it on the shelf, but as long as you feel like you do, you'll choose it over other options. And they don't expect you to necessarily even remember the commercial about the son and his mom. They only hope that having seen that commercial will mean that when you see the Folgers can on the shelf, it triggers a positive response in you. This doesn't work for you, because you *do* remember the commercial specifically because you had a negative reaction to it. But it does work decently well for most people, which is why companies keep doing it.

There are several references to Human and Hobbit sports, but only one or two for the Elves. They are described as having “athletes,” so this would indicate some sort of competition of physical prowess. Likely these are things like track-and-field sports, such as running, swimming, and possibly archery.

Sentient life generates the Warp through their emotional energy, which is why it stops at the edge of the galaxy. If the Necron managed to kill everyone else, the Warp would cease to exist, and the Ruinous Powers with it.

"Were?" This made me think, 'Oh shit, he's dead,' and had to go check. His branch is theoretical physics, which isn't really about 'discovery' as such. He and other theoretical physicists are all about bringing experimental and observed data from other branches of physics into the context of a wider framework. The supposed "theory of everything." Some of the 20th century's favourite physicists have been theoretical physicists; Hawking, Einstein, Sagan, deGrasse Tyson. Theoretical physicists work at the bleeding edge of what we understand about the universe. Hawking's work is mainly in astrophysics and general relativity, though he has branched out into quantum physics and particle physics as well. His greatest work is probably his book *A Brief History of Time*, which brought theoretical physics into mainstream culture for probably the first time since Einstein. In the book, he explained phenomenon like the space-time continuum and the speed of light in a way that casual readers and high-school level science students could understand, as well as mathematically proving the existence of black holes and dark matter for the first time. He theorised that black holes do emit radiation, previously thought impossible because of their gravitational pull, then he proved it in both mathematical and layman's terms. As he demystified theoretical physics, he furthered it. When he does eventually die, he won't be remembered for one stand-out discovery above all others, but for the body of his work as a whole. He has done as much to further the field of physics within his lifetime as Einstein, Newton, Copernicus, Aristotle...

Are the any examples of low profile foreigners getting arrested in China for anti CCP posts? You just aren't a threat to the CCP and they won't arrest you. Even in China, anti CCP posts are censored but nobody gets arrested or even questioned unless you have a couple million followers and tons of people looking at you.

The Central Limit Theorem isn't a product of biology or sociology or any other sort of behaviour of living things. It is a mathematical theorem, with the same rigour and validity as the Pythagorean Theorem or the Sine Law or any number of other mathematical facts. This is because the Central Limit Theorem doesn't say anything about the underlying thing being sampled -- it only says things about the samples when you do the sampling multiple times.

because fruit aren't intended to be nutritious, they're intended to be tasty, which means the bulk of them is relatively homogeneous fluff with lots of sugar. The skin is the only part which has to actually do something important, so its loaded up with a variety of vitamins and minerals and other cellular necessities to do its job. same applies to like, why wheat germ is more nutritious than the rest of the grain. The rest of it is just an energy store. The germ has all the parts that grow and do stuff, so all the goodies are found there.

Every human IS related to some extent. That extent tends to be very, very far back. Mitochondrial Eve (the most recent common female ancestor of all humans) is estimated to have lived 150k years ago, and Y-chromosome Adam (male version of the same thing) 200-300k years ago.

All sorts of all white organizations exist. But white people generally immigrated mostly freely and remember their ethnic groups more specifically. Thus you get a ton of organizations that are JUST for italians or just for the irish or whatever, clubs and groups and whatever. In the US a large amount of black people do not know their specific origin and in general that was treated as unimportant so black people just get to be "black people" while white people slice it up to specific countries when they make organizations/groups/whatever.

Our skin has several layers, the top being composed of the epidermis (keratinized dead layers of cells) and the dermis (where your nerves, blood vessels, and epithelial progenitors are). These layers are held together and the cells are positioned by the extra cellular matrix, which is comprised of carbohydrate fibers and proteins. All tissues in your body have this as it helps organize and hold your cells in place. The ink from a tattoo is deposited below the dermis and into the extra cellular matrix. Some of it gets into cells, and when they die the ink fades. This is why tattoos will fade with time. What remains, however, is the ink that has dyed the matrix. This is also why tattoos are so hard to remove: you can't just kill the cells because the dye is not contained in any cells. It's part of the matrix surrounding your cells, so lasers are used to break down the dyes directly

When the leaves decompose, the carbohydrates that make up most of their bulk turn back into water (which joins the lake's volume and eventually outflows through whatever outlet the lake has) and carbon dioxide (which outgasses into the atmosphere). The same happens for other organic molecules. What's left is mostly minerals gathered by the plants surrounding the lake, which (on the time-scales we're talking about) is essentially just plant-driven erosion. The only time this doesn't happen is if the plant material can't effectively decompose, typically because the water is too acidic or too low on oxygen to allow microbial growth (which is how you get many of the wetlands that actually exist in the world). Many of the remaining minerals (particularly earth metals like sodium) are highly water-soluble, so the rate at which they outflow scales with how much is currently in the lake (which is why lakes that have an outflow are, almost without exception, freshwater). That leaves a few minerals that don't dissolve very well even over many years. Over geological timescales, this stuff does build up. As with any other erosion, highlands wear down and lowlands fill up, and eventually your lake at the bottom of a valley becomes part of a marshy plain full of silt. But this takes a long time, and other forces (primarily plate tectonics) are acting to push some parts of the land back up, too, in a way that can (and sometimes does) prevent this process from reaching its endpoint.

Skepticism is an epistemic claim about what we can claim we know. Relativism is an evaluatory claim about how we judge between two positions related to values. Perspectivism, at least as it is applied to Nietzsche, is an epistemic claim about truth being related to a given perspective, or outlook/worldview/standpoint.

There has, but its mostly not visible. Westeros is in an age equivalent to the Dark Ages after the fall of the Roman Empire, which is represented by Valyria. Quite a bit of the technology of Valyria was preserved, but access is limited due to an education gap. The ability to read and write is most certainly limited to the upper class and perhaps the merchant class, so innovation is probably limited to that area as well. So civilization is slowly coming back from the collapse of the cultural, technological and economic superpower, knowledge is limited due to low literacy rates and thus innovation is slow.

You need a bright primary color, one that most people aren't going to wear or have on their bodies, because all of that color will be deleted when you edit the film. You can use blue, but green is less likely to cause problems with people's eyes or fashion. Red is worst, because it can cause problems with erasing some people's skin tones at times.

Its for what are called "Card not present" transactions. Its an additional layer of security to prove you have the physical card. When you go to a store and pay with your card, you have teh card, nothing else is really needed. Thats why you don't use your CVV. They physically can run the card. But, what about when you buy a shirt online? This is a "card not present" transaction. How does the merchant know you have the card and its not fraud or scam just with the number? Well, thats where the 3 digit CVV comes in, it proves you have the card and fraud is much less likely. None of this prevents fraud entirely, but it significantly helps reduce it.

Sometimes, when you make the last connection, a spark jumps from the cable to what ever you're about to clip it to. If you start with the red cable, then the last connection will be made to an unpainted metal part of the car. That way, if a spark occurs, it hits the metal part of the car, rather than the battery, which reduces the chance of igniting hydrogen gas coming from the battery.

There probably isn't a perfect way to describe it, except maybe asking the Duffer Bros. To me it's like a shadow. It's affected by the thing casting the shadow, but can't do anything itself. And then the Sci-Fi experiments come in, and the shadow can begin acting itself.

Your understanding is more or less correct. The key piece is that neutrino oscillation implies that the flavor states are not the same as the mass states. This means that flavor states are mixtures of the mass states, and vice versa. The existence of flavor oscillations (observed as a deficit of solar electron neutrinos... because some of them turned into muon neutrinos and tau neutrinos) indicate that this is the case. So the evidence for neutrino oscillation is that we see a third of the expected electron neutrino flux from the sun, because they've turned into other flavors of neutrinos, and neutrino oscillation is the evidence for neutrino masses.

So one argument against sweatshop labor (and one which kind of differentiates China) is that it hurts the development of locally owned businesses. Essentially, when a large amount of the business capital stock is owned and operated by foreign firms, those firms tend not to reinvest the returns from that capital locally, and also tend not to build the sort of stable local institutions that can grow into a more advanced manufacturing economy. China has very strict rules about foreign ownership of manufacturing plants - almost banning it. That's a big part of why Foxconn for example is Apple's biggest supplier, as opposed to Apple manufacturing in house like they used to in the 1990s when they built in America. The upgrade path depends a lot on that local ownership though. Foxconn can now advertise themselves around the world as the place to go to get high end electronics made. But if the plants were Apple owned and operated, that expansion would be much more limited and the profits from it funneled outside of China. So it's not sufficient to say sweatshops are the path to development - they can be, but there are other important factors as well.

If you manage to get a W3 professorship in Germany (its tough out there), you'll likely have something between 6k and 8k € (gross!) per month, and a 13th salary at the end of the year. This doesn't mean you'll get a net amount of at least 6k on your bank account (if you have 8k gross, its probably going to be around 5k net), BUT there are some perks: -healthcare is 100% free (e.g., paid with a small amount out of your gross salary, and as you are a public servant, you are "privately" insured and get the best healthcare possible) -you don't have to pay a single € into a retirement account (only if you want to). As you are a public servant, you'll automatically get ~70% of your last salary as a pension. -many many other things as others mentioned (free college, free education, subsidized daycare, no guns, etc. etc. - this is for you to google). Hence: you'll likely get less money on your bank account each month. Your quality of life will be at least the same, if not better. For further information, google "W3 professor Germany". Be prepared to learn some German, although English is commonly/increasingly used in the educational sector.

I asked a friend this. Apparently the show differs a lot from the comics. Him getting bigger/smaller is just for us to tell the difference, apparently his friends see a flash and notice an additude change but otherwise he is still short

They are cheaper to install than metal or concrete poles for the smaller spans, and will last longer if nobody hits them since they are treated to last longer since the base won't rust/degrade as badly as the others.

The problem with this view is that it paints diversity as an oppositional force to hiring the most qualified employee, when that isn't really the case. A well-studied effect is "similarity bias" or "affinity bias"; basically, people like others who are similar to them. This effect is very pronounced in hiring; employers tend to artificially favor employees similar to them (less diverse) even if they are equally or less qualified. Promoting diversity initiatives can actually *counteract* this similarity bias and lead to better hiring and more diverse hiring at the same time. Further, the idea of a "most qualified person for the job" is extremely nebulous and basically impossible to determine. Quality as an employee is subjective and employers are terrible at hiring; for instance, the silicon valley trend of "lateral thinking puzzle" style interviews was huge and popularized and turned out to be *awful* and only good for weeding out candidates who did not think exactly like the interviewer, limiting both diversity and quality of employees. At best, the "most qualified person for the job" is extremely fuzzy and there are probably multiple candidates who could be most qualified, which means interviewers *always* have the option to pick for reasons beyond "objective" quality.

Aside from the negative ramifications of what they produce Monsanto has a monopoly on agriculture legislation and policy. They are now immune to certain forms of litigation. And it's cynical to think nothing can be done. When a large number of people engage on an issue things change. We are just at a particularly difficult historical moment where tyranny of elites is fairly pervasive. But we still have our votes and purchasing decisions and voices.

The laws of physics are invariant (unchanged) under a transformation called U(1) gauge invariance. To get this invariance, individual fields have to transform in well-defined ways under this transformation. The way a field transforms tells you its electric charge. We don't know why we have fields with the particular transformation properties they have.

Bees, wasps, and hornets all evolved from a common ancestor, so their venom is similar. Basically, their venoms contain irritants that irritate the victim/the individual who was stung. Phospholipase A2 and mellitin are the allergens that cause a bee sting. Antigen 5 is the main venom of a wasp/hornet. Both a bees and a wasps venom contain hyaluronidases, but the combination of compounds really dictate how the stings work/feel. A bee will inject a venom that basically causes inflammation - similar to an allergic reaction. A Wasps’ venom breaks down cell membranes and they can sting multiple times which is why they hurt so much more: they do actual damage. Finally, bee stingers stay in the skin, and you should always remove them. Hope this helps!

Don’t think of it as making on change happen faster and the other happen slower. Think of it as if you just had liquid water, and it is just pushing the freezing point and boiling point even further out. So if you have liquid water, adding salt to it makes it freeze at a lower temperature, and makes it boil at a higher temperature.

Projection booths would have more than one projector. Both projectors are aimed at the screen the same way. Within the movie there was a cue for the projectionist to know when to start the next reel. You no doubt had seen that cue not realizing what it is, it is typically a quick flash near the top right corner of the screen. There was a second dot that would flash again to let the projectionist know it is time to switch completely to the other projector. There are time stamps that are published for the projectionist to know about when that transition occurs. If there are more that 2 reels the same sequence happens again back to the other projector. The reel would be changed after the rewind of the previous reel.

> women have more sexual capital They also have more sexual liabilities. Sex is a major risk for women. 1. They might not get off. Some women **have never orgasmed** Some never have with a partner. So sex is already a worse proposition for women. 2. They might get pregnant. Pretty self explanatory. 3. Women, in general, are treated worse if it is known they have a lot of sex. Higher social cost. 4. It is likely that any male partner they have could easily overpower them. So yes, women are more selective, but they have to be. Having sex for women is a bigger risk, hence they look for signs of better returns. This is pretty rational behavior. In sum, you are comparing assets, but ignoring liabilities. Bad way to look at a balance sheet.

There is no doubt the US could destroy North Korea in any sort of war. The question is, could they: * do it without suffering politically unacceptable losses? * do it without massive civilian losses in South Korea? * do it without drawing China into the conflict?

Draw a triangle on a globe. Measure its angles. They don't add up to 180. That is non-euclidean geometry, right there before your eyes. Useful for many things, including, how do we get this plane from San Francisco to Tokyo the fastest? Answer: go over Alaska.

Given that Covenant tech is almost all reverse engineered from Forerunner "relics," there's a solid learning curve involved. But really the main problems aren't from reverse engineering the tech, it's restructuring their entire manufacturing and training setups to take advantage of the advancements. (Remember the whole "we're at war" thing) In spite of that; UNSC star ships apparently used the rotating centrifuge model for artificial gravity prior to first contact with the Covenant. This was one of the first things the UNSC integrated into their new ships. The Mjolnir armor's energy shield is reversed engineered from Jackal's personal shields. The UNSC Infinity was built with a Forerunner slipspace engine, among other bits of Covie tech.

You can't do much research when your laboratory decides what rules of physics it will adhere to at the moment. And it changes very often. Also, Chaos does not like other following chaos, they are just as likely to be killed by the Imperium as by other Chaos followers(if not even more so). Death tends to stop research really well.

Most mammals are polyphasic sleepers meaning they take multiple naps per day rather than one long nap. There are theories that we forced ourselves out of this type of sleeping habit to align with the 9 to 5 style of day that we are currently apart of. People like Tesla, Edison, and Da Vinci were polyphasic sleepers. Some cultures still encourage a nap each day, siesta, instead of just one long nap. The body doesn't care if you get your REM sleep all at once or if you do it in spurts. All that matters is that you get it.

First off, the more desert, the more worms. The more worms, the more spice. And for most of human's history with the planet, it was impossible to remove the worms from Arrakis and start spice production elsewhere. You don't pave over a water source because you want to live near it. Second, YOU try maintaining comfortable human living conditions on a planet-wide desert. Earth's most hostile deserts are a tropical beach at sunset compared to Arrakis. Sand is in EVERYTHING, constantly eating into any materials both natural and human-made. You breathe it, you eat it. And it does excellent work in breaking everything down. The heat destroys whatever is left. Sure, it's physically possible to build and maintain comfortable housing and cool buildings, but the cost would be astronomical. Not to mention the Guild getting their share of the CONSTANT imports that would be necessary to maintain this artificial construction. And third, it does become a seat of power and civilization over time. Arrakis is eventually terraformed into a paradise world perfect for human life. The results are basically the genocide of the worms and the loss of everything that made Arrakis what it was. (it doesn't last forever though, the desert and the worms return)

Here's an easy experiment. Place a drop of water on a paper towel. Notice how the wet spot looks dark? Now hold that paper towel up between you and a source of light. Notice how the wet spot looks bright? The water increases the ability of fabric (or a paper towel) to transmit light, which means there's less light to be reflected back toward you. So the wet spot will look lighter or darker, depending on whether you and the source of light are on the same side of the fabric, or not.

It sure does. And you may (or may not!) be surprised to know it travels as the same speed as light, c. The main reason is that the force carrier for the electric field is the same force carrier for the magnetic field (the photon). Electricity and magnetism were found to be manifestations of the same fundamental force way back in the late 1800's by Maxwell.

Ascorbic Acid is extremely soluble in water (50g per 100 mL, i.e. 50x more than you probably need). As is table salt (NaCl) Most of the reactants from fizzing are also extreme water soluble. Most of them are based around citric acid and Sodium and Magnesium Carbonate. What is most likely left in the bottom of the glass are pill binders, which are usually some kind of fats+gums, like Magnesium Sterate. There is a chance of some Magnesium Carbonate precipitating out, but generally the solutions are all too acidic for that. TLDR, the stuff in the bottom of the glass is mostly the fats and gums used to hold the pill together. It's not NaCl or Ascorbic Acid.

That exercise you're referencing, in particular, has a lot to do with core strength, so if you don't have a strong core, you're more likely to experience the shaking as your muscle tries to perform the exercise. You'll notice the more you do it (aka the stronger you become) the less your muscles will shake in those instances.

Overclocking means making your CPU to work faster by increasing the default clockrate (GHz). Increasing the clockrate makes the CPU less stable (might crash without reason) and more hot (requires better cooling). If you find the sweet-spot (stable, not too hot, maximum GHz) you're gaining tens of percents of performance increase for free. It's a lot easier than you think. Basic overclocking is basically just typing a higher number in the CPU settings (BIOS). I would compare it to tuning your car engine to make it faster. When you're going faster, you need better brakes and stuff. If you make your Fiat Punto go 500km/h, it will became unstable without modifications.

Not in their chemical composition but in their physical composition. Bathroom usually means ceramic tile and porcelain and kitchen usually means linoleum, stainless steel, and veneer cabinetry. Ceramics are hard. In fact they are some of the hardest materials found in most homes short of glass, silica, or diamond. So a bathroom cleaner will usually contain a softer but abrasive agent to help scrub dirt and grime off of tiles but without scratching them. Because tile and porcelain are so hard, you can use some pretty abrasive stuff without fear of scratching them. However if you use them on plastics, linoleum, or veneers they can scratch and gouge them. Some of the most abrasive cleaners will have warnings about which surfaces they can be used on. Their abrasive qualities however make quick work of hard water stains and soap scum such as in a shower or toilet. You wouldn't want to use them on a stainless steel sink though.

It's easy to convert voltages using a transformer with AC. High voltages are very dangerous but they travel easier. So what the electric company does is convert the power to high voltage to distribute it from their plant to a city, then gradually convert it to lower voltages, and by the time it reaches our house, we have 110V. Which is still dangerous, mind you, but at least we don't have lightning coming out of our sockets. There are some things that can run directly off AC (like specially constructed motors or light bulbs), but if you want to do something sophisticated with the power, like run a computer, it's converted to DC first. Here ^(*points at power brick of laptop computer*)

It's funny because pink was originally the color that was associated with boys and blue was for girls, but the Nazis in world war 2 started to use pink as a label for gay men. This in turn caused people to stop associating it with boys and flip the color to gender trope. Not sure what caused people to associate certain colors with certain genders.

All in the KIND of refrigeration. Aged beef is kept in a VERY dry cool stable environment that has air constantly moving in it to wick the moisture the meat releases away. Your refrigerator tends to be a little humid and the opening and closing of the door disturb the temperature to the point it varies a lot. Its essentially working exactly like salting it would, pulling out the moisture in the meat which bacteria need to thrive, while at the same time breaking down cell walls in the meat which tenderizes it and concentrates the flavor. Your fridge also has a ton of other shit all releasing gases into the fridge, some of which can accelerate spoilage. Also its not a perfect science. Meat can spoil in the aging process as well. So while they work really hard to keep the spoilage low, there are times when shit goes south and they are tossing hundreds and thousands of dollars of meat away cause something went wrong.

* put the distractions away. in another room altogether, if needed * have a plan for what you're going to do. that way you have a goal to word towards * take regular breaks. you might do something like the pomodoro method of 25 or so minutes work, 5 or so minutes break. doing this lets your brain know you will get your dopamine fix, just not yet

The deathly hallows aren't real; they're an allegory. Perhaps there really was a trio of brothers back in the day, and maybe they did create these great tools, but it was never influenced by death. The story juts highlights the flaws that led each brother to their doom, and the folly of using those tools without first examining yourself. Death was never there, and he was never fooled.

You get a concussion when your brain gets shaken up inside your skull. So, the cause of a concussion is less about a forceful blow to the skull, but rather a blow that rattles your head. When you headbutt someone, your head is moving rapidly and firmly. When you make contact, your head still keeps moving forward from the momentum; it doesn't shake. However, the fellow that gets hit recoils his head upon impact. It's the sudden recoil that shakes his brain around, giving him the concussion. If buddy held his ground, and didn't move his head or body back, the momentum of the impact would come back at you and stop your movement. That sudden stop of movement could give you the concussion instead.

The Solar System will die when the Sun becomes a red giant star whose outer envelope reaches as far out as Venus, or perhaps even the Earth. Even if the envelope doesn't reach the Earth, the immense radiation given off by the Sun in this phase will eliminate all life on the planet. The Sun will then transition to a white dwarf star and slowly cool for the rest of time. Interactions with the material given off by the Sun during the red giant to white dwarf transformation may disrupt the outer planets as well.

1. We imagine the daylight sky is blue and everything is in front of it. 2. But actually, the sky is just the atmosphere, and the moon is behind the atmosphere. 3. So the sky is *in front* of the moon. 4. It's the sky that's transparent.

The electron only emits a photon _because_ there is a lower energy state available. But more importantly, to make the electron "leave the atom" you have to increase it's energy, quite the opposite of emitting a photon.

The current definition of life simply states that for an organism to be considered living, it has to maintain **homeostasis**, which is the technical way to say "it has to maintain itself through its metabolism". A cell maintains itself by breaking down resources to extract the energy and elements it contains, making up complex structures to achieve survival and reproduction. From bacteria, to protozoa, to algae, to plants, to fungi, to animals, we observe this behaviour, regardless of the cell type. In a sense, all lives are the same, they're just living - and have been living - under different circumstances that greatly affect how they "express life".

They have built their own society in the depths of the ocean. Tensions are high as land mammals desperately overfish to keep the predatory population under control, and the Pandas and Japanese Macaques keep huntings the whales for a thriving meat industry and the belief their testicles provide fertility.

It appears that there is no divide between Ireland and Great Britain on the international wizards' stage; aside from students in Ireland primarily going to school in Hogwarts, it's implied that the Irish Quidditch teams play in the same league as the British teams. There *is* a sort of sense to this; when the Magna Carta (which is the legal document that stripped the English king of control of the empire which *also* has the Statute of Secrecy) was signed into law, Ireland was a territory of the British Empire. Since Ireland only received it's independence in the 1920's then wizards may not have bothered separating the two.

He would likely be resurrected as many times as he needed to, at least until he fulfilled his role in the fall of Sauron. As a Maiar spirit, he's functionally immortal. If his mortal form is destroyed, he can either spend a long time gathering power to return, or he can be restored by a Valar god.

Said superhero should, if financially savy, open up bidding from various countries regarding where to land the asteroid. Once payment has been received, lower the asteroid into a convenient mining facility where the minerals can be extracted. Note that the value of some rare materials will drop significantly due to this, but it will still be useful for experimentation

>If the prince will not eat, do the peasants have a moral imperative to feed him in order to save him from dying? Yeah sure. As things go that you ought to do to prevent someone from dying a horrible death feeding them is pretty low down on the list of inconvenient and unpleasant things you should still do.

The fear of falling is the main reason why it's hard to learn in the first place. You need a certain amount of speed to keep it upright, but a higher speed = a more painful experience if you fall. So the tendency is to want to start off slowly, causing a wobbly ride. The intricate details of which gear to use, how to pedal properly, to brake without flying over the handlebars, those could probably be forgotten. What "clicks" in your head is that you actually have more control over the bike if you get it moving a little faster, and less if you slow down. This is such a simple cognition, and something you won't forget.

Probably Bjorn the Fell-Handed. First of all, he was chapter master of the Space Wolves and fought alongside, and was a respected ally of Leman Russ at one time, so that should tell you quite a bit right of the bat. Super early in his career, he was at the Burning of Prospero and almost single-handedly (I mean that both figuratively and literally) defeated a Daemon of the warp, even after having pure Warp energy forced through him, causing his arm to decay and die. He remained uncorrupted from this encounter, as well. After this, he led a group of men, and would often be sent where the fighting was expected to be the heaviest and the most grueling, because he would wade through that shit like knee-high water. In one such encounter, Bjorn and his "Pack" attacked fucking Arvax the Arch-slaughterer, Daemon king of Khorne, and every one of his men were killed in short-order, but he, miraculously, managed to claw his stubborn ass out of there and survive. This Daemon King then went on to systematically murder basically everything it came into contact with. Bjorn would then go on to lead a counter-assault that would finally drive it from the field. And after all of that he mostly felt cheated for not having been granted the glorious death that his brothers had. He would then spend the next 5 years doing basically nothing but look for that fucking Daemon King that killed his men. He was SO fucking determined, that he beat his Primarch, Leman Russ, a guy with basically unlimited resources and a mind and spirit DESIGNED to hunt and kill, to the punch. Not only did Bjorn beat Russ there, but Russ was actually present to witness Bjorn, again single-handedly, kill the Daemon by climbing the motherfucker like a rabid squirrel on a tree and tearing its throat out. Russ, fucking flabbergasted, just invented a personal "Wolf Guard" and placed Bjorn there as its first member, because that is exactly the kind of guy you want alongside a whirlwind of slaughter like a Primarch. Then, after the disappearance of Russ, and after serving as Chapter Master, he would finally be killed trying to save his own men.... They then took his broken and worthless body and shoved it into one of the most devastating Drednaughts in the Imperium, and he would spend the next 10,000 years at the forefront of countless battles, always where the fighting was the thickest, because nobody could imagine a world where a war didn't have Bjorn the Fell-Handed tearing things to shreds. Even after DYING, he continues to be one of the greatest weapons in the Imperium.

.com is viewed as more prestigious and was already in use by most US sites, and most commercial businesses and online businesses. .com was essentially .us already. .US holds no interest to companies in the US, and would be viewed as weird and cheap, since .com is essentially the defacto .us and used for US-based sites anyways. It may be a better question to ask the opposite: Why did things like the .uk or .nl become more common? Well... because .com catered to the US based audience, not to the UK or Dutch audience! Especially in the earlier days of the internet, when geolocating was uncommon (now a site can automatically determine your location and route you to a local site), but back then, for example if you wanted a UK version of the site, you go to the .com, and go through a, often unintuitive method on the site, to manually change your country to UK to get the right local site.

First of all, natural selection doesn't work like that. Natural Selection isn't as much "survival of the fittest" as "survival of the meh, good enough". The most notable things big ears could help with are better hearing, or a for helping the body bleed heat. These are purely physical advantages, though. Ears can also be used for portraying emotion or moods, which is beneficial for social creatures. Their purpose can also be as simple as being an biological ornament for attracting a mate of the opposite gender.

It's not something new, it's been around since the country started basically. The country wanted to avoid being tyrannical at all so let a lot of governmental power fall to the states and local governments, that's why even today states can have pretty drastically different laws than others (like gun laws). This mentality passes down to the people to varying degrees. You have the conservatives who believe the government should stay out of most people's lives, more power to local and state governments and less to the federal. Because of their distrust of a stronger federal government as opposed to states and local communities they also believe in more power to private enterprise, and that includes things like colleges and health care. Liberals here tend to be more of a socialist(ish) view with more federal government power, for things like public colleges, more and more towards a socialized medicine, etc. And of course you have every color of the political spectrum represented too, but those are the tendencies. Nationalistic pride isn't related to social programs. Conservatives just tend to put their trust more in private industry and local governments instead of the federal government.

Your body produces a chemical (adenosine) which makes you sleepy. It takes time for your body to make it, and time for your body to get rid of it. You wake up feeling tired because there's still adenosine in your system, once it clears out you feel awake.

When the government wants to increase spending (by decreasing savings), the central bank reduces the interest rate. This means banks pay less interest and loan rates are cheaper. I.e it is worth taking your money out of the banks and investing it. When this happens, demand for goods rises and supply doesn't change fast enough. Therefore, suppliers increase their prices because they can afford to do so (inflation) and this curbs demand. Increasing interest rates re-incentivises people to save and de-csntivises them to take out loans (I may have made up some words in that sentence, happy to clarify).

Asbestos. Asbestos *everywhere*. It turns out the TF2 classes we play are highly advanced tumors scraped off the original members, which is why gameplay doesn't match the *"Meet the Team"* videos or comics. It's also how you can have a team of 9 Snipers, since they're literally cancer.

Im banking on just rats, possibly a genetic component that has to be exact? Might target precise neural structures that only affect rats? Or it might not work as well on other rodents without tweaking. Would love to see a scene in the next movie where shes trapped with just a capybara that she can only make suggestions to

Judging by what has already happened, and with the assumption they die when she says them, probably Edmure Tully, Illyrio Mopatis, and Tyrion Lannister. At the point in the story where Arya gets the three deaths, Jaime is captured and the Tyrells haven't joined the Lannisters yet. With no Tyrion, the city falls to Stannis, and with no Edmure then Tywin is captured by Robb. Illyrio's death means that Aegon and Daenerys have no help from him, so Barristan never goes to Dany, and she is killed by the Warlocks, meaning no impending dragon-invasion. Aegon loses his funding, so he can no longer recruit an army, making his invasion either delayed a lot or not happening at all. This also stops the potential plague that Jon Con might have brought with him to Westeros. Stannis kills all the Lannisters, and Robb sues for peace so he can reclaim the north from the Greyjoys. Stannis turns his eye to the other threat to his kingdom, and reinforces the Wall against Mance, making the Wall storyline effectively the same as before. Stannis cleanses the small council. Littlefinger, Varys, and Pycelle are all killed or flee the city. Euron doesn't return to the iron islands, since he has captured three warlocks who tell him how they have control of three dragons in Qarth. The crow's eye turns east and Asha is elected queen of the Iron Islands, since Vic is a fool and Theon has been executed by Robb Stark, Warden of the North. With Petyr dead/lost, Lysa Tully either kills herself and her son, or is forced out of the Eyrie by the Lords Declarant, who tell her she has to either declare independance or go swear fealty to the new king. Her nephew, Robb fosters young Robert Arryn. After a short while all the Starks are reunited, save for Bran who seems to have disappeared with the Reeds. They are assumed dead. Up until the Others arrive, Westeros seems to be recovering, then it is thrown into a supernatural war it cannot hope to win, Stannis dies at the front line with his phony lightbringer, and with his only heir being a child, the control of the realm passes to his Regent, Davos Seaworth. Davos, seeing what urgent need the country is in need of help, recruits groups of mercenaries from the Free Cities. One such group is the Second Sons, led by Daario Naharis. When all seems to be lost, the others have reached the capital, killing everyone in their way. The Starks and Tullys are all dead, as are the Baratheons and Targaryens, Azor Ahai reveals himself. Back from stealing the dragons from the Warlocks, Captain of the Second Sons, and First Ranger Benjen "Daario "Euron "Crows Eye" Greyjoy" Naharis" Stark rides the Dragons into battle. The Prophecy is complete, and the Dragon has Three Faces. He obliterates the White Walker Army with the dragons, fights the Great Other with Ice, tempered in the neck of his brother who warged into it to become Lightbringer, and takes his place on the Iron Throne with his Paramour and fellow Second Son, Prince Oberyn Martell of Dorne. Westeros embraces gay marriage, and Benjen and Oberyn adopt Shireen, showing their support for the disabled. Westeros enters a new age of tolerance, and there is an ever-lasting peace. King Jaqen rules Westeros well, and any attempt to breach the peace is met by two words: "Not today." The End. Edit: Added more tinfoil.

No, they're not technically Sith. But the rule of two is basically made to be broken. A Master will often cultivate several potential apprentices so that if the official one dies, they can be replaced. And the apprentice will often take on secret apprentices so that they have someone ready to go when they overthrow the master. However Sidious did *not* believe in the Rule of Two. His own philosophy was a Rule of One: That he was the culmination of the Sith order. To him, his apprentices were merely tools, and he intended to rule eternally over the galaxy.

The new canon includes all 6 movies, the Clone Wars (movie and show) and Rebels TV show, and select books/comics (basically, anything after Disney's acquisition) as well as a couple games. Legends is anything released prior to Disney's purchase.

Yes and yes. The Chaos Gods are basically made of emotions - they're the aggregate Warp presences of uncounted trillions of sentient beings. Lose the sentient beings feeding emotions into the aggregates, and the Chaos Gods vanish. The collapse of the Imperium alone would starve Chaos, as humans are its main food source - Orks, Necrons and Tyranids don't feed Chaos, and Eldar and Tau are too few to matter. (Fun fact: according to at least some Daemon Primarchs, Chaos *has already won*. The state of constant war and misery that is the Galaxy in 40k *is* the win condition for Chaos, because it provides maximum emotional energy for the Chaos Gods to fatten on. Stalemate is victory. If Abaddon's Black Crusade actually destroyed the Imperium, Chaos would go down with it.)

In game Gerlat moves fairly similarly to a human as far as following his movements. In the the books Geralt can swing his sword so fast people can't see or follow it. The games adjust a lot of the things you see just to be fun to play. In the books monsters are dying out, they aren't anywhere as common as in the game where you get drowners every 30m of shoreline. Larger monsters are also significantly more dangerous and not taken lightly, whereas game Geralt dispatches many of them with ease.

>corruption and lobbying powers who influence where the dollars actually go is the issue. Right. That's part of the point here. Money is power, and extreme wealth is extreme power. The kind of extreme power that breaks democracies. Taxing the hell out of the ultra wealthy isn't really meant to raise all that much money, it's meant to a) reduce the extreme amount of wealth, and thus power, they have and b) discourage the kinds of behaviors that lead to extreme wealth For point b), let's about this a bit more. It's unlikely one gets extremely wealthy, like billionaire wealthy, without exploiting people. Walmart is a great example of a company that does this. They deliberately hire more part time workers rather than fewer full time to avoid paying them benefits. They exploit their workers, and the rest of the country foots the bill by paying for their workers' food stamps. Now, would the family that owns Walmart still do all this shit if they only got to keep 10 cents of every dollar they saved Walmart? How about 5 cents? Taxes on extreme wealth and income make this kind of exploitative profiteering less attractive. The benefit isn't the money raised, it's the money saved by not having to subsidize walmart's employees

Having long intestines is an evolutionary advantage to get the most out of your food. By having a large amount of time to go through you will have more time to extract nutrients. Arguably more importantly, it increases the surface area that your food will be exposed to (especially with villi and microvilli) which enables more thorough enzyme exposure and nutrient uptake. You will see other animals have different lengths of intestines. Herbivores have longer intestines than carnivores and omnivores because the cellulose in plants has beta glycosidic linkages which takes longer to break down. They will have very large cecums filled with prokaryotes that can break down those linkages. Basically larger intestine = less wasted energy from food, and different animals will find different ways to utilize this.

They use a coil to raise the voltage while simultaneously limiting the current, so they don't electrocute the target. The coil is powered by the batteries much like the spark plug in a car is powered by the 12 volt car battery, which is only huge because of the current needed to start the car, not to make the spark.

Banks have to make profit/loss calculation, and therefore use the price system to allocate capital toward student loans. In other words, banks care whether or not they get paid back. Government, much less so. This is actually a positive thing because it regulates the supply of student loans. The question is, how many student loans is *too many*? Too few? Consider the fact that US student loan defaults are rising and are at decade-highs. In theory, lenders *should* be becoming less willing to risk their capital. In practice, there are other government interventions (Sallie Mae) that are already distorting the market and creating moral hazard. To have government issue loans directly is merely the next tier in moral hazard. The government can declare "we need more student loans!" regardless of price signals, just like they did with houses. It is a bubble similar to every other bubble the government blows. When it is finally revealed that those loans cannot be paid back, the taxpayer will have to again "bail out" the insolvent institution holding the loans. To add to all that, the government has to get its capital from somewhere. It must either levy a tax, print the money (not possible under Federal Reserve system), or borrow the money. In the US the government borrows by issuing Treasuries, which it sells to Primary Dealers (banks). So, in reality, Obama has not "cut out the middle man" whatsoever. Well, you can say he "cut out" smaller independent banks to the benefit of very large, well connected banks.

Because the night is long and full of terrors. At least it used to be. For the major part of our evolution as species, remaining alone in the dark long was a huge increase of chance of being horribly killed and eaten by a predator. It's also less safe to travel or do pretty much anything else whe you can't see. Both seeing in the dark and instinctively avoiding it is thus an evolutionary advantage, and so we fear the dark.

seems like it was just a popular sort of hat in general at the specific time french bakers got prominent so that random fashion of the time got stuck as the 'traditional" hat of bakers. It's like how all flight attendant uniforms look vaguely 1950s because plane flight got popular enough in the 1950s to have a standard uniform and even if stuff changes it still keeps elements of what everyone thinks of when they think of what a normal uniform would look like.

They don't need to. The US government has no problem borrowing money right now (plenty of people are happy to buy US government debt for really cheap) through its regular financial programs, so why create a whole new program when the current ones are doing the job just fine? The US Dollar is the global reserve currency. It's basically the foundation of the way that global trade is structured. So lots of people/organizations/countries are interested in holding dollars/US debt. This wasn't the case before and during WWII, so it wasn't as easy for the US to borrow money as it is today.

Power does not “flow” through wires in the sense that it only goes one way. It is a constant charge. You can technically plug a generator into any outlet and power your house, however this is illegal in most places because if not done correctly you will send power to the grid, which may kill a lineman trying to restore power. Solar panels when set up correctly back feed into the grid, but they have automated switches so if the power goes out they disconnect.

I feel like you're inferring causation, when it might not always be appropriate. When a police supervisor has a scenario where one of his cops may (or may not) have acted improperly, isn't the important thing to review all the necessary information and get the decision right? These things sometimes take time to do, and it's very possible for a video shot on somebody's cell phone to go viral the very same or next day. In those scenarios, you've put the supervisor in an impossible position.

I could see a few potential scenarios if it was unintentional: * Witches brawl it out, because they both want the child for something important * Witches have some kind of hierarchy that determines who 'gets' the kid (age, seniority, when the contract was signed, etc...) * Magic happens and the family has twins, so each witch gets a kid If it was intentional on the part of the couple, woe betide them at the hands of scorned witches. Best case they have a hex put on them that they need to work off. Worst case their lives take a dramatic turn for the worse and they die penniless, in pain, with broken hearts.

Well, he gets that shiny new Vibranium shield from *somewhere*, which suggests he did go Captain America-ing on the side. Peggy was a hero in her own right, and Steve isn't the type to sit at home which she risks her life to stop HYDRA.

Speaking purely in terms of individuals, Selina Kyle, alias Catwoman, is probably the most accomplished thief on Earth. If a team can be considered, the Rogues collectively might be able to rival her-- Captain Cold and Mirror Master are especially accomplished in this respect but are both at their best when working with a larger team of experts.

Many orders of magnitude. It's hard to say for certain, because we don't have anything resembling "power levels," but look at it this way: If the Bifrost is left open too long, it could destroy a planet. Stormbreaker can channel the bifrost. In theory, one could use Stormbreaker to destroy worlds.

If not the right to influence the mothers choice to keep the child, then maybe fathers should have the right to a 'financial abortion'- That the father forfeit any claims to the child, and in return not be held financially responsible for child support if the mother would choose to keep the child.

I forget whether Israel's quarantine held throughout the war but if it did it'd probably be them. Honorable mention to North Korea, who is mentioned in the interview as being a country built to not only survive, but thrive in a zombie apocalypse. However, it's unknown if the bunkers still held anyone, or if it was just an underworld full of ghouls by the time the interview was recorded. Worst might be either Iceland(still a densely-infested white zone) or China(I know they eventually rebuilt but from the sound of it they had a whole-ass civil war on top of the zombie apocalypse to deal with, and it culminated in their leadership getting nuked)

While we know Wonder Women had been doing super hero stuff, the implication of Man of Steel is that Superman is the first super hero (which was consistent with DC's New 52 storyline at the time establishing the rise of Superman as the start of the era of heros). Yes Batman had been doing his thing, but he wasn't a hero, but a vigilante. We see that Bruce Wayne did go to Metropolis, but that was to ensure his people were evacuated. Wonder Women may have been in Europe already. Cyborg was brooding at home. The Flash may not have suited up yet. And Aquaman may not have known it was happening.

It's instinctual. Birds reared in plastic containers build their own nests just fine. They need not ever see a nest to build one. Further, the nests they build don't necessarily model the nests their parents built. If a researcher provides a bird with only pink building materials, the chicks reared in that pink nest will choose brown materials over pink for their own nests, if they have a choice. There is an instinctual template, thank god. Imagine being compelled to build something but having no idea of what or how. Torture! That's not to say that birds are slaves to their instinctual templates. They gain experience over successive builds and make minor changes to the design and location.

His unique combat style involves fantastic acrobatics. Any kind of movement restriction is basically intolerable. He regularly doges things by the smallest margin, which means if it has any thickness he's be taking more hits. Normal anti-balistics and protective clothing are not an option. While Peter is a legit scientific genius, micro-thin like like that armor Stark made is beyond his expertise.

The calorie is THE main form of energy, and unhealthy foods tend to have a ton of them. Without calories, you will die. A good analogy is a car. Calories are the gas to help keep the car running. If you eat too many calories, you start storing that extra gas in the trunk. It then requires more energy to move the car because it's heavier, and the other parts of the car will wear out faster because of heavier workload. All the other parts of the car - the pistons, transmission, engine etc are your organs and body parts. They need regular upkeep (nutrients such as vitamins/minerals) to run efficiently. The car may run a long time if you neglect these areas because you have gas, but it won't run as smoothly or as long as you may have liked. I hope this helps!

When we are schoolchildren, we are generally taught that subatomic particles like electrons are little spheres orbiting around the nucleus in an atom. But that isn't correct. Subatomic particles aren't little spheres, they are more like matter waves. There's simply no way to pin down the exact position of an electron in an atom, because it has no exact position. What's the exact position of a wave? Making matters worse, the uncertainty principle tells us that there's a chance that a given electron isn't even within the atom at all, at least for a brief time. There's a very very very small chance that an electron from an atom in your nose could be found on Mars! (Of course, it would be hard to tell, since all electrons are identical.)