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What is the Safe Harbour agreement and how does today's ruling affect users of Facebook, etc? | Put simply, Safe Harbour in this context relates to an agreement between the EU and the USA that US companies can store EU citizens' data in the USA. Although not exclusively aimed at internet companies, they are the ones most affected because they're most likely to have users worldwide but data processing exclusively ... |
Marx's Theory of the Class Struggle | Throughout history there have been two groups of people : the Haves and the Have-nots. Whether it be within feudalism or capitalism, these groups will always be in conflict because one group control the means of production while the other have to sell their labor to survive. This conflict continues and shapes society u... |
why can I sing reasonably well in my choirboy voice but horribly out of tune in my man voice. | All I can think of is that singing in falsetto is utilizing another vocal cords than what causes the deep voice. Since they are muscles, maybe you have not trained your normal voice to sing, while the falsetto one has been chilling there, ready to sing. Trust me, I took singing lessons for 3 years. |
why water completely damages a cell phone when submerged. | Electronic circuits are designed to only allow electricity to pass through certain parts at certain times. That's how your phone works. It's a set of boolean functions . Electricity passes through chip, and it makes a decision such as "and/or". If it's \'and\', it sends the signal one way, and if it's \'or\', it sends ... |
Why does coffee taste so differently after smoking? | Here you can find some interesting points. To sum it up, a tobacco really can change the taste receptors _URL_0_ |
How can people argue for mandatory drug testing to receive government benefits? Doesnt this violate the constitution through self incrimination? Doesnt testing for BAC when pulled over also do this? | You are not legally entitled to most government benefits; you must be eligible. If not using illegal drugs is a condition for eligibility, then you can be required to prove that to obtain the benefits. That's not unconstitutional, because you're not being compelled to do anything--it is your choice to seek the benefit ... |
the beef between G-Unit and Murder Inc. | Basically Ja-Rule and 50-Cent took slight jabs at each other, Ja-Rule calling 50 jealous because of the respect Ja has in the hood. 50 and Ja then dissed each other in a couple of songs back to back thus causing each others\' groups to beef. Eminem and 50 were real close friends and Eminem talks about how he almost got... |
why do computer hackers get a longer/harsher sentence than a murderer would? | Because governments are afraid of hackers. Murderers only kill people. Hackers can kill banks, defense systems, nuclear plants, expose politician's dirty secrets etc. |
Since China landed on the moon I've heard talk of helium-3 mining. What are the practical applications of helium-3 and why would we need to go to the Moon to get it? | Helium-3 is used in fusion research, neutron detection, cryogenics, and medical imaging according to wikipedia. Helum-3 is one neutron short of being normal Helium-4. Helium-3 fusion is attractive for a few reasons. First, there are no radioactive byproducts. Also it can lead to direct electrical production as opposed ... |
The different .txt file encodings (ANSI vs Unicode vs Unicode big endian vs UTF-8) | A text file is basically a series of bytes - numbers from 0 to 255 - and we want to interpret that as a series of characters. Let's start with a simple one-byte-per-character plan. Pretty much everyone agrees how to assign 0 to 127 to common characters like A-Z and 0-9, that's called ASCII. Various countries came up wi... |
What would happen to a dead body in space? | It would dry out over time as the liquid boils out of it and, if left in direct sun light long enough, could probably gets some nasty burns.They have these body farms where they check all sorts of cool things regarding decomp etc I can't imagine why they haven't sent one up there yet, as well as put one all the way at ... |
Why do only women wear makeup? | For a variety of reasons, through history, due to biological, cultural, economic and other factors, beauty and sexuality became of larger emphasis for women than for men and so products were made to supposedly enhance one's beauty. Men however do wear makeup. Not as much but many men do. |
How exactly does fat exit my body after a workout? | Fat is made up of Oxygen, Hydrogen and Carbon. When 'burned', the fat is combined with Oxygen from the atmosphere to create CO2, which you exhale. About 85% of the weight you lose is exhaled as CO2. The remaining ~15% is turned into water, which you expel in your urine. |
Why are 7 and 13 considered lucky and unlucky respectively? | this is a cultural thing and if you travel to various parts of the world you'll find the same does not hold true for them. for instance, Chinese and Japanese consider 4 to be unlucky and not 13. The reason for that specifically, is because some of the pronunciations of 4 are similar or the same as their word for death.... |
Why do individuals vomit after a concussion? | Did you know that there is a part of the brain that controls vomitting? See: _URL_0_ When the brain encounters a physical shock, it is possible that this part of the brain becomes triggered. Once that happens, nausea may occur, which sometimes leads to vomitting. Because of the triggering, the brain might be trying to ... |
What causes an apple to have more than 1 stalk? | Photoshop or a bamboozler. You're actually seeing the top and bottom of the Apple, it's basically an Apple with a growth problem. Op just added a stem to the butt. |
Why isn't there dry human food with all the needed essentials like there is for pets? | Because we don't want it. There is no demand for it and we prefer a varied diet. There is [soylent] which is a smoothie type thing which is essentially all you need to eat. It claims to have all the nutrients, fats, calories and whatnot a human needs to be able to survive on it alone. It exists, but it isn't exactly re... |
Prior to radios, satellite imagery, and other military technology, how did opposing armies locate eachother for battle? | So, when you think of things like this, you're probably thinking of something like in the movies, where a few guys are moving through the woods or jungle or wherever and can hide their tracks. That's not an army. An army is *thousands* of people. A scout can find traces of 4,000 people walking somewhere -- either from ... |
What is the feeling of semi-weakness people sometimes get when they are cold? | At cold temperatures, oxygen is more tightly bound to the hemoglobin in blood and does not release as easily. This slower rate of release leads to a lower amount of oxygen available to your muscles, making contraction more difficult. Also when we are cold, blood is conserved around our vital organs to ensure our body c... |
If Tupac is dead, who receives the royalties when someone listens to his music? And same for other deceased artists | Tupac's estate was managed by his mother until she died a few years ago. Control of the estate then passed on to a a trustee that his mother appointed before her death. His mother and now the trustee was the beneficiary of all financial gains from his estate as well as empowered to make legal decisions regarding copyri... |
[BIOLOGY] Why does it hurt when theres air passing through you? Flatulence meaning.. | Excessive gas literally causes your intestines to bloat and stretch. Most of the pain comes from the muscular contractions of your intestines trying to squeeze air instead of digested food which results in cramping pains. A good fart should make things feel better :)If it hurts to fart, you should probably see a doctor... |
If attorneys have a monopoly on the practice of law, why are they so unwilling to help average citizens? | If no one was injured then there is no case, so that means that you aren't looking to hire legal representation. No chance of pro bono or conditional work from the firm. What you were looking for in those cases was legal advice. Legal advice is never free from a law firm. It is one of the services that the firm offers,... |
What determines a person's sexuality? | The matter is heavily debated and there's no concise answer to it yet. Genetics is a promising possibility, but is confounded by the aforementioned factors involving twins and sexual mismatch. There are a large number of interesting sex-related interactions that occur before and shortly after birth. For example, the We... |
How is the ratio between different currencies calculated? | Short answer - the market. The exchange rate is decided by people buying and selling currency. So the market thinks that 1 Euro is = to $1.25. Therefore that's what the rate is. |
When a meteorite strikes a planet and leaves a crater, why is there a big hole but no meteorite in it? | When it hits the planet, there is so much energy it literally explodes. That's why there's a crater and nothing bigger than meteorite gravel left behind. Think about tossing a snowball at a wall.If you throw an egg at your wall, and it leaves a mess, why is there no egg in that mess? |
what the deal is with Hugo Chavez? | I don't want to start a debate but Booyahhayoob's little recounting leaves rather a lot to be desired. While this isn't comprehensive, here are a few of the major issues that have occurred with the Chavez regime: 1) Food shortages. In 2003, Chavez imposed price controls on food. As is predictable by basic economic theo... |
Why is what's going on in Ukraine right now not already considered war? | It's not a war because Russia hasn't formally declared war on the entire country and has only moved units into the eastern portion currently being contested. If they insert unmarked units there, it's not war because they still officially deny that the units are theirs, meaning that they're supporting the rebels by prox... |
"It is the sense of being watched that constrains social action" (Mirzoeff 1999, 2009:45). | What do you not understand/need help elaborating on? There are a number of social psychology experiments you could reference here. There's also an entire literature on whether lab experimentation is generalizable to the population, given the influence of the lab itself- ie. people likely act differently when they're ei... |
Who is the USA so in debt to? | This article explains it: _URL_0_ Most of the debt is owned by a domestic organization called "social security". I'm assuming you Americans know what that is. Some sort of social safety net provider? Anyway bottom line is US debt is denominated in USD and the federal reserve can print unlimited quantities of that so yo... |
Why do NCAA basketball rules differ so much from NBA rules? E.g., different 3pt distance, different free throw rules, different time format | The NCAA is unofficially a minor league player development system for the NBA, but the people running it, don't work for the NBA, and don't particularly care about developing NBA Talent. There's a degree of inertia here, in that college basketball has been around a really long time with their own set of rules, and don'... |
Why do man made satellites, such as the ISS, appear bright like stars when they pass overhead even though they have no signifigant light source? | If you ever look at the ISS sighting times for your city, you will notice they are always early morning or late evening - never the middle of the night. This is because the sky has to be dark to see it, but the spacecraft must still be in view of the sun to reflect its light. When you watch the ISS go by what often hap... |
Can black holes bend light from planets so we are actually seeing them in the wrong place? | This is an occurrence known as gravitational lensing and isn't specific to black holes, but any object with significant mass. Objects whose light is bent do then appear in the "wrong" place. We can even see objects that would 've been otherwise obstructed from vision if lensing didn't occurYes. Although we see it more ... |
Why does tomato ketchup taste nothing like tomatoes | Ketchup contains a lot of sugar and vinegar, both of which will mask the flavor of a tomato, not to mention also mask the flavor of the food you use it on. There's usually plenty of sodium in ketchup as well, which will overwhelm your tastebuds, hiding the tomato flavor even further.At least Finland has "natural" or "s... |
Why is the current generation waiting for the baby boomers to die out? | They're the ones running the world. They have all the jobs, all the money, run all the businesses & control the government. The younger generations, even into their 30s and 40s, are left with a world run by their parents that they can't change. |
Why don't highlighter colors exist on anything digital? | Highlighter colors are a type of [blacklight-reactive ink]. They reflect light like normal, but they *also* absorb ultraviolet light and re-remit it at a visible wavelength. That means that the ink appears brighter than it should given the level of ambient light, making it look like it's glowing. Computer monitors are ... |
Germans eat raw pork, almost nobody gets sick | I believe that prosciutto is also raw pork that has been carefully prepared and aged. In the case of Mett, > Unless pre-packaged, the German Hackfleischverordnung permits mett to be sold only on the day of production. That is likely to keep it safe to eat, and it may be subject to more rigorous testing standards as wel... |
Russia's political system and it's democratic system. | In some ways Russia has a good democracy. The president is limited to two sequential terms . Theoretically there are three branches of power , and the constitution gives the right for multiple parties to operate. In reality, Putin has been president for most of the time since 1998 and has "swapped" positions with his p... |
Why metal is forbidden from the microwave. | Not really an expert on this, but basically the way microwaves work is they send a lot of microwaves across the heating chamber. This makes the particles of items inside move a lot faster and therefore raise the temperature of the item. This works fine for foods etc, but for metals accelerating the particles means crea... |
How does a hose work with an attachment? How does it not explode off? Does the water pressure stop? | > Does the water pressure stop? Pressure is static, it doesn't change. When allowed the escape the water will constantly flow out but when stopped it doesn't continually build up. Normal water pressure is about 40-45 psi.the same reason your house doesn’t explode when you turn off the sink. there’s water pressing up ag... |
How much saliva does a human produce each day, and what is it made out of? | Daily salivary\xa0output. There is\xa0much debate about the amount of\xa0saliva\xa0that is\xa0produced\xa0in a healthy person perday; estimates range from 0.75 to 1.5 litres per\xa0day\xa0while it is generally accepted that during sleep the amount drops to nearly zero. Human saliva comprises 99.5% mostly\xa0water, plus... |
What is the true purpose of "Tag a friend who ..." spam-posts on facebook? | Generating range, e.g., exposure. Getting a brands' name 'out there'. Every view, every click, every page loaded is, at its base level, an interaction with a brand, or product and a potential customer. Any page, be it a standalone website, a facebook page, a blog or whatever kind of means a company decides to use to pr... |
Why is pressure measured in inches? | It's measured in inches of mercury . Pressure used to be measured compared to how much pressure an inch of mercury in a glass column exerted. Or the other way round, how much a certain pressure moved the mercury. Simply, you have a container of mercury with a tube standing in it. Air pressure pressing down on the pool ... |
Why don't game AIs use self-learning behavior like they do with robotics simulations? | Genetic algorithms are not without their problems, but I think you fundamentally miss the point of game AI here. It's not supposed to be good at it's job. It's supposed to be believable. You want the guards to act like real human guards, for example. I can tell you pretty categorically that the easiest way to do that i... |
Do really small creatures have self-awareness? | Awareness is an emergent property of the complexity of our brain. Only brains that are able to reach a certain level of complexity are able to create awareness. Only in a couple of species awareness has been proven, and all in a limited way when compared to humans. In some way, the behavior of insects is more comparabl... |
The ridiculously high and growing suicide rate in Japan. | Suicide rates among males have always been high in Japan. The culture praises both a collectivist mentality to supporting the group, plus a strong sense of personal honor. When a man supposes that his utility to the group is less than his contribution and/or his honor has been compromised in a way that it can not be re... |
Why doesn’t stereo volume stop at a point before distortion occurs in stock speakers? Conversely, why don’t stock speakers hold up to the capability of their stereo counterparts? | Manufacturers often make more variety of speaker than head unit, so low quality speakers are often paired with more powerful head units. They want to keep the overall system inexpensive, but they're not able to get a cheaper head unit.Another thing to add to the great explanations so far is that most receivers have an ... |
Why do my eyes water when I do a really satisfying wee? | A great piss can beat an ejaculation in my honest opinion. You know that piss that you have been holding onto since breaking the piss seal 56 minutes earlier at the train station. And in that 56 minutes those last minute traveller beers have mutated into an agonising need to evacuate your bladder only exacerbated by th... |
Why do we sneeze sometimes as a response to pain? | The nerves in your face are very close together and sometimes a signal on one can cause an adjacent one to fire. Same reason some people sneeze in bright light. |
Why does video compression make red so pixelated? | This can be an effect of "Chroma subsampling": _URL_0_ In ELI5, more compression is done to the color parts of images/video than to the black-and-white parts of it. This saves a lot of space but is not _that_ noticable to us usually. |
Why is Republican leadership voting to approve Obama's budget? | There are several parts to the Bipartisan Budget Agreement. * It eases spending caps for FY 2016 and FY 2017. That includes defense spending which is huge for defense hawk Republicans. * It takes the possibility of going beyond the debt limit/extraordinary measures off the table which provides stability in the marketpl... |
Can ice get old? If so, how long does it take and what happens to it? | Ummm glaciers? Pretty sure those are like upwards of 100000+ years old and are still palatableThey don't "expire", but they can evaporate. If you ever have really old ice in the freezer you'll notice it gets smaller through the months. The top layers of the ice slowly evaporates. Literally little bits of H2O molecules ... |
Why are there "runts" of, for instance, a litter of puppies? | They were just born smaller then the rest, and when it comes to feeding time they get pushed to the side by the bigger puppies. Why it happens is just genetics, they got the short straw and ended up a little smaller, aka they are the Runt of the litterIn any group of 5 individuals, one is going to be the smallest |
Why is it commonly assumed that water is a prerequisite for (extraterrestrial) life? | Basically, we haven't seen any exceptions to the rule "life needs water," so we aren't making any guesses about what kinds of "other life" might arise. To put it another way, it's totally possible that there are rock monsters living on some far-off planet that don't need water and don't look like any other life that we... |
When did Westward expatiation put an end to the "Wild West"? | The U.S. census officially declared the western frontier to be closed in 1890. Thus, the year 1890 is traditionally considered to mark the end of the "Wild West". |
Why aren't there any well known businesses that existed before the industrial era? | [There are a few], but most companies from that era just didn't last into the modern age. A few breweries and textile operations have been around for hundreds of years, but all the plague doctors and sail-riggers are out of business. |
when I go to delete or move a file open in another program why doesn't Windows tell me which program I should close? | Because it's simply not the default behaviour of the OS. The phrase you're looking for is "which process has a handle to this file" - there are a number of utilities, such as Process Explorer by Sysinternals, that can illuminate handles for youOn Mac OS X, it tells you which program is using the file in question, in Wi... |
Why do some people call muslims moslems? | I think it's just a language thing. That first syllable in "Muslim" is a sound that you won't really find in the English language. Some say Moslem, some say Mooslim, when it's really right down the middle. Muslim. Source: Brown person who speaks brown person languages that contains sounds problematic for English-only s... |
How does an Anti Virus know whats a Virus and what isnt? | It typically has two layers of defense. The first is the actual signature database. It's a bunch of "wanted" posters, a catalogue of *known* malware. The second layer is searching for suspicious activity. Executables that run themselves automatically, request access to key systems and otherwise do shady stuff are going... |
Does the numerical order of dimensions matter? Does time need to be, explicitly, the 4th dimension? | Not really. The first three, length, width, and depth were accepted as "dimensions" after René Descartes described how to find something's location. But as theoretical mathematics provided new things that counted as "dimensions," they just tacked it onto the list.They're a coordinate system. If you all agree on the ord... |
Why does Obamacare get so much bad press? | The Affordable Care Act is not the same thing as universal healthcare. It has a lot of issues, but it has also solved a lot of problems. There is definitely room for reform, but I don't condemn it, nor do I think all liberals feel one way or the other on it.Obamacare is not universal healthcare. Conservatives will neve... |
Why do race cars omit airbags in their cars? | The purpose of an airbag is to keep your head from slamming against the dashboard and causing an injury. It is necessary because the seatbelts we use do not fully prevent your body from flailing about. Race car drivers are fully secured with a system of harnesses and don't move as violently during an accident. An airba... |
Why do some dogs not eat over their bowl? | It has to do with the "fitness" of the dog. i.e., an alpha dog would not do this. This is because in the wild, the stronger dog will have taken a bigger part in the hunting of the food, simultaneously less threatened overall, while the less fit dogs in the pack will likely obtain the "scraps" of meat and retreat to eat... |
Stem Cells. What they are and the controversy about them? | This has been asked many times, but I think having someone actually answer you personally causes you to get more out of the response. Overview of DNA/RNA: Every cell in your body have the same DNA. DNA is like a giant library. Individual units of DNA are called nucleotides which act in segments of 3. Your cellular mach... |
Why is it some people have huge bulging veins on their arms and others can never achieve that even working out their forearms. | it has almost nothing to do with musculature and everything to do with bodyfat. if you have fat covering your veins, you'll never see them. the people you're observing are almost definitely leaner than you are. of course, it's not a hard and fast rule and some lean people won't be very vascular, but it applies more tha... |
How high and far could you jump on Pluto? | Gravity on Pluto is about 1/15 of gravity on Earth, or about half of the Moon's gravity. If we assume you can put the same energy into your jump as you can on Earth, you'll leave the ground at the same speed and jump 15 times higher than you can on Earth. You're also in the air for 15 times longer, so if you also take ... |
What would really happen if everyone tried to empty their bank accounts all at once? | It's called a bank run. Without intervention from a central government or reserve bank, the bank will go bust, and most people will lose their money. Most countries use a system called fractional reserve banking. Under this system banks only have to hold a fraction of their deposits in reserve, say for example 10%. The... |
Why was/is there no special prosecutor for the top secret emails or Flynn unmasking or Clinton foundation? | There have been no credible issues with the Clinton Foundation. It's routinely one of the top rated charities in the world and publishes audited financial statements. _URL_0_ _URL_1_ |
Is the time a spiral or a line? | The second law of thermodynamics says that enthropy always increases. I believe we model time based on said law, because there's a clear distinction between lower and higher enthropy . Whether time acts as a spiral or line depends on it's rate of change. Meaning if enthropy increases in a linear fashion, then it acts a... |
When did a tax break ("we'll take less of your money") become synonymous with a subsidy ("we'll give you someone else's money")? | I cannot answer the "when" part but can address the "why" part. People think of a subsidy as a deviation from the *status quo,* not from a baseline of zero. So if government has decided to tax everyone at 10% and this becomes the norm, and *then* government decides to cut a certain party's taxes, it can be thought of a... |
Why do I often wake up a few seconds or minutes before my alarm goes off? | Your'e body recognizes patterns and acts accordingly. If you ever want to try to maximize your sleep schedule, try going to bed and waking up at the same time 7 days a week. I started around new years and haven't used an alarm since March. Humans are awesome.When I used a hammer and bell [alarm] I would wake up before ... |
What happens to truck drivers when they're transporting consumable goods and they wreck destroying all of the content transported? | They have special insurance to cover the value of any goods being transported. Meaning if there is a truck hauling a tank of cement dust, and it breaks open and it loses it all, their insurance covers it, but then they pay higher premiums, like auto insurance. |
As a heavy alcoholic why my hands shake when I'm sober but don't shake when I drink. | Alcohol works by altering the level of neurotransmitters, or making them work better or worse in your system. There are two kinds of neurotransmitters, inhibitory and excitatory. The inhibitiory kind are enhanced by the alcohol, and the excitatory are diminished. These alterations cause the nerves that are firing off y... |
What is DNS cache poisoning? | So imagine you've got a massive phone book with everyone's names and phone numbers in. If you think you might need a particular persons number often , you might write a copy of Bobs number down on a sticky note instead of going and taking the time to find their number in the phone book each time. It saves you time and ... |
how come some random people start singing the same song suddenly which iam humming inside my brain | The song you have in your head may be a song you heard on an advert on the television - and many people watch TV, so they might have seen the same advert as you. It's the same radio and even some television shows. If there's a song on any of them that's catchy; it will have more than likely gotten stuck in some people'... |
How does the martian surface have pebbles? | Weathering still takes place on Mars, it just does so much more slowly than it does on Earth. That said, water is believed to have been active fairly recently in Gale Crater , and those pebbles may very well be water-deposited . |
Why do most of African countries are still dirt poor despite having massive natural resources.? | * Corruption * Neo colonialism * Instability* Countries region vs ethnic region* Not so much arable land and generally global harsh conditions. You could check this [out.]Bad resource distribution, mismanagement, corruption, civil wars, etc. therr are a lot of ethnic groups even within one country with opposing views s... |
Those websites that don't let you navigate away from, close, or go to a different page. | Web browsers have a few features that allow webmasters to program things to happen when someone tries to leave. They are *intended* to be used for *good*; for example, you have an online word processor, and if you leave before saving your work, it can warn you that it will be lost. But they can also be used for *evil*.... |
Can someone explain this effect where a camera picks up the "reflection" of the eclipse, but not the eclipse itself? (Video and images inside) | It's lens flare. Lens flare happens when you point a camera at a very bright light source, usually the sun. Some of the light from that source bounces around the lens, creating multiple images of the source along with rings, starbursts and other effects. A movie camera has a very complicated lens made up of many parts,... |
Why do fans cool us down if they're just moving the hot air around? | you make air hotter and wetter. Yes you, you stinky human. You're sweating. you're producing heat. These things move from you to the air. But they move slower, the closer you are to the heat and moisture of the air. Heat and moisture transmit more readily to the air the greater the difference. So the advantage of the f... |
Why does my brain prefer songs that rhyme to ones that don't? | It's probably a lot more to do with how you identify rhythm in song. You like the once that rhyme because that adds to the rhythm of the song, and is easier for you to identify. The language center in your brain might be slightly larger than the music one |
Why are eating disorders only classified as psychological? | An eating disorder--one of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder--is a psychiatric diagnosis. Food in an eating disorder is only the tip of the iceberg. It really centres on thoughts and feelings about control, self-worth, comfort, etc. The eating part is the *result* of the psychological part. |
Why are dried spaghetti strands the length they are? | I always snap mine in half and so does eveybody i know. Why not make a half size version if many are doing this. Unless it really is just us |
How come China population is so huge if Mao's Great Leap Forward killed 45 Million just less than 60 years ago? | China's population had been in the hundreds of millions for [centuries] before that. A lot of people died under Mao, but eventually they got things like food production under control, the [birth rate] spiked and people didn't die of famine, so you had huge population increases. In the end, their population roughly doub... |
How come playing a game in split screen doesn't destroy performance? | Yes, and a lot of games that used to offer split screen don't anymore such as call of duty and Halo. When splitting screens each display only is half the resolution as usual, which is easier to render. Also, many games actually cap the framerate when playing split screen resulting in a much less smooth game. Mario kart... |
When you eat animal fat, how does your body turn it into human fat? | It's not initially human fat. Everything we eat is broken down by enzymes into smaller bits. Proteins become amino acids, and fats become glycerol and fatty acids . Any of those can be used by cells to make energy. The thing about fatty acids is that if they're not used by our cells to make ATP at the time we eat and d... |
Why would people prefer life in prison without the possibility of parole, over the death penalty? | Everyone says, they would prefer dying over doing something. However, most people change their minds once death is an option_URL_0_ Nasrudin was caught in the act and sentenced to die. Hauled up before the king, he was asked by the Royal Presence: "Is there any reason at all why I shouldn't have your head off right now... |
When a orchestra conductor is waving around his stick while the orchestra is playing, why does he do that and Is there a method as to how he does it. | There is a precise reason. It's to keep time for the musicians as well as give cues to perform certain actions. While it is possible to have everybody keep time on their own, having a conductor to maintain pace, give cues, etc is helpful. At least it's how I see it when I would conduct. |
Why don't police officers use rubber bullets? | Rubber bullets hurt, but they don't stop people who don't want to be stopped. Lead bullets do. |
the point of changing your network's password if it can be hacked anyway. | What's the point of locking your door at night if someone can break it down or enter through the window anyways? Why not leave your keys in the car if someone can break in and hotwire it anyways? It's a deterrent. There's no point in a hacker to spend hours and hours trying to get into your home network when there's su... |
What do the two guys in the middle of the bobsled do? | They contribute to the initial acceleration of the bobsled, and help steer by leaningI realize this is late, but figured I 'd elaborate for you all. There are 2 major categories for bobsled brakemen. Strong guys and fast guys. Granted, all of the world class ones are both, but depending on their sports background the i... |
Are the chewing sounds you hear while you're chewing magnified or what you actually sound like chewing? | Not really amplified, but directly routed into your ears by your jawbone. While in contrast to third parties they get dampened by the meat around your mouth so keep your pie hole shut while chewing. EDIT: also obviously the volume gets greatly reduced simply by distance, considering sounds drop of with a square functio... |
What is "Cultural Marxism"? | Understanding any Marxist idea through its definition is tricky. What it means in practice is that any social concept or policy is focused on issues emulating two of the core concepts of original Marxist thought i.e. *class struggle* and *exploitation*. Also very importantly in Marxist thought the solution to the probl... |
I understand "heat" but what creates "coldness"? What makes up the cold waves that I feel when I put my hand near an ice block? | The temperature of the ice block affects the air around it. It cools the air immediately around it, which makes it more dense, and thus heavier, and it falls to ground. When it does this, it displaces other air. Meanwhile, more hot air has taken the place of the cold air, which becomes cold and falls. This creates a ve... |
How is a dead body disfigured after being submerged in water for a long period of time? | Typically, bacteria in the water rots in the body and emits gases. The gases usually bloat the body quite large, making it disfigured and smelly.Any word picture we can give you is going to be a lot worse than if you just looked a photo or even read a report on a drowning. \r\rGenerally after a very long period of time... |
How can you "feel" someone behind or near you? | There's no special ability to detect people outside of your line of sight other than your normal senses. These may not always be immediately apparent to you, for instance you might hear a disturbance and turn to look and see a human. It's also reasonable there's a degree of confirmation bias at work. If you think somet... |
Were there more serial killers in the 20th century or did the media just pay more attention to them? | Short answer is Yes. Longer answer is, not, really: We're only 15 Years into the 21th Century, so, yes of course there were more Serial Killers in the entire 20th Centuryas opposed to the 21th. But that doesn't mean that there will be less serial killers coming in the next 85 Years. |
How did people get their hands on the terrain we live on? | Land used to be a free resource, just like air or sun light. When the first humans started traveling and settling around the world, they would pick grounds usually near rivers and settled there. Those grounds wouldn't belong to anybody as they would be the first ones there. After they've settled in and changed the land... |
How come smoking weed for me intensifies my pain rather than masks it like it does for other people? | First off : you might simply be using the wrong strain. Different strains have different effects. It doesn't seem to be terribly clear cut - the genetics of sativa and indica strains have huge levels of crossovers, and are rarely exactly what they're claimed to be. But as a general rule look for an Indica as opposed to... |
Are there any disorders that involve an altered perception of the rate of time? | [This might interest you.] I know at the least some disorders cause you to "lose" time in the sense that you blacked out and can't remember what you did. I'm just adding useless text to my comment here because for some reason this sub thinks you cannot give a concise and meaningful answer. Must have long winded mods or... |
Why do some people like a certain taste/smell while others don't like it (or even hate it)? | That's a product of education, upbringing, customs, flavors and food you are familiar with Also perseverance. Have you hear that "tonic water is an acquired taste"? You have to keep drinking it until you taste other things that the initial bitterness and end up liking it. And there are certain tastes that can only be n... |
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