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How can the same dose of a drug be OTC and RX at the same time? | Bureaucracy and regulatory capture. Generic preparations of OTC drugs still have to pass FDA scrutiny. In this case Miralax, the brand name did all the work to get FDA approval for OTC sales before the generic manufacturer did. For a period of time the brand name manufacturer can end up being able to sell the product O... |
What is the symbolic fear represented by dead young girls in the movies (e.g. The Ring) | Because children are innocent, loved and protected while adults can be monsters. Having a young girl who we see as innocent murdering people is out of the realms of our reality and hence shit's fucked. Like when you see an young girl, you'll be like awwww. Then when her head starts to form, you're like awww shit. Where... |
How do we charge our phones wirelessly? | Simply put it's induction charging, the specific process I'm not going to explain in too much detail but an analogy I physicist once told me as a good way of explaining of the process which might make it clearer for you. Think of a battery with an electrical circuit as a track filled with ball bearings that can't get o... |
why does time seem to move quicker when I'm occupied? | The prevailing theory is that, when a brain is occupied with a task, then it has to spread its resources, leaving little to spend focused on the passing of time. However, if nothing in particular is occupying our conscious brain, it takes more notice of the time ticking by. The funny thing is, this slower vision is tho... |
How a company can trademark a single word and prevent the word being used in anything? | You're a little confused about how trademark works. Trademarks protect the look and branding of a specific product or class of products. The protection they grant is limited in scope. Sky TV can't keep me from brewing a beer and calling it Sky Pale Ale. However, if I were to use their logo on the label, or something th... |
What would happen if we were more transparent with our national security plans? | If we say, "Russia can have the Ukraine and one of the little Baltic countries before we're mad enough to send over an army" that's an invitation to an adversary to commit mischief. It's like going to a negotiation and saying "I'll pay $12.32", you disclose your position without probing to find your adversary's positio... |
Why don't animals pull their muscles when exerting themselves? | IamA veterinarian. Animals over exert themselves all the time. My favorite example is the guy who came to see me for lameness in his 10yr old dog. He was a college student visiting home for the holidays and, the day before I saw him, decided to take the elderly, homebody Huskie for a 10 mile run. He's lucky she was onl... |
Do we sleep for only psychological reasons? | [There are more reasons for it. See Fatal Familial Insomnia - a rare disease in which the patient eventually dies because they can't sleep.] It seems that the exact reason we need to sleep isn't fully understood, but it's pretty clear that there are serious consequences of sleep deprivation - like weight gain and a dec... |
Why does an e-reader screen flicker so badly on each refresh? | There are two reasons for this. The pixels of an e-reader is based on the physical movement of the pigments to the back or the front of the screen. These pigments can get stuck just like an old etch & sketch. To prevent this the e-reader will flicker the screen to get the pigments unstuck. The other reason is that to k... |
Why some drugs make us feel drowsy/sleepy and why some don't? | Think of your nervous system as a light with a dimmer switch, Certain drugs are capable of increasing the brightness. Some drugs turn it down. In the case of the nervous system glutamate is a chemical in our bodies that turns up the brightness making nerves more "excitable" while GABA is a chemical in our bodies that t... |
Does your stomach stop telling you that you are hungry based on the weight of food you have eaten, the volume of it or something else? | The cue to stop eating is a combination of several factors. 1) Blood sugar reaching a certain level. Your blood sugar starts going up fairly quickly when you start to eat. Once you get to some minimal levels that is one signal that you have eaten enough. 2) Volume. Your stomach knows how full it is and it will signal t... |
Why do we need surround sound, when we only have 2 ears? Alternatively: how do I know a sound is coming from the front or back from me? | You seem to understand that the ears can localize sounds based on the slight delay it takes to get to the near ear and the far ear. In cases where there is no delay - something in front or behind you - there are other mechanisms. The shape of your ear filters out different frequencies of sound differently, and it also ... |
How does the Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES) work? | Works in the same way as greasemonkey scripts; RES is javascript that alters the html returned from the server. |
Why don't women catcall men? | Women are not encouraged to express their sexuality in the same way as men in our culture. Women actually having lots of sex or otherwise finding too many men attractive is frowned upon . |
How do they determine the suggested speed for curves on roads? | There’s a lot of physics involved but the boiled down way is that when you’re moving around a circle your car wants to get pushed out. The friction of the road stops some of this, and the bank of the road stops some more. Engineers determine how fast you can go without losing traction, the. Have a safety factor and tha... |
What are the differences in different types of RAM? | RAM has two qualities you should look for, clock speed and size. The size is given as some GB. You should go for 4 or 8 now, mainly because it cheap. More is never worse, but to much won't help you. The other is clock speed, it's given in Hz and 1333 or 1600 are common ones . This tells you how many operations the ram ... |
Why do people invest in gold and silver? | Personally, I do it to diversify. Gold and silver have held value throughout time, but who knows what will happen to various markets? & nbsp;I know that in the past, people flocked to it to hedge against inflation. So if inflation is at 10% that means your money is losing value every year, so you bought gold to prevent... |
Finite and non-finite clauses and verbs. | **Clause** Basically the smallest grammatical unit. If it can stand alone as a sentence, it is an independent clause. If it cannot stand alone as a sentence, it is a dependent clause. *The kid shut the door.* Is an independent clause and sentence. *After he entered the house* Is a dependent clause. We can combine claus... |
why do new airplanes still have ashtrays in the bathroom? | If someone violates the no smoking rule you want to ensure they have a good place to put out the cigarette. If they put it in the trash can and a fire starts at 38,000 feet then everyone is dead [CNN did an article about this earlier this year] and it is required by law that US airplanes have ashtrays in the bathroom t... |
How do smartphones that run multi-core cpus stay cool with such a compact design and zero airflow? | Most smartphone CPUs are ARM based, which are designed to run cool and use a small amount of energy. Per Mhz, those ARM cpus will provide less computational than an x86 CPU of the same speed. But the power consumption and heat generation will be much lower.Mine freaking doesn't. Ten minutes of 3g'ing and that bad boy g... |
How are EULAs legal in the United States if you can't return the software after you've "purchased" it? | I'm gonna answer this in a way that you don't want to hear, but its really the correct answer as of now: EULAs are problematic for the courts. There have not really been enough cases or strong decisions in either way to make it clear what the precedent or legality of them are and what is and isn't legal. Courts know th... |
Once a cyst or abcess is removed from the body, if left alone do they continue to grow? | If put in the appropriate solution. Otherwise no, it doesn't have the access to energy necessary for the cells to do anything, the cells making it up will die. |
Why does pain linger? | Depends on your pain tolerance as well. Somebody with a higher pain tolerance doesn't mean they feel less pain, it means they need more pain before it starts to affect them. If you have a low pain tolerance you will feel an injury a lot longer cause it will affect you. Higher pain tolerance will feel it less because li... |
how & what happened to the Lehman Brothers? | OK. So Lehman's was overly leveraged, meaning that when people gave them money, they could use that money as collateral on a loan to borrow more money. That borrowed money would then be invested. They are able to earn more profits doing this even after paying the interest on the loan. The problem is that you need to ke... |
What caused the switch from doctors doing home visits to the modern doctors office? | If you keep the doctor in one place, he can spend more of his valuable time actually seeing patients rather than driving between potentially distant patient houses. Having patients drive to the doctor means the doctor gets to see more patients. Some countries still do paid doctor housecalls, but that isn't what most of... |
why won't YouTube fix the issue of saving the video quality even though it's the number one complaint they get? | You mean when you start a new video? It's becomes HD every time I enter full screen.YouTube Help Forum Top Contributor here. I don't know what you mean by "saving the video quality", but whatever it is -- no, it's not the "number one complaint". If you're uploading gaming videos, then I suspect that you're complaining ... |
Why do movies look like soap operas on my MIL’s giant HD TV? | There is an adjustment for reducing judder, varies by brand name, that causes what you describe. Needs to be turned off. |
Is there a limit to the largest nuclear bomb mankind can create? If so, why? | The only limits we know of are cost and that a bomb will blow itself up before all the nuclear material can be used_URL_0_ This is the Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear bomb ever created. The bomb was that large and delivered that large a payload that they had to detonate it as far north as they could and away from civil... |
What is the historical significane of coal in your stocking? | Its a Sicilian tradition. It began with the legend of La Befana. Two of the Wise Men stopped at the home of La Befana to ask for directions on the night of Jesus' birth. They invited her to join them in going to see baby Jesus, but she refused. A while later, one of the shepherds asked for directions, and again invited... |
Why sometimes when I lie on my bed and breathe in I feel sharp pain at my left lung preventing me from breathing in fully? | That is a very good question. I have the same problem', "I'm an RN, wife, mom and a grandmother---it's most likely gas pains. Seriously. If the pain doesn't resolve within a few days and is constant, see a doctor. |
What does it mean if a person has a low centre of gravity? | Ok, so your mass is spread all over your body, pretty unevenly because of your limbs and different body parts. But from a physics standpoint, you still have a center of mass . Center of gravity is the same thing since gravity is pulling on your center of mass. When you're standing up, your center of gravity has to be b... |
How do (online) scalpers get their tickets before everyone else, when everyone else seems to be struggling? | There are computer programs that will automatically buy the tickets quicker than any human can. The scalpers use theseIn short, ticket retailers contract with scalpers such that they buy a block of tickets to every show at the venue no matter what, sort of like a big block of season tickets. Scalpers make bank on popul... |
How do mutual fund fees work? | Your broker might charge you a fee to put money in or take it out of the fund, although a lot of the major brokers that offer their own funds offer many free funds. Then the fund has an "expense ratio"--you pay this percentage of your total investment every year. Think of it as going straight off the profit or loss for... |
How do we know if Syria has handed over ALL their chemical weapons? | It's likely that any agreement that is made that requires them to give up their weapons would require them to allow very thorough investigations, and it's not easy to hide chemical weapons facilities like that, especially with satellites that could be tracking things. |
Why do we as humans always have trouble lying without giving it away in some form of body language? | I'm not sure that it's true the people *always* give away their lies with some sort of bodily signal, but you're right that there are often signs. There are a few reasons for this. One is simply that lying is cognitively more difficult than telling the truth. Think about it this way, which is easier: reading from a scr... |
Does the body absorb every calorie? If I overeat like crazy will some of it just 'flow through' me or will it all be stored? | Some calories remain in partially digested food that exits your body in stool. But not enough to counterbalance the energy equation. If you overeat a lot, *most* of it will be stored in adipose tissue. The human body is very good at banking up energy reserves for a rainy dayNo, your body only absorbs something like 80%... |
Can someone explain what FEMA camps are, and why people are so afraid of them? | Many people are afraid that FEMA may eventually lock up people just for disagreeing with the government, ala political prisoners or dissidentsFEMA concemtration camps are a conspiracy theory about how the federal government is going to round up anyone they don't like and put them in concentration camps. When they look ... |
What's the whole issue with Hobby Lobby? | The Justices held that under the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act that certain for-profit corporations were able to hold religious beliefs and could apply to be exempt from providing select contraceptive coverage mandated in the ACA . The Democrats/Left have built a narrative around the decision that it is anothe... |
Why is gambling illegal? (in america) | The reason its not legal in most states is the assumption that it attracts crime and other undesirable elements to the area. While casinos and other forms of gambling are very profitable for those running it, and the state that taxes it, all that money is coming out of the pockets of average people, increasing the poss... |
How is masochism possible when pain isn't supposed to be pleasing, but warning us? | Hi there. To put it simply, we cant control pain itself but we *can* control how we respond to it. Thats a physical reason. Psychologically, you cant really make many broad generalizations about masochists, or anyone really. Some masochists endure because it reminds them they are alive and helps them to focus on being ... |
Why do I feel like I have to have my brain and mind be constantly stimulated throughout the day, from when I wake up until I go to bed? | ELI5: If you feel the quest for knowledge so bad. Why don't you work it out for yourself? |
How do pathologists tolerate the odor of decomposition? | People can get used to pretty much anything. I'm a medic and smell decomposition frequently. It stinks, but I'll take that over C.diff any day.First they try to minimize exposure to decomposition. Recent corpses are refrigerated and will only be in the beginning stages of decomposition. Old corpses will be mostly decom... |
Why are people allowed to be racist towards their own race? | Most people are not self-hating, so when you say something about your own race, it's much more likely to be construed either as a joke, or as a constructive criticism. Saying something about another race will sound much less like constructive criticism. "We Chinese have a bad reputation for being boorish tourists, and ... |
Why do we sweat, even when not being physically active, at 30ºC? | your body temp is 37° because it's permanently cooled down. you're burning sugar in your cells continuously, increasing your body temperature.unfortunately your organs are very sensitive to overheating, so your body must make sure that your temp doesn't raise . imagine a running engine in a standing car. it produces he... |
Why are eggs/biscuits/pancakes considered to be breakfast food, and not normally eaten during other meals? | All of those things are eaten at any time of the day. Eggs are present in damn near everything. It's true that in western cultures a fried or scrambled egg is traditionally reserved for the first meal of the day, but in other cuisines eggs are featured players in all sorts of meals. Poached eggs, for example, are commo... |
What happens when the US government proves a monopoly or oligopoly exists? How is the law enforced? | Contrary to popular belief, monopolies and oligopolies are not illegal. What is illegal is using monopoly powers in specifically described ways to stifle competition. For example, selling goods at less than cost to drive a competitor out of business is illegal, as is colluding with other companies to fix prices or terr... |
Like most people, I do not suffer from OCD. So why do I experience compulsions? | One of my best friends has very severe OCD and I asked him once what the difference is. He says that everybody has obsessions and everybody has compulsions, but most people's obsessions and compulsions are separate. You have a preferred light switch and you are compelled to use it, but you do not obsess over the switch... |
How do third party vendors on Amazon, Newegg, Best Buy, etc get their inventory? | They typically buy direct from the manufacturer. Most products will provide discounts if purchased in bulk. And if you don't have a storefront you have much lower operational expenses and can reduce prices even lower. With their size they can reduce their margins to make their profits on volume. |
Why do different languages have different names for different countries? | The main sources are: 1. Language change: in year N, I call Country X "X" and you also call Country X "X", but 1000 years later our descendants speak languages that have moved in different directions. A simple example is how "Roma", spelled with an *e* in English but pronounced the same way, became a one-syllable word ... |
Why are humans "human-sized"? | Evolution isn't conscious, intelligent design. It doesn't strive to make the perfect organism that just the right height and size - whatever species manage to have viable offspring is an evolutionary success, and some end up better than others, thrive in their enviroment and breed more. The average human is the size of... |
Why does the word for 'mum/mother' sound so similar across nearly all languages? | Äiti, haha, nënë, walida, unitsi, pia, hooyo Your premise is obviously false. Related languages, however, are likely to share some words - especially words that would be very old. English is related to a *lot* of languages through the Proto-Indo-European root language, from which *mother* derives, and from which Latin,... |
How do fruit flies "magically" appear? | Fun fact: "Back in the day" people used to think that animals "magically appeared"; this concept was known as [spontaneous generation]. It was commonly thought that if a pile of dirty clothes was left laying around for too long it would spawn ratsThey lay microscopic eggs on the skin of fruits and vegetables. The eggs ... |
what are the silica gels they put in new clothes and why are they telling me not to put it in my mouth? | It dries stuff out. It is apparently an irritant but I don't see anything super dangerous in the [Material Safety Data Sheet]. It will not be pleasant though. |
Why does eating a lemon make your teeth hurt? | Lemon juice is moderately acidic, and if your teeth have metal fillings that can set up an electric circuit. Biting aluminum foil does the same thing, but I don't advise doing either of those things. |
How come the third rail on subway systems doesn't short circuit when it gets wet? | 1. Water on the rail itself doesn't short circuit, as the rail is more conductive than the water. 2. The water doesn't bridge between the third rail and a suitable ground. It might drip off, but it won't form a continuous path like a wire very easily. 3. Water is an awful conductor, so outside of very high voltages suc... |
Why is it legal for a police officer to lie to me about the law ? | An example would be a police officer telling a person that filming them is illegal.The justification here is that this allows the police officer to trick the suspect into telling the truth. However, there is evidence that this does not actually happen. In many cases where the police have utilized deception as an interr... |
Why is it sometimes a popular connotation to assume that attractive people are less intelligent than others? | 2 Primary reasons: Anecdotal evidence, people thinking instances of it and generalizing. Compensation thinking people seem to have an unfounded belief that strengths come with weaknesses. If someone's attractive, they must be stupid or the opposite, if someone is smart they must be socially inept. The idea that some pe... |
Why are American movies called by their literal names in other countries? | Maybe the word "Anchorman" doesn't exist in those languages? That would be the only reason I can think of', "Because anchormam isn't a word in other languages |
why, if at all, is Putin a bad guy? | Vladimir Putin has made Russia less democratic--he and his party intimidate political opponents and are suspected of several assassinations, and he has skirted around the term limits set by the Russian constitution by exchanging positions with Medvedev. On the international scene, he has behaved very aggressively, usin... |
the Ohm rating on guitar amplifiers and why it's important... | Imagine two bicycles, side by side. The first bike has the brakes stuck on. You can pedal it and move it, but it takes a lot of effort to do so. Then you hop onto the second bike. You expect it to be the same as the first bike, so you put a lot of power into pedalling. However, because this bike's resistance is so much... |
why do some people's abs appear bloated or rounded? | Growth hormone. Bodybuilders take them to get bigger but it doesn't just make muscles bigger. Organs grow too so their guts is basically pushing outwards behind the abs. Some will eventually need surgery because their insides tries to come out from their belly button. |
why we sometimes yell or make obnoxious noises when we stretch | Everyone else in this thread is being mean, the reason we do it I would imagine is the same reason people moan during sex. That stretch feels fucking awesome |
How do microtomes work? How can a blade be physicslly manipulated to cut a slide a few micrometres or nanometres thick? | The below freezing temperatures and frozen substrate that the tissue is embedded in helps considerably to keep things together. The problem arises when you have tissue that contains a high amount of fat. The fat doesn't freeze at the same temperature, and makes cutting thin slices more difficult. |
What is a random walk? | Industrial Engineer here: I'm going to be talking about measurements of say the length of a part. You know your part should be 12 inches long. We IEs have tools to measure that this number remains, on average, 12 inches. One of our most powerful tools is the [Estimate Weight Moving Average] control chart. In this plot,... |
How does the pump at the gas station know when to turn off when your gas tank is full? | If you look down the nozzle of a gas pump, you 'd find there is a smaller tube, about the size of a straw, within the main tube. Gasoline goes through the main tube, the smaller one allows air to escape from the tank as it's displaced by the gasoline being pumped in. When liquid reaches this tube, it triggers the shut-... |
If boiling water kills all the bacteria, where do the dead bacteria go? | Nowhere. They stay in the water. The only difference is that if they're dead they pass right through you, whereas if they're alive, they're more inclined to infect you with whatever. |
How can water from the Gulf of Mexico keep Norway from being covered in ice and snow? | The warm water from the gulf of mexico gets carried up towards Norway and pulls the temperature up. The air gets heated by the ground and water. When the water is warm enough to keep ice from forming then you get that effect. One thing you'd immediately think is how doesn't the water cool by then? Its due to the sheer ... |
Why is the history of math so separated from math itself in education? Wouldn't it be more interesting if this weren't the case? | Because it doesn't teach you math. Flip it around. Imagine you are studying literature but before you can get to the actual writing you have to spend 20 percent of the class on linguistics. Imagine you are studying medicine but spend part of the class learning the mechancs about how an mri works. Imagine taking a mecha... |
How the illegal 'Hawala System' works for laundering money? | Hawala as Underground BankingThe very features that make hawala an attractive avenue for legitimate patrons, also make it attractive for illegitimate uses. Thus, hawala is frequently referred to as underground banking. This is because money launderers and terrorists also take advantage of this system to transfer funds ... |
Why does smoking a cigarette feel so much better after sex or a big meal than it does normally? | Troll answer: You are 5. You shouldn't be smoking.Endorphins. After sex or eating a big meal your body releases them to make you feel good. Morphine is based on Endorphins, to give you some reference, its a very powerful feel good drug, and your body makes it naturally and releases it when you feel extreme pleasure or ... |
Why are some foods like eggs or pancakes considered breakfast foods in the US? | You can feed your family whatever you want whenever you want. When I was a kid we did "breakfast for dinner" about once a week. Usually bacon, eggs, and biscuitsThe traditional "American breakfast," which is to say a hearty meal of eggs, meat, pancakes or waffles, and cereal washed down with coffee, milk, tea, and/or j... |
Why are nerdiness and eyeglasses synonymous with one another? Is there a tangible link between intelligence and bad eyesight? | The connection is the other way around, glasses, especially very thick framed one, tend to make you the target of bullying, as they are an easy target to ridicule and you are very helpless without them, making them ideal to steal and mock you with. Being ridiculed can make for a recluse and that can make people turn to... |
How did the moon get there? | The favored explanation for the formation of the moon is the "giant impact hypothesis", which posits that during the early formation of the solar system , a Mars-sized object called Theia formed at earth's L4/L5 lagrange points . Gravitational tugs from Venus/Jupiter eventually sent Theia crashing into the young Earth ... |
What does a virus or bacteria gain from making its host sick? | Bacteria and viruses don't necessarily want their host sick, or even dead. Complications happen when the virus is in an organism it's not supposed to be in, and that organism isn't equipped to handle the virus. Rats carried the plague and were doing just fine, but when they jumped shipped and infected humans, they wipe... |
How is it safe and/or Legal for cops to drive while using the laptop in their patrol car but texting and driving is illegal? | Few laws are absolute & many of them have specific exemptions. On duty police officers are allowed to ignore many traffic laws in the line of duty - speeding, running red lights, etc. - this is just another one. It's assumed that police are professional drivers & have received proper training as to when it's safe & app... |
What happens when my memory is jogged? | The brain is a pattern-matching computer. You see letters and words, for example, and your brain turns them into sounds and ideas. You see faces, and your brain turns them into identities. Every pattern you recognize connects to some memory, and encountering the pattern causes you to recall that memory. The memories yo... |
How does my brain start paying attention to someone moments *before* they say something unusual? | you have sorta short term memory for words, have you ever ran into situation where somebody asks HAVE YOU BEEN LISTENING! and you werent, yet can say what they saidYour brain doesn't actually know a second or two before; you are hearing it the whole time, but your conscious "awareness" is only just catching up. This is... |
Why does a hot shower make my skin dry? | Moisture evaporates very readily from the skin, but a certain amount of moisture is retained by skin oils and a hot shower can wash away these oils. Skin moisturizer can replace them. I personally use Vaseline skin lotion, but only for the palms of my hands, the rest of my skin does OK on its own. |
Why is "bury" pronounced as if theres an "a" in in it? Like "berry". | Regional dialects. In my region the U is pronounced and we say "Burr-ee" I 've also heard "Be-urr-ee"There was a lot of variation in how it was pronounced in Middle English based on regional accent, and at the time, English spelling wasn't fixed, so you sometimes saw it spelled with an i, e, and y instead of a u. That ... |
Why is the sound of someone snoring so annoying when we're trying to sleep? | I imagine it's at least partly because the sound is irregular. Traffic, air conditioners, and rain are very rhythmic. Predictable sensory input is input that our brain ignores, which is why you only smell things for a short period of time. Snoring is jerky and hard to predict so you never adjust. I could also be wrong. |
G20 Hamburg summit, what it is, and why are people protesting it? | The G20 is an organization of the 20 most powerful world leaders. They get together to talk about the issues that face the globe, touching on things from trade, to military action, to global climate change. Protestors are protesting for various reasons. - Some are angry that the US backed out of the Paris Climate Accor... |
Why is it that some parents children look extremley alike, and other parents children don't even look related? | recessive genes my friend. My dad is 5\'9", white, green eyes and brown hair, my mom is 5\'5", black, hazel eyes and "burgundy" hair. I am 6\'1" white blonde hair blue eyes. My D-grandma had a bunch of brothers over 6 foot and my M-grandma has blonde hair and blue eyes. Family portraits look hilarious, white guy and bl... |
why does the site of a shot, such as flu or TDAP, hurt for hours after? It's not even a large needle. | The needle isn't the issue, the liquid injected into your muscle capsule is. It can be a matter of some pressure or discomfort, bruising and the like, or it can be a localized reaction to the substances being injected, sometimes an immune response. If someone stuck you with a needle and injected nothing, it would liter... |
How does a bidets work? | Hi sir I've used a bidet. Most bidets these days are not things you sit on top of and have them lightly splash your anus while sitting down. Most of them are hand held sprayers that you aim yourself. The water pressure is usually quite high, relative to a shower. If a shower can get dirt off of you, a bidet can certain... |
How did worms get inside a mango seed if it didn't make any holes on the outside. | They burrow inside before the seed is fully matured. > The newly hatched larva is about 1 mm long and burrows through the pulp and into the seed where it will remain until it becomes an adult. Minimum time from hatching to seed penetration is one day. There are at least five larval instars in Hawaii. Larvae can penetra... |
Why cant we just make up a number when we divide by 0 by 0 | You could define it to be anything you want, but such a definition isn't very useful. Suppose that you decided to define multiplication in such a way that zero has an inverse. Then for any number x you would have: x=x *1 =x * = *0 =0 Therefore, if you allow zero to have an inverse, then either the only number in your s... |
what is that noise we hear when we put our ear in an empty shell? | Cupped shapes focus noises. Think of the megaphone shape on an old phonograph, your ear, an owls face, or just turn a song on your phone, make a cup with your hand, put it between the speaker and your face and you'll hear the volume go up. That shell is esentially that same shape. Background noises, like wind, air cond... |
How can humans forget the benefits from vaccination? | What do they gain? Attention and money. The majority of the anti-vax movement was started by Andrew Wakefield in an effort to promote his business venture of selling nutritional supplements as a replacement for vaccinations. Then the pornstar-turned-selfproclaimed-medical-expert Jenny McCarthy started attention whoring... |
Why to big rigs have different types of tires on the FRONT and REAR of the truck? | If you want another example, go to the drag strip. Even the street muscle cars swap out their rear tires for "slicks" which are big, specially formulated, and with little to no tread for racing purposes. When you don't have to worry about rotating your tires, you can tailor the kinds of tires for the application to inc... |
Why can't "superbacteria" live outside hospitals | It's not that they can't live outside of hospitals, it's just that hospitals are great places to go if you want to catch antibiotic resistant bugs. Everyone who goes there is sick, and if they have bacterial infections they are going to get dosed up, which can lead to resistant strains. Plus they are sticking needles i... |
Why does garbage day getting pushed back a day actually change anything? Wouldn't this mean they work on some other day they normally have off? | Many places also have different days for garbage pick up in different areas. To save on the number of workers, they split their area and do pickups each day but in different areas. If services was pushed back a day long term than the schedule readjusts. A one-time or short-term pickup change would result in either havi... |
Can one neuron produce a thought? | I don't think we have enough understanding to answer this question, we don't fully understand what a "thought" is so we can't specifically say what's required to create oneCan one pixel produce a movie? Clearly not. The best you'll get is a single dot changing colors, possibly in a slightly-interesting manner. But to w... |
British Cricket for an American | [We've done this shit 11 fucking times in the last month.] [Here is the one with the most responses and information] I can do the following if you so request A) Copy and paste the responses into a Word Document and email it to you B) Screenshot the whole thread, upload to imgur as an album C) Teach you how to use the s... |
The process for connecting new construction to already existing infrastructure. (i.e sewage, internet, power) | Permitting and code - you start by getting permission to make a physical connection. The process for a small user is probably pretty simplified, but for a large users like industrial and comercial locations, you go through a review on how you would impact the rest of the distribution system. You may be required to upgr... |
Why do your eyes get puffy after crying? | When you cry eye ocular muscles constrict and the salt in tears may cause fluid retention in the eye area. This is called ~~Pussy~~ Puffy eyes.I don't know but I hope you feel better soon :( |
Why are the rules for elections for federal offices allowed to vary between different US states? | The country was formed from 13 States , and the Constitution preserves a lot of autonomy on their part. For most purposes, the federal government is very loose. States establish and conduct the elections that send representatives to the federal House and Senate, and also that apportion electors to Presidential races. T... |
What are the ramifications to the U.S. and the world if the United States were to stop trading with our closest allies? | Huge damage to our economy. A huge percentage of Americans are employed making things that are sold in other countries. A huge percentage of the things Americans buy are made in other countries. Quite a few of the products American companies make use components are tools from other countries. |
Why does balding seem to occur exclusively in humans and not other mammals? | Elderley animals develop thin, scruffy fur; old ladies get thin hair like that. This is the result of the overall breakdown of the body due to age. Male pattern baldness is different, it happens in healthy men; it is related to testosterone level. Male pattern baldness *evolved*, presumably for a reason. [It is probabl... |
Why aren't people more accepting of nuclear power in the USA? | Basically things like Chernobyl and Fukushima have given nuclear energy a bad wrap. It really only takes one worst case scenario |
How do clicky pens work, and what is the mechanism called?! | Here is a great animation: _URL_0_As you can see from the animation, the inner surface of the pen is grooved. The button has a "holder", which holds the pen shaft in place and slides back and forth on the grooves. The shaft has a complementary part that fits into the holder. The holder is designed such that the shaft's... |
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