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I can read a sentence like "I bluit my husoe in Eanngld" due to cognitive ability but I can't understand it verbally, why? | Because verbal and visual patterns are recognized differently. Visually, you can recognize "Eanngld" as "England," but verbally "Ean" has little relation to "Eng" and "ngld" has almost no relation to "land," assuming you can pronounce them properly. "Bluit" sounds nothing like "built" , so it's difficult to make that l... |
Tor vs VPN vs Zenmate, and can/should we use all of them at the same time? | Think of the Internet as a mail service Tor would be like putting your mail in a very strong safe, sending it to a random guy, which takes off the "from" address and replaces it with his own, then securing the rest of the address information fingerprints) and gives it to another random guy, and so on until it gets sent... |
Please tell me the difference between effects and affect? I searched on Google but that isn't helping. Please give examples | A lot of people have told you that effect is a noun and affect is a verb. Unfortunately it's not that simple. Both words can be used as both nouns and verbs. Affect as a noun is pretty rare nowadays, and it's fine in an ELI5 answer to basically ignore it, but effect as a verb is somewhat common. **Effect as a noun:** A... |
Why are we told to ice injuries? | I can't be 100% sure without my resources in front of me, but I believe it is to help reduce blood flow, which would be carrying proteins that stimulate inflammation . Also, overloading nerves with sensations of cold help lower the amount of pain recognised by the brain. That being said, I have heard/read that ice does... |
homelessness and Skid Row in LA | Mental illness. Persistently homeless people tend to have mental illnesses and there aren't enough places to treat them, so they end up congregating together on the streets.Another factor is location. Most months of the year, LA has pretty good weather, so it much easier to sleep outside without rain, snow, or excess h... |
When someone gets hit by a speeding car, what actually kills them? Is it the impact itself? The part where they fly high and snap in circles? Impact from hitting the ground? | So take a minute and imagine yourself tripping and falling in a way that breaks your wrist. You were walking along, tripped on a rock, and tried to catch yourself on your way down. All of the energy of your falling had to go somewhere. Your reaction focused it on your wrist, and it was just too much. So your wrist bro... |
The difference between psychologist, psychiatrist, and therapist | it's levels of training, and what the training focused on. therapist is a general term for anybody who gives therapy. This can be a pastor who only graduated from high school, a psychologist, or a psychiatrist. a psychologist is someone who got a master's or a PhD in psychology, counseling, or therapy- in other words, ... |
How do sites like Groupon and LivingSocial work? | Their basic model is they call up a business, say "hey, if you give 50% off coupons, and give us 50% of your revenue whenever someone uses that coupon, we'll advertise you on our site". That's right, the deal for the business is they will make 1/4 the amount of money they would usually make for each sale with that coup... |
Why do photographs sell for millions of dollars when the photographer could just release a duplicate at any time? | When artists sell pieces for this much, part of the sale includes a guarantee about how many copies of the work they will reproduce. If the artist were to go on and make more, presumably the first purchaser could take the artist to court and null the sale, forcing them to return the money.Because a lot of professional ... |
Why is the range from boiling to "absolute hot" much, much longer than the range from freezing to absolute cold? | How many banana peels could you have in your front lawn? It is pretty clear there is a minimum number, namely zero. But what is the maximum number? Is a tower of banana peels one mile high still *in* your front yard? Do they still count as banana peels if the ones on the bottom are crushed into sludge? Is there any poi... |
the value of USD vs the euro. If the dollar is worth more than the euro, does that mean I have more money if I go over to Europe? | I have lived all over the world while still getting paid in dollars so I think I can answer this. In short yes, if you convert your dollars to the local currency you will have more than you would in dollars. The longer answer is that even if you have more Euro doesn't mean that you could buy the same amount of stuff as... |
how do trees know when to grow leaves? | Generally it has to do with the change in daylight, not with the change in temperature although that may have some small effect in some species. |
Suicide Squad movie. Is is some kind of alternate universe? Who are they? | The suicide squad are a group of villains who have been held by the government an are given the option to fight for there country. They mainly do it so they can get reduced prison time or to get some freedom. The reason there called the suicide squad is because the missions are suicide missions a lot of the time and th... |
Why does Zalgo text seem to display everywhere regardless of localization? | Zalgo text takes advantage of tricks built into unicode. Unicode is a standard for how text in all the world's major languages should be handled. It includes support not just for the latin alphabet but quite a few writing systems, including ones where text goes in other directions than left-to-right. On modern computer... |
Why do some people get dizzy/feel uneasy while reading or using an electronic device while in a car | My LI5 explanation - You work out where you are and how you are moving from both your eyes, and the motion detection organs in your ears. When you are in a car, your eyes see the device in front of you, and it does not appear to be moving. But your ears pick up all the movement of the car. So your eyes are saying \'You... |
Why has Botswana done so well compared to the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa? | Tiny country with giant diamond reserves and made a deal with DeBeers early on where Botswana gets 70% of the money and DeBeers runs the diamond mines for them. A lot of African countries kicked all the whites out after independence and that hurt their economies. That wasn't likely to happen in Botswana as their first ... |
What happens when the breath gets knocked out of you? | This happens when you are punched in the center of your belly, around the navel area. Two things happen: 1: Your diaphragm gets forcibly compressed , forcing air out of your lungs. The diaphragm is a large muscle in your belly used to breathe, so striking it forces air out of the lungs, such as in the Heimlich maneuver... |
Why does your throat hurt when you chug down carbonated drinks repetitively? | Our bodies have sensory receptors that allow us to feel and respond to things like pressure, changes in temperature, light, and pain. "Nociceptor" is the specific type of sensory receptor that allows us to experience pain. Carbonated drinks have a high content of carbon dioxide that our body isn't used to. Nociceptors ... |
How is Grand Theft Auto allowed to use cars that are almost exactly like real cars? | because they aren't selling cars. There is nothing proprietary about an image of a car. Just the car itself and the name. |
Why does music trigger vivid memories? | The hippocampus and the frontal cortex are two large ares in the brain associated with memory and the take in a great deal of imformation every minute. Retrieving it is not always easy. It doesn't simply come when you ask it to. Music helps because it provides a rhythm and rhyme and sometimes alliteration which helps t... |
Why does a four cylinder Harley motorcycle have a low rumble exhaust note like an american V8, but inline four cylinder engines (Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen) have a raspy high exhaust note? | Harleys have twins, not fours. V twins traditionally have a low, rumbling sound to them compared to the higher revving inline fours. Mainly this is down to the size of the explosion and the frequency. A 1000cc inline four has four, small explosions every revolution, and these combine to form a very high pitched whine w... |
What is the purpose of the "rough" pavement outside of grocery stores? | I know that this type of thing is used in other places as a way of warning blind people that they are near a street or something else dangerous. I'm not sure if that is the purpose at grocery stores, though. |
Why do some people have permanent small red veins in their eyes? | > I'm assuming that that's normal. How is this called and what's this all about? Yes, they are normal. Our eyes are flesh and need blood, they are called "blood vessels" or "capillaries" and they get the blood to keep our cells alive to and from where it needs to be. |
What does "senpai" mean and what does it mean for Anime fans? | Senpai roughly translates to "upperclassman." Basically, a senpai is an older student, possibly a mentor, and a "kohai" would be the yonger student, or mentee. The senpai is expected to guide the younger student, while the kohai is expected to do menial tasks for the senpai. It's sort of like a traditional English boar... |
why do we picture the earth as the northern hemisphere facing upwards rather than downwards? | Generally, the most powerful nations in the world have been in the northern hemisphere. They made the maps so they put themselves at the topEngland was the first country to map the globe. They are in the northern hemisphere, they oriented the map to their location and they had the most reliable maps. The rest of the wo... |
How come alcoholism is considered a disease but being addicted to smokes or other substances isn't? | Technically they are diseases But if you're talking about public perception, it's probably because of how much it affects the person - a chronic smoker can still go about their day-to-day life with fairly little impact. They may take an extra break here and there, and spend lots of cash on cigarettes, but other than th... |
why is Scrabble more popular in English than other languages? | One possible reason is that while in English-speaking countries, especially the US, Scrabble tournaments were widely played, increasing awareness of the game: this didn't happen so often in other countries. There are sometimes also problems with other languages that make a game made for the English language a bit diffi... |
Why does a propane fire have that last "blow" when the gas supply is turned off? | The proper ratio of air and propane causes it to burn nicely, like when you are cooking on your bbq. But when close off the gas supply you decrease the propane to air ratio and it makes a less stable. This causes a more volatile ratio of the two gasses and it explodes. Research stoichiometric ratios and upper and lower... |
Why does birth control make some women depressed? | Incase you wanted more information, let me give it a shot. Birth control works by increasing and decreasing hormones in the body. There are several different things going on, but the main thing is changing estrogen and progestin in the body. The change in estrogen levels is linked to several problems, weight gain, lack... |
Why do microwaves make my fish sticks mushy? | Microwaves heat food mostly by exciting the water molecules in it. Water can only be heated to 100C before it becomes water vapor. So, microwaves generally don't heat your food beyond that temperature. But, ovens get much hotter and so can really create a crisp texture by evaporating the water out of the food. |
Why do people prefer kiosks over cashiers? | This is in response to the news about McDonalds yes? Mostly for me it's less stressful in a way. I can just flip through the menu without feeling like I'm making anyone wait on me, but that's a very personal and subjective thing. What I do notice is that with McDonald's there's usually more kiosks available in a store ... |
Why does the Russian goverment still dislike the United States? | This is just me but the U.S. has a very arrogant position on WW2 and how we saved the day once we joined in the war. In reality Russia suffered millions of more casualties with America being around 500 thousand I think, the Nazis ravished half of Russia and the only reason they didn't completely annihilate them was bec... |
Ok, so im still confused about stocks. Explain Li5 | You buy a stock at $5 and then a year later when the company is doing better, the price of the stock increases to $8 and then you sell it! so you make $3!', "redsunglasses2134 is right. Also, most stocks allow you to vote on company decisions, and if you have more then 50% then you're in control. |
If botox is the most lethal substance known to man, how and why do we use it for cosmetic surgery? | its all about controlled dosage. understanding how long it remains active in the system. Spacing injections both by time and location to stay within safe margins. The concentration of Botox injected in patients is around 0.75 ng per 100 units, or roughly 1/5 of the estimated lethal dose in humans. Typical injection of ... |
How does purple shampoo work? | Hair stylist for 10 years here. The purple pigment is not a bleach or a magic chemical or marketing plot. Think about This in terms of light reflection. If the hair has warm undertones, the hair will look yellow/orange depending on the lightness level of the blonde. If you cancel out the warm undertone by using purple ... |
How does Winamp generate its visualisations? | With the raw audio data, you will only get the loudness of the audio at a specific point in time If you analyze/convert the raw data using [Fourier Transform], you can calculate which frequencies are used and how strong those frequencies are. This can be done in real-time using a method known as Fast Fourier Transform ... |
How does Data capping effect Gamers? | The data required to play video games is quite small compared to the amount of data needed to stream video. The bigger issue that data download caps have on gamers is for downloading the digital versions of games and the resulting patches. Games nowadays are approaching the limits of Bluray disks . Star Citizen suppose... |
How are skyscrapers or tall buildings demolished? | 'Twas oft asked here. Ye may enjoy these: 1. [ELI5:What's the end of life plan for skyscrapers? ]1. [ELI5: How do big cities demolish old skyscrapers without damaging buildings around it? ]1. [ELI5:How will they tear down skyscrapers like the Freedom Tower or Sears tower in a heavily populated area? ]1. [ELI5: How do s... |
Why do we swallow? | Saliva is basically a lubricant for your mouth and throat. If you chose to spit your saliva out instead of swallowing it you would be spitting all day everyday. As far as feeling the need to produce saliva or not it is your body's natural reaction to the situation you find yourself in, much like having to sweat when yo... |
Why are Uber and Lyft fighting regulations they put in place (i.e. fingerprinting in Houston and Austin)? | Because all these regulations being proposed increase costs and make it more of a hassle to get drivers and passengers. Uber and Lyft are mostly successful due to lack of regulation on services like theirs once regulation starts to catch up they'll be no better off than Taxis and they lose their competitive pricing edg... |
How come unknown amateur rappers get charged and convicted over "crime" lyrics, but rich famous rappers like 50 Cent, the Game, lil' Wayne and Snoop Dogg don't? | lol well the mainstream artists you named generally don't really get themselves into trouble. accepted as fiction.Name an amateur rapper who has been convicted over "crime" lyricsMostly because allot of main stream artists rap about shit they have never done. Like Rick Ross slingin yayo while in reality he was a correc... |
Why do we dress the way we dress? | Culturally relative aesthetics combined with personal preference. People tend to dress in a way that they feel makes them look good or attractive or simply dress for physical comfort. |
Why can't people withdraw their money from a bank that goes bankrupt? Specifically those regular savings accounts? That supposedly have no such risk as it's a saving, not an investment. | Any money you put into a bank they use to lend to others. If they go bankrupt then they have absolutely nothing left and your money is gone', "Banks use a fractional reserve system. For the sake of simplicity, let's say the bank has two customers, a saver and a borrower. The saver deposits $10,000. The bank can turn ar... |
Why do we only start to see fog yards away from where we are standing and not at our feet? | If fog is very very thick, you can see it at your feet. The nature of fog is that you can see through some of it but not all of it . So, when you don't see it at your feet, it's because you're seeing *through* the stuff that is at your feet. You *can* see it farther away because you've looked through enough of it to no... |
How do waterfalls have a continuous stream of water? | This is true only for some waterfalls. The permanent waterfalls we normally think of are usually located in lower stream of areas which receive enough rainfall or snow year after year. The area is called "drainage basin" at means all the water from this area eventually flows into the same place, the same river. This ar... |
Latency in video games, why is there lag? | This is simplified, so excuse me if I miss a few things or get some steps out of order. Say you're in an FPS game. You see a guy and decide to shoot at him. You click your mouse to fire. Your computer picks up this signal from the mouse and translates it to a click. This click is then processed by the game application ... |
Why do 15 fps video clips looks sped up and 60 fps clips look like they're slowed down? | That happens when the video player plays doesn't adjust for the frame rate of the recording device. For example, your TV plays at 30fps, but the source material is recorded at 60fps. Now if you want to watch your video at a "normal" speed, every other frame from the source material has to be dumped so you end up seeing... |
if two different phones/tablets/computers are running the exact same OS, how is it possible that one device can experience a bug/glitch but not the other device when performing the exact same task? | 1: A mechanical defect in the device. This could be something as large as a bad piece of solder on a board to as small as an actual defect in a chip, or anything in between. 2: Random cosmic ray strike. High energy particles from space can hit sensitive electronics and "flip" a bit from a 1 to a 0 or vice versa, changi... |
Why does drinking alcohol usually make you wake up unusually early the next morning? | This is a great question I would love to know the answer to. Its not thirst, or dehydration for me. Its waking up 4 or 5 hours after falling asleep and ready to start the whole day. Cant fall back asleep. And then, 3 hours later I feel like absolute shit. |
How do scientists determine how much fat, proteins, and carbohydrates there is in any product? | I'm sure you won't be surprised to learn that this is determined by many analytical chemistry methods. I'll give a few examples, though you can check out [this page] for more detailed information. **Fat**: Fatty acids are first extracted from a substance by solubilization in an [organic solvent], then either chemically... |
Why can't cellular radio waves be divided for unlimited data carrying? | The narrower the channel, the less information you can send down it reliably. Using your freeway example, you could take a 3 lane highway and give yourself 24 bike lanes but nobody'd be getting anywhere very quickly.The smaller you make the signal, the more complex your recieving station needs to be, and the more susce... |
Why is the Tracey Morgan car accident getting a federal investigation? | That National Transportation Safety Board regularly assists state authorities with highway accident investigations. This is usually in the form of technical assistance, and is very different from if an agency like the FBI got involvedNTSB is involved with any DOT Licensee accident which includes a fatality I do believe... |
How do insects survive winter? How does the common housefly live through months of freezing to come back next year? | There are micro climates around. By this I mean that there will be little pockets around where they can survive. Think of a large wholesale fruit market where it is never allowed to freeze. Flies can survive there. There are also many other places, kitchens, trash collection points inside buildings, and other places wh... |
How do bats, whales, dolphins, etc. differentiate their echolocation clicks from others? | Mostly pitch. While they'll all be within a particular range, each bat varies its own voice by a tiny fraction and listens for that particular pitch. Bat voices can be between 40ish to 120ish thousand Hz, which gives a huge range for an individual to pick from. [Some quick research] reveals other tricks. For example, *... |
How is salt "Kosher"? | It's not *Kosher* salt, it's Kosher*ing* salt, i.e. salt used for Koshering. The salt is used for draining the blood out of meat, and the larger grain size makes it better suitable for the job than ordinary table salt. |
What is the relationship between resolution (pixels) and the dimensions of a printed photo? | The measurement you are looking for is dots-per-inch, or DPI. Let's use some easy numbers Imagine you had a picture that was 1,000 x 1,000 pixels. That picture would actually contain 1 million pixels, or what modern marketing called 1 megapixel. If you tried to print it 10" x 10", you would have 100 dots per inch . On ... |
Will an antenna produce visible light? | If you pump enough energy into that antenna, assuming its metal, it will produce red then orange then yellow visible lightYes, but. To work properly, antennas need to be roughly as large as a wavelength of the wave, and must be connected to a circuit that creates oscillating voltages at the same frequency as the wave. ... |
Why a wheel turning at high speed appears to be turning the other way round? | If you take a basic wall clock and watch the minute hand, it moves very slowly, doing one rotation every 60 minutes. However, if you take a camera, and leave it to take a picture of the clock every hour, and watch those pictures like a movie, you'll think it doesn't move at all. Now take that camera and make it take a ... |
Homomorphic encryption. What is it and what is it not? | Basically it's an encryption scheme where you can perform operations on the encrypted data and get a result that when decrypted using the same method as decrypting the source data will result in the same output as if those operations had been performed on the original unencrypted data. This means that encrypted data ca... |
The differences between aspirin, ibuprofen, and acetaminophen | aspirin: blood thinner. this is why it's effective for heart disease. ibuprofin: anti-inflammatory. that's why it's effective for swollen things. tylenol: general pain killer. that's why it's better for generic/non-specific pain. that's about as simple as i can make it.Aspirin and Ibuprofen are Non-Steroidal Anti-Infla... |
How does a fly keep buzzing around my head when I'm traveling at 30 knots in a boat? | The air around you is also travelling at 30 knots.When you're going along in your boat, unless your on the front, you are kept in a bubble of air. [Here is a good example] of airflow for a big truck. If you look at the back the air is almost completely stationary. Granted the air does move around a bit, its not enough ... |
What is the purpose behind the common "crescent" shaped ice cube? | Crescent-shaped ice cubes are easy for a machine to remove from the tray. After they're done freezing, a mechanical arm swings in a circle and pushes them out of the tray. Cube-shaped trays are a bit harder to automatically remove the ice from them. |
Are current microwaves ovens much different than the ones from the 80s? | A little more robust and elegant in their electrical design, but they work the same way. A lot of components in things like microwaves get switched out over time as we become more and more capable of doing things digitally and don't have to rely on analog. This results in better performance, more even heating in this c... |
If you have a tattoo and the layer off skin came off where it was, would the tatoo be removed? | if the wound is deep enough yes. [There was a time when tattoos were removed by implanting an inflatable bag under the skin next to the tattoo and gradually filling it with saline over a period of weeks expanding the tissue]. When there was sufficient tissue the implant would be removed and the tattoo excised then the ... |
Why dont companies like Sony/Microsoft add backwards compatibility for their consoles? | It's more than 'adding the code', it's adding *a lot* of code. The new consoles have completely different hardware that basically makes them incompatible with running previous generation games. Don't think of this as xbone trying to run xbox360, think of this as PC trying to running xbox360 and you've got the same obst... |
Why do we have 10 fingers and not 8? | Because we evolved from fish that had 5 bones in their fins. All vertebrates follow the same pattern - 1 bone, 2 bones, lots of bones. As to why the fish had 5 fin-bones, it was probably simply how it evolved - the optimal number of fin-bones to maintain the fin structure.To be fair, if we had 8 fingers, you'd be askin... |
What is Rick Perry being indicted for? | You know how a school bully might threaten to beat you up if you don't give him your lunch money? Governor Perry is accused of doing sort of the same thing by threatening to not give a woman's department money if she didn't resign from office. Since it was the governor doing it, he should know better. This would be the... |
If the months are based on the phases of the moon why are some months longer than others? | Because the number of days it takes to go from 'full moon' to 'full moon' doesn't evenly match up with the time it takes to go from 'lowest sunrise' to 'lowest sunrise'. And that's OK. Why February? Because the calendar used to start in the spring, and February used to be 'the last month of the year'. So any days which... |
How do ships stay afloat even when carrying thousands of tons of cargo? | By displacing more tons of water than the ship+cargo weighs. That's why they have to be so strong, to keep enough water out. |
how is it that (according to my plant bio textbook) glucose and fructose have identical molecular formulas? Isn't the purpose if molecular formulas to be unique identifiers? | Just like you can assemble Legos into any number of shapes, molecules can also be put together differently. So while both glucose and fructose have the same number of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms, the molecules are assembled differently and thus they are different chemicalsThe are called isomers, molecules with t... |
Why is it easier to balance on a bike when you're going faster? | Smaller corrections are needed to maintain the center of balance. [Here] is a really interesting thread on the interactions between wheel gyro effect and front fork angle which explains a lot of the mechanics of balancing a bike. |
why are organizations trying to send people to live on mars and not on closer places like the moon? | Mars has atmosphere and accessible water and soil that could be conditioned to grow crops with a lot of work and is a place a person could live with some work. the moon has vacuum and radiation and micrometeorites and horrible staticy sandpaper for ground. |
Why are people preoccupied with order and detail called "anal" or "anal retentive". | Because he hypothesized that issues during this developmental stage would carry over into adulthood, manifested as an obsession over detail and exerting inordinate control over ones environment. |
What happens when you melt a magnet. | LI5: The magnet will stop behaving magnetically once it hits a certain temperature . Then it'll simply behave like a piece of metal and melt LI20: Let me know if there is interests, not typing an explanation for the hell of it, though it's not extremely complicated. |
How people learn to hack. | You've played video games right? Ever played a video game so much you know it backwards and forwards and know every little niche here and there and have all the maps memorized? People who know how to break into other computer systems are exactly like that but with operating systems. When you know a video game so well a... |
How music is stored on CD's and then played back | like ur a pretty smart 5yo: a recording machine listens to the music as it's being played, and turns it into numbers. it records thousands of different numbers every second to represent the changing volume of the music. these numbers are written down very small on a CD, in a spiral that goes around and around and from ... |
Why can't current be defined as co-directional with the flow of electrons? | Because current is the flow of charge, not electrons. The particles that allow for the flow of charge are called "charge carriers" and electrons happen to have a negative charge, so current flows in the opposite direction of electrons. Electrons aren't the only charge carriers. In semiconductors for example, you have b... |
How does the heart send more blood to one area when needed if all the veins are one "circle" system? | The heart pumps faster to send blood faster during these times, but the vessels dilating and contracting are what determines where the "more" blood goes . This is done by nerve signals from the area that needs it to the brain telling the brain "hey we need more blood here stat!" Heart pumps faster, vessels dilate in th... |
how come an HD Youtube video can load in a reasonable amount of time but a GIF an exceptionally long time? | GIF was never meant for video and people that post them don't optimize them so they are huge and slow. |
Why can a human limb not sense its own weight? | You can feel its weight. However you just get used to it after years. Think about it externally: if you never wear a watch, and then you put on a big heavy one your arm feels heavy because of that extra weight.Now let's say you wear that watch every day. You even sleep and shower in it. Eventually, wearing the watch fe... |
Why do some working Americans believe their money they earn goes to welfare/foodstamps/govt assistance? | Because it does. All taxes go into the general fund and are distributed from there so on the ELI5 level anybody who pays taxes, pays a percentage of everything the government pays out as the government does not make its own moneyGlad to help! Like most things in life the realities of individual circumstances differ gre... |
How exactly does a nail keep two wooden planks together? | Friction. The nail breaks the wood fivers apart causing mini sized splintery pieces around the nail that when they try to return to their original position, grip onto the nail tightlyMany nails are driven in to block sideways motion of the boards. While a nail can be trusted to stay in its hole even if upside down, the... |
How did the first person with HIV/AIDS become infected? | This is impossible to accurately answer because obviously nobody can be 100% certain. But the most likely vector would be from somebody coming into contact with infected monkey blood, which then entered that person's bloodstream, presumably through a pre-existing cut or abrasion. Many species of monkeys and apes are co... |
My popcorn is listed as 240 calories unpopped, 220 calories popped. Where do those 20 calories go? | Some of the moisture, oils, and husk escape when the kernels pop. Not eating the husk or oils would reduce the calories vs the unpopped kernels since part of them is basically missing.Calories are a measure of energy not 'fat', some of this energy will be burned off through the cooking process. |
How do hypodermic needles penetrate your skin without punching out a "core" of flesh? | They are cut on a slant, so they slice a slit instead of cutting a coreYou make a tiny hole, and then spread it open -- you don't make one big circular "core" all at once. How?: The needle tip is tapered and comes to a sharp point. So the tip is what makes the initial puncture, and the hole is simply expanded as you pu... |
What is the difference between the estimated 120,000 libraries in the US and Google making all books freely available online in their entirety? | Libraries own, and allow use of, only one copy of a book at a time. They have the right to do this because they physically own one copy of the book, which is the right to use one copy of the book. Because objects. Google also owns only one copy of each book, but is making snippets available to possibly thousands of peo... |
Describe Hinduism and its principles to me. | This is a large subject to which I cannot entirely do justice, but I will mention some of the more distinguishing features of Hinduism. Hinduism is a very ancient, polytheistic religion having a large number of deities. There are 3 particularly important dieties, Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Preserver, and Shiva the ... |
Why is creating a male contraceptive pill so challenging? | I literally heard about this on the radio yesterday so i may be able to help. A male one is in development currently in Australia and has had effective trials on mice in labs showing that it is able to be effective with no major side effects. The difficulty is that a male pill has to stop every single sperm, which male... |
Why do crickets get quiet around humans, considering we aren't one of their predators? | When a lumbering monstrosity twenty thousand times your size clomps past, you may want to hush for a second and let the beast pass without trouble. Sure a human is unlikely to stoop down and eat a cricket these days, but that's not true for all animals. Laying low while unfathomably bigger animals pass is a good surviv... |
}What is it that causes hair to turn gray? | The reason is that, the older you get, more hydrogen peroxide builds up in your body because it can't break it down that fast anymore. The hydrogen peroxide, in turn, destroys an enzyme that builds up melanine, the chemical compound that colors your hair, skin etc. Your body hair does not grow as fast as head hair does... |
Why you only get caught for illegally downloading some things, but not others? | Pure luck. You just happened to be downloading the file at a time when the copyright police were tracking you. |
why do we put our hands over our mouth when we eat something hot? [psychology] | Because we tend to open our mouths to breathe when we eat something hot, and we're already conditioned to cover our open mouths . |
Why don't humans go into heat? | Most animals have evolved this behavior so that their young one's growth coincides with the seasonal availability of food/resources. This also creates a cycle of birth and deaths that overlap so that the young can grow. This seasonal cycle is what we call being in heat. Humans don't have to because we are smart and mak... |
How exactly does an acne cream like 'Neutrogena On the Spot' work to help heal and diminish pimples and what does it really do? | There are two types of medications used in these. Benzoyl peroxide. This helps dry out junk clogging the pore so that the environment inside the pore is less awesome for bacteria because it lets in oxygen. BP also dries up everything not pore, making your face a wasteland of dead skin chunks and redness that *may for s... |
Why do dogs hate it when you blow in their faces, but love sticking their heads out the window? | Dogs stick their head out the windows of moving vehicles because of the abundance of new, wonderful smells. Dogs can't resist new, unfamiliar smells, and the open road is full of them! Contrast that will blowing your concentrated blast of breath into a dogs nostril! :) |
What is a leap year, and why do we have it? | Because the rotation of the Earth is not related to the orbit around the sun we get some discrepancies in our calender when we try to use one to count the other. Our calender has 365 days in a year but it actually takes the Earth about 365.25 days to complete one year. So ever year the days and seasons get roughly .25 ... |
When one company buys another, where does that money go? | A company is either owned privatly or publicly . If its a private company, the owners get the money paid into their bank accounts which they will then use to go and buy big houses and speed boats. If its a public company, the owners of the shares get the value of their shares paid into their accounts in exchange for th... |
Why are our brains really good at noticing bizarre circumstances while awake, but not while asleep? | When you are asleep, a specific part of you brain is not used. That part of your brain is what controls things as common sense and spotting the abstract. I remember studying this in my psychology class but its been a while so i might be off. |
If I practice normal motor skills with my non-dominant hand, will it ever be as good as my dominant is naturally? | It depends a bit. A lot of us lefties are pretty much forced to use our right hand in various situations and as a result we are sometimes better with some tools using our right hand. I write with my left hand, use scissors with my left hand but prefer to hold a screwdriver in my right hand. Probably because the tool po... |
If alcohol is supposed to impair judgement, why do politicians and businessmen drink during meetings? | I do not know of any formal meetings where politicians imbibe. Businessmen do it for the same reason anyone else does: it makes you relaxed, and less confrontation, unless you imbibe too much. But that is kind of old school business. Yes, it does still happen, but most companies have policies against any sort or alcoho... |
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