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Why were people like the Nazi SS able to such horrible things without remorse? | > group of people committing mass murder. In one of the massacres, they ate lunch outside the burning church with hundreds of bodies inside. Yeah you get that from every army, including the good ol' USA. End of the day is if you don't see your victims as being humans, then it's easy to kill them off like cattle.1. Some... |
Why can't we build oil pipelines that won't burst? | Not a metallugist or a petro-engineer but I'd say it has to do with 1) intense pressures and 2) scale. Oil pipe lines are 100's and 1000's of miles long. Think of how many connections, seals, pumps, valves, tanks, and who knows what else in between are needed. Something will fail due to weathering, wear and tear, negli... |
Why does the accent of African Americans in Northern/Western states sound somewhat southern? | I think you're just hearing shared words. I know the Chicago accent you're speaking of, and it sounds nothing like a Southern accent. Source: I'm black and from the Deep South", 'When cotton-picking became largely automated there was a "great migration" of southern blacks to places like Chicago where major employment f... |
How do homeopathy medicines work/claim to work? | Traditionally, it's about water memory. It is based on the ability of water to keep a memory of previously dissolved in it. You can dilute the substance a lot of times. After many dilutions, there is no molecule of the original substance left. Homeopathy is no better than a placebo. |
Why do humans need religion? | Humans don't need religion. There are plenty of people who are not religious. The 2 main reasons why we have religions are because we want to know how stuff works and we want to have a purpose. In a time before scientific knowledge was common people wanted an explanation for things, and religion was a good means of exp... |
What determines which games become E - Sports? | There is only really one deciding factor in whether a game becomes an e-sport with huge events. The game needs a company who is willing to invest money into making it happen. Now these companies can be gaming companies or it can be companies which make a living hosting big e-sport events, which means a game typically n... |
World War 1. Explain like I'm 5. | I heard it started when some fella called Archie Duke shot an ostrich 'cos he was hungry. Or how i feel reading this.. _URL_5_", 'See Also: World War I Simple version [in cartoon form] |
Why are cats almost universally drawn to boxes and suitcases? | I think it is a criminal misuse of resources to have a cougar and NOT name it 'Freddy'.One of my cats will try to crawl into any box no matter how large or small. My other cat has no interest unless its a guitar case.Don't hate against cats man. They like to sit.. |
Pokemon. I'm in my early 30's, have a bro whose mid 20's - he's a bit more attached to the genre however... | I'm in the same boat. Pokemon is my brother's ninja turtles. I have no explanation, pokemon is stupid and I don't understand it either, now get off my lawn! |
why does evolution, in the long run, seem to favour smaller animals? | Take a small animal that fits in a cube box. Now make the animal twice as large - that is twice as tall, twice as wide and twice as long. How big of a box do you need? You need a box that's twice as big in each side. This new box fits 8 of the small boxes. By increasing the size of the animal by a factor of two you inc... |
Why do horses that break one of their legs have to be put down? | TL;DR: Horses can't use crutches. They weigh half a ton and need all four legs all the time. It's more than most horses are worth to try to deal with one with a broken leg. And it's impossible to manage its pain; you'd need a gallon of morphine a day for months. Euthanizing them is economical and humane. |
Why do employers care about how many hours I work? Why isn't it just about results? | Employers want to have it both ways from salaried employees. When things are hectic and everyone is working 50-60 hours per week, they don't want to pay you the overtime. When things are slow and you finish your work in 4.5 hours, they still want you to do busy work to fill out the 8 hour day. Or the want to charge you... |
Why does deodorant/antiperspirant say it will last for 48 hours, but I'm lucky if I get six hours out of it | YMMV. Maybe you're particularly funky. In some places almost no one wears deodorant because either they're used to BO or actually don't smell all THAT bad. |
Why are captchas still so popular? | Even if someone has an OCR program tailored to CAPTCHAs , they would still be effective. All of those good OCR programs take time to run, and time is a spammer's most valuable resource. If it now takes 100x as long to make an account as it did without a captcha, each spammer will only be able to send out 1/100th the nu... |
Why do car door locks in the back of a car not go down as far as the ones in the front? | In cars setup like that the front doors usually unlock when the inside handle is pulled, but the rear doors do not . So there needs to be a way for the rear passengers to mechanically unlock them from the inside . Of course many also have child lock switches on the back doors that prevent opening them from the inside a... |
; why is it our eyes see upside down and our brain has to correct it? | I was reading an ap psych book the other day, and it said that if you were to wear glasses that make everything upside-down, after some amount of time your brain will adjust and everything will seem normal.I think things like this are easier to explain with a drawing. _URL_0_ If you look at how light passes through a l... |
Insider trading, and why it's considered a crime that is punishable by jailtime | a teacher decides to have surprise pop quiz tomorrow for her class. however, the night before she tells her son who is in that class that she's planning to have pop quiz tomorrow. the son studies that night to be ready for pop quiz and does well in that pop quiz. if this is not made illegal, it means that there will be... |
Why doesn't anyone want to be Speaker of the House? | The tea party wing of the republican party is too large to ignore but republicans outside of that are loathe to team up with democrats to get the votes needed because then they'd be in the exact situation that John Boehner found himself in all too often. So there aren't enough moderate republicans to push things throug... |
If rape is common in male prisons, why doesn't the public take it seriously? | Prisoners are not a very attractive group of people, so crimes against them don't attract much sympathy. It's sad, racist, and not a good reflection of our values. |
How much of what goes into the recycling bin actually gets recycled? | [This Popular Mechanics article] is the most comprehensive thing I know of. Less plastic than you think, is the short answer. It's too hard.Depends where the bin is. My alma mater got busted a few years back when it came out that they were taking all the recyclables from the recycling bins and throwing it into the tras... |
Why does Scotland want independence so badly (or why don't the other ones want it as much)? Economy? | I'll probably get downvoted for this, especially as Reddit has more Scotnats than pro-UK. I'm in Scotland and I can honestly say, hand on heart, there is a lot of patriotism/nationalism involved. At the moment though, the Yes side is trying to win over No voters and neutrals, so I haven't heard as much English bashing ... |
Why is the Metric system generally preferred over the Imperial system? | It's easier for many things. Imperial is good for two things; cooking, and sports. Those are scenarios where you want to count by the handful - three cups of flour, five yards of field, and so on. In engineering, math, measuring distance or volume and so on, you want metric. It's more precise because most if not all un... |
What are the incentives for a film/tv adaptation to stray from the book? | Time. Books are long, you have to cut stuff out to make a sub 2 hour product. Otherwise you'd end up with 10 hour long movie Also not everything translates to a visual medium. After all, in a movie, you want to show, not tell. |
What is the difference between Protestant, Othordox, and Catholic? | _URL_0_ Here's a PDF file of an easy to understand table comparing all 3. It's much easier than to straight forward post it here.The differences between Roman Catholics and Greek Orthodox can generally be understoood as a matter of church governance. Rome claimed superiority, whereas the Greeks opposed that thought. Th... |
Why does it take an hour plus to have one tire replaced on my car when pit teams change four tires on a racecar in under 10 seconds? | Besides all the current answers there's also the factor of *incentive.* That pit crew guy makes anywhere from $50,000 to $75,000 and the rate of job satisfaction in that field is off the goddamn charts. Your mechanic? ..eeeeeeeeehnotsomuch. |
Why has no credible attempt been made to recreate Nikola Tesla's work on wireless distribution of Energy, Death ray and other of his unfinished works? | Wireless energy currently only works at short distances, and some rather specific things need to be done. Basically, at this point short-range wireless energy is viable, but Tesla's vision of broadcasting energy around the world isn't. Here's a [TED talk] from 2009 that can explain better than I can. It only demonstrat... |
How can all movies claim to be #1? | Well, Mission Impossible isn't a comedy, so Vacation can be the #1 comedy without also being the #1 movie - comedy is a lesser and included status within movies.My favorite are the reviews . "AMAZING!" -#thatguy74 "BREATHTAKINGLY INNOVATIVE" -#Newjerseywhore12 "THE GREATEST VISUAL EFFECTS EVER" -#Blindman77 |
What is catnip and how exactly does it work? | Actually catnip mimics a sex pheromone in cats. Kittens are immune to it's effects until they become sexually mature! |
On a political level, what is the difference between an American state (or other federal system) and a constituent country in the U.K.? | Individual US states have far more autonomy and devolved power than any of the UK's countries legislatives do. The UK is far more centralised. |
Why do large US employers ask you to declare ethnicity on job applications? | There are tax breaks for the company hiring minorities, so the companies want to know who they can make a little bit of extra cash on the side from hiring. When I worked for a large ISP that I'm not allowed to provide the name of I was a supervisor. A part of my job was to take out aptitude tests and add a percentage b... |
Why SHOULD Obama wait to appoint a new Supreme Court Justice? | He should not. There's no reason for him to wait, which pisses off the non-governing party. Case closed.Its only considered hypocritical depending on what side of the argument you are on. For example, in most states when a Senator dies, the new one is appointed by the Governor. If the Governor is a Republican, they wil... |
Polyphasic Sleepers. How can sleeping 4.5 hrs a day be healthy? | TL;DR eight hours of sleep is a pretty new thing to humankind. As you can see from reading this thread, there is much controversy about how much sleep we need and very little is known about all the precise reasons we need it. The research of [Robert Ekrich,] and some common sense, tells us the for the majority of human... |
What is the point of swinging nunchucks all around and behind your body as always shown in movies and TV shows? | Are you referring to swinging the nunchaku over your shoulder and switching hands? If so, that movement leads to one of the best positions to strike from. You're able to get power behind your swing while still maintaining control. |
How does a horn amplify sound without adding any energy to it? | This law of physics doesn't just apply to sound but any form of energy. In space when something generates energy it is usually an isotropic radiator. That is to say that it's a sphere which sends energy in all directions equally. Down here on earth that's not very practical because gravity does this funny thing where n... |
Why is everything so expensive in airports? | Because there is little to no competition. Many people at airports are there in between flights, and don't want to leave the airport because security takes a long time to get back through. So businessed charge more, because they know people are willing to pay more. |
Why can't humans grow to the size of giants, like Gigantopithecus? | My brother believed that giant humans walked the earth due to a doctored photo of an archeologist digging up a giant human skeleton. I asked him if he knew why whales die soon after beaching themselves. He didn't. I explained that their massive body weight crushes their lungs making it impossible for them to breathe. T... |
why do we lose weight more easily when we drink lots of water? | Water probably doesn't allow us to lose weight easily. It keeps us from consuming unnecessary calories. Dehydration and sleep deprivation can both manifest as hunger. By drinking water, we provide the tools for the body to do all the biological things it's already doing more efficiently and potentially remove the urge ... |
Why is the Moon so sandy and dusty when there's no wind or water for erosion? | The answers above are great, but also consider how rocks are formed. There are three main types of rocks on Earth: sedimentary rocks which are formed by silt carried in water being deposited in layers, then being compressed over time by the layers above until it hardens into rock; igneous rocks, formed by molten lava c... |
Why are cochlear implants stigmatized by the deaf community? | I'm unilaterally deaf. If not for the expense, I'd get an implant in a heartbeat. I suspect the greatest stigmatization comes from those who haven't ever had their hearing ./u/tuckels has it all wrong. its not been about informed consent or anything like that. The major stigma is about your "removal" from the deaf comm... |
Since I've heard many times that English is a difficult language to learn, what is they most logical, simple language to learn? | My first language is Bahasa Melayu. I’ve heard people say it's simple. It has no distinction between masculine and feminine forms, and does away with tenses that indicate time. |
Why do opposites attract? | Personally, I think we're wired to hook up with someone who looks at things differently because diversity in a team really helps. Two people just like you won't be as effective as you and someone different. To a point. |
Why are F1 cars so flimsy? | 1. Try hitting something at 200 mph with your daily driver and see how well it handles it. It's easy to forget just how fast these cars are going since they're all going that fast. Remember: when they slow down to go into pit lane and look like they're barely putting along they're still going up to 100 kph . 2. Extra s... |
Is there a reason for the Alphabet to be in order? | It has to be in some order for many reasons, but it's mostly arbitrary. It's based on previous alphabets, which in turn are based on those that came before, but go back far enough and someone just made it up.Organization. Being able to put any set of things in an understandable order no matter how different they are. |
Why does eating food in general make you thirsty? | Most foods, particularly those you did not prepare yourself, have more salt in it than you need. That is aside of the fact the body needs moisture to process food, which you wouldn't immediately notice. |
- Why does the Swiss claim to be neutral? | It means they don't pick sides in foreign conflicts, if they were to be invaded, they would fight back. Although that's highly unlikely that they would ever be attacked considering where they reside and that they could put up much of a fight. |
Why have no video game consoles made a move towards allowing keyboard and mouse inputs? | Keyboard + mouse don't work so well when you're sitting on the couch. The PS3 supports KB + mouse but I don't know how many games use them. |
Why do uneducated people tend to have more children? | For one thing, people pursuing an education often forestall marriage and kids until they complete their degree. School is a lot of work and you're not always earning much money while studying, so having a family then doesn't make sense. And starting later often means fewer kids. |
If fat is bad for our health, why haven't we evolved to just expel fat like waste from our body. | As said before: we need fats. And I think we, as a species, haven't dealt with that much surplus and fatty foods as we have now for very long. Often times our grandparents have still experienced hunger and starvation - one or two generations of a certain percentage of humanity isn't enough to evolve some kind of 'I don... |
Why are things like sex and drugs difficult for some parents to explain to their kids? | They might not want their child to actually try it, and they can't do that if they don't know what it is. |
PSA: This isn't the only subreddit to ask questions in. | I'd say it is better to curb an emerging trend as quickly as possible before it grows and gets out of hand. No harm in a little reminder. |
gasoline costs about $8.20 a gallon in the UK. It is also expensive elsewhere in Europe. Why aren't electric cars more popular from an economic standpoint there? | Because cars aren't as important. The US car culture really discourages walking anywhere, and public transport in Europe is much more popular. The reason to have a car is that you can get anywhere when you need to, and if immediate transport isn't that important, people will just take the bus or walk instead.Electric c... |
Why are US republicans against free universal healthcare in the the USA? | The republican party in general pushes for a small federal government that puts more freedom in the hands of people and the market.So a republican would tell you that the market can handle healthcare and the government shouldn't get involved.They would also argue that it's your right to chose to not have healthcare eve... |
Why does everything in space spin? (please read the additional text before answering) | If you take a cloud of dust and gas all moving at random, there'll be some overall spin, with more bits moving one way than the other. Bits do crash into each other and cancel out each other's movement, but it would be an amazing coincidence if it all cancelled out perfectly. Eventually the leftover unbalanced rotation... |
Why would a one world government be such a bad idea? | The closest thing we have to an authority that operates in lots of countries is religion, and as you can see that hasn't always gone so well. It's like the problem with the eu, a strong euro helps Germany/France etc because they can import stuff at lower costs. A weak euro helps Greece etc because it encourages tourism... |
How does a gymnast begin to practice parts of a routine which could potentially break their neck I'd things go wrong? | Someone may have said this, but one of the most important factors in mastering a gymnastics skill with real danger is that it's just a natural progression of what they have already learned, so it doesn't feel that much more dangerous than the skill they mastered previously. Also consider that gymnasts, especially girls... |
Why are under cooked burger patties are safe to eat? | There's so much conflicting info here, some are saying it's not safe, some are saying it is because it's sterilized during the processing, some saying pink is still fully cooked at 130* but the food safety website says 160* I even tried to do some of my own research and found a blogger stating that if the outside is se... |
Why doesn't our weight change at different times of day? | > Enough gravity to reach far past Pluto Pluto has a *lot* more mass than you do. For gravity to have a huge effect, both bodies need to have a bunch of mass. I guess, technically, you feel less gravity as you get farther from the Sun by spinning around our planet, but there's no way it would be measurable. |
If I set up a "Twitch plays Windows 8" and the hive mind did something illegal, who would be at fault? | Who would be at fault? The person who did the illegal activity. Who would be legally responsible? There isn't really an answer, as there is no precedent. If it were a big enough issue, this would be a groundbreaking case, and new laws would likely be born of it. Quite simply, there isn't an answer because it hasn't ~~h... |
How did Tesla increase the battery capacity of its Model S by 5 kilowatt-hours without adding battery cells? | Is there truth in the rumours that car manufacturers 'nerf' or purposefully detune their cars when they are first released so that each year/mid life upgrade they can easily 'tweak' it to give it more more without any real re-engineering? Are Tesla potentially doing the same?", 'Tesla uses so called 18650 cells in thei... |
Why is there so much stigma in the US for welfare benefits to the poor but little to no stigma for the benefits given in the US to those who are middle class and rich? | The rich control the media. They tell the middle class that it's the poor people on welfare that are fucking them over.Which benefits to middle/upper class are you referring to? |
What happens when you remove a brain tumour? What grows in its place, if anything? | Do you have one? I had one removed several years ago. [an acoustic neuroma] As far as I know, nothing has grown in it's place. It was pushing things out of the way to grow. They removed 96% of it, and when the swelling went down, stuff just moved back to the normal space. Think about it like you have a couple wet spong... |
How cigarette filters work, and what they filter. | I've held smoker's lungs and healthy lungs. Having done that I'm inclined to say the filters don't work. But then again, it could be a lot worse. |
Why Doesn't The Japanese Government Shut Down the Yakuza? | One reason not brought up yet is that generally, organized crime is better for society than the alternative: unorganized crime. Organized crime generally wants things running mostly smoothly, so they can take their cut in peace; while unorganized crime is more likely to conduct crime by whatever means work, including m... |
How can hotel room showers provide stable water temperatures while our four-apartment brownstone can't? | I jumped around reading the different answers, and all I saw was about boilers. That has very little to do with the original question the boiler assures that the premises does not run of hot water and the pump provides it quickly end of story. I will not get technical about different size buildings and booster pumps, a... |
If 10% of the population has asthma and about 3.8% of the population identify as gay, does that mean the general population has a 13.8% chance of being one of these things? | No. Due to the possibility of being gay and having asthma, it would be smaller than that. Obviously it's theoretical though. |
If space is infinite, does that mean that everything that can possibly exist without violating the laws of the universe, do indeed exist? | Just because the Universe is infinite doesn't necessarily mean there's an infinite amount of matter. All possible compositions of matter are dependent on how much matter there is to work with and therefore decides how many different things the universe can allow for. The rest is just infinite empty space. |
Why has gold been the universal store of wealth across most civilizations/cultures? | Currency has to have certain attributes * Durable * Uncommon * Practical * Accepted Now why is gold especially suited for this? Durable:Gold does does not chemically react with a lot of other stuff. Iron rusts, gold does not. It doesn't have many uses besides jewelery. Imagine someone proposed blocks of bread as curren... |
Why is the music in movies 1000% times louder than anything else in the movie? | I have also noticed this, it's so common these days and seems to be the standard of modern mixing. It doesn't happen in movies from the seventies, it's much more balanced in general. These days its like overkill, like theyre trying to impress you or wake you up. It annoys the hell out of me when Im trying to watch a mo... |
My neon sign provides power to my unplugged christmas lights. Why? | I've read a bunch of the comments and they all seem to both agree and disagree around the same details. current, volts, milliamps, electromagnetic fields. It's all close enough to convince a monkey like me. To derail for a sec , I live under power lines and if I hold up a fluorescent light tube it will light up most of... |
Why are countries like India and China so highly populated yet others, even close neighbors, are not? | As /u/GCEian pointed out countries like India and China aren't that highly populated at least in terms of population density. The reason we think of them as being so highly population is for a few factors: 1) They had some of the largest total populations to begin with which means they stand out. 2) **Industrialization... |
how can cloud services have zero risk of losing data? Don't they use hard disks which can fail like the ones normal people use, even if they're surely of higher quality | Multiple redundant copies. It's borderline impossible for everything to fail at once so that data is actually lost. |
if my blood's temperature is 98.6, why does 80 degrees feel hot and 60 degrees feel cold? | It's the same premise as why my car gets over 100 degrees if it sits in the sun when it's 80 out. |
Pythagorean theorem, like I'm actually five. | You can find the longest side of a right triangle by taking the first short line, lets say 3 long and adding that many of them together, so you have a line made of 3 lines each three long, so it's 9 long. Then you take the second short line, lets say 4, and do the same, make it 4 lines of 4, so it is 16 long. Now conne... |
Why is staph so rampant in hospitals compared to elsewhere? | Like a few folks have mentioned, Staph is everywhere . As long as you don't have any deep cuts, it's not going to get in. Even if it did, your immune system might be strong enough to eliminate the bacteria without the infection becoming widespread, or systemic. Basic beta-lactam antibiotics are usually strong enough fo... |
does Rogaine work, and if so, how? | I never used it but I do have a very underappreciated piece of advice for bald guys. If you are balding and decide to shave your head, make sure to use a lotion with at least some SPF. SPF 20 is good enough if you're simply in the sun on your way to and from work and other places. Otherwise, you'll QUICKLY get those li... |
How to "dry wipe" and why it's preferred in your country than using a bidet. | What do non-dry wipe nations do for pooping at work? Anyways as a non-bidet owner I've found the perfect solution is to poop right before your morning shower and hop in to the shower for your morning cleanse. |
what is happening when I don't receive text messages all day then receive them all at once later? | Mail delivery is a really good example for most 'digital' things.To deliver a mail to someone:1. You drop it off in your local mailbox2. The post office picks it up, takes it to its sorting facilities.3. The post office sends it out to be delivered How could you not get mail for sometime and then get a flood of mail?An... |
The original books that comprise the bible were written many centuries ago. How did the original copies survive so long? Wouldn’t the originals be destroyed by natural disaster or deteriorate over time? | The originals didn't survive. They were copied by hand, and then the copies were copied by hand, and so on. This was the way written knowledge was passed on until the invention of the printing press. |
If I was in a plane whilst nukes exploded below me | Commercial aircraft aren't shielded against nuclear blasts. Your pilots would go blind and crash. If you were lucky and they happened to be pointing away, they would find out they lost navigation capability because the EMP fried the radio antennas. If they still managed to find the runway, they would find it gone . If ... |
Why is it that when a YouTube video features on Reddit, their comments are flooded with 'le Reddit Army is here' followed by attempts at insulting the video creator? | Because many people on Reddit are immature, some are young, and others are so socially awkward they think it's funny. Most of Reddit is fine though, it's the ones who take the time to leave comments like that i'm talking about.Reddit is very popular. When a video is featured on the front page it gets an influx of thous... |
Why is Al Jazeera quickly becoming a trusted American news source? | Have you ever watched AlJazeera? If anything it most resembles BBC world. Their reporters and talking heads are largely British. Any news source is going to be biased, Al Jazeera probably no more so than CNN or the BBC, certainly no more so than Fox News. Their being based in Qatar and not in the west does mean their b... |
Why do you hear a big bang when you break the sound barrier? | What's interesting about the way your phrased your question is that you actually *don't* hear a sonic boom when you break the sound barrier - stationary observers beside and behind you would hear it, but from your frame of reference, it's inaudible because you're actually outrunning the sound from it.Sitting in the coc... |
What's the difference between the various cuts of steak? | I will take a different approach. If you are at the beginning of your carnivorous life, don't aim for the stars. It would be like losing your virginity to Gisele Bundchen. All others will fail to live up to it. Go with the filet mignon. It is not the best thing on the menu. The porterhouse is. Uess they have a good pri... |
Why do people that bitch get rewarded free stuff or discounted orders and people that are patient get nothing? | It's not worth anyone's time, effort, or bad press or feelings to deal with these people. Just make the customer happy and go on with business. If other people are not complaining, we can simply assuming they are not having any issues. |
Isn't searching for past possible Nazi war criminals, who are well into their 90's, a big waste of money and time? | In reality it's really for the families and getting justice. There isn't anything they can actually be punished with now. They're far too old to go to prison. At the same time you have to do justice for millions amongst millions of people killed because of them. |
Why would anyone oppose an improvement of the relationship between the U.S. and Cuba? | Because they're a dictatorship that regularly incarcerates and kills it's citizens for dissenting from the government approved views. |
What is the Speed of a Photon as it Gets Reflected by a Mirror? | This is a really complicated question. If you have an hour and a half [here's Richard Feynman answering it] Basically the photon is travelling at c until it hits the mirror where it is absorbed by an electron on the mirror's surface. Then various quantum phenomena occur within the atoms on the mirror's surface. However... |
Why is the % midwife births in the United States so low in comparison to the rest of the world? | Because in the US we usually go to the hospital to deliver our babies. At the hospital it's a nurse and a doctor that delivers the baby. |
If I always feel mentally and physically better after exercising, why do I still avoid it like a whiny toddler? | I always need a spotter/rival. I really enjoy it when it's social, but excercising alone is boring ", 'Because you feel miserable while exercising and instinctively avoid that discomfort maybe?', "It's hard. It is uncomfortable and sometimes down right hurts. Then hurts after. I struggle with the same thing. I try to d... |
Why women's nipples are censored and NSWF but men's aren't? | Women's breasts aren't censored in all countries. The USA is one of the last Western cultures to still be weird about them. Compare that to cultures that require women to cover everything. Even in the USA, some states are totally ok with women walking around topless, others aren't. Basically, all cultures in which ther... |
Why can't we sneeze while we're asleep? | You can, but you're much less likely to. Since the body is in a more relaxed state it is less responsive to the stimuli which causes sneezing. However if you really really need to sneeze, you will! |
why don't international sports players (ie. Lionel Messi) represent their countries at the Olympic Games? | Soccer in the Olympics is restricted to U-23 players + 3 older players, so it doesn't compete entirely with the world cup Edit: a word |
why is it ok for a woman to take an abortion pill, but if a woman's significant other tricks her into taking the pill it is considered murder? | For the same reason it's okay to punch yourself in the face, but it's not okay if someone else punches you in the face. |
How are movies edited to be in 3D when they are't originally filmed in 3D? | For films that use a lot of green/blue screen , the CG background can be made as a 3D object. That way, the only thing that they have to make 3D in post are the actors, and they're separated already. Also, many older films that used the red and blue glasses were three frames: One that was red, one was blue, and one tha... |
Why are there no primates in North America? | I suspect it's due to the swathe of desert in the Southern US blocking easy migration from South America. Primates are adaptable, but deserts are a different matter. |
How do some people live unhealthy life styles but are still good at working out/exercising/pt? | Genetics plays a little bit of a role here. Essentially, the damage done through these behaviours doesn't tend to rear its ugly until later in life. With regards to the genetics side of things, every individual has a different tolerance to a behaviour. For example, both you and I could smoke a 20 pack of cigarettes a d... |
Why do old Chinese people act uncivilly on buses? | How do you even know they're Chinese? But in their country its not uncommon to bump or push into people. They don't get all worked up and want to fight like Americans do. Pretty sure its done subconsciously and not with ill intentions |
How did having light breakfasts and heavy dinners become a common practice, when logically it should be reversed? | Heavy breakfasts such as the full English breakfast, which is around 1000 calories depending on the portion size, are still a common practice among manual workers who will need that food energy to do their work during the day. Light breakfasts are more popular among office workers who are physically inactive for most o... |
Why does the US get cheaper gas prices than Canada? | Taxes, pure and simple: _URL_0_ Yes, we pay much higher taxes up here in our Socialist Workers' Paradise. But we get a lot for those taxes in return.Canadians pay a 33% tax on fuel, in part to fund their national healthcare system. Americans only pay 11% tax. |
If obesity is 'the most serious public health issue of the 21st century', then why isn't it addressed by any of the electoral candidates in the current U.S. electoral campaign process? | You do see it mentioned quite often by Democratic candidates in the form of school lunch/exercise programs trying to target behaviors that trend towards obesity early on -- I think the issue for Republicans/Conservatives is multi-tiered, and complicated with a lot of room to step on toes. From a very high level they wo... |
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