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Why don't people seeking physician-assisted suicide just overdose on their regularly prescribed pain medication? | I think you're missing the point. Any one can kill themselves any number of ways. The only limit to the number of ways you can off yourself is your imagination. What is up for debate here is whether a person has the right to kill themselves by being assisted by a physician. A physician can give a cocktail of drugs that... |
What were the evolutionary benefits (if any) to humans enjoying certain "music" or having some sounds appeal to them. | You're assuming that the enjoyment of music is the purpose of an evolutionary advantageous skill, but it's actually probably just one applications of an evolutionary advantageous skill. The skill is *pattern recognition*. Early agriculture was made possible by our ability to recognize patterns. Our ability to hunt spec... |
Why the OJ Simpson case was such a big deal? | It was a big deal because it was obvious that he murdered his wife and his wife's friend. Anyone who followed the trial could see that fact clearly. The fact that he was acquitted does not assuage his guilt.OJ was a huge celebrity He was a great football player then turned actor, and spokesman. He was a household name ... |
Why the population of Bangladesh, Pakistan, India and China so high compared to other nataions in this world | Rice, rice, baby. Of grains available to the pre-industrial world, rice yields the most calories per acre of land. At the same time, it is labor intensive, and requires more people to farm it. You wind up with a staple that both supports and requires more people, and that leads to a higher population densityExtremely f... |
Why do most people get nauseous when reading in the car? | It is generally caused by a discrepancy between the motion being reported by your inner ear and the motion observed by your eyes. As the car moves, your inner ear is constantly aware of the movement. Whilst reading, your eyes are mostly seeing a static image, the book. The fact that the two don't add up and give simila... |
Why does drinking alcohol "burn," and what makes some liquors "smoother" than others? | From Google: Alcohol, especially in high concentrations, will irritate the oral mucosa . That irritation can come across as a burning sensation, the same kind of thing that happens with capsaicin . Alcohol’s also a solvent, absorbing some of the moisture from that mucosa and causing a drying sensation that can also pre... |
does plugging my ears with earplugs do any damage to my ears? | No, soft foam earplugs can cause no damage unless you leave them in for days at a time or somehow manage to stick them in far enough to hit your eardrum. This should be next to impossible though. |
Why is there so much tension over this Iran nuclear deal? | Because this is the defining moment, before the Space Jew Lizard Reptillian Illuminati Communist Marxist Soviet army invades and sets the world as the Empire of Israelistan. But really though, lots of people believe that if Israel is not satisfied with the results, they may strike Iran, starting World War III. |
why is pointing at something considered rude? | Cultural norms vary, but as I understand it, pointing at "things" isn't rude and is often necessary to communicate clearly. However many people consider pointing at another person aggressive and therefore rude if the situation doesn't warrant an aggressive reaction. It may also be considered rude if you point in respon... |
Why does restaurant ranch dressing taste so much better and crazily different than store-bought bottled ranch? | ranch dressing requires mayo and buttermilk. You can get the may to stay good for a long time on the shelf, but they cant put milk in there. |
How does a heat seeking missile work? | First attempt at ELI5. an aircraft engine and fuselage all generate heat. This radiates away from the aircraft in the Infra Red spectrum of light. Humans obviously cannot see this mostly, but IR cameras can. By using some smart tech to determine shape and the front or rear of an aircraft by interpreting an infra red pi... |
to someone who doesnt live in America BlackFriday? is it really that good? | Black Friday is the way the American population "kicks off" their Holiday shopping season. Lots of stores open at Midnight and stay open all day, most if not all stores have really good sales that make staying up that late tempting. It's good in some ways if you are looking for something specific, I have a friend who g... |
Why do some companies copyright strike Youtubers for putting their logo/product/song in their videos? | That's not how copyright works. Copyright is fundamentally the right to require people to ask permission before they do anything with your work . As with all these things, failure to defend this right in any particular instance harms your ability to defend it in general. When you played that song on YouTube, two releva... |
In 2008 oil was "running out" and the price of a barrel of oil sky rocketed. Fast-forward seven years and there's a surplus? | A couple things happened. First, fracking allowed access to oil that was previously economically unviable to extract. But with the high oil prices and refined techniques and equipment, it eventually became viable. With the increase in supply, the price started to drop. OPEC countries were expected to lower their supply... |
Why do people like to break rules so much? | We're humans. Time and rules aren't even supposed to exist but it does. There's a famous saying, rules were meant to be broken.. |
Why do retailers purposely damage/break their unsold items before throw it to the garbage? Why don't they donate it instead? | Two part answer: 1. Retailers break things to discourage dumpster diving. If you knew that Best Buy was going to throw out all their electronics, you would see lines behind Best Buys to go through their trash. Obviously, people don't like it when other go through their trash. 2. Donating certain things is just countera... |
Why does my mechanical watch say not to adjust it between 9pm and 4am? | On a lot of watches, the date pinions start engaging around 9pm and fully disengage around 4am. If you adjust the time or date during that time, you run the risk of damaging the mechanism . |
How do modders optimize games that are badly ported? | There are several ways. The easiest is probably to just twiddle with the config files until the game runs better. More complicated issues, such as framerate limits that normally can't be disabled, can sometimes be fixed by editing some parts of the game's executable file or other binary files with an hex editor. When t... |
How does space-time dilation work? | I forget what redditor explained it this way to me, but this is the best way I can describe it: Think of space and time being orthogonal. That is, they are set perpendicular to one another, like X and Y are on a graph. Taken together, they are space-time. You are always moving through space-time at speed *c* . If you a... |
Why it's not possible to clone encrypted contactless smart cards? | With a smart card, you're not actually *reading* the card. You're having it do something for you using a secret key that cannot be read off it. |
Why is it an "exclamation POINT" and a "question MARK?" | It *is* [exclamation mark]. Depending on where you live. And the question mark is also known as an [interrogation point] although that is a less common thing to call it. |
At what point is being a porn star different from prostitution? | For starters, it isn't completely clear that making pornography is legal in most US jurisdictions. In the absence of a law or legal precedence explicitly saying one way or another, it is entirely possible a pornography producer could be convicted under prostitution laws. Most state courts haven't said one way or anothe... |
Why do planes shake when going through clouds? | Usually it's cumuliform clouds that do this. While enough moisture in the air will cause clouds to form, any source of lifting will cause these clouds to fluff up. That air movement will, obviously, also effect the airplane and push it around. It's basically the same as turbulence you get in clear air. The lifting can ... |
Why do we find stuff "oddly satisfying?" | The human brain responds to and rewards you for identifying patterns. An example of this is music, where your brain rewards you for predicting and identifying patterns of notes. This is why hearing familiar music is satisfying, while music you never listen to sounds like trash. You can also find patterns in paintings a... |
The different coloured circles on carton boxes or packaged snacks | Those are all the colors used to print the package. If the graphic don't come out right you can check which circle of color didn't print and replace that cartridge. |
Why do you get extremely hot right before freezing to death? | When you are cold, the blood vessels near the surface of your body constrict, reducing the amount of warm blood exposed to the cold and limiting heat loss. Your body can only keep that up for so long, and when it finally gives up, the warm blood comes rushing back to the skin, giving the illusion of being too hotThis w... |
Why do Macs seem to run games way worse than PC even if they aren't games with crazy graphics? | I don't know if this is necessarily true. I could see this being true if a DirectX Windows games is ported to Mac using OpenGL, and the port isn't done well. What specifically have you experienced?", 'Optimizations. Even if you have a "hackintosh" it'll run bad. Everyone uses windows so nobody makes a good port for mac... |
When we really have to pee, why does walking or moving lessen the need "to go" in the moment? | Needing to urinate is something which can be suppressed by the sympathetic nervous system activity, or becomes more obvious when parasympathetic nervous system activity predominates. Exercising shifts the balance towards the sympathetic nervous systemSeems like this could possibly be related to gate control theory: you... |
What exactly is Effective Demand? | There *was* no mention of a constrained market in Econ 101, because it's a complicated concept; this is why you should ignore everyone who tells you that they know what economic policies we should have because they took Econ 101. Anyway. Suppose that I want buy a smoothie every time I go to work out. My demand for smoo... |
Why does fresh cut grass smell so potent? | Because it's traumatized! Grass release chemicals when they are cut or injured that do a few things. The compounds help speed the healing of the grass by causing them to form new cells and act kind of like an antibiotic to prevent infection. The chemicals from some plants, when combined with caterpillar saliva can attr... |
Why do I see a shadow on the inside of my eye when I push my finger on the outside edge of my eye? | Your finger pushes against your eye and distorts the lens that focuses light on the back of your eye. A small indentation can create a black spot where light doesn't focus, or focuses very poorly. It's similar to how you can have dark spots on the bottom of a pool by distorting the surface. |
Why does only one nostril clog up with mucus when I'm sick? | Surprisingly, about 80% of people breathe out of one nostril at a time, alternating about every 2.5 hours. Research the nasal cycle for specifics. The one you are not using clogs when you are sick. Some research indicates that this can throw off the nasal cycle, but it hasn't been proven to my knowledge. |
Why do we feel like we know how to do something but we just can't do it? | We all have a tendency to over-simplify concepts in our minds. This is a way for us to organize and plan more efficiently whenever we want to do something. The problem comes when we try to enact our simplified concepts without a full understanding of the details involved. We might have a decent understanding of them, o... |
How do sharp angles on a vehicle affect a radars ability to detect it, such as the USS Zumwalt | I think a [picture is worth a thousand words] in this case. I find it hard to describe what's going on without a visual aid. With a curved surface, the radar hits and spreads out. A lot of the signal gets spread all over the place, which means there's a lot of it headed in the direction of the radar dish. There's a lot... |
Why can't I sleep before a stressful day? | Because you are expecting something stressful. You should know though that there are different types of stress, happy stress and bad stress. Bad stress is when you know that there is a test coming up and you haven't studied. Good stress is like Christmas eve. For instance, you stay up all night Christmas eve because yo... |
Open Carry Laws in California | You cannot open carry any gun in California except at shooting or hunting events, or if you specifically have a permit to carry, such as a permit to carry a concealed weapon. This is for all guns, not just handguns, as laws were recently passed to this effect. This applies to both unloaded and loaded weapons. You can t... |
Why do cameras have a maximum SD card capacity? | Digital cameras basically run an OS much like a computer. If the kernel, or BIOS, was limited to addressing a maximum size of 64 GB on a storage device, that's simply all it can see. I should note that it doesn't mean there's anything nefarious going on, necessarily, it's just a limit of the architecture they're using. |
What would happen if I put a flash drive in a USB-AC power adapter? | Nothing, only certain pins in a USB port carry voltage, and in a device that doesn't require power like a USB flash drive, those pins aren't connected to anything. |
How can there be Facebook pages i.e. Netflix that have millions of likes, but their updates only get very few likes? | Personally speaking I like pages to support them but don't generally care enough to go read their page and sometimes turn off their notifications in my news feed. |
How come airlines are able to stream live satellite TV to their entertainment systems, but have trouble providing stable on-board internet access/Wifi? | Beaming TV to the plane is a one way connection. WiFi and Internet require asking for data and waiting for the requested data to arrive, then asking for more. Satellite TV is just a constant stream of data, just show what you get. Missed a packet? Too bad, pick up from the next keyframe. Don't want the data? Turn off y... |
Why do TV actors earn residuals upon re-airing for their performances, but recording artists don't earn a dime when their music is played on the radio? | This answer is gonna be totally unsatisfying, but its the answer Because thats just how the business model those industries work. Yes I know, unsatisfying. Here's some details. For actors, they are members of unions, and these unions have negotiated rates and pay like this. The unions are VERY strong and active and hav... |
Why do spins/jumps in sports continuously get more intense? | It's primarily two things: 1. Better equipment. Technology plays a larger role in these things than most people realize. Simply the fact that modern equipment is lighter, stronger, has more flex, rebound and spring allows athletes to do things that were literally impossible 20 years ago. 2. Athletes start training at a... |
What causes free WiFi hotspots at hotels etc to be so patchy and unreliable. | Setting up a wifi mesh is expensive, and frankly not worth the effort and cost for many small motels. Larger ones try and do cheaply. The effective result is, small motels just put a consumer router in the lobby or manager's office, and it's range is a hundred feet from there. Large ones may have a mesh, but insufficie... |
Why does the moon cause waves in the ocean but not on smaller bodies of water like lakes? | Firstly, the other responses suggesting that tides are not waves are incorrect - tides *are* waves, they just have a very long wavelength . To actually answer the question, it's because lakes are generally too small for the tidal effect to be significant. Tides are caused by the gradient in the gravitational field of t... |
Why does the value of currencies fluctuate? | The fluctuations are a result of supply and demand for that currency. For example, let's say there's suddenly huge global demand for American widgets. Companies all over the world want to buy those American widgets to sell in their own countries. Those foreign companies would drive up the demand for US Dollars in order... |
If I slice the skin off my fingers, why does my fingerprint come back? Is it the same? | I don't know about the situation you're describing, but I did slice my thumb pretty badly as a child and now my lines on that thumb print don't match up, so I know you *can* damage your fingerprints, but I don't know if you completely removed them what would happen. Sorry my answer isn't helpful, I'll delete it if anyo... |
Reddit bots. What are they? How do they work? Who makes them? How do you make one? | A bot is a computer program that performers automated tasks . Bots run on a server and the bots you see posting comments on reddit are usually run independently by individual users who create the bot scripts and host them on their own servers. There is also a Reddit AutoModerator bot that subreddit moderators can use t... |
Why do we consciously make bad/wrong decisions, even though we know the outcome will be bad? | Humans are wired to forget how a bad experience **feels**. You get arrested, the entire experience sucks and you're miserable. The next week, you're looking at it and laughing about it. It's the same reason people are easily trapped in toxic relationships. That terrible fight you had last week seems like it wasn't a bi... |
Why nuclear plant computers are connected to the Internet and vulnerable to cyberattacks? | Imagine you have a computer on your house. Now you want to connect that computer to your friend 100 miles away. How do you do it? You could lay a 100 mile cable, but do you have the permissions to dig up roads and pathways? You would use a company whose cables were already there, and just use that network of cables to ... |
How would we think if we didn't have language? | Radiolap episode about adults without language and how they think. _URL_0_ The interviewee's book. _URL_1_ tl;dr - we would have extreme difficulty extrapolating information or connecting ideas. This means we'd be pretty confused and surprised all the time, which means we'd be a lot more fearful, cautious, unhappy, and... |
Why does shaking a liquid mix everything together and not separate it? | It's called agitation if you were to spin it with screens finer and finer toward the outside you would then separate it,but thats only part of it the lighter material will go to the top so you could actually just stack screens one on top of another and separate elements that way", 'when you shake the bottle you give th... |
Why are bunnies such a huge symbol for Easter? | Jesus ate bunnies during the last supper. We let bunnies be a symbol for Easter because we feel bad for them. |
Why do wedding dresses turn yellow after a period of time? | Many white things turn yellow over time. Generally it's the result of sunlight or oxidation. White cotton generally gets its white color from being bleached and washed with fabric whiteners. Fabric whiteners and brighteners are temporary dyes that add a slight blueish tint to the wash. Modern ones use optical brightene... |
How come most houses have slanted roofs but most other buildings are flat? | In the old days roofing materials were not as great as they are now. Traditional materials need a good slope to shed rain properly, and even more so to shed a heavy load of snow. Modern materials are tougher, but generally people building homes enjoy a traditional style because tradition feels cozy to many people.It's ... |
My cat goes wild in the presence of bleach. Why is this? | Well, shit, it sounds like she's getting some kind of chemical high. I'm not a veterinarian but I suspect it's probably not good for her brain . I'd say keep her in a bathroom or something if you're gonna be bleaching. |
How is Oxygen stored in water and how can fish extract it to breathe? | Oxygen is just dissolved in water, in the same way that you can dissolve sugar in water, or carbon dioxide in water to make a soda. Fish gills have a huge surface area to maximize how much contact they make with the passing water. Oxygen molecules cross the membrane of the gills just like they do in our lungs, and then... |
Why Americans are more conservative and religious than Europeans ? | Well, I think it's just that Americans are louder and hence given more coverage. I'm from England and there are *plenty* of old conservative folk here, who hold the same opinions as white old Americans. I think, in my opinion, they're a little nicer about it and don't go out of their way to show hatred. Yep, people are... |
The legal battle between Apple and Google. | I think this article explains pretty well whats going on with them. The Journalist even breaks down some of the patents. _URL_0_ |
What is the Louisiana Cajun accent | Cajun Vernacular English is the dialect of English spoken by Cajuns living in southern Louisiana and, to some extent, in eastern Texas. Cajun English is significantly influenced by Cajun French, the historical language of the Cajun people, who descended from Acadian settlers and others. It is derived from Acadian Frenc... |
Why are so many health issues worse in the early morning? | It really depends on what disease you're talking about. Whether this is a muscular or joint issue or whether it's to do with your organs. And, what medicine you're taking. In your case you suffer from asthma. The respiratory system slows down and depresses during sleep, as part of your metabolism. Your airways are alre... |
Why do all of the victims of ISIS beheadings look so calm and nonchalant? | I've read it's because they do so many mock executions and tell them that they just need to do it for pictures and videos. After ten or fifteen times of the posing, over the course of weeks or months, the captive generally looks more clam. |
Why is there ringing in your ears in complete silence? | there are little tiny "hairs" in your ear that are actually very sensitive cells that detect vibrations in the air that you brain interprets, thus, you can hear things. Sometimes, these little "hairs" get flattened out, by a very loud sound or by a natural quirk in your body. The ringing you hear is the the cells strai... |
Why is it after a person is saved from a fire, they are wrapped in a blanket afterwards? | generally I think it is a thermal blanket which helps against shock.Truth is: Its likely you're not prepared for the elements outside. Your house is on fire and you need to get out. Oops, better stop to get that sweater, there is a chill in the air said no one ever. Beyond that you're likely about to start coming down ... |
Why are some sites fooled by VPN and others not? | You're *signing in* to Facebook. You've already given it all your info including your location and all your friends names. |
How exactly does NATO work? | Article 5 is the most important, and the one you hear about day to day - an attack on one NATO country is an attack on all of them. Developed as a nuclear umbrella during the cold war, the design was to contain any Russian expansion. Article 5 has only been employed once: after 9/11, the US declared that Afghanistan ha... |
Why are typhoons named but not other natural disasters? | Hurricanes are named by the World Meteorological Organization specifically to make it easier for people to find and track news about them in order to better prepare. Hurricanes, unlike a lot of other natural disasters, are big lumbering things. You rarely are caught off guard by them, as our ability to track them means... |
Is there any way to sort out your childhood memories to figure out which ones are yours and which ones you've incorporated into your own memory because you've heard the story so many times? | Background setting is the main distinguisher between real and constructed memories. Can't remember if it's is really a memory or you're reconstructing the scene from what someone has told you? Try to remember the details. Do you just remember your grandfather and the piano, or can you describe the room? What was he wea... |
What's the deal with anchovies on pizza? I've never had them and don't understand why they're so controversial on pizza. | Anchovies have a pretty strong and unique flavor. Because of this it's kind of hard to have a moderate opinion; people either love anchovies or find them disgusting. They also have a strong odor, which adds to things. |
Why does a stuffy nose clear up when scared or aroused? | Release of chemicals like adrenalin widen the air passages to get more air into the lungs in preparation for fight or flight. |
Why can I not concealed or openly carry a knife or sword? | You can't own a switchblade because it's very dangerous, carried concealed, and it's only meant to hurt people. You can buy a gun because it can be used to hurt animals. Tasty, tasty animals. |
Why do self posts take so long to load while imgur links load instantly? | Self posts are dynamic and imgur links are static. That is, self posts have to handle upvotes, loads of comments, comment upvotes, comment hierarchies , etc , whereas imgur just serves you the file. I'm not entirely sure, but I think I saw that on reddit somewhere. |
Why that the deeper you go in the ocean, the uglier the wildlife gets. | this is subjective, but the reason morphology is so different at deeper levels is because the environment is so drastically different from our own. humans are predisposed to like creatures that are most similar to them and which have traits similar to them and their offspring. fish are obviously very different from peo... |
Why some nations/states/regions are more conservative/liberal than others. | it seems throughout history coastal areas tend to receive information faster, and so the coasts tend to be more liberal than the inner states.Also certain states have more of a "culture " that is perpetuated due to condensing of immigrants. For example the mid west has a history of dutch,swedish and german immigrants s... |
Can "playing dead" really trick Bears? whats the reasoning behind this? Bears dont eat/kill seemingly dead things? | Playing dead is only suggested for Brown and Polar Bears and it does two things. 1 - It makes them think you're not something they would want to eat, bears aren't usually scavengers. 2 - It makes them think you're not a threat and therefore they don't want to fight you. |
Why are calculator numpads vs. phone numpads vertically reversed in number order? | Actually, keypas on the Calculator and on the phone have different developments: For Calculators, the old mechanical machines needed a deeper keypress for higher numbers, and those can be achived easily on the "back" of the keypad as it is higher. When the first electronic calculators were developed the Layout was inhe... |
How do people who release leaks on to torrent websites originally obtain them ex. Game of thrones | There's three reasons why TV shows or any other media is leaked: - The production crew is huge usually hundreds of people. Someone such as an intern could easily steal a tape from an editor or someone in a similar position and then go home and upload it to the internet. - The company producing the show also sends out r... |
When we say someone has a "good" or "poor" vocabulary, how many words more or less are in their functional command? | Depending on who you ask, there are around a million English words. You can take vocabulary tests that check you know just a couple of hundred words, chosen to cover a wide range, and they tend to tell you how many "word families" you know. The idea of a word family is explained as > words such as nation, national, nat... |
What happened to /r/circlejerk? | /r/atheism and /r/politics are two subreddits that provided a lot of material /r/circlejerk can make fun of. The joke is that since those two were removed from the default subreddit list, there's a lot less circlejerky material and what is left needs to be rationed. That it doesn't make any sort of actual sense is comp... |
What a Roth IRA is and when it is a smart investment choice | A Roth IRA is an account you create that has tax advantages over other investment accounts. If you make contributions into the Roth IRA and keep them in the account until you turn 59 1/2, then you can take distributions from the account tax free. There is a catch, though. If you take distributions from the account befo... |
Do American citizens have a right to freedom of information? | There is an overriding concept in the American view of government: All government information is public unless there is a really good reason for it not to be. The law in most jurisdictions reflects this: citizens have a right to government information unless that information has been, by law, specifically excluded from... |
Why do bees store honey | Honey is the bees' food, so they store it for times like winter when they can't harvest flower nectar to turn into honey. |
Can humans survive on ONLY vegetables, no drinks? | No. We are not designed to get our water only from food and you cannot get sufficient amounts from just eating fruits and vegetables. In fact it is fairly difficult to get all the nutrients we need just from vegetables. You have to supplement with things like Algae, nuts, etcNo, you need water to survive. Humans can su... |
Why does my voice sound weird to me when I listen to it on a recording? | When you normally hear your own voice you hear it echoing through your skull. You don't get that effect from a recording. |
Do today's video games keep you playing like casinos do, throwing you wins once in a while to keep you playing longer? | There have been news recently of a patent filed by Activision for a system designed to goad players into buying more microtransaction items by doing things like matching them up against better players with premium items that the manipulated player doesn't have, to make them believe that they would be more successful in... |
Why does it hurt to move a limb after it "fell asleep"? | You have nerves in your body that send signals to different parts to work-- specifically muscles. They begin from your spinal cord, branch, and extend all the way to your fingers and toes. Your arm or leg falls asleep when pressure is placed on the nerve or when blood is cut off from supplying the nerve. The effect is ... |
- Why do smells get "burned in" to your nose? (Bleach, vomit, etc) | It's because those particles are in aerosols, little droplets of water with other things mixed in. And those droplets get in your nose and deposit their contents on the mucosal lining. Eventually you secrete enough mucus to wrap them all up, you swallow that, and it's gone. But until that time you can still smell them ... |
What is wrong with means testing? | Sometimes implementing it is more expensive than just giving the benefit to everyone who claims it Sometimes it misses the point Whilst the benefits system is fragmented, means testing is a nightmare to implement in cost effective way. That might change once universal credit system is fully rolled out. |
How do the companies that sponsor benefit from having game shows give away their products to contestants? | I was on a game show with my family once and the show had a specific rule. "If we offer a prize you act excited. You clap, cheer, etc. if you miss out on a prize, act disappointed. Whether or not you like the prize, or already own the prize, you will make that prize seem like the best thing in the world or we'll send y... |
Why Muzzle velocity is measured in feet per second rather than mph/kph. | Because bullets generally travel in units of feet rather than units of miles and the United States uses the Imperial system rather than the metric system for common units of measureGravity will pull a bullet to the ground at the same rate as if it were just dropped. It takes roughly half a second for something to drop ... |
How come after drinking a lot of beer (calories), I want to eat something bad for me (more calories). | This is going to be a very simple explanation, there are a lot of biological factors involved but this is basically it. Alcohol is a depressant, when you get drunk your consciousness decreases based on how much you drink. When this happens, people tend to become very instinctual. You start trying to fulfill your instin... |
What is the difference between hard and soft water? | Hard water has more minerals dissolved in it ; you soften water by adding salt, which binds to the minerals. Hard water can leave mineral deposits throughout the system, and makes soap difficult to lather. |
How do people die of Heatstroke before Dehydration? | your body has a limited ability to cool itself. so heatstroke without dehydration would be something where your body temp gets too high but you still have water in your body. |
Why are there holes in Swiss Cheese? | Basically: Cheese is milk that has gone bad because bacteria breed in it. The bacteria fart while breeding. The farts make up the holes and the stink of the cheeseDuring the cheese making process carbon dioxide is releasedd. The holes come from the gasses escaping from the cheese.Ahoy, matey! Yer not alone in askin', a... |
What mental effects does catnip have on a cat? | Catnip isn't psychoactive. It smells a lot like kitty pheromones. A cat's reaction to catnip is a reaction to feline sexy-time smell. [Here's] a neat iO9 article about it."The most intense catnip experience is an olfactory one—your cat smells the herb and promptly goes nuts.\xa0Researchers aren't sure what the neurolog... |
why were tv and movies black and white? | Because the technology of how to create black and white photographs and moving pictures came first. Television at first was black and white too even though color movies already existed at that point. The technology to make color-tv was more expensive than b & w tv and the receivers for color were also more expensive. D... |
Why are people with a latex allergy also allergic to bananas? What's the connection? | The banana contains a protein which is very similar in chemical structure to latex. So if you're sensitive to one, there's about a 50% chance that you're sensitive to the other as well. _URL_0_ |
How does memory get stored in HDs, SSDs, and ram? | That is a complex question. There are quite some different methods used to save the data. Put simply SSD and HD are non volatile memory while the ram in your computer is volatile. Meaning if there is no power - the ram loses the stored information. HD with a spinning magnet disk work by changing the north or south pole... |
why it goes vitamin A to E, then jumps to K. What happened to F to J? | Most of them were renamed upon being grouped into the B Vitamin group; for example vitamin G was the old name for riboflavin, which later became known as vitamin B2. Vitamin F was different: It was the old name for essential fatty acids, which were considered vitamins at the time of their discovery but have since been ... |
Why helicopters and planes can't get out of the earth? | They need to push down on the air to keep flying. In space, there's no air to push down on. Eventually, the air becomes so thin that you can't push enough of it down to keep yourself up. You can swim in water, because it's dense, and you can push water down and pull yourself up as a result. Now try swimming in air. Not... |
If all humans switched to a plant based diet, and all meat, dairy and egg industries disappeared, how would this new and increased demand for plants based foods affect the environment? | The animals we grow to make meat, milk and eggs contribute to half of global greenhouse gas. This number takes into account not only the fossil fuels used to produce and transport livestock before and after slaughter, but also the other gasses that livestock produce on their own. These various gasses are referred to as... |
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