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Why is my plate so hot but my food so cold when I use the microwave? | It's possibly because you're using something not meant for the microwave. Use microwave safe plates. This will happen less. |
Why cant we just create nerves? | We can grow nerves, just not in a way that's useful, due to the lack of organization. Say you have a big mass of copper. You could very easily melt it down and pour the molten copper into a rectangular shape to make a solid plate that would probably be a pretty effective barrier . However, if you tried to make wires wi... |
Why do company's sponsor the PGA when it seems like pro golf doesn't make much money? | Golfers and golf fans are rich, relatively speaking. The value of the eyeball of a golf watcher is more valuable than the eyeball of a nascar watcher or an NFL watcher. Advertising cost is about the value of the audience, not just the size of it. Even further, people _play_ golf much more than they play, for example, f... |
Why do cables like earplugs and chargers tangle up so badly and seemingly easily in your pockets? | Basically, there is one state for the wires to be organized but nearly infinite ways for them to be tangled. It's much more likely that they will be tangled with movement than remain organized. Another way of thinking about it, when you wind your wires into multiple loops, any time a loop or one of ends of the wires go... |
Why babies/toddlers are more susceptible to ear infections? | It might have something to do with the Eustachian Tube. In children under the age of seven it is shorter and in a more horizontal position than adults. Because of this, mucus might not drain from it as efficiently as it drains from adult ears, thus upping the chance of an ear infection. Other people feel it has nothing... |
How in cold weather, we are able to see our breath come out white, how come we do not see this when we fart? | This answer is going to sound facetious, but bear with me. We generally don't see our farts in cold weather because our assholes are a lot tighter than our mouths. Why does this make a difference? Well, because gas that is forced through a small opening expands rapidly, and rapidly expanding gas cools down fast. Want t... |
Why in some places people in jail aren't allowed to vote? | There are many people who are affected by a government but can't vote. Including children, non-citizens and even people in other countries. We don't normally grant the right to vote based on who is impacted by government regardless of which country you're talking about. |
Apparently moonquakes can be caused by tides, but the moon is tidally locked to earth. What tide causes these to occur? | Tidal forcing from the Earth's gravity keeps the moon tidally locked with the Earth, despite variations in its orbit. This means that the Moon is not allowed to freely rotate and has not "just happened" to sync up its rotation with its orbit around the Earth, but rather that the Earth's gravity has constant effects on ... |
Why do hot showers dry out your skin? | Your skin is kept moisturized by oils in and near the surface. A hot shower can strip these oils. That allows the moisture in your skin to dry out. |
How do bullet proof vests work? How do they protect you from bullets? | They spread the force out on a larger area of your body, so you can handle it better. Think about when you go to the doctor to get a shot. When the nurse sticks the needle in you, she's not using a lot of force. But because the tip of the needle is tiny, it can break your skin easily. If she pressed against your arm wi... |
Why won't the Queen step down off her monarchy? | Assuming you are talking about Queen Elizabeth II, the simple answer is that there is no pressure for her to do so and she doesn't want to.This topic requires some speculation because we can't read her mind, but there's lots of possible answers. - Why would she? Is there some specific reason why she should? - Because s... |
The differences between frozen yogurt, frozen custard, ice cream, and gelato | Ice cream is made with cream, milk, sugar, and flavoring , sometimes with other ingredients such as eggs. It is churned while it freezes, which mixes air bubbles into it. Gelato is an Italian style of ice cream, made with more sugar and less cream. It has less air in it than most ice cream. Frozen yogurt is made with y... |
What would actually happen if the Large Hadron Collider exploded? | There's nothing in the LHC to explode. The major electricity-using components are the giant magnets that circle the ring, while being cooled by liquid helium. In the event of a major failure, the magnets melt and the beam inside disperses into the concrete and dirt surrounding the LHC.Probably not much, in the LHC itse... |
What's happening when a TV commercial gets cut off in the middle of it airing? | When a cable company pays a retransmit agreement; they're allowed to insert advertisements over local stuff. These are triggered by IBOC signals; used to be rapid dial-tones you'd hear from time to time back in the 90's before the digital switch over. Occasionally; an advertisement would get queued up that was longer t... |
What is an algorithm and how do they work? | Typically an algorithm is basically a flowchart for equations/operations. If you've ever followed a flowchart then you know how an algorithm works. A terrible but simple example would be * 1: How to never divide by zero f=A/B* 2: Input A, B* 3: Is B = 0?* 4: if yes, B+1, go to line 3* 5: if no, go to line 6* 6: Divide ... |
Why does your mouth "water" when we are about to have yummy food? | Mouth watering helps specially in the digestion of complex carbohydrates splitting them into simple ones. Many yummy foods are principally made of carbohydrates. That's why salad doesn't make you mouth watering,it has no CH, and why a chocolate cake does.Conditioning. We salivate to help digest our food, so if we know ... |
How do electronics keep track of the time when they don't have any power? | In a lot of cases, tiny batteries still give them enough power to keep the time. Some devices also reconnect to the internet after a power failure, and update the time that wayThey have a small battery inside. Also, nowadays phones and computers connect to the internet in order to get the current time and date. |
Why does eating under cooked chicken make us sick, but eating under cooked beef is completely normal | Beef has a higher density than chicken meat, and as such bacteria have a harder time penetrating the outer layers of the beef, compared to chicken meat.This means you just have to take care of the bacteria on the outside of the beef, and you can keep the inside red, if that's what you want.For the exact same reason, ch... |
What is MLM and pyramid schemes? | People hate them because they hate being bugged by ‘employees’ of these organizations. There’s also a trust factor issue. Are these people really looking out for your best interests or just trying to do whatever they can to make a buck? Also the whole game is sign people up under you to sell products. So people who get... |
if it's electoral votes--not popular--that elect the president of the USA, then what would have to happen for a third-party president to win? | The same thing that a major party candidate has to do -- win a majority of the electoral votes. Since the voters in each state choose who the electors are, the third party candidate would have to have a lot of support in almost every state.The clouds would have to part and a great hand would have to descend from the sk... |
How does quantum entanglement not imply information traveling faster than light or how was the EPR paradox solved? | Say that we have two balls, a red one and a blue one. I am on earth, you are next to the sun . Before you left, you took one ball and placed it in a bag. You don't know which one however. I have the other ball, also in a bag. At a given time , we take the balls out of our bags. I see that I have the red ball, you see t... |
Why is glass so fragile? | Well, depending on the thickness and tempering, it can be VERY not fragile. But I'm assuming for this one the typical glass of a well, glass. :) The thinness of the glass is part of it. The structure of the glass is the other. The structure of glass is a lattice of the glass molecules and that lattice is fairly strong.... |
How do save states work? Why are they so small compared to save ram, yet recall so much information? | In game consoles? The amount of RAM in old consoles is absolutely tiny. The NES has 2K of RAM, 2K of video RAM, 256 bytes of OAM and 28 bytes of palette RAM. To save an arbitrary state you'd also need to store things like CPU registers which won't amount to much either. Saved games can be tiny on many games when the am... |
Does the USA really not have a measuring system for alcohol in bars? | Here in Spain we do free pour, you can have as much or little as you like, within reason, but that is true for a lot of Europe, I think in England, you need an extra license for free pour cocktails |
Why do we always "cut" a globe down the Pacific Ocean to make a map instead of the Atlantic Ocean? | The Prime Meridian runs through the UK and is usually right in the center of a world map. To the right are the eastern longitudes, and to the left are the western longitudes. This matches real life because if you face north, east is to the right and west is to the left. It also goes back to when the world was Eurocentr... |
Why is it that girls hand writing is generally neater, small and prettier than boys and writing | There are tons of theories on this, from hormones to culture, to development stages of the female brain outpacing boys. The truth is nobody knows for sure, but it something that is documented and studied: _URL_0_Girls have finer motor skills than boys. This gives them a better handle on using writing instrumentsMiddle ... |
Why does it take a long time for human babies to stand up/crawl but other mammals can stand almost immediately after birth? | The scientific consensus is that humans are birthed early in development as compared to many other mammals as a consequence of our large heads . So a human baby is much less able to care for itself as compared to other mammalian babies.You get ten skill points to put into mobility at birth or intelligence after develop... |
Why do speed limits always ends in either 5 or 0? Why not 2 or a 3? | Not no expert but it's probably because the speedometer shows either 5 or 0. 10, 20,30 mph easier for the driver to figure out rather than looking at each line. This w0uld be different of all cars had digital speedometer. |
Why isn't the earth's spin visible from a plane? | two different questions. you can see the earth spin from a plane. travel eastwards and the sun will rise earlier due to the earth spinning. travel westwards and sunset is delayed because the earth is spinning in the same direction you are going. if you want to convince your roommate the earth is not flat however, a bet... |
Since humans evolved in Africa and have developed an effective thermo-regulation system, why do we still complain about summer's heat and have air conditioner? | Not all of Africa is hit. It's southern most point is a hop away from the Antarctic. There isn't much else to say other then humans have evolved in a wide range of climates as Africa has a wide range of climates. |
Why have animals adapted so that members of certain species die upon procreation? | Plus in the case of animals that swarm around a single female, the swarm as a whole is a closer analogy to a single larger animal than are individual bees. The genetics that matter are those of the swarm as a whole. The males exist to service that single individual. So one male dies? It's done its job. There may even b... |
If a starter motor turned the opposite way (from normal) would an engine start/run in said opposite direction? | Nope. If you look at a [4 stroke engine] , the opening of the valves to let gas in & exhaust gas out is based on the engine turning in a particular direction. If you were going backwards, you'd be drawing air in through the exhaust & trying to blow it back through the intake valves.the engine would turn the other direc... |
Could someone explain to me the difference between socialism and liberalism? | This is a really loaded question because the usage of the terms 'liberal' and 'socialist' in the United States aren't representative of what the terms have meant historically. Further complicating this question is that both socialism and liberal theories have different component parts, i.e. economic liberalism, social ... |
Tax on savings (UK) | You're not taxed on the savings themselves, but any interest you earn on your savings is treated as income. In practice, most savings are now tax-free for many people. You now pay no tax on the first £500 or £1000 of interest per year. For pensions, you pay no tax on money that you pay into a pension, then you do pay t... |
What is actually happening when we are experiencing a headache? | Not sure about headaches, but migraine is caused by spasms in your blood vessels in the brain. Unfortunately I'm a migraine-sufferer myself.Some people have genetic predisposition to certain triggers that stimulate their fight or flight nervous system that causes blood vessels around the head to swell, and this pressur... |
How could the US intervene so quickly in Libya but do nothing in response to the declining situation and recent massacres in Syria? | A lot of it has to do with political alliances. It is a horrible truth, but essentially Syria's geographic location, and leadership's connections to Iraq, Turkey, and most importantly Saudi Arabia meant that the US was very hesitant to get involved. At the time of Ghaddafi's downfall, he had essentially no legitimate a... |
Do clouds muffle the sound of thunder (or other sounds)? | The way sound is muffled when going through some sort of foam material is that the air has to be pushed through the small holes, reducing the speed at which the air moves and turning that energy into heat. Clouds consist of very small droplets of air, kinda like very fine dust - which move with the air rather than rubb... |
Why do we like things we don't have but once we have them they start losing their worth? | Typically, it comes down to your perception of the items value. What can it do for me? You convince yourself that it will benefit you to have it and it will, in some way, make life easier or more enjoyable. Once you have it you realize the item has fewer or less useful functions, it's functions are novel, or it's funct... |
Why does a finger with a bandaid turn white and wrinkly and other parts of your body with clothing don't? | Clothing tends to breathe. Try wearing thick socks and steel toed work boots in a hot environment for 10-12 hours and see how your feet look afterwards.It depends on how moist the skin becomes and whether or not that moisture is allowed to evaporate away. This effect will be much more pronounced, for example, if you wa... |
Why do plants have to get covered up when it gets cold outside? | Same reason you cover up when you go outside. It isn't so much that it keeps them warm, but that it keeps stuff off of them, more like a rain jacket. Some plants don't like snow or frost to be on them, especially fruiting plants. The small layer of covering helps to keep them from being touched directly by things that ... |
Can a planet have two Suns like Tatooine? | Yes. There are plenty of binary star systems in the known universe. However, the planets orbiting them might not be habitable, as temperatures would likely vary greatly due to how the planet orbits the stars. |
If honey doesn't spoil, how can it ferment (to make mead and honeyed wines and such)? | Honey doesnt normally spoil because its dry. It has almost no water in it at all, and if any bacteria attach to it, due to osmosis it sucks the water out of it and kills it off. Its also incredibly acidic which kills off lots of bacteria. If humans add lots of water to it, suddenly the bacteria can feed off of its suga... |
How do you build a website from scratch? | If you want to truly start from scratch, you need to get your hands dirty in a web development framework. You need to program a content management system. Popular frameworks include Python/Django, Ruby on Rails, and .NET. It's going to take a lot of work and knowledge to build a production level content management syst... |
Why don't animals react the same way to bad smells like humans do? | Dogs are particularly attracted to very strong smells because they can use it to hide their own smell. It's a form of camouflage: remember that dogs are predators, and anything that makes it harder for their prey to detect them is an advantage. Humans are repelled by the smell of things like faeces and rotting flesh be... |
How did the British decide what intelligence from breaking Enigma to act on and what to let go? | Well the good news about breaking Enigma is that they now would know everything that German intelligence knew. The Germans communicated with their troops and generals through the Enigma transmissions, therefore, if you had broken Enigma, and the Germans didn't know you had, they would continue using it as if no one was... |
How do genetic traits work if both of them are dominant? | It depends. You could get something like what you described. You could also get something called codominance, where both traits are expressed simultaneously. For example, blood types do this. A type is dominant, and B type is dominant. If you inherit both, your blood type is AB, because your cells express both antigens... |
why does the max volume on my device vary so much based on what it is playing? | It is entirely dependent on the volume level used when mastering the video/song/etc. Some use a standard 'volume'. This is why all songs on iTunes are almost identical volume when they play at the same level on your phone. However, YouTube doesn't require this and as such some videos published retain the low 'master' v... |
why does the sun feel so good on your skin when you have a fever? | Because when you have a fever, your body is internally very hot, which means heat is flowing out of your skin rapidly, so you feel cold. When the sun hits your skin, you stop feeling cold because heat is flowing into your skin as well . |
how can currencies' price drop and rise? And What are they based on? | Currencies rise and fall based on the value of the goods / services for which they can be redeemed in a given country. Thus the value of a currency can be varied by a variety of factors. Exports and the international market play a role in determining value as do stock markets, etc. Governments or other financial bodies... |
How exactly does muscle growth work? | Your muscles are made from bundles of stringy cells that are capable of contracting and relaxing. Exercise and damage to the muscle from overuse will cause your body to adapt and build the muscle up more strongly than it was before . Your body creates those new muscle cells from the material you eat. The exact process ... |
Why does brushing one's teeth completely RUIN orange juice immediately afterward? | Most toothpaste has a chemical in it called SLS, which is what makes the toothpaste foamy. SLS temporarily blocks your tastebuds from being able to taste "sweet" well. It also removes fat. Fat normally blocks you from tasting "bitter." So you taste less "sweet," and more "bitter." Orange juice is a citrus, which is nor... |
are photons (light) impacted by air/wind once the reach earth from the sun? | They are impacted by the air. Once they hit the atmosphere they scatter, which is why we get a blue sky in the middle of the day, while at sunrise and sunset we get a red sky. As the light passes through the air, more and more of the light scatters. Light travels far too fast to be impacted by the windYes, that is why ... |
What is a "resort fee" and who decides their price? | To my understanding, a resort fee is a flat rate charge which covers access to the extra ammenities a hotel may offer. Rather than charging for individual services such as the pool, spa, massage, or whatever else or other extras they can all be had at a flat rate. It seems to be legal only in the USA and Canada and exp... |
Why do strange bugs show up when you leave cardboard/variants put away for a long time? | Cardboard and is mostly processed wood, an organic material. Which means it's food for some organisms. If you add a humid environment, like that associated with warm weather, and lack of light, bacteria and mold can now grow on your cardboard. Which means that there is now food for slightly larger organisms - > bugs - ... |
Why can't you use electronic devices on planes right after takeoff? | Takeoff and landing are when most *survivable* air-flight incidents happen. In order to maximize survivability in the event that anything goes wrong, certain rules are made about what you can and can't do during takeoff and landing. For instance, you can't have a tray-table out during takeoff or landing. Why? Because i... |
Why are panda bears becoming extinct? | Unfortunately pandas have very long reproductive cycles . This means that their populations are particularly sensitive to disruptions, such as deforestation for palm oil plantations. To give you an idea; the few western zoos lucky enough to have pandas have been trying to breed them in captivity for years with little s... |
How does salt and/or sand “melt” snow? | Normal rain water freezes at 0°c. Salty water freezes at a lower temperature. As long as it's not cold enough to freeze salty water the ice melts. It's often laid as grit and or sand because salt is soluble, it melts the ice but then it dissolves and runs down the drains with the water. Grit and sand helps hold the sal... |
What would the world be like if all of our collective debt was wiped out (in a deleted sense, not paid off)? | Well there probably wouldn't be any world left considering how extreme an event it would be to wipe out *every banking record*. But let's play the game. It would be REALLY REALLY BAD for a while. Debt makes the world go round and suddenly A LOT of people are out A LOT of money since there is no proof they lent money to... |
How do drug makers come up with the names for their drugs? (e.g. how did "Fluoxetine" become "Prozac"?) | [This _URL_1_ entry] talks about how certain drugs are named: * Drugs marketed to women have softer letters * Drugs with X/Z sound more futuristic and make people think they're cutting edge* Some Latin roots are used and *max* - and Fosamax is used for osteoporosis) |
How do clouds stay up? | That weight is spread across a huge volume! Clouds are really massive and you can think of them like fog or mist. The very tiny water droplets that make up a cloud are so small they get carried up into the sky by rising warm air currents. Once up there the tiny droplets combine getting bigger and bigger, until eventual... |
Why do we have to pay to see our credit scores? | Because it's not "your" credit score. It's a company's credit score that they created *about* you. In other words, it's their proprietary data that happens to reference you, and not something that belongs to you. And from a practical standpoint, it prevents you from repeatedly checking your score after every single tra... |
Really, what are the implications of the existence of ring-shaped black holes? | Science doesn't find the truth as much as it gets slowly closer and closer to describing it. We have models that describe features of the universe and those models are tested on how well they can predict new things. For example, the Big Bang Theory predicted there would be a curtain of low-level microwave radiation vis... |
What is exactly going on in my ear before and after it 'pops'? | There are tubes in your ear which are moistened by mucus ; they can trap air bubbles or even water when you are swimming. When you experience a change in pressure or if you move your muscles in certain ways , the mucus seals which are trapping that air can be pushed open causing a small popping sensation. |
Why is it bad to sleep with contacts on? | They restrict the amount of oxygen your eyes get. Things like sore/red eyes are pretty usual, sometimes it can get so bad that you can't even put them in until they get better. My sister and I seem to be prone to getting conjunctivitis if we keep them in too long, too. |
why When a Tv is on and the screen is black why does the TV still emit light in a dark room? Even though the screen is black. | Televisions use back lights to send light through colored pixels to make images. When the TV is on the back light is on, even when no picture is being displayed. |
25 ohms vs. 200 ohms | First, if you haven't heard beyerdynamic headphones before and know which of them your ears like, you should get neither of them. No specification online can tell you how something sounds: try them out in store. Second, which of those you should get if you love both depends on what you're using to listen to music with ... |
Why did drive-in restaurants die out in America? | Drive-ins were replaced predominately by drive throughs. The Restaurant can sell the same volume of food with a fraction of the staff and people get in and out fasterThe other guy's answer is dead on but also, culture around burgers and other fast food started to change the fast food got faster and less exciting. If yo... |
Why do we need a paper copy of a car registration? | I got a ticket for not having my paper copy. The cop said he knew it was registered since I gave him my ID number and then proceeded to write me up for not being able to prove I was registeredThe average computer in a police car is really slow. |
How come when I sing while listening to music it sounds perfect to me. But when the music is off I sound horrible? | You have the vocals supporting your voice and "filling in the holes."The vocals and instruments make your voice sound better. If you sang to a karaoke video, your voice would sound better than it would with no music. For example, most rock singers sound way different without the instrumentsI think the music helps to ke... |
Why does microwaving a "dry" bread/muffin makes its texture like almost fresh? | Microwave excites the hydrogen atoms in water and sugar, making them hotter. If the water in it gets hotter, it expands, or even turns into steam, making bread sort of fresh tasting. |
how do we absorb things at all from vegetables if we can't break the cellulose wall? | We can break the wall by chewing or cooking as mentioned before, but also bacteria in our gut will break down the cellulose. It's a mutually beneficial relationship. The bacteria get tasty cellulose, and we get the nutrients from the plant matter.You manually break the walls by chewing or cooking. |
Why is plastic always still wet after going through the dishwasher? | Glass and ceramic hold the heat so moisture will evaporate off. Plastic cools quite quickly so moisture will not have the opportunity to evaporate. |
the rips in ripped jeans | Originally jeans would rip, usually\u200b in the knees, if you wore them long enough. Some people kept wearing them and eventually it became fashionable to wear them that way. Later, companies started making jeans with the rips in them, to mimic old, worn out jeans, much like you can buy t-shirts now where the design l... |
When people say the fridge is their best friend, isn't it many times not the case, since most of the food they eat are in cupboards? | It's a figure of speech called *metonymy*. Metonymy is when you use a simpler object or name to stand in for something complex. For example, when people talk about "Wall Street", they mean all corporate bankers and investment firms, not just the ones that literally have offices on Wall Street in New York City. When som... |
Why is water not compressible? | When you are doing things in science and engineering, often calculations can be easier when you make simplifying assumptions. For water, if you increase the pressure to 100 times "normal" pressure its size will only change a small amount . That means if you ever have to do calculations with water operating under pressu... |
what are mortgage backed securities..??...and what role did it played in US 2008 market crash... | Let me show you [the best youtube video you'll see all week]. I've watched it like 15 times. Not because I still don't get it , but because it's so nice. When you get to the CDO's well, those are mortgage backed securities. |
Why 60fps videos and movies are still not a thing? | Movies would normally be 48fps . Peter Jackson shot some of the Hobbit stuff at HFR, and there were compalints that "it didn't look like film" Video can be shot at 60 fps but requires twice the storage and twice the bandwidth to deliver, so is less profitable for makers. |
How is it that radiation, which causes cancer, can also help to treat cancer? | Radiation causes damage to the mechanisms of the cell. If you're really unlucky, it causes damage to the mechanisms that regulate the cell growth, and a cell or group of cells begin to replicate out of control. But radiation still causes damage. So you use a technique where you fire bursts of radiation from different a... |
Why is it ok to draw Muhammad because of a few radicals. But, it's not ok to put a cross upside down, burn the US flag, and so on? | It isn't illegal to burn a US flag. Not aware of any laws against drawing crosses upside down. |
The United States Constitutional Convention | It was the convention held in the United States which lead to the drafting of the Constitution. Do you have a more specific question? |
Why I see cars with Hawaii license plates driving in the continental US? | They can be shipped on ferrys and things yes', "It's cheaper to ship a car then sell an otherwise good car and repurchase another similar one if you're moving to the mainland. |
If CRISPR changes the DNA of a cell, how does it change the DNA of an entire body? | There's a few ways, but it's all about how you deliver the gRNA and the Cas9 protein and your repair DNA . If you modify germ cells , then any progeny from these cells will have the modification in all cells because these divide into all the cells of an organism. You could also use a virus to modify certain cells in an... |
How does Rita's water ice (or Italian ice for you non philly people) afford to give away free water ice every first day of spring? | Because frozen water is hilariously inexpensive compared to what people will pay for it. Side Note: Water ice .They do this as a marketing tactic. Frozen desserts are mostly consumed during the spring and summer . By offering free product on the first day of spring, they are getting people back into the 'habit' of goin... |
Why does the loss of blood result in the 'pins and needles' sensation? | It doesn't. A limb falling asleep isn't caused by a loss of blood flow. It's caused by pressure being applied to a nerve, causing it to stop working. So signals don't make it from that limb to your brain. When the pressure is relieved, the nerve can start sending random signals as it gets back into equilibrium, which y... |
How factorials of non-whole numbers work | It doesn't. There's no such thing as a factorial not defined on integers. There is something called the Gamma function, which has the property that Γ=! whenever x is a positive integer, and it's nicely behaved, so it seems like a natural way to generalize the factorial function to real numbers. **edit** I said Γ=! and ... |
Why does a sunburn not hurt for several hours after actually being in the sun too long? | As your body's response, capillaries open up, allowing more blood to the affected area. This aids in the healing process but also makes the area feel warmer and more tender. However, the response isn't immediate, taking the noticeable few hours before the inflammation sets in. |
What would happen if you placed a spherical magnet on a flat magnetized plane? | I don't think there is enough information here. A flat magnetized plane isn't really a thing. Do you mean that the whole magnet is the flat top of the N side of a large magnet that extends below it? In that case the sphere would orient itself so that the south side of the sphere were pointed at the N plane. If you mean... |
why do old people talk so slowly? | I can't speak specifically about old people speech patterns as there are many physical reasons they may speak slower, but I know this about myself: I actively TRY to speak slower and more deliberately as I age. It allows me to think about what I am meaning to say, and breath naturally while speaking. Rapid communicatio... |
The half-life of a drug | Drugs affect the human body by binding to *protein receptors* . And one drug molecule binds to one drug receptor. The more drug molecules you have in your body, the more protein receptors are bound, and the stronger the drug effect. However, for some protein, you need to cover a minimum number of receptors to feel the ... |
Why do gay guys sometimes have higher pitched voices? | Normal Distributions. As a population, men have a spectrum of voice pitch. As a population, straight men have a spectrum of voice pitch. As a population, gay men have a spectrum of voice pitch. You've got observation bias.For the same reason that straight guys sometimes doOne thing that is constantly argued about when ... |
Even with enough sleep, why am I still tired if I stay up late or wake up early? | Sleep cycles can play a factor but if youre getting enough sleep , you should be hitting about two sleep cycles. I think the reason you're still tired if you wake up early is because its still dark outside. This might seem counterintuitive but it makes sense when you consider your pineal gland. The pineal gland is a sm... |
Why is America so polarized today? And how can it be fixed? | Basically, society changed in the 1960s as institutions that previously brought people together from varied backgrounds to interact fractured and people sorted into groups of mostly very similar people . How many of your friends have different core beliefs than you?', "I honestly don't feel that Americans themselves ar... |
Why people expect an adult to be able to do something that a child did, only because a child was able to do it? | It's a stereotype because typically your average adult has a wider range of skills than your average child and the 'level' that most children can achieve at a task at a young age is often lower than a 'basic' level for an adult. E.g. the strongest 8 year old in the world is probably weaker than 90%+ of able bodied adul... |
Why does slice cheese get mold faster than shredded cheese? | Mold requires a few things to grow. The first is a tiny wee little itty-bitty mold spore, and the second is a nutritious perfectly-moist surface, like a hunk of cheese. The more surface area on a piece of cheese and the more air it gets exposed to or contact it has with slicing blades and stuff, the greater the chances... |
Where do the bubbles in caffeinated drinks start off? How do they just appear? | We call them "carbonated beverages" because they have carbon dioxide dissolved in them. More CO2 can dissolve at higher pressures, which is why it stays in solution while the bottle/can is unopened and therefore pressurized. Once the container is opened, the CO2 begins coming out of solution. As to the bubbles themselv... |
Why do certain word/ name pairings sound "better" one way than the other? Example: peanut butter and jelly sounds better than jelly and peanut butter. | only because you're been exposed to pbj more than jpb. maybe pbj is easier to say than jpb? let me ask you, which sounds better? computer tv and telephone. or telelphone computer and tv ?", 'A combination of things, some of it is familiarity. Some of it is that certain syllables just flow better in certain orders in en... |
Why are "Moscow Mules" always served in a copper mug - what is special about the mug? | The reasoning that the mug gets cold is obviously a good thing, but that implies that copper has a very high exchange rate of temperature. It does, that's why they use copper for computer heatsinks. Very good at heat transfer. Which is bad. Your drink will get warmer faster and your body heat will transfer to the drink... |
Why does orange juice with pulp have the same fiber content as pulp-free? | Fiber is soluble in water and the actual pulp adds an insignificant amount of fiber to that already in the OJ. |
What is the difference between PDF/A, PDF/X and PDF/E? | The different versions were optimized for different purposes. Basically, they have different requirements for the information contained within them so that they can be used properly PDF/A was developed for electronic document storage. PDF/X was for graphics and printing. PDF/E was for documents used in engineering work... |
Why do dogs enjoy Tug o' War? | same reason many hunting dogs love squeaky toys and will shake them mercilessly and pull all the stuffing out. Instincts. They're trying to brutally kill the fucker. |
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