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What is the cause for nostalgia and why do we feel it? | Not an explanation of the cause, but in psychology classes I've took we talked about how it is natural for humans to see the past as better than it was. You look back as all the happy moments and don't think too much about the bad moments |
Why do most songs nowadays require a capo to play on guitar, but when you look at most songs from the 60s to 90s, they were rarely used? | Capos aren't *always* required depending on if you can tune your strings high enough without busting them, but that's the general use of a capo; to play higher pitches without retuning. If more songs use capos nowadays, it's simply because they're using a higher key than standard but use the capo to avoid having to ret... |
why do men's dress shirts come folded, filled with cardboard and tissue paper, and fastened by so many pins? | In a word, Marketing. Men like quick and easy. That form of packaging shows off what It might look like wearing one. Hold one up in front of the mirror, and bingo bango you just chose your shirt!', "There are very important selling points on a man's dress shirt. Specifically the cuffs and collar style. Those parts are ... |
How can Germany abolish tuition fee for university students while we are paying thousands of dollars or more each year? | The German political culture is not opposed to socialist policies like the nationalization of a university system. Another huge factor is that German education is much more rigid than in America and the standards for being in a path towards University are very high. This means that a large volume of Germans that are no... |
What would I need to legally start my own country? | You really only need one thing: The ability to defend that piece of land. Go ahead and claim a piece of land anywhere you like. Even if someone disagrees with you, as long as you can militarily defend your land then it doesn't really matter if they disagree. You can do what you like with that land. No one can stop you.... |
What is "alcoholism" and how does it differ, if at all, from habitual heavy drinking? | Alcoholism is an alcohol addiction. Addiction is when you continue to do something despite repeated negative consequences. If someone is able to drink often but drink responsibly and avoid negative consequences then they may be a heavy drinker, but it wouldn't make sense to call them an alcoholic. If someone is getting... |
why does beating the remote control make it work when the batteries are running low? | Often the batteries don't "die", the contacts simply corrode a bit. By jostling the batteries you a) rub off the corrosion and/or b) find a new contact point. Twisting the batteries also works, you don't need to attack your electronics', "Two sticks can be rubbed together to create fire. Batteries work due to chemicals... |
Wtf does the Vice President do? | The vice president's Constitutionally mandated roles are: - Serving as a president of the senate, casting a vote only when there is a tie. - Taking over the responsibilities of the office of the President of the United States if the president is dead or incapacitated. Other than that, the role of VP depends entirely on... |
What is the benefit to not allowing officers to be recorded? | Some people feel that it would prevent the police from being able to do their job if they are going to be scrutinized by the public and risk losing their job over every little incidentThis article isn't saying you can't record exactly. It's saying you can't record within 25 feet. The argument seems to be interfering wi... |
Why are the Yen and Euro considered safe havens? | Say you are an Indian business man, you probably keep some money in Indian Rupees since you still do need to pay your workers and buy stuff like food, but the Indian Rupee is not a particularly stable currency so you would be smart to put your excess money into a more stable currency. The US dollar is the most popular ... |
Why does bottled coke taste different from canned coke? | And if you happen to be drinking Mexican Coke, which comes in glass bottles, it tastes better because it's made with sugar instead of corn syrup.The bottles are clear, which allows light to interact with and change the flavor of the bottled coke. |
Why is it that we have no sense of smell in dreams? | As opposed to sight and sound, smell is not stored in the brain in the same way. Close your eyes and you can imagine what your mom looks like. Start thinking about your favorite song and you can hear that artist's voice. The same does not hold true for smells. Think of pizza. You know it smells good. You can tell when ... |
Why does transferring files create this pattern? | A common reason for speed to vary is the size of files currently being copied. Small files are slow especially on a traditional hard disk drive. Each file has its own location on the drive, requiring the head to move and wait for the data to appear under it. The grinding sound you may recognize is the head moving back ... |
How/why do we simultaneously have eye contact with another individual although we were not thinking about it. | random chance and recognizing false patters. How many faces do your eyes shift to in a full room? 10? 20? A hundred? How often do you catch people's eyes just at the right time? Maybe once? It's not that it happens that often, its that when it does happen, its memorable. |
How do doctors and nurses handle menstruating patients? | As a ICU RN, I have had female patients in various of consciousness, who are having their menses. Just as we would bathe and clean any patient, we would clean her up and place a pad on her. Naturally, when possible, which is almost 100% of the time, a female RN will clean up the genital area of these ladies to avoid em... |
Why are bodily expressions like urine, feces and semen all relatively controllable, but periods just come a flowin' whenever they feel like it, without any say in the matter? | There's no sphincter there. There's vaginal muscles but if you tell girls on their periods to flex them you'll get stabbed in the face.Semen is not really controllable. Spend enough time without expressing it "naturally" and you will have nocturnal emissions, "wet dreams" with orgasm and ejaculation, entirely outside y... |
What is the difference in thread counts in sheets? | it's all about texture. the reason why things are rough or soft is because of granularity. concrete is rough because there are a lot of visible bumps on the surface. glass, on the other hand, doesn't. at least not on a visible scale. if you zoom in enough, you can see that glass also has bumps, but they are incredibly ... |
Why can diseases be past down from mother to child but not immunizations? | Diseases that are passed down from mother to child are hereditary, and are inherited because they are part of a mutation in genetic code. Immunizations, however, are not part of your genetic code, so they can not be passed down. Another example is if you dye your hair, that cannot be passed down to your offspring becau... |
Why do girls have better hand writing than boys? | I have a degree in psychology. It's because girls develop their fine motor skills at an earlier age than boys do. In a way, they get a head start during the years where they are learning to write, draw, color, etc. Boys eventually catch up though. But this is why girls tend to have nicer hand writings. |
Why do I get light-headed when I stretch? | When you stretch you are tightening your muscles in your limbs, because of this extra space your heart pumps blood into these areas causing a loss of blood flow to your brain which causes you to be light-headed. Also, I remember reading an /r/askscience post regarding why it feels good to stretch my legs, the answer wa... |
how come we're perfectly fine with impossibilities in dreams? | Via [Wikipedia]: > Certain physiology studies suggest that "seeing is believing" to the brain during any mental state. If the brain perceives something with great clarity or intensity, it will believe that it is real, even when asleep. Dream consciousness is similar to that of a hallucinating awake subject. Dreams or h... |
There was an episode where the Mythbusters dipped their hand into molten lead, isn't lead toxic just to be around? | It isn't radioactive, being near it is going to do nothing to you. Which is why it's safe to keep a gun loaded with bullets holstered near your nether regions. Getting lead in your blood stream however, is not good. It can eventually cause cancer and other nasty side effects. What the Mythbusters were doing was demonst... |
why are people in the tornado alley building wood houses and not "normal" (European stone) houses? I imagine that they wouldn't be damaged as much or not fly away. | In America, wood is normal. But wood construction is generally cheaper to set up and rebuild than stone, especially where wood is readily available. |
Why are Britain and Sweden willing to make an international incident out of prosecuting Julian Assange? In other words, why is all of this worth it to them? | Because he's under suspicion of having committed sexual assault on two women. While the fact he is famous means he may be a scapegoat in all this, the fact any person is famous should never deter a government from following through with criminal proceedings. It is a little fishy whosever side you're on, but the whole o... |
How do knots in your back form? and how does digging into them with someone's elbow get rid of them? | Your muscles - especially fast-twitch muscles - get overexerted. They lose the ability to "turn off" and spasm. Additionally, lactic acid and proteins build up in the muscle fibers. A good deep tissue massage or proper stretching or physical therapy will stretch the tense muscle, helping it to turn off, while also incr... |
How does the prosecution seek the death penalty in California when we don't have the death penalty | Proposition 62 was rejected. California still has the death penalty. The higher courts ensure it can't actually be carried out, but the people and the prosecutors still support it. |
Big public companies like JPMorgan, GM, GE, BoA and Apple have millions of different shareholders, both private and institutional, what is the process to fire and appoint the CEO? | The Board of Directors hires and fires all Executive Officers. The Board of Directors is elected by the Shareholders.The board of directors are tasked with hiring/firing the CEO. Institutional investors may have a representative on a board , or an activist investor might have some influence/leverage due shares controll... |
Why cant we get rid of lobbyists and make it more fair based on actual information and not money?? | Primarily because the the constitution says congress can't make laws against "the right of the people to petition the Government for a redress of grievances". Basically, you have the right to ask the government to do things. Preventing lobbying means you're preventing people from asking the government to do things.Wher... |
Why can some foods not be refrozen after they’ve been thawed? | Sometimes it's due to health and safety - if bacteria start growing and you refreeze it, when it thaws the bacteria already there will start multiplying again. Freezing food doesn't kill bacteria, just slows them down so they can't reproduce. Sometimes it's due to integrity of the food. Ice crystals form in it when fro... |
How does a petrol pump know when to stop filling? | There is a smaller tube inside the pipe that goes in your tank. This is the "sensing pipe". The small tube connects to a valve that shuts off the flow. When the tank is full, fuel reaches the end of the nozzle, this pressurizes the small tube which activates a valve which shuts off the flow of fuel. _URL_0_At the tip o... |
How does canned food "keep" so well for so long? | The canning process kills all the organisms in the can; it's sterile and sealed so there is nothing alive in there that could spoil the food and nothing can get in. |
Please explain to me Preference Utilitarianism as a belief system/religion? | Utilitarianism is a system of belief based on making and doing things that have use. Utilitarianistic design has less flair and more practicality. By extension, Preference Utilitarianism is a system where morals are defined based on how things make people feel. If I kill you because youre a murderer, morally I'd be fuf... |
if NASA tests their new rocket with 3.5 million pounds of force, how do they stop the rocket from crumpling, or shooting off? | See the giant piece of concrete in front of the rocket? That's sunk in the ground, and while it doesn't weigh 3.5 million pounds, the reactionary force resisting the rocket's push is equal to 3.5 million pounds. As for why the rocket doesn't crumple, the rocket is basically packed solid with fuel, and designed to resis... |
Why should we worry about a virus such as MERS? | My best guess is that us worrying is what makes virus threats almost harmless. When H1N1 came out everyone got vaccinated immediately and the deaths from it were extremely low, only a fraction of the deaths from common influenza. If we don't panic, then the virus might grow to be a threat. |
Why is suit and tie still a thing when clothing fashion in general change so often? | The suit has also changed, namely in how the sleeves are trimmed, the lapel size and the width of the tie, as well as the pockets and number of buttons and vents. Formal wear is generally changed less often because formal wear is supposed to provide an air of grace and enduring rather than normal fashion, which is alwa... |
How are there downvotes on Subreddits which have disabled the downvote button? | You can't disable the downvote button. You can hide it, but anyone who doesn't use your subreddit's custom style can still downvote. |
The argument against and for, the use of drones in the US. | Pros: It's cool to be able to take out bad guys without risking the lives of soldiers. Cons: We keep blowing up schools in Pakistan. |
How do you tell the difference between being depressed, unmotivated, and lazy? | You don't. You go to a professional and explain the situation, follow their instructions, and with a bit of luck they'll be able to determine which it is. |
In American football, what are the rules regarding when the clock stops or keeps running? I just cannot figure this out. | In the NFL, the clock will always stop following an incomplete pass. Additionally, during the last 2 minutes of the first half, and the last 5 minutes of the second half, the clock will stop if a player in possession of the ball steps out of bounds. When a player goes out of bounds at any other time of the game, the cl... |
Why does it smell different outside when it's cold? | Are you talking about day to day cold or seasonal. Diffenrt plants die when its cold and different plants have pollen released at different times in the season, its possible that day to day temperature difference can stimulate seasonal changes. additionally humidity might change the smellSmells travel in the air as tin... |
How do submarines adjust buoyancy? | No. It is in fact exactly what they do - pump air into the ballast tanks. They aren't, however, using air from the inside of the sub. Even if they did, they would still change the buoyancy, though: You have 1 submerged submarine, one half of it are water-filled balance-tanks, the other half if the pressurized core. Use... |
What renders a cancerous tumor inoperable/not removable vs.Being able to remove it via surgery? | Generally, if it is too close to, wrapped around, or entering a vital organ that cannot have pieces removed, or if it is in a location that will cause death if an attempt to remove the tumor is madeTypically it is the margins or location of the tumor. So if it’s invaded too deep or close or into vital structures then i... |
When I'm several stories up and I look at the ground why do I feel like is want to jump knowing it would kill me? | There is a theory that L’appel du vide is a result of our base brain still recalling a time when we lived in trees and, like monkeys, would jump out into open space without hesitation to get to another tree or escape an obnoxious proto-human who was hassling us. That may actually be partially the reason for fear of hei... |
Why do magnets with two poles become smaller magnets with two poles each when split up? | Think of atoms in a magnet like a giant stack of lego bricks. Magnetism causes all of the atoms to line up the same direction so this stack represents a typical magnet. If you break that magnet in half, the orientation of the upper convex bumpy side and the lower concave side stay the same. It sticks back together if y... |
why does my bladder fill up so fast when I'm drinking | Alcohol is a diuretic. It accelerates the production of urine regardless of fluid intake. Because of this, dehydration is a leading cause of hangovers. Protip: after a night of drinking, have a bottle of sports drink and a vitamin before going to bed. You may feel a bit less like garbage in the morning. |
How does kinetic energy play a role in chemical reactions? | When molecules collide with each other they may react with each other. So if you increase the kinetic energy of the molecules, you increase the number of collisions that occur in a given time interval. So you are increasing the rate of the overall reactionActivation energy is the threshold energy that reactants need to... |
What are the positives/negatives for the Iran nuke deal | Let me try to provide a very, very simplistic breakdown, but please note that this is a very complex issue. Supporters of the deal highlight a number of potential benefits. First, international inspectors will now be visiting Iran regularly to ensure it does not develop nuclear weapons. Second, Iran will now be limited... |
Why do playing cards develop a bad smell when left alone for a long period of time? | You are not far off. Playing cards are laminated with plastic to make it water resistant and longer lasting. Just like laminated magazine paper or temporary ID cards. When kept in that mason jar for a long time, presumably in an attic or a storage closet. the heat is trapped in the mason jar. Kinda like a car in the su... |
How do different eyesight problems differ to each other? i.e. long sighted, short sighted, astigmatism | To see, light has to hit our eye, and then reflect back onto the retina. This image is then sent to our brain and then comprehended. If you are short-sighted, the eyeball is either curved wrong, or too long, and instead of hitting the retina directly, the light goes in front of the retina, causing you to not be able to... |
How do Jelly Fish avoid getting tangled with each other? | "_Jellyfish don’t get tangled up because the tentacles are slippery.\xa0 Their stinging cells don’t fire when they come in contact with their own tentacles or other jellies from their own species._" [Source] Now imagine if they somehow applied this to earphonesBest way to think about this is Spaghetti. The tentacles ar... |
Is it possible to create artificial gravity? | It depends what you count as "artificial gravity". You could theoretically create such a dense layer of matter that it would create a noticeable amount of gravity, but that's not really artificial, and it's impractical to use in spaceships. A common design for space stations or large spacecraft would be to have it rota... |
Explain To Me Like I'm Five: Female Circumscision | There's several different kinds. The least severe involves making a small ceremonial cut in the clitoris or clitoral hood. The most severe - known as *infibulation* - involves digging out the entire clitoris, cutting off both sets of labia, and sewing what's left up, leaving only a pea-sized hole for urine / menstrual ... |
Why are so many YouTube accounts names like DuHJ5swkN5zrO6b9DFx7? | Is that the name displayed in the URL bar? If that is what you are talking about - since youtube transitioned to a system where you can change your youtube name and multiple people can have the same one, they've started assigning random strings of numbers to the actual URL where previously a name would have been. |
If I cycle for 6 hours in a day will I really burn 3,000+ calories? | That's correct. Hardcore athletes have to eat an amazing amount just to maintain their stable weight. _URL_0_ |
Why is it that a rocking motion or a car ride puts my baby to sleep but when I'm in a similar situation it doesn't make me sleepy? | It's not just the rocking motion, it is the constriction of the car seat that doesn't allow him to move coupled with the sound of the car. A car's tires on the road would be a familiar sound to what a baby hears for the entire gestation period. For instance, cup your hands over your ears and you hear the blood rushing ... |
How can a company like Vivendi take over a company without consent? | A hostile takeover is when one company buys up the company's stock to gain control without their management agreeing to a merger. For example, Ubisoft is a public company with a total market cap of $3.82 Billion. So if Vivendi wants to take over badly enough, they can just start buying up the Ubisoft stock once they ha... |
If the pressure at the depths of the ocean can get up to 1,000kg, how can creautres survive without being crushed? (Or am I thinking about "pressure" incorrectly?) | The pressure inside the animals is the same pressure as outside. They are breathing water that is at the same pressure, inside and outside are in equilibrium. Things get crushed when the pressure inside is less than the pressure outsideThe deepest point in the oceans, the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench has a pre... |
How is the Netherlands the world's second biggest exporter of food despite being so small and densely populated? | > More than half of the Netherlands' total land surface of 4.15 million hectares is used as farmland. 56 percent if used for arable and horticultural crops, 42 percent is permanent grassland and 2 percent is used for permanent crops. Did not know this. Kinda blows my mind.Because of their usage if high tech greenhouses... |
Is it possible to block a specific frequency of sound | You can cancel out any wave by sending an inverse wave to it so that all the peaks and troughs match up against each other. That's how noise cancellation headphones work. Now, if you don't want to have to spend any energy, you would need a substance with a resonant frequency that matches the one you want to cancel out,... |
Why are weeds not considered regular plants? | A weed is just a wild plant we don't want. "wild plant" is just one that a person hasn't planted. So they are considered plants, they're just unwanted and wild, so we use "weed" to refer to them. |
If an ATM machine breaks and gives you too much money or no money at all, what happens next? | I 've had an atm short me before. Transaction was processing and then the atm just kinda froze up and shut down. My account showed the money being withdrawn and the bank did an "audit" of the machine, which they of course said came back right on point. After a lot of headache and threats to sue I finally had my cash pu... |
Why are there so many required virus software updates? Are there really that many different ones and variations? | Yes, there are really that many. Turns out, a lot of people are making malware . And once anti-virus software updates to catch them, the writers tweak the code so it avoids detection againMost of those updates are virus definition updates. \rA virus definition contains a database of threats which your software refers t... |
How can Apple products be smoother and faster than others with less hardware capability. | On paper, Apple's laptops, desktops, but most importantly phones, appear to be weaker. Less cores, lower clockspeeds, and less RAM. But Apple controls everything about their phone's hardware and software. Software is designed in tandem with hardware teams, so optimization is the highest. This is why Apple's A7 equipped... |
Why do mirrors' reflections turn green when they're faced against one another? | The glass itself must be slightly green. A single reflection through one layer of the glass won't have a noticeable color change, but bounce the image through more and more layers and it will. |
How we find oil and then get it? | Modern scientist use sensitive gravity meters to measure tiny changes in the Earth's gravitational field that could indicate flowing oil, as well as sensitive magnetometers to measure tiny changes in the Earth's magnetic field caused by flowing oil. They can detect the smell of hydrocarbons using sensitive electronic n... |
Why melting ice DOESN'T overflow a cup? | When ice is floating, it displaces its weight in water - so dropping some ice onto a glass of water causes the water level to raise proportional to the weight of the ice. When that ice melts, it turns into water, which technically still only displaces its weight in water, so the water level won't change. Sea level will... |
Why can humans initially recall the details of a dream upon waking up, only to forget even the most basic details of that dream shortly after? | Here's some links to posts where other people have asked this question. I'm only posting a few, but you can find more instances of this question being answered if you search the sub-reddit for "remember dream". _URL_4_ _URL_1_ _URL_3_ _URL_2_ _URL_0_ |
why does our vision have green blobs after looking at the sun or bright light for extended periods of time? | Promise me you will never look at the sun without eye protection! Basically what happens is that our eyes focus the image on the back of the eyeball where there are millions of sensors called cones and rods . Each of them has pigment in them. When you look at a bright light, it goes through the eyeball and hits a cone ... |
what causes the sound that we hear when a car passes by? And why does driving past stationary cars also make the same "whoosh" sound? | The sound that gets higher as the car approaches and then gets lower as it drives away is caused by something called the Doppler effect. As the car is driving it always products some sounds, as it goes towards an observer the sound waves it produces get scrunched together slightly, causes the pitch to go up. As the car... |
Why don't they fill my drinks up all the way at drive-throughs? | Speed. It takes minute sometimes for the suds to subside in your Coke. A minute that people sit and fuss about and corporate takes notice', "At the fast food place I work, there is a limit to high how we are supposed to fill. It is marked as a little horizontal line near the top. A reason why some places may not fill u... |
Why a group of people sounds loud even if every single person is speaking at a normal volume? | Because it is louder. At least some of the sounds create "constructive interference" resulting in the actual sound wave to your ear being louder than each individual voiceSound waves can join forces with each other to get louder, so if you have a bunch of sound wave sources in one area it will sound louder than any of ... |
Why is Barack Obama going to vote against any Palestinian move towards statehood? | America has an influential Jewish/Israel lobby that can hurt any politician, including a President, who goes against Israel. More recently the pro-Israel base has expanded to include Christians who support Israel . Added to this is 9/11 and the war on terror, which has made anti-arab sentiment easy to produce and capit... |
Why are babies seemingly unfazed by vomiting as compared to someone older? | Babys do not yet possess the mental capacity to "save all data". They forget things that aren't to bad pretty fast. The same with little children. They stumble, fall, cry and 20 seconds later have forgotten they fell in the first place. For a baby its *puke, wonder what was that, forget what happened, drool*to a baby, ... |
What makes rejection cause the brain to desire a person more? In what ways can you combat this responsive behavior? | It may help to be conscious of the fact that the brain is not a passive recipient of emotion. In fact, the brain doesn’t react to stimuli based on emotion at all, it is in a mode of constant prediction and then compares its prediction to the stimuli and adjusts or filters from there. It’s powerful to know that the brai... |
Why is seeing others having sex arousing? Is there some sort of evolutionary basis behind it? (NSFW) | Yes. Group sex does different things for each gender. Group sex for males means they have a chance to pass their genes along when they otherwise wouldn't. For females it means their off-spring won't get killed. If an offspring isn't a males, then that male is likely to kill the offspring allowing more time for a female... |
Why do we like to bother our siblings much more than other human beings around us ? | * familiarity - you know your sibling, what to expect from them in a way you don't with others* family bond - you are stuck with your siblings for the most part friends might drift away, but you almost always will maintain a connection to close family* trust - you can "fight" with your siblings, knowing there isn't ill... |
Why did Lance Armstrong confess? | From what I gather doing so may enable him to return to competition in other events that he cannot do with the ban. He's become a triathlon athlete and to go pro in it he needs the ban lifted.Perhaps I am being cynical, but I would not be surprised to see a book come out in the not to distant future and this is an exce... |
How does the government of Eritrea work, and the current situation there? | Eritrea is a one party state. Nominally their constitution allows for other political parties and elections, but since gaining their independence from Ethiopia in 1993, they 've never had an election. The government claims that because of their ongoing border disputes with Ethiopia, that there are extraordinary circums... |
what really happens in court cases where the evidence is illegally obtained? | Just because something was obtained illegally, doesn't mean it is automatically thrown out of court. Judges can consider factors like, "would it have been found anyways?" and "what where the conditions of the search?" when deciding to allow evidence.If it's obtained illegally, then the jury will never see that evidence... |
When you get hit hard, why does the pain take a few seconds to be felt? | Think about it like this, our body is full of nerve ends that transmit signals from where they are being touched, like if we are holding something hot, they transmit the feeling to our brain which receives the signal, processes it and then sends the information it processed back to its respective area. So when you get ... |
How is it that sites that offer paying with Bitcoin (like The Silkroad) can operate if the worth of Bitcoin can drop or jump tens of dollars in a matter of hours | They don't. People who do business in Bitcoin almost always set the price according to the current conversion rate, and convert the money to dollars quickly. |
How were wheel alignments performed on automobiles before the modern wheel alignment computer machines came out? | You measure the space between the fronts of both tires and you measure the space between the backs and you adjust things until the two measurements line up', "When I was in the Army I did alignments on humvees with a measuring tape. Folks that run weekend car racing teams frequently have relatively cheap tools that hel... |
How do 24/7 music livestreams work? | They just create a list with all the musics they want to play and the program just reads them 1 by 1. Also, when they need or feel like to, they can add new songs to "Play Next". They don't need a dedicated PC for doing that. They can program a server to play music and stream it . |
Why aren't the crazy cult pastors, who claim they've talked to god or are some sort of messias, placed in mental hospitals? | because they are not considered, or have produced a credible threat they are a danger to themselves or others. you are allowed to be crazy and not be hospitalized as long as you are safe', "Being crazy isn't a problem *until you pose a threat to yourself an others*. If you're just preaching a version of Christianity th... |
Uniform circular motion in highschool physics | Would you like to be more specific? It's easier to help when there is a question. I don't have a lecture written up |
Housing prices have dropped like a lead balloon but property taxes have not been lowered accordingly. Why? | > Is there something I'm missing? Yeah, the government uses the *appraised* value of the house. Until someone pays to have an appraisal done on the house, the house's new lower value isn't "official", and the government continues to pretend like the old value is the correct one. The taxes stay high. > I ask because buy... |
For a country that's emphasized education for so long, why is the majority of India still mired in poverty? | because education only matters if you actually have a place to work where you can utilize what you learned. india simply has WAY too many people, there is just not enough work for everyone. beside that from my personal experiences in india people below your "wealth level" are treated poorly and its made extra hard for ... |
Amish are famous for barn-raising, but how often do they actually need to raise one? | Not often, it's just an interesting sight to see a hundred men build a barn in a day instead of the usual three men taking thirty days. Since they're not paying for the labor, they can pull of the brute force build that a typical construction firm cant.They will also do other construction outside their own community. M... |
Why don't we have animal organ donor clinics? | I actually don't know but I would assume that it is because no healthy dog's owner would give up the dog's organs. If a dog is being put down, there is a reason. Thus, organs not salvageable. Also, who would pay for the storage? Vet bills are expensive and I doubt they would spend money on storing organs in hopes anoth... |
why do animals poop so fast, but some humans take forever? | Try the squatting position. It just falls right out', "I hadn't even considered that your knowledge about animal poop times was some sort of fetish - thanks for opening me up to that possibility with your disclaimer. If you were eating a shit ton of vegetables and exercising a lot you'd poop very quickly. Or..for anoth... |
Why is "100" the number we use for complete percentages? | Because Per-cent means "per hundred". You used to occasionally see the percent symbol with two zeros underneath instead of one - meaning per thousand, but it's rare"per cent" means "per one hundred" it is an easy way to visualize and explain fractional percentages. If you were to use, say 10 you 'd find that there are ... |
Why can't our normal speech be assigned musical pitch, e.g. C, C# and D? | Normal speech does have pitch. Speaking with a single pitch throughout would sound very strange, so assigning a single pitch wouldn't work , instead speech happens as a series of pitches. [Radiolab] did a fun segment about how the spoken phrase "sometimes behaves so strangely" became obviously a song when looped. r/zap... |
Why does Star Wars transcend typical Sci-Fi fandom and hit home for so many people. | Well it was first . Before Star Wars, Scifi in movies was very pulpy and bad. It was proof that it could be done well. It also has a lot of cultural significance beyond that. Since the success of Star Wars really was the moment when the 'summer blockbuster' aimed at the 15-20 male market became a thing. Also it just ha... |
What is Nest and why did Google buy it? | It is a company that makes a high end smart thermostat and also a smoke detector. Google[NEST] started by making smart thermostats. They self program after a few sets. They have motion sensors. You can set them with an app from your phone or pad or laptop. They are sleek and simple, cost about $250 installed and can sa... |
Can you permanently lose feeling in your arm after sleeping on it? | The circulation doesn't stop unless your heart isn't beating or you have something clogging the pipes. If you put enough pressure on your arm then yes there would no longer be circulation, this is seen in the use of tourniquets to stop blood flow in emergencies. Lack of blood flow to part of your body can cause gangren... |
In the US, why is it legal to brew beer and wine, but not legal to distill harder spirits? | Distilled spirits are heavily taxed & always have been. In the oldest days of the country, whiskey was seen as an efficient way for remote farmers to concentrate their grain & move it to market. It can easily take 5-10 pounds of grain to make a single bottle of whiskey. The other thing is that, unlike homebrewing, home... |
Why does sudden temperature change make us feel ill? | Your body needs to be at a fairly consistent temperature of 37C Your body has various mechanisms to control this temperature , as a result humans can survive in quite a range of temperatures, but your body will be behaving differently if it's 0C compared to if it's 40C These mechanisms in the body don't always adjust q... |
What's the problem with kids lifting weights? | _URL_0_ > With both direct and indirect evidence suggesting that weightlifting may increase bone length and density, it seems as though this myth is untrue. Rather than stunt your growth, weightlifting when you are young may allow you to grow taller than you would without such exerciseWrong form and too high weight do ... |
How does vesting in company shares/stocks work? | They were given to you over the stated schedule. They are gradually becoming yours. If they were options, then you would have the opportunity to buy them at a set price, called a strike price, which hopefully would be much lower than the price available to the general public at the same moment in time. |
what actually happens when you die from the flu? | Depends. Probably the simplest thing is viral pneumonia leading to severe respiratory failure leading to death. If you have other long term illnesses these can also be triggered . Source: ITU doctor. |
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