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Muscle never, ever, ever turns directly into fat under any circumstance. Muscle fibers demand. Lot of calories to keep up (take a look at The Rock's diet sometime), and working out basically proves that that level of muscle is required. It "justifies" the caloric expense, so to speak. When you stop working out long eno... |
It's a filler that indicates you're still thinking of what to say next. It often becomes a habit, as an absence of saying anything may allow someone else to interject and thus disrupt what you're trying to say. As a random useless fact, different languages have different filler words. As I recall, some Chinese use a wo... |
Geneticist here! CRISPR (or CRISPR-Cas9, if you want the full name), is a big improvement in how we genetically modify organisms. All organisms, from single-cell bacteria, to plants, to animals, to humans, have long molecules inside of them, called DNA. The pattern of different molecules in this chain of DNA, called th... |
Immediately after the collapse, there was a major increase in homelessness, joblessness, and other social ills we see in the modern world. In the USSR, you had a job, you had an apartment, and if you were a disfunctional alcoholic, it didn't matter. After the fall, jobs went away because why keep factories open that do... |
Java is a four star hotel. It has most everything you need and there are expectations on your behavior. JavaScript is the motel 6. It's quick and dirty, but it will do the job and you can do whatever. JSON is not going to let you spend the night, but it'll give you directions and info on the hotels. Java is a cross-pla... |
It can, my 2003 Ford Focus has it. The wires are very thin and embedded inside the windscreen. It's a very common option in the UK. Edit. For those of little faith, Google 'Ford Quickclear Windscreen' and prepare for enlightenment. I did some reading and everything I found said it basically comes down to price. Some co... |
Short answer: Because that's what they evolved to do Quite often you'll hear evolution referred to as "survival of the fittest" but sometimes it's easier to understand more as "survival of whatever doesn't die" If a species of animals is capable of surviving without the need to care for their young then there's no evol... |
Tactile feedback is improved, resulting in less missed keys, AND key actuation rate (the speed at which the keys move up and down) is greatly improved, resulting in a more fluid key movement, which can contribute quite a bit to speed. |
Oh, I know that pain! It's the pain you should ask your doctor about instead of internet strangers. But seriously, even if there were a doctor on ELI5, it is impossible to diagnose someone over the internet. If it feels like something is wrong, talk to your doctor. I think i know what youre talking about although it ha... |
*Musician There will be people who do think they're in key but still singing sharp or flat. Sometimes its due to change in hearing from aging but also could just be an untrained/lazy ear. Theres probably many people who know they're out of key and have no business singing in the first place, but simply don't care becau... |
It has to do with changes during puberty. Males produce a lot of testosterone, which thickens and lengthens the vocal cords, giving a deeper voice. Females obviously don't have as much testosterone, and estrogen doesn't give the effect. As a side note, this is also why kids have super high voices; not only do they lack... |
This one is quite strange and interesting. Your brain calibrates the sound's arrival time against the reflected sound that bounces off your shoulders and torso and back to your ears. It's more complicated than that and pretty fascinating... URL_0 You know those curves and dips of your outer ear? They (called pinnae) se... |
Firearms. We can keep making them to tighter tolerances by shaving off thousandths of inches here and there, but the fact is the designs are pretty much perfected. You can't do much to alter the basic physics involved in feeding bullets into a gun. Even experts agree that unless a radically new kind of technology shows... |
Iron does oxidize near instantly. Once it oxidizes the rate slows down cause the layer of oxidation is protecting the base metal from exposure to additional reactive agents. Additionally that layer of oxidation is pretty important. If it wasn't there, 2 pieces of iron would fuse together if ever they touched. Cold weld... |
Because you phone isn't completely dead yet. It "shuts down" when it has a small about of power left and uses that remaining power to display the low power message and keep your data open. Lithium-ion batteries are never intentionally drained to zero; doing so would cause irreversible damage, and possibly create an uns... |
The selected temperature isn't necessarily the temperature coming out of the vents. If you're trying to warm/cool a room to a certain temperature, it puts out more extreme air. Room is 70, you want 72, the heater comes out at 75. Room is 75, you want 72, the AC puts out 70. A heater set to 72 will put hot air into the ... |
The intuitive way I describe this concept is a watermelon seed on a table. When you push down on it, it will slip and squirt out to the side much faster than your finger pushed down. This is because the force imparted by your finger was redirected into sideways movement and that movement didn't lessen the force input f... |
They know when someone clicks a link on the search engine, and they know if someone goes back to the search results after visiting. If people open your site and don't go back, or take a while before they go back, it means they probably liked your site. If they go back to the search results right away, it means they pro... |
A cup is a 'closed pipe' as far as acoustics goes. The physics of closed pipes state that, so long as no other parameters of the pipe changes, a decrease in the pipe's acoustic distance will result in an increase in frequency, for Frequency = Speed of Sound divided by 4 times Length of Pipe. Thus, if pipe length decrea... |
An article about it from Google: URL_1 Little bit about training neural networks: URL_0 An artificial neural network was trained for different language pairs. To much surprise, they found the same (or somehow similar) neurons activate for phrases with the same meaning for different language pairs. It's thought that thi... |
Basically, in this context 'Discipline' is the ability to keep at it and stick to the plan despite how much you have lost interest in it. One can be determined to finish something, but that can be worn away very quickly if it is not reinforced with discipline. Edit: In many ways, determination is synonymous with motiva... |
We're using the amino acids that make up the proteins to produce new proteins. Digestion denatures them if cooking didn't. And cooking chicken does denature some proteins. The gooey white stuff you see on chicken breasts sometimes when you cook them is mostly coagulated proteins. They do, and that is how we absorb them... |
I think all complex living organisms learn to read body language subconsciously anyway. Also, it doesn't have real practical application: school tries to teach you things you can apply and already fails to give students kickstart to 21th century due lack of time and funding. Spending precious time of something that has... |
Actually the two founders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian made a bunch of fake accounts to post links on other websites guiding to their newly created website that they just put online with the help of a start up company. The rest is history. Summer of 2005, Paul Graham (one of our investors) wrote a blog post and lin... |
> processing power, data size That's exactly it. Larger resolution and FPS require more processing power as well as more bandwidth to transfer the large amount of data to the camera's storage. |
When we are crying, our body is essentially in a state of stress. Stress activates our sympathetic nervous system which is responsible for the fight or fli8ght response. This increases blood flow and respiration. To allow for the extra respiration, a muscle called the glottis opens up for more air to pass through. Now ... |
It prevents your blood from clotting properly! Hence, if you want to walk out of the surgery without blood gushing from your wounds you shouldn't take an aspirin right before it :) EDIT: words Because aspirin is the only NSAID with blood thinning properties: that's why it's used in prevention of CV events at low dosage... |
To say Obama is the best thing to ever happen to America is ludicrous. Obama isn't the worst president, but he's certainly not the best. I don't want to get bogged down in left and right wing politics too much, but here is a list of his shortcomings, as I see them: 1. Didn't push for a public option on Obamacare. Now O... |
Both Firefly and Futurama are good shows with a cult following but not good ratings in the average population. Most of the bad shows have a lot of viewers because their content hits a much broader market. The production cost of these shows also plays a big part. Most bad shows can be mass produced for almost nothing. H... |
That's not quite how unsecured debt works. All it means is they can't automatically claim ownership of your house if you miss three payments. But they can still sue you in small claims court, and a bailiff will confiscate your property, sell it, and give the money to your creditors. Now, if you wanted to take out loans... |
Taste buds help to get the taste sensation. When they don't work you don't get the taste sensation. Your Brain tries to fill in the gaps. |
It's called "last billing." The order that the actors are listed in the credits is listed as billing. Generally, the bigger a name you are, the closer to the front you'll be listed. That's called "Top Billing" and it's the best place to be -- listed first. But sometimes you'll have two actors of similar stature in the ... |
The took the whole oat berry, which is hard like a little stone, and chopped it up into little chunks with "steels" to make it easier to cook. Rolled oats are oats that are steamed, rolled to be flattened, and dried to be even easier to cook. Quick oars are chopped, steamed, rolled, and dried to be even easier than tha... |
First, the condition known as the "common cold" is a viral infection by any of several hundred different species of virus. The rhinoviruses (literally "nose viruses") are the most common culprit, but there are other viruses which can produce the same symptoms. Second, if you're asking where the actual viruses that infe... |
To clearly mark the boundaries of the roundabout. Imagine if it's dark, or you're impaired, and all you see in front of you is flat open space. One might be tempted to cross straight through a roundabout as if it were a normal 4-way intersection, endangering any vehicles likewise inside the roundabout. Plus, your atten... |
It's a common misconception that an embassy is sovereign soil of the country that occupies it - it's not. An embassy is not a little bit of your nation somewhere else in the world. However, embassies do enjoy special protected status under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations 1961, namely: * Immunity from sear... |
You could have [Exploding Head Syndrome]( URL_0 )(EHS), which is the coolest syndrome that I have ever heard of. EHS is a benign condition in which a person hears loud imagined noises (such as a bomb exploding, a gunshot, or a cymbal crash) or experiences an explosive feeling when falling asleep or waking up. These noi... |
After steam engines were developed, they began replacing the draft animals they were frequently using for power. When James Watt made some improvements to a steam engine and started selling them he wanted a number that would indicate to buyers how large a team the engine could replace (ie if a mine used 2 horses to lif... |
When you are anxious, you tend to breathe *too much* (hyperventilate). This changes your body's preferred oxygen levels, which has the unfortunate effect of making you feel out of breath. You also tend to try to regulate your breathing on your own because you believe that you aren't getting enough oxygen because hyperv... |
Before regrouping, arithmetic was taught as a mechanical procedure to follow and practice religiously, without any regard to why it works. 3 4 2 -1 7 3 ------- When subtracting a larger number from a smaller number, you'd pretend there's an extra 1 before the larger number, so 2 - 3 becomes 12 - 3. Then after writing d... |
This is called "digital rights management", or DRM. DRM comes in a variety of forms. When software came with printed manuals, sometimes there'd be information on the manual the program would force you to enter. Later, when software came on CD's, often extra DRM data on the CD was written in non-standard locations that ... |
Interestingly, Netflix has quantified viewer interest. They've found a way to use the staggering amount of information gathered from their viewers over the years to pinpoint story concepts, genres, plot elements, directing and cinematic styles that have the best chance of success among their viewers. All of the star ra... |
It depends on the specific app. For some apps, it's not private at all. For others, it's possible for them to see who you're texting but not the contents of the text. Others are completely private. In some cases, the answer is "it depends". WhatsApp, for example, didn't used to be private until recently - and it's only... |
It is often for the same reason that Axis aces had much higher kill counts than their Allied equivalents. Japan had spent much of the lead up to the war investing heavily in pilot training programs for their carrier air forces, and the war in China gave them combat experience. When the war began, the pilots of both the... |
Afaik the three strains chosen are the three most virulent strains recognized during the opposite hemisphere's winter i.e. six months ago. It's mainly a prediction of how they've seen the virus mutate. You get an injection that has the main few they believe will be the issue. It doesn't guarantee you won't get sick tho... |
AMD is a company that makes processor chips, like Intel. AMD is trying to pitch their new **Ryzen** CPU as a solid competitor against Intel and their tech demo is a topic of much discussion about how it stacks up against the usually dominant Intel's current offerings. For the last 3-5 years, AMD hasn't come close to In... |
It's like baseball (so I'll try and use lots of baseball terms) but with five key differences to the rules: 1\. Instead of four bases, there's only two bases. 2\. There's a [wicket]( URL_0 ) behind each base. If the pitcher hits the wicket when he is pitching then the batter is out. 3\. Instead of one batter starting t... |
Because your body is trying to encourage you to eat! Here are the two possibilities I've read about: According to when you eat, your body will release a hormone called Ghrelin which makes you feel like you're starving, possibly to the point of feeling nauseated. So if you normally eat every four hours and you missed a ... |
Most likely, the wound from the first bite swells up -- inflammation is the body's reaction to injury. So that means there is now a feature if your tongue that is both unfamiliar and larger. You'll learn to compensate for it in the next few hours, most likely, giving it time to heal and for the swelling to go down. |
It's very descriptive as a language and isn't any countries major language any more, so there's less political tension than if it were in English , French, Italian etc. Moreover most science of the time would have been written in Latin, like Newton's Principia. I think it's so no matter where you are from you know what... |
Possibly. A common headache in medicine is seeing "penicillin allergy" on a chart. Research has found that only a small fraction of people who say they're allergic actually are. While we have lots of antibiotics, there are times when a penicillin or related antibiotic is crucial. Drugs with the beta-lactam structure (i... |
> Kind of ironic that I'm asking for an explanation, but aren't explanations how you understand things? There are a couple of options. He might just be spouting nonsense zen shit and just be wrong. That is an option. Or perhaps he is trying for a more subtle point. Explanations provide information, while the understand... |
Your phone can use a combination of barometer, accelerometer, and GPS to determine your change in elevation over time as well as whether it's through being lifted or by stepping. The accelerometer is key, here, because it can determine acceleration and in what direction, so it will measure a single period of accelerati... |
This is not the answer you are looking for but it may be as simple as being able to predict the pattern of song and therefore no longer be as interesting because there are no surprises. Same thing occurs when you watch the same movie over and over. Not neurological but this phenomenon in Economics is called "diminishin... |
The ear basically transmits information to the auditory nerve and then the brain deals with processing the information it receives. The eye has a lot more "pre-processing" before any information gets to the brain. Networks of neurons within the eye process information to a certain extent before this information is sent... |
The shape of snowflakes is influenced by the temperature and humidity of the atmosphere. Snowflakes form in the atmosphere when cold water droplets freeze onto dust particles. Depending on the temperature and humidity of the air where the snowflakes form, the resulting ice crystals will grow into a myriad of different ... |
The basic physics stuff is pretty easy, just have to keep track of a few parameters. Location, Velocity, and Acceleration. For the most part interactions can be defined simply setting acceleration. For each simulation cycle start by setting acceleration to zero (nothing happens unless a force is applied). Moving throug... |
There is a natural inflation. Every ton of ore taken from a mine was further away than the one before. We exploit the best parts first so there is additional cost from then on. A mining company would like to raise the price of the ore as fast as the cost of extracting it increases whether the market would allow it or n... |
It's very similar to a Brita water filter (they use charcoal to absorb unpleasant smelling/tasting chemicals). Activated charcoal has enormous surface area for its weight, and it's mostly made up of carbon atoms. Carbon adsorbs many materials quite well, but especially other carbon chemicals. Since most of the unpleasa... |
When you get tired, certain hormones that restrict blood, and keep you awake, like epinephrine and cortisol are reduced in your blood, and that can cause blood to accumulate in the eye area, the skin on/around your eyelids is much thinner than most of the rest of your body, so the blood can cause puffiness and show up ... |
If you imagine there is a big flat surface with some of those cones you use in p.e. on it spread out(these are atoms). if you roll tennis balls (electron/beta radiation) along the ground most will go straight because they will not hit the cone(atom) however a few will roll over the side of the cone and be deflected (or... |
don't let the name 'street drug' confuse you. these are sophisticated global pharmaceutical businesses that just happen to produce products that are illegal in some places. that changes their distribution methods and increases profit, but apart from that they are like any other multinational company |
Perhaps that person has you in a virtual address book on their email, phone etc which they have given permission for FB to link through. You gave FB your name, it sees your name on his contact list and suggests the connection. Have you accepted any friend requests or sent any friend requests to anyone? If so, it most l... |
Not in the way you're used to. In zero gravity, water will tend to pull itself into a floating sphere, unless it's completely contained, in which case you wouldn't have a surface to enter through. In a sphere of water, nothing would float, there's no up or down. Kicking and pushing will still move you through the water... |
You want to wear whichever is better at getting moisture away from your skin on the inside, and the insulating layer on the outside. A thin technical sock covered by a thicker wool sock is your best bet. If, however, the thinner layer is your waterproof sock, wear that on the outside... I don't know why it would be, bu... |
So Before the cow is able to produce a drop of milk they need to be semenated to become pregnant. Usually this is a job where a farmer strokes a bull for his 'milk' almost positive there was a dirty jobs episode. After the jizz is placed in the Female cow she becomes pregnant, pregnancy/birth creates the hormones that ... |
The color-sensing cone cells in your eyes need time to "recharge". When light hits those cells, special molecules absorb the light and are forced to change shape, which activates the nerves in your retina. When you stare at a bright light, your cone cells are all firing, all of those molecules are getting bent, and whe... |
Are you talking about your own farts? Your talking about your own farts, aren't you? |
Your gradually become acclimated to your environment and develop sensory bias. In ELI5 terms: Consider the following - you grew up in New York City and your friend in Death Valley. If you guys were to switch places, immediately your friend would complain about the snow and you would complain about the 120F weather. But... |
Alright, take it like this: A processor is a laborer who's job it is to take loads of materials up to the architect and builders. Other laborers might be able to move up and down the hill just as fast as our laborer, but are less efficient with the loads that they bring. Every five minutes our laborer takes two armfuls... |
You're going to get lots of 'experts' giving self-assured reasons why. But any question about dreams is like a dream itself - we just don't have confident answers yet because we don't really understand dreams well, or even the brain itself for that matter. |
The bankers broke no laws. The VW exec committed fraud and violated numerous other laws. You tend to only be arrested for committing crimes, not just doing bad things. From the [New York Times]( URL_0 ): > Mr. Schmidt deceived American regulators “by offering reasons for the discrepancy other than the fact that VW was ... |
It's hard to not speculate on this one since we don't know *exactly* what happened with our ancestors but the explanation my teacher suggested was that humans, the something soon before us, kinda stumbled into it. Natural fires caused by lightning or something would've cooked carcasses which were then eaten. That was f... |
The software maker typically uses a computer algorithm to generate their keys. The key it generates will follow a certain pattern that the maker knows and when you install the software and activate it using the key it checks to see if it matches that pattern (I'm ignoring online activation methods). The software doesn'... |
Radio stations have extra radio bandwidth that they don't need for the audio alone. They can use this bandwidth to send additional data to your radio such as the station name, song title, artist, or I guess the album art. It's essentially sending data over a wireless internet connection, point-to-point from the station... |
This process is best explained with pour over coffees, which is a manual brewing option. You have the coffee grounds dry and in the filter, and you pour the hot water over the top. First you coat all the grounds evenly and stop, not drowning them or making them float but allowing the grounds to be evenly saturated. The... |
So the first thing you have to understand is that it's not about 'knowing who they are'. It's about maintaining a certain level of relationship with people. The numbers were actually 100-250 initially (150 on average) and were called Dunbar numbers named after the psychologist who studied the phenomenon later other res... |
People with high credit scores are less likely to default and leave the lender with a defaulted loan People with low credit scores tend to not pay back the loan at all. It is better to go with the higher score person because you are more likely to get your money back. People with higher credit scores have proven themse... |
The typical SAM can't tell the difference between friendlies and hostiles. For systems where the SAM is guided from the ground, it's up to the operator to make that call. Aircraft carry a transmitter called an IFF (interrogator friend or foe) transponder. It can transmit a code that identifies an aircraft as friendly. ... |
Liquid nitrogen makes things extremely cold, much colder than what you experience your kitchen's freezer for instance. This makes objects transition from being flexible to being fragile at a molecular level. This is called the glass transition and it is because molecules cannot easily slip and slide on a microscopic sc... |
who says it is in order? not like there is a sequential numerology to it, we've since gotten good at numbering the letters to assign positions to it, and thats helpful for many things, but still does not prove its in order. all we know is that the order is more or less, unchanged since the first records of the alphabet... |
Habit, mostly. The same reason people need to shower in the morning/evening, or need their tea with milk. There's often no reason to change that habit, but have you ever heard of a couple breaking up because both wanted to sleep on the left side? |
There are a few theories. One is that children have less developed palates. Adults are able to appreciate the subtle and savory flavors of bitter foods. Kids dislike them because they can't taste the entire flavor profile, opting for simpler sweet foods. For adults, those sweet foods are overwhelming because they lack ... |
The external covering of your lips is essentially a thin layer of skin. Like all skin, it can get dry. Poor hydration, sun exposure, and cold weather can all dry out and irritate your skin, lips included. When you lick your lips, you're rubbing your tongue over that skin and wearing it down through contact and saliva. ... |
It may sound odd, but what is happening when you take a breath is your diaphragm contracts, which causes your lungs to swell and increase in size. This then causes *less* pressure inside your lungs than in the air outside, so air rushes in with a breath as your lungs fill with air. A property of air is that as the velo... |
Advertising is something that is generally outsourced to companies who specialize in it. It is very specialized, they are the experts at it, and they are the ones who do it. Sometimes they will keep some of the analytics in house, but generally at a minimum the creative and such is outsourced to the "experts" (but they... |
The limitations on hours are dependent on your age and the state you live in, but at 17 you are almost certainly not going to be restricted at all (except, of course, that if you're still in school you have to go to school). For what it's worth, know that the laws limiting hours minors can work is for their protection,... |
I'm not an expert at all, but this is what I've learned from high-school geography- when two tectonic plates, like the north american plate and the pacific plate, slide against each other at a transform fault line, they don't do it really really slowly, like plates which move apart or towards each other. The plates (or... |
There are 3 systems involved in maintaining balance. * Vestibular (Inside your ear there's fluid which kind of acts like a bubble level. Telling you when you're not leveled in a direction) * Somatosensory (A bunch of sensors in the skin, tendons, ligaments, and muscles which tells the brain what's going on. Imagine the... |
When we're angry and/or stressed, it's often because we feel as though we don't have control over our circumstances. So by physically destroying inanimate objects, we are exerting control of our own over those items, reminding ourselves that we do have power and capability, even if that power to smash something fragile... |
My guess is there is a disk directly below the disk that has holes for safe teeth to get pushed down through. The triggering tooth pushes the disk down and triggers the jaw to close. The disk gets spun every time you open the jaws and is randomized by that spinning. It's been a while since I researched this, so my fact... |
There's certainly a combination of variables. Social circumstances can affect how obnoxious we are willing to be with our sneezing, or coughing. Either trying to be obnoxious or trying to be stealthier and more controlled. Then there's the threshold or subjective sensations your body feels when it wants to sneeze. We a... |
when you work out, your body breaths in more oxygen, but you exhale C02. Fat loss comes from you exhaling c02. Fat is broken down into C02 when you are working out. Let's clear up a few things. First, we're not converting mass to energy. That's E=MC^2. For every gram of mass you converted, you'd be looking at (1 gram) ... |
No, only migratory birds fly south, and not all birds are migratory. Some stay over the winter. |
It depends on the country, and even then the definitions vary depending on context. In the UK, a university is a conglomeration of colleges (e.g. Oxford is comprised of 38 colleges). In America, they're pretty much synonymous, with college being more slang but university being a more formal word. In Australia, college ... |
Main reason is asymetric loading of elements and bad programming. In detail: The main goal of a mobile page is to load as fast as possible. There are certain methods to achieve this. The two most important (for your question) are: 1) Load visible stuff first: The first things that will be loaded are things you see when... |
Also you should talk to your companies HR about taking a leave for medical reasons. They can't fire you. They might even help you. |
Standard shipping (slow): Multiple orders are put inside of a container and the container's only shipped when it's full. Express shipping (fast): Orders are shipped independently, and so don't depend on others. Logistic may differ from company to company, but that's the concept. *(Don't remember the source but I had th... |
Here's the thing - Football is only actually about 150 years old, and the NFL itself not even 100. So many of these teams are fairly new. It's also a larger focus on the *team*, not the *location*. People don't root for New England, they root for the Patriots. They don't root for Philadelphia, they root for the Eagles.... |
The method for working this out (assuming the horizon is perfectly flat) is to calculate the distance from your eye to sea level in meters, and multiply it by 13. Then you square root this to get the distance in KM. |
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