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It's not a myth but it's not really accurately represented a lot of the time either. Calling it an island isn't really that accurate either - what it is, is an area in the pacific ocean (there are others but not as large as the pacific one) where a number of currents converge and as a result plastic debris have built u... |
The universe is what is called "Isotropic" and "Homogenous" on large scales. What that means is that when you start to look at the observable universe as a fluid, with galaxies as particles in that fluid, you notice this: The universe is roughly the same, as seen from anywhere, in any direction. The distribution of mat... |
It would be a complex situation... "with no compelling reason" assuming you mean he just up and shot someone, then the agent would be charged with murder and extradited to the state in question eventually probably... but there would be ample grounds for legal petitions of many kinds to deny extradition Now if there was... |
It helps to deal with spikes in demand. Most of the time it may well be treated just the same and arrive at the same time. However, maybe there's an unusual amount of post heading from your city to your destination today. Instead of paying for a second truck to get everything there tonight for delivery tomorrow, they s... |
It's not about the viewers immediately Googling the name. It's about getting viewers subliminally exposed to the name over and over. It's the same reason they play the same commercial sometimes multiple times an hour, so the first thing you think about when you want oil is "Valvoline". I am a rally driver and I can exp... |
I don't think anyone now can speak authoritatively on what precisely he meant then. But disinformation is well within the purview of intelligence operations. For example suppose radar is developed and now the Allies can detect aircraft at much greater range, through clouds, and at night. They need to keep the existence... |
Geocaching is like a modern day treasure hunt. Someone takes a container of some sort and places in it a log and usually some nicnacks. They will then hide that container somewhere public or where they have permission to hide it. They are also responsible for the upkeep of the container. Then they post GPS coordinates ... |
As your battery runs down, the voltage it outputs drops. For a device with a motor like a razor, that means that it runs slower, since the reduced voltage doesn't push/pull on the electrons quite as hard and the current flow is reduced. With many digital devices, however, the circuit contains a "voltage regulator". Thi... |
I can't speak for all the world, but Napoleon was left handed and made the French and any country he invaded ride on the right side of the road so that his sword arm is facing the oncoming rider, which is why continental Europe drive on the right and Britain on the left. Supposedly There's not a lot of difference. Peop... |
Thunderstorms are formed when warm, humid air rises and cools. Since warm air is a prerequisite for a thunderstorm to form, it's not that surprising that thunderstorms are less common in the winter months. There is. Thundersnow is the coolest shit in the world. Nothing compares to standing outside in driving snow, whil... |
I actually read somewhere that the American accent never changed. The British accent is the one that changed. America is a melting pot. It is not merely a collection of English settlers. Many of the more unique features of American English can be traced back to pronunciations made by people who did not have English as ... |
Assuming your stomach didn't simply digest the string, it would be pretty rough on you. Your digestive tract is extremely long, and it's all coiled up. Imagine taking a piece of coiled licorice candy except making it about nine meters in length (or about 26 feet) and coiling it up real nicely into the shape of a human ... |
They did, but there is something called groupthink where everyone in a group like say economists all believe the same thing so dissenting voices are drowned out by the majority. For more on groupthink - URL_0 It's not that no-one saw it coming, it was that it was making some people extremely rich. Basically, here's how... |
Internet is two-way. Satellite TV can broadcast the signal to everyone at once, because everyone gets the same channels. With internet, everyone's computer is asking for a different thing. A satellite sends the transmissin ONCE towards the Earth. You are equpped to receive it or not (this is why you could have illegal ... |
That's part of their secret sauce and what makes Facebook what it is. That's kind of like asking how is Google so efficient at searching the internet. We can imagine Facebook looks at correlations, such as whether you have listed them as family in your profile, how many mutual friends you have, how often you like each ... |
Your brain (and the rest of your body) requires a constant supply of oxygen. That's the purpose of red blood cells, to deliver oxygen to the entire body. It is not the gas itself that causes brain damage, but instead the lack of oxygen reaching the brain. The lungs get no oxygen, the blood is not oxygenated, and the br... |
They would die a horribly painful death. Microwave ovens broadcast waves of a frequency that excite water molecules. The increased vibration of the water molecules generates heat. The heating is generally not uniform as the wavelengths are longer than the size of the oven cavity. Standing wave patterns create the 'hot ... |
Insurance is priced based on risk. If you live in an area with lots of tornadoes, you obviously will need to pay higher rates for that home insurance against tornadoes because the company is more likely to have to pay out your claim than if you lived elsewhere. If you are involved in an accident, you become more of a r... |
Essentially what is going on, is that the wetsuit allows water in, and then retains a very thin layer of water against your skin. This water is heated by your natural body heat, essentially serving as a warm layer of insulation. That's why wetsuits often talk about their anti-flushing properties as selling points. If t... |
There are various different casualty counts that use different definitions. However it is common to count civilian victims after the fighting is over as casualties in the war. This is for example the case with WW1 which have a lot of unexploded ordinance left over in areas of heavy fighting. There is also a lot of bomb... |
The difference is in the insertion points of their muscles. A chimp's biceps inserts halfway down its forearm where yours is just below the elbow. That gives it a lot more strength. A gorilla's glutes originate way up their back. The levers are just way longer. Then you have to think about this too: pain compliance is ... |
Hi! 2nd year medical student here. Great question! The short answer is that the sea contains WAAAAAAY more salt than the salty foods that cause water retention. Water and salt are best friends. Wherever salt goes in the body, water will follow. This helps keeps our bodies in balance. When we eat a lot of salty foods, t... |
Phone: Please send this message and let me know that it's sent. Provider: I got the messag- a... it... ...ved. Phone: It's not properly sent? Let me send it again. Provider: It has been received! I got the message and it has been received! Phone: Two confirmations? I only care about one of them. Message sent. If there'... |
It can be very dangerous and lethal. It all depends on how "straight" in the air it is shot. The Mythbusters proved that a bullet shot perfectly straight will come back down tumbling and slow -- non lethal. However, if you start to decrease that angle, the more likely the bullet will come down in a lethal (much faster)... |
Your body is making CO2 at a certain rate. We transport CO2 in our blood in the form of HCO3-, which is an acid. Our body regulates our breathing to keep the CO2 within a certain range. So if we don't breathe enough, the HCO3- builds up, and our blood pH goes down (Respiratory Acidosis). On the other hand, if you breat... |
Sound is effectively just waves of air moving at different speeds and sizes. While most of them are so small you can really only sense them with your ears, as you start to get really low, the waves start to get a lot bigger, to the point you can actually feel them. That feeling is the air physically vibrating your body... |
Occupant fire hoses are no longer required by many fire codes, mostly because they just aren't that useful. Since those hoses need to be maintained and replaced regularly when they are phased out of the code most owners will simply replace them with the extinguishers that are actually required by code. |
The brain craves sensory input to process, so when it''s completely quiet your brain starts straining to find information to process - either through your imagination or through the smallest little sounds it can pick up. White noise allows the brain to focus on something without actually generating much stimulation, th... |
Velocity isn't just speed. It is also direction. That is to say, velocity is a vector. Acceleration is a change in velocity. So a change of direction, even while maintaining a constant speed, is still a change of velocity and therefore an acceleration. Acceleration is a change of velocity. Velocity is a vector quantity... |
The acid in the apple juice reacts withe the newly available oxygen, causing a vegetable version of rust. |
Also a blood banker. Separated into it's components, some parts last 5 days, some last 42 days, some can be frozen for a year, some can be frozen for ten years and manufactured into other products. We're always looking at ways to extend shelf life. We're pretty crazy about inventory efficiency too, but expired product ... |
This effect is called Capillary Action. It happens because water molecules are, in a sense, "sticky". They cling to themselves and other materials. Capillary Action occurs when the water wants to stick to the plastic of the straw more than to itself. It's more noticeable in a straw because the straw has a very high amo... |
Grappler here. It's all about the other person's center of gravity. When you are under a person's center of gravity, even people who weigh quite a bit can feel light. When a person tenses, a lot of the time their muscles will expand or they will frame away from you. These actions push their center away from your's and ... |
The SI convention is that only those unit symbols that abbreviate the name of a person start with a capital letter. In many English-speaking countries, however, the most common shape of a handwritten Arabic digit 1 is just a vertical stroke; that is, it lacks the upstroke added in many other cultures. Therefore, the di... |
As others are pointing out they work just like any other bank. What you're *really* asking about is Swiss law governing banking privacy. Swiss banks have very strict disclosure laws making it very unlikely someone will learn about it, even in a criminal investigation. It's a serious offense for a Swiss banker to disclo... |
A few things can be happening: 1. The antibiotic takes a while to have its effect. So you're feeling worse now, but you would have been MUCH worse without the antibiotic. The infection is still going on a little bit before the antibiotic builds up enough concentration in your blood, to turn back the tides and help your... |
It has everything to do with instincts. Why we only *need* a certain amount of food, for 99.9% of humans existence there has been a scarcity of food. Therefor the body evolved to always want food when we can get it. In a world where there is food scarcity, it is much better to over eat when food is available. In the mo... |
> The ulnar nerve is a nerve that runs near the ulnar bone (upper arm bone). It is the largest unprotected nerve in the human body (meaning unprotected by muscle or bone), so injury is common. This nerve can cause an electric shock-like sensation by striking the...elbow. The ulnar nerve is trapped between the bone and ... |
It's the same as shivering in general. It's your bodies way of trying to produce heat. The muscles use energy to shiver and that energy use produces heat. When it's your jaw muscles shivering your teeth chatter together. |
Cruising altitude is relative to sea level, which does not change. The plane measures it by air pressure, which gets thinner as you go higher, and doesn't really change whether you are flying over an ocean or a mountain. Altitude is primarily measured by air pressure. You start with whatever the barometric pressure is ... |
Wifi cards only have one tuner and transmitter, think of it like a standard radio. You cant tune to 2 stations at the same time, a transmitter can only transmit on one station at a time as well. It only has one WiFi card. You should be able to connect to two networks if you have two cards. I think. |
You've asked two questions here, I'll answer the second (and easier) one first. Gametes (sperm and eggs) are created by a process called meiosis. Basically a cell divides and, instead of getting its DNA being copied to each daughter cell, the DNA is instead split in two so that each daughter gets half. So for humans, e... |
In earlier days of computing, the NUM keys were also the ARROW keys and directional keys. The Num Lock was a necessary key to turn on and off the numerical vs. directional functions of the keyboard and is a feature that is still included to this day. Even my Razer Chroma has directional keys and other functions that wo... |
Your brain doesn't require the eyes to imagine objects or even "see" them. Your brain can recall and construct "mental images" based on things you have encountered or imagined. You aren't really seeing anything, simply recalling images or imagining images is one of the functions of the brain. |
Safety. Allowing someone to drink water puts material in the stomach. Ice chips, allow you to get some fluid, but essentially in very small amounts only. In the case that labor goes awry and anestisia becomes necessary or required, or even surgery, its dangerous if a woman in labor can aspirate the water and inhale it ... |
They often run breaks at neat round-number times. For example the station will air news and traffic reports on the hour, so they'll put an ad break just before that. most radio stations are broadcast subsidiaries of the same company, clear channel. they have no reason to stagger their commercial breaks. competing radio... |
Global warming describes the overall average temperature rise of the planet, which is very gradual. The effects of global warming (as a whole) aren't felt through heat, but moreso through shifts in environmental patterns, such as oceanic current shifts and the rising of sea levels. Basically, no, heat waves and warmer-... |
Try to picture 5 litres of blood. That's about 13 or so regular cans of Pepsi, and also roughly (give or take depending on gender/size/etc) the amount of blood in a person. Your average blood donation takes about 8% of that, so pretty much just one can of Pepsis worth. However... should you find yourself unlucky enough... |
Social anxiety is often treated by therapists using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Usually, this involves helping individuals to identify and change faulty patterns of thinking, though can include exposure therapy whereby an individual is gradually exposed to feared stimuli. |
Fire is a chemical reaction (or rather, lots of them) that occur because oxygen would rather be stuck to the hydrogen and carbon in the wood than to itself (as O*_2_*). However, oxygen would prefer even more (or at least as much) to be stuck to hydrogen in a 1:2 ratio in water. It's already as happy as it's going to be... |
When we open our mouths to yawn, the muscles around our eyes put pressure on our tear ducts; when the yawn is particularly wide, the pressure is great enough that our facial muscles literally 'squeeze' tears out of the ducts. |
"Normal" saline (NS) is 0.9% saline in water. This isn't a lot, but trust me, it tastes very salty :P NS is isotonic with the blood. Meaning, it has the same percentage of salt that the blood does. So when it's injected you're literally adding volume to the blood. However, the ocean (which is what I'm guessing you're r... |
my baby did not cry when she arrived. she just looked around for a while then went to sleep. shees a teenager now and she crys like all the time. ill take it. Not every baby does. I delivered one that was eerily quiet, we thought there was something wrong. But he began breathing, moving fine and otherwise looked perfec... |
Production are the servers that are actually running a business and dealing with customers and real data. Right now, you are on the the Reddit "production" server. While you're writing software, you need to go through various levels of testing and quality control before you decide that the software is ready to push up ... |
You can drop the feelings/negative emotions, you have to choose to and train yourself to do so. Bottling them up as you say means you aren't dealing with them internally and feel you need to express them. For example, your spouse has a friend and you feel jealous for *reasons*. You could let it build up in you until yo... |
Take a bowl that's half full of water, and swirl it slightly while holding it level. After a while of doing this, you'll get a slosh of water that travels around its edge. However the bowl itself doesn't slosh around and change its shape. This is because the water is liquid but the bowl is a solid. The water's molecule... |
This is known as a 'run on the bank'. It has happened before. Individual branches don't carry a lot of cash so once the branch runs out, it closes until more can be delivered. As long as the bank itself remains solvent everyone will eventually get their cash. Thing is, people generally only do this when there's a whiff... |
It's when your muscle is tired and lacks electrolytes like magnesium or potassium (these are the most common) and it contracts involuntarily, Paralysing that muscle and giving you a quite considerable pain. This happens more frequently when you are "not in shape" and you exhaust a specific muscle a lot. Like going to s... |
It's extremely unlikely. Just going by chromosomes, there are ~~23^2 (529)~~ 2^23 (8388608) possible gene combinations. But chromosomes don't get split up so cleanly; during meiosis, chromosomes commonly trade genes with their neighbor (so if you got genes AAaaA from your dad and BBbbB from your mom, you might pass on ... |
I am not sure I can tell you why, but it is definitely a relatively new thing. I am doing some work with a historian and she has a giant collection of documents from about 1600 up to the late 1800s all written by men (ship logs, manifests, trade and commerce and tax documents, etc.) and virtually all of it is more legi... |
It means they voted for [Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002]( URL_0 ). They didn't declare war, but they *did* declare that our guys with guns get to go to their country and shoot at their guys with guns. It's semantics. |
This boggles down to, what are 'you' ? Ever asked yourself that? Yes, you are your brain. Damage your brain in some way and "you" will change....or cease to exist. Everything that makes you, you (Personality, memory, thoughts, muscle memory etc. ) is stored in the brain. Therefore, if a a brain transplant were to work-... |
Strengthening the currency can be done effectively in the short term, but not the long term. This is because it is done by central banks purchasing the domestic currency with reserves of foreign currency. This increases demand for your currency and therefore increases it's value, but eventually those reserves of foreig... |
Don't take anything you read on reddit as legal advice. Generally, if they have a warrant to search your house, they can pry open your locked chest if they find it in your house. If they find another chest inside, that one is covered as well. Of course, it all depends on the individual situation and the warrant in ques... |
You guys hear a sound in your head when stretching? I've apparently been stretching wrong my entire life Stretching causes the blood flow to increase and the rushing sound you hear is the sound of your blood passing through the arteries close to your ears. IIRC it is caused by myographic vibrations created by the muscl... |
In the core of each tooth is the pulp, living tissue with nerves just like anywhere else in the body. Surrounding the pulp is the dentin which is a rigid mineral substance, and on the outside the super-hard enamel. If attacked, irritated, or otherwise provoked, the pulp responds just like any other tissue in the body a... |
You're losing far more heat to the outside atmosphere than the tiny amount you could add from the stirring. |
Countries have vast resources at their hands. There should be no problems for a nation to increase their taxes a bit, reduce their expenses on infrastructure or army or in the worst case sell off state owned land or goods. The argue when a country have too much loans is that this have to be done in the best way for the... |
Privacy protects go back a long way, but they aren't always expressed as clearly. The Romans had the concept of "[actio iniuriarum]( URL_0 )" which is about protecting a person from physical harm, but also protecting their dignity and reputation. The Romans also had very strong protections for the integrity of the home... |
It is all practice man. Some people may naturally develop the small ability to wiggle their ears or something like that but if you sit down and train your mussels to do a particular thing, they will learn to do it. For example when I was in elementary school I *really* wanted to be able to do the Spock thing (where he ... |
No, there is no such body. "Justice" between nations is negotiated between countries and is enforced either by the consent of the involved parties or through warfare. Economic tactics and diplomacy can provide incentive but there is no international police who can go arrest people in other countries. |
Many mammals, especially the kind we interact with, are social creatures - the evolved to work in small family units to share in responsibilities like hunting, care for young, protection, and health. Part of health is grooming; keeping each other clean and free of disease. Petting is a form of grooming. Animals evolved... |
I wouldn't say it's impossible. The "long shot" horses usually aren't really *that* off pace. You're unlikely to see a horse that's a legit 500:1 or 1000:1 odds, usually they're more like 30:1. These are still specially bred race horses, not some random mule. So why are they there? It may be an inexperienced horse or j... |
the same reason that lightning causes thunder. that zap of electricity causes air to heat up and expand. then when electricity is gone, the air cools and collapses, making a shockwave of sound. |
A moving object can still calculate its position relative to GPS satellites. The speed of the vehicle is negligible compared to the speed of the signals. Many receivers also keep track of a number of measurements over time, specifically to monitor their movement, and determine if they get a bad measurement. After all, ... |
You make a hormone called vasopressin. One of the functions of it is to maintain water in your body. Alcohol inhibits the production of it. As a result, your kidneys don't reabsorb as much water as they would otherwise, and instead you whizz it out. |
It depends on the country. In a developed, properly managed country, like the US, what would actually happen is that the United States Federal Reserve, the big bank that loans out money to other banks, would lower their interest rate. This encourages regular banks to borrow money from them because they won't have to pa... |
Because you are still reading it as you wrote it in your mind, not as how it is on the paper. That's why common advice is to walk away from the writing for a bit when you're done, and re-read it with a fresh mind. |
It could be that after [x] amount of time asleep, your body is preparing to wake up (going into lighter sleep stages) and your cat hears the change in breathing. Whether my husband works days or nights our cat starts nuzzling him, whether or not an alarm is set. |
Paper money printed in the United States contains, in addition to a plethora of visible security features, some very elaborate methods to assist in automated denomination recognition. The primary method vending machines use to recognize the denomination of paper money is through a magnetic scan; paper currency is print... |
One legendary sound recorder for nature docs is Chris Watson. He used to be in Throbbing Gristle. Now he does the sound for David Attenborough. I once did a workshop in field recording with him. Getting sound to match nature documentaries is really an art all of it's own. They use a lot of tricks with different mics an... |
Keep in mind that the catapult system on an aircraft carrier launches aircraft horizontally, not vertically. I'll get in to why that's important in a second. The current (steam) system on a carrier is **HUGE**. The majority of it is housed below deck and is not visible from the outside, but believe me it's large. That ... |
It actually isn't. Long distance transmission of electricity is more efficient for D.C. Than AC. The problem was that the voltage was more important than the type of current and in the old days there was not an efficient and cost effective way to change the voltage for DC whereas AC you could use transformers easily. N... |
> Are we really expecting Russia might make a first strike? Well, if you dismantle your nuclear weapons, you dismantle MAD. Now Russia doesn't even have to make a first strike. They can simply say "We have all the nukes, you don't, do what we say or else." Equivalent strength is seen as a stabilizing factor, while uneq... |
Different languages use different filler words, but they all utilize them to inform the listener that you're not finished speaking yet even though you're momentarily processing words. Public speakers try not to use them since the audience isn't expected to respond, but in a conversation the listener might mistakenly as... |
Here's a good article in the LAT for you. "Despite epic rain and snow, California keeps emergency drought restrictions in place." URL_0 Now it does sound dumb - how can California be in a drought if we just got all this rain - but keep in mind that it doesn't rain here in the summer. Like at all. That means you pretty ... |
Please elaborate on your question. When you say "thousands of people shouting at 100db", are you referring to each person shouting at 100db or the total being 100db? If each person shouts at 100db, then the total would not be 100db (which is why it would be louder than 1 person shouting at 100db) 1000 sources at 100db ... |
The way I keep it straight in my head: First wave is a woman's right to be a person. Owning property, getting divorced, voting, basically having an identity beyond being an extension of some man. Second wave is a woman's right to do whatever a man can. Have any job, hold positions of leadership, etc. Reproductive freed... |
On one hand, they would probably have trouble seeing Earth, since we have several gas giants on the outer edge of our solar system; most Human technologies for detecting planets has to do with gravity's effects, and having large gas giants can obscure the smaller gravity wells of the inner planets. But, if we were a hu... |
More information about tying shoelaces than you could ever want. URL_0 Take a look at the Standard and Two Loop knots. At this point it will all boil down to an ah-ha moment. Unless you have some kind of dexterity impairment, something isn't clicking in your head about what has to be done to make a bow. Not a big deal,... |
They're too far away for that. All we can do is try figure out whether their atmospheres are similar to Earth's and so infer possible intelligence. |
It affects your sense of hunger and satiety, making you more likely to eat more. Yes, if you hold everything constant, you're not going to gain weight (well, you still might - some medications make you retain water). If a medication changes the way your hormones work, then this can decrease what is known as your basal ... |
NASA announced today the discovery of a small star system with "Goldilocks zone" planets orbiting the star. By this, I mean that all 7 planets are approximately the right distance away from the star to have liquid water or water ice and habitable temperatures on the surface. Additionally, the small size of the star sys... |
DCIM stands for (D)igital (C)amera (Im)ages. It's the name for the file folder digital cameras should store images, specified by the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association, which created the book of standards for digital camera file systems (called the Design rule for Camera File system). T... |
Most student films are not widely distributed. Nowadays something shown at a film festival or the like may be published on the Internet, but in the past you brought a copy of the film (that is, the actual film roll), played it on the projector, and took it with you. There wouldn't be many copies in existence. If they'r... |
Because growing a baby intrinsically requires more resources than providing sperm, therefore more care must be taken in selecting a mate. Waste a bit of sperm on a bad genetic partner? No big deal. Waste a pregnancy on one? Big deal. 1 male can impregnate many females. 1 female can only be impregnated by 1 male. For th... |
The Federal Reserve sets a "banking interest rate" (before someone yells at me, I'm simplifying it here). That banking interest rate affects how banks and big money does business which each other, but it also affects consumers. If you have a credit card, open up your credit card agreement envelope, and look at your APR... |
AM and PM stand for *ante meridiem* and *post meridiem*, meaning before noon and after noon, respectively. 12 AM is before the noon of that day, and 12 PM is after the noon of that day. A lot of countries, plus the US military, use a 24 hour clock to avoid any confusion. midnight is 0000. 5am is 0500. 2pm is 1400. etc,... |
If you can image the planets directly in the infrared spectrum then water should be fairly obvious. Water absorbs a large amount of incoming infrared light at very specific wavelengths so it's easy to spot *if* you can get an IR spectrum. I'm assuming these planets haven't been directly imaged but rather inferred from ... |
If you have thin film of transparent material the light reflect on both top and bottom surfaces of this film the additional distance the light that reflect on the bottom of the film makes difference in the phase of the light wave function. As the phase of wave functions of the same light are shifted now, they start to ... |
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