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Sugar will form hydrogen bonds with all sorts of compounds. This means it can be "sticky" and hold lightly to things while still being in solution. Salt, however, will simply dry as a crystal and just be either in solution or out of solution, and can't interact very strongly with ions already in solution. Thus, it is n... |
Children take things very literally. There is a lot of grey area when it comes to sex. Their minds are not geared towards "reproduction" yet and this will make things convoluted. I'm going to assume you are asking about the pedo "how it happens" to help **prevent** it from happening to a/your child. There are ways to h... |
We call the light "white" because the sun contains all wavelengths together. However, the spectrum of the sun (how much of each kind of light is present) is such that what we see is dominated by the yellow part of the spectrum. [This figure]( URL_0 ) shows the spectrum of the sun. The most light is actually present at ... |
Relativity!!! when you are in a car you are in car's frame (in other words you are moving with speed of car) and when you look from window all objects have a speed equals to object's speed minus car's speed (vector addition) which slows down everything which seems to you like car is moving slow |
I am not a lawyer and not your lawyer and this is not legal advice. I used to work IT for a very large computer services / sales corporation where an employee had child porn on their system. I was the IT employee who discovered it. I had to preserve the evidence and eventually testify. Every child porn possession case ... |
Interesting question. I'm not sure if this is what you were intending, but under conditions of severe/consistent trauma, an individual may experience dissociation (typically either **depersonalization**:feeling like one's body/mind is illusory/not one's own, or **derealization**: feeling like one's environment is illus... |
Your brain has tiny compartments with receptors which, over time, fill up with your bodys night-night chemicals. Once they are filled you get sleepy. Caffeine fills those compartments and blocks those receptors from accepting any more night-night chemicals and thereby keeps you not tired. I.e. caffeine doesn't wake you... |
Time is the measure of change in the universe. It exists because matter exists and matter travels slower than light in a vacuum. When everything in the universe travels at the same speed there is no time because you have no differences to be measured. Once you have matter, you have things that are different and their c... |
It's called a dissociative state. In psychology, dissociation is any of a wide array of experiences from mild detachment from immediate surroundings to more severe detachment from physical and emotional experience. The major characteristic of all dissociative phenomena involves a detachment from reality, rather than a ... |
Jordan Peterson explained this pretty well in one of his lectures. Lemme see if I can summarize it. We want meaning in our lives. Life is a balance between order and chaos and we don't take too well to chaos but it can be overcome and made into order, making us feel accomplished and life meaningful. Music mimics this p... |
You can off their websites. Nintendo has a few stores. I can't imagine it being profitable to build retail stores that only sell a handful of products, like video game consoles. Not really. Particularly when you consider that games consoles are massively front loaded - when they first come out, tons are sold. Later in ... |
This is just one example. More grazing animals means less vegetation for other animals to use as a home or shelter from prey. They also took vegetation away from the river banks causing more erosion. (The roots held the soil in place) The reintroduction of wolves stopped that and kept the grazing animal population in c... |
The forces of adhesion and cohesion coupled with hydrogen bonding allow molecules of water to "stick" to each other and the surface of the cell wall within the xylem. The process of water loss (transpiration) through the stomata on the underbelly of leaves creates a vacuum like environment which then sucks the water fr... |
In the US, ethanol has two problems: * in part because Iowa votes very early in the presidential primary process, ethanol production from corn is subsidized...corn is a pretty terrible thing to make ethanol out of * making ethanol out of any food product destabilizes the market for food Brazil's national fleet runs lar... |
Philosophy isn't really useful in most workers. But the personal finance one is silly. I think my school's have avoided it because of different economic situations at home and the resulting parent phone calls Philosophy - more particularly epistemology - tends not to be taught because it's just another way for the aver... |
Suppressors dull the sound of a gunshot slightly, but more importantly they dull its ability to echo, and they dull the recognizable 'pop' or 'crack' of a gunshot, turning it into a some kind of 'chiss', 'tssk', or if you use subsonic rounds, 'chack'. These two features, less echoing and less recognizability, are used ... |
There's metal in your blood. To be specific, iron. It's used to transport oxygen throughout your body. It tastes slightly rusty because oxidized iron is basically what creates rust. |
It's ASMR--autonomous sensory meridian response. It happens when something pleasurable is perceived. No one is exactly sure why it happens, but there are certain triggers--certain sights and sounds. |
Yup! One such location is the rift valley at the center of the [Mid-Atlantic Ridge]( URL_0 ). Where the plates separate magma meets sea water and forms new crust material. You've just described how Hawaii was formed. Because the water is much less dense than the molten rock, it doesn't spill through the cracks in the c... |
The tummy is generally the one weak spot that you don't want anyone to reach for an animal learnt from instincts of combat through evolution. It is much less protected and it contains most of your vitals. Turning over and exposing your underside is a sign of trust, and having it rubbed is an act of intimacy like huggin... |
I think we develop a "been there, done that" mentality in ways. I can not watch cartoons now. No matter what the topic. The irony is I just can't pay attention to cartoons. |
Oil burns at very hot temperatures, hotter than water boils at. It also doesn't stick to water. So you throw water into an oil fire, and the intense heat causes the water to rapidly turn into steam. This steam expands rapidly, which in turn launches oil into the air, broken into many droplets, allowing far more surface... |
Similar question for Kids sunscreen! - Why would I ever want to put adult sunscreen on my face, when I could use kid sunscreen so that if I sweat, it doesn't sting my eyes? Shampoo, alongside other cleaning products- hand soap, dish washing products etc all use what is called a 'surfactant' -a surface active agent. The... |
The bacteria releases toxins. So cooking might kill the bacteria but the toxins will remain. Defrosting something then refreezing it puts it in the "danger zone" of bacterial growth for a longer period of time which means more toxins ultimately |
The digestion process begins with your saliva. There are enzymes that start to break things down. This is probably what's happening to your gum after a while of being in your mouth. |
The don't remove it. They stop it from forming in the first place. How? The answer is *wax*. The static charge forms by the clothes rubbing around in the drum. Like rubbing a balloon on your head, you create a static charge. A dryer sheet is essentially a way to put a thin coat of wax on your clothes...this is enough t... |
This is actually a really neat exploration of what we scientists call "confounding factors". These are details about the set-up of an experiment that can affect what our measurements say, but don't actually affect the underlying scientific principle. There is a "real" boiling point for water that depends only on the at... |
As the temperature inside reaches 100 million degrees, the person would be killed very quickly. |
The Euro's value is predicated on the strength of the nations that make up the European Union. Recent developments, such as the Brexit, Italy's rejection of market reforms, rising anti-Euro parties and slow growth (if any) cause many people to question the strength of the commitment to the European Union. The fact that... |
Can you see the top notification bar from your phone in the picture? |
Primary : Concentration Secondary : Etiquette. They owners of the land want a certain etiquette from the players and observers. |
A pathological liar is unable to keep from lying. A compulsive liar is compelled to lie over telling the truth. While both are similar in expression, the pathological liar often hides behind his lies as a means of coping with his inability to accept reality, while the compulsive liar feels compelled to change the reali... |
When you yell at the same time you strike, it instinctively causes you to put more force into your strikes, while simultaneously startling your opponent with the loud shout. In martial arts, yelling is called kiai, (key-eye). |
Capsaicin is the chemical the makes something spicy. Capsaicin activates the nerves in your mouth that detect heat. They send the signal to your brain that they've been activated, which usually means you've eat something physically hot, although in this case it's a false signal caused by the capsaicin. Menthol, a chemi... |
There may be extra costs involved for Nintendo. The price of importing a product is more complex than simply the sales tax the consumer pays. Besides import duties there is some one-time safety/legal obstacles to be cleared and if they expect to sell fewer in Australia, the cost of meeting their laws/requirements is sp... |
Air traffic controllers think on the fly more than you would assume. They look at their radar scopes and plan each target to work with others by working their speed, altitude, and path. Computers could probably work out these, but then how would they relay that information to pilots? Another thing to think about is the... |
There's some evidence that language is fundamental in memory development and thought. There's been studies of deaf people without language being taught sign language as teenagers/adulthood, and they can't recall much of their life before language. They don't know how/what they were thinking during that time. There's a ... |
[It all goes back to seating arrangements during the French Revolution]( URL_0 ). The National Assembly took sides, with the royalists on the right and the revolutionaries on the left. Newspapers just referred to them as the left or right occasionally, and it caught on. |
- You buy a house for $100k, putting down a 20% down payment, or $20k. - your mortgage payment is about $500/mo. You also pay money into an account each month that your mortgage company uses to pay your annual home owners insurance and property taxes, so let's say the total monthly payment is $750/mo. - You rent out th... |
The point of fruit is to entice animals to eat the seeds, which are indigestible if they stay whole, and then poop them out far from the parent plant. Knowing this we can surmise that the seeds in green fruit are not mature and would not sprout if eaten and pooped out, so the fruit is sour or bitter until the seed insi... |
Relative size. Satellites are very small compared to the size of the earth, so you'd have to be zoomed in to where a satellite happened to be in order to see it. |
The protein in pork rinds is basically 100% gelatin. Gelatin is an incomplete protein - if you tried to use gelatin as your primary source of protein, you'd die. The FDA requires ([CFR 101.9.7]( URL_0 )) that products with a [Protein Digestibility Corrected Amino Acid Score]( URL_1 ) below .2 be labeled with that state... |
That's why nobody talks about "The age of the universe", but only, "The age of the observable universe". |
They have millions of microscopic hairs that cling onto the tiny grooves and notches in the wood/ speckle that you can't see with the naked eye. |
Robert (the name for which Bob is a nickname) [was one of the top two most popular names in America from 1921 through 1954] ( URL_0 ), and was in the top five up through 1971. It was one of the most common male names through most of the 20th century, alongside John and James. You whippersnappers don't remember the Era ... |
I am a survivor of MGSW luckily at a hospital more then capable of treating wounds like mine in Stockton California. The way it was explained to me was they work from the inside out, for instance I was shot (my through-and-through) left abdomin, colon, kidney, spleen and liver then out the back only a half inch from my... |
It's usually the glial support cells (microglia, oligodendrocytes, astrocytes, and ependymal cells), which do regularly divide, that are the cause of primary brain cancers, e.g. astrocytes dividing out of control = astrocytoma. But any cell in the body can become cancerous as long as it has a nucleus, even if it is nor... |
You're right, it makes the suit rigid and hard to move. For this reason, EVA suits are filled with 100% oxygen, which allows them to operate well below standard atmospheric pressure. NASA operates at 3.7-4.3 psi, compared to 14.7 psi for Earth atmosphere. That is indeed a big problem for space suits. The solution that ... |
We have seismographs all over the globe that are used to detect earthquakes. Missiles being detonated can be detected by these. Especially when NK does their bomb tests. We also have spies and spy satellites, wiretaps and surveillance of various kinds. Depending on various treaties, we might be able to go to the place ... |
Id assume it's the happy cries. So basically what's happening in your brain is that the gigantic surge of happiness and excitement overloads your brain alongside with a big release of hormones causing it to go absolutely apeshit and can't register anything but happiness. In that "I did it" moment you normally only rmb ... |
The favourite things we have we associate it with emotions and memories. For example, simply looking at colours can induce a mild subconscious emotion, sports teams that wears red have a statistical higher win rate coz it induces the sense of ferocity and fear. It very mild but it certainly changes the statistical outc... |
"If a service is free, you're not the client - you're the product." Google Maps allows Google to collect data from its users - where you are, what kind of restaurants you like, which places you like to visit. They can use this data to show you ads, or they can charge businesses to make them appear first in your search ... |
1. Your organs are in your torso, which are critical to keep warm. 2. Your legs are doing more work than your torso, so they will keep warm naturally. 3. It is harder to layer clothing on your legs, because of shoes, etc. If it's below 30 F and I'm going to be outside for anything longer than to and from car I wear the... |
It's basically saying the white is to blend into snowy environments and the black is to blend into dark or shady environments. It also says some of the black features on the face help other Pandas to recognise individuals and help the panda convey body language. Pandas are notorious for not seeing all sides to an event... |
The electric current in the television ( especially in old CRT televisions) gives a small electric charge to the casing of the electronics, as well as to the air around it ( including the dust). The effect of which is any dust which happens to float by the tv sticks to it, in the same way as a balloon rubbed on your he... |
Simply put, cold reduces swelling-your body's natural reaction to a damaged muscle. After swelling subsides, heat will help relax muscles and fast track healing with increased blood flow. At least, that's what I was taught in sports. Cold causes localized vasoconstriction, making the swelling of a tissue immediately af... |
Outside, and occasionally inside. Bugs will *enter* any house, but they only manage to survive and build up a population if there's an easy food source inside. Dirty houses don't draw bugs. Readily available food and bedding attract pests. The reason we associate bugs with dirty houses? People in dirty houses don't typ... |
It was a long time ago (think like the 1700s) and it was necessary to fund growth and to create bigger opportunities. To start, let's understand what came before. If you were a merchant in the Middle Ages you were basically trading on your family's money. You paid for the goods, you paid for the ship to transfer them, ... |
To oversimplify this; instruments around the world measure seismic activities that usually are felt around the world. However, ones further away or on the other size of the world are stronger than other readings, and not straight through the other side as we would think. The explanation is that material inside the eart... |
By screens? As in LCD displays? As a millennial you are probably safe. Us old people who were raised around CRT TVs and displays have more to worry about. LCD displays are pretty safe as far as radition and other harmful effects are concerned. OP I believe a better phrasing of your question would be "Being a millennial... |
I'm not sure I understand your question. 'Intolerable thirst' is still the sensation of thirst. Dude, drink some water during the day. Like, at least a couple large glasses. More than that if you also drink alcohol that day. If you're being awoken in the night by extreme thirst you are suffering from dehydration, which... |
A value-added tax is like a sales tax, except the seller gets to deduct the cost of their own purchase from it. For example, let's say you make widgets out of plastic: with a sales tax, you pay tax on the purchase of the plastic, and the person that purchases from you pays tax on the purchase of the widgets. You take a... |
Caffeine suppresses saliva production. Bacteria thrives when there is little saliva to inhibit it. The bacteria is what produces the pungent smell. Because they promote bacterial growth on your tongue, which is the real cause of bad breath. |
Presuming both cameras are SLRs there are still several things that add weight: * larger more powerful moters (for cameras that support in body rather than on lens focusing) and to operate the reflex mirror much more rapidly. * large pentaprisms rather than penta mirrors (internal reflections in prisms reflect more lig... |
If you assume that the one man and one woman are the only source of genetic information, then you have short term issues with incest. Long term, variations will come about through genetic mutation which will allow for a genetic base for a sustainable population. The key to doing it right is planning. The first couple n... |
It's your skin defending itself. The work you're doing is rubbing skin off in that area so it makes a tender "pad" full of fluid to protect that area. Do it enough and it will form a callous so that the skin in that area is hardened and you won't hurt it as easily. They hurt, but like many of the body's reactions to ph... |
I was taught that it counteracts excess of calcium, and helps the body use potassium better, and a bath would reduce pain from muscle cramping, not just any pain. However when I went to find a way to explain this clearer I came across this site URL_0 from the US National library of medicine with a study that concluded:... |
Optical readers take a picture of your fingerprint with a digital camera. Apple chose a capacitance reader, which is far more interesting. Touch ID uses a capacitance sensor to detect small differences in electrical conductivity on the surface of your finger. |
The chemical properties of an atom are determined by the arrangement of its electrons. The positive charge in the atom's nucleus determines how many electrons the atom can attract, and how strongly they are held in their orbits. |
You have a reproductive instinct that drives you to breed. It is outranked only by basic survival - the hierarchy of needs (air, water, food, shelter.) Genetically, reproduction is your one and only purpose beyond survival, and even the quality of your attempt (i.e. fitness of mate, personal success) is secondary to an... |
Because the tires of a car don't stop the current. Lightning actually flows around the outside of a car, and the majority of the current jumps from the car's metal cage into the ground below. The tires on cars are conductive as they are impregnated with graphite. A car protects from lightning by conducting it through t... |
Using a triangle metod.. You send a signal to nearest station or satelite(but their position must be know), and you get resposnse after some time. Repeat that with three stations(satelites).. Using a simple formula v=s/t.. you get three diameters and a place they intersect is the place you are... Repeat that process an... |
Longer-term memories aren't stored as specific or whole parts, they are stores in bits linked by associations and neural networks. You can access memories by associating something that is currently happening with a specific memory. For example, you can walk past a restaurant and remember a great meal you had there. You... |
The short answer is that neuropathways in the brain are restricted so the chemicals that would normal pass through them freely are now not getting through at an acceptable rate. This leads to changes in moods, thought processes, and even physical behavior. Now to be clear not everyone who is depressed suffers from Clin... |
From what I heard, energy production by the cells in the brain produces adenosine as a by-product. This would be metabolized elsewhere in the body into ADP or adenosine di-phosphate which can then be converted into ATP for energy. This can't penetrate the blood brain barrier normally. So, it just accumulates. When you ... |
They are deserving of being suspect as they can't, by definition, fix the problem. So then what are they doing? And we're going to explore a couple important questions: What do these programs suggest they can do that, say, Microsoft, doesn't know about their own software? Or Google? Who are these people? Do they think ... |
Putin invades his neighboring countries. He imprisons his political opponents. He has robbed his country enough to become one of the richest men in the world. He is dangerous, he has dissenters and opponents murdered pretty much with impunity. The people of Russia are fine but Putin is not someone we want to be friends... |
Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon after March 20. It can fall between March 22 and April 25. |
There's two relevant aspects here: Line vs Staff officers and rank vs possitional authority. Line officers are those who's training and background is in command, particularly of combat units. Staff Officers are specialized in a particular field (like doctors, supply officers, lawyers) where they are granted the rank an... |
After being deprived of sleep for long enough the body will begin to "replace" sleep with calories. Your body still needs the sleep of course but it begins to do what it needs to do to continue working. If you ever want to see this in action, it is common among the crab fishing crews in the Bering Sea. I've seen it exp... |
Carry over from old AC motor driven harddrives that use to run at 3600 RPMs. US AC power runs at 60hz per second, which resulted in 3600RRPM drives, until manufacturers figured out they could provide more power using brushless motors at higher factors(5400, 7200). The speed factor kept the description of the drive well... |
Hey, I just had an exam in this today! Ibuprofen is an NSAID, or non steroidal anti inflammatory drug. Like other posters have mentioned, it inhibits an enzyme, COX, or cyclooxgenase. COX makes prostaglandins (inflammatory chemicals) out of acids made from our cell membranes. Prostaglandins act in two places to cause p... |
Eventually the caps on your chromosomes slowly degrade as an organism grows older. For us, this degrading takes the course of 70-80 years. Other animals can prolong it (like turtles) or all together repair it like lobster Secretly the Earth's Oxygen is a lethal gas that slowly kills us by aging.... ^^^seems ^^^legit En... |
Many genes have two forms, a dominant version and a recessive version. If you get a copy of each (one from Mom and one from Dad) then the body runs mostly the same way as if you had two copies of the dominant one. Only if you get two copies of the recessive one does your bode express the other trait. Inbreeding increas... |
The basic premise relies on the fact is that light and other electromagnetic waves have a travel time, its just that they move really really fast. By turning our telescopes to the parts of space that are both empty and very very VERY far away we can then "listen" to electromagnetic waves (like static on your TV). The b... |
The federal government was designed to primarily be a representative of the States, while the States would represent the People. This is apparent in how the Federal Senate was initially chosen by the state legislatures (prior to a constitutional ammendment), and the Electoral College was initially also selected indepen... |
Software developer here, That is highly dependent on context. In Lisp, the code is data, and it's absolutely trivial to reason about it as data, at runtime, in your program. This is quite common to do in the language, as runtime code generation and execution is a fundamental language construct. This means you can take ... |
Sucks to be Bob. Sucks to be Bob. Sucks to be Bob. Your notion of "thinking" and penguins doesn't really go together. Watching to make sure than the monster that ate Bob isn't going to come after them next is probably the limit of a bird's "planning". Some animals think, 'served'em right.' Others think, 'that's gotta h... |
Because once you have money it's much easier to make more. And if you have the money you can help to shape the economy in ways to benefit you. Generally those without money are less educated and less clued in to what's going on, so their interests don't get as strong a voice in decision making. Firstly, 1% of humanity ... |
(1) To the best of my knowledge, we don't necessarily understand *exactly* what causes hallucinations to occur. However, we have identified strong correlates such as hyperactivity of the dopaminergic system, irregular activity of the serotonergic system, hypoactivity of the glutamatergic system, lower hippocampal volum... |
Because it's not free energy. In order to set up the magnets in some configuration, you move them around and alter their potential energy. You are doing work in order to set them up. Any kinetic energy you get out will necessarily be less than or equal to the energy you put in to set it up in the first place. |
Yes. That's basically what Transcranial Magnetic Simulation is - a series of strong, highly localised magnetic pulses that can temporarily shut down parts of the brain. Yes, but any EMP strong enough to affect the ervous system's electrical impulses would probably cook the rest of the person as well. |
This is, in most cases, like asking why a cashier can't decide to let customers go without paying Physician regulations are heavily dependent upon state law (as well as other law), but in general there may be a few reasons. First, most states prohibit physicians from giving free services in exchange for kickbacks. In o... |
It could be those bars actually pour it properly. Or your local bar gets older kegs. Or both. I haven't been able to verify it myself to take this with a grain of salt. Guinness in Ireland or other more populated areas will be fresher and will end up tasting better. A pint of Guinness at your local suburban bar will be... |
When I was 12 we used to photocopy dollar bills and exchange them for quarters in the local laundromat machine so we could go and play pinball. They're pickier now because of kids like me. |
The task of getting an update to your machine and applying it moves down a very long pipeline. First the data is stored somewhere on a physical hard drive inside a server someplace. The server has to know about your request for the data, access it, send it along the network to the ISP or internet backbone, then the dat... |
You have different sensory pathways that connect your body parts (skin and muscles) to your brain via your spinal cord. They sense pain, pressure, touch, vibration, movement, where your body is in space, etc. When you shake your hand wildly, multiple systems are firing to let your brain know everything that's going on ... |
There used to be! Kinda... Most people on Earth have a small fraction of their DNA replace with Neanderthal DNA. This means at one point Homosapiens were doing the do with Neanderthals. This inevitable created some sub-species of humans depending on what your definition of "species" is. Though as anyone who studied any... |
> why do they cost the same as an XB or a PS? They don't at all. You're comparing the brand new Switch to the 4 year old Xbox One or PS4. The Switch launched at $300, while the PS4 launched at $400 and the Xbox One launched at $500. Nintendo consistently released consoles with less power that cannot run many of the AAA... |
Human's primary form of adaptation is the use of technology. So we have adapted to the cold by inventing insulated shelter, controlling fire, and making clothing. We grew intelligent enough to skin other warmer animals and wear their hides over our own. For the same reason we can't fly like a bird. The compromises nece... |
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