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There's a thing called an [*anti-griddle*]( URL_0 ), but that's more of an opposite to a cooking range than a microwave. |
If it doesn't increase or decrease the number of children you have, evolution doesn't give two tugs of a dead stegosaurus's thagomizer whether it stays or goes. because those who are born without them have no benefit over anyone else in regards of surviving or mating. if people would die because of their wisdom teeth, ... |
Documentarian here, though definitely not for that type of thing. I would imagine it is a mix of a) finding the right person who wants to talk, which may be after asking a lot of people who refuse, b) offering them money, and c) offering them anonymity. I've never seen that particular series, but I assume the faces and... |
This is a pretty board topic. Basically the idea is the government gives money to farms to ensure they continue to grow food. Imagine this example, there is a really great year for farming and all the farms grow lots of food. This means there is a huge supply of food, but because of supply and demand it means the food ... |
There's a thing called the "one-half" rule that applies to mammals, which is that mammals will ~~always~~ usually (almost always) have average litters equal to one half the number of nipples they have (and the opposite: they will have twice the number of nipples for the average litter). The exact reason for this is not... |
It's certainly possible. There are many cases of two mixed race parents having kids that look completely different. Kids get half of each parents' genes, but they all get different halves. But whether or not it means what people think it means is another question! DNA tests for ancestry are not as accurate as they pres... |
Women usually have shorter thinner vocal chords. This causes the pitch to be higher. Think of the difference between a piccolo and a full-size flute. While similar in layout and design. The piccolo being smaller creates a higher pitch when playing the same written music. |
It is already lit... its a trick. That's why he covers the whole thing with his hand haha. |
Radio waves have two ways of being transmitted: AM (Amplitude Modulation) and FM (Frequency Modulation). The way a radio wave is created is by electrons running up and down radio towers. This is what creates the electromagnetic wave. (Think of it like holding the end of a rope, and moving your hand up and down will sen... |
Printing your own currency is costly and opens you up to currency manipulation if the government is too inept. In some poorer countries with a history of governmental instability it's much easier to use a highly stable currency like the US Dollar. Yes you lose some currency sovereignty, but you also avoid falling into ... |
First by observing other galaxies in the universe and classifying them by type. Then by examining the distribution of stars in the Milky Way to determine which galaxy type it most closely resembles. The distribution of stars in the Milky Way very closely resemble a spiral galaxy similar to [NGC 6744]( URL_0 ). They dif... |
It depends on what type of Librarian you are talking about. Librarians assistants are generally just the people who learn about librarian functions and are the people who put the books away, do general checkout functions, so on and so forth. Librarians, are generally like supervisors. They oversee the librarian's assis... |
In California, I always wondered why they were called Freeways until I experienced tollways on the East Coast. One is free the other is not. Expressways, at least where I am, are faster roads, but they still have stop lights, but not as many as a regular road. Freeways don't have stop signs. Well the word "Highway" is ... |
Yes, usually the camera man is far away. Another technique is camping in a spot nearby and remaining still and/or camouflaged for long periods of time allowing the animals to acclimate to the camera operator. They dont use big crews like normal television productions, usually one to three people depending on the locati... |
Because humans miss things. If I were to say, ask you to go build a house, how well would you do? I'm sure you considered wall placement and stair placement; but did you remember electrical or plumbing? What about hookups for water/gas/sewer? Any space for your septic field? Well, whenever a development team is told "g... |
Vitamins are *micronutrients,* which means the amount your body needs is actually very tiny. The small pill contains a small amount, because that's all you need (or even several times as much). |
Ping is how long it takes information from the host to reach your computer. You always want the lowest ping possible. Anything over 100 can start to really disrupt gameplay. When you ping a server (in this instance a gaming server) your computer simply sends out a signal and if the server is there it will respond and t... |
Non-slip shoes have safety ratings, and those safety ratings are based on how the shoe exerts pressure on the ground. If a sole has lots of tread-patterns it has less surface area contact with the floor. The less area it has contacting it, the greater the pressure it can exert on the ground. The increase in pressure on... |
Because language structures differ too much. Context, syntax, etc. make things too complicated. Modern translators do not use syntactic rules or anything. They use statistical models to try to infer translations based on maximum likelihood. (In easy terms, it obtains the list of words that are more likely to mean the s... |
Because your body is a survival machine. Pain serves as an indicator that there is an issue; continued pain does nothing to help the issue other than to serve as a reminder. Your mind starts to ignore continued unchanging pain which significantly dulls it. The same is for when you physically injure yourself such as get... |
Semiconductors when they were developed solved several critical issues with computers at the time. 1) It made parts small. Before semiconductors, you'd have vacuum tubes and large apparatuses like punch cards or physically woven copper wire as a medium to store information. Semiconductors took the same functions and sh... |
Yes, given infinite fuel a rocket could accelerate forever at a constant rate. Note that this does not imply that the rocket will surpass the speed of light at any point. Velocity is not given by the simple Newtonian equation v=a*t at relativistic speeds, but by the slightly more complicated equation v = c tanh(aT/c) w... |
Planets orbit closely enough to stars that, over the distances between us and them, they might as well be in the exact same place so all you need to do is find the star. Since space is so big, over any human timespan, the stars aren't moving relative to each other. That star is going to be in the same spot 200 years fr... |
Probably 115 years. A few people would get a bit more, a few would get a bit less. But that doesn't include super rad medical progress. Here's an article from Nature that sort of discusses both sides: URL_0 |
Individual preferences due to lifestyle/influences Although there are basic tastes that majority of people don't like cause of evolution (maybe bitter and spicy was attributed to poisonous food) and sweet was from healthy fruits or edibles. But when it comes to specific tastes individuals have, it may have been formed ... |
The short answer is that you don't think that creatively when dreaming either: you just think you do because the rational part of your brain isn't functioning and your irrational part fudges over the flaws. Paul McCartney composed the entire melody for the hit acoustic song Yesterday in a dream. Maybe learn to lucid dr... |
The biggest problem with world hunger isn't that we don't produce enough food, it's that we can't get it to the people who need it. Corrupt governments, greedy, war & lack of infrastructure are far bigger issues than not having enough food to go around. In a lot of ways it already has. There is enough food produced in ... |
Someone else might have a better answer, but I think the reason is simply that at the edge is the only contact point of liquid & mug where the water is evaporating, and it leaves behind a deposit of tea/coffee as it does. Because that is where the coffee dries, depositing the sticky solids on the side of the cup. |
It's as simple as you'd imagine - lots of different smelling chemicals are mixed to create a scent. Some are rare and expensive (ambergris), some are cheap and common (lemon oil), some are only made by industrial processes. Most fragrances are blends of different amounts of dozens of different chemicals. I saw a docume... |
Simply because it's inefficient to do so. They are relatively small and dispersed compared to say, Tuna or Cod. The amount of work involved with catching smaller / less common fish would increase the price of the fish, and have less to show for it. There are many reasons; but it pretty much comes down to this: Some typ... |
bikes are faster, handle better, and cheaper; in a generality. They are also easier to store. Bikes are available with multiple gears, which would be much more complex on a trike. I'm sure a large part is the stigma associated with tricycles. You ride tricycles as a kid before you learn to balance a bike. If you ride a... |
Ideas and goals are easier to achieve when you think about the work being in the future. That's why often people will do this exact thing before they go to bed, set high loft goals for the next day then wake up the next morning and realize the amount of work and effort that needs to go into realizing it. This happens a... |
Salt. Self rising flour is ordinary flour + leavening agent (normally baking powder) + a bit of salt. URL_0 |
The industries that farm, produce, and sell them generally have an association where these producers cooperate; promoting a commodity benefits all of them. A single farm or a meat packing plant or a distributor can't advertise to consumers since consumers never buy directly from them. |
Since the deniers are backed by some powerful and wealthy institutions, many of them corporate entities actually responsible for the release of greenhouse gases, getting them to admit that their activities contribute to the problem would significantly change the dynamic of the discussion and might even lead to real act... |
It's likely to be easier to kill the rhinos rather than to subdue then and remove their horns. Tranquilizer guns aren't like in the movies. You don't just take a dart and shoot it at an animal, and it falls asleep, and if it doesn't, you shoot it again. Professionals have charts and cheat sheets for dosing, and expensi... |
At least in the US, there's no law against mentioning a competitor as long as you're not saying *provably false* and harmful things about them (eg - Pepsi can't say "Coke kills puppies"). Whether or not to mention the competition is sort of a decision that every advertiser needs to make. One school of thought wants to ... |
There are two types. Osteoarthritis is the erosion of the cartilage in your joints. It can be caused by injury or stress on the joints (including being overweight), but there are also believed to be inherited factors. Cartilage acts as cushioning between the bones, so as it erodes bone rubs against bone, which results ... |
Complexity doesn't necessarily mean that a molecule can't withstand high temperature. According to [this]( URL_0 ) study there's no significant increase in the amount of nicotine byproducts up to 1000 C. Cigarettes don't usually get above 700 C during normal use, so there's very little chance that nicotine breaks down ... |
Mould spores are everywhere in the air the sealed bag would have contained many of these "seeds" waiting for the right time to grow into mould. Mold spores are pretty much everywhere including in the air. When the bread was made and put into the bag it included mold spores which over time were able to grow and produce ... |
Think of it like social batteries. An introvert has a phone battery. The battery drains when they interact socially with other people. They need to spend time to be by themselves to recharge their battery. An extrovert has a car battery. Their battery charges when it's being driven while they're interacting socially wi... |
Looking at their climates, locations, and amount of arable land, historically they have been able to cultivate vast amount of food. depending on the region of each of the countries you can cultivate/farm year round. As a result they also accounted for a greater chunk of world's economic activities. Combine all these fa... |
Great question – one that probably every paleontologist has asked themselves numerous times. My realm of knowledge (and livelihood) lies in zoology, but with a great interest, and some understanding of paleontology as well, I can make an educated guess. Of course it’s just my theory, and lots of others have perfectly g... |
Cocaine gets absorbed by the mucus membranes in your nostrils, and crosses over directly into the blood stream. This is why cocaine acts so much faster than say, alcohol. Alcohol has to reach the small intestine before being absorbed in large amounts, which can take 15-30 minutes depending on your stomach contents. Coc... |
Okay, this is very basic, mind you. Imagine a radio wave is like a squiggly line, completely even on both sides, so you have even "peaks" and "troughs" (hills and valleys). Now imagine that by changing the power we put into transmitting this, we can change how high or how low these peaks and troughs are. This gives us ... |
Once your body kicks into starvation mode (which varies in onset time per individual - for super skinny/low caloric intake folks it can be as low as 8 hours, but on average its around 12-16), a lot of hormonal changes start. Your liver and muscles start consuming glycogen (sugar) stores, and then start metabolizing fat... |
The blast would be not nearly as dangerous; the normal distances involved in space travel would reduce the danger significantly. There wouldn't be a shock wave, as there's no atmosphere to carry one, so it would just be light, hard ionizing radiation, EMP, and a comparatively small ball of very hot, very radioactive pl... |
Covering your body parts in cloth is necessary to keep them warm in cold weather, whether it's your head or your legs or your butt. It's a myth that we lose 75% of our body heat through our heads -- but it is true that your head would be cold without a hat. Just as your legs would be cold without pants. The colder it i... |
The odds are better if you bet a spread. Let's imagine two teams having a hockey game, the Destroyers and the Wimps. The Destroyers are going to crush the Wimps. No one on earth thinks the Wimps are going to win. So the bookies won't give you very good odds to bet the Destroyers. Like, if you bet the Destroyers to win,... |
To be the White House press secretary is the highest level of bullshit artist a man can attain. It is their whole job to spin the President's daily actions and inactions into something everyone can understand. The good ones are like lawyers, they never lie, but get real creative when telling their truth. Since most of ... |
Think of it this way. Let's say that you're a company that receives a lot of postal mail. You could have the mailroom receive that mail, then take it directly to the recipient. That's your computer without antivirus. Alternatively, your company could have a room directly next to the mail room. The mail room receives a ... |
The difference in distance from the lowest part of the troposphere to the highest is entirely negligible compared to the distance to the sun. You have to consider that you're talking, at most, tens of miles relative to almost 100 million miles. The troposphere, which is the part of the atmosphere where all humans live,... |
I think preferences come from your environment growing up. Actual tasting of the taste buds though - that almost has to be genetic. I learned, not long ago, the exact reason why some folks don't like cilantro. To them, it tastes like soap! To everyone else, it tastes like cilantro. I confirmed this with the handful of ... |
Because other prices have gone up. From the spices to gasoline they use to transport the cheetos. Also the retailer may be looking for a little more money, maybe they have taken cuts recently and are raising prices all around to try and stay open. I am really really hoping that this is satire. In case this is not, in f... |
The idea originated as soon as people started realizing that the barter system sucks once services start existing within a community. Here's an example I like to use from an early human settlement: > CM: Hey, Repair Dude, my roof has a hole in it. Want to fix my roof for two chickens? > RD: Sure thing, Chicken Man. > *... |
Some of these businesses are scams, but some are legal and just charge for a service that anyone has access to. For instance, people in a lot of debt to the IRS can make an "offer in compromise." They agree to pay a good chunk of their debt within a set time, based on their income and assets, and the IRS does not colle... |
The first answer is no one knows for sure. Google music theory. The second answer is largely because you tend to like songs the more you hear them, and music companies blast the same shit over and over, which is why pop music is popular with younger people. But as you grow into adulthood the reason for liking particula... |
Really, a poison is something that will harm or kill you if taken into your body in an amount you're likely to encounter. Technically, water or caffeine (or anything) will kill you if you take enough of it, so that's why I added the "in an amount you're likely to encounter" part of it. Since your body is really just a ... |
Some combination. People typically make their social groups of people they think are like them. Adults may make these decisions based on more complicated social factors such as ideologies other personality aspects, or on simple physicality. Children don't typically understand the more complex differences in people, so ... |
It's both. LastPass, and password vaults like it, are the weakest link to all your passwords in that if anyone gets the password to the vault, they have access to every password stored therein (or at least, all passwords stored up until you next change your vault-password, and afterwards they only get to keep any if th... |
It's simpler than that. It's a way of making sure the text isn't visible through the paper before the exam begins, by ensuring there's an entire sheet without any test-content printed on it that must be moved aside when the exam begins. No one has answered you so i will venture a guess. If i was designing a test bookle... |
Well that's a pretty tough question to ELI5. The answer on that level would be mass bends space-time. The curvature of space-time is essentially what we call gravity. Light has to travel along the curves because space and time are basically related to make space-time by the speed of light itself. Light is basically the... |
Getting caffeine out of coffee beans is easy--just grind them up and steep them in hot water! Getting ONLY caffeine out is harder, as we'd like to keep those flavor compounds. The Swiss Water process involves boiling some sacrificial beans to make very strong coffee, then filtering the caffeine out of that coffee with ... |
Living things are often thought of by scientists as 'homeostasis machines'. Homeostasis is just a (kinda) shorter way of saying "Keeping the levels of everything balanced so the machine works", and in animals this refers to things like having the right body temperature, amount of salt, water and what have you. Apart fr... |
Here's a way to think about it. You own a painting. You think that the painting is an original by Da Vinci, worth $10 million. You have the value of that painting as part of your net worth, not cause you have the actual cash on hand, but because the painting has worth and adds value. However, something horrible happens... |
Kind of like invisible fences for dogs. There's a cable buried around the perimeter of the store. Each cart has a device that, when it goes outside of the cable perimeter, locks up one of the wheels and prevents it from spinning. I assume the logic behind this is that no one wants to steal a cart with a stuck wheel. |
Cost vs benefit. Ultrasonic cleaning is pretty expensive and isn't as easy as hot water and soap. And while it would clean your dishes better than hot water and soap, your dishes being that much more clean isn't of any better for you. |
The director of the CIA is appointed by the President, subject to confirmation by the Senate. The CIA is under the Director of National Intelligence, also appointed by the President, although Trump has made the CIA Director a cabinet position. Under the National Security Act, the CIA is supposed to report (almost all) ... |
We help people all over the world. Many countries have been helped by our peacekeeping efforts. And we are generally polite. We even won many battles during the world wars and even hid the Dutch princesses in our country while the nazis invaded them. They send us 100,000 tulips every year in appreciation. URL_0 Canadia... |
Venom is injected with fangs, stingers or the like. Poison is ingested. If a venomous thing bites you, you die. If you bite a poisonous thing, you die. "Toxin" is a good catch-all term that applies to both circumstances. Poison has to be eaten or placed in contact to cause harm (it can also be injected.) Venom is *alwa... |
Food is under the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) which does the nutrition labels. Alcohol is under the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF), which does not have a labeling standard. In Canada and as someone on keto, I appreciate that Sleeman clear has nutritional facts despite not having to. |
neon conducts electricity only when you ionize the atoms, that is remove some of the electrons. The gas itself won't conduct electricity, just like how normal air doesn't conduct electricity but when there's a large enough electric field you can get lightning. Its the same basic principle. Basically you have to put neo... |
It falls apart because it's nucleus is unstable, not it's electron cloud. The nucleus requires very particular ratios of protons and neutrons in order to be stable, and without that ratio, the bigger the nucleus, the faster is falls apart. Stable and inert are not the same thing. Fluorine is stable. Fluorine is not ine... |
It's due to our "fight or flight" mechanism. Our subconscious has detected a threat from something so it starts to flood our bodies with hormones. These hormones do lots of things but one of them is to make us very physically aggressive. Many years ago this was to help us either runaway from or fight off a dangerous an... |
Hypnopompic hallucinations (as you wake up) as well as hypnagogic hallucinations (as you fall asleep) are just a fun little easter egg in human sleep. Sleep isn't an all-or-nothing deal. You fade in and out and go through stages. In the lightest stage, you are sort of sleeping and also sort of awake. It's theorized tha... |
Some people explain fidget behavior as something that is self stimulating, and it's thought of as a behavior that helps to calm or regulate your system if there is a feeling of anxiety. It also can help you to focus. Some students with ADHD find having a fidget to keep their hands busy in class allows them to pay bette... |
When it comes to bodily functions, surface area is king. That's why your lungs have millions of fibers, your colon has wrinkles and cilia, and your tongue has so many little "divots" and "cracks". The increased surface area that comes with a rough surface allows your tongue to fit more taste buds into the same size sur... |
The underlying science is based on dating various layers of rock found around the earth. (see [this wiki]( URL_0 )) Basically, scientists uses various methods to determine ranges for layers of rock that they find around the earth. These are then cross compared to come up with a basic timeline of large scale geographic ... |
The clear liquid is known as a supersaturated solution. In this case, of sodium acetate. By using only a little water, the maximum amount of solid is dissolved when it's hot. When it cools down, it ought to crystalize out but it can't because there's nothing to start the them off. When some crystals are added they act ... |
It takes time for you to build that tolerance. Especially after going your entire life without it. Anyone tried that korean instant noodle thats supposedly super spicy? |
Being a drummer, i have no clue what you're talking about. But if i had to explain HOW to do it to a beginner, I'd tell teach them counting rhythms. Like one, two, three, four, on the right hand, and one, two +, three, four +. With practice, these patterns can be done in your sleep. Or perhaps on every surface your han... |
URL_0 The video is of Aussie Rules, but more than likely it is applicable to all sports. I was in charge of statistics for the Scotties Tournament of Hearts (Canadian women's curling championships) for a few games this year. I literally recorded every shot and gave it a score out of 4. The program I was using analyzed ... |
Heart only contracts once per cardiac cycle. Contraction originates in the atria and then spreads over the ventricles. The reason you think it beats twice (ie lub-dub) is you've two heart sounds. S1 (lub) is your atrioventricular valves closing after contraction of the ventricles and S2 (dub) is your semi-lunar valves ... |
Airplanes are pressurized but only partially so. They don't pressurize the plane to sea level when they are at 30,000 ft. they set it to something like 6,000 ft to make the passengers comfortable, breathing, and to reduce wear and tear on the airplane (think blowing up a balloon, letting the air out, then doing it agai... |
Water absorbs the warmer hues of short wavelength light first - reds, oranges, yellows. Seawater has organic debris, plankton, and compounds leaking from algae - all of this tints water with brown/amber/yellowish tones. Blue + amber = dirty green. Please correct me if I'm wrong, I may have oversimplified or misundersto... |
Because you're washing mixed colors together. That's just the color of the fibers most clothes shed when being washed. It's like when you combine random crayon colors, you always ended up with a sorta of puke brown. Wash a load of almost entirely red clothes/towels and you'll get red lint. Seen it myself. |
Largely it's practice. The reason babies and young kids wear diapers is because they haven't learned yet. If you do something often enough it becomes automatic. It's kinda like walking, it's something you have to learn, but once you learn it and practice it every single day of your life it happens automatically. There'... |
In the U.S., in most places, at least, if you resign then it is harder to get unemployment. If they fire you, it is easier to get unemployment. Also, for higher end jobs or jobs under contract/with union protections, there are often ways to contest being fired, which can make the process longer and more expensive. If y... |
It's kind of like the difference between standing next to the melted reactor core of Chernobyl and getting an Xray. Your eyes are constantly exposed to bright, damaging light, especially UV light from the sun. A few minutes of bright light at the optometrist isn't going to contribute significantly, especially because t... |
The proper name is "single-image random dot stereogram" (SIRDS) It's tricky, and describing it without drawing diagrams is a little hard, but I'll try: Imagine a 3-D model on a table. There's a piece of glass halfway between your eyes and the model. Paint a random dot of color on the glass near the middle. Look at that... |
Absolutely nothing, other than being the same number. The TV resolutions simply tell you how many pixels there are. Just a coincidence. 360 is 2³ * 3² * 5, meaning you can combine any of these to make a number that can divide the whole. This can be useful for a number of reasons. For circles and arcs, it means you can ... |
An "Atom Bomb" is a fission-only bomb; splitting Uranium or Plutonium atoms. A "Hydrogen Bomb" is a fission-triggered fusion-enhanced bomb. A conventional fission bomb sets off a secondary fusion reaction (fusing hydrogen atoms); the resulting ultra-powerful fusion reaction causes a much higher fission yield (in tradit... |
When you visit the google web page, A computer program run by one of the google computers will send you a web page (the search page), whilst this page looks clean and ready for your search request, it's a very special page, every keypress will make your computer talk to lots of their programs, these programs run on lot... |
Because during sleep your body paralyses your muscles to stop you from hurting yourself in the middle of the night. This paralysis is most strong during REM sleep, which is the deepest part of your sleep. If you are woken up suddenly during deep sleep (e.g. by an alarm) then the chemicals that your brain is releasing t... |
If you really wanted cola and orange you would buy both. If manufacturers mixed the packs people may only buy one 6 pack of mixed instead of 2 packs of 6. This would lead to people buying and drinking less soda which the big corporations couldn't allow. |
There's different ways that our brains control what we do, very roughly we could break them up as: * Instincts - stuff we're born knowing how to do * Learning - stuff we figure out through repeated exposure * Conscious control - we can choose to override some actions So for example pulling your hand back from a hot sto... |
Company "A" develops a drug they get to sell it under the brand name for a certain amount of years(10 years I think). After those 10 years the rest of the market(company B-Z) get to make and sell generics, but by then, often times people have become used to buying the brand name and just continue to buy it. People buy ... |
I'm not 100% sure about this, but I read an interesting theory a while back that basically goes like this: Imagine you're holding a baby. You have a sudden, crazy urge to drop the baby. You imagine dropping the baby and how much it'll hurt him/her. Imagining what would happen causes you to hold onto the baby more tight... |
Broth, gruel, or water by mouth until you shit yourself to death. Which is, uh, what happens to millions of people worldwide even today. Dysentery, cholera, rotavirus still kill people every minute of every day, millions of which do not have ready access to what we would consider the minimum amount of medical treatment... |
Neutrinos and antineutrinos are subatomic particles that are emitted in nuclear reactions and can cause other reactions. Unfortunately they're *really* bad at causing reactions - most of them would just fly straight through the Earth without doing a thing. To detect them you need a large vat of something transparent, k... |
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