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You're not really aware of much that goes on in your head. The brain makes a decision, then your conscious mind rationalizes that decision. One of the hardest things for me to accept was that I'm not in the driver's seat in here. I can veto decisions, but I'm not the one making them. It isn't just our emotions we're no... |
Insects navigate by using a reference point of light. Normally this would be the sun or the moon. They are far enough away that insects can put the sun/moon at a certain degree in their vision, and they know they will be traveling in the direction they need. If they end up using a street light, things don't go as plann... |
From a psychological perspective we are more likely to remember memories that are associated with high emotion- usually negative emotion. So if you think of your earliest childhood memory it is usually a negative memory like being violently sick or getting in trouble. Psychology has a bunch of explanations, but one neu... |
Dentist here. There are several different reasons mouth breathing can be detrimental. I'll just list a few, and then answer any specific questions in response. When your mouth is constantly open and/or exposed to air flow, it dries out your saliva - which is the mouth's way of cleaning itself. With poor salivary flow c... |
Imagine you live in a place where you have to fight to survive. You have to scare/maim/kill other people to get food. That's the hamster vs hamster. Now if a giant 300x your size comes along and starts reaching for you, you're gonna freeze up and hope it hasn't seen you because you don't have a snowball's chance in hel... |
They were installed in 1996 and there's never been a reason to change them. They also need to be rugged and survive years of direct weather exposure, sound quality was never the primary engineering concern. |
> But do they really do anything? How? Drawing salves have not been scientifically tested or approved for human use. That alone should be a huge alarm bell to you because if they were safe and effective the big medical companies would be selling the crap out of them. Heck, safe is enough for them to get into the game r... |
Because the plays attributed to him reveal a genius of craft and beauty in language as well as keen insight into the human condition, and he did so in a way that few can compare with his art. He's thought to have invented [more than 1,700 words]( URL_0 ) in the English language. Many of which are in common usage today. |
Teleological means "goal directed", in the sense of a long-term goal. One of the most common misconceptions is that evolution is teleological, with its ultimate goal as the creation of intelligent life. So billions of years passed, all aiming at the emergence of *homo sapiens*. Well, actually, evolution is just a mecha... |
Motion sickness comes about when the brain receives conflicting sensory signals. If you sit in the back of the car and stare at the head rest in front of you, read, play on your phone, whatever, your inner ear is sensing the motion of the car, but your eyes aren't passing that same information on - as far as the eyes a... |
The thing that made it "click" for me was when I first started looking at the Java GUI API. I haven't used Java for many years now, but I regularly use C# with Windows Forms, which has many similar features in the way the GUI is implemented. I saw that Button, TextBox, ListBox and many others all inherit from something... |
They hatch from eggs. You can learn more about snail reproduction [here]( URL_0 ). I studied cone snail development as a Master's student. Many marine snails are laid in egg sacs that contain tens or hundreds of individual eggs apiece. Each gravid female can lay 20 egg sacs or more. The opening of these sacs is blocked... |
"Spicy" is interpreted by your body as "mildly irritating." So your body produces tears and mucus to coat your vulnerable parts (inside you nose and in your eyes) and flush out the irritating stuff. When your body makes more mucus, your nose runs (out, or down your throat) and you might feel your sinuses clear out. |
The short answer is they don't. Actually, they have a full range of military comms, but that only works when they are at or near the surface (they have to stick the antenna out of the water). Their other options are towed arrays and buoys, they can throw them out, they float to the surface, and stay connected with a wi... |
That's quite a lot of varieties, I hope she was actually certified. Most of my farmers are only able to carry up to about 5 different varieties from the different areas they drop their bees off. For example: bees are dropped off in Fresno and Porterville at the citrus fields - this yields their "orange blossom" honey. ... |
Because immune systems are like countries, not like armies. At a general level we have allergies because sometimes the immune system is over-concerned about a particular, usually harmless, substance. People think of their immune system as a sort of military for the body, working on behalf of the whole body to keep the ... |
Basically, now American ISPs can sell the data they collect from you to advertisers without your permission. My take on it would be to eliminate piracy, no more GBA Roms and free e-books for me. Some could say it's for the protection against terrorists but really, the TSA hasn't done anything and neither will monitorin... |
If there were such a requirement, it would effectively mean that the military or the government can restrict who can be elected president. That doesn't sound like a good idea. The Executive branch is the branch in charged of giving out security clearances. The President is the head of this branch, and therefor he sets ... |
You'd need a regulator and a way to mix it with the right amount of oxygen, or you'd just be gassing someone to death. While not impossible, that would be some real MacGyver-level ingenuity, which in the real world does not usually end well for anyone. |
Whether you know the techniques or not, a large part of counseling is just having someone to listen, to give you an outside perspective, and to guide your train of thought as you're relating your thoughts and feelings. That's useful for anyone to have, because it's really hard to take an honest look at yourself. Of cou... |
Wine or beer. Often time soldiers would be marching in countries where they might not have safe water, so they would be provided with wine and/or beer. Roman soldiers were usually given a gallon a day if I recall. Most people had plenty of drinking water, but it wasn't clean. People got sick frequently, and quite often... |
Ballet dancer here- low body fat from diet and rigorous training definitely do play a role in it. Genetics is another factor. Also aesthetics: at my school, females with bigger chests would sometimes be mocked because their body didn't fit the "stereotypical ballerina body". In dance schools, you will see girls of all ... |
When you surf Reddit data is sent from your computer to the Reddit server which processes your request and responds with HTML data that your browser uses to display that site. ISPs can track your network usage including all the sites you make requests too (including xbox, PS4, porn, https, etc) on their network. This i... |
For Consideration: I work in a small, single-owner breakfast and lunch place. It's not 100% from-scratch (we don't bake the bread or make condiments, etc), but the important stuff is done in house (soup, meat, etc). When the cooks do the prep for a given day, they prep enough of everything according to proportion. The ... |
Blue is also highly correlated with urban areas while Red is highly correlated with suburban and rural areas. Cities have a very high price of living due to various reasons that can't be paired down to just political leanings. If you're curious this is called a confounding variable. Basically if you wanted to estimate ... |
The particles have more kinetic energy at higher temperatures and as a result become more volatile and diffuse into the surrounding air quicker Hope this helped! |
Lets take Minecraft, for example. Minecraft's world is made up of "chunks" which are 16x16x256 blocks in size. So, every 16x16 square surface area can have parts of height from 1 to 256 blocks tall, randomly chosen. That alone gives us over 65 thousand variations of chunks. Now, imagine any one of those blocks can also... |
Pareidolla -- the mind perceiving a familiar pattern, such as a face or animal, where in reality there is none. Theories are this developed (and passed down) so that we could react quickly to threatening things in nature (and other people). |
they are mirages, they give this wavy illusion which is a result from the temperature near the cement road being higher than the air, causing light to refract ( changing directions (or bending angles) when going through mediums |
I don't know all the technical details of the Word document file format (I assume you're referring to the newer DOCX and not the older DOC) however I do have some experience working with the "guts" of those files. The actual text of the document takes up merely a part of the file. There is lots of overhead in every doc... |
Imagine a pie factory. This pie factory makes ten pies a day. It is a shitty pie factory. One day the pie manager hires an additional pie maker who is awesome at making pies. He makes twenty pies a day. After a while The other pie makers in the factory Realise they can start slacking off and being idiots and don't real... |
Everyone here is missing a lot of key points, and many are flat out wrong. It's not lobbying in a legal sense and it's not a campaign donation. The money being pooled is almost exclusively to be used by 501(c)(4), which are "social welfare organizations". These organizations cannot donate directly to candidates for fed... |
It is not ok. The people who support this do not have the interests of the consumer as their top priority. |
We have no idea if Jupiter has a solid core or not. It is believed that if it does exist, the core is probably between 12 and 45 times the mass of the Earth (the whole planet is roughly 320 times the mass of the Earth). Why would we not count the mass of the atmosphere when considering Jupiter or any other gas giant? G... |
Mostly it's to elicit a real confession. It's not totally common knowledge that polygraphs are bupkis, so some people think they work. So if you've got a suspect sweating in interrogation, you offer them a lie detector test, saying if they really are innocent the machine will say so. Then when the machine says they're ... |
"Organic beetlejuicing" -- defined by the /r/beetlejuicing sidebar as times when someone wasn't summoned by their username -- could easily be done with a bot. You could either scrape the website yourself, or let somebody else do it. To scrape it yourself, you'd have to run a webserver that loaded as many comment thread... |
Usually it is done to help the person fall under the influence of anesthesia. When you are given a task of counting backwards from 10, it makes your mind focus on that rather than your body shutting down. It helps prevent people falling under in a state of panic or worry; when you think about anesthesia, your body is b... |
**TL;DR**: *Air dissolved in the water, which came from the airspace in the bottle's neck, comes back out of the water in the form of little bubbles gently stuck to the side or bottom of the bottle.* Water bottles are packaged with a little bit of airspace in the neck before they're sealed. Now air can dissolve in wate... |
When you're a little baby human in your mom, your formation is the most variable time in your life. You have very, very dynamic cells called stem cells that are capable of becoming multiple different cells. These are useful for the formation of complex organisms like humans and let us have segments that are different. ... |
Barometric pressure, as the pressure rises and falls with different weather patterns, the steam in your shower will stay around longer or shorter. |
Not a sociology major or anything of the sort; but I would wager that if you were brought up in a fairly normal north American household, you've been exposed to massive amounts of subtle and overt marketing over the years that generally appeals to the largest demographic, white people. You've simply adapted the mindset... |
It depends on what you mean by middle class. If you mean "the people between the 30th and 70th income percentiles among US citizens" then by definition it is the same size relative to the overall population as it has always been. If you define it to be the people within some range of the median income (e.g. between 50%... |
AWD is mainly better for not getting stuck or going up a slippery hill. I always have an AWD car so that I can go up the hills everyone else can't or so that I can park in my friends slippery yard without worrying about getting stuck. And they are waaaay more fun AWD vehicles are only better with acceleration with snow... |
The brain chemistry of people addicted to opioids actually changes to require continued exposure to them. For the vast majority of addicts, no amount of willpower or detox will allow them to break the habit because their body literally needs a constant supply of opioids. The new(-ish) synthetic opioids (they're not rea... |
One of the main arguments is that laws tend to use wording stating that you must have a valid license "when employed in operating a motor vehicle on public roads." Of course, any sane person knows that "when employed in X" just means "when doing X". One of the definitions of "employ" is simply "to use". Like in the sen... |
Because negative emotions generally are the things your brain uses to change gears to not expose you to risks. When you're happy you're willing to take more risks because you're in a situation where things are good. You have social support, you know there are other people to help if things go wrong, and you have enough... |
They do a lot of testing on animals and then extrapolate to humans based on weight and what we know about the difference between species. It's not a hard number, just an estimate In addition to what u/ameoba mentioned, this data is also collected from overdose situations. Even when you give them proper instructions, so... |
A lot of power is used by your display, which does not reduce its power consumption with new generations nearly as fast as processors do. A lot of power used by a smart phone is not consumed by the actual CPU/GPU, and therefore, reducing CPU power consumption by 20% does not increase battery life a similar amount. The ... |
They have specialized herbivore digestive systems that can digest grass. Humans have a generalist omnivore digestive system that can digest both meat and plant matter that's easier than grass. Digesting grass is tough work involving hitting it with chemicals and mechanical force (chewing) in multiple rounds. Cows have ... |
Basically imagine that your ISP was your mailman and every time you received mail from someone or send someone a letter he made a not of it and now he can legally sell a list of all the stuff you have send or received by mail to whoever he wants. The ISP can keep track of all the websites you visit. They now can sell d... |
I think what you're describing is the descending control of pain. Essentially when you get an injury, the nociceptors (pain receptors) detect tissue damage and send that information up to the cortex. Nociceptors experience a weird phenomenon called sensitization, which is a decrease in the threshold for activation (how... |
[This video]( URL_0 ) explains it rather well. He makes really nice vids..I highly recommend checking his channel out if you don't know him yet. |
Because they are using different computers. Say you have installed the same bathtub as your friend, but yours spurts out too much water because you have a higher water pressure in your house. Different versions of the software would be the first thing to look for. You might also have different versions of libraries (.N... |
Counterfeiting is a small part of it, but the bigger part was an attempt to crack down on India's massive 'black money' problem. 'Black money' is what a westerner might call money that's been paid 'under the table'. Whether it's income earned from bribes or a business massively under reporting their cash sales (which m... |
If you ever want to run a political campaign in the US you can simply buy the browser history of your voters and know pretty well what they think. Thus you can make better political campaigns targeted at individuals. If you tell a lie in public you will be called out on it, but if you tell a lie directly to a single pe... |
Your arguments are a bit intriguing, as you're usually pairing two economies, and then quoting prices in a third currency. If I make a pencil in Japan, I pay for all its materials in Japan, my currency is Japanese Yen. If I then put that pencil in my pocket, take a flight to Italy, and sell the pencil to the Pope, he'l... |
Ok, this is only a guess (until other, more knowledgable people answer your question), but first to clarify: your vision fading after standing up too quickly is due to low blood pressure, not lack of air. I think perhaps much of the euphoric feeling is actually just adrenaline in response to your body being worried abo... |
Conceptually you could. However it wouldn't be worth it because the "prizes" likely cost roughly as much as purchasing the tickets, you would need exactly the right style to sell the concept, the workers there have some idea of who frequents the location and it is unlikely that you could just appear with thousands of t... |
In the old days they used a device called a bomb calorimeter to burn the food and measure how much it changed the temperature of a known volume of water. Not sure if that's still the case. Calories are calculated by the energy it takes to increase the temperature if water 1 degree Celcius. So, If it is 100 Calories, th... |
Hormone levels have a bigger role to play that is usually discussed. Too much testosterone (no, it's not always a good thing even in males) can result in zits, no matter what you do. In women, too little estrogen and/or progesterone allows the testosterone (even women have some) to take the top position. Stress sets of... |
A **proxy** is where you send your traffic through a 3rd party instead of being sent directly. Lets say that you want to get a package sent to your house, but you don't want the sender to know where you live or you don't want your parents to see it when it is delivered. You could instead make arrangements with a friend... |
Netflix's business model is that they take money from users every month and use that money to pay for content. The more/better content they have, the more likely users will be willing to subscribe or keep subscribing. Netflix has 2 choices. They can buy content from other content owners or they can make their own. The ... |
My coaches always made sure to teach us the difference between being hurt and being injured. Of course it hurts to fall or get hit or whatever, and kids especially can get scared when they experience that type of pain. But pain can be fleeting, soreness is different than an injury, etc. Walking it off was just a way to... |
OK. Google collects data from several sources. Anytime your browser loads a google add, visits a google search page or any other google page it is checked for a cookie. If it does not already have a cookie, it is given a cookie. Cookies are kind of funny, think of them like tokens that the website gives your browser. A... |
While the text claims that you can hear the lyrics, my perspective is that I could only hear the vowel sounds of the words. It is a very familiar song (to me), so I could fill in the blanks. Sort of like listening to a person in a noisy room. Once they switch to unfamiliar or unexpected words, suddenly things stop work... |
Their intended meaning: that you did something nice that they appreciate. The actual meaning: black people are incapable of goodness or decency. At some point I believe the phrase was used to imply that white people are more virtuous than other people. However, for a while now it's been a sarcastic way of saying that a... |
Galileo wasn't executed for trying to show the Earth wasn't flat. He wasn't even executed for what he really was trying to show (that the Earth wasn't the center of the solar system) he was simply basically put under house arrest and forced to recant. Scientists have known for thousands of years that the earth is round... |
When light passes through a material, the absorption rate is different for each wavelength of light. For example, light from a star behind a gas cloud tends to only allow low frequency light to pass, while absorbing the high frequency. With cosmic redshift, the effect is independent of frequency. All light waves are sh... |
Coax cables are better at conducting high frequency analog signals than something like an extension cord because the signal on the center conductor is surrounded by a foil or braided ground conductor separated by a dielectric. The ground surrounding the center conductor shields the signal on the center conductor from e... |
Because it's marketing, and it works, obviously. Here you are, asking questions about it, and thinking about it. It's really that simple. It's predatory marketing, preying on humanity's natural instinct to divide into opposing groups. If you're not one of *us* then you're one of *them* and you don't want to be one of *... |
First of all remember that expiring starts the moment a product is made, its not and on/off switch that triggers two years after the production. A lot of chemicals is unstable, they will go through reactions that take a lot of time, changing how they work. The moment the amount of proper chemical is e.g. less than 5% t... |
Yes, once we know we can safely live in the planet's actual gravity, you are correct that we would have to terraform it first. The first part of the process would be to *scrub* the atmosphere by phasing out the current atmospheric makeup and then phasing in the right mixture of nitrogen, oxygen and the many other eleme... |
Irony has been mangled so badly you can't really get it wrong as the definitions these days include what would be considered wrong use (much like literally officially meaning figuratively now) In a nutshell though irony is something that has the opposite effect as intended. Example I'm in a car accident and my airbag d... |
Well, there are several different *types* of producers. Here are the main ones ### Producer Usually responsible for getting all the different people together to make a movie. They usually find the script, the director, the actors/actresses, deal with securing locations for shooting, getting money from the major studios... |
They can _say_ it all they want, but that doesn't make it so. They're just trying to get your attention so you stay a respectful distance behind them. Such a sticker/sign could be used at trial to help prove the other party was warned about flying debris, but it's by no means definitive or binding. It's just going to b... |
It sounds like you're asking for the physical mechanics behind computer storage, so I'll try to give a brief overview. All data on a computer, when you look at the most basic level, is a true or false boolean value. Through mathematics, these true-false values are used to construct every data structure we use, whether ... |
Appearance or design seems much more quantifiable than taste, which is far more subjective and varies from person to person. |
With how many stars and potentially habitable planets there are, you would think the universe would be filled with intelligent life, yet we see none. That's essentially the Fermi paradox. |
Geostationary orbits are only above the equator. Geosynchronous orbits are at the same distance but not necessarily in the plane of the equator. Communications satellites are not necessarily geostationary or geosynchronous; if there are enough of them all at different orbits then they can cover most of the earth. Have ... |
When matter and antimatter collide, they go trough a process of annihilation. During that, you can observe some mass changing into energy. It depends on the particles colliding but most of the time you will get a few very high energy photons and some **other** bosons. On a macroscale you will get some light and heat ou... |
Basically, using a script (in this case, javascript) to detect if some assets that are used to load ads, were loaded into the page. For example, when you enter a website, a lot of files are loaded for the page to work properly, images and javascript files are some of them. Ads are usually loaded from third party script... |
You've got it backwards, the US is pretty good at having public bathrooms all sorts of places and europe has them as being extremely rare and pay only. By law in America nearly every eating and drinking place has to provide a toilet and sink, so the supply is very large, and these are usually free of charge since they ... |
There are two main types of diarrhea. Osmotic diarrhea is where something pulls water into you intestines. Secretory is where something causes your body to pump water into your intestine. If neither of these things are occuring, your body tends to absorb most of the water you put in your GI tract. This water enters you... |
To get campaign money from telecom companies. It's really that simple. I'd love to say it's some thing meant to protect someone, but no. The ideology of laissez-faire capitalism holds that individuals and corporations should be allowed to do as they please and should not have their actions heavily regulated by the gove... |
Almost all recipes are created by evolution. Something works, then someone tries adding another ingredient or another step. Lots of these don't work out well, but sometimes one does, so then you have a more intricate recipe. Repeat. It takes two things to develop a great recipe: bravery to eat some nasty tastes, and pe... |
Derivatives broadly refer to contracts where the value of the transaction is based on the value of another asset, which is usually expected to change values over the time the contract is in effect. Options, futures, and swaps are all derivatives. Options contracts base their value on the stock for which an option to pu... |
LmOver isn't quite right. You've got it right, though! Lorentz invariance is a symmetry (think - something you can do to an experiment without changing the results) of spacetime that can be easily understood as rotations (plus "boosts" - think rotations between space and time). If the universe was a simulation, then th... |
Many do. Like the Rhinovirus (common cold). And about a bajillion others. :) Very few virii kill the host. And in the cases where they do, you have to ask if the virus evolved for that host. Ie: HIV is a virus (human immunodeficiency virus). But the virus that is HIV didn't evolve in, or for, humans. It evolved to live... |
Mobile service requires the use of radio waves. We are using higher radio frequencies. The FCC auctions the use of these to companies, reserving frequencies for the military, the police, emergency services, et cetera. For a new company to establish a cellular network it would have to bid for a portion of the frequency ... |
First, there was a *lot* of hype about her, especially compared to fighters in other weight classes and male fighters. At one point a national publication named her the best pound for pound fighter, male or female. I'm all for equality, but the notion she wouldn't be destroyed by the 100th best male fighter in her weig... |
It doesn't exactly have a purpose, it's simply how planets form. Current thinking is that planets accrete from materials in the same way that stars do, just on a smaller scale. So you start out with a nebula of gas and dust, usually the leftover from a steller nova or supernova. That material gradually, due to gravity,... |
We talk about how things in the west are corrupt. But they aren't, not in any real way. To do something like this you need first a doctor who has zero ethics. Then you need a hospital that has zero ethics. And you need a population base around the hospital that doesn't mind that their doctors and hospitals have zero et... |
Do you mean these both as examples of [linear programming optimizations]( URL_0 )? If so, integer programming = the optimum solutions must be integers. (Example: find which allotment of 20 movie tickets among three friends maximizes their total happiness. You can't rip a ticket in half, so the constraint x+y+z=20 must ... |
To the best of my knowledge there has been no study on the possible evolutionary benefit of pain during pregnancy but I can certainly come up with some possible reasons. 1) There is no evolutionary benefit to it being painless. Because pain has benefits else where in nature, and the pain during child birth not hurting ... |
I'll try an ELI5. Sound goes into the mic, sound gets amplified, sound comes out of the loudspeaker, the mic pics up that sound again from the speaker, and amplifies it again-in a loop. There is a slight delay in the electronics, and then a longer delay (speed of sound) in the time the sound goes from the speaker to th... |
For context, the amount of money that the US government spends on foreign aid is less than 1% of the total budget, so it isn't that much spending in the grand scheme of things. The logic is that by spending a little bit of money to improve the health and well being of people in other parts of the world, there will be m... |
[Here's]( URL_2 ) Carl Sagan explaining it very well. I remember watching this as a kid and having an extra dimension finally make some kind of sense. I particularly like his use of the word "shadows." We can [draw a cube]( URL_0 ) on a flat (two-dimensional) piece of paper, but what we're really looking at is a *shado... |
I'd hate to break it to you, but the green skittles are supposed to be green apple flavored |
In a way it depends on what you mean by shadow, it can be Smaller and Bigger at the same time. The moon is at just the right distance to block the entire sun in an area called the Umbra. And to partially occlude it in a large torus around it called the penumbra. If the moon were closer the Umbra (where there is a total... |
What do you mean exactly? The weapons used by the major combatants were all broadly similar. Strategies are always going to be situational. Russian Deep Battle for example would have served very little purpose in the Pacific. |
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