Question: Why do we misspell words when we write/type but not when we speak?

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 Why do we misspell words when we write/type but not when we speak?

Well, the idea of misspelling words when you speak is kind of nonsensical on its face, isn't it. But that doesn't rule out other kinds of linguistic errors. > Or maybe it is happening when I speak and I've just never noticed before? Basically, I think you're misunderestimating the number of mistakes people make in their speech.


Question: How does mold react when it comes into contact with bleach?

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 How does mold react when it comes into contact with bleach?

It dies. Bleach is toxic to all life. Essentially what it does is cause the proteins (the small molecular machines that do all the work in your cells) to unfold, in a similar way to what heat does. This means that the cells stop functioning, break apart and die. Bleach would do the same to bacteria, plants, and animals and so is dangerous to all forms of life, the same way heat is.


Question: why does music seem quieter when louder external noise is present?

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 why does music seem quieter when louder external noise is present?

The Tensor Tympani Your ear hole leads to the ear drum which then shakes the 3 little bones in your ear which amplify the vibration and feed it into the cochlea where little hairs detect sound. The Tensor Tympani connects to the little "Hammer" bone in your ear and when it tenses it damps out the motion meaning the vibrations which finally make it to your cochlea are much smaller and therefore quieter. When you encounter a noisy environment, this muscle will tense up to reduce the volume and hopefully protect your hearing but its is limited in how much it can damp the sound so you should still wear hearing protection when dealing with extremely loud or loud and sustained environments


Question: What is the difference between capital and money?

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 What is the difference between capital and money?

Capital is the stuff that helps you make more money but would cost money. It's goods that you don't really want on their own, but have some kind of utility. Let's say you want to start up a delivery company, what you \*want\* to do is deliver stuff to people and get paid for that. So you need a car. That car is capital, because it helps you make money. Edit: I should point out that your personal car wouldn't be considered capital if you aren't using it to produce goods or services. Using something to make something else is what defines capital.


Question: What would happen if you filled an HD or SSD to the last byte? Would it stop the pc from functioning?

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 What would happen if you filled an HD or SSD to the last byte? Would it stop the pc from functioning?

Yes. Modern operating systems like Windows use a portion of your hard drive to store some temporary files it needs to function. It may also use your disk as extra memory if your onboard memory gets over utilized. For this reason, there has to be some space available for these temporary files. Windows for sure (other OSs too, probably) has some alerting that is built in to start warning you when your space is getting low. You can change when this occurs in the performance/alerts section, but I believe the default is 10% remaining. Continuing to fill up your disk space will result in gradual increases in performances issues until your computer is pretty much unusable and it becomes difficult to even delete files to free up space as even the act of deleting files takes up some temporary space.


Question: Why is leasing a vehicle considered such a "no-brainer" bad finincial move?

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 Why is leasing a vehicle considered such a "no-brainer" bad finincial move?

The question really depends on specifics to you. Pros with leasing, you get a new car every 3-5 years. Possibly able to write off the lease expense, if leasing as a business vehicle. Cons if you go over the alloted milage contract, the excess miles are expensive. What if you hit your milage limit at 28 months into a 36 month lease? Keep the car garaged for the rest of the time and still pay the monthly lease. Generally owning a car is cheaper over the long run. Certain specifics might change that for individuals.


Question: How do baby animals like jaguar cubs and fox pups know to wait for their mom when she goes out hunting without wandering away from the den and getting lost?

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 How do baby animals like jaguar cubs and fox pups know to wait for their mom when she goes out hunting without wandering away from the den and getting lost?

Baby animals operate with a lot of instinctive behaviors - things that are hard-coded into the structure of their brains from day one. They don’t have to be taught to not wander far from mom, they always knew because it’s in their genetics. Baby animals that didn’t have this behavior baked in were less likely to survive, and over many generations it has been strongly reinforced.


Question: if things can be explained in more laymen terms, what is the benefit of explaining them in more complicated terms to begin with?

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 if things can be explained in more laymen terms, what is the benefit of explaining them in more complicated terms to begin with?

I can explain how to bake a cake in laymen terms. You mix the dry and wet ingredients together, and put it in the oven until it is ready. But to actually get someone to bake a cake, I need to give them a recipe that has more information. I need to say things like "Sift the flour" and "line the tin with parchment paper." It's much easier for me to give a recipe using baking terminology than to go "Take out a special tool with lots of little holes in it in a half-dome shape, and then put flour in it and shake it a lot." Using complicated terms is necessary for fully explaining complicated ideas.


Question: why does Google translate spit out completely crazy nonsensical things sometimes?

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 why does Google translate spit out completely crazy nonsensical things sometimes?

It's still very much in development. It's all automated, so there's going to be some nuances that don't carry over. What you're seeing here is basically what the Google Search engine was like circa 1999. Google Translate uses algorithms that are based on UN Transcripts. Nearly every UN meeting is public record, and translated by competent humans into nearly every spoken language. That way no country is "left out" of the conversation. Do this for a couple of decades and you've got a really fucking boring but really long Rosetta Stone for the modern era. With that base, they can do a pretty OK job translating most formal writing that your grammar teacher would be proud of. When you start mixing in words that didn't make the UN minutes, it starts getting fucky. I wager extended debate on the "tostostostostostostostostostostos" issue didn't quite make the UN docket, so Google has to guess at what you're mashing into the algorithm. Given no other context, it's still giving you the best match for your translation, even if that high score is less than 1%. But, Google's Algorithm learns, as it did in 1999. It will recognize that "tostostostos" is a failure, but eventually many someones will want it legitimately translated, and give it some positive hits to learn from.


Question: Why can't we put an entire city under WiFi as opposed to providing coverage with cellular data?

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 Why can't we put an entire city under WiFi as opposed to providing coverage with cellular data?

Frequencies.... wifi is designed to operate in a set of frequencies that makes them ideal for medium-range distances only, we are talking about something in the range of an small house. Wifi radio waves are easily blocked by objects like walls, doors, trees, etc. So in order to make it available in a large area, you need to place a lot of repeaters around it. To properly cover an small city basically you will need to place a repeater on every crossroads and in the center of every block. And thats without taking into consideration large buildings. Cellular radios on the other hand works on a very different set of frequencies that allows them to bounce and go trough walls and any objects more easily, so with a single high power antenna (tower) you can cover an area the size of an small-to-medium city with good reception quality. Effectively lowering the costs, and the amount of work required to setup a network (and its maintenance), at the expense of losing a little amount of bandwidth per user. Also remember that cellular towers provides a lot of services to their users, not just internet. Providing the same amount of services on wifi would require a whole lot of infrastructure changes, and a lot of very expensive devices to support it. They are just different things designed to solve different problems.


Question: Why single Oxygen is not found in environment, but it appears as O2 only?

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 Why single Oxygen is not found in environment, but it appears as O2 only?

It's just very stable. An analogy for a 5 yo might be like if millions of little magnets were flying around in the air. They'll inevitably run into each other, and the ones that match up north to south will click together, and really dont have a good reason to separate.


Question: If almost all camera lenses are circular, then why are almost all pictures rectangular?

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 If almost all camera lenses are circular, then why are almost all pictures rectangular?

Cameras work by shining light on something that changes color forever when the light hits it. While the lens may be a circle, the thing the light hits is a rectangle. When cameras first became popular, the thing the light hit was a roll of film. It was essentially one long, thin sheet, rolled up onto a spool. The camera would cover all but a small section of the roll of film, and allow the light to hit that. Because of the way it was shaped, the piece left uncovered was a rectangle, because you could fit more rectangles on a roll of film, which fit more pictures, so it cost less per roll of film.


Question: Are there any elements besides Uranium and Plutonium capable of creating a thermonuclear explosion?

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 Are there any elements besides Uranium and Plutonium capable of creating a thermonuclear explosion?

Uranium and plutonium are not able to create thermonuclear explosion, they are only able to create nuclear explosion. Nuclear explosion mean fission energy, while thermonuclear mean fusion energy. Uranium and plutonium are used as a source of fission energy to force the fusion of hydrogen and that's this fusion of hydrogen that create thermonuclear explosion. In the Sun there is enough pressure to create thermonuclear explosion without any uranium or plutionium. Hydrogen alone is needed if you have enough mass. & #x200B; But you probably mean nuclear explosion and in that case you have two type of material that can do that. Fissile material can create nuclear explosion directly by absorbing a neutron, while fertible material can only create nuclear explosion indirectly. By that I mean that absorbing a neutron will transform them into fissile material and if they absorb a neutron again, they will create a nuclear reaction. Fissile material include : Uranium, Plutonium, Radium, Curium, Californium, Actinium, Berkelium, Thorium, Neptunium and Protactinium. Important to know, only specific isotope of those element are fissile. So for them exmple Thorium239 is fissile, but Thorium232 (which is the Thorium we most often hear about) is not fissile, but is fertile. & #x200B; Fertile material include : Thorium, Uranium, Plutonium and Americanium. & #x200B; Keep in mind that even if there is 10 fissile elements, most of them can only be artificially created, which is super costly or they are highly radiactive, meaning they decay too fast to be of any use. The reason why Uranium and Plutonium are the only one you heard of is because Uranium235 if fissible and Uranium238 is fertile and will transform into Plutonium 239 which is fissile and both U235 and U238 are found in nature, so they are by far the easiest material to use. Anything else would be vastly more costly and harder to get.


Question: While programming a game, how do image textures like this work to make an actual game?

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 While programming a game, how do image textures like this work to make an actual game?

When mapping textures to the 3D model you can specify which parts of the texture go on what part of the model. You are basically telling the game engine to only use a small portion of the image for the legs, this portion for the arms, this one for the face, etc. This is more efficient than splitting it up into multiple files. You can also reuse the same texture for multiple different objects like in your chess example. This way only one image is loaded into memory and each game piece is told to use different specific parts of that one texture.


Question: If delta wings are only good for speeds above Mach 1, how come they are the standard design for paper planes?

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 If delta wings are only good for speeds above Mach 1, how come they are the standard design for paper planes?

Its more about the rigidity of the material When you make delta wings on your paper airplane you end up with wings that have been folded a couple of times and are no longer floppy paper. They're strong enough to support the plane as it glides, and even have a bit of an airfoil shape to help with lift. If you try to make a glider style with longggg narrow wings out of paper you'll just have this big floppy wing that will collapse rather than holding the plane aloft. It also won't have the optimized airfoil which gives the good lift:drag ratio required of a glider. Also, delta wings aren't *only* good at supersonic speeds, they're just not the optimal design for low speeds as they have higher drag making them less fuel efficient for long hauls


Question: How come the same prescription for eyeglasses produces thick "coke bottle" lenses can be used for paper thin contacts?

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 How come the same prescription for eyeglasses produces thick "coke bottle" lenses can be used for paper thin contacts?

The glasses are pretty far from your cornea (the lens on the front of the eye. Contact lenses are, or course, in contact with the cornea. A much thinner lens can bend the light the required number of degrees because the light hasn't spread out to an aviator's eyeglasses sized area before the lens has to capture it.


Question: How do instant money transfer services like Venmo & Paypal work?

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 How do instant money transfer services like Venmo & Paypal work?

Venmo and Paypal are the intermediaries. You Venmo your friend $50 and they instantly withdraw the cash from their Venmo account before it even hits your credit card (or whatever funds your Venmo). What really happened is that you promised to give Venmo $50, and Venmo has decided that you're good for it so they gave your friend $50. Since they're acting as a pseudo-bank, they don't mind waiting for the check from your Credit Card. If you backcharge the account, they're likely out the $50, but that's a cost of doing business. That's also why they usually charge an "Instant Withdrawal" fee to cover the risk they're assuming. If your friend left the $50 in his venmo account they'd have a right to pull it back out when you reverse the transfer or backcharge. They're not unfamiliar to folks pulling a low-key scam using Backcharge and Instant Withdrawals. First offense it usually means they eat the $50, and ban everything about you (email, billing address, SSN, CC#, etc). For sums less than $1k they're not worth the legal expense to sue you. Do it regularly and they're compliance/security team will be after you. Every transaction is geotagged, so they're going to start putting together a profile of people doing more than a polite amount of scamming or running illegal businesses via their app. That gets tied up into a nice bow and dropped off at the relevant DOJ/Prosecutor for a fraud case.


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 What muscles are the least used and why do humans still have them?

The palmaris longus. It is a muscle in our forearm. It doesn't do anything. 14 percent of people don't even have it. Those that do have one have it because it is a vestige of days when claws and climbing were important for survival (and not a hindrance to handling tools). It is still there in most people because having the muscle doesn't hurt anything in terms of survival, so there is not pressure on the trait. In other mammals, it serves to retract skin to expose the claws.


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 Can soil erosion one day completely finish the fertile soil available on our planet?

If the farmer does nothing to rejuvenate the nutrients in the soil, often done via crop rotation, which is planting crops that add necessary nutrients to the soil as they grow and when they are tilled in, rather than planting a crop for harvest. Or even leaving the fields fallow (letting whatever native species grow, rather than planting a crop) for a few seasons can help rejuvenate the soil. But if industrial monocrop farming carries on unabated without using these techniques (and others) then yes, the soil will eventually be drained of nutrients and unable to bear harvestable crops.


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 How do fitness instructors keep up with their classes when working out 6-8 hours a day?

Depends on the class of course but many of them are not targeted at people that are already in great shape. The instructor is probably really fit and the work that's being done isn't too strenuous for them or they just have vastly superior cardio. Like if you're a beginner runner running for 15 minutes straight or 2 miles like that is pretty challenging. If you've been running 5 days a week for a year going for a 15 mile run isn't that big of a deal. Most people don't do treadmill classes but convert this scenario into biking A really fit cyclist could teach a spin class 6 times a day at an intensity that is difficult for the students but if you take all 6 of those classes and combine them together the intensity/distance traveled still isn't even more than a normal workout for the instructor if they were going for a ride by themself


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 how are pilots able to remain on track of a flight's path when flying through thick fog?

There are a variety of choices for maintaining course with no visibility. Most of them deflect a needle on a gauge in the cockpit to show you if you are left or right of the course. If you want to learn more, look up ADF, VOR, and for older tech, LORAN.


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Imagine you buy a new TV. You bring it home, you're gonna replace your old TV. Maybe the new TV is the exact same size as the old TV, so it doesn't take up any more space. But obviously it takes space just to switch them out. You're gonna make a mess, there's gonna be boxes, you have to move the old TV out of the way, etc. So after you're done and you clean up, it doesn't take a lot of space. But you need a certain amount of space just to move stuff around, and your computer is asking for the same thing.


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Electronic loudspeakers generate sound by vibrating a *diaphragm* (a thin, semi-rigid membrane made from various materials) against the air. The diaphragm is made to move because it is attached to a magnet, which sits inside a coil of (e.g. copper) wire. When an electric current is passed through the coil, this creates a magnetic force that pushes or pulls the magnet. By reversing the direction of the current at the right rate, the diaphragm can be made to vibrate (move to and fro) at any desired frequency, which causes the air around it to vibrate at the same frequency. These air vibrations are what we perceive as sound, and the pitch of the sound is determined by the frequency of the vibrations, with fast vibrations perceived as having higher pitch. The loudness of a sound has to do with the strength of the vibrations: not how quickly the air molecules are moving to and fro, but how far they move in each direction while doing this. A loudspeaker can control this by moving the diaphragm back and forth a little (say 1 mm) or a lot (say 5 mm) in each cycle. That is, by passing a stronger current through the electromagnetic coil, it can push and pull the diaphragm in and out further, thereby pushing against the air more strongly and causing stronger vibrations. So to summarize: when you increase the volume on your TV, the current it sends to its loudspeaker(s) is increased, causing the diaphragm(s) in the loudspeaker(s) to vibrate more strongly, which creates stronger vibrations in the air, which you perceive as a louder sound.


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I feel like when you rehydrate dried mushrooms, the flavor just comes back tenfold. Take shiitake for example, it's very common to find them dried in most stores. I use dehydrated ones for tonkotsu ramen broth, not only does the flavor come out in the broth, but when I ribbon them, and try a bite, their flavor is just so much more concentrated than plain old sauteed shiitake mushrooms. I dont know exactly why, but think of it like beef jerky, jerky can have much more flavor than just regular beef a lot of the time.


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 How do campaign rallys work if people attending them are probably already voting for the person holding it?

The idea is that it builds excitement and momentum for a campaign. Most elections aren't actually decided by swaying people to your side from the middle or from the other side; they are decided by who bothers to actually get out and vote. Case in point, in 2016 only about 50% of the voting-eligible population actually bothered to cast a ballot - that is a lot of voices unheard that could easily have changed the outcome. Rallies get people excited about a candidate. Maybe you support Candidate Smith, but you are a lazy voter who may not bother to cast a ballot. If Smith comes to your town and holds a rally, you might attend and that builds your excitement in Smith's platform. When election day rolls around, you actually get to the polls and vote for him.


Question: How Is Jeff Bezos so rich if Amazon wasn't profitable until recently?

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They were only considered not profitable because the company kept reinvesting in construction and expansion. The company has been constantly growing since it began. Since he has owned his stock from it's inception, his wealth has increased every time the company grew. His net worth is an estimate because it is dependent on selling all of his stocks at the current market value. As long as the kept building at a pace equal to their profits, they could claim not to have a profit during that period.


Question: How do scientists calculate half lives for the elements that have super long ones that we can’t observe?

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We can't observe it decay by half but we can observe it decay a little bit and with some math we can then figure out what the half life must have been to go from Quantity A to Quantity B over X days If you start with a hunk of a material and measure how many particles per second are coming off of it, then wait a week and measure it again. You can rearrange the standard half life equation (Amount at time t = Initial Amount * (1/2) ^( t/half life) ) to get HalfLife = 1 week * ln(2)/ln(First Amount/Amount at 1 week) For things with really longggg half lives you might need to measure over a couple months to get a big enough difference between the two amounts to get a reliable answer, but the point of modeling things with math in science is so you don't need to observe a complete event to know how it will turn out


Question: How does extended release Ritalin work in respect to timing?

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It depends a lot on the specfic medication, pill, and manufacturer. Some ER formulations have a quick-release dose and a dose that releases after 4 hours, then another dose that releases about 8 hours. Some XR formulations have 4 doses. Other formulations have a lot of granules with varying strengths of coating - so they'll release steadily all day long, then take about 4 hours for the body to process. Some are 'ion capsules' that have a little of the drug in a capsule and a very small opening that is sensitive to digestive fluids - it will release a VERY steady stream until it's gone then shut off all at once. It's unfortunate, but you probably aren't going to be able to choose which one you get, unless you get brand-name, which of course costs way too much because your insurance company doesn't want to pay for it. So one month the pharmacy might have ion-release knockoff generics and the next they'll have the multiple dose pills.


Question: How will automation not create another Great Depression?

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To understand this it's important to understand some fundamental truths: - Ownership, the idea that a person can legally own assets, money, etc., will likely always exist in our society - It's unlikely that artificial intelligence will ever be given the right to ownership - People who have capital will almost always be at an advantage to those who don't. In that they will be able to invest in ways to make their wealth grow - While democracy gives the concept of 1 vote per person, no matter their wealth, in reality, those above a certain wealth level will always have more influence in government What I'm saying is, the rich will get richer and will make money off the slightly less rich. The poor will be mostly screwed and will only live at the whim of the rich to keep the peace. Living standards will improve for everyone, to the point that basic food, accommodation, transport and entertainment will be available to all. Living standards for the rich will improve astronomically in comparison to the poor - this will lead to resentment and tensions which will ultimately balance society. TL;DR: it will work the same as it does now, just more extreme


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The key here is to recognize that while almost all cells in the body contain the same set of genetic information, not all genes (the segments of DNA that codes for a specific protein) are expressed in all cells. **Regulation of gene expression** is at play here. Cells can (and regularly do) receive signals that tell it which genes to express. Different cells receive different signals - > different cells express different genes - > different cells make different proteins. Having different sets of proteins allows one cell to function, look, behave, etc. differently from another. A cool example that I was taught was how our fingers develop. Early in a developing fetus, the limbs don't have fingers/toes (think stumps). At a certain point though, cells at the extremities get the signal to basically commit cell-suicide. The death of these cells leads to the space between our fingers and toes. A failure in this process is how some people have webbed fingers!


Question: How does being used to spicy foods work?

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after repeated exposure to capsaicin (the spicy) the receptors in your mouth begin to stop responding as much to it, as nerves tend to do when constantly stimulated (downregulation). Basically the nerve is sort of saying "ok ok we get it turn it off" and adds a phosphate group to one part of the receptor and the end result is you've (temporarily) become less able to sense the spiciness. This process is reversible, and you will eventually return to the same spicy food tolerance as you started with if you quit eating spicy food for a while. So no, below a certain threshold the person actually cannot feel the heat as much. But the person will still seek spicy food if they begin to enjoy the hot sensation, and will need spicier food for the same effect now that they have a higher tolerance. Anecdotally, I am caucasian and enjoy spicy food. It doesn't really matter what area of the world you are from, you can get used to it. It's just that you probably didn't start getting used to it when you were five like people from some areas often would. The whole white people can't handle spice thing is just one of those white people stereotypes we all kind of laugh off even though they're kinda ignorant.


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It could be as simple as the tillers and irrigation systems not reaching the corners, leaving them to be treated poorer than the rest of the field. In such a case, the fertilizer doesn't reach all the way to the corners and is instead concentrated at the middle of the field, leading to poor nitrogen availability. You can visualize this by thinking of a vehicle turning; it will turn on a curve, and so the corners will be left out from any field-work, unless the farmer pays special attention to the corners.


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Its an old wife's tale. A fever is a natural response from your immune system. If you starve yourself during that you also starve your immune system. It just people have a tenancy to throw up and keep nothing down during a fever so they tend to feed them less/they eat less. Not throwing up is important because it dehydrates you.


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Hypersexuality is the most common response to childhood sexual abuse. There are a lot of reasons for this. I've listed a few of the basic ones below. (a) Survivors of CSA are often conditioned to view sex as a form of validation. They turn to sex for attention and love after the abuse because they know no other way to get these things. (b) It can be a matter of dependency on the chemicals. Sex releases hormones which make us feel good. Someone who has suffered frequent abuse might seek out the release. (c) It's a way for survivors to gain control of a situation. It's a choice now rather than something forced upon them. This can feel freeing. They have the say over their bodies and what happens to them in these situations.


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 Why do aerosol cans ask you to "shake well"?

You are mixing up the ingredients within the product so they are in the proper amounts when expelled, as opposed to separating in the can and you getting a lot more of one thing than the other. That the propellant is mixed in is fine, it is calculated into the normal usage of the product.


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When it's time to swallow, you have a thing at the back of your throat called the pharynx. Usually, air passes through it when breathing through either you nose or mouth. But when you're chewing, food starts you gather in it. Once it's reached a certain amount food, it triggers you to swallow, which is also why you might have to take multiple swallows per bite. (I just looked this all up on the internet, so if anyone knows any of this is wrong, feel free to correct me)


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 How does gambling work and how do “odds” work?

The odds depend on the game being played, and the rules for those are usually the same wherever you are (barring any odd house rules that the casino may have). Basically, what the casino will be trying to ensure is that the odds of the punter winning mean, on average, they'll receive less money in winnings than they paid in the first place, because that's how they make their money. To reduce it to its simplest, if they had a game where you pay $1 to flip a coin and you win $1.50 cents if it comes up heads, the win on average will come out to $0.75 (because heads occur half the time) so the casino is ahead. The odds of winning in that case would be 2 to 1.


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Using a device called 'calorimeter'. A calorie is equal to the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1g of water by 1°C. You use the calorimeter to burn a piece of food and the released energy is used to heat a known quantity of water. From this information, you calculate the number of calories.


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I'm not sure about the specific compounds used or reactions that occur in this. But thank goodness this is ELI5 so I don't need to. Basically we take an item and cover it with one color. Then you coat it with another layer of thermo-reactive paint (paint that reacts to heat). This special paint becomes transparent when heat is applied on it. (I'm not sure but I think you can choose the color of the thermo-reactive paint as well. Generally black tho) So basically what happens is that. When the article is cold, the outer layer of paint, the thermo paint, is opaque. When it is heated up, this layer becomes transparent and then you can see the layer beneath it. Since the transparency is dependant on the heat level, it is possible to get gradients. For example, phone covers which show palm prints. The inner layer is red. And the thermo paint is blue. So if it is slightly/moderately warmed up, the blue becomes translucent(instead of transparent) and red and blue mix to show purple. This process can also be used it reverse using a different thermo paint which react to coldness instead of heat. In this case the outer layer will be transparent in normal temperature and application of coldness will cause the outer layer to become opaque. There are also other techniques for color changing such as using UV light as a trigger instead of heat. This is used in some shoes and shirts. I don't have much knowledge about these but I speculate that they may have similar working principles.


Question: Why/How does putting bread in a container with brown sugar make the sugar soft and the bread hard?

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 Why/How does putting bread in a container with brown sugar make the sugar soft and the bread hard?

The other comment was a little confused so I'm gonna post the fix, any food product given enough time will start to dry out due to the high moisture content of the food compared to the low moisture of the air around it. Due to liquids having an inherent vapor pressure (basically their desire to evaporate into air) over time the sugars will dry out and stick together. But since sugar is hydrophilic given enough water in the air of an enclosed space it'll pull that water out and into itself rehydrating the sugar and loosening it up. It just so happens that bread has a good quantity of water in it and that due to the very high surface area of bread it evaporates out pretty fast. So just like the sugar it to has its water evaporate out drying the bread and then the sugar happily sucks it up rehydrating back to normal. Then the process starts all over again of it slowly evaporating out of the sugar again starting the cycle over.


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 Why do popular shows like Attack on Titan get low budget?

> most popular anime at the moment The amount of money to be made (in the west) on anime TV is close to zip, and cartoons, especially high quality cartoons, are grossly expensive to make (this gets lost a bit, but yes, cartoons are often very expensive and time consuming to make compared to live action). Its no wonder it has a 'small' budget, if the budget was higher, it wouldn't be making any more for the company making it. Also a "popular" anime, is pulling in joke numbers of viewers and money compared to a more traditional TV show... the audience just isn't there. Just business. You can't spend more on making a product than you can sell it for.


Question: When searching for signs of extraterrestial life, exactly what are looking for?

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Anything that's not natural, or what we consider to be natural. On earth for example, an alien might see straight line structures and conclude they're a sign of intelligent life (straight, symmetrical structures are very rare in nature). In space we're focusing on energy emissions, especially radio waves, and their patterns. A burst of radiation that occurs once or twice every few years? Probably natural. One that appears precisely every two hours, follows a pattern, and originates from the same place? Might be worth investigating. Our theory is that a space-faring species will have developed technology to either broadcast their presence through the galaxy, or significantly alter their environment at a planetary scale in a way that we could observe, whether directly or indirectly.


Question: why does watching welding in person damage your eye, while watching a video of the same weld is completely safe?

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 why does watching welding in person damage your eye, while watching a video of the same weld is completely safe?

The danger from watching welding in person is from the overwhelming amount of photons that enter your eyes. When a video camera captures a scene, the photons hit a sensor that registers a digital value for the color and the intensity of the light. There is an upper limit on how high the number the represents the intensity of the light is. So once the light hits or exceeds that upper limit, the camera just records its max number. For that reason the camera will never record a number that represents a level of light so intense it could hurt your eyes. For example lets say the highest level the camera can record is 1000. A normal sunny day might be in the 800-900 range. Welding would be in the 10,000 range. So even if the camera was pointed right at the welding arc, the max number it would record for brightness would be 1000. When you go to watch that as a video it's not bright enough to hurt you. Also no TV or computer monitor could even produce enough light to hurt you the way welding does.


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The current theory is that a smallish proto-planet named Theia collided with the early Earth. The collision produced lots of debris, which eventually glommed together to form the moon. [It looked like this]( URL_0 ). While it is really impossible to know for sure if life would be different without a moon, it is *extremely* likely that life would be radically different or simply not exist without the moon. The moon governs tides, which have a major effect on life near the shorelines. The moon also acts as a gravitational "shield" for incoming meteors so that the Earth doesn't get impacted nearly as often. So it has almost certainly influenced life on Earth in a number of ways.


Question: if the perimeter of a circle and a square are the same why is the area of the circle greater?

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 if the perimeter of a circle and a square are the same why is the area of the circle greater?

Take a loop of string. Make a square out of it. The square has some area. Now pull two opposite corners of the square as far apart as you can. The new shape has the same perimeter as the square did, but almost no area at all. So we can use the same perimeter to make shapes with different area. If you take your square and reshape it into a circle, you’ll lose some area around the corners, but the amount you gain outside of the edges is more than what you lost.


Question: Why is the economic middle class shrinking?

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Because the rich and ultra rich are getting richer. That money has to come from somewhere. For every million whatevers more your rich CEO is earning, that could have paid 10 people 100k, or 100 people 10k more. Its compounded by taxes-taxes over the past thirty/forty years have plummeted for the rich. So governments either have to raise taxes for the middle class or the poor, cut services, or both. Then you also have to factor in the circular economy. If you give a poor person 10 whatevers, they're more likely to spend it in the local community because they need to buy food. Which helps pay the shopkeeper, the accountant, the taxes for the schoolteacher, etc. A rich person would hoarde most of their money because that's a wiser investment for them. But that doesn't help the local economy.


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The lasers that read the barcode hit it from many angles and scan it very quickly. Also barcodes have something like a checksum, where it's easy to recognize if the data that was read is garbage and needs to be read again. That's why when using hand scanners, like at the grocery store, sometimes it scans a valid item very quickly, and somtimes it takes a while. The built-in scanners in the checkout lanes have lasers that shot from the sides and from the bottom.


Question: If the interstellar medium (ISM) is defined as regions of Space beyond a Star’s influence, why is there an ISM between the heliopause and the Oort Cloud?

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 If the interstellar medium (ISM) is defined as regions of Space beyond a Star’s influence, why is there an ISM between the heliopause and the Oort Cloud?

The heliopause is basically the limit of the Sun's physical influence...it's the outer edge of the Sun's particle bubble. Since what's beyond that, by definition, can't be from the sun then the contents must be interstellar medium. The Oort cloud goes \*way\* farther out than the heliopause. You might be thinking of the sun's gravity...that doesn't have a limit to it's influence, it just gets so weak that nobody cares if you go far away...but that's much much farther than either the heliopause or the Oort cloud. And the gravity well doesn't have anything to do with the heliopause.