Question: Assuming that the alleged collusion happened and the 2016 election was hacked , can someone explain how the Russians have benefited so far?

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 Assuming that the alleged collusion happened and the 2016 election was hacked , can someone explain how the Russians have benefited so far?

Russia's overtly stated goals is to "sow discord among the western allies" and "lower their population's faith in democracy and their governments". This has been their play for a while now. Basically their goal is to put internal pressure(s) on the western nations/NATO to break their dominance and massive alliance and partnerships. That means both internal in each country, and for the countries to bicker among themselves, hopefully causing a rift in their relations. Currently the west is just far too big and powerful for Russia to deal with economically, socially, or militarily. They are trying to break the West's monopoly by turning them against themselves instead of directly attacking them, for which they would lose.... but a divided west, now thats a reasonable future target, maybe some sides even start turning to them for their help instead of the US. It's a long term play, but its been their play since the early 2000s or so when it became clear they could never compete against the strong western alliance(s). Their hacking certainly accomplishes their goals. It certainly has shaken many people's faith in the system, and Trump has by many regards been more of a disrupter in the west and in the US rather than a uniter or moderate staying in the course. Any division among the west is only to Russia's benefit


Question: Why do mugs leave marks on the table, when the drink inside is not in direct contact with it?

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 Why do mugs leave marks on the table, when the drink inside is not in direct contact with it?

The mug has a different temp than the table, either water will condense on the mug, like a pop can, or the heat from the mug will cause the water in the table to expand/evaporate. Very hot things can cause the varnish to lift as well.


Question: What is the electroweak theory?

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 What is the electroweak theory?

The electroweak theory states that, while the electromagnetic force and the weak nuclear force appear to be very separate forces doing very different things at *vastly* different scales, they're actually two different manifestations of the same force, and if the universe were ever hot enough again (10^15 K or so -- for reference, the surface of the sun is only 5.7 \* 10^4 K), they would recombine into the electroweak force.


Question: If I have a 1 light year long stick and push it, why does that information not travel instantly?

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 If I have a 1 light year long stick and push it, why does that information not travel instantly?

Information travels through materials in a wave at roughly the speed of sound in the material, not light. When you push on the end of a stick, you are pushing on atoms that then have to push on adjacent atoms, which push on adjacent atoms, etc.etc. until the far end of the stick moves. There is no such thing as a perfectly rigid object.


Question: If real-time satellite imagery technology already exists, why are surveillance drones used in hostile areas?

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 If real-time satellite imagery technology already exists, why are surveillance drones used in hostile areas?

Real time doesn't mean they can see every area of the globe simultaneously. They still need a satellite overhead, and they typically move. A drone can be sent to a specific area and linger for hours.


Question: People when they get old seem to be shorter than when they were young with at least a few inches. Why??

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 People when they get old seem to be shorter than when they were young with at least a few inches. Why??

Besides older people who 'stoop' or are unable to stand up completely straight due to arthritis and the such, the cervical discs in between each vertebrae get compressed as people get older. Each disc gets a little smaller, but with like 16 discs, even 1/16th of an inch per disc will shrink you by an inch..


Question: Why do burn injuries feel like they are "throbbing" or "pulsing" when exposed to another heat source?

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 Why do burn injuries feel like they are "throbbing" or "pulsing" when exposed to another heat source?

The throbbing is due to the slightly increased blood flow to that region of burnt skin. After the burn, your skin receptors become a bit more sensitive in that locality and so you tend to sense that pulsating blood flow easier. The body sends more blood there to fight infection, begin wound healing, stem any blood loss, etc


Question: Why does the quadratic formula work?

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 Why does the quadratic formula work?

It's basically a giant way of rewriting the equation `ax^2 + bx + c =0` to isolate `x` on one side and all of `a`, `b`, and `c` on the other. Here's a proof that goes through step by step. URL_0


Question: How do 3D printers work?

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 How do 3D printers work?

There are two different main kinds. The first works by building layers of resin set by a UV light source, from a screen that can be blacked out to create the shape of the layer. So you have a screen submerged inside a bath of liquid resin plastic, and the image you are creating is formed on a stage that is dropped into the bath to leave a small space between it and the screen, shone with UV to solidify a thin layer in the shape you want, lifted out to harden, then submerged again to build up a second layer. The shape is built upside down on the stage. UV stands for Ultraviolet, which somehow sets/cures the resin, and is a small element of sunlight that creates sunburns but can be made from bulbs and special lights- like sunbeds. The second is a tiny needle depositing a small blob of solid plastic that is then melted/welded into the rest of the solid object to build up the 3D image.


Question: Why does it look blurry underwater when you don’t use goggles?

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Water has different density than air so your eyes cannot properly adjust to see through straight water when it's in direct contact with your eyes. Goggles add a layer of air between your eyes and the water, so your eyes are able to see through the air properly and into the water, just like if you were to look into water from the top. TL;DR: water thicker, confused eyes.


Question: what are the contents of a "hot hands" pouch and how do they generate so much heat almost instantly?

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They oxidize iron when exposed to air to produce the heat; basically they speed up the rusting of iron which is an exothermic reaction. Powdered iron and salt seem to be the main components along with water to allow the reaction to take place, charcoal to distribute the heat, cellulose as a spacer, etc.


Question: Why is atmospheric pressure high at the poles, but low at higher altitudes?

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 Why is atmospheric pressure high at the poles, but low at higher altitudes?

At higher altitudes you are above some of the atmosphere, so the remaining atmosphere upon you weighs less. Keep going up and you'll reach outer space, where the atmospheric pressure is zero.


Question: what makes one's mentality capable of pushing them further past fatigue or physical adversity than someone else?

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Speaking from my experience in the Army, everyone is capable of overcoming physical adversity and fatigue. In the beginning it usually starts with something that motivates you, something you want MORE than wanting to quit. This could be not wanting to let someone down, a personal goal you are arriving for, or comraderie. Eventually your confidence builds with each small success you make, you ran a little faster, you rucked a little longer, you accomplished something you previously thought impossible. Your success becomes self sustaining motivation and pushes you through difficult times because you believe in yourself and know you can endure. All of this builds mental fortitude which allows you to overcome physical adversity. A healthy dose of pain tolerance can't hurt either!


Question: My Diet Soda lists on the label 0 calories per serving but 15 calories per container. Shouldn’t it be 5 calories per serving since there is 3 servings per container?

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 My Diet Soda lists on the label 0 calories per serving but 15 calories per container. Shouldn’t it be 5 calories per serving since there is 3 servings per container?

In the USA, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allows any food or beverage with less than 5 calories (4.99999999 is less than 5...) to label it as 0 calories. It's a stupid rule... [more information.]( URL_0 )


Question: How do resale retail stores (ie. Winners, Homesense etc.) work?

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Where I am, we have resale stores like Marshall's and TJMaxx. What they do is, whatever didn't sell at the big-name department store last year gets bought for cheap by resellers and sold in their stores the following year. The big name stores are all about changing their inventory every year, so whatever they couldn't sell at end-season-clearance, they sell to a reseller to get whatever profit is left. I have actually seen this where I saw a yoga infinity wrap for $50 and I sneered at it, thinking "Hell no am I paying $50 for that." One year later I saw that exact same wrap, same brand name, same color in Marshall's for $10 and I sez to myself, I sez, "Self! Hell YES am I paying $10 for that!"


Question: Why do hurricanes hit the U.S. East Coast so often but never on the West Coast?

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In the northern hemisphere the ocean current circulates clockwise. Hurricanes form in the warm southern tropics. Therefore hurricanes generally move east to west and eventually south to north. In order for a hurricane to hit California it would have to form near Mexico, travel west to around Hawaii and then north before turning back east towards Cali. That part of the pacific is really cold and the hurricane will die out.


Question: Why do we sometimes only breathe out of one nostril at a time?

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This is called the [nasal cycle]( URL_0 ). It's a constant cycle where one half of our nasal cavity expands while the other contracts, so the majority of air is only ever inhaled through one at a time. This cycle has two main functions: 1. It helps our sense of smell. Some odor chemicals need longer to properly react with our smell receptors, while some react right away. One nostril being fully open allows for air to be inhaled quickly, but the other one being restricted lets air in slower. Having low and high airflow at once lets us detect a greater range of smells. 2. It helps improve the air quality that we breathe. Periodically switching between both nostrils ensures that the fully open one is always moist. One of the main functions of the nose is to humidify the air we breathe, which is why the nose produces mucus in the first place. Mucus adds moisture to the air, which is good for the lungs.


Question: Why does it feel really cold when the air conditioner is set to 68 degrees in the summer, warm when the heat is set to 68 degrees in the winter, and extremely cold swimming in 68 degree water on a 68 degree day?

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Expert on heat transfer and thermodynamics here. The reason is because your HVAC system does not push out air at 68ºF. If the heater is on, it only has one temperature: HOT. They usually have an outlet limit of around 170°F. So the furnace works by sucking in supply air through your return, using natural gas flame or electrical resistance coils (or coal, or oil, or a boiler, etc) to raise the temperature of the air by around 40-70°F and then the fan blows it back into your home through the vents. The air coming out of the vents is quite hot, and it's doing that because your rooms are losing heat to the surrounding environment. Cracks in doorways, drafty windows, poor insulation, etc. It'll keep blowing hot air until the average temperature as measured at the thermostat hits 68°F, and it accomplishes that by blowing air much hotter than 68F until the temperature comes up. The opposite is true in the summer time. Your A/C isn't blowing 68°F air. The air coming out of the evaporator coil is typically 40°F. Except this time it's fighting against heat coming in from outside. It's the same physics though. Same philosophy. To bring the average temperature in a room down from 75 to 68, you blow 40° air in until the average drops to 68°F. So if you're standing anywhere that you can feel air coming through the vents, you'll feel far hotter or far colder than the 68°F temperature the thermostat is set at. Now, your body can't sense absolute temperature. You can only feel heat flux, or the rate of heat transfer into or out of your body. It's why grabbing a pizza in a cardboard box out of the freezer doesn't feel as cold as grabbing a piece of ice. The two are at identical temperatures, it's just that the cardboard is a very poor conductor of heat. They're at verifiably the same temp, but touching them you'd notice a difference and that's because your body perceives heat transfer *rates* and not absolute temperature. This is the primary reason why 68°F air is completely comfortable and 68ºF water can actually kill you from hypothermia. They both have different densities, specific heats (thermodynamic property), and heat transfer coefficients. Water can transfer heat away from your body roughly 25 times faster than air at the same temperature. So you can actually get hypothermia in water that's at what you would assume was room temperature.


Question: Why do Maths have theorems but other sciences and disciplines do not?

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A theorem is a result that can be proven true given a set of rules. A theory is a set of ideas to explain why something is true; a guess at the rules. Humans did not invent the physical world, so we cannot know its rules with absolute certainty. Therefore, we only have theories about the physical world. Humans invented math - the rules are decided by us and can be literally whatever we want because they have no real consequence. (It’s just that Math is only useful when the rules are self-consistent and align with reality). Because we know the rules, we can come up with theorems.


Question: What is the purpose behind a cranial nerve exam, and what is a medical professional looking for when doing one?

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 What is the purpose behind a cranial nerve exam, and what is a medical professional looking for when doing one?

Mostly strokes and tumors. The cranial nerves do very specific things so a deficit in one of them would tell you where there is a lesion or some kind of compression on a nerve. If you can't smell then there's something wrong with your factory nerve assuming everything else is equal. If you can't shrug your shoulders then there's something wrong with your accessory nerve. when you open your mouth and say ah, if your soft palette doesn't rise symmetrically there's something wrong with your Vagas nerve. Etc etc


Question: Why do cold callers ring and immediately hang up when you answer?

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You picked up the phone. Now your number is recorded as a 'live' number. Your number will now be sold to telemarketing companies to be a candidate. Rather than cold calling random numbers and getting dead lines half the time


Question: Why does garlic sometimes turn blue after cooking?

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</answer>
 Why does garlic sometimes turn blue after cooking?

The color change is caused by a reaction between enzymes and sulfur-containing amino acids in the garlic (the same enzymes are responsible for garlic's flavor). ... When these enzymes are activated by mild acid, they produce blue and green pigments.


Question: Why can’t we just download an app, register to vote, and then vote on our phones?

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 Why can’t we just download an app, register to vote, and then vote on our phones?

it would be too easy to manipulate the situation and cast more votes than one for your candidate. the current system works. but even it has issues with bogus votes.


Question: Why are policy makers obsessed with economic growth? What about in countries where population has naturally plateaued or is in decline? Why is it reasonable to expect growth ad infinitum?

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 Why are policy makers obsessed with economic growth? What about in countries where population has naturally plateaued or is in decline? Why is it reasonable to expect growth ad infinitum?

Because of technological and other advancements in development. Economic growth means improvement in our standard of living. 25 years ago, few middle-class families had cell phones or internet. 50 years ago, many didn't have air conditioning or a clothes dryer. 80 years ago, you might not have had a washing machine, a refrigerator, or a car. Today, that family spends thousands of dollars a year on such things. That money doesn't just come from thin air, it is the result of economic growth that makes people more wealthy than they were in the past.


Question: what is vacuum decay? How will it occur and how will we feel it happening?

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 what is vacuum decay? How will it occur and how will we feel it happening?

Everything in physics tries to be at its minimum energy level. That's why a ball roll down a hill or certain chemical reaction occur. The vacuum (no particle) has a certain amount of energy. But it's possible that's only a local minimum and not a global minimum, kinda like how a ball can be in **a** hole but not **the lowest hole** in all of the earth. **If** this is the case (and I must stress here that we have no idea if that's true) and **if** it's possible to reach the true minimum, we expect all the laws of physics to change upon reaching that minimum, or at least all currently known particle interraction. If it happens it'll happen at some specific point in space (or multiple points) and it'll expand at the speed of light. It's actually possible that it already happened somewhere in space and we just don't know yet. Nor will we ever know because the speed of light is the fastest speed at which information can travel. Will we feel it? Not really it'll go through the earth in an instant and we'll all be dead, it won't hurt at all because even if your feet get "destroyed" first, your brain wouldn't receive the pain signal until after your brain is also destroyed. It's a scary thought but it's also just a hypothesis for now so don't worry too much about it.


Question: How do entire cities or civilizations end up physically buried underground with modern people living obliviously above or nearby?

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 How do entire cities or civilizations end up physically buried underground with modern people living obliviously above or nearby?

There is many ways things can end up buried. The very simplest is that for most of human history there was no trash trucks taking things away so people just buried stuff a lot. Even building a new house the easiest thing to do with the old house was knock it over and push it in a hole. For natural processes there is lots of them. The best are very sudden, like a land slide or a giant flood that carries mud. Or even a volcano like in pompeii. But even without that think about what would happen if you made a big pile of dirt in your yard. Eventually the rain might make it go away. But it doesn't really go away, all that dirt just washes down hill, and if you are the guy at the bottom of the hill, if you don't sometimes clear all the dirt it'll eventually build up. very very slow, but eventually. Same with places that rocks break down into dust, that dust blows somewhere, and eventually would cover up the place it blows to. Most types of erosion wear stuff away one place then it piles up somewhere else.


Question: How does a computer hack “look” Russian or Chinese or whatever?

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 How does a computer hack “look” Russian or Chinese or whatever?

I could give you a stack of books without giving you the authors. And you could, could by reading the books, examining and comparing the writing patterns, style, formatting of chapters (etc. Etc.) figure out which books are from the same author. For hacks it works the same way. The methods used, the resources, the way hacks are written, the ways hacks are executed. The resemblance to previous hacks. The bits of log that are recovered the logs that were wiped, patterns. They get researched and compared to other hacks. This is digital forensics.


Question: How can scientists so accurately predict when and where total solar eclipses will occur?

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 How can scientists so accurately predict when and where total solar eclipses will occur?

Celestial bodies move in a very predictable way. As long as we under stand what forces are acting on an object(which we do) figuring out its trajectory is just a matter of doing enough math.


Question: what exactly is happening when money is “in transit,” i.e. when funds are being processed/transferred to and from banks/apps/stores?

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 what exactly is happening when money is “in transit,” i.e. when funds are being processed/transferred to and from banks/apps/stores?

In North American banks at least, they may only process transfers once per day after the bank branches have all closed. Any transfer done that day will generally be processed sometime that night and funds will become available the following morning. Transfers between institutions can add time. For instance, if I write you a cheque and you deposit it, your bank has to send the cheque back to my bank to verify it's legit and that I have the money. This may be done electronically, by courier, or *through the goddamn mail* depending on where the banks are and how good their infrastructure is. International transfers often have very long holds to account for this timing. The only exceptions are transfers within the same bank between two accounts, or wire transfers which are completely electronic. These usually happen same-day. I've lived in multiple cities in two countries and moved money around a lot between banks and investment brokers. I've seen everything from instantaneous transfer (wiring USD is best for international) to a cheque from one stock broker to another literally getting lost in the mail and having to be re-sent three weeks later.


Question: how does "saving electricity" work? /how the grid works.

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<answer>
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 how does "saving electricity" work? /how the grid works.

If you draw more current from a battery you will drain the battery faster. now swap the battery with a powerplant the power and doesn't need to create as much power, saving them fuel and money


Question: Why is a high note and a low note still considered the same note in music?

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 Why is a high note and a low note still considered the same note in music?

It is down to physics. The frequency of a given note doubles each time you go up an octave. Picking the note A because the maths is easy, the frequencies in hertz of the A keys of a piano are: 27.5, 55, 110, 220, 440, 880, 1760, 3520 We perceive this array of frequencies as the same note because they stimulate our senses in very similar ways. Unless listening to a pure tone, instruments will generate different harmonics as well as the fundamental frequency. It is the strength of these harmonics that we perceive as tone.


Question: Why is it second-nature for us to know what songs are like in different keys when we haven't listened to their alternate variants before?

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 Why is it second-nature for us to know what songs are like in different keys when we haven't listened to their alternate variants before?

Basically, your brain recognizes the distance between notes if you've heard a song a couple times. It doesn't matter what note it starts on, transposing into a different key just move all the notes up/down by the same amount


Question: Why do different fruits/vegetables accumulate different nutrients?

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 Why do different fruits/vegetables accumulate different nutrients?

Different plant species (and species overall) have different needs ([their niche]( URL_0 )). Both a tree and a herb can be cultivated in your garden but by their very nature they'll have different needs for nutrients. In the case of domesticated plants, like kale, potatoes, or watermelon, besides having those intrinsic differences, we've selected them artificially to have even more drastic nutritious content (when compared to their wild counterparts).


Question: Why is it that almost all microsoft pc's start their drives with C? Why not A?

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 Why is it that almost all microsoft pc's start their drives with C? Why not A?

It's an older convention for computers. Drives A and B are dedicated for Floppy Disc Drives, used for installation of programs on to the hard drive C As the systems evolved, B became a backup to A, sometimes using the older, larger discs, and eventually they were removed entirely, leaving A and C. B was left behind in case. In the advent of larger programs, especially as programs started taking huge stacks of discs, the installations started to move to CD Drives (which defaulted to D), and the Floppy Drives began to be removed entirely. You are probably wondering why we don't move the C drive to become the A drive in new systems... Too many programs actually wrote in references to the C drive *specifically* as the installation drive, and changing it would have caused too many problems.


Question: Why are we much more sensitive to noise at night even if we don't feel tired or anything ?

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 Why are we much more sensitive to noise at night even if we don't feel tired or anything ?

Perhaps because most of the ambient noise present in the day stops. The night is usually more silent than the day and our vision is also lessend by the dark, causing us to rely on our hearing more.


Question: When you shake a carbonated drink (soda/beer) it will fizz out of the can if you don't wait a while for it to settle down. What happens to "settle it down"?

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 When you shake a carbonated drink (soda/beer) it will fizz out of the can if you don't wait a while for it to settle down. What happens to "settle it down"?

There is some air in the can, normally just sitting in one piece/bubble at the top. When you shake the can, you break that bubble and mix it with the liquid, creating thousands of small air bubbles. Now when you open the can, the pressure is released and the CO2 dissolved in the (carbonated) liquid vaporizes out of the solution and becomes gas. It’s a lot easier for CO2 to do that when there are already many bubbles of gas (air) which it can join. So a freshly shaken can will fizz out because of all the CO2 suddenly becoming gaseous. In a short while after shaking the air recollects in one bubble at the top, and it’s no longer so easy for CO2 to come out of solution, making the drink “settle down”.


Question: Why people often forget what was their task when moving from one room to another?

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 Why people often forget what was their task when moving from one room to another?

It’s referred to as “location amnesia”. Oh wait, have to run back inside for something important (wallet, phone, keys etc.) After that thought, your brain is now processing movement into the other room. Also, as soon as you enter another room, the brain is flooded with the new sensory information of that room. All the moving and sensory info gets uploaded into the area of the brain where that task was being stored. It’s like opening up an app on your phone and then immediately calling someone. Your brain is focused on getting to the new location and processing what it’s seeing in the new location to remember that thing you were looking for.


Question: Why do we have to have our wisdom teeth taken out?

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 Why do we have to have our wisdom teeth taken out?

You don't have to have your wisdom teeth taken out and many people don't. Others have to have them taken out because they grow through in odd angles, or painfully, or impact on the teeth around them. A number of people also have them out before having braces to avoid altering the shape of their jaw/tooth arrangement if/when they come through. No sense spending thousands on orthodontics just to have it all messed up by some pesky third molars.


Question: How do Water Softeners work?

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 How do Water Softeners work?

It's called Ion Exchange. The beads in the softener pull the stuff out of the water. The salt pulls the stuff off the beads for discard so that the beads can work again.


Question: Many natural things fluoresce under UV light. Is fluorescence performing a biological function?

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 Many natural things fluoresce under UV light. Is fluorescence performing a biological function?

Absolutely. It's not the case that all creatures see the same region of the light spectrum. The way things look to humans isn't the same as the way they look to dogs, birds, or bees. What humans call near UV is just an ordinary color to bees, and they absolutely incorporate that information into their behavior (bee-hivior?). There are plants that have specific invisible-to-humans bee attracting patterns, for example.


Question: Why every number n^0 is equal to 1?

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 Why every number n^0 is equal to 1?

It follows from: n^a * n^b = n^(a+b) n^a * n^0 = n^(a+0) = n^a So n^0 = 1 Another way to look at it is to follow the pattern: To get from n^5 to n^4 we divide by n To get from n^4 to n^3 we divide by n To get from n^3 to n^2 we divide by n To get from n^2 to n^1 we divide by n And finally to get from n^1 to n^0 we divide by n. But n^1 = n, and n/n = 1. So n^0 = 1


Question: Why were dinosaurs so much larger than most animals on the planet today?

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 Why were dinosaurs so much larger than most animals on the planet today?

They are smaller than the largest whales, however if there is enough food available animals tend to grow larger with each successive generation due to something called Cope's rule. - URL_0


Question: How do turtles, and other land animals born from eggs, breathe while in the egg? Is there a concern of not getting enough oxygen?

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 How do turtles, and other land animals born from eggs, breathe while in the egg? Is there a concern of not getting enough oxygen?

The egg shell is not gas tight. so oxygen and carbon dioxide will pass trough it and they can survive. The same it true for birds Test of oxygen diffusion across a sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) egg shell vs chicken egg show that the turtle egg have twice the diffusion of the chicken egg. [ URL_0 ]( URL_0 )


Question: How can people on the phone not hear themselves when on speaker?

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<answer>
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 How can people on the phone not hear themselves when on speaker?

Speaking as someone who answers phones for a living, I do hear it. It’s awful when people call me on speakerphone/from their car.


Question: Why rain harvesting is beneficial to us, aren't we disturbing the natural cycle ?

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 Why rain harvesting is beneficial to us, aren't we disturbing the natural cycle ?

Not really cause when we drink it we piss it out which evaporates into a cloud and then rain again


Question: What is the Dodd Frank bill?

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The Dodd-Frank bill is a US federal law, proposed by then-president Barack Obama in response to the economic crisis of 2008. This crisis is generally regarded as being caused by poor lending practices by banks, among other issues. Then-president George W. Bush "bailed out" several banks, lending them hundreds of billions of dollars of government money. The Dodd-Frank bill greatly reduced the amount of money the Bush government had set aside for lending to the failed banks, and specified how this money could be used - insisting that it be used for stabilizing the businesses rather than expanding them. This was done to keep taxpayers' money from being "gambled" away by the banks which had proven themselves prone to poor business decisions. The Dodd-Frank Act also includes many other provisions, aimed at ensuring that a similar economic crisis would not occur again: * New agencies are created whose job it is to keep an eye on the economy and try to detect impending crisis before it occurs. This includes monitoring of both the banking industry and the insurance industry, among others. Other agencies are abolished or combined. * A fund is set up to repay a bank or insurance company's debts if it fails, including customers' bank accounts. This fund is paid for by extracting fees from any financial business worth over $50 billion. * Banking executives have been required to register with the government and provide reports on their activities since 1940. Dodd-Frank increases the number of executives required to register and report, and increases the information they must report. This is meant to help the government predict impending economic crisis. * Investment businesses are prohibited from certain types of investment, in particular *proprietary trading*. Proprietary trading is a practice where the investment business invests its own money, instead of investing its customers money. Proprietary trading is frowned upon because it does not benefit the customers, it is seen as risky, and it may create conflicts of interest (the business could profit at the expense of its customers). * The practice of "selling debt," which is seen as a cause of the 2008 economic crisis, is regulated and subject to government approval. * The powers of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are expanded. The SEC is a government agency in charge of oversight of some of the finance industry. At the same time, stricter requirements are placed on the SEC, ensuring that it is performing its oversight correctly. * Grants are created to help poor people establish bank accounts or take out small loans. * Mortgages (money loaned so people can buy a house) are regulated. Banks are prohibited from loaning money to people who are unlikely to pay it back. Banks are prohibited from charging exorbitant rates, unfair penalties, etc. Values of houses must be appraised by a professional to make sure that the money loaned matches the price of a house.


Question: Why does low air pressure mean stormy weather?

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 Why does low air pressure mean stormy weather?

In low pressure areas, air rises up from the ground / sea, while in high pressure areas the air moves downward. Air that moves upward, brings with it the evaporation of a body of water, and once that air is at the top where it is cooler and condenses, it translates into rain. & #x200B;


Question: What are WhatsApp’s new terms and conditions and why is everyone freaking out about them?

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 What are WhatsApp’s new terms and conditions and why is everyone freaking out about them?

It’s like having a best friend whom you once confided in, shared your photos and phone number with, and now that classmate is threatening you “I’m sharing your information with other friends of mine so that they can understand you better, if you dont like it, dont be my friend”.


Question: since electricity can only travel in a closed circuit, how does it know that the circuit is closed if it hasn't "travelled" there?

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 since electricity can only travel in a closed circuit, how does it know that the circuit is closed if it hasn't "travelled" there?

It follows the "path of least resistance". Think of electrons like cars crowded in a parting lot after a concert. They all want to go home, but they can all see a car right in front of them. When one car leaves the lot, it makes a little open space, and another car fills it. All they have to do in move into an open space, they don't need a long term view of the circuit and their ultimate path to the sink. They are electrons, not as clever as people.


Question: Why do nuclear bombs/warheads have an EMP effect? Is it a natural side effect of the bomb or is it an engineered effect?

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 Why do nuclear bombs/warheads have an EMP effect? Is it a natural side effect of the bomb or is it an engineered effect?

Its an incidental effect but can be harnessed by changing the design, there are 2 main causes, firstly the release of gamma rays which can ionise particles in the higher atmosphere causing a flow of extremely high speed electrons towards the ground, these gamma rays themselves also cause an emp effect, secondly the nuclear explosion disrupts the earths magnetic field similar to in a solar storm


Question: How does red light maintain night vision when other colors don't?

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You have things called cones in your eye that are sensitive to different colors. If they are open to let in more light in a dark area, but are exposed to bright light they are sensitive to, they will restrict, impeding your night vision. A red light means that only your red-sensing cones will retract, letting your other eye cones stay in 'night mode', having a minimal impact on your ability to see in the dark. Red is often used because it's more covert than other lights like blue or green, though I remember military flashlights coming with both a blue and red lens.


Question: What exactly happens when you file for bankruptcy?

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What you do is to apply to be protected from your creditors by the bankruptcy laws. Normally if you do not pay your bills or your loans the creditors can go to the courts and get permission to take some of your assets or garnish your wages in order to force you to pay. However if it would be impossible for you to pay all your bills or pay back all your loans before you die you can essentially reset your financial life by declaring bankruptcy. Most of your assets will still be forfeit to your creditors and nobody would want to loan you anything again for about ten years. However they will no longer be able to collect their debt. The idea being that they should have been able to see that you would be unable to pay your bills in the first place. There is a few exceptions from bankruptcy. Firstly you are allowed to keep some assets, this varies with legislation but usually includes a small home, car and personal items. But there are also debts which will not be included such as student loans (everyone is basically bankrupt when studying) and legally mandated debt such as traffic tickets or lawsuits.


Question: For environmentalists, why is there a preference to paper over plastic?

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 For environmentalists, why is there a preference to paper over plastic?

Paper is actually surprisingly low impact. The logging industry figured out decades ago that if they wanted to have 30 year old trees to harvest 30 years from now, then they'd best start planting them themselves. The result of this is that we aren't clear cutting forests, but instead taking out old trees and replacing them with young trees in a rotation so the logging industry won't run out of material. You still have the energy that goes into cutting down the tree and processing it into paper, but that's going to be less than extracting the oil and turning it into plastic. Overall paper products are not that bad. You're certainly not destroying a forest when you use more, because that forest got replanted


Question: why does grass make you itchy?

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 why does grass make you itchy?

On a microscopic level, grass is serrated and these small sawteeth cut your skin. It isn't enough to bleed but it's enough to irritate your nerves and cause itching Edit: plural


Question: Why does big ants, even flying ants, appear after rain?

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 Why does big ants, even flying ants, appear after rain?

Nuptial flights. Ants will have nuptial flights where different colonies of the same species will send male and female alates (winged ants) to mate with other colonies. The male alates will die after mating, but the females will go without eating and eat her wings off for nutrients. She'll hide from predators and lay eggs until she creates an entire colony. Even though she only mates once, she'll lay eggs for the rest of her life. Nuptial flights often happen after rain.


Question: is there any truth to the idea that cooked vegetables are “less good for you” than raw vegetables?

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 is there any truth to the idea that cooked vegetables are “less good for you” than raw vegetables?

Because of plant cell wall structure some raw veggies are difficult to digest. They’re still useful as fiber. When you cook them, you break down some of the cell walls and it’s easier for you to get the nutrients out of them. Ultimately, it’s a trade off. For example cooking can rob food of vitamin C, but it makes beta carotene available for digestion. Boiling drains the most nutrients from foods. Steaming and roasting loses much less. Nutritionists typically recommend eating a variety of fruits and vegetables—cooked and raw.


Question: Why does drip coffee make me much more jittery than espresso, even when using the same amount of coffee beans for each?

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Caffeine is water soluble, in general the more water and the longer it stays in contact with the ground beans the more caffeine is extracted from the beans. BTW, French press has something like 3x the caffeine of regular coffee owing to the long time the beans are left in contact with the water.


Question: Why isn't there a universal volume level?

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Your talking about volume normalization. There is such a thing. Not everyone uses it in recording post peocessing. They should.


Question: why does getting soap up your pee hole feel like Satan himself is setting your Johnson on fire?

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Stuff like your eyes and urethra are kept fairly acidic in order to keep them as sterile as possible. Soap is significantly more basic, so there's a painful reaction when it comes in contact with these surfaces.


Question: How are child actors exempt from child labor laws?

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They are not exempt. Child labor laws don't mean that kids can never work. It just restricts hours and types of jobs. Typically, the parents control the finances of their children. However, due to past events of parents spending all of their children's earning, a percent of a child actor's earnings is put into a trust until they reach legal age.


Question: Why is it that when mixing colors on computers/phones, the maximum “amount” you can use of each is specifically 255?

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 Why is it that when mixing colors on computers/phones, the maximum “amount” you can use of each is specifically 255?

When you have a byte ( 8 bits ) to represent the color, the values are between 0 and 255 because in binary that’s the maximum value 11111111


Question: If we see something happen X light years away, did it really happen X years ago?

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 If we see something happen X light years away, did it really happen X years ago?

You had it right. Because of the speed of light, looking at more and more distant object means you are also looking deeper and deeper into the past. The relativity angle you may be referring to is that for an object traveling near light speed, time will slow down as you near the speed of light. So for a photon traveling at light speed, no time passes at all. However, for you, an outside observer, time will pass at “normal” speed.


Question: why can my heaters easily keep my house at a nice 75 when its 15 degrees outside, but my AC struggles to dip below 70 when its 100 outside?

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 why can my heaters easily keep my house at a nice 75 when its 15 degrees outside, but my AC struggles to dip below 70 when its 100 outside?

What kind of air-conditioning do you have (central, swamp, etc...)?


Question: Why does cutting onions open hurt our eyes?

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When you cut an onion, the onion releases a gas which combines with the water in your eyes to form a mild acid. This acid is the burning feeling you get.