Question: How come when lightning strikes the water (a lake for example) it doesn’t electrocute all the fish?

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 How come when lightning strikes the water (a lake for example) it doesn’t electrocute all the fish?

Waster is a good conductor, which means that the electrical current from the lightening is able to travel over the surface rather than go underneath. Same way a Faraday cage protects things inside. Most fish don't surface that often so they're generally safe under the water. Unlike humans that need to surface frequently to breath.


Question: Why when I think of, for example, sour candy or food, does my tongue tingle and make a ton of saliva?

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 Why when I think of, for example, sour candy or food, does my tongue tingle and make a ton of saliva?

The thought of lemons is enough for the brain, which will send signals to the salivary glands which will start to produce greater volumes of saliva. This is a conditioned reflex action .A conditioned reflex action is a reflex action acquired from past experience or learning. First when you had not tasted lemons, thinking of lemons caused no watering of the mouth. But when you tasted them you came to know they are sweet and sour and so you started liking lemons. Now, you like lemons so when you will see a lemon your mouth will start watering. Your mouth will also start watering even when anyone will mention the word lemons in front of you. This is true, go ahead and try it! You will have to read about Pavlov's experiments with dogs, they explain this in detail.


Question: Why is Coconut oil is considered a good moisturizer for skin when it doesn't have any water content?

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 Why is Coconut oil is considered a good moisturizer for skin when it doesn't have any water content?

Like most moisturizer, it's not the water content that matters. It's the ability to retain water within whatever it is you're moisturising. E.g. water will have a hard time passing through your skin if it's got conconut oil on it, hence the water remains in your skin!


Question: Why can’t we move/feel our arms after the blood circulation is cut off, for example, when we sleep on it?

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 Why can’t we move/feel our arms after the blood circulation is cut off, for example, when we sleep on it?

It’s not the circulation that is cut off that makes your arm unable to be felt. It’s cutting off the nerve communication to the brain that is doing it.


Question: Why is Texas so cold? I've looked it up and every news website covering it doesn't answer the question in the article and just states how cold it is never acknowledging the question in the title. Why is it so cold in Texas?

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 Why is Texas so cold? I've looked it up and every news website covering it doesn't answer the question in the article and just states how cold it is never acknowledging the question in the title. Why is it so cold in Texas?

Climate change has caused the jet stream to wobble, that is it moves up and down more than it used to, the jet stream keeps areas of high pressure around the Arctic which keeps the cold bottles up. When the jet stream moves or weakens the cold escapes as it did here and has flowed south through the Midwest and into Texas.


Question: What is the difference between Term life and Whole life insurance?

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 What is the difference between Term life and Whole life insurance?

Term life is insurance you buy, where if you die before a certain time your family gets a pre determined payout, eg you buy a ten year term for a million dollars, if you die in the next ten years your family gets a million bucks if you don't die nothing happens. Whole life doesn't have an end date and after you have paid a certain amount you can stop making payments. Why people would take term over whole life is Term is waaaay cheaper then whole life and for the most part you only need insurance when your family would be in tough shape if you died, ie you are still in your working years.


Question: How can we automatically tell when a practical effect is a tiny model in closeup?

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 How can we automatically tell when a practical effect is a tiny model in closeup?

Lack of detail on the small model is a good giveaway. You may also be noticing that it doesn't move with the momentum you'd expect out of a large massive object.


Question: why aren't cars priced the same everywhere to make purchasing easy and remove the need for salesman?

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 why aren't cars priced the same everywhere to make purchasing easy and remove the need for salesman?

The ridiculous buying process makes the dealer more money, and car dealership lobbying groups lobbied Congress to make it illegal to sell cars any other way. They used their money to basically write a law that says no one can compete with them, so they have no incentive to make anything better.


Question: If a basketball player could dunk by jumping from the 3 point line, would the basket count as 2 or 3 points?

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 If a basketball player could dunk by jumping from the 3 point line, would the basket count as 2 or 3 points?

3 points, per the NBA rule book. > A successful field goal attempt from the area outside the three-point field goal line shall count three points. (1) The shooter must have at least one foot on the floor outside the three-point field goal line prior to the attempt. (2) The shooter may not be touching the floor on or inside the three-point field goal line. (3) The shooter may contact the three-point field goal line, or land in the two-point field goal area, after the ball is released. So landing in the 2 zone is ok.


Question: Why are cold drinks more satisfying to consume?

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 Why are cold drinks more satisfying to consume?

rushing water is usually cold so it makes evolutionary sense to like colder water since rushing water is way less bacteria infested than still, warm water.


Question: Why do people's breath form more vapor when they are near another source of vapor, like an engine exhaust or industrial plant?

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 Why do people's breath form more vapor when they are near another source of vapor, like an engine exhaust or industrial plant?

Because the air is already closer to saturated with humidity due to the other source, so it takes less added breath humidity to push it past the saturation point.


Question: How do we communicate with space probes?

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 How do we communicate with space probes?

Radio signals reliably travel that far. Probes are moving fast, but they're also far away, so like an airplane high up in the sky, you have no trouble keeping up with its movement, even though it's 600+ miles per hour, because it's so far away. In terms of physics, the angular velocity (how fast you have to turn your eyes to follow it) is very small, because it's the actual velocity divided by the distance. Trajectories are totally predicted, and calculated way before launch. NASA doesn't risk millions of dollars worth of space probe; it's got engineers to do these calculations and check and re-check them multiple times. So it's just a matter of aiming a powerful radio telescope to where the probe is. Your cell phone connection is unreliable because your phone only has maybe a watt of radio transmission power, and the cell towers may be too far away. Cell towers are designed to only reach a few miles around them, which is why they have to be placed everywhere in order to blanket the US and cover everything. A radio telescope can put out several kilowatts of radio power, aimed (like a flashlight beam) at a certain direction. Much more effective.


Question: How do our eyes use cones to see colour? Why is it that we’re only able to see between 380 and 740 nm?

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 How do our eyes use cones to see colour? Why is it that we’re only able to see between 380 and 740 nm?

Two important notes here: First, the sun peaks right in the middle of that range - it’s generating the most light at those wavelengths and they’ll be the most prevalent on Earth. Second, the vertebrate eye is filled with water and evolved under water. This makes it useless to try and detect wavelengths that water is not transparent to. Water has very low absorption in the “visible” band but quickly turns opaque in the UV and IR. If you’re a prehistoric lungfish scuttling around on the sea floor, there’s zero UV and IR light available even though the sun is producing it. You wouldn’t have any evolutionary use for the relevant detector cells, even if they’re theoretically possible to build.


Question: How Do Pharmaceutical Companies Establish Drug Prices?

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 How Do Pharmaceutical Companies Establish Drug Prices?

A LOT is going to go into it. Size of the market and its growth rate, cost of advertising, costs to research and develop, costs to manufacture, legal costs, consumer climate, level of competition, required return on investment, supply-versus-demand, risk to generics, overlap with existing/near-term alternatives, etc. etc. etc.


Question: Where does money come from?

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 Where does money come from?

In theory the government creates money. Some of this is in the form of notes and coins - physically created for the government. That's the simple part. What complicates things is that the majority of money these days is electronic and is created by banks, based on rules set by the government. How this actually works can be hard to get your head round. As for money the government takes via tax. Generally the government spends it. That money goes back out to pay for benefits, pensions, health and social care, police, the army, etc etc.. It goes to all the people who work for the government, who receive money from the government, all the companies that supply the government, and so-on. So money that the government takes from tax doesn't go out of circulation, it just gets spent again. (Except in very rare cases when governments do reduce the amount of money in circulation, taking money and 'destroying' it.)


Question: How do dryer sheets remove static?

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 How do dryer sheets remove static?

When your cloths tumble around electrons can get stripped from one item and placed on another item giving the two pieces of clothing an over all positive or negative charge. If they do differ you get static cling. Since clothes are not good conductors of electricity the charge can last for quite some time. Dryer sheets are just a fabric sheet impregnated with fabric softener, fabric softener is positively charged. When the sheet tumbles around the softener comes off and gives the clothes an overall positive charge, preventing opposites and thus cling . This is the same reason many people use fabric sheets to help dust around the house. The positive charge left behind helps prevent dust build up.


Question: How do peolpe go missing when ending up in a sinkhole?

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 How do peolpe go missing when ending up in a sinkhole?

Some sinkholes are hundreds of feet deep and were formed when an underground cave collapsed or by the action of water underground carrying away supporting soil It’s flowing water that removes the bodies so people are not found


Question: How a DNS Sinkhole works?

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 How a DNS Sinkhole works?

When you ask to connect to “ URL_0 ” you have to ask a DNS server “what’s the IP address of URL_0 ?” A normal DNS says “ URL_3 is at 151.101.1.140” and your computer connects to 151.101.1.140. A DNS sinkhole says “ URL_0 is at 0.0.0.0” or some other nonexistent address, and your computer tries to connect to 0.0.0.0 and fails because that’s not a real address. WannaCry was coded to turn itself off if DNS servers gave it any address for “ URL_2 ”. That domain didn’t exist, so DNS servers would have just said “I don’t know” when asked. A security researcher found the domain in the code, and tried registering it. So DNSs started giving out an address for it, and WannaCry turned itself off. (Specifically, WannaCry stops spreading / infecting new computers if the domain is sinkhole’d or registered. Already infected machines are still infected. Also, this only works for that version of WannaCry so it wouldn’t help if a new version without that kill-switch spread) Source: URL_1


Question: How come the other end of a plugged charger is not "live" even though not connected to any device?

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It is live, it's just that it is at a very low voltage. Usually low enough so that it can't penetrate your skin. You should always be careful, however, with live electricity. It *can* be dangerous.


Question: I heard that it is incorrect to say that i = sqrt(-1) but it is better to say that i^2 = -1. Why so?

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 I heard that it is incorrect to say that i = sqrt(-1) but it is better to say that i^2 = -1. Why so?

They're both true, but the second one is the definition of i. We define i by noting that x^(2)+1=0 "should" have two solutions and choosing to call one of those solutions i. From there we can define sqrt( & minus;1)=i, rather than defining i=sqrt( & minus;1). We also find that the other solution of x^(2)+1=0 is equal to & minus;i. There was nothing special about the solution that we picked before we picked it - we didn't say "let i be the positive solution" or anything like that. Instead we said "let i be one of the solutions", then effectively decided to call whichever one we picked the "positive" solution.


Question: How can some colors appear brighter than others even if they have the same saturation and lightness, only different hues?

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 How can some colors appear brighter than others even if they have the same saturation and lightness, only different hues?

Humans aren't equally good at seeing different colours. We're great at black and white (lightness) ,pretty good at green (its wavelength is right in the middle of our visible spectrum) and less good (but still OK) at blue and red. Think of a grey scale picture - now think of the same one but it's red to blue scale instead. Much harder to get detail. URL_0 is a good example.


Question: How do some electronic devices (phone chargers, e.g.) plugged into an outlet use only a small amout of electricity from the grid without getting caught on fire from resistance or causing short-circuit in the grid?

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Electrical engineer here: Low powered devices do the opposite of a short. They have such high resistance that they only let a small amount of electricity through.


Question: How do electric cars reduce CO2? Doesn't the energy for the electric cars have to come from somewhere?

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 How do electric cars reduce CO2? Doesn't the energy for the electric cars have to come from somewhere?

You are generally right. And if someone lives in a place with 100% coal generated electricity it might be a bit worse. Howeve, electric cars are one piece of a potentially cleaner infrastructure. They have some current benefits even if powered by fossil fuel plants: 1) it is easier to put carbon capture technologies and efficiencies in place at a power plant than it is on each and every car. Individual small engines (and heck, any engines) are pretty bad generally at turning the mechanical energy of combustion directly into forward energy of propulsion. 2) electric cars essentially switch off when stopped rather than idling, saving power in stop and go life. 3) electric cars reduce local smog and improve air quality on the ground. 4) electric cars in areas with some percent of renewable electricity is being used reflect that (with some i efficiency due to transmitting over lines and storage), whereas all gas cars do not. 5) electric cars are often able to recapture some of the energy lost to braking. More importantly, it is putting infrastructure in place as that as grids get progressively more and more renewable and cleaner, those efficiencies are immediately translated to all electric cars in that area. When advances are made in car design, by comparison, it takes a decade or two for existing cars to come off the road and to be replaced with those efficiencies. In geneal, the push to cleaner energy is going to be a step by step process. People often like to poopoo any one thing because it doesn't solve all the problems either now or even in theory. But that isn't the way it is going to work. It is going to be incrimental steps, improvements, choices, investments, more steps, improvements, choices and investments.


Question: How does immigration benefit the economy and businnesses?

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Idk where you’re getting the idea that Japan’s economy is “strong”. Their bubble burst in the late 90’s and they’ve just muddled along ever since. And to answer your question, it’s because immigrants arrive in your country and start doing productive things. They increase demand for current business and even start a few of their own. And highly-skilled immigrants are the real prize: some other country shoulders the burden of educating them and you get to reap the benefits!


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Because that would create a near vacuum. As the liquid tries to go down, it would leave an almost empty space between the surface and your finger; more exactly, the air pressure at the bottom would be much, much greater than the air pressure at the top, and that difference in pressure would overcome gravity. It's the same reason you can drink through a straw; you create low pressure at the top of the straw, and the higher air pressure at the bottom pushes your drink up and into your mouth. Gravity is an incredibly weak force. Just picking something up, you are overcoming the gravitational force of the entire planet.


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They typically are, although not as .zip format. The download is compressed as much as possible - have you not noticed that the installer is much smaller than the installed game?


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Because of currents. Currents flow "clockwise" in the northern hemisphere. Meaning the US west coast gets cold water from the Pacific before the current turns south at the coast. This is the opposite for the East coast where warm water from the south flows north up the coast. Hurricanes need warm water (in simple terms). So hurricanes on the West start far south and rarely come north far enough. Whereas hurricanes on the East start not as far south and can go up the East and South because of warm waters.


Question: how to find the area between two curves limited by a y value?

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Another way you could do this, beyond what was previously stated, would be to reflect the red line over the line y=X and then find the area between the curves (both areas will be the same but you will be limited by the value of x=3 instead of y=3) So if you have the function y=x^2 /12 then the reflection is x = y^2 /12 meaning that you can find the area of the curve between y=x and y=(12x)^1/2 from 0 to 3 Both answers will be the same.


Question: 2d shapes have an area and 3d shapes have a volume. Is it still called volume on 4d shapes? It shouldn't be right?

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 2d shapes have an area and 3d shapes have a volume. Is it still called volume on 4d shapes? It shouldn't be right?

In maths, it is sometimes called the "hypervolume". This terminology is meant to be applied to things in dimensions greater than 3. This is related to other terms like "hypercube", "hypersphere" and so on. URL_0


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The gravity concentrations are related to the density of the crust of the moon. You can see areas such as craters have altered density and thus gravity strength.


Question: Why do you need to change your password when you forget it? I'd much prefer to just be reminded of it by email, for curiosity and for convenience.

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because it's bad practice for someone to store the password in a way that they can retrieve it. this is in case they get hacked. instead, they store a "hash" of your password and compare that each time you log in.


Question: Who would be the indigenous peoples of Europe?

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This is not an objective question considering there is no cut and clear definition of indigenous people of Europe. If you mean who were there before the Indo-European language speakers, then the answer would be '[Western European Hunter Gatherers]( URL_0 )' and '[Eastern European Hunter Gatherers]( URL_1 )'. The contemporary nations that you can trace back to have been the oldest peoples to survive the Indo-European migrations would be the Basque people and The Finno-Ugric people. & #x200B; TLDR: **Basque people** (Minority in France and Spain) **Finnish people** (Finland) **Sami people** (Sweden/Norway/Finland) **Estonian people** (Estonia)


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Suppose you wanted to toss something through the air and hit a target, using a precise calculation of the required force as opposed to just eyeballing it or using trial and error. That requires solving a quadratic equation. Or suppose you made a product and wanted to figure out the best price to sell it. As you increase the price you expect to sell fewer units and as you lower the price you expect to sell more, and there is some balance between unit price and sales volume which makes you the most money. That is a quadratic equation.


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In the 1700's, getting shot by other people on your "team" was a big problem, and color coding uniforms helps with that. You had to be quite close to shoot someone, because the firearms of the period were not excellent. By WWI and WWII, firearms were excellent. Also, at that time, armies had radios. This allowed more complex communication that the bugle calls of earlier periods. This led to better maneuver, and less "friendly fire".


Question: Is there a way to visualize/explain how mass curves spacetime in 3 dimensions? I have heard/seen a million explanations but they all use something 2 dimensional as an example like balls on a taught sheet, how does that work in 3D?

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 Is there a way to visualize/explain how mass curves spacetime in 3 dimensions? I have heard/seen a million explanations but they all use something 2 dimensional as an example like balls on a taught sheet, how does that work in 3D?

Imagine a cubic mesh of little balls ([graphic]( URL_0 )) connected with little springs. Then inflate a ball in the middle (representing giving it more mass) The springs nearest it have to get shorter to keep the outside of the cube unchanged. This means that as a tiny inchworm walks along the surface of the springs it will notice that as it gets closer to the mass, it seems "attracted" to it because fewer inchworm lengths are needed to move the distance between balls. Alas, you can't make a giant, classroom sized version of this like you can with the rubber sheet 2D representation. That means it's a lot harder for students to interact with that a big demo object they can see and touch.


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There's an experiment called the 'rubber hand illusion' where you shove your hand in a box, and in it's place you see a very obviously fake rubber hand. A confederate of the experiment strokes you hand and the rubber hand in the same way at the same time until you almost think you can feel the rubber hand, then they stab the rubber hand. You will recoil, you'll probably even feel a sharp pain in your real hand... and then it will go away. **Because you can see it - you feel a pain that's not even there.** I believe this phenomena underpins why we close our eyes as a pain response: **because if we see it, we feel it - the sight of an injury multiplies our experience of the sensation of injury** even if there is no injury.


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By testing the randomness of each sequence. It's not so much testing whether it's procedurally generated as testing for the "quality" of the generator. There are many tests that try to find patterns in series. Example of [randomness tests]( URL_1 ). [How to use Diehard]( URL_0 ) to test for randomness.


Question: On some game platforms, it's possible to start playing the game midway through downloading it. How is that possible? Shouldn't you need all the files for the game to work?

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The game will load the stuff it needs to run first like the game engine and the first few maps, leaving textures, models and maps that appear later in the game until last.


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I believe it is about how brain works. When you learn new things your brain learns them via older information similar to this new information. So when you learn more about security, how complicated machinery works or how accidents happen your brain connects the dots. Before you know it, you get started to fear from things you were not feared before. It's not happening instantly, it's generally takes some time.


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It’s just the way it has traditionally been done. Games are 90 mins in total. The clock keeps rolling no matter what. The added minutes are to make up for the “downtime” during the game to ensure 90 mins of pure gameplay


Question: Why is it that potassium and sodium are primarily lose during vomiting/diarrhea instead of other electrolytes?

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Other electrolytes are lost, too. I'm not sure why you think only Na and K principally are. Na is the major cation of extracellular fluid. So in most cases, when you lose extracellular fluid from vomiting or diarrhea, Na will be lost too. When it comes to vomiting, people tend to lose H+ and Cl- (from the hydrochloric acid in your stomach). In severe cases, this can actually change the pH of your body as your throw up acid. Your pH can go up resulting in an alkalotic, or "basic" state with elevated levels of HCO3. In addition to losses from vomiting, the pH change can shift K into your cells and reduce concentrations in your blood. The dehydration also activates other systems in your body who cause you to pee out K as a byproduct. When you have diarrhea, you tend to poop out HCO3 (and also Na). The K losses are principally though the secondary effects above. There are other electrolytes, such as Ca, Mag, which can also be affected


Question: What exactly is a Tesseract?

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OK, so a cube is a 3D shape where every face is a square. The short answer is that a tesseract is a 4D shape where every face is a cube. Take a regular cube and make each face -- currently a square -- into a cube, and boom! A tesseract. (It's important that that's not the same as just sticking a cube onto each flat face; that will still give you a 3D shape.) When you see the point on a cube, it has three angles going off it at ninety degrees: one up and down, one left and right, one forward and back. A tesseract would have four, the last one going into the fourth dimension, all at ninety degrees to each other. I know. I know. It's an odd one, because we're not used to thinking in four dimensions, and it's difficult to visualise... but mathematically, it checks out. There's nothing stopping such a thing from being conceptualised. Mathematical rules apply to tesseracts (and beyond; you can have [hypercubes]( URL_2 ) in any number of dimensions) just as they apply to squares and cubes. The problem is, you can't accurately show a tesseract in 3D. [Here's]( URL_3 ) an approximation, but it's not right. You see how every point has four lines coming off it? Well, those four lines -- in 4D space, at least -- are at exactly ninety degrees to each other, but we have no way of showing that in the constraints of 2D or 3D. The gaps that you'd think of as cubes aren't cube-shaped, in this representation. They're all wonky. That's what happens when you put a 4D shape into a 3D wire frame (or a 2D representation); they get all skewed. It's like when you look at [a cube drawn in 2D]( URL_1 ). I mean, look at those shapes. We understand them as representating squares... but they're not. The only way to perfectly represent a cube in 3D is to build it in 3D, and then you can see that all of the faces are perfect squares. A tesseract has the same problem. Gaps between the outer 'cube' and the inner 'cube' should each be perfect cubes... but they're not, because we can't represent them that way in anything lower than four dimensions -- which, sadly, we don't have access to in any meaningful, useful sense for this particular problem. EDIT: If you're struggling with the concept of dimensions in general, you might find [this]( URL_0 ) useful.


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Diet. Infants are eating only breast milk or formula so there is no food residue in the mouth for bacteria to feed on, have no teeth so fewer surfaces for bacteria to be present on. Breastmilk is antibacterial. Far lower bacterial activity in the mouth to generate odors


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 Why do all remote controls have squishy rubber buttons instead of proper hard keys like a keyboard?

While hard keys like keyboard keys get produced one by one, the rubber keys of remote controlls are all made in one step. those rubber buttons are on one big pad per remote control so they are produced pretty fast and they are cheap. old cellphones do have the same kind of buttons. the drawback of those rubber buttons is that you cannot type as fast as with keyboard keys, but because u dont need to be as fast as that it is no problem. also the stupid humans would never recognize that they get fucking cheap remote controlls instead of high quality products


Question: Why do most people start to enjoy the taste of beer as they get older?

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Children are predisposed to prefer sweet, as it indicates sugar and therefore high energy to volume ratio. As we get older, we lose some of this drive for fast, powerful energy sources. We can tolerate more complex flavors, especially bitter like coffee or alcohol. Personally, I think it also has to do with suffering hardship. A child may expend a lot of energy running around, but it is nothing like working a long day, sweating and hating the experience, and being acutely aware that putting yourself through such torture is necessary to not starve to death. A cold, bitter drink is refreshing in these circumstances. Edit- Jesus, this one got popular. 1- I do not have a background in science, but my first statement is from memory on child psychology and anatomy/physiology courses in school. I was an art major and excellent at selecting classes that dropped my GPA while providing very little to my actual skill set. 2- It has been mentioned below that children also love sour- I think it's the same reason- in nature, sour tends to be fruit, and fruit tends to have sugar and vitamins children crave. 3- It has also been mentioned that bitter usually means poison in nature, and children tend to experience it more intensely to dissuade eating poison. 4- I am not depressed, but I have been. I have been over educated and working in some deep hell pits. Double edit- this is not to brag. I have a degree. I have also worked in a place where my coworkers literally could not spell their two-letter gang sign. It was grim. I know that there are many in worse positions, and that made it worse to feel like a egotistical wuss FOR feeling that way on top of feeling that way. However, in that situation, cold bitter drinks helped "shock" the system, embracing the bitter and embracing my situation and being able to calm down. 5- Some kids do manual labor. Some kids have a shitty lot. They don't like beer either. However, I don't think most children have the faculties to understand the gravity of many situations. Humans tend to have difficulty thinking to the future until their mid 20's. It's not just the labor itself, it's the "oh my god, I might be doing this for the rest of my life. I might die here. I might never get to fulfill the dreams I have" kind of thoughts that struggling adults have and children don't. Final edit- this was not intended to be an all-inclusive answer. I don't think hardship is the ONLY reason to enjoy beer or other bitter drinks, but I do believe it is a factor. As mentioned, we have the physiological change to tastebuds, social pressure and the chemical aspect of alcohol as well.


Question: Why do Common Core Math algorithms change and gain more steps and what is the motive behind it?

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Ok so I’m a tired school professional whose area of focus is not math, laying in bed on pain meds for dental surgery so.. take it easy on me here.. What’s often missed is that common core doesn’t require a specific way of teaching math, only that children are taught MULTIPLE WAYS to solve a problem. This is why they can’t “borrow and carry” for every problem, because as it gets more complex, it’s not a one size fits all application. Students who learn just one way are not good flexible problem solvers. If the problem doesn’t fit the algorithm they know, they give up. We’re now equipping them with the tools to fail and then try again in a new way. This requirement prompted teachers to delve more into research and what was found overall was that students just learned math facts, not necessarily math concepts. Years ago, students learned math through simple algorithms and rote memorization. Higher level math, such as calculus and trig backs failure points since students couldn’t manipulate the equations in the ways needed to comprehend more complex equations. Research was done of professional mathematicians and it was found that they didn’t use these same algorithms. No “carry the two” or “cross multiplying,” at least not blindly. Rather, they had an understanding of how numbers relate and interact. They had strong “number sense”. Both common core and this push towards more number sense happened so close to the same time, and complemented each other so well, that many adults who didn’t place the same level of importance on number sense met common core with backlash. Their insistence that it doesn’t make sense is just a testament to its very need. They don’t understand the number sense and theory behind it, so they don’t understand the multiple means to an end.


Question: What are the properties of Red/Green/Blue that make them the primary colors for light? Are they the only set of three colors that could combine to make all other colors?

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Yes, these are the primary colors of light, **for human eyes**. While the electromagnetic spectrum is continuous, and the eye sees color in a narrow spectrum, and there are relationships between the color sensing cells inside the eye. These cells allow the eye to sense a specific color space, the [CIE 1931 space]( URL_0 ). This chromaticity diagram shows the relationship between color frequency and the eye's perception of it. You could use many colors, but due to the shape of the space you can cover most of it with combinations only three colors if those colors are red, green, and blue. You can use other colors of light, and cover other parts of the space, but red, yellow, and blue only covers the lower right half of the space, so it's not as good as red green and blue.


Question: How is Planet Earth the series filmed?

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over a very long time. They have behind the scenes on the blurays! Almost more interesting than the actual series.


Question: How were wooden ships made waterproof in ancient times?

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Caulking such as horse hair, clay or cloth was poked between the wooden planks to fill gaps. Pitch or tar was applied to the outside to help waterproofing. Also boats then, like now, aren't water tight. The bilges would always collect some water. Bailers would use buckets to bail out the bilge water. Today this is done with pumps or stern hatches on some small dinghies/yachts.


Question: Why does it seem like there were way more single-income households 30+ years ago compared to now? What caused the modern trend of both adults in a household needing to get jobs?

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Wages have not kept pace with inflation since the late 1970's. If they had, minimum wage today would be around $20. productivity and corporate profits are higher than ever before, but that wealth has all been consolidated amongst the top .1% of earners. Because of this, it is no longer possible for most families to survive from one income. Here are some enlightening charts showing this data. Top earners wages have gone up 138% since 1979, while middle class wages only increased 6%. URL_0


Question: How does a country lend money to another country?

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Countries rarely set up specific loans at all. Most debt is that the country creates a treasury bond and says "buy this for 100 dollars and in 5 years you can turn it in for 105 dollars" type deal. Then one country just buys a bunch of those. Very rarely is it set up as a specific loan like you'd take from a bank.


Question: How do they colorize black and white images?

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Usually it's done by hand; if you know what color something ought to be, you can take that color and apply it to the image where it should go. You do this in such a way that it's not just drawing over a grey image with a blue or red pen, you're recreating the image with the same brightness but now with color too. There are computer algorithms that determine what color things probably were based on the shape and shading and so on, but they still require a lot of fine-tuning and manual adjustment after the fact. This is why colorized images often seem a little bit off; it's a manual and labor-intensive process.


Question: Why do we have nails on where we have them?

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Think of the evolutionary track: An arboreal ape that descended from the canopy over time and started getting more efficient calories from meat and a more varied diet. Nails are important for things like opening fruit rinds, and turn out to be quite handy if you're say trying to get at the meat from a small animal without predator style jaws and teeth to break through fur and skin.


Question: What is the principal and intermediate axes of inertia referring to for space craft in earths orbit?

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Quick experiment: Find a hardback book. Toss it (gently, we like books) into the air, with a spin. You will find that you can make it spin stably about two axes: a) its shortest axis, and b) its longest axis. If you try the axis of intermediate length, the book will tumble. (If you're concerned about the pages, rubber-band the book shut. It will still tumble.) A moment of inertia is like mass, but for rotation. If something has a large moment of inertia, it takes more torque to make it spin. Your book's shortest axis has its largest moment of inertia, because more of the book's mass is far away from the spin axis. Likewise, the book's longest axis has the smallest moment of inertia, because the book's mass is all as close to the spin axis as it can get. Technically speaking, all three of these axes are considered to be "principal" axes of inertia: the maximum (aka "major"), intermediate, and minimum (aka "minor") axes of inertia, all perpendicular to each other. If I try to spin the book about any other, slanted, axis, the spin motion will be complicated. It is theoretically possible to achieve a "simple" spin about any principal axis. In practice, though, the simple spin about the intermediate axis is unstable, so nobody even tries. It is possible to set up a stable simple spin about either the axis of maximum inertia or the axis of minimum inertia in the absence of energy dissipation. In the presence of energy dissipation, simple spin about the minimum axis of inertia isn't stable either in the long term. Spin about the maximum inertia axis is stable. Two examples: 1) A rocket booster stage is long and skinny. Its axis of symmetry is its axis of minimum inertia. Spinning up to a healthy spin rate (say 10s of rpm) about that axis gives stability for solid rocket burns. (Same principle for a football spiral, or a rifled bullet.) But once the burn is done, the rocket moves to some other stabilization strategy. Minimum-axis spin is short-term stable, but long-term unstable. 2) Many spacecraft use passive spin stabilization as a full-time attitude control strategy. At the risk of over-generalizing, they tend to be shaped like hockey pucks. Their axis of symmetry is their axis of maximum inertia. Without risk of over-generalizing, they all spin about their maximum inertia axis.


Question: I'm confused when it comes to proposing. Do you buy one ring that is the engagement ring? Then another that is the actual wedding ring? Or do you just buy one that would be her ring forever?

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One for the engagement, usually a diamond or some other precious stone. Then a second ring which is the actual wedding ring, usually a plain gold band


Question: If most household dust is dead human skin, how come abandoned homes accumulate so much of it?

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Most household dust isn't skin, it varies from place to place, but most of it is fine particles of soil and rock along with things like pollen, relatively little of it is human skin.


Question: What does different wavelengths of the electromagnetic waves measure? For example, when we say the wavelength of the visible light is 380 to 740 nanometers, what is actually physically at that length? Is it the wiggle of photons?

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It measures distance between oscillations of the electromagnetic field. The photon isn't moving back and forth through space. The photon moves in a straight line and the peaks and troughs of the electromagnetic field have some frequency/wavelength, and those peaks and troughs are whats being measured.


Question: How are new words added to sign language?

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Pretty similarly to how new words are added to spoken languages. People start using them, they catch on.


Question: How does the new graphics card driver optimize the card for the specific game that I'm playing? How is a graphics card customizable?

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Three things that I can think of. First, a graphics driver is very complicated and can do many things in several different ways. It tries to guess about the most efficient way to accomplish the things a game asks it for, and it's usually correct, but sometimes it may guess incorrectly and slow down the graphics card. If a game is popular, Nvidia and AMD engineers will analyze how it uses their graphics cards and if there are any inefficiencies to address. If there are, they may include special instructions in the driver on how to handle that specific game. Second, they often provide replacement shaders. A shader is a small program that is uploaded to the graphics card and runs there, doing some sort of processing task (there are many different types of shaders). Video card people will look at the shaders of popular games and see if there are any ways they can be improved to run faster, maybe because the game's developers didn't do a perfect job or maybe because insider knowledge about the video card can be used to squeeze out more performance. Then they'll write a new shader and include it in the driver. When the driver is given the original shader by the game, it'll recognize it and use its own replacement instead. Third, there may be actual bugs in the driver that cause it to run slowly under some specific circumstances, and a certain game is running into that bug. Fixing it isn't really a specific improvement to that game, but it could be described as that, because it was discovered through that game and if it's an obscure bug that game might be the only one affected.


Question: Since humans are adaptive animals, if as a species we continuously consume copious amounts of sugar, will we begin to not be negatively effected by it?

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 Since humans are adaptive animals, if as a species we continuously consume copious amounts of sugar, will we begin to not be negatively effected by it?

You're talking about something like evolution (gene mutation) that could benefit us. Humans, currently, are largely unaffected by natural selection because anything that could prevent us from having children (and passing the gene mutations on) can be fixed in other ways. We generally don't let people die of diseases if we can help it. In the case of adapting to sugar, assuming we don't find a way to edit our genome to do the mutation ourselves, we won't evolve into it because this problem doesn't prevent us from having children. If becoming diabetic killed us at a young age, eventually, only people who handle sugar well would pass on their genes, and then an adaptation can happen. But until sugar consumption prevents us from having children, that will stay in our gene pool and keep getting passed on (or people who learn to not eat sugar will just do that).