Question: Why does heating an egg solidify it?

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 Why does heating an egg solidify it?

Basically the egg has a lot of protein chains. When it's uncooked the chains can slide around and slide past eachother more easily. When you cook the egg the proteins are denatured and begin to coil up and get tangled with the other proteins. This causes the overall structure to become more rigid. You can kind of think of it like a bowl of wet cooked spaghetti which you can stir easily, versus a bowl of dried spaghetti that is basically one solid chunk.


Question: Why are most jobs today paid at an hourly rate rather than how much the person worked in that day?

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 Why are most jobs today paid at an hourly rate rather than how much the person worked in that day?

It is significantly less effort on behalf of both the employer and employee to record, report, and verify hours worked vs productivity. Even if your job has consistently quantifiable metrics it would be a pain, and lead to complications with your responsibilities. Lets say you work at mcdonalds. How would you (or the company) value number of tables cleaned vs number of burgers made (does it depend how dirty the table was to start? If not its not worth it to clean the really dirty ones right? Time spent vs award achieved doesnt work, and if it does then how does management know how dirty it is.) Would the employee need to keep a tally through the day? Would time spent tallying count as a paid for task? How would a manager verify tasks which have no way of knowing how much work was done (cleaning for instance)? Its much much easier to keep everything consistent and easy


Question: How do you navigate by the stars if the Earth's rotation means they're always moving?

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 How do you navigate by the stars if the Earth's rotation means they're always moving?

> A star you measure at 10pm is in a completely different position by 2am. Except for one. Since the stars *turn* in a circle there's one spot in the sky that doesn't move— the center of the circle. In the northern hemisphere, just by coincidence, there's a star almost exactly at that spot. A fairly bright one, too, called Polaris, at the end of the handle of the Little Dipper (the tail of Ursa Minor). If you can see and identify Polaris you know that that direction is north, which lets you keep the boat pointing in the right direction. But also, if you can measure how far it is above the horizon, *you're that far north from the equator,* in terms of degrees latitude. If you're in the southern hemisphere, it's harder. There's still a stationary spot in the night sky, but there's no star right on top of it. You can do the same trick by finding the spot where an imaginary star *would* be (by recognizing the stars nearby), but it's harder to get good measurements.


Question: Why does all financial statistics(e.g household income) uses median and not mean(average)?

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Mean and median are the same for a normal distribution - such as the results of a series of coin flips. However, when you have a non-normal distribution - such as income - then they can be very different. With income, you have most everyone hovering around middle class and then a very 'tail' that stretches into the billions of dollars. If you just take the mean income, those few billions will distort the numbers upwards and give you a false impression of how much money the 'average' person makes. In the U.S., the mean income is about $20,000 higher than the median income, reflecting the impact of billionaires and other extreme outliers.


Question: Why does oil seem most abundant in dry, desert areas and how did it get there in the first place?

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 Why does oil seem most abundant in dry, desert areas and how did it get there in the first place?

In the case of oil, a special set of conditions has to apply for it to be formed and preserved in the subsurface: 1. Source of organic matter (marine plankton/algae ➡shale) 2. Deep burial (heat and pressure) ♨⬇ 3. Reservoir rock (eg sandstone)🍰 4. 3D Structure to trap migrating oil🗻 5. Seal to prevent it leaking out🔐 Much of the (now) desert area of the Middle East was a stable landmass for long periods of geological time where the 5 conditions could be met, resulting the giant fields that you mentioned! But giant fields are found in many other areas as well as offshore - they are just often more technically challenging and expensive to produce


Question: Why are things that are wet with cold water so much harder to dry than those wet with hot water?

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It’s all to do with evaporation. The hot water heats up the surface it is on and any friction from a cloth to dry it then causes the water to evaporate. Cold water cools down the surface it is on meaning more friction is needed to get the water to evaporate


Question: How do different colors absorb different light wavelengths?

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 How do different colors absorb different light wavelengths?

You are kind of looking at it backwards. It's the other way around - because different objects absorb different wavelengths of light they appear as different colours to your eyes. So the real question is "why does different things absorb different wavelengths?". In other words, it's not that colours absorb light, it's the absorption of different wavelengths of light that makes colours. As to the "real" question. This has to do with the energy levels of atoms. Atoms that can absorb a lot of energy might absorb way more wavelengths. If it absorb all the light you perceive it as black. If it don't absorb anything, instead reflect it all, you get white. In between you get all the colours, for example it might absorb everything except red - that makes the object look red to you. Disclaimer: this is a horribly simplified version of the actual physics behind this, but it gets the general idea across.


Question: Why does air at 80F feel warm whereas water at 80F feel cold?

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Because you don't feel the temperature of *things*, you feel the temperature of *your skin*. In other words, the thing you're touching needs to change the temperature of your skin for you to feel it, and the quicker/more efficiently something changes your skin's temperature the ***more*** you'll feel that thing's temperature. This all depends on the ability of the thing to give/remove thermal energy to/from your skin. Liquids are generally good thermal conductors, which means they quickly/easily give/take thermal energy and therfore rapidly change the temperature of what they're in contact with. Water is a liquid and therefore removes/gives thermal energy from/to you skin quicker than your body can replace/remove it, so you readily feel its temperature. Gasses are generally poor thermal conductors, which means they slowly give/take thermal energy and therefore sloooowly change the temperature of things they're in contact with. Air is a gas and therefore your body can replace/remove thermal energy faster than air can give/take it, so you will feel its temperature to a lesser degree. If there was a material that could not transfer thermal energy at all, even if it was 100,000C, you would not *feel* its temperature because it would not change the temperature of your skin. Alternatively, if there was a material that conducted (moved) thermal energy insanely fast but it was just 1C hotter than your skin, it would feel pretty warm because it would rapidly impart thermal energy to your skin, and thus would quickly and effectively change the temperature of your skin. Additionally, the greater the temperature difference between two things, the quicker they will exchange thermal energy. So, for example, air close to your body temperature will conduct thermal energy from/to your body slower than air that is significantly colder/hotter than your body's temperature. We also have to consider that your body actually has to expell thermal energy to maintain the right temperature because it's constantly generating its own thermal energy. In other words, your body needs to give off heat to stay at 37C, and if it's surrounded by something that inhibits the removal of thermal energy, your skin/body temperature will begin to rise, causing you/your surroundings to feel hot. Remember how air is a poor conductor, especially if its near-body-temp? If you're surrounded by (stagnant) 80F air, that air is actually going to *trap* thermal energy around you and subsequently your body temp will rise. Conversely, water, even if its near-body-temp, removes thermal energy from you body quicker than your body replaces it, therefore reducing the temperature of your skin and making you/your surroundings feel cold(er). EDIT: Changed fluid to liquid.


Question: Why do animals ''stop working'' sometimes and just freeze? Humans never seem to do that.

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Humans probably do it just as much as most animals. (Some animals do it more, with a specific evolved response of "playing dead".) I think the difference is that humans experience far fewer situations that would evoke an extreme response because we have altered the world so much. We are essentially always in the human world. But animals are often in very strange and unfamiliar situations caused by the human world. They don't know what to do, so they freeze. I should also note that for prey animals, like deer, crouching down in brush and freezing can be effective against predators. Humans freeze when things get extreme in our human world, like in instances of extreme violence or crime. If you read reports of what happens during mass shootings, people often freeze and don't flee, even as the shooter goes from one person to the next killing them. My coworker stopped an attempted rape (or rape in progress, I really don't know) in a public place where the woman didn't cry out or fight back. As he described it, she was totally frozen in fear and couldn't even respond with words until after the police arrived.


Question: What makes fats and oils taste good?

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Fats and oils are essential to a healthy life, and (in moderation) are required for proper growth of the human body. Because if that, we have evolved to prefer the taste of fats, when mixed in with other nutrients, like protein (meats), vitamins or minerals. Too much of it can be a bad thing, but the overreaction to fats a few decades ago led to a dangerous increase in sugar intake, as fat-free foods taste less good.


Question: why is it that only one side of the moon is visible from earth? If both the earth and the moon rotate then why do not we see the other side?

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 why is it that only one side of the moon is visible from earth? If both the earth and the moon rotate then why do not we see the other side?

The moon is tidally locked, meaning that it rotates at the same rate that it orbits the Earth. If you imagine a point on the Moon's surface directly facing the Earth, the Moon rotates at such a speed that that point continues to face the Earth throughout its orbit. This is a typical fate for moons throughout the Solar System, especially those close to their planets. In some cases, the relationship is even two-way: Pluto and its largest moon Charon are *both* synced up to Charon's orbital period, so you can only see one side of Charon from one side of Pluto (and the other side of each never sees the other). If the Earth survived long enough, the Earth would sync to the Moon and the "day" and "month" would have the same length - but Earth probably won't survive long enough for this to happen, as our planet is ultimately doomed when the Sun expands at the end of its life. The match actually isn't quite perfect because the Moon's orbit isn't quite a circle. So the rotation gets a little bit ahead/behind the orbit as it goes before ending up back in sync at the end of each orbit. So you can see a little bit more than half the Moon over time. But it's only a bit more than half.


Question: Why do some rivers create the Grand Canyon and others barely cause any erosion?

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 Why do some rivers create the Grand Canyon and others barely cause any erosion?

It's interesting because at first glance you might think it's all about age: maybe it's because the Grand Canyon is super old and the other rivers aren't as old, right? Seems reasonable. Interestingly enough though, the Colorado River is fairly young. Estimates put it at around 3-5 million years old which is but a fraction of the estimated age of the Missippi River (~40 million years old). If it was just age then the Missippi would have carved a giant canyon by now, right? But there are other factors at play. Hopefully, an actual geologist shows up to answer your question in more detail but barring that here you go in the meantime. What makes the Grand Canyon unique among rivers in North America (to be clear there are some huge canyons in other places in the world like the Yarlung Zangbo in Tibet) is that not only was there a meandering and relatively slow-moving river to start with that began carving through the stone in the area, but that area also began to rise over the years thanks to tectonic activity. The whole section literally got pushed up by the Earth's tectonic movements. Imagine you're cutting into a tree slowly, trying to carve it into a fork, and it's also growing upwards as you're slowly cutting. When you're finally done cutting the thing, the "fork" you've made will be so much deeper than it otherwise would have been if you'd just been sawing at a log because the tree was rising up as you were slowly sawing through it. That tectonic activity also pushed up the Rockies, which became a high point for the river and a collection point for snow and water shed. So as time went on the Rockies dumped huge amounts of water down into the Colorado River which rapidly accelerated the "cutting" of the rock. It was like switching from a small pruning saw to a chainsaw, geologically speaking. If you've ever been to the tail end of the Colorado River *today* it seems pretty underwhelming. The river has been tapped so many times along the flow to provide for irrigation, it is just this sad trickle. Most of the year it doesn't even flow enough at the end to even rush into the ocean anymore. But man, back in the day it was *insane*. Even as recently as the 19th century before the river was tapped by multiple irrigation projects the spring melt runoff was unbelievable. Accounts from early explorers and settlers that lived in the area described it as this thunderous flow that blew out the end of the river into the ocean like a sea emptying in some biblical way. It wasn't some little increase in a barely-trickle flow, it was like a dam had broken up in the mountains. We're talking at a peak flood discharge in the late 19th century the river was recorded discharging almost 400,000 cubic feet *per second* into the Gulf of California. There are 88,000 cubic feet of water in an Olympic-sized swimming pool. So during the spring/summer runoff, the river was dumping the equivalent of 4-5 Olympic pools worth of water into the Gulf *per second*. You can imagine that flow every spring over millions of years carved *a lot* of rock.


Question: Why does a chicken have to extend its head out to walk with each step?

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Humans have [eye stabilization]( URL_0 ); you can look at something and keep it in your visual focus even if you move your head around - your eye muscles keep your eyes fixed on a target, compensating for the movement of your head. Birds don't have that, their eyes are mostly fixed, and they have to keep their heads still in order for the image that they see to be still. Birds have [head stabilization]( URL_1 ). So when walking, chickens move their heads really fast, then hold their heads still as their body continues moving forward, then they snap their heads forward really fast again. This is to stabilize what they see for as long as possible.


Question: How does Dairy Queen ice cream stay in the cone when they turn it upside down before giving it to you?

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 How does Dairy Queen ice cream stay in the cone when they turn it upside down before giving it to you?

The inside of the cone has ridges which allow the ice cream to stick. The ice cream is also pretty thick and there's a vacuum created when the space between the cone and the ice cream expands. It's like having a cup sealed over your mouth and sucking the air in and trying to pull it away. If that makes sense.


Question: Why are vision and dental not covered under health insurance by default?

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Because the powers that control have realized that more profits can be made if they force the consumer to purchase 3 items instead of 1. The arguments that will be made in future discussions about this topic will be that vision is too expensive and glasses are a luxury - this is only true because of a monopoly on eye glasses manufacturing — look up luxotica , they own all brick and mortar brands and drive up the prices. For dental there is a risk that it is purely cosmetic. It is strange but even though a tooth infection is a medical issue caused by a lack of dental preventative care it is not recognized as such.


Question: What is drop shipping and how do people make money doing it?

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 What is drop shipping and how do people make money doing it?

So, you order from my company because we distribute warehouse supplies - boxes, packing tape, whatever. As a buyer, you trust me, because I've always given you quality service and product. You decide that you want a large piece of machinery like a straddle stacker (a type of fork truck used to get loads higher up in small warehouses). Now, it's very difficult for me to store and ship a piece of machinery like that - it's big, it's bulky, and it's something I'm not likely to sell a lot of. But I want to be able to sell it, because my customers (like you!) want it. So I strike up a deal with a straddle stacker manufacturer - they'll provide me a discounted price on the item compared to what I sell it for, and I'll send all of my orders for that item to them rather than a competitor. My customer gets what they want (a product they need), I don't spend the warehouse space to do it, and still get a cut, and the manufacturer gets more business through my storefront. They "drop ship" the item - you ordered from me, but they're the ones sending the order to you at my request. So rather than the order coming from /u/aerim Distribution, it comes from the manufacturer directly.


Question: Why do nosebleeds happen so suddenly and bleed so profusely as composed to other kinds of cuts or wounds of similar sizes?

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 Why do nosebleeds happen so suddenly and bleed so profusely as composed to other kinds of cuts or wounds of similar sizes?

Because unlike any other mucous membrane laden orifice on your body, your nose is the only one you've been fingering without abandon for the past 20 years. This has resulted in the expansion of superficial capillaries along a layer of tissue with a fairly thin epithelial layer. So all that mining for nose gold means that anytime the humidity drops by a single percentage point, you get yourself a gusher. Tl;Dr: ☝ blood supply + 👇tissue protection + 👃👈 = 🤧


Question: Why do different cars require different grades of gasoline? Do some engines actually require premium unleaded or is it just a scheme to make you spend more money?

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octane is an additive that makes gasoline less combustable. engines that have very high compression ratio (the ratio of cylinder volume at the bottom of the stroke vs the top of the stroke) can make the gasoline detonate before the piston gets to the top of the stroke. This is bad, commonly called "knocking", this means the explosion is actually trying to force the engine to run backwards. anyway, so yes, cars with high compression ratios need high octane gas to prevent this pre-detonation. side note, some modern cars can vary their timing to work with any octane, getting higher power/efficiency with higher octane, but not enough efficiency to offset the cost premium on the fuel.


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Humans evolved to crave fats, salt, sugar... this was important to consume for survival 1000's of years ago when food was harder to come by, humans had to hunt and gather their food, there were times of shortages, etc. Now that we have plentiful access to food, the basic cravings remain but the reason for their being is no longer relevant and we tend to overindulge in those things because we can.


Question: How was Soviet Russia able to catch up to the West in the 21st century (post-Tsarist regime)?

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It didn't really. While it might have looked like the Soviet union was on par with the west from the outside this was in part because they were trying really hard to look that way. They focused on prestige projects, things of military value and major population centers like Moscow. Much of the area remained at a level that fell more and more behind its western counterparts as time went by.


Question: Why do eyes get blood shot?

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Your body likes to keep the surface of your eyeballs as sterile and free of bacteria/debris as possible. When something irritates your eye, or your eye is infected, the body responds by dilating the blood vessels in your eye to increase blood flow and improve the immune response at the surface of the eye. The response is similar to how you might get redness around a cut on your hand, except that we can see the blood vessels in the eye really clearly because they're not covered by skin.


Question: How is it that light has an absolutely maximum limit to how fast it can go, but space itself doesn't (i.e. it can expand faster than that)?

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This is because space isn't really moving. There is more space appearing between objects all the time and by extension we can consider that there is a lot of space appearing between two very distant points. The result is that very distant point is becoming more distant which you might interpret as movement. However that distant point never accelerated, it is where it always was. There is no "pieces of space" going from here to there, each location is unbothered by the extra space appearing between them.


Question: Why do so many businesses still require documents to be faxed?

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 Why do so many businesses still require documents to be faxed?

As far as banks go, it's liability to their systems. When you have 10s of thousands of employees opening attachments to emails, there's bound to be something malicious eventually. You may not think so, but banks spend a fortune on technology risk. Fax receipts can be controlled easier than random PDF attachments opened by multiple persons. Also, faxes get sent to one general box that can be used for record retention. If a bank employee does not send the email to the general inbox, then there is a great possibility that it will not be uploaded for record retention. Banks are required by law to hold all documents received for a period of time. If not the fines can add up pretty quickly.


Question: Why are scars more sensitive to pain than other skin?

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Scars don't have to be painful. You get destruction and remodeling of all tissue when you have an injury, including nerve tissue. Sometimes this tissue grows back in a way that can send back more pain signals for painful stimuli or even send back pain for nonpainful stimuli (hyperalgesia vs allodynia)


Question: How does this work? Gif link in description.

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 How does this work? Gif link in description.

This is a variation of the [missing square puzzle]( URL_0 ). The top if the 1 block doesn't perfectly align with the bottoms of the 2,3 and 4 blocks. There is actually a small gap between them, whose area is about the same as block 6's area. When you move them around you close the gap leaving extra room for block 6.


Question: What is the marketing benefit of putting Applebees/Chilis/TGIFs/etc all on one corner vs spread out throughout the town?

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 What is the marketing benefit of putting Applebees/Chilis/TGIFs/etc all on one corner vs spread out throughout the town?

Imagine two competing ice cream stands on a large beach. The optimal position for the consumers is for each to be positioned about 1/3rd of the way along the beach, for minimal travel time no matter what, with the people in the center third having to choose. This center third is what the stands fight over, and if one moves a bit closer to the center, those people will be incentivised to go to that stand. So both of the stands slowly move towards the center of the beach, eventually landing right next to each other. This is what happens when you get all of the competing restaurants and businesses all in one area, when it should be better to be more spread out.


Question: How do mathematicians even know the exact digits of π if it's an irrational number?

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 How do mathematicians even know the exact digits of π if it's an irrational number?

> but isn't an irrational number supposed to be impossible to define by any fraction? Any fraction of two whole numbers, yeah. But you can get as close as you please to an irrational number with rationals. You can box it in with rationals on either side. When we say π ≈ 3.14, what's really going on, digit by digit, is, we're saying, *3 ≤ π < 4*, and then *3.1 ≤ π < 3.2*, and then *3.14 ≤ π < 3.15*, and so on as we add more digits.


Question: Why are keys of a computer keyboard arranged in that specific way?

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There are lots of different arrangements, but if you're referring to Qwerty, it's because the letters are offset such that more commonly used keys are next to less commonly used keys. This is because back when mechanical keyboards had arms that flipped around as the keys were pressed it could cause problems if two next to each other were pushed in quick succession. By placing commonly used keys next to uncommonly used ones the chances of this happening were reduced.


Question: How do authors make money if their book is free with Kindle Unlimited on Amazon?

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One I'm qualified for! Amazon's pricing stuctures are a little weird sometimes. (I'm going to stick to dollars for this, for simplicity's sake, but there's an equivalent -- but not necessarily equal -- structure in place for every currency.) First, let's talk sales. Basically, you get paid 70% for the sale of your book, *if* your book is priced between $2.99 and $9.99. If it's not, you get paid 35%. That means that for a book that's priced at $0.99 needs to sell six times as many copies as one that's priced at $2.99 to get the same amount of money in your account. This is basically a form of protective price fixing, both for Amazon the seller and the writers; it stops writers engaging in a sort of 'race for the bottom', where they're continuously trying to undercut each other. So what about Kindle Unlimited? Well, as other people have said, we get paid based on how much reading is done. KU has a bigass pot attached to it. This month, for example, it's twenty million dollars. All of the books in the Kindle Unlimited program have their pages-read counted, and the pot is divided between them. This usually works out at a little less than half a cent per page. (By my loose calculation, a 'page' from Amazon's perspective is about 150 words.) This doesn't sound like a lot -- and it isn't -- but it can add up. However, this is Amazon's second swing at making a KDP system that worked; it used to have a different approach. What we call KDP 2.0 (the current system) works on a per-page basis. The old system, KDP 1.0, worked on a per-borrow system. If you downloaded a book and read more than 10% of it, the authors would get a fixed price -- usually around $1.35 -- *no matter the length of the book*. This was controversial among certain sections of the author community, because a 6,000 erotic short story would earn you the same amount as that 600,000 page fantasy novel that someone had worked for years on. (I was in the former group, so I wasn't exactly pleased when the new rules came in, but what can you do?) This had a big impact on the romance writing community in general, with a lot of us jumping ship from erotic shorts (which was where the money used to be; KU 1.0 made it very easy to make a living if you hit the right niche) to full-length romance novels. The other important thing to remember is that signing up for the KU program grants Amazon exclusivity over your work -- you're not allowed to sell it elsewhere for a three month period, recurring as long as you stay in the program. You're not even allowed to give it away for free. That means that they don't have to worry about people getting your book elsewhere, so if you're popular, they're getting a bigger cut. Even if they take a bit of a loss on KU in general, it helps to keep them the dominant force in epublishing by squeezing other publishers out of the marketplace.


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Let's say, for example, that they are options to buy the stock at a slightly higher price a month from now. Buyer: "I think the stock is going way up, so an option to buy at this modest price is like free money." Seller: "I don't think the stock is going to go up, so selling you this option is like selling you a worthless piece of paper for cash."


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 Why do log rafts, debris etc that is adrift in the ocean, tend to find its way to land? Or is that just a myth in movies/books etc?

That's sort of a myth. Of course, most floating debris is released relatively close to land, so it tends to make its way back. But there are vast amounts of debris in the so-called ocean garbage patches that mostly just swirl around in a circle thousands of miles in diameter. Read more: URL_0


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 What's the difference between the different varieties of gasoline, why do they exist, and who even buys anything other than regular and diesel?

The engine has to squish the mix of air and gasoline together before it makes it burn with the spark plug. But some engines reeeeeally squish it a lot (because they're trying to be more powerful), which can make the mixture burn on its own while the engine is still trying to squish it. This makes the engine break. So for these engines you have to make the gasoline harder to start burning. This 'how hard is it to burn' rating is the octane number on the pump, and the higher the number the harder to burn (and the more expensive to make it). Since new cars try to make the same power out of a smaller engine, a lot of them squish the mixture more by using a turbocharger (basically a fan that pushes in more air), which is why they need the more expensive gasoline. If your car doesn't require it, higher octane fuel just wastes money. It won't make your car more powerful.


Question: How do children acquire word meaning?

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Most of it is context and repetition. You see a dog, you point at the dog, you say "dog". Your kid associates all things that shape with being a dog. Then you repeat that a million times a day for everything you see. With other words, like "what is that?" They learn from our tone, and from what we leave out of our sentence. You see a dog, you point at a dog, you don't say "dog" so your kid says it for you. You get excited, they know they've succeeded. Plus listening to people talk normally helps them figure out what order words go in.


Question: Why adding a little bit of blue on white things makes it whiter?

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 Why adding a little bit of blue on white things makes it whiter?

There are two reasons. First of all, we use fluorescence to make things look brighter. These dyes convert invisible (UV) light into visible light. This means more visible light comes off them than falls on them. So then the question is 'why blue florescence?' Well, blue is a rare colour in nature, and so most things including fabrics and similar materials are yellow/brown. Additionally, many chemical processes that occur over time produce yellow and brown products, making older things appear shifted to this range. Blue (as the complementary colour) helps offset this, and also stands out because it is less natural.


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 How can Avis make any money from renting me a Ford Escape (or similar) for 11 days with zero excess and unlimited miles for $115?

A ha! There’s a secret to this. A rental car agency will almost always rent a car for almost nothing. Of course they’d be stoked if you were stupid enough to use their full insurance, but you have your own so they don’t make anything. The trick is, the more often they cycle cars in and out, the better chance that local franchise will be allotted more high end cars. It’s the same reasons dealerships will sell you a car for a $50 profit. The more VOLUME they move, the more access they have to premium stock. Source: worked at Enterprise EDIT: Additionally the overall company looks good for their filings when they show lots of rentals happening. Movement = Success. They’re making most of their money back with depreciation and then selling the car at auction when it hits 5,000 miles. Remember they buy these cars in bulk too. It has very little to do with the $110 you’re paying, and everything to do with turnover. However, like I said, they’re supposed to give you the hard sell for the insurance.


Question: Why do dextro and levo isomers show such different properties?

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For most purposes they will have the same properties, until they start interacting with other things that are isomers themselves. You can imagine two keys that are mirror images for each other that don’t fit in the same lock. It’s more or less the same thing going on, but scaled down to a very tiny size.


Question: Why are usually calm people so intimidating when angry?

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Night will fall and drown the sun when a good man goes to war. Friendship dies and true love lies. Night will fall and the dark will rise when a good man goes to war. Demons run but count the cost; the battle's won but the child is lost. i think its because a normally calm person only gets mad over very serious matters. the sincerity in their anger is tangible because theyre not just bothered about a bad day and taking it out on someone, theyre probably offended to the soul by whatever caused their anger.


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The main issue is it just isn't worth it. It cost about as much to fly the Concorde across the Atlantic as it does 747, which has three times as many seats. Not many people are willing to pay that kind of money. 3.5 vs. 7 hours might sound good, but super sonic speed doesn't get you through the security line any faster. Door to door is more like 7 hours vs. 10.5, and that point you are blowing a whole day no matter what.


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when you lift weights, in order for you muscle to grow you make micro tears in the muscle tissue, when you go to sleep you body will fix the tears by increasing the thickness basically so you get bigger muscles. for the optimal results of recovery your body needs food, hydration and sleep so if youre not getting enough quality sleep your body cant repair itself and you can get infured or just stay sore.


Question: how can other animals instinctively tell they're related but we wouldn't know unless someone told us?

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 how can other animals instinctively tell they're related but we wouldn't know unless someone told us?

Pheromones. Animals produce chemicals called pheromones, which slowly turn to vapours in the air. Other animals that breathe those vapours in will detect them with their pheromone-detecting cells in a way that works basically the same as smell. Animals recognise the unique pheromones of those they're closely related to which subtly influences their behaviour. Humans have pheromones too btw, and it's thought that we also use this same mechanism to avoid wanting to fuck our siblings, and certain kinds of human pheromones can make us perceive people as more attractive.


Question: Do animals in the wild fail to produce milk in the same way as humans?

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 Do animals in the wild fail to produce milk in the same way as humans?

Yes, some mothers fail to produce milk, especially in hard times when food is less available. And, yes, those babies generally just die. Sometimes they're abandoned before they die because mom is desperate for food herself and can't afford to keep trying to produce inadequate milk. Baby's going to die anyway, it's better for her survival to not waste resources trying to keep it alive. Whether or not the baby will be supported by others in the group depends on the animal and how social they are. For many social animals, the answer is absolutely yes. The whole pack survives better when they share resources, and a mother taking care of someone else's baby now means that someone else will probably take care of her baby later. But that's not universal - some animals won't waste resources for offspring that isn't their own. Spending resources on milk for someone else's baby means fewer resources for your own baby, or just fewer resources for yourself and your own survival. Then again, some animals will straight up kidnap the offspring of others in the group if their own offspring dies, because the instincts to care for a baby are so strong. It really depends on the species and even sometimes the individual, and the circumstances.


Question: Why do all the planets appear on one horizontal plane in diagrams?

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Because they're mostly all on one horizontal plane in reality. [It's definitely not perfect]( URL_1 ), but it's pretty damn close. [Here's literally the first video I found explaining why planets form in one plane]( URL_0 ). I find a video helps because, at least for me, it's much easier to understand with a visualization (EDIT: And after watching it, it's not a bad video at all!). But basically, when you have a cloud of materials, as they clump together to begin forming the sun and protoplanets, they'll start to rotate, and as they collide and spin the dust and clumps will cancel the "up and down" movement relative to the plane [of the ecliptic] and leave a more or less pretty thin plane of planets and other junk.


Question: I bought a vaporizer to quit smoking, can someone break down the nicotine content I am consuming in a vaporizer (3mg/6mg/12mg/24mg/32mg standards) and compare it to the nicotine consumed through traditional cigarettes?

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Through the burn of a typical cigarette, the smoker ingests about 1 mg of nicotine. 50% of the nicotine in an e-liquid is present in the vapor. So consuming 3 mg in a 1 ml tank would expose you to 1.5 mg of nicotine, roughly 1 and a half cigarettes. Your body's addiction to nicotine is much better at this math than you or I are. If you consume more nicotine than you are used to, you will feel ill. If you consume less, then you will continue to crave a nicotine source.


Question: how can the heart get stronger if it can't get bigger?

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 how can the heart get stronger if it can't get bigger?

Hearts get stronger by becoming more efficient at circulating blood, beating more forcefully with each beat and requiring less beats per minute to keep adequate circulation. When a person has congestive heart failure, the opposite happens. The hear beats harder but does less work. TL;DR: heart strength is a function of efficiency, not size.


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You start with a solution or a mixture, which is sprayed (and so dispersed in very little drops) through very hot gas (that could be air or nitrogen). Being the drops very little, they heat up very quickly: the solvent then evaporates, leaving only the dry solute in a tiny powder.


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If you look up at the sky, you see a bunch of stars. If you go out in nature to some place really dark, you see many more stars. Now if you want to photograph stars that are really far away, totally invisible to the naked eye, this is what you do. You point a strong telescope at exactly that bit of space and let the light shine on a light-sensitive material. Over time, you end up with a picture of something which is impossible to see with your eyes.


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Diseases often have trouble jumping from one species to another. The closer related to you your food is (evolution wise) the smaller the gap the disease needs to jump. This is why eating bushmeat from apes is more risky than eating some less closely related animals. The above is true especially for viruses. Parasites are another problem. One thing that has been big in the news are prions. Prions aren't really living things at all. They are just certain types of proteins which cause the proteins inside of you to become like them by their mere presence. In particular the prions everyone is worried about are ones that are inside your brain and nerves. If you eat another humans brain who has such a prion disease you will become infected yourself. Normally this is not such a big deal as people aren't in the habit of eating each others brains. However in cultures where cannibalism was practiced, such disease can become a problem. One example is Kuru also called the laughing diseases which used to be found among cannibals in places like New Guinea. Another example is mad cow diseases which became a problem when stupid people got into the habit of feeding cows the ground down remains (including brains) of other cows. In fact mad cow became such a big problem that enough cows with it ended up in the food chain to possibly infect humans despite the species gap. Creutzfel-Jacobs is what the disease is called that many think is what happened if you eat cannibalistic cow brains. The TL;DR of all this is that if you plan to eat humans make sure to only pick healthy looking ones, stay away from their brains and avoid eating any known cannibalis who seem to have the shakes.