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You want spenders to have cash to further the economy. Man with 30 million gets another million, that money is getting invested, not moving the economy. 1000 people making living by the paycheck get an extra 1,000, that money is immediately getting pumped into the economy. Also, you want to encourage people to work...
The short answer, we don’t make as much money as they did. Slightly longer answer: US household median income in 1970 was $9,780 which has a buying power of $64,700 in today’s money. The current median US wage is 61,800, about $3,000 less or effectively 5% less money available per year than they did. Next, median home ...
A mole (or melanocytic nevus) is an often benign local overgrowth of melanocyte cells. Melanocytes are the cells responsible for making melanin, a dark skin pigment. That's why many moles appear brown or dark - the large number of melanocyte cells make lots of melanin, which give the mole its colour. There are numerou...
Men have the same rights as women when it comes to abortion. They both have the right to terminate a pregnancy that is happening in their bodies, within the limits of the law. With current technology, all pregnancies exist in female bodies and that is why men don't get to choose to terminate their pregnancies. Men are...
The best metaphor for this is to imagine the universe is 2D, not 3D, so it's basically on a plane, like stars are painted on a sheet of paper. Now imagine it's not a sheet of paper but the rubber surface of a ballon. Now imagine the ballon is inflating. More and more space (the surface) is created, it is expanding, but...
Do you mean when you hear a recording of it? Most people dislike hearing recordings of their own voices, because they sound "wrong". When you hear your voice as you speak, a lot of the sound is being transmitted through the bones in your head. This leads to your voice sounding deeper when you speak. No one else...
The exact mechanism by which they amplify the power of the dark side and upset the balance of the Force is unknown, and always has been. Theories abound, but really? The Sith had been actively corrupting the Republic leadership for decades if not centuries in preparation for war, fostering hatred and anger and sufferi...
To understand what's going on here, it's necessary to talk a bit about Kodak. Until the early 2000s, Kodak and Fujifilm were happily doing what they do best - manufacturing the top of the line photographic cameras. Yes digital cameras were starting to be produced by competitors like Sony, Canon, and Nikon; but all Koda...
Because it was more or less invented there. Distillation was invented in the east but it was used to make perfumes, not alchohol. When the Italians got their hands on the process they discovered they could distil liquor from wine and from there the process spread via the network of monasteries throughout Europe. When i...
We are technically still in an ice age, called the Holocene, which started 2.6Mya. That 3 massive ice sheets (Arctic, Greenland, Antarctic) still exist, and that year round alpine glaciers still exist, is the reason why. Once they are all gone, you could say the ice age was over. We are in a warm period of that ice a...
It's an accident. The leading theory is that allergies are the normal immune system responses to actual illness. Since we live in a much cleaner society than our ancestors, your immune system notices it is not getting used enough and assumes that the issue is that it's failing to detect diseases, rather than that th...
Since normal people actually only use a small fraction of the water and most of it goes to agriculture. It is to hoped that the government would restrict the use of water for things like growing alfalfa. Alfalfa makes up 15% of the water used in California and most of it gets shipped to Japan and China. That is right...
I don't see why it would be weird; it's always nice to stay in touch with people you had a good relationship with. Ask them how they are, how they handled the pandemic, what they're working on right now; tell them about the cool stuff you're doing in your PhD. Just do it, don't overthink it.
It's been ten years since I've read these books, but presumably there was a natural portal to another world. It probably wasn't intentional by some powerful being, but rather these things naturally occur sometimes; think of in Alice in Wonderland, where the portal to Wonderland just naturally occurs in the woods in th...
One approach is to try to render the narrative that is being presented implausible in some way. For example you might imagine a counter-example or 'edge case' scenario where applying the narrative as given would lead to repugnant or absurd consequences - consequences that you don't think the author you are engaged with...
The darkened skin is a kind of scar tissue. How a wound heals and what kind of scar it forms (light vs. dark, raised vs. indented) depends on a couple of different things that vary during the healing process like hormone levels, wound care, and general health.
The New Conglomerate dogs and the Vanu Sovereignty's tech heads have stolen critical facilities from the control of the glorious Terran Republic. With the advent of rebirthing technology all sides believe (us correctly) that they can capture and defend these facilities in tact. When our troops are cheaper to replace t...
Your maximum potential is based solely on your genes. However, in order to reach that height you need adequate nutrition. Anyone eating enough calories to grow and not suffering from malnutrition will grow to their maximum height as dictated by their genes.
The Rule of Two allowed the sith to become more powerful in the long run by eliminating much of the infighting, keeping the sith out of conflict with Jedi, and letting the masters pass on a larger portion of their knowledge to their apprentice. In theory, the master can't be attacked by more than one aspiring sith lo...
2018 US homicide rate: 4.96 per 100,000 people 1991 US homicide rate: 9.71 per 100,000 people We’ve already cut the homicide rate in half in one generation. Where does this false idea that we’ve made no progress and aren’t making progress come from? Not from the data.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him in so far as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent t...
The Jedi would be persona non-grata, and the galaxy would be in chaos, but the factors leading to it state of darkness and oppression would be gone, so it would be able to eventually recover. Perhaps, after a bit a new Jedi order could emerge and rebuild.
There's no reason they can't mate, apparently dragons are gender fluid to some degree. The problem is that because dragons have been gone for so long a lot of knowledge and research on them has been lost to the ages or is subject to debate, so even if Daenerys wanted them to mate she probably wouldn't know how.
Under normal conditions, nasal mucus is part of the system by which your body inspires air. It is actually a prevention or defense mechanism. When the air goes by, the dust and whatnot sticks to the muscus-lined sides. And then the cilia (little hair) and the mucus move it to the rear of the mouth so that can hawk it u...
First 4WD vs AWD. 4WD is generally used in Trucks and SUVs and is generally not an "all the time" thing, it is just engaged when it is necessary. What takes place is a mechanical locking of the differentials to ensure that all 4 wheels rotate "as one". what this means is all 4 wheels are rotating the same amount which...
The ideal in any swordfight is for your first blow to be the fight's last. Blocking your opponent's sword means he can try to hit you back. Cutting your opponent's sword hand off settles things fairly conclusively. Drastic? Maybe. But Master Windu had a reputation of being the deadliest warrior in the Jedi order; if t...
Probably go to Braavos using a smuggler if needed. The Iron Bank has its home in Braavos and banks tend to rely on stability so it's a good indicator that its stable, also the Iron Bank has a lot of sway across the world due to debts its owed. As a successful business man it's safe to assume you have savings in Braavo...
Yes, water in the wrong place, basically. Sea level rise is partly from ice on land melting, and partly from the water expanding a little as it heats. But sea ice is floating so melting it doesn't directly raise sea level, although it can unleash glaciers it was previously holding back. Droughts and floods are mainly...
If we were sure we had all the nutrients (and enough calories to use for energy) then we could live off that. It would be too much to be compressed into pills probably, but some companies do sell powders and shakes that you're supposed to be able to live off of (for example soylent.com). The real question is whether fo...
When you interact with a computer, you're interacting with software that lives in "memory". However, for the vast majority of computing devices, memory can only retain the software while it receives power. There are other storage areas on computing devices that can retain software and data even while powered off. On ...
Take a close look at all the slight variations in way the RNA mutates over time (note: usually they make artificial DNA from the RNA because it's more stable). If two different cases share almost all the same mutations then they're probably closely related. when you look at the small differences between four or five yo...
Yes. The ringing is actually coming from your brain and not your ear. When hair cells in the inner ear get damaged, the brain creates an annoying "eeee" sound becausd it's missing that proper connection. There have been people who had severe tinnitus and got their auditory nerve, from their hearing organ to their br...
Yoda knew that Obi-Wan had no chance against Sidious. Even if both of them attacked Sidious together, Obi-Wan would likely die. Among the Jedi still alive, Yoda was the only one who had any hope of standing against Sidious in battle and living to tell the tale, and Yoda knew it. However, while Obi-Wan would not be m...
# Internet IS NOT YET representative of the real world As weird as it sounds, internet is still in its infancy, and had not penetrated society fully. MOST people on the planet never use the internet, or rarely so. Either because they are too old, or too young, or too poor, or live in a country where internet is h...
Other than pinyin, which romanized the pronunciation of the character. There is also the wubi system which codifies the sequence of strokes of the writing of the character. To put it into English sense, the letters a-z are typically treated as atomic elements. You describe 'a' as just 'a'. Nothing less. The w...
The people of Naboo have the cultural notion that children are "pure" and unbiased, and therefore can make good decisions if presented all the information. That is why their Kings and Queens (which are just the terms for their head of state and is an elected position with strict term limits) are chosen from their young...
Paint color works by removing light, adding just a small amount of black pigment can darken white pigment a lot because it goes from absorbing \~0 light to more . But to lighten dark pigment you can only dilute the pigment.
Getting data is a small step in seeing if it's working (assuming you have a clear definition of working). This is an important question that very smart people have tried to answer for decades. There has been a fair amount of research done on minimum wages' effects and presumably meta-studies as well. I'd start with a ...
I think he and Silver had some kind of personal beef going on, and the old crew were loyal to Silver. For whatever reason, keeping Silver and his friends from having the treasure was more important to Billy than getting it for himself. He'd rather die poor than enrich his enemy. So why not scrape together a new crew a...
It's not a Russian name. It's a Chechen one with a Russian suffix appended to the end. This was commonly done for all sorts of non-Russian nationalities in the Russian Imperial days, and they've persisted. Some people prefer to use the non Russified version.
Invoking the free market is a rhetorical bludgeon, much like the terms 'socialism' or 'terrorist', designed to draw an emotional response and not an actual thing that people understand or even truly desire in most cases. I would be willing to wager that only maybe one in fifty Americans who bring up Adam Smith have ac...
Well, you can meet gods and stuff. That's neat. No wars, either. Or any strife, really. Not for a long time. If you're mortal, you won't last there very long, but you'll be at peace while you are.
Mjolnir is powered by magic, specifically an extension of Odin Allfather's power, the Odin Force. Odin is generally regarded as one of the more powerful entities in the Marvel universe, capable of reshaping reality and the laws of physics at will, or even simply ignoring them. Take, for example, the magic that prevents...
We never see it but considering what other shit protego has stopped it could certainly stop bullets. But that doesn't matter because a gun would take out a wizard much faster then almost any wizard could cast a spell to either defend or attack.
Usually when engineers say something will last for X years, it means that the thing has 95% (for example) chance of still working after X years. It doesn't mean that as soon as the X years have passed the satellite will stop working. This is something people often don't understand when they are talking about planned ob...
Museums exist to protect _singular_ artifacts and allow people to experience them. A video game (or anything digital, really) doesn't require protection because it can be perfectly duplicated an infinite number of times. You can't do that with a Picasso. Moreover, what would the benefit be? You can't experience a v...
Many people thought like you during WWII. They thought that we would be better off doing nothing. By us doing nothing, tens of millions died at the hands of the Nazis. For you to assume that these terrorist organizations are small in nature and can't flourish to pose serious threats is naive. The reason we haven't ...
No, many species are physiologically similar to people. The same imbalances that cause headaches in humans cause them in other species. Brain tumors give bears headaches. Rats can get hangover headaches. Cats have been disfigured by selective breeding and have sinus headaches.
I would assume that most countries deal with a ton of visa requests in the weeks and months leading up to the purge. Right after the purge they probably have a ton of request for information about emigration requirements.
It largely depends on how close you are to it. The closer you are, the better the sound. It should resemble a loud crackle. But as you move away from the thunder, the sound wave starts to disperse and the sound gets less clear. So you ear a boom type of sound. Picture the sound wave as a bunch of people pushing each ...
AFAIK, Spider-Man himself hasn't used the sticking power in an offensive way as you are describing. But his dark and edgy clone, Kaine regularly did. He'd intentionally use the adhesive power of his hand to brand enemies by ripping a layer of skin off their face. The handprint scar left behind was referred to as the 'M...
Yes. I’m fact, those for whom Greek is their first language would probably be even more proficient in it than they should be if they were normal kids. They would probably have increased language skills compared to their peers.
they die in this order, from first to last: C -> A -> B. you need proteins because there are amino-acids that you can only get from proteins from food. you need fats because there are 2 fatty acids that you must have but can not synthesize. your body can exclusively use fats and proteins for energy, and there aren'...
Mean reversion doesn't require the probability of tails on any individual flip to become higher. Instead, it's the number of flips that causes the average to tend towards 0.5. Suppose you've flipped your 4 heads. Rather than thinking about the next flip, think about the next 100 flips. You'd expect to get something ve...
For some people, it helps give them a sense of belonging, especially for people who don’t know their ancestral roots, it can help give them a direction for a culture to explore and adopt. Sure, it’s not the end all be all, but can give people some direction.
It can kill you in two ways. The first way is burning you. In general, current generates heat. If there is enough current going through your body, your body will literally heat up and you will burn to death. The second way - if there isn't enough current to burn you - is the electricity just interfering with your bod...
Oil paint is a colloid; the pigment is suspended in a liquid-in this case, a hydrocarbon oil dissolved in a solvent that makes the paint more fluid and easier to move around and manipulate. After application, the solvent evaporates, leaving the pigment and oil. The oil gradually oxidises and hardens. As this involves...
U.S. law requires the country of origin of a product to be clearly displayed on the product, or on the product's container if it is enclosed. a lot of people also like to have this information available, especially in the US, because due to this law, countries build up a certain reputation for certain products.
> Convincing me that someone can have put more effort and/or creativity into their store bought costume than a self made one. A lot of costume contests end up with poor participation. Say you have a work contest and only 3 people actually participate: * Bob wears a white t-shirt on which he has written the word "cei...
If you could raise a baby that was born 200,000 years ago with modern technology and methods, would they less capable that a modern baby? Would a 50,000 year old baby have the abilities of a modern human?
they probably had more of a 'the muggles discovered new land, eh, let's go check it out and get a gauge on the potentially undiscovered magical properties before they stumble across it' sort of attitude (at least those that weren't just posing as muggle explorers) and ended up staying there
History has shown that politicians who pander to certain segments of society can largely ignore their own criminality and moral shortcomings so long as they utter the right platitudes to pacify their base.
Useful? Many of them have physics bending powers that could be amazingly useful powers for legitimate noncriminal uses. Take a fairly unsuccessful villain like Pyro, who can control flames. Imagine his use to a major metropolitan fire department. Can he control anything else? The rate of chemical reactions, or nuc...
To make it short: Knox was living with Meredith. Both are from upper middle class families from US and UK respectively. Knox is naive and generally only book smart and not street smart. She has her 1st bf while in Italy on a study abroad program. One night she comes back home and finds blood in the house and toilet whi...
Luck like domino's power is very difficult to explain. It's similar to spidey sense and temporal manipulations. On a subconscious level the mutation constantly views various alternate timelines and possibilities every moment of every day. Whenever it finds a variation of reality that is beneficial to the mutant in ques...
She left the order after losing trust in it after she was falsely accused during a terrorist attack. She went off the grid and didn't resurface until well after Order 66 and began to organize rebel groups.
In the case of 2001 it was actually really clever: They suspended the actors on wires just like a lot of movies used to do, but they built the set sideways and put the camera on the ground pointing upwards. This accomplished two things: First, the actor's body hid the wires so you didn't have to try to remove them in...
The physical attributes and descent, his achievements and the fact that the Republic Army has always been a bit of a joke. Plus they didn't have to kill him afterward, allowing them to use him for other things. The candidate selection was not handled by Sifo Dyas, in fact. After the project was commissioned, Sifo-Dyas...
There are thermoelectric devices that can convert a heat differential directly to electricity (Peltier device - (edit, the Seebeck Effect generates electricity, the Peltier Effect is the reverse. Same device though)) or motion (Sterling engine), but these are actually not as efficient as steam, at least at scale. If yo...
Not much. At least, not much more than they would have already known from history and could have guessed from Maul's presence alone. Even though the Jedi were already aware of the Rule of Two, they were also of the belief that the Sith had gone extinct long ago. So Maul's presence as an actual Sith apprentice would be ...
At least for wand users: It pairs a release of magic shaped by the magic users will with a specific focus word. This word then allows the user to use the shaped magic more easily in the future as the shaping of the magic becomes more of an unconscious action. It also seems to imprint this word upon the collective magi...
The "rhizome" seems obvious to you because you don't seem to get what exactly Deleuze is talking about. The rhizome isn't a "conception of knowledge," it's a way in which things can be organized. Note how the first examples given of rhizomes in the introduction to A Thousand Plateaus are all material things: books, t...
They're evaporites... obviously some mineral on the fence dissolved in water and then precipitated out. Air temperature change would account for the rings as different temp water has different precipitation points. The rings are a dead give-away.
It’s called a photic sneeze reflex, or Autosomal dominant Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst - ACHOO syndrome for short. It is estimated that 17-35% of the population have it. But no one knows why it happens. The best guess at the moment is that it’s because the nerve cells that carry information from the eye and th...
We already have lots of radio transmitters that emit visible light. Your computer screen is one, a light bulb is another...They're emitting electromagnetic waves in the frequency of visible light (along with some others). We simply do not use this light for communication in most cases, because other wavelengths are mor...
Excessive attention seeking can also be a sign that someone is unwell. This is why when you receive training to manage mental illness you learn that all concerns are valid. The patient report may not be face valid, but it is almost always indicative of some type of problem worthy of sympathy and help. Someone excessive...
200 years ago widespread electoral fraud ruled politics - gangs were hired to round up voters by force, many voted numerous times in the same vote and the poor were paid for their votes. Back then the average working man had little interest in politics - not the ideas the parties represented or even the expectation tha...
There's different kinds of regeneration in fiction. In some cases, the body simply has a base state that it tries to return itself to, which might allow someone to remain a certain age, but there's also regeneration that's simply extremely accelerated healing. So, maybe, depending on the canon/source of regeneration.
There are mechanisms that essentially sort them. You see this process on a normal time scale with something like Italian dressing. :) The primary mechanisms are density, and melting points. You have a big pool of mixed elements and compounds just swirling around. In general the denser liquids will settle to the bo...
1. Was this published into the same journal that your version was accepted into? 2. Was it part of the same submission, or did you need to withdraw/fail to meet a re-submission deadline? 3. Was this an undergraduate advisor? Masters? PhD? Employer? I would suggest that if you want to pursue this, you involve your i...
Not really, in practical sense. Gravitational effects of sound are so weak, scientists are still verifying their findings. If we assume the pressure and composition of air are the same at the "floor" level of a lunar base, the noticeable effects will have to do with: - weaker convection - smaller vertical density d...
People who would say "America isn't great" typically don't do so based on its failure to be a utopia, but because America has actual problems that affect its citizens in a tremendously negative way. It does not matter whether other countries are worse in some fashion, the same way it doesn't matter that "there are star...
Different method of action. Opioids like hydrocodone and Oxy work by binding to neuroreceptors(neuro means brain) which send a depressive signal, which basically means that the signal numbs your central nervous system. I don't remember the exact MoA of the others so to just put it simply, ibuprofen and aspirin work by...
They simultaneously raced to develop the same technology, quantum tunneling, and developed it in two different ways. That's pretty much the extent of it that we know of. EDIT: Aperture's actually the one who canonically stole things, including the Gravity Gun, wall-based medkit things, and HEV Suit chargers from Black...
Military pilots are securely attached to the plane and willing to tolerate much more extreme maneuvers than commercial passengers. To reduce the "fear of flying" and avoid spilling drinks, commercial aircraft desire a much more stable ride.
Generally, yes. Photosynthesis, of which oxygen is a byproduct, happens in the chloroplasts. The vast majority of the chloroplasts are in the leaves, so a deciduous trees ability to produce oxygen is drastically reduced after shedding its leaves.
So, you're peter parker. Prove you're Spiderman. There are three options here. One: show up in a Spiderman costume and demand royalties. This doesn't prove anything. Anyone can put on a Spiderman outfit. Two: show up as Spiderman, throw some webs around, climb on walls, etc. This proves you're Spiderman, probably, b...
Klingon Opera revolves around a very small number of similar plot-lines and tropes, and is heavily focused on combat. Klingon singing is.... disharmonious to most non-klingon listeners, and the harsh tongue doesn't lead itself to some of the more intricate or delicate movements possible in the "opera" equivalents from ...
You should know that Iranians are not Arabs (something that they seem to be particularly sensitive about) and have wildly differing histories and cultures. The "Arab world" wasn't really a thing during Alexander's time, it would be 900 years before the nomadic tribes of the Peninsula were united by Muhammad.
The motor neurons that mediate movement aren't perfect, nor are any neurons. In order for a muscle to contract, the motor neuron that is attached to it must fire numerous action potentials (an electrochemical signal). If a motor neuron "misfires" only once or twice, the result is a twitch instead of a full contraction....
It's useful for people who want to justify selfishness by painting all actions as inherently selfish. If other people are making you look bad through altruism then if you can make them have the same impulses and reasons as you then that is very psychologically comforting. It can also be useful to portray people who wan...
This is a common misconception. There is no center of the universe, the Big Bang happened everywhere at once. The point is that everywhere was very close together. The entire universe was basically in the same place; not that all matter was in the same location, all locations were close together. So the universe...
In the comics, Apocalypse's main power is high-level shapeshifting/control over his own body, which grants him near-immortality, superhuman strength, invulnerability, etc. He enhances these powers with vast amounts of Celestial technology (the ancient space-gods glimpsed briefly in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies), ...
He wasn't just looking for a Rick and Morty pair to replace, he was looking for a Rick and Morty pair that fixed the gene modding problem AND died immediately afterward. Either or these happening on their own is very unlikely, both of them happening one offer the other is almost impossible.
It is based on the capacitance of the finger. The technology is quite similar to modern touch screen technology which is only able to detect fingers but not gloves. Wood is usually too dry for the sensors to trigger and the metal is too small for it to trigger. This is of course something the designers have to take int...
Boston is just a city inhabited by humans. Some of those humans were profoundly impacted by a bomb made by another human. Probably, none of the humans in Boston will ever bomb another city or group of people. The politics and warfare of countries don't enter into it. Boston, as a group of humans, doesn't wage war again...
You have a rectangular back yard that is 10 by 15 feet. There is a pond in the middle of irregular shape. You want to know the area of the pond. You start throwing small stones toward the yard randomly, and record the frequency of stone landing on water versus dry land. The portion of stones landing on water multiplied...
Metabolic activity continuously produces heat as a byproduct. Without a method of dissipating that heat, a person would quickly overheat and die. Normal responses to hyperthermia include vasodilation and sweating as methods to facilitate heat transfer out of the body, but if the surrounding environment is already ‘to...
Killing pretty much all life in a Galaxy in and of itself was a major undertaking. Tuning the process to effect just the flood may not have been possible while under direct invasion from the Flood. Further more the flood infect their "food" to make more flood. Even if they could kill the parasites, they may not ha...
A choke cuts off the blood supply to the brain causing unconsciousness. You would have to maintain the choke for a much longer period to starve the brain of oxygen to kill a person. Just think of how long strangulation takes to kill a person.

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