How does the body decide where to store fat? |
- How does the body decide where to store fat?
- How does a video game or software randomly decide something?
- Goldstone is a glassy material with tiny metal crystals suspended in it; copper makes it orange, cobalt blue, chromium green and manganese purple. Are there other metals (gold, silver, titanium) that can be used in this way, and what colour glass do they make?
- Are humans the only animals that view things as 'cute'?
- Is it really better for your hair not to use shampoo?
- Does insects or animals get bored?
- How are huge prime numbers with hundreds of digits generated?
- Why do most poisonous household products say “Do not induce vomiting?”
- Are there fungi that live completely underwater?
- What happens to your muscles after you warm up? Why does it result in a reduced chance of injury?
- What's the highest temperature we reproduced?
- Why are gastrointestinal symptoms associated with the flu only for children?
- How strong were ancient telescopes?
- Could the radiation in space be used to peer into the gas giants?
- If you have a capacitor in parallel with a cell and a resistor, why does the maximum voltage through the resistor before charging never equal the voltage of the capacitor after charging?
- How Important is handwashing / sterility to the practice of medicine?
- Where do bees go during colony collapse?
- What is the actual reason why noble gases are chemically inert?
- How small does a celestial object need to be in order to be shaped into a sphere by it's own gravity? [Astronomy - Planetary Formation]
- What's wrong with this argument of going faster than speed of light?
- Would stirring water really fast make it warmer?
- Many businesses under the new US tax plan stated they will not be allocating more money into capital investments. Instead, many will be issuing stock buybacks and dividend increases. What, from an economic perspective, drives this decision?
- Can a material under high stress break at random without any additional change to the system?
| How does the body decide where to store fat? Posted: 22 Dec 2017 05:52 AM PST In general, females seem to store fat around the hips and thighs, males around the gut. Why? How does the body decide where to store fat? [link] [comments]  |
| How does a video game or software randomly decide something? Posted: 21 Dec 2017 09:21 AM PST I've been wondering this for a long time and has never really found an answer to this. When a game has a certain percentage chance of getting a critical hit for instance, how does it decide wether or not give you one? I don't quite understand how a computer can just randomly decide something without having a real conscience. It's not like in real life where you can flip a coin or something, it has to have a certain pattern instead, right? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 22 Dec 2017 06:14 AM PST There isn't a huge amount of information on the wiki page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldstone_(glass) ) but basically it's a glass melted with metal oxides and melted in a low-oxygen environment until it becomes a deeply-coloured glass with sparkly little metal crystals suspended within. Invented in Venice because of course it was. I have some of the standard orange and the blue and I looked up what the 'blue goldstone' was, and found it was made with a different metal - hence the question. Thank you! [link] [comments]  |
| Are humans the only animals that view things as 'cute'? Posted: 22 Dec 2017 05:58 AM PST I once read in a book, I believe, that infant animals have large pupils in order to have a cuteness factor, so that they are not immediately killed when seen by another animal. Are humans the only animals that perceive this 'cuteness factor'? [link] [comments]  |
| Is it really better for your hair not to use shampoo? Posted: 22 Dec 2017 05:45 AM PST |
| Does insects or animals get bored? Posted: 21 Dec 2017 07:36 PM PST I started thinking about how boring it was for a spider sitting on my wall for two days straigth, same spot, not dead (I blew on it, and it reacted). Don't they get "bored" sitting there? Or is it that they are not sentient that removes that ability to feel bored? What about dogs, cats etc? [link] [comments]  |
| How are huge prime numbers with hundreds of digits generated? Posted: 22 Dec 2017 06:02 AM PST |
| Why do most poisonous household products say “Do not induce vomiting?” Posted: 22 Dec 2017 06:45 AM PST It seems like if you drink poison you'd want to get it out of your stomach quickly before it gets absorbed. Not inducing vomiting seems counterintuitive. [link] [comments]  |
| Are there fungi that live completely underwater? Posted: 21 Dec 2017 07:02 PM PST |
| What happens to your muscles after you warm up? Why does it result in a reduced chance of injury? Posted: 21 Dec 2017 09:25 AM PST |
| What's the highest temperature we reproduced? Posted: 22 Dec 2017 04:18 AM PST Be it in a lab or thru a human-made device such as a bomb. [link] [comments]  |
| Why are gastrointestinal symptoms associated with the flu only for children? Posted: 22 Dec 2017 06:03 AM PST According to Wikipedia, under symptoms of influenza it says "In children, gastrointestinal symptoms such as diarrhea and abdominal pain". It goes on to say "Diarrhea is not normally a symptom of influenza in adults". (The references for these statements appear to be physical texts, so I have not been able to check the sources.) I can understand that in many illnesses, effects may be worse for children than adults due to less developed immune systems, less exposure to similar conditions, or literally just less body mass to cope with it - but from the wording this appears to be a more fundamental thing. So why are these symptoms only seen in children? Or have I misunderstood the article? [link] [comments]  |
| How strong were ancient telescopes? Posted: 22 Dec 2017 06:35 AM PST Just wondering how strong the telescopes used by the astronomers who first discovered planets were. Like were they the strength of a kids telsescope today from a Walmart or did they have something beefier? And a side question, are there still areas on earth with night skies as dark as they would have been for the ancient astronomers? [link] [comments]  |
| Could the radiation in space be used to peer into the gas giants? Posted: 22 Dec 2017 06:23 AM PST |
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| How Important is handwashing / sterility to the practice of medicine? Posted: 21 Dec 2017 06:31 PM PST I recently learned that Doctors didn't understand the need to wash their hands prior to surgery until the 1840's. Wikipedia tells me this is due to a failure to understand how germs are spread. I have practically no formal medical training (CPR, Heimlich), but I know that you should wash your hands to avoid the spread of disease, and that Chlorine Bleach is good for sanitizing metal tools, and Alcohol is a good disinfectant, and I know that bloodletting doesn't help. Would that make me the best doctor of 1839? Would I be easily outclassed by medical professionals, despite their unwashed cadaver dissecting hands? So much of... pop culture emphasize the mistakes / foolishness of the past. How advanced was a trained doctor of the 1830's? Was cleanliness, and an understanding of how diseases transfer a major threshold for the field of medicine, or just an incremental advancement? [link] [comments]  |
| Where do bees go during colony collapse? Posted: 21 Dec 2017 07:21 PM PST Recently I've been reading about Colony Collapse Disorder and how, contrary to my previous assumptions, it's not just bees dropping dead in the hive, but seemingly just disappearing or abandoning it without going through the ordinary procedure. Are these adult bees just wandering around aimlessly until they die? Going about their daily duties but getting lost? Do we even know or have any hypothesis or is it a total mystery? [link] [comments]  |
| What is the actual reason why noble gases are chemically inert? Posted: 22 Dec 2017 05:54 AM PST I know that the standard reason in textbooks is that their valence shells are full, but why should that in turn cause them to be chemically inert? What is it about full valence shells that causes atoms to be inert? I guess another way of asking the same question would be: what is the deeper reason for the octet rule in Chemistry? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 21 Dec 2017 05:30 PM PST Maybe I'm not asking this question correctly.. just popped in my head and was curious so here I am, r/askscience! [link] [comments]  |
| What's wrong with this argument of going faster than speed of light? Posted: 22 Dec 2017 03:29 AM PST I read somewhere, that say, if I point a laser at the northern most part of Jupiter here from Earth, and then in less than a millisecond, I twist my wirst so that the laser now is at southern most point, the laser would have travelled a very large distance, and with some calculations, we can show that the speed of the tip of laser was greater than that of light. Now, I know breaking the barrier isn't possible, but could anyone please explain to me what wrong is it that I'm doing here... :) [link] [comments]  |
| Would stirring water really fast make it warmer? Posted: 21 Dec 2017 08:12 AM PST If I were able to stir water extremely fast, would it be possible to bring it to a boiling point? [link] [comments]  |
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| Can a material under high stress break at random without any additional change to the system? Posted: 21 Dec 2017 01:06 PM PST Lets say a ballpoint pen is pushing on the centre of a tensioned sheet of foil so that the foil is as close to its breaking point as possible. If there are no external changes (vibrations, temperature change, etc.) could the foil still randomly snap? This was just an analogy similar to the situation that had me puzzling, but apply it to the breaking point of any material if preferable. [link] [comments]  |
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