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Whats the difference between me thinking about moving my arm and actually moving my arm? Or thinking a word and actually saying it?

Whats the difference between me thinking about moving my arm and actually moving my arm? Or thinking a word and actually saying it?


Whats the difference between me thinking about moving my arm and actually moving my arm? Or thinking a word and actually saying it?

Posted: 28 Oct 2018 09:04 AM PDT

Do we actually know if bottling up your emotions is bad for you?

Posted: 28 Oct 2018 07:05 PM PDT

I always thought suppressing your emotions was bad for you, thats what id always hear from people, but in my psychology class some times ago i read about a study done with kids and a mean strict teacher (i might try looking up the study later).

(to crudely paraphrase, during a break one half of the class was told to sit in a corner quietly and reflect, while the second half was told to punch a bag with a picture of the teachers face on it (or something like that), and after the break they were all given blow horns and told they could freely blow the horn in the teachers face, and they found the kids who quietly reflected would blow the horn less.)

Anyways, after learning about this I tried looking up the answer online, came upon multiple opinion articles and sensational news sites which say it is harmful but would never cite anything, and the academic sources I found though were conflicting.

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Is there an extreme point where the temperature decreases with pressure rather than increase (gas)?

Posted: 29 Oct 2018 04:13 AM PDT

So, there's this: pV = nRT .

From this is clear that if volume and number of molecules are constant, if we increase pressure the temperature has to increase.

Is there a point when, if we increase the pressure to an immense threshold that there is actually a temperature drop because the molecules cannot almost move anymore?

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Why is October so hot in some places in Asia, like in the city of Karachi near Arabian sea?

Posted: 29 Oct 2018 02:58 AM PDT

I don't quite understand why October is hot in certain places in the Asia. For example, recently I visited a friend in Karachi, which is a city in the south of Pakistan near Arabian sea and the whole October month was pretty hot although the previous few months of Sept, Aug, and July were not that bad.

I Wikipedied October in that city and found:

It is the second hottest month of the year after May. Karachi is considered by some to be a city with two summers. Pre monsoon summer of April–May and post monsoon summer of Sep–Oct.

So why does it have post monsoon summer in October? I understand pre monsoon summer such as May being hot though, because May is hot in many places in the northern hemisphere. I just don't get the October thing.

Some explanation would be appreciated. I think it has something to do with pressure in the atmosphere but don't know how it works exactly. I'm drawing blanks here.

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Are ALL carbon steels magnetic?

Posted: 29 Oct 2018 02:22 AM PDT

I'm talking specifically about CARBON steels, NOT stainless steels. Are all carbon steels magnetic?

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How is melanoma on thin skin like the eyelids, scrotal skin biopsied and excisioned? How much scarring and deformity does it result in?

Posted: 28 Oct 2018 08:58 AM PDT

I was wondering, that for melanoma on very thin skin like that of the scrotum:

  • A) How is such a thin skin biopsied?
  • B) How is such a thin skin cut/excisioned out as treatment?
  • C) How much scarring or ugliness or deformity is there in Biopsy?
  • D) How much scarring or ugliness or deformity is there in cut out/excision treatment (which is the only treatment as I understand it)?

PS: I am not that good in English so I had to use the word ugliness. Don't know the correct word for it.

EDIT: I actually posted this on /r/Dermatology but got no reply so I posted it here. If this is not the correct sub, please suggest a more appropriate sub where I can get the answers before deleting this thread.

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What is the hottest a microwave can heat something up?

Posted: 28 Oct 2018 08:36 AM PDT

Could it theoretically go on forever? Or will the temperature of whatever it's heating eventually plateau?

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Will a mountain that is sufficiently tall create a 'bump' in the atmosphere?

Posted: 28 Oct 2018 08:38 AM PDT

The inspiration for this question came from this image over at the KSP subreddit. Disregard the skybox and look at the mountains sticking out pretty high, yet the atmosphere looks perfectly spherical despite the protruding mountain. I imagine that, just like a rock that's just underneath the water surface in a river, there would be a slight 'bump' in the local boundaries of the atmosphere if there'd be a mountain this high in real life.

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Do smaller car tires wear through their tread faster than larger tires? If so is that because they must spin faster/more to cover the same amount of distance?

Posted: 28 Oct 2018 08:33 AM PDT

Is it possible to actually predict earthquakes to some degree?

Posted: 28 Oct 2018 09:16 AM PDT

I feel like you should be able to predict future rises in seismic activity based on previous activity, right? Or is it highly unpredictable?

I don't mean predict an earthquake to the day, but something like "there is possibility of an earthquake of over X magnitude between 23rd of November and 30th of December".

Would these predictions be highly unreliable or realistic?

How exactly would you go about the prediction and monitoring?

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Why does warming oceans release CO2, while simultanously acidifying due to carbonic acid from CO2?

Posted: 28 Oct 2018 07:55 AM PDT

I read a climate science study claiming as temperatures rise, CO2 increases in the atmosphere follows - A hot coke bottle was used an example. I don't understand why the oceans are acidifying, if CO2 leaves, it follows equlibirum would shift towards less carbonic acid in the water increasing pH.

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When bleeding, how does the body regain the blood it has lost? How does the body actually create that blood and how does it know when to stop?

Posted: 28 Oct 2018 05:01 AM PDT

When you are bleeding, you lose blood. However, I was wondering how does the body actually regain blood lost? From what does it make blood, and what ensures that the mechanism does not make too much or too little. Is this different for different degress of injuries (papercut vs. amputation sort of thing...)? If there was too much blood in someone's body, does the body get rid of it?

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Why does dough become less sticky when adding flour?

Posted: 28 Oct 2018 09:09 AM PDT

What causes magnetic to be attracted to metals?

Posted: 28 Oct 2018 08:56 AM PDT

Why does AM wave produce sidebands??

Posted: 27 Oct 2018 10:47 PM PDT

Amplitude modulation is varying the amplitude of a carrier based on the amplitude of the message signal by keeping the frequency of the carrier same, but in DSB AM waves, why do we consider the upper side band with freq fc+fm and lower side band with freq fc-fm, this is very confusing to me please explain, Thank you. :)

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