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Why do some animals/insects have a life span of a few days but others such as some turtles can live over 100 years?
The answer to why anything in nature is basically because it works and they keep having babies. Reptiles generally use the strategy to keep growing because it increases their chances of survival and r
Why have all the 'big' animals and creatures gone extinct? Megalodon, the Dire Wolf? All these creatures were huge, top of the food chain predators but now don't exist? Yet the sloth; slow, dumb and effectively defenceless has somehow managed to survive?
As per your example, a sloth survives on plants. It uses no energy because it virtually doesn't move. A sloth goes SO slow it actually can have moss grow on its
READ THE INVESTIGATION arrow_right_altWhy was prohibition less successful than the war on drugs?
The war on drugs was a failure in the exact same way that prohibition of alcohol was. We just keep doing it anyway.
Why can’t video games make walking/running look realistic?
A lot of movement animation is captured live with peoples' actual body movements ([Example](_URL_0_)) and then these are applied to the character's animation when moving in-game. The problem comes bec
Why does hearing a song lots make us dislike it?
I think you can relate this in a similar way to drugs. When you take a dose of drugs or listen to pleasant music, your brain is simulated and releases signals that it is happy with whatever you consum
Why is Southern Europe relatively lush compared to the deserts of North Africa when they are both next to the Mediterranean?
To explain it like to a 5 years old: 1. Most of the coast of North Africa isn't a desert, it's actually just as lush as Southern Europe. Morocco through Algeria to Tunisia is all green, while Libya is
Why is Broadway and musical theater in general associated with homosexuals?
I think that a lot of the aspects of theater in general (the elaborate costumes, the makeup, the dancing) are socially viewed as feminine, adding a sort of femininity to male actors/ theater professio
why can't we print/make more money to solve global problems?
Money is just an abstract representation of the overall "value" of the economy. Printing more money does not make the economy contain more "value" (i.e. the number of goods and ser
