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Why is chicken raised without antibiotics a good thing?
Not a medical or food professional, however this is what I understand. Aside from the organic movement thinking that GMOs and antibiotics are evil plants by the pharmaceutical industry and Monsanto to
Why do people go for coffee/tea/a drink as a way of meeting each other for a chat?
It's an open, public place, and it's something fairly non-committal. If you sit down for a full meal, you're there for probably the better part of an hour. If y
READ THE INVESTIGATION arrow_right_altWhy is it so hard to get admitted into universities in China compared to Canada or the United States yet the rankings of Chinese schools often lag behind?
China has a population of 1.39 billion people. Some of their medium (in relativity) metropolises are larger than some of the largest cities in other countries by 2-3 times. This inherently means there
Why can't you remember when you were a baby?
If you don't have storage space, where do you put stuff? The neural structures that store memories and things literally don't exist in a newborn's head. They've got no storage space.
Why does it take so long for a country to develop nuclear warheads/ weapons? E.g. Iran and N. Korea.
It depends on how many resources they want to put into it. North Korea is a very poor country so they can't spare the same amount of resources that the US put into the manhattan project. Additionally
Why the U.S(or other governments) can pass laws affecting people that are not their citizens.
They aren't passing laws to which foreign people are subject. They are merely spying on them. All spying is an extra-legal practice.
Why do all UTF-8 HTML codes start with an ampersand?
Because the ampersand is what signals the browser to treat the next sequence as a UTF code and not as just a literal string of numbers and/or letters. You need something to cue to the system to read t
Why can I use headphones as a microphone and not a microphone as a speaker(s)?
You can if the mic is a dynamic (electromagnetic) mic. Most mics are electret condenser mics. If you do try to use a dynamic mic as a speaker, you will get very little sound and wi
