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Why is it that some parents children look extremley alike, and other parents children don't even look related?
recessive genes my friend. My dad is 5'9", white, green eyes and brown hair, my mom is 5'5", black, hazel eyes and "burgundy" hair. I am 6'1" white blonde hair blue eyes.
Why when you pour water into a pot with hot oil it reacts like that?
Oil floats on water, so the water gets under the oil, quickly boils, and the escaping steam blasts little droplets of oil all over the place.
READ THE INVESTIGATION arrow_right_altWhy does lemon juice "cook" fish when making ceviche?
It doesn't actually cook the fish. The acid just denatures the proteins in fish meat in a similar process to cooking. It won't, for instance, kill pathogens in the fish.
why is it that our minds can blindly know where all the keys are on a key board, making us able to type fast, yet if you were to ask someone to draw out and label a keyboard, they would likely have a hard time doing it?
So learning to type depends a lot on muscle memory. That is- when you repeat a motion many times your nervous system adjusts and gets used to that pattern so you can do it again quickly. So more so th
Why are houses in parts of the US seem to be often built from wood when there are always natural disasters (hurricanes, forest fires..etc)? Shouldn't they logically build them from concrete/bricks?
cost vs risk. it's cheaper to build every house with wood and to insure them than it is to build it from brick/concrete. home manufactures are a business just like any other.
Why do soft drink machines dispense ice so erratically? What causes it to fall out in bursts?
Inside the machine is a large screw, called an auger, that pulls ice toward the chute, by spinning and collecting blocks at the bottom of the hopper. However, ice is generally distributed in large blo
Why do programmers hate using "GOTO" so much?
GOTO makes a program hard to read. The main reasons functions are used instead of GOTOs is that they are easier to modify, debug, and understand without going into details of how they are implemented.
why are American college athletes unpaid?
in a way, they are getting paid. they get a free ride for their "work", is it fair? that's another story.
