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why do pigeons and some other birds bob their head as they walk about?
Accord [to this website](_URL_0_) it's also to stabilise vision. Pigeons and some birds don't track movement like we do so moving their head quickly from place to another helps them build snapshots of
why was The Matrix so revolutionary?
They introduced a lot of new special effects techniques. One of the more well know ones was the "bullet time" effect, which had a bunch of cameras positioned in
READ THE INVESTIGATION arrow_right_altWhy do people black out when drinking?
Well, quite simply put alcohol is poison, and as such it has some negative effects on your body. To be spesific, there is a part of your brain called the hippocampus, that is the part of the brain tha
Why proteins are shown in scientific papers as bunch of tangled wires and arrows, and not like some kind of chemical element or something similar?
Proteins are molecules, like water, not elements like hydrogen. But instead of having three atoms connected like water , they can have hundreds. They are structured in ways that look all twisted as we
Why is pornography not illegal like prostitution is, considering everyone involved is doing it for the money?
Because...well because. Long answer, I think that the rationale is that, for pornography, you're paying two people to have sex with each other, and no one is exchanging money in return for an orgasm p
Why do all the radio and TV stations 4-letter acronyms start with K? Ex: KQAK, KOIN, KLAD, etc.
Radio and television stations west of the Mississippi start with K. Those east of the river start with W. It is a system devised by the FCC to identify stations.
Why does the moon look larger the lower it is in the sky?
The size of a viewed object can be measured objectively either as an angular size (the visual angle that it subtends at the eye, corresponding to the proportion of the visual field that it occupies),
Why can programs on my computer be completely unresponsive but pressing control+alt+delete is always instant?
This is because the program is stuck in some sort of loop, so sending commands to the program does not work. Ctrl+alt+del sends an interrupt, which means that it tells windows to d
