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Why does the north star never move but all the other stars do?
The others appear to move because the earth is spinning on its axis. Directly above either of the poles of that axis, a star will appear to barely move at all, but other stars will trace circles aroun
Why do we sneeze when plucking our eyebrows?
The nerves for this area are very close to the nerves carrying sensory data from your nose. The signals overlap accidentally.
READ THE INVESTIGATION arrow_right_altWhy is it that most singers close their eyes when singing?
Why do I stick my tongue out when learning new song on my guitar? No doubt the act of closing their eyes can be part of the performance, for show, but it is also part of getting into the moment, conce
Why do certain institutions get access to IPO shares ahead of the public and be allowed to make an instant 30% profit (in the case of Alibaba) before the shares are even available to all institutions and the general public?
The company's underwriter can offer shares to whomever they want. Just because it's a initial *public* offering doesn't mean that the public can get a crack at them direct from the underwriter. The pr
Why does running water increase the sensation of having to urinate?
When you urinate, you produce the sound of running water. The sound and the sensation of urinating then become linked, much as Pavlov's dogs linked the sound of a bell with food. The dogs involuntaril
Why can drinking too much alcohol cause you to go blind and what is the biology/chemistry behind it? Is it specifically because you absorb too much too quickly (like with moonshine/liquor/spirits), or is there something else that causes it?
Drinkable alcohol is ethanol; it's what in the beer and spirits you buy at your liquor store. Moonshine that isn't distilled correctly builds methanol which the body metabolizes into formaldehyte (whi
Why do some websites and programs seem to not be able to process apostrophes and instead replace it with a series of nonsensical characters. For example: instead of "John's", the site would show "John’s".
I see this often in titles in imgur albums in RES. Is there some way to prevent this from happening?
Why do credit card companies that offer those "5% cash back" deals that require users to activate a different category each quarter need to be so secretive/mysterious what the future categories are?
The idea of those promotions is to get you to put more money on your credit card - you're supposed to think "Ooh, I can save money on *x*, but I'd better buy it now!" If they annou
