History
Exploring "Why" questions about History
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Why can’t CGI create a realistic looking person?
Uncanny Valley. When the CGI of humans is highly stylized (Like in most Pixar movies, Frozen, Tangled, Wreck It Ralph, etc), they look pretty good. But when you try and make a realistic looking person
Why English actors always portray characters from the renaissance period, the middle-age, the world wars, etc, on modern screen adaptations while they’re talking in an English accent? Even if the c…
Most of your examples take place outside of English speaking countries. If a movie is almost exclusively set in Italy, it would have to be filmed in Italian if you wanted to be historically accurate.
Why do some clocks with roman numerals use IIII for the number 4?
It just the tastes of the clock maker. It's particularly common for clock faces to use IIII for 4, but still use IX for 9. The Romans weren't nearly as rigid about how Roman numerals were to be used a
Why actors in movies taking place in Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, etc. always seem to have British accents.
It's the easiest shortcut to mark a person as 'foreign' without having to put up with a film of subtitles. For better or worse, people, in general, aren't interested in reading their movies, but we'd
Why does standing in one place for twenty minutes make my feet hurt more than walking for an hour?
Standing up straight still requires your muscles to do work. But it's "static' work which means it's the exact same muscles doing the exact same thing over and over again *without being given a chance
Why Stephen Hawking is the long-lived person with ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis), what is the difference between Him and the others with same disease?
Another part of it is that he has a slow progressing version of it. There was an article a year or 2 ago where one of his doctors said that his ALS had effectively 'burnt out' I don't know if there's
Why does sucking on a straw potentially cause a dry socket after a tooth extraction?
You know when you drink a milkshake and sometimes a chunky bit gets stuck in the straw? Sucking hard enough can dislodge it. That's good for the milkshake, but bad for your tooth socket.
Why do they fine traffic violators(parking tickets) instead of offering educational services?
If you have a driver's license, you were already taught the rules. Everybody over the age of five knows you stop at a red light. It is a very easy ticket to avoid and if people are so concerned about
Why do countries like germany want to make the free trade agreement TTIP with the US and CETA with canada, if they could be sued by companies for making laws that could damage the company?
They think the pros of having better access to the American marketplace outweigh the cons. IIRC, the EC put out a report saying that they estimate quite a large economic upturn from the deal. I'll see
Why do some memories get stronger with repeated thinking and some weaker?
I'd say state of mind. Why else would dreams be so vivid and 20 minutes later no recollection of what the hell happened.