Human Body
Exploring "Why" questions about Human Body
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Why do my eyes water when I do a really satisfying wee?
A great piss can beat an ejaculation in my honest opinion. You know that piss that you have been holding onto since breaking the piss seal 56 minutes earlier at the train station. And in that 56 minut
Why do the Japanese like the USA even though 71 years ago they got nuked twice by the USA?
Because we then helped rebuild their country and became a significant trading partner for the next half century (also, don't forget that technically they started that war with us) In general though, t
Why do new cars smell the way they do?
because of left over chemicals from the plastics and the leather or faux leather treatments are evaporating into a mostly sealed environment
Why do we wake up after falling down in a dream?
Dreams where you fall and die or similar deaths will trigger a response from your Brain sending signals to your body as a panic response. Think of those as "HEY WAKE UP WE CAN'T BE DEAD". Same thing h
Why can’t our normal speech be assigned musical pitch, e.g. C, C# and D?
Normal speech does have pitch. Speaking with a single pitch throughout would sound very strange, so assigning a single pitch wouldn't work (monotone is a way to describe someone's speech for a reason)
Why do relatively small similarities between songs or books result in lawsuits worth millions, but knock-off food items can have identical ingredients, similar packaging, and even reference the nam…
Songs are protected by copyright which protects the song from people copying it. Food on the other hand is a product that is composed of ingredients that are most likely not under patent protection. A
Why do we move our whole body around while playing a video game as if we are in the game?
Your brain consists of neurons that are connected to one another, and these connections strengthen over time through repetition. In your whole lifetime you've learned that the way to evade an object f
Why is it when you way oversleep, you get a headache?
You might be dehydrated. The longer you sleep, the longer you're going without water. Also, you might be over sleeping because you're sick.
Why do tired children become all restless, not calm? That does not seem to make sense. Or does it?
Based upon my 14 month old daughter, it's because they're fighting the sleepiness. Their bodies are telling them that they need to rest, but their mind is telling them that they want to keep playing a
why to we have a divot beneath our noses and above our mouths.
It is a seam left over from when you were formed in your mothers womb.