Human Body
Exploring "Why" questions about Human Body
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Why is it, that even though I genuinely love Whiskey, I shudder nearly every time I drink some?
Your conscious brain loves it, but your subconscious brain realizes that alcohol is inherently bad for the body, and causes you to shudder. It's a subconscious survival mechanism that you're overridin
Why do all the people who comment on no sleep believe the stories?
> Why do all the people who comment on no sleep believe the stories? They don't, but one of /r/nosleep's rules is that you have to pretend that you do for the purposes of your comments. It's essent
Why does hot water feel significantly hotter on my face than on other parts of my body?
A more sensitive and dense pattern of nerves and minute vascularisation in your face. Your back/thigh/arm doesn't have the same amount or type of nerves as your face. Your head is highly vascular as w
Why was/is there no special prosecutor for the top secret emails or Flynn unmasking or Clinton foundation?
There have been no credible issues with the Clinton Foundation. It's routinely one of the top rated charities in the world and publishes audited financial statements. _URL_0_ _URL_1_
Why are a lot of people scared of dolls/mannequins, or other humanoid-shaped things?
For dolls/mannequins, it is called the uncanny valley. Basically, everything that tries to emulate a human being will have its flaws look monstrous to some people.
Why sometimes when I sleep, in my dreams I try to get out of bed but my body refuse move, and gets harder to breathe but felt so real?
All correct. People also tend to hallucinate that there is something terrible/ominous in the room with them as well and it can be quite terrifying, but instances such as yours happen a lot too where y
Why do Americans think it is inappropriate to wear the same clothes two days in a row?
Since the middle ages the first world has developed a long way in questions of body-hygiene. Since then people always have become more focused on being clean, because at the beginning this was quite u
why is it that when food is too hot to touch it doesn’t necessarily burn your mouth when eating?
Because the inside of your mouth is already around 37C and coated in slimy film, where as your hands are dry and have a surface temperature relative to the air temperature. If you dipped your hands in
Why are search boxes in many websites so seemingly innefective, while googling the same thing almost always gives me what I was looking for?
Google has been optimizing their algorithm for a long time. It uses all of the past searches everyone has ever made using Google in order to learn what results people are most likely to click on, and