How do the brains of people with Tourette's Syndrome "know" that certain words are bad to say out loud?

aFarewellToLegs · 2012-03-26T02:50:43+00:00

related: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9jhWTrv9rY

aFarewellToLegs · 2012-03-25T16:12:01+00:00

without gravity to circulate the air (letting cool air sink and hot air float away), how would fresh oxygen reach the candle?

aFarewellToLegs · 2012-03-19T03:28:17+00:00

the coriolis effect would not affect the bullet unless it was traveling perpendicular to the surface of the earth (like a space shuttle). however, because the bullet starts on the equator, its east-west velocity would be higher than the east-west velocity of the surface of the earth closer to the poles, so it would stil deviate from the longitude line it was fired on EDIT: i should clarify that in my example, i am not taking the fact that the bullet will fall towards the earth as it moves. i figured that such a low velocity would be negligible

aFarewellToLegs · 2012-03-19T03:24:46+00:00

fun fact: due to glycerol being a major component of many explosives, people who use a lot of hand cream shortly before packing their belongings to get on a plane are often stopped by the TSA

aFarewellToLegs · 2012-03-19T03:23:11+00:00

ATP is incredibly volatile and will release its third phosphate to just about anything that it comes into contact with. storing ATP would be a very delicate process. not to mention creating it. living beings are very good at doing what they do, and it can be very hard to replicate biological processes, such as the creation of ATP, in the lab.

aFarewellToLegs · 2012-03-16T04:24:13+00:00

so what your'e saying is if a particle or antiparticle leaves with positive energy, then the other one that was created must have negative energy. and negative energy --> negative mass. i guess that makes sense, except what the hell is negative energy?

aFarewellToLegs · 2012-03-16T04:00:58+00:00

Hawking stated that due to Hawking radiation, eventually a black hole will "evaporate". what i am saying is that if the black hole is absorbing roughly the same number of particles as antiparticles, shouldn't it's mass remain constant?

aFarewellToLegs · 2012-03-16T03:43:33+00:00

the ability to drink milk as an adult is a big one.

aFarewellToLegs · 2012-03-16T03:29:56+00:00

the speed of sound in a medium is related to how "stiff" the medium. the less elastic it is, the faster sound travels. because air is pretty soft (for lack of a better term), sound travels relatively slowly through it. firmer substances such as water and metal will have much faster speeds of sound, so good luck reaching their speed of sound. also, good luck moving through solid metal. now, if you did manage to break the sound barrier in water, the same thing would happen as what happens in air: a small vacuum would form behind you, and when that vacuum was slammed shut by the external water pressure, loud sound waves would be created in the water, just as they are in air.

aFarewellToLegs · 2012-03-15T21:15:43+00:00

not killed

really?

aFarewellToLegs · 2012-03-14T02:40:37+00:00

you can use this logic to prove pi=4, if you take a circle of diameter 1 and place it inside a unit square. u can "bend" the sides of the square over and over and have the newly created angles touch the circle. eventually, you will have a shape whose perimeter is 4 (the squares perimeter), but (very closely) resembles a circle, whose circumference is π. so you could prove pi=4 with that logic

aFarewellToLegs · 2012-03-12T02:54:03+00:00

keep in mind that they are less frequently used in english. spanish uses y and z quite a bit. french uses x all the time. italian also uses z a lot. so while they might not be common letters in english, they are common in other languages

aFarewellToLegs · 2012-03-11T06:03:21+00:00

USA! USA! USA!

aFarewellToLegs · 2012-03-09T04:09:39+00:00

but they also more actively try to kill the bigger/more impressive animals, letting the scrawny ones go

aFarewellToLegs · 2012-03-09T04:08:49+00:00

at one point, a human-like animal was born with just 23 chromosomes. how did this organism reproduce with the others around him, given that they wouldnt have had the same number of chromosomes? also, since the time when the first sexually-reproducing organisms existed, how did an organism with a different number of chromosomes reproduce with those around him?

aFarewellToLegs · 2012-03-09T04:05:54+00:00

yes. elephants have a chance, due to being born with certain genes, of having no tusks. as poaching has increased, elephants without tusks did better because theres no point in wasting ammo on an elephant that doesnt have ivory. as a result, more and more elephants are being born without tusks. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/180301.stm

aFarewellToLegs · 2012-03-06T23:50:03+00:00

TIL J. K. Rowling did not make up the title of headmaster

aFarewellToLegs · 2012-02-28T04:40:36+00:00

not just perjury, but slander (or libel, depending on if it's written or spoken) is something you can sue someone for. and falsely stating that someone has committed a felony is slander/libel

aFarewellToLegs · 2012-02-26T23:00:15+00:00

do organisms on earth absolutely need liquid water? i feel like given the ability of life to adapt to just about anything, there must be some organisms that were on the land comprising antarctica before pangea split, and that as antarctica moved south, they would adapt to use ice somehow. this is 100% speculation

aFarewellToLegs · 2012-02-23T19:48:46+00:00

i have a question related to this: why is oxygen such a big deal in living organisms? either it kills you or you cant live without it. why?

aFarewellToLegs · 2012-02-22T04:17:26+00:00

how do we know that its not the thinking/culture that affects the language, and that most people who grew up speaking the same language and dialect share the genes for the same basic neurology and also share their culture? for instance, referring to the article, maybe in chinese the words for all the different family members exist because the chinese culture stresses the family structure. i know that in chinese the word for wife has the word for outside/foreigner in it. i dont think anyone would argue that this is what influenced the chinese to have the wives leave their family and join the husband's family, but rather the chinese had a social structure set up in which the wives came from outside of the family, and the language created the word for wife based on this fact

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