According to Cleveland Clinic, organ donation is the process of removing an organ from one person and surgically placing it in another person. Most commonly transferred organs are the kidney, …
How Does Freshly Cut Grass Warn Other Grass About The Danger?
Most plants use safety methods to protect themselves from danger. When we cut grass or when bugs eat grass, the blades of grass produce chemicals to warn surrounding grass. But …
Why Does a Heart Need to Beat?
Does a heart need to beat? Would we be able to replace the heart with something that continuously moves blood around with no pulse (using a pump/compressor of sorts)? Would …
Why Is It Easier to Set a Piece of Paper on Fire by It’s Corner Than on It’s Center?
1. Most likely about surface area, heat distribution, and oxygen content. Fire needs fuel and oxygen to burn, and there’s more oxygen on the side (above and below) than the …
Why Is Lower Stomach Fat and Lower Back Fat the Slowest Parts to Get Rid of During Fat Loss?
1. Hopefully this helps give you a clear picture. Basically, there are 2 sites you’ll gain fat. Primary sites and secondary sites. Primary sites are usually stomach, hips, waist. Primary …
What Makes a Beer Belly Round and Hard?
We all notice that beer belly is round and hard. What makes it different from a normal stomach or a soft (fat) stomach? The following answers should explain the reasons …
What Is ‘Gaslighting’ and Some Examples?
1. I think it’s important to distinguish between regular lying and gaslighting. A lie is just a falsehood and it can be told for many reasons. Gaslighting are lies told …
Why does California burst into flames every summer?
1. California has a rainy season in the winter and a no-rain season in the spring-summer-fall. What grows naturally in most of California is low scrub bush and long grasses.In …
Why Is It Children’s Shampoo Is “Tear Free” While Regular Shampoo Burns Like All Hell in the Eyes?
1 Soap is a chemical with a long, and kind of clever, molecule. One end of the molecule attracts water. The other end attracts dirt, particularly oily dirt. So when …
Although Tears Are Salty Like Salt Water, Why Does Only One of Them Burns Your Eyes?
1. The salt concentration in sea water is about 3.5%. The concentration that would be isotonic to your body is 0.9%. So sea water is 4x the concentration. 2. Apparently …
Caffeine Has Almost No Calories, but Seems to Give Us a Burst of Energy on Its Own. Where Does the Body Get This Energy From? Is Caffeine Forcing the Body to Use Stored Fat?
1. Caffeine works in two ways to make you feel that way. First it prevents the brain from telling you that you are tired. You can think of your brain …
Why Is Finding “Patient Zero” in an Epidemic so Important?
1. It depends on the epidemic. For rare diseases that pop up now and then, like ebola, this was important because people wanted to know where ebola was coming from. …
Why Is It Good for You to Raise Your Heart Rate Through Aerobic Exercise ?
All fitness experts recommended that aerobic exercise increase the heart rate but we also know that caffeine, anxiety also can increase our heart rate, then why doctors recommend to do …
Why Does a Good Pair of Headphones / Earphones Make It Feel Like the Sound Is Coming From Inside the Middle of Your Head?
When we listening to some musics we just feel like music is coming from the inside of our head, how does it happen. 1. To put it simply, whenever a …
How Does the Emergency Call Function Work in a Mobile Phone When There Is No Signal?
1. When you buy phones from different carriers, they are set to ignore bands or channels that the carrier doesn’t use. It serves several purposes. Firstly to make sure you …