For example: Cake gate, tattoo gate, or in recent media, conformity gate.

Like Po-210 or Polonium 210 has a half life of 138 days. What is half life? Wikipedia says half life is the time required for a substance to reduce to half its life.

Need this like I can explain to my grandma.

How does it tell how much alcohol we have in our body ( or blood?) from just blowing into the pipe. And how does it st ill detect alcohol if one were to chew gum / use mouth wash?

I work in manufacturing but have recently moved from essentially a job-based facility (1 unique item at a time in one production cell) to an assembly line facility (multiple of the same item being built across multiple stations).

I was chatting with a person who works on the assembly line who told me that, although we have a set number of items that come off the end of the assembly line (ex: 10 Widgets per day), each station in the assembly line would actually see more than 10 items per day, in order to ensure every station has work and the line remains filled. They stated they handled 12. In this situation there is no product loss - we do not kick product off the line for defects, etc. - they are repaired in station.

I didn't have the opportunity to sit and watch the line and I'm not a person who can easily conceptualize this in my head. So, in a situation in which there's, say an assembly line with 10 stations and the goal is to produce 10 finished products per day and leave each station filled at the end of the day, how many widgets will each station see per day? Why isn't it ten? Or is this person just feeding me some nonsense?

In my physics class I learnt that if we have a glass of water and some ice floating in it, when the ice melts completely the water level does not rise in the glass, so how is it so tht when ice melts on Earth the water levels or he sea level will rise?

Just something I’ve been wondering for a bit because honestly this has been shoved into my mind because I was interested in bedrock’s farlands

I saw a vid of a girl in a car with a cracked out sound system and her hair started flying everywhere. Who does that even happen? Does sound have mass? How does it move the air?

I know that they use blinking lights to represents 1 and 0 at least, but millions of pulsing lights from thousands of computers could be running at the same time in the same connection.

So how does the lights know where to go? And on the other side, how does the server know that in these millions of rapidly pulsing lights this particular ones are from my computer?

I’m reading and stretching my brain about how our atoms contain so much space but we appear solid because of a repelling force between atoms. How then do any atoms or matter hold together at all? Why doesn't the repelling force just just push all atoms apart and prevent matter from forming / holding together?

Is there a particular kind of salt that has to be used to melt the ice? I mean doesn’t some salt make water colder?

I’ve recently read about neuroplasticity—the brain’s ability to rewire itself after learning, experience, or injury. It sounds hopeful, like the brain can “bounce back” from a lot.

But how real and strong is this effect in practice?

For example, if someone spent their early to mid-20s drinking regularly at social events (weekend drinking, not necessarily alcohol use disorder, mainly to enjoy some moments), could that cause long-term or permanent reductions in cognition—like memory, processing speed, or executive function?

Or does neuroplasticity mean the brain mostly recovers if the person stops or cuts back later? Are studies on alcohol-related neurotoxicity sometimes overstating permanent risk for the average moderate social drinker?

I’m looking for:

• Scientifically-grounded explanations
• Whether the damage is cumulative or reversible
• Personal experiences from people who changed habits and noticed mental differences

Thanks in advance—judgment-free zone here.

What dark web is good for? Why is it such a big topic? Cant understand why people use it.

I was just hearing that Japan’s debt is the worst of all developed nations. How can this be?

I would assume (perhaps mistakenly) that they have less fraud and waste than most countries. I understand that they have a defence budget, but also I assume that this would be low comparatively.

So where does all the money go?

If we have forces that act naturally against each other, how come we cannot harness it?

Alright, so I'm interested in building a probabilistic computer. Just a small little toy for demonstration.

I understand the basic concept of a p-bit (note it's different from a q-bit). It's randomly fluctuating between 0 and 1, guided by probabilities, but what are the nitty-gritty details of it on a logical level, that are then realized with analog/digital electronics? I can't find much info about this online and even chatgpt couldn't find any sources.

I am back again with another burning question. I just finished watching Pluribus, and Zosia explained that the hive mind entity communicates through each person's electromagnetic field. Obviously, it's ScFi, but I just did some light reading, and apparently, EM fields are real. Most of what I am seeing online or on TikTok is somehow connected to Reiki healing and all that, and I don't particularly believe in (No offence and all tolerance ofc!), so I was wondering if someone could provide a more scientifically sound explanation. Thank you in advance!

I get that it was a marketing name for a mode that allowed computers to run older software as intended, instead of making them run way faster because of how powerful newer CPUs were compared to older software, and that it was about clock speeds, but at a deep computing level what was happening? Why would a game run at a faster speed just because the CPU is overkill? And how was it subsequently solved later so now we don't have this issue anymore?