It is because it is energy dense. Technically that is why it tastes good, what makes is taste good is the way it stimulates taste buds, the sensor of smell, and another sensory system, and our brains iteration of that stimuli

Humans and our ancestors have evolved in an environment where starvation and not getting overweight have been the primary cause of harm to use.

The one that likes and therefore preferred to eat and look for energy-dense food has a low risk of dying of starvation. So they passed on their genres to their decadence. Over time the taste becomes that we liked energy densed stuff.

It is in the 19th century that you had food manufacturing and cost in combination with changes in what we do for work that has resulted in being overweight is a problem for a large number of people in the developed world. But even today for the majority of humans starvation is still of more concern. So there have not been enough time of any change away from linking energy-dense food.

What do you mean by "same spot"? Relative to what? The sun? The galactic center?

I'm going to assume you mean the standard "what would happen if I hovered in a helicopter for hours, would I be somewhere else?"

No. You are moving right now. When a helicopter (or you) hovers, it is matching the rotational speed of the ground below it. Let's say what you mean is that you take off at sunrise and for 12 hours you want to keep the sun at the same visual spot on the horizon. You would no longer be hovering because you would have to counter your current speed, meaning you would have to race West at something like 1000 miles an hour. You have to counter the rotational speed of the earth at your latitude and I believe if you do this at sunrise, you don't have to add the Earth's speed around the sun, you just have to maintain your elevation because the earth is moving toward you as it sounds beneath you.

Ah, but that sounds different from what other posters were saying, i.e., that combining certain CNS depressants is _worse_ than overdosing on either of them on their own, because they act on _different_ systems. So with GHB and alcohol, is that actually the case? Does one of them depress respiration and the other one does not? Or when people overdose on a combination of GHB and alcohol, is it just that they took a full dose of both and the combination was the same as it would have been if they had taken that big of an overdose of either one?

To put it another way, with certain combinations, it seems like the sum is greater than the whole of the parts (2+2=5), because Drug B is causing Drug A to create an effect that Drug A wouldn't create on its own, even if you overdosed on it.

Damn. Good one.

No. You are jumping up, but also moving sideways at a speed basically equal relative to the Earth's rotation.

You are already moving at that speed, as is everything around you, including the air (assuming no wind), so from your perspective, all the motion is up/down.

They also don't all teach the same things the same way.

Even if you have 100% curriculum overlap, that does not mean you're doing the same projects, same assignments, same lecture setup, same balance of lecture/homework, same prof/TA access, etc.

Dinosaurs most likely had a Syrinx, just like their bird descendants. And a syrinx is much more capable of making a wide variety of noises (and it generally does not involve the hyoid bones) than the mammal larynx.

As for modern birds "chirping". Modern birds have a very wide variety of sounds they can make. Take an ostrich for example and google what kind of sounds they can make (make sure to google ostrich mating call since many results don't bring that up).

Or google lyre birds if you really want to know the capabilities of a birds syrinx when it comes to generating sounds.

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Forget makeup sex, have you ever had angry sex? Hands down the winner.

Yes. The electronic inverter circuit is what is creating the AC output and this can be carefully controlled to give a clean and consistent output. High end online type uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems designed to protect sensitive computer equipment work in a similar way to take power from the wall outlet or its batteries to always make clean power.

The other advantage to inverter generators is that they can slow down the engine when less power is needed. This saves a lot of fuel and makes them less noisy most of the time. Normal AC generators need to always run a full speed to provide the proper output frequency.

The ground doesn't move beneath you when you jump because you're going the same speed as the planet. Everything on Earth is going at the same speed as its rotation and same speed it's traveling through space.

It's the same reason you can jump on a bus or an airplane and not move either. You're accelerating at the same speed. However, if you jump and the bus speeds up or slows down, you do fall somewhere different. But the Earth doesn't speed up or slow down, so you never feel it and you always fall in the same place.

Allergy-wise, I'm allergic to "Nemantine" which had me absolutely irate at the tiniest perceived thing.

So everything we have been taught about jumping is a lie,is it just forward momentum?

>Is this because we are using AC rather than DC, which creates far more and continuous emr and is capable of much greater induction?

You've misunderstood something somewhere along the way. You're throwing out words in ways that don't make sense

First, why are you discussing Electromagnetic radiation(assuming that's what EMR is since its uncommon to discuss) instead of electric field strength?

DC creates a static magnetic field and a static electric field. The strength of the magnetic field is proportional to the current and the strength of the electric field is proportional to the voltage

AC creates a changing magnetic and electric field but the strength of the magnetic field is still proportional to the current and the strength of the electric field is still proportional to the voltage

Inductance refers to how much energy is stored in the magnetic field and is a property of the windings and magnetic core, not the electricity being fed to it

Since the electric field is proportional to the voltage then the AC and DC ones will have the same average field. The AC will start a breakover a bit sooner due to the higher peak voltage, but if it breaks over the DC line won't stop arcing because the voltage never drops to zero. Its actually a lot harder to get DC to stop ionizing the air.

CPI shows all categories that consumers spend money on. You can exclude whatever parts you want to exclude for whatever reason. But it's all in there as a starting point. You can look at actual CPI reports for free you know..

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Inverter can either refer to a NOT logic gate, or a power supply that generates AC from DC.

The logic gate inverter turns a 1 into a zero and turns a zero into a 1. On a schematic it looks like a little circle on the input or output of a logic gate or buffer.

The power supply inverter might have been more accurate to call a power oscillator instead. As most commonly used, what it does is it takes a DC source like a battery or solar panel, and repeatedly flips the polarity to make AC. There's usually also a voltage conversion happening.

If you look at food and energy over long periods, they work nicely.

The catch is look at something like eggs in the last few months. Was the doubling of egg prices evidence that prices across the board were going up, or was it an anomaly that corrected quickly? We'd be foolish to think that we were looking at an at large inflationary trend when they went up, or conversely, that there was a deflationary trend at large when they came back down.

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Not really, for the same reason that if you throw a baseball into the air inside a car, the baseball doesn’t land behind you, in the spot where it left your hand.

You, like the baseball, have forward momentum in the direction the earth is moving. You aren’t actually jumping straight up; you’re jumping forward at about 1,000 miles per hour. It just feels like straight up because everything else is also moving at the speed of the earth’s rotation.

It's given multiple times a day, every single day in the ED where I work.

They don't all teach the same things. As an example, here are the course catalogues for a BS in Computer Science at MIT and at Caltech

http://catalog.mit.edu/degree-charts/computer-science-engineering-course-6-3/

https://www.cms.caltech.edu/academics/ugrad/ugrad_cs (link at the end of the page for the course catalogue PDF; page 571 onwards in the pdf)

Not to mention the professors/lecturers, as well as the equipment and facilities also play quite the role

You compromise the spacing

High voltage wires are relying on the fact that air isn't that conductive and takes a lot of voltage to breakdown and let a lightning bolt pass

If you get too close to them then instead of the electricity needing to jump through air all the way to the ground it only needs to jump through to air to you then pass through your far more conductive body and make the final hop to ground.

Air will block about 3,000,000 volts per meter of air. We don't run it close to that limit but you might find a 300 kV line with a meter of clearance, but if you get less than 10 centimeters from the wire you're now close enough that it can blow through the air and hop to you just like lightning hopping from the cloud to the ground.

Normally voltages you encounter are low enough that it can't arc more than a millimeter, but transmission lines can get up to hundreds of thousands of volts which is enough for some sizable arcs

We don't. All those items are included in CPI. The basic premise of your question is wrong.

That is also true yes, the earth is moving around the sun at an average speed of 29.78 km/s. And the sun is moving around the galactic centre at roughly 220 km/s. So you will move relatively far over 12 hours.