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1937:, so the live food/non-live food distinction probably isn't relevant. Secondly, the phrase "live food" is usually applied for captive animals only. While in the wild carnivores may only eat food they killed themselves, in captivity a large number of animals (including lions and bears) are perfectly content to eat dead stuff - just look at feeding time at the zoo. Also, I think you underestimate the prevalence of scavengering-like behavior. While they may not eat meat that's gone rancid, lions and bears are not above picking over a fresh corpse, and a number of carnivores aren't shy about stealing an already-dead kill from another hunter. However, there are a number of animals, like some snakes and lizards, which either will only eat still-living prey, or whose appetite is stimulated by the sight of living prey. -- 859:
not be taken. So, counting prescriptions will give you a high percentage that isn't accurate. Then, there are the samples. Doctors often give samples of medications without prescribing them. So, if you are counting prescriptions, you have a lower number. Which is further off - those getting prescriptions without taking them or those taking meds without a prescription. Now, what do you do about the illegal trade of prescription drugs? --
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you wouldn't want to be chomping on something with flies and bacteria all over it, even though animals that do eat dead things don't seem to have this preconception about dead things. For us, it is common sense. I hunt rabbits from time to time with the purpose of putting them in a casserole, but I would never touch a rabbit I saw dead already, and not from one of my bullets.--
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It depends on what you measure, of course. Net biological production is 0 in either case (all the CO2 you exhale comes from your food, which contains carbon that was ultimately fixed by a photosynthesizing plant). The same holds for use of natural fibers in larger clothes. But it takes more energy to
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There is an old wives' tale that if confronted with a bear, you should lie down and pretend to be dead. I think the idea here is that, if it is dead it must have died of something, and you don't want to catch what it died of by eating it, or it may have been dead for a while, so for the same reason,
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You are getting into one of my areas of study... By defining a person as a "user", you are implying that the person actually puts the medicine in or on his or her body. Most statistical information is based on prescriptions. Those prescriptions may or may not be filled. If filled, they may or may
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would be a start - and if that was purely the reason then i am sorry I jumped to a conclusion about why this would be of interest to someone. I got the impression from the way the question was asked that such a thing was going to be used as a criteria for whether or not to date someone - which would
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Going a different direction (in terms of sensation, not flow:), when I give blood, I can feel when the line is blocked (due to the bag being filled, while switching among sample tubes, etc.). But the sensation is that of blood not flowing in my arm (cuff blocking normal vein return) and then flowing
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Most anestethics are potentially fatal if you are exposed to too much. Paint ball guns are a pretty imprecise delivery mechanism, and so I'd worry about accidentally overdosing the targets. You'd need something that knocks people out at relatively low concentrations but doesn't become hazardous at
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I have seen a family of lions (ok, it was TV, but it was very clear) eat an antelop or similar prey (I can't remember the exact species) while it was still clearly moving and trying to escape, although badly injured. One of the bigger lions was holding it down while all the other ones where happily
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There are limited studies on prescriptions at this time. The VA is doing a rather large-scale study, but it will be skewed since the VA often has the pharmacy inside the VA or mails refills directly to the patient's home. A true study would require checking patient's blood and urine every week to
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That's a fun question. The moving strip of paper is a good analogy. After the boom you'll hear the last note that was played (the first note of the song) then the second-to-last note played (the 2nd note of the song) etc. So, yes, you'd hear the song played in the correct order. You'll have to
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Your clavicle is essentially designed to break. When you fall onto your hands (as when you trip over your feet to the ground), there are a limited number of places for the shock of the impact to go. One of the "popular" ones is your clavicle, which, if you've seen one, is pretty flimsy and twisted
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Can I suggest that the question might be referring to more than genetics? If your mother is overweight it can (but not necessarily) also point to poor eating habits or a poor relationship with food. Something like that can influence the habits of the child just as much as a recessive gene. Poverty
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As Equendi notes the reality is that (for most people) weight is at least as much based on individual actions as it is on genetics. Also...what difference does it make even if the rule were true? You'd have to be a pretty despicable person to not enter a relationship with someone today because you
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Many animals eat live prey. Consider big fish eating little fish. How about frogs eating bugs. The main advantage is that there is much of a less consideration for infection in live animals compared to dead ones. Some animals, such as crabs, are very quick to spoil. That is why you boil them
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I wouldn't say net biological production is 0; most exhaled carbon was originally fixed by a plant, yes, but not nearly all CO2 fixed by plants, even food crops, ends up metabolized by a human. (More importantly, though I know it wasn't your point, the carbon impact of what we eat depends on all
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But the needle passes through the skin, which does have nerves. If you've got a liquid flowing in a pulsed manner through a constriction, you have two sources of "needle motion": wiggling with each pulse (as the flow changes and/or as the blood vessel to which it's attached pulses) and turbulance
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I think the idea with the bear is that by playing dead you will no longer be perceived as a threat. Most bears (except the polar variety) have no interest in people as food; they just want to make sure you're no threat to their cubs or themselves. Once the bear sees you're not a danger (so the
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extracting flesh and chewing. It took several minutes for the prey to die in this manner. The images were clear, so even if the commentator didn't know what he was talking about, I think the images alone were compelling evidence that lions eat living prey when it is easy to do so. --
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But that's a big assumption. Wouldn't a supersonic anything cause a massive wake that would screw up the local speed of sound? In that case probably all you'd hear is a distorted mess. Hopefully someone will come along who knows about this sort of thing and product a better answer.
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I think the main advantage is just that it's easier. Killing the animal takes effort, if it's not necessary, why both? A lion needs to kill its prey because otherwise it will run off before it can be eaten, food which is eaten live is eaten in one mouthful, so that isn't an issue.
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I imagined this like... picture the sound source "writing" the piece of music on a piece of paper. The paper is travelling towards you at Mach 1, but as the source is travelling towards you at Mach 2, it is "writing" on the paper at Mach 1, but backwards... or something.
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would further trouble support from the seabed. Floating bridge supports come to mind, but I don't know how troublesome ocean currents would be. Such a line would probably be threatened by icebergs; how might it be made to survive them? Would, perhaps,
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Are there studies on what percentage of prescriptions are not filled, and what amount of drugs are dispensed but not used? Also, what happens to all the drugs that are unused? (I'm guessing that the unused portion adds up to a large weight of drugs.)
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I meant prey being eaten while still alive. AFAIK, lions and such kill their prey, then eat it. 128 has answered my question. However, that raises another. What possible advantage would there be in restricting oneself to live vs. freshly killed food?
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Am I too shallow or even despicable as you said? I think that any male (is being male despicable?) interested in a long-term relationship (and yet? is that despicable?) will ask (is asking questions acceptable?) himself questions like that.
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If you include all animals, I imagine the eye of a flea is quite small. If you exclude compound eyes, then I suppose mice or hummingbirds have rather small eyes. Scorpions and spiders too, but I'm not sure if they're compound or
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Is there a WP article or offwiki resource that discusses this aspect of animal behavior? Other than, say, obvious physical defects or mental retardation, why might a mother reject her offspring? Is this a bestial analogue to
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and be carried on to offspring. The challenge is the needle-in-the-haystack issue: there's no guarantee that the mutation(s) is/are there in the germline, nor where it/they will occur. There's also the possibility of
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support the (on average) larger consumption of larger people. Also, of course, "all else" is rarely equal. Larger people are more likely to live a modern western livestyle, which implies much more use of resources. --
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Parents in large breeding colonies often lose track of their own offspring, so they adopt/steal others. It is speculated that near neighbors are likely to be genetically related, so it makes Darwinian sense.
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ensure that the proper drug levels are present. As House says, patients lie. So, you can't depend on any study which simply asks them if the prescriptions were filled or if they took the drugs properly. --
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I'm not exactly sure whether it's seven pounds of force or seven psi. Either way, it seems like a small value to cause injury to the ear or collarbone. Can anyone answer the question I originally posed?
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think that in 10 years that person may be fat. What if in 10 years you're fat, or bald, or lose your looks or whatever? Would you want someone to not date you based on what 'might' occur in the future?
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are not included in military or police less-than-lethal arsenals because no drug is yet known that would be quickly and reliably effective on humans without the risks of side effects or an overdose.
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I have heard that only seven pounds of pressure are required to fracture a clavicle or tear off an ear. It seems like those two parts of the body are absurdly fragile. Is there any truth to this?
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I've recently discovered that i live with some mice. I called the council who are prepared to get rid of rats for free because they are a danger for public health, but for mice they'll charge me
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Is there any genetic difference (something like a minor mutation), even small, to tell apart two monozygotic twins? Would a paternity test be able to prove that a child is of twin A or twin B?
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Do you really know the difference between closely related rodents? You're not the Pied Piper! Just tell them you think you have rats and they might not charge you for it.
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It seemed like I could "feel" the blood flow out of me. Is this merely a mind thing? That is, I know there is blood being taken, so I trick myself into feeling it---
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No, the point of going at Mach 2 is that an emitter approaching at that speed will produce sounds with the same apparent wavelength only recieved in reverse order.
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It makes a whole hell lot of difference. People of both sexes want an attractive partner who will sexually satisfy them - a recipe for success in a relationship. --
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7 psi seems extremely low to break any kind of bone, or tear off an ear, for that matter. It is probably enough to pull an earring out though... --
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going so fast that it passes through the beginning of the song so that it can deliver the end of song before the beginning arrives at the listener.
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Er, yes, that's what I meant. ;) By "backwards music", I meant the music originally played backwards, would be heard forwards (albeit distorted).
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high concentrations. Maybe such a compound exists, but it would probably require considerable research and experimentation to get it to work.
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If a sound source came directly towards me at Mach 2, playing a piece of music backwards, would I eventually hear the piece of music forwards?
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in modified paint ball guns for riot control but I was wondering if sedative versions could be made, possibly containing low levels of
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looking. A broken clavicle is no fun, but it's probably less dangerous for you than a dislocated shoulder or a broken arm.
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It would surely be uneconomical, but how might one best go about building a bridge across the Atlantic — presumably from
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It leaves your body through a needle which doesn't have any nerves in it, so I think your mind is playing tricks on you.
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How small is the smallest known eye of adult animal? I dont mean patch of photosentive cells but a real complex eye.
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Yes, it's obvious: rats are big and unmistakeable; mice are fairly small. Mice are quite easy to catch using baited
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In the news, I keep coming across cute pictures of baby zoo animals that were "rejected" by their mothers. See
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The usual rule of thumb to know if a woman will become fat is "take a look at her mom!". Is this rule accurate?
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Yeah, there were just a few, only a mm or so long in the line, so probably coupla tens of μL total max.
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And the music would have to be slowed down by a factor of two to compensate for the Doppler shift.
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article has a useful discussion, and mentions a number of times that monozygotic twins' DNA will be
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If the source went silent, or stopped, before it reached you, would you even hear a sonic boom?
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they might, but weight is negatively correlated with hours of exercise, and exercise produces CO
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I certainly can't feel it when I give blood, the needle feels uncomfortable, but that's it. --
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How much of the population of the Western world uses at least one prescription medicine? ----
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first, followed by heavily distorted backwards music (probably not recognizable as music).
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differences, a slightly diffent issue, and we don't know exactly how heritable they are. --
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identical. That's because mutations can occur early in development that could enter the
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Uses at any given time? Uses at some point in their lives? Uses on a continuous basis? --
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or some other such chemical? Would such a weapon be feasible? Thanks for any response,
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thinking goes), they'll give you a sniff and leave you alone. Not recommended for OR!
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If the query was merely 'is there a genetic link to obesity?' then I guess looking at
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sorts of other considerations, like fertilizer use, tilling, transportation, etc.) --
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traveling at Mach2, he's talking about sound traveling at the normal speed, and the
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generally follows family lines, but because of shared environments, not genetics. --
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says 45%. Don't know how this would translate to other "Western" nations, though.
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doesn't explain if it is necessary. Will certain species only eat live prey?
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I would say most animals only eat live prey, otherwise they'd be considered
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Thanks! Wow, that is incredible! Single cell organism having an eyeball!
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I think that I am the Galactic Emperor, but that doesn't mean I am. ---
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It seems a highly valid predictor, but clearly there are exceptions.
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http://www.connexin.net/humor-genie-wish-understand-man-woman.html
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will not only catch your mice, but provide companionship as well.
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So does fat people create more global warming than thin ones?
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from the flow. Maybe one could feel that motion, and therefore
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What about children with one large parent and one small one?!
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be enough to make the line (significantly) self-powering? --
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Also, every so often, we're subjected to news filler about
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There were air bubbles in your IV? Isn't that dangerous? --
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Do larger people produce more CO2 than smaller ones?--
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can you feel it when you have blood taken? I cant.--
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Index

Knowledge (XXG):Reference desk
Archives
Science
Science desk
September 18
Aug
September
Oct
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current reference desk
pepper-spray balls
Sevoflurane
DTWATKINS
talk
00:24, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
Dragons flight
talk
00:54, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
Tranquilizer darts
Dr Dima
talk
01:03, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
Ayacop
talk
16:19, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
unsigned
NetLace
talk
contribs
00:57, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

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