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Top stories for Long   400 passengers but only 200 meals were loaded onto a flight from Delhi to New York City (long) Violetta Calvino, vegan since 12 y • Posted Sep 27, 2022 It was only discovered after take off, when the flight attendants started going through their preparations for the meals. So, the airline had bungled, and the crew was in a fix. However, one smart ... Read more » 6.4K 264   What 4-digit number is divisible by 2, 3, 5 and 9? Enrico Gregorio, Associate professor in Algebra • Answered October 7 What 4-digit numbers are divisible by 2, 3, 5 and 9? The necessary and sufficient condition, besides being four-digit, is that the number is divisible by [math]90.[/math] Thus it's suffi... Read more » 31 12   Why do doctors still prescribe Statins after Harvard researcher Dr. Kilmer McCully found no relationship between high cholesterol and heart disease, and recently, 17 doctors from across the world say to stop prescribing Statins? Larry H • Answered November 27 Several years ago I asked my cardiologist that question and his response was, when he was a young doctor before statins he would see patients with high cholesterol and priv... Read more » 594 162   If I got my first period at 17 does that mean I will be more likely to stay fertile for longer than someone who got it much earlier? Darlene Lawson, RN worked in hospitals for 20 yrs and public health for 20 yrs • Answered December 1, 2016 I have as a nurse been told 2 things about menstruation and menopause. In the medical community, there is a unproven but commonly held belief that the earlier you start your... Read more » 496 71   Is it true the Bible said only 144,000 would go to heaven when Jesus comes back? LP • Answered November 14 Yes, that fact was revealed to the Apostle John only at the end of the first century, after all the other Apostles and Bible writers had died. The other Apostles and NT wri... Read more » 627 2   Dr. Julia Daan, Writer ,Relationship Mentor,Motivational speaker • Posted Jun 6 What Short Skirts Mean to Young Women in Japan? In Japan, some young women wear extremely short skirts as part of a practice known as sick kosai, where they offer non-sexual services in exchange for... Read more » 3.1K 321   I'm being sued by Capital One in a bench trial. I showed up, but Capital One lawyers did not show up. The judge dismissed the case. What's next? Do they sue me again? Brian Rosado, Long-time university student • Answered September 15, 2024 Capital One always plays the legal system and they usually wait for you to not show up so they can easily win the case as in default judgment. That's what they do. The judg... Read more » 3.5K 848   How did Anthony Hopkins quit drinking alcohol? Jean-Marie Valheur, we're all actors, in a sense • Answered October 26 Anthony Hopkins has been sober for 50 years. Before that, he was a heavy drinker. In a recent interview, he described the moment he decided never to drink again — it was aft... Read more » 835 25   Is cannabis amotivational syndrome a real thing? Charlie Miller, former Cannabis Tech. • Answered November 3 For some people absolutely yes, they should not use cannabis. For me quite the opposite. I've been smoking everyday since I was about 14, currently I'm in the industry. I r... Read more » 410 90   Did you notice the crying little girl in the bottom right photo? Alessandro13 • Posted Sep 3, 2024 Apparently, she refused to join the group for the photo because, as she said: "the boy is scaring me." The girl's mother at the time thought it was a tantrum. Until, later, she looked at the photo car... Read more » 1.6K 301   If C++ is so strong as a programming language, why can't it replace Python in AI and data science? Tom Oldfield, Senior Research Fellow • Answered September 13 In case this is not obvious. Nearly all AI algorithms are written in C and C++, because these languages are "strong", though it is not clear what you mean by this. C and C++... Read more » 68 5   If f(x) + 3f(1-x) = x^2, what is f(0)? B. S. Thomson, lived in Vancouver, BC • Answered October 21 What is the difference between these two problems? Q1. If [math]f:\{0,1\}\to \R[/math] satisfies the equation [math] f(x) + 3f(1-x) =x^2 \tag1[/math] for all [math]x[/math] in its domain, find [math]f(0)[/math] and [math]f(1).[/math] Q2. If [math]f:\R\to \R[/math] satisfies the equation... Read more » 26 12 Read more in your feed

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