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Top stories for Long   Why are we still stuck within the 3-3.5 GHz range in terms of processor speed? It's been years! What's holding us down? Kurt Guntheroth, Software Engineer and Writer • Updated July 8, 2019 Wow there's a lot of wrong answers here. The reason clock speeds topped out doesn't have to do with the speed of light, and the speed of light in solids is only half what it... Read more » 10.9K 214   As a gynecologist, does it bother you if patients have not shaved? Cherish Allards, former Party-Time Nurse • Answered October 31 Removing pubic hair can also be quite problematic. I was on duty in the Emergency Room when one female patient came in with a cyst, about 1 inch wide, which had developed be... Read more » 1.2K 94   Why do steaks from restaurants taste so much better than the steaks I make at home? Trausti Thor Johannsson, I know burgers, don't say bad things about burgers! • Updated April 5 Long story short. I tried for years to cook a steak perfectly. I made good steaks but nothing close to a steak house steak. Then one day a chef I know offered me to buy stea... Read more » 6.2K 1.1K   If 8x = 80, what is x? Mohammad Yusuf, Solving problems like Sherlock • Updated December 21, 2019 DON'T MISS THE END, Sherlock cracked it. It is one of the most interesting equations I have ever come across. No, solution is not the problem, but because the possible outco... Read more » 3.1K 226   I have a very bad GPA. My GPA is around 3.33. If I submit my application to Harvard, will I be rejected before looking at my extracurriculars? I have a good essay, superb recommendation letters, and a SAT score of 1580. Joshua Gross, Faculty member who has been part of admissions processes • Answered October 21 No, you will be rejected after they look at your extracurriculars. They do look at your full application; in fact, two people look at it. For all of five minutes. But no sa... Read more » 392 77   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 » 830 25   Why is FreeBSD not widely used as Linux despite the fact that FreeBSD is a well engineered and better operating system than Linux? Christopher Hall, The first BSD I used was FreeBSD 2.0 • Answered October 23 I think it is down to a couple of Lawsuits. Back when FreeBSD 1.0 would have been released, Berkeley Software Design and Unix System Laboratories became involved in a copyr... Read more » 93 9   Why do cats lift their rear end when you stroke them from head to tail? Asked in All about Cats • Answered by Karen J Gray • August 17, 2021 It's a huge compliment to you when cats do that and this particular behaviour is ingrained in cats from birth. There's even a name for this posture, when they raise their b... Read more » 3.9K 168   Why doesn't honey go bad? OakTeller, Knower of many things. • Answered July 26 Honey lasts forever--Men have found pots of it in Egyptian tombs, still good to eat after thousands of years. The reason is that honey is a death trap for anything that tri... Read more » 15.3K 546   I was terminated on a Thursday and they needed my services for the following Monday. I was a salary employee. Would they have to rehire me back for my service? Jeff Stewart, Software Engineer at None of Your Business (1995-present) • Answered November 10 I had this happen. I was laid off, not terminated, along with a big chunk of the engineering department. The management team assembled after the merger decided to use the p... Read more » 1.2K 41   How do lotteries make profit? If it's totally random and the prizes are ridiculously high, what keeps them from going bankrupt? Mats Andersson, B. Sc, M. Sc from Uppsala University • Answered November 18, 2024 The prizes are ridiculously rare, and they sell a ridiculous amount of tickets. And also, by being nowhere near as random as you think! Here's how it works: If you take the fo... Read more » 875 52   My friend just died of colon/liver cancer. She lived 5 weeks after diagnosis. We had been on vacation the week before diagnosis and her only complaint was indigestion. How is this possible? What kind of cancer can move this quickly undetected? Carlos Blumen, Former Doctor at Silverstone Hospital (2005-present) • Answered October 14 Colon cancer is renowned for having very minimal warning signs until it's already Stage IV, at which point it is probably too late. Occasionally, it's because of side effec... Read more » 478 58 Read more in your feed

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