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Answered: Calorie expenditure during sleep: Cold or hot room ...

Both. Any time you expose your body to extreme temperatures, it has to expend energy to maintain homeostasis. In the case of a hot room, the body reacts by sweating. Because sweat has a lower ...

Answered: Are artificial sweeteners related to sugar in any ...

All sweeteners are related to sugar in their ability to bind to our chemical receptors for 'sweetness'. On a chemical level, though, only Sucralose is close. It starts out as ordinary table sugar ...

Answered: What is the fastes animale ?

Humans, of course, by far (space travel). But if your question is regarding the fastest naked, unassisted animal, then that would be the peregrine falcon, which attains speeds of over 180 mph when it ...

Answered: Multi-tasking with windows

If you don't mind writing a bit of script, AutoIt will let you open apps, position their windows and do pretty much anything you can do with a keyboard and mouse. (And it's free). Here's an example ...

Answered: Why do cats eyes glow at night ?

They actually reflect light, rather than glow. Many animals, especially nocturnal hunters, have their light-receptors positioned in front of a reflective surface on the back of their eye (called the ...

Answered: American Passport

No, you do not have an automatic privilege of an American passport, which requires American citizenship. If your mother is a current US citizen, then you can obtain citizenship through her ...

Answered: How much does an aircraft carrier cost ?

Nimitz class carriers cost about $4.5 Billion each to build and about $160 Million per year to operate .

Answered: Testing software without changing the DB

You're going to have to be a bit more explicit. Are you worried about writing to the production database during testing? If so, just suspend commits and do a rollback at the end of each test. Are ...

Answered: Hair and humidity

In order for hair to curl more in humidity, it has to be somewhat curly to begin with. Curliness is influenced by three factors: Disulfide bonds between cysteine amno acids. If your hair protein ...

Answered: Number of rock/pop bands in the world

I doubt whether it is possible to get real numbers on the number of bands, since they form and break with alarming frequency (usually because of something the drummer or his girlfriend did ;-). But ...

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