Do cows only eat grass? Wild cows and cows that graze on pasture eat a lot of grass, but they also eat other plants as well. Cows that are kept in dairy farms are often fed a lot of grain and soy. There are not many wild cows in the world. In most developed countries, […]
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Why are some people lactose intolerant? Because their body doesn’t make enough of an enzyme called lactase. Milk is a liquid produced in the mammary glands of most mammals. It is made of 87% water with the remainder made up mostly of fat, protein, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals. The proteins act as an emulsifier because
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How do weight loss drugs work? They either reduce the appetite, reduce the absorption of nutrients, or increase the amount of fat that the body burns. Obesity is becoming a worldwide problem these days. It used to be only affluent countries that suffered from it, but now there are not many countries that are unaffected.
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How do our organs stay where they are when we stand up? Pieces of tissue called fascia hold our organs in place, along with a membrane called the serous membrane. I need to define this question a little more succinctly because organ has a surprisingly broad definition. The Oxford English Dictionary defines “organ” as “a
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How can opera singers sing so loud? By training their diaphragm, their lungs, using their mouths to amplify the sound as much as possible, and adjusting the frequency of the sound they are making. Opera singers are louder than the average person, but they also have a way of making their voices easier to hear,
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How did a pterodactyl fly? By jumping 2.5 meters into the air and then flapping. These days, we use pterodactyl to refer to any of the flying dinosaurs that looked similar, but pterodactyl is only one species. The family is called pterosaur. In Greek, “pteron” means winged and “sauros” means lizard. Pterodactyl comes from “pteron”
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Why do poppies make opium? Not all poppies do make opium, but the ones that do, make it to ward off pests. There are 775 different species of poppy, known as the Papaveraceae family. Most of them produce the milky latex that becomes opium in the opium poppy, but only the papaver somniferum is able
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How do hallucinations happen? They are caused by a chemical imbalance or some kind of abnormality in the brain. All hallucinations are created by the sensory parts of our brain and they are basically firing without the stimulus. If you look at a dog, light is bouncing off the dog and entering your eyes. Your
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What is truth serum? It is a drug that prevents people from censoring themselves so they reveal the truth. These drugs are usually barbiturates and there is no real proof that they work. People have searched for a drug that can help them get at the truth for thousands of years. The very first type
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How do flies perceive time? Flies see the world in slow motion, possibly seeing things four times slower than we do. We have probably all tried to swat a fly sitting on a table. You swing your hand towards it, you impact the table and you’re sure you got it, only to see the fly
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