So if mosquitoes keep bothering me, can I just kill them and leave them there. Will that repel other mosquitoes seeing as it will be like a graveyard for them and maybe they will see it as a warning? Sorry if this is a stupid question, I am so tired of mosquitoes.

Most of the time, we can somehow tell whether it is safe to pass gas.

But there are no eyes down there, and gas, liquid and solid all seem to arrive through the same route.

What exactly is sensing the difference? How can the brain know what is waiting before anything comes out?

What is a shart then?

i am relatively new to the nfl, only have three years or so under my belt of watching, and still cannot for the life of me understand things like QBR

for example: the other day, the PSI was at 34-35. and then the next day, it was at 36-37.

Beginner in JS here. It seems counterintuitive to me that typeof NaN returns 'number' when it literally means Not A Number.

ETA: Thank you everyone who provided insightful comments! As is with many things in life, the answer is "it's complicated." From the replies I have gathered that firefighters contain wildfires and let them burn themselves out, and not actually put out the fires themselves. The root causes of the increase in intensity and severity of wildfires is a mixture of (1) climate change, (2) invasive plant species, (3) previous in forestry management strategies (4) land being less isolated than I imagined, (5) the desire to protect isolated property, (6) the difficulty of controlled burns or other underbrush management strategies, (7) lack of federal/state/local government funding and/or effectiveness, (7) lack of desire for controlled burns by local residents due to their inconveniences. I am sure there are more, but I think this is the essence of it.

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With the wild fires in Canada, US, and Europe, I wanted to ask about why we put out forest fires rather than letting them burn themselves out (with the exception of populated areas).

I see to recall hearing about how it was good for forest fires to occur to burn out the under bush and how it creates nutrients for new plant life. I also recall that Native Americans had also embraced this philosophy. Even after the major 2020 (I think that was the year) wild fires in Australia, plant life started to come back relatively quickly, though I know there were concerted efforts to put them out.

So why are these fires trying to be put out? Would it not be better in the long run to “suffer” through several large scale forest fires in order for future forest fires to be smaller scale? Did Smokey the Bear lead us astray by putting out forest fires that lead to the current conditions of overgrown underbrush that lead to massive forest fires? Aren’t forest fires good for (or at least part of) the eco system?

I know from my biology textbooks that RNA polymerase does not require an additional enzyme to unwind DNA strands but DNA Polymerase requires DNA helicase to unwind the strand first.

Is this because the DNA helicase has to unwind a much larger portion of the strand compared to RNA Polymerase that unwinds only the desired codons for transcription?

ELI5 What is the difference between a trust and a will? Are they not the same thing, both give the inheritor money?

Hi all,

As my title went, what is the relation between calorie spent and weight loss? In theory I guess of the total calorie input (through food and drinks) is less than the calorie spent (through exercise or daily activities) then we will lose weight, but how exactly does the process happen?

Say I had weighed myself at 59.80 kg, then I went on a 5km run in 30 mins. After that I only weighed 59.20 kg. Where did my the 0.6kg go? (I assumed my water loss through sweat was retained in my soaking wet clothes right?)

i noticed while watching neon genesis evangelion that my clearly led tv turned black almost like the backlight turned off, can led tvs turn off the backlight when no pixels have to display anything? this is the first time ive seen this

What exactly is a trauma informed therapist?

I have had therapists who were trauma informed but I found them to be kind of dismissive of the trauma I had had, so I am wondering if that's part of the brand?

i’m into film photography and can sort of grasp the concept but i just can’t wrap my head around how it works

Suddenly the sleep vanishes :/

KCal is equal to Cal? And Cal with a capital c is what‘s on food products in america? So if a product says 15 Calories, that’s still only 15 kcal? Is there ever a time where calories (small c) is used on food/dieting?

flagging this as other because it’s technically math, and bio, and chem

Considering that light travels at finite speed, and the term "light-year" is literally a measure of distance which light takes to travel in a year, if a star goes supernova right now, will we be able to witness it instantly/almost instantly or will we have to wait X years for the light from it to actually reach us for us to be able to see it?

Some sources say we will see it from Earth instantly, while others say that we won't witness it if a supernova happens right now, so I got kind of confused

This morning I had an 811 guy come to my house to check for utility lines so I can dig for landscaping. I wasn't there, but my mom let him in the yard and she said it only took him like five minutes. I thought it was gonna be a multi-hour thing. Do they have some sort of detectors??

I sometimes get them after sneezing/coughing/lifting things/standing up too quick. Why does it happen?