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Why Do You Get A Fever?

Higher temperatures cause enzymes to work better to fight and infection, while the bacteria and viruses slow down in high temperatures. Through evolution your body learned to raise the temperature in order to help it fight these things.


What Is One Great Way To Reduce Stress?

Wake up at the same time every day. Setting a rhythm for your body sounds so trivial, so how could it be worth it? Turns out it can be great for removing fatigue and thus helping you deal with stress.


What Should We Educate Law Enforcement, Attorneys, Judges, And Jurors?

They should be educated on juveniles’ developmental limitations, and how they can play out in a high stakes interrogation. Also, there should be consideration to implement special protection for juveniles.


Why Are The Most Gruesome Posts On Facebook And Not With Police?

Facebook does turn over videos to law enforcements when the contents are breaking the law. The authorities cannot intervene anymore because even if something is sent to the police, a video or post can be reposted.


How Can Teachers Embrace The "Class Clown" Personality?

Sarcasm has to be foiled as it can be poison in a classroom. When disciplining or redirecting a class clown, a teacher must make it their mission to develop a relationship with that student.


What Is Making Remote Work Popular Today?

Communication and accountability tools have improved dramatically over the last few decades. 30 years ago physical messages had to be delivered to your desk. Now we have email, Slack, and an arsenal of other tools that enable seamless and instant communication with employees around the world.

Hiten says it was probably Blackberry that started this trend, enabling people to type emails on their phones. iPhone then came out with amazing hardware and made it 100x easier. Personally, Hiten Shah says he's typed up entire blog posts on his phone. It's so easy and fast, he feels no need to be tethered to a desk, or even to sit somewhere while working.


What Makes For A Great Hacker?

In both programming and paining, there are people who are amazingly talented and can produce great work, as long as they know exactly what to do. As soon as you ask those people to come up with something on their own, they get lost.

The best programmers are the ones that can do both both, have ideas and translate their ideas into code.

When given the choice, PG would pick the ones who know what to paint, even if they can't hold the brush, so to speak.


How Is Automatic Going To Make Money From The Tumblr Acquisition ?

Tumblr has a critical mass of people spending time there already, and by taking some of what Automatic loves about privacy and user-centricity and combining that with a network could be very powerful.

Matt says Automatic does not need to turn Tumblr into a privacy nightmare in search of advertising dollars. They will try a trusted subscription model on Tumblr instead.

Also, there are things like selling domains and upgrades and other things they have done for 10-plus years on Wordpress which could be interesting to the Tumblr community. They might even try a pay-to-support model, where members could sponsor creators on recurring basis.


How Soon Can We Get A Vaccine For Covid 19 Virus?

Vaccine first has to be developed, studied for safety and effectiveness in animals, and then go to human studies. It will be at least a year until we have a vaccine available.


What Did Andrew Lloyd Webber Say To Sierra Boggess At The End Of Poto 25th?

"Sierra, thank you so much. You are my Christine for the 21st century. I couldn't be more proud of you."


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