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Why does the price of a pair of shoes not vary based on size?
Expensive leather boots, for example, cost the same whether it's a size 8 or a size 13, even though a size 13 uses almost twice the material and stitches.
7 AnswersEconomics6 years agoDo insects target sick plants and stay away from healthy ones?
I was watching an organic gardening video, and Dr. Jana Bogs, who holds a PhD in horticulture, said that aphids and other insects go after plants that are nutrient deficient because weak plants produce smaller fragmented proteins and carbohydrate molecules that insects can easily digest. Healthy plants, she said, produce larger molecules that are good for humans but insects cannot digest.
In my garden it just seems random and the horn-worms want to eat my tomatoes to the ground, regardless of how healthy the plants look. So, is there science to back up what she's saying?
2 AnswersAgriculture6 years agoHas there ever been a bomb threat where there was an actual working bomb found?
There's a recurring news story about a building being evacuated and searched based on a bomb threat. But why would a criminal go to the trouble of building a bomb, planting it inside a building, and then warn everyone so his bomb is safely destroyed?
5 AnswersHistory6 years agoConservatives are against abortion, but doesn't abortion benefit them politically?
There's a higher relative percentage of Democrat leaning minorities, such as blacks, having abortions, so doesn't abortion lower the voting population of the opponents?
9 AnswersLaw & Ethics6 years ago