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Why can beef be aged or hung for 28 days but will then be inedible a few days after purchase?
Aged beef does spoil. Dry aged beef isn’t cut into steak size portions, it’s an entire primal section, such as the rib primal. After it’s been aged, the outer section will have spoiled or become dried out, and will be cut away before individual steaks are cut.
Above is an example of what looks like rib primals being aged. Notice how the outer portion looks black, leathery and spoiled? That’s because it is. It will be trimmed away and the clean inner meat is what will be served.
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Why is the British Pound always more valuable than the U.S. Dollar even though America has higher GDP PPP and a much larger economy?
It’s like deciding whether to cut a pizza in 8, 10, or 12 slices. So the U.S. is a large pizza cut into 12 slices and Britain is a medium pizza cut into 8 slices. Each individual slice might be larger on the British pizza, but all the slices together are more on the American pizza.
The percent in change in value over time is more important that the absolute numbers at a specific time. Each country can decide how much currency to issue, and that will impact its value. Is the pizza growing or shrinking, vs. is it getting cut into more or fewer slices.
– blipsman
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Why pharmaceutical prices in the USA is a thousand times more than the same drug sold in a developong country?
About 200 years ago, commercial developers were facing a problem. It cost money to invent something new, but once you invented it it was really cheap for a craftsman to take it apart and build it themselves. Governments feared that new technology development would cease altogether. Their solution was to grant a short-term monopoly on any new invention, allowing inventors to reap all of the benefits of their investments to make it profitable to improve them.
Once you have a monopoly, you gain access to a bunch of tools to make money. Instead of charging about what it costs to make something, you charge whatever price will get you the most profit by figuring out how many people will buy at each price, multiplying that number by the profit per unit at that price, then picking the most profitable price.
The American market is most profitable at the price they set in America. In Bangladesh, though, the most profitable price is lower. So they set different prices in different areas, arguing that otherwise their most profitable move would be to charge American prices everywhere, denying developing nations access at all. As that would be a thing that would actually happen, governments agreed, granting discount drugs to developing nations while improving the profit of drug companies over all.
So, basically, the companies charge the ‘real’ price in developed nations that they need to to make their research budgets work, then charge a production-cost price in developing nations that wouldn’t be able to access the drug otherwise. Everyone wins – you get new drugs being developed all the time (which you pay for), and Bangladesh gets the drugs that they can barely afford to produce.
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Why is Indonesia’s lung cancer rate so low (58th) despite the incredibly high smoking rate there (80.2% of males)
The average life expectancy in Indonesia is about 70 to 71 years, according to Google. Also, according to google, the average age of diagnosing Cancer is about 70. Also, 2 out of 3 People that are diagnosed with lung cancer are above 65 years old, according to google.
People in Indonesia just die earlier, before they get lung cancer.
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Why are people so afraid of genetically modified food when study after study says it’s safe?
It’s basically three points that make people question gmo crops.
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the first cluster of arguments are doubts about the science that’s involved. there’s a lack of long term studies, mostly because the technology is not that old. since most gmo science is funded by biotech giants there’s also the assumption that there is quite a bit of funding bias involved and the science is more biased towards gmos and against their risks. it’s easy to draw parallels with scandals like asbestos, leaded fuel or tobacco.
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the second cluster of arguments is that it would be very hard to exterminate a gmo crop if some future research would find out that it’s dangerous. since gmos are not that different from conventional crops, they could contaminate conventional. combine that with the first argument and suddenly the problem isn’t just a new asbestos, but asbestos that breeds and multiplies itself and infects other buildings.
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the third cluster of arguments is that the introduction of gmos happened at the same time as there was a rapid concentration process in the seed production business. nowadays the 6 largest seed producing companies control 80% of the world market. this is often seen as a dangerous development.
– killswitch247
Where is Voyager 1 now and do they actually recieve much data from it?
Voyager 1 is currently 20,077,434,531 km from the earth and decreasing (as the earth is currently orbiting towards voyager faster than voyager is traveling). It is in a zone called “Interstellar Space”, an area between our solar system and the next.
Signals from voyager 1 take approximately 18.5 hours to reach the earth. NASA expected to lose connection with voyager years ago but due to advances in receiver technology they are still able to receive the very weak signals.
The signals are being received by the arrays of the Deep Space Network of large radio telescopes at sites in California, Spain, and Australia.
Sadly we may never see photos of where voyager goes next since the camera system was turned off in 1990 to save battery power (and the camera program was deleted to free up storage and processing power). So the only signals being sent back from voyager are about plasma, magnetic fields, and radiation.
– Just4Fun_Media
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Why do scam emails ask people to use Western Union for transferring funds?
Western Union’s wire transfers are often non-reversible. That means that if you send money via Western Union, and it goes to the person you sent it to, you can’t get your money back, even if you learn that the recipient was cheating you.
Western Union is also often involved in scams from the other side, because it can take up to several days for its money orders to be processed. So if you try to sell something on Craigslist, scammers will offer to buy it, then send you a Western Union money order for more than the price. (They will tell you some lie about why this implausible error has been made.) They will then ask you to send change, again via Western Union. By the time you realize the first money order was a forgery, your own money will have been sent, received, and vanished.
– cnash
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Why isn’t Google Fiber expanding faster? Is it not performing? Are people not switching service as fast as they anticipated?
The point of Google Fiber is not for Google to be the nation’s largest ISP. It’s to push and pull the monopolistic telecoms to improve their products and give customer’s satisfactory service (thereby improving Google’s market position as a web company).
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What is the purpose of The Senate, Congress and House of Representatives, and how do they work in relation to each other?
Congress is the name for the whole legislative branch; it includes both the Senate and the House of Representatives.
The House of Representatives is meant to be the people’s voice in government. Each representative covers roughly the same population and they’re voted on every two years, meaning they’re theoretically more responsive to their electorate’s desires.
The Senate is the states’ voice in government. Each state gets two senators, regardless of population. A third of them are voted on every two years, so they serve six year terms in total. They’re supposed to be more stable and interested in the big picture.
The reason for the two house structure was because small states were afraid they’d have no voice in a purely by-population legislature while big states felt they deserved more say given their bigger size. Creating one house to serve each need and making them compromise with each other to pass laws was a way to balance these competing interests.
– PenguinTod
Why are there so many (super)cars out there with top speeds in the 210s (mph), but so few above 220-230 mph? What is it about that extra 10mph that requires a higher class of supercar?
You need “space-grade” tires to work at 230 mph. This is currently the only thing that stops Bugatti to beat its own record, they claim that they can make even more powerful engine.
Currently manufactured tires are incapable to maintain structural integrity at these speeds.
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