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fresh_42's source says that alfalfa is used as feed for livestock, and fresh_42's source also says that alfalfa was used to feed sheep...

In the documentary Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, the narrator says that after the boxer Jim Jeffries...

A short, by definition, is a low resistance path for the electricity to take. Electricity prefers paths of low resistance.

I am not an engineer like you. In the OP, I asked you to explain it to me like I am a five year old.

No, I am not TRYING to tell you that, I am TELLING you that. Can you not follow the math?

Yes. Ohm's Law. I = V / R. Current is equal to voltage, divided by resistance. The main AC supply distributes a standard voltage. The...

What are you telling me? Are you trying to tell me that the reason that the low voltage short caused the fuse to blow is that the low...

I used to be an HVAC technician. One time I had a service call in which there was no power to the thermostat. The thermostat did not...

And we would have a better educated population if the summer vacation was reduced to two weeks.

I think that two weeks is a proper amount of time for a summer vacation. The summer vacation's lasting three months is a tradition that...

It's more important than vacations. I did not look at summer vacation per se with disdain. In my childhood, I always got excited...

No. You're assuming that I am assuming that the primary cause of world poverty is a lack of education. But I am not assuming that. I...

You're assuming that the primary cause of world poverty is lack of education. I don't think that's true. I think the primary cause of...

Yes. Yes. A 2 week summer vacation would be a much better work/life balance than a 12 week summer vacation. There is an enormous...

It would be easy to read this as saying that unproficient students is a solved problem. That the solution is called "special education"...