So I live in a fairly wealthy area of South Jersey, yet there are multiple stores, sometimes almost entire malls that are closing due to increased rent cost. The store closes, everyone leaves. Then the building/lot stays empty for literally years on end. This is happening all around my area. How is this profitable to the landlords who jack up prices? How are they not hurt but having zero rent coming in now for years from that location? How is it sustainable when entire chains or shopping centers are closing down? What's the plan here???

I'm sure there are a multitude of reasons for the diabetes epidemic in India, but the two I keep hearing about are a diet primarily of rice and wheat, and an increasingly sedentary lifestyle.

If this is the case, how do you explain why diabetes is significantly lower in places like Japan, which also follows a primarily rice- and wheat-based diet and where so much of the population works in offices? Not to mention how much junk food is readily available in Japan.

I sort of get it but I sort of don’t.

The investors were right. The Internet changed the world beyond all imagination, and it isn’t even close to done.

They valued it correctly. So what is the problem?

This shadowy vaguely human shape is described as a visitor of people who had an episode of sleep paralysis is described so similarly by so many people, it makes it difficult to attribute it to cultural influence. So what's up with my shady scary friend there?

When cost of goods and services fall, people could buy more with their money which is the opposite of inflation. Why is this bad?

Apparently a lot more people had it in Europe around the 15th/16th/17th centuries, but it's really rare now. Why did more people have that specific delusion back then and what actually caused that type of belief?

I went down a construction rabbit hole while looking at some DIY stuff and ended up reading about prestressed concrete.

From what I understand, engineers stretch steel cables really tight before or while making the concrete beam. I dont get how putting all that tension into it beforehand helps it hold more weight later.

Wouldnt you basically be adding stress to something before it even has to support anything?

How can they fit 2TB of storage on a insanly tiny microSD card yet RAM sticks are huge in comparison and are like only 16GB?

Edit: wow this blew up. Thank you for the answers and discussion =)

The title.

As above, so below.

Pushing a window outward hundreds of feet in the air feels counter-intuitive and risky.

If high winds catch the open pane, it seems like the window could easily slam shut and shatter inward or outward, or even tear off the frame and fall onto pedestrians below. Opening outward also seems like it increases the risk of people dropping objects directly into the street or accidentally falling out.

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There are an enormous number of possible viruses, bacteria, and other foreign molecules. If the body hasn't encountered a particular one before, how can immune cells have anything capable of recognizing it in the first place?

I recently switched to 10gbs internet and I was remembering how when I got my first place at 18 there was still only dial up and just how far we’ve come in a short time. Are internet ISPs just constantly making new infrastructure or something?

Can someone explain this to me? How can a company realistically expect to never stop making more money. Surely they must realize that it can't go on forever.

edit oops! I realized after posting that it was photons and not electrons, but my question is the same. How did they design a detector/detection system with 100% absorption or a test that excludes any foreign particle interactions? How did they exclude any unseen particle interactions that could move the photons as they passed through the slits? The act of observation still requires some form of interaction, does it not? How were they able to exclude variables enough to assume the observation was strictly neutral?

I think it’s under chemistry… but when doctors talk about the half life of a medication/drug what exactly does that mean? I’ve googled the answer and I’m getting more confused. Please help.

It’s odd to me that some mornings I wake up feeling tired yet end up feeling better as the day goes on, and then other mornings I can wake up feeling great then barely make it through the day without a nap.

My kid wanted to know about copyright for some reason. I am afraid I just do not get it. I came for help after looking into it.

Please explain copyright law. 🫪

From my understanding, dopamine is a "feel-good" brain chemical and having too much of it causes psychosis. But if someone had too much of it, wouldn't they be generally happy or at least normal because they feel good? From a chemical standpoint, how can someone have both an overabundance of "happy chemicals" and too little of them at the same time? What am I missing here? I know that depression treatments often try to increase seratonin, but I looked it up and couldn't figure out how it was functionally different than dopamine.