When you put water in the freezer you can make Ice Cubes. But does the time taken for these Ice Cubes to form decrease or increase when the water which is used is hotter or colder?
There is this puzzling thing that is called : paradoxically, warm (35°C) water freezes faster than cold (5°C) water.  As a physisist, I've been asked about it several times already. And I have no definite answer to that, apart from the standard: "there are many things that can influence it".  So, does anyone knows about the status or progress on that effect? Any recent reviews, publications or other references?
Will I get OTA updates after installing Android L Developer preview? What did Auggie's father give to his wife in the movie Wonder? There is a scene roughly in the last third of Wonder where Auggie's parents Nate and Isabel (Owen Wilson and Julia Roberts) spend an evening together while the kids are out. Nate has a surprise gift for his wife. She opens the box just enough to see it, laughs, and closes it again. So I asked myself the question:  What's in the box? My background and gameobjects are 2d sprites not UI images ,I want to know how to make my background scale with screen size and positions of 2d sprits on it don't change after building game (webGl) like scale canvas with screen size and anchor points in UI elements .  Before building the game   After building Why is my query suddenly slower than it was yesterday? 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Printing reverse of any String without using any predefined function? Proof of conservation of energy? How is it proved to be always true? It's a fundamental principle in Physics based on all of our currents observations of multiple systems in the universe. Is it always true to all systems? Because we haven't tested or observed them all. Would it be possible to discover/create a system that could lead to a different result? How are we 100% sure that energy is always conserved? Finally, why did we conclude it's always conserved? What if a system keeps doing work over and over and over with time? An excerpt from Introduction to Analytic Number Theory by Tom M. Apostol.      I have three main concerns regarding this proof:    What is the abscissa of convergence for $\frac{1}{F(s)}$ - why can we take the product of the two series. I only know this is true if the two series are absolutely convergent.  Why can we do term by term integration? I believe its suffices to show that the series converges locally uniformly - BUT is this true?  How does the proof show that $G(s)$ converges uniformly? I am following Carroll's GR book. He explain that it is convention to parameterize geodesics of photons by a parameter $\lambda$ such that  $$p^\mu ~=~ \frac{d x^{\mu}}{d \lambda}.\tag{3.62}$$  But this is the definition of 4-velocity for a massive particle in the case of $\lambda=\tau$ equal to proper time. My question then, is $$u^\mu = p^\mu$$ for all massless particles? I ask because it's well-known that proper time $\tau$ freezes for massless particles. What would you call a person who systematically dumps his work on you in a bid to evade responsibilities (with a work philosophy that when you don't learn or do it, you are never given the responsibilities and thus have no fear of making mistakes) but cluelessly whines to the same people around him for not having all the benefits that they (the higher ranking hardest working colleagues) earn.  PS: Owing to a bad management (Racial discrimination, Poor work ethic,ignorance, etc), if it helps. Fortunately, I can still login with this email address that I have lost access to.  I have been searching around here for a way to update it to the current one I use.  I have found many answers.  But they all give instructions to click on something not displayed or in one case, a page that prompts me to login via another email I no longer have the password for. I need current up to date instructions on how to change my email address or add another email-based login for this same user name that I am posting this with. How can there be animals on the surface in Zion's world? It is apparently canon that  in Neo's day.  However, in the first movie, The Matrix, Morpheus tells Neo that one of the things known for certain is that humans "burned the sky" in order to deny solar engery to the machines, which in turn led to the humans who survived the War being plugged into the Matrix to provide bioelectric energy to supply the machines.  If there's not enough sunlight for solar power, how can there be enough to grow plants to serve as food for animals?  Low levels I can understand -- house plants, at least, thrive in conditions too dim for solar panels to produce cost-effective power -- but every surface scene we see in the trilogy is as dark as a cloudy night; light coming only from the machines.  That wouldn't begin to support photosynthesis, which means all animal life would starve in, at most, a matter of a few years. How can I get the size of a memory block allocated using malloc()? Existence of a simple closed curve which is not null-homotopic Problem. Assume that $U$ is an open and connected subset of $\mathbb R^2$, and $\gamma :[0,1]\to U$ is a closed curve, which is not null-homotopic in $U$ and not necessarily simple closed. Show that there exists a simple closed curve, which is not null-homotopic in $U$.  I am sure that this is a standard problem, and I am looking for an elegant, if possible, solution or a reference. I have in mind the following sketch of proof:  a. Construct a polygonal closed curve $\tilde\gamma$ which is homotopic with $\gamma$ in $U$.  b. Construct $\tilde\gamma$ so that it intersects itself in finitely many points, and not whole segments.  c. Use induction on the number of self–intersections of $\tilde\gamma$, in order to show that $\tilde\gamma$ is written as a product (in the fundamental group's sense) of simple closed polygonal curves. Types of polynomial functions. Quadratic, cubic, quartic, quintic, ...,? I would very much like to have a complete list of the types of polynomial functions. I know that theres:  Quadratic :                      (AX^2 + BX + C) Cubic     :               (AX^3 + BX^2 + CX + D) Quartic   :        (AX^4 + BX^3 + CX^2 + DX + E) Quintic   : (AX^5 + BX^4 + CX^3 + DX^2 + EX + F)   What are the names of polynomial functions to the further powers? Sexstic? Septic? Octic? I'm not sure, so if someone could enlighten me, then that would be great. Please provide a list that goes at least to the seventh power, but it would be nice if you could go further. Thanks. Counting number of vertices of polygons and lines in QGIS? In QGIS, is there a way to count the number of vertices of polygons and lines in a given layer, and create a separate field containing these values?   I suspect it's a function somewhere in the field calculator but I can't find it. Watermark TextBox in WinForms Export/Deploy Drupal site/page to static? (no cache) I wonder if there is an existing  module that can help in the subject. I am not looking for a caching module (like Boost or Varnish), but a way to export my whole site (or only certain pages) into static.  The idea is that I want my web server will be a very simple and light and will only serve static files (html/css/js) - no database on production, no php engine will be installed on server. All the Drupal engine will be on another server, export will be done each time adding/editing/changing a node or view, and a new set of html files will be created in a directory structure.  These files will later on be copied to the production site that will serve always and only static files, no .htaccess that will check requests if file exist etc.   Is there a module for that, or a workaround that this can be achieved with Drupal?  Thanks How to add "Refresh" option to right click menu in Lubuntu? I have many users at the place I work, expressing the notion of switching to Ubuntu.  Most of them, for whatever weird reason wanting to know if its possible to have refresh added when you right click on the desktop.   Is that possible? “Are” vs. “is” after “parents and the family”