Do you know the answer to these questions?

[Josie]

I'm sure these are the questions you've been dying to know for years!! Well here's your chance.

Lets start with:

What is OK short for?

 

[Violet Turner]

All correct?

 

[excuseme]

My answer= Yes

 

[Violet Turner]

My answer= Yes

yay!

 

[excuseme]

I think Josie may have been taking the p##ss out of me!

 

[arealhuman]

I think @Violet Turner has it, although I think the original was in military terminology or a foreign language, but the letters (maybe phonetically) are the same. Or something

 

[Josie]

I haven't @excuseme

 

[Josie]

The most popular theory is that OK comes from ‘oll korrect’, a deliberately misspelled writing of ‘all correct’. It was popularised in Boston newspapers around the 1840s when it was fashionable to go around spelling things incorrectly for humorous effect. Legend also has it that New York Democrats later adopted the abbreviation to promote their candidate Martin Van Buren – the initials ‘OK’ were derived from his nickname, Old Kinderhook.

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[Violet Turner]

@Josie anymore questions?

 

[Josie]

Why do fingers and toes wrinkle when left in water?

 

[Violet Turner]

Why do fingers and toes wrinkle when left in water?

Because wrinkles create grip to pick up objects? i have been told this one before i think.

 

[Caro Perry]

Ah I know this one. The skin on your fingers absorbs water through osmosis and swells. However where it's attached to the flesh it doesn't so you get a wrinkled effect.

 

[arealhuman]

Because wrinkles create grip to pick up objects? i have been told this one before i think.

I think it's this - I remember reading a recent-ish study that concluded the wrinkling was useful to our distant ancestors who were making their way form tress to upright walking as it helped them grip the trees better.

 

[Josie]

Sorry for the late reply on this! here's the answer:

The waterproof coating on our skin gets rubbed away from areas of our bodies like our hands and feet that are frequently in contact with objects. If you immerse yourself in water with a lower concentration of dissolved salts than that of your cell contents, water will be absorbed by osmosis and cause your skin cells to swell. Since they are anchored to the tissues below, they are forced to corrugate to accommodate this.

 

[Josie]

well done @Caro Perry

 

[Caro Perry]

well done @Caro Perry

I knew O level biology would come in useful one day!!

 

[Josie]

Why do I get more car sick in the back?

 

[JudyN]

Because your view isn't as good. In the front, you can stare out of the window so your brain can integrate the information coming in via the vestibular system and the visual information - you feel like you're bouncing up and down, but you can also see the road bouncing up and down relative to you, so it all makes sense. In the back, you're using the back of the seat in front more as your point of reference. You'll be motionless in relation to the back of the seat, and physical object like seats should stay still, but the vestibular system is still telling your brain that you're bouncing up and down, so it gets all confuddled.

Which is why reading a book or map in the car is really bad if you're prone to car sickness!

 

[arealhuman]

I can't travel as a passenger in a car at all, I just feel so sick Same on planes and trains, but oddly boats not so much (boats not ships ). Anyway, what @JudyN said!

 

[Violet Turner]

Your brain is receiving mixed signals from your eyes and ears. If you look down when a car is moving or looking at book your eyes are telling you that you are not moving but your mind is telling you are moving.