To: [email protected][[email protected]] From: Quora Weekly Digest Sent: Fri 12/27/2013 12:48:39 PM Subject: Why is water transparent? - Quora Your Quora Weekly Digest Top content for you this week Why is water transparent? ax Sam Sinai, Theoretical Biologist at MIT I think water is transparent because eyes first evolved in water. The range of the EM spectrum we detect corresponds to the spectrum for which water is transparent. Had we ... Read More » What is it like to be a geek in a prison? 7S, Anonymous I'm a hacker who served 4.5 months of a 9 month sentence 5 years ago. I was in two jails in that time, spending the majority of the time in the second, lower security place... Read More » Why don't gays accept that being gay is an abnormality? 918 Jason Brick Most do, but being left-handed is an abnormality. Having blue eyes or red hair is an abnormality. Being smarter than average is an abnormality. Abnormal doesn't mean immor... Read More » When the human body loses weight, do the molecules simply disappear or are they physically removed from the body using liquid and/or solid waste? 242 Brett Olsen, Biophysicist Neither. Most of the mass lost when you lose weight is lost through gaseous waste. Think of fat as essentially a long-chain hydrocarbon CH3-(CH2)n-CH3. When your body us... Read More » EFTA_R1_00404370 EFTA01943666