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why do states like alabama not have a lottery	[ "I don't know this to be true, but it's probably BECAUSE of the casinos.", "Alabama's casinos are run by Native Americans on their soil. As such, they enjoy a loophole in federal and state laws that allows them to be run, although as I understand it, there's no table games, just slot machines and such. Texas is...
Why are chips and salsa generally given for free at most Mexican restaurants?	[ "It's like bread and butter at an Italian restaurant. Something to snack on before your meal gets out, cheap and generally likable.", "For the same reason pubs give out free nuts. They're all incredibly salty, which dehydrates you, and because of that you're very likely to buy more drinks than you would otherwise...
Why does brightness and staring too much at a screen produce eye fatigue and headaches?	[ "This is what's known as computer vision syndrome. \n\nWhen you're staring at the computer screen for hours at a time, your eyes have to stay focused on it. The muscles that focus and move your eyes are fast-twitch muscles, and aren't really designed to focus the way we do on computer screens. \n\nIIRC, when using ...
Tourettes Syndrome.	[ "I have mild Tourettes, although it has almost entirely gone away as I got older. My ticks are entirely physical, and are all related to stretching some part of my body (including weird parts, like my rolling my eyes back to stretch the muscles that limit their movement). I never had anything remotely similar to a ...
What do we actually know about the Bible, as a piece of historical literature, separate from modern Christianity?	[ "We know a surprising amount, actually: since it forms the basis of one of the world's major religions, which also happens to be the major religion of the currently dominant culture, it's been very extensively studied.\n\nThe Bible isn't one book, but a collection of many different books, written at different times...
How Virtualization works?	[ "Ahoy, matey! Yer not alone in askin', and kind strangers have explained:\n\n1. [ELI5: Server Virtualization. ](_URL_5_) ^(_25 comments_)\n1. [ELI5: Virtual Machines And Virtualization ](_URL_1_) ^(_7 comments_)\n1. [ELI5: what exactly are virtualization technologies like Hyper-V, App-V, MED-V? What is a \"hypervis...
Why has pizza delivery in "30 minutes or less" become uncommon?	[ "About 20 years ago, there was a multi-million dollar judgement against Domino's (who was most famous for the 30 minutes or less thing) when a woman was hit by a pizza delivery driver who was not operating the vehicle safely. This caused a lot of bad publicity for the \"fast pizza delivery\" deal, and as a result D...
Why are Mountains triangular in shape (or at least similar to a triangle	[ "It's the result of gravity and erosion. Mountains are shaped over millenia, and in that much time the force of wind and rain wears down and breaks apart the rock that makes up the mountain. As the mountain crumbles, gravity shapes it into a rough cone: the mountain falls away radially around the peak. The \"triang...
Why are donuts considered a breakfast food?	[ "They are highly caloric and sugary, so it's best to eat them in the morning because then you're active for whole rest of the day and you can burn off that excess energy from the sugar and burst of calories." ]
Why detox water if I am already having fruits, veggie and drinking water everyday?	[ "Detox is a scam.\n\nYour body does not accumulate \"toxins\" and there is no amount of drinking/fasting/pooping you can do to \"detoxify\" anything.", "They are making money, pure and simple. Why don't you read up on groups of people who live longer than average and imitate their diet?", "Detox water makes sen...
In uncertain times, is it better to have your savings in the form of money? Or precious metals?	[ "during recession - currency\n\nduring extreme meltdown of society - precious metals", "If you honestly think civilization is going to collapse, gasoline, food, and water would be what you hold. Precious metals won't amount to anything more than paper currency would.\n\nNow, if you aren't pushing the fringe pani...
What getting a "tune-up" on your car consists of.	[ "The basics of a tune up are fluid changes of a majority of components such as oil, trans fluid, brake fluids, power steering, coolants, and window wash fluids. The filters for the components should also be replaced at the same time. Spark plugs should be checked and depending on the carbon buildup they may be chan...
drone attacks controversy?	[ "Basically drone strikes kill a lot of civilians, are operated by the CIA and not the army, and are done without Pakistan's permission which is why it's a source of controversy. More detailed answer below:\n\n\nThe high number of civilian deaths in drone attacks when compared to ground level attacks is a cause for ...
Surrogacies...if Donor A fertilizes Donor B's egg, and it's implanted in Donor C, does the baby have any of Donor C's genetic characteristics as a result of the incubation?	[ "Genetic characteristics? No, not as such. The surrogate does not contribute any genetic information to the zygote.\n\nBut does the surrogate not matter at all? I think that might be too much to claim. If nothing else, the womb environment in a surrogate mother will be at least ever-so-slightly different from that ...
Student loan jargon. Read the papers, still confused. (So much for a college education right?)	[ "Head to your local bank or (preferably, IMO) credit union and explain your situation. With a 4-year degree and steady (albeit not super well-paying) job you should be able to get some decent refinancing options. You'll pay a higher interest rate on your debt, but you should be able to take your monthly payments do...
Why when I'm tired do I turn the TV down really low, but I'm still able to hear it?	[ "It's a combination of factors.\n\nWhen you're tired, you're not up and about causing noise in your immediate vicinity or distorting the sounds of the TV by moving around. You also lose your capacity to focus on several things at once when tired; you're focusing on the sounds coming from the TV and not simultaneous...
Why we are told to consume some medicines before food and some after food	[ "As well as the gastrointestinal pH affecting drug absorption some drugs are purposely given with or immediately after a meal to slow down absorption or to provide short term protection against the acidic nature of the stomach contents (the presence of food raises the stomach pH towards neutral). Drugs mixed with f...
Why do soap operas look the way they do? What is the camera/production technique that makes them look different?	[ "nice video of a side-by-side comparison of it on and off.\n\n_URL_0_", "They're shot at a higher frame rate. Even some newer TVs try to up the frame rate of movies from 25fps or so to about sixty and it also gives that \"cheap\" appearance. Here's some more info on the soap opera effect.\n\n_URL_1_" ]
Power generation -- please help me to understand the 'monthly average real-time locational marginal price for energy at the commercial node.'	[ "So the monthly average real-time locational marginal price for energy at the commercial node is quite a mouthful, so let's break it down. Monthly average is pretty easy to understand the average price for the month. Real-time refers to the energy demand for a specific time period (they might do this by 15, 30, o...
How do companies determine the cost of acquiring a customer?	[ "1) Time and material spent on sales & advertising. If you spend $1 million on an advertising campaign and it averages 10 new customers, then that's at least $100K to acquire the customer.\n\n2) Time & Material getting the new customer set up. This covers any kind of material that you have to give the custo...
Why do businesses with double doors usually only unlock one?	[ "For the same reason a lot of convenience stores and gas stations modify their doors to be harder to push open (they seem heavier). It makes it harder for people to run out and take off in a snatch-and-grab or other criminal situation.\n\nYou'll especially notice this in pawn shops that have two sets of doors and a...
How can a hash, resulting from a fixed-length algorithm, always generate unique results if there are a limited number of possible results, but much more inputs?	[ "No, you're definitely correct. Because you can hash a message of any length down to a hash of a finite number of bits (e.g. 512), there are an infinite number of hash collisions. Part of the \"security\" of the hash is how difficult it is to go find a collision. A huge focus of modern cryptographical research i...
The whole Charlie Manson/Manson family thing	[ "Charles Manson was a serial killer. But instead of killing people himself, he had his \"family\" do it for him. He brainwashed/manipulated/indoctrinated a bunch of women (18 of them iirc). They loved him and would do anything for him. Well, \"anything\" meant killing people, so they did. He's currently servin...
Why do our bodies rock back and forth when we sit?	[ "Redistributing load on muscles and joints prevents harm and aches that would occur more frequently in a prolonged loading scenario.\n\ntl;dr feels good man" ]
Einstein's reasoning referenced by Brain Cox in this video on gravity	[ "He's referencing Einstein's theory of spacetime.\n\nIssac Newton proposed that gravity was a force wherein two bodies attract each other with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.\n\nIn simple terms, that means th...
Why spicy foods don't lose their heat when they're deep fried if capsaicin is fat soluble?	[ "Two reasons. First, the oil is never in contact with all that much capsaicin. Most of it is in the food, behind batter, or behind other capsaicin particles. So even if the oil does dissolve some of it, there is still a lot of capsaicin that is inaccessible to the oil. Second is kinetics. Soluble molecules can...
Why aren't rich nations closer to Syria, like Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates being pressured into taking in any refugees?	[ "It's hard to pressure a country that beheads people for sorcery in 2015. \n\nThey aren't exactly rational actors." ]
How is it people find out which towns are doing events on certain nights (trick-or-treating/fireworks a day early/late)	[ "Once upon a time, in an age before computers, people had to figure out a way to share information and let the town know about events.\n\nThese were dark times and information was hard to come by, but every morning a boy on a bike would drop you off a bundle of information that would tell you about what had happene...
Why do some planes leave a trail of condensation/mist behind? What causes these trails?	[ "It is water vapor. When the engines burn fuel, they put out exhaust gases, and part of these gases is steam (hot water vapor).", "These Con-Trails are made up of water particles put off from the exhaust of the jet engines. 30,000ft up it is very cold, so when the engines burn off fuel, it heats and vaporizes wha...
why does a car driving through the hot sun not get as hot as a car parked in the hot sun?	[ "Convective cooling.\rThe shell of a moving car is going to be air temperature mostly while a stationary car since it has much less convection can be quite alot warmer." ]
Why is Slovakia's capital at Bratislava at the outskirts of the country?	[ "Slovakia wasn't always Slovakia. It used to belong to the Austrian-Hungarian monarchy, later Czechoslovakia. Bratislava has always been an important centre for education, religion, bureaucracy, trade etc. so when we became independent, it was chosen to be our capital. Also, it's not like we're the only ones... Ott...
What were the Yugoslav wars about and why was America involved in them?	[ "If you want answers to questions like this that are \"unbiased\" and without conspiracy theories, one of your absolute best bets is to submit your question to /r/AskHistorians. They have very strict journalistic integrity and the moderators take it very seriously. Jokes and quack stuff gets deleted almost immediat...
Why do scrapes and other injuries feel more painful when its cold outside?	[ "When it's cold, your body draws blood in from the limbs to conserve its warmth by constricting the veins in those limbs. This causes the skin and flesh to press on the nerves, increasing their sensitivity." ]
How was it possible that OJ Simpson was not charged with either murder when the prosecutors had such compelling evidence against him?	[ "Charged with means the prosecutors formally begin a trial. OJ Simpson was charged with the murder of Nichole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. \n\nHe was not convicted, meaning the jury voted unanimously that the prosecution could not prove its case (or charges) beyond a reasonable doubt. Some of jurors have provi...
So humans regenerate skin cells and all, and that's cool, but if we constantly make new skin cells, why do I still have freckles, when birthmarks might fade over time?	[ "Because freckles are constantly being created as the melanin(sp?) in your skin reacts to the sunlight \n\nWhereas a birthmark is more of a 1 time event and can be \"overwritten\" with fresh new cells. Much like a scar" ]
Why do trees/coral constantly grow while humans and most other animals stop growing as adults?	[ "What you think of as coral is not the animal, it is the bone like house that the animal makes. The actual living part of coral is tiny." ]
What is a web scraper and what can they be used for?	[ "A web scraper is a piece of software that goes to a website, grabs pages & then parses out the interesting/useful data. Let's say you want to follow the price of items at Amazon - your web scraper would request the page, find the item name & price and return that to you in a clean, easy to work with format. S...
When they say that we move at a finite speed through space-time, what are the denominator and numerator of the rate?	[ "I think what you're asking for is what units we use, as in \"kilometers per hour\". If that's correct, you could separate the space and times components and say \"meters per second\" for space and \"seconds per second\" for time, although this is simplistic.\n\nThis may not be the best ELI5, but I'm not sure how e...
How do I buy stocks, bonds, etc?	[ "There are lots of complexities here, but we'll ignore them for sake of simplicity. We'll deal with stocks, because it's pretty much the same for bonds.\n\nWhat most people do is find a brokerage. A brokerage is a business that specializes in the buying and selling of shares of stock on behalf of their customer...
Why do Homeowner Associations hold such tremendous power?	[ "HOAs are entirely voluntary. If you don't want to join one, you simply don't purchase property governed by an association. That'll be pretty hard to do if you want to live in a place with shared property (like a condo building), but it's quite easy if you want to live in a house.\n\nThere are plenty of horror st...
Keep Calm and Carry On	[ "I don't think those particular posters were publicy used, but they were certainly prepared and would have been used, I think, in the event of an invasion.\n\nThey've got popular because they're pretty indicative of the British attitude towards any crisis - not to fuss or panic, just tut and go about our business. ...
Why is the news of China cutting domestic interest rates causing the U.S. stock markets to surge?	[ "Mainly it's that people who were investing in China are seeing the lower interest rates as indicating lower returns on those investments. Those investors pull money out of Chinese investments and put it in US investments instead. That causes the US market to surge since there are many buyers (and prices are set ...
Was WW2 propaganda (posters, movies, etc.) blatantly and widely referred to as "propaganda" at the time or is that just the description we give it in retrospect?	[ "The enemy's propaganda is always called propaganda. \n\nAlthough, its interesting that the word didn't always have such negative connotations. The root of the word is the same as 'propagation', and it began in a religious context. Even as recently as WW1 the British would charmingly refer to their own propaganda c...
What is the unit of viscosity and how is it measured?	[ "The SI unit is the Poise, and it's measured by applying shear stress to the liquid. A typical viscometer has the liquid sandwiched between two concentric plates that the fluid sticks to, and measures the torque needed to turn one of them, then you calculate the viscosity from that. The plates can't be smooth, of c...
The S & L crisis in the 80's...	[ "So, back in the 19th century, banks were for rich people. Unless you had a certain amount of money, they didn't want to deal with you, and they certainly wouldn't lend to you. Some reformers got the idea of getting poor people to club together and pool their savings and make small loans with it, allowing poor peop...
How fast will transactions be once all the bitcoins have been mined? Also, will miners have any purpose after that?	[ "The short answer is \"likely thousands of transactions per second, if not more,\" and \"miners will still secure the network and will be paid for their work.\" Let's take a look at how Bitcoin works so that we can arrive at that answer.\n\n*******\n\nLet's say you have a bunch of friends that decide that they wan...
What is the purpose of the spirals painted on airplane engines?	[ "So that people (ground crew) will know if the engines are turning." ]
How will this "businesses can buy your internet history" work? Can you buy an a specific persons?	[ "No, you can't buy Donald Trump's browsing history. There are very few people for whom there would be a market, and they would sue the ISP.\n\nWhat you will be able to say is I have two versions of this ad, A and B. If someone goes to more republican sites than democratic ones, when you get the URL for my ad, put...
How are chip-readers more secure than magnetic strips?	[ "It's not necessarily the reader, but the card itself. \n\nIn an eli5 sense, a magnetic stripe says \"I am X\" when swiped. It is extremely easy to create a copy of the card that also says \"I am X\". \n\nA chip card, when read, initiates a conversation like \"If you say you are card X, please complete this m...
Why Can't We Tell Our Bodies to Ignore Pain During Torture?	[ "Pain is your bodies way of telling you something is wrong. When you're being tortured your body is being damaged, so your body is letting you know. If people were able to turn off pain then the body could be seriously damaged and can cause death", "Pain is subjective. Most people don't believe that, but think ab...
why can't we bundle our health insurance with our other mandatory insurances like car, home and renters? Or even combine it with life insurance and other insurances?	[ "There would be no real benefit. The money you pay for your car and home insurance premiums doesn't go in some account with your name on it. \n\"This is Yolo20152016's unused insurance money\" \n\n It goes towards the profit and operating costs of the insurance company. Most importantly It pays the claims of other...
Why don't horsepower and torque correlate? ELI5	[ "Horsepower and torque do correlate. The formula for horsepower is:\n\nHP = (Torque * RPM) / 5252\n\n(This assumes torque is measured in ft-lbs.)\n\n\"Horsepower is torque corrected for RPM.\"" ]
What happens to all the extra food in shows like "MasterChef"?	[ "It depends on the show. Usually, the crews get first pick of the food. MasterChef specifically donates leftovers to OzHarvest, and many other shows have similar arrangements with charities.\n\nIron Chef (the original one) would let the chefs take home food, so occasionally competitors would \"accidentally\" open p...
high-end celebrity endorsements	[ "Scale it down - would you help a friend move for a case of beer? What about helping a stranger move for $100? What about gardening? Or driving a friend around a city for the day? If you'd do that, why not become an Uber driver?\n\nWe're all different. Some need the money, or at least think they do. Others see an o...
Why there are really absurd laws in different countries?	[ "There are really absurd laws here too. Most of them come from silly things, like a court case that boiled down to \"I'm innocent because it's not illegal to walk your pet alligator on the sidewalk\" so the guy gets off free, and they pass a law making that illegal so that defense won't work again. Usually starte...
What is a joke, how do you classify a “joke”?	[ "(Written for a 7 year old)\n\nA joke is a little bit of talk or writing that makes people laugh in a specific way. \n\nThey aren’t laughing at the person who tells/wrote it, because she sounds weird or is making a silly face. With a joke, it’s the words themselves that make people laugh. \n\nWhy do they laugh? Thi...
What is a Flexible Spending Account, and how can I take advantage of it?	[ "I'm going to assume you're talking about a medical flex spending account (though they often offer childcare ones too) offered to you by the company you're working at. If that's not the case, feel free to ignore me.\n\nThese are accounts that you can send a certain portion of your money each paycheck into tax free...
My Almost 5 year old brother wants to know what the internet and a website IS	[ "The internet is a bunch of computers, wires and software all working together. Some computers do different kind of things. A website is a page that is written in a special language so people can show videos music write things and show cool applications. To get to a website we use a web browser that talks to comput...
Seeing as mosquitos are some of the biggest threats to continued human development, would there be any significant consequences to driving them extinct?	[ "(This is all based on \"assuming you could without killing every other insect too\".)\n\nAn analysis I read about this had a basic \"not anything drastic\" as an answer. \n\nThey are a major component of the insect food chain and they don't heavily compete with other insects for their food so many mosquito-eaters ...
How do lobbying groups control advertisers?	[ "Usually lobbying groups are advertisers themselves, as in, they pay to have a commercial made supporting a certain opinion...or conversely they advertise the hazards of a certain action (MADD, _URL_0_)." ]
Why do different operating systems require different versions of the same software?	[ "Software developer here,\n\nThere is a thing called a system call, and this is basically the program asking the operating system to perform some work, for example, reading data from a file. A program doesn't know how to do this, it's not part of its program to know what a hard drive is, or how different manufactur...
Do air marshals really spend most of their time flying around in random planes? How are they assigned? Or is that just something for the movies?	[ "The Federal Air Marshal Service is part of the Department of Homeland Security. They are trained law enforcement officers who train specifically around planes/aviation. They go through the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC), which all federal LEOs go through, and a secondary training specific to their...
What does our body use trace metals (eg: iron) for?	[ "Iron is used in haemoglobin, for binding oxygen in our erythrocytes (red blood cells).\n\nMagnesium is used as a regulator in hundreds of biological reactions in the body.\n\nThey are mainly used to help other reactions either happen at all, or progress faster." ]
The differences between (Mandarin) Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages	[ "Chinese word order is Subject-Verb-Object like English. Chinese languages are tonal. In Mandarin, there are [four tones](_URL_1_). So based on how you say the word \"ma\" - it could mean \"horse\" or it could mean \"mother\", etc. Chinese writing system is primarily hieroglyph, so one symbol = one word. \n\nKorean...
if public IP addresses are dynamic, which means they are constantly changing, how is internet activity able to be tracked, logged, etc.?	[ "Dynamic IPs aren't really all that dynamic. You keep the same IP as long as you renew your lease (ie - have your computer on) every 2-3 days. Some systems may give you even longer before recycling your address.\n\nBeyond that, it's not unlikely that your ISP logged the information about who was assigned the IP ...
Why do video game companies make games that you can't pause offline? Mainly zombies in black ops 3	[ "To make the game more tense. They could easily add pause, but but bring able to gets some people more immersed. Dark Souls did that to me." ]
Can you briefly explain Dr Who?	[ "Doctor Who's main character is The Doctor himself, he is a Time Lord (its a race, like humans) and he nicked a time traveling spaceship called the TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimensions in Space).\n The Daleks are a genetically modified race that lost the ability to feel pity, compassion, or remorse and they consid...
How is it that the distance between Earth and the moon can supposedly fit all of the planets, but pictures show the moon relatively close to Earth?	[ "[Well here's a picture of the Moon and Earth drawn to scale.](_URL_0_)\n\nMost of the picture is just black space, which is useful in situations like this where you want to gauge the distance between them, but for most illustrating purposes you usually just want to show the two bodies together with the moon slight...
Why is it when I drive my work truck around town everybody else with a work truck waves at me even if I don't know them? This doesn't happen when I drive my normal car.	[ "Uk here. Bikers wave to each other, and as i drive a liveried van for a roadside assistance company all other drivers from different companies in the same industry wave to each other too. Some i know, most i don't. Think its all because we do the sane thing., camaraderie and all that.", "I get the same thing in...
tea bags in the US politics	[ "There is a party in American politics called the [Tea Party](_URL_0_). Making fun of them by calling them tea bags tea baggers. I can elaborate on tea bagging if you want." ]
how long does person have to be dead before it’s considered archaeology instead of grave robbing?	[ "It is not a matter of time, it is a matter of intent and legality.\n\nA graverobber illegal takes objects from graves to sell them.\n\nAn archaeologist legally (usually) takes objects from graves to study them.", "It depends on who owns the burial site. Archeologists must get permission from the landowner and ge...
What makes the Millennium problems so difficult?	[ "There are several different types of problem there. Like any problem the solution seems hard until someone figures it out the first time. Unless many people try and nobody comes upon the key. Then they get noticed, and in the case of the millennium prizes, they get collected together and publicized by people willi...
What do Ant & Roach killers that kill on contact such as Ultra-Kill or Raid actually do to the ants?	[ "It is a matter of debate whether insects like ants feel 'pain' in the sense that we do. Their nervous systems are much simpler and, in a lot of cases, much more autonomic than ours. Cockroaches have [hairlike appendages on their bodies which act as sensors](_URL_0_) and detect air flow changes, alerting them to im...
Rational Emotive Behaviour Theory or R.E.B.T	[ "It's a form of [cognitive-behavioural therapy] (_URL_1_) that espouses rational, logical thinking, flexibility, and acceptance as the antidote to dysfunction (poor mental health/mental illness). Essentially, the practitioner is there to help the client challenge self-defeating or harmful perceptions of a situation...
Whats the point of circumcision?	[ "This is an episode of Penn & Teller - Bullshit - Circumcision.\n\n_URL_0_", "These days it's mostly about religion and social norm. Some people say it's because of cleanliness, but there is really no problem in cleaning an uncircumsised penis. There is also the argument of cutting it before any potential probl...
Why do men get morning wood (even if they didn't have erotic dreams)?	[ "Morning wood (aka [nocturnal penile tumescence](_URL_0_)) occurs in healthy men 3-5 times a night regardless of what kind of dream they have. NPT is theorized to help prevent bed-wetting and stretch out the cavernosum muscles (what fills with blood to cause erection) to prevent erectile dysfunction.", "The physi...
How does VLC remember where you were last watching?	[ "The Mac version uses a dictionary called recentlyPlayedMedia in its preferences file. Each entry contains the file path (URI) and the time offset in seconds." ]
Why do movie/music/book critics revise their original rating of a particular film/album/book and give it a better score than they originally did?	[ "Sometimes it's hard to realise the true worth of a work after a single viewing, which is what the majority of journalists will see of a film before having to do a write up. They're working to a tight schedule, so often they'll watch it once and do a write-up on their initial response.\n\nSome films/albums/books ne...
Why does audio rapidly repeat itself when a computer crashes?	[ "At a high level, sound cards playback sound by reading digital data from a buffer and converting it into an analog signal to transmit to the speaker. When a normal stream of audio is being played back, its data is written into the buffer as a stream so there's no hops or skips - as the digital audio converter scan...
What is a magic eraser and why does it work?	[ "It's melamine foam, which is a really hard material made into a sponge. It's basically really fine sandpaper, so be careful what you clean with it (shiny things like mirrors or chrome will dull after a few uses)." ]
How is it that we are the most advanced species on the planet, yet our young take so long (much longer than most species) to be self-sufficient?	[ "That's just it. It takes a while to amass information and use it.\n\nAn animal just does whatever comes natural, aka 'instinct'. But humans are taught and trained and learn and practice and... and...\n\nLayers and layers of information and training to get us to the point where we can actually achieve more than t...
Monsanto and the public's (generally) negative opinion of the company.	[ "It seems like this question is asked weekly here\n\n**\nI have been following anti-GMO activists and the Monsanto haters for couple of years and here are some thoughts.\n\n Anti-GMO beliefs are mostly on the left, which is unusual because the left tends to be more aligned with science. (at least in comparison w...
wtf is a 'noun clause'' and why would I use it?	[ "It's a dependent clause that acts as a noun. For example: \"Whoever thought of that idea is a genius\" \nThe noun clause in that is \"whoever thought of that idea\" this entire phrase is subject of that sentence." ]
When looking into a mirror the reflection is effected by my glasses. glasses on = far away objects are clear, glasses off = far away objects blurry. The image in the mirror is close to me so why does distance in the reflection matter?	[ "It's the difference between looking at a mirror, and looking at a TV. With a mirror, you are looking at the actual light waves coming from the distant object, so your eyes must focus distantly.", "The image in the mirror is a virtual image. So you have to think about the distance as also being virtual. You aren'...
Why are earthquakes with a high magnitude appearing frequently?	[ "They're not?\n\nEarthquake frequency has not noticeably increased. Here's [all 7.0+ earthquakes in the last 5 years](_URL_0_). They're pretty evenly spread over that time. Yeah, there were several big ones today, but random events clump up... it's the nature of randomness.", "This article explains what you're se...
What does one have to do to be able to make a subreddit	[ "You have to have a 30-day-old account and an (unknown) amount of positive karma. \n\nYou basically have no karma at the moment, so I would say that you should comment on some threads to build it up.", "What sub do you wanna make? I'll make it for you, and you can be a moderator" ]
Why are people so against ResponsibleOhio's plan for marijauna legalization?	[ "The main complaint is that it arbitrarily limits the production and sale of cannabis to 10 state-chosen companies. This is good for the state (higher tax revenues, easier to inspect) but bad for consumers (lack of variety, perceived loss of \"local\" growers and sellers who help the local economy.)\n\nImagine if t...
Can someone explain to me Quantum Mechanics/The string theory	[ "This question is better suited for /r/askscience (unless you're not at all interested in actually understanding QM at any level.)\n\n\"I'm not going to simplify it, I'm not gonna fake it. I'm not gonna tell you it's something like a ball bearing on a spring.\"\n\nThis was said by Richard Feynman during one of th...
How come this scan of the chromosomes are in multiple colors?	[ "False-color image. Its colored with the intent of making parts more easy to tell apart, to highlight certian features, etc. that would be unclear in just its normal color.\n\nEdit: here's a good example: _URL_0_ Normally it'd be very tricky to see which mountains were which sizes on a picture of Mars. but using fa...
Why are Gatling Guns called "Miniguns"?	[ "The \"Mini\" in the name is in comparison to designs that use a similar firing mechanism but larger shells, such as General Electric's earlier 20-millimeter M61 Vulcan, and \"gun\" for a caliber size smaller than that of a cannon, typically 20 mm and higher.\n\"Minigun\" refers to a specific model of weapon that G...
How is the blood from meat removed before it goes on sale?	[ "Blood is removed by hanging the animal upside down and draining it. Muscle tissue (what we eat) contains very little blood anyway. \n\nBlood rots much more quickly and hosts many nasty diseases without the living host. Also it can it used extensively in the medical field.", "the animals are killed, then hung ...
How The Geneva Convention relates to war crimes.	[ "The Geneva convention exists to stop war crimes. Lets say I was a nation, and I declared war on you. My troops massacre some civilians, or I use WMDs, The Geneva convention exists to stop that happening. Simply put, the Geneva convention exists to stop cruel or excessively damaging (on infrastructure and civilians...
How do some people operate on such little sleep?	[ "Being in the army for a while I'm use to running on 4 hours or less of sleep and still doing 16 hours a day." ]
Why is YouTube getting steadily worse?	[ "I'm sure there is someone who can explain it better but I'll try.\n\nYoutube uses DASH playback, it loads the video you watch in chunks. When you watch till a certain point, they will load the next chunk. What it does is save Youtube bandwidth so they won't waste it when you buffer the whole video but only watch p...
Why do balloons explode, there is a loud sound like gun shot?	[ "The air is under pressure in the balloon, because the skin of the balloon is tight. When it pops, the compressed air starts to expand. This generates a compression wave, what we call sound. Guns burn gunpowder in a confined space, and when the bullet leaves the barrel the pressure is released in a similar (thou...
What's happening when you want to sneeze but just can't get a sneeze out?	[ "You become aware of the sneeze before it happens which puts you into manual mode, you consciously try to finish the sneeze but you don't know how. Kinda like when you start breathing manually but the difference is that you don't know how to sneeze consciously so you just stay with a half sneeze face and that feeli...
Why are they still making cars with manually rolled up windows?	[ "They:\n\n* break less often\n\n* Are cheaper to fix/replace when they do break\n\n* Are cheaper to produce\n\n* Are cheaper to fit into a car\n\nInexpensive maintainability isn't always the selling point car manufacturers go for, but it's certainly a selling point....", "Many people prefer manual windows because...
Why do some job applications require a questionnaire with the same "strongly agree/disagree" questions that make me feel like they're all trick questions?	[ "They ask you the same questions in different ways to see if, after scoring, they were all answered the same way. \n\"I don't lie\"\n\"It's always important to tell the truth\"\n\"If little Timmy asks if Santa is real, I tell him No\"\nIf you're not consistent, they score you lower.", "Not quite the same, but I r...
Why/how does covering a bomb with one's own body 'muffle' the explosion?	[ "The most deadly aspect of a grenade is the shrapnel, the metal case of the grenade that is sent flying away at high speed, essentially thousands of little sharp metallic bullets.\n\nJumping on the grenade is going to cause most if not all of that shrapnel to get sent into you, if any does manage to make it through...
How was the SHA1 encryption algorithm broken, and what does it imply?	[ "The sha-1 collision attack exploits a weakness in the algorithm, allowing a input, that results in the same output, to be created far easier than brute force. \n\nThe possibility of such an attack being used means that sha-1 is not a completely dependable method, and is essentially broken. With this attack, it i...

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