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<|im_start|>user CMV:Companies should not be able to hold patents unless they are using them The purpose of patents is to help promote innovation by protecting the innovators from having their work stolen, however in modern times they aren't always used for that. Today many large companies buy up patents for competing...
<|im_start|>user Is it “epistemologically” or “epistemically?” Or are they just fungible synonyms, like the fungible spelling of “zeros” and “zeroes?” When I brought up the epistemically/epistemologically thing to my professor, she didn’t correct me and was just really nice about it, so, from that point onward, I’ve be...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: why do some pictures online load top to bottom (line of pixels line by line) and other go from blurry to clear?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Because these are two different strategies to load images. In strategy A you break down the image data into small pieces and send each piece one by one...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Being such a vast country, how come the US does not have high speed trains to connect major cities?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Cost and distance. Building rail infrastructure requires a large investment, and the distance between population centers is huge. Outside of the North-East, the po...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do so many loading screens go to 90% really quick, then take just as long or longer to finish the last 90%?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Here is one example: A progress bar shows the total progress of all tasks being done. Each individual task might be different and it may not be easy to ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5...if the ingredients for all different kinds of cheese are pretty much the same, how do they make different flavor cheeses?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There are a bunch of different factors, but here's a rough list: Type of milk.... cow? Goat? Sheep? A mix? Does the animal eat mostly green g...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How does a doctor differentiate walking pneumonia from bronchitis, the flu, or MONO?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Bacterial pneumonia (both typical and walking) is diagnosed through a sputum culture. The patient coughs up fluid from the airways, and the sample is incubated. If there's bacteria...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do combustion engines (for example all 4 cylinder unleaded gasoline car engines) have varying levels of efficiency if the concept and design is relatively the same? What improves the efficiency?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Gasoline engines control power by restricting the amount of air th...
<|im_start|>user Where do photons come from? For example, if you were in a dark room and you lit a match, where do the photons come from? Were they dormant in the room, or stored somehow in the chemicals of the match?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Photons are created/emitted when charged particles lose some energy. I...
<|im_start|>user Philosophy on the existence of logic I was wondering if there is philosophy on the existence of logic. Thought experiments on how a world with no logic would look like or "proofs" that some kind of logic must exist. Or thought experiments on how a world with different logical rules would be able to fun...
<|im_start|>user [Star Wars] How do you quantify the durability of Star Wars spaceships? I've recently noticed a pretty big inconsistency when it comes to the durability of star ships in the Star Wars franchise. See, there have been many, many times when these ships have crash landed on planets and survived relatively ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: how did jazz go from being considered the "devil's music" to becoming very high brow, often considered nearly equally as high brow as classical?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Changing cultural perceptions of black people and their cultural music. Jazz was heavily spread through some segments o...
<|im_start|>user Do gravitational fields travel through Portals? If I were to place a portal on my kitchen floor and another on a neutron star, how would this affect the planet? Can you use the portal gun on Black Holes?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant If you place a portal on a wall, another one on a ceiling and you...
<|im_start|>user Assistant Prof Application Materials: Passion vs Pragmatism? I have been using Karen Kelsky's *The Professor is In* as my guide to preparing my application materials. However, my advisor has given me some feedback which conflicts pretty strongly with Kelsky's advice. Namely, whereas she says, &gt; ...
<|im_start|>user What should I read of Heidegger &amp; Husserl to help me understand Being and Nothingness? I know nothing about philosophy. I've read *The Stranger* &amp; *The Plague* and really liked them. When I Googled Camus to learn more about him, it said "People also search for Jean-Paul Sartre" and *Being and N...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: iTunes filing system on the iPod Classic Why are all of my music files given a 4 letter name, and then put into folders called F00 and so on? Please help me understand this phenomenon of Apple's doing like I'm 5.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Imagine you work in a library which holds millions o...
<|im_start|>user Why do companies put an emphasis on whether or not your Hispanic on job applications. Being half Hispanic and half Caucasian, I've always been curious on why I can never check the two races box. Example here: http://imgur.com/ZzOv4bS<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Companies are ranked on how diverse t...
<|im_start|>user [The Matrix] Why do people in the Matrix that get injured show signs of damage in real life? For example when Neo gets unplugged from the jump program and he finds blood on his mouth. How could the Matrix create such a strong suggestive placebo effect, that it could actually tear skin? Or an more confu...
<|im_start|>user [Harry Potter] Are wizards like Dumbledore/Grindelwald/Voldemort so powerful because they studied more magic than the average wizards? So my understanding is that, to an average wizard, there really is no point in going above and beyond when learning magic. They might go to school, get an education and...
<|im_start|>user ELIF: When a video game is in development for 4-5 years (like the Elder Scrolls series), how do they keep up with technological growth? I read that Bethesda has been working on Fallout 4 since before Fallout: New Vegas was released.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant 1. You anticipate developments and des...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Religious exemptions should not exist in US law or government regulation. My argument boils down to a few simple points: * Unless any religion can be claimed, including ones as outlandish as Scientology and Pastafarianism, or as rare as Zoroastrianism, then it is respecting an establishment of re...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why are Jews classified as their own race? I do not mean offense to any one, let me preface with that. My question is because when i think of racism, i think of it being discriminatory or hateful things done to someone of a different skin color, thus a different "race" of humans. Jews are, at fi...
<|im_start|>user Is the mass of the earth constantly changing? I mean everyday we're increasing in numbers human, animals etc. The mass probably won't change by a significant amount. But is it theoretically possible that the mass of the earth (without any mass from the cosmos, like asteroids) changes that much that th...
<|im_start|>user What are the best papers on the subject of transgenderism? I'm more interested in metaphysical perspectives, i.e., arguments on the question of whether trans individuals are or aren't the gender they identify as. Not really looking for ethical/political perspectives. Thanks!<|im_end|> <|im_start|>ass...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do plants and trees know when to start blooming during the beginning of the spring through summer?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant They have a bunch of signalling molecules and structure, it's also somewhat genetically programmed. The entire thing isn't figured out yet. They can sense a chang...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why aren’t cars shaped like teardrops? If teardrops are an extremely aerodynamic shape, why aren’t cars shaped like them? Are modern car designs the most aerodynamically efficient they could possibly get? Or is there another reason why cars aren’t seeming to get more tear-shaped?<|im_end|> <|im_...
<|im_start|>user [Harry Potter] If I'm a wizard and I want some object, am I better off conjuring it from nothing, or transfiguring a useless object into what I want? Is one easier than the other? Is either permanent?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It depends on what you’re more skilled in. Generally speaking no branc...
<|im_start|>user Would it be unethical to establish an "authorship ring" if everyone actually contributed intellectually? Suppose 3 friends who work in the same field (Avery, Billie, and Charlie) come to a mutual agreement: They agree to always include each other on papers related to their shared work. They discuss the...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How does the machine measure oxygenation through the skin of your finger? I was at the doctors with my kid and the nurse put a clip over his finger wich was hooked to a monitor. How can it measure pulse and oxygenation? PS: I am a first time poster and english is not my native tongue. Be gentle:...
<|im_start|>user How do I know what to read first? Before you read Hegel you should read Kant. Before you read Kant you should read Hume. Before anyone, Aristotle. Or should you? What I want to do is read Hegel, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Hobbes, Hume, Wittgenstein: I want to understand modern social political and philoso...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why does music “make sense”, why can we predict/expect the next musical notes having never heard the melody/song before? I get the idea of certain melodies being used in different songs, but it happens sometimes even with unfamiliar melodies/songs. Is this a known phenomena? how do you explain th...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How Middle East terrorists groups makes money? I've heard that that central american terrorists groups make money throughout drugs, but I've never heard how middle east terrorists groups make money and sustain themselves.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Depends on the groups. - Donations from c...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How are bees attracted to a beekeeper's artificial hive? Do they find the space accidentally? Or do you use something to attract them?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Bee hives are generally started by purchasing or otherwise obtaining a queen bee and then splitting a hive, with some portion of t...
<|im_start|>user Why does still water breed more bacteria than flowing water? Also if still water is exposed to only air in a setting where nothing else can get in, will it still get bacteria?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It’s likely that there will be bacteria in almost all water, whether it’s flowing, or not Howe...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What is the difference between moral and ethics?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant While both morals and ethics are ways to categorize both "Right" and "Wrong"- the difference is the perspective from which the judgement is being made. In short, morals are beliefs from an internal or personal perspe...
<|im_start|>user How are toll roads legal? I thought that taxes payed for roads? Question in the title plus a bonus: can you get a ticket for using the fast pass or pike pass lane without having the pass?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant You pay a premium on certain frequently used roads/bridges/tunnels in order to supp...
<|im_start|>user Eli5 what is economy of scale and what is economy of scope? Its 3 am and i dont have the brain activity to understand anything anymore. Please be as patronising as possible.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The word "economy" in these phrases means "savings." Economy of scale: it costs less to make so...
<|im_start|>user Why are many philosophers politically rather left oriented? In the past year I really started to enjoy philosophy a lot. A few weeks ago then I stumbled across the the youtube channel "the school of life" which is quite cool because it give me a quick peek into a lot of the theories from different phil...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do we feel so much better when we hit the "perfect" temperature in a shower even though it is such a small change in temperature?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Some points about showering and temperature: Water is quite conductive of heat. It will absorb heat from you quickly if it's cold...
<|im_start|>user What do Postmodernists mean by “Skepticism towards Metanarratives” mean in simple terms?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant One aspect of modern, post-Enlightenment thinking has been the view that history has a direction. “We” through history are heading towards a liberal democracy or a communist utopia, ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: why do canals not freeze under bridges when they freeze elsewhere?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Bridges are often pinch points where the water is compressed and the increased current makes it harder to freeze. They're expensive to build so they're often built across narrow points in the water....
<|im_start|>user Are there any "living clades" (2 or more species whose last common ancestor is not extinct)? I can't think of any... it could happen, right? Oh and "living clade" is apparently a meaninglyes term that I've just made up, which is probably why I can't google it! And maybe I'm using it wrong anyway, unle...
<|im_start|>user Bell's Inequality (and related experiments) shows realness and locality can't both be true. Most of the discussions I see prefer to keep locality and forego with realism. Why? Are we just being deferential to Einstein's aversion to spooky action at a distance?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Special re...
<|im_start|>user How do cells stick together? We are formed of tissues that can be fairly strong! We can't for example take a handfull of our cells easily. How do they stick so well together?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Cells produce something called an extracellular matrix, which is a dense, complex network of ver...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why are groceries more expensive in poorer neighborhoods? I just moved from an apartment that borders a pretty wealthy area with high line and chain grocery stores. I have shopped at these stores for years and have a pretty good mental note of how expensive items are. The house I moved into bo...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How does radiation cause cancer?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The kind of radiation that can cause cancer is called ionizing radiation. This is radiation that has enough energy to break the bonds between DNA bases. When the bases are broken, our cells have mechanisms that can repair them. But,...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do we have two distinct genders as opposed to all being hermaphrodites. It seems to me that it would be easier from an evolutionary standpoint if any two people could breed. What's the advantage of having a male and a female?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant First of all, get it out of your he...
<|im_start|>user Would heavy unstable elements at the core of a star have a significantly extended half-life due to gravity?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant If you think of gravitational time dilation: No. It's a tiny effect for stars, just a few parts in a million. Instead of 1 second the lifetime (as seen from far aw...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Banning the Islamic Face Veil is about Islamaphobia, not women's rights. My argument relies on Nuns. How can we ban the Face Veil but find the uniforms Nuns wear completely okay? Nuns are not allowed to have sex, and often required to wear a specific outfit. Yet women do this by choice. Is it okay...
<|im_start|>user Are sensory organs like eyes, ears, nose etc. in all or almost all animals close to the brain? I have wondered because in all animals I can think of, these organs are as close as possible to the brain. The most obvious reason seems to be that this way the sensory input reaches the brain a few milliseco...
<|im_start|>user How does being a grad student compare to tenure-track positions at teaching and research universities? I'm a 3rd year PhD student in CS. Two years ago, if you asked me what I wanted to do after I graduate, I would have said "be a professor" without hesitation. Now, I'm not so sure. The main reason is t...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do men go bald as they get older but women don't?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Genes code for proteins. Baldness is caused by a missing or malformed protein, caused by what we'll call the baldness allele. The version of the gene that makes the protein for hairiness can be the hairy allele....
<|im_start|>user ELI5: The Bahá'í Faith.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant -Monotheistic (One God) -About 6 million of them -Three main principles - Unity of God - Unity of religion - Unity of humankind The head of the religion between 1921-1957, Shoghi Effendi, said this as a summary of the uniqueness of the faith...
<|im_start|>user Are Fourier transforms something fundamental in our Universe? So I was watching a [Sixty Symbols video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OOmSyaoAt0) about bandwidth and Fourier transform and in some part of it, it is said that Δf x Δt ≈ 1, where Δf is the range of frequencies that can pass through the ...
<|im_start|>user Why do mammals usually have dull coloration when compared to some birds, reptiles and fish? Basically, there is no mammal that comes close to a bird of paradise, a milk snake, a clownfish or a jewel beetle in terms of coloration. Why?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There are proximate and ultimate cau...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: If I am submerged in a bath and I drink some of the water does the water level go up, down or stay the same?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant In abstract theory, the water level stays the same. In messy actual practice, it would go down a little, at least at first, as some of the internal parts o...
<|im_start|>user Does the observed state of a particle at a given time affect future evolutions in its wave function? I'm struggling to reconcile the physical and mathematical interpretations of the evolution of quantum particles. If an individual particle can be observed in a random (but predictable) state, does this...
<|im_start|>user Postdoc question: are you being told how long of a lunch break and break to take? Asking a Q for a friend. What are your breaks like? Do you have to follow a lab schedule imposed by the manager of the lab who is NOT your supervisor? My friend was contracted to work from 9-5 daily and was told that th...
<|im_start|>user Was anything useful learned by all the human experimentation conducted by Germans and Japanese during WWII?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There was. Almost all the knowledge on how the body reacts to freezing temperatures was from these experiments. Along with how the human body reacts to phosgene ga...
<|im_start|>user Do electrons physically spin the way wheels and tops spin? Or does the word spin mean something different when it comes to electrons? They say electrons can have a spin of +1/2 or -1/2. Does this number represent how the electron rotates about an axis, or does it mean something else? What do the numb...
<|im_start|>user Would high levels of radiation mutate animals and plant life like we see in the video game 'Fallout' and 'Metro: Last Light'? [Biology] I am fairly sure everything would just die. I'm no expert though.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Increased radiation might increase numbers of mutations per generatio...
<|im_start|>user Political Philosophy: Equality of Punishment? Equality of justice is supposed to be a fundamental aspect of democratic societies. But it seems there are many difficulties in actually implementing it. Let's say there's a law that punishes a crime with imprisonment of 3 months. Now for two different per...
<|im_start|>user Atomic Orbital Theory, Molecular Orbital Theory, Valence Bond Theory. What are the differences between these three theories?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant All three are models of the wave-particle duality of electrons in an atom, and are essentially related to one another. Atomic orbital theory is us...
<|im_start|>user What material properties dictate what color that material is? I get that the color an object is is simply the wavelength of light that is reflected by that object, and other wavelengths are absorbed. But what dictates which frequencies are reflected and which are absorbed? With something like paint for...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: When we learn a new word/term from a T.V show or game, we start seeing it frequently after that. Why does that happen? It happened to me a lot. I find a new word, I look it up and then I start seeing/noticing in other stuff a lot.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, als...
<|im_start|>user CMV: There is no room for (societal) morality in the bedroom between consenting adults Hi All, So I'm gonna be honest, this is a pretty new view of mine and I want it to be challenged prior to developing my full feelings on it. This is a sort of off-shoot of the dozens of "not dating a trans person is...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How can they tell that a huge wildfire, burning hundreds of thousands of acres, was started by a single campfire, or dropped cigarette? Surely whatever evidence was there is long gone?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Fire investigators can tell which directing fires burned. With that knowledge th...
<|im_start|>user How do cells 'know their location' and grow to make reproducible complex shapes such as a heart? It is a hard question to phrase but I'll try my best. For example how does the [arota](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Diagram_of_the_human_heart_%28cropped%29.svg/400px-Diagram_of...
<|im_start|>user [Comics] can super heroes work out and increase their strength proportionately to regular humans? I don’t know how many planets Superman would need to bench to even break a sweat, but assuming he COULD work out, could he get 3-4 times stronger than he already is, the way human weightlifters are roughly...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: The difference between disease, disorder, and syndrome.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant * disease - a dysfunction in the body, can be used to specifically refer to those caused by an infectious agent * disorder - a dysfunction in the body, can be used to specifically refer to those **not** caused...
<|im_start|>user Why is it that some thin plastics tear very easily once started but are very resistant to a tear starting?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant A good example of this is in plastic grocery bags, which are made of low-density polyethylene (LDPE). Normally, LDPE has a very low crystallinity; the polymer chai...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why is it that TV shows which make profit require release forms, whereas news broadcasts do not; yet they also make profit? It bothers me a little bit.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The two things you describe are Commercial and Editorial. Commercial works require a release from the person on...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Person who make false rape allegations should face the same charges as the other would if convicted As the title says, *any person who makes false rape allegations should face the same penalties as the person who they made them about would if they were convicted. When a person is convicted of rape...
<|im_start|>user [The Matrix] Question about the Oracle. Can the Oracle actually tell the future, or is she able to predict what will happen simply because she has already been through 6 versions of the Matrix?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The Oracle is an intuitive, predictive algorithm with enough data and enough ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: A.I. "was never shown what walking looked like" and yet "taught itself to walk" [This animation of an AI "learning" to walk.](https://gfycat.com/FirsthandUniformArchaeopteryx) * What does it mean that the AI was "never shown what walking looks like". Wouldn't the programmers have to provide a f...
<|im_start|>user What is a good, challenging topic for a Bachelor Thesis? So I'm in my fourth and last year of undergrad at a University in Europe. In order to graduate, weare required to write and present a senior/bachelor/undergrad research thesis/paper. We have to get a professor to advise and lead us, do our own re...
<|im_start|>user Considering the Higgs field permeates all of space how is it related to a vacuum? Is the Higgs a by-product of a vacuum? I've read that the Higgs is "the energy of the vacuum from which all else came." Can someone explain this? Why did a vacuum exist in the first place? Does the universe exist within a...
<|im_start|>user CMV: I should not be prosecuted if I join another country's army. I'm not talking about situations involving dual-citizenship or joining something like Daesh (which is not a recognised military force of a known country but a terrorist organisation). In this case I'm specifically referencing a situation...
<|im_start|>user [Terminator 2] is there an in-lore reason why the T-1000 always changes back to the policeman?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant In popular culture, at least, police officers were considered trustworthy and authoritative. If you're looking to move through American society with a minimum of fuss and a si...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Hobbes vs Rosseau debate Came across this while watching Crash Course Big History, and now I'm interested. But most stuff on google requires a great deal of prior understanding of the subject. Could someone explain this for me like I'm five? Thanks<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Well, there's a ...
<|im_start|>user Is there a reason dictionaries of philosophy are not widely used or mentioned? I've noticed that there are no dictionaries of philosophy online and not too many have been published. I've just finished a paper on The Transcendental Deduction and found myself wanting for explicitly defined terminology. I...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: can someone explain Dr. Hawking's concept of "Imaginary Time" like I'm 5? What does it exactly mean in laymen's terms?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Okay, think about it this way. Imagine that you want to specify exactly where and when something happened. So, first you have to put it somewh...
<|im_start|>user CMV: The idea that "bans don't work because criminals don't obey laws" is a bad argument, and it makes no sense. Firstly, most criminals are not going to go to extreme lengths to commit crimes. They are opportunists. If it's easy and they can get away with it then more people will do it. If it's hard a...
<|im_start|>user What do you say when someone says studying Philosophy is useless? Theres always a surprise when I say I'am studying Philosophy, as opposed to Business/Scientific related fields. I've always maintained that it is the study of all fields, and about yourself but there seems to such a huge stigma involved....
<|im_start|>user [Fallout 4] Who taught the inhabitants of the Commonwealth to read and write?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Their parents? Their family? Their community? Their school, if they're lucky enough to have one? The signs, journals, books, and ads plastered all over the world? It's not like all human know...
<|im_start|>user [SCP Foundation] What the Foundation do when a sapient SCP shows extreme signs of distress and depression caused by it's imprisonment ?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Depends on its classification. they wouldn't give two fucks if a Keter class was getting depressed. They make make concessions for hel...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: how does a cut finger get resewn back on with full functionality?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Using microsurgery. The surgeon uses very fine sutures to reattach nerves and blood vessels. For the surgery to be fully successful, the detached part of the finger must be kept cool an surgery must...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Cultural Appropriation as in Wearing clothes/accessories of minority cultures outside of their intended purpose is not bad enough to limit the freedom to wear what you want This is coming from a member of the most privileged group of people in the world: a straight white cisgender male, 21 years o...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Where did all the last names come from? Who made them all up? I know people used to be named according to their home, like Jesus of Nazareth, but where did all of the ones in existence today come from? How are new last names added over time?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There are many naming t...
<|im_start|>user Designing a Tax System for the United States If you had the ability to design a tax system for the United States, what types of taxes would you use? Which methods of taxation would bring in the most revenue?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant For the federal government: 1. Land Value Tax, divided between...
<|im_start|>user Why does the multiverse theory have an infinite number of universes? Every time I see the multiverse theory mentioned on TV, movies, books, comics, etc. they have the same basic concept of infinite universes, some very like ours, some very different. While the idea that there are different universes w...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Countries with Universal Healthcare fail to produce new vaccines, new medicines, new treatments, and are therefore inferior to the financially corrupt Privatized Healthcare System. I don't think there's much contention that the privatized healthcare system of the United States frequently leaves pe...
<|im_start|>user Why are vintage guitars considered to sound better than modern ones? Since technology has improved over the last several decades, shouldn't modern guitars sound better as well? I understand the concept of limited supply = higher prices but that doesn't explain why so many people claim that their guita...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why haven't other species evolved to be as intelligent as humans? How come humans are the only species on Earth that use sophisticated language, build cities, develop medicine, etc? It seems that humans are WAY ahead of every other species. Why?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant A slightly differen...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: In cities with grid layouts, why aren't traffic lights synchronized so that all lights on parallel roads turn green and red at the same times. For example, all streets that run east/west would be timed the same and opposite from those that run north/south. Seems like this would help reduce gridlo...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What determines if something is "microwave safe"?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Microwaves work by causing polar molecules to continuously reorient themselves in the oscillating electric field which causes them to heat up. This field is the result of the microwaves themselves being emitted. One...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why does reading small text hurt our eyes instead of making them stronger?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Your eyes have muscles to point them in the direction you’re looking, and small text doesn’t take up much space in your field of vision, so those muscles need to work hard to keep your eyes ...
<|im_start|>user CMV: I think I should learn what I want to learn in high school. I'm homeschooled and currently nearing the end of sophomore year of high school. But I'm extremely discouraged because I'm essentially failing at everything but math. The main issue is that my parents are not really a part of my education...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: The Chinese Room Thought Experiment. Was playing "The Turing Test" lately, the game, by Square Enix, and it keeps on mentioning about this "Chinese Room Thought Experiment". Already done the Googling, but I still don't really understand it quite well. Anyone could ELI5 about what is it and wha...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:how old ships could see each other at night how old ships could see each other at night?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Like today ships were required to have lanterns with different colors around the ship to allow nearby ships to see them better. Ships also used lookouts who were not exposed to ...