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<|im_start|>user If you mixed a bunch of people's blood in a blender, and spilled it all over a crime scene, could they figure out whose DNA was whose? I'm not implying that a blender could blend DNA or anything, but what problems would this create? Would eat swab give a different result?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistan...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How did we figure out what different parts of our brain does?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant A multitude of ways. Watching the brain react to tasks while being monitored. Tumors on the brain turning on and off certain functions. Errors during brain surgery. Lobotomies taught us a lot. There are ...
<|im_start|>user What do dopamine, serotonin, etc. do in the brain? I got no useful answers in e li5.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Dopamine and serotonin are both a type of chemical known as a neurotransmitter. There are many different types of neurotransmitter, and many different types of each type. The brain is ma...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: xkcd's Bayesian statistics comic Specifically, this one [http://xkcd.com/1132/](http://xkcd.com/1132/) Why is the Bayesian statistician so confident that the sun didn't explode? I read a little on the wiki page on Bayes' theorem, but couldn't get past the introductory example (which I understood...
<|im_start|>user Do we have a moral obligation to tell people the "uglyness" about things? Here uglyness would be anything that would radically alter someones perspective on something negatively. For example: Person A knows something. Doesn't matter what, but it is negative and damming to Person C. However, Perso...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What causes someone to look pale or lose their color when sick?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant A lot of blood which is normally distributed equally throughout the body is being sent to your vital organs. For example, if someone is experiencing stomach pains and become pale and weak, their blood ...
<|im_start|>user Why is my computer speaker currently picking up a radio station? I thought I was going crazy, but my wife confirms that 93.3 is coming out of my small crappy computer speakers. This happens whether or not the jack is plugged into my computer. If I turn up the volume the static increases but the volume ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why does food taste "Bad" and why do some humans like food that others don't? I personally don't like mushrooms and seafood, and I was personally wondering about why some food tastes bad for some people. Is it a precaution for potentially poisonous food or was it developed by our food surplus and...
<|im_start|>user [Star Trek] How do phaser rifles work? Okay, I admit that I may not have paid all that much attention in school when we were learning about directed energy weapons, so don't judge me. Handheld and ship phasers are conventional directed energy weapons that fire a concentrated beam of energy, so there's ...
<|im_start|>user Bourdieu – difference between habitus and cultural capital? I'm writing an essay on the difference in given names in different social classes. I need to include Bourdieu, but: I can not really grasp the difference between habitus and cultural capital. Can somebody help me?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assista...
<|im_start|>user To what degree, and how, does flash photography harm museum exhibits? Most museums that I've visited prohibits flash photography, but allows normal photography, in fear that strong light might harm the artifacts some how. How exactly does this work?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Ultraviolet light or ...
<|im_start|>user [Star Wars] how does a planet wide city, such as Coruscant, have the resources to sustain its 2 trillion + inhabitants? Is everything (including food and water) imported? According to some sources, Coruscant has 2 trillion mouths to feed. There’s no land or water... no trees to even produce oxygen. Ev...
<|im_start|>user If inflammation is an immune response, then why are so many medicines that we take anti-inflammatory?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Typically it is to decrease the inflammatory responses in cases where it is inappropriate or overly strong. Sometimes immune responses can be so strong locally that they...
<|im_start|>user I feel like the world doesn't take overweight people seriously... CMV? Sure, there are plenty of successful people who are overweight, but their weight is 90% of the time something that people will bring up. A good example is Melissa McCarthy. Everyone loves her and thinks she's great, but she will for...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why is physically exerting yourself to the point of exhaustion at the gym good for you but various jobs involving manual labor seem to cause permanent damage in the long term?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Exercise is a controlled form of stress on the musculoskeletal and cardiovascular systems...
<|im_start|>user Relationship between level of welfare benefits and crime My intuition is that reducing the level of welfare benefits for the poor in a society increases the crime rate because people will always find some ways to provide for themselves and in the absence of safety nets more poor people will turn to ill...
<|im_start|>user Works on applying Sartre-like existentialism to daily choices? After reading some Sartre, specifically on authenticity and bad faith, I'm trying to find any works on how to apply these concepts. That is to ask, assuming I've accepted that I have radical freedom, how can I then determine what my authent...
<|im_start|>user Why aren't Socrates and Plato considered as skeptics? After reading several of Plato's Dialogues, i feel as though they were both skeptics at the end of the day, and that Plato wrote the dialogues specifically in a certain way, so as to deceive the masses or superficial readers of his time from his ske...
<|im_start|>user Is it true that one of the best predictors for seeing benefit from therapy is if you think you will see benefit from therapy? .. and if that is true, what distinguishes therapy from placebo? I wondering if you smart people have thought about this problem?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It’s about bein...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How are underwater tunnels built?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There are several techniques, but the most common way is to make concrete rectangles, like a box with no top and no bottom. Then you lay the rectangles on the bottom of a trench across the river bottom, making a rectangular tube. ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: I heard of the case of Adam Rainer, where his apparent condition called "acromegaly" caused him to grow uncontrollably beyond adolescence. He was both a dwarf at 19 and a giant at 33. How is this possible if growth plates predetermine height? I've been wondering this for a pretty long time<|im_en...
<|im_start|>user If it was inside a vacuum, what exactly would happen to a tree and how long would it take for it to die?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Plants exchange a lot of water with their environment. It is chemically consumed by photosynthesis and the constant upward flow from the roots to the crown helps tran...
<|im_start|>user [STAR WARS/Alien] A Facehugger attaches it self to a Jedi/Sith, would the Alien exhibit any Force sensitivity/powers? would we have a Zoanthrope(WH 4K) on our hands or would the results be a lot less interesting?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The Force flows through all life forms. But, to feel it, t...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:What happens when I lose consciousness? So I was thinking about this while falling asleep last night. What happens exactly? I know you could drift into 'what exactly is consciousness territory' here. But what's my brain doing/doing less of and why does it mean I lose consciousness altogether? Als...
<|im_start|>user The Morality of Curing Death Science is getting really close to getting aging under medical control. Companies such as Google's Calico, SENS Research Foundation and various others are working on the science and therapies of making and older person biologically "young" again. Some philosophers, perhaps ...
<|im_start|>user I want to learn mathematic based economics I have some experience in Differential Geomtry, complex analysis, linear algebra and real analysis. I wish to learn some mathematical descriptions of economical theories like capitalism, socialism etc. Could a road map to studying these be given? Also If you ...
<|im_start|>user Looking for good texts on the concept of *reciprocity* in social, cultural, or even commercial contexts. I have a few already, but I wanted to mine the great wisdom of /r/asksocialscience for more. Thanks. I owe you one.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant I presume you've already found Marcel Mauss' 'The...
<|im_start|>user [Chronicles of Riddick] How did they build a prison on Crematoria? There would only be so many hours to work before scorching sunlight or frigid cold would sweep across the construction site. Anything that couldn't be pulled into orbit in that time; construction materials, tools and vehicles, workers w...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why are we so eager to go to and colonize Mars when we haven't been to the moon in over 40 years? I just seems like we're jumping the gun. Why are we going to colonize Mars when we haven't even mastered the moon?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Sending a manned mission to the moon again would inv...
<|im_start|>user [The Egg]What will happen when I refuse to get reincarnated and instead decide to stay in the after life where I can enjoy all human knowledge?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant If you’re done living every life that’s ever been, then you’re ready to be born into the next form of existence, the universe o...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why does CO2 seem to stay suspended better in some liquids more than others? I have a bottle of club soda on my desk and I was noticing that there are no bubbles around the edge like with soda or beer, yet it is highly carbonated, so much so that aggressive sips nearly shoot out my nose. I woul...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do gas masks work? Like how do you get clean air in the gas mask when there's contamination around? Is it some sort of filter?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There are 2 types. One type is a air purifying, the other is air supplying. An air purifying would use filters of different types to ...
<|im_start|>user [I, Robot] According to Dr. Alfred Lanning, the Three Laws of Robotics are "perfect," yet he says that they will lead to one "logical" outcome: revolution. Why will this outcome occur?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant They are perfect, because they are not individually open to interpretation. As laws, t...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Child Obesity is Child Abuse It's no secret that Obesity is a killer and the leading contributer to the number one cause of death in America: Heart Disease. It's also no secret that our children are becoming more and more obese. According to the CDC, in 2012 one-third of children and adolescents ...
<|im_start|>user CMV: The use of affirmative action should be banned in public college admissions I believe that affirmative action (preference to underrepresented racial minorities) should be banned at any university funded by taxpayer dollars. There are two primary justifications for affirmative action. The first i...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do people from, say, the 70's, look significantly different than people from the 60's?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Clothing, accessories, hairstyles, men's facial hair styles, and photography and cinematography techniques and technology have shifted very rapidly over the past century, so ...
<|im_start|>user How is it possible to brute force a password when most computers/websites lock a user out after a low number of incorrect tries?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant To check if someone typed in the correct password, the computer (server or local computer) calculates a hash of the typed in password and comp...
<|im_start|>user Working in tech industry without a good computer. Hi, I think the title maybe not straightforward to the real problem but here's the long story. I don't have (by I, I mean me and my family) enough money, we're even afraid of turning on the ac for long time because it may cost a lot of electricity that...
<|im_start|>user What to do if your paper is being copied? I do not know how to feel about this paper who went all the way to just copy my paper and paraphrase everything from the beginning to the very end. The authors also made sure not to cite us - prolly in hope that we will not find out but the article popped out a...
<|im_start|>user [FUTURAMA] How did Zapp Brannigan become such a high ranking official is he didn’t even finish the run in boot camp and is clearly inadequate?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant What makes a man fit to lead? Skills? Knowledge? The ability to finish an obstacle course? No! It's the ability to deliver order...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why does breathing into a paper bag help with hyperventilating?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It's clear that your body tries to maintain a certain level of oxygen in your blood. What's surprising is that it doesn't do this by measuring the oxygen in your blood, but by measuring the carbon diox...
<|im_start|>user Black Lives Matter **Black lives matter.** The moderation team at AskScience wants to express our outrage and sadness at the systemic racism and disproportionate violence experienced by the black community. This has gone on for too long, and it's time for lasting change. When 1 out of every 1,000 bla...
<|im_start|>user Do you give feedback to students about their soft skills? I teach undergrads at a small community college. We get to know our students pretty well. There is a senior who is very talented, but has a difficult personality. She made a really negative impression on a fellow student who was in a position to...
<|im_start|>user What do the chemicals in Fracking do? Why do they need all the chemicals? Can't they just frack with regular water?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Some of them are surfactants, or in other words, soaps. The water really don't want come in contact with oil-soaked rock, so pure water would not enter the...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do doctors determine what stage cancer is in and how long a patient has to live?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Stage one- cancer is small and localized. Two- has grown but still localized Three- grown more and possibly spread to lymph nodes Four- has spread to other organs and areas ...
<|im_start|>user How does the brain differentiate between languages in a bilingual speaker? I grew up speaking English and Spanish. I just knew which words to use depending on who I was speaking to, even with strangers. How did I know this? How do I separate the English from the Spanish? It seems like it was an inhere...
<|im_start|>user Why do people's noses get runny when they go out in the cold?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The blood vessels in your nose also expand to keep up with their job of warming up the air that you breathe in before it goes further down your respiratory tract. That in turn further activates your mucous pro...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How/why do we develop freckles on parts of our body that aren’t exposed to sunlight?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Why do black and brown people have brown skin in regions not exposed to sunlight? Same thing. Freckling is just a particular skin types ‘strategy’ for distributing melanin. Freck...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Developers shouldn't be allowed to clear cut lots to build homes Since the late 90's in metro Atlanta, GA new subdivisions/neighborhoods are built by clearing 99% of all trees and grading the land. They also have tried to squeeze more and more homes on the smallest lots. This wasn't how home build...
<|im_start|>user Do environmental factors play a role in human facial development? Is the shape of the face and jaw determined entirely by genetics, or do environmental factors influence development? Examples Eating soft foods vs eating tough, chewy foods. Resting tongue position. Breast feeding vs bottle feeding...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:How did the dollar gain so much value?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Currencies are like any other good, commodity, or service: the value is set by supply and demand. If there are many more dollars than there are people who want dollars, the people who have dollars and want to trade them for som...
<|im_start|>user How can foods labeled "Refrigerate after opening" stay on a shelf for extended periods of time without spoiling but then must be refrigerated after opening to prevent spoiling?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The short answer: exposure to air (and external moisture) after initially opening many food it...
<|im_start|>user When an animal is eaten whole, how does it actually die? Suffocation? Digestive acid?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It varies depending on the species and what their specific eating mechanism is. But generally speaking if the animal is swallowed whole while still alive it will suffocate first and the...
<|im_start|>user Any tips to not feel dumb during philosophy lectures? hey guys, I am a fourth year philosophy major, and I don't know if it is zoom lecture that is throwing me off, my Hard of hearingness, the accent of both of my professors, the fact that I am studying in a different time zone (3am philosophy lecture...
<|im_start|>user [Guardians of the Galaxy] Is it ever explained how Groot actually speaks? The fact that he basically says the same "sentence" over and over again suggests that his language is more tonal, and that the words aren't important. Rocket has no problem understanding what each iteration of "I am Groot" means....
<|im_start|>user How long does it take soap to “remove” bacteria? I’ve seen that the recommended amount of time for washing hands with soap is 20-30 seconds. I know that friction from rubbing is what allows the soap to remove the bacteria from your hands, but is the 20 second rule constant? Is that just to ensure you ...
<|im_start|>user Is there a 3D equivalent to the "Four Color Theorem"? I know the Four Color Theorem states that 4 colors are enough to fill any planar map. Is there a three-dimensional equivalent? Intuitively, I think it should need 4^2 colors, but is there a proof? [Four Color Theorem](https://en.wikipedia.or...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why is it that you naturally become drowsy when exposed to warm water for an extended period of time? I've known about this phenomenon for basically all of my life but haven't ever received a proper explanation for why it happens. Any helpful responses are greatly appreciated! :)<|im_end|> <|im_s...
<|im_start|>user How do marine mammals survive without fresh water to drink?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Marine mammals get their fresh water from the food they eat (ex: fish). Many dolphins in captivity are "watered", which is basically tubing water into their stomachs (painless and trainable), to make sure they...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What to people have to gain by claiming climate change isn't happening? Let me explain. In most issues I'm pretty Republican, but I don't understand why the Republican side is so passionate about climate change not being real. It seems to be pretty cut and dry that it's happening and I don't unde...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How would somebody create a new programming language?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant You would write a program in another language to make it work. The two approaches are: * compiler - reads a file of the new language and changes it to machine code * interpreter - reads the file line by line a...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What makes haemoglobin toxic to the human body? Isn't it essential for carrying oxygen in our blood?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Haemoglobin is, as you say, essential for carrying oxygen. But technically, we do not have haemoglobin in our blood. Haemoglobin is a protein that is bound in eryth...
<|im_start|>user [Iron Man 2] How did Tony Stark get the Mark 5 Suitcase Emergency Suit through customs all the way to Monaco? How did Tony Stark get the Mark 5 Suitcase Emergency Suit through customs all the way to Monaco? Would he not have had major issues moving it from America to France since it's considered a weap...
<|im_start|>user Why is it not advisable to give water to burn victims? The only (verifiable) reason I've found is that ["there is a great potential for burn victims to vomit."](http://uuhsc.utah.edu/burncenter/emergencycare/management.html) Is there any other reason not to administer water, especially from a physiolo...
<|im_start|>user [Star Wars] How many languages does the average person know? A lot of people seem to know other languages as well as Galactic Basic<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Most people only know one or two: Basic and whatever their own cultural language is. Depending on what they do they may know more. For exam...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 What is formal logic? I've read the wikipedia page a dozen times and I still feel five.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant This is a pretty condensed ELI5 but formal logic is a set of rules you can use to construct valid arguments or prove statements. You can also use it to check whether other people...
<|im_start|>user [Harry Potter] What laws of physics does magic defy the most? And by laws of physics I mean science plus the universe as well.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The first law of thermodynamics is that energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be transferred from one form to another. All spells ...
<|im_start|>user Number of citations? In a science field (edit: AGU journals, IEEE journals), I was wondering about the different 'citation scores'. If an author (as lead author) has 5 papers with over 100 citations, is that something that is really good? There is not a lot of papers, so the h-index and i10 index ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 - Why aren't the any pictures from rovers of the huge martian landmarks? I understand that Olympus Mons would be quite hard to take a picture of from the surface, but what about Valles Marineris ? there * sorry lol<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant They're sent with specific missions, such as taking...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Rape would cause much less psychological trauma if it were socially viewed on the same level as violent assault as opposed to being seen as equally bad or worse than murder. I think that the way western society views rape (sticking to rape of women, here, for reasons I will explain below) blows it...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Gravitanional Waves<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There's a general scientific belief that gravity isn't an instant effect and *something* travels at the speed of light causing the effects of gravity, between 2 objects, in a similar way to how light does. If something big enough and fast enoug...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How or why are people so strong when they do PCP? I've heard and read a ton of crazy stories about people doing alien-like strong and violent things while they are on PCP. Is this a Hollywood myth or is there a reason? (I have no plans of doing PCP)<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Humans are much...
<|im_start|>user Should mathematicians be worried about the implications of Gödel's incompleteness theorems? From what I understand, Gödel proved that there does not exist any set of axioms, capable of describing arithmetic that are complete. That is, his incompleteness theorems showed that no matter the axioms we choo...
<|im_start|>user Why are viruses so much harder to kill than bacteria? With the rise of CoVid-19 there are tons of news reports about the fact there are no medications for this virus. Obviously we have tons of antibiotics, but why are antivirals so much harder to develop?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Antibiotics kil...
<|im_start|>user Should laypeople be agnostic about matters that are still debated by experts? Many laymen hold beliefs which are very controversial in academia and are still debated (one that comes to mind is the theism vs. atheism debate (technically there is a consensus since most philosophers are atheists. However,...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What does it mean when physicists say the Universe is flat? Currently in an astronomy class i took for fun (not nearly as fun as i thought), but many interesting concepts come up such as this one. How is the universe flat?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Essentially, it means that the universe mo...
<|im_start|>user Explain how 0.999 recurring = 1 (LI5.) This was explained in class when I was younger. Never got my head around it. Edit: Well and truly explained. Thanks.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant All the numbers can be ordered on a very, very big line, like on a gigantic ruler. Now, if two numbers are differ...
<|im_start|>user Gravitational lensing could be used to create a telescope to search for radio signals from intelligent life with 1.3e12 amplification - how? I read about the work of Claudio Maccone [here](http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/06/gravitational-lens-sun-space-exploration-maccone.html). Ho...
<|im_start|>user Why is black and white vision more adventageous for predators than color vision?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Your eyes have two receptors - - rods and cones. One dealswith color, but the picture is not very 'sharp'. The other sees black and white but is very sharp. So black and white vision tend...
<|im_start|>user How does electricity know the path of least resistance before it gets to its destination? I have a very basic knowledge of electricity, but I'm puzzled by how and why a current takes the path of least resistance. Why does lightning differentiate between striking a metal tower versus the ground 20 feet ...
<|im_start|>user How does glue work at an molecular level? Does it bond with the contact material or is there a more simple 'sticky' explanation? If the glue does not bond with the contact (as I assume is does not because of the relative ease of separation) then how does it stick in the first place while losing it's in...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: why is vomiting an early sign of pregnancy? Note: thanks to everyone<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant At the beginning of a pregnancy, the woman's entire endocrine system (which regulates hormones and the body's ability to process energy and food) is going through massive shifts as it prepares to ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How is it all breeds of dogs are the same species? How is it that the tiny, white fluffy poodle is the same scientific species as the massive black great dane? Why is there is such a wide range of dog types and how can they all be considered the same species?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Becau...
<|im_start|>user How is a mirror both silver AND able to reflect everything at the same time? I don't understand. Is it actually not silver and there's some crazy cultural mind trick convincing me to think it's silver when there's actually no silver there in the first place?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant I believe yo...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do DNA/Ancestry kits work, and how accurate are they? (Like the ones from "23 and me" and "ancestry.com")<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There are common genetic findings that frequently occur due to descent from a specific set of ancestors. Researchers have identified specific sets of findi...
<|im_start|>user CMV: The soccer/football time keeping method (counting up to 90 + injury time) is inferior to the counting down and time-stop methods used in other major sports. Watching the world cup, their time keeping method is a glaringly inferior system. There is no reason the fans shouldn't be able to see the sa...
<|im_start|>user Is Double-Slit Experiment about measurement limitations or nature of the light? Hi, I was reading about Double-Slit experiment lately and Complementarity. Can we say that: The act of "**observing**” affects the electrons/photos but this doesn’t mean that the reality was not there. We don’t have a wa...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 What is Doughnut economics and how does it work?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It’s an economic model that takes 12 social necessities and 9 ecological ceilings into a single model. Basically we want to fulfill the necessities without damaging the ecosystem. If a society manages to do so it’s co...
<|im_start|>user I know everybody hates "This is what belongs in ----" posts, but i think I can actually be constructive. Obviously I can only give my opinions, I can't say "This is what it's for!" with an iron fist, but I think I have some sound reasoning. From the title "explainlikeimfive", I think everyone can gathe...
<|im_start|>user What happens to veins after they are injected with a needle?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Not sure what you mean... so hopefully the following helps; First, IDK if you can say they're injected with a needle; they're punctured/pierced by the needle - you then inject the contents of the syringe into...
<|im_start|>user How long would it actually take to learn programming from zero? I'm a synthetic biology PhD student and I have recently realised the strong need for dry lab skills! Ive always had an interest for modeling biological systems, but the thought of learning programming seems overwhelming. Also knowing that ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:Why use / should I use Docker? For programming projects, i've tend to seen a lot of students using docker as container service, where they have like a db container, frontend container etc.. why would you even do that? instead of installing the dependencies (database) local on your pc. one thing ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: If you go to sleep hungry, why do you wake up significantly less hungry than you were before?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The amount of sugar in your blood stream has a big impact on how hungry you are. When you eat something with sugar your blood sugar immediately rises. As time passes your ...
<|im_start|>user Student researcher lied to regarding publication and recognition For context, everyone I mention (including myself) are student researchers at a very prestigious research university. I’m going to try and omit genders, ages, our field of study, etc. to try and keep this post from potentially biting me b...
<|im_start|>user Can electrons experience the Doppler effect?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant In the sense that they will appear to have more or less kinetic energy depending on which reference frame they are viewed in. It's an analogous to the Doppler effect of light, which itself is analogous in a different way to th...
<|im_start|>user Is Mathematics a 'Social Constructed'? Is mathematics fundamentally existent within 'reality, the universe, or whatever'? And we as humans are simply in a process of 'discovering' it? I.e If isolated cultures and peoples exist for long enough, they will all inevitably come to create mathematics as we h...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: what is the equivalent for cardinal points North, south, east, and weast in space?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant As others have said, you have to have a reference point. Now, in orbit, there are some directions that are used for navigation, but they're dependent on your particular orbit. Still...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why is it ok to watch a sunrise/sunset but its not okay to look directly at the sun?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant During the sunrise and sunset, less of the sun's rays are shining on your location, and they travel through more air to reach you. This causes the beams into change to a less harmf...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Digging up Mummies and displaying them in museums in barbaric and disrespectful I am a lover of history and museums, but this one I just really don't understand. It's one thing if someone agreed to be mummified and put on display before they died (this is the case with some mummies in the Vatican)...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: NASA's latest announcement about Mars' atmosphere<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant EDIT: More ELI5 answer: A long time ago Mars had plenty of water flowing on its surface. Shortly after the flowing water was there Mars lost its magnetic field. The magnetic field is caused by melted metal inside o...