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<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why is space black? Why is space black?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Color comes from light, light directly from a source or light reflected/scattered off a surface. where there is no source or no surface there is no light. Space is a vacuum so there is no source and there is no surface, so th...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How have we been able to make the physical size of memory sticks such as SD cards and flash drives smaller and smaller while being able to hold much larger amount of bytes of data?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant We find and/or invent new manufacturing processes that allow us to make smaller and ...
<|im_start|>user Bringing family to reception at a conference? I am attending a conference next month and my grandparents will be in the same city. My school is putting on an ‘alumni and friends’ reception at a beautiful venue in honor of the conference. I told my grandparents about it and they would like to attend wit...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: what happens to the water used to make concrete? Can the concrete degrade, until the water escapes?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Concrete setting is a complicated process and depends on the materials used. But part of the process is the hydration of the ingredients. The water actually becomes ...
<|im_start|>user [Star Trek] How do people pay for services and real state? In before, no society can ever be post-scarcity as services and land can't be replicated. My biggest examples are prostitution, concerts and real estate. "Organic" prostitutes will always be in demand rather than VR/holodeck. And they are goi...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 : How is 70% Alcohol more effective in killing microorganisms than 90% or 100% concentration? I don't know if this applies to ALL organism, but papers i just read stated it's more effective in killing co*id and some other bacteria. #But HOW?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant 70% percent of alcohol...
<|im_start|>user Is my chemistry teacher smarter than a 5th grader?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There IS enough information, and the pressure does indeed increase. 1. Assuming it starts as an inflated soccer ball (in the conventional understanding of "inflated" for a sports ball), the initial pressure of the gas i...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do Verizon and AT&amp;T both claim to have the nation's largest network?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There are different ways you can measure largest...number of customers, number of towers, square miles of coverage. On top of that, "network" is also vague...is it phone service, internet...
<|im_start|>user CMV Stated funded Religious schools should not exist **Correct Title: CMV State funded Religious schools should not exist** Edit: I'm located in the UK Many of us agree religion is the cause of major problems today. Segregation from others is not the way to solve this. What has religion got to do ...
<|im_start|>user [Halo] A question about civilian life? So this is something I have wondered about the halo franchise. Why is it that civilian life is not that different from our own? For example: I was watching Halo ODST gameplay footage and while watching I noticed that civilian life isn't that different than ours. W...
<|im_start|>user Can I escape harm from a fireball by diving under water? I was watching "True Lies" earlier today, and there is a scene where Arnold dives into a body of water just as a fuel truck explodes above him. As he swims a few feet under water you can see a massive fireball right above him. Is this situation ...
<|im_start|>user What makes a person's voice distinct?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Too many things to count, but I'll generally try to divide it into two broad categories: 1. The way our muscles and cavities are made and aligned. This refers to the composition of the muscles which make up our vocal folds, pharynx,...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: When sea level rises, why wouldn't it rise the same amount everywhere? I was reading [this vox article](https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/6/1/15724164/9-questions-climate-change-too-embarrassed-to-ask), about climate change and it's potential effects on the globe. One thing they mention...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why can I usually hear when a person is black, without seeing them (phone calls or radio etc). And I don't mean accents. Maybe it is an accent, and I'm just not aware I'm detecting it. **Edit: Apparently talking about differences in the "races" is racist.**<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Ther...
<|im_start|>user If an experiment were conducted outside of an academic environment (e.g., in a home-based DIY laboratory), could the results still be published in a peer-reviewed journal? **tl,dr: see post title. For further information, keep reading.** Let's pretend that a *previous* mentor (ex-mentor) has recently ...
<|im_start|>user [Warhammer 40k] I'm a fish-out-of-water time traveler in the 41st Millennium - what should I do? Due to warp-related fuckery I've been plucked out of the 21st Century and dropped into the grimdarkness of the far future. What's the best I can do in this situation?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Dependi...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What's going on in the brain when you "turn down the music to see better"?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Reducing cognitive load. It's not so much that you need to see better, like the way glasses bring things into focus, but you are scanning the environment for clues and processing those clues...
<|im_start|>user I think economic mobility is more important than wealth distribution. CMV What is the actual impact of unequal wealth distribution? Is the argument that rich people cause poor people? I'm not sure I buy that. If money and wealth were fixed, then yes, distribution matters, but they're not. The rich get...
<|im_start|>user Do plants have a life expectancy? Can you predict how long a plant will live, given the proper conditions? There was a story in the newspaper about a tree that had "reached the end of it's life-cycle." It is the centerpiece of a large condo/shopping center, and is going to be removed for public safety ...
<|im_start|>user Can someone please tell me why we curve-fit? I'm doing a physics project that includes Gaussian and Lorentzian 'fits', and I want to get a basic of understanding of why we curve-fit, and why those two fits are considered good.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant "Curve-fitting" means different things to di...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What is the difference between quantum physics and quantum mechanics?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Quantum physics is the term given to any branch of physics which is quantized - that is, in which things exist in discrete packets. Quantum mechanics is a specific field of quantum physics. The...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Dark Matter I tried to read a bit about it but it was all a bit to scientific for me. Would like to know why we have it and what role does it play in our cosmic universe like i am 5.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant We have a pretty good idea of how gravity, motion and mass all work. We are pretty...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why is it said that Florida, Arizona, and Nevada could only grow with air conditioning when many of history's great cities flourished in similar climates long before the invention of A/C? Havana, New Orleans, Charleston, Santo Domingo, Cairo, Baghdad, Ahvaz, Shibam, Zanzibar, Angkor, Hue, and Sin...
<|im_start|>user Long term effects of shaking a Earthquake resistant building. (concerning Japan) Reposted from here: http://www.reddit.com/r/japan/comments/gpgau/long_term_effects_of_shaking_a_earthquake/ Perhaps a civil engineer or similar could chime in on this one. So, the buildings held up well to the initial int...
<|im_start|>user [Doctor Who] In adventures with multiple Doctors, why doesn't the Doctor's later incarnation remember the adventure's outcome, having already experienced it one or more times?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It is part of the Blinovitch Limitation Effect. In almost all cases like this only the latest...
<|im_start|>user CMV: The logic behind getting rid of the electoral college would apply equally to getting rid of the senate. The argument that I hear for why the electoral college is bad is that it allows for situations where the president wins despite losing the popular vote. The argument tends to be that we are a de...
<|im_start|>user [Star Trek] What if Borg Assimilation Was Voluntary and A Little Less Creepy? There's really no reason for all the black tubes and creepy glowing eyes. Cyborgs could be attractive or at least less evil. If the Borg just visited worlds and offered assimilation into their "Shared Consciousness" (Sounds ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 - Why does everything sound muffled underwater if sound travels 4x faster in water?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It’s a lot to do with how fast your diaphragm in your ear can vibrate which increases clarity. The faster the eardrum can move the more information it can resolve. The increased v...
<|im_start|>user They say that a photon takes a million years to make it out of the Sun. But what does it even mean? How do we define that a particular photon now is the "same" photon that was there then? When I'm doing photons-in-a-box problem with large enough number of photons, and I add a photon in, and later I let...
<|im_start|>user What are the most fundamental assumptions that physicists have to make in order to derive the laws of physics? EDIT: To clarify, I mean is there a particular set of first principles from which the laws of physics (or most of them at least) can be mathematically derived. For example, I imagine one of th...
<|im_start|>user Why does lime juice pulp settle but lemon juice pulp floats? Here's a photo of what I'm talking about: https://i.imgur.com/cUyHaJi.jpg Both were squeezed, strained, and allowed to rest the same time and method.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Not to oversimplify, but sometimes, the answer really is s...
<|im_start|>user Philosophers who wrote about the concept of space Hello, my next year's philosophical field of study will be "Space". It involves space in every meaning of the word. I'd like to learn a few things in advance. I've thought about the relations between human and space, how space is used to dominate men, ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How does software / firmware physically 'interact' with hardware. I understand, at least at a superficial level, that integrated circuits contain many many transistors, which act as 'switches' for current flow. By applying a current to the transistor 'base' (or not applying a current), the curren...
<|im_start|>user Why do I have to think for a second about left vs. right, but up vs. down comes to me immediately? It's not just me, right?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Up and down are defined by the direction of gravity. Things always fall down, never up. Your feet are always down not up. Your head is alway up, no...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Textbooks should not offer practice problems without an answer key. My view is simple, if a textbook does not provide answers for practice problems, it should not have practice problems at all. It is impractical to not have a way to check your work when studying and as such is pointless without ha...
<|im_start|>user What is the utility of Kant's distinction between analytic/synthetic and a priori/a posteriori knowledge before expounding upon his premises of the categories of the mind in Critique of Pure Reason? So I am a little confused about why he begins his metaphysics with this. I get that the categories of th...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do we get bored?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, GABA, and other neurochemicals. We get a boost of dopamine from novel and stimulating activities. Eventually, or body produces less of it for the same experiences repeated over and over again, so we no longer get ...
<|im_start|>user Does human vision have a better horizontal resolution than vertical resolution? Does having eyes in a horizontal line result in better horizontal resolution in humans or is it same in both horizontal and vertical directions? Also, what is the aspect ratio of human vision? Is circular, elliptical or som...
<|im_start|>user Does chlorine that settles in to ground when irrigating lawns or draining swimming pools degrade into something else, or remain unchanged? I work in water utilities. 99% of residents in my city irrigate their lawns with city water, and we like chlorine to be 1.8-2.1 in this city. All run off from irrig...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do people solve rubix cubes in &lt;10 seconds? Edit: Rubik's, my bad.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Rubik's cubes are actually solved with a formula, or simple set of rules. Once you know those rules by heart, it just becomes a matter of applying them in the most efficient way (to minimize ...
<|im_start|>user what does it mean for the universe to have a shape? I’ve read different articles discussing theories of the shape of the universe but I can’t wrap my mind around all of the jargon explaining what that means and why it’s important to study. help!<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant This is a question that a...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do the nerves on genitals produce pleasure when touched whereas those on other parts do not?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The brain. Everything is how the brain is wired to interpret it. For the genitals certain types of touch will be interpreted by the brain as pleasurable....... but a ...
<|im_start|>user Roughly how far apart are galaxies?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It varies of course, but on the order of millions of light years. Our nearest neighbor of a similar size as the Milky Way is 2.5 million light years away. There are a couple of dwarf satellite galaxies about 10x closer to us (the Magel...
<|im_start|>user When did human beings start exercising? From an anthropological standpoint, when did humans start developing and using exercises to improve physical fitness? When did we discover that repetitive motion + resistance = growth?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Physical activity for the sake of fitness beg...
<|im_start|>user Eli5 Why is force equal to mass multiplied by acceleration and not speed ? If a car moves consistently at 80 kmh and it weighs at 600kg, is it not generating any force? since you know, a=0, am I stupid or is Newton ?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Newton's first law: an object in motion will stay in m...
<|im_start|>user How relevant are the classic philosophical texts to answering philosophical queries today? Philosophy, like many other disciplines, has a rich history of influential thinkers writing important works. Philosophy has Aristotle, Plato, Descartes, Leibniz, Hume, Kant, Mill, Nietzsche, Russell, Wittgenstein...
<|im_start|>user CMV: When a person says they can “love more than one person at the same time” (romantically) they really mean “I can get what I want from more than one person at the same time.” In reading about and hearing people talk about open marriage, polyamory, non-monogamy, I often hear the statement "I am capab...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why did the crowd go CRAZY when Jobs revealed the Macintosh? Literally jumping up and down. Was it that huge of a leap forward? (video included) [I just saw the reveal for the first time, and it's blowing my mind.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B-XwPjn9YY) Look at those people at 4:28. It's ...
<|im_start|>user CMV: "Good-paying" factory jobs won't come back to the United States. I am becoming endlessly frustrated with rhetoric from politicians that promises the return of "good paying" manufacturing jobs if they are elected president. These proposals typically lay out some variation of these three steps: 1. ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why does everything hurt more when you're cold? I was wearing sandals in cold weather, stubbed my toe and thought I was going to die - it hurt way more than when I'm just hanging out in a room-temperature place. Why is this so?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Things (well, things that aren't wate...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:Why did health insurance prices go up in the United States when almost all Americans have it now? Shouldn't prices have went down?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Law student studying insurance law here. Insurance companies used to be able to pick and choose who they insured. That means they coul...
<|im_start|>user CMV: a 0 to 4 GPA scale is a poor way to represent grades At a glace the current grade scale makes sense, anything under a 60 is considered not worthy of passing so we divide the passing region into four equally sized quadrants and make those the 4 passing grades. You then assign the quadrants a number...
<|im_start|>user Are compounds that contain radioactive elements also radioactive? Asked another way: is radioactivity affected by the fact that the radionuclide is bound with other atoms in a compound?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There are obscure corner cases where chemistry influences radioactivity (largely when...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why has China devalued its currency, and what will that mean for other countries?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant When your currency becomes stronger, it becomes much harder for you to export your country's goods, because your goods become more expensive for other countries. China doesn't want th...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: When going to bed after a day at the waterpark, doing rollercoaster or at sea, I can feel the "movements" of the day. Why is that? Also, why does it only happens with some activities (ie: i don't feel myself walking) ?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Your inner ear detects your movements and send...
<|im_start|>user I don't think I should try to reduce my carbon footprint. CMV. I DO think that we, as a species, should reduce our carbon footprint. But I think this change will happen over the next few years due to economic incentives (solar getting cheaper, gas getting more expensive, etc). Classic tragedy of the ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do we need patents?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant First point to understand is that it is way easier to make something than it is to come up with the idea to make it. People and companies often spend a lot of time and money thinking, modeling, prototyping, testing, rethinking, etc befo...
<|im_start|>user What effects would castration have on a man's body?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Effects of castration are largely dependent on WHEN that castration takes place. A primary hypothesis that describes hormonal actions is called the 'organization and activation' model. During development in the womb,...
<|im_start|>user Best data structure for a spare array I'm working on a font library. The format I'm using provides a list of UTF-16 codes and their offsets in a spritesheet, so each entry might look like: &amp;#x200B; 0089 X=100 Y = 200 1500 X=32 Y=10 etc. There are 2\^16 possible values in this format...
<|im_start|>user CMV: President Regan is the most economically and socially destructive president we will ever have in America. I'll try and keep this brief In my opinion, President Reagan is probably the most destructive, corrupted president we will ever have. He has does more destruction of the American life and the...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What specifically are doctors looking for when they check your eyes, nose, mouth, and breathing? Why is this standard practice?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant When looking in your eyes they want to make sure the pupils are dilating like they are supposed to. If not there could be a lesion among ...
<|im_start|>user On the atomic level, what is happening when I spill acid on myself? Is it the same with bases? Thanks in advance! edit: also, are there any other "corrosive" substances that are dangerous to humans other than acids/bases? The only counterexample I could think of was chlorine gas, but that's acidic t...
<|im_start|>user How does the CPU know not to write into read only memory? Or outside of the program, for that matter. Is there a check for what segment it is in in every read/write instruction? How does it work?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It depends on the system, but typically yes, every write has to be translat...
<|im_start|>user Why are planets always round? (Not a flat earther at all here btw) just wondering why a planets are not a more random shape?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The definition of a planet has a few criteria and one of them is that it has to be round. So if an object isn't a sphere, we wouldn't call it a pl...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: why are time zones a thing? Why not just have a global time and some places the sun is up at 12am and down at 12pm? Why must (generally) the sun be up 6am to 6pm?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Across most of human history, time was always determined by the apparent local time. Noon was when th...
<|im_start|>user How are electronic systems on spacecraft protected from "bit flips" caused by cosmic rays?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant A number of ways, depending on a lot of factors. There are two categories of protection- physical and logical. Physical protections are things like: * Larger feature (transistor)...
<|im_start|>user Electromagnetic Waves: How is the transparency/opacity of materials defined?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant I think that you are confused about the permittivity. High permittivity generally means that a substance can become more polarized. The conductivity of a material is a completely separate measur...
<|im_start|>user CMV: girls flirting with guys just to get drinks (with no genuine romantic interest in the dudes) is manipulative and shouldn't be glorified as "finessing" No one's making these dudes buy her a drink. Totally agree on that, if he chooses to buy her a drink then he made that choice himself. But if a gir...
<|im_start|>user Since economics is often considered the “dismal science”, what are some truly interesting/fun facts about Econ?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There have been many strange applications of economic knowledge. Several books have been written about them recently. The most well known is "Freakonomics" (an...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Diversity in gender and race is not important I don't think diversity is important. I never understand why people complain about movies and companies that have for example, only white people, or significantly less women than men. If we believe in equality, and if we say that we should not care abo...
<|im_start|>user A lot of economists argue that a minimum wage is not good for low level employees. What is a ground level empirical example of how a low skilled worker would benefit from there being no minimum wage?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant As a basic rule of thumb you use a minimum wage to guarantee a certain ...
<|im_start|>user Has the cost of living gotten higher or do people just live higher? Usually cost of living is measured with a "basket of goods and services" which changes from year to year. If we applied an old basket to today, what would the cost of living look like? E.g. the 1950 basket probably has more cigarettes...
<|im_start|>user CMV: That players from national teams (English, Spanish etc) should be from, or have heritage from that respective nation It always confuses me when I see the "English Football Team" whilst some players aren't even English (Full list of all Footballers for the English team over-time who aren't from Eng...
<|im_start|>user Can single-celled organisms get cancer?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Well, let's look at the six hallmarks of cancer: * self-sufficiency in growth signalling - already present * insensitivity to anti-growth signals - not really applicable * evasion of apoptosis - probably possible * enabling of ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why can't I use a telescope to look at really small things? Why can't I use a microscope to look at things that are far away?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Focal length. Microscopes use shorter focal length to view small objects, while telescopes use longer focal length to view far-away object...
<|im_start|>user How did such a diverse Universe form from a Big Bang singularity? I only have a basic understanding of the fundamentals of this, but what I'm wondering is since at the point of or just before the big bang all matter was a part of the singularity and I'll assume uniformly compressed, why did it not form...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do they determine the total human population of the world when so many nations are too underdeveloped or corrupt to be able to keep track of all their citizens effectively?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Census is the scientific term for taking account of a national asset such a population, ...
<|im_start|>user Can someone explain the equation E=mc2 in terms a 16 years old can understand? I've tried to read about it, but, well... I don't get it. Does it mean every object with a mass contain energy? Or something like that? Educate me, science.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Prior to Einstein, people thought e...
<|im_start|>user Why is it that "continental" philosophers are still highly popular and influential in Anglophone social science, despite mostly not being especially well-liked by most philosophers in the same region? In a lot of social science stuff I read in English, I tend to see a lot of philosophers typically cons...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Homework should be used to introduce new concepts, not to practice and reinforce concepts from class. As said in the title, I feel that learning concepts in class and practicing said concepts for homework is inferior to introducing and possibly learning the concepts at home and practicing them in ...
<|im_start|>user Tree rings are often used to estimate historical atmospheric temperatures. However, numerous other variables (rainfall/snowpack, herbivory, volcanic activity, fires, etc) also affect the growth rates of trees, so why do we place so much trust in tree rings to measure past temperatures? For example, say...
<|im_start|>user CMV: While "Radical Islam" is currently the religion causing issues across the world, it is really just the next iteration of religions as a whole acting to tear people apart. Regardless of the particular belief, the real problem is that religion has NO PLACE in the modern world. It was used as a metho...
<|im_start|>user [Mass effect] Is there an in universe reason to why ships in the Mass Effect universe are smaller in comparison to other Science fiction series? The largest ships in mass effect are the dreadnoughts which range from 800 meters to a kilometer. This seems large but when you compare it to the Punic-class ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do abrasions weep? After hurting myself, I noticed that abrasions on the skin always produce a lot of fluid. Cuts or scratches usually never do that. What has a abrasion that something like that happens?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant When tissues are damaged, part of the body's response is ...
<|im_start|>user What would be a good alternative to how today's academic jobs are handled? I've thought about doing a PhD on numerous occasions but have always been scared off by stories of a shrinking job market for traditional academics (tenure-track). It also seems like the adjunctification/post-doctorization (are ...
<|im_start|>user Why shouldn’t you get the COVID-19 vaccine if you have a cold/flu? I’ve had a bit of a google and the closest answer I can get is that given some people experience mild to severe cold/flu like symptoms after receiving their shot - especially the 2nd shot - is that if you get the vaccine and are already...
<|im_start|>user Case studies are inherently flawed and are ultimately inferior to scientific studies. CMV So on issues social in nature, the first thing a lot of individuals do is throw down on some case study or other to reinforce their point. I don't find there to be any value in case studies due to the volatile nat...
<|im_start|>user I need some help defending philosophy as a legitimate profession I love philosophy, but I can also understand how someone may misunderstand it and think it's bullshit or doesn't do anything. So for the sake of the topic I'm going to assume a devil's advocate position in the beginning and then at the en...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why eating Sushi is healthy and safe and why other raw meats can't achieve this. I was always curious about this. Anyone care to help?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It all depends on the likelihood of parasites and how the meat was handled. There's nothing wrong with raw beef, for example. The...
<|im_start|>user Would it be possible for a planet with a 24-hour day to have seasons that last for years? And if so, how would it differ from our own planetary system? Yes, I'm trying to find out if a George R.R. Martin *Song of Fire and Ice*-type world is possible.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant the length of the da...
<|im_start|>user Okay, so what the hell is dialectics? Anything that I've read about it seems like gibberish. Do any of you have some resources that can aid my understanding?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Dialectics is an abstract description of the movement that the understanding does. The mind sorts the world in id...
<|im_start|>user Where can a masters (MA) in economics take me besides a path to a PhD program? I’m currently pursuing a BA in Economics and my university (UT Austin) offers a 5th year MA in economics program. I’m currently not interested in pursuing a PhD so I’m wondering if obtaining a masters is worth it. Can a MA i...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: out of all the voices I am capable of making, how does one of these become my natural speaking voice?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Unless you consciously make an effort to change it (eg. Transgendered woman trying to sound more feminine), the pitch of your natural voice is the one which you ha...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Personal privacy is more important than the conveniences of modern technology with smart phones and social media Privacy has become less and less of a priority for people over the course of the smart phone evolution. Our lives depend on them and how much "easier" they make our day. You can do ever...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do some lawyers help bad people? (Question from 8-yr-old) Hey everyone, Could you help me explain this to my sister in a way she can understand. Her exact words were 'why do some lawyers help people who have done horrible things, like killing lots of people or hurting their own kids? do the ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do some websites require credit card CVC and some do not at checkout? Seems if someone could charge without it, why is it needed some places? What's more, why is it needed a'tall?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Fraud prevention. Asking for the CVC is a much stronger proof that the purchaser ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: how did most teachers come to be female when historically women got less education than men?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Traditionally, up until the middle of the 19th century most teachers were male. That's because most formalized teaching was for older students. Around that time, the conce...
<|im_start|>user [Physics] [Chemistry] Why does something smoulder instead of be on fire with a flame? What's happening physically?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant its important to realize that burning and smoldering are both examples of exothermic oxidation reactions. Smoldering usually occurs because there is some im...
<|im_start|>user How does the earth make water? Or is there a fixed supply.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Water is chemically composed of Oxygen and Hydrogen, both of which are found in large quantities on our planet, but not always together as water. The amount of Hydrogen and Oxygen is relatively fixed - discountin...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do some injuries "sting", while others may give a more "dull" pain?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The type of pain is an indication of what kind of injury you have. It's your brain categorizing what's happening. For example if you have a sore muscle it's probably dull because your brain kno...