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<|im_start|>user [ELI5] Globalisation What it is, why are some people against it, advantages and disadvantages. Thanks in advance.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Globalization, broadly speaking, is the movement of the international economy to a freer market, or a market with less trade barriers. This has several imp...
<|im_start|>user Why are Basalt Columns Hexagonal? I've learnt that they are made by cooling lava, but just assumed it was hexagonal due to a crystal structure of some kind. However, [this article](https://www.iflscience.com/environment/why-columnar-basalt-almost-always-hexagonal/) seems to say that they are formed hex...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:Why is alcohol so fundamentally ingrained in our culture, especially when it comes to socializing? And why it over other equally dangerous drugs?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Alcohol was historically important in Western culture as a way to preserve fruit and grain as well as provide a liquid t...
<|im_start|>user Can I decarbonate a soda by repeatedly freezing and thawing it?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant No, assuming the system is closed then the amount of gas dissolved in solution will be dependent upon a number of variables, including ambient temperature, volume of the liquid and the head space above it. S...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Illegal immigration is a form of civil disobedience protesting global inequalities and the impossibility of legal immigration. It's a Jim Crow sit in on a grand scale. For now, most illegal immigrants (afaik) come to more developed countries for their own personal/financial motivation, but I'm won...
<|im_start|>user Will mastering any one programming language allow the person to easily pick up any other language?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Any is a strong word, but concepts in one language are very common in others as well. You'll find that some are different. C++ and JavaScript are similar. Python and BASIC...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: my Keurig coffee maker has a "strong" setting, what makes the coffee stronger if it's the same amount of coffee with the same amount of water?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It allows the coffee to extract longer by increasing the time that the coffee is in the hot water physically. By increasi...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 Difference Machine Learning/ Deep Learning I'm a teacher and I'm trying to explain the difference between Machine Learning and Deep Learning. Can someone help me?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Deep learning is a specific part of machine learning which uses multiple layers as part of a neural net...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do some men's penises have a darker skin tone than the rest of their body, despite having little UV light contact? (NSFW) Always wondered this, ever since my partner flopped his out in front of me for the first time.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant This gets asked a LOT (like, multiple times ...
<|im_start|>user Can someone explain how junk bonds work?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Normal bonds are like loaning money to your trustworthy, suit-wearing neighbor who has a good salary and just needs some cash for a quick project. He'll pay you back, but since you two are such good buddies, he'll only pay you an...
<|im_start|>user How many bytes of information can a single neuron store?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There are a lot of different ways to answer this question. One answer could be that single neurons cannot store any information, that information storage is based on the state of a group of neurons in a system. In ...
<|im_start|>user What is the difference between aesthetics and morality?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Aesthetics is about art, beauty, and other related topics. It discusses questions like "what makes something beautiful," "what is art," "is artistic merit subjective or objective," and so on. Morality is about righ...
<|im_start|>user What are the alternative methods of funding a UBI besides a VAT tax? Are there any proposals for funding UBI through an alternative revenue source in the USA? What are their benefits and drawbacks opposed to higher VAT?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Depends on the scope and scale of UBI program. Does...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Supporting artists who are bad people is unethical I mean, there’s so much great art made by people who don’t rape / aren’t racist etc. By supporting Chris brown for example you are directly helping someone who beats women. I don’t really care if you like his music, the way I see it only a complet...
<|im_start|>user How high could mountains on Earth grow? Is there evidence of higher mountains in the past? Given what we know about plate tectonics, erosion and so on, is there a maximum height mountains could grow to? Could a range like the Himalayas reach 5-10km higher in time and do we have any evidence of this i...
<|im_start|>user Why do humans/mammals bleed from the mouth after head/chest trauma? Why is this always the imminent death factor in movies?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Think of what the mouth connects to - your lungs, stomach, and the passageways to your nose and ears. Head/chest trauma can lead to bleeding into o...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do I get motion sickness when I'm in the car not driving but don't get motion sickness when I'm driving? EDIT: Thanks for the explanation guys. I get motion-sickness very easily and I found driving to be a way to get around that while in the car.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant When you are d...
<|im_start|>user CMV:All states should adopt laws similar to the "Idaho Stop Law" with regards to people riding bikes **Final Edit: Thank you to everyone who contributed to this discussion! I'm pleased with how it went and the back and forth was impressively civil. Kudos! I awarded two deltas: one disputing my included...
<|im_start|>user I’ve heard that the ratio in size between the human body and the smallest subatomic particle is equal to the ratio in size between the size of the known universe and the human body. Is this true? I've heard this multiple times in my life, and I can't seem to find any concrete evidence of it's truth. An...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: In golf, why is it easier to curve the ball with a lower lofted club? And by extension why do most people hit it straight with wedges when they go all over the place with longer clubs?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Short answer: backspin. Higher lofted clubs produce far more backspin which stab...
<|im_start|>user Philosophers dealing with fundamental structure of everything using no prior assumptions I'm looking for authors dealing with the fundamental structure of everything, starting with no prior assumptions. One such author is Hegel, which in [Science of Logic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_of_Logic...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How can something be artificial if everything is made from naturally occurring elements?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It's essentially a convenient term for indicating a specific group, ala "Stuff made in a lab" vs "stuff we found in the ground, or a plant." Certainly, one can argue it does n...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 Why do so many people get their wisdom teeth removed nowadays as opposed to ancient times? What changed?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Long story short, our hunter-gatherer ancestors had stronger and larger jaws, as their diet - raw flesh, plant roots, etc. - required much more chewing than our ...
<|im_start|>user Eli5: Why is glacier preservation so important? What would happen if they were to be completely melted across the globe?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Glacier melting is seen as a significant indicator of global temperature. They are long standing, relatively stable structures. If they start disappea...
<|im_start|>user Can you know something without having it memorized? Like you know it in some contexts (like when you see or hear it and recognize it) but not others (like when trying to solve a problem or trying to communicate something). I haven't really seen anything written about this so I think its worth discussin...
<|im_start|>user [John Carpenter's The Thing] Why doesn't the Thing spray spores right away if it only takes one cell to infect someone? Why wait to eat someone?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant We don't know for sure that one cell is capable of assimilating an entire human body. We know each cell of The Thing is active...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Creating and/or sharing the post asking users to identify tiki-torch people at the Unite The Right rally is wrong. CMV: Creating and/or sharing the post asking users to identify tiki-torch people at the Unite The Right rally is wrong. a) Calling for the identification of people inherently and ine...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do only white people have varying hair colors, while people with other skin colors typically only have one hair color?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Melanin is involved in skin color, hair color and eye color. Lighter skin evolved as an adaptation to less sunlight, lighter skin is achieved ...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Fat Feminism is a warped denial of medical studies I'm a feminist, pretty much agree with most of the movements, but I cannot for the life of me understand this one. I understand not shaming people because it empirically doesn't work and can lead to mental health issues. I understand reducing soci...
<|im_start|>user [Harry Potter] If the global wizarding community decided to rescind the Statute of Secrecy what would be the best approach to follow in introducing themselves and the existence of magic in general to the rest of the world?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Adapt the events of their recent history into a ...
<|im_start|>user Why doesn't the Banach-Tarski theorem work in the physical world? The theorem would have you believe you can violate conservation of mass with an Exacto knife. Why is this untrue, what's different about the physical world that doesn't apply to the Banach-Tarski theorem?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant ...
<|im_start|>user What exactly is vacuum or zero point energy and can it be harnessed?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Vacuum energy in free space is better understood as quantum field fluctuations that arise from the inherent variability/uncertainty of all quantum objects. Note that vacuum energy is not a static, perma...
<|im_start|>user Why do energy drinks cause you to "crash"?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Let's say you have 100 points of energy to use. A whole bunch of different factors will cause you to use more/less energy and gain/lose energy. Food/drinks will add energy, activities will reduce them. Your body tries to conserv...
<|im_start|>user [Warhammer 40k] How do Chaos Space Marines keep their numbers up? We know Adeptus Astartes recruit regular humans and enhance them. This allows them to replace combat casualties and other fallen Space Marines. However, How do the Chaos Space Marines replace casualties? I know that some Adeptus Astartes...
<|im_start|>user When SETI detects a radio signal and states that it came from the region of a certain star many light-years away, how do they determine that considering that the signal has taken so long to reach Earth?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The thing you have to take into consideration is that visible light ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: If all homo sapiens originated from the African continent, and homo sapiens is the only human species left, then why do we have different races, colors and features? Why do we have skin colors and drastically different features if we all came from the same region? Was it a result of mixing with o...
<|im_start|>user CMV: The more people publish proof that they have successfully circumvented cybersecurity measures, the better off we all are, so this should be encouraged somehow I basically think it's stupid that there could be a thousand people who've stolen credit card data from a website and the 1001st, who decid...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How has technology advanced so quickly within the past 100 years than it has in any other point in history?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Communicating with others became easier and easier. Carrier birds, messengers/prophets, post/snail mail, and ultimately the Internet. Sharing information bec...
<|im_start|>user How does infrared light heat objects up? I've been learning about the photoelectric effect in my physics class, and one of the formulas that I learnt was that the energy of a photon of light is given by E=hf. From this equation, ultraviolet light has more energy than infrared. So why is infrared able t...
<|im_start|>user Myth of Sisyphus I've recently read Camus' work on this and I absolutely loved his work. I'm desperately searching for any other philosophical essays that personify the inevitable struggle of life, and how you have to accept it and move on. If anybody could direct me to something similar, it'd be very ...
<|im_start|>user Why aren't there more cheap apartments? Why aren't there more cheap apartments? It seems like with how many people struggle to make rent, there would be consumer demand for cheaper apartments. What exactly is keeping the market from fulfilling this demand?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Local zoni...
<|im_start|>user How is altitude measured on other planets if they don't have seas and hence they don't have a mean sea level?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant A zero-altitude reference surface is defined. Depending on the body and the usage, this surface might be a sphere, spheroid, or ellipsoid whose dimensions are t...
<|im_start|>user [Star Wars] The Empire is a galaxy-spanning government with advanced technology at its fingertips. So why do they use slaves to build their death Stars, when machines and nano-tech build in a cheaper, faster, and more efficient manner?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant What nanotech is available is very ...
<|im_start|>user CMV: There is no rational argument for doing away with the New York teacher literacy tests. http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/03/13/new-york-to-eliminate-literacy-test-for-teachers-in-order-to-be-more-diverse/ (yes, I know its the blaze, the facts of the story still stand.) In short, I cannot fathom...
<|im_start|>user When a material is cut or broken, where exactly is the separation happening? Does the break happen at a molecular level or is it at a larger scale? I know the atoms aren't spring but do molecules break apart?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Depends on material: When you break ice, you break the Van d...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 how India has more than 1 billion people and has only won 4 total medals in the Olympics.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant A lot of what takes an athlete from 'naturally really good at a sport' to 'able to win a medal at the olympics' has to do with the infrastructure surrounding the sports and sup...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What are the differences between soluble fiber and insoluble fiber? Why might someone prefer one over the other in a healthy diet? EDIT: Wow, thank you for all of the great answers; I’m learning a lot. Soon, my poops will be pristine! ***** The answer to “Which type of fiber should I consume?”...
<|im_start|>user Is being very good at data structures and algorithms worth it ? Hello, I'm practicing on hackerrank at the moment because I want to improve my data structures and algoritms skills for future interviews. The thing is, everytime I successfully solve a problem and go to the discussion sections there's al...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: After discovering the Rosetta Stone, how is it that Egyptologists could understand so much of the hieroglyphs based on the limited vocabulary and time period of the Rosetta Stone? From what I know about hieroglyphs, apparently Egyptologists can translate and understand hieroglyphs and the differe...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 How do scientists create artificial drugs/chemicals As in synthetic thc, pesticides, etc. How can you manipulate individual components of a molecule?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Organic chemistry. You know what molecule you want, you then search one that's easy to get and can be transformed...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Police Officers Acting in Their Official Capacity Should Not Be Allowed to Invoke the Fifth Amendment This subject has been on my mind lately because of the case of Freddie Gray’s death. Long story short, Gray looked “suspicious” and gave chase. It’s still unclear when/how (was it on the foot chas...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why/how does a hot compress bring a pimple or boil or stye to a head quicker? Looking for a more in depth explanation than "heat."<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Heat increases vasodilation and therefore circulation to the applied tissue. This brings more innate immune cells i.e. monocytes, macr...
<|im_start|>user Why do we have an optic chiasm? Wouldn't it be simpler if the right eye supplied the right cortex and the same for the left? I have found many descriptions of the optic chiasm yet I can find nothing for why it is there. Maybe it has something to do with 3D vision but I don't know enough to come to my o...
<|im_start|>user [The Martian] How long do you think the other members of the crew would have lasted had they found themselves in Mark Watney’s position, stranded on Mars? Keeping in mind that Watney was the crew’s botanist and a mechanical engineer. The other members and their crew jobs are as follows; Lewis - Geolo...
<|im_start|>user Why is rent control a bad thing? I don't understand economics like I probably should and i'm having trouble understanding why rent control is a bad thing. I live in Saskatchewan if that makes a difference.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant One of the main reason capitalism works is that prices somewhat a...
<|im_start|>user Why is cloth darker when it gets wet?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant In dry cloth, light gets scattered and reflected mainly by the particles on the surface. In wet cloth, some of the light gets carried into the material by the water, acting a bit like fiber optics. The end result is that less light...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do humans have different bloodtypes? http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140715-why-do-we-have-blood-types This was interesting<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant If you're looking for the anatomical reason, it deals with the Red Blood Cell surfaces. RBCs are the cells that contain hemoglobin, wh...
<|im_start|>user [Any] What super power would best translate into bedroom prowess?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant If it's just one power, then mind-reading: - You can tell who's attracted to you. This saves a lot of time. - You know what everyone's kink is. This saves a lot of time too. - In bed, you know *exactly*...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Rapidly recharging health bars make first person shooters less enjoyable. To clarify: I am talking specifically about campaigns. Health that restores quickly makes sense in multiplayer, as it allows each engagement to be somewhat fresh. For this reason, I mostly emulate N64 shooters and don't pl...
<|im_start|>user [Doctor Who] Why didn't the Time War destroy the space-time continuum? When the Doctor's TARDIS exploded it caused cracks in the fabric of the universe all across time and space. The Doctor's TARDIS is an obsolete Type 40. Gallifrey fought a war across time and space wherein hundreds if not thousands...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What exactly am I paying domain registrars for? If they don't do hosting and there is no way they have rights to every domain before it's purchased, what service are they providing and is it one that somebody could do without them?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There are some administrative tha...
<|im_start|>user Relevance of Freud today? Not sure if i should be posting on the psychology forum or psychoanalysis etc. but ill start here. I was reading Laclau's On populist reason to understand more about floating signifiers. All was good for the first two chapters or so until he started descending into Freudian te...
<|im_start|>user By what methods do isolated ponds get fish in them? There are a lot of isolated ponds out there with no connection to waterways. Like the ponds here and there on a farm, or the display ponds where I work. They all seem to have fish in them, usually little sunfish, none bigger than a few rare 6-7 inch s...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do many different animals all have white bellies?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It is primarily a form of defense from predators. A larger animal looking down on a smaller one would see the dark color of the preys back which would help camouflage it with the ground or whatever is underneath...
<|im_start|>user How does our sense of taste differ from other species? I am not just asking about other mammals but even insects, or anything that can taste. Are there any animals that can't taste and just use smell? How about spiciness and sweetness? PS. let me know if there is a better flair than the one I am usin...
<|im_start|>user Can human brains actually "multi-task" or is our brain just capable of swapping back and forth between tasks quickly? When I'm brushing my teeth and doing something else at the same time with my other hand, like folding a pair of pants, I find myself involuntarily stopping brushing my teeth and only fo...
<|im_start|>user Why must therapeutic proteins be stored at 2-8°C to prevent them from degradation and denaturation when proteins in our body are in an environment that's 37°C and are perfectly fine? What happens exactly with the stability of therapeutic proteins when kept at room temperature?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>ass...
<|im_start|>user Is the net amount of energy of the universe zero? I thought I remembered in A Brief History of Time that Stephen Hawking says something about the net energy of the universe being zero because gravity is a negative energy that cancels out the positive energy in the universe. I don't have the book now, ...
<|im_start|>user [QWOP] What happened to that poor country that this is their best athlete? Did they have a Polio epidemic or something?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The small country had a program similar to Make A Wish where this disabled athlete was allowed to compete in a small, token way in a single event. The...
<|im_start|>user Is a utopia possible or impossible? A friend told me they believe it is possible to achieve a perfect society while I said it's nearly impossible (at least in this realm and reality). I was thinking about how even some plants try to protect themselves from being eaten and how most living things are pa...
<|im_start|>user How truly accurate is carbon dating and how does it work?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Carbon dating is very accurate. There are two kinds of carbon that occur in large amounts C-12 and C-14, C-14 decays. When a plant is alive it takes in carbon dioxide and uses that to make its structures, in thi...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Vitamins; what are they? How do they work? What processes in the body require them and how? We're always being told certain things contain vitamins and that those are good for one's health, but what actually are they? What functions of the body require them, and how does it make use of them? Bo...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: how do taxes work for people whose source of income is coming in from many different countries, such as musicians<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It depends on the country they reside within, the amount earned in foreign countries, and the specific laws of those countries. In most cases, they eit...
<|im_start|>user Is it Unethical to be a Law Professor at a Very Low Ranked Law School? My friends and I have recently been discussing whether it is ethical to be a law professor at a very low ranked law school. This quandary comes from two sources. First, these schools generally have absolutely atrocious employment pr...
<|im_start|>user Why does rough childhood makes some people strong while some mentally ill? Are people just randomly born weak and strong? *edit: strong is keeping one's sanity at full health despite possibly-traumatic events, weak is getting ptsd or other illnesses because of it*<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Depe...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:Infinity plus one<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It really depends on what you mean by "infinity". In the usual sense, we're talking about something called cardinality. This is how many things you have in a set of objects. Adding one more object to an infinite set of objects doesn't change how m...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do police in America get away with so much unnecessary violence, even with video evidence?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant For good or bad, most jurisdictions in the US give officers the ability to use quite a bit of force if they have a reason to believe that their lives or the lives of byst...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 The Standard Model of particle physics Quarks, Leptons, Bosons, what the hell does that all mean?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There are four forces of nature. You've all probably heard of electromagnetism. There are two more which are less know but just as important. The strong force holds eve...
<|im_start|>user Why can't the immune system create antibodies that target the rabies virus? Rabies lyssavirus is practically 100% fatal. What is it about the virus that causes it to have such a drastic effect on the body, yet not be targeted by the immune system? Is it possible for other viruses to have this feature?<...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do your muscles get so sore when you have the flu??<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant One task of white blood cells is to repair and rebuild muscle fibres which are damaged from day to day. However, when you have the flu, your immune system diverts the white blood cells from this function to fi...
<|im_start|>user What type of radiation does lead shielding stop? As far as I'm aware there are only three types of ionising radiation - alpha, beta and gamma. Since alpha particles can be stopped by any sort of barrier, I'm most interested in beta and gamma radiation. Is lead shielding only able to stop one or both ty...
<|im_start|>user Why does string theory treat time as a separate dimension? I thought time and space were interwoven into spacetime, where both space and time were relative, and can be bent/stretched. But every time I read about string theory, I keep reading that there are 3 observable spatial dimensions, 1 time dime...
<|im_start|>user How can we keep a human employed in the future when robots can do everything for cheaper? I figure that if robots/automations become cheaper than paying for human workers, then why hire people at all? Also, you don’t have to worry about things like liability in high risk jobs. What are robots going to ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why are European curbs 3-5 centimeters tall (and don't destroy tires) while American curbs are 6 inches (15 centimeters) tall and shred tire sidewalls.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant American curbs are there to protect pedestrians, protect drivers from driving off the road, protect landscaping b...
<|im_start|>user Skin cells constantly regenerate. So how/why is it possible to have scars?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The process of wound healing involves more than just the replication of epithelial (skin) cells. Skin is composed of both epithelial cells and an extracellular, collagen-containing, connective tis...
<|im_start|>user Is there a proper study on how much race affects income when properly adjusted? When I look for these kind of stats all i get is "x group makes more than y group" I want to know what happens when you account for education, social status, personality, life choices and location. Do the differences di...
<|im_start|>user Why can we see clearly underwater with goggles but not with our bare eyes? Also, do fish have some sort of eye-covering membrane or how do they circumvent this problem?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Your eyes are trained to deal with a surrounding medium with a low refractive index, like air. Water ...
<|im_start|>user How exactly does a bank account work? I'm only 14 and I don't have a bank account.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant You give your bank your money. They put it in the vault and keep track of how much they have from you. They will from time to time lend your money to other people for mortgages or studen...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 So everyone is talking about this year's US inflation, can anyone explain why it's so important?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Inflation, broadly, is what happens when money becomes less valuable as a result of more money being injected into a given economic system. In this case, spending went d...
<|im_start|>user How to engage with people doing similar research to yourself? Whenever I meet someone doing very similar research to what I'm doing, I don't know how to act. A part of me feels really excited to find someone interested in the same topic, and begin day dreaming about asking them to co-author something. ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:US Supreme Court: King v. Burwell. Obamacare subsidies In light of the recent ruling on King v. Burwell (in favor of the Government, 6-3) and the number of questions it's already creating we decided to make this sticky thread. Feel free to ask any questions related to this ruling in this post or ...
<|im_start|>user [Pokemon] Questions about levels. Levels in their entirety dumbfound me. * What is a level? * How are they gauged without a pokedex, or before they even existed? * Why is their a level cap? * If levels are a means to evolution, how come I can find pokemon in the wild with a lower level, than needed fo...
<|im_start|>user Why do we have 2 of some organs but only 1 of others?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Because sometimes we only need the one (reproductive organs, mouths, anuses), and sometimes we need two for redundancy (kidneys, lungs, arms) As organisms evolved, the most advantageous adaptations survived. So, if o...
<|im_start|>user Writing an engineering paper but I feel like it does not have any novelties Presently I am writing on paper/journal that describes how I implement a theoretical model of some engineering concept into stuff that operates in the real world. It is my first academic paper btw. The thing is, everything tha...
<|im_start|>user AskScience AMA: I'm Vinny Lynch, assistant prof. of human genetics at UChicago. I led one of two research groups that independently found why elephants don’t get cancer as frequently as we thought they should (Spoiler: 20 copies of the p53 tumor suppressor gene). AMA! Hi, I’m [Vinny Lynch](http://lynch...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why are so many 7/11s and Dunkin Donuts owned and staffed by Indians? Not sure if it's a regional thing but I noticed it locally and when driving in nearby states as well<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant When immigrants come to the USA and are looking to start a new business they often go to the U...
<|im_start|>user On a cellular level, where does lotion go when you rub it in? I wasn't able to find a lot of info on this. Best answer I could find is the lotion molecules move in between the skin cells. It didn't tell me how far they penetrate though or if our skin would just absorb lotion if it was left alone on our...
<|im_start|>user "Evolution is entirely too slow..." Background: Stumped during a friendly debate on creation vs evolution. I'll let the post speak for itself: &gt;Perhaps the biggest problem of all--evolution is entirely too slow. I've been putting together this table to compare rates of evolution among various spec...
<|im_start|>user Does the probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics extend to non-quantum phenomena? My understanding of this topic is very basic, but from what I can gather, everything (?) at a quantum level is described in a probabilistic sense rather than a deterministic one. Not because of measurement error, but fo...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Designer babies aren't inherently unethical That is, if they were designed to get rid of diseases, deficiencies and disabilities along with the technology being universally available for use. I don't understand what other issue there might be with them if no one is getting an unfair advantage. If...