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<|im_start|>user When standing on a frozen pond or lake is it the intramolecular forces of ice or the buoyancy of the ice on top of the water that are supporting you? *intermolecular thanks u/WeepingSeepage<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Intramolecular forces are what hold the atoms within the molecules together – you...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: A single tree might shed thousands of seeds a year, but most of these won't grow into anything. What starts the growth of a mighty tree?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant If you look closely, many trees are surrounded by saplings. Most won’t make it to maturity because there isn’t enough sunlight r...
<|im_start|>user [Star Trek]why Ferengi never invent fiat currency? it's my understanding fixing money to a hard finite commodity, like Latinum, makes it really hard for governments to do anything about stuff like recessions?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It's important to remember that the Ferengi system isn't just ...
<|im_start|>user Is a human being morally more valuable than other animals? If yes, why? As a naturalist, I see no reason to believe a human life is intrinsically worth more than the life of a dog or an elephant. I’m writing about this subject and I’d be very interested to see why someone would disagree (without appeal...
<|im_start|>user x-post from /r/academia. Has your mentoring approach changed since your were assistant professor until you became associate/full professor? If so, how?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant I have moved from telling people what they should do, to asking questions in such a way as to make them think more care...
<|im_start|>user CMV: religion in many cases is abusive to children It’s not fair to tell a child that something bad will happen to them if they don’t believe or do what you say. If I told a child that if they didn’t clean their room, a serial killer would come to the house and kill them in such an excruciating way tha...
<|im_start|>user How important is it to have a Bachelor’s in a related field to the master’s? Hello vsauce, throwaway account here. So I am a student in a US state university studying science education but do not want to get a master’s degree in the education field. A master’s degree in biological sciences is what I am...
<|im_start|>user Why time slows down if you travel at very high speeds? Is there a way to intuitively understand this? It's very easy to understand gravity once we imagine space as a fabric, and heavy mass bodies as iron balls on the fabric bending it when we hold the fabric stretched out. It's very intuitive to unders...
<|im_start|>user Why does squinting improve eyesight? I personally wear glasses and I've always wondered why squinting helps out when I'm not wearing them. How does squinting work, and how does it improve focus temporarily?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Squinting is helpful for people whose eyes are not perfectly sha...
<|im_start|>user Do bigger ears mean better hearing?( applied to every animal not just humans) When i ask this i mean does something like a pigeon with no ears hear better or equal and why, or does a bat hear better because of their big ears and are not just for echolocation.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant You need to...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How can physicists spend years on solving a single equation ? Why is it so hard, and what does it entail?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It's not about solving the equation, it's about finding the right equation. It's like finding out (without a cooking book) how a cake is made, it takes trial a...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How can helium be a liquid at absolute zero, if absolute zero is the point where the molecules stop moving (theoretically)?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The answer requires accepting that according to quantum mechanics, atoms and molecules can only have specific energies, called energy levels....
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How did ancient people know that the earth was round?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The two major arguments known to the ancients were these: * Observing that if you travel northwards or southwards by any specific distance, the angle of the North Star above the horizon will also change by a sp...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Androids in Detroit:Become Human are not alive I played this game a few days ago and I hold the belief that Androids should not be given the status of a living being and/or should not be granted any rights. My reasons are as follows - 1) They are human made in labs from scratch. They don't occu...
<|im_start|>user Could you sequence the dna of cancer cells and then compare it to the persons healthy cells to locate the genetic mutation and then edit the dna of the cancer cells causing new cells to just be normal again?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Yes and no. Yes, as in technology to alter genes exists. It wo...
<|im_start|>user Does Earth get energy from stars other than the sun? I know the sun is our biggest source of energy on Earth, but do we also get some energy from all the other stars out there? We can see them so we're at least some light is getting here, but are they contributing any even remotely significant amount o...
<|im_start|>user ElI5: How is it that binoculars magnify things only when viewed from one direction, but both sides of a magnifying glass are magnifying? Optics confuse me.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Binoculars line up two lenses (one pair for each eye), plus might have some mirrors in them to adjust light path le...
<|im_start|>user How do computers transform 3D models using matrices? I know that computers store the vertices of a 3D model. However, are they stored as vectors in 3-space or 4-space? I have seen texts showing 3D transformations using 4x4 matrices but I don't understand what advantage will it have over just using 3x3 ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why is the United Airlines CEO testifying before the US Congress? I'm curious what the US government has to do with the dragging incident.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Airlines are subject to all sorts of regulations and policies enacted by laws Congress creates, enforced through the FAA, etc....
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Can we strengthen our immune system like our muscles? If so, is there a limit to how strong our immune system can get?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant We can and do strengten our immune system. We do this simply by getting ill, when we do our body creates the antibodies to fight that illness and ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why aren't humans of different races divided into different species? There's a brown bear, a white(polar) bear, a black bear, and a bunch of other bears in between. They are all their own individual species. There are three different species of gorillas, all of them look marginally different from...
<|im_start|>user Why do cells have a copy of the whole genome instead of only the genes they need? It isn't energetically expensive to copy ALL the DNA when the cell undergoes mitosis? Neurons use a very different set of genes than, for instance, hepatic cells, or muscular cells. Why not just have a copy only of the ge...
<|im_start|>user CMV: the current conversation about racial statistics and policing is misleading and will make society less safe During President Obama's remarks about the recent shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile he cited several statistics about how black Americans were more likely to be pulled over, s...
<|im_start|>user What would far left and far right platforms look like if they were well informed by objective economics, but still had their normative values? What would far left and far right platforms look like if they were well informed by objective economics, but still had their normative values? To what degree ...
<|im_start|>user eli5 Why do camera lenses need to focus on something? Why can't they just render an image in which everything is clear? Or maybe only some types of lenses work like that?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Every type of lens works like that, including your eyes. Lenses take light rays entering them and f...
<|im_start|>user When a tree (or other land plant) is immersed in water, what does it die of? Let's pretend the water only just covers the tree/plant, so light is still available. Does it suffocate due to lack of oxygen? Does the water leach essential chemicals out of leaves? Both? Does the water just block enough ligh...
<|im_start|>user How much does your PhD supervisor’s reputation impact how others view you and/or your job prospects? I am a PhD candidate co-supervised by 2 professors (one senior, one very recent assistant prof) who work very closely together and have divisive reputations. I would describe them as “radical.” Some peo...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: what makes different blood types different? ie; O neg. and A pos.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Different blood types are based upon things called antigens, these are found on the surface of the blood cell and help your body know the cells are your own. There are two different (major) blood cel...
<|im_start|>user Is String Theory an actual scientific theory? Just got into a discussion with someone who didn't understand that a scientific theory was not just a guess. In trying to explain this, we got to String Theory, when I realized I was under the impression that was something that wasn't agreed upon by the sc...
<|im_start|>user [LOTR]What do underground dwarven cities, like Moira, do for food? Dwarven cities are often built deep underground, sometimes in very inaccessible locations. Importing enough food for everyone would require a massive infrastructure, both underground as tunnels and above ground as roads. Erebor had the...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:How do historians or linguists decode and translate an ancient language that hasn't been spoken in a long time? I just don't even know where one would start.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant I suppose it depends on what the circumstances are. In cases like Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, there wasn't...
<|im_start|>user [Avatar TLAB] could an air bender condense a gas into it's liquid state? If they could would they still be able to bend it?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant In order to turn oxygen into its liquid state, you would need to do one of two things: 1. Make it colder, but only water and fire benders seem to ...
<|im_start|>user If diamonds are the hardest material on Earth, why are they possible to break in a hydraulic press? Hydraulic press channel just posted this video on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69fr5bNiEfc, where he claims to break a diamond with his hydraulic press. I thought that diamonds were unbreakabl...
<|im_start|>user Are there any strong reasons to still consider logical monism or a “One True Logic” in light of all the non-classical logics that have been developed? I know there has always been some debate concerning whether or not a certain logical system (like classical logic) is the correct one, especially when i...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How does trade work between the 28 members of the European Union internally and (more importantly) as a group with the rest of the world? Who contributes which goods/services and how much? Who makes proposals and agreements and who can shoot them down? how is the income divided? How are resources...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Is eating food off the ground in any way beneficial to your immune system? I'm sure we all know the type: someone drops part of their sandwich on the ground, picks it up, eats it, then claims that they are, "strengthening their immune system" by deliberately exposing themselves to whatever was on...
<|im_start|>user Does six minutes of sun exposure 10 times throughout the day provide the same tanning (skin damage) effect as one continuous hour?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There are two things going on when you tan: UV-B, high-energy UV light, induces DNA damage (the formation of pyrimidine dimers). Skin cells...
<|im_start|>user Do neutrons bound to stable atoms decay the same way protons do over long timescales? As in do the protons in an atom have to decay first untill the atom becomes an unstable isotope, making the neutrons decay into protons, and then the newly formed protons decay again. Or can neutrons decay into elemen...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Given its once immense popularity, how did Latin become a 'dead language'?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Latin evolved into the other romance languages (French, Spanish, Italian, etc). So in that respect it had the same the fate of almost all human languages, which is that they evolve over tim...
<|im_start|>user What's the point in creating new elements? Would anything further in the periodic table be stable?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The point is to learn more about how atomic nuclei work. Some people are not interested in this, some are. Generally there can be practical applications of synthetic isotop...
<|im_start|>user Why does the ice in my ice cube tray sometimes climb upwards as if on an invisible wire? This has been happening for years and years, different ice cube trays and different freezers. I will pour water in my ice cube tray and let it freeze and when I come back one or two of the ice cubes will have a sti...
<|im_start|>user How did nature evolve insects that look like sticks, or leaves, or even snakes? Am I to understand that was just random mutations and natural selection did all the work? Bear with me here. I'm trying to learn the ins and outs of evolution as it was taught only sparingly in my high school biology class...
<|im_start|>user What are some examples of two philosophers arriving at the same conclusions based on different methods, arguments, premises and means? I've always found this idea interesting, that two people can agree on the same conclusion yet arrive at the said conclusion by completely different means. Moreover, not...
<|im_start|>user Why are there fresh and salt water varieties of most aquatic life, but no freshwater cephalopods? There seems to be at least somewhat-analogous pairings in fresh and salt water for most types of aquatic life, but there doesn't seem to be a single cephalopod that lives in fresh water. Why are there no f...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Employees SHOULD describe in as much detail possible what they didn’t like about their old job while interviewing for a new one. Employees SHOULD describe in as much detail possible what they didn’t like about their old job while interviewing for a new one. This question was inspired by a post ...
<|im_start|>user [Star Trek] Is the policy of allowing families to serve with Starfleet personnel on board starships seen as a general success? or do you think the policy will be abandoned?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Allowing for a family life aboard a research starship is important for boosting morale and allows ...
<|im_start|>user Does psychology overstate early childhood experiences as the primary cause of mental illness because psychological intervention can change maladaptive behaviour but not biology? Just to clarify, I’m not asking a broad ‘nature vs nurture’ question. I’m wondering if in your view psychologists and therape...
<|im_start|>user [MCU Doctor Strange] Why is combat magic so limited? Ok, in this universe magic can defy gravity, create portals, heal nerves, travel between dimensions, and so on. Yet, even when we see two masters go at it, the combat magic is mostly punching with some glowy orange light effects.<|im_end|> <|im_star...
<|im_start|>user What makes a philosopher a philosopher? What I'm asking is, what is the difference between a philosopher and a layperson? Also how can a layperson become a philosopher without formal education in philosophy?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant An academic philosopher requires a PhD and/or a job at an acad...
<|im_start|>user [MCU] It's been established in the MCU that the 9 realms are just different planets. But then how did the convergence happen?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The Nine Realms are connected by naturally occurring cosmic phenomena, structures along which wormholes can naturally form. The Asgardians exploi...
<|im_start|>user What created matter? I would like to know what theories there are regarding how matter was created.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There are many layers to the question, and many open questions as well. The matter we know was created after a period which we call reheating. During the first instants o...
<|im_start|>user [Spider-man] Can spider-man dodge an attack from the Flash with his spider-sense? Always when I read his comics in most times when his spider-sense activates either thanks to his advanced reflexes or his increased speed allows him to dodge almost anything. Now my question is if Flash, being one of the...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Certain felonies should be erased from criminal records after X amount of law-abiding, post-release years We see that people who have felony records are much more likely to return to a life of crime after they’ve “paid their debt to society”. That’s because once you’re a felon, you’re a felon for ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: If two countries go to war, how can the opposing army know which army is theirs without accidently shooting their own teammates? Does every army in every country have a different uniform? Or do they all wear camouflaged suits or something.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Different uniforms, ident...
<|im_start|>user If it were raining on a planet in a binary system, i.e. with two stars, could there be two, non-concentric rainbows in the sky? I don't know if concentric is the right word. I'm not talking about typical double rainbows that occur on Earth. I know rainbows are caused by diffractio of sunlight through ...
<|im_start|>user Every time I look this up, I get conflicting answers - can anyone delineate the conditions under which it is valid to use a one-tailed t-test, as opposed to a two-tailed one? Thanks in advance.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Hypothesis testing is fundamentally designed to control your type 1 error: th...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why humans are so inclined to seek any form of "drugs" It seems every culture we know of have only one thing in common. They all discovered alcohol. They drank for recreation. Hell, agriculture itself was discovered by accident in the making of alcohol. Marijuana, methamphetamine, heroin, the lis...
<|im_start|>user How come we are able to detect planets thousands (millions?) of light years away from us, but we have yet to determine with 100% certainty whether or not there is a ninth planet in our solar system?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Our main method to detect planets orbiting distant stars is by observing...
<|im_start|>user [Star Wars] So, if Jedi are not supposed to have relationships... Does that means they are all virgins? Where applicable, of course.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Depends on when they're found and if they follow the rules. Generally, the Jedi like training recruits as younglings, individuals who h...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What’s the visual difference between hue, shade, tint and tone As a monochromat, I hear these words tossed around sometimes when talking about color, and the explanations I have gotten have all relied upon color.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant That’s wild you can’t see colour at all. Can you see...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why are there gusts of wind? Why don’t they just disperse and even out? Where do big pressure changes COME from??? Maybe you can ELI7 because I’ve taken three college level physics courses but I just don’t get this: where do temperature and pressure changes come from that are so powerful we get 5...
<|im_start|>user How do infrared cameras work? I know that infrared waves are the same as heat waves, and I know that you can take advantage of these ways in the same way as you can with the visible light, but how does it work? An infrared picture contain red and blue colours, but are these colours determined to be use...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How can car dealerships on radio claim they'll accept payment from people with bad/no credit? Doesn't this destroy the idea altogether?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant They usually use your job or your property as collateral/a form of credit. Sometimes the same types of ads will say this. "Bad cr...
<|im_start|>user If mass matters in the solar system with relation to gravity (Jupiter vs Mercury for example), why doesn't that apply to mass of smaller objects (a feather and a bowling ball). Why do those two fall at the same rate?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant For some people equations work best to explain somethi...
<|im_start|>user [Star Wars] Why can’t Jedi or Sith use the force to crash/crush enemy vehicles or starships during battles?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It takes practice and concentration. Something like a starship or large vehicle is usually beyond the capabilities of your average force users. In the middle of a ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do tree trunks have a ring for every year the tree was alive? Why are those rings formed at all?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant When a tree is growing, they tend to do so in patterns of fast growth in the spring/summer and slow growth in the fall/winter. The fast growth isn’t as dense, and...
<|im_start|>user What do "best practices" look like in modern software development? Let's say I'm joining a new team - there's a lot of talk about best practices, but it's not always clear what they mean (or Team A's best practices might be different from the Team B I'm used to). What are some good examples to look out...
<|im_start|>user CMV: All places in which people are incarcerated, detained, etc. should be completely open to journalists and the public eye. **CMV: All places in which people are incarcerated, detained, etc. should be completely open to journalists and the public eye.** I recently heard the news about the [supposed ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 what mainframe computer is and how it works<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Lets say in your job there are occasionally really hard math problems that need to be solved. So the company has someone really good at math sit by your desk and solve the problems when they come up. But people who can sol...
<|im_start|>user CMV: It is unfair to complain about business owners and CEO's wealth but give celebrities a pass. I had been thinking this over for some time, but the recent New Yorker article wherein Jamie Lee Curtis mentioned she has [Never done a hard day's work in her life](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-ne...
<|im_start|>user [George Orwell's 1984] Are the proles part of the Party? I know the proles have to follow Party law. I know the Party produces all higher materials for the proles (such as porno mags, and other luxury items), and the proles are not required to participate in the Two Minute Hate. But, are the proles co...
<|im_start|>user Does the brain process images faster than computers, and if so, why? I have read that computers can run calculations much faster than the human brain. But then at the same time, it seems as though human/animal brains process images much faster than even the best computers. For instance, with facial rec...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:why do many former drug addicts become religious after rehabilitation? As the title says, i've been wondering about this for some time now.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Most 12 step programs have a significant religious aspect to them. They use the fact that these are people who, when they cho...
<|im_start|>user Is getting published as an undergrad possible? I'm currently in my fourth and last year of my undergrad in Communication, and I had the opportunity to complete some of my own research with the help of a grant. Now that the research is done, I want to publish the report. My supervisor said that it's a l...
<|im_start|>user CMV: The use of titles/honorifics is arrogant and there should be no social obligation to abide by them. I see the whole prospect of expecting someone to use their title as really arrogant whether it be nobility titles, academic titles, titles of authority, etc. The way I see it, if I were to address ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 What is it that makes it so computers can't solve captchas?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It requires image recognition capabilities that don't yet exist outside some advanced machine learning laboratories. Asking a computer to look at a cluttered image of a street corner and identify a fire h...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:Scientifically, what is "intuition"? Scientifically speaking, what exactly is intuition? Is it a culmination of unconscious intelligence or something else?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant One author has defined it as the subconscious reaching a conclusion before the conscious mind even knows there...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What is different with sport bikes that make them sound so high pitch compared to cruisers that sound so deep?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The RPM (rotations per min) at which the different motors operate, and their respective power bands, because of their different uses. Cruises tend to hav...
<|im_start|>user What are the common argument types for vegetarian/vegan diets? How can the varying *prominent* moral arguments for vegetarian (or vegan) diets be distinguished/categorized? In other words, what are the most prominent types of arguments (perhaps utilitarian, virtue, etc.) for vegetarian diets, and what ...
<|im_start|>user I believe the pharmaceutical industry has strong incentives to avoid curing diseases CMV &gt; Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime In the logic of the quote above, I believe the pharmaceutical industry has a stronger incentive to 'give a man a fish' - i.e...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:when you flush a toilet, how does the water get sucked? Is it by a vacuum or the just the additional water that is added I'm asking in regards to conventional toilets not airplanes<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Conventional toilets work on water being added from above. The force of the water rus...
<|im_start|>user ELi5: How are artificial flavors made?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Without getting too detailed, scientists place the chemicals of the desired food that they want to replicate, into the food that they are trying to create. Flavors are normally very complex, with sometimes hundreds of different chem...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What are SPACs (Special Purpose Acquisition Company) and what do they do?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant When a growing company wants to go public as an IPO, the traditional process requires a lot of disclosures, accounting, paperwork, filings, legal fees etc. as the company readies itself for p...
<|im_start|>user The top journal in my field constantly asks me for peer review, at what point is it reasonable to ask for a position on the editorial board? Is that ever even an option? So as the title states, the top journal in my field of speciality constantly invites me for peer review, invitations which I generall...
<|im_start|>user If the sun were to suddenly turn 90 degrees, making its equator a meridian, what would happen to the solar system?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Since the Sun is the most massive body in our solar system and also has the highest gravitational pull (due to its distance to the other bodies in our solar...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: At what point in history did we decide cats and dogs can be domestic animals? They had to start out in the wild at first. What made us choose them over others? At what point in history did we decide cats and dogs can be domestic animals? They had to start out in the wild at first. What made us ...
<|im_start|>user [DC] Does Batman have eye screens? When he's drawn with pure white eyes is that just to make him look more mysterious or is it supposed to be like his cowl has something built into it to protect his eyes?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Yes. Modern interpretations even have either contact lenses or len...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why mixing all colours of the rainbow creates white but mixing lots of paints creates brown Bonus: why does the mixing of, say, red and blue create purple, even though red and blue both have greater wavelengths?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Subtractive vs additive light. Paint absorbs all ligh...
<|im_start|>user CMV: I don't think it would be immoral to clone a Neanderthal. It's widely accepted in the scientific community that cloning a Neanderthal (or other extinct homo ____) for scientific reasons would be immoral. I disagree. We could learn so much from it, and there is no reason why a Neanderthal clone cou...
<|im_start|>user Best Book on Hegel for the Layman I am getting very into the history of ideas. I just finished Age of Anger by Mishra, and I am excited to start diving into some other books. I am reading about Rousseau atm, and I am going to meander my way into the German thinkers soon. I have read overviews of Hegel'...
<|im_start|>user How was the permeability of free space derived? It seems really strange to me that it is a constant with respect to pi. What were the calculations to derive that the permeability of free space is equal to 4π×10^−7 V·s/(A·m)<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Well... there's a fixed relationship between th...
<|im_start|>user When new elements are created in the lab, why do we smash together individual atoms instead of just smashing two bigger clumps together? Surely if our goals is to perform thousands and thousands of collisions, wouldn't it be easier to collide larger clumps of atoms than single atoms? Or is it something...
<|im_start|>user Why does cold temperatures dry clothes? In a rainy day, if I leave wet clothes in a bedroom with a heater, they will dry. And if I leave wet clothes in a bedroom with cold air conditioning it will dry. Why?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Important part is the that liquid water will always just spont...
<|im_start|>user Can anyone explain the aspect from quantum theory that gives the possibility that if I throw a ball at a wall, there's a one in a gazzilion chance that it will go through the wall?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There's not really any *single* aspect of quantum physics that could interpreted that way....
<|im_start|>user Why are so many philosophical texts difficult to read? For example Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is notoriously difficult to read or grasp. Why do so many philosophers have such impenetrable prose in their writing? Do they not wish for laypeople to not read their books and only academics? I often thin...
<|im_start|>user What brain function takes over when I'm able to zone out while driving and still navigate turns and make stops without incident? While driving to work today, I began thinking about something completely random but it took over my conscious mind and I wasn't actively concentrating on driving. When I "ca...
<|im_start|>user Does anyone have any book recommendations pertaining to environmental economics?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant A Course in Environmental Economics: Theory, Policy, and Practice by Daniel J. Phaneuf and Tilman Requate. I took a couple classes with Professor Phaneuf and he’s absolutely brilliant. Thi...
<|im_start|>user In microeconomics, the goals of the household and firm are presented as equations- but do we have one for an efficient government?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Yes. It depends on what you're modeling, but usually for questions about what the government "should" do, we use a type of model called a "s...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: When I leave a glass of water over night, why are there air bubbles in it the next morning?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Atmospheric gases such as nitrogen and oxygen can dissolve in water. The amount of gas dissolved depends on the temperature of the water and the atmospheric pressure at the ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do people sleep with their eyes open? Are their eyes still sending visual stimuli to the brain?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant the eyes send visual stimuli even when they're closed, your ears send stimuli all night as well (as do most senses). your alarm wouldn't wake you if they didn't. the...