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<|im_start|>user ELI5: What stops people in the patent office fron rejecting an idea and patenting it for themselves?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant If they patent it themselves, aside from the difficulties they would have in explaining it to others or higher ups at the office, the original claimant can present his re...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: In high school, why do teachers make you do projects but give you the determiner "Only 2 of the x resources you use can be from the internet?" Small backstory, I had to help my niece do a science project for high school. She had to quote sources for a specific physics problem and her solution and...
<|im_start|>user CMV: if you can't afford living in an expensive city, you should move out. Most big cities are becoming prohibitely expensive to live in, making it hard for middle class people to afford a home or even rent. I'm from Canada where this phenomenon is getting progressively worse in cities like Toronto or ...
<|im_start|>user How does the body 'learn' from immunosuppressants to keep an autoimmune condition in remission? For autoimmune conditions where the treatment is immunosuppresants to get the condition into remission, it would seem intuitive that the moment you stop taking the immunosuppresants the condition would retur...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: why are new programming languages always being created? It seems like there are new languages "out" every year or two - what do the new ones do that old ones couldn't?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Programming languages are changing in two dimensions over time: abstraction and specialization. ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 If high blood pressure is caused by your heart overworking itself, why does exercise which force your heart to work harder lower blood pressure? **EDIT** ADDING INFORMATION Thank you all so much for the responses. I learned alot and got more clarity about blood pressure. I'm 32 years old with Ort...
<|im_start|>user How does exercise reduce your resting heart rate? Does it make your cells physically need less oxygen? Does it make your heart more efficient, how?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The ventricular walls will also thicken, increasing the contractility of the heart. This increased power in turn leads to ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:How is it that the US's economy is doing well, but paychecks are growing at a "record low pace?"<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Production per hour of labor is increasing, but the increased income from that productivity is mostly going to the shareholders and company executives. This trend will ...
<|im_start|>user Eli5 Why can’t cancers just be removed? When certain cancers present themselves like tumors, what prevents surgeons from removing all affected tissue and being done with it? Say you have a lump in breast tissue causing problems. Does removing it completely render cancerous cells from forming after it’s...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: water storage in aquifer. Is it possible to put water back into a natural aquifer for storage? As it sounds as though we are draining many basins, but also building new water storage projects, can we not just use existing aquifers?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Yes, this is possible and being d...
<|im_start|>user Essential cultural theory texts? Hi Askphilosophy I have recently been accepted into my masters programme in Modern Culture, and would like to get a head start on reading during the summer, since i have quite a lot of time on my hands. Unfortunately, the reading plan for the semester wont be available...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How does dust affect the computer? Additionally, why does it seem like the performance increases when I clean the dust out of my PC?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Dust makes the system hotter, both by directly insulating the cooling surfaces and by restricting airflow. If you remove the dust, t...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do drug stores have tons of reading glasses in varying intensities (for farsighted people), but no pre-made glasses for nearsighted people?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant If you are nearsighted, you can see close up but not far away - so to do something like driving that requires good vision...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why does wood burn when you heat it up instead of melting? Not just wood, but many things burn instead of melt, whereas other things melt instead of burn. Can you burn ice? What if you put ice in wood?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There are two major forces at work here. The first is the chemi...
<|im_start|>user ElI5: Why do you ‘double over’ or hunch over when you have a stomach ache or have eaten too much? Why do you hunch over when you have a stomach ache or have eaten too much? And why does groaning kind of make your stomach feel better when it’s aching? Could you be hunching to take pressure off of it or ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How does your DNA know where it is in your body and which body part to grow into?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Some parts of your DNA are regulatory genes. They don't build anything used for tissue or enzymes or anything like that. Instead, they build proteins that activate other parts of your...
<|im_start|>user [Comics/Dr. Strange] Can Dr. Strange heal himself and others? Should he? In marvel comics we know that magic can do a variety of things for a variety of different effects and this varies wildly depending upon the abilities of the user, the type of magic that is being utilized, and the intention. But th...
<|im_start|>user ELi5: Why are Prince Rupert’s drops so indestructible? I’m very curious.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Might be a bit off the ELI5, but I'll try: Due to rapid cooling of the outside of the drop it shrinks. (insert human analogue) Not only does this shrinking occur all the way around (more or less) ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 Why is finding water on other planets one of the most important things for us to look for in the case that there is life there? I get why it could be important but nothing else seems to matter when looking for life.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant So life needs chemistry to take place to exist. F...
<|im_start|>user How do you avoid being convinced by every philosophy book you read? I find it hard to not being convinced when I’m introduced to a new philosopher idea, even more if it is about a subject I don’t know much or if it’s really complicated or if it is hard to read. How do you usually approach this new idea...
<|im_start|>user [ELI5] When staring at any object in the dark, the small details on it seem to look distorted and move around. What’s the explanation behind this?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The way that vision cells (rods and cones) work in your eyes is that if a photon interacts with a chemical substance within ...
<|im_start|>user CMV: whoever leaks the Mueller report or Trump's IRS filings would be committing career suicide and going to prison, but would become national hero(es) by letting the American people know what they deserve to know. &gt;"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it des...
<|im_start|>user CMV: A college education is not a right it’s an investment. I hear lots of democrats saying that a college education is a right and therefore should be free. However I think that it is a privilege and that the taxpayer should not be paying for it. A right is something that is essential to life, e.g. F...
<|im_start|>user [Kaiju movies] Why does the Air Force insist on dogfighting with monsters? Why does the Air Force insist on dogfighting with monsters that can slap down planes? I understand the need with the first kaiju in history, good old King Kong: World War I biplanes could do nothing but shoot straight going for ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:How do we know how certain battles took place? I just watched the newest HistoryMarche video and it got me thinking. How do we know the details of a battle so thoroughly that we can make a video and present it? Like what flank collapsed, what flank held on. &amp;#x200B; I understand primary sour...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: With one eye you have no depth perception, so why is it when I cover one eye I can still tell distance?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Stereoscopic vision is only one component of how we perceive depth, and not even aparticularly good one! Because our eyes are closely spaced, it's only really go...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What's the biggest/tallest a humanoid creature(giant) could get on Earth and why? I've heard that giants the height of mountains are impossible because of something to do with blood circulation? Just wondering how tall they could actually get.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It depends a lot on h...
<|im_start|>user [Lord of the Rings] Boromir gets the One Ring and somehow manages to use it to fight Mordor without getting corrupted, exactly what powers does he get? I don't want to delve deep into the personalities and corruption, i just want to know what powers would he get that are useful in the war against Mordo...
<|im_start|>user CMV: "You create your own meaning" is not a valid response to "Everything you do is meaningless" The insignificance of everything we do really cannot be understated. Even if you're the most important person on the planet, there will exist people more skilled and more hard working than you, who would ea...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Scientists studied remains of a kilanova (when two neutron stars collide) and measured one of the neutron stars to be 12.4 miles in diameter. How could they have known it was 12.4 miles in diameter just by examining the explosion aftermath? I saw this on “How the Universe Works” but they never ex...
<|im_start|>user Why do houses have sloped roofs while commercial buildings are flat on top?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant roofs of houses are sloped in order for not letting rainwater or snow build up. Commercial buildings however generally have a much bigger surface and sloped roofs wouldn't be feasable, so you nee...
<|im_start|>user Why are the Great Basin, Mohave and Sonoran Deserts considered distinct? Looking at a map, these three deserts look like they are right next to each other. Why wouldn't they be known as one big desert?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Mostly because of distinct plant life and weather. In the Sonoran de...
<|im_start|>user I do not think it makes sense to tie the salary of a university president to the salary of the lowest paid worker. CMV There was a recent story about how St. Mary's College is considering a policy that would limit the salary of the president to ten times that of the lowest paid worker on campus. While ...
<|im_start|>user What exactly is Particle-Wave Duality of Light? I have read a little bit about Quantum Mechanics and this is a bizarre phenomenon(for someone who didn't take GCSE Physics) that I've come across that isn't explained very well.. So I was wondering if someone can perhaps provide me with a more comprehensi...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How can something have no calories? What does the body do with this calorie free food?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Calories are a measurement of energy, which comes from breaking bonds between atoms — mostly, carbon atoms. Just like the gasoline your car uses that makes it run (gasoline is pr...
<|im_start|>user [Comics General] How do I falsely convince a court that I was framed by a supervillain with mind control or illusion powers? I robbed a bank and was arrested, but they never found the money. How do I convince the court that I am being framed by a super villain who used either mind control or illusion p...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: how come if I have a watercooling loop in a computer, it will grow algea even though there's no food or light. What do they survive on?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Heat and micronutrients in the water. Also there is likely some light getting in too (or at least off of LEDs in your computer, i...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do most predatory animals choose not to eat humans? I know it happens, but the vast majority of animal / human attacks never end up in with the human actually being eaten unless there are some dire circumstances involved. I've seen and heard many examples of a person being attacked and then t...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do humans like music so much?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Multiple explainations. Simplest one is that music is an excellent bridge between the 2 halves of our brain. The emotional and logical portions. Music has an intrinsic mathematical component to it. We recieved "feel good" sensat...
<|im_start|>user How do we have elements on the periodic table that we dont know the form of in certain temperatures? Are these just theoretical and we have never actually physically seen it?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Any element placed on the periodic table by IUPAC has been formally discovered, meaning that at ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What is a savant, and what percentage of the world's population is considered to be savants?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Typically, people who are considered to be savants excel dramatically at one thing, such as painting or writing. However, they also tend to have difficulties in other impor...
<|im_start|>user [The Culture]Are the inhabitants of universes simulated by the Minds considered Culture citizens with all the rights and protections thereof? I know very little about this universe, but I understand The Culture is supposed to be this benevolent utopia. But I understand the Minds like to create simulat...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Schrodinger's Cat<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Quantum mechanics can be said to describe reality, but not in the concrete terms with which you can describe the fall of an apple from a tree. Descriptions of the quantum world come in the form of probabilities. Schrodinger's cat is an analogy wh...
<|im_start|>user [Harry Potter] Why are there any students still alive at Hoghwarts? Why are there stills students alive at Hogwarts? I mean the casualties of teaching magic to kids mast be massive for example: &gt; "Never forget Wizard Baruffio, who said 'f' instead of 's' and found himself on the floor with a buffal...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Does lowering your fever using pills make your body fight less against a virus? I'm on my fourth day of what the doctor thinks most likely is mononucleosis (I only went to the doctor yesterday and haven't got blood results yet) and I got some 600mg ibuprofen to take the worst away since I had a f...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do hospitals evacuate everyone in the event of a fire? Hospitals often have patients who are bed-bound, wheelchair-bound, comatose, or even in surgery. When the fire alarm goes off, how do staff evacuate all patients quickly?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Hospitals are designed so that in t...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What is the point of cutting up cancelled credit cards? Unfortunately, I got my wallet stolen, but I was able to retrieve it back two days later with nothing taken (yay). The only annoying thing was that I had to call all of my credit card companies to cancel my cards the moment I found my wallet...
<|im_start|>user How does inflation work, and what are some of the ways inflation can increase? I have a hard time understanding inflation. When I was a child, I would say the government has all the money in the world, they can just print more of it. My father would reply by saying that would cause inflation. What di...
<|im_start|>user CMV: The fear of illegal immigrants taking all of the jobs in America is illogical. Since the beginning of this fine country immigrants have come to make a better life for themselves, and this has made America better as well. After a period of time, however, the people who have lived here for a time h...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How can asking a sample size of 1,003 people give an accurate view of over 250 million people?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It assumes that you have a properly random sample of the population. Suppose you have a (very large) bag full of millions of balls. You draw out 1003 without looking, and...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: When someone experiences memory loss, do they also lose all knowledge acquired during the periods of memory that are missing?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant They might lose their memories of events, but they can retain skills learned during that time. There's a well studied man who got herpes in...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do credit cards have expiration dates?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant When modern-style credit cards were first introduced in the 1960s, running a credit check on an individual was a lengthy and complicated business. Although major financial institutions each had their own basic computer sys...
<|im_start|>user What would happen to a poor country, if it sets the retirement age to 55? Will this country succeed in brining down unemployement and stimulating the economy by injecting millions of new workers (customers) into the economy? or will the pressure imposed on the retirement system be much hard to handle?<...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Gender as a social construct should be excluded from identification, and the law should not prohibit misgendering. I know something like this has been posted before, but the user is often arguing against gender being defined as distinct from sex. I am not here to make that argument. While I think ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: On what do our eyes focus in pitch dark? Like if it is pitch dark, do the eyes focus on the dark "wall" directly in front of them? Or are they just indefinitely trying to focus on something? Or are they idling because it is dark? :) Thanks!<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Optometry student here. ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Would it be feasible to make enough solar panels to generate enough electricity for the whole world? [This](http://boingboing.net/2014/06/12/the-total-area-of-solar-panels.html) popped up on my dash recently and I wanted to know if this is or will be possible. This size of the square is pretty da...
<|im_start|>user [Various animes] In animes where it is a worldwide known thing that there are individuals out there that can take down armies all the way up to crack planets, why are people not more skeptical when a 11 year old jumps in front of an army/group of baddies they not more cautious?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>as...
<|im_start|>user How do modern nuclear reactors avoid service interruptions due to slagging/poisoning? Was reminded of a discussion I had with my grandfather (~WW2 era nuclear science engineer) about how problematic reactor poisoning was in the past and especially slagging. I believe more than a few of the US fleet ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:How does an LED bulb work? How is it different from fluorescent?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant A fluorescent bulb works by using electricity to excite gas within the bulb, which releases photons (light particles) which then excite the bulb's coating which causes it to release photons in the visi...
<|im_start|>user [General] what are some good military tactics for large-scale, ground based, superhuman combat? with flight, enhanced speed, enhanced strength, and other abilities, what better strategies are there than an all-out brawl?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant questions a bit to vague, exact powers would be ne...
<|im_start|>user eli5 Why do devices still briefly have power when unplugged? Say you unplug your tv, the standby light will remain on a few seconds before going off?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Electronics use components called capacitors to regulate voltage. These capacitors act like little, short-life batteries ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do sparsely populated areas tend to vote Republican/Conservative? You can see this on a state level: http://www.google.com/elections/ed/us/results If you zoom into any red or blue state, the sparsely populated counties usually end up red. Is there a simple reason why?<|im_end|> <|im_start|...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What is the slow motion effect we experience during car accidents or other traumatic events?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant I've read that it's not really about increased perception, it's about increased memory formation. While adrenaline does create a heightenbed state of awareness and alertnes...
<|im_start|>user CMV:I think you don't need to go to college in order to have a good career and or job I was born in Khartoum,Sudan.My family and I moved to the US about 5 years ago, I'm currently 15 years old.My dad has a degree in engineering and my mom in accounting.I personally think that people have been brainwash...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 Why is it that poison ivy can be spread by scratching but you don't get it on your finger tips?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Tolerance, thickness, etc. Your hands are really sensetive, it helps us use them better, but they're also very tough, because we use them so much. So you can get poiso...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 How does Google photos separate photos into such specific categories without them being labeled manually.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant With machine learning. A computer program has looked at many many images that _were_ labeled, and it learned from them what sorts of labels to put on other phot...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do they determine statistics like “8 million people in the US have __ disease and another 1 million are undiagnosed”? I work in healthcare and there have been multiple times where I’ve seen disease prevalance statistics that include “undiagnosed cases”. If they have not been diagnosed then wh...
<|im_start|>user CMV: There are only two genders Yeah, I know that it's a meme at this point with the whole Change My Mind thing. But, I still never understood how there are more than two genders. With the exception of a few rare genetic disorders, people are born with either XX or XY chromosomes, which determines thei...
<|im_start|>user If I have two blankets of different materials, does the total insulation change depending on how I layer them? for instance, I have a cotton sheet and a polyester blanket. Would having one on top trap heat more effectively than the other way around?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Thermal mass can hav...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Affirmative action/positive discrimination should never be used Honestly, I see affirmative action (as you muricans call it) is both an unjust and ineffective way to solve problems in society. Firstly, the morality of it. I think justice should always happen on an individual basis. While this isn...
<|im_start|>user [Alien] If xenomorphs inherit traits from their hosts, what, if anything, do they get from humans that other hosts don’t give them?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Nothing in particular. The traits they inherit are just for adaptation to the prey's environment and appropriate size for hunting them. If ...
<|im_start|>user Why wouldn't crossing an event horizon mean instant death? As I understand it, once inside a black hole all paths lead towards the singularity, no matter the properties of the matter that falls in, so I assume bodily functions like blood flow would fail immediately because it would require some small m...
<|im_start|>user [Update] Prof claims first authorship for a paper I wrote 75% of. Hi everyone, [Previous Post] (https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAcademia/comments/4kywje/prof_claims_first_authorship_for_paper_that_i/) Thanks for the great responses to my previous post. They really helped, and made me feel less alone and...
<|im_start|>user I don't think anyone should get extra time in an exam. CMV. This may not exist in some exams, but in the high school exams that I took (the IB), some students were allowed extra time for things such as: dyslexia, ADD, etc. Now before you think I'm a complete ass for essentially harming people with thos...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How is it possible for dinosaur footprints that are hundreds of millions of years old to exist at the bottom of a riverbed without being eroded away by the water? Many parts of Texas are experiencing severe drought (though not quite as severe as the b\*tch that was the 2011 drought). As a result ...
<|im_start|>user Humans can easily identify other humans using their faces alone, but we generally can't easily distinguish one member of a species from another by face alone (e.g. a lion from the others). Do animals have the same ability to recognize each other (same species) from face alone?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>ass...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why does the US have a high gun ownership rate and a high gun violence rate and the Swiss have a high gun ownership rate and a low gun violence rate?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The Swiss also have mandatory military service and a relatively low income gap, with universal health care and a mo...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why aren't there many engineers or scientists in congress/politics/government? I get that people think differently but why isn't there an effort for this? I DO believe there are SOME issues that engineers would solve/attempt to solve better than current politicians.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistan...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why are judges given discretion in deciding penalties for crimes?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant In theory, to make sure the punishment fits the circumstances surrounding a crime. If someone robs a convenience store because their kid needed lifesaving medical treatment and the person genuinely...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:There are warnings on my microwave that say not to run it while empty. Does anyone now why or how this damages the microwave?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The walls of the oven are designed to reflect the microwaves, intending for them to eventually be absorbed by food. But with no food, they w...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Successful people from humble backgrounds have had to work harder, and so deserve more respect than those with well-off families. In my view, people who were born into well-off families, and who subsequently become successful, for whatever reason, don't deserve the same amount of respect as succes...
<|im_start|>user Advice on how to include or document code into a dissertation Hi, the core of my dissertation is not coding. However to do all the studies I had to write a series of scripts to handle the data for either visualizations or any sort of analysis. For the niche group of researchers in this topic, we consid...
<|im_start|>user First time giving a long (45+ minutes) presentation on my research - What to talk about? Hi everyone, having been a graduate student for quite a while now, I have given quite a few 20-30 minute papers that give a general introduction to my research. What I normally did (I am a graduate student in hist...
<|im_start|>user How did academics do literature review before the internet? My first thought was libraries, but that still sounds crazy<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There's a great book by Umberto Eco about how to be successful in grad school - he wrote it for his own graduate students because he was tired of givin...
<|im_start|>user [Zootopia] Why isn't Officer Hopps concerned about the buying of fur rugs... in a world where animals are sapient? After the question about her continued association with people who have a murder pit, I realized this-- the skunk butt rug bit was played for laughs, but... it's still a fur rug *in a worl...
<|im_start|>user Learning Philosophy vs reading Philosophers Is reading philosophers important at all? And if so, how much? In context I ask because if we want to learn philosophy and use it as a way of figuring things out and thinking about the world better then how important is reading philosophers work as opposed t...
<|im_start|>user [Portal] Aperture Markets their products to Modern-Day Earth! **This deviates from canon slightly. We're going to have Aperture be founded somewhere in the 1990s instead of in the Half-Life universe during the 40s, as well as Cave and Caroline being alive and GLaDOS never being built.** *Fact: Apertur...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 How did they manage to get big ships docked before the invention of motor engines ?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The first thing to do is wait for the right weather. You anchor outside the harbour or sail around until the wind is of the right strength and direction to allow you to get in. The ...
<|im_start|>user Dear scientist redditors, does decanting wine actually do anything? I got a wine aerator for christmas and have failed at blind test to see which glass was aerated. Though it usually tastes different to me when using a decanter, i realize this might just be confirmation bias or the placebo effect. Plea...
<|im_start|>user Do all wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum travel at the same speed? I keep hearing speed of 'light'. This made me wonder if it is visible light that is being referred to or just any type of electromagnetic radiation?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Many of the answers so far correctly state th...
<|im_start|>user [Economics] Hypothetical: The dollar crashes on Monday. What happens? I'm interested in deep analysis of this, though obviously a hypothetical is always speculation. * What's the likely time scale? * What would the government do to try to mitigate? * What happens to the average family in the US? (midd...
<|im_start|>user I believe capitalism is a detriment to society as a whole. We will never be a thriving society with it in place. CMV Capitalism is the primary reason for the lack of advancements in energy, medicine, housing, poverty, world peace, the drug war, ect... It causes a "me vs. you" mentality, resulting in cr...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do certain drugs make your pupils change size?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Pupil change is due to two muscle groups-- the iris sphincter (contraction) and the iris dilator (expansion). The sphincter response is linked to the parasympathetic nervous system, activated when we are in a relax...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How can someone wake up from a brain injury and suddenly be able to speak a foreign language? I just read this article about a man who was in a car accident and when he woke up he could fluently speak French. How does that happen when he didn't speak any french at all prior to the incident?<|im_e...
<|im_start|>user CMV: It is invasive, ineffective &amp; condescending to determine the validity/relevancy of a person's views based off their sexual inclination, sex or gender I am going to try to be as clear as I can. I'm having trouble finding the best words for my thoughts &amp; feelings. Broadly speaking among some...
<|im_start|>user CMV: the American presidential election would be a lot more fair and reasonable if we voted based on policy rather than people. Title kinda says it all, but elections are generally popularity contests. Prior to the last several elections (and the current one), videos came out where voters were question...
<|im_start|>user The income gap between white people and African Americans has not changed since 1983. What are possible ways to reduce this gap? [Using this as reference](http://blog.metrotrends.org/2013/08/racial-wealth-gap-wide-1963-remains-large-today/), what are proposed methods of improving the standard of living...
<|im_start|>user CMV: I think the modern-day American working lifestyle is a never-ending cycle of unneeded stress and needs to change. I really can only speak as an American citizen who works in corporate from 7-5PM. From what I can tell, and this is not a new sentiment, however daily life for the average middle class...
<|im_start|>user Why does the Planck length exist, and why is it that specific size?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The Planck length is a length you get when you multiply certain constants together in physics, why it is exactly that number is not known, just as it is not known why the speed of light is the number it ...
<|im_start|>user If all material is eaten, are cooked vegetables less nutritious than raw ones?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant For various plants, for example broccoli, many of the nutrients are locked within strong cell walls, made of cellulose. Humans do not digest cellulose too well, and a lot of the nutrients in t...