Datasets:
SlumberDemon
/
ChatML-Collection

Dataset card Data Studio Files
xet
 Community
1
text
stringlengths
82
65.5k
<|im_start|>user CMV: If I'm not educated in a field, I shouldn't be highly opinionated (specifically economics/politics) In my professional life I'm a programmer of about 3 years or so. I know a decent amount, but I also know how much I don't know. Every field is extremely complicated, and requiring years of study to ...
<|im_start|>user When to mention/not mention that I want a position partly due to its location? I'm writing cover letters. In addition to touting my qualifications and experience, for what types of jobs should I mention that the area has specific appeal to me, either because of family proximity or something else? My u...
<|im_start|>user If photons have no mass, how do they have momentum? I was reading that E=pc for photons, however, isn't p=mv? I'm probably missing some critical background here :P<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It's better to think of momentum as something that moving objects have, rather than an explicit product of ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do fruits and vegetables have more vitamins than other foods?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Not to be too flippant, but the reason why fruits and vegetables have so many vitamins is because fruits and vegetables have so many vitamins. Let me explain… evolutionarily speaking, these are thing...
<|im_start|>user Since the CoronaVirus has a limited lifecycle outside of human body (up to 3 days on different surfaces) can the masks left unattended be reused? If not, why? What are safe ways to disinfect face masks in household conditions? Edit: Some have claimed that virus on the surfaces can stay infectious for ...
<|im_start|>user [Star Trek/General Sci-Fi] What prevents an aggressor from simply orbiting a planet in their ship and locking on to all of the inhibits hearts and teleporting said organ out of the body. Seems like an easy way to pirate planets.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Easy? Even a small colony likely has a cou...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do small blood vessels become visible in your eyes when you’ve been awake for too long?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Optometrist here. The vessels dilate so more blood can flow through them, bringing in oxygen. Happens when our eyes are opened for too long or we are wearing contact lenses ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What is (or was) the point of wisdom teeth?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Anthropologists believe wisdom teeth, or the third set of molars, were the evolutionary answer to our ancestor’s early diet of coarse, rough food – like leaves, roots, nuts and meats – which required more chewing power an...
<|im_start|>user Why can we talk in our heads? Hey guys, I've always wondered how we are able to talk in our heads. I can say a whole sentence in my head and when I think about that it seems crazy that we can do that. So how are we able to speak in our head without saying it?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Language re...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Not everyone who thinks they might be transgender is transgender Throwaway because I am active in the trans subs. There is a party line in the transgender reddit community whereby if someone posits they might be transgender, the response is to convince them they are. This includes sharing persona...
<|im_start|>user CMV: We should be focusing on impoverished people who show innate talent and potential, just lack the resources I think a lot of people in poverty are brilliant, just lack opportunity, and while I’m not saying abandon the poor who aren’t talented, I think we should be focusing resources on kids with po...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: the financial term "total cost of ownership" as opposed to say, buying and running costs Financial experts of reddit: I think I understand the usefulness of TCO (total cost of ownership) but I'm at a loss when asked to explain it. Most people I know prefer buying or running costs as for appliance...
<|im_start|>user [Star Wars] How bleak/difficult is life for the average person in the Galaxy? As in, on a scale of Awfulness from 1 to 10 (1 being us, 10 being Warhammer 40K). Has the answer varied a lot through the different time periods we see, or remained consistently good/bad throughout?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assi...
<|im_start|>user How is density measured in porous materials? If I want to measure the density of the material a sponge is made of, how do I go about that? For liquids I imagine you put it in a vacuum chamber on a scale. For metals I imagine you melt it down and do the same. Am I right?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant ...
<|im_start|>user How comes the sand of most beaches is yellow and very few beaches have either white or black/gray sand? Aren't white/black/gray rocks way more common ?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Most beaches are made of one of two things: quartz or carbonate. When you take those black/gray rocks and start erodin...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:"Time heals all wounds" What exactly is happening here? Why do you feel less "hurt" as time passes?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It takes time to understand and process what happened, your hormones and emotional state have a chance to return to relative normalcy, and you adjust to your new exis...
<|im_start|>user CMV: A Person Dying Should Not Exempt Them from Negative Opinion This view has largely been sparked by the passing of xxxTentacion and has caused much controversy in my area. The idea that "speaking ill of the dead" is wrong and abhorrent seems like an aged and counterproductive concept. Why should s...
<|im_start|>user I believe modern feminists should refer to themselves as egalitarians. CMV. The feminists I have met want equality for everyone. The word for that is 'egalitarian', and that term also benefits because it loses the whole stigma around radical feminists (though few really exist - ideas of radfems seem to...
<|im_start|>user How do we know redshifting is due to the universe expanding? What if it's an effect similar to friction, so the wave loses energy as it travels through space, and it's just more noticeable from the extremely distant galaxies? I ask party out of curiosity, but also because the idea of space expanding so...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do older bath towels absorb water so much better than brand new towels?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Brand new cotton fibers have a layer of natural oil in them that improved softness. New towels may also be treated with oils or waxes to enhance the softness of the cotton fibers. These oil...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What happens when you blank-out whilst driving and realise 5 minutes later you haven't paid attention, but also haven't crashed? This is a really hard thing to ask unless it's happened to you (and I am sure that it has). So you're driving a car. One minute you are paying complete attention to th...
<|im_start|>user How long would it take two separate groups of humans to develop obvious differences genetically? For example, one very large group of humans, say 250,000, went to another planet. Humans somehow are unable to contact them or send new supplies or people. If we assume that they all live, how long would it...
<|im_start|>user Not a philosophical question per se, but are there any articles that deal with the question of why wisdom in the Classical world is feminine? Why is it Lady Philosophy? Why Athena goddess of wisdom?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant You can do all sorts of etymologizizing metaphysics, but the only truly ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why is it that when it's dark you see with less detail on your fixation point and have to use the area around it?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There are two kinds of light receptors in the eye, rods and cones. Cones give you color perception and work better with higher light levels. Rods wor...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: why does inbreeding cause issues? I never understood why inbreeding is said to cause defects. In a pond of guppies, it's normal for them to be inbred for decades at a time, but this isn't the case for more complex animals? I understand how only having the same genes might make you more susceptibl...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: how is it possible that we can only see between 430-770 Thz and hear 20hz-20khz? Does that mean there are things around us we just cannot hear or see? EDIT: if aliens were real, and they were on a different spectrum/wavelength is it possible they could be anywhere and we would have no clue? SECO...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What kind of things does MI6 and the Secret Service actually do?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The Secret Service is in charge of investigating counterfeiters, and provide protection services for the President, Vice President, Senators, Congressmen, and various other Dignitaries and their famil...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Semicolon: How to? I'd like to think I paid enough attention in English class to effectively punctuate, but I am lost as to how and when I would ever use a semicolon. Examples would be great.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Use it to join two closely related thoughts; each half should be able to ...
<|im_start|>user ELi5: How do food manufacturers know how many calories are in the food? For example, say I was a company who grew tomatoes. How would I find out how many calories are in the tomatoes? Thanks!<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant They use Food Calorimetry, basically they burn a sample of the food and the ene...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Standard deviation I've read the Wikipedia article a couple times, but I still haven't quite grasped it.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The standard deviation basically gives you an idea of how far apart all the different measurements in a set are. When you have a set of numbers, the average (c...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How does a male animal know he's the father of offspring when there could have been multiple partners much less he doesn't know how the reproductive process works?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Not all of them do and it depends highly on the animal. There are some male birds which will "rape" ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How does the eye-sight-measuring machine at the glasses shop actually give you the exact number of your eyesight?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Lenses work both ways. The machine is basically getting a camera trained on your retina and then ‘auto-focusing’ until it sees a clear image of your re...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How can two (or more) languages be mutually intelligible yet not be considered the same language? So Danish and Swedish are an example of languages that are mutually intelligible, apparently, yet if thats the case, how are they not considered the same language? If a Danish speaker can understand ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How did Seth Bling manage this code injection in Super Mario World? Here is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB6eY73sLV0 I have no understanding of coding so most of the jargon used is completely over my head. My basic understanding is that he performed some moves to put the game into...
<|im_start|>user [Star Trek] Why are Vulcans often misunderstood by human Starfleet officers? The emotional "deficits" generally exhibited by Vulcans are similar to the symptoms of high functioning autistic individuals, right? Shouldn't officers have at least a passing knowledge of this comparison and use that informat...
<|im_start|>user [DC] How does a Green Lantern abilities work? Ok so i know the Green Lantern is powered by Willpower and using that you create it constructs or use its abilities but for the complex stuff like for example if you want to create a robot then besides willpower do you have to actually know how the robot is...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: If the situation arose and it was for survival, would I be able to live off of just water and multi-vitamins?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Dietetics student here! Your body needs what we call macronutrients, which provide you with energy in the form of calories. Your body burns anywhere betwee...
<|im_start|>user Everyone has projects, no one has funding As I'm coming to the end of my PhD I've noticed a pattern emerging in my postdoc search. Everyone I talk to has a project for me, some more interesting or high impact than others, but no one has funding. I'm wondering how everyone else (in the social sciences...
<|im_start|>user [Star Wars] (TLJ spoilers ahead) How powerful is the First Order after TLJ? [Spoiler: Canon](#s "After all the damage and losses inflicted to the First Order over the course of TFA and TLJ; how weakened is the First Order? Can they still reasonably expect to conquer and control the galaxy? Or will dece...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How it is possible to understand a language but not be able to speak it yourself.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Forming words and sentences is a different skill set to matching heard words with their translated counterpart. You can hear cheval and connect that with a horse but being able to k...
<|im_start|>user Eli5: how does herbivores obtain their required nutrients from just eating grass? How does wild horses eat only grass and have sufficient energy to run around with those muscular bodies? While here I am, too tired of getting off the couch<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Animals digestive systems alter ...
<|im_start|>user [DC/Marvel] How much the average person knows about love affairs of each member of the Justice League/Avengers? Do they know Batman is in a relationship with Catwoman? Spiderman with Mary Jane? Superman with Lois Lane?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant In most cases, very little- they have secret identie...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Dark Matter What is it? What's it use? How does it work?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Physicists studying the movement and structure of galaxies, and the universe in general, have seen evidence of large amounts of unseen mass interacting with galactic structures, and the unseen mass is called ...
<|im_start|>user What does high level mathematical study give us? May sound like a stupid question to some but I’m having trouble understanding how new advanced mathematical study is used to explain things like how AI works. Is it kinda like if simple addition didn’t exists and a farmer was struggling to know how many ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:How are people trained to withstand torture? I've heard of various government agents being trained to withstand torture so they don't give away classified information. Is it possible they can make you so strong willed that you can go through the most excruciating painful torture and still keep you...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How did Chile manage to surpass USA in life expectency? According to the world bank [Life expectancy at birth, total (years) - Chile, United States | Data (worldbank.org)](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN?locations=CL-US) Chile in 1960 was far behind USA in life expectency a...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why does electricity not flow in an open circuit? Take a wire, put the positive terminal (or negative) of a battery on one end, attach it to an industrial leafblower, but don't return the wire to the battery. Why will I not be able to blow them leaves?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant A useful ana...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do you measure stuff in space? How do we know this star weighs x-times the weight of the sun? And how we know how much the sun weights. Same goes for distances. How can you tell how far something is?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant # Measuring Distance: There are several methods to calculat...
<|im_start|>user What does Marshall McLuhan mean by "the medium is the message"? Is this idea useful in current times?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It is useful, but you need to be willing to extend credit to McLuhan and do some heavy lifting on the exegetical side, mainly since he isn't around to do any of that wor...
<|im_start|>user eli5: What is the difference between a cosplay and a costume?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant At the core, the difference isn’t the outfit, but whether or not the wearer is behaving in character. Essentially, a costume is merely a fancy outfit, but cosplay is adopting a personality, whole or in part.<|...
<|im_start|>user CMV:It isn't worth my time to clean recyclables if it isn't worth the recycling facilities time. I've read many times that recyclable items get tossed if they are recycled in anything but pristine condition. This is usually done to try to encourage people to clean their recyclables. This makes little...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: If species is defined as a group of organisms able to produce offspring with each other, how do biologists classify species that reproduce asexually?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Turns out there are lots of different species concepts and not a single concept that works for every species. You a...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:Time Okay, I get the basics of time and how it works. What I'm wondering is why is it 'running' at exactly the speed that it is and how does that work? Has it always been running at this speed? What is there to indicate that time even exists?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Time is a human measure...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:What do the scientists mean when they say the universe is flat? We can clearly travel in 3d<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Take a piece of paper and draw a straight line for a bit. From the end of this line, draw a line which is perpendicular (90 degrees) and draw about the same length. Now do it...
<|im_start|>user Why is Wittgenstein in (apperently) no introductory class to phil of language? Viennese student here. I asked many of my friends in other (german speaking) unis about their introductory classes to philosophy of language. Everybody seems to be doing the “classics”, Frege, Russell, Kripke, Grice, Austin ...
<|im_start|>user What are some good books on feminism? What are some good books I could read on feminism?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant bell hooks' *Feminism is For Everybody* is a good introductory book on feminism and feminist topics. Other good ones are Marilyn Frye's *The Politics of Reality*, Sandra Lee Bartky's...
<|im_start|>user why do birds migrate back north?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant In the summer arctic areas are full of insects which provide an excellent food source for young birds. Additionally, migration limits the number of competitors for resources as migratory birds have to dela with permanent tropical residen...
<|im_start|>user Do mosquitoes have any significant role to play in the ecosystem? In general what living beings have almost no role to play in the ecosystem? Also, are all "plants" types important to an ecosystem because they are autotrophs (apart from some archea bacteria)? The basic ecosystem (for me) is: herbivore...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Employers shouldn't be allowed to fire employees based on any activities they do in their private life I don't believe employers have the right to fire employees based on what they do or say on their own time. Even if the things done/said are morally dubious and shed a bad light on the company, as...
<|im_start|>user [Terminator] How does the T-1000 work? If he's liquid metal, where is the CPU, and how does he see and hear? He was frozen, and everything, hes 100 percent liquid, I don't get how the machine works. (Also, just wanted to say I love this subreddit, I love the idea of it, I love the answers people get, ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How are the different strains of marijuana different? How are they grown/modified to be different?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Generally speaking you have two main areas they can differ in. The first relates to sativa / indica. Sativa has more of a "high", a buzzy, slightly awake feeling. M...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do DSLR cameras work?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant SLR as a term is pretty well defined - it stands for "Single-Lens Reflex". Forget digital for a moment - remember normal point and shoot film cameras? You'd have a small viewfinder at the top, which you'd look through. Well, the problem wi...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Making small assumptioms about a person based on their appearance is OK I live in a very progressive and liberal area. Throughout my school career, I have been taught that you should not make any assumptions about a person based solely off of their appearance. However, I think this is wishful th...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Colour perception is typical described as a material absorbing light wavelengths and reflecting others, with those reflected wavelengths being interpreted as colour. EII5 how are light waves absorbed by a material? Is there a limit to absorption?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Materials absorb l...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why is there a difference between your heart beating fast and beating hard? During exercise my heart will beat fast, but not very hard. However when I abruptly wake up from a nightmare or see a person I'd rather avoid, my heart will beat very hard but slow. Why is it necessary for our bodies to ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What exactly is a major in Women's and Gender Studies? I know that this is a more versatile degree than people think. I've heard it can be used for a job in marketing, writing, PR, and other general humanities jobs, but what exactly will you be in expert in with this degree? It seems like an od...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: how do drugs like tylenol and advil know where the pain is and sooth a headache?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant First, it's important to note that if you read the package inserts on medicine closely, you'll see that each notes that the actual method of action (the nitty gritty of how it works) i...
<|im_start|>user First university paper in philosophy. A comparative essay on Nietzsche and Foucault. Any advice? Hello! First year university student here. I have a paper due next week in my modern-postmodern philosophy class. I really enjoy the class, and it's preoccupied my mind way more than anything else I've lear...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do credit card rewards work, and can I really get free flights and such just by spending money? I only have one credit card right now, which I am using to slowly build my credit by buying gas each month (anywhere from $75-$125 a month). I do not really know anyone who uses a reward card, but ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why can't saltwater fish survive in fresh water?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Simply put, saltwater and freshwater fish have different systems for maintaining the right amount of water in their bodies. Think about salt, if you sprinkle it on a slug it makes the slug dry out, killing it. The sa...
<|im_start|>user When and how do infants learn that their limbs “belong” to them? Cognitively/neurologically, how does a child learn to distinguish between “an arm” and “my arm”?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Antonio Damasio's book Self Comes to Mind discusses this within the context of how our brains and minds devel...
<|im_start|>user Question: How much should i charge someone for implementing a opensource program in their business. Like the title says, I work in IT in a small country in Central America, I currently am very interested in working in small projects besides my job, i have a business question, i can manipulate and confi...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why is it that when a girl decides to give up her baby for adoption, she's applauded for doing the right thing, but when a man doesn't want to be a parent, he's a deadbeat?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant What your describing first is the woman chosing to give birth to the child and put it up for...
<|im_start|>user Eli5 Why do some countries measure their currencies in large units? For example in Vietnam, lunch can be bought for 50,000 VD and in South Korea, apartments can cost several MILLION Won. Why do some countries use such large denominations?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Usually these very large denomin...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How exactly does "turning it off and on again" fix such a wide variety of different tech problems?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant When machines start up, they goes through a routine to put everything in the right place. It’s like when you wake up for school, brush your hair, put on clean clothe...
<|im_start|>user [Star Wars] Wasn't anyone in the Republic bothered by the moral implications of creating a massive clone army of sentient beings strictly for the purpose of killing? Can't help but feel someone must have been bothered by the fact that there are millions of people, being bred for the purpose of fighting...
<|im_start|>user Why shouldn't personhood start at conception? Pro-lifers do not seem to care about the concept of "personhood" but rather just that human life is present. Other than the example of abortion, where a persons bodily autonomy is removed in favor of a living human organism that is not a person, are there ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: If muscles are built by cells repairing themselves after being ripped apart, how come cancer in muscles isn't more common?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant I actually found a TED talk referenced in another post under r/askscience. The talk discussed how muscles are naturally going to tear and repr...
<|im_start|>user Why is it that low-level languages like C are capable of dealing with system processes and higher level languages, like javascript, are not? Forgive me if 'system processes' seems a little vague, I do not exactly know what the proper terminology is from an OS standpoint other than 'process'. For examp...
<|im_start|>user CMV: I have no emotional connection to my religion. Having an emotional connection to a religion is strange. I am a practicing Hindu. Every day, I try to meditate, chant mantras, perform rituals etc, I also burn incense, listen to bhajan (devotional songs) etc. I go to a temple meet up group weekly for...
<|im_start|>user Why is the imaginary number defined as i^2 = -1, rather than i = sqrt(-1)? In case of i^2 = -1, there are two possible outcomes for i. So why wouldn't you just define i?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant By starting with i^2 = -1 you are basically extending the algebra of reals with an object i that has ...
<|im_start|>user [Interplanetary] Is there any way to explain interplanetary warfare without starships? The game "Interplanetary" is an artillery game wherein the populated planets of a solar system start engaging in all-out war, without actually possessing space travel. Or at least, good enough space travel for ships...
<|im_start|>user How are time and space, according to Kant, a priori?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant They're a priori for Kant because they're part of the conditions of possibility for our experience. They're the form of our sensibility, and are the form that appearances must take in order to be appearances for us. On...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Fundamentally, what is mass? If you want go even further how are the particles that have no mass?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There are two types of mass, which as far as we know turn out, for reasons unknown, to be exactly the same: - Gravitational mass is the quantity that determines how ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What is the difference between mixing and mastering a song?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The most basic explanation is mixing is making adjustments to the individual tracks/instruments so that they mesh together best (adjusting volume of tracks against each other, adjusting eqs or the panning ...
<|im_start|>user [Sherlock Holmes] How is Sherlock allowed to examine bodies? If he isn’t in law enforcement or a family member of the deceased, how is Sherlock Holmes able to observe dead bodies to make his deductions?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Hes a well known detective asked by the police to aid in investigati...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do highly precise mass scales fluctuate wildly? I was preparing some samples today for dissolving, and I needed to prepare 0.001g and 0.0005g of material. The scale I was using had 5 decimal places. Anytime I put a sample on there, it would go something like 0.00118g, then a few seconds lat...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Did our ancestors experience vision loss similar to how we do? If so, how common was it and how did it affect their day-to-day survival?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Nearsightedness is largely a disease of urbanization and industrialization. populations like the Inuit went from like 0% nearsig...
<|im_start|>user Does anyone know what the deal is with Nature having a maximum article length of only 5 pages? Doesn’t that seem unreasonably restrictive? So I was looking at [Nature's guidelines for authors](https://www.nature.com/nature/for-authors) and they list 5 pages as the maximum article length. Exactly what i...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:How come my body can heat up so much when I'm anxious but it fells like it barely does anything when I'm cold.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant When you enter a cold environment your body starts preparing for extended exposure and begins conserving body heat through various means such as blood ves...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What is the difference between Ashkenazi Jewish and other Jewish people?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There are two branches of Jewish origin following the diaspora from Israel - Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews. Ashkenazi Jews are the ones who ended up in Northern and Eastern Europe... places lik...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Reality is most likely very different to how we perceive it. We perceive the world via our senses, things like sight, sound, smell and touch. But if we evolved without eyes, we would have no concept of color. I understand that color is determined by the wavelength of light, but we probably wouldn'...
<|im_start|>user Eli5 - how can people get stabbed or shot in the gut/torso area and have it not hit vital organs or be fatal?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The term vital organs is key. The small intestines, not a vital organ, are 22 feet long in the average adult. You also have the stomach, also not a vital organ. ...
<|im_start|>user AskScience AMA Series: Hi! I am Prof. Nadav Davidovitch, an epidemiologist and one of the architects of Israel's coronavirus response and vaccine operation. Ask me anything! Hi! I am Prof. Nadav Davidovitch, an epidemiologist, public health physician, professor, and director of the School of Public Hea...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why does some smartphones get slower with time? Is it a hardware or a software problem?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Both On the software side of things not only are newer programs typically more demanding, but newer operating systems are designed with newer/more powerful devices in mind. A...
<|im_start|>user Which philosophy class should I take? Critical thinking and reasoning or existentialism focused on Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, jaspers, Heidegger, Marcel, Sartre, and Camus Hopefully this is the right place to post this. Both of these topics are super interesting to me. I have an open elective in my scienc...
<|im_start|>user Does language define reality or not? (Sapir-Worf) Hey all, its going to take me a moment to set this up so bear with me :) &amp;nbsp; I was in my class last night and the subject that was on the board was about the **social construction of reality**, which is listed as the process of people shaping ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How hormones are turned into pills How are hormones such as melatonin harvested and put into pills?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It depends on the hormone. Each hormone is a completely different chemical and there are different ways of making them. Some hormones are extracted from other animal...
<|im_start|>user Does human vision have an aspect ratio?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The typical human binocular visual field spans approximately 125-135 vertical degrees and around 180-200 degrees horizontally. This gives an angular aspect ratio of around 3:2 for the bounding box in spherical coordinates.<|im_end...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do so many Asian nationality adjectives end in "ese" (i.e. Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, etc.) where so many other nationality adjectives end in "ish" or "an" (i.e. Scottish, American, German, Egyptian, Italian, etc.)? I know there are exceptions, but in general, this seems to be a thing. Ed...