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<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why does Catalonia want independence from Spain?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Catalonia is a culturally and linguistically distinct group. The Catalonian language is actually very different from default Spanish or its regional dialects. Plus, the economy in Catalonia and especially Barcelona ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do scientists detect the DISTANCE of source of radio waves coming from different regions of universe?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Simply: Light stretches and the further away something is, the more the light stretches Less simply: Waves stretch in accordance to how fast an object is mov...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: When looking at a flame, what exactly is the orange part? How does flame work?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Everyday combustion, like burning a candle, involves carbon and other chemicals in the combustible material reacting with oxygen in the air. This reaction is exothermic, meaning that it ...
<|im_start|>user How did Henry Cavendish manage to calculate the Earth's mass back in 1798?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Basically, he created a balance that was able to isolate and measure the gravitational force between two small objects of known mass. From there, he was simply able to weigh one of the objects (ak...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What actually changes in your body when you build cardio endurance? How does endurance actually work? Why do you have to actually run to gain endurance for a marathon instead of just doing strength training? What changes in your physiology when doing endurance training besides getting muscular?<|...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How are random numbers generated by computers? I've heard they're not truly random, but I don't know how that would work either, because they obviously appear random.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Computers use special math functions to generate random numbers. You know what a function is, righ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why can quitting drinking kill an alcoholic?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant With heavy/long-term use, alcohol creates big changes in the alcoholic's brain chemistry and body. When an alcoholic suddenly stops drinking, the brain's systems basically go haywire with the sudden change. Areas that we...
<|im_start|>user Can someone explain to me why Plato's work isn't terrible? To elaborate on the title, I understand that Plato was vital to the development of philosophy, and that he has incredible historical significance. I think that through a historical lens, all of the praise that Plato recieves is justified—he wa...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Democratic countries should have a voting system where voters can vote for as many candidates as they want I have a couple reasons for why this is the best way to vote for any head official, like a president or prime minister. I guess I should say how this would work though first. So on the ball...
<|im_start|>user CMV: I am of the strong opinion that capital letter should not be required at the start of a sentence. capital letters fulfill their purpose in acronyms/initialisms and proper nouns. a name like Mark requires a capital to differentiate it from the regular word. capitals are not required to show a reade...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why can things like optical illusions “trick” our brain, even when you know for a fact what the reality is? Why is “what your brain thinks” not equal to “what you know”?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Our brain is HEAVILY optimized for pattern recognition and prediction. It happens without our ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: If cat's and dog's hearing is so much more sensitive than human hearing, why are they not bothered by things such as traffic noise or TV noise? I was thinking about this the other day when I was watching TV the other night and my dog was happily dozing next to me even though the TV was a bit too ...
<|im_start|>user What is the connection between critical theory and critical race theory? As far as I can tell, they seem to be completely separate things. Some proponents of critical race theory seem eager to dismiss any connection between CRT and Marxism, presumably to anticipate and counteract some of the conservati...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do the spouses of celebrities get so much money in the case of divorce when it's clear they wouldn't make near so much money had the relationship never happened?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant In the eyes of the court, a marriage means two people becoming one person. Imagine a blue crayon m...
<|im_start|>user Why are the primary colors for light different from the primary colors for paint? In light, all colors come from green, red, or blue. In paint, all colors come from yellow, magenta (almost red), or cyan (almost blue). What is the reason for this difference?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The differenc...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What causes “the chills” when you’re sick? And why do they sometimes alternate with “the sweats”?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant When you develop a fever, your brain turns up your biological thermostat, increasing the setpoint of your core body temperature. When that happens, your previously n...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do they find out the information that goes on Nutrition Facts labels? Like number of calories, fat content, vitamin content, etc. etc.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There's a database of ingredients that has nutritional info for a variety of foods. When you make up a recipe you figure out t...
<|im_start|>user Why does sweat have so much salt? From a biological standpoint, why is salt excreted in sweat along with water? From an evolutionary standpoint, why did sweat evolve to be an excretion of salt and water when potentially it could have evolved to be just an excretion of water?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>as...
<|im_start|>user CMV: "Rules as Written" when it comes to D&amp;D and other tabletop games doesn't mean much, and DM's in fact *should* go through the rules and change anything they don't like. So players in tabletop games like D&amp;D like to talk about the rules, ways to break the game, etc, and often they'll use the...
<|im_start|>user [ELI5] Why do most software programs (web browsers, for example) display an error code that you have to look up instead of just telling you the error?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The use of error codes is considered a good practice in programming, because it allows different errors to be strictly d...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Most Employers and the Military should be allowed to discriminate genders for physical/biological reasons Science has proven that men and women are physically different from each other. Men tend to be stronger, larger, and faster while women tend to be more flexible, shorter, and more slender. Man...
<|im_start|>user [Digimon] Was Angemon some sort of anomaly in the digiworld or digital code that made him so strong? Angemon was his in champion form, but he was by farther stronger than any other Champion. He could even rival and defeat many Ultimates in his champion form. I read in the Digimon archives that the only...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why are the elderly so susceptible to scams which are incredibly obvious to younger people? I get that some of it is technology, but in general, why do old people seem to be more likely to believe an appeal of "something for nothing"?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant You mean like student loans an...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Individual efforts have no effect on global-scale problems. For example, say a person stops eating meat due to a belief that cultivating it leaves too large of an environmental footprint. If this is an average person with an average amount of influence over the people around them (i.e. not a cele...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why is it so difficult for computers to truly randomly generate numbers?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Computers are just calculators; they do mathematical operations. Because of the nature of mathematics, you can't use simple math operations to generate truly random values -- math is inherentl...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why is ancient Mesopotamia described as a lush land but (the most equivalent) modern Iraq is mostly desert? I've never been to Iraq and I know that the two regions don't exactly overlap, but still I'm surprised that a country that today is described as mostly desert in the past was the perfect ar...
<|im_start|>user How do I not get too emotionally invested in a paper I'm writing? I have final papers coming up in addition to a writing sample for PhD applications in philosophy and I realized that a major stumbling block is that I am too emotionally invested in my paper (both the topic and the outcome of my thinking...
<|im_start|>user CMV: It shouldn't be illegal or frowned down upon to sleep in your car! When I was single I was considering living in the back of my Suburban. It's a nice place to sleep. I usually eat out anyway. 24hr gym membership for showers. Laundromat for laundry. Park in a quiet spot near work (or in work parkin...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: ARM (RISC Architecture) vs. x86-64 (CISC Architecture) Is this the reason why operating systems have to be created specifically for ARM processors? I got my first Raspberry Pi the other day and was just curious. It has an ARM processor so the Linux distro's have to be designed to run on the ARM...
<|im_start|>user CMV: If someone truly believes that abortion is murder, then that person is justified in non-violently protesting legal abortions. **READ THIS EDIT:** Apparently I didn't explain myself very well, Here's a re-wording of my belief: **Given that someone believes that abortion is murder, there is nothing ...
<|im_start|>user How are demand curves empirically estimated in practice? How can we hold consumer tastes constant in a regression model? What is the most practical way to estimate a market demand curve for a particular product? I'm very interested in hearing personal experiences with regards to this (if anyone has ha...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How does colored cloth retain its dye? Sorry if this was already asked before, but as per my research, it hasn't. How does cloth retain its color? Especially in the washing machine. How can cloth be uniformly colored? This is something I have been wondering about for a while and was wondering if ...
<|im_start|>user Why do smartphones know the answer to (170!) but show as infinite the answer to (171!) ?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Computers (including smartphones) typically store numbers in variables of a fixed size. That size determines the range of numbers that can be stored. For example, a variable that use...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Nationality is a pointless and detrimental sentiment When I refer to nationality in the post, I'm referring to strong feelings of nationality mostly. I'd appreciate it if anyone who isn't a strong patriot does explain what kind of sense of nationality they feel and why Okay, so my logic is that...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Catholic religious orders (e.g. Jesuits) Pope Francis is the first Jesuit pope. What differentiates the Jesuits from other orders, such as the Benedictines?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Well, think of the religious orders as factions within the church, all dedicated to certain goals that are s...
<|im_start|>user Best PhD for teaching higher education STEM courses? Hi everyone, I work in academia as an hourly instructor/teaching assistant in the USA. My bachelor's degree was in molecular and cellular biology but I currently teach general chemistry courses because that's where my work experience lies. I've been...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: If colds aren't caused by the cold, why do people get colds in the winter? I've been wondering<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Colds don't cause the cold, but coldness can negatively impact your ability to prevent and deal with diseases. But the primary reason why people get more sick in the wint...
<|im_start|>user If the liver can regenerate, how do people die from liver failure?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Liver failure can happen in two ways. First, the acute damage can simply be too serious for liver cells to deal with before the person dies. Second is a more protracted process, where damages accumulate. ...
<|im_start|>user [star trek]how does Earth's education system deal with races like Klingons who reach full adulthood in under 10 years?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant They reach physical maturity, but the simple fact of it is that primary education up to Federation standards takes over a decade. We know that when Worf...
<|im_start|>user Why does it take our eyes longer to adjust from light to dark than from dark to light? Turning off lights in a room, will take eyes a few minutes to adjust and start to make out objects. turn light on and after initial sudden flare in eyes we can see everything.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The pigm...
<|im_start|>user How can photons be 'massless'?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant A photon can be thought of as a disturbance in the electromagnetic field which pervades all space. It propagates through space in a similar manner to a wave moving over the sea. We wouldn't say that the sea wave has mass itself, as it's jus...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How come cats can face off with animals way bigger and deadlier than them (like bears or crocodiles) and still manage to scare them off and assert dominance?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant In ecology there is a concept that animals balance trade offs when foraging. For example, for a bear is ris...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What is "irreducible complexity" in regards to the theory of evolution? I've read a few things but still don't think I get it. 1. What does the term originate and what does it mean? 2. Why do creationists use this as "proof" against evolution?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant One of the main ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why is the order of operations in math PEMDAS? Why not another order?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The higher-priority operations are also the higher-order operations -- i.e. you construct multiplication out of repeated addition, you construct exponentiation out of repeated multiplication. So...
<|im_start|>user I recently read Bowling Alone and am trying to understand some of the methodology behind it: what statistical methodology is used to a find a "best predictor"? I feel like this is an embarrassing question to ask since I have a large econometrics background. I'm familiar with various forms of regression...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: If oil and grease both act as lubricants for metal on metal contact; why can't you use them interchangeably?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Typically, oil is used in higher speed, lower stress applications, where heat build-up is more of a concern than stress on the moving parts, such as the fas...
<|im_start|>user Does the human eye's depth of field change with iris dilation? In photography there's a metric called the F-stop that describes how wide the aperture of a lens is, and the narrower the F-stop, the wider the depth of field is (meaning more of a photo will be in focus). Is the same thing true of the huma...
<|im_start|>user Judit Polgar, Hungarian chess Grandmaster, was apparently raised by her parents as an experiment to prove that children could make exceptional achievements if trained in a specialist subject from a very early age. Where there conclusive results of this and has it been done elsewhere?<|im_end|> <|im_sta...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: China vs Porcelain vs Ceramic vs Earthenware Some of these may be overlapping categories but I have no idea.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant All of these are examples of Ceramics, which covers the entire set of the other items you are asking about. Ceramics are typically any sort of hard shaped m...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do employers reject applicants on the basis that they are overqualified? I mean wouldn't that be a good thing?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The hope when hiring someone is that you will find a dedicated worker of an appropriate skill level, who will then get the opportunity to be promoted ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 why do humans and most (all?) animals have symmetrical bodies?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Bilateral (humans) or radial (jellyfish) symmetry helps keep you balanced so you can move with purpose, and reduces the needed genetic complexity. You don’t need totally separate developmental pathways ...
<|im_start|>user Is there a German equivalent to Gutting’s French Philosophy in the Twentieth Century? I’m looking for something which covers a rough narrative of German philosophy as it developed in the twentieth century. I found gutting’s book to be very engaging and helpful and was wondering if there was parallel of...
<|im_start|>user Is a 'randomly' generated real number practically guaranteed to be transcendental? I learnt in class a while back that if one were to generate a number by picking each digit of its decimal expansion randomly then there is effectively a 0% chance of that number being rational. So my question is 'will th...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why aren't electrical prongs hot when they're removed from an outlet? If high amounts of energy are being conducted through these prongs, shouldn't prongs be glowing hot when they're removed?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Heating occurs when there's a significant amount of resistance. Signific...
<|im_start|>user Considering leaving academia so I can spend more time on research... Recently I have been feeling that the biggest obstacle between me and the research I want to do is the university and academic system that is supposed to facilitate it. I work on theoretical projects in physics requiring no signi...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Hard word limits in essays reduce the quality of work The premise is simple. Having a hard word limit (e.g. 10000 words), with penalties for being over that count (whether mark reduction, ignoring the last x words or just discounting the entire thing) reduces the overall quality of work. I am all...
<|im_start|>user eli5: At sundown, why does the sky have a gradient of several colors? Is it 2 colors blending and naturally creating the other ones as a result from mixing?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There is a different amount of atmosphere that the light travels through. When the sun is above you, that is the s...
<|im_start|>user Is there a consensus among economists on supply-side economics?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Supply is one part of the equation. Demand is another. Their relative elasticities tell you which will respond more strongly to a given exogenous shock, but to ignore either is to be missing a major part of ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How can we measure the velocities of the redshift of stars? Are they measured assuming the earth itself isn't moving or is this somehow taken into account?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant You are basing this on a false assumption, movement requires two things, an object and a point of reference, ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: If influenza is always mutating, why does getting a flu shot help? Doesn't the shot only prevent attacks from a certain strain?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Every year the world health organization researches which variation of the flu is going to be most common. After they come to a decision...
<|im_start|>user [SPIDERMAN] what is Green goblin goals and motivations? I'll admit I don't really read much comics, 90% of what I know of Spiderman are from cartoons I watched as a kid and the movies, but in all of those I don't really remember GG having any goals apart from being a dick to Spiderman just because, and...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Using the words "right" and "left" to lump radical and moderate political groups together is unhelpful I see little benefit in lumping all left-wing or right-wing groups together and describing them with one term. It leads to people discussing groups such as Antifa or Neo-Nazis using the general ...
<|im_start|>user Why is iron-oxide considered a ceramic and not a metal? Is it because of its mechanical/physical properties? Or is there something else that "makes" it a ceramic? Thanks in advance!<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Metal atoms are connected via metallic bonding Ceramic atoms are connected via a mix of...
<|im_start|>user How do Palaeontologists build image of an organism from fossils? How accurate is their method? I was recently saw a rabbit skeleton and could only imagine a monstrous creature but not a cute bunny. It got me thinking if dinosaurs were actually that intimidating.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Not a pa...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why are signatures still relevant, if they can easily be forged? Even in movies, you often see the bad guys trying to get a real signature from the good guys. Why cant they just be forged?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The strength of most signatures is the act of signing with a witness. The s...
<|im_start|>user What are some fun real world programming challenges to solve? I wanna do some programming challenges to improve my programming skills and speed. I don't really like doing coding challenges like code golf etc that much even though I've done some. What are some fun challenges that i can solve that would ...
<|im_start|>user If dark matter is found and proven, how much would that change physics and math? I don't have a math background so the in depth answers will be above me, but I just wonder if a discovery like proving dark matter will have a fundamental shift in math and physics theories?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant...
<|im_start|>user [IT chapters 1 &amp; 2] The first film makes it seem like only children can see this clown, chapter 2, it’s apparent that adults can indeed see pennywise. But then there’s parts where other adults don’t notice him. Why are the losers seemingly the grown ups who can see the clown? And why does pennywise...
<|im_start|>user If temperature is the cumulative speed of molecules in a material, what exactly produces the infra-red light we commonly associate as heat?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant In classical thermodynamics, temperature can be associated with the distribution of velocities of particles (not only molecules) - ...
<|im_start|>user Eli5: how were they able to pinpoint the exact cause of a rocket failure I'm assuming now engine use real time monitoring systems and sensors. But how were early rocket designers able to determine what caused a rocket to explode like a raptured fuel line or something? Did they just guess?<|im_end|> <|i...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why can humans build up a tolerance to some medications but not others? Edit: Thank you very much for the gold! I hope the comments made to this post were as helpful to others as they were to me.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Medications can work in a lot of different ways. One type that is pr...
<|im_start|>user [Rick and Morty] isn't it a bad idea, as an assassin, to hand out business cards that tell people exactly where you are? so in s2e2, the assassin "krombopulos michael" gives morty his business card that contains a real time map of where he is. isn't this kind of a real bad idea? i mean i'm no assassin ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do antihistamines make people sleepy? It’s the time of year when the trees are shedding pollen to reproduce with other trees, my eyes and sinuses clearly do not consent to this airborne plant-bukkake. I’ve taken a little pink pill, and it does alleviate the allergy reaction, but it also puts ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:Why hasn't Microsoft word made Times New Roman the universal font?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Fonts with serifs (the little embellishments on the end) are great in printed materials, but are harder to read on a computer screen. It's why most of the Internet uses sans-serif fonts, like Arial o...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do cargo ships have huge stacks of container vans and not topple over when facing rough seas? I mean similar to this one [https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1605745341112-85968b19335b?ixid=MnwxMjA3fDB8MHxzZWFyY2h8Mnx8Y29udGFpbmVyJTIwc2hpcHxlbnwwfHwwfHw%3D&amp;ixlib=rb-1.2.1&amp;w=1000&amp;q=...
<|im_start|>user Just how specific should my research interests be by the time I apply to grad school? I've been working in labs with the goal of going to grad school since my freshmen year and since then I have also worked on several independent research projects in psychology. I am applying to social psych programs i...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do popular social media apps become popular when they start out with 0 users? Take snapchat for example, you would think people would only use it when a sizable portion of their friends are using it too which explains why it is popular now, but how do people launch such things that are compel...
<|im_start|>user I'd like to be recommended some authors which are not depressing. Although it wan't all philosophy, I've read some Sartre, Schopenhauer, Kafka, Cortazar... to name the most influential to me. I think that such obsession with existentialists and pesimists has really affected me in a bad way. I went fro...
<|im_start|>user An interesting subject for a ONE day class for high schoolers to get them excited about economics? Hi all, I'm currently teaching English in Europe for the year, but because I studied economics in college, the social studies teacher here wants me to give an economics class. I'm looking for a subject t...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: It is said that time gets slower and slower near a blackhole. Does this mean that inside the blackhole there is a point where there time does not exist at all? If something got sucked into that point, would it stop existing completely?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant In GR you have to distinguish...
<|im_start|>user [Marvel Comics] How Advanced is Tony Stark's Tech Compared to the Rest of the Universe? Including, but not limited to the Endo-Sym armor, the shiny new Model 52, and larger constructs like Sol's Hammer. 1) How does it compare to our universe 2) Compared to the rest of Marvel Comics earth 3) Compared...
<|im_start|>user [star trek]why are most of the big fish in the galaxy (aside from the Borg) only a few thousand years old, warp capability wise? what happened to the races that were prominent in the milky way millions of years ago?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It is hinted at times that races or ensembles of races ...
<|im_start|>user Are there any notable "essentialist" philosophers? I've often heard claims that can effectively be translated as "essentialism is dead". Is this true, or does essentialism still have respectable defenders? Specifically, I'm looking for philosophers upholding an essentialist worldview, as opposed to a ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do we know whether an alternate medicine works or not when there are people around us who claim that their disease was diagnosed and cured by it? I specifically mean Ayurveda and homeopathy here. They say that Ayurveda has cured cancer without any nasty side-effects of chemo. We know that the...
<|im_start|>user [Warhammer 40K] The Inquisition Vs The Adeptus Arbites It seems to me that the roles of these two organizations overlap somewhat, with perhaps the deciding difference being accountability — Arbites do actually follow laws and codes and consider things like legal precedent and whatnot in their actions. ...
<|im_start|>user Eli5: Why is it easier to darken white paint than it is to lighten dark paint? I remember in elementary school that I was mixing paints and to make grey, and I found that a small quantity of black darkens white super easily whereas even a 50-50 split of black and white leaves an almost black color. Is ...
<|im_start|>user If electrons exist as a probability distribution then in what sense do they move around the atom? Very likely some of my understanding here is wrong, so I'll try to clearly restate what I think I've heard physicists say. 1) Electrons exist as a probability distribution around the nucleus of an atom so...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How does UV light sanitize surfaces?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant UV light is a short enough wave length that it can penetrate into cells/viruses. When it does, it causes damage to the pathogen’s DNA. Essentially it gives pathogens supercharged cancer. It damages bacterial/viral DNA so badl...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How does compression clothing work? There seems to be a lot of data confirming that compression clothing (tights, socks, sleeves, etc.) improves circulation. But my understanding is that compressing blood vessels would inhibit circulation. How does this work?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It co...
<|im_start|>user AskScience AMA Series: We're from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and we research pumped-storage hydropower: an energy storage technology that moves water to and from an elevated reservoir to store and generate electricity. Ask Us Anything! We are Dhruv Bhatnagar, Research Engineer, Patrick B...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How does reverse image search work? I often see people on r/quityourbullshit calling out people and using a reverse image search as evidence. How does this work?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The other answers so far have been a bit over simplified so I'll try to go a bit deeper while still mak...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What is the science behind Children who's parents are closely related end up being born with birth defects? I really have no good reason to ask this other than i saw a article on king tuts birth defects and the fact that his parents were most likely brother and sister.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assis...
<|im_start|>user CMV: If your goal is to limit your carbon footprint you should be buying old used cars and not new "eco-friendly" ones. Buying hybrids because they're better for the environment really seems like a disingenuous action to me. If your main goal is to reduce your carbon footprint, then why are you support...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do commercial bread makers like Sara Lee and Pepperidge Farm get their loaves to turn out in a uniform size and shape every time?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Science and machines! These companies most definitely have a research team on hand. They study everything about the product to mak...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What does it mean when a smoothie or other food product lists "natural flavors" on the ingredients list?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant In the United States, "natural flavor" means that, to provide a flavor, a concentrated extract of the usual ingredient has been added. Let's say you've got stra...
<|im_start|>user What’s something useful you’ve learned from your field that you think everybody should know? I’m not a PHD or anything, not even in college yet. Just want to learn some interesting/useful as I’m starting college next semester. Edit: this is all very interesting! Thanks so much to everyone who has cont...
<|im_start|>user How difficult would it be to create a watch party service like this? I've been rummaging the internet looking for a service with the following functionality but have come up short, leading me to believe it's either difficult to make or monetize: 1. Must be able to stream synchronized video playback t...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do people design the save game feature in large/complex games? The save game feature seems simple but it's mind-blowing how it can return the exact state of a game with all elements/events organised in the correct order. Can anyone explain how it works?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Games h...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do emergency rooms work? I recently went and was told the wait would be around 14 hours. Seems like a lot of people could die within that time range...<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Emergency rooms work on a case by case basis. A 14 hour wait was for your level of need. A critical injury wh...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: why does adding a proton completely change the properties of one element to another. It it only because of the extra electrons? Do the protons actually do something? Does adding neutrons add any properties other than then possibility of a decaying isotope? I don't get how for example a proton c...