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<|im_start|>user CMV: We are on our way to completely destroy forests and wildlife To be honest i'm really making this post in hope that there's some optimism out there, but i don't see any. In my native country (romania) i always heard since i was little about the illegal and legal logging that is going on, and appar...
<|im_start|>user What are typically the first problems of a new society? Say a new city was built that was totally self sustainable. Over time what problems would inevitably come in to the picture eventually. For example big cities obviously struggle with homelessness, crime and the like. But what I'm curious about is...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Can anyone explain why we have foods that start out on the shelf but than have to be refrigerated so they won't go bad? Foods like: Ranch Mayo Ketchup Etc..<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Most foods with "refrigerate after opening" have been vacuum-sealed or canned in order to kill off harmful...
<|im_start|>user What keeps the moon in orbit according to general relativity? As far as I know, gravity is not being treated as a force in GR, but is the curvature of space. I understand the concept of a black hole bending spacetime so much, that the straight path leads into the singularity, thus capturing photons. ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How can someone define the age of something? (mummy, dinosaur's bone, etc) I just read an article "Baby bird discovered in 99-million-year-old amber"<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There are various dating methods, and they can be checked against each other to make sure the results are consisten...
<|im_start|>user [Star Trek] Can the teleporter be used to reconfigure the object being teleported? What are the limits? The food replicator in Star Trek is a sort of teleporter, and it has recipes on how to assemble the source material to fill an order. Therefore Star Trek teleporters can manipulate data used during t...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How is information and data stored in pieces of metal and green boards?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant A bunch of 1s and 0s (that are specifically arranged to describe the information) are stored in the form of anything that can be in one of two states, like a light switch. It's either up or dow...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Is intelligence entirely determined in the early stages of life or is it something that can change later on? Whenever I read about influential scientists and mathematicians, I notice how their upbringings had a similarity: their curiosity and intellects were all nurtured as children. Do people fa...
<|im_start|>user CMV: We would have a more informed populace if schools prioritized statistics and probability over other areas of math **Constraints** First, my primary education in the US public school system in the pre-Common Core days. I took a quick glance at the [Common Core curricular content](https://en.wik...
<|im_start|>user Does logarithm of negative numbers have any meaning? I know that there is no real solution to logarithm of negative numbers, but I understand one could define log of natural number using the Euler's identity, as exemplified by ln (-1) = (pi)*i. Does this kind of definition have any physical/mathematica...
<|im_start|>user Does probability still exist if the results are already determined? Im sorry this is a slightly confusing title, but i will try to explain with an example: There are 2 boxes, one of them contains a prize, the other one is empty. You have to guess which one has a prize in it, this means you have a 50% ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 - There are gases that destroy the ozone layer. Shouldn't there be a compound out there that had the opposite effect? The title's the question. I've thought about it for some time now, but I can't find an answer.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The fundamental issue is energy. There's more energy...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why my leg (or arm) can randomly twitch for no reason. Not just a small twitch but like when your leg randomly flinches upwards like an inch, then return back to relaxed position? Or am I the only person this happens to?...<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The basics you probably know is that you ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why is the Mona Lisa considered to be such a masterpiece? Just visited the Louvre and was underwhelmed. It doesn't seem much different in quality to the paintings around it, to my untrained eye.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Along with special techniques with composition, The Mona Lisa gets a l...
<|im_start|>user [Metroid] Why not just totally destroy planet SR388? So the Chozo created the Metroid species to hunt the X-Parasite. Why not just totally destroy the planet instead? Why create another highly dangerous life form? Surely they have the weapons technology to glass the planet. I think that would be the ...
<|im_start|>user Came Across a Quote Today from Reagan "Inflation; That's the price we pay for those government benefits everybody thought were free." How much truth is there to this? Did the government know this was going to happen?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Inflation has many contributing factors. Attributin...
<|im_start|>user How to know if someone produces good research? Ideally I'd have the skills to identify good research but I'm still in my undergrad so that's a skill I'm still developing. Is there a fast way of knowing someone produces good research in a certain field? Especially identifying a "rising star". I tried...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why does water make some things more slippery(like condensation on glassware) and some things less slippery(like wet jeans)?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It all depends on the material you are working with. Water is actually a very polar substance, it's why it's a terrible lubricant. Meaning i...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How does the seatbelt know that it's being pulled fast (crash) and stop extending but still extends when pulled slowly?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant true eli5: imagine standing in a very small room. Relax your arms and turn slowly. Your arms will stay close to your body. Now turn fast. Your ar...
<|im_start|>user Is the human body capable of fighting both viruses and bacteria with the same effectiveness? So I can recall several times in which my GP has highlighted the fact that for a virus such as the flu or the common cold, you just need to let your defences take the wheel and fight it off. For cases in which ...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Waiting for a teenager to turn legal so you can subscribe to their Onlyfans is damn creepy. [Here's the link if you want to see the whole thing for yourself.](https://twitter.com/BhadBhabie/status/1377717608225460225). (Maybe by now some of them could have deleted their tweets, if that's the case ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do sugary solutions get sticky as they dry but salty solutions don't Source: Have dropped a variety of IV solutions.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Sugar will form hydrogen bonds with all sorts of compounds. This means it can be "sticky" and hold lightly to things while still being in soluti...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What are work unions and how do they help employees? In the recent Activision/Blizzard controversy I've seen the word union being thrown around a lot. Whilst I understand it is beneficial for employees, I just dont understand how it works.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant A union is basically a cl...
<|im_start|>user [Dune] How would events have played out if Paul was born female? Lady Jessica was ordered to bear only girls to Duke Leto, with a view to future marriage into House Harkonnen. How would the events of Dune have gone if she had obeyed? Presumably the emperor would still have set his trap for House Atri...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: The new theory about the beginnig of the Universe I read about this new theory about the beginning of the Universe and I can not wrap my head around it. Could someone please explain it in simplier terms. http://www.universetoday.com/104863/goodbye-big-bang-hello-hyper-black-hole-a-new-theory-on-...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What causes us to get bags/dark circles under our eyes when we are tired?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Dark circles are just the blood that is circulating around your eyes showing through the skin. The skin under the eye is very thin, so subtle changes can cause these circles to appear. In ess...
<|im_start|>user What happens to electricity pushed onto a grid beyond that grid's capacity to use it? With the ascendancy of renewable or otherwise privately generated electricity, many electric companies allow electricity produced in excess of private use to be 'pushed' back onto the wider grid, even paying for that ...
<|im_start|>user What are good podcasts for learning more about existentialism? I am still a beginner and I have loved reading about existentialism. I have read a little by Sartre, Camus, and Kierkegaard. I am looking for some podcasts to listen to for long drives and for when I bike that dig further, provide critique,...
<|im_start|>user If Mt Everest's peak is the highest point above sea level and Mt Chimborazo's peak is the fartherest from the Earth's centre, which has the thinnest atmosphere? Mount Chimborazo's peak is [2km farther away](https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/highestpoint.html) from the Earth's core than Mount Everest,...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:Why is Stephen hawking so important?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Steven is important because he has challenged the status quo with plausible theories that have encouraged deeper debate and a greater understanding of our universe. He has turned a generation of young people on to science. He is ...
<|im_start|>user Was Schopenhauer the first philosopher to consider predation as a moral issue? Jeff McMahan quotes Schopenhauer’s “[On the Sufferings of the World](https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/pessimism/chapter1.html)” in his paper “[The Moral Problem of Predation](http://jeffersonmcmahan.com/...
<|im_start|>user What are some great philosophical books (fiction or nonfiction) that can be read in a day or two? (fiction examples: Candide, The Stranger, Siddhartha, etc)<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant On Liberty - Mill The Prince - Machiavelli Language and Myth - Cassirer On the Social Contract - Rousseau ...
<|im_start|>user How can one realistically get a PhD in a field completely different than their undergrad? I was reading up on Sam Harris (love him or hate him his education is impressive) and he got his undergraduate degree in philosophy at Stanford then a PhD in Neuroscience at UCLA. How the hell can you do that? Is ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: When you search for something on Google, the resulting URL is filled with several pieces of information. What do each of these mean? For example, when I do a Google image search for fruit, the resulting URL is https://www.google.com/search?q=fruit&amp;safe=off&amp;rlz=1C1TSNO_enUS566US566&amp;sou...
<|im_start|>user Is vaccination utilitarian? One of the arguments for vaccination is that it saves more lives than damages. There are rare cases when vaccination can cause health issues. The reason to support vaccination anyway is that it saves significantly more lives. I find it similar to trolley problem. So does it ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What is the difference between civil twilight, astronomical twilight, and nautical twilight?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Sunset **Civil twilight** - sun is setting, artificial light is not needed Sun falls below horizon **Nautical twilight** - sun has set, but it is possible to navigate by...
<|im_start|>user What is the difference between Anthropology and Sociology? I've done a Google search, but in general they seem to say they are in fact quite similar, with the difference that Sociology prefers using statistical data, and Anthropology prefers fieldwork but that hardly seems to do much identify what seem...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:What are the colors in space? I see pictures of outer space and I see all these vibrant colors. Can you explain this phenomena? Like I see a cluster of stars and like pink, green, purple, blue etc. Like what is that? How does that occur? I have no experience in astronomy if you couldn't already te...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How does bacteria on food survive stomach acid to the point of making you ill? for example, Chicken can make you ill, not being cooked properly. It was just a "shower question" that popped into my head.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Bacteria that need to reach your gut to survive have a number ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: If radiation exposure causes cancer, why do they use it to treat cancer patients? Won't it just guarantee they will develop more cancer in the future?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Radiation exposure damages cells, including their DNA. Cells with damaged DNA can become cancerous because the da...
<|im_start|>user eli5: Why is english the world wide language of communication?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The era of the British Empire saw English being spread throughout Asia and Africa due to English colonies. They weren't, for the most part, going to learn the local languages, so they simply had the locals l...
<|im_start|>user [General] In scifi galactic maps there are often 'unknown' regions and uncharted territories within their own galaxy. What reason(s) would a highly advanced/futuristic galaxy have uncharted spaces within their own galaxy Bonus question what is ["wild space"](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3f/57/8d/3f57...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why aren't urinals shaped better to prevent splashing? Somebody here has to be an engineer that can explain the physics of this to me. How has nobody invented a splash-free urinal yet? It seems to me that if you made the urinal deeper- that is to say, made a tube shape that angled downward into ...
<|im_start|>user CMV: The lower amounts of attention for New York protests in reaction to the Eric Garner Grand Jury decision in comparison to the Ferguson ones in reaction to the Michael Brown GJ show how riots continue to be an effective protest tool. So this is SUPER subjective, but I noticed how reddit is not reall...
<|im_start|>user What facts or propositions are mostly agreed on by philosophers?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant "Tenure is a good institution," "professors should be paid more," "students don't study as hard as they could," "the sky is blue," "the Earth is round," "strawberries grow on strawberry plants," "most cars ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 the Google v. Oracle case Specifically the whole debate over copywrite law regarding programming languages.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Oracle bought a company (Sun Microsystems) that had created the Java programming language. Now think of a programming language like a car. The concept of a ...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Modern Art Schools are Ugly and Dehumanizing A common theme with a great majority of pre-modern artistic classics is that they showcase talent and dedication to the craft, often via the glorification of human beauty, intelligence and exceptionalism, amoung other innately admirable qualities. Greco...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How did currency exchange rates form in the very beginning? I was wondering how exchange rates formed in the beginning. As in, when the first two countries came together to exchange a monetary deal, how did they know how much of their money equated to the other countries money.<|im_end|> <|im_sta...
<|im_start|>user Sexual Reproduction and Race? When a mom or dad of two different races have sex (lets say white and black). Why is the product a "mixed" skin color, and not just black or white?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant In order to have something like "black" or "white" only, it would mean that the genes for ski...
<|im_start|>user Could two sheets of aluminum foil insulate a house? Both sheets, not touching, in between the exterior walls: one to reflect heat back into the house and the other to reflect the cold outwardly?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Insulate to what extent? Insulation generally takes advantage of the fact t...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do companies avoid tax using the Double Irish/Dutch Sandwich arrangement ?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Key things are transfer payments. You could create iamkimi Brands that owns all your product's names and trademarks and charges iamkimi Europe and iamkimi America to use those names and...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Legacy admissions to colleges and any other preferential treatment due to being associated with someone famous or someone that works their is unfair I mean this is not a rant. I feel that legacy admissions are a bit unfair sometimes. Since oftentimes (if not always) the legacy admissions policy g...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why we cant just put water on dry skins?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Aesthetician here...dry skin is not just the lacking of water, but natural oils your body naturally produces. **Sudoriferous** glands (sweat glands) excrete water. Internally, adding more water and clear fluids to your diet ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:What exactly happens when we black out from drinking?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant First of all, it is important to understand that your brain is communicates with itself using neurotransmitters, which relay (transmit) messages around the brain to neurons. There are two types of neurotransmit...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Western music has missed out on a ton of creative possibilities by restricting itself to a 12 tone system. The major and minor scales have a thorough basis in harmonics: the major scale is composed of the first and second harmonics of the fundamental tone (i, v, iii), the dominant (v, ii, vii), an...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: why are we set up to not eat healthy? In America, there was an obesity scare in the 1970's-1980's that told Americans "fat is bad" and so they've removed the fat content from many foods. by doing that, they became less tasteful and so to replace that they added sugar. But also, we've been told ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How does the human mind develop what is attractive to them and what is not? The other day i pointed out a really beautiful girl (in my opinion) to my friend. He replied "Yeah she's alright". This sparked a question in my thoughts on how people develop opinions on attractiveness.<|im_end|> <|im_st...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do QR codes work, and why can my phone recognize one before I get the entire thing in view of the camera?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant QR codes work in quite a complicated way, but the short answer is that they're designed to continue working even if damaged. You can cover something like 1...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:Why do some companies create different brands even though they all operate in the same industry? example. Kroger owns kroger, ralph's, and food4less grocery stores. Even their individual phone apps are duplicates of each other (design wise). I understand some stores are only available in certain ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why is it so much more enjoyable to spend hours and hours doing repetitive tasks in a video game than it is at work?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Usually video games have a reward system in place that you can easily track your progress and see a "real" reward for it in real time. If you grind ...
<|im_start|>user Why can both X-rays and radio waves penetrate things that visible light can't? Something about the energy being on the scale of eV so high adsorption there? Did we evolve to be able to see the energy range that is absorbed by everyday objects?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Light tends to interact wit...
<|im_start|>user Please explain the meaning and reasoning behind this: "Anyways, never catch exceptions when not strictly required! It's always easier to introduce an error handling later, than remove it!" in Code. In one of the github repository: [Error-Handling-presentation - GitHub](https://github.com/4face-studi0/...
<|im_start|>user Why does hair come in just a few colors? And why these colors? As the title says - why can we only have different shades of a few specific colors of naural hair and why can hair only have one of these particular colors and not, say, green?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Layman. There are two major na...
<|im_start|>user Choosing an advisor who produces only professors when I’m not sold on academia I have a pretty incredible offer on the table for a top US PhD program in applied physics; I am currently a senior undergrad. I met with an incredible advisor there last week who expressed an interest in taking me as a stude...
<|im_start|>user I think the word "Pansexual" is a meaningless term for people who need to feel special. CMV. I am a very sexually open-minded person, so do not think I am a bigot here. I myself am bisexual, so I have experienced prejudice in the LGBT community and society at large, so I can understand the judgment non...
<|im_start|>user If I live on a top story apartment, and leave my heat off, will it raise the heating bills of my downstairs neighbor significantly?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant A basic principle of heat transfer is that the bigger the temperature difference is the faster heat will transfer between the two through c...
<|im_start|>user [The Magic School Bus] Does Ms. Frizzle have the parents’ permission to take their children on these bizarre field trips? Also, has there ever been a PTA meeting addressing Ms. Frizzle’s unusual teaching methods?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant She has permission to take them on field trips, but she's ...
<|im_start|>user Could a tree grow in zero-G? If so what would it look like?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The complication that needs to be overcome is that plants make use of gravity when planted to orient themselves (as they can't rely on being planted the right way up), so that their roots go down and their sprou...
<|im_start|>user CMV: The cons of organized religion outnumber the pros To begin, I'd like to say that there are definitely merits to organized religion, such as fostering a sense of community. I'd love to hear any other merits as well, but I'd like to see arguments for how these merits can only be achieved by organize...
<|im_start|>user [Superhero] I can make pocket dimensions by painting them. Who has jurisdiction over this "terra nullis" as the authority of the United Staes claims? They can't enter my painting without my specific permission and even if they destroy the painting while I'm inside, I can still paint my way out. Can a c...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why are people dyslexic and how does it work? Obviously I understand dyslexia can cause words to look 'different', but how? And what causes people to be dyslexic? EDIT: Wow, thanks people! These are some really interesting answers :)<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The two most important contri...
<|im_start|>user In your opinion, is it possible for an autodidact person to obtain an undergraduate level of knowledge by reading textbooks? Hello, I am a graphic design student who's also interested in subjects like history and philosophy. If I wasn't majoring in graphic design, I'd be majoring in one of those. Howe...
<|im_start|>user Has anyone ever got to a certain point in reading philosophy where they are just completely confused Is there a way to get out of this without completely giving up? EDIT: Thanks a lot for all the replies!<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant If you're talking about confusion as in not understanding what is...
<|im_start|>user Why would the immune system attack the eyes, if it knew they were there?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There are organs in our body that are immunologically isolated from the bloodstream: 1. The thyroid follicles contain thyroglobulin, a protein which never leaves the inside of the follicle (unless ...
<|im_start|>user Wouldn't it be cheaper/more efficient to pay people, rather than bail out companies? What I'm reading is that we need to bail out companies in order to maintain jobs. Wouldn't it be far more efficient just to pay a UBI-type thing? (Note: I'm not advocating UBI *per se*, rather as a stop-gap in the curr...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Women in western nations, specifically America, have more rights than men. I keep hearing about the "women's rights movement". Maybe some will just say it is semantics, but the movement should be "women's equality movement". This is not intended to be a debate on the wage gap, or other social an...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Identity comes from both within and without. It’s not all about what you see yourself as. While self image or self identity is important, it serves a much smaller utility than how others perceive you. Functionally, identity occurs many orders of magnitude more often in the eyes of those who percei...
<|im_start|>user What are some good beginner books on philosophy? Touching on topics like the meaning of life itself, or anything similar. The Big Bad Wolf book sale is happening in my country in about a week or so, and I just finished playing a videogame called Nier: Automata. It touches on topics like the meaning(les...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: If a movie production has $5,000,000 (estimated) Budget, must some of that money go to the actors? or only movie's production quality?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It has to include equipment, pay for employees (all cast, crew, and extras), fees, *food* on larger productions, constryucting set...
<|im_start|>user How does someone get a PhD, and what does it mean? I don't exact get what a person does to get a PhD. What they do after their Masters? Do you apply to a university to "do a PhD"? Do you still get educated through higher-level course or something? What is a PhD thesis supposed to be?<|im_end|> <|im_sta...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do antidepressants take several months to build up proper levels but only a few days to metabolize out?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Imagine your brain is a natural environment, like a field. The good chemicals in your brain (the ones that help you feel calm, happy, satisfied, etc) are lik...
<|im_start|>user Do former professors miss students the way we miss them? I had a really wonderful professor a few semesters ago that really changed my perspective about life. In private she taught us so many life lessons and I’m so grateful to have had her as my professor. I miss her. I’m just wondering if it is mut...
<|im_start|>user [Star Wars] Do Force users have to physically hold their lightsabers while dueling? Can't they just use the Force to control their lightsabers' movement hands-free?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant That degree of precise, continuous control takes a great deal of focus and concentration. At which point ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why is it so difficult for NASA to take true-color pictures of planets? For the iconic [Pluto](http://i.imgur.com/H7vukHD.jpg) picture, NASA says they had to "combine four images with color data to create a global view of Pluto." Meanwhile they can easily take dozens of pictures of Pluto in [bla...
<|im_start|>user Light doesn't have any matter, yet it can be bent by gravity...I don't get that :-/ Can someone explain it please?! What the title says...It doesn't make sense to me:-/<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant As Einstein showed us with general relativity, gravity is curved geometry. The presence of matter/ener...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Moving to a new city with better career potential without a job lined up is worth the risk. I'm a 27 year old mechanical engineer who thinks moving across the country to greener pastures (major cities such as Denver or Seattle, for example) but no job lined up is worth the risk. I've exhausted all...
<|im_start|>user [Star Wars] What made Admiral Ozzel think he could get away with condescending to Darth Vader? "My lord, there are so many uncharted settlements..." Ozzel sounds straight up *patronizing* to Vader when he says this, as if Vader were some foppish visiting dignitary, and not the Emperor's personal cyb...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How does YouTube.com (aka Google), manage it's storage and bandwidth costs when thousands of videos are uploaded and stored daily? Do the advertisers actually cover its costs?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Do advertisers actually cover the costs? Yes. That's the business model of google. That's...
<|im_start|>user [Star Wars] What makes someone a Jedi? No one would argue that Luke isn’t a Jedi Master but he doesn’t even remotely seem to follow the Jedi Code, either by Canon or Legend standards. So I’m legitimately curious now- what makes someone a “Jedi”? Luke feels emotions and has a family and all that stuff....
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why is Canada still technically a constitutional monarchy? Why hasn't Canada separated itself officially from the UK after years of independence?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Think of it like growing up with your parents. When you're young your parents tell you what to do, but as you get older...
<|im_start|>user eli5 What is equity?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Equity has several meanings when it comes to accounting, but generally it means value of ownership. Often you will hear people talk about how much equity they have in their house. If you have a $500k house and $300k mortgage, then you have $200k of ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: why would a landlord rent control an apartment? If a landlord owns an apartment in say New York, why would they offer rent control when they could just raise the price of rent year over year and make more money?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Rent control is a state mandated option for people wh...
<|im_start|>user [Back to the Future] What would have happened if Doc sent Einstein back in time for one minute instead of forward in time?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The arrival of Einstein could affect the experiment, such as by making Doc send the Delorian at a different time, risking the space-time continuum, ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What makes holding certain positions, e.g. while lying in bed, more or less comfortable, and why does the degree of comfort eventually change?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Your body isn't a straight line, and at different times different parts of your body have more pressure on them than other...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why does hard exercise cause people to throw up? I just don't understand why you're body would react this way<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Exercise increases oxygen demand in the muscles being used. This causes the vessels supplying your skeletal muscles with blood to dilate, supplying a great...
<|im_start|>user Eli5 why do people have Aphantasia? I recently got told that people are actually able to visualise images in their head, something which I cannot do, which brought me to the condition of Aphantasia. Why is this something that I cannot do?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant First off, you have to narrow ...
<|im_start|>user [Jupiter Ascending] what is the long term effects of a protected world like earth? Secondary question is there any way to move away from their immortality economy?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant 1) It depends on how the world will eventually be "used". Say it is protected long enough for them to deve...
<|im_start|>user Why do plants never get cancer? All humans and most other animals are at risk of getting cancer during their lifetime.But why plants have the privilege of not getting this disease? &amp;#x200B; I'm really impressed by most of your responses,but their is a question in my mind that is still bugging me....
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why did evolution decide to require a male and female in order to reproduce, when single celled organisms successfully reproduced asexually? Trying to understand the evolutionary benefits of requiring a male and a female when a satisfactory option (perhaps even better?) was already in place... W...
<|im_start|>user Humans apparently share 50% of their DNA with bananas. We can all see the genetic differences but how do the similarities manifest themselves?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant All multicellular organisms need to do some basic things like divide cells, have all the parts of cells, have cells stick to eac...