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AskReddit/c188n87 | ei15b | Should I go into experimental or clinical psychology? | Hey there -- Psych PhD here (experimental), graduated about 17 years ago. There are far more job prospects for clinical than experimental. In experimental you are more or less constrained to stay in academia if you want to make those discoveries, and academic jobs are really tough. With clinical, you could go into prac... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/dar8wiu | 5gczza | Why does the mass media present or exclude information as they see fit? | It is for the same reason that buzzfeed uses clickbait titles. Revenue. Merely reporting on an event does not polarize viewers to be interested in hearing more about it. If information was presented once in a clear, concise, and objective manner there would be no reason for viewers to "remain engaged" and stay glued to... | 4 |
AskReddit/ce30632 | 1t08du | Why does music sound better with a heavier bass? | Not all music sounds better with heavier bass, it all depends on structure and style of music. Music like Jazz and Swing sounds much better with less bass due to the brass and wind instruments being clearer. | 6 |
AskReddit/cl0bibp | 2ia976 | Is it racist to prefer a person of a specific skin color when looking for a significant other? | I don't think you can do much to change what you find attractive or arousing, whatever trait it may be. It becomes racist if you were to start extrapolating to other things that you find unattractive because of skin colour though. Eg: I don't like [colour] girls because they all do [thing I don't like] I think I'm okay... | 3 |
AskReddit/c109zx2 | dhol7 | Do you think there's a correlation between somebody's musical preferences and his/her personality? | It's hard to say. I listen to everything from folk to hip-hop, and I'm generally laid back and reserved. I think it has some correlation but at times musical preference and personality can be completely out of line with what one might expect. I have a pair of 15s in the trunk of my car, tons of Tech N9ne and other hip-... | 2 |
Ask_Politics/d0wjflq | 4a152n | Could Trump(if elected nominee) refuse to debate against the democratic nominee? | Yes. Who knows? Debates are private events, not government events. Often on a level below presidential you'll regularly refuse to debate if leading wildly and demand tons of debates if you're a better debater/behind. | 11 |
explainlikeimfive/crz958z | 3900qy | Do they first make the music in Disney movies or the drawings? | The film is made first, with the score being written as the animation is done. Then they have a set of studio musicians sight-read the music (perfectly the first time seeing it), play back the recorded clip with the music overlayed onto it (software automatically does this), and then move on. Often the whole score is r... | 8 |
AskReddit/e8l9y8c | 9s08fx | What is your most awkward experience as a house guest? | A guy in my high school class was one of 4 or 5 brothers, and in their house they had a custom-built bathroom for all the males in the house to use - it was like a gym locker room. Benches along one wall, a bunch of shower heads along the other wall, and two toilets side-by-side in the open next to that. All male guest... | 2 |
AskReddit/c1b0553 | eucx7 | Should I go to a 4 year university or community college for pre-med/pre-opt prerequisites? | Community college is great if youre driven to finish it. The atmosphere is different than your typical four-year university. Too many people get caught up life and never finish their end goal. | 3 |
AskReddit/ers6oi8 | c3oj64 | What was the trashiest wedding you ever attended? | I catered weddings for a long time. I’ve seen the groom get into a fight and get arrested because the bride thought it would be a great idea to invite her ex. He asked if she was ready to start cheating on her fiancé/husband again. The groom heard it then, boom. I’ve seen the grooms family not show up because he decide... | 5 |
AskReddit/d0zju6c | 4ae150 | Do Foreigners in America make less money than Americans? | Some of them do, but you won't see people making less money simply because they're foreign (unless you're talking about illegal day laborers getting paid under the table or something), but if you're talking about a typical job, it's going to be comparable. Your particular business is a bit different, because it relies ... | 2 |
AskReddit/chj3ve9 | 25o75w | What's the best way you've accidentally completely destroyed something? | I'm not sure about "completely" destroyed, but this was certainly a creative way to wreck something: When my sister was in third grade the class had a pet gerbil named Chocolate. Occasionally, students who did well in class got to take Chocolate home in his gerbil cage as long as the parents promised to make sure the s... | 2 |
AskReddit/d92bh90 | 58pneg | What has your mother taught you? | she taught me that staying optimistic is easier than it seems if you look for the bright side. She always made a point to subvert negitivity. When something bad happened she would always do everything possible to focus on what makes someone happy. As I've gotten older I've become more and more aware of pessimism and wo... | 2 |
AskReddit/elsve8i | bhh7pw | What is the most expensive thing you have found, how did you find it? | I once found half of a Victorian tea cup set in perfect condition. I don’t recall the price for it originally. I found it at a Goodwill for $10. | 2 |
AskReddit/cz4su07 | 41sesa | What will happen if Donald Trump is elected President? | Trump is a CEO, and a businessman. His campaign promises hinge on the President being able to pass laws, which is incorrect. The point of the separation of powers is to make sure one branch of the Government doesn't get too many abilities, reducing the likelihood of, for example, a totalitarian state. I heard a nice an... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/dew24e5 | 5z89ix | Why is it so dangerous to sporadically take antidepressants? | This can depend on the type of medication and dosage. Most people with depression have an imbalance of chemicals in the brain. Antidepressants alter the chemicals to a more healthy balance. It's ok to miss a dosage sometimes but if it's a common occurrence, that can mess up the balance too. Also, sometimes people can e... | 2 |
AskReddit/coe9yn5 | 2v448l | If you were in charge of regulating the Human Overpopulation, how would you go about reducing it using ethical/unethical ways? | Keep reducing poverty in developing nations. This leads to people having fewer children and thus stagnating the population growth. And this is actually already happening, poverty is on the decline, and as a result people in those regions are having fewer children. | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/dfu9nzf | 63i2oz | Why do writers include a blank page(s) in books that have "This page is intentionally left blank" written on them instead of just leaving the page out all together? | The total number of pages in a book must be a multiple of 4, since one individual piece of paper results in 4 pages, or if larger sheets of paper are uses, even higher multiples. | 2 |
AskReddit/edkdx7v | advgbj | What essential life skills should every teenager know before graduating high school? | Money management skills and knowing how to file taxes. When I left high school and got a part time job to help pay for college, I had no idea what I was doing. I spent every dollar of every single paycheck and saved none in the bank. Years later after struggling through student loans and debt, I’ve learned a lot about ... | 2 |
AskReddit/euez0st | cg6mex | What myths do people still believe? | This is a myth that people only recently started believing, so they certainly still believe it. They believe that gender is a spectrum. I can buy that maybe people might have been born the wrong gender. I can even buy that you might display physical or mental attributes of both genders. But you're gender is not "non-bi... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/d8zk6j6 | 58djxj | Why have there been so few advances in small arms technology? | The key is simplicity and resource availability. It takes time and money to design and approve a new firearm. The existing arms work just as well as a cutting-edge firearm and at a fraction of the cost. | 3 |
AskReddit/dmayw5o | 6wuk5x | What was the last thing that made you laugh so hard that your stomach hurt? | My boyfriend says like and um a lot. It drives me crazy but what can I do, I love him. I really enjoy teasing him about it so a few weeks ago I started counting the nunber of times he said like and/or um per sentence. One time I counted 13 'likes' in one sentence. When he got done talking my sides were aching from laug... | 2 |
AskReddit/ems2my1 | blx4ad | Which book/s changed your outlook on life/the world, or made you a better person? | Mistakes were made (not by me). It's about cognitive dissonance, bias, fake memories, coping, and understaffing why good people do bad things. "The gift of fear"- about intuition and self preservation. It is a must read/listen for all women in my opinion | 3 |
AskReddit/d9q8i1g | 5bnxpy | What fact did you learn at an embarrassingly late age? | That the Underground Railroad was not, in fact an actual railroad that was underground. I'd always pictured an underground tunnel system with abandoned train tracks. The worst part is that I discovered this at age 24 because a friend was talking about "this dumbass in my history class thought that the Underground Railr... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/cion354 | 29u1he | How are fireworks made to explode in complicated shapes and patterns? | The payloads for "sky" fireworks (not the part that delivers them to the sky where they explode) are made up of a number of different parts. A quick summary for some of the main ones: Fuses - do not explode, but burn at a set pace. When a part of a firework is not yet visible, it's burning a fuse (or other time-delay p... | 16 |
AskReddit/empbzad | bll9rf | What song plays in your head when you can’t sleep at night? | i don’t really think of songs when i can’t sleep but i do think of losing loved ones. like just think. when we die, we can’t live life with them anymore and you went through everything together. just imagine losing them. you won’t ever get to love them again | 2 |
askscience/c4lyd4p | te3he | How long can someone go without physical activity until their muscles start to atrophy? | I think the more applicable term you're asking about is catabolism. Per rolfmaomachizlin's comment, maintaining a normal lifestyle would not result in any atrophy barring paralysis/loss of use of the limb. In catabolism, if you don't eat enough for your body to maintain itself during your daily routine, it will start t... | 4 |
askscience/chueqx2 | 26srgm | Do our bodies/white blood cells prioritize? | The human immune system has two basic types of defense: specific and nonspecific. Nonspecific defense is more passive, and consists of general defenses like skin barriers or chemical secretions that destroy pathogens. Specific or acquired immune defense is based on specialized cells such as your B Lymphocytes or killer... | 2 |
AskReddit/cjkeios | 2cyt9l | What is the most emotionally devastating movie you have ever seen? | Click Not in 'absolute' terms of emotionally devastating, but in 'relative' terms it is [it's supposed to be a comedy!] We watched this movie when we were depressed and wanted a nice comedy to cheer us up. the scene where he tells his dad the tricks are stupid. the look on his dads face, and what follows. I was wrecked... | 2 |
AskReddit/ekitnx4 | bbgilg | What's the worst physical pain you have experienced and under what circumstances ? | I suffer from intense migraines if I don't eat, first comes the dizziness and then the blurred vision and then the migraine, sometimes they get so bad, I can't talk, eat or even move. My worst migraine was in public. The police saw me vomit in the street and asked if I was drinking, they knew I was in a lot of pain so ... | 84 |
askscience/cnw7vds | 2t6l35 | What kind of an experiment could prove String Theory to be false? | String theory makes three main "large-scale general predictions" that it won't budge on, regardless of the model under consideration: -large-scale gravity follows GR exactly; the various modifications and extensions in the literature are false. -Lorentz invariance is exact; other theories often predict some violation o... | 14 |
AskReddit/d5u46i3 | 4uycln | What is the farthest thing from your job description you have done? | About three years ago, I was shopping at a best buy. I made the mistake of wearing a blue polo with khaki pants. I rounded a corner and a nice lady that worked there looked at me and said oh thank God, some help. I need to get this palette of car steroes up on the top rack. Do you have some time to help? I looked at he... | 2 |
AskReddit/d1abfr7 | 4blekr | What saved your life? | My childhood home had an old fireplace and chimney where the upstairs floorbeams run through the chimney but are coated with all sorts of fire resistant stuff. Over time that coating had been cracking off and eventually the beams had caught on fire within the floor. One night just before we're all going upstairs to bed... | 2 |
AskReddit/dahdrep | 5f4d4t | What happens if the recount shows Hillary had most votes? | She does have the most votes. It's just that in our deranged system, the minority can foist its will upon the majority via the Electoral College. But, if for some reason, the recounts show, which they won't, that Hillary won Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, then the results would have to be certified, and then Hillar... | 2 |
AskReddit/euxfbfg | cht0v1 | How do some overweight people eat so little, exercise so much, yet remain overweight? | Metabolism can play a part. In periods of weight loss, the body's metabolism can actually slow down (which makes sense.the body want to keep the fat). Another factor is stress. Being on a diet, constantly thinking about food, what to eat, what you can't eat is stressful. Stress increases cortisol, which can cause weigh... | 5 |
AskReddit/c2s93yb | lf72z | What movies have deeply disturbed you? | Battle Royale, both the book and movie, disturbed me quite a bit. I'm gonna add Mysterious Skin too actually. It'll be quite some time before I can watch that movie again. | 3 |
AskReddit/dixgykq | 6hdh9x | What comedy films never made a sequel that could have made them a ton of money and publicity? | Not sure it would have been a financial hit but the world was crying out for more Midnight Run. The tv movie sequels they did were poor, another film with De Niro and Grodin would have been great. More recently Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Would have loved a follow up. | 2 |
AskReddit/czq02dh | 44ggar | What are the potential negative effects GM salmon would have if they escaped their confinement and mixed with a natural population? | There's no way to answer this, because GM is a meaningless category. What matters is that some particular genetic change is present in those organisms, and you want to know what would happen if it got out into the larger population. That would depend entirely upon the specific nature of the genetic changes you're askin... | 3 |
AskReddit/de0xdge | 5vci5b | What's the most unprofessional thing a doctor said to you? | My doctor says a lot of stuff about my weight. Ok it is annoying, but I get it. However, my dad is also a patient of his, and he likes to ask about my dad, talk about his most recent visits. and one time he asked me if I could ask my dad if he could help get him a job doing medical stuff overseas! I thought that that w... | 2 |
AskReddit/cbpbb8h | 1kil6x | What would be different about an actual zombie apocalypse rather than ones portrayed in tv and movies? | It will never happen. Muscle/tissue degradation combined with loss of senses makes the dead rather immobile and poor at the attack. The smell would be a dead giveaway in many situations portrayed in film as a sudden surprise to the living. Zombies around the corner in the old house would smell quite a lot. | 3 |
AskReddit/c9n7ti2 | 1d60ij | Do they hire waitresses based on physical attractiveness? | I'm sure some places do. I don't have any statistics to confirm it, but I'm willing to assume that most people are more willing to spend more money/tip better for somebody attractive than somebody less attractive. Of course, I've seen several waitresses who DON'T fit the stereotype too, so appearance is obviously not a... | 2 |
AskReddit/eebze14 | ah74do | What is the weirdest experience you’ve ever had in a public restroom? | Not the weirdest, but this girl was talking on her phone really loud and obnoxiously to a male voice. I just clenched down and let out the nastiest fart I could and she paused and said “I’ll have to call you back” I was DYINGGGG �� | 9 |
explainlikeimfive/ewzantp | cqt567 | What’s the science behind the difference in the nasal spiciness of horseradish/wasabi etc and the mouth spiciness of chillis? | Different chemicals. The spiciness in chili and other peppers is caused by capsaicin, which stimulates the heat sensing receptors in your mouth. Meanwhile Wasabi and its friends have allyl isothiocyanate which triggers a different set of pain receptors. | 14 |
AskReddit/ddzbkdq | 5v3u0l | If money were no issue, where would you like to work? | I'd want to work all kinds of different jobs. There so many jobs/trades that Id like to work but they either don't make enough money or they take up to much of your life to do anything else or both. Here's just a few I can think of but there's plenty more. Dishwasher Restaurant owner Bicycle mechanic Mason Farmer Ranch... | 2 |
AskReddit/dv7j8yf | 825g2d | What if I only drink coffee without any water for a week? | Once had a patient that we transported to the hospital in probably the worst pain of his life. He drank no water. Nothing but coffee and soda. He had kidney stones. I don’t recommend trying that. I know other moms who have said kidney stones hurt worse than giving birth. So good luck with that! | 2 |
AskReddit/dqgt8lp | 7g423y | What is your "never again" item, brand, store, or restaurant ? | Gonna sound like an old man here, but Black and Decker. I have a few old Black and Decker tools (drills, saws, etc.) that belonged either to my parents or grandparents. They're real workhorses with metal parts and solid construction. I guess that created an expectation of quality for me when I went out and started buyi... | 2 |
AskReddit/ey52oz2 | cvmqy6 | For good or bad, what genetic lottery did you win? | My doctor asked what my exercise regimen is, and I told her I don't exercise. She says, "Well congrats to you, looks like you won the genetic lottery!" I also won the lottery for huge nostrils and crooked teeth, where's the excitement for that, huh doc? | 3 |
AskReddit/cjk4hl1 | 2cxwjy | What's your advice on "winning" an argument? | Be civil, calm and collected. Focus on your points and the opposing points but not the emotions you feel or the other person in the argument. You should entertain the other person's side of things, their points and their perspective and then look at them through the glass of your own logic and morales. If there are dis... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/e77sjlf | 9lmqg0 | How can big companies like Twitter, Snapchat, and Spotify have large negative profits for so long without shutting down? | Because they have plenty of funding from investors that are allowing them to run at a loss, so that they can buy up market share. They're not actually losing money though, as Uber is perhaps the most famous case of. They may be running at an operational loss, and if you look at the total amount of money they've borrowe... | 3 |
AskReddit/dkw8ml6 | 6qchb9 | What question do you hate being asked? | I have a limp from a condition I had when I was a kid. It's pretty noticeable, but I sort of hate being asked about it. It's just because I'm embarrassed about it and I hate being reminded that it's one of the first things people I meet are noticing about me. | 8 |
AskReddit/clja2ba | 2k9xne | What is the one thing you will always regret? | This is going to be sort of oddly specific, but I've always regretted changing an answer in pencil on a math test in 8th grade after it was graded and bringing it to my teacher saying there was a mistake. He asked me if it was really a mistake, and I said yes. He was a very good teacher and made a positive impact in my... | 3 |
AskReddit/e8crclp | 9qz0a6 | What makes you patient in life? | Suffering with mental illness for years before finally making a breakthrough. It’s given me a new, more patient perspective on life and my surroundings. I used to let little things weigh me down, but now I just let them go as quickly as they appear. | 2 |
AskReddit/ce7dw4n | 1tfgqf | If the internet was a high school, what kind of kid (or adult) would each site be? | Reddit would be the super popular, cheerleader chick, with deep, dark secrets that no one knows about. Wikipedia would be the mis-informed substitute teacher. Wikileaks is the kid who spreads rumors. 4Chan is the guy who sits off to the side, not caring that people think he's a serial killer. YouTube is obsessed with h... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cjngnwm | 2d9uf8 | How do animals know when it's about to storm? | The same way that we can. We can feel air pressure change (to some degree), even when inside. We can hear, and see wind pick up and die down. And dogs can hear better than we can, they can hear the far off thunder that we might not pick up yet, as well as hearing animals outside panic. It's the same things we use to te... | 8 |
AskReddit/ceiacms | 1uhr0b | What was your finest moment of revenge? | I like to get revenge by making all of a person's dreams come true without them. Once I dated a girl who told me about all of these life goals she had. Go on a road trip with no predetermined destination, go night swimming in a lake int he middle of nowhere, etc etc. Whenever i suggested we go do one of those things sh... | 81 |
AskReddit/dysfzf4 | 8ikc86 | What would the Miranda rights of Reddit be? | You have the right to post your dumb thoughts in the appropriate places we have for you, but not in inappropriate places, if you abuse these rights or fail to ahere them. You will be set free from this reddit prison and sent out to the real world to let people know of your dumb thoughts verbally. | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/crverph | 38j3n4 | Why do people want to join ISIS? | I'll try to be as fair as possible, taking into account my citizenship in America. People haven't had a lot of insight into converts, but my belief is that they are looking for a purpose. Many youths in America are loss either due to abandonment, abusive families, basically their problems. Somewhat like how Johnny in "... | 64 |
AskReddit/d4hqmrh | 4p2e54 | What's a time in your life when you had a "butterfly effect" moment, where you made a minor choice that you now realize set you on an entirely different path in life? | On my very first day of college, I was invited to a frat party. I was exhausted from moving all of my stuff into the dorm, but eager to make friends. I agreed to go at first, but when I finished unpacking I just wanted to go to bed, so I backed out. I didn't realize it at the time, but the friends I had made judged me ... | 3 |
AskReddit/co2bztp | 2tu6u5 | Why do you dislike your country's President/Prime Minister? | Relevant for all UK prime ministers: Because they're all privately educated and went to the best universities which is fair play to them, but they have absolutely no idea what it is to actually live in the real world and how their policies actually affect real people. | 3 |
AskReddit/et7z3mm | cadhge | What is a significant life milestone you have coming up or recently achieved? | Graduating a 700 hour course that will give me enough education and certification to get hired as a police officer. Assuming I pass, graduate and get hired. I'll then have to go to trooper academy later on. That will be the biggest milestone. If I can pass that. Then my entire life will be set. | 5 |
AskReddit/d2phlrd | 4hg4jw | What were some lies your family told you when you were still a kid? | My mom became pregnant while she and my dad were in the middle of a divorce. She told me and my sister that my dad pushed her and she lost the baby. When I asked my dad about it years later when I became an adult, he cried. Apparently that's not true at all, and for 10 years that's what I had thought happened. He said ... | 3 |
AskReddit/ef7sl70 | aktg6l | In the USA, what has caused the rise of support for socialism? | It’s not so much socialism. It’s more support for public services - healthcare, university education, and retirement income to name a few. And the idea that we should have highly progressive taxes topping out at 70% (among Ocasio Cortez, et al) among the highest echelon of income earners. As far as I can see the idea o... | 9 |
AskReddit/dushezz | 8021hl | What quote always gets you through the dark times in your life? | Someone spoke to me all the days of my life; into my ear, slowly, taking their time. Said to me: live, live, live! It was death. -- Jaime Sabines Translated from the original Spanish | 8 |
explainlikeimfive/cksoec0 | 2hhcfm | Why can't I move my pinky without moving my ring finger as well? | The tendons & muscles on your pinky and ring finger are connected to each other under the skin on the back of your hand. They are linked more than the other fingers. If you do a google search for hand tendons you can see how they look. It makes a lot more sense. | 4 |
explainlikeimfive/d9ex6hk | 5aa59i | How can the president "bypass" congress to make legislation without congressional approval? | Here's a quick refresher: Congress passes the laws The Executive (president) enforces them When Congress passes a law they leave a lot of room for a law to be interpreted and enforced. Otherwise it's like passing a law saying "no bad things": that's fine. But without knowing what it means to be bad, what it means to en... | 4 |
explainlikeimfive/ca5puqm | 1f0n33 | How does a Stock Exchange crash occur and why? | The value of shares doesn't really have much to do with the value of a company. There's a company's worth in terms of how much cash it has in the bank, and how many factories and offices it owns, and how much it sold last year, but on top of that there's how much potential the company has to make more money, and it's t... | 9 |
AskReddit/ckh7gxc | 2gampa | Why isn't anybody talking about the NSA anymore? | Talking about it fell out of style. Honestly, I'm still concerned but I don't think that anyone really cares about privacy anymore. The number of cloud services we use, and the rate of posts on Twitter and Facebook suggests that people want to share their lives with other people. | 2 |
AskReddit/e1w2f12 | 8wk7e9 | If you could pick one song to be played at your worst enemy's funeral, which song would you pick? | Ding dong the witch is dead. Played for a couple of hours straight at the local irish pub on the occasion of maggy thatchers funeral. By my english teacher. Guess I am honorbound to continue that tradition. | 10 |
AskReddit/c19rxqo | eoucy | What's the coolest thing a friend has done for you? | After my son was born, my best friend and his wife made us one week worth of meals. Delivered in a cooler on our porch with instructions/recipes. Insisted we put the dirty dishes back in the cooler for them to wash at home. With a newborn, it was a true gift. | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/d1p6pkv | 4dagfn | How do applications like Health for iPhone differentiate walking (in steps) versus other modes of transportation/movement? | Smartphones have different sensors to detect information about its surroundings. One is a motion sensor. This can detect the direction of your motion in 3D. If you are walking it picks up the repetitive "stop-and-go" motion of your legs. Software can calculate these signals and register it as actual walking. But biking... | 9 |
AskReddit/cbmyadr | 1kafpl | Have you ever dated someone online, and when finally met in person, they turned out to be someone else? | I didn't date him but we messaged for a couple of weeks. I was never one to talk for a long time without meeting up so we made plans to meet up and walk around an outdoor mall then go to dinner. I got there before he did so we texted until he got there. He asked me to park by him, away from the other cars. I said no. H... | 4 |
AskReddit/ej2gxba | b3vm5o | What are some of the most annoying "rich kid problems" you have ever had to deal with? | Their was this one kid lets call him Tyler. Tyler would always come to school in supreme and gucci. He would always show off and hang out with people who also wearied supreme. He was only 12 at the time so no way he made that money. He would always flex on kids just really annoying. | 3 |
AskReddit/e0rrd10 | 8rj421 | What would be reality tv show most fake you ever seen? | I had a friend who was on "ElimiDate". This is where there is 1 guy and 3 girls on a date. (and sometimes 1 girl and 3 guys). The guy drops a girl one at a time until he gets to the final girl. She said when she showed up, the Producers gave her a script and a character. And they told the guy and the 3 girls "here is w... | 3 |
AskHistorians/c68aq6p | zuzlw | What would be the best way to catalogue our current way of life for future historians? | I don't know about historians, but if you want to please future archaeologists produce a lot of long-lasting trash. I rather suspect that sometime in our future we will mine our trash for plastics and metals and other useful things we just throw away. And I rather suspect that in the further future archaeologists will ... | 3 |
AskReddit/c1x62gf | hp1s1 | How did you quit smoking? | I had to quit drinking along with it, at least for a while. The two went hand in hand for me. I also started working out more, which made me feel generally healthier and made the idea of cigarettes a lot less appealing. Try to make an overall lifestyle change; better food, more exercise, etc. Just cutting out the smoke... | 97 |
AskReddit/d3nfjke | 4lhkq0 | What are you looking forward to most right now? | I contacted a Deputy Sherrif, who I went to college with, and gave him information that will lead to my former employers being arrested for the act of perjury. Long story short, I was fired for a not-at-fault injury, called my boss a dumbfuck, arrested for a peace disturbance and my bosses said on the witness stand tha... | 2 |
AskHistorians/cl4dwpc | 2ipnsf | How did the Russians eventually win the Winter War with Finland in 1939-1940? | Pretty open ended question, but basically the Soviets just kept hitting them with near overwhelming force until the Finns were overwhelmed by the sheer numbers and also became too attrited to continue effectively without seriously risking total collapse. The Finnish defenses were also somewhat compromised towards the e... | 2 |
AskReddit/dp09i0m | 799aov | How have you and S/O "made your own rules" in your relationship? | I don't have an SO, but I think you're suppose to make your own rules for your relationships. If you follow what society thinks you should be you're going to run into some issues since not every girl is the same, not every guy is the same. I think it's important to learn each other, what you guys like, don't lik... | 2 |
AskReddit/e3w9p0t | 95y0bf | What are your favorite conversation topics/stories that keep your friends/colleagues/family enjoying for hours? | Cultural differences. How are civic bodies and public services run in different countries? I work in an international team. I completely enjoy listening to and contributing to conversations on how things are done in different parts of the world. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/de54ro1 | 5vtnva | Why does being nervous make you have to pee? | A much more common anxiety symptom is frequent urination. Frequent urination causes people to fear for the worst, worried that they have prostate cancer, diabetes, or other issues related to peeing often. While only a doctor can diagnose you, it's uncommon to have these conditions without risk factors. Frequent peeing ... | 2 |
askscience/c1pldf1 | gqrpg | Why are people more likely to be right handed than left handed? | Sinister (left-handed) swordsmen actually have an advantage in fencing. Right-handed fencers are used to dueling with other right-handers, so their movements are always backwards when dueling left-handed opponents. Because of this, they hate left-handed people prefer to fight other right-handed opponents. Funny thing i... | 17 |
AskReddit/c4kbo0d | t7ylr | How could a game company make buying a game more appealing than pirating it? | Make it available for a reasonable price, but most of all.make BUYING the game more convenient than pirating it. Buying it should entitle me to having it in every form I want. If I buy a physical copy, that should entitle me to the digital download as well, and there should be no problem with burning the download to a ... | 3 |
AskReddit/eix2ttf | b34bv2 | What is your biggest high school regret? | Oh man where to begin. Dropping out should be the biggest regret I had. Dropping out at 15 (I live in the UK so 15 is the second to last year of mandatory school) but in reality my biggest regret was never picking up on the hint of the cute girl who sat in front of me in my German class who wanted to go out with me. Sh... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/d6unpgl | 4zcovz | How did people wake up at certain times pre-alarms? | People would often wake up naturally. Light is a big factor in sleeping and people have a much easier time going to sleep and waking up when they follow the natural day cycle. Oversleeping were not as big of a problem before cheap artificial light. In addition you would have church bells and factory whistles chiming in... | 3 |
askscience/clyb1q3 | 2lth0s | How come my urine color isn't affected by drinking colored drinks? | Largely food additives which are used for colouring follow one of three paths; they are either digested in your gut (broken down in to constituent bits which can be absorbed as food), absorbed as-is and later broken down by the liver, or they pass straight through unaffected (either not being absorbed by the gut at all... | 4 |
AskHistorians/c8ulqs6 | 1a6obx | How did the spread of Islam bypass India for the most part but convert the majority of Indonesia and Malaysia? | It didn't. Much of northern India was conquered by the Mughal Empire, which was Muslim (and ruled by men of Turkish extraction), by 1530. By 1707, the empire extended to all but the southernmost tip of the Indian subcontinent. But then the empire collapsed and the way was opened for extensive European influence, a whol... | 26 |
AskReddit/c8pln3n | 19nesb | Do you know why fedoras looked good on pictures of the past, while they are just looking terrible now? | Like everyone else said, look at old pictures of people when hats were standard for men, suits were also the standard. 60 years ago people looked sharp with a nice hat and suit. A 60 pounds overweight teenager in a pokemon shirt and shorts with a fedora, not so much. Also back then it was the norm. Now an ugly ill fitt... | 2 |
AskReddit/d4q4d0i | 4q4p68 | What is your near death experience? | I was on my way to a school function and slid on black ice. My car went down a ravine and flipped the whole way down (71 feet). Among the process of flipping, I dislocated a shoulder, tore my bicep, cracked my head open, had glass everywhere in my skin, and broke a finger. I then had to wait 40 minutes for the ambulanc... | 6 |
AskReddit/didfbrk | 6evvpz | What games do you consider the most overrated? | The Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of Time. I loved this game when I was a kid, and played it so so so many times. I have to have atlas 300 hours put into just re playing the main quest alone. But it just hasn't aged well. For its time, it was revolutionary, but I can't even get through one play through of it even after not ... | 2 |
AskReddit/dsodwv3 | 7qdyld | What can be added to ground coffee to give it an interesting/unusual flavour? | add a bit of black tea to take away the bitterness. I found this out when I was a little short on coffee but I wanted a full pot, so I substituted a few begs of black tea and dumped them on top of the coffee grounds. the coffee was so much less bitter. After years of experimentation I have found about 7 scoops of dark ... | 2 |
AskReddit/esij3c3 | c7vyzq | What illegal things are so common they seem legal? | Crossing the border Edit: seems I needed to be more specific. Crossing the US border illegally, and by illegal I mean crossing by any means that is in no way a legal form of crossing borders | 103 |
AskReddit/d02xoiu | 466wus | What is one thing that is worth spending more money on it? | Your bed. You spend so much of your life in bed that it is worth it. I got a TempurPedic and I have not regretted it at all. I wake up feeling refreshed. I have back problems and it has made a world of difference in that aspect as well. | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/e0ku9jc | 8qomx1 | Why is radiation so deadly? | Radiation isn't universally dangerous. Radiation is the name for a phenomena we witness with traveling particles of energy. These particles can be anything from visible light, to radio waves, to deadly Gamma rays. Depending on the type of radiation, the energy within the particles can be passed to your body. Light from... | 13 |
AskReddit/d5agf3a | 4smmi3 | What is the strangest thing to happen to you? | The strangest thing that has ever happened to me is the following. One time, I finished reading a book on Psychic energy and it said to try to determine your psychic energy by taking a deck of cards, re-arranging it, and then reading the cards, by holding one up, at a time, and without facing the face, only the back, t... | 2 |
AskReddit/dsd40vf | 7oydd1 | Where was the stupidest place you ever hid your stash? | I once hid a bong in a small blue recycling box outdoors. This was a great spot until a month later after it had rained and I went to dump the rain water that'd collected in the garbage/recycling cans, in the process shattering and then remembering my bong in that order. | 3 |
AskReddit/e8bsdy2 | 9qrzw6 | Who is the creepiest/most fascinating criminal in history? | Less creepy and more fascinating is George C. Parker. He's most well known for setting up a fake office to sell fake deeds to NYC landmarks to wealthy tourists, most notably the Brooklyn Bridge. What people don't know is he sold the bridge twice. Twice a week. For 30 years. He also sold Madison Square Garden, the Metro... | 124 |
AskHistorians/c8p180r | 19krvl | Why did Denmark never try to make their German, Faroese and Icelandic citizens danish? | While I can't speak about Iceland and Icelandic culture and language I have lived in and visited the Faroe Islands for extended periods of time. The short story is that they tried to exterminate Faroese language and identity but failed for several reasons. The Faroese language was actually banned from about the 16th ce... | 19 |
explainlikeimfive/cghn49d | 21yj42 | Do cats get jealous when they see me pet other cats? | There is no proven scientific answer for this. But you may notice that when you pet one cat another gets starved for attention. I think it's highly likely that that other cat is "jealous." The reason there is no "scientific" answer to such a question is because you can never get into the subjectivity of any creature bu... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cgjg83g | 22567e | How fast is one light beam going relative to another going in the exact opposite direction? | They're moving away from each other at twice the speed of light, no matter who's observing them. Relativity says that nothing can go faster than the speed of light relative to any observer in what's called an inertial reference frame. You don't really need to know what that means too specifically, in layman's terms it ... | 16 |
AskReddit/eg35hzm | aos9kx | Why millions of people are getting hit with a surprise tax bill this year ? | The IRS changed their withholding guidance in January 2018 to reflect the changes in the tax laws. In short, this guidance told employers to withhold less money as the tax rates decreased. The consolidation of the standard deduction and personal exemption was beneficial if you did not itemize your deductions. However, ... | 54 |
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