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When I attempt to recall a piece of information from my memory and fail, why does that piece of information suddenly 'materialise' at a later time (often causing me to blurt it out involuntarily)? | [
"They explained it in an Episode of vsauce: When you think of a word, your brain goes through all the words that could fit because they have a similar meaning or sound similar. But when you can't remember a word, that you know you know, your brain has falsely ruled it out and it won't come to you anymore. In this... | [
"Part of the battle in remembering something is remembering that there's something to remember. Trying a string round your finger is likely to attract your attention at some time during the day - and that's enough to remind you there's something to remember. And *that* is often enough for you to remember whatever i... | eli5_question_answer | {
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The new Facebook privacy policies going into effect on January 1 | [
"[Here's a quick link I found](_URL_0_) Looks like it says they can pretty much use anything on your profile/identity in any advertising way they want."
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"EU's new data protection law (called GDPR) came into effect the 25th of may. It says that basically all (user) data collection should be disclosed and opt-in. This means that every service that ever collected data has to update its EULA in order to do business in the EU."
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The north Carolina gay rights laws. | [
"[This is actually a great article on the subject] (_URL_0_), but in short, the law does two things: * It requires sex-segregated bathrooms to be used by the gender listed on their birth certificate. * It prohibits any anti-discrimination law from being enacted on a local level, reserving that right to the state. T... | [
"Try bitterly divided by David Williams and also plain folk in a rich mans war by David Williams."
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How is it that something conceptual can make you feel something physical? ie: butterflies at something romantic, or feeling sick at the realisation of a mistake. | [
"The short answer is, the same way thinking to move your arm causes something physical to happen: your arm moving. Your brain is connected to your body by nerves and also produces hormones. When you're in love or very excited, the brain triggers the production of hormones that, as a side effect, make you feel butte... | [
"I don't feel anything when I do this; however, when I do it to other people--strangers on the street, for instance--I feel a distinct punch in my face, followed by bleeding. Science is painful sometimes."
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[Math] Can any of you explain Logarithms with detail from scratch? | [
"Logarithms are basically [what you get when you count with multiplication rather than adding](_URL_0_)."
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"There's a video that showcases exactly this Problem, I'll link it to you once I find it. Your common sense would say that series goes off to infinity, and it does, which makes sense because adding two positive natural numbers together will **never** give you a negative number. With a couple of tricks that aren't r... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How do Super Nintendo game save batteries last so long? | [
"The memory chip that holds the data acts as a passive component and only requires a tiny current to keep the bits within from flipping. Powering an active circuit, like a clock where components change state constantly, takes many times that much power."
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"Phones use lithium batteries. Lithium batteries are terrible. AA batteries last 30+ years without being touched"
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If Miranda states you have the right to remain silent / seek attorney , how come more often than not, the accused will consent to a willing interview with investigators. Are their consequences for remaining silent? | [
"No, there are no consequences for remaining silent. people are just dumb. Most people think that they have the ability to talk their way out of their legal situation, which is wrong. If the police truly think you are guilty nothing you say will prevent the cops from moving on with their prosecution. All talking do... | [
"It basically means the public is still at danger so your rights (the suspects rights to miranda) become over shadowed by the need to control and secure the situation. Miranda its self is pretty simple, just a brief explanation of the rights you do have and assurance that you understand that you possess these righ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How do nightmares work? | [
"All i know about dreams ia that they make 0 sense. Today i dreamed me and snoop dogg were sellers of trash in thailand. We sold plastic trash that glew in the dark. In the dream, nothing was weird about the situation."
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"... Asking what a baby dreams about is like asking what a dog dreams about. How would you ever find out?"
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How and why do Sega genesis controllers work on Atari 2600? | [
"And on Commodores! The reason *is* inexpensive and simple parts. The four directions of the joystick were all basically on/off switches (on when pressed, off otherwise), and the joystick buttons were too! The 9 pin D-shell connector (so called because of its shape) basically supplied voltage on one pin, and th... | [
"Because they weren't written for it. Though they appear similar, computers can be as different as consoles as time moves on. What you're asking is akin to \"Why can't I play Playstation 1 games on my PS4?\""
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What is the point of tilling the soil for crops? | [
"It aerates the soil. It buries the vegetation on to of the soil or cover under the soil which then composts into the soil. It makes planting a new crop in the loose, moist soil underneath easier."
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"You need to think in more than two dimensions, grasshopper. Altitude is a major factor in production of the coca plant. Additionally, generations of knowledge are missing in Africa."
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How does oxygen poisoning work? | [
"Paramedic here. I think you're referring to a condition known as hyperoxia (opposite of hypoxia). Many things can go wrong when you get too much oxygen. Atmospheric air is about 21-22% oxygen and ~79% nitrogen. The sacs in your lungs (alveoli) use nitrogen to produce chemicals that keep those sacs from collapsing ... | [
"Could you be a little more specific as to what you would like to know? How it works to facilitate the immune response? How it helps to circulate the lymph fluid? Something else?"
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Why can't the human eye see clearly underwater, but with swimming goggles we can? | [
"Wait, people can't see clearly under water? This is a serious question, because under water I see as well as I do normally with my glasses."
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"Humans see poorly in water mainly due to our eyes not being used to a large quantity of water, hence the stinging and the want to keep eyes closed. If you open your eyes in fresh water (pH7) you find you can see fine. Amphibians have protective membranes on their eyes which allows a greater range of water purity a... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do people have trouble comprehending large numbers? | [
"It's because most people have no frame of reference when it comes to very large numbers. People know that a million is a big number, and that a billion is bigger, but people have never seen a million OF anything, nor a billion, so it's hard to put into perspective. It's easy for a person to imagine a thousand of s... | [
"Because little kids have a hard time understanding complex subjects."
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what is the deal with games over 60 fps? Is there a difference between 60 and 300 fps. And what does interlacing and tearing have to do with this? | [
"The best way to explain the deal about FPS is to have a look at it and see the differences using your own eyes. Here is a good page that compares the effects of higher frame rates: _URL_0_"
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"You can definitely perceive the difference between a 60hz, 120hz, and 240hz led tv. Maybe you are thinking of frame rate? I would not buy a 60hz led tv you'll definitely notice ghosting and stuttering."
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Why can't my computer just sacrifice and transfer a part of it's own battery to my phone to charge it in seconds? | [
"Trying to push an instant charge to your phone would be like trying to instantly fill up an inflatable swimming pool with a garden hose that is hooked up to the equivalent of a fire hydrant on full blast's worth of water pressure. It *might* get the job done, but would cause a lot of damage. 1. Your garden hose (c... | [
"Because the power adapter is able to supply enough power to both run the laptop and charge the battery at the same time....."
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Why is calculus important in the medical field? | [
"When you take any medication, someone has to have calculated how long the drug lasts at each dosage level. They have determined the correct dose for each body weight. They know how that medication is affected by other drugs, including how the duration or decay rate changes. To do these types of calculations, scien... | [
"Computer Scientists (typically) are those wonderful people that write software for computers that people use on a regular basis. Software like Reddit, ebay, Windows, any game you play, any program you ever use, etc. A lot of the field is devoted to automating tedious tasks. I'm currently a junior in college studyi... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do the controls on most fans go "Off, High, Medium, Low" instead of gradually going from Off to High? | [
"The reason I have repeatedly seen on Reddit is that some fans need to start in \"high\" to overcome the resistance from not moving. In other words, the power output from the motor in \"low\" might not be enough to get the fan moving. Going from \"high\" to \"low\" however, doesnt require any additional work"
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"It depends on whether the AC is set to \"On\" or \"Auto\". If it's set to \"On\" it will continue to blow cool air forever. If it's set to \"Auto\" it will cool the house down to whatever temperature you set it at and then turn off."
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When did our Calendar start? Like in 900A.D. Did they say it was year 900? | [
"The calendar (in the \"what year is it?\" sense, not what the months are called and whatnot) that we use now (that says that it is the year 2014) was first devised by a monk, Dionysius Exiguus, in the year 525 (if the system he devised was in use at the time). He was updating a table of when the Easter feast shoul... | [
"A hundred years ago? Do you mean 5,000 years ago?"
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How does a smartphone app measure blood pressure and heart rate? And how accurate are they? | [
"They shine the light into your finger and use the camera to detect when the color/darkness changes. That way they can tell how frequently blood is surging through your blood vessels, i.e. how frequently your heart is beating. They can be accurateish, depending on your phone and the app itself. I'm not a doctor, bu... | [
"The machine measures heart rate, skin conductivity, breathing rate and sometimes pupil dilation - all to the effect that it's not able to tell if you're lying. The machines don't work reliably."
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What would happen if the US just adopted all of Australia's gun policy laws verbatim? | [
"A country cannot just 'adopt' gun laws without a lengthy legislature process. Lengthy legislature processes cannot be carried out unless a majority of representatives vote in favor of it. A majority of representatives will only be in favor, if the majority of their voters in their counties are in favor of putting ... | [
"The UK didn't have more guns than people when they banned guns. There's too many guns currently owned by private citizens and not registered with the government for a ban to be effective."
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Why can't we just drop trash in a volcano instead of dumping it in the ocean or landfills? | [
"This is a variation on why don't we burn it, and the answer is that we don't want the materials in garbage to be burned and released into the atmosphere"
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"We don't want the metals found in batteries in our drinking water. If they go into the trash, the go to the landfill. Water leaching from landfill ends up in someone's glass eventually."
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What is POSIX in programming? | [
"POSIX is the Portable Operating System Interface standard and is written by the Austin Group (which has members from the ISO, IEEE, and The Open Group). It is a standard specifying how certain things about an operating system should work, such as how the shell (the program that handles your input on a command line... | [
"Learn to code Java/Objective C or go for the easy, but less favorable, way of coding with Titanium (_URL_1_)"
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Why do people make viruses that just puts pop-ups on your computer? | [
"Some pages get money by showing ads. The problem here is, ads often only pay for unique visitors. Now if you get to visit such a page, you are a unique visitor and the page gets revenue. So by placing a virus or worm or something else on your pc that redirects you to any page, that contains ads, they scam the peop... | [
"It depends. With some code, especially in some games, it can be misidentified as a virus due to the fact it is similar to a virus' code, marking it as a virus or trojan. On top of this, some malicious uploaders put viruses or trojans into your download, so that, when you run it, it activates the malicious code. Ot... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why doesn't our Western calendar mark the end of the year on the winter solstice (December 21)? Why do we have it set 10 days later on December 31? | [
"Our calendar is descended from the Roman calendar with only a minor adjustment since Julius Caesar's reforms of 46BC. While the Romans had years start on 1 January, many countries (including England) using their calendar considered the year to begin in other months until around the 18th century. The original Roman... | [
"The seasons would slowly shift around. If there wasn't a leap year, today would have been March 2nd - the calendar would be off by one day. In 4 years, the calendar would be off by 2 days. In 120 years the calendar would be off by a whole month - so for example instead of winter being from December to February, it... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How bad for you is it to have one or two beers a night? What does it actually do to your brain/body? | [
"One or two a night is a pretty reasonable amount. It would not have serious effects on you."
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"This is pretty much a myth. The total amount of alcohol that you drink has a far greater impact on making you sick than how many different types of alcohol you mix together."
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Do our eyes reflect light (similar to a mirror)? | [
"yes, your eyes do reflect some light. This can be clearly seen when taking hi-res photographs of peoples eyes, and the lighting is right."
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"The pupil isn't black, its clear Your retina absorbs most light that hits it, this means there is very little that gets reflected back outward so you see the pupil as black. If you shine a very bright light in your eye then enough light will get reflected back so that you'll see the color of your retina, this is w... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why sometimes after taking pill it feels like it is stucked in my throat ? | [
"It's usually just the effect of swallowing something dry, as you would feel swallowing anything without much water content within it. Pills are the worse because they are non-permeable (not like say pieces of meat which get hydrated by your saliva) and therefore slide down your throat with less lubrication, even i... | [
"Can't speak for others but when I do it I catch it in my mouth. That is I use the back of my tongue to block off my throat so stuff actually gets caught in my mouth instead falling straight into my throat"
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What is that horrible feeling you get on your fingers when you feel a microfiber blanket/cloth? Feels like its going to rip your skin off or something... | [
"This is so weird. I've never had that experience, and I've touched lots of microfiber materials. Am I special?"
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"Sometimes it feels nice, does anybody know why it feels nice occasionally (Feels like a massage) and sometimes it feels nasty like somebody stabbing you with needles?"
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Why Listerine at 26% alcohol burns and stings your mouth but vodka at 40% alcohol doesn't at all? | [
"I would like to have the vodka you are having. You dont swish vodka around in your mouth for 20 seconds."
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"Drinking alcohol is ethanol. Isopropyl alcohol is isopropanol. Despite similar names, they're different chemicals. Ethanol gets you drunk, isopropanol makes you get sick and die."
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If for example 76yen = 1 USD, why don't they just say 1 yen = 1 USD ? | [
"because tomorrow 75 yen will = 1 USD, or maybe 77 yen, or maybe 92. Its not a constant. TL;DR Different countries have different economies"
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"It's a pyschological thing, would you be willing to pay 100$ instead of 99.99$? Most would not."
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What is a superconductor? What is it used for? | [
"It's a phenomena of certain materials when cooled to near absolute zero where exactly zero electrical resistance is achieved. A current can persist indefinitely through a loop of super conducting material with no power source. The most obvious use is the transmission of HUGE currents at zero loss. The other benefi... | [
"If magnets are magic, is gravity magic too? Fundamental forces, yo. They run the universe."
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What causes the feeling of impending doom in a medical context, and why is it regarded as a reliable indicator of a patient's condition? | [
"Do doctors ask if you've had any feelings of impending doom?"
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"The blood pressure in your head briefly fell. It's called postural hypotension and is used as a clinical sign, especially in emergency medicine. It's not usually considered dangerous by itself, but if it happens often enough to bother you it's worth talking to a doctor."
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How can someone operate prosthetic limbs? | [
"My understanding is it operates off of nerve impulses like a normal limb it reads what the brain is saying and does the corresponding action."
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"Modern technology can replace one body system per person, if it's the right system. We can substitute machines for kidneys, for a matter of months; we can substitute machines for a heart, for a matter of hours. The liver... not so much. Limbs... depends what you want to do with them. Prosthetic hands are almost to... | eli5_question_answer | {
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If the NSA knows everything we do on the Internet, how come there hasn't been a huge "child porn sting" on the news with countless arrests being made? | [
"There are a lot of points in your post, so I'll address them one by one 1. The NSA absolutely does not see everything, that'd be ridiculous. They wish they could, but there's just too much traffic 2. Paedophiles use some fairly inventive ways of hiding the fact that they're browsing child pornography, such as Tor,... | [
"no. We live a world security cameras, smart phone cameras and 24 hours news from CNN, Fox, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, etc. If there were a shooting there would be evidence of it on some platform. Also, if it did happen, do you think the news channels would give up the chance to get the viewers from such a massacr... | eli5_question_answer | {
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"See you next period" | [
"Periods are just what each class is called in some high schools. See you next period just means I'll see you in our next class."
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"Come back with that one more time now?"
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What are the advantages of fur vs. feathers? Is one more advantageous? | [
"Different advantages... which is why you see animals with fur having different roles than animals with feathers and also why fish have scales. feathers are insulating and also help with flight. fur can be grown thicker over winter and shed easily.. not sure of other specific advantages but i'm sure there are many... | [
"What makes you think that you're purchasing it without persuasion? Do you have a preference for cotton? Does it have properties that you appreciate more than synthetic fibers? Do you think everyone found out about it by word of mouth?"
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why do we get shivers down our spine when we are scared or embarrassed? | [
"You know how you sometimes see a cat that has raised its fur? It's threatening, making it look bigger, and signalling to others. We humans have those muscles in our skin, and react in sort of the same way. It's how you get goosebumps. We don't have a lot of hair anymore (well, some do I guess), but the vestigial m... | [
"This is caused by the increased amount of hormones and adrenaline that are pumped through our body during stressful times. Fun fact: Normal sweat and Stress sweat are produced by different glands, the apocrine glands and the eccrine glands. Im by no means an expert this is just something i had learned in highscho... | eli5_question_answer | {
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If your heart has roughly 1 billion beats before natural failure, why is cardio exersize good for you? | [
"Two reasons. - Cardio doesn't just exercise your heart. It exercises your lungs and your muscles associated with endurance. This helps your body a LOT, doing things like assisting your metabolism to keep your weight down, adding to your bone density from the impacts, lowering your blood pressure, and increasing yo... | [
"Medically I read somewhere it declines by 10% each decade. Most people are never actually fit, or if they ever were they stop putting in the same work the older they get. Also, they don't eat a proper diet to sustain. Proper diet is a huge part of the body being healthy."
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How do indirect diplomatic negotiations work? | [
"Usually, the Israeli and the Palestinian diplomats talk together in secret (as they usually do), but the presence of the Egyptians allows both sides to not lose face and keep the pretense of \"officially not negotiating with each other.\" Although sometimes, when the relationship between is two parties is *excepti... | [
"What practices do the Indian IT firms engage in and what bad reputation do they have in the US?"
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How is it that my cable/internet/phone provider can cram 200+ HD channels, a low latentcy 25+ mbps internet connection, and a phone line into a single coaxial cable while I still have to use complicated (multiple wires within one wire) HDMI, CAT5/6, or phone cables? | [
"It would be more complicated for the electronics to understand. As long as you can transmit bits and bytes you don't have any problems. But the other things you mention use more elaborate ways of transmitting information. The result is usually that they require special transmitters and receivers, which tend to cos... | [
"Because it doesn't have a fast transfer speed on it's digital data pin/wire. HDMI is designed to transfer uncompresed video on the video channels, and analog or digital audio on it's audio pin. The data pins/wires only transfer data at a slow rate when compared to pins in USB2/USB3 or ethernet. The bandwidth that ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why are pain management doctors required to obtain periodic drug screens but medical insurance companies not required to pay for those drug screens? | [
"Liability. The drug tests are to prove that the patient is actually taking the prescribed drug and not selling it, especially if it's a narcotic. If the patient is accused of selling their prescription narcotics, and the doctor has blood test results that support that accusation, the doctor can be charged with a ... | [
"You most certainly do have guaranteed access to everything in your medical records. At most you'd be charged a fee if you requested a physical copy for yourself. It may be that whatever lab or nurses you're dealing with is worried about confidentiality and HIPAA regulations, and feels that only the doctor prescri... | eli5_question_answer | {
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why is emcee spelled out and not just initialized as M.C. since it stands for master of ceremonies? | [
"I have never once in my life seen it as anything other than M.C."
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Why is it considered inappropriate to ask others what they make? | [
"Because it's one of those subjects where any answer is extremely likely to get judged harshly: > \"Oh, is *that* all they pay you for working so darned hard?\" > \"Seriously, do you think you *deserve* that, when you do so little?\" > \"Hey, that's $300 a month less than I get, you schmuck!\""
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"It's not inappropriate just unnecessary in most cases. However if one was hiring a nanny it may be appropriate to encourage men to apply."
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Why are there news stories saying there are millions starving in America when I see so many well fed homeless people? | [
"Not every starving person is homeless. There are people who own a house/rent an apartment, have a car, and are still not reliably able to put food on the table, if that makes sense. They have income and welfare, but after covering expenses to maintain their home and their car (necessary for work, usually), they ha... | [
"Some of them fly in from somewhere else but the real answer for most of them is a terrible truth most people want to not think about: There is maggots in the fruit you do eat."
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why are airline crash victims described as souls typically when most other deaths are described as lives or people? | [
"souls meaning living persons. which is passengers and crew airliners carry corpses too and they're held as cargo, not passengers. when you have a crash and you end up with 100 bodies, you need to know how many actually died in the crash."
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Why can't you go as fast on land as in the air? | [
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"Actually, when it comes to covering long distances quickly, humans are second only to horses believe it or not. So we got that going for us."
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How long do you have to stop drinking for your tolerance to alcohol to go down to that of a new drinker's? | [
"I was a heavy drinker (about a pint of whiskey per night) for decades. I stopped drinking about 5 years ago but will still have a few on vacation or holidays. I can still drink the same amount I always did. Your mileage may vary."
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"The only thing that building a tolerance will do is make you feel the effects of the alcohol less. A person with a high tolerance hurts their body just as much as someone with a low tolerance but they feel less drunk."
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If an actor/actress dies while they are filming like a movie or tv show, what happens? | [
"They generally find a way of shooting around it, there being too much time and money involved to abandon it. By rewrites and special effects in the case of [The Crow](_URL_1_ Or find a plot device to cast other actors for [The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus](_URL_0_)"
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"Usually, they are towards the end of the title credits. This is called \"last billing\", which is usually when you have an actor in a supporting role who is much more famous than any of the other actors, such as Sir Anthony Hopkins as Odin in Thor. This is negotiated between the actor's manager and the producers o... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What makes a sound "crisp"? | [
"Accentuated high frequencies between 3 - 10 kHz. Things like cymbals and other metallic sounds people associate with \"crispy\" make noise in that freq. range."
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"First glanced at the title and thought it said \"What are Hot Pockets and how dangerous are they?\" Extremely."
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Why does bubble wrap pop when I squeeze it but not when I cut it? | [
"When you squeeze and pop it, you are stressing the material to it's breaking point and it fails catastrophically, releasing all the air very quickly. When you cut it, you open a small hole first without stressing the surrounding material, releasing the air very slowly (comparatively)"
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"Those things have holes in them for the air to escape. So they have to replace the air that is lost. Why are there holes? Think of a balloon, if you slam a balloon against the wall (analogy for kids jumping on castle) the balloon will burst. But if the balloon is not tied, when you slam it the air will escape and... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Do castrated males even feel the urge to masturbate or have sex? | [
"Wow. A lot of terrible posts here. Yes, castrated men do have a sex drive, however depending on the case their drive can be significantly reduced. Some other interesting relevant information: Chemical castration is used sometimes for prostate cancer patients but often also for transsexuals. Some people are born... | [
"Because their orgasm doesn't matter from an evolutionary viewpoint. A man needs an orgasm to ejaculate in order to impregnate a woman. A woman doesn't need an orgasm to get impregnated. Simply put, men have evolved to ejaculate faster."
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How Massive Can A World Be And Still Support Life? | [
"There is no 100% direct way to relate a planets surface area to habitabilty. A large enough planet will tend to become more like a gas giant than a rocky world, but that also depends heavily on whats around the area for the planet to be formed from in the first place. A large world would also likely be more massiv... | [
"Being Black Does Actually Have (Relatively Minor) Health Consequences, It's Just That They're Obviated By Modern Life. There's An Energy Cost To Have Extra Melanin, Even A Small One, So If You Don't Need It It Won't Be Selected For. Melanin Reduces Vitamin-D Uptake From The Sun If Sunlight Is Lower Than You're Ada... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What typically happens when a website is 'down for maintenance'? I can only imagine people sweating and typing furiously on computers with green text on a black screen, but there is possibly more to it. | [
"Some guy, we'll call him Ted clicks a button/runs a script. Ted goes and grabs a cup of coffee and browses reddit while the code and maybe database syncs from the development/test server to the production server. Essentially the \"down for maintenance\" prevents the user from seeing any errors or broken pages whil... | [
"You know when iTunes, Facebook or your phone updates and how you know it's the same program as before but things have changed slightly and you are kind of lost. Well that's what it would be like going from animals to humans with the errors being death instead of frustration."
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What makes a good interviewer i.e. Charlie Rose, Larry King? | [
"These kinds of people are very intelligent and well-informed. They do their best to learn as much as they can about what they're interviewing them about, so they come up with genuine interesting questions in that research process."
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"Just think of it as what you say in an interview vs how you perform when hired. Same concept."
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How does this Nikon 6mm camera lens see behind itself? | [
"These images might help you see it better, [source of them is here.](_URL_1_) [The Nikon 6mm f/2.8 cross sectional diagram with lines showing the light coming in.](_URL_0_) Nikon even apparently patented a 5.4mm f/5.6 lens with an angle of view of 270 degrees, though it was never made, [here's the diagram for that... | [
"Small lens size limits light entry, so no, will probably never match the quality of a traditional SLR"
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Why did no one expect the Spanish Inquisition? | [
"It's a quote [this Monty Python sketch](_URL_0_), one of their most well known sketches, in fact. Tired of questions about some routine problem, a man complains that he \"didn't expect the spanish inquisition\". Unexpectedly, actual spanish inquisitors burst in. The second level of the joke is, however, that the ... | [
"Follow up: What *were* his reasons for siding with the British?"
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What's the difference between a Senior Vice President and a Vice President of a company? | [
"Strongly depends on the company. In some companies, it's an executive position. In others-- especially client-facing ones such as banks, consultancies, and marketing agencies, VP can be a popular title for most mid-career positions. This started out as a way to make clients feel that they were interfacing with som... | [
"What do you mean by bankers - employees of a bank? That can mean anything. Investment bank? Corporate? Retail? Private?"
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Why people put the TL;DR at the end of posts instead of the beginning? | [
"Because those people hate people, and that hatred is only intensified with each letter they type, building to words, and words to sentences, sentences with meaning and weight that they know deep down in their hearts will be left unread. Leaving the tl;dr at the end is their one last defiant act of passive aggressi... | [
"I have a pretty nice explanation to this, but it will take me some time to type it out, so I have to wait for a break at work. Edit: Answered in more detail below."
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What's the difference between paella and risotto? | [
"Both are very different. Paella is a spanish dish. You cook it in a large pan (also called a paella). Primary spice needed in it is saffaron. You can then flavor it with a variety of meats (chicken, sausage, seafood are common). This large pan creates a lot of surface area that produces a crunchy bottom on the ric... | [
"Why do some parts of the world call gasoline petrol?"
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Miranda rights and how far you can take your right to remain silent | [
"You can take your fifth amendment rights very far. This [video](_URL_0_) is a fantastic lecture by a former defense attorney and law professor."
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"A lot of people believe they can fool the police, or that asking for a lawyer will be used as evidence of guilt. Or they don't properly invoke and stick to their right to remain silent, and the police goad them into talking."
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How long (time & distance) would it take to slow down from traveling at the speed of light assuming I don't want to exert > 5Gs on my body? | [
"Speed of light is 299,792,458 m/s 1G is 9.8 m/s^2 5G is 49 m/s^2 If you decelerate at 49 m/s^2 it'll take: (299,792,458/49) seconds to reach 0 m/s that's 6,118,213 seconds, or about 71 days. Distance traveled is: D = (InitialSpeed * Time) + 1/2(Acceleration * Time^2) meters So... (note the NEGATIVE 49) D = (299,79... | [
"It can go slowly with a lot of power, but it will need to move a huge amount of fuel with it as it will have to keep burning for a very long time Escape velocity is the speed you need to get out of an object's(Earth's in this case) gravity well and continue off endlessly. The 11.2 km/s escape velocity of Earth is ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do most Americans have an ingrained dislike for the French? | [
"The British and the French don't have the best history. America is like the runaway child of the British. As much as we act like we dislike our parents, we usually turn out quite similar to them. So since the British don't like the French, and despite how hard America tries to be different than the British because... | [
"There is no such thing as guilt by association in the USA."
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Why does the stuff that comes out of pimples smell so bad? | [
"The stuff in pimples is *sebum* (stop laughing), which is the oil that keeps your skin moist. When you get a pimple, the gland that produces sebum gets clogged with dead skin cells or a hair, and the sebum gets backed up. Then bacteria colonize it and it starts to rot, which is why it smells bad, and also why it g... | [
"Not everyone can smell it. So, to them, their pee doesn't smell. But to those who can smell it, everyone's pee smells when they eat asparagus. (Don't ask how this was discovered.)"
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Why do blackheads form more often on the nose as opposed to other places? | [
"Are you sure they're blackheads and not [sebaceous filaments](_URL_0_)? Sebaceous filaments are 100% normal and although their appearance can be reduced (ie. with AHA/BHA), they're a skin feature that everyone is supposed to have."
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"> is there a difference between pimples on the forehead or chin or cheeks? Not really. A pimple is pretty much a pimple, no matter where it is. There are certainly other kinds of skin lesion, to be sure, but those too are what they are no matter where they occur, e.g., blackheads aren't pimples, but a blackhead on... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What makes a living person a philosopher? | [
"Nowadays, technically a PhD in philosophy. But, less technically, everyone is really a philosopher, since we all hold philosophies. A philosophy is simply an idea or belief as to why we act the way we do (i.e. human nature), or why things are the way they are. And every person has their own ideas that attempt to e... | [
"There is no such thing as a higher life form except for human prejudice. An amoeba is as successful as a dog."
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Why do websites push so hard to get you to download their mobile app? What advantage does it have for the website owner over using a browser? | [
"Many times that app is ad supported meaning they have another source of revenue. Also the app may not specifically be free giving them even more revenue. Right now in Software Engineering app development is the flavor of the month. Everyone is doing it because it's a quick profit due to the huge market."
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"The web site is programmed to send the ads before the content. Otherwise, you'd be less likely to see the ads, and their customers would be unwilling to pay for the ads. Remember, from a web site operator's perspective, the purpose of the site is to show the ads."
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What is the difference between "double" quotations and 'single' quotations? | [
"Quotations marks (\") are used for direct quotes. Apostrophes (') are used for emphasis, highlighting, paraphrasing, indirect quoting, and should NOT be used in direct quotes."
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How and when was ISIS created? | [
"In the simplest of terms, IS is pretty much AQI (al-Qaeda in Iraq) gone amok and rebelled from AQC's (al-Qaeda Central) control. It started with JTJ (Jamaat Tawhid wal-Jihad) - > AQI (al-Qaeda in Iraq) - > MSC (Mujahideen Shura Council) - > ISI (Islamic State of Iraq) - > ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Sham) - > ... | [
"What if you want a printed version of what was said?"
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Someone Explain 4chan like i'm five | [
"4chan is an American imageboard. It's user base is largely anonymous, but on some boards users can use tripcodes to try to forge an identity. It is the originator of a significant amount of the internet's memes and also the Game."
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"Alternative title: \"Explain Like I'm 5 the experience of being 5.\""
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With all the coastline in Europe, how and why did the allies end up invading at such heavily fortified locations? | [
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"Marines would have been more successful at a beach landing, but there was only one beach landing on D-Day (more or less, if you group it together). After D-Day the Allied forces had to fight inland, which was more suited towards the Army. In the Pacific, the troops had to go \"Island Hopping.\" They would deploy ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do we use the term transgendered instead of the more-accurate transsexual? | [
"\"Trans\" as a prefix doesn't mean something is being transcended. It means \"across\" or \"on the other side\". For example, Transalpine Gaul was the region of Gaul across the Alps from the Romans, while Cisalpine Gaul on the near side of the Alps. \"Transport\" is when you carry (*porto*) something across (*tran... | [
"It's a newer, preferred way of saying something introduced because the previous way was offensive to an oppressed group of people. For example, we grew up referring to police officers as \"policemen,\" but that isn't politically correct because it excludes women. Or, we can't say \"retarded\" because it's no longe... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How does forearm armor account for the fact that a wrist can rotate ~90° with respect to the elbow? | [
"It is basically a metal plate upon a leather brace - where exactly do you see the problem? Rotating a stiff metal plate on your arm? Take a roll of tape and a few sticks and secure them near elbow and wrist - they will rotate with your wrist/arm movement just fine, like a metal plate secured with leather straps w... | [
"The purpose is the ability to rotate the hand/foot, though the human foot is not terribly mobile in terms of rotation. Also, different muscles are attached to the different bones to produce different movements. The two bones are not fixed together, they are connected via ligaments and can move in relation to each ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How to solve the Prisoner's Dilemma | [
"Call them A and B. If A only thinks about himself, then he could just betray B and go home. At first, that seems to be the best way to deal with it - ZERO jail time for A and 6 years for B. But B is probably thinking the same thing. That means ZERO jail time for B and 6 years for A. Now, whether or not B rats him ... | [
"Can you better explain what you are asking about? My google searching doesn't exactly explain what \"The Three Liars Paradox\" is."
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What are the similarites and differences of the various rates dV/dr, dV/dh, dr/dV, dr/dh, dh/dV, dh/dr, dV/dt, dh/dt, dr/dt? | [
"The d notations say how fast the top thing is changing when the bottom thing is changing. So dV/dt is how fast the volume changes when you change the time. dV/dr is how fast the volume changes when you change the radius. Just apply this to any notation like this and it gives a general idea of what it means."
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"thats because y is the function and you are deriving it with respect to x. think of first derivatives they are d/dx (y) second derivative is d/dx d/dx (y)"
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How China is a communist country and how their system really works | [
"China is now far from being an actual communist nation, at least in terms of economic policy. While a lot of industries are state owned or at least state controlled, private enterprising is rampant in the country."
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"Socialism is quite a vague term and has no real definition, but basically it is a society where the people own and run certain corporations in order to enhance the peoples quality of life. Communism is a stateless, classless and moneyless society where again corporations are owned by the people. Socialism also usu... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why did the eastern hemisphere develop much faster than the western hemisphere? | [
"Guns, Germs and Steel provides one of the most common theories to explain this. Basically, it boils down to it being a long unbroken land mass at generally the same latitude from Portugal all the way to Korea. This allowed for a lot of cultural interaction to occur and for trade and communication to occur very eas... | [
"Look at a globe. Most of the world's land is found in the Northern Hemisphere. In fact, not only does the Northern Hemisphere contain more land but almost every person on the planet lives in the Northern Hemisphere. Only 10% of the human population lives south of the equator."
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how do they draw road surface markings on highways that always seem to match the shape of the road perfectly (straight when road is straight, curvy when needed)? | [
"A truck that moves pretty slowly and driver that keeps it moving nice and steady. Seriously, that's it. It's not an exact science. _URL_0_"
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"The car has a camera that points towards the front of the car (at the road). It scans for the markings on the road that show where the lane is, and then if it notices that the car is shifting to an angle where the markings don't line up, it does its thing (makes a sound or pushes back on the steering wheel - diffe... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What is happeneing when we can "feel" someone looking or staring at us? | [
"From [Psychology Today](_URL_0_): ...\" the perception originates from a system in the brain that's devoted just to detecting where others are looking. This \"gaze detection\" system is especially sensitive to whether someone's looking directly at you (for example, whether someone's staring at you or at the clock ... | [
"Sometimes it feels nice, does anybody know why it feels nice occasionally (Feels like a massage) and sometimes it feels nasty like somebody stabbing you with needles?"
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What would happen if millions of people took to the streets and tried to overthrow the government? | [
"Typically when that happens the government is overthrown. Or, less likely, the government remains and there's millions of dead people. But when the number of people is in the millions, there's usually some change coming."
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"Because a large part of the population was fed a string of lies about how much better life would be out of the EU."
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How does Twitter incur a net loss of $162 million on revenue of $436 million this quarter. | [
"these engineer jobs are extremely competitive and require higher wages. It cannot be denied that twitter is possibly the most fluid, smooth and well made mobile networking app. This requires very good developers. 20 people could not run an app with as much traffic as twitter gets. On top of adding a new detailed s... | [
"Netflix has over 83 million subscribers. If each subscriber pays just $10 per month (= $120 per year), then they make nearly $10 billion a year, a lot more than $6 billion."
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How does ticking the 'are you human' tick-box prove I'm human? | [
"It is coded in such a way that a bot cannot set the status of the box to 'checked'. So only a human can check it."
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"Because recently a law was passed in Europe which forces websites to tell you they use cookies. You should only see it once. Otherwise the cookies aren't working, ironically."
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What is the difference between me eating 2000 calories a day and eating a full 4000 calories every two days (eating nothing every odd day)? | [
"What's the difference between asking you to do 8 hours of work today and tomorrow, or just 16 hours tomorrow? Digestion is work. Your body is facing undue stress if you pile on like that."
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"With almost no amounts of daily exercise, you need about 11x your body weight in calories to maintain your weight, and you need to consume 3500 calories less to loose 1 pound. So your average 180lb man eats around 1980 calories a day, your average 350lb man eats 3850 calories daily. So, if a 350lb man starts only ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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It's there really any difference between what company I buy gasoline from? | [
"I once had lunch with BP's head of Chemical Engineering for NA and asked him the exact same question. The guy said no. The so called additive various companies put in their gas is 90% marketing and 10% maybe it works a little bit. In the tests they ran, they concluded that the additives are slightly beneficial in ... | [
"Because it's the cheapest option, as in China offers them the lowest interest rate that they can get."
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why do people cover their license plates when taking pictures of their cars? | [
"If say, someone that doesn't know you get the photo (for example if you post it on say, reddit or something) they can find out who you are. And from that, might be able to find out where you live and/or work. There are a lot of crazy people out there that do things that issue death threats and such to people that ... | [
"The same reason you use your fancy phone in public but get upset when homeless people stare at your phone for too long."
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How are spiders able to walk well on their webs? | [
"Not all the web strands are sticky. Some of them are structural supports without the sticky coating, and the spider knows which is which and walks on the non-sticky threads."
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"Objects that appear smooth to us are actually covered in pits and fissures and ridges, far too small for us to see. The insects feet are covered in bristles or hairs that can interact with these little fissures, allowing them to cling on to and move along seemingly smooth things, even upside down. Here's a drawing... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What's the difference between hard sci-fi and soft sci-fi ? | [
"Hard sci-fi refers to stories with plausible technology. Soft sci-fi refers to stories with 'magical' technology. Warp travel, lightsabers, replicators, force fields, etc."
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"Generally high fantasy involves worlds where magic and fantastical creatures are common. Example: LOTR Low fantasy is when there are subtle fantastical elements in a more realistic world. Example: Game of Thrones (at least so far in the first half of book 1)"
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Why do people close their eyes when they hear loud noises? | [
"Loud noises usually mean explosions or alike, with flying stuff that could damage your eyes."
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"Why do the glands in my neck burn like high hell when I'm holding back tears?"
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How is daylight savings beneficial? | [
"If you look at Wikipedia, you'll see that, contrary to popular belief, Daylight Saving Time was not so farmers could have an extra daylight hour. It was really brought about as an energy conservation method during World War I. In modern times, we live by clocks and not the sun. What I mean is that since most of th... | [
"1. They are in different time zones. 2. Hawaii does not observe daylight savings time."
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When turn the volume knob on a speaker, what is actually happening to make it louder? | [
"Turning up the knob turns down a variable resistor. Therefore there will be more current flowing through the circuit. More current means the loudspeaker cone will move more. More movement of the loudspeaker means more movement of the air. Which means louder sound."
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"The microphone is connected to an amplifier and the amplifier is connected to a speaker. Speaking through the mic will output your voice on the speaker but only louder. If you move the microphone close to the speaker, the output of the speaker (which is noise) will reach the microphone and the speaker will output ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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The urge to scratch wounds | [
"There is an evolutionary reason for it. Evolutionarily, we only recently discovered soap and other antibacterial substances. Before that every wound was inherently filthy and stayed that way. Scratching as it heals provides a cycle of letting the wound close and rebuild with the need to have the wound seep to expe... | [
"because it sometimes itch we dont know from scratch"
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The connection between Prometheus and Alien [spoilers within] | [
"The idea with Prometheus was that the engineers were \"seeding\" various planets with life forms. It was implied that humans were one of the engineers' favorites, but around 2000 years ago they got sour on us, and decided to replace us with the Alien lifeform. However, something went really, really wrong, and they... | [
"As far as early native interactions are concerned, there is one particular documentary that comes to mind that I always found compelling. The name of the documentary is The Tainos and you can find it on youtube. It covers the history of the Taino people in Hispaniola and their interactions with Christopher Columbu... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why don't teeth repair themselves? | [
"Most of the tissues in your body have blood flowing around them. The blood delivers the materials your body uses to repair itself. The teeth don't have that -- they formed inside your skull and pushed outward, and at that point they've left the factory and can't be changed afterward."
] | [
"Water, fibre, and other things that humans don't digest into energy."
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Why inter-species offspring are not a commonality in nature | [
"TheCastleofArggg provided some good *internal* examples of why hybrids are not that common, that is to say reasons why hybridization might fail before birth. There are however many *external* examples which may prevent or reduce hybridization events. You can think of these as: * Different mating locations: non-ove... | [
"There is greater genetic difference between two individuals than there are between the \"races\", the concept of race is fundamentally superficial genetically speaking, in fact humans are one of the most homogeneous species known to exist For two animals to be considered different species, they must not be able to... | eli5_question_answer | {
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what does it mean when a key cannot be copied? | [
"No, it's a legal warning to key makers that it's not a key they can legally copy. I'm sure they physically could if they wanted to, but it's unlikely doing so would be worth their job and, depending on the key, subsequent jail time that would be consequences of knowingly copying it anyway."
] | [
"i'm sorry, this question cannot be answered due to security concerns."
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Why do our voices get higher pitched or we do the "baby voice" around cute things and people we love? | [
"High pitch voices socially imply excitement, you squeal with excitement because it's something you like, socially this has just become the norm for us to do as we saw others do it to babies etc and learned that's what we do!"
] | [
"Sneezing is your body trying to clear your upper airways of debris and other stuff that shouldn't be in there. As for different sounds, I would assume that it has to do with air rushing over our vocal cords. And since we have different vocal cords and voices, our sneezes would sound different too. (This is just an... | eli5_question_answer | {
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The 1851 treaty that keeps being mentioned in the North Dakota pipeline protest. | [
"Basically, The government fought the Standing Rock Sioux tribe among others for control of the territory that is now North and South Dakota. The government then signed a treaty saying \"this bunch of the land is the tribes\" while the rest of it was controlled by the US. The tribe argues that the pipeline (which ... | [
"How would the president conduct a hostile takeover without the military? Also a takeover of what?"
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how can muscles not seem to grow in size but can increasingly handle more and more weight? | [
"Strength comes from how much energy the nervous system can produce (obviously the output being the muscle, which is how that energy is expressed). You don't need \"big\" muscles for your nervous system to produce a lot of energy"
] | [
"fatter people do get bigger muscles than average yes. but the muscles struggle to move all the fat."
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Where do the numbers for estimated unreported cases come from? | [
"Questionnaires and interviews, mostly. Lets say I am trying to find out how many bike thefts go unreported. For the best result, you ask a representative sample of the population whether they have ever had their bike stolen and then whether they have ever reported that to the police. You might find that 1000 peopl... | [
"The answer to your question differs very greatly depending on where you live."
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Why aren't online shopping websites using safer https, instead use http? | [
"You don't really need to use HTTP for browsing the store and adding items to your cart. It doesn't really offer a significant benefit at that point. But you'll notice at Amazon that as soon as you go to view your cart or begin the checkout process, it switches to HTTPS (and HTTPS is used throughout the checkout pr... | [
"They CAN see the site you are accessing and they CAN block https websites. In this case, it's just an error on their part. They have a policy for filtering http and a policy for filtering https and the policies don't match for whatever reason."
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how do scented toys maintain their scents for years? | [
"[Some scented toys actually have the scents mixed into the mold, rather than perfumed.](_URL_0_) > Stinkor’s odiferousness was accomplished by Mattel actually mixing patchoulli oil into the mold. Mattel did the same thing with Stinkor’s nemesis, Mossman, a repurposed Beast Man with scratchy green astroturf glued ... | [
"Well that depends very strongly on what you mean by \"as advertised\" Do they smell nice and those smells can influence your mood? Yes Do some of them have health benefits or are they good for skin and hair care? Yes Are they some magical cure-all that that can be used instead of real medicine? Absolutely not."
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