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Why do people scream? | [
"Why anything evolves we can't say beyond,, at best, educated guesses, but screaming has a fairly uncontested advantage evolutionarily: it informs everyone around you that there's something to be alarmed of. If I'm out hunting with my people and I hear a scream some 50 metres over there I can quickly figure out tha... | [
"How do you think they stay rich? ;)"
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Why do some CEOs have one dollar salaries? | [
"Those CEOs own a ton of stock. If the company increases in value, their stock increases in value, and they make a ton of money. If you own a couple hundred million in stock, a couple of million in CEO salary doesn't make much of a difference. Plus, salaries are paid whether the company is doing well or not. Stocks... | [
"Because something like only 30 percent of donations go to cancer research while their CEO makes almost 7 figures. That kind of stuff."
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Why I shiver after I pee. (and if it's normal) | [
"Urination causes a vasovagal response. The vagus nerve in the brain is stimulated, lowering your blood pressure by dilating your circulatory system, which decreases the amount of blood nearer your skin, causing you to feel cold."
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"I'm 22 and I've never had a wetdream. Is that normal?"
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Why aren't films sold with compression, making bluray quality dvds? | [
"You can only use MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 on a disc if you want most DVD players to understand it. MPEG-4 uses more complicated tricks that wouldn't run on cheap hardware back in 1995."
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"Youtube can play in 4k at 60fps, so I think it's just that vimeo has more people uploading at the higher quality."
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Why has broadcasting TV never caused bandwidth problems, whereas streaming movies does? | [
"It does cause a bandwidth problem. That's why there are only a few TV stations in a given area, and they only broadcast a few movies at a time to millions of people."
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"> Do most people use more than 1TB of data? Well, let me put it this way, this cap exists for a reason, if people did not go over a terabyte, there would be no reason to have a cap in the first place. While I say that it may be enough for one person, for multiple people in the same household, it may not be enough.... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why can't we get high res satellite views of places like Iraq and Afghanistan? | [
"most of the stuff you see on google maps that's really up close isn't satellite images, it's actually low plane flyover images. For obvious reasons we can't take those images there. There are high res satellite images though, of those regions and elsewhere, but those aren't publicly available."
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"Does it matter if there is water instead of roads between a number of small towns? We have boats and bridges."
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How does Solar City make a profit? | [
"In California, there are 4 ways you can get solar panels installed on your house: 1. Outright purchase 2. Loan 3. Power Purchase Agreement 4. Lease Loan and outright purchase is pretty self explanatory, Solar City still provides you with tech support and warranty work after you purchase the panels but they belong ... | [
"How much do they cost vs how much will they generate."
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IF I own 100% of a company and i give 49% to someone else, do I still have the same power I had when I was the sole owner? | [
"The answer hinges on the structure of the company, but the short answer is yes. Owning 51% of a corporation with a board of directors would allow you to choose who sits on that board. The board is generally responsible for choosing executive leadership, CEO, CFO, etc. in theory you could elect yourself to the boar... | [
"Say you and I found a company, and we issue 100 shares, each of us gets 50-50. But because you're lazy, you say you won't take part in any business negotiations, and you authorise me to do everything in case we get any new investment. Now consider we get a new investor, who wants to invest a lot of money in exchan... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What causes an spinning image to look like it is rotating one direction, stop, then appear to rotate the other direction? | [
"This is called the [wagon wheel effect](_URL_0_). You perceive this because of the interaction between the timing of the spokes on the wheel, and the timing of the frames of the video. You can also see this with your eyes directly if the light source has a lot of flicker (as is the case with certain street lights)... | [
"Let's take a wheel that's spinning fast, but not fast enough that it looks like it doesn't look like it's spinning backwards. It's rotating at 45 degrees per frame. The eye processes the motion as going forward. However, when the car wheel's spinning really fast, let's say that it rotates at 355 degrees per frame... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Since Jupiter is composed of mostly hydrogen, would it be possible to ignite it? | [
"Only if there was enough oxygen (or some other similar agent that readily combines with hydrogen) to allow for combustion. I don't believe that it is mixed that way through most of the planet."
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"The answer to this, as far as I know, is still not really known. One of the purposes of the Juno probe was actually to answer this exact question. Since Jupiter is so huge, that means that the pressure at the core would be enough to solidify certain elements (for example, the core of Jupiter might be a chunk of so... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What happened to the rest of the hair on our body? | [
"Various theories abound. One is that it just came along with other advantages (rather like those Russian domesticated foxes with white blazes on their snouts coming along with increased docility). Another is that we did better without hair because less hairy people had fewer parasites. Another is that all of the r... | [
"Now you too get to see the terrible deleted comments! Welcome!"
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How can a region or a country go 100% renewable? | [
"In the short term, they do it by providing more renewable power than they use (exporting some) on sunny/windy days producing around 125%, and then using some non-renewable to supplement on the weak days. So *on average* they are 100% renewable. In the future, they can do it using energy storage systems -- using ex... | [
"Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. So it highly improves efficiency of mass production by analyzing it. The result is that we can feed 8 billion people globally instead of only 2 billion people. Without the Infrastructures that exist i... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Electrical current. when would you use a neutral/ground with a negative | [
"Ground is used to shunt excess voltage to the earth rather than thru the circuits of the device you have plugged in. Ground also acts as as a drain for noise as well."
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"It doesn't. It forks many times with the path that makes the connection with the ground sending the bulk of the energy through. Here's a high-speed camera of one forming: _URL_0_"
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How do dumb people get into such positions of power? | [
"_URL_0_ People are promoted to their level of incompetence."
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"Because, believe it or not, people in general are even more stupid than the morons in Congress."
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Why do celebrities, politicians, police officers, and other "connected" people always get sentenced differently for crimes that should be felonies? | [
"Part of the reason is that they have better lawyers. They can afford to hire lawyers that carefully poke holes at the evidence the prosecution has. In the end, it becomes easier to just have them plead out to a lesser punishment."
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"It is less about the number of times it occurs, and more about the perception that when whites kill blacks, they are pursued less aggressively by the law."
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Why aren't there more power outlets in airport terminals? | [
"Most airport terminals in the world were built before everyone carried a laptop, tablet and a phone with them on every flight, so outlets were never added to account for people charging them. 20 years ago, no one had stuff they wanted to charge before boarding so many outlets weren't needed. Adding an outlet isn't... | [
"Planes totally have power sockets. Took a trip to Mexico two months ago ish and just about every flight had power outlets under the seat."
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Why does orange juice and mint toothpaste taste so bad? | [
"Kind of a compound answer. I'm assuming you mean you just brushed your teeth and now are about to chug a glass of OJ. Toothpaste is an emulsion and contains surfactants. The surfactants allow the toothpaste to become foamy when some water/spit is mixed in. Those surfactants effect one particular taste sensor, swee... | [
"It's the foaming agent, Sodium Laurel Sulfate, also known at Sodium dodecyl sulfate. From wikipedia: _URL_0_ SLS has the effect of making you unable to taste sweet flavors for a certain amount of time. Orange juice without sugar means you can taste the other compounds more, and they don't taste good when they aren... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Do we all originate from Africa? Why is it said that we do? | [
"Our Last Common Ancestor is based on irrefutable genetic similarities from fossil records that are scientifically dated to the dawn of humanity, and have only been found in Africa."
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"Well, pretty obviously the answer is because they were descended from people from Africa. And on the contrary, you do (or did) hear people describe themselves as Irish-American or Italian-American. Most black people in the US have no issue with being called black though."
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Why do our mouths tolerate temperature (hot or cold) much more than our skin. | [
"I believe your premise is false. The same temperature of soup that would burn your skin, would burn your mouth. And you can hold about the same amount of ice in either your hands or your mouth. However, your mouth has glands that put out saliva at body temperature, which dilutes any hot or cold thing you put in yo... | [
"Because your lungs are quite moist, as you breathe the cold air in it works like wind-chill, rapidly cooling the surfaces inside your lungs (and your lungs have a LOT of surface area). Your lungs, like most of your body, have nerve endings which detect this and send a pain signal to your brain Remember that cold a... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why does spraying on aftershave stop little cuts from bleeding? | [
"Alcohol irritates open blood vessels and causes them to constrict. It also causes your skin to contract and pinch off the bleeders."
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"I don't know about ant bites. However with the toothpaste if you dab it onto pimples its supposed to dry them out and make them shrink."
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How does one understand how fast a computer will be simply by reading the specifications, like a clock speed of 3.3GHz? | [
"Moore's law specifically measures the number of transistors on a silicon chip will double every 18-24 months. Transistors are little switches that turn on and off very quickly, and are one of the main components that are required for a computer. A clock speed simply measures the rate of which these transistors tur... | [
"They do make multi processor desktop motherboards, but they cost more than single processor units. These days a single CPU multi core setup provides the same benefits, but at a lower cost, but you can still fork out enough money and get a multi cpu multi core machine. As for using different clocks, they do. Intel ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do we struggle to draw straight lines naturally by hand ? | [
"Well your hand doesn't naturally move in a straight line. Just move it left to right and observe the arc. It's pivoting at your shoulder (or your wrist or elbow, depending on how you moved it). So you have to work to counter that movement. But more than that, our hands are moving freely in space. Without something... | [
"If you were two dimensional, how would I explain the third dimension to you?"
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Why do I physically feel horrible immediately when seeing gory photos? | [
"This is an evolutionary \"trait\" of sorts. Similar to how some people faint after seeing blood. My guess would be that humans subconsciously see blood and gore as 'something that's gone terribly wrong' and should be heeded as a warning. After all, if you saw someone suddenly shot and bleeding, wouldn't you be som... | [
"Why do the glands in my neck burn like high hell when I'm holding back tears?"
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the Great Vowel Shift in the English language. | [
"Are you wondering what it is? Or why it happened? The great vowel shift occurred around the 15th/16th century, and is one of the reasons Middle English (the language of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales) is so different from Modern English (English used from about the 1600s through today. Yes, Shakespeare wrote in Modern... | [
"It did! To become more accessible to traders in the 1200s, gendered nouns were dropped. Source: _URL_0_"
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What causes magnetism in certain metals? | [
"I don't think I can improve on [minutephysics' and Veritasium's](_URL_0_) explanation myself."
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"Partly because it's relatively rare. Partly because, compared to other metals like iron and copper, it doesn't oxidize as much."
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Is it better to run 10 minutes every day, or 70 minutes once a week? | [
"As an experienced runner, I'n just going to simply say that you should run for 10 minutes per day. I personally feel terrible when running after having not run for more than two or three days. It's sort of like setting yourself back by not running consistently. Also, I recommend trying to run a certain distance ra... | [
"The formula is very simple: - Eat less calories - Burn more calories Yes, it does come down to \"calories in vs. calories out\". Perform a cardio activity, like running, walking briskly, riding a bike, etc, for at least 1/2 hour a day, every day, and eat light."
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The main points on why the NSA "spying" on citizens is bad | [
"This whole post is most likely designed to create confusion. Looking at the replies so far, if that isn't the intent then a good job is being done of it. The question of why the government secretly spying on its own citizens is \"bad\" is an evasive question because the answer is self evident *as long as you under... | [
"It's a supposed fix to some of the issues relieved about the government collecting metadata(phone call duration, time of day, length, texts, ext.) on US citizens, in reality it throws a blanket over programs it says it is eliminating and renames those programs so that Americans think that the government did someth... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why are marines in Afghanistan instead of the traditional army? | [
"Amphibious warfare is *just one* of the special skill-sets that marines have. Another specialty they have is being able to quickly deploy and fight anywhere in the world. EDIT: Also, Afghanistan is not a desert"
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"The Marines as the British Empire used the term were originally the soldiers on a ship. They were the ones that boarded an enemy vessel, or went ashore to claim a beachhead. In the US they had the same role. Over time they grew large enough that they were separated from the Navy but they still have close ties with... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How does weed killer not kill the other plants around it? | [
"There's a few different ways. Some herbicides are nonspecific and will kill just about any plant. Glyphosphate (RoundUp) is pretty well known in this category. One of the things that Monsanto is (in)famous for is developing genetically engineered crops that are resistant to RoundUp so a farmer could just plant the... | [
"When you cut grass it releases a chemical called cis-3-Hexenal. This chemical is known to attract bugs that eat other bugs. Usually when grass is damaged it's because of bugs eating it, so it releases a chemical to attract things that eat the bugs before they eat more of the grass. So basically the smell is gra... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What makes a password stronger than another? | [
"Because some types of attacks will do what's called a 'dictionary attack' and try dictionary words and thing based on them (apple, Apple, APPLE, etc). If you have to brute force a password (meaning try every possible combination) then as you add numbers, case, and specials the number of possible combinations goes ... | [
"Well, the short answer is, it doesn't. The long answer is the same as the short answer."
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please! Why is the Brazilian World Cup being protested? | [
"Hello 007d, i am brazilian and i'll try to explain to you why brazilian ppl is so angry with gov't. First of all, its not because World Cup, brazil has so much other problems, the corruption is stealing our money for other causes. We dont have health service, education or nothing. We pay 36% per product with taxes... | [
"No, that's why it's called American Sign Language."
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How did Disney PAY for Lucas Films? | [
"I believe Disney paid in both money and stock. Which means they wrote the owner of LucasArts a very big check, but they also paid in stock which is like owning a bit of the Disney corporation itself. (If you want me to find the numbers for all of these just ask I'm feeling lazy at the moment)"
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"Absolut Vodka Porsche Nokia Sony Nintendo Off the top of my head. Ever hear of any of them?"
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The "UFO" over the West Coast tonight and the blue haze it left behind. | [
"> Also why weren't the people there made well aware of the rocket testing taking place. I mean the US military is hardly in the habit of announcing that kind of weapon tests beforehand (edit:though apparently they did reserve the airspace for tests beforehand, which caused some flights into LA to take different pa... | [
"because the rocket was so high up, that it was not shaded by the earth. just like the moon that is also visible in the video. This was only possible because it was shortly after sunset."
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NATO vs Russian Military | [
"The eastern former soviet states with NATO would be push overs for Russia they would steam roll them. The hard part would be getting past the Western European allies NATO. They wouldn't make it past Germany, If all the NATO allies came together Russia wouldn't just lose, they would get destroyed. Russia may have t... | [
"British Empire -- > Post-WW2 / Cold War America -- > British and American pop culture -- > Silicon Valley."
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How do television torrent scene groups (2HD, EZTV, LOL, KILLERS) capture, encode, and release so many shows in such a timely fashion? | [
"Well, the main reason they do this is actually mostly for bragging rights. \"We got it faster.\" or \"Ours looks better.\" or \"Ours has the best sound.\" Scene rules are very strict, dictating minimum / maximum bitrates, audio codec type, naming convention, and so on. How they actually do it is usually the same ... | [
"What do you mean by \"live\"? Live events can't be torrented until they finish broadcasting. Something like a TV show can be leaked any number of ways before its \"official\" air date. Many shows also air earlier in different timezones. Which is one of the reasons you'll see Canadian watermarks on a lot of torrent... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What is the deal with nuclear power? What can we realistically do with the waste to reduce the harms from radiation and the dangers of spent fuels? | [
"There are many reactor designs being researched that produce much shorter-lived waste products. For instance, the [liquid fluoride thorium reactor](_URL_0_), which is able to keep re-processing its own nuclear waste to produce more energy, all the way down until you end up with cesium-137, which has a half-life of... | [
"Fusion is a very efficient, very clean (at least, in the sense of greenhouse gases) source of power. If we perfected it on a large scale, it could become cost-effective not to rely on power sources like oil and coal, which produce huge amounts of pollution - among other things, greenhouse gases."
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Why do I want to turn my music up? | [
"It's a psychological phenomenon much like addiction. Turning your music up sometimes makes you hear sounds that you didn't hear before. That bassist really does some crazy stuff in the background during the guitar solo! The violinist ends the movement with a subtle twist you never heard before! This gives you a bo... | [
"In the real world why would anyone want to be a politician?"
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Since chemical weapons were not used in WW2 out of fear of retaliation why would it be different for Nuclear weapons? | [
"In WW2 they were used because the US was the only country to possess them, they were a top secret super weapon Afterward, that’s exactly why they were not used. Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) was the policy between USA and Russia in which they both understood a first strike would result in certain destruction ... | [
"The USA did use them. Since then, the purpose of owning nuclear weapons is to dissuade other owners of nuclear weapons from using them on you."
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How do things like a Home Owners Association work? | [
"Part of the arrangement when you buy the house is that you must sign a legally binding contract to join the Home Owner's Association (HOA) and follow their regulations. If you refuse to sign the contract, the seller will not sell the house to you. If you do sign the contract, then you have to follow the HOA's rule... | [
"It's a big system. It also carries a bit from state to state. Are you interested in the application process? Policy? Logistics?"
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If we regenerate new skin cells, why/how does our skin wrinkle? | [
"ELI5: As you age your skin becomes deficient of natural molecules that help your skin look young (collagen, which makes your skin more firm, glycosaminoglycans which provide water to your skin, and elastin which causes your skin to snap back into place). The combination (or rather lack of) of these compounds cause... | [
"There are number of reasons cigarettes make people look older but a major reason is that smoking causes your blood vessels to constrict. That decreases the blood supply (and the nutrients the blood carries) to all of your organs, including the largest one: your skin. The proteins like collagen and elastin that reg... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What does my dog dream about when he's dreaming? | [
"I dream about stuff in my life- I would imagine my dog would dream about stuff in his life too. He seems to chase things and smell things and be happy and sad. it's seriously fun to put something good smelling in front of his nose and let him wake up suddenly to \"OMG that's food!\" and then be so happy and eat it... | [
"Why do you stare at your dog when it's taking a shit?"
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If the sun is at zenith at noon, why is it not just as bright/dark out at 8PM (4 hours before midnight) as it is at 4AM (4 hours after)? | [
"Every meridian experiences solar noon (where the sun is highest in the sky) at a different time. It's pretty impractical to keep track of time that way if you have to synchronize with people across moderate distances, who would be using a slightly different time value. This is why we invented time zones, where we'... | [
"Because that's where the Moon is at that time. The Moon isn't connected to the day/night cycle (a factor of the Earth's revolution) Imagine these are all gears and wheels turning at different rates. Sometimes the wheels line up one way (moon at night) and other times they line up another way (moon during the day) ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Can I make a homemade solar panel which will supply one lightbulb with electricity 24/7? | [
"'Home-made solar panels' are panels made from purchased components. Generally this isn't worth the trouble, as purchased panels are cheaper than purchasing backing, edging, glass and solar cells. That said, a solar cell and a battery can be put together to run a light 24/7. You just need to calculate how much bat... | [
"I work in a building which is completely off the grid and is not connected to mains electricity lines. We have a row of twelve solar panels on the side of the building which generate electricity by absorbing the Sun's rays. The building's electrical appliances and lights don't use much electricity, so the panels c... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why does better quality music( 320 Kbps, and so on) occupy more digital memory? | [
"Just like with an image, higher resolution = bigger file size. The bit rate of an audio file (ie 320 Kbps) is essentially the resolution of the song. Higher bit rates = more bits of data per second of music. It has absolutely nothing to do with musical notes like one of the previous answers suggests."
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"Audio bandwidth requirements are tiny compared to video requirements You can transmit pretty good audio with just 192 kbps, youtube suggests 384 kbps for stereo audio. Video files have a lot more information in them. Youtube suggests that a 360p video file should be a 1 Mbps bitrate, that means a low quality video... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What causes computer bugs? | [
"> Sometimes these hiccups only happen once, and can't be recreated, ect They are not. The way to recreate them is simply very very specific to the point that it looks random."
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"What are you using it for? Where are you located?"
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How come cameras need to focus? Why can't they I guess "focus on everything" | [
"It's impossible to focus on everything. That's just how optics works; there's a specific distance called the *focal point* at which things are most focused, and at any other distance things are blurry. You don't notice this normally because your eyes are good at automatically adjusting their focus. But try focusin... | [
"They don't. They have really really good camera's that can take a picture from really far away."
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- What is Steven Colbert's SuperPAC all about, and what is he trying to prove/do with the money? | [
"_URL_0_ Here's an example of one of the ads he's bought and run in Iowa."
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"Normally, candidates promote themselves using their campaign. But, let's say that *I* personally like a candidate a lot, even though I am not part of their campaign. So, I can start a group to help promote that person, completely separate from their own campaign. This is called a \"Political action committee.\" F... | eli5_question_answer | {
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If you get sued and have no money to defend/litigate, do you automatically lose? | [
"You'll lose because they have a lawyer and you don't. You can show up to court and plead your case to the judge, but without a lawyer the opposing lawyer will rip you to shreds."
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"If it's a civil case, like small claims court, you lose. If you don't show up then they rule against you and the person suing you wins their case."
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Can someone explain why/how Starship Troopers is a parody/satire? | [
"Heinlein wrote Starship Troopers after the Korean War ended. We were neck-deep in the Cold War and the themes in the book and film are allegorical to real life events, through Heinlein's eyes. Just concentrating on the film, the bugs are the bad guys because the government says they are. They are a collective cons... | [
"ihatehappyendings gave a good response, but here's my tl;dr of the whole situation: Continuation of NATO encirclement post-1991 has made Russia (rightfully) paranoid."
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If a boat had a hole on the bottom of it, and you plugged that up with a tube leading out of the boat, would it float on water, and if so, would water continue to flow out of the tube or just stop after a point? | [
"By putting a tube as high or higher than the sides of the boat into a hole in the middle, you'd essentially get a donut-shaped boat. The inflated version would just be an inner-tube that you see at water parks. You don't see water shooting out of the middle of those! In this case, the water in the hole will flow u... | [
"The only way that the water can come out is if something takes its place. Above water, turning a glass over causes water to to down while air goes up into the glass. Under water, when you flip the glass over and pull up, there's still no way for air to get in. If, however, you took a bendy straw and put the short ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How is it that a video game can render frames 60 times per second, but it takes hours for extremely powerful computers to render one frame of a Pixar film? | [
"In graphics, there are some effects that look marginally better but take exponentially more time to render. Pixar will spend hours rendering a slightly better sheen on Wall-E's chassis because why not? They have months to do it and want it to look as good as possible."
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"Because you can do the whole thing on a computer instead of hunting for locations like you would have to if you made a live action movie. The advantage compared to 2d animation is that computers can fill in the gaps between positions of the model quite easily these days. That being said though, these movies usuall... | eli5_question_answer | {
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When we hit ourselves on something why does rubbing it relieve the pain? | [
"Think of those hard massages: when you rub it, you systemically deprive blood from the area with pressure, and then it comes rushing back in when you release it and the sudden blood innervates the nerves in a soothing mechanism."
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"When you cut your finger, your exposing your dermis, the layer of skin under your epidermis, (top layer of skin). You are exposing nerves that were under the skin unbothered. Now they are touching air, water, germs, fingers poking them. They hurt when you press on them or run water on them. Though Cold water shoul... | eli5_question_answer | {
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why or how does mercury kill or harm us? | [
"Pure mercury needs to be inhaled as a vapor to affect you. You can actually, don't try this at home, eat pure mercury without serious side effects as it's not absorbed by your body in a liquid state. Mercury fumes however, incredibly neurotoxic as well as it ends up affecting the organs. The other issue is water s... | [
"i just drop like a sack of potatoes. So if there is such a mechanism i want to ask the follow up question why mine doesn't work?"
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Why are politicians like Anthony Weiner universally condemned for taking and sending self-nudes that were leaked, whereas there is an outpouring of sympathy when celebrity self-nudes, clearly sent or meant to be sent to someone, were leaked? | [
"Weiner was sending dick pics to people who didn't want them. That's sexual harassment."
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"1. Attention/validation/excitement; 2. It's just a normal picture to them and the fact they are naked isn't an issue for them; 3. They were paid at some point, but has been distributed by others freely; 4. It was never meant for public dissemination but some asshole decided to put it out there;"
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What's astrology and can people associate stars or galaxies with the way someone behaves? | [
"They can't. Astrology is pseudoscience and nothing more interesting than a fortune cookie. It's hokum. Bogus. Fake. Nonsense. Not real. Untrue. Garbage. Rubbish. Bullshit, basically. Here are a few links from James Randi which rather quickly make astrology look like a joke (it is): _URL_0_ _URL_1_"
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"In my opinion there is no logic to. The time of the year will have more of an impact on your personality than the environment you were brought up in? Nah not for me. The reason why you see inconsistencies is because it's not real. Just Google debunk astrology signs, there loads of experiments been done. In my exp... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why a random people allowed to make and sell products on websites such as Etsy, eBay that are already real brands, e.g. Minecraft, Starwars? | [
"They aren't. The issue isn't with them being \"allowed\" to infringe on trademarks and IP, but rather in companies asserting their rights and policing their IP. Think of etsy/ebay like youtube. I can upload Rihanna's next hit and reap the rewards and it will go unnoticed by youtube until people representing Rihann... | [
"The merchandise is licensed not the vendors. They are perfectly legal as long as they have the licensed tags."
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Can somebody explain the relationship between the different sorts of computer programming? | [
"It is all about the right tool for the right job. Just because you can pound in a nail with a screwdriver doesn't mean it is a good idea. There are two things than make a language suitable to a particular task...the features a languages has, and the libraries around it. Take Python. It is a pretty generic, multipl... | [
"I don't think there is such thing. For example, there are several equally valid notations for derivative."
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what really is the difference between prostitutes and porn stars? What makes one legal and one illegal? | [
"Porn stars are actors and actresses. Prostitutes are service providers. When you're making movies, you can act like things you aren't. You can pretend to be a doctor, or a lawyer, or a sex participant, in a film. It is illegal to do those things for real, in the real world. Unless authorized, you can't be a docto... | [
"Because it's illegal. If a client beats the shit out of them and doesn't pay they can't go to the cops without getting arrested. The pimp is their protection, and they pay him for this. In places where prostitution is legal they don't have pimps - they work for a company or independently. Generally. I'm gonna edi... | eli5_question_answer | {
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why didn't medevil paintings have any perspective? | [
"Artists had not developed the technique of perspective until the beginning of the 15th century with Italian architect and artist Fillipo Brunelleschi. Medieval paintings don’t have perspective because it was not a “thing” yet. A lot of artists attempted to create it but didn’t really understand how to. Brunellesc... | [
"who told you you cant? long as its number 2 lead its all the same. Maybe they fear you cant put enough pressure to make it dark enough."
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When someone gets sentenced to life in prison, what happens to their assets? | [
"Its still under there control. They can call banks etc and have them do whatever they want with the money. They cant take it until you die though. Also your dependents dont get it just because youre in jail for life. You have to be dead for them to just automatically get it. Its still all yours while you are in pr... | [
"Because they are convicted of multiple crimes, each one is bad enough on its own to earn a life sentence. This way, if one of the counts is overturned later, they still serve life for the others."
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If I use the same chocolate chip cookie recipe, why do the cookies come out fluffy some days, and flat the other. | [
"I bake a lot.. creaming different ingredients together for different lengths of time...oven preheated differently, baking soda/baking powder old, different brand of flour with different protien content, ect.....MANY different things can affect the outcome of baking.... I would say most probably culprit is mixing i... | [
"Same reason you punch holes on the top of a pie -- the help the cracker bake evenly -- without them, you'd have big puffy crackers that would either be burned on the outside and properly cooked in the middle, or raw in the middle and properly cooked on the edges."
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How are we able to tell which time is right or exact? | [
"There's an organization called the International Bureau of Weights and Measures based in France that oversees this. Pretty much they reference a number of highly accurate atomic time keeping methods and set a universal time, which computers from all across the world set themselves to, including you're phone."
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"There is no reason for it to be in the order it is. There is even less reason to change its order."
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How come most of the cars in the USA are automatics while most in Europe are manuals? | [
"Automatics used to rather fuel and energy inefficient and heavy. With fuel always being cheaper in the US, it was no big deal to put bigger and more powerful engines in to the cars as the price to pay for fuel didn't matter much. Fuel in Europe has always been more expensive and the drive for more fuel efficient v... | [
"Some do have an actual oil level indicator. I am not sure 100%, but I think it comes with more luxury cars. I know for a fact some Audi's made in the last 4 years have them."
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A Single Payer Healthcare System | [
"Basically, if it was installed in the US, each state would become it's own health care provider. The benefits is that it would save money, cut out the middlemen, and provide a safety net for citizens. You'd have cheaper pharmaceuticals, no one goes bankrupt or loses sleep worrying about bills and doctors can conce... | [
"Next Week's Theme: 'Royalty, Nobility, and the Exercise of Power' To be followed by: \"Eastern Europe\""
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Even though wigs are made of human hair, why do they still look fake when worn? | [
"usually because they are cheaply made and poorly styled, and worn by someone with little understanding of adjusting them correctly. Ive had several ex girlfriends who worked in the entertainment industry that sported wigs. Having been in a few wig shops I can tell you they range from the $10 halloween wig to a dec... | [
"Hair gets brittle with age, short hair has fewer split ends. Curly hair covers up bald patches better than flat hair. They're mostly styling/coloring their hair anyway, may as well curl it. It's the fashion of their generation. Why do teens style their hair as they do? Because their friends are doing it."
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What causes a rue to thicken a sauce once it starts boiling? | [
"Starch (such as the flour in roux) absorbs water and swells up when heated. Normally, these swollen starches would clump together, which is why you coat the individual starch granules in fat first by making a roux."
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"Put a few grains of rice in what ever spices you're having that problem with. The rice will absorb the moisture that makes it clump."
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Why are cups "cup" shaped? As in thinner on the bottom and larger on the top. Wouldn't it be more stable if it were the opposite? | [
"The advantage with this shape is, that you do not have to tilt them as far to get the liquid out of them. Older jugs are actually bigger on the bottom, but you have to lift them high and lean back to drink from them"
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"I assume you're talking about plastic milk jugs? They small ones are shaped differently than the larger ones. The larger ones have much less volume in the upper half, due to the space cut out for the handle, while the smaller ones are a little more uniform, so the upper section contains nearly as much as the lower... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is it when we say a word a bunch of times, is stops sounding like an actual word and more like a jumble or letters? | [
"The phenomenon is called [Jamais vu](_URL_1_) or to be more specific, [semantic satiation](_URL_0_)"
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"Brains love patterns. They're also quite stupid at times. I don't mean the conscious mind, I mean the automatic functions of the brain. It picks apart every particle of information and tried to piece it together into a form it already knows. Sometimes you see a bag dumped by a car and think it's a small dog, or yo... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How did they make stars zoom by in old sci-fi movies? | [
"Linwood Dunn discusses how his company Film Effects of Hollywood created their starfield effects: > The background star fields were created by punching holes of various sizes, in proper scale and location, in large sheets of black paper, backed up by special diffusion screens and color filters to create the desir... | [
"We watch movies with a certain suspension of disbelief. 10 years ago we were in awe of the special effects based on history. Some older movies didn't age as well like that. Look at movies from the 40s and 50s, they look like crap to us. They were cutting edge technology back then though, and a marvel to behold."
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Why do pickles have 0 calories? | [
"They have some calories in the form of sugars, but since pickles are just cucumbers in vinegar or brine (neither of which contain usable calories) then the only calories that come from it are from the cucumbers themselves."
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"Take a look at the ingredients list. I bet you that what's happening is that the juice on the left has a lot less orange juice in it than the juice on the right. Apples provide about 4.6 mg of vitamin C per 100g; oranges provide 53.2 per 100g."
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Why can't you donate directly to disease research, and instead must donate to charities who do not donate all funding to research? | [
"You can, you just have to track down who is doing the research and where. Charities usually just do this leg work for you."
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"There isn't any. Both are organizations who has a different goal other than profit making as their main objective. That *doesn't* mean they can't make money. In fact, many insurance companies are not-for-profit structures. In a context like that, that basically means they return their earnings to shareholders or c... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do some job sites ask for your gender/age/race/sexual orientation? | [
"As far as I know, it's just for census purposes. Some businesses like to keep track of these things, to prove via statistics that they aren't discriminating."
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"Do you have a particular area of the world in mind? Also, do you have a particular gender, race, and/or ethnicity in mind?"
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How do people like Jared and Ivanka have 30 million in outstanding debts but still live glamorously? And who keeps lending them money? | [
"Most of that debt is likely funding investments. But anyways, paying say $3M-$5M a year in interest isn’t exciting if you’re making $100M/year. That’s a pittance"
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"They don't \"keep\" any of the money, but they sure do have a lot of expenses to pay out. That CEO for example works really hard at collecting donations, and it costs a lot of money to rent space in his posh home. So most of the money goes to \"admin\" expenses. Many celebrities have this same problem. At one poin... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Are sound, sight, and touch the only forms of communication possible for humans? | [
"Well theres scent and taste. We cant really communicate with them but we definitely receive signals through them"
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"Neurology is very poorly understood, especially concerning things as broad and complex as imagination. You can because your brain has a means of hearing and seeing that is connected, but nonetheless distinct, from the actual sensory input of the eyes and ears."
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How do the economics of a cemetery work? Eventually do they quit turning a profit? Then what happens? | [
"The cost of a burial plot is many more times the value of the land. So one plot might make the company as much money as the cost of the entire acre. Some cemeteries get new cemeteries buried right on top of old ones. So the person who was buried there might get dug up for long enough to bury them deeper to make ro... | [
"Business owners just pay rent for the building space (very rarely they might have ownership in the mall but that's not common). So if the mall closes they close too, simple as that in most cases. Employees and owner need to find something else to do."
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Why is there so much media attention on the Jodi Arias case? | [
"Attractive white girl + violent crime = media frenzy"
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"No one knows who did it, so they just stopped discussing it. The media can only ride out a mystery for so long, then it's time to move on to the next thing. Edit: Yes, I know there are exceptions such as a certain airplane."
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what is the conductor of an orchestra actually doing? Doesn't everyone already know what to play based on the sheet music? | [
"first, the conductor uses his baton to keep tempo. This helps everyone play in synch, adjust to tempo changes in music, and count rests in bars when they aren't playing. He also cues people when it's time for their solos. The size of the movements indicate how loud or soft to play."
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"Music theory (which is what composers study) isn't the same as the ability to play an instrument. A solid understanding of music theory allows a composer to create sheets of music without having to hear it played back, while knowing that it will sound the way they want it to sound. There are drawbacks to not being... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do people talk about the environmental impact of bottled water but not of pop or other drinks | [
"I think the answer is that bottled water is a packaging of a product that you can get for nearly free, by turning on a tap. Of course, this assumes you have access to a clean and safe water source."
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"If you are referring to coke and pepsi it is because they use different kinds of sweeteners in the glass bottles than they do in the cans."
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Why did GTA V leak almost instantly after shipping to the stores started and why doesn't it happen with other games? | [
"GTA V was quite the slow leak. Things leak as soon as humanly possible and GTA V is getting attention because its GTA, not because it leaked."
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"Just because games are coded using PC's that doesn't mean that it's easier to make a game for PC than it is to make it for the PS4 for example. To make a game compatible with a new platform, you have to pretty much write it from scratch to port it. The reason game developers prefer consoles over PC is that games g... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Do additives like techron make a difference on your mpg? Or is it all just jargon so they can charge more? | [
"Those products claim to \"clean\" the engine. If it has less sludge and the injectors and systems are clean the car will have less friction and should have a bit more MPG. I think the question should be…. is it worth the cost over what it does."
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Why was the FBI investigating MLK before he was assassinated? | [
"They were investigating him because they thought he was a Communist. These days he's famous for his civil rights work: he's synonymous with the Voting Rights Act, and the end of segregation. But that wasn't all he fought for. King was also a vocal opponent of the Vietnam War, and a proponent of economic justice. \... | [
"The Black Panthers weren't a violent group, they just carried guns in public and held demonstrations, which was perfectly legal. It was J Edgar Hoover who demonized them and named them Public Enemy Number 1."
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how they separate the egg whites from the yolks for sale in those small containers. Also what do they do with the yolks? | [
"Separating an egg is easy. You can even do it with your hands. They just have machines that crack eggs and slide the eggs down a chute. Theres a crack in the chute where the whites fall through but the yolk is too big to fall through. They probably use the yolk in another product they sell or they sell it to anoth... | [
"Basically because commercially bought mayo uses sterilizing methods to make the eggs safe without cooking them. Besides, chances are that most store bought mayo doesn't even use real eggs."
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What does it mean to be out of tune? | [
"When you're out of tune, it's because you're slightly off of a note. When the two notes are close together but not exactly the same, then it sounds a whole lot worse because of dissonance. That's why when you're tuning a note, you can hear a little wavy \"wubbing\" sound. The closer you get to the target pitch, th... | [
"How can you sing along mentally the first time?"
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If a suspect is presumed innocent until proven guilty, how can they post pictures of the accused before anything is proven? Aren’t law enforcement violating the rights of innocent people when they do that? [USA] | [
"If they present it as \"this is the accused\", then they are simply presenting a fact. Facts are a much more protected sort of speech."
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"Jail is temporary for arrested, not guilt. Prison is for convicted guilty. Because you have a right to be treated as innocent until proven guilty."
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Why are mattresses and furniture always on sale? | [
"It's always on sale because individuals don't buy it every day. If the furniture isn't cheap crap, then it may be something that somebody buys once or twice in their lives. Likewise, how often have you bought a bed in your life? Because it can be a major investment (if it isn't cheap crap) and most of the independ... | [
"That's like asking why there are so many brands of toilet paper. Given the sheer number of people who use them, multiplied by how often you replace them, there is definitely room for profit. Also mattresses have a very high profit margin. They are essentially cloth, padding, and a small amount of metal and wood, s... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why are people grumpy after waking up in the morning or after a nap? | [
"I'm sure someone will come in here with the actual science, but I'm fairly certain the answer to your question has a lot to do with elevated cortisol levels being present in the mornings. You'll frequently here cortisol referred to as your body's \"stress\" hormone. I think it stands to reason that people are usua... | [
"Because you sleep for the exact wrong amount of time and end up with something called sleep inertia. Try waking up at 7:30 instead."
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Why do, on occasion, temperatures of -2 Celsius in some regions feel colder than temperatures of +3 Celsius in other reasons? | [
"Wind and air humidity have great impact on how the air temperature feels. When your skin loses heat to the surrounding air, that air heats up and in turn absorbs less heat from your skin afterwards. That’s how fur keeps animals warm. It traps the warm air at their skin. Clothes do the same for us humans. Wind carr... | [
"The temperature where it will freeze is lowered due to the fact that various salts are dissolved in it. Sweet water freezes at zero Celcius. Sea water freezes at about minus 1.9 Celsius."
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A long time ago, it was normal for males and females to be topless. How did it come to pass that only females need to have tops? | [
"Female breasts are sexualized much more than male breasts. My gut is it has to do with their association with reproduction/child rearing and males being attracted to that as a perception of having more viable/healthy offspring in the same way that attractive/more muscular guys are more sexualized for their perceiv... | [
"If you are asking why men get sexually aroused by breasts, then it is a cultural thing. During parts of history women wore less revealing clothing so different parts of the body were sexualized including ankles. As clothes became more revealing the sexual zones moved. It is about seeing something that is forbidden... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How do drug dealers legitimize their high incomes? (In Declarations of Income, etc.) | [
"Small time drug dealers don't. They just spend cash, and don't tell the government how much they make. Bigger drug dealers need to launder their money. Usually this involves making it look like the money actually came from a legitimate business. So, for example, if you are a drug dealer, you could buy a laundromat... | [
"Amendments to which constitution? There are so many of them."
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It feels wrong to say "every woman has an uterus", but is it gramatically correct to write? | [
"You use \"a\" instead of \"an\" because of how it's pronounced."
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"I ain't saying that you're wrong, but I ain't saying you're right either. It's not grammatically incorrect to use ain't, it's just informal. In any formal writing, \"am not\" is much preferred. Funnily enough the word \"amn't\" which actually makes my spell check say it isn't a word is also defined, and is also th... | eli5_question_answer | {
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what are targeted individuals and/or gang stalking? Is this real or a symptom of mental illness. | [
"There's no solid proof it's actually a thing, and the flexible \"everyone's out to get me\" narrative sounds very much like schizophrenia or other mental illness."
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"Mental illness is a condition that affects the way people think and feel. It disrupts their ability to deal with certain moods and life's daily interactions. There are many disorders and illnesses that affects the brain and most are treatable with therapy and/or drugs. My wife's a lawyer and says Insanity is only... | eli5_question_answer | {
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When on speaker phone, how do phones differentiate between your voice and the voice on the other line? i.e. Why can't the other person hear their own voice when they are on speaker? | [
"Modern smartphones are generally able to cancel out the echo effect because of audio cancellation. Essentially, the phone knows what is being played through the speakers and subtracts that audio from the microphone input, essentially canceling the voice being played through the speaker."
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"I'm going to assume you're talking about two answering machines attached to the same landline and not something like Google Voice forwarding to two separate phone numbers. It's possible, yes. It would be as if you and your roommate picked up at the same time and started talking over each other. The difference bein... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How are some mods in gaming compatible to new game versions while other mods need to be updated? (eg. Skyrim - compatible after patch but Minecraft - mods need updates) | [
"It depends on what those mods were doing to the game files, and what was changed in those files between versions. For example, if you alter the \"running speed\" value in the movement script, it's not likely the company is going to change the way movement works between versions, so your mod will still work. For a ... | [
"Many reasons: These mods usually come out many months after the game did. These mods are often full of bugs that cause game crashes, corrupt files. These mods can't be run on all systems and are dependent on hardware. Why the FUCK would they employ these modders when they do all the work for free?"
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In Drake's music video of God's Plan, was Drake ruining the economy? | [
"No this is not contributing to inflation because it was in Miami, Florida and not Kenya lmfao. He went around places like Miami Beach and Miami high school and gave out scholarships. If this was in a different country it wouldn’t contribute to inflation because inflation is the over valuation of a nations currenc... | [
"There was an insane amount of money flooding Miami due to cocaine. Many drug busts later and it is what it is today. Check out the movie Cocaine Cowboys."
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Do magnets stay magnetic for ever? | [
"correct me if I'm wrong, magnetism depends on the type of material the core is and the amount of current passing through. materials, such as iron, are soft magnetic metals, they do not retain magnetism. Hard magnetic metals on the other hand, retain magnetism when charged. Magnetic force can be increase by increas... | [
"Do you know how a fan works? If so just turn it around"
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What was the human species role in the Eco-System before becoming the top of the food-chain? | [
"I think you have a misconception of how niches work. But humans have been apex predators as long as we've been humans."
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"1) Dinosaurs are not a species. But a group of several different orders. (much higher up on the taxonomic tree) 2) Extinction is the natural result for most species on this planet. 3) Intelligence is not a inevitable route for all species. It's just one of many possible routes for a species to take."
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Why does Board in Room and Board mean food? | [
"Food, although nowadays it means \"all the other services typically offered in conjunction with a room to sleep in for the night\". In olden times the \"board\" was literally a board made into a table; later it was a table. Or food left out on a sideboard type stand."
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"Would you like to share the criticism from Kant?"
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Why don't we have one global currency? | [
"Because, the Euro. It doesn't make sense for there to be one global currency when you have individual countries still setting their own economic policy."
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"In the real world why would anyone want to be a politician?"
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ELIV: The proper distinction between the terms Arab, Arabic, and Arabian. | [
"Arab is an ethnicity, kind of like Swedish or Irish. Arabs are a very widespread people, across much of the middle east and north Africa, but do not confuse Turkish or Persian people for Arabs - they're not. Arabic is a language with many dialects. It is also widespread across the middle east and north Africa. Ara... | [
"It's similar to the difference between Christian and Christianity. Muslims follow Islam Islam is the religion that Muslims follow Islamic is something pertaining to Islam"
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How can 100 million people browse porn videos at the same time but I'm still in queue to start up Overwatch | [
"because when you watch porn. it's a 1:1 connection between you and the porn server. when you queue to play overwatch, they need to find 9 other people with similar skill rating as you. so that could take additional time."
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"Side question: Why does my computer lie to me and tell me I have full connection yet I can't load any web sites?"
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