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How is carbon monoxide odorless? | [
"My best reasonable guess: We (as a species) haven't had the opportunity to evolve smell-detection of CO because it's not naturally occurring in nature, and hence hasn't been killing off enough humans for long enough."
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"The stuff that makes gas smell \"like gas\" is actually tert-Butylthiol (t-butyl mercaptan). This is a chemical that humans can detect in very small amounts. Ordinary methane is odorless, which is a safety problem when leaks are possible."
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EIL5: What is a currency swap? | [
"If you have a stream of foreign currency coming in, and you want to protect it from exchange rate fluctuations, you find someone else who has the opposite concern. If I want to protect a Euro to American Dollars (like an American company with a French subsidiary), I will find a investment bank (they typically brok... | [
"How is this different from a standard mutual fund?"
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What would happen if your entire body was burned by steam? | [
"You would be burned: _URL_1_ Specifically, you'd be scalded (burned by hot fluid) _URL_2_ The severity of the burn will determine how badly you are injured and how (un) likely it is that you'll survive. _URL_0_ A momentary blast of steam would probably give you first or second degree burns. A sustained stream of h... | [
"There's a theory that it happens as a reaction from the removal of heat from the body."
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why can humans start sprinting at full speed almost right away, but needs to slow to a stop over time? | [
"Your feet are designed for this. They stick out in front so you can lean forward and maintain balance, necessary if you want to combat the forces pushing you back during forward acceleration. On the other hand leaning backward offers on your heels you little to no balance, and if you wanted to stop the way to begi... | [
"There are a few factors: * They tend to eat a lot compared to their body size. My daughter eats almost as much as I do and she is 1/5th of my weight. * They are smaller, lighter and closer to the ground, so movements such as standing up, jumping, or running are easier for them and take less energy than it does whe... | eli5_question_answer | {
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when you block ur nose with your hands and try to push air out through your nostrils why does it feel like air blocked your ears trying to get out and you start hearing a little less. | [
"Your ears are basically tubes which are closed off by a membrane - the eardrum. Sound causes pressure waves in the air, which vibrates the eardrums, which is (through a complicated system) transformed into sound. On the inside of the eardrum, the tube continues and connects to your nose/mouth. The reason is that a... | [
"Saliva and mucus rushing out from your mouth and getting pushed to the back of your nose because your lungs are ejecting air out due to stimulation of your sinuses. It's kind of like when u puke and u get that gnarly taste from the puke but in nose form."
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Why is the shape of a man's urine stream a double helix? | [
"It's a mix between the dynamics of a turbulent flow, and surface tension. Also, I notice the urethra is more of a slit than it is a hole, so the stream exits the tip with kind of a vertical cross-section that collapses on itself, if that makes sense. Uncut guys can control the shape and angle of their stream with... | [
"Hair follicles have different shapes. With straight hair the follicle is round, and with curls or waves the follicle is usually a crescent shape, which is what creates the different hair type."
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How does the post office decide on the price of a stamp? | [
"In the US at least, they don't, Congress tells them the price. Usually the post office says they need more money and estimates what a stamp needs to be to balance their budget, they send it to Congress and Congress tells them the new price of a stamp, it may or may not be in line with the price they requested."
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"Not for one box, because it isn't worth it to them and it's bad PR. But if you built a business around repurposing boxes, then yes. Priority Mail boxes are not actually free--their price is factored into the postage for mailing the parcel."
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Why is it most of the "most popular" movie titles on services such as Amazon Prime and Netflix, are always filled with movies that most people have never even heard of? | [
"It totally depends on the algorithm they use, so no one can tell you exactly why. One reason this can happen, though, is because sites define 'hotness' in terms of 'biggest *increase* in plays'. This can make sense -- if you just go by flat number of plays, then you'll probably have The Beatles and Nirvana in the... | [
"The movie industry releases movies in other countries all the time. Source: I've been to other countries and they have movies."
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Why do I hear an annoying high- pitchedbeep/buzz in my ear? | [
"Your ear has thousands of little hairs which vibrate and send signals to your brain. Your brain then interprets those signals as sound. Sometimes the little hairs can go a temporarily \"haywire\" and send a jumble of signals that your brain interprets as the buzz or whine. While a constant noise is cause for a con... | [
"I have tinnitus. The easiest way to describe it is a very high pitches “eeeee.” Think movies where someone survives an explosion, or those mosquito noise apps on your phone."
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What exactly is the point of having police officers on horseback? Is there a specific utility that they serve or is it more ceremonial? | [
"It's not. It's usually presumed that they are still very effective at crowd control - they are significantly more imposing than foot troopers, the smacks from their batons will be enhanced by their height, and yet they are unlikely to kill someone as much as pushing the crowd with a car would be."
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"Some police officers carry guns. Routine police work, such as investigating a crime scene and issuing traffic tickets don't require a gun. When evidence points to where a suspect who is likely to be armed is hiding, they'll send officers trained in the use of firearms. Separating out armed police from unarmed poli... | eli5_question_answer | {
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why can TV (music, anything that you listen to) be heard at very low volumes early in the morning/late at night but impossible to hear at that volume later in the day? | [
"ambient noise from the environment is much louder during the day. traffic noises, people, planes, etc. In a city, anyway. Are you in a city or populated area, can you hear road noise form your tv watching space? edit, unless you mean something like, does it take time to hear quiet sounds when I move from a loud en... | [
"I have the same problem, but I do remember my dreams if I'm woken up in the middle of them. Set your alarm clock to an early time than usual, see if that makes a difference"
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How has the U.S. government continued to get away with breaking/changing 500+ treaties with American Indian groups? | [
"The Native Americans had no means to enforce their treaties. The US was overwhelmingly more powerful and could essentially do as it wished."
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"Because that's how representative democracy has worked and it's how every major international trade agreement has been negotiated in the last 200 years."
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Why can't the brain and spine heal like other body parts? | [
"The brain can and does try to repair itself. Brains form scar tissue. Unfortunately, it's so complex that basic natural healing can't do much. The spine can and does try to repair itself. Spine bones often do repair nicely. Unfortunately, the nerves running throughout are so complex that basic natural healing can... | [
"They have nerves and pain receptors. They're living tissue just like the rest of you."
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Why will it start to tear off skin if you pull the hair on someone's head hard enough, but large strips of wax pulling hair doesn't have the same effect? | [
"The roots to a head of hair are deaper than roots for short hair such as eyebrows or legs, making it easier to wax them. Also, waxing hurts like hell, and can lead to torn skin, but its torn like scrapes and scabs. That hurts."
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"Whomever told you it's ok to wax nose hairs is very wrong. Nose hairs are the first filter to keep particles out of your lungs, not having them would be bad. Also plucking/waxing/pulling them out is bad because parts of the nose are on the brain side of the blood-brain barrier. If you rip a nose hair out and the f... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do we randomly make eye contact with people across the room? | [
"I think you look at a lot of people in a room, but you only make note of when they're looking at you too."
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"I have no fear of your dog judging me for randomly walking up and talking to them."
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If it's illegal to deface US currency, what's with those penny squashers? | [
"This is covered in 18 USC 331. It says that whoever *fraudulently* alters coins is guilty of a crime. The key word there is \"fraudulently.\" If you alter a coin with the intent of defrauding somebody, you're guilty of a crime. If you alter or destroy a coin you own for reasons other than committing fraud, then yo... | [
"Mints almost constantly print money. The average life-span of a dollar bill is like six months, when a bill gets too ragged, and assuming it makes it's way to a bank, the bank will take the ragged dollar bill and put it in a separate stack. After there are enough in the separate stack, the bank calls the Treasury ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why Are Drones Classed Differently to Remote Control Aircraft? | [
"The fact that they're quadcopters is irrelevant. Traditional R/C aircraft were limited to manual control within the operator's line of sight. If you couldn't see the plane, you were probably going to lose it. Drones, between their cameras and computers autopilots, have the ability to operate well beyond the line o... | [
"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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Why are some animals scared of humans but not other animals of different species? | [
"The wildlife of the Galapagos islands often show no fear of humans at all. They have experienced little or nothing in the way of human predation. That is some pretty strong evidence. People talk all of this nonsense \"The Great White Shark is the perfect predator.\" Not one Rocky Mountain Big Horned Sheep, Elephan... | [
"Its not just humans. Lots of animals torture each other and other animals for fun."
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Would anything on Earth drastically change if Superman were, in fact, able to exactly reverse the earths rotation? | [
"Superman didn't reverse the Earth's rotation, he travelled backwards in time and we watched the Earth \"rewind\" because time was flowing backwards."
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"If the earth stopped suddenly and started to spin the other way it would not matter because we would all be dead anyways."
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Why does the FTC require clothing manufacturers to display the specific country their clothes were made in? | [
"Because Congress passed laws called the Textile Fiber Products Identification Act and the Wool Products Labeling Act that require all garments to have a label identifying whether they are American made, and if not, their country of origin, along with their fiber composition (e.g. 100% cotton)."
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"Some companies do. The pants, t shirt and sweater I'm wearing right now all have tag info printed directly on the fabric."
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What would happen if Prince William ran for Prime Minister of England? | [
"The Prime Minister isn't an elected position that a person runs for so no, the Prince couldn't run for it. Prime Ministers a usually party leaders chosen by parliament to be PM because they are likely to have the confidence of parliament and the monarch."
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"Because he became President and his name wasn't George W. Bush."
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The Arguments Against Nuclear Power | [
"[TED Debate: Does the world need nuclear energy?](_URL_0_)"
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"Next Week's Theme: 'Royalty, Nobility, and the Exercise of Power' To be followed by: \"Eastern Europe\""
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How and why are contracting taxes different from normal w-2 taxes? And how would you file taxes for contracting work? What is the tax percent? | [
"By \"contracting work\" I am amusing you mean 1099 pay, which is if you are being paid by a company to work for them, but you are not an employee of the company. This is called self employment. The reason this is taxed differently is because there are things like social security and medicare which are normally tax... | [
"A bunch of ways: 1. businesses have different file times for taxes and H & R block provides a variety of tax and tax-compliance related services (everything from help with handling the business side of sales tax, to filing corporate tax to helping out with W2 filing etc.) 2. many people have to pay estimated quart... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why you need a circuit to have voltage. | [
"There *is* voltage from the negative terminal of one battery and the positive of another. There's no *current* (amps) and thus also no *power* (watts), but there is still voltage."
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"Because you need that much power to complete the boot cycle."
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Can someone please explain me the working of a dehumidifier? | [
"Yes..Similiar. there are a few types...But the one that is similiar to an AC unit works by cooling the air. this reduces the airs capacity to hold moisture. The moisture condenses out.. the (drier) air is then heated back up to its original temperature...But now contains less moisture (Humidity)... It's just like... | [
"As an on-topic question, can someone please ELI5 what a recession is exactly?"
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How do "high fashion" (the kind no one wears) stylists get money to keep on doing fashion shows and paying models, etc? | [
"I believe another thing that can the designer can sell is the \"concept\" of their clothing line-up. The people who like it, purchase the design and modify it into something more practical and wearable."
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"I'm not into high fashion but I know some friends who are and it's basically just a hobby. They keep up to date on the latest fashions, designers, and companies much like a video game fan would keep up to date on the latest trends, developers, and publishers. It's pretty interesting actually and there is an artist... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Where do cops and SWAT wear their name and badge? | [
"The militaristic gear is only used in serious cases (barricaded suspects, armed robbery, etc.) where violence is a likely outcome. For normal, every day police patrols officers still wear their blue/black/white or whatever uniform (ie button down shirts) with a badge on it."
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"Law enforcement here: There's really not a lot of headgear that protects against bullets. The ones that do are heavy and uncomfortable. It's just not practical. Also, most police that are killed are not shot in the head. Plus, people cry and criticize when they see us in military-looking gear. That being said; so... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How can trees pump water to the top of the tree if water can go only sucked so high up without a ton of force? | [
"Xylem is the material that makes up the tubes inside a tree. It transports water from root to leaf using capillary action —much like the tiny blood vessels in our bodies. It uses no energy because surface tension moves the water; xylem and water molecules are attracted to each other, so the xylem pulls the water a... | [
"It creates a vacuum. Air needs to displace the water in the straw. If no air can get in the straw, there are no other forces strong enough to pull the water back down."
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if almost all industries are inversely related with the oil industry (if the price of oil drops, then things become cheaper to produce), why is the economy so reliant on having a high price for oil? | [
"Well, it's not. The economy as a whole does better when oil is low and does worse when oil is high. However, the oil industry itself does terrible when oil is low and well when oil is high. So local areas that have a lot of oil jobs (the gulf coast, fracking towns in the Great Plains, etc.) tend to swing in the op... | [
"Yes, of course. A recession is simply a period of where less money comes in than the previous few years. It is entirely possible that even with an international unified currency, that things will happen in the world which causes us to have less money to spend. For example, there is a bad winter which kills the cr... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What caused Pangea to separate and why did the landmasses separate in those directions? | [
"The answer to both questions is Plate Tectonics. Earth's surface is made up of a series of giant 'plates' of material that slowly movee around the planet. They do this because right below the continents is a layer of rock that is very hot (due to the pressure caused by the continental plates), and not rigid like s... | [
"Antarctica doesn't, since it's literally at the south The rest is because of the tectonic plates. If you google Earth's tectonic plates movement and look in the images, you will see that the fault lines pushes along the Earth's latitude. Also, when continents split from Pangaea, some rotated as they drifted away."... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How do blind people determine their sexual preferences? | [
"There's the voice, gendered patterns of behaviour, and the possibly instinctive knowledge that you don't enjoy taking it up the backside."
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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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What do surveyers do? | [
"They are measuring and making records of exactly where things are in relation to each other, so that accurate maps and diagrams can be drawn, and so the boundaries between properties can be effectively located."
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"What do you want to know about them exactly?"
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Who was the person responsible for naming our planet "Earth", Why? | [
"There wasn't so much a person as just a group. The word earth evolved from the german word erda, which was used to describe the ground/dirt. In the middle ages people began using it to describe the globe by saying the earth. Now it is Earth."
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"They put out a program on the mound builders about 15 years ago which hinted that they might have been built by immigrants from the Old World. The program was sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Just about lobbed my remote at the screen."
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How does Netflix profit off of exclusive shows like House of cards and Orange is the New black? | [
"For every $100,000,000 show they need 520,834 new subscribers for two years - - they typically hit that five-times over each year. They don't disclose a lot of information on product placement and if they're receiving money for that."
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"To answer your embedded question... Last Week Tonight with John Oliver got going because the executives at HBO did focus group testing on the show and learned that it would be a potentially popular show. I'm an American and my opinion is that there is definitely a lot of garbage on TV. However, if you venture past... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Bostonians and "Sweet Caroline" | [
"If memory serves, sometime in the late 90's it was played at Fenway as a kind of inside-joke congratulations for an important family member who had recently had a baby girl that they named Caroline. It got used more often but still not consistently. Over time it simply got used more often as the fans reacted posit... | [
"/u/CptBuck on Belly Dancing, \"The Streets of Cairo\" and late 19th century world fairs will probably interest you: _URL_0_"
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How did talk show host Oprah Winfrey become so rich and powerful? | [
"The same reason 50 Cent is still so rich and powerful years after he stepped out of the lime light. They got their money, and instead of blowing it on stuff, they invested. They invested in outside sources, as well as in themselves. 50 Cent bought a large portion of Vitamin Water, Oprah created her own company. Op... | [
"She was beautiful and famous. A lot of people want to be beautiful and famous. They are envious of people who are beautiful and famous. They wish they could be someone like Marilyn Monroe, who was beautiful and famous."
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La Croix flavored carbonated water, why did it specifically become the sudden trend? | [
"Great question.... been wondering this myself. I remember I used to drink this stuff when I was 8 years old. I think it's more than just la croix, its the overall boom in flavored seltzer water. There's definitely been a surge. More products. Soda stream. People are trying to be healthier, cut out soda. La croix ... | [
"As far as I know sparkly water is only normal in Germany. Everywhere else in europe if you ask for water you get a normal, non sparkly water."
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What's the difference between compatible UNIX-systems and UNIX-like systems like Linux? | [
"Certification. There's official testing and registration, so the following [OSes are officially UNIX](_URL_0_). The most well-known ones are OS X, Solaris, and AIX - or at least, *some* installations of OS X, Solaris, or AIX. The Open Group certifies hardware and software together, so you can't just slap something... | [
"Nothing is stopping them. [ReactOS](_URL_0_) is a binary-compatible windows clone, for example. As for Apple's OS X, it itself is a clone/fork of [FreeBSD](_URL_1_)."
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Why are certain vitamins categorized by letter and then others like Calcium not? | [
"The letter ones are complex molecules that are have long, difficult proper names. Calcium is just a single element, so there's no such trouble there."
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"There are many vitamins with very different sources and therefore many ways to make them For example: vitamin K can be made by some bacteria that are chillin in the colon (the last segment of the intestines) Vitamin D is made in the skin. Our body makes cholesterol, changes it into a different form, with direct s... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why traffic lights adopt a non-friendly color palette for colorblind people? | [
"My high school teacher always said that the red has enough orange and the green has enough blue for both to be visible to most red or green colorblind people. The population sample that would see only gray or not discern the colors is quite small."
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"You might be colorblind. There are plenty of tests for this around the internet: ie _URL_0_ (there are many types of colorblindness, this will catch the most common forms) Contrary to popular opinion, colorblindness is not the inability to see color, it is mainly that some colors are hard to tell apart. Blue and p... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is cigarette smoke easy to inhale when most fumes are not? | [
"Its not a fume, its smoke, and its not easy!!! You have to train your body to take it, because people are to stupid to listen to their lungs and throats. Eventually your body realizes your going to be stupid anyway so no bother continuing to tell you how stupid your being by sending the pain and discomfort signals... | [
"Most of the nicotine has already been absorbed through their lungs. Second hand smoke is still unhealthy though!"
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How exactly do loaded dice work? | [
"You put a weight (or increase the density) of the opposite side of the number you want, so that when you roll the die, it will tend to land so the weight is on the bottom. For example, if you wanted to load a 6 sided die to the number 6, you would put a weight in the 1 (opposite side of the 6) so that the die woul... | [
"It has a few different meanings in different contexts. What setting are we talking about?"
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Why does it seem like police brutality is on the rise in US cities? | [
"There hasn't been a significant increase in brutality cases recently, and it certainly isn't like more white cops are brutalizing more young black men now than they were before. It is true that young black men are typically victims of brutality more often, but they're also victimized more by black cops as well. It... | [
"The data that show racial bias among police officers does not show significant differences based on the race of the officer. It seems that black officers are just as likely to profile black men as white officers are. As for the news coverage, the news is covering this mostly because of the aftermath, meaning the p... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Magnets, How do they work? | [
"Richard Feynman does a great job of not answering this question in his Fun to Imagine interviews. [Check it out.](_URL_0_)"
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"* Dehydration from low fluid intake * Slow blink rate, causing dry eyes * Poor body posture * Hey. Hey. Hey Listen. Hey. Look. Hey. Hey. Hey. Look. Hey. Listen. Listen. Hey."
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Why does English usually seem shorter than French and Spanish? | [
"Written English is briefer in those examples, although long when compared to logographic languages such as Chinese or Japanese, but interestingly it turns out that spoken languages impart information at about the same rate in all cases. For instance Spanish is typically spoken very quickly by native speakers in te... | [
"I bet it translates Japanese to Korean better than Japanese to English. The difference being similarity in grammar structures, I'd guess."
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Does your ehnicity have anything to do with how easy it is for you to gain weight? | [
"It has little to do with genetics, and a lot to do with social issues such as poverty and education. Black people, in the USA, tend to poorer and lower education, which often leads to behaviours that lead to obesity. (Things like not knowing enough about nutrition can lead to bad eating habits, but things like nee... | [
"Are you sure this is a real phenomenon? It was my understanding that people are simply trying to remove a distraction so they can pay better attention."
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Why do we accept historical writings as fact, yet reject others? | [
"My take? It's just part of the information we use to try to piece together a picture. The more information from different sources that collaborate the story, the more faith we have in it. Not all of the bible is believed to be fiction there are some events that are believed to have occurred and others that don'... | [
"1. The Catholic Church has accepted modern science and does not take a strongly literal interpretation of the Bible. 2. Protestants, not Catholics are the ones leading the anti-science movement in the US. 3. The groups responsible do take the Bible as literal truth and object to anything that contradicts it (while... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How can countries like Germany afford to make a college education free while some universities in the US charge $50k+ a year for tuition? | [
"Most EU countries have a higher tax rate than the US, combined with significantly lower military spending and smaller populations than the US. In 2011, Germany had a tax revenue of $1.551 trillion. In that same year, the US had a tax revenue of $4.218 trillion The US had a population of 311.6 million. Germany had ... | [
"You're getting a TON of assistance, it's just coming from your home state who subsidise tuition for residents. They are *not* all like that. I paid ~$15,000 per year to go to a public university in Virginia (in-state tuition), and that was before room and board, transportation, textbooks, or a whole host of other... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why don't we use logic while dreaming? | [
"Dreams usually occur during REM sleep, which is simply a stage of sleep. During this stage, while a lot of your brain is actually more awake than compared to other sleep stages, your prefrontal cortex is not. This is the \"logic\" part of your brain that you're referencing. It's responsible for going \"Woah guys, ... | [
"Relevant/expansion to the question: Why do we make noises when we feel pleasure in general? And pain?"
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What is the purpose of those car mask/bra things? | [
"In my case ... back in the day ... it hid the smashed up front fender from my dad til I was able to fix it."
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"What do you mean on them? The signs, the walls, floors?"
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How do riot police/military/authorities justify going against popular protests? | [
"\"I'm doing my job. I will get paid today. I have the government on my side. If I stop, my family will not have a place to live. If I stop, I will never have a job again.\" Morality is a little harder to apply when you're in the middle of the shit."
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"Sudan: military stages coup to oust dictator who had been in power for 30+ years. Military said they want democracy, but the people felt like it was a lie and it was just a shift of power instead of introducing democracy. Huge protests since then, military isn't liking people questioning it's authority, resorted t... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do parents not want their kids to be vaccinated? | [
"Typically, it is because of a thoroughly debunked and wrongheaded idea that vaccines will give their kids autism or some other malady. In fact, vaccines have saved more lives than any other medical discovery in the history of the world, and are extraordinarily safe."
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"They're mostly a threat to babies and those who cannot be vaccinated"
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If so there is so much illegal activity in the Deep Web, why does it still exist? | [
"The \"deep web\" is not a thing like Facebook or Google or whatever is a thing. It's just the blanket name for websites which you can't find on a search engine. Shutting it down isn't *meaningful*, because it's not one concrete thing."
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"Because the internet was designed to survive s bucket holocaust and something as juvenile as shutting down a site is useless. Also, laws vary. The United States isn't the only country that hosts websites"
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Why does the U.S. Navy have it's own, incredibly expansive Air Force when there is a separate US Air Force? | [
"Why does the coast guard have boats if we have a navy? The simple answer to both questions is different missions. However, the airforce and navy have different air craft because they are generally performing different missions. If you look at the operational aircraft for each branch, there are certainly going to b... | [
"Delta Force is a special mission unit of the US Army. SEAL Team Six is a component of the Joint Special Operations Command which is from the US Navy. They exist separately because they belong to different branches of the armed forces of the US. Why exactly the people who carry guns on the ground are different from... | eli5_question_answer | {
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cutting off a cat's balls is humane but taking off their claws isn't? | [
"I'm not going to specifically comment on the humaneness of either, but you should know that declawing a cat is not the same as cutting your fingernails. It is actually the equivalent of someone ripping out the entire tip of your fingers and toes up to the first knuckle."
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"Well actually it's not animal cruelty to kill any animal. Animal cruelty comes in with torture and such. The remorse comes with animals that are close to being extinct. Example; kill a cow and make steaks that's ok, cut off the cow's leg and leave it alive is cruel."
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Why is it fair for companies to flash illegible, quickly disappearing fine print at the end of commercials as their "full disclosure"? | [
"Stealing from [here](_URL_0_) to get you your answer faster: > A) They're legally obligated to explain that stuff. There's very little ruling on the size or speed in which they need to explain it, though. B) The objective of the commercial is to sell a product. Often, the legal information at best does nothing t... | [
"By using advertising disclaimers like \"limited quantities\" or \"while supplies last\", which in many states exempts those items from raincheck laws."
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Why isn't it socially accepted to talk about sex and death ? | [
"They're topics that make certain people uncomfortable. It's usually not socially acceptable to willingly make people uncomfortable."
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"My opinion on this is that it is as common nowadays as it was two or three decades ago. But now its more accepted to speak about it. There is no stigma with going to the psychiatrist. Just my opinion."
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yo science peoples, what is actually happening when a product like "febreeze" is 'clearing/deodorising' the air? | [
"The cyclodextrin molecule sort of resembles a donut. When you spray Febreze, the water in the product partially dissolves the odor, allowing it to form a complex inside the 'hole' of the cyclodextrin donut shape. The stink molecule is still there, but it can't bind to your odor receptors, so you can't smell it. De... | [
"I'm sure it's just a chemical or compound that reacts at a certain tempurature, there wouldn't really be any way to \"activate\" deaoderant once it senses movement or senses heat. You could call water \"Heat-activated\" Ice or call gas \"motion-activated\" water."
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Why are most cars in Europe manual, whereas most in the US are automatic? | [
"Different marketing. In the US automatics were marketed as a luxury, in europe they were marketed as a driving aid for people who couldn't drive a stick shift."
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"There used to be good reasons to drive a manual shift car (regarding getting good gas mileage), but that's really not an issue these days. The margin is so small that people would rather not have to deal with it. So if you are given a choice of manual or automatic, it becomes \"why not automatic?\" And the only le... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Congress has less that 9% approval rating. Why do people keep voting the same people back in? | [
"Congress has a 9% approval rating, but I'm willing to bet that the individual members of Congress have fairly high approval ratings. So it's a matter of, people like 'their guy' and think that it's everyone else that's the problem."
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"How would it not be legal? Congress is the body that makes our laws. They are suppose to represent the American people, but there is not legal requirement for them to do so. The check against them is that you do not elect them back when their 2 or 4 year term is up if they failed to represent you. There was no loo... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How come eyes don't require shutters to work, and don't work based on frames, but cameras do? | [
"Shutters are only required to keep light off of a camera sensor while it isn't taking pictures. In a way you do have shutters (your eyelids) for when you don't want to see. In answer to your second question the biological nature of the human body requires that vision be processed purely in analogue and in real tim... | [
"> Especially since we view the video with the same eyes as in real life, why would our perception of them be different? Almost all lights flicker all the time. Incandescent lights use straight AC power which turns on and off 120 times a second. Because the lights glow as the turn off we don't really notice the fli... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How does Google Maps make money? | [
"1. it provides google with data about your movements - it can target ads to you that are not only based on stuff you like (you're an artist) but where you are (near a particular art store). That allows them to sell more ads. 2. it keeps you within the google ecosystem. If you click on the thing on their map, you'r... | [
"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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Why do we distinguish ugly and beautiful? | [
"What is considered naturally \"beautiful\" is usually linked with fertility and the ability to rear a family. For women, this means wide hips and large breasts indicate fertility. For men, muscularity and hairiness indicate testosterone and virility. Of course, cultural and social beliefs permeate into this natura... | [
"Why do you think \"only a few species like sex\"?"
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Why, when I'm 'full', can I still eat certain types of food? | [
"It could just be the fact that too much of one taste will get old after a while or in some cases the food is too rich, ect. (Try chugging eggnog)"
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"First off, there aren't really any foods that are zero calories. We drink things that have zero calories because we like to taste good things but not get fat. As for filling you up, water has zero calories, but after a half gallon, you don't feel like eating, do you?"
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Why do you get that weird vortex sound when you let both of your back windows down when driving? | [
"I don't do that, but I've found that if I open the front passenger window a little bit and the window behind it a little bit, there's a nice (fairly quite) circulation in my car, with a slight breeze on the back of my neck. Anyone here do what OP said?"
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"It's speed. Box fans are smaller so you want them to go faster. When I turn my ceiling fan on top speed, I hear it."
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Does lightning lose its lethality the further away you are from its focal point while in a body of water? | [
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"Conductivity is like a scale. Wood is not a good conductor of electricity but it does conduct better then air. So a lightning bolt will move though the tree better then it moves though air and therefore the lightning will more often hit trees then just bare ground. Humans are also not particularly good conductors ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is it popular to yell "Play Freebird!" at concerts | [
"I's a song by Lynyrd Skynyrd. It is far and away their biggest song. Like really their only actual popular song besides Sweet Home Alabama. The joke is that at a concert if they played Free Bird, half the audience would just leave because it's the reason that everyone is there. So at a Skynyrd concert, everyone is... | [
"It's an error in perception. There are just as many iconic songs, and they come out just as often (if not more often). You just don't realize it, or care, or consider them iconic. You'll realize how iconic it is when your kids are making fun of you for singing \"Moves Like Jagger\" or that darn Friday song."
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Why would you use shaving cream to clean a grade school desk? | [
"Kids like to make a mess. It lets off steam and lets them get one over on the adults. Teachers like it because it keeps kids occupied and gets the desk clean. Win/Win for everyone."
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"It keeps water from sticking to the inside of the lens. Same thing as soaping up a mirror in the shower."
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What is that noise your computer makes when it's "thinking"? | [
"The hard drive spins, but that is not the crackling sound you hear. That sound comes from the hard drive moving the head back and forth along the platter. The head doesn't actually touch the spinning platter, but the drive mechanism (motors and belts) are noisy."
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"Try turning your iPad off. See how many charges you can get while the iPad isn't using any power."
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Why does coke in a glass bottle, or in a can, taste noticeably different from coke from plastic bottles? | [
"not to mention you might be buying coke made in mexico, 'hecho en mexico' where they still use real sugar."
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"Beer will go flat sooner in plastic bottles, as it is much more porous (microscopically) than glass. By the way, beer is commonly sold in plastic bottles in places like ball parks."
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After signing the Declaration of Independence, how did such a small group, the first government officials, go about convincing inhabitants that they were now living in the United States of America? | [
"The Revolutionary War had already been going on in earnest for a year. People were literally shooting the British authorities and soldiers. So it didn't take a document to convince people something was up. That said, many were *loyalists* who sided with the British and did not agree with the Declaration or the rev... | [
"America was formed from a country that revolted from a monarchy which restricted freedom through armed suppression of the population. In an attempt to prevent that ever happening again the right to bear arms was ensured to every citizen."
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How does a car spin it's rear tires without actually moving? | [
"To add onto what others said: this is NOT to show off. Burnouts are done to warm up the tires to increase grip."
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"No. The front wheels turn, the back wheels don't. Meaning that while going backwards, you can turn the wheels to push the back of the car in, then pull the front of the car in. If you go in forward, you can pull the front of the car in, but then you have no way to pull the back wheels into the space."
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why aren't eye glasses made out of gorilla glass, or other scratch resistant glass that electronics have | [
"Honestly, most glasses aren't even made with glass anymore - just different types of plastics. Glass is heavier and less shatter-resistant than other materials which are more commonly used. And as mentioned already, there are anti-scratch coatings that you can get. Source: I'm in optometry school."
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"Because a touch screens use case involves touching, it needs to be durable. Glass is stiff thus able to spread pressure evenly (you could kill/damage the pixes of an lcd if you push on them hard enough). They also need to be resistant to scratches, plastic screens have been used on plenty of devices but they scrat... | eli5_question_answer | {
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why aren't CCTV cameras made to produce higher quality footage? | [
"Cost. Better cameras cost more to make, support, and store recordings of."
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"They don't. They have really really good camera's that can take a picture from really far away."
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where did the phrase 'coming out of the closet' originate? | [
"I'm not expert but I would assume it has to do with the phrase \"having skeletons in your closet\""
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"So when and where did playing cards as we know them come into being anyways?"
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Why does an Android phone show the WiFi icon for a few seconds even after the router's turned off? | [
"> I think it's just a delay in the OS's process to update the display And you are almost correct. It's not the display (which can be updated immediately), it's the OS that takes a little time trying to reconnect to the network before deciding it is really down. Your roommate doesn't know what he/she is talking abo... | [
"Even when turned \"off\", the computer will stay on at a very minimum level. It's perfectly safe, no data is actually being sent, the flashing is just your router checking to see if it's still connected to the computer. It uses practically no power, so there's no need to unplug it. The light is there so that ther... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How can television shows take peoples stupid home videos and make all that money without paying them back? | [
"They sign a comprehensive release of rights for consideration in the big win. It's sleazy but effective."
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"They are basically trying to corner the market on reaction videos, you know, profit from other people's work, other generally greedy and evil stuff. It is ludicrous and it will not turn out well for them."
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Is there an argument against curing autism, and if so, why? | [
"They're idiots whose only experience with autism is 'people being a little quirky'. My cousin has severe autism and he can't speak to us at all. He's already a teenager, but can barely function at a 4 year old level. His mom left my uncle because she couldn't handle raising him and the pressure of dealing with him... | [
"Follow-up question: If it is purely a modern idea, where did this idea come from, and how much validity is there to it?"
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How was this list of live camera feeds collected, why are the cameras connected to the internet, and is it illegal to access them? | [
"Webcam software usually connect to the internet by making a webpage that the user access. Here is a list of the pages that webcam make. _URL_1_ Everyone computer on the internet is connected with a IP address which is the location of the computer on the internet. The Ip address is the _URL_0_ part of the link. Th... | [
"Some very important information is needed: What state was the video made in? Did you record the video or did someone else? Was the video recorded in a public or in a private setting? Did the person being recorded know they were being recorded?"
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What stops us from getting cell phone interference? | [
"Time division multiple access. Each user gets a time period on that frequency to talk and no one else is allowed to use it during that time period. If you split a second into 100 chunks then each person gets a 10 millisecond window to transmit a second's worth of data for clean audio. There's loads of multiple ac... | [
"How successful have you been with everything but YouTube?"
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Smart poor kids are less likely to graduate college than rich dumb kids because of advantages that are available to them. Besides the obvious money -- what are these advantages (in work, school, life)? | [
"The article addresses gender, but I don't see where it addresses race at all. That's a bit surprising, considering the ongoing effective segregation in the US education system."
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"lack of parental involvement. The areas with the lowest literacy rates are often the areas with the highest per capita education funding. You can't expect schools to teach kids magically when the kids are being told at home that education doesn't matter. The thing is in the US there is a defeatist culture among th... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why does White Castle give me worse gas than anything in the world. | [
"I don't know, but I suggest you stop eating at White Castle."
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"They're asking you if you're going to eat the rest of that."
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Why bones are more likely to break if they hit a small area, like the corner of a wall. | [
"Force multiplier. The surface area over which a force occurs drastically effects the damage that is done. If you have a hundred pounds over a hundred square in evenly divided, that is only one pound per square inch, similar to lifting a pound on the tips of your index and middle finger. If you had a thousand pound... | [
"Because you were protecting your head and major organs. Better to get hit in the back, where protection is stronger, than in the front."
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Why do WebM clips load so much more quickly than animated GIFs? | [
"GIF is an image format and not a video format. Every layer in a GIF is a full image. WebM on the other hand is designed for videos. It takes advantage of the fact that there's very little movement in 1/30th of a second in a video. Instead of storing the whole image 30x per second, it stores the entire image once e... | [
"It shouldn't stutter on repeat playbacks. There are a few possible reasons for the stuttering: 1) The GIF was not encoded properly in the first place (the stuttering is built-into the GIF) 2) The app or website you are using to view the GIF is not optimized for your device and its inefficient usage of CPU (or othe... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do people say that food preservation is bad for human health | [
"Because food preservation largely means adding salt, or pickling it (which is basically the same). This introduces huge amounts of sodium into their foods which is very unhealthy for you. The single method of food preservation you mentioned is pretty healthy, and people get angry about it cause they don't understa... | [
"What source says that alcohol is bad for your teeth?"
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How was Germany able to regain the worlds trust after The Holocaust and WW2? | [
"[It took some doing](_URL_0_), but the Allies understood that the German people weren't the enemy, the Nazi regime was. Once that had been thoroughly purged, there wasn't really any reason not to return to friendly relations. Ostracizing a defeated Germany and trying to keep it down had been tried a few decades ea... | [
"Could the rebuilding of Japan after WWII be considered a partial colonization by the United States?"
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How can a dog bark for hours on end without seemingly losing its "voice"? My neighbor's dog barks for 8 to 12 hours straight every week day. | [
"The same way some people (I'm looking at you, Strom Thurmond), can talk for hours and hours. To a dog, barking is not \"shouting\", it's more like just talking is to us."
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"I don't know the answer, but I'd like to point out that this doesn't seem to be universal. I can go to bed when I need to pee and sleep through the night without waking up. My boyfriend on the other hand pees when he goes to sleep and then wakes up to pee again 1-2 times every night."
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Why does hollywood insist on remakes and reboots? | [
"Because there is an already established audience. Saves a lot on marketing therefore more profit. It's all about the money."
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"Because modern directors believe that subtlety and horror should be thrown out the window for gore porn and jumpscares."
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If Jellyfish don't have brains, how do they know to swim or eat or reproduce? | [
"They don't have brains, but they still have a nervous system which responds to stimuli. They don't \"think\" about swimming. Their nervous system just makes the necessary movements to make them swim. Something gets caught in their tentacles, and the response is to pull it up to their mouth. For reproductions, cert... | [
"Does a falling ball \"know\" it's trying to return to Earth? Or does it just do what it must? Animals behave out of instinct. When hungry, they are driven to eat. At a certain time of year, they are driven to mate. When startled, they automatically flee. They don't know the effects of these actions, but that isn't... | eli5_question_answer | {
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US Mercenaries in Iraq. Why would ex military groups think they would be quicker than the military? | [
"UN law does not supersede US law as far as the US Government is concerned. The 2001 treaty you are referring to was never ratified by the US Government, or any permanent member of the UN's security council for that matter. As to why former military members want to do it, it pays A LOT. Back in Iraq's hay day in th... | [
"A soldier is part of a sanctioned military (think the US Army) that have laws and rules that they must abide by. A mercenary typically is someone that will sell their skills and services for money. These people may or may not abide by any laws of rules of war. In the middle of that are companies that pay former so... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How do we know the gravity of a planet without even being able to land there? | [
"We can measure a planet's mass by watching how it interacts gravitationally with nearby objects. Pluto is an easy one because it has a system of tiny moons that are dominated by its gravity. We can measure its radius with simple photography. One you know the mass and the size, the surface gravity calculation is fa... | [
"We are able to detect planets much further away, yes. But we are not able to take a picture of them. We have no pictures what so ever of planets outside our solar system."
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After watching GoT last night, I was wondering how in historical times horses behaved in battle. How come they were willing to run into each other during charges instead of disobeying their riders? | [
"Horses have been trained over time to obey their rider *no matter the cost*. I'm not sure of the accuracy of GoT since it is a fantasy show but I know that horses are entirely domesticated and obedient. During WW1 they stood near cannons and howitzers without running away (most of the time) so the idea that they'l... | [
"Casualties on the battlefield were not that great. It took a long time to load and the chance of actually hitting anything were quite small. The most important weapon an army had were the morale of its troops. Standing in a line taking fire might seam like a flawed tactic but it prevented the soldiers from hiding ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is it that when something shocking or interesting happen during a drowsy moment, I suddenly become wide awake? Also I can't seem to replicate that feeling on my own to continue staying up late. | [
"Your body dumps adrenaline into the blood stream to prepare you when you're scared. Adrenaline leads to a flight or fight response, meaning you will either fight the threat, or run away, whichever you judge as the most successful method. When you get shocked or startled, it's a little bit of adrenaline entering yo... | [
"This happens to me every so often, it's the weirdest thing. I'm trying to sleep but these stressful thoughts keep passing through my mind over and over again (and often they don't make much sense), and I can't tell if I'm awake or asleep. I have to force myself to get up and turn the light on/go to the bathroom/et... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Spontaneous Combustion, How does it work and how does it happen to human beings? | [
"There are things called hypergolic propellants. This just means when you mix the 2 components they spontaneously combust. They generate enough heat to ignite when they come into contact with each other. This is utilized in rocket technology. People don't spontaneously combust. That was just a myth and misunders... | [
"Batteries and yes they need to be replaced from time to time."
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How did Crysis look so much better than any other game when it was released, or even games released in the 6 years between it and Crysis 3? | [
"One of the biggest reasons why triple A games still don't look any better is because they have to work on consoles which have a much bigger market. The games are \"ported\" to PC and depending on what effort the company behind the game has put in it can be anything from the same game to a much better looking game.... | [
"You are correct, but what you know as modern is what people could do 4 years ago (or about 4 years). All of the games you see coming out that are big name titles have been in development for a long time and thus what we think of as \"modern\" graphics are in fact 4 years old. What is being done today with graphics... | eli5_question_answer | {
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By what method does Google Translate detect the language of input texts? | [
"Same way you would. You recognizance that the words in this sentence are English words, so you guess that I'm in fact writing in English. Och du ser att orden i den här meningen inte är engelska, eftersom att de är svenska (and you see that the words in this sentence are not English, as they are Swedish) And googl... | [
"Because they have a limited database of spelling and context, whereas google has the whole internet to draw from."
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Could a brain transplant actually be possible and would memories transfer over to the new body like a hard drive? | [
"With current science? No. There are way too many nerves and things we wouldn't be able to connect. Memories would transfer over though because they are all contained in the brain."
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"You love with your brain. People with heart transplants don't love the donors' family, etc. If there were a brain transplant your love life would follow your cerebrum to your new body."
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What makes Subway bad for me. | [
"It can be healthy or unhealthy.If you get the six inch oven roasted chicken with no cheese, veggies and a low fat/low calorie sauce(mustard) it will be healthy. Replace that with a footlong, add cheese, mayo, and a large spa soda on the side, and you might as well visit McDonald's"
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"What do you want to know about them exactly?"
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Why aren't some of the immigrants who travel to the US from Mexico and Latin America considered refugees? | [
"They are not refugees because they are not persecuted in their country of origin for their race, religion, nationality or political beliefs."
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"Who is \"America?\" I think you'll find that comparatively few people actually support the wall. Besides, these days less than half of people illegally crossing the southern border are Mexican. Most of them are from other central american states like Honduras and El Salvador."
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Why do humans talk to babies in a high pitched voice? Why does it feel instinctive? | [
"Higher pitched noises are usually more comforting and soothing rather than low, deep rumbles. You can see this in most animals. Go up to a random dog and talk to it in a soothing, cushy, baby voice...odds are the dog will wag it's tail and won't see you as a threat. But if you come in with a low grunting voice the... | [
"Most baby animals make specific sounds to alert their parents. It doesn't sound the same as human babies crying for the same reason animal sounds don't sound like human speech."
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