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Why my car won't start when it's cold out | [
"Your battery uses a chemical reaction to produce the electricity needed to run your car. When it's cold out this reaction slows down, decreasing power output. Your engine oil also gets thick when cold. It's harder to move engine parts through thick oil."
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"You don’t. 99.9% of modern cars you can jump right in and drive away. Now That doesn’t mean floor it when it’s negative 3 out, but just drive normally."
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How are we able to see through glass and other solid transparent objects? | [
"Some materials don't interact with light at certain wavelength ranges. Those materials that don't interact with light between 390-700nm we humans call transparent because our eyes see that range. However water is not transparent at other wavelength ranges, it blocks. other wavelength of light, like radio waves, a... | [
"The light you see is a kind of electromagnetic radiation and different types of radiation can pass through different types of objects. For the type our eyes see, we created a type of object where that radiation just goes right through. A wall blocks your visible radiation but lets your WiFi radiation through for e... | eli5_question_answer | {
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If perspiration is a natural process that our bodies' go through to remain cool, are we not harming our person when we apply antiperspirants? | [
"Slightly, but the truth is our body is very good at regulating temperature; if the heat can't leave through our armpits, it just finds another outlet (back, butt, or even non-perspiring methods). To give you come perspective, there's a really interesting surgery they can do for people who sweat too much from thei... | [
"It's in the name. De-odor-ant is designed to mask or get rid of a smell or odor. Anti-perspir-ant is designed to stop you perspiring by interrupting the sweat gland. Deodorants are alcohol based and kill the bacteria that grow but also partially stimulates sweating. This isn't a concern though as the bacteria are ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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If Ma Bell got broken apart for being a "regulated natural monopoly", why are cable companies allowed to function as monopolies? | [
"They didn't get broken apart for being a natural monopoly, they got broken up for how they used their monopoly. It's not against the Sherman act to have a monopoly, but many actions a monopolist attempts to leverage their monopoly advantages into other fields are against the law."
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"Who told you they're not a monopoly? They clearly are. Note, though, that it's not illegal for a company to be a monopoly."
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Why is the UN in New York instead of a neutral country like Switzerland ? | [
"There's two parts to the answer. It's in the United States because a vote was taken on where it should be, and the United States won. > When a vote on the location of the headquarters was taken in London in 1945, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, and Canada voted for a European headquarters. As Mires w... | [
"Do you mean a Soviet embassy located in Washington, DC?"
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What is stopping new life from being "created"? | [
"It'll likely get eaten immediately by an already living creature."
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"What makes you think they are \"more common than ever before\"?"
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How does the Secret Service protect the President against assassins? | [
"The president doesn't speak in random places. He gives very few outdoor speeches (mostly for weather logistics reasons). When he is in a stationary position outdoors, there is a great deal of scrutiny of every window that views the location."
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"How would the president conduct a hostile takeover without the military? Also a takeover of what?"
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Why do TV's use red, blue, and green for their pixels, but red, blue, and yellow are the primary colors? | [
"Red blue and yellow are the primary colors for paint and the such, red blue and green are the primary colors of light. Edit: I suppose technically magenta cyan and yellow"
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"> the primary colors that make up everything (Blue, red, yellow)? You are talking about the subtractive primaries used for painting and printing and their correct names are cyan, magenta and yellow. They are what you use when you start with a white canvas and add paint or ink to subtract light. For example, yellow... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Do Diet soft drinks prevent you from weight lose? | [
"the most rational argument I have heard for this is that by consuming fake sugar, you will crave real sugar. And by rule, you will cheat. Not sure how legit that is... if theres science to sugar flavors causing sugar cravings... None that I have ever seen. I dont put much stock in it myself. Or atleast knowing the... | [
"You build muscle and stimulate fat loss with exercise and burning calories. You can still lose weight by eating less, but if you also exercise you lower your risk for a lot of diseases related to your heart. Just my best guess honestly, I am not an expert on this at all."
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The IS/LM Model in macroeconomics (cross-posted in r/Economics) | [
"When interest rates go down, the cost of borrowing money goes down, so people borrow more. When people borrow more they have more cash to spend, therefore the amount of things people buy depends on the interest rate. Thats the IS part. As interest rates decreases, output increases in the goods market. It slopes do... | [
"There's a ton to unpack here, but I think a great start is /u/anthropology_nerd's [Myths of Conquest](_URL_1_) series over on r/badhistory. Also, see /u/Snapshot52 on [American Indian Genocide Denial](_URL_0_). There's also some useful information in the [FAQ](_URL_2_)."
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- why do US voters have a say in the candidate for president but no say in who is chosen as their Vice Presidential running mate? | [
"In the early days of the republic, whoever came in second in the electoral college became vice president. This wasn't ideal, as it resulted in political rivals being in those two spots and prevented them from working closely together. As a result, it was decided that the electors would vote separately for presiden... | [
"In countries where this exists: - President: he's your head of state. He phones Putin and Obama and decides when to send your troops in or when to launch the missiles. - Prime Minister: he's your head of government. The leader of the political party in power aka has the most votes. He's the one who is leading the ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why are some words pluralized with an "i"? | [
"Those are words of Latin origin of male gender ending in -us. The ~~declination~~ declension of those words demands an -i in the plural. See [here](_URL_0_) for a full list of all forms of the second ~~declination~~ declension in Latin."
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"There's a rule with adjectives in English about how to form the comparative and superlative. Any adjective with one syllable forms the comparative and superlatives by adding \"-er\" and \"-est\" respectively. Any adjective with three or more syllables forms the comparative and superlative with \"more\" and \"most\... | eli5_question_answer | {
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how does gaslighting work? | [
"Of course you don't do that with things where there's easily available evidence to contradict you. Interestingly, the eponymous flickering gas lights of the movie that lent the name to this phenomenon were not in fact made to flicker deliberately to confuse the victim, but were a side effect of the manipulator's t... | [
"Natural aversion to sexual contact with our family for genetic reasons, taken one step further. Post audio or it didn't happen."
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do people with strokes become limited or can they just not talk? | [
"A stroke is damage to the brain and it can affect any part of the brain, or multiple parts of the brain. This can disrupt or eliminate motor function, language, cognitive ability, memory, language, sight, hearing, taste, smell, or many other things."
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"Because they could be bleeding in their brains and there is no way to tell if they loose consciousness if they are asleep. Also they could start slurring or experience other signs that something is wrong and you can only tell if they are awake."
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Where did "Have your cake and eat it too" come from? Why wouldn't you eat the cake you have? | [
"> Why wouldn't you eat the cake you have? The phrase means \"you can't have it both ways\". If you have some cake, you *can* eat it - but then you don't have it anymore. If you want to still have it, then you can't eat it. You can have (i.e., keep) your cake. Or you can eat it. But not both. There're some more det... | [
"They have no choice in what to eat. Imagine if I handed a random meal to you and said \"Eat this. I don't care if you don't like it, would prefer something else, or aren't really hungry right now. Eat.\" You wouldn't be thrilled if this happened every meal."
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/r/circlejerk - the name | [
"circle jerk is when a bunch of dudes stand in a circle and each grabs the penis of the person to either the left or right and then proceed to masturbate for each other. Its a mutual benefit type thing. In that subreddit, they're suppose to being having a online written circlejerk through the sharing of a mutual cu... | [
"The first result when you Google \"list of every subreddit\": _URL_0_"
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From an evolutionary stance, why are humans bereft of basic defenses:claws, canines, thick hide..And instead runs with diverse body types, no fur, and exposed vital organs? | [
"A common misconception about evolution is that it should \"improve things\". In reality, though, it doesn't care where our organs are, or what defences we have. It simply favours animals that *learn to survive*. We have evolved from an ancestor of the Great Apes, for which this body structure was well-suited. Hum... | [
"Pimples are simply infected clogged pores in the skin. Other mammals get them, but humans have rather strange skin for mammals and so we get strange pimples. Asking 'why' we evolved a thing is always conjecture, but in this case it seems to be like asking 'why' we evolved to have absessed teeth, or ingrown toe-nai... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do schools measure ability based on a student's average grade instead of a student's median grade? | [
"What if a student wasn't that strong in a specific aspect of their subject. Say there were 5 tests in a physics class. Kinematics, thermodynamics, Astronomy, Relativity, and Electricity. If the kid got 100, 99, 98, 60, 20 on his test scores, his grade would reflect a 98, indicating he was doing very well in the cl... | [
"IQ measures how well one can take an IQ test. It is usually a combination of random questions from various subjects. Its more of a general knowledge test and is not really an accurate representation of ones intelligence."
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Why do NFL teams have a draft and not just buy whatever players like they want like in soccer? | [
"Because they want to avoid a situation where the team with the most money always wins the championship. There is a scene in the NFL that all teams should be equal, so steps are taken to level the scales. Part of that is that there's a salary cap in the NFL (a maximum amount a team can spend on salaries). In additi... | [
"Players can be drafted, but not sign. Then they would be eligible to be drafted in a future draft. It's usually a money issue. Why sign out of highschool as a 4th rounder, when you could go play in college, improve your stock, and be a 2nd rounder. Higher the pick, the more money you get as a signing bonus. Russel... | eli5_question_answer | {
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how does black market organ harvesting work? Who supplies the cash that makes this a profitable crime? Where is it at its worst? Etc. | [
"Who supplies the cash? The person who needs a kidney..."
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"Iran allow this. The market is government regulated. Donors get paid between $2000 - $4000 for a kidney. If a donor ends up needing an organ transplant in the future they skip the waiting list of which there is virtually none anyway. Seems to be a great way to do it if you ask me!"
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Why is encryption illegal in certain countries? | [
"Good encryption is effectively uncrackable today, which means that any and all data that is encrypted can not be decrypted by the government. Governments don't like that, as it could help you commit crimes or undermine the government without their knowledge. Since they can't beat the encryption, they just make enc... | [
"It's illegal in a huge number of jurisdictions already. Where do you live?"
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Why do so many articles of women's clothing require that you lay them flat to dry when similar articles of men's clothing do not? | [
"Doubt that they're the same. Spandex, something found in a lot of women's clothes, cannot be put in the dryer. It stretches and deforms the elastic quality. There's only about 3-5% in most pieces, but its there. Wool, cashmere, other things like that, will shrink in the dryer."
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"Instead of water, dry cleaning use other liquid chemicals to wash your clothes. You can do a search if you're interested to see what chemicals are used. In most cases, you can safely dry clean clothes that are for normal wash, but it's probably not a good idea because (1) it costs more to dry clean stuff, and (2) ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why does radiation cause mutation, such as the recent daisies in Fukushima? | [
"So there's 2 types of radiation: ionizing and non-ionizing radiation. Ionizing radiation is the dangerous stuff that causes these weird mutations. What happens is that an energetic particle whizzes through the air and hits the flower. Now these particles are small enough that sometimes they hit the flower's DNA. A... | [
"Human could technically live there, but they would be prone to cancer and other ill effects from the radiation. Likewise, animals living in the irradiated region suffer from multiple health problems due to the radiation."
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When are those little interviews in every competitive show recorded? | [
"Welcome to the illusion of television. Do not ask how the sausage is made. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. I once was a crowd extra for a football game taping for a once-popular show called Friday Night Lights. You may be interested to know: 1. The shots are all done on one-quarter of the field, wi... | [
"Not sure if this kind of comment is allowed, but in the i terest of starting discussion, whats the context of this? Perfume, wine, etc?"
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What/Who determines what becomes a hit song on the radio? | [
"[Payola](_URL_0_) Managements groups (artist representation, labels, PR & Marketing, etc) determine which songs should be strategically promoted to best influence the consumption of an album, and funnel payments into radio stations (through third parties) to influence what those stations play."
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"There are multiple lists -- fiction, non fiction, childrens, etc. It's like music. What's the #1 song right now? Well, that's going to depend on whether you're talking about pop, country, rock, R & B, and so on."
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Why do fan blades appear to spin in the opposite direction at a certain speed? | [
"It only works in artificial light. Alternating current makes light bulbs flicker - they blink on and off about 60 times per second. Too fast for our eyes to really be able to detect. But if you have a fan spinning at the right speed, 60 RPM divided by the number of blades, it will look like the fan is not moving a... | [
"This creates a dragging-behind motion that causes the wheels to automatically turn in the exact direction of travel."
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Cumulative Distribution Function... please! | [
"Let's take a specific case: how long does a person like you live? If you had a cumulative distribution function, you would plug in a number of years (say, 49), and get back the probability that a person like you will live at most 49 years. (Another common notion in statistics is a probability density function. Wit... | [
"A Visual, Intuitive Guide to Imaginary Numbers: _URL_0_"
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How does spot reducing not work, if you can just build muscle in the places you want to enhance? | [
"Because they're not comparable. Gaining and losing fat stores are opposites, and muscle gain and atrophy are opposites. Specific muscles grow due to use as the body builds them back up after the minor damage of regular use, and they shrink after extended disuse. Fat is gained by your body having enough excess cal... | [
"All genetics. It’s nothing you really control. You can not spot burn fat with exercise. Meaning that crunches won’t burn belly fat. Exercise and diet that are appropriate, will cause you to lose overall body weight, from everywhere it stores it, most likely leaving fat where it first formed."
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Why does my son's stutter go away when he talks in an accent? | [
"It's the same reason that James Earl Jones (yes, the famous actor) doesn't have one. Singing, and well . . . accents. They both use the same part of the brain, that regulates speech patterns and rhythm. Because he isn't using the part of the brain that natural wants to be used while speaking, he sort of \"bypasses... | [
"I think accents depend a lot on age when moving to a new country. Most of my relatives came to America in their 20's. They all have accents. My cousins that came in their teens have a slight accent. My cousins that came in their first 10 years of life have an American accent. I was born here. I moved around a lot ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What is proper gym etiquette? | [
"First and foremost. Clean the fucking machine after you're done. There is nothing more disgusting than some lunks ball sweat all over a bench because he was too big of a douche to clean it."
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"How do you define your hints of schizophrenia?"
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How did the light bulb become an international sign of someone having an idea? | [
"light has always been associated with knowledge. the light-bulb switching on is no doubt a representation of the sudden occurrence of an idea, that 'eureka!' moment in which something is illuminated"
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"Not everything is a result of evolution. This is a good example of one such thing."
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How do people find out about complex or hidden game easter eggs? Do players stumble on them naturally, or do they get leaked? | [
"Any and all of the above. Some Easter eggs are run into accidentally. Some are leaked by the devs for fun to capture the community for karma points. Others are found by users digging around in the binary code or other assets in the program."
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"What gamers call \"cheat codes\" are usually commands created *intentionally* by the game creators for testing purposes during production. There's no reason to remove them once the game is done, so when its released people will dig around \"under the hood\" as it were to find them."
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Why do children have better imaginations than adults? | [
"Imagination is often bound by reality and our knowledge of the world. If I know that a hammer is for hammering in nails, it´s hard to think of a completely different use for it. Children lack those restraints, they fill what they do not know about the world with imagination and wonder. Another factor is that child... | [
"So when and where did playing cards as we know them come into being anyways?"
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Why can I get an auto loan for 1.69%, but there doesn't seem to be a way to reduce the interest on my student loans? | [
"Two reasons: * For your auto loan there is collateral - if you don't pay them back, they'll take back the car, sell it, and make back their money. For your degree there is no collateral - if you don't pay them back, they can't take back your degree, then sell it to someone else. * 1.69% must be a rate from a c... | [
"Short answer is because our loan interest went down as well. When the bank is getting 12 and 13% on their home loans and a little more on consumer loans, they can afford to pay more in interest so they have more to loan. This is how they make money. When the interest rates they charged drop so does the amount they... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Difference between all-wheel drive and four-wheel drive | [
"From an extremely high level and without getting into the mechanics of it the difference really comes down to utility. Four wheel drive tends to be available on trucks and all wheel drive tends to be available on cars and smaller vehicles. They both do similar jobs of providing power to all four wheels, but genera... | [
"Most cars are front wheel drive, not rear wheel drive"
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Why did Teachers in the past focused so much on Cursive? | [
"People don't really understand how deeply cursive was ingrained in the culture. Writing cursive was a fundamental part of basic literacy. It wasn't a weird fancy form of writing, it *was* writing. Print was only used in books, newspapers, and some signs (and sometimes for headers on handwritten documents), which i... | [
"Because, in high school, teachers are expected to teach. In Universities, students are expected to learn."
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Why female animals don't have periods? | [
"Most female animals don't have menstrual cycles. Commonly, most female mammals have an estrogeous cycle. That means that they absorb the entire endometrium if there is no conception. Whereas humans (and other primates, elephant shrews and certain kinds of bat) shed this layer."
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"People with great minds don't stoop to politics."
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Why aren't pyramid schemes sustainable? Why are they illegal? | [
"Because somewhen you run out of people (and surprisingly soon: only 32 levels deep your next level requires as many people as live on the earth right now)"
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"A bank is providing some social utility in that it's matching people who have money up with people who need money, a ponzi scheme exists solely to enrich the people at the top by defrauding the people at the bottom. The basic business model of a bank is sustainable, whereas ponzi schemes are inherently unsustainab... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do people sometimes expand emails when typed. | [
"It's intended to prevent their email address from being picked up by bots looking for email addresses to spam. If a poorly written program is looking for \"X@Y.com\" it won't recognize \"X [at] Y [dot] com\" and they'll get less spam."
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"I'm not sure I understand. Why would they not be advertised individually?"
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Why do stove tops (and other cooking equipment) have numbers 1-6 rather than temperatures? | [
"Stoves heat a pan which in turn heats the pans contents. Even if you know the temperature of the heating element you don't necessarily know the temperature of the item you're cooking. Ambient temperature and the component of your pan will affect heat transfer. It also doesn't matter much for most foods. \"Hot\" a... | [
"No, induction ovens use changing electromagnetic waves to heat up your *pan* directly. Basically, an electric stovetop goes: heat up coil - > heat up pan because pan is on coil Induction: heat up pan Of course, that means that ceramic pots and pans (which are not conductive) won't work at all. Fun fact: this is al... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why does it normally hail shortly after really hot weather? | [
"Hail is created by strong updrafts. Updrafts are created by hot weather (warm air rises). Its really cold at the altitude that clouds are at. When precipitation falls, it starts frozen, then melts as it drops into warmer air. This gives us rain. If there is a strong updraft, the falling ice gets blown back up int... | [
"Pressure change indicates changing weather. Whether it's getting worse or better, it'll be preceded with a pressure change. My joints tell me when the weather is changing. Shoulders and knees feel like they're going to explode when we go from sunny and nice, to cold and snowy in a few hours"
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If cable companies like Xfinity (Comcast), and Time Warner are afraid of Google Fiber; why aren't they trying to use Fiber themselves? | [
"They would have to replace their coax infrastructure to use Fiber. Now to be fair their DOCSIS 3.1 supports a theoretical 10Gb/s downstream and 1Gb/s upstream so the potential to compete with Fiber exists but they also know that Google does not have the money to bring Google Fiber to a majority of America all at o... | [
"It will probably just become Charter for customers of TWC. As to if it means faster speeds: Almost certainly no. Speeds only increase if there's a pressure on them to do so. So Charter speeds now will really be based on if other telecom companies are able to get speeds to a reasonable level (Where I live, Cox cabl... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why can you see sunlight only so far underneath the oceans surface? | [
"The light is scattered and absorbed as it passes through the water. As it descends, there is less available for your eyes to pick up."
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"Since it's a plant, it needs to get energy from the sun to live (through photosynthesis). It's easier to do this on the surface than underwater, especially in murky waters like are often found in ponds and lakes."
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Why do running shoes, almost as a rule, always use a stunningly ugly colour scheme? | [
"Don't ignore confirmation bias. I have solid black running shoes. Plenty of people don't buy \"ugly\" shoes. You probably just don't remember it because they don't stand out. Also, mathematics. There are only so many solid colors one can go, and there are only so many shoes a company will offer at a certain time (... | [
"It's the fashion. Not too many years ago they were all sorts of colours. I guess it's so that a clean toilet can look clean."
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Why cant we just draw blood to reduce blood pressure? | [
"Just over half of your blood is made up of [plasma](_URL_0_), which is the fluid part. If you lose blood through injury or donation, your body will have most of the plasma replaced within 48 hours. So for this method to work, you first would need to bleed out every other day or so. The other problem is that your ... | [
"To see if you tried to ditch any evidence of tricking the test. They're supposed to flush it, not you."
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Why is there no cure against the common cold ? | [
"Quote by [u/APRSNerd](_URL_0_) from a [different post](_URL_1_): > A lot of diseases mutate very quickly - the flu and colds are great examples of this. They try to guess which flu strains will be common each year, and produce vaccines for those strains, but they are wrong sometimes. The \"common\" cold changes s... | [
"There is no such thing as guilt by association in the USA."
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Why is it that my pictures from my phone can be automatically uploaded to the cloud, yet, in this day and age, this can't be done with an airplane's Black Box data, rather than looking for these boxes after a horrific crash | [
"The cloud is internet based. Your phone uses wifi or cell phone towers. Neither are available at 35,000 feet over the ocean. All transactions would have to be via satellite and this would involve significant cost for the installed hardware. At any moment there might be 5,000 aircraft communicating with satellites.... | [
"It turns all the radio signals off, as not to interfere with the communications systems of the plane. But it is utilitarian, because airplane mode uses way less battery. Ideal for say, using your phone on a plane with no signal but you downloaded games, movies, and books which you can enjoy offline."
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The password system in Metroid (NES) | [
"24 characters is *a lot*. Given that each character can be one of 64 options, there are 64^24 different passwords, or 2^(144). This means that you can encode 144 bits of data in a single password. Most of the options you mentioned are binary options, so you only need 1 bit to represent each of them. [This gamefaq... | [
"[This](_URL_0_) is how PS1 did it. I assume PS2 had a similar system in place"
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When I uninstall something on my computer, why do I often need to restart my computer? | [
"This is generally required with applications and processes that work with whatever you install/uninstall. A lot of software that works in tandem with other software (especially drivers) only checks to see if you have or don't have what you need when it starts. So instead of manually stopping all processes that mig... | [
"> what happens to the computer Nothing at all will happen to the computer, your installation of windows may stop working though and you'll need to either repair or reinstall it."
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Why do dogs seem to be able to nod off whenever they are comfortable? | [
"We also don't have as sensitive senses as dogs do, so we can't wake ourselves up at the slightest sound, touch, smell, change in light or taste. You'll notice that while the dog nods off easily, he'll be awoken by certain things that won't wake us up. Not to mention that they sleep when the need/can, whereas human... | [
"Dogs don't have an unconditional love for us. You ever have your dog continually drop a ball at your feet and then start to claw at you when you don't do anything? Your dog is annoyed with you because you aren't playing a game of fetch with it. Ever have a dog grumble when you touch it while it's sleeping? It's be... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do people become traumatized | [
"Your brain is a processing center that takes various stimuli and decides what to do with it. Say you're sorting toys into various bins and every time you pick a certain one up it gives you an electric shock and you drop it. It bothers you to leave it lying there when it should be sorted, but you can't get it into ... | [
"They don't want to be known as the perpetrator of millions of deaths and ethnic cleansing."
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why is the consumer cost of Obamacare increasing so much? | [
"It´s actually not the price of all insurances that increases (aka the majority of insurances that go over government-sponsored insurance or employer-sponsored insurance) but that of the insurances offered in the private exchanges. The reason for this is that less healthy people use those exchange than expected, th... | [
"People with low income will not have to pay the full amount, as the government will subsidize the premiums (this is all paid out of tax money, which is what bothers conservatives). High-income people may have to pay the full amount, but it will still likely be less than what they would pay for a private insurance ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why are we not exploring the universe equally in every direction? | [
"Those dark spots probably correspond to the parts of the universe which are occluded by the bulk of the disk of our galaxy. As we look in that direction, we can't really see past all the gas and dust that comprises the main disk of the milky way."
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"Yes, and given the immense size of the Earth compared to the ball, the effect is negligible in just about any application."
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Why are females generally weaker than men? | [
"Testosterone promotes muscle development, so it is easier for most men to build muscle than it is for most women. Women generally have less bone mass than men, particularly in the upper body, so most men can support more muscle than most women. (It is possible that this bone mass difference is due to a pubescent m... | [
"Asian men are far less attractive to White women than Asian women are to White men."
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Why are we told leave a pool during a thunder storm if the pool is grounded? | [
"Yes, the pool is grounded, so lightning will pass through it into the ground. You are mostly water. If you are in the water, some of those 1.21 Gigawatts are going to pass through you was well."
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"Lightning wants to get to the ground and it wants to do that through the first thing it can reach. So houses are often built with a system to collect lightning that would strike the house and funnel it into the ground. It moves the electricity through your metal pipes. So showering during an electrical storm expos... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How high and how low do a nations borders go? | [
"National borders are usually understood to travel all the way to the center of the Earth below. Above they extend to the border of the atmosphere with space which is typically defined as 100km in elevation."
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"I am not an expert, but my answer would be three words: high interest rates."
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Why do soldiers in the Israeli Defense force look very Diverse? With blonde, dark haired, european, middle eastern etc looking people? | [
"Israelis come from a pretty diverse set of ethnic backgrounds."
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"Jews had spread all over the world and mixed with the local populations for centuries. There are white jews, black jews, persian jews, middle eastern jews, north african jews..."
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How does the DeVos confirmation impact my kids that are in public schools? | [
"Hardly at all. The Federal government is not in charge of your kid's school, that is handled by the local school board. No change in Sect of Ed will change that, and Ms. DeVos might make the federal government less important to your local school. Now, when your kids want to get a federally guaranteed student loan,... | [
"You can't file bankruptcy on student debt. It's good for the banks, not you."
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Why does sports get is's own special segment in the news? | [
"Because sports belongs to leisure and sport's news are different from \"serious\" news about politics, international conflicts etc. Sports is also a dose of culture and science for an average viewer. It dominates the public culture and it also is a place where the public practices their \"science\" (explaining tac... | [
"What do you mean by downfall? This is still a dominant part of current culture."
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How is it possible to Shazam a LIVE performance of Bruno Mars for the Halftime show, and have it come back to tell me it is the "Live Halftime Show" happening in real time? | [
"Purely speculating here : I am assuming it is a deal worked out with either the network or with the NFL - if you are listening to that song at that particular time it says you are listening to the halftime show. Alternatively there could be a very high pitch audio signal in the background that is too high for us t... | [
"Because you're living a rerun ... Watch your favorite tv show, then a week later watch the same episode again and ask yourself if it felt longer. Perception."
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Why do some people always wake up a few minutes before their alarm? | [
"Over time your body develops natural rhythms. The body knows how much sleep it needs. If one goes to bed at roughly the same time and gets up at roughly the same time every day, you develop a sleep schedule that your body will continue to follow unless interrupted. You also have what's called a circadian clock/rhy... | [
"Umm... when I wake up I know exactly where I am & what’s expected of me that day. If it’s work my brain makes that quick math: - how many more minutes of sleep can I get? - the pros and cons of continuing to snooze - Probability that I will actually wake up on the next alarm - likelihood I will get out of here on ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do humans like to watch things break, get destroyed, or crash? | [
"The neurologist Sigmund Freud, the founding father of psychoanalysis, suggested that humans have a \"death drive\" or destrudo which is the opposite of libido, the drive to create life. The concept is still highly controversial. I interpret it as humans are attracted to destruction because of the huge of amount of... | [
"Take really small things, make them move very fast, then have them smash into each other and see what happens."
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Why don't ISIS and Al-Qaeda like each other? | [
"They're very, very different. Al Qaeda is a religious protest movement, built around the idea that the West's attitude of secular progressivism is a literal spiritual disease, and that that disease manifests itself as consumerism and weird sexual practices. They don't fancy themselves as making a state, but opposi... | [
"North Korea is on a whole 'nother level compared to Saudi Arabia and Qatar."
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How come nuclear radiation from the countless nuclear weapons tests in the past hasn't (for the most part) caused widespread damage? | [
"Yeah for the most part Radiation only travels so far before it becomes negligible. For the most part nuclear test sites are in the middle of no where. Russia tested in the middle of siberia which is thousands of miles from civilization. The U.S tested in the Nevada desert fairly far from any civilization. After a ... | [
"To be honest, no one really knows. We know there are enough nuclear weapons to take out the worlds major cities, but if countries like India, Brazil and South Africa weren't directly involved, they might survive with their populations intact They could emerge relatively unscathed at the worlds new superpowers, and... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How come highways dont get potholes with constant stress while regular streets do? | [
"Generally it is because Highways / Motorways have a much deeper, thicker and stronger base than smaller roads. Therefore they do not respond to freeze-thaw action in the ground beneath them like smaller roads do. That's not to say they don't become damaged, they do, but the damage is more because of wear from abov... | [
"Yes. It is the cold because, in the direct sunlight, the road gets pretty warm actually. At night, it gets quite cold. This causes a lot of expansion and contraction, which weakens the road whether it is wet or dry. It is the salt because salt is terribly corrosive, especially to anything metal. Bridges are partic... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why don't we develop a new international language? | [
"People have tried. _URL_0_ Why it isn't popular is up for debate, but you identified two of the biggest reasons: laziness/stubbornness, and loss of culture."
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"In the real world why would anyone want to be a politician?"
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why do stocks that don't pay dividends hold value? | [
"They still represent ownership of the company. They have value because, hypothetically, if somebody ever wanted to buy the company, they'd have to buy up all the shares of the stock."
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"Stock is a general reference to the product that you're selling that is ready to sell, if you have three spoons at your store that your're willing to sell, you have three spoons in stock. However, a Stock can also refer to a share of a company that you can own. If you buy this type of stock, you own part of the c... | eli5_question_answer | {
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If atmospheric pressure exerts 1 ton of pressure on me, why can't I feel it? | [
"> I am about .1 m^2 when standing. Maybe .3m^2 when lying down. You're mistaken there. What you need to measure if your body's *surface area*. The atmosphere presses in on you from every direction, not just from above. And the surface area of your skin doesn't change when you change positions. > I have this much ... | [
"Pressure is stuff pushing on you. If you stand on a chair vs hold a chair above your head there is a big different in amount of stuff pushing down on you (one chairs worth). At the center of the earth there is one earths worth of stuff pushing down on you."
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How can drinking water stay clean when it is travelling through old pipes? | [
"I would assume that the constant flow of fast water prevents bacteria, fungus, and other life from being able to settle on the walls of the pipes to grow. Probably the same concept as using a pressure washer to clean stuff. Much like stagnant water is bad to drink from, but fast flowing water is more safe to drink... | [
"To have clean drinking water to the taps in the homes the pipes with lead solder, perhaps even lead pipes, must be replaced, in every home, every common pipe with lead. This is a massive undertaking. The plumbers are unionized. The cost is enormous. The water has always been clear of bacteria. When Flint was buyin... | eli5_question_answer | {
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how does my browser translate the website URL into the website IP? | [
"Q: \"Is there a big database somewhere?\" A: Yes there is a big database somewhere. There are many. The Webbrowser does not act alone in translating URL to IP. The process is involves also the underlying OS. The browser first sends the request to the OS. The OS checks its local store (eg: C:\\windows\\system32\\dr... | [
"It is the hex code for the space symbol. Since a space is not acceptable in a url, it gets converted to hex and then back to text in the process of sending and getting the url request."
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HDI, Gini, GDP (PPP), and GDP (Per Capita) | [
"GDP measures the total value of all goods and services produced in the country over a year. This is also equal to the total amount of income generated by producing those things. GDP per capita is the total value of all goods and services per person. It is the average (numerical mean) income per person. PPP means p... | [
"You are using Franc (later known as Ancien Franc) as currency. Bread costs: F 0.38/Kg Milk:F 0.3/L Eggs: F 1.37/12 source: _URL_0_"
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Why is asking what someone makes considered such a personal question? | [
"Because if it becomes widely known that you make significantly more than your social circle, you might have people asking you for money, people jealous of you, etc... But if it becomes widely known that you make significantly *less* than your social circle, you might be looked down upon, and be viewed with pity, ... | [
"Simply answer: Different culture means different views on stuff like that. Opinion: Even now, I feel like it was done as a result of foreign cultural influence."
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If you get shot why is it better for the bullet to go threw than to stay in the body? | [
"If the bullet goes all the way through, you have a single, neat hole in your body for the surgeons to patch up. Unless the bullet managed to hit something important like an artery or major organ, you will likely survive any bullet wound which goes all the way through as long as you receive prompt medical attention... | [
"pressure slows the bleeding and helps promote clotting. Either that or they are afraid the bullet will shoot back out of the wound and kill someone else."
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If continents drift a couple of inches each year, how are some ancient structures still aligned with certain stars/planets? | [
"I'm not qualified at all to answer this question but we're talking inches in comparison to so many millions of miles to other planets and so unimaginably further to other stars on a giant rock that has an elliptical orbit anyway. Something tells me that those inches don't matter in the grand scheme of things."
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"There are convection currents in the mantle of the earth that rise and sink cyclically. These are what the plates float on and move around on. We can tell where they were in the past by deposits of fossils unique to an area in a specific rock layer. For example, if there’s tropical shells in a layer, then above t... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How do (probably illegal) free live streams of things like sports games hosted on various websites work? | [
"The person doing the streaming has their tv hooked up to their computer, or possibly the computer is hooked directly to the cable line using a tv capture card (you can easily buy one online or at a store that sells computer parts). They use whatever software the streaming website requires to upload the video. The ... | [
"This has been asked before and iirc, the answer was that there are companies with the sole purpose of recording TV and categorizing it on servers that shows like the daily show can pay to search through."
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Why is my beard not as soft as the hair on my head? | [
"The same reason your eyebrows and pubes aren't. It's the same kind of hair."
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"Follow up question, why do I have like three times as many hairs around my left nipple than my right one?"
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Why do movies and TV shows usually use unique OS's on computers as opposed to common operating systems like Windows? | [
"When displaying a screen in a movie or TV show, the director has a few goals: A) Don't piss off the advertisers. If the TV show might run ads for Apple products, or have Apple product placement elsewhere, it'd be a pretty bad idea to put a Windows OP on screen for free. B) Communicate information to the audience i... | [
"They do, its just that there are a lot more Windows PCs out there. The entire purpose of a Virus on a computer is to cause as much trouble as you can before anti-virus updates and eliminates it. Ergo, if you want to cause as much trouble as you can, you write it for windows, not OSX or Linux. There are plenty of e... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is psychological health issues often considered taboo contrary to physical health issues? | [
"I'd argue that at least in the West it stems from the traditionally Christian conception of the mind being separate from body; that you have an independent freedom of will and that if you experience a mental illness it is not a biological problem but one more of moral hazard."
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"It's possible these disorders existed at a similar rate in the past but just never were diagnosed. There was not as large an emphasis on mental health in years past as there is today."
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. What's so special about the Golden Gate Bridge? | [
"It's really pretty. People really like how it looks, and it gets photographed a lot, especially in the fog. It's been used over and over again as an establishing shot to show that a movie or TV show is taking place in San Fransisco and is really a symbol of that city in the media now. It's famous for the same reas... | [
"Something About an apple or fruit.. Source: book i found in the drawer at a hotel."
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Do I have a better chance of hitting the lottery by playing the same numbers every time or playing random numbers every time? | [
"Your chances of winning are the same either way, because each pick of winning numbers is independent. The only strategy to playing the lottery is in choosing numbers you *don't* think others picked, because although you can't modify your chances of winning you *can* modify your chances of a split payout by avoidin... | [
"It's simply a matter of how many people are playing. When the jackpot is at 40 million, not nearly as many people play. Thus, most of the number combinations aren't bought and the prize carries over. When the jackpot is at 500 million, people that normally wouldn't play the lottery play. Most of the number combina... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do kitchens always have sharpening rods for the knives and not other sharpening devices? | [
"That's not a sharpening rod, it's a honing device. It's job is not to take off any material, but to straighten the edge back to true. If you properly hone a knife, it will last much longer between sharpenings."
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"Paper like wood has silica in it which is hard relative to steel so it dulls blades much faster than cloth and scissors sharpening is complicated and more expensive than knife sharpening."
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I've lit the same sized cigarette 20 times a day for the last 10 years... Why do I still have to look at it every time? | [
"To make sure that you do not have it backwards and light the filter."
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"Probably not. The trouble is, this is how a regular smoking habit starts. Usually 1-2 smokes with drinks on the weekend. Then, \"oh, look,\" you still have part of a pack with you on Monday and 1 or 2 couldn't hurt, right? And the same cycle every few weeks until you realize, \"oh, crap. It's really hard for me to... | eli5_question_answer | {
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the yelling, booing and cheering between the politicans inside the House of Commons. What are the rules? | [
"Literally, because of tradition and etiquette. It is strictly prohibited to clap in the House of Commons, so they yell instead. It's been this way for centuries."
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"No riots or anarchy, the rest of the country would laugh, and kick him out onto the white house lawn. Whoever won the 2016 election would take over."
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why do pills contains so many "inactive ingredients"? What are they there for? | [
"Any ingredient in a drug that does not produce a pharmacological effect is considered \"inactive.\" These ingredients are put into medications for different reasons. They can be used to bind the pill together, preserve the active ingredients, prevent the pill from being digested too quickly, help the pill digest q... | [
"My coke says \"natural flavors\", so that's the main point. they aren't legally required to list all flavoring ingredients in detail. Also, listing ingredients doesn't list amounts or how you prepare those ingredients, and that's pretty critical for any recipe."
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Load balancing, how does it work? Any non-technical metaphors | [
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"The DDoS protection ensures that there are not a lot of connection requests coming from the same place. If there were, it would ignore them so that they didn't hinder the operation of the site. Thats the idea behind it at least. Having used cloudflare on a site before, it didn't necessarily always work as advertis... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Will the ice in my driveway melt faster if I break it up? | [
"Yes, breaking up the ice will make it melt faster. Warm air and the warm ground melts the surface of ice. A chunk of ice will eventually melt, but only one layer at a time, which can take a while. However, if you break up the ice, you expose more of it's surface. All the surfaces of all the pieces of the ice will ... | [
"The ice is causing the water on your hands to start freezing. You're actually being frozen to the ice when you touch ice with wet hands."
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What makes software compatibility between Mac or PC so difficult? | [
"Let's say PC is like building with lego, Mac is like building with k'nex. Sure they're both plastic, but lego doesn't fit with k'nex."
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"It is possible for iPhones to run Android: _URL_0_ you can not run iOS on anything other than an iPhone. For the most part, this is due to the Android code being open source and the iOS code being closed source."
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How can projector produce a black image. | [
"It can't, black cannot be projected. It's the absence of light, so the black areas in a projected image are the areas not projected on. That's why you have to darken the room when using a projector. Black areas will only ever be as black as the surface you're projecting on under the ambient room brightness - this ... | [
"Because frames of film are rectangles. Nowadays the digital sensors are rectangles. Also, use the search bar in the future."
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Why do infants grasp every object put in their palms? | [
"It is a reflex of the muscle palmaris longus. The insertion tendon of it can be seen on the anterior side of the forearm when trying to touch thumb to pinky. It is kind of a vestigial muscle from our chimpanzee-like ancestors that would have to grasp tightly to the branch or mother's fur for survival. Now it serv... | [
"Part of development is the development of memory. Babies cannot solve some problems because they literally do not have memory storage. When young babies cannot remember a person who hides their face for a moment. So you can play peek a boo with them."
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The Islamic Revolution | [
"In many ways the causes were the same as many other revolutions: the people at the top of society were getting very, very rich (and very, very corrupt) while at the bottom people were living in terrible poverty. This has happened in many societies and frequently leads to either attempted or succesful coups or revo... | [
"Only if the federal government let it. See: American Civil War"
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Is flying from Berlin to New York technically faster than flying from New York to Berlin? | [
"I think just the opposite. The jet stream moves west to east, which gives flights in that direction tailwinds that allow the jet to move more quickly."
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"You'd have to be more specific about what you're comparing to give a real answer, but be sure you're comparing similar distances to each other. The US is very large; London is about 1000 miles closer to Moscow than New York is to Los Angeles, so one would expect a flight from New York to Los Angeles to be more exp... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is it that our bodies are 98 degrees Fahrenheit, but 80+ degrees outside is uncomfortable and temperatures of objects around 98 degrees can cause burns on skin? | [
"Everyone else has explained about core temp and heat loss. I just want to say that 98 F is not hot enough to burn you. Hot tubs are set to a water temp between 100-102 F, and people literally lay in them for hours. 98 is not hot enough to burn skin."
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"This is more related to relative temperature than actual water temperature. The pool temp is probably pretty constant, we'll call it 65 degrees Fahrenheit. If it's 90 degrees outside and your body has started to adjust to that setting, 65 degree water is going to feel nice and cool. On the other hand, jumping in a... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do humans have morbid curiosity? | [
"I think it's for the same reason we have a curiosity for science and etc. We enjoy the unknown, and well, what's more unknown to us than life and death itself"
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"Why are noses different in size, why are people different heights, why do we have different hair colors?"
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Why do tv shows have a laugh track? | [
"It tells the viewers when to laugh. Laughter begets laughter."
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"Because they're different. Why do UK late night talk shows only air once a week?"
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Why can you easily remove pieces of shell from cracked eggs with another piece of shell, but not with a fork, your fingers, etc? | [
"Wait. You can easily remove pieces of shell from cracked eggs by using another piece of shell??"
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"The water softens the keratin. Thats about it. What's easier to cut a hard cookie or the same cookie after you soak it in milk."
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Can Turtles/Tortoises 'feel' with their shells? | [
"Turtle shells are made of keratin, similar to our fingernails. They don't have nerve endings on the outside of their shell, but they can still feel touches on their shell as it is connected to sensitive tissue."
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"1. It's located on the other side of body. Food goes in one end. Waste goes out the other. Think of fish. 2. So they don't pee / crap on themselves whist moving forward. 3. Mammals evolved from sea creatures which had their holes away from the head. 4. Protection. It's better not having it too exposed."
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Why are thorium reactors better and why are we not funding it? | [
"Pros of thorium: * produces less dangerous nuclear waste * is not useful in producing nuclear weapons * is more plentiful than uranium * we can design new reactors from the ground up with modern technology Cons: * only on the drawing board at this point, we don't know what other kinds of problems might arise * we ... | [
"That depends on a few things. First, is who is putting their hope into it, and how much hope are they putting into it? The US actually scaled back how much money they are spending on fusion research, while other nations are only spending a few billion a year on research into better fusion reactors. That sounds lik... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why humans get relief when scratching a bug bite and why the feeling of the relief doesn't last for long? | [
"Bugs like mosquitoes release an enzyme in their saliva that dulls pain receptors and allows them a chance they feed undetected. Your body releases histamines to attack the foreign enzymes and a wheal or bump due to excess histamine. When you scratch the nerves are stimulated with a stronger stimulus/signal than th... | [
"A lot of nerves in your ear canal link to most of your body. Tickling them makes your blood pressure drop and thus leads to pleasure. At least that's what I read. Correct me if I'm wrong."
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When I get drunk, why do I look drunk? I mean, what physically happens? | [
"Certainly depends on your intoxication level. Suffice to say, alcohol contributes to a temporary condition called ataxia - which is an impairment of your balance and motor coordination. It's likely a result of the alcohol slowing down or impairing the communication of a part of your brain called your \"cerebellum\... | [
"My whole life I thought my nose was fucked up, because I could breath through one side at a time. Now I know it's everybody. What a strange relief. Does it seem to become more noticeable at night time for most people? Because that's when I really can tell."
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How could NAFTA be terminated by a single country? | [
"Either the US, Canada or Mexico could pull out of NAFTA by giving 6 months notice. By nature of scale of economies, if the US pulls out, NAFTA is basically dead. What happens after that would be anyones guess as prior to NAFTA, there were tariffs in place between the three countries. In all likelihood, NAFTA w... | [
"Technically, it was never in effect so nothing at the moment. In order for it to have gone into effect, it would have had to be ratified by at least 6 of the 12 countries that account for 85% of the groups economic output by February 2018. When the time comes to vote, The US will most likely vote no and it will be... | eli5_question_answer | {
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