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why is undercooked chicken more dangerous than undercooked beef? | [
"I saw this question answered before. Chicken is very porous so bacteria has a lot of little places to hide in. Beef is not so less bacteria stick to it. This is my Eli5 version."
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"Related question: What color is human meat when it is cooked? Edit: cooked in the same manner as pork or beef or chicken or whatever"
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How come I can buy stuff from China on amazon that costs less than $3 with free shipping? I don't understand the economics | [
"There are three reasons: 1. There is a difference in economies. You have to earn five times as much here to get by financially. 2. The Chinese government subsidizes shipping. 3. eBay and USPS brokered a trilateral ePacket agreement with China Post that gives China bulk shipping rates (which apply to individual pac... | [
"The people sending you the package is paying for the shipping as well, it looks \"free\" to you but the price of the shipping is just packaged with the price of the item you are buying. If you look through different eBay listings where they sell the same product you will see that the items with \"free shipping\" c... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How it was determined that the stars we see are actually distant suns like our own. | [
"[/r/askscience](/r/askscience) is the best place for an accurate answer to a question like this. I am not sure what the first evidence was, but one thing, we now have the ability to analyse the light light coming from the stars. It is exactly the type of light we would expect from a sun undergoing nuclear fusion."... | [
"Yes, the light you are seeing is possibly billions of years old and just finally reaching Earth. It is very likely that some of the stars we are seeing right now are actually burnt out and we are just seeing the tail-end of their light."
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How is it possible that a washing machine can spin so quickly (1200 rpm)? That's 20 spins in a second..? | [
"> ELI5: How is it possible that a washing machine can spin so quickly (1200 rpm)? That's 20 spins in a second..? That's not even fast! A blender can spin at 18,000 RPM All you need is a properly built motor that's strong enough and good bearings. The motor just needs to be able to overcome the drag at that speed a... | [
"Motors that spin the platters in many parts of the world commonly rotate at 3600 RPM because that's 60 Hz. 7200 rpm is obviously twice that, and 5400 rpm 1.5x"
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Why do computer screens make ripples when I put my finger on them? | [
"ELI5 why you are putting your fingers on the computer's screen."
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"Because our eyelids are thin. Pull your t-shirt over your head and stare at a light bulb. Now drop a phone book on your face and look at the same light bulb. Phone book thicker than t-shirt, hand thicker than eyelid. If my 5 year old ever asks me this I'll send him back."
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Why does paper money have such a distinctive smell? | [
"its feces, cocaine, sweat, body oils and a bunch of other stuff all mixed together."
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"Because the on dollar bill isn't worth faking. If you are going to put the time and effort into making fakes, you want them to be valuable. Also, the one does have some small anti counterfeit measures. They have tiny drawings in certain areas and some other smaller designs."
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Why hasn't anyone/won't anyone take militarized action to secure the Ukraine crash site and investigate, with so many countries having had citizens who died in the MH-17 incident? | [
"There are a lot of politics involved, and very large consequences for any military unit violating another nation's borders. Countries may not want to start a war for the sake of a few dozen people. Additionally, military action isn't something that can happen overnight. Supply lines need to be generated, mission p... | [
"Because they didn't intend to shoot down a civilian airliner. They thought they were shooting down a Ukrainian military transport aircraft. No one has anything to gain from shooting down a bunch of civilians. That's why they are attempting to deny it."
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When we get sick, why does our throat randomly get sore overnight? | [
"Normally your body does a good job of getting rid of your everyday bacterial infections. You might have several colonies of harmful bacteria thriving inside your body but you won't even notice. However, when your immunity system is busy dealing with a widespread viral outbreak, like the flu, bacteria might take ad... | [
"Your body starts to react when you haven’t had the necessary amount of nutrients or other important necessities. How long has your throat been hurting for? How long has it been since you’ve eaten that makes your throat sore. Basically your body is telling you that you need to maintain a healthy eating routine. Al... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Where does cremation come from and why did it get so embedded with the Slovenian customs while being so rare in other countries? | [
"[Cremation is Pretty common in both Europe and the US.](_URL_0_) Not sure what you are talking about. For example the rate is 75% in the UK."
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"It has been and is socially acceptably in a huge range of cultures, and not just Japan. From ancient Rome to the modern Netherlands, it has long been enshrined as acceptable in both law and custom in many different places and specific contexts. I humbly submit that you're confusing your own location with the rest ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do many black women have much fatter asses than any white woman I've ever seen? | [
"West Africans have a more curved femur than whites or Asians. Most black Americans are of west African descent. This is why they jump higher and are faster sprinters. East Africans are the exact opposite with straight femurs, Obama for example. This is why they dominate in distance running."
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"How many beautiful women do you know that are willing to let a complete stranger fuck them in the ass and spray semen on their faces? Now, while you're pondering that I ask you, how many guys do you know that would fuck a beautiful woman they've never met in the ass and spray semen on their face? I believe it all ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How Boomerangs work? | [
"essentially a boomerang is just a pair of wings attached to a gyroscope, so, you know how when you try to turn a bike wheel while it's spinning the wheel resists your attempts to turn it? when you throw a boomerang it spins and has this same effect, the wings are pointed in such a way that one side pushes up and t... | [
"What's to explain? Why we have it? How it works?"
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How do martian rocks end up on Earth? | [
"Something really big hit Mars, blowing the rock free and it fell down to Earth."
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"On Earth, wherever liquid water exists, life is found, including places as cold as Mars (Antarctica) and with very thin atmosphere (Mt. Everest). Meteor impacts have knocked chunks of Mars off and caused them to land on Earth, it is likely that some have traveled from Earth to Mars also. It is just barely possible... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What happens to the sound wave energy when it hits a vacuum? | [
"Sound waves are moved by one particle hitting the next and losing its energy to it. The particles keep passing this energy along, and that creates the energy transfer of the wave. When you helmet vibrates, and all it finds on the other side is vacuum, there's nothing to lose energy to, so it keeps it. A vibration ... | [
"Whether you can hear a sound or not has nothing to do with the speed of transmission at all. It has to do with how much of the sound energy gets through the material to your ears. Some materials absorb sound energy the way a pillow absorbs the kinetic energy of an object."
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Why do I have difficulty walking on to a broken escalator? My mind just won't treat it like stairs. | [
"It's called the [Broken escalator phenomenon](_URL_0_). I think a big part of the problem is the change in step size. Ordinary-stair makers are wise (and required) to be careful to maintain a uniform step height throughout and select from a ergonomically comfortable range. Lots of thought has gone into stair desig... | [
"Walk up the stairs right now and tell me again that you don't see your feet while looking up the stairs, your peripherals keep you feeling safe, you close your eyes and lose all sense of awareness"
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That effect when in bed almost dozing/dreaming you suddenly feel like stumbled and the falling sensation hits you hard with a jolt of adrenalin. | [
"That's called hypnagogic jerk, IIRC. Basically, the hypothesis is that it's caused by your brain misinterpreting the sensation of your muscles relaxing as you fall asleep. It thinks for a moment that you're losing balance, so it goes to correct it. Your conscious explanation of this automatic response is \"I felt ... | [
"I use to have a dream where I died and would just float for a while above my body. It was incredibly unnerving . I imagine though you would wake up from the increased heart rate and adrenaline in you system from the fright of the dream though."
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The other day I drove by a speed radar sign. The sign was showing a slower speed than my speedometer was showing. Which one is more accurate and why? | [
"The radar detector is likely to be more accurate. For two reasons: Your speedometer actually measures rotations of your drive shaft or something directly linked to it, so it presumes that your tires are the same size as those used by the manufacturer to establish the speed, if you've changed brand, tire dimensions... | [
"So, you know when you're driving down the highway, and you see those horizontal lines that go all the way across the road? The DOT has those metered out at a set distance, and they'll time how long it takes you to cross the distance between those lines. Since speed is distance divided by time, they can resolve you... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How do you have different kinds of cheese when it all comes from milk | [
"1. different processes. 2. different cultures. 3. different milks (goat, qualities, fat amounts, etc.)"
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"Most processed meats are made with portions of an animal that likely would be just thrown away. It also has cheap fillers thrown into there which makes them even less expensive. Cheese on the other hand is made with milk, which is not a throw away product. It also takes time to turn into cheese in most cases, it h... | eli5_question_answer | {
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When we started running out of ipv4 addresses, why not just make "ipv5" with 0.0.0.0.0 through 255.255.255.255.255? | [
"That's effectively what IPv6 does, only it skips straight to using 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255.255.255.255.255.255.255.255.255.255.255.255.255 (though we usually write the addresses in hex to be more compact - 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000 to ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff... | [
"192.168.x.x is part of the 'private' range of addresses set aside by the Internet masters (APNIC). Whilst these are valid addresses, they are specificically designed not to be transmitted across the wider Internet. There are actually 3 such sets, (Class A, B and C). These are: A: 10.0.0.0 to 10.255.255.255. B: 17... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do TV shows and films often have their characters using fake social media websites/search engines on screen? | [
"It is considered advertising and there are a few reason they avoid it. 1) It being advertising they want to be paid for it. Most will not pay so they make imitation products. It is the same reason they invent soda or beer brands, and why apple computers will have the apple logo covered or altered. 2) If the prod... | [
"You might be surprised at how much little stuff is digital these days. You only spot the obvious or semi-obvious stuff. Search YouTube for behind the scenes green screen shots and you may be amazed at how much even modest budget and boring shows like a procedural use CGI for things like locations."
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The more I read, the more I wonder: How the hell is Clozapine in Pregnancy Class B when it's considered such a dangerous medication? | [
"All antipsychotics cross the placenta. Unfortunately, unmedicated schizophrenia in the mother poses a greater risk to unborn children than antipsychotics. Also, in both animal studies and human surveys, clozapine is not shown to be teratogenic (causes birth defects). _URL_0_"
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"Its an amphetamine, It isn't necessarily healthy for you and it can become habit forming. Need a better explanation?"
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How Dry Cleaning Works? | [
"Dry cleaning is not dry in the sense that it's not wet, it's just dry in the sense that it doesn't use water. Dry cleaning is a process of cleaning clothes using a chemical solvent to dissolve dirt off clothes rather than water and detergent. The process started with Romans using Ammonia to wash clothes, then late... | [
"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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Gorillaz and their virtual band "history" | [
"Huge Gorillaz fan here. I'd rewrite it but since this question is asked a lot by fans, it can be solved by a simple google search. Backstory before the band 'got together': [here](_URL_0_) Condensed full storyline before and after: [here](_URL_1_)"
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"Better Artist who were a part of that team? That’s my guess"
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If an education is supposed to help you in life, how come people complete it knowing it will cause you lots of trouble down the road? | [
"I don't understand your question. Education doesn't tend to cause problems down the road. I can't think of a time when I thought \"dammit, my life would be so much better now had I been less educated.\" EDIT: OK, it seems you're asking about student loans, not education. Well, it's because the benefits outweigh th... | [
"Because your parents will teach you how to survive in the world that we live in, but schools try to teach you how to understand as much as you can about the world that we live in."
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What happens in the long run if for every 5 days I skip one night of sleep and continue to sleep the same amount of hours for the rest of the days? | [
"I did roughly this for about 2 months. I gained 25 lbs. It's important to note that I wasn't eating very healthy and was averaging 4-6 hours of sleep per night the rest of the week with one 9-12 night but that was true for months before and after missing the one night's sleep a week and I didn't gain weight before... | [
"Yes. All you need to have are fixed times for sleeping. Get up every day, even weekends and holidays, at the same time. If you are still tired the first week that shouldn't be surprising. If you still are overly tired after a month, improve your overall sleep quality. For example get better pillows or sleep in a r... | eli5_question_answer | {
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what does "cyto-toxic" and "cell-toxic" mean? | [
"Cytotoxic simply describes something that destroys or interupts the function of a cell. It can describe a chemical or another cell. \"Cell toxic\" means exactly the same thing. The previous cyto means cell."
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"When you get sick, its commonly caused by an viral or bacterial infection. Not going into the details, your immune system initiates a variety of reactions on metabolic and zellular levels. Theres a high output of \"pro-inflammatory- substances (they cause the swelling, redness warmth and many other things associat... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do things appear to move slower, when they are much bigger? | [
"A 1cm-long fly moving at 1 m/s covers 100x its body length, per second. A 15m-long bus moving at 1 m/s covers only 1/15 of its body length, per second. In other words, they seem to move slower because your brain is measuring their speed in terms of how large they are."
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"Time is relative to speed. The faster you go the slower time appears to go from your perspective. That's why there's a universal speed limit of the speed of light, because the closer to the speed of light you travel the slower time seems to pass. If someone is at the top of a tall mountain then as the world spins ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why aren't "season tickets" to your favorite bands a thing? | [
"I can't speak for everywhere, but the bands I would subscribe too aren't in my area more than once a year, and when they are - it's part of a bigger concert. I would much prefer to just buy tickets on the fly, for flexibility and the economics of it."
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"You forget money from licensing, clothes, hats, figurines, etc. Plus advertising at the stadium. Sales of the private booths, Revenue from renting out the stadium to other venues, like concerts. And of course revenue from showing the games on TV. Plus I'm sure I'm missing a few other revenue sources for them."
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How do pills know where to go in your body? | [
"They don't. Ibuprofen (the active ingredient in Advil) gets absorbed into your bloodstream. What it does is it prevents cells from sending signals to the brain that say \"something is wrong here\". Your brain interprets these signals as pain. It does this roughly uniformly over the entire body. If you took Ibuprof... | [
"Your brain is telling your body to get something off of itself."
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How do computer board designers change and update parts like GPUs and motherboards to be compatible with all types of new and old standards, and make them faster, so quickly? | [
"In a word: Standards. If your part doesn't comply with the standards for that part, it won't work with anything else. Which means nobody will buy it. New standards are sometimes backwards-compatible. Sometimes they are not - so part manufacturers don't *always* make stuff compatible with everything else. Add to ... | [
"Phone software and hardware are typically designed for each other. Especially with iPhones, but also with the most popular Androids, the components of the phone are “standardized”; the developer of an app knows what the device running it is capable of, and can design it accordingly to run with minimal hiccups. On ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why does hair stop growing on men's necks at the point in which they do? | [
"Idk what you're talking about, I got hair from head to toe. Literally, there is a path of hair from my head to my toe"
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"Because the opposite isn't called balding, it's called a receding hairline. Where it starts at the forehead and works its way back."
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Wouldn't atoms theoretically form elliptical due to gravity like other objects? | [
"As I understand it, at the scale of atoms, gravity isn't really significant compared to electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces. Gravity only becomes significant at that scale in extremely dense matter, as you might find in a black hole."
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"It's because gravity pulls equally in all directions. If you have lots of small dust/rock objects, they will be attracted to their collective center of mass. Because of this, they bunch together equally and the more stuff there is, the more spherical it becomes (this is why small asteroids aren't very spherical; t... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How could the governments of USA / UK have given such large payouts to the banks when they failed and then the money go to large bonuses to the people who were responsible for the failures? | [
"Money was given to the banks because if the banks collapsed it very likely would have destroyed the econonomy. The money wasn't just given to the CEOs, although a portion was. I'm not going to say what Occupy was against or not, as I feel like it was broad enough that there would be plenty of interpretation there.... | [
"Either the banks were bailed out or every business and citizen that used those banks lost all of their money. Businesses having no money to pay workers, and citizens having no money to pay bills and buy food is a lot worse for the economy than the government bailing out banks."
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The Plot to Final Fantasy VII | [
"The central themes of the plot of this game are environmentalism, freedom, loss, and memory. The background of the story is about a corporation which is willing to sacrifice the environment to make money, and people who are willing to trade the environment for an easier life that this corporation can provide. Ther... | [
"Sleep - Shake Unconscious - Splash Coma - Wait and Hope Vegetative State - Wait and Bury"
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How do nuclear reactors work? And what exactly is a meltdown? | [
"Very simply, a nuclear reactor uses Uranium (which gives off energy as it splits - aka, nuclear fission) to heat water, which in turn drives turbines to create electricity. A meltdown is when the nuclear reaction goes too fast, and the Uranium fuel melts (at a very high temperature). This can cause release of radi... | [
"Uranium itself does not become electricity. Uranium is used to heat water. The water boils, and goes up as steam through a turbine, which spins and generates electricity. Most nuclear power plants are based on this design - the uranium + water = Steam, Steam + Turbine = Electricity Pros: High-energy production, yo... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is sugar a primary ingredient of things that are not sweet or traditionally don't include them | [
"Many of the more favourable taste sensations we get from food are caused by a mix and blend of various flavour-carrying chemicals. Some tone down others, others cause mild flavours that are there to be stronger. For example, the best chefs sampling a dish might add a little lime juice to their stirfry because it n... | [
"While it might say \"zero calories\" or \"zero sugar\", all that really means is that the molecules inside cannot be used by your body for energy. Doesn't mean things can't be sweet to your taste buds."
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Why can I sit at home and drink 10 beers and it not affect me in the slightest, but go out to a bar and drink the same and feel significantly more drunk? | [
"It also may be the rate at which you drink the bees. A consistent and even 10 beers at home may be different than how you drink at a bar. If you \"front load\" your drinks early at the bar they will hit you differently. Drinking your first 4 or 5 beers in the first hour is going to make the night go differently."
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"As a guy with this particular genetic flaw, the answer is pretty straight forward. We enjoy alcohol for the same bloody reasons the rest of the world enjoys it. Those 'side effects' aren't too different from what other people get when they drink a lot of alcohol (nausea, headaches, general discomfort). The only di... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why, when looking towards an approaching storm,does it seem that everything in view is in 'HD' and when looking away the vision is less clear? | [
"The area \"under\" the storm has a lot less light. This results in a lot less scattering and reflection of said light. When you have less reflected light bouncing around and hitting you from all angles things appear crisper. This is very akin to the affect a polarizing lens has. Typically when you look out towards... | [
"It's an illusion your mind creates to make sense of an object in the horizon. If you look at the rising moon upside down you'll notice it's small again."
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When you’re tired, why is it harder to keep your eyes open than it is to walk? | [
"Being physically tired and sleepy are different things. Being sleepy is like your brain being tired, not your muscles."
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"You will yawn as your body tries its hardest to stay awake. Yawning helps you absorb as much oxygen in the air. Whereas as you're trying to sleep, your body is has to be rested and relaxed so you tend not to yawn when you're lying in bed."
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Why was the #MH17 Plane shot down? | [
"Rebels with little to no military training were provided with anti-aircraft missiles by a completely unknown foreign power that rhymes with \"Dussia.\" Since the people operating this equipment were not very well trained, they couldn't tell the difference between an enemy military plane and a commercial jetliner a... | [
"Plane shot down in Ukraine, Israel began ground invasion of Gaza, etc"
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How do we decaffeinate tea/coffee? | [
"The beans or leaves are repeatedly washed in water or another solvent until enough of the caffeine has been removed to meet the desired level."
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"Its because caffeine isn't that strong of a diuretic by itself but it's metabolites of theobromine and theophylline are. Energy drinks use pure caffeine while natural teas and coffees have high theobromine content which explains why they make you pee more than energy drinks Edit to be more ELI5: caffeine makes you... | eli5_question_answer | {
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why is it when in complete silence you hear a faint ringing or buzzing noise? | [
"_URL_0_ You cannot always ascertain the cause just by knowing there is a ringing sound though. So I haven't really explained why you hear sounds, I've just given you a name for it. You should probably ask a doctor or someone to examine you (to figure out if there is a remediable cause) if you cannot simply adjust ... | [
"Helps me sleep because in a silent room, my tinnitus is deafening. Try sleeping with a loud ringing that you can't dig out with an icepick."
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How can such an oil-rich country as Venezuela be in such dire financial straits? | [
"Because of bad policies. Price and currency controls as well as a lot of other stuff like land redistribution and state seizures of property more broadly have led to dramatic contractions in just about every industry. Once the oil price fell such that venezuelan oil was no longer profitable, state subsidies could... | [
"The reason Argentina's government is harping about Las Malvinas at this time is because the country is once again headed towards collapse or at least a recession. Import duties have gone through the roof, hindering companies from producing, inflation is insane and foreign currency reserves are more or less deplete... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why are ships always referred to as "her" and "she"? | [
"> \"thar she blows\" - that's a whale > \"I just got her waxed\" - wax a ship? I suppose you could might reduce drag! 😁 Ships being female is an English thing stemming from the romance of men at sea. The old joke also that says: *\"A ship is called a she because there is always a great deal of bustle around her;... | [
"Whom is an object whereas who is a subject. It's just like he/him and she/her: \"He is tall\" vs \"That is him?\" is analogous to \"Who is tall\" vs \"That is whom?\""
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How exactly do people actually support El Chapo, and want him freed? | [
"like Escobar I imagine he Won over the public with privately funded benefits/welfare for the poor using his drug money, Robin hood tactics I think they call it."
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"Every time a new president in Mexico comes along, I think the drug dealers bribe the president a large amount of money to let them sell their drugs in peace. Our last president Felipe Calderón, didn't accept this \"bribe\" and instead tried to put a stop to drug dealers and all that stuff. Well for the past six ye... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How are LEDs able to be any colour? | [
"They actually don't change color, they are actually 3 small LED's, one red, one green, and one blue; so just like pixels on a computer monitor, they mix together to form a bunch of colors."
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"There is no dot scanning super fast accross the screen. Lasers can be collimated to long-focused dots like you see in a laser pointer or a laser light show, but they don't have to be. They can spread out and illuminate a large surface as well. This is exactly what's happening with laser projectors. An image is ill... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Calling cards and how they make calling other countries cheaper. | [
"My understanding is that instead of routing through the teleco's network, you're effectively ringing a local number which then routes over the internet to the destination and ring out from a local number there and connect you to your desired party, so that way the company only pays for two local calls (which they ... | [
"Because it's cheaper to have it made in other countries."
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How can you get a lot of calories from peanuts if they seem to pass right through? | [
"Food is energy for our bodies. We measure that energy in calories, or the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of a gram of water by a single degree Celsius. Some food is better at storing that energy in a compact form. For the sake of example, a gallon of water won't contain as much energy as a gallon... | [
"Those noodles are basically made of water and fiber so they have very little to no nutritional value. If that was all you had to eat you most likely would starve to death."
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What happened with the Eurozone summit deal about Greece's debt and what that means for its people. | [
"According to the [BBC](_URL_0_ ), the Greeks agreed to a deal. The Greeks agreed that their parliament would streamline the pension system and boosting tax revenue - especially from VAT. The people are hurt by this, lower pensions and higher taxes. Greek negotiators also agreed the parliament would liberalize the ... | [
"Not correct. The truth is, that nobody knows right now. This is completely uncharted territory. Anything can happen, from what you said, to receiving a bailout from Russia, to receiving a new settlement from the EU. In the meantime, the EU has said that temporarily, they will continue supporting banks in Cyprus as... | eli5_question_answer | {
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The plot to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | [
"Hunter S Thompson (Raoul Duke) is a journalist who is sent to Las Vegas to write about a motorcycle race that is taking place out in the desert. He brings along his friend and lawyer Oscar (Dr. Gonzo). Both of them have a penchant for an assortment of drugs. They get a hotel room there, hang out, take in Vegas, do... | [
"There was an insane amount of money flooding Miami due to cocaine. Many drug busts later and it is what it is today. Check out the movie Cocaine Cowboys."
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I don't understand what an economy is... | [
"The economy is the name given to the collective actions of all the people buying and selling things. No single group, not even the government, controls all of this activity. But, when you go to your grocery store and buy a loaf of bread you are contributing, in some small part, to the larger economy."
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"You have to explain what you want. I don't know what the special base 'e' rule is."
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Why can't over-the-air radio or television be received on cell phones? | [
"They do have FM receivers. But they're disabled because carriers want to be able to charge you for data you use by streaming audio _URL_0_"
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"They were broadcast over the airwaves, like radio still is now. Or they were broadcast by satellite to local stations, who broadcast it over the airwaves. We were able to do a lot without an internet. Even invent the internet."
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Carbon or Radiometric Dating | [
"Here is a MEGA simplified example; technically inaccurate but follows a similar principal. Lets say you find a bone. A brand-new bone is made up 100% of atom A. You know that atom A decays, eventually, in to atom B. Half-life is 100 years. So, you find a bone, and look at it's atoms. It is made of up 50% atom A an... | [
"Side 1 - For Vaccines: -Science Side 2 - Against Vaccines: -Paranoid idiocy"
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Why do some places (like supermarkets) have cash-back but don't charge a fee? | [
"Because it is beneficial to them as well. It saves them the time and fees of depositing cash."
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"You can run a debit card as credit, so you won’t have to enter a pin (but you should have to sign for large purchases). Some merchants run cards as credit for convenience sake (fast food)"
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Why do college textbooks cost so much money? | [
"Mostly it is because they have a small market, and are expected to update every year. But also just because they can."
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"Why does it cost money to get divorced? Because it's worth it!"
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So, I just learned that if you inject air into the bloodstream, it'll kill you. So why didn't groups like the Nazi's use this to kill people as I imagine it would be very cheap? | [
"Gassing several people at once is more efficient than injecting every singe one with air. Germans are all about efficiency"
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"There was discussion about cyanide pills, but it was eventually rejected. Cyanide is a painful, unpleasant way of dying. It would have just been easier to slowly let the O2 run out (or really, let the CO2 levels rise). Then you just quietly go to sleep and never wake up."
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If I flip my tongue upside-down and touch it on the left ( =right-side relative to the tongue), it feels exactly like I'm touching the left side of my tongue in a normal position. Shouldn't it feel like I'm touching its right side? | [
"So I know the generalities. Obtained from \"Science Mike\" McHargue. Has to do with the evolution of humans, and never needed to evolve to be able to tell which side of the tongue is feeling sensation. The reason you feel left versus right on tongue at all is a lie your brain is telling you. You touch the left sid... | [
"Because the mirror actually doesn't reverse left right. It reverses _front and back_ - as if someone pulled your nose out the back of your head. If you track the image from the wall behind you, you'll notice that your back is closer to that wall than your nose is. However, if you extend this analysis to your image... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How does Dominos Pizza Tracker work? Or is it not even real? | [
"They have buttons to press on their display screens that tell them what to make. In theory it's real and shows the real names of the people that are really logged in. But how real it actually is depends on how much you trust a bunch of teens to actually take it seriously and keep logged in as the right people and ... | [
"What kind of black magic is this? Search isn't supposed to be useful. Thanks!"
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How is it possible to be underwater with an upside down raft and to be able to breathe without the water filling the raft? Same as if you put a glass upside down in a bowl of water. | [
"The water won't fill the raft because it would have to displace the air, which can only go up. However, this also means that the raft would actually be floating, unless it was weighted down."
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"The air in your nose. For the water to go in your nose the air has to go out first. It is like putting a glass in water upside down, as long as the glass stays upside down the air stays in the glass. Once you turn the glass the water comes out. Your nose is the same way, as long as you keep your head up water won'... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why does music sound slower when I'm running? | [
"I've experienced this too. My guess has always been that with an increased heart beat/adrenaline, it's almost like your brain is capturing more frames of reality per second. This is how slow-motion video is created: more frames are captured per second, and when those frames are played back at normal speed, the sub... | [
"Why do the glands in my neck burn like high hell when I'm holding back tears?"
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Why do muscles get sore the next day? | [
"Muscle fibers tend to be this type of longish cells. When you work out and go through several cycles of lengthening and contraction of the fibers some regions will be weaker than others so you will have small tears within your muscle. This causes slight levels and inflammation that help recruit repair tools to str... | [
"Why does stretching my hamstrings feel so unpleasant, while stretching my calves feels good?"
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Why shit burns when having diarrhea? | [
"A few reasons. If you have diarrhea when you're sick, you could be pooping a lot, wiping a lot, and therefore rubbing your b-hole raw, making anything that touches it burn. But if you're talking diarrhea after eating spicy foods, the spicy foods have an affect on your colon, which increases the water content in yo... | [
"Don't they say if your urine smells of sugar puffs you should get checked for diabetes?"
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Why do British and Australian singers seem to lose their accents when they sing? | [
"I'm Australian and I wonder why American singers lose their accents when they sing."
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"The British accent? There are British accents that sound harsh and vulgar, but I guess it's due to a certain image. There's the southern belle that sounds refined and regal and that's an American accent. That's for the secondary question. To the first, I dunno. I'm an American so I don't know how hard it is for a ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How do "safe spaces" at Universities work? | [
"A safe space is usually not a specific location. A meeting, class, event, or gathering can be called or declared to be a \"safe space\". There are two types of safe spaces. 1. An environment where you can expect to be able to speak your mind, say what you really believe, and talk about anything without being attac... | [
"The social justice movement has become something of a telephone game in the US. At the core, there's good ideas, but down the line certain self righteous individuals take them to illogical extremes. Like with trigger warnings. Saying \"Hey, if you could put a warning before any descriptions of rape or sexual assau... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How do credit card readers never charge the wrong account? | [
"Credit card numbers have check digits. There is a mathematical formula that has to be correctly solved to verify that the card number is valid. If the formula can't be solved, it disregards the entire number, and you have to re-swipe."
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"Credit card companies charge a certain percentage of the total sale price every time a customer uses their card."
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Why are automobile engines made with cylindrical pistons? | [
"The function of the cylinder is to contain a little gasoline explosion, directing the force out in on direction (moving the piston). A round shape is the strongest shape for containing the explosion, because it has no weak corners to crack, or weak flat areas to bulge out. A linear shape (a cylinder rather than a ... | [
"Flathead engines are ones where the valves are placed in the engine block, alongside the pistons. Compare to overhead valve engines, where it's up top. V8 means it has 8 pistons arranged in two sets of four, which meet at an acute angle, making a \"V\" shape."
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who is in charge of the cables in the ocean that connect the internet to different countries? | [
"The owner is. Someone owns these cables and charges for their use, or uses it for their own ends. A lot of the cables are collectively owned by some big telecomm companies, but some are just owned by a company that does nothing except handle their cables."
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"No, the cell network is plugged into fiber-optic cables that carry the traffic under the ocean. The cell network on the islands is plugged into the other end."
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When people collect signatures, how do we know they didn't forge a bunch of them? | [
"We don't know that. For petitions that actually do things the government audits them by taking a few pages at random and checking them against voter rolls. Then they take the percentage that are accurate on those pages and extrapolate it to all of the pages. If they find a lot of bad signatures they look at the re... | [
"Petitions operate on the idea that \"if we get enough people to shout loud enough then change will happen\". A large number of signatures can be a pretty loud voice. So really it depends on the petition. If you get 100,000 registered voters in a single district to sign a petition saying \"I vote, I am in your dis... | eli5_question_answer | {
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why aren't full service gas stations more common across America? | [
"> it would solve a lot of issues from unemployment Not really. It would create a small number of extra jobs, but would also inflate the price of gas to cover the cost of all these new people being employed. It could have the effect of just reducing gas consumption, which could then cause a *drop* in employment in ... | [
"Most US gas comes from internal (or Canadian) sources, not shipping from overseas. Pipelines are a pretty cheap way to move oil and gas. Not quite as cheap as ships perhaps, but then with ships you still need to use another mode of transportation. You usually can't just drive up to a port and fill your Mustang rig... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How does the golden ratio follow the fibonacci sequence? | [
"Take two successive numbers of Fibonacci sequence, 13 and 21 for example. 21/13 will be close to golden ratio. Kepler proved that limit of ratio of two infinitely large successive Fibonacci numbers is golden ratio, or lim{n - > inf} F{n+1}/Fn = phi. EDIT: More general form, as wikipedia says, is lim{n - > inf} F{n... | [
"A lot of the \"links\" people see between the golden ratio and nature are really overexaggerrated claims from people who are interested in esoterism and the mystical. In practice, the golden ratio isn't really related to the way plants grow at all."
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Why is chiropractic viewed as an inferior form of medicine by many physicians? | [
"Chiropractic is effective for treating certain types of back injury. However, chiropractors can sometimes make claims about the alignment of your spine causing ALL illness. And that's just not true."
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"The doctrinal basis of chiropractic is that all diseases and issues with the body, no matter what they are, have a single cause, namely vertebral misalignment, and can therefore be cured with a single type of treatment, namely spinal manipulation. Even today, when, from my understanding, the majority of chiropract... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How did people discover that some poisonous foods (such as blowfish) are edible if prepared a certain way? | [
"As far as I know, the most poisonous parts of blowfish are the organs, which sequentially tend to be eaten last. Most of the meat itself isn't all that toxic, as its not the blowfish itself that is deadly but the bacteria present in its organs that it itself is immune to. Even in primitive times, it didn't take a ... | [
"basically, some people have mild allergies to certain foods. While not enough to cause danger, some people will experience mild allergic responses such as tingling or itching in their mouths or throats after eating certain foods. Also, heat can cause chemical changes which can do something like denature a protein... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is bigamy illegal? | [
"Legal: Marriage is a contract between two parties. It's an agreement that has benefits, protections and consequences within the law that are defined by having two parties. Involving a third party means different laws. Societal: God thinks it's bad."
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"In which countries is it even done this way, except the US?"
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If cat's and dog's hearing is so much more sensitive than human hearing, why are they not bothered by things such as traffic noise or TV noise? | [
"Cats and dogs can hear a wider range of sound frequencies. That does not necessarily mean that they will experience noice to be any louder then what we experience it to be. Also, dogs tend to not give a f*ck."
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"I believe it's because not only are they big scary loud machines coming at them, but dogs hear frequencies that we can't. It's very possible that there are frequencies above 20,000Hz the vacuum produces that we simply can't hear that bother the dogs ears. Dogs also have much more sensitive hearing than we do, and ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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When lightening hits the ocean, why does the entire ocean not get electrocuted? | [
"The fish would need to be at the water surface and be directly hit by the discharge. A water body of any appreciable size will act as an earth discharging the current throughout the water volume. In order for a fish to be affected it would need to be directly struck or in a small enough water body that the whole v... | [
"Lighting is very hot. When there's a lightning bolt, it rapidly heats the air around it, creating a sort of explosion. That explosion is thunder."
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What does the "key to the city" actually do? | [
"It's purely ceremonial. You have to realize that this wasn't always the case. About a thousand years ago, most cities were protected by walls. There was usually only one or two ways of gaining entrance to any city. This was either a locked door or gate. This is because back then anyone arriving could have been a b... | [
"What does the Pope handle on a day to day basis?"
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Would Dr. Evils plan from the first Austin Powers really work? What would happen if it really did? | [
"It would do absolutely nothing. Earth is a massive celestial body and we simply don't have enough firepower to affect it in a meaningful way. Sure, an all-out nuclear war would crash the ecosystem but Earth, as a planet, wouldn't care. Detonating a nuclear device in the core, as unrealistic as the entire scenario ... | [
"This whole thing was very much news to me and i had no idea it was even happening. How did they track the comet and know where it was going to be?"
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In gaming what is a casual? And why do most gamers tend to hate them? | [
"Casual gamer - someone who buys a game to play and enjoy occasionally, and doesn't spend every minute playing or obsessing about it. From me, as a casual gamer, I find the hardcore gamers annoying since they shoot you in the head two seconds after you enter the game from across the map that (they've played 1,000 t... | [
"Because they want the game to appeal to a larger casual audience primarily. The sorts of things that make a game competitive also make it harder for casual players to enjoy."
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How did silent letters in words come about? | [
"[Here](_URL_0_) you can find some previous answers to this question."
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"So when and where did playing cards as we know them come into being anyways?"
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how does the sound from a music file travel through earbuds or headphones | [
"Oh I see the confusion. The sound isn't created by the computer. The earbuds convert electricity to music. The computer outputs electricity that looks like the sound. The earbuds have a \"voice coil\" which is a coil of wire which floats inside a magnet. It looks like [this:](_URL_0_). The coil will move in and ou... | [
"several reasons a few of the main reasons: sound travels faster through plastics/metals than through air, so distinct sound reaches your eardrums more quickly than you're used to hearing the headphones block external sounds which normally make up a part of the sound you usually hear. the sounds that normally trave... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why most of the series debut episodes are named ''Pilot'' | [
". > A pilot experiment, also called a pilot study, is a small scale preliminary study conducted in order to evaluate feasibility, time, cost, adverse events, and effect size (statistical variability) in an attempt to predict an appropriate sample size and improve upon the study design prior to performance of a f... | [
"There is no short answer: [This first](_URL_1_) This is by far the best explanation of the entire series. Currently up to season 4 of my 5th rewatch and first after reading that article. I have noticed so many hints in the dialog to attach this theory to the story. [This is the ending](_URL_0_)"
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How do astronauts work out in orbit? | [
"They have various tools like a specially designed treadmill that forces the astronaut down using bungee straps and things like pull bars that uses rubber bands to create resistance instead of Weight."
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"Truthfully, we don't really know, that is part of the mission of the International Space Station. To monitor the effects long periods of weightlessness have on the human body."
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What do banks actually do on a wider scale? | [
"\"Banks funding wars\" is a rothschilde conspiracy. A Bank keeps your money safe while loaning other people that money and paying you interest. Sometimes banks can choose to invest their large amounts of capital in enterprise, projects or loan money to specific people or groups to invest in new business. Any corpo... | [
"What does the Pope handle on a day to day basis?"
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Why does my shadow extend when closer to another shadow? | [
"You can read the whole thing [here](_URL_0_), but basically shadows are fuzzy around the edges."
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"Light from the sun reflects back slightly better from the grass when looking almost directly opposite the sun. That direction of course is going to be right next to the shadow cast by the drone."
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How do they make baby carrots and baby corn? | [
"Baby carrots: Full-sized carrots that are cut down to the baby size. Baby corn: Harvest it when it's very young instead of waiting until it is big."
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"Why doesn't everyone make their own soda? Or their own bread? Or wash their own cars?"
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When I'm sick what causes my sore throat? | [
"Specifically, it is the cells in your throat dying. A common way that virus spreads is to infect healthy cells, hijack them to make copies, and causing them to \"explode\" to spread these copies. The feeling of a sore throat is essentially the cells of your throat dying en masse."
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"Your body starts to react when you haven’t had the necessary amount of nutrients or other important necessities. How long has your throat been hurting for? How long has it been since you’ve eaten that makes your throat sore. Basically your body is telling you that you need to maintain a healthy eating routine. Al... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How is it that my Reddit app is able to see the uncensored image for a brief second & how is it being censored? | [
"It looks like the OP originally posted the uncensored image, decided that that was a bad idea, and updated the image on imgur to be censored. But reddit caches images, and your reddit app shows the image that was cached by reddit while it's loading the one from imgur. So you see the original, cached image, immedia... | [
"I have no account or app, and I can no longer see the end linked by news sites. That's huge, as they don't directly post videos or pics on the news sites themselves. That has got to change!"
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What exactly is this new "steam box?" | [
"The actual marketing term is now \"Steam Machines\", Steam box is the term people used before its official announcement. Steam box might now refer to Valve's prototype machines. As for what it is... All it is is a marketing term for a PC that a) will come with SteamOS preinstalled, b) probably come with a Steam Co... | [
"What the heck is a parcel pick up?"
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What are the differences between consumer-grade CPUs made by AMD/Intel and Digital Signal Processirs made for industrial/military purposes? | [
"You seem to be confusing two things: - general purpose CPU vs DSP. DSP are CPU whose instruction sets and internal architecture are particularly well adapted to signal processing. For such kind of application, they are more powerful (per watt, per dollar) than usual CPU. You probably have several in your home (you... | [
"They're graphics card manufacturers, not GPU manufacturers. For the GPU the two largest manufacturers are nVidia and AMD, it's pretty much like with CPU's. They develop and create the GPU. Third party graphics card manufacturers can then make a deal with Nvidia to use their GPU. The GPU design can't be changed, b... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why can you often hear a steady, high-pitch, low-volume ringing sound in complete silence? | [
"You might have [tinnitus](_URL_0_), which is fairly common condition with any number of causes. I've had it most of my life, and it's not a big deal or even really noticeable except in complete silence."
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"White noise is purely random, it can cloud out non random noises. Prevent the brain from finding sounds it can latch onto, at least at lower volumes. So if something like a dripping faucet or the low level noise of a street were keeping you up, you could use a white noise machine to drown those out into a vague se... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why are states electing to ban the sale of Tesla vehicles? | [
"States ban the sale of Tesla based on the fact that Tesla sells their cars to the person directly as in there is no dealership. The association for dealerships lobby hard to get these banned because they figure that if Tesla can do this, than other car makers can start doing the same ergo no more car dealership an... | [
"Is the United States the only country in the world allowed to advertise prescription drugs on TV?"
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Why don't bugs splatter from falling proportionally equal distances as a human jumping off a building? | [
"Because they hit the ground with significantly less force because they weigh less (and also because they probably have a very slow terminal velocity). If the ground were to hit the bug with the same force that it hits you, the bug would die. If you were to drop just chuck one of your legs off the roof, it also mig... | [
"The weight of a bug scales as the cube of the the length of the bug. A bug twice the length of another one will weigh 2^3 = 8 times the weight of the smaller one if they are exactly scaled. Smaller and thus, lighter bugs will be pushed away by the flow of air you are displacing with your hand when you are swatting... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What happens to guide dogs and K9 units that fail their training? | [
"Then they get to be normal dogs for a lucky family. There are special websites and societies that specilize in either ex K9 unit dogs and/or failed graduates. [One Example] (_URL_0_)"
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"Assistance animals are taught to poop on command. And the owner has a schedule."
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How do bugs even survive in nature? | [
"Insects don't have the \"intelligence\" approach to survival like us. They have short lifespans. A female cockroach can lay 300-400 eggs in her lifetime. They are quite hardy but numbers is their strong suit."
] | [
"What on Earth are you talking about? 1. Humans can taste water. 2. How do you know that dogs can taste water?"
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How sunburns occur, and why they can cause pain for days after receiving the sunburn. | [
"When you get a burn, what you are doing is causing damage to the DNA in your skin cells. There is a chemical called thymine that is one of the bases in your DNA. When it is hit by UV light, it can get knocked out of place and attach to a thymine next to it. This forms what is called a dimer. When many dimers form... | [
"Because skin pigmentation isn't to protect you from heat. It's to protect you from the sun's dangerous UV rays which damages DNA and causes skin cancer."
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Why do bathroom stalls have gaps in the US? | [
"1) Easier to mop the floor. Walls mean seams which can gather grime and other funny stuff. 2) Cheaper to build. The stalls mount at two points: the wall and the door pillars. 3) Less hanky-Panky goes on when the stalls aren't 100% private."
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"Urinals don't require you to fully take your pants down. Using a toilet does."
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Why do banks make people fill out a deposit slip at the teller's window, then make them use the ATM card reader, when customers don't have to fill out anything at the ATM to deposit checks? | [
"Where it's used, it's accountability for the teller. Essentially you fill out the slip with $XXX dollars on it, then when they process the document the receipt is printed on the same sheet and should reflect the same amount. That way there is a cross-check and verification that both of you agree how much money was... | [
"They used to. Back in the long ago, some of the gas stations in remote locations would accept bills. Now that most people have credit cards, you can pay at the pump with that. If you only want to put in $10, you can walk in. The cash accepting machines aren't incredibly reliable, and would require more service tha... | eli5_question_answer | {
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how does a digital scale work (or any simple digital device for that matter) | [
"See the orange thing in the middle of the metal strip? That's a [strain gauge.](_URL_0_) Basically, a resistor that changes resistance when you bend it. The electronics measure the change in resistance between when something is and isn't on the scale, do some math, and boom out pops the weight."
] | [
"nuclear fuel rods heat water, steam turns a turbine. they are very basic, no need to complicate it more than need be."
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Are undercover cops not a violation of the 5th amendment? | [
"No. The 5th amendment basically prevents people from *coercing* incriminating testimony out of you. Testimony you offer freely (even if under false pretenses) is fair game."
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"In the USA, interference of that sort could be seen as unconstitutional, a violation of the First Amendment."
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If sleeping is good to do when you're sick, how come your immune response makes it so hard to sleep? | [
"Currently have a cold: chills, headache, congestion, soreness, and a cough. I want to sleep but I'm miserable."
] | [
"There have been studies showing that sleep deprivation has similar effects to alcohol intoxication - perhaps explaining a little why you don't feel good. Judgment becomes impaired, you get cranky and impatient, even nauseous, and for those of us with chronic migraines sleep deprivation can be a trigger. Everyone r... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do some people sleep in certain positions better? | [
"Sometimes ways of sleeping are just nicer because that is what you got used to. In the past, people have slept in different positions than we do now. There was even a time when people slept while sitting. But also when you get older, you might try out different positions and start liking them. I like sleeping with... | [
"Basically because most people enjoy sleeping at night."
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