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Official ELI5 Morning After Pill Thread | [
"My understanding of the only reasons that the morning after pill is even a topic of conversation is that, 1) as with all methods of contraception, there are people who think that making this readily available to underage people will promote sex amongst those people and 2) so, so many people (mostly religious of na... | [
"Sleep - Shake Unconscious - Splash Coma - Wait and Hope Vegetative State - Wait and Bury"
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Why have humans (women) not evolved to where childbirth doesn't cause pain? | [
"That's not how evolution works. Evolution isn't a progress towards what's best. It's just about what's good enough. Women having pain during childbirth works, so that's the way it is. Pain during childbirth is due to 1) Us walking upright (so our hips shrank) and 2) Us having bigger heads. Evolution led to childbi... | [
"Because humans have gigantic brains. They basically have to be born 3 months premature, just so their huge heads don't kill the mothers during birth. Birthing that head is a bit trickier than birthing a calf is for a cow. Also, humans don't have to worry about predators finding their babies and eating them, so it'... | eli5_question_answer | {
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how do cows gain so much weight eating only grass? | [
"In a day, a cow spends about 6.5 hours eating and drinking all of her food. The cow has four stomachs and undergoes a special digestive process to break down the tough and coarse food it eats. When the cow first eats, it chews the food just enough to swallow it. The unchewed food travels to the first two stomachs... | [
"They have much larger intestinal systems, which let them break down cellulose in plant cells and use the proteins inside. There's still not massive amounts of protein, which is why they have to spend so much of their time eating"
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Tire pressure in the winter | [
"well, it depends. if you're driving on ice or packed snow, you'd want lower pressure, to let as much tread as possible grip the surface. if you're driving through loose snow, you'd want higher pressure, so the tire has an easier time 'cutting' through the snow to reach the pavement underneath. real answer though, ... | [
"High pressure air moving to fill low pressure air."
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How can people have a different laughter from each other/ one person have multiple laughs? | [
"1) tubas and flutes don't sound alike, why sound the same with different anatomy and neurology? Even twins' speaking voices sound a little different if you know them long enough. 2) Like breathing, it is semi-autonomous. Sometimes you can't help from laughing. Others times you do it deliberately, In the latter you... | [
"They don't know their \"winking\" in the sense that your thinking of. They have something in their eye or are itchy , the reasons go on but body language of the wink is learned not innate"
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How did the red lines on the left side of lined paper originate? Why can't we go past it? | [
"Its a margin, and you use it to line up your text on the left side, which makes it easier to read from left to right as English is read."
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"What color is the skin of most of the people who make and utilize those drawings? Theres your answer"
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Why are UK fl. oz. on my bottle different than US fl. oz.? | [
"(I think) In 1824 the British Parliament was like \"How do we define a gallon of something.\" and everyone was unsure. They could just make a bucket and say it's a gallon but they everyone would need to use the same bucket. So they instead defined the gallon as the volume of 10 pounds of water. They then divided t... | [
"It looks like a mistake in labelling to me, but you can simply check if it is correct: 4 fl oz of water have a mass of 118.3 grams. Put the bottle on a kitchen scale and tare. Then fill the bottle to the 4 oz marking and put it on the scale. If it reads ~118g the labelling is correct. Repeat for 8 ounces, and chec... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do people from Iran refer to themselves and "Persian?" | [
"I found this article: _URL_0_ . \"Persian\" and \"Iranian\" can be used interchangeably but some people may use \"Persian\" instead because of political context."
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"Because it's their name, not their nationality. If I live in New York, and my name is Bob France, you wouldn't call me French."
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What is the current military strength and power of the Ukrainian armed forces, and what are their chances of resisting a full Russian invasion? | [
"Funny enough, this is almost like asking two different questions. (1) Current military strength and power of the Ukrainian armed is nothing compared to Russia; Russia's basically been defined by its military since WWII. But, (2) Their chances of resisting a *full* Russian invasion are almost 100%, since everyone... | [
"Essentially the events in Crimea threaten to destabilize the European continent. To give you some scale Crimea is about roughly the same size as Belgium. The real scale of territory that Russia seized really did not hit me until I really compared them on a map. Anyway, since the Second World War there has not been... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do airplanes store information on a "black box" instead of streaming it to somewhere on land? | [
"Reliable wireless links are few and far between when you're a long, long way away from civilization the way airplanes frequently are. Sattellite airtime is expensive, and you could never truly depend on it the way you can a black box."
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"Because the signal needs to go from where the question is asked, to a modem, to a cell tower or dish array, to space, back to a cell tower or dish array, to another modem, and then then to the speaker wherever the interviewee is. It takes time for digital information to travel, even on \"live\" television."
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How can The Hershey Company trademark a color? | [
"A trademark is some sort of identifier for your product that you wish to protect. In this case, that particular color of orange is associated with Reece's peanut butter cups. So Hershey's got a trademark so that no one else can use that color of packaging to sell candy. Note that trademarks are industry-specific s... | [
"Companies bid to buy the recipes for things like twinkies."
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Why do people talk in their sleep? | [
"Basically it's just an extension of dreaming. During certain periods when we sleep, our brains create a series of themed visions that bring in elements of our world and experience. We usually do this in a few different bursts overnight and the majority of such dreams are forgotten completely by the time we wake u... | [
"Why do people in Western countries use forks?"
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How is it that fiber can both help you with constipation and make your stool more solid? | [
"The fiber cannot be fully broken down by your digestive system, so it basically just passes it on through your body whole. This process helps to \"push out\" other waste material, and thus helps with constipation. Meanwhile you have these whole strands of fiber that are not broken down, that get mixed up with the... | [
"Coffee increases enzyme activity in the intestines which acts as a laxative, making you have to poop."
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Why do people think Michael Jordan bet on basketball? how did it play a roll in his stint playing baseball and in his retirement? | [
"I'm from Chicago, and I do know that MJ was quite the compulsive gambler. There were local stories here all the time about his betting on everything from golf games to poker to horse racing. Naturally, the rumors led to his own sport. All speculation, never proven."
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"American football has no minor leagues, like baseball, or soccer, college is important because the better the college, the more tough competition they faced on their way into the pros. however, it might not matter too much because if someone is great in college, they might not pan out in the pros. Just my off the ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is such a big deal made about fashion shows when it seems that 95% of the clothes never become anything? | [
"In the fashion industry, it's art. Just like a painter or a photographer, they showcase their works. Fashion shows are just like art villas, just a different industry. They get excited to see what their next creation is. And like paintings, sometimes there's only one original, and it's not going to be everywhere, ... | [
"The clothes on the catwalks- generally speaking- aren't intended to be purchased whatsoever, nor are they really intended to even be worn by people. The crazy fashion you see at haute couture shows can be more compared to, say, a sculpture or fine arts piece. It's about the designer's vision, not the wearer. You'r... | eli5_question_answer | {
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In an era of paid DLC and season passes, how can video games like Minecraft and Terraria continue to release free content without losing money? | [
"Many large titles are in debt by the time they release, and expect sales and recurring income streams to repay that deficit. This was not the case for Minecraft, which started selling to customers (at a reduced price) very early in the development cycle. Also, Markus Persson (Notch) maintained a day job during the... | [
"I'll copypasta what I posted yesterday in /r/steam. ---- Paid mods are basically outsourced DLC with little to no consumer protection or presumption of support. Valve has basically shown publishers that they can make money off of outsourced DLC created by modders without being obligated to offer any support or ass... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is it called an Ethernet Cable and not an Internet Cable? | [
"Because they use the [Ethernet](_URL_0_) standard to provide networking. You don't have to be connected to the Internet to use Ethernet cables and protocols to connect multiple computers together into a network. Prior to Ethernet, it was common for offices to use [Token Ring](_URL_1_) networks. Ethernet fixes many... | [
"I'll give it a shot. I'm pretty sure that if I mess this up someone will be along to correct me. :) Layer 1 - Physical: The wires connecting all the telephones together in your neighborhood. Layer 2 - Data Link: The phone numbers for everyone in your neighborhood Layer 3 - Network: The address book your mom has w... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why are house cats pretty much all the same size and shape while dogs come in a variety of builds? | [
"Dogs want to please their people. It's just the way they are. That means that all throughout history, people have gotten their dogs to do different things. Dogs that do different things look different. For example, a dog bred in the British Isles to herd sheep ([border collie](_URL_2_)) is going to look (and act) ... | [
"Why are noses different in size, why are people different heights, why do we have different hair colors?"
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Why do cats paw at blankets or beds before they down? | [
"Typically this is something that young kittens do to make milk flow more freely while they're with their mother. In older cats it's a sign of the cat being particularly at ease in its surroundings. Sometimes you'll even see a cat appear to lick the blanket at the same time."
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"You see it a lot with kittens trying to be as close as possible to the person holding them, and in older cats getting under bed covers or wanting to be held like a kitten."
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Why talking about sex to teenagers is still taboo in some culture ? | [
"I can't speak for all cultures, but here in the USA it's because we're still trying to shake off the dual legacies of Victorian morality and Puritanism. Both of which we inherited in droves at the the founding of country. You'd think in 230 odd years we'd have been able to move on, but some people don't seem to wa... | [
"If you think treatment of animals is bad in China, you have to seriously look at the treatment of people in The Republic Of China."
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Why aren't lawyers referred to as Dr.? | [
"In the UK, doctors are \"Doctor\" despite having a bachelor's degree, PhDs can and sometimes use \"Doctor\". Dentists are usually \"Mister\", again the usually have a bachelor's degree. Lawyers are mister, having a bachelor's degree. generally this is true, there are some exceptions, a doctor with a higher qualifi... | [
"There is an unofficial ranking of titles. You address them my the most highly ranked, but their full signature or title will include all their honors. For example if someone is a doctor and a lawyer, they will be Dr. John Smith, MD, Esq. If they were also a knight they would be Sir John Smith, OBE, MD, Esq. Take ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How effective is the British House of Commons and is their method of tackling politics more or less efficient than those of other countries such as the United States? | [
"The British house of commons is functionally the same as the US House of representatives. There are differences, but other than the likelihood of the British getting into fist fights there is not that much different between the two."
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"All republics are democracies, but not all democracies are republics. Therefore, anyone who says that the United States is a republic but not a democracy is just incorrect. The United States is a republic because the head of state and the head of government is based on the people's choice and not appointment or in... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Special relativity says the mass of a moving body _URL_0_ has the mass of the Universe been increasing since the Big Bang? | [
"I'm assuming you think the mass of the universe is increasing because of expansion. You can't talk about 'the universe' as an object, even taking into account relativity, because the universe is the thing that all the objects are in. The expansion of the universe is talking about the space itself expanding, so it ... | [
"Because it would require negative mass (shown with special relativity) or positively ludicrous amounts of energy (with the theoretical warp drive), or both. Anything with mass cannot move at the speed of light, massless particles move at the speed of light, and negatively massive particles could move faster than ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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If trains use diesel engines as a generator to then power electric motors, why don't cargo ships do the same? | [
"Trains use electric generators and motors to transfer the power to multiple axles. This is more efficient than mechanical or hydraulic ways of transmitting the power. Ships have 2 shafts (think of them like axles) which can be directly driven from the diesel engine which is more efficient. ELIF if trains had prope... | [
"Electric cars use an electric motor (or multiple motors in most cases) The electric motor is powered via electricity by energizing elector magnets that basically push and pull causing the motor to turn. Attach a wheel, and you've got something to strap into a car. Your battery in your gas car doesn't provide nearl... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why does turning it off and back on help so often? | [
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"I guess for your battery is not that bad. Devices are made to run all the time. What can happen is that your software gets buggy. Normally if you have a software problem, you can shut the phone down and restart it and your problem is solved. But it isn't a problem for the hardware if you never shut your phone down... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why haven't Niagara Falls slowly eroded into a slope rather than a cliff? | [
"I may be incredibly wrong, but this is how I remember it from GCSE geography. There's a layer of hard rock and soft rock (hard on top, soft on bottom). The hard rock doesn't erode very much, but when it reaches a cliff like that it falls down, creates constant splashing, and that splashing erodes away at the softe... | [
"The rocks themselves below the waterfall are shaped into a somewhat like a staircase. When the water from the river up top comes down, it hits the top rocks, then falls down to the other rocks and then to the other rocks and etc until it gets to the river down below. That's why it looks like a staircase."
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Why does the human eye see more shades of green than any other color? | [
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"Brown isn't a color in its own right. It's a phenomenon of our brain interpreting a certain mix of colors. Edit: brown can be made from mixing any two colors on opposite ends of the color wheel: yellow and purple, blue and orange, red and green."
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When you call a company's customer service and it says something along the lines of "This call may be monitored and recorded for quality assurance/training purposes", why are they really recording your call? | [
"Tech support rep for a phone company. We record your calls so that we can review them with our manager to see what we can improve. We also record for future use in case someone says we were verbally abusive (conversely, if they were verbally abusive, and we need the proof) or weren't doing our jobs and they filed ... | [
"When you answer those automated questions, you're being routed to the correct department that could best handle your situation. When you get the advisor on the line, all they're doing is verifying the information on screen to make sure there are no inconsistencies so they can help you as fast as they can. **Sourc... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Politicians raise millions of dollars during their campaigns even for just the nomination. What is this money spent on and why is it so expensive? | [
"I know a little bit about this, because my husband ran for office. Most of the money we raised went to advertising - campaign signs are expensive, mailings and postage are expensive (a single 5x7 glossy mailed to 10k people, cost about $9K dollars when you factor in design, printing and mailing). Some (very small)... | [
"Donations are influence pedaling in legal form. In some sense, they are legal bribes, because one does not donate to a political cause without hoping for a certain outcome, specifically the election of those to whom one donated. It is no secret that special interests donate billions of dollars to candidates and ca... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do restaurants peel every part of a shrimp except for the tails? | [
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"You can grow SO MUCH from food you have already eaten. Take the end of a sweet potato and stick it in water. Bam more sweet potatoes. The end of green onions with the roots? Shove it in dirt bam more green onions. Same with regular onions and avocado seeds and most fruits. It is easier to recycle food into brand n... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What exactly produces the "Itchy" sensation? | [
"It's a defensive reflex, like pain telling you to pull your arm away from harm. This one serves to warn you of unwanted things being on your skin that might be harmful like bugs, powders, liquids etc, thats why you can't tickle yourself. It works the same way as many other reflexes - a receptor administers the irr... | [
"I don't know the answer to the question itself, which is a shame, but I know a fun fact I want to share with you. Many studies have found that there is an effective way of getting rid of the itchy feeling by \"drawing\" an X with you fingernails on the spot where you feel the itch. This supposedly and according t... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is creating more jobs hard? | [
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"What's so bad about having something made in Israel?"
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The pros for marijuana legalization | [
"In one sense, the most powerful pro for marijuana legalization is that it restores a personal freedom that the government doesn’t really have a reasonable basis for denying."
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"Supply and demand and you need to put together a whole board of regulators and you need to grow a shit ton of weed. Also why would you want to take away the cannabis that the medical people need when you just wanna smoke a jay for recreational purposes."
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When pepper is added to a plate of oil, why does the pepper seem to attract other pepper flakes | [
"Have you ever seen that gravity demonstration with the big sheet and the metal ball in the middle? When you put the pepper on the oil, the surface tension holds and keeps the pepper flakes in a sort of cup. As they inevitably come closer together, they fall into each others \"cups\" so then the size increases, whi... | [
"A lot of food has (some) fat in it, and fat generally melts and turns into an oil (liquid) when hot. Quite a few spices (capsaicin for example) are oils and dissolve in oils, so the melted fats carry some of the spices / taste. Your taste buds are better at detecting the taste of liquids than solids (put a slice o... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do NBA players always wait for someone to help them up? | [
"When I played sports, it was for two reasons. To prevent injury from straining and stretching in weird positions. It was also just another aspect of playing on a team. That you were in it together, and they were there to pick you up."
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Risk Management vs Actuarial Science | [
"Reading wikipedia, as far as I understand, Actuarial Science deals with identifying risks and assessing their severity and significance (eg. \"very severe, but never actually happens\" vs. \"not severe but happens all the time\"), while Risk Management deals with what strategies should be applied to the found risk... | [
"Side 1 - For Vaccines: -Science Side 2 - Against Vaccines: -Paranoid idiocy"
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Unemployment down, Job creation up, but there are more people on welfare then ever? | [
"Usual unemployment measures count the percentage of people _who are actively seeking or working jobs_ who don't have one. When people stop looking for jobs, they're not counted as part of unemployment figures, and this happened quite a bit during the recession."
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"Keeping it politically neutral - the unemployment rate measures the unemployed who are actively looking for work. This has shrunk drastically, as working age people (particularly in the 20s-30s) have dropped out of the workforce. Some hiding out in graduate programs, some probably becoming permanent wards of the s... | eli5_question_answer | {
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It's mentioned a lot, but how exactly does a person 'make their money' off something like oil or diamonds, do they just find it and claim it? | [
"In countries like the United States, the government owns a lot of the uninhabited land. Someone who discovers oil on federal land can pay the government for the right to extract that oil, and then you can sell that right on to big oil companies if you like. Similarly, with mineral claims you are able to purchase l... | [
"Probably 70% of it is that they're actually pretty decent people. They mined it for basically free, so they don't mind giving it away, sort of like of you won a lifetime supply of something you don't really need you wouldn't mind giving some of it away. The other 30% is hoping that if it gets popular enough then ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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what sort of mechanism exists in microwaves so that the tray spins in the opposite direction every time (and why)? | [
"It's a function of cheap motors. If the microwave manufacturers spent a half-dollar more per oven on parts, it would spin the same way every time. That cuts into profits, though, so they use a motor that could spin either way on power-up, just depending on the specific way the AC is flowing when it goes hot."
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"not sure if this will be one hundred percent right, but an oven would need to heat up the whole thing to cook the entire food item, while microwaves use a certain type of radiation to excite the water particles inside the food item, heating it up. so in short form an oven needs to penetrate the whole food item to ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What effects would sterilization have on individuals before puberty? | [
"Common human sterilization techniques don't affect hormone production because they don't remove any organs, you just block the \"plumbing\" that allows eggs/sperm to move around. It would have minimal effects on puberty and development."
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"We don't know for sure. There are several theories such as genetics, the division of tasks in the brain, hormones during pregnancy, the position of the fetus during pregnancy and ultrasounds affecting unborn children."
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How do teams get hats and shirts right after winning a championship? | [
"Because they get made ahead of time. And then the ones that lose just dump them to charities and third world nations."
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"Most of the money comes from the TV contract. The TV station that shows the games has to pay a lot of money to the teams and the NBA. There are two other important sources of Money: Ticket/food sales at home games, and merchandise. The team makes a lot of money on selling tickets, beer, food and other stuff at ho... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do fans cool a room when it seems like they're adding energy to the system? | [
"It's not necessarily that the air is colder. Your body cools itself via evaporative cooling through your sweat, where the highest energy particles in the sweat are escaping the liquid and becoming gas, lowering the average kinetic energy (temperature) of the remaining liquid. If the air was still, then these gas p... | [
"A fridge and AC work in the same way: they cool one side and heat another. They both move heat, but actually do not move any air. That is, air is never exchanged between the outside and inside spaces. A fridge cools its internal space and heats your home. If the radiator were not insulated from the inside of the f... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How does Karl Marx's idea of communism differ from the communism that exists today? | [
"The thing about Marx is that he never wrote what a true communist state would look like, he died before he did. The subsequent nations that call themselves communist are based on some cherry picked ideas taken from Marx."
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"Marxism and communism are not the same thing. Marxism is based off the works of Marx, which, yes, were contributed to by Engels."
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Why is Deutsche Bank collapsing, and what does it mean? | [
"They're being hit with hefty loans due to selling faulty mortgage backed securities during the financial crisis, and, like many other banks, are struggling due to the worldwide negative interest rate issue currently"
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"The incident puts the near future into jeopardy. What will the political ramifications be? The military? Will there be a war? More sanctions? How will it affect business around the world? When people are unsure, investors tend to take a conservative approach to trading until things clear up a bit. That effects eve... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How can people still live in Hiroshima and Nagasaki when they can't live in Pripyat or the Bikini Atoll? | [
"The bombs used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki exploded in the air, so **ALOT** less radiation seeped into the environment. In Chernobyl, the worker city outside Pripyat, the disaster was a leak, followed by an explosion. This put lots of radiation into the surrounding environment. edit: Also the International Atomic E... | [
"No, because looting. You don't die instantly from being in an area of high radiation, like parts of the Chernobyl region. We think of that as a catastrophe, but people were back at work at the plant *days* later. Insane, right? Well, no, the plant was operational for years (like, 20 years) after. Chernobyl had a f... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What happens when someone takes out a massive loan (e.g. $20 million), and suddenly dies? | [
"Assuming the loan was secured by an asset, the asset is seized like any other foreclosure. If it's an unsecured loan, the lender would sue the estate for whatever residue they can get, and write off the rest. At least in Canada, your family does NOT take on your debts when you die. If it's your spouse it's differe... | [
"A couple of different ways: - They sell some of that stock. Major shareholders will regularly sell stock issuances and grants to free up liquid capital - They get dividends based on that stock ownership. Dividends are very common for larger companies, so if you own a lot of stock that can be a major financial wind... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why companies care if I register the products that I buy. | [
"They want your demographic info (age, sex, income level, etc.) so they can market their products better."
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"Because you agreed to those terms when you signed up for their service."
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How are potholes created and why are there more of them after snow/rain? | [
"Temperature variance causes the pavement to form cracks, moisture from precipitation seeps into the cracks and when it freezes the cracks expand. When it thaws again the pavement breaks up and the traffic or plows remove chunks."
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"Many reasons. Could be a lack of resources. Potholes in my town have sometimes gone unfilled for years because the city just doesn't have the money to fix all of them. Another reason is weather. There's very little sense in filling potholes in winter."
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If I had been born the opposite gender, would I still be "me"? | [
"This is a purely philosophical question - we can't possibly answer it without defining what makes you you rather than someone else. We can't make that definition in any objective way."
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"There are people who are simply immune to it. I don't really want to find out if I'm one of them, although the idea does seem interesting."
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Why do so many famous actors refuse to watch their own movies? | [
"Have you ever watched a recording of yourself? It's really unsettling. Besides, what do they care? They already know what happens in the movie since they (presumably) read the script and they've already been paid. What's the point in watching it?"
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"You play too many video games or watch too many movies."
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Why are identical products so much more expensive in Europe than in the US? | [
"I personally had a big grump when the XBONE pricing was announced and how it was £100 more expensive in the UK versus buying it in the US. I was ranting and raving to all who would listen, until finally someone who understood these sorts of things explained to me that it was all about tax. US states have a differi... | [
"There is much greater adoption of public transportation in Europe than in the US."
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Why do lighters have those two compartments where the liquid can flow between them instead of just one big one? | [
"To give the lighter more structural integrity. It has nothing to do with the flame or anything."
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"Think of straws. You know how you get the drops in a straw after u you've taken a drink? The ones that take up the entire space inside for a few millimeters? They stay there unless you blow them out, it's the same thing except the tube is open at one end only do you can't just blow in one end to push them out. Ne... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How does a trail camera have such a long battery life when constantly sensing any movement, taking pictures/videos while only using a couple of AA Batteries? xpost /askReddit | [
"They're not constantly sensing movement - they just make you think they are. Instead, the motion detection system has a peep for a tiny fraction of a second every second or so, then goes back to sleep. The peep doesn't take much power anyway, and the quiescent \"snooze\" state takes virtually none - some PIC syste... | [
"Rechargeable batteries are only 1.2 volts. Standard alkaline are 1.5 volts. Means it probably won't function right at 2.4 instead of 3 volts. Probably won't detect as well with less juice."
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What is Tilt-shift photography? What makes it seem unrealistic? | [
"Look at what is called 'macro' photography. Basically, extreme close ups. A key feature of that is narrow focal length. Focus is limited to just what is being focused on. Anything in front of, or behind it is out of focus. (Compare this to a landscape photo where everything is in focus) So if you take what is effe... | [
"Very long exposures allow you to have a very small aperture. The smaller the aperture, the more the depth of field. Long depth of field allows objects near and far from the camera to be in focus at the same time. A deep focus field is one of the things that makes some of these landscape photos fantastic."
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How can margins of error be trusted? | [
"The margin of error isn't \"We know we're only possibly wrong by this much\" it's \"This is the known accuracy of our instrument under what we believe are operational conditions.\" You can still be wrong."
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"Suppose you took a survey about how much bread the average person bought. You can then use the total amount of bread sold and the number of documented people to calculate an estimate of how many people aren't documented. There are many flaws you can probably figure out in this approach but this type of statistical... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why does the Reddit mobile app default a post at 46y (46 years old) while it loads? | [
"\"Unix time (also known as POSIX time or Epoch time) is a system for describing instants in time, defined as the number of seconds that have elapsed since 00:00:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), Thursday, 1 January 1970,[1][note 1] not counting leap seconds.\" _URL_0_"
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"By using the flair button. If on reddit is fun select the title when viewing the thread. It's at the bottom. When using desktop reddit it should be right under the post when viewing it"
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How do car engines work? | [
"Animations usually make things a lot clearer, so _URL_0_ is kinda nice. But basically you burn fuel, which expands and moves the piston."
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"Are you asking how a wheel works ?"
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HPV is supposedly bad and needs to be cured - but I've also heard that it's not that bad and basically everyone has it. Which is it? | [
"Both. It's very, very common infection that in some cases leads to bad health effects, including cancer. Only a small percentage of people who get HPV will develop cancer, but because so many people have it, that small percentage is still a huge number of bad health outcomes that could be avoided if everyone got v... | [
"Well, having HIV, I can say this much, it's probably not going to be a total help, but hopefully it'll give you an idea. Some viruses, while the remain dormant, can be very, very bad if you let them go unchecked. Plus, the window of time varies from person to person. If you're not tested, then the moment it hits, ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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This hypothetical scenario | [
"It's called the [Monty Hall problem](_URL_0_). Ultimately, what it comes down is that, from the start of the experiment/gameshow, there was only a 1 in 3 chance that you chose the door with the prize behind it, so if you repeat the experiment a thousand times over, the prize would be behind the other door two th... | [
"This isn't an explanation but newfoundland Canada also has a half hour time zone"
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How is it possible to convert light to sound? | [
"I had to read through the thread to find the TL;DR, but /u/Qesa eventually gave it to me: > TLDR: Laser heats up carbon nanotube which rapidly cools due to its high surface area:volume ratio. This results in the CNT rapidly expanding and contracting, hence sound. So, it isn't that light is *turning into* a vibrat... | [
"Is it possible to get a better picture with a little more light?"
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How did the United States first distribute and get people to use the dollar? | [
"Early dollars were silver coins. Minting coins was just creating a standardized amount of silver to simplify using it as a commodity. More generally, governments promote the use of their currency by requiring that tax and court-ordered debts be paid in it. If you have to pay your taxes in dollars and you don't hav... | [
"If you live in the USA it's because of government regulations that require a country of origin on most products."
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What was the difference between the Eastern Bloc and the USSR? | [
"The Soviet Union was a Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Previously independent countries came together to form a Central Governmemt while still retaining some local control, vaguely similar to how US States work. The Eastern Bloc was made up of the Soviet Union and other independent nations that were under hea... | [
"The main reason is because of the religious background of the United States."
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If everything in the universe is running away from each other, why is Andromeda predicted to crash into the Milky Way galaxy? | [
"Not everything is running away from each other. This in practice happens only on a very large scale. On a local scale gravity can still bring things together. Like if you drop an apple, it will fall towards the center of the Earth, not move further from it due to expansion of space between the apple and the center... | [
"Absolutely not. While we move around the sun, the sun orbits the center of the Milky Way at 220 kilometers a second, the Milky Way meanders around the Virgo Supercluster, et cetera, et cetera. The planet will likely never see the same spot in space twice."
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What makes it okay for one company to call itself by its brands instead of just the company name? | [
"Unilever owns both Axe Body Spray and Dove soap. Unilever advertises Dove saying \"Advertising that sexualize woman is bad for woman self image.\" _URL_0_ The also make AXE Body spray which run a campaign that was just very sexualized woman running in Bikini's _URL_1_ If people were to associate these two product ... | [
"The same way that Microsoft can have trademarks on words like access, outlook, and windows. Trademarks are a strong but extremely limited form of intellectual property right. It doesn't let them own a word in all context, only in the limited context of the type of item they are selling, and only to the degree that... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why are our voices deeper in the morning shortly after waking up? | [
"When you first wake up, your muscles are more relaxed. This includes your vocal cords. Like a loose guitar string, relaxed vocal cords have a lower pitch."
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"Are you sure you're not just falling asleep 30 minutes earlier than you think you are?"
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Why do some plants grow so much faster than others, which would surely cause the slower plants to lose out a lot more often. | [
"There's a balance between rate of growth and durability. Some plants grow slow but are built to last, so to speak, like maple trees. Other species grow fast with hopes of reproducing quickly before they die, like grass. An oak tree can't grow any faster without sacrificing some of its durability/strength. Seedling... | [
"If it drops seeds then the new tree will be in direct competition with the parent tree. If it can convince other animals to carry its seeds far and wide it passes on its genetics without having increased competition."
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Is it the pasta, water, or both, that need to be hot to make spaghetti? Why can't cold pasta absorb cold water? | [
"Pasta is both dry and raw so it needs heat to cook and water to be tender. You can soak pasta in water but then it turns into dough and won't taste good"
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"Many cooks do this to season the pasta. They don't do it, as others have suggested, to increase the boiling point of the water."
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How was the first cell born? | [
"This is so far back in history we really just don't know. As far as I know the two main hypothesis are that life came about from random chemical reactions in the \"primordial soup\" or were somehow present on meteorites which landed on earth which had a form of life which originated outside the solar system and de... | [
"What makes you think there is an additional reason?"
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How Wikipedia is one of the most visited sites on the internet but doesn't have a large amount of servers. | [
"They serve mostly text, which is far smaller than images. You can download the entire Wikipedia as of November 2006, and it's only about 6-7 gigs compressed. Hell, you can carry that around on a flash drive. Also, the text is almost entirely static. There are no huge and complicated databases behind the site, tall... | [
"It allows them to crowd a market, which gives them greater exposure, which is all that matters in web advertising. Different names let them past different filters; if one site dies, they can always rebrand it and advertise it on the others to recapture the user base; each site may cater to different viewer types w... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How does the vibrating in cell phones work? | [
"There is a little motor that spins an unbalanced weight around in a circle, jerking the phone as it does so."
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"If you encase your cellphone in a ziploc will you still be able to hear it ring inside? Waterproof does not mean soundproof."
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Why do bugs and other tiny insects not break a limb or die from falling a great height. | [
"You'd think that an ant falling from three feet is like a human falling off a skyscraper. But this isn't the case because of the square-cube law. As it relates to tiny things, the smaller something is, the more resilient it is to stresses. What the law means is that as an object's surface area increases by a powe... | [
"It's the same reason as why you don't often find humans dead at the kitchen table, it happens sometimes but not often. There are a lot of things in a bug's life besides just eating. Many bugs die because their 'brain' breaks down and they can't coordinate to flip themselves off their backs, so unless you find a bu... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What purpose do microbeads in cosmetic products actually serve? | [
"Pretty sure it just helps with exfoliation. The roughness makes it easier to rid of dead skin."
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"According to many doctors multivitamins do absolutely nothing for you."
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Why isn't there a mainstream conservative political party for minorities in the United States? | [
"For the same reason that there are no other political parties. The First past the post system in the US in practice doesn't allow for it. People as a whole aren't stupid. They know that the party who gets the most votes wins, regardless of the competitors, so they vote for the biggest party who they disagree the l... | [
"I sincerely doubt there's much difference in personal liberties between America and Western Europe."
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Why does metal taste funny? | [
"Long story short, we don't have smell receptors for metal ions. What you are smelling is the product (an organic compound) of stuff reacting with the metal. Edit: Metallic taste -outside of that caused by salt and other small ions that fit in the salt receptor- is not well understood. [Metallic Smell] (_URL_1_) [M... | [
"Do you also cough when eating popsicles and frankfurters/hot dogs? If so, it might be your technique."
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Why do people deny the moon landing? | [
"Because when you sit back and think about how technologically advance it was, especially for that time, it is truly mind blowing. Even by today's standards just say it to your self \"We can send humans into space in a ship, land on another surface that is not earth, and send that video footage back down to earth t... | [
"> How is the idea relevant and meaningful to anyone alive today? It's about whether or not we can trust what the government says. Getting to the moon was/is a pretty big deal. If they lied about this, what else are they lying about? Global warming? 9/11? Roswell and aliens? (and so on). Is the president's state of... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is only $15 a day given if selected to be on a jury? | [
"Because no one wants to raise taxes in order to pay jurors more money. And most people would not want to pay more taxes to pay jurors more money."
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"If you serve more then half the term, it counts. If you serve < 2 years, you can have your own two full terms."
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How everything in existence coming from absolutely nothing (Big Bang) is any less ridiculous than theological explanations? | [
"Compare scientists going \"Okay, we don't know how this works yet. There's still research and studies to be made, we know we don't know, but this is our best estimate with the knowledge we currently have.\" to \"God did it.\" We know that the Big Bang theory, and other competing theories for the origin of the univ... | [
"I think it is a more thorough understanding of science and the creation of the universe. Knowing what we know about the Big Bang and evolution, the story purported by the bible and other texts seems much more farfetched now than it might have to previous generations."
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How do trees live so long? | [
"There's bristle cone pine that lived before the Bible was written. _URL_0_ In short, slower metabolism. The faster things work in your body, the more destructive the processes get."
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"So what is it about human physiology that makes this work differently for us?"
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How can you reliably recreate a person's face from DNA? | [
"You can't. You can predict the ethnicity, and a few vague measurements. It is still difficult. That is why you see them only *sometimes*. Else crime fighting would be slightly *less difficult*. Instead looking for clues they can just look for DNA, which can give a face that can be searched easily. It is still not... | [
"While it seems very inexact, a signature is almost as unique as a fingerprint and it's very possible to detect and prove a forgery when analyzed."
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clinically dead 'consciousness' still able to observe things. | [
"I'm not sure but there have been a few coma victims that described strange dislocality from their bodies while they were comatose. Like, \"I was stuck in the wall, behind the bed and couldn't get to my body.\" This type stuff. But if we postulated something akin to, but not necessarily carrying all the baggage of,... | [
"They have been reading lips, same thing now add sound."
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Cock-Roach cut in half | [
"It's dead, for all intents and purposes. Both ends will respond to stimuli because both ends contain cells that are still alive. Additionally, insects nervous systems are largely decentralized--there's not one major brain that controls the whole body. That said, it's cut in half. If it's not dead yet, it soon will... | [
"Bitch grade or non bitch grade, Poseidon decides."
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What benefits have armies, militaries, and wars brought to humanity? | [
"Almost all of our modern medicine is a result of military engineering, as well as jet airplanes, and radios."
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"Would you be willing no elaborate on what you mean by \"standard European model\"? In the past century or so, there have been quite a few significant changes in how states and governments around the world, organized and equipped themselves for the business of organized violence."
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Every year the asphalt roads get torn up, then patched/re-paved. Hasn't road tech/asphalt tech improved to the point where this doesn't need to happen year after year? | [
"They can build roads to a standard right now that will last much longer, but it would cost a lot more per mile and the job goes to the lowest bidder. They build roads to much higher standards in most of Europe and they last a lot longer."
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"You can, but generally you are breaking a law. Or at least an ordinance. Plus, your patch *sucks* and will form another pothole shortly. DIY asphalt patching simply isn't capable of standing up to the sort of abuse that road get -- unless the person doing it themselves is a professional with professional-grade equ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is r/gonewild more popular than some other subreddits of the same genre? | [
"Same reason Facebook is more popular than Google+. Subs like that need a userbase in order to attract users. As the most famous one, it attracts the most new users. It's popular because it's popular."
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"/r/SRS - a subreddit of redditors dedicated to pointing out that they believe reddit to be a hive of racism, misogyny, homophobia, paedophilia, etc... /r/anticirclejerk - just trying to be edgy by opposing widely proffessed opinions around the main subreddits etc... Basically, these are \"meta\" subreddits - their... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How have members of the Bush admin NOT been charged with committing war crimes yet? | [
"This is bull they by definition did commi war crimes facts are not opinions"
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"Nothing. The President can only be impeached if he himself has committed \"treason, bribery, [or] other high crimes and misdemeanors\". Being the beneficiary of the crimes of some other foreign government is not grounds for impeachment so long as they were acting without his knowledge or consent. If, however, it c... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why were Jews granted a state (Israel) by the UN but not the Kurds? | [
"They got it as a compensation for Holocaust. International Jewry is powerful, so they lobbied for their state ever since the British got Palestine from the Ottomans in 1919. And after the WW2 they finally succeeded. Kurds are never going to achieve what Israel did, because a) they have no lobbying power and b) Tur... | [
"The tension between Arabs and Isrealis is seriously long and complex. Basically Britain set up israel as a state for the Jewish people and moved the Arabs living there into Jordan, The West Bank and The Gaza Strip. The Arab people believe this never should have happened and the entire area that was split up by the... | eli5_question_answer | {
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The purpose of switching out a basketball net frequently. | [
"To piggyback, does anyone want to ELI5 the purpose served by hoops having nets? Edit: Cool, was wondering if there was more to it. But now I know! Thank you, redditors!"
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"They want to show off their maximum power. The rotational speed that occurs at is not the same for every car."
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why, if high oil prices were bad for the economy, are "experts" now saying that really low oil prices are bad for the economy? | [
"It's the other way around. Oil is cheap because the economy is bad. Things aren't being made and people aren't going on trips, so there is extra oil floating around."
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"1) It lowers gas prices at the pump. 2) It may help find oil in regions the US controls. This could lower dependence on foreign oil, which would make the US more independent. Both reasons are flawed, however. Reason 1 is kind of silly, because the subsidies come from our taxes (or, in the case of inflation, our sa... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why aren't Hydrogen Fuel cells being used in place of Lithium-ion batteries? | [
"Electricity can be had pretty much anywhere for recharging your battery; hydrogen for refilling your fuel cell is pretty much nowhere."
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"Electric cars have way more lithium (for the battery) than hybrid cars. Lithium is expensive."
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Is there a reason Scotland still wants to be considered a part of Great Britain? | [
"Scotland *is* part of Great Britain, there is no changing that - Great Britain is the island on which Scotland, England and Wales are situated. Some people no longer want Scotland to be a part of the *United Kingdom* - there will be a vote on it in 2014."
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"What about the people who live in N Ireland and LIKE being part of the UK?"
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Why do farts stink so much worse in the shower? | [
"Steam opens the sinuses? I also like to spread cheeks and put it up to the glass. Makes a great machine gun noise."
] | [
"Something is really fucked up with your body if you throw up after walking up the stairs. Go see a doctor ASAP."
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How do pine cones still open and close years later? | [
"In hot, dry, weather, the wood on the outside of your pine cones dries out and shrinks a little, which pulls the scales open. This is because hot, dry, weather is ideal for pine tree seeds to spread and grow, so the pine cones are designed to open up and let them out. In cold, wet weather, that wood absorbs the wa... | [
"They use less energy because they do not move around or are cold blooded. Or they have a lot of fat stored up. Fat humans can easily survive not eating for a months. Give them vitamins and supplements and they'll be perfectly healthy as well."
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Why pennies still exist in US currency. | [
"How else are the yoga moms gonna get exact change for the $3.78 bottle of smart water?"
] | [
"The more money printed the less it's worth. Why QE is so controversial. But that is what happens constantly."
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Why is it that drivers are seated closest to the middle of the road? | [
"My guess is that it has something to do with the fact that you're in a better place to judge the clearance of the vehicles you'll be passing in the other direction"
] | [
"I don't know for sure but I'd guess it's because the tunnel is under the road and the ladder down is on the side of the tunnel. Which more or less places the ladder under your tire, apparently."
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How is it more beneficial to leave money in your Roth IRA instead of your bank savings? | [
"Interesting on a savings account is taxed, while earnings from a Roth IRA are tax free. Additionally, an IRA will probably have a far higher interest rate than a typical savings account at the bank."
] | [
"If your job doesn't offer a 401K plan with any amount of matching funds, you may want an IRA or Roth IRA instead. I really suggest you talk to a financial adviser directly instead of depending on reddit."
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Does multiverse theory defeat itself? | [
"Not necessarily. The best explaination for this that I have ever seen went something like this: Sure there could be an infinite number of universes but that doesn't mean that there is one where the theory doesn't hold; just like there are an infinite number of numbers between three and four, but none of them are f... | [
"Not really an explanation, but here's an interesting way to put it: Pre-modern: This is the truth. Modern: We can find the truth. Post-modern: There is no such thing as truth."
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Is silver a real color or just an optical property of certain materials? | [
"Everything you can see has a real color. Silver is just gray, but it's surface is also shiny. We decided to not call it \"shiny gray\" but \"silver.\" Because it's used often enough to need its own name."
] | [
"White: Most would answer yes. Since it appears to our eyes when we see all wavelengths, it is as much a color as any mixed ones, such as purple. On the other hand, albino animals are white because they lack pigment! Black: Debateable. On one hand, it is essentially the lack of input as far as our eyes are concerne... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What am I hearing when this super-heated nickel ball is dropped into water? | [
"The ball is so hot that it is vaporizing the water around it creating an air pocket, at this point the area around the ball is so hot that the water is boiling into a gas before it even touches the ball. That pinging sound you hear happens when the air pocket cools down enough to collapse in certain places on the ... | [
"The mechanism in play is the same one that causes the bottom to burst off of a bottle when it is filled with water and you strike the top. Basically when you hit the bottle, the bottle moves down faster than the liquid. This causes a cavitation (vacuum) to form. Almost as quickly as the cavitation forms, the liqui... | eli5_question_answer | {
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I'm scared of credit cards. How do you use one wisely and efficiently? | [
"Get one from the bank you have an account with. Use it only to pay for things you can afford (like your gas) and only if you have the money in your bank account to pay it off. Go pay it off now (once you use the credit card). Only use it online on sites you trust. This will help you build credit without spending a... | [
"Yes, this is what you do when you have no credit. Don't buy things you can't pay off right now though."
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Why does time flow in the direction it does? | [
"Entropy. Entropy provides a preferred direction for things to happen. If time flowed in the opposite direction, things would tend to get more ordered over time, which is not consistent with physics as we know it."
] | [
"The distance between any two points increases with time. That statement makes sense whether or not the universe is infinite."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
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