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How does exposure to negative decibels affect the human body and psychi? | [
"the thing with decibel is that it isn't a linear, absolute measurement of sound pressure. it's a rather subjective measurement, 0 is a reference point. negative decibels are sounds exponentially quieter than the reference point - usually sounds quieter than we can hear. negative decibels are just really really qui... | [
"Affect is a verb. Alcohol affects the brain. Effect is a noun. You study the effect of alcohol on the brain."
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What causes those sudden moments when you realize you exist? | [
"Your cortex, the most advanced part of the brain that separates us from pretty much all other animals. The cortex is capable of such things as planning and reflection, which is why we are so advanced and also why you sometimes have moments where you suddenly operate almost entirely inside the cortex and are observ... | [
"I don't think you can. I get the feeling every once in a while, and I'll look up from what I'm doing. No one's there. It's just that when we feel it, and someone IS looking, we remember it and we forget the times we were wrong. This is called cognitive bias."
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Why can there only ever be 21 million Bitcoins? | [
"The original creator designed it that way. Think of mining for Bitcoins like solving for a polynomial equation. If I give out the equation x^2 - 3x + 2 = 0, and give the first person who finds each unique solution a Bitcoin, only TWO people in the world can get Bitcoins. There are only two solutions to that equati... | [
"Yup. That's how bitcoin started. People treated it like pop caps. You have whole bitcoins away as gag gifts. 10 years later a single Bitcoin is worth over $4000 us."
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SATA, PATA, SCSI, SAS... are these different types of hard disk drives, or buses, or interfaces, or just industry standards... I'm so confused! | [
"A hard drive has two major component subsystems: 1. The platters, along with the mechanism that turns them, read/writes the data, and takes care of all the physical aspects of the device. 2. The controller board, which *interfaces* between the physical/magnetic storage system in item 1 and your computer. Since dif... | [
"It's not so much that the data is different it's more the way the data is addressed. DVI includes a VGA signal for backward compatibility. USB to Ethernet is like a small Ethernet card that is attached via USB. Sata to IDE converter require power special electronic to convert between the two and they usually don't... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do most cars default to not circulating the air in the car instead of circulating it? For climate purposes it seems like circulating the air in the car would be better for constant temperature and humidity. | [
"Humidity goes up with a bunch of warm bodies exhaling next to cold glass. Your cars defroster might not be able to defrost the windows even on max high settings unless you get the moisture out. This is why the ac will turn on automatically when using the defrost. Also, fresh air to breath is nice when in a full ca... | [
"Normally, hot air comes out of the footwells, and cold air comes out of the face vents. That's because hot air rises, so by pumping it out of the footwells it will rise into the rest of the car. If it came out higher up, it would be difficult for it to heat the lower parts of the cabin. And vice versa for cold air... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why aren't the outer cases of phones made of the material added cases are made of? | [
"Some are. \"Rugged\" type phones meant for outdoor, military use, work sites, etc are on the market and are built with tough cases, dust proof buttons, etc Mass market phones are advertised as being every slimmer & lighter, and not everyone uses a cellphone in such a way as to risk breaking it if it's used without... | [
"Only phones with a metal case require an antenna band, because the case will shield the inside from the signal. It's a thin layer of plastic, and the antenna is behind that. If the case itself is made from plastic or another material which can't conduct electricity, the signal can pass through without trouble, so ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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In an earthquake, such as Nepal, when the earth just opens up, what would happen if you fell down it? Could you climb down? Where does it lead to and how does it close back up? (Picture enclosed) | [
"Same thing happened with the Anchorage, Alaska earthquake in 1964. The crack was much wider, so in a lot of pictures (google it) you can see down into it. It just kinda closes off. The two plates don't move away from each other completely. They're slightly at angles, which intersect somewhere. If the two were to s... | [
"When a tornado is over a body of water, it sucks up the water. When it does this, it’s called a waterspout. If there are fish close enough to the surface of the water, they’ll get sucked up too. Now, as we all know, what goes up must come down, but it doesn’t have to come down in the same spot it went up. So event... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do some jokes lose their funniness after the first time, while some jokes make you laugh every time you hear them? | [
"Laughter does not happen just because something is \"funny\" but because of surprise and unexpectedness. After you hear a joke, the punch line is no longer unexpected, so it's less humorous."
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"It's tempered by your own fear that they won't find it funny. And unlike telling a joke, there's no way you can use your own delivery to make it funnier, or change it to get to the punchline quicker if you find they're zoning out."
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Why do tennis balls come in pressurised containers? | [
"The air pressure inside the rubber balls tends to leak out over time, unless surrounded by equally pressurized air."
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"There's a bag full of Easy Cheese. They stick the bag in a can. If you look on the bottom of all the cans, there's always a rubber cork. The cork is what they seal the hole with after they pump gas into the bottom of the can under the bag to pressurize it. So cheese goes in bag, bag goes in can, gas goes in can, g... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why does NASA and other space agencies launch their rockets pointed straight up, at a dead stop? (MIC) | [
"One of the most fuel-intensive things about getting into orbit is trying to overcome atmospheric drag. It really kills your fuel efficiency. So launches start by going straight up in order to get through the thickest part of the atmosphere as quickly as possible. As early as is practical, the vehicle then executes... | [
"No, most of the energy in a rocket is getting it moving *sideways* very fast, not getting it further up. That's why space programs always launch as close to the equator as is practical (the earth orbits at a constant angular velocity so the widest part of the earth is moving the fastest)."
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- How is it scientists are finding links between meat and cancer when humankind has always existed on meat and vegetable diet? | [
"Just because we've always done something doesn't mean that it wouldn't cause cancer. We've always lived under the same sun, but sunlight is a cause of cancer. Humankind has more cancer now than ever before *primarily* because we're living longer than ever before. When your primary causes of death aren't childbirth... | [
"No, carnivores only eat meat, omnivores eat both, and herbivores don't eat any meat. Humans are naturally omnivores, we are built for, and have always ate both meat and plants."
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Why when you cut yourself with something sharp accidentally it hurts more when you see a wound? | [
"It's mind over matter. Your brain makes things worse than they actually are, in almost all circumstances. It's the real reason why people can't do their exercise plans: if they thought they could do it, they could do it. But they think they can't, so they can't. It's the same with your cut. Your mind assumed it wa... | [
"Sometimes it feels nice, does anybody know why it feels nice occasionally (Feels like a massage) and sometimes it feels nasty like somebody stabbing you with needles?"
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Why do men on OKCupid rate the average female user as average, while women on OKCupid rate most men as below average? | [
"Okcupid doesn't tell women how much you make a year. That affects the rating of men."
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"The basic thing here is that you have a lot of men who haven't had much success with women. And rather than blame themselves for not being socially adept, instead choose to believe that 50% of the human race is at fault instead. And then wonder why women don't like them."
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Why sometimes people have a single hiccup and at other times a never-ending series of hiccups? | [
"I'm not a scientist but what I do know is that it has to do with what the hiccup is actually trying to do, if it can't do (insert what it does) it will keep trying. Wish I was that preserving lol"
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"I didn't see your last question: Hiccups hurt for two main reasons: -The force of the contraction might be too much for the diaphragm, may cause tearing but that's rare. -the diaphragm gets tired after long period of hiccups. Diaphragm isn't built for long spastic sprints. Think about doing an intensive work out... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How we don't have the technology to equip a rover with a color camera. | [
"It does have a color camera. We didn't want equipment damaged during descent, so anything sensitive was protected during that time. The pictures we have seen already are from low-res cameras intended to check to make sure things are all right around the rover and help it navigate. Even these still have a plastic c... | [
"As far as we know right now, there isn't a way for us to get enough fuel to Mars to be able to fly back."
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Duel citizenship rules between the US and UK | [
"Yes, as long as he was actually born in the UK. You can submit his British birth certificate as evidence of this ([get a copy here](_URL_1_)) and details about applying can be found [here](_URL_0_)."
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"Because the United Kingdom has no form of identification act where as France does, so they're safer in the UK."
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Why does it seem like the whole world knows whenever someone makes a nuclear bomb? | [
"Because making an atomic bomb takes a LOT of infrastructure OR international specialty purchases. Also, EVERYONE is watching real, real, hard."
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"I don't think anyone wants to officially advertise that their country is evil."
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What is the p-value in psychology? | [
"p-value is a statistical term, not a psychological one. In order to do statistics, you're attempting to *disprove* a particular idea, which you call the *null hypothesis*. For example, if I have a coin, and you think I've loaded it, you might do an experiment by flipping the coin 10 times. Your null hypothesis is ... | [
"In a one tail test, you are looking at the probability, or likelihood, x is above or below a certain amount (depending on which tail you are testing, you will look at if x is greater than this, or x is less than this) In a two tailed test, you are looking at the probability, or likelihood, that x equals or does no... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How much regional variation is there between bugs that make you sick? If I get a cold on in Los Angeles, will the antibodies protect me from a cold in New York? | [
"The short answer is not all that much. Certainly pathogens can be more common in certain geographical areas but the major ones such as the various 'cold' viruses are global. There is more geographical variation between strains (think of them as the microbial version of dog breeds) but given that New York and LA ar... | [
"The same reason it isn't impacting Canada. Different regions of the world have different environments, where different species thrive. The mosquitos that pass the virus need a warmer climate - like Brazil, or Uganda, where the virus originated. So even if a person is infected in Brazil and flies to Chile and is b... | eli5_question_answer | {
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why do distant galaxies often look like they're spiralling? | [
"Because they are. As is our galaxy. That's why it's called a Spiral Galaxy (well, technically it's a Barred Spiral Galaxy, but still)."
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"There are more stars more densely packed in the center. We can't see them individually because they are so far away."
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how/why does incognito mode bypass some paywalls? | [
"Those paywalls are based on a cookie (stored on the user's computer), and incognito mode creates a virtual cookie jar that doesn't copy the cookie used to enforce the paywall (so the site can no longer tell that it's you who is coming back, because you look identical to a new user)."
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"If google would block adblock, people would use firefox..."
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Why are babies' immune systems so fragile? If the mother has built up immunity to a number of pathogens in her lifetime, why is this not passed to the fetus in vitro? | [
"Imagine a company named Mothersoft. Every one of the cells (workers) has identifiers like an ID badge that tell the immune system (security) that they belong to the company. The security will respond to anything foreign that doesn't belong in the company. Now imagine that the company wants to spin off a smaller co... | [
"1 virion is all it takes to make you ill. There's a few factors at play in whether someone contracts a viral infection. Your immune response is obviously a big one. If you've encountered the virus before then you've already got the tools to deal with it again. Another interesting aspect is the fact that someone el... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How does a particle become a wave? And how does a wave become a particle? | [
"I'm guessing you're talking about wave particle duality? In this case what you're describing does not happen. Electrons (and in fact all matter) exists as something which is neither a particle nor a wave, but which exhibits properties of those things in different circumstances."
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"Gravity doesn't suck things. Gravity is the curvature of spacetime caused by mass. Light travels in a straight line but if it gets close enough to a black hole all straight lines go into the black hole due to the curve of spacetime in that area. Light is both a particle and a wave. It's a wave when you know its en... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How do fortune tellers know what to say to you? | [
"Fortune tellers do what's called cold reading, picking up on little nicks and things that you physically show. They are also great at reading on your vulnerabilities such as emotions. They then attempt to predict, based on information that you have provided, try to create a crazy, but understandable fortune that c... | [
"Unless you believe in astrology and stuff like that, none whatsoever. It has zero basis in scientific fact and can't affect anything on an individual level. Don't believe everything you read on the internet."
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Why do smells (as opposed to other senses) trigger such intense memories, even those from so long ago? | [
"The olfactory bulb starts in the nose and stems into the brain, passing 2 brain areas that are implicated with memory and emotion ; the amygdala and hippocampus. Other senses do not pass these 2 areas, thus giving olfactory (smelling) a larger presence with memory and emotion."
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"Memories are more vivid if they are attached to an emotion. The stronger the emotion, the stronger the memory. It is this that causes crime victims to remember the moment -- and be haunted by it -- so vividly. They had a really strong emotional reaction to the situation and the memory of it was stored away indelib... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What happens to sea life when lightning strikes the ocean? | [
"Very little, the ocean is very large, and disperses electricity quickly. Only creatures very close to the strike would be affected."
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"It's not air pollution. It has to do with the way light refracts on particles in our atmosphere."
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How humans get the feeling of "being watched". | [
"It's not a sixth sense, but confirmation bias, pure and simple. There's also some subconscious cues involved. Explaining the first one is simple - if you get the feeling of \"being watched\", and turn around, and someone actually IS watching you, then you remember that moment. But if you get the feeling, turn arou... | [
"It's your body's way to tell you \"Think of the children\" whenever it feels danger is near."
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How do car manufacturers differ the signal made by one remote unlocker from another? And how do they prevent 'brute force' hacking? | [
"The codes rotate based on an algorithm shared between both the car and the key every time you use it. The format of the code, and the algorithm change between manufacturers, so they don't unlock other cars by mistake. When you get a new fob, they program it with the same algorithm seed, so the car and remote come ... | [
"Most people who have a garage do just push a button to enter. Also it could have to do with battery capacity, your car recharges a 12 volt battery constantly to do the work to unlock the doors, new keyfobs still have a physical key \"just in case\". It's also cheaper to use a manual key on a house lock, which is p... | eli5_question_answer | {
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why is it bad to watch t.v. with the lights off. | [
"Watching TV with the lights off does have an effect on your eyes. This [study](_URL_0_) found that there was higher visual discomfort, higher frequency of blinking, fatigue and eyestrain. However, the key word is ***fatigue***. Watching TV in the dark does not cause *damage*, but it causes your eyes to tire out."
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"why do we yawn when we read about yawning?"
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If Beijing expects the weather to blow all that smog away, where does it end up? | [
"I read an article on reddit the other day sayinng that 50 - 60% of the polution in California comes from Asia Edit: it is actually 20 - 30%"
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"For a while there they were threatening to wipe Israel off the map every twenty minutes or so. That might have something to do with it."
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How does terminal Velocity work? | [
"its just the balance point where the drag from the atmosphere equals the force of gravity. you can of course alter drag based on the shape/orientation of the object."
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"Are you asking how a wheel works ?"
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How come I can sing along to a song almost perfectly in my head but if i try and sing it out loud I am half a second off and stutter some words? | [
"Short explanation: humans are quite brilliant in lying to themself."
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"depends, some people simply because they lack the necessary control over their vocal cords, others (like my sis) because she can't hear if she is off-pitch by half a note ;)"
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what Facebook stands to gain from buying Instagram | [
"Removal of a potential rival. Sometimes it is easier to buy them off now (and certainly cheaper) then wait for them to become an even bigger profitable company. Facebook clearly wants to be the main photo sharing service on the web (the way google has corned the search engine market). Gain of patent rights. Maybe... | [
"We’re the product, not the customer. Facebook is providing us to the companies that pay to advertise on it."
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Why are some medicines dosed per Kg of body weight and some have a standard dose for everyone? | [
"Most over the counter medicines are dosed at a standard weight. Usually this works for everybody, but for the extremes not so well. However when accuracy is needed, such as with children or certain antibiotics, we dose by the kg to prevent complications. Source: I'm a nurse."
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"Sometimes it's necessary for the tablet to be large if the dosage of medication is large as well. As an example, one of the larger antibiotic tablets that I sell in pharmacy contains 875mg of amoxycillin and 125mg of clavulanic acid. Then add to that the powders that allow the tablet to form properly, any coatings... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do CPUs and GPUs become unstable at a higher clock rate than intended? | [
"Heat. Higher frequency (speed) = more heat generated in the CPU, this heat cases issues for the electrons moving inside the CPU. Worst case this heat can cause the material in the CPU to break and destroying it completely."
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"Turbo boost is a marketing term for dynamic clock speed in CPUs. Intel chips equipped with the technology normally operate a certain speed but can dynamically increase to the Turbo-boost speed when under load. The reason the chips can't operate at this speed all the time is because the heat they generate can damag... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why does our sense of taste generally prefer unhealthy things (pizza, burger etc.) over healthy ones (broccoli etc.)? | [
"We evolved as wild creatures where crucial nutrients like fat, salt and sugar were hard to find, so we crave them. Now due to modern technology/agriculture they're everywhere, but our urges haven't changed."
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"From what I understand, breakfast food is usually very easy and quick to prepare, but still has a lot of energy (eggs, pancakes, toast, cured meats like bacon and ham). dinner foods take longer to prepare, but they are so damn tasty (think pot roast, mashed potatoes, soups, etc.)"
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How do we have pictures of the Milky Way from a perspective looking straight at at, despite being in the Milky Way ourselves? | [
"The same way they have movies set in the Middle Ages even though there were no recording devices capable of filming it at the time. They're either drawings, computer simulations, pictures of other galaxies that are believed to look like ours, etc."
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"No because it can't be done. For example if you put a football stadium on the Moon it would appear as 1 pixel in a picture by the Hubble Space Telescope. I know, but how does it look at other galaxies when they're so far away? Because galaxies are huge. Even something like the Andromeda Galaxy, which is over 2 mi... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why are guitarists like Eddie Van Halen, Jimi Hendrix, etc. considered the "best" in their genres? | [
"You answered your own question. It's because they were breaking ground and playing in ways that weren't really the norm for their respective times. True there will always be somebody out there who was better, but Eddie and Jimi had the good fortune to have music that made its way to popularity and had the whole wo... | [
"Current popularity does not equal their popularity in 100 years. At the time of those classical composers very few were respected highly or considered great. The same is true in visual arts where Van Gogh was considered crazy and Picasso was considered terrible. What becomes a classic has nothing to do with their ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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why do drive-thru speakers have such poor sound quality compared to phones, TVs, etc? | [
"They were installed in 1996 and there's never been a reason to change them. They also need to be rugged and survive years of direct weather exposure, sound quality was never the primary engineering concern."
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"They could be listening to music from an audio player which can't connect to the car stereo (for example if the car doesn't have an aux input). Or they could just be using their headphones to talk to someone on the phone. And where I'm from it's very illegal."
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Why do Reddit and other websites push their app so hard? | [
"Well, you kinda explained it in your question. Ads. Ad revenue, redirects, etc. It's simple to install an ad blocker on a PC, not so much on a phone."
] | [
"A few months ago they added the ability to give Reddit gold at the bottom of every comment. It used to be more complicated to do. It has become a social norm to reward good comments with Reddit gold."
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If a single dose of meth makes people high for days at a time, and it doesn't cost a lot, why do meth users go broke and sell everything? | [
"A single dose doesn't get you high for days at a time. A single dose makes you ask yourself why you ever decided to be sober in the first place...At which point you fix your lawn mower while saving your marriage right before you vacuum your ceiling."
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"It’s very easy to get hooked on opioids but the drug companies said they were not that addictive. Doctors trusting the pharmaceutical companies prescribed them for pain management. People got hooked and once you’re an addict it’s hard to stop. Prescription drugs than become a black market commodity and flow into ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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If the new solid-state drives cannot be physically erased, how do you protect your data when selling it or deal with issues you used to have to reformat the drive for? | [
"i don't know, but filling it with loads of junk and then erasing it should completely overwrite old data, eg. if you have a 1 TB SSD, format it, then fill it with 1 TB of junk data, eg. repeated pictures of a cat, then reformat it, all the stuff before the original format should be overwritten by cat pictures. i t... | [
"The space the files occupy is simply marked as being available again, and if you put new files on your computer, it may writing over that space. The files aren't actually removed until they're written over by new files. This is how programs that recover files that were deleted work (they find those areas flagged a... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why the female Mexican beheading victim did not resist | [
"Perhaps she felt that she could retain some dignity and demonstrate a defiant strength by remaining calm under the imminent threat of death. Or perhaps she was partially sedated. Or a number of other possibilities. Not everyone goes out kicking and screaming. Some accept their fate and would rather not prolong the... | [
"Those prisoners have been tortured, physically and mentally over days, if not weeks. They have often been starved and drugged. They might not be in any state to fight back. One of the way ISIS tortures them is by preforming mock executions. The scene you see in the video is one they had to do every day for who kno... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What's the situation with the Falkland Islands? | [
"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... | [
"Only if the federal government let it. See: American Civil War"
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Why are nipples considered censor-worthy? | [
"female nipples are considered a sexual organ you can't have sexual organs shown on american television unless it's a network that allows that, and even that's kinda rare since that means you'd probably have to get the channel individually, which would then hurt the networks profits not to be part of a bundle or s... | [
"When it comes to nudity, nothing makes sense. Once upon time it wasn't OK to show your ankles."
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How can a virus/worm destroy a CPU? | [
"I remember reading about a virus back in the day (I think it required a floppy disk to be put into the drive, with the virus, not unlike stuxnet, although it was broader in who it impacted). It worked by abusing a flaw in the hardware which caused the diskdrive to spin too quickly, essentially destroying it. Again... | [
"Pretty much anyway a file can get onto a computer. Downloads, injection like a USB or something etc"
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Why the U.S (and any other countries who aren't just appeasing the U.S), support Israel so unquestionably, at least at a government level. | [
"This has been asked many many times, you could just do a search. There are large Jewish and Christian segments in the US that support Israel on moral and religious grounds. During the Cold War, the US supported Israel as a counter to Soviet advancement in the Middle East. The US also supports Israel because it ... | [
"Unless Israel gets attacked by a neighboring country, not much. In that case, we'd likely intervene or provide them with extra support. That case is unlikely. As it stands, it still affects the United States via bad PR. It's no secret that the USA is not impartial and absolutely backs Israel in near everything, w... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do some foods make you "bring it to a boil" only to immediately have you turn it down to a simmer? Why not just simmer it? | [
"Because that's how you can be sure that the water is the right temperature for simmering without having to measure. To simmer means to cook something at a temperature just below boiling, where bubbles are still forming but the water is not vaporizing. To get to that point, it's easiest to first go up to boiling an... | [
"Because you are doing it wrong! You are supposed to put tea into boiling water all at once, not slowly heat it up with the water. It does taste different that way. EDIT: To be clear, you don't put tea in water while it is still boiling, you bring the water to a boil, let it cool a bit, then put it in."
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Why don't herd animals fight off attackers? Why don't giant buffalo just gang up and kill lions? | [
"I know it's not what you're looking for but... _URL_0_ tl;dr: They do."
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"You should read Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond. He talks a lot about why certain animals and plants were domesticated and why others weren't. As far as animals that won't let us domesticate them--some aren't suitable because their panic instinct is so high they aren't dependable. Zebras can be ridden like ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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If anger is considered such a negative and bad emotion that brings trouble and we need to avoid it, why do we have it in the first place? | [
"Back in Caveman times, anger/aggresiveness was needed to funnel all your phyisical strenght so you could fight off other tribes or predatory animals. It was usefull then, it can still be usefull now"
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If we can have physician assisted suicides, why are there sometimes major malfunctions when administering the 'death penalty'? | [
"Physician assistant suicide is often phenobarbital, something people would OD on back in the day. One single drug, gently knocks you out and kills you without any dramatic stuff. It basically amps up the brain receptor that says \"chill out neuron\" so your whole brain chills out, till it knocks you out, and your ... | [
"We have the technology for both, but the manufacturer of the drugs used in lethal injections won't allow it to be sold for use in lethal injections."
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Why is it called 'suicide' instead of a phrase such as 'auto-homicide'? | [
"_URL_0_ > \"deliberate killing of oneself,\" 1650s, from Modern Latin suicidium \"suicide,\" from Latin sui \"of oneself\" (genitive of se \"self\"), from PIE *s(u)w-o- \"one's own,\" from root *s(w)e- (see idiom) + -cidium \"a killing\" (see -cide). So basically, 'suicidium' in Latin literally means 'A killing o... | [
"It just means death by disease or organ failure. **Un**natural causes are things like accident, homicide, suicide, etc."
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Bilingual speakers who switch languages mid sentence (ex: Spanglish/Hinglish), how do you choose which words to say in which language? | [
"In general there are 3 factors. 1: I don't know the words for a term in the language. For example, the only language I know the term \"Database Normalization\" is English, so switch. 2: The language that I'm not right now speaking has a shorter word for what I want to say. 3: The subject matter is more cultural... | [
"People's brains just work differently. Variables include, but are not limited to - Age, natural linguistic abilities, desire to change, use of language(s), etc. I would suspect those that maintain their accent tend to use their native language when speaking to others who also use speak that language natively. Wher... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How don't kilograms and pounds measure the same thing? | [
"Well that's wrong anyway. In physics weight is measured in Newtons. They're both used to measure \"weight\" in the everyday sense but science uses the metric system. Forget about feet, inches, pounds, and gallons and get used to metres, kilos, and litres. I don't know exactly how the US curriculum handles it but ... | [
"Probably because the metric system is the de facto measuring system forever but the US. It is also VERY easy to convert grams to micrograms and kilograms vs ozs to pounds."
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the positives and negatives for doctors when Obamacare is completely implemented. | [
"My father in law worked in the British National Health Service his whole career and he believes that working as a private doctor goes against the basic principles of being a doctor. Being free from the pressure of balancing a business and the need to make a profit enabled him to focus on providing the best possibl... | [
"Your dad appears to listen to right-wing talk radio and has no basis for that claim. A lot of the older more conservative folks are simply philosophically against perceived expansions of government regardless of cost/benefit. Obamacare is modeled after the Massachusetts health care system, which has the best hear... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What causes a second wind? | [
"One theory: Endorphins - A second wind may be the early release of endorphins (human painkillers) into your body. In reaction to the earlier part of your workout. Mental - After passing a certain checkpoint or mental barrier in your mind. The knowledge that you can overcome problems or are achieving something, ca... | [
"What causes the chills at the end of a good pee?"
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What argument(s) have courts used as a "legitimate state interest" for banning gay marriage? | [
"In Utah they used a variation of the \"Please, think of the children\" theme. The Utah AG's office argued to the court that the State has an interest in promoting child birth and stable families, and that same-sex marriages hurts the institution and somehow dissuades opposite-sex couples from marrying. Never mind ... | [
"The levels of scrutiny establish that, when a law discriminates against certain protected groups, it should be looked at more closely. For instance, if a law treats black and white people differently, the government must show to an *extremely* high standard that the law is necessary. If a law treats adults and min... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why are 4/4 and 3/4 the most common time signatures in music as opposed to others (for example: 5/4 or 7/8)? | [
"At the root of these two being the most common time signatures is the fact of human dancers mostly have two feet."
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"Think of it as mathematics - the time signature tells you how many of what notes you can have in a bar. For instance, a 4/4 signature means this section or piece of music should have 4 quarter notes in a bar, whereas a 6/8 signature means 6 eighth notes in a bar. Just in case it wasn't clear, notes have values, so... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What does Donald Trump do? | [
"Donald trump is not a self made Billionaire. He was basically set from the day he was born to inherit a 100 million dollar real estate company. He still manages real-estate today as well as dabbling in the realm of hotel/casinos/condos and even television. His wealth primarily comes from Real-estate."
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"What do you want to know about them exactly?"
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Why are some people so bad/good at accents/mimicry? | [
"A few factors I guess; longer exposure to a culture and it's habits, being a phonic learner, a generally good ability to pronounce words, and a solid understanding of different language structures. An understanding language structure makes the difference between and accent and a racist accent."
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"Because British accents sound foreign yet understandable to american audiences."
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Why do stomach bugs like the Norovirus appear to spread rapidly amongst passengers on cruise ships? | [
"**VERY** cramped spaces, cleanliness isn't usually up to par, and nowhere to escape the outbreak. Ships may look big, but they're actually very, very small. You fit 5,000 men on a carrier and every one of them is in a 6'x10' room sharing bunks. They work in the same cramped spaces, they eat in the same cramped spa... | [
"During the winter people tend to spend more time indoors, which means more time clustered closely together where viruses can spread easily. During the middle of summer in the northern hemisphere those viruses are going wild in the southern hemisphere, for the exact same reason. It's also the reason for the presenc... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do I momentarily remember my dream from last night at a random time the next day when I have already forgotten it? | [
"I don't claim to be a psychologist or anything of the sort, but I find that when I 'randomly' remember a dream during the day, it's usually because some kind of stimulus, some thing or event, related to the dream happens. For example, if I see a picture of a beach or my mind wanders off and I start thinking of bea... | [
"I have a sense of the passage of time asleep. But maybe a more accurate answer is because your brain is not entering what you experience into short-term memory, so you experienced things, you just don't remember experiencing anything. If you leave a note next to your bed telling you to try and remember what you dr... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How do astronauts measure their mass in zero gravity? On earth, all scales measure the weight (gravitational force), then divide it by 9,81. | [
"NASA has a [contraption](_URL_0_) for this purpose. Simple answer is that to move an object you apply some force. If you can measure the motion of an object and control the force, you can calculate its mass. The longer, more elaborate answer is [here](_URL_1_)"
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"Mass is how much of a thing there is. Weight is how hard that thing is pulled towards a large gravitational mass. Mass is an inherent quality/information of an object, and remains unchanged regardless of what else it is near. It does play into the inertia. Weight is the force exerted through gravity. Force = Mass ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is it that when you're cutting something in a sawing motion back and forth, it is easier to cut then just pushing down? | [
"Mechanical engineering student here. When you're splitting something you're basically separating the microscopic adjacent layers that the object has into two parts. When you're sawing you're actually removing a layer bit by bit. The thickness of the removed layer is equal to the thickness of the sawblade. This i... | [
"It focuses the force on one spot and allows it to make a clean slice through the neck, killing in one blow rather than potentially taking several hits. Edit: this is the same reason when you're cutting something, you don't just drop the knife flatly against it, you angle the blade to get a clean slice."
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How come there are far more patriarchies than matriarchies | [
"On average, men are physically stronger than women. And women become pregnant and give birth, which is of course quite disabling. Those things together would be sufficient to get men into leadership roles back when physical aptitude was the primary decider of power. And from there, tradition took over."
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"I believe the most widespread theory is that is just simply more culturally accepted for women to engage in homosexual behavior"
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why rubbing your head after banging it helps in reducing pain? | [
"When you whack your head, your nerves are sending pain signals to your brain. Nerves can only send one signal at a time. By pressing/rubbing on your head, you override the pain signals and replace them with pressure signals. That's why as soon as you stop, the pain comes back."
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"peoples blood pressure is lower when they first wake up. this makes them more sensitive to the cold."
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Can plants get cancer? | [
"Plants, or at least trees, can get tumors. Cancer is simply an uncontrollable division of damaged or abnormal cells resulting in a tumor. As pointed out by Hank in [SciShow](_URL_0_), trees, for example, have cancer/tumors when cell growth continues and they develop those large knots (called burls). The reason the... | [
"Can you not get an erection in space?!"
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why certain cuisines are more famous than others? | [
"Someone I worked with asked me why the French are so important to cooking. I started asking him the names of the various items in our professional kitchen. Indeed a huge amount of them are French. You used the word \"cuisine\" which ain't no German. Cooking techniques, from the Bain Marie to the Coq au Vin, Sous V... | [
"In the United States at least, the typical Chinese restaurant places a heavier emphasis on cooking things with plenty of oil and making them sweet one way or another. Chinese restauranteurs got successful with American diners when they stopped offering meats seen as questionable and started adding more sugar to th... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Where do my atoms go when I die? | [
"They stay right where they are. At an atomic level there is no difference between a living person and a dead one. Soon your body will be consumed by bacteria and animals, and you become food. In a billion years the atoms that made you up will be spread across the world as various new things."
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"Someone told them what the answer is supposed to be."
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how major corporations (Apple, News Corp etc) avoid paying so much tax? | [
"_URL_0_ _URL_1_ _URL_3_ _URL_2_ These are the most used schemes"
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"A lot of wealthy people paid other people to figure out how to use loopholes to avoid paying taxes."
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Why do shower curtains move in towards you during a hot shower? | [
"Those who proclaim it has to do with heat need to read this: _URL_0_"
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"It keeps water from sticking to the inside of the lens. Same thing as soaping up a mirror in the shower."
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How does the vision scale work? | [
"This is just a guess but my understanding has always been that these numbers are based upon averages. 20/20 means you're on par with other people's average eye sight. While something like 20/15 means you can see things from a distance of 20 feet that would take an average person 15 foot distance to see/read the sa... | [
"Are you asking how a wheel works ?"
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Why are planets/stars round and not random shapes? | [
"Because gravity tries to pull everything as close together as possible. The most efficient shape for this is a sphere. Every single chunk of a perfect sphere is as close as it can possibly be to the center of the sphere."
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"Yes they have equatorial budges, in fact Saturn has the biggest one, so much so that it's visible. The planet appears a bit oval shaped. Even stars have them. Some fast spinning stars can appear clearly oval shaped."
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Why do neo-nazis and other far right groups in Europe, hate jews today in 2015 | [
"Reasons for antisemitism have generally stayed the same as they were in the past. Jews are believed to control most of the financial and media outlets in the world because they have a history of getting into bureaucratic jobs. Many cultures also view the jews as arrogant people for their belief that they are the c... | [
"Antifa stands for anti-facism. They fought against fascist groups such as Mussolini, Hitler, the KKK. Later they supported communism and were supported by Jews, anarchists, and migrants. Nowadays, they fight neo-Nazis, the Alt-Right, and other racist and authoritarian groups. They support left wing ideologies and ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How can companies/products like Dr. Bronner's, Nature's Path cereal, Trader Joe's Hemp Protein Powder, hemp milks, and others produce and sell consumable hemp products in the US? | [
"I run a hemp soap company so I'm actually pretty well versed in this field. Hemp is a very close relative of psychoactive Cannabis, however industrial hemp does not contain any (or less than 0.2%, to be exact) THC and therefore is free to use. Currently in the US it is quite difficult to get a permit to grow hemp ... | [
"Because \"natural\" is a vague term. There aren't regulations on what you have to do to say you sell \"natural\" foods."
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Why do I start crying when I'm angry? | [
"I'm no scientist, but I did watch a youtube video about [this](_URL_0_), and it explains it very well. Basically, we cry when we expirience a loss of control or are under heavy stress. Tears are a way for our body to calm itself. EDIT: In the video, it explains it at 2:45 for those who do not want to watch the who... | [
"Because it helps to take your mind off of the embarrassing thought. I do that a lot when I'm hung over."
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Why is reinstalling Windows the go-to solution for so many problems on the PC? | [
"There are many reason why an IT professional would choose to re-install over repairing. A lot of spyware, trojans, malware, etc can destroy common system files as well as make the PC run slow. It's a lot less work to simply re-install windows than it is to attempt to locate and repair every single file that could ... | [
"It would be very useful to know which operating system the computer uses (Windows? Mac?) Generally you can wipe the hard drive by reinstalling the OS if you have the discs. But again, the process differs depending on the OS. Google is your friend in this endeavor."
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Super Ego, Ego and Id. | [
"The id is your desire for this cookie. (::) The ego is your practical plan to get this cookie. (::) The superego torpedoes your plan because it's my cookie, and stealing is wrong. Munch."
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"Sleep - Shake Unconscious - Splash Coma - Wait and Hope Vegetative State - Wait and Bury"
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How can bacteria get into the gut after birth to form the gut flora? | [
"Every breath you take, every move you make, those bacteria are everywhere. How many times should you wash your hands but do not? There is speculation that bacterial spores travel across interstellar space. There is also speculation that being too clean means children are not exposed to enough challenges for their ... | [
"There are, they're just not referred to as diseases. Your intestines are home to lots and lots of bacteria that help you digest food, train your immune system, and prevent the growth of other more harmful bacteria. It's perfectly possible to live without your gut flora, but they're beneficial."
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Why has there been so much more 'fake news' lately? | [
"It's definitely nothing new, but it has been talked about a lot lately for two reasons. The first reason is that political news during the election was big business. Putting out an article that could get a lot of views, regardless of its accuracy, means lots of ad revenue. This extends to everything from tiny webs... | [
"When the media decided to leverage the negative connotations associated with 'drone' to sensationalise things."
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Why Is My Voice So Deep In The Morning? | [
"Because while you sleep your vocal chords have time to relax and loosen up. Loose vocal chords produce deeper voices. Once they get warmed up again, your voice returns to normal. Try holding a rubber band taut and plucking it. Now loosen it up a bit and try the same thing."
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"Being Black Does Actually Have (Relatively Minor) Health Consequences, It's Just That They're Obviated By Modern Life. There's An Energy Cost To Have Extra Melanin, Even A Small One, So If You Don't Need It It Won't Be Selected For. Melanin Reduces Vitamin-D Uptake From The Sun If Sunlight Is Lower Than You're Ada... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is it so difficult to repair hearing loss? | [
"We'd have to regenerate individual hair cells, and making humans regenerate *anything* is not easy. We have a ton of tiny hair cells in our ears which produce the sense of hearing, and too loud noises can \"jam\" them."
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"Its expensive and probably won't eliminate the underlying cause of why they began drug use to begin with."
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Google runs both Android and YouTube. Why is voice recognition so good when I do "Okay Google", but so poor at automatic captions? | [
"The captions are programmed differently to voice recognition, it's one thing for the computer to take in the words for a few select commands and translate them into actions but translating full videos of dialogue on the fly is prone to problems, especially when you consider how little time it has to think about ea... | [
"The one thing that most Android flagship models have over other smartphone flagships and lesser Android phones is that the voice to text functionality is extremely useful and accurate. That means you can talk to your phone and it types what you write, you can ask it questions and it answers you, and the answers ar... | eli5_question_answer | {
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I get why we as humans need to feel pain, but why can't we control our brains to lessen the pain after we're aware of the wound? | [
"There's no particular advantage beyond your personal comfort, and a lot of potential disadvantage, like the ability to ignore injuries. You being comfortable isn't especially important to your survival or reproductive fitness. But being aware of injury, as well as restrained from continuing to aggravate injuries,... | [
"They don't really, feel more or less pain. They just don't know how to cope with it. Kid doesn't know what is happening, so it cries, sobs, and vocally express his/her feelings. But adult know what the pain is, he knows why it is happening. And will treat is as annoyance as opposed to life or death situation."
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Why do we find the smell of some inedible things appealing? E.g. Petrol, paint | [
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"The chemicals that \"give off\" the smell you are noticing belong to a group called \"terpenes\". Various terpenes are found all throughout nature and are the reason you are reminded of one item's scent by the other. I would venture a guess that a skunk and \"Skunk\" share a common or similar terpene. Limonene, fo... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do people squint their eyes when trying to see something far away? | [
"Squinting helps focus the light and cuts out the \"extraneous\" visual stimuli. _URL_0_"
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"Is it blinking? Probably a plane. Is it not blinking? Probably a satellite. Is it daytime? Probably glaucoma. Have you gone and rubbed your eyes really hard for a minute? Stop doing that. Is it daytime and the dots are moving in waves? You might have parasites in your eye. Is it daytime and you've recently had las... | eli5_question_answer | {
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- What is the difference between linear polarized light and circular polarized light? | [
"I think it is beast to think circular polarization as two linearly polarized light together. [Here are few good animations](_URL_0_) By combinign two linearly polarized light at 90° angles (red and green) you get circular polarized light (cyan)."
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"Because the light from your monitor is polarized. And since polarized glasses on let light pass if it has the right polarization, the monitor goes black when the glasses are tilted so that the glasses' polarization in opposite to the monitor's polarization."
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How are kids allowed to use abusive language in movies? | [
"maybe morally, depending on your personal beliefs. theres no legal issue with children cursing."
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"Curse words are censored in order to make the show more appealing to a wider audience, which in turn makes these shows more appealing for advertising. Some people find curse words to be upsetting or they don’t want their kids hearing them. As for how curse words came about I’m not sure how they originated."
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How come on maps showing plane routes the curved lines always go north then south, why not straight? | [
"because they are going straight and it is the map that is distorted. All maps excluding globes have to be distorted to some degree."
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"Probably because the NY flight doesn't travel in the same direction but would go 'up' and over the pole. Or close to it. Whereas the LA flight probably goes straight across the Pacific"
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What is the evolutionary explanation for homosexuality? | [
"From my understanding, it's a mixture of the biological desire to mate with a lack of resources that makes mating nonviable (not enough food for the next generation, not enough available females, whatnot). Particularly in the case of animals other than humans, it can be beneficial in that you've got a pair of 'par... | [
"There is a higher probability of beneficial mutation with sexual reproduction than with asexual reproduction."
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Time Warner Cable and Comcast merger. Why has it continued even as the FCC reviews its validity? | [
"Because they don't have to stop, and they have a long road to go. Merging two companies is an extraordinarily complicated process... and that's just for two small companies. A merger between TWC and Comcast is likely to be one of the most complicated legal things... ever. Since its going to take them years to ful... | [
"Anti-trust laws give the Department of Justice the authority to make that call. It is decided case-by-case by the courts. The Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice did indeed file a lawsuit arguing against the merger. In court, \"New Charter\" agreed to a list of concessions and regulations in order to c... | eli5_question_answer | {
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the reason milk doesn't separate. | [
"Milk does separate. We force fresh milk through a process called homogenization, where we force the milk through a very fine screen that breaks the large globs of fat into many small pieces which stay dispersed in the milk rather than floating to the surface. Unhomogenized lightly pasteurized milk is delicious. Yo... | [
"The same reason why Orange juice or Cola doesn’t. The toothpaste don’t stick to your teeth."
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When we inhale O and exhale CO2 where does the Carbon come from? | [
"Short answer: From our food. Main purpose of our body is to make energy. Eating and breathing are two limbs of a process. To produce energy from food, the carbohydrates (complex carbon compoumds) are broken down and this break down produces energy (just like setting something on fire) Now this breakdown can only t... | [
"The equation of life is: sugar + oxygen = water + carbon dioxide + energy So most of this weight is lost as exhaled carbon dioxide and water."
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How is the federal reserve conspiracy debunked? | [
"The Federal Reserve doesn't have shareholders. All of it's money is from the government and all of it's money belongs to the government. Myth: Busted. Also, that is not even close to the function of the Federal Reserve. One of it's jobs it is to buy US bonds back from regular US bondholders - that's how the govern... | [
"how is that different from any other mortgage system??? am i missing something?"
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Taking certain medications with food | [
"Oftentimes, taking medicine with food helps prevent side effects, such as upset stomach that can happen when taking antibiotics, or metformin."
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"Overuse of antifungals, antibacterials and the like can lead to resistant strains. Various medications have notable side effects, or are dangerous when taken in conjunction with other types of medication."
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Why do we have laws against child labor, but still allow child actors? | [
"Child actors, at least in the US, are subject to strict work and study schedules to ensure that they don't get exploited. There are rules that say they can't work more than X hours per day or after X time at night, for instance."
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"It's illegal because a lot of people frown on it from a moral standpoint (similar to the reason that marijuana is illegal), and because people believe it can lead to exploitation of women."
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r/clopclop and r/spacedicks | [
"Hello, moderator of /r/clopclop here. The subreddit I run is a place where people get together to look at pictures they like. Now it just so happens that the pictures they look at are ponies from the show My Little Pony Friendship is Magic having fun together. I'll show you when you're older."
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"X does make that sound in the word Xylophone. Also: Xavier Xander Xenophobia Xanthum Xanadu *Xenon thanks /u/bovfem"
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Why do we say Merry with Christmas but Happy with all other holidays? | [
"In England they do say Happy Christmas. Which is odd since you'd think the word \"merry\" would have originated in Merry Olde England."
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"Many people decorate for Thanksgiving (fall wreaths on doors, fall/turkey/pilgrim decorations put out). They also decorate for Easter, 4th of July, memorial day, veterans day, St. Valentine's day, St. Patrick's day, and due to the fact that many towns have festivals on Labor day you can say that they decorate for ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why are liberals on the "left" and conservatives on the "right"? | [
"This custom came from the French Revolution. In France, the members of the National Assembly that supported the King sat on the right side while those that wanted reform sat on the left. Therefore, conservatives became right wing and liberals became left wing."
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"Republican and Democrat refer to members of specific political parties. \"Liberal\" and \"conservative\" are socioeconomic and political ideologies. The Republican party tends to be more conservative than the Democratic party, but they're not always entirely conservative, or conservative on all issues. The Democra... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How does psychological medications (antianxiety, antidepressants, etc) cure patients illnesses? | [
"It's also worth noting that these drugs aren't really \"cures\" in the sense that they don't make your illness stop happening permanently. It's not like a bandaid, where you take it off and the cut is gone. If you stop taking these medications, your serotonin will go right back to its previous low levels, and you'... | [
"It often isn't. Depression in essence is an imbalance of neurochemicals, if you can restore this balance through drugs, therapy etc. you can cure depression (at least temporarily)."
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