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Okay, what happened to spark the massive battle on Eve Online this time? | [
"I believe someone forgot to pay the rent on a system and when another group came in to claim it, the original group that forgot to pay the rent started fighting them. And...yeah. It's become what it is now."
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"Any reports yet as to how it went down?"
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How does the human body tell when it's thirsty? | [
"Through a complicated systems that are connected to the kidneys (RAAS), the brain, and individual cells that are dehydrated. Cells will send signals to the brain, which then signals the kidneys to reuptake fluids. But that's as simple as I can explain it. Maybe someone else can do better."
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"Basically when you eat a lot of food a lot of your blood gets drawn to your stomach. When your brain has less blood you feel tired/lose energy. At least I think that's what it is."
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Why can't we create a suit or apparatus that allows us to fly like birds? | [
"Extremely unlikely. For starters, our bodies are just too heavy. Birds evolved for flight by reducing their mass and streamlining efficiency in their systems. The term 'hollow bones' is a bit of a misnomer (they're not really hollow) but it reflects how much lighter their bones are. Their musculature is also more ... | [
"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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How does the music industry still make the same amount of money when actual record sales are at an all time low? | [
"They don't spend as much money on recordings. That's why the studio business is almost dead. The labels also didn't used to get a cut of touring or shows at all... now it's the norm for a \"360 deal\" where the label doesn't just sell records, they take over the artist's brand and take a cut of everything. Meanw... | [
"The streaming services collect all the money from subscriptions and ads, then each artist is paid their percent of the total streams. If there's only 100 streams that months, and Taylor Swift songs account for 10 of those, she gets 10% of the revenue that month. When you break it down, each streamed song gives the... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What is it in peoples genetic makeup that makes things like weight problems hereditary? | [
"For the vast, vast, vast majority: nothing. Weight problems weren't \"hereditary\" until the last 50 years or so, and amazingly, they still aren't \"hereditary\" in the third world. Truly shocking. Human metabolisms don't vary by more than a few percentage points (accounting for obvious things like sex/height/etc)... | [
"It affects brain chemistry. Some peoples brain react to chemicals differently than others. This is like asking why only some people suffer the 10 million side affects listed after drug commercials."
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What does it mean to be transgender? | [
"It's when a person has a mismatch between the gender of their personality (the gender that they identify themselves with) and their physical gender. It is not defined by their gender role (ie, a stay-at-home dad is not a transgender just by virtue of his daily activities), but by their emotional identity. I'd be i... | [
"In the real world why would anyone want to be a politician?"
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What is the observer effect? Does light really know when we are observing it and change behaviour depending on it? | [
"In physics, an \"observer\" is anything that interacts with a quantum object. For instance, when a photon hits your desk, the desk \"observes\" the photon. So the observer effect just has to do with whether anything is interacting with the photon."
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"The word observed is used because typically we're measuring a property of something very tiny, which tells us about it. We \"observe\" its existence by measuring it's velocity or position. The trouble is, to get that information, to measure it, we have to interact with it in some way. Since the world of quantum m... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do suburbs in general have less crime than cities? | [
"Suburbs were developed with housing additions specifically targeted to bring middle class families from the cities. As a result, the suburbs often have fewer poor people than the cities. And crime rates are usually a function of poverty rates."
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"Washington DC is high crime because it consists almost soley of high density urban areas, and many of those areas have a large population of poor people. It's not that different from other areas of a similar makeup."
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Why do I find spiders in my sinks and shower tub more than any other location of my house? | [
"I can't remember where, but I read somewhere that they go to places that make them easy to spot for a potential mate. If they are confident enough that there are no threats, they will climb out of their hiding places and sit still in an open space with high contrast so that they can be easily spotted. in short, th... | [
"They take up too much space and are impractical for a house. The reason they have them in public toilets is they're more efficient when lots of people need to use them. It's not like you'll have more than one person using the toilet at the same time in your house."
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EL5 the difference between Alzheimers and dementia. | [
"Dementia is the generic term for \"losing your mind\". It can result from many causes, including trauma, oxygen deprivation, strokes, etc, as well as various diseases. Patients with Alzheimer's disease commonly present with dementia as a symptom."
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"Do you have Diabetes? There is also something called Maple Syrup urine disease."
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Why are our bodies warm ? | [
"The chemical reactions that allow our cells to function are exothermic (they produce heat). Our body essentially burns sugars to produce usable energy. And \"burns\" isn't a metaphor: it's the same chemical reaction as lighting something on fire (it's the reason that we need to breathe oxygen), just very tightly c... | [
"Why do people in Western countries use forks?"
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why do I get "chills" all over my body when I see or hear something beautiful? Moreover, what are those chills and why aren't they just felt all the time? | [
"Frisson is the sudden feeling of excitement. There is a subreddit for it _URL_0_ Quoted from their sidebar \"Have you ever felt a sudden, passing sensation of excitement, a shudder of emotion from an epic moment of a song, or a climax of a movie? That is what is called \"frisson\". It has been linked to rises in ... | [
"I suppose if you've been blind all your life, you could never fully understand what it means to see. Or that if you've been deaf, you could never appreciate music. Language is limiting. The best way I could describe it is that the sensation of emotions is very much like physical sensations, but they're more mental... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What is the white stuff on my tongue made up of and why is there such a strong correlation to how my breath smells? | [
"I read that it is dead fungi or bacteria from food trapped in the small gaps on your tongue. I wouldnt worry about it unless you realise it getting substantially worse, it could then maybe be infection on your tongue. If it starts to hurt or stay heavily coated for over 2 weeks you may need to see a GP. Source/mo... | [
"Well sticky residue usually is the result of sugar, which there is none of in cat food. And cat breath usually isn’t that bad due to low levels of bacteria in their mouth, so there’s not a lot of smell."
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Why don't national flags have the name of the country displayed on them? Instead, we're stuck guessing which of the 196 countries it is. | [
"What language would you write the name in? If you can only read English, the flags of several Asian nations would look very similiar. Same for other similiar languages."
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"The ones I know from my head: On the USA flag they stand for each state. On the Australian flag you have the Southern Cross constellation and the federation star. The New Zealand flag also has the Southern Cross. The Chinese flag has the communist party for the big star and the four classes for the little ones. Th... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What happens to information and media (texts,apps,videos etc...)on your phone when they are scrolled out of sight? | [
"They are kept in the device's RAM as you use the app, so that when you scroll back up, they are instantly available. Some apps may run out of RAM or otherwise optimize to save it, so the data will be erased from the RAM and lost, thus when you scroll back up, then it must re-load the data from the internet."
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"Nothing on facebook is ever deleted. Just because you delete it doesn't mean facebook doesn't keep a copy. Similar things go for text, although this varies more from carrier to carrier. In the very least, they keep records for a long time even if they eventually delete them. The main point is that the data isn't ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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what is the significance of the neutrino-faster-than-light discovery? | [
"I feel I should point out that it is **extremely unlikely** that these measurements are correct. This cannot be understated. It is far, far, *far* more likely that there is an error somewhere in the experiment or the equipment, and the work being done now is to try to find that error."
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"No, the pressure moves at the speed of sound. This would be kind of entertaining because the stick, from a faster-than-light-thought-experiment standpoint, would be really curved."
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Why do many people see a white light during a near death experience? | [
"They don't. It's purely anecdotal. A handful of people will claim that they saw a \"white light\", or a \"tunnel with shapes at the end\" or \"the face of grandpa Joe\" etc. And then it becomes representative of the whole experience because of the next point. [It becomes a narrative trope](_URL_0_) that writers i... | [
"Are you sure you are actually conscious of being in a dream rather than merely dreaming that you are conscious within a dream?"
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Freshman here- why wouldn’t everybody apply to as many colleges as possible? | [
"> Freshman here- why wouldn’t everybody apply to as many colleges as possible? Time and effort. Also, application fees upwards of $100 of dollars for higher valued colleges."
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"If you go on to a college and get a 2 year or 4 year degree, no one will give a shit about GED vs HS degree. All they will look at is your collge experience. Colleges may look at the the GED as not as good as the HS degree when accepting you, but, if you kill your SATs or ACTs, they will over look that. Also, if t... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How is my nose stuffy and runny at the same time? | [
"Deep inside your nose there is actually erectile tissue, very similar to the penis. An erection is caused when blood vessels in the penis get bigger so more blood flows into it, and the exact same thing happens with this tissue in your nose. So often when we are congested and stuffy, it isn't because snot is bloc... | [
"You might be breathing through your mouth leading to it being dry. A humidifier might help by keeping the air more moist while you breathe. Have you spoken to your doctor or dentist about your perpetual dry mouth? If OTC treatments aren't helping, it's time to see one of your medical practitioners."
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How do people with insomnia get energy? | [
"Often, copious amounts of caffeine and sugar. Also often, they don't. They go through the day like barely functional zombies. This question seems better suited for r/askreddit"
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"If you're not tired, and you feel refreshed when you wake up, you are probably OK. Not everyone needs the same amount of sleep."
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How do speakers produce multiple sounds and how does the ear perceive more than one tone? | [
"It doesn't make more than one sound at a time. It makes a single noise. Your brain, however, is able to recognize various characteristics of the noise and separate them into individual sounds. This is something your brain does with ALL noise, not just noise from speakers."
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"ALL sounds and vibrations in nature are waves. Think about it, an atom cannot move instantaneously from one position to another. So sound is just waves. But you can add how many waves you want of different pitch, phase, and amplitude, as you want, to create a unique wave. That's how all sounds are formed."
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Why do giant pandas seem to have such terrible motor skills? | [
"Bamboo isn't the most challenging of prey, and it isn't like anything eats pandas in the wild either. They don't have much need to be nimble."
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"All you have to do as a species is reproduce. Anything more is wasted. Slow is good, uses less energy; and most predators go after movement - a slow-moving creature attracts little attention. Giant Pandas are even stranger: they move slowly, have an extraordinarily limited diet, and reproduce with great difficultl... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Where does the phrase "take it on the chin" come from? | [
"The phrase comes from boxing, and generally denotes a direct and significant hit (most literally from an uppercut, but that's irrelevant to the use of the phrase as a general idiom)."
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"So when and where did playing cards as we know them come into being anyways?"
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if someone gets a hold of my social security number, what can they do to steal my identity from that point? | [
"Off the top of my head, this is what I would do if I wanted to steal your identity using your social security number. First I would forge a copy of your social security card. Then I would write to your state courthouse and request a copy of your birth certificate. If questioned, I would say that I lost it and my I... | [
"Because of identity theft. If I have enough information about you, I can pretend to be you, get a credit card in your name, and buy a whole bunch of crap that I don't have to pay for but guess what - you will still get the bill, and it will show up on your credit report. Also pedophiles."
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Why haven't FIFA or the IOC been shut down for corruption? | [
"By this logic if someone on a team cheats we should disband the team. The organizations aren't fundamentally corrupt, certain people are."
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"More or less a way for corporations to literally be above the law and do whatever they want, among other things. Cross your fingers it doesn't go through."
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How is there competition and price variation within the bottled water industry? | [
"All comes down to marketing - making a real or apparent difference in the mind of the consumer between your product and your competitors. The most obvious examples are your premium ones - Perrier, Evian, Fiji, that stupid Voss crap in the glass bottle. They sell it at a premium because it's \"exclusive\" by way of... | [
"There is a massive barrier to entry in order to compete with them."
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What makes fresh food better quality than frozen food? | [
"Freezing food causes water in the food to turn into ice crystals which are larger and can damage the food. When the food thaws, some of the ice turns to water and drains off leaving the food dehydrated. Long exposure to ice also leads to freezer burn which leaves an unpleasant taste and color to the food. Meat wh... | [
"Most microwaved vegetables are healthier for you , compared to fresh. Look it up."
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Why would the U.S. Special Forces (supposedly) bury Bin Laden's body at sea almost immediately after his death? | [
"> If the story isn't entirely true, then what would be a probable alternative? Scuttlebutt I've read from conspiracy heads is that they don't think there was a SEAL team, but rather that bin Laden was taken out by missles or drones. This would require a fabricated sea burial, because generally you don't find the i... | [
"The Afghan government was hosting Osama Bin Laden, who had masterminded the events of 9/11. America demanded that he be turned over to American custody, but the Afghans refused (The Taliban government was sympathetic to Bin Laden and Al Quieda's cause), so the US came in and tried to take him by force."
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Why were most cities in the world founded over a century ago, except for a few planned exceptions? You don’t really see new cities appear anymore... | [
"You have new cities appearing,but they aren’t famous now so you don’t know about them yet. Like China for example makes a lot of planned cities"
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"The places you mention in the US have been populated for centuries. People in western Canada largely came from Ontario and comparatively very recently."
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how realistic are the depictions of cell phone and computer tracking shown in spy movies? Do you really need to "keep someone talking" to have enough time to triangulate their position? Do hackers really "ping" their signal off multiple servers around the world to avoid detection? | [
"> Do you really need to \"keep someone talking\" to have enough time to triangulate their position? In general, no. Even if your number is blocked/unlisted, the phone company knows where you're calling from immediately and law enforcement agencies have ready access to this information. Keeping somebody talking mig... | [
"Nobody, including the NSA, accesses your phone directly for the purpose of data collection. They have direct taps in the hubs that your data *must* traverse to get to its destination. They copy every single byte from every single connection and store it on massive data centers. Then they reduce and analyze the dat... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why does nothing grow in the sand at the beach? | [
"First of all, [they do]( _URL_0_). The main reason beaches don't get a lot of plant growth is twofold: erosion and salinity. The constant battering of the waves and the tides means the sand of beaches is typically moved around a *lot*, so any plants that tried to grow in that sandy soil would find themselves uproo... | [
"How do you even take a picture of the center of a tornado?"
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Why is there no humor-based talk show, or any formatted program, by the right wing conservatives? The left it seems spends a lot of time laughing at the right's proclivity to lie and distort truths, while the right are simply angry about every tiny details that makes up the left. | [
"As the good reverend Stephen Colbert once said - \"Reality has a well know liberal bias\". You can make fun of liberals and play up stereotypes, but if you try to make fun of the policies they advocate there is a lack of material unless you flat out make shit up. Generally reality is on the liberals side, they do... | [
"Publicity. They understand its a joke show but there is a real underlying theme especially with the Colbert report. He has an agenda. That agenda is to inform people of real world events without bias by mocking the persona of similar news casters and exploiting their biases. Its purely entertainment but he's mocki... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do people say the alarm goes "off" when really it comes "on"? | [
"The alarm is always \"on\" looking for a certain stimulus. When it sees that stimulus, it turns \"off\"."
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"Plug in something where you can see it's \"on\" An alarm clock works really well. Now, quickly pull the plug, and watch how it takes a few seconds for the light to actually go off. If you unplug and replug fast enough, you won't even reset the time. It will be as if you did nothing at all. That's the idea. 30 seco... | eli5_question_answer | {
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When did time begin? | [
"This is something that is unknowable. Our Universe's timeline started with the big bang. Outside of that we can only speculate. The theory I like to believe is that our Big Bang was actually a white hole connected via a Schwarschild wormhole to it's opposite super massive blackhole existing in another Universe. B... | [
"How do you think they stay rich? ;)"
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Why does depression sometimes make breathing very difficult? | [
"I see this issue a lot in some of my patients with chronic pain, anxiety, depression, chronic stress, or all of the above. I rule out all the obvious causes and can't find a clear organic cause. Great answers here, I'd like to add that the actual sensation of shortness of breath arises through an extremely comple... | [
"Breathing has a lot to do with this. When we are in our normal calm state, we don't think about breathing - it's something done naturally. But when something gives you anxiety, your heartbeat goes up and sometimes subconsciously start breathing in more air. The more you do this, the more oxygen you take in - causi... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do we consume Sodium Chloride and not any other salts? | [
"We do consume a few other types of salt, just not as much as sodium chloride. If you look at the container of salt in your kitchen, it probably says that it's \"iodized salt\", meaning it contains a small amount of sodium iodide or potassium iodide in addition to the sodium chloride. A lot of packaged foods also h... | [
"A nitrite is molecule that has one nitrogen and two oxygen atoms. A nitrate is a molecule that has one nitrogen and three oxygen atoms. Both are ions with a single negative charge. When forming a molecule with another atom, you get things like Sodium Nitrite (sodium, with a positive charge combining with the negat... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How do parrots say sounds made by the letters B, F, M, or P without lips? | [
"You can produce these sounds by pressing your tongue against your upper lip too, you don't *need* a set of lips to approximate it, just a way to modulate the airflow properly. Parrots can come pretty close to most human speech with their tongue, beaks, and weird respiratory system setup, but sometimes they have to... | [
"A human vocal system can make a huge variety of sounds. Each language only uses certain number of those sounds. Once a person is past a certain age, it is hard for them to learn sounds that aren't a part of the language that they grew up speaking. Japanese doesn't have separate sounds for the letters L and R. The... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Since the Efficient Market Hypothesis is widely accepted, how is High Frequency Trading profitable/viable? | [
"HFT *makes* EMH true, in a pretty real sense. The role of stock traders is to act on any idiosyncratic information they have, and to do so until their information content cannot be exploited any more. The essence of EMH is that in equilibrium, all information has already been acted on. Thus you only make money (re... | [
"Economics is not a science by most people definition of science. It is a social science. \"True\" sciences, like chemistry and physics, produce repeatable, consistent experiment results. No matter how often you drop a ball from a roof, it will always fall to the ground. It's predictable. Economics is far from pre... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why doesn't a single engine propeller plane need a second propeller to counteract the weight of the front one spinning? | [
"Single prop planes do have a bit of torque that yaws the plane in one direction or the other. Usually, you'll make small adjustments to the rudder and ailerons (aka. trimming) to counteract it, or depending on the age of the plane, compensate for it manually."
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"Adjusting pitch allows the aircraft and pilot to get better thrust efficiency as well as control. A higher pitch (blade is more parallel with air stream) is good for cruising at speed (saves fuel, reduces drag), whereas lower pitch provides more \"bite\" and allows greater acceleration and climbing capability--goo... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How is it possible that the original Super Mario Bros for NES is only 40 kilobytes? | [
"The lower power of computers back then requried some very clever usage of storage space. Limited color palattes, no moving backgrounds, and reusing sprites in multiple locations (IE The clouds and the bushes are the same sprite in different colors)."
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"All computers of the era were slow to load from cassette. Cassettes weren't chosen as a storage medium because they were fast, they were chosen because they were very, very cheap. I remember on my TRS-80 it took about six minutes to load up the work processor on cassette. Most games were 2-4 minutes to load."
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What's the difference between sexual assault and sexual harassment? | [
"Well harassment tends to be verbal/communicative while assault is any sort of physical act. If he/she didn't touch you, it's harassment. If he/she did, it's assault."
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"None of your stated articles have anything pertaining to disciplining a child. * Article 3: Smacking a child (for behavior management, not abuse) does not violates the right to life, liberty and security. * Article 5: Smacking a child (again, for behavior management, not abuse) is not torture or too cruel. If it w... | eli5_question_answer | {
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When you turn a cup/bowl of water in your hand, why does the liquid inside seem to remain still while to cup turns? | [
"Think of the cup and water as two different objects. You are providing forces for the cup(object 1) to move, buy you are not directly involved in the moving of the water(object 2). The water is moved by a coefficient of friction from the cup. As cups are usually quick smooth, the effect of friction is very low res... | [
"If you take a bucket, half fill with water and spin it around, up/down any circular direction you want, the water will remain and the bottom of the bucket, this works the same as artificial gravity, the person inside the ship is being forced to the bottom (of the bucket) and can walk around."
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why is it so important to keep trauma victims awake/alert on the way to the hospital, as in how does that aid in their chances of survival? | [
"More often then not, its easier to monitor the condition of someone whose conscious. By simply talking with the first responder we know they have a viable airway and are breathing. A comatose patient is difficult to assess, as they cannot pinpoint the location of the injury, tell the medical staff how they feel, a... | [
"Short answer: it can't. However, if you start feeling sleepy after a concussion, it may be a sign of internal hemorhaging. Prolonged internal bloodloss can and will kill you. Plus, if you are asleep when first responders arrive, you won't be able to give them vital information to ensure you have the best chance of... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is everything so expensive in Australia and New Zealand? | [
"Prices are higher on nearly all islands. When you cut out the possibility of trucking and rail shipment, costs go up. While Australia and New Zealand have some natural resources, they have to import more items by plane and boat than non-island nations. Even on islands that have bridges to them, the route is typica... | [
"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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How does combining Playstations (or any other computer) into a "cluster" create a supercomputer? | [
"Depends on the type of job you're running. Different types of jobs can benefit from massively parallel processors, like you'd get by combining a bunch of smaller computers into a \"bigger\" one. Say you had a list of 100 million numbers that you had to add up. You could do it on one processor but it would take X a... | [
"Emulation takes a lot of processing power (you need a very powerful processor to emulate a much weaker processor). As far as I know, computers are still not powerful enough to emulate the PS3 or Xbox360 properly."
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Why do dogs react to human voices but not to speakers (phone, TV, music, radio, etc)? | [
"I hate to admit it but we still have a landline. The phone and voicemail are inside the basement stairway. When someone level a message our dog goes to the door and waits for that person to come out of the basement door. Our old dog would howl when she heard my wife leave messages on it."
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"Basically, it is your cell phone talking back and forth with the cell phone tower nearby. If I were to explain this to a five year old, I would tell them that normally, your speakers receive a special music signal from your iPod/TV/whatever. When your speakers recognize this signal, it converts it into an audio s... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What is a stroke, and what causes it. | [
"A stroke is when part of your brain has no blood circulation. This causes parts of your brain to die. Strokes can be caused by blood clots or other blockages blocking off the way of the blood flow or even bleeding in the brain (blood is just pooling around the brain instead of going where it needs to go)."
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"You might want to ask your doctor about this, it's not normal."
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How do bugs always get trapped inside ceiling light covers? | [
"I don't have proof for this but I read it in an article about mooths. Many insects tend to confound (mix up) an artificial light source with the moon-light which they use for orientation. And once they get in the lamp-housing its hard to escape for them, just like a bee flying in your room through a tinted window ... | [
"~~A portal in your closet~~ Spiders are pretty sneaky buggers. You need to think like a criminal, or a hacker. There are lots of holes in your home, even if it's elevated or new, such as (not exhaustive): vents, drains, windows, cracks, objects you bring home, doors without a floor shield, etc. And it doesn't help... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do pharmaceutical commercials always tell viewers to see their ad in a magazine? Do people seriously buy a magazine just to look at an advertisement? | [
"It's because they can't always fit all of the legally required fine print into the commercial -- side effects, warnings, etc. Take a look at a pharmaceutical ad in a magazine sometime, and you'll find that it's probably two pages, back-to-back: Pretty drug ad on the front, and page o' text fine print on the back. ... | [
"\"Ask your doctor about _______\" Drug companies are trying to make money, so they can't simply rely on their products being prescribed by doctors on their own, especially when several drugs treat the same problems. The drug companies want patients going to their doctor asking for their specific drug."
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Humans produce lots of body oils. Would they be good for anything if they could be harvested? | [
"This really should be how baby oil is made. From those especially oily babies."
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"A lot of it is water. Or other inedables like bones. It is basically things that our body can not take use of in a meaningful way."
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Why is it that human intelligence evolved so rapidly while other intelligent creatures like dolphins remained behind? | [
"Human intelligence hasn't changed much (nutritional and medicinal advances may have helped some in the past century), but human knowledge has. The reason we have as much knowledge of the world as we do is our linguistic ability. Most of the knowledge an animal gains over its lifetime is lost when that animal dies ... | [
"We have been around for millions of years. Our civilizations are the things thousands of years old. Evolution is not a guided process. Whatever randomly occurs, and works, sticks around. Intelligence didn't develop in some species simply because it never developed or was never needed. That being said, it's not cle... | eli5_question_answer | {
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The intuition behind the fundamental theorem of algebra | [
"I think you're a little mixed up, it's not that a nth degree polynomial crosses the x axis n times, it's that the polynomial has n roots, some of which may or may not be imaginary. But then certian polynomials had roots that didn't seem to exist. For instance if you have x^2 = -1 as a root you can't really solve t... | [
"A mathematical description of the spaces where string theory is valid."
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What is new electronics smell? | [
"There really isn't a single answer for this as it depends completely on the product. With that said, most likely what you are smelling is the chemicals used to clean the circuit boards and such to prepare them for use. As the item warms up you are probably also smelling any remaining flux or chemicals being cooked... | [
"Maybe let's start with: what is ring tone rap?"
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Why do we tune out smells? | [
"I think it's a predatory thing, new smells means something new is arise and we should be alert. If nothing smells new, then we cool."
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"Or, to paraphrase, why do positive emotions make us show our teeth?"
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Why do some gay men "sound" gay, I.E have some sort of gay accent (serious). | [
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"The British accent? There are British accents that sound harsh and vulgar, but I guess it's due to a certain image. There's the southern belle that sounds refined and regal and that's an American accent. That's for the secondary question. To the first, I dunno. I'm an American so I don't know how hard it is for a ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Can animals tell apart reality from their dreams? | [
"I learned from Stephen LaBerge (doctor who studies sleep and dreams at Stanford) that, from an evolution standpoint, the reason we (and animals) have a hard time remembering our dreams is so that we don't get them confused with reality."
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"Have you ever had a dream that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world? Basically, if your dreams formed part of your memories, eventually your long term memory would be unable to remember which was dre... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How do Large Bubbles Form on Potato Chips? | [
"There is an air pocket that expands during the frying of the chip. However it does not expand enough to break the elasticity of the potato creating a bubble that solidifies when the starches cool down."
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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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How can I swat a fly with all my might, yet it still comes back to annoy me? | [
"You are using the wrong technique, boy. Might will not rid you of the fly. You need speed, agility and intelligence. You don't need to crush the fly, you need to capture him. Flies are not smart, surely you can think better than him. Use your brain, not just your muscles, boy, and catch the fly."
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"The real karma is seeing them after they bite someone with high blood sugar levels. My husband is type 1 diabetic. If a mosquito bites him when his sugar levels are high she can't fly straight anymore and will even start ramming walls over and over."
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When is a plant considered officially dead? | [
"I don't know that there is any official legal or technical declaration of plant death which is consistently followed. Usually individuals will consider a plant to be dead when as a whole it isn't able to recover from its current state even if some clippings may be viable."
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"What's so bad about having something made in Israel?"
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How come when the Reddit servers are down, they can still provide the Failure message? | [
"The server in question is most likely the database server. When you access a page, reddit's web server needs to ask the database for the data. The database has a limited number of available connections, so if too many are currently in progress, it will refuse more connections. The web server will then get an error... | [
"Because of its popularity the server cant handle all the requests that quick Also the server gets a lot of information from the back end of the website so it would take the server some time to do that"
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How does anonymous hack into websites and how are they structured if they are all completely anonymous? | [
"'Anonymous' isn't really a single group, it's a generic identity for 'hacktivists'. Anybody can claim to belong, and people that don't claim to belong might get lumped in with them anyway. How one can crack into any website or network is a lot like asking how someone can break into a building: there's a huge colle... | [
"Pretty simple explanation but I'll explain it like I can The deep and dark web is two different things, if I'm not wrong. The Deep web is hidden, and not accessible through google or any search motor. You usually have to know the links if you want to get there. The Dark web is hidden services, behind the web brow... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How do medical examiners/other forensic analysts determine the time frame in which a person died? | [
"The liver cools at a fairly constant rate, as it is so well insulated within the body, so they measure the temperature of the liver and the ambient temperature of the room, and from these numbers they can estimate a time of death. This only works if it was a recent death, for longer times they have to take into a... | [
"If you're referring to \"natural causes\" as listed on a death certificate: Natural causes would be determined by pre-existing conditions. Let's say a woman in her mid-30's had a history of heart problems. It'd be no surprise that she might die of heart failure. Often times the coroner or medical examiner will det... | eli5_question_answer | {
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One Degree of Separation for movie making | [
"It means always making sure every scene is directly connected to the main plot line and main character. It is a way to trim extra fluff and bullshit from your movie."
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"Advertising, selling info, and premium versions of the free stuff."
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Why can't we do brain transplants like other organs? | [
"When we transplant other organs, we mainly have to reconnect tubes (blood vessels, intestine, etc.). If we were to replace the brain, we need to reconnect the nerves which we don't know how to do on such a large scale. At least that is my current understanding."
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"Mostly ethical. If we use stem cells, people call them baby killers. Some people are trying to grow human organs in pigs, but there are ethical dilemmas with that as well and they aren't getting funding. Also, even after we solve the ethical problems, it would take years before certain agencies agree these artific... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What causes an itch on my body? | [
"To add on to this question, especially the nose?"
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"A lot of infections cause bleeding. Think of like a rash on your skin. But on the lining of your organs."
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Why do most kids go through a phase in which they hate their parents? | [
"Well it's usually around the age that they start forming their own opinions and wanting to have some control over their own lives. Of course their parents still have the majority of control and expect their children to obey their every word. I think it's definitely understandable to hate or resent somebody who ha... | [
"A follow-up question: Why do some people love that feeling while others detest it?"
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How can Comcast can charge me a ridiculous price for 30mbs internet but at best I get 3mbs down or up? | [
"Well I'm. Pretty sure you're paying for 30 MegaBits where as your download is MegaBytes.... The mathematics and how it's measured or how that works is still beyond me and I'd like to know how those numbers correlate and what a megabit really is"
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"Your ISP is advertising Megabit (Mb) speed not Megabytes (MB or MBytes). Megabits/8=Megabytes. If you are sold 15Mb download, then expect ~1.9 Megabyte download. With my time warner cable, I pay for 15Mb and get 1.9 Megabyte. There isn't any need for overhead or requirements about other users being on the network.... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do we remember some skills (e.g swimming and cycling) our whole lives? | [
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"your long term memory can store information indefinitely, unlike your short term memory. And if you frequently revisit that memory, it makes it more likely that you will continue to remember it. That's why people who are 80 years old can still remember events like birthdays or weddings even if they happened decade... | eli5_question_answer | {
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If Blue LEDs just have been invented (nobel price '14), how come my smartphone's notification LED can shine blue since a couple of years? | [
"The nobel price was awarded in 2014 for the discovery that happened about 20ish years ago"
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"LED is not laser. It's like a small bulb, just glowing and sending light everywhere. You can see LEDs on your devices (tv, router, usuall power on/off on everything), even if they are not directly pointing at you, right?"
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Are internet and cable ads confusing on purpose? Or are cable and internet companies just bad at their jobs. | [
"They are well thought and confusing on purpose: 1) they don't want you to be able to compare their product to the competition. 2) they try to give a sense of urgency \"buy now\" even the product is on the shelves for a long time. They frequently create fake sales, fooling people into believing they get a great dea... | [
"Because, for all the money they make from customers, they make more from the advertisers to display those adds."
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How are my headphones playing a "ghost station"? | [
"A nearby AM radio station is being picked up and rectified by the TV. A simple AM receiver can be made with a junction of two dissimilar metals or a metal needle point on a crystal. I suspect the electronics in the TV are performing the rectification and the headphone cable is the antenna."
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"This is more r/OutOfTheLoop than ELI5 but it boils down to \"people on the internet trying to activate other people's Amazon Homes.\" There's an \"oh shit you got me\" factor to a youtube video suddenly activating your home AI and making it play the most overplayed, annoying song on the Billboard."
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How do interplanetary spacecraft (and in the future interstellar), protect against collisions with space debris? | [
"They don't and they don't need to. Space is incredibly big and empty. Despite how visuals like the one on the [Asteroid Belt Wikipedia article](_URL_0_) makes it seem, the majority of the asteroids are very small and the distance between them is enormous. The odds of our probes to the outer planets hitting anythin... | [
"We explore around the orbital plane, mostly because that is where all the stuff in our solar system is, moon, planets, asteroids and so on. We have sent probes out of the orbital plane, some for solar pole viewing, asteroid or comet approach and even one of the Voyager space craft."
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Cyclic Groups & Examples | [
"The integers, start with 1 and keep adding or subtracting 1, you get all the integers that way. A clock, take 1 o'clock and keep adding or subtracting 1 hour... you will get all the possible times on a clock. All cyclic groups are really either clock groups or are the integers. With a 12 hour clock you can also ge... | [
"A Visual, Intuitive Guide to Imaginary Numbers: _URL_0_"
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How is it possible for us to know if a sound comes from the top or the bottom given that we only have two ears aligned horizontally? | [
"The shape of your ears directs sound into your ear canals difforently based on the angle it comes in at. If you change the shape of your ears with something like play dough you lose this ablilty all togeather. Other animals like dogs aren't as good st this and so tilt their heads to get a better idea of what virti... | [
"They are trying to hear you more efficiently, based on the shape of their heads and where their ears are currently pointing."
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Why do we have morning wood, does females have something similar or not at all ? | [
"There are many factors. 1) Your body will give you a partial erection to help prevent you from emptying your bladder while you are asleep. 2) Your body goes through cycles that raise and lower your blood pressure while you sleep. These happen numerous times during the night and each time they happen you are like... | [
"A buddy of mine says that when he is startled, sometimes there is a tingle in his penis. I wonder if this is caused by a rise in your heart beat, or something related? Edit: I don't jump out and scare my friend anymore."
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What is the difference between "Sell By", "Best By", "Use By"... etc. dates on food? | [
"Employer must sell this item by : dd/mm/yy ; This item is best consumed if by : dd/mm/yy ; Consumer should finish (use) this item by : dd/mm/yy"
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Why does the moon appear larger at the horizon? | [
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"The moon orbits the Earth over a 29.5 day period. This means that every day, the moon rises and sets approximately one hour later than the previous day. A full moon will be mostly visible at night, since the moon is on the opposite side of the Earth from the Sun."
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If we used nuclear power for everything, how long until we run out? Could we get more uranium by then? | [
"Fissionable materials are infinite for all practical purposes. Uranium can be extracted from seawater in vast quantities because it comprises a significant portion of the Earth's crust."
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"Because we're mining it at such an alarming rate. Sure, oil is technically sustainable, but we're not giving it enough time to recreate itself. Unless this is changed, we'll be without oil for a few millenniums."
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What is the big deal with the movie The Interview? | [
"conspiracy theory: this is a viral marketing campaign and Sony Pictures itself is behind it."
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"Out of curiosity, was this post prompted by the \"Amazing Story\" video on the front page?"
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How can people survive a lighting strike but will almost certainly die at a 220v home socket. | [
"I'd suspect \"almost certainly\" is quite a bit of an overstatement. I've shocked myself at least two dozen times with the current coming from my wall, and while it hurts like a bitch, i've never come close to dying. And while people *can* survive lightning strikes, I also suspect you have an overestimated view of... | [
"Because they would have either burned or fell at free fall speeds 100's of meters to the ground."
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Why has China devalued its currency, and what will that mean for other countries? | [
"When your currency becomes stronger, it becomes much harder for you to export your country's goods, because your goods become more expensive for other countries. China doesn't want that because they are the biggest export nation that there is."
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"The US can, and sometimes does, devalue the dollar. But that comes with downsides as well as upsides. There's a time to devalue the dollar and a time to strengthen it based on the needs of the economy."
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Why do plastic bags make so much noise? | [
"Well as far as i know, its because the polymers are stretched and crystalized to make the bag cheap and sturdy. This makes it more resistant to physical manipulation and when you overcome the resistance when you change the shape, the energy is released as sound. **eli5: Sound is vibrations. Crumpling a plastic bag... | [
"It evaporates quickly, which costs energy, which carries away heat. Don't make a habit of it, the stuff is somewhat toxic."
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How they determine the length of time to wait between airing a movie in theaters, and premiering it on TV. | [
"I say once they've felt they've squeezed as much money as they can out of dvd sales from rentals and purchases. Most likely they wait til after after a holiday event where they know they'll get alot of sales. Also, It won't go on tv unless someone wants it. If someone wants it the \"industry\" again get paid for l... | [
"They pretty much are, the Blu-ray, DVD, and digital download usually come out 4 months after the US release, which is just about when major theaters and smaller theaters stop showing the movie."
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About health insurance, what happens when you reach the age of 26? | [
"Obamacare made it possible to keep your health insurance if you're insured under your parent's plan until you're 26 years of age (previously, I believe it was 22). After you turn 26 you will no longer have insurance unless you've obtained a plan through your own employer/institution/whatever. Let's say you had a... | [
"Benefits to a private insurance company: * Everyone must enroll Downsides to a private insurance company: * At least 80% of all premiums in the individual market (85% in small group) must be paid to medical providers (leaving only 20%/15% for admin/profit) * New taxes on the insurance companies * Earlier filing de... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How the "feels like" measurement of the temperature is taken? | [
"They take measurements of the humidity, wind speed, and temperature, then they put them into a formula and they get roughly what it will feel like. The formula and some more information about it are available [here](_URL_0_). I guess I could have copy-pasted it, but I'm too lazy."
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"It's the temperature taking into account the effect of wind chill. The wind chill varies with the direction and speed of the wind."
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Why do people KEEP pressing the button in /r/button. Is it reward gratification or some other motivation | [
"People want to push it as close to zero as possible to get the rarest color. Take heart though, you had to be registered by April 1st to press it, so eventually there won't be anyone else to press it and we'll all be disappointed at the outcome together."
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"It's subreddit making fun of reddit's stereotypes, such us \"I will totally get downvoted for this, but I hate SOPA\". It's mocking the concept of karma and its exploitability, basically."
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why is my earliest memory not from birth or a little after birth? | [
"Your brain is not finished developing until further age. By the time of your birth your brain still lack the cognitive ability to store memories. It is not until further age you get some of the brain abilities that might seem obvious to you now. You should watch this video about [cognitive development among childr... | [
"imprinting. your first crush will usually set the pattern that you'll follow the rest of your life for example I used to watch the little mermaid a lot as a kid. now I can't see a fish without getting a boner"
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How come I get pimples everywhere except on my hands or feet? | [
"Pimples are caused by sebaceous glands, which produce an oil-type substance to coat our hair follicles (even the barely visible ones on our foreheads and noses). The skin of our palms and soles are special. The epidermis of the rest of the body has only four layers, and also has lots of hair follicles (and thus l... | [
"Follow up question, why do I have like three times as many hairs around my left nipple than my right one?"
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How does unemployment insurance work? | [
"So unemployment is basically a pot of money funded by the federal and state unemployment taxes that businesses pay. The more workers a business has file for unemployment, the higher their unemployment tax rate. You don't have to contact the employer at all - the state will do that part. The rules for whether you ... | [
"Pregnant women qualify for Medicaid, which is paid for by the government, if they do not have insurance. The Medicaid cuts off for the woman after the child is born, but will continue to cover the child until it's 18 years old if the mother cannot get health insurance for the family from a private insurance compan... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What is the difference between an originalist interpretation and a "living document" interpretation when it comes to the U.S. Supreme Court? | [
"The idea is a debate about whether the founders wrote the thing to be specific, rigid, and amendable only through the amendment process... or whether the founders wrote the thing with deliberately looser language to take shifting societal norms into account. For example, the 8th amendment prohibits \"cruel and unu... | [
"Is it possible to *change* the ruling? No. The ruling is a single event, in the past - it can't be changed. But the decision can be overriden in a number of ways. 1) Most common - lawmakers in Congress look at the Supreme Court ruling and figure out a way to do what they want to do without violating the Constituti... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How does doing more exercise give you more energy? | [
"Energy the body produces isn't a \"static pool\" that is only filled with so much water. It's like a big reservoir with an input valve (your food) and an electricity-producing hydroelectric dam (the body process called \"metabolism\" that creates the energy to run your body), and discharge shoots for the exiting w... | [
"Those are excessively high percentages, but yes there is some indication that tasking the brain will burn more energy."
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Why do most US schools have children get up before the crack of dawn to go to school? | [
"The American workday is typically 9-5, and parents need to get their children fed/clothed/etc and on the bus or dropped off and still able to get to work on time."
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"In Fall we return to normal time. So really the point of daylight savings time is to give us extra sun in the summer. If there was no daylight savings time, sundown would be at 7 instead of 8 in the months of June, July, August. Etc. I always thought it would make sense to have daylight savings all the time due to... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What does the discovery of the knee's anterolateral ligament mean for us, and why did it take so long to confirm it's existence? | [
"Seriously! How did we just now discover this? Wouldn't it be noticed during the countless autopsies performed?"
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"It's called delayed onset muscle soreness and it's not induced by sleep. It happens approximately 24 hours after exercise and peaks at around 72 hours. It might seem like it happens after sleep only because you're typically going to sleep within that time period under normal circumstances. If you happened to stay ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How do military aircraft intercept hijacked commercial planes? | [
"Former navy, we did flight ops with helos to intercept subs and track em. Intercept is kind of a blanket term. You can \"intercept\" the plane or boat and guide it to a destination of your choice but that is a gentle hand approach. Imagine two bouncers at a bar standing next to you...you will prob listen if they a... | [
"A pothole in an airport Runway would have catastrophic results for a plane that strikes it while Landing. The runways are regularly checked year-round to make sure that there are no obstructions or surface damage that could potentially impact a plane as it takes off or lands"
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Why isn't charging the mound in baseball considered assault? | [
"It's assumption of the risk. You, by playing baseball, consent to all of the risks inherent in the game. One of those things is fighting that may happen from time to time."
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"The fighting kind of serves as self policing in hockey, it's usually the result of other rough/illegal actions like elbowing, high sticking etc... Baseball is trying to stop fighting because essentially it's 9 vs 1 (or 9 vs a max of 4) unless you allow the benches to clear to make it even every time. Basketball's... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why are we able to see shockwaves? | [
"refraction changes in air density (aka shockwaves) act like lenses made out of air more or less the same effect can be observed over candles, only there it is hot air and not compressed air"
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"Nothing happens, the two \"beams\" of light go through each other without affecting each other. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to see very many stars!"
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Why serial killers tend to be white, male, and 30's? | [
"Statistically there are more black serial killers than whites since the 90s. They simply don't receive the kind of cultural worship a la Ted Bundy, because people and media are more inclined to just write them off as some \"hoodrat\" and garden-variety ghetto criminal. It is true that serial killers are predominan... | [
"Asian men are far less attractive to White women than Asian women are to White men."
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what is the meaning of true positve ,true negative ,false positive and false negative? | [
"Imagine you are subjected to a lie detector test. You are innocent of the crime. When the examiner asks whether you committed the crime, you say “No.” But the needle jumps anyway. The examiner says, “AHA! You’re lying!” Even thought you are actually telling the truth. This is a false positive. Then they bring in t... | [
"Sensitivity is the true positive rate for a test and specificity is the true negative rate If you have a highly sensitive test and it says you don't have something, then you don't have it, because it's high sensitivity means it would tell you you had it if you did(and also potentially if you didn't) If you have a ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How do old animated films get digitally remastered to make them HD? ie: old Disney movies. | [
"They were always well beyond HD. Do you think the version that was sent to theaters back in the day was equivalent to SD? It was on a film reel that was even higher effective resolution than 4K for the most part. The film master is put through a scanner that saves the movie in a digital format. We have much bette... | [
"The originals were filmed in higher quality -- it had to be downgraded to fit the consumer technology available at the time. Older movies are the same."
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Why do school teachers need a fundraiser every year for school supplies? | [
"The taxpayer doesn't like to actually pay money for services provided."
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"Into paying those additional teachers, hiring larger staff, building and operating more buildings, providing more services to students, providing more utilities such as wireless internet to students, and many other things."
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