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Why is travel so exhausting? | [
"Travel in a vehicle is mentally stimulating. You are surrounded by noises and by other people. And it is slightly stressful because you have fairly little control over what is happening -- either because you're a passenger or because you're in traffic. (Note how much *less* tiring it is to travel if you're the dri... | [
"Why does it cost money to get divorced? Because it's worth it!"
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The difference between hospice death and doctor assisted suicide | [
"The \"personal accounts\" you're hearing about are likely not from medical professionals who have treated hospice patients. Death from cancer, the most common reason for hospice, is slow and painful. As the tumors get worse, you have more pain. To manage the increased pain, patients are prescribed higher doses of ... | [
"They have a lot of similarities, but hospice care is generally in-home care meant to give the dying and terminally ill the most comfort in the last days of their life. Though it could be considered palliative care, a patient does not need to be terminally ill or imminently dying in order to receive palliative care... | eli5_question_answer | {
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the expression "Clocks don't really measure time, they measure themselves." | [
"Time exists and always has^ish and always will^mostly. It is not a construct of man but rather a universal condition. Before the clock was invented we had the sundial, which measured the movement of the sun accross the sky, not really time. When clocks were invented the attempted to keep pace with time but had to ... | [
"Could you explain what you're asking? Time is simply the fact that all things doesn't happen simultaneously"
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What are birthmarks? What causes them? | [
"It depends on the type of birthmark. Something like a port wine stain: _URL_0_ is actually an overgrowth of blood vessels that grow too much, and too close to the surface of the skin where they shouldn't be. Something like a congenital nevus/giant mole: _URL_1_ is an overgrowth of melanocytes, which are the cells ... | [
"Let's break it down... Idiopathic: literally means that the cause is not known. So, in your boyfriend's case, the doctors don't know what's causing his condition. Thrombocytopenic: Thrombocytopenia is a medical condition where the patient has an abnormally low platelet count. Platelets and cell fragments in the b... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How come when you involuntarily blink you never notice, but when you realize and start blinking intentionally it's all you notice | [
"Well... because you're thinking about it. Same thing with the nose, it's always there but your brain ignores it. Once you realize this then it is noticeable."
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"Your brain is really clever. When something happens that it sees coming, it doesn't pay as much attention to it. That's why when you watch a horror film twice it isn't as scary seeing the monster jump out at you. Your brain already knows it's going to happen, so it ignores it. That's also why you don't notice your... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Is it normal for a person to regularly fantasize about killing people? What causes it? | [
"I'm not sure \"fantasise\" is the right word here, but many people randomly daydream about doing bad things and about bad things happening so that your mind subconciously checks that it is bad and should be avoided. There was a recent ELI5 about it which I will link if I find. If you do mean \"fantasise\" as in ki... | [
"The idea that masturbation can damage your eyesight is a lie made up by people who think masturbation is wrong. Stop if your dick is sore and don't do it inappropriate places and you'll be fine. Masturbation is normal and healthy as long as you're not doing it constantly. Don't know what's up with your eyes, but i... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why are people saying that the Ebola Virus is not as transmittable as suggested? | [
"~~A lot of diseases can survive in the air or on surfaces for long periods of time.~~ ~~Ebola can't. Unless you directly get some of an infected person's bodily fluids inside you, you're extremely unlikely to contract it.~~ ~~So while Ebola is super deadly, it's not really all that contagious, when compared to mos... | [
"It's MERS, which stands for Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndome. It's a viral respiratory disease. MRSA stands for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. It's a bacteria that's antibiotic resistant and can be a major problem in hospitals and nursing homes since the people there often have weakened immune syst... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Child Porn stipulations | [
"I think, it's more illegal because no matter what, the child is a victim. There's no consent and they can't know better at that age. As weird and creepy as it is, a drawn nude child is fictional if it just comes from the mind. There's no real victim here, granted if it's not sketched from a previous seen picture ... | [
"Bitch grade or non bitch grade, Poseidon decides."
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Not trying to be racist, but why do the majority of countries have white, skinny and tall women as the beauty standard despite having very few people being actually like them? | [
"A history of colonialism establishes cultural norms in places. In some places, there is some evidence that things like lighter skin were considered attractive due to that being a symbol of wealth (similar to fatness being a symbol of wealth and being able to afford food), but things like stereotypical European fe... | [
"I have two guesses, but I can't say anything for sure. My first guess would be that since originally the vast majority of African Americans were slaves, that people considered them inferior. This could have carried over since then, diminishing in scope of how many, and how much, people thought this. At this point ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do americans love pickup trucks so much ? | [
"Part of it, is that the US doesn't pay as much for fuel as many European/Scandinavian countries. On average, we pay about half of what you do for fuel. Therefore, having a utility vehicle that gets poor gas mileage is not as big of a luxury as you might think. Trucks are useful. Many of my relatives are tradesmen... | [
"The THC blocks certain receptors in the.... wait, what were we talking about again?"
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Claiming tips from deliveries at work. | [
"You have to claim ALL income, regardless of source (tips, wages, etc) for tax purposes. You should try to claim as little as possible so that you are not taxed on that additional income, its technically illegal to do so, but its standard practice to claim little (or no) tips as income in many service jobs."
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"The fee pays to provide the service for free calls without paid service. Edit: More of an explanation."
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Why is abortion so heavily regulated by the government? | [
"Many people believe that abortion is morally equivalent to murder, or at least a form of murder. As a result, they advocate policies that they believe will reduce the number of these acts or punish the people who conduct them. The reason it seems like there is so much government involvement is because a large num... | [
"You do realize that video was heavily edited to make it look worse than it really was, right? But in general, abortion is legal and unless major changes happen to the supreme court, is going to remain that way."
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How do they accurately measure the movement of a mountain? Everest moved 3cm. after the earthquake. Relative to what? | [
"With topographical maps, GPS positioning, and satellite imagery; you can easily compare and contrast what the data says today with what it said with previous bits of data years ago."
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"Tectonic plates move something like a centimeter at most a year. It would take tens of thousands of years for it to noticeably move."
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Both entropy and inertia (in physics). | [
"Entropy: Your mom tells you to clean your room every day. She had to go on a business trip so you stopped cleaning your room this week. It starts getting messy and messier and finally looks like a storm blew through it. You stopped putting energy into cleaning your room so it became a mess. Entropy states that wit... | [
"Spontaneous emission of radiation, or as is unusually apt in this case, \"black-body radiation.\" _URL_0_"
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Why is the task of investigating fraud/counterfeiting given to the Secret Service? | [
"Because that was mainly why the were created in the beginning, see the [history of the Secret Service](_URL_0_) > 1865 - The Secret Service Division was created on July 5, 1865 in Washington, D.C., to suppress counterfeit currency. Chief William P. Wood was sworn in by Secretary of the Treasury Hugh McCulloch. >... | [
"The Secret Service is in charge of investigating counterfeiters, and provide protection services for the President, Vice President, Senators, Congressmen, and various other Dignitaries and their families in the US. MI6 is the British Foreign intelligence Service. They spy on other countries, and attempt to counte... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is it almost impossible to balance on two wheels on a bike, but once you start moving forward it becomes so much easier? | [
"Bicycles are surprisingly complicated, but here is one simple (and incomplete) explanation. When you hold a bicycle up and move it from side to side you will notice that the front wheel turns to the direction it is leaning. When the bicycle is moving this has the effect of moving the wheels under the center of gra... | [
"The pumping motion counterbalances the swinging of our legs, making it far easier to keep our balance. Try running with your arms flat at your side sometime and you will find it is really hard to do without falling over."
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why are people always under an illusion that they are wasting their life ? | [
"Humanity's ability to get itself to a position where all it's physical needs are satisfied and still want more is, imo, what made us the dominant species of the planet. That dissatisfaction keeps us reaching. It's sitting in a dry cave with a bellyful of meat and saying \"okay but now what\"."
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"Ego goes a bit out of whack but when people are literally stalking you as if you shit gold its just like how else do you deal with these people, im sorry ive never answered an eli5 before so the eli5 version is, you think youre better than them."
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What is Net Neutrality and why is it so important? | [
"Net neutrality is the concept that an Internet Service Provider can't discriminate data you access via the internet. Its how the internet has worked for its entire existence so far. For example Netflix hurts Comcast’s cable business. So they clamp down and make all streaming of netflix videos unwatchable for thei... | [
"Context? What is a \"smart meter\", and where is this controversy based out of? Who is involved? Thanks!"
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How does an X-Ray machine work? | [
"It works like a camera. An X-ray \"light\" shines on the object and onto a digital sensor that reacts to X-rays just like a digital camera reacts to light. X-rays go through most things so you put the object between the X-Ray source and the sensor."
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"Are you asking how a wheel works ?"
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Why is it when you see pictures of fashion models on the runway, they're wearing something nobody in there right mind would wear? | [
"Think of it more as a walking art installation. Instead of a crazy ass sculpture or a painting, it's a person walking around all decorated and shit."
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"I've been a male model for many years now. I assume you're talking about female runway models. Walking in a straight line (unsurprisingly) looks pretty fucking boring. So the change in posture, expression, pace keeps the audience's attention prevents the models from looking too casual or frumpy.. We make fun of th... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why can little kids squat on their haunches, but most adults cant? | [
"Practice. Adults who regularly do it can still do it well into their older years. In fact, squatting on the haunches is a pretty common sitting style around the world. Wear and tear does eventually take its toll, but for most people it's atrophy and loss of flexibility due to inactivity that's playing the larger r... | [
"Before the invention and wide distribution of the chair, everyone relaxed like that. A life time of sitting in chairs will make your hamstrings, and the muscles and connective tissue in your thighs, calves, and lower back less supple, to the point of making squatting uncomfortable or even painful. In parts of the ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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When boiling a pot of water for cooking, why should you start with cold water instead of hot? | [
"Cold water is less likely to contain lead from pipes and legionella bacteria from your hot water heater. Hot water boils faster, though( I'm not sure how this is a myth other than in some conditions hot water freezes faster than cold, and so people think the opposite could be true)"
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"Hot solvents dissolve things more effectively than cold ones. It's the same reason you can easily brew tea in a hot cup of water but not in a cold one."
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How can we still see thumbnails for images that are no longer available? | [
"Say you want to view 1 reddit page with 10 thumbnails from imgur on it. To create the thumbnails, you need to load the images from imgur first, then resize/crop accordingly. Reddit can go to imgur every time someone accesses that 1 page. Wait for the 10 imgur links to load, do the cropping process and then show t... | [
"Web pages aren't stored as one big word-document style file. The images are stored separately from the actual web page file. When you put an image in a web page, you're basically just leaving a note telling a web browser where to find the picture you want. Since the images aren't actually built into the web page, ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do things take "4-6 weeks" to ship? | [
"This is not always the case, but especially with infomercial trinkets, it's not uncommon for the products you're buying not to even be manufactured yet. By allowing long lead times, the seller can gauge response and manufacture just enough to meet demand."
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"You're gonna need to wait 5-8 business days for an answer"
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how are people able to track hackers ie: where they are, who they are, etc | [
"One of the reasons that every hacker seems to come from Russia is that Russian servers don't generally release user information, so the trail kind of dies there. So the smart thing to do is proxy through a Russian server before proxying elsewhere."
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"they didnt track your history. they, as your service provider, literally routed the file to your computer. this is like asking how the phone company knows who you call."
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Why can programs on my computer be completely unresponsive but pressing control+alt+delete is always instant? | [
"This is because the program is stuck in some sort of loop, so sending commands to the program does not work. Ctrl+alt+del sends an interrupt, which means that it tells windows to drop everything it's doing. Next windows will show the ctrl alt del menu. This (generally) will not stop the program from being in the ... | [
"It's a key combination which no program can intercept, because originally it was used to reboot the system. If you type ctrl-alt-del and something happens, you know it's Windows itself that responded to the key press, not some evil program designed to look like the login screen to trick you into giving it your pas... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How come you can "feel" when someone is watching you? | [
"You can't actually tell other than by looking at where other people are looking. Humans are social animals and we look around quite a bit to check where others are looking without really noticing. Only when we detect someone looking our way do we take note, sometimes thinking we somehow knew we were being observed... | [
"How do you know you're blinking when they're closed?"
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What determines how much spicy food someone can handle? Is it genetic? | [
"You can build up a tolerance. Also helps if you were raised on it. I imagine genetics plays a part, too. Plants evolved capsaicin because they needed their seeds spread far. Small mammals, lime mice, can't stand the spice and avoid it. However, birds don't feel the capsaicin and can eat and spread the seeds far aw... | [
"I don't know who told you that, but it is not true. Eye color has nothing to do with alcohol tolerance."
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If there was a pill that contained all the nutrients, vitamins, energy etc., would you still need to eat? | [
"Yes. Because the calories you would need cannot be consumed in something as small as a pill."
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"They're there to supplement vitamin intake. You should be getting all the vitamins and minerals from food etc but in modern society a lot of us don't"
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Do heat-seeking missiles ever accidentally lock onto the sun? | [
"Yes, this is actually a known problem with primitive heat-seeking missiles, and pilots would occasionally try to get between the missile and the sun in order to transfer the missile's focus onto the sun. Modern missiles are specifically programmed to avoid this."
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"You are thinking of an infrared-seeking missile. These missiles have seekers on their tip that look for extremely hot things. Aircraft engines exhaust hot gasses, so they go for them. A flare also burns really hot and the idea is that the missile might think it's an aircraft engine and go for it. There are othe... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Liability of Gun Manufactureres | [
"The main precedent is the tobacco industry. They were successfully sued by both private parties and governments for the negative health effects of tobacco use. However, that was mainly predicated on the fact that they had research into the negative effects of smoking that they kept covered up for decades, and duri... | [
"Side 1 - For Vaccines: -Science Side 2 - Against Vaccines: -Paranoid idiocy"
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What does a police officer have to do in order to receive a jail sentence? | [
"No, if they were to do something undoubtedly criminal, they would receive jail time. The thing is that most of the crimes that we see police committing are simply recklessness, negligence, excessive force, which are relatively minor things. Juries and Judges are more likely to let these go by with lower sentences,... | [
"Most likely they would. If they had been found not guilty and were aware, why would they try to escape prison? The sentence would probably be reduced to a class B misdemeanor."
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What would be the bodily effects of taking a pill giving you 17 times the amount of daily Vitamin C for a year do to your body? | [
"Vitamin C is water soluble, meaning that the body takes in whatever level of vitamin C it needs and flushes the rest out through the kidneys. The body does not store Vitamin C, so any additional dose is removed. The percentages of RDA appeals to the \"more is better\" and does nothing but create urine high in Vita... | [
"Vitamins only work up to a point. If your body needs X amount of vitamin C then taking two times the amount of X has no benefit to you, your body will just pass it through in your pee and poop. Pregnant women are running a baby factory, which requires more basic resources. So their need goes from X to one and a ha... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Where does the items deleted in the Recycle Bin go? | [
"They essentially just get marked for re-writing, meaning that now the computer can write over that space with whatever. So they aren't deleted until something is written over it. I could be wrong however, i pulled this out of my ass-brain."
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"Because all dragging them to the trash does is mark them for deletion. It doesn't actually copy them anywhere. When you drag items from your external HD to your desktop, you are copying the entirety of every file from the external hard drive to an internal drive."
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Why don't birds get cold in the wind? | [
"Birds have insulating feathers called *down*. They trap air close to the body so convection (moving air currents) can't pull heat away. To get their feathers to do this, their muscles can make the feathers stand on end -- these are *literally* goose bumps. By the time it gets warm, they have shed many of their ins... | [
"Because they have a better chance of not being eaten by birds, most of which sleep at night."
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Why is it sometimes taboo to classify transgender folk as having a mental illness? | [
"Because one criterion for mental illness is that the behaviours and thoughts the person is experiencing keeps them from being able to fully function day-to-day. For example, anxiety disorders and depression can impact a person's ability to go to school, to work, to hold social ties, etc. Feeling like one's gender ... | [
"Having gender dysphoria and being trans are the same thing really."
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Why does a vehicle 15 mph faster than you appear to gain a much greater distance from you depending on your own speed? | [
"Because when sitting still, you have all of your environment in the same relation to the moving car as you. However when you are moving 70mph, the only reference point you have is your car and the other car to judge the speed difference."
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"Usually, there is an IR range finder, which attempts to find how far from the nearest forward object you are. The car takes this distance, runs a calculation based on the current velocity (and maybe more variables, like road wetness, if you can be bothered) to determine the minimum stopping distance. The system wi... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do we experience a 'burning' sensation in our eyes if we haven't slept for a while or immediately after waking up? | [
"It might be that \"crusty\" discharge from your eyes called rheum ( a mixture of different kinds of cells, mucus, dust, etc.) that is released during sleep. It looks likes sand in your eyes hence the saying. The burning from sleep deprivation is just like what sleeplessness does to the rest of the body, give it fa... | [
"Generally because you are sleeping with your mouth open which dries out the mucous membrane. If you don't believe me, try keeping your mouth wide open and breath in and out for an hour and tell me how your throat feels."
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When someone sues another person who's not financially well-off for a huge sum of money, how do they get paid? | [
"Essentially she won't. She can attempt to take money from wherever he may have some, and then on top of that try to take a percentage of any earned (garnishment). But the reality is she won't get a dime."
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"In criminal court, you do not get compensated for your legal defense, win or lose. Whatever money you spend on lawyers and investigators comes out of your own pocket. This is why only rich people get the best legal team, because they can afford it. In civil courts, this depends on the jurisdiction. In some place, ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How do people on drugs, such as meth, supposedly get superhuman strength, taking multiple people to subdue them etc? | [
"Your body normally limits the amount of force your muscles place on themselves, your ligaments, joints and bones, because it is possible to damage them. It is not unknown for someone to rip a bicep muscle clean off their forearm, or for an arm-wrestler to break a bone. When on certain drugs, the body's protection ... | [
"If you drink coffee every day to wake yourself up in the morning, you will eventually become addicted. How would this contribute to you becoming addicted to alcohol, tobacco or methamphetamines? They're completely different drugs with different effects, different feelings and, most importantly, different chemistry... | eli5_question_answer | {
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If fusion reactors fuse hydrogen into helium, wouldn't we run out of hydrogen at some point? | [
"Hydrogen is the most abundant substance in the universe. 90% of all the atoms that exist are hydrogen. There is so much hydrogen locked up in fossil fuels that we could just use them for millennia before we even started using water, or sending spaceships to collect it."
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"Different atoms. Fission energy comes from splitting apart heavy atoms, for example uranium or plutonium. When they split, they actually former lighter atoms as well as releasing energy. Fusion is the act of forcing together light atoms, specifically hydrogen, to form heavier elements. You're absolutely correct th... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do we have the capacity to hate ourselves? | [
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"A follow-up question: Why do some people love that feeling while others detest it?"
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What is the "shy bladder" and what can people do to get over it? | [
"> What's going on You're having an expectation that someone may intrude on your urination, which in turn makes you unable to relax. > how can I make it easier on myself Find someone to squeeze you. /meta You may need to somehow snuff out all surrounding sounds to help you unwind and start peeing."
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"If you have to stand and wait to pee when you have the urge, you may have a medical problem. Diabetes, hypothyroidism, prostate problems, etc... can all cause this. You need to visit a doctor and run through a series of tests."
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- why do most honour killings involve murdering the victim? Why not kill the rapist instead? | [
"In such cultures women are viewed as property, to be bought, sold, or traded. The honor killing is in retribution for the perceived dishonor of allowing themselves to be raped, as it damages or destroys their value to their male owner. It is fucked up."
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"Because in these cultures, disgrace is worse than death. By throwing acid on her face you not only permanently disfigure her, but the scars prove to be a constant reminder to her and those around her about the consequences of not adhering to societal norms."
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Why is it that if you exhale like blowing out a candle the air is much cooler than if you exhale like you're checking your breath? | [
"Hi, Mechanical Engineer here. I assume that when you blow out a candle, you purse your lips. Air is pushed out of the small hole and this creates a high pressure, fixed volume chamber in your mouth and exits to a lower pressure, free volume atmosphere. This sudden change in pressure causes the volume of air contai... | [
"You hold your breath in for a good bit when you go for a long few gulps of water. When you're done your body exhales naturally. Sometimes it's forceful enough to work your vocal cords."
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What is the significance of a full metal jacket in small arms ammo? | [
"Bullets were originally just cast lead, and many people still do cast bullets this way (I used to). This can lead to lead deposits in the barrel which will hurt accuracy as well as a bunch of lead in the air (not a good thing). The FMJ is a copper jacket around this soft lead to make it more stable in flight as we... | [
"It means that they have a lot of gun power compared to their size; the cartridge is loaded to a higher velocity than is standard for that cartridge."
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Why and how is it that the Windows operating system hasnt been replaced? | [
"One of the main reasons is that Microsoft makes deals with hardware manufacturers to include their OS in those products by default. This starts the cycle that makes most consumers use Windows regardless of if they're at work or at home. Consumers generally don't like change, so then Windows usage seeps into other ... | [
"It can be any number of things. The old game may rely on specific hardware that the computer no longer uses or may rely on some feature in the software that was dropped."
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Why is St. Louis not as important in the United States as it once was? Is it likely to continue shrinking? | [
"It was very important when the Mississippi was a big hub for transferring industrial products out of the Midwest. The small arms factory my grandmother worked at during WWII in Davenport, IA shipped through St. Louis, for example. As Midwestern industry declined, so did the shipping of those products out along the... | [
"NYC is the most important city, culturally and economically in the US. It is probably the most important city in the whole world, especially the western world. It is the city every other big city wants to be. Obviously the person in charge of the most important city on the planet is a pretty important and influent... | eli5_question_answer | {
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why can't people inhale when they get the wind knocked out of them | [
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"Breathing you actually don't need to tell your brain to do. Like when you are asleep you still breath even when you are not thinking about it. Fun Fact: If your kid ever threatens to hold his breath till he gets what he wants, if you let him he will pass out from lack of oxygen and will start breathing again whil... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What has happened to the babysitting market in the last ten years? | [
"The market is flooded. You have a lot of people who can't get jobs elsewhere because the economy isn't as strong, so there are many people able to work as babysitters. Which not only means that you have babysitters lowering their rates to remain competitive with everyone else, but also advertising whatever benefit... | [
"It's not a modern phenomenon at all, what makes you think it's only been happening for the last 20 years?"
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When listening to earphones/headphones, why does my music feel louder after I yawn? | [
"Your ears are usually pressurized, which serves as a slight volume reduction in some cases. Over time, the pressure in your ears can accumulate. When you yawn, the muscles used relieve the pressure within your ears, \"popping\" them and removing the pressure, which allows you to hear better."
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What does sunlight consist of, and why do some parts pass through windows while other parts don't? | [
"Sunlight and heat are (in simple terms, heat is complex) both electromagnetic radiation. They just have different frequencies (the rate at which the wave repeats itself, think of it like the number of waves in a given stretch of ocean). UV light (higher frequency) causes sun burn. It’s blocked by special glazing ... | [
"Light is a particle and a wave because it has properties of both. The wave properties of light allow it to be split through a prism into the rainbow pattern we know, and allow there to be different kinds of like like UV, X-ray, and radio waves. It also allows light to move through the vacuum of space. Light is a ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Differences and Similarities Between Computer Science and Computer Engineering. | [
"In Computer Science you will learn mostly programming and a bit of computer hardware and electrical engineering. In Computer Engineering you will learn computer hardware, electrical engineering, and programming about equally. Neither is particularly useful for IT which I've always felt was more a skill you learn... | [
"Associate: 2 year degree Bachelor: 4 year degree Master: 6 year degree"
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Why is it common practice to separate high voltage (120V) wiring/cabling from low voltage (24V) wiring/cabling? | [
"Electrical Controls Engineer here. Basically it is to reduce noise and to not induce voltage into the lower voltage wires. With ac circuits the currents alternates through the wire generating a magnetic field. Any wire close to this can potentially interact with that field and a voltage will be created in the wire... | [
"They have bigger wires. You have to use 12 gauge wires for a 20A outlet, whereas you can use 14 gauge wires for a 15A outlet."
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How do smart phones dissipate the heat created by the processor? | [
"I think some of the answers are great, but missing a major point that I want to add: The chips in smartphones ([SoCs](_URL_0_)) are built from the ground up to turn the energy in the battery into useful work as efficiently as possible. In industry terms, smartphone SoCs have truly insane Performance Per Watt, whic... | [
"Electricity warms the circuitry as it passes through it. This is why computers need cooling. A flash drive doesn't generate as much heat as many computer components so it doesn't need independent cooling. However the warmth is noticeable."
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Why can we (USA) claim a no flight zone in a foreign country? | [
"Because we have big guns and fighter jets. All we need is a UN Security Council resolution to be able to do whatever we want where ever we want. In this case, Russia will veto any resolution like that."
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"How would the president conduct a hostile takeover without the military? Also a takeover of what?"
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X-box 360 downloadables, the entire Banjo-kazooie game is 48mbs (with heaps of animated scene vids) and a short Banjo trailer is 98mbs to download, why? | [
"The animated cut scenes in the game are rendered in the game - so instead of having a recording of a video for each scene, they just have to include instructions for how the character will move. Think of it as shipping blueprints for a house (knowing the receiver has the supplies) versus shipping an entire house.... | [
"At a guess I would say that new games are bigger then a disc can hold, my battlefield 1 digital game was 43 GB (rip my data cap :( ). Im willing to bet that if everything has to be read off the discs the load screens would be all over the place and, with all the massive open worlds lately, that would be a game kil... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do I get silly or weird when I'm really tired or otherwise sleep deprived? | [
"I've actually read that being sleep deprived is like being drunk. \"After 17-19 hours without sleep, performance on some tests was equivalent or worse than that at a blood alcohol content of 0.05%\" Here is the link _URL_0_"
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"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 did analogue TV tuners click from channel to channel while analogue radio tuners slid along a scale? | [
"My Dad had an old 9\" TV in the garage with a manual tuner that did not click. You could do some interesting things between channels. When you're off the main frequency range for a channel, there's a huge amount of distortion. UHF and VHF (old TV channel bands) are on an entirely different frequency than AM/FM. Th... | [
"Are you speaking about the noise you get when you tune to a nonexistent TV channel? That’s the noise radiated by everything around you. That’s the noise generated inside the TV tuner because it is warmer than absolute zero. All of that noise gets amplified (and the amplifier adds noise as well) and that manifests ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How is gps for self-driving cars accurate enough when my google gps totally craps out any time I'm in a mall plaza? | [
"Self-driving cars use more than just GPS to navigate; they also use onboard cameras to identify the road, other vehicles, pedestrians, traffic lights, and other potentially relevant information. If they lose GPS signal, they continue going along what was the plotted route until the signal is regained. As the tech... | [
"GPS does not have anything to do with your cell reception its a seperate radio that communicates with GPS satellites. Your phone talks to at least 3 of them to pinpoint itself and tell you where you are. This is how you can have signal and no GPS and vice versa. Your phone can also use tower triangulation to figu... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why the tallest skyscrapers are built only in Asia or North America but not in Europe? | [
"The sky is significantly lower in Europe; there's really not enough height to build such huge skyscrapers."
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"The United States has about two and a half times the population of the UK, Canada, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand combined."
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Why does David Cameron want mandatory porn filters for UK internet users? | [
"Information control. Australia's government tried to same thing a couple of years ago but it failed. Turned out that porn was just going to be the first step and then after that it was going to be everything the government didn't like. Whoever controls the information has the power. The idea is to get their foot i... | [
"Porn websites can't be blamed for school shootings, so gaming websites have more reason to cover their asses."
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What are MLM scams and what are examples of them? | [
"The hallmark of a Multi-Level Marketing scam is that the emphasis and reward are heavily weighted against recruitment instead of the actual work of selling a product. If I hire you to sell vacuum cleaners door to door, and pay you based on your time/amount of sales, then it's a legit job. If instead I pay you rel... | [
"Many pyramid schemes masquerade as legitimate MLMs. The structure is identical, so just because it has that kind of structure isn't enough for the government to file charges. They need *evidence* that something illegal is happening."
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how are license plates numbers distributed? | [
"Not sure if it's the same in Canada, but states in the U.S. print a bunch sequentially and send them to each local DMV. I'm not sure if they're assigned to an area DMV, or just whichever boxes get loaded. Either way, a specific area will tend to get a whole lot of certain sequences, and not many of others, and the... | [
"What do you mean? Your question needs to be a bit more specific. Are you asking what it is? Or how it's set? Or how the payments are made?"
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Why do PC's become slow and "aggravating" to use after little time, but Macs seem to stay at top performace for a long time? | [
"IT professional here: Can you please define \"slow\"? This word is thrown around often when it comes to computer complaints but details matter. Is it taking a long time to boot up? Is netflix choppy? Is it slow when you open a third powerpoint deck? Those can help me answer you better. The shorter answer is RAM, t... | [
"This is assuming that your PC is properly maintained and cooled. Leaving it on at all times will wear out some parts faster, but in most PC's it's not fast enough to really matter. You'll probably end up upgrading parts or buying a new PC before it really matters. Some people leave their computers on all the time ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do browsers and websites prompt you for saving your passwords if it is considered unsafe? | [
"The Average Joe is unlikely to be \"hacked\", but very likely to forget the password to a site he hasn't used in a while. Browser password-saving is meant to be a convenience feature, not a security feature."
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"If you were to submit your credit card information on the internet, the information needs to go from your computer to the server. What hackers can do is to \"sniff\" the traffic, and decode the information that is sent, consequently getting your credit card information. What HTTPS does is encrypt the information o... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why does AM talk radio have such a disproportionately large amount of commercials compared to FM music stations? | [
"Your FM station has sneaky ways of putting in advertising even though it might claim to have 55 minutes of music. It's advertising when the DJ comes on between songs and reminds you that they will be at a certain business (AD!) tomorrow from 4 to 6 and they'll be giving away a certain item (AD!). It's advertising ... | [
"Radio, like all the for-profit media, focuses on what's going to get that profit rolling in. Pop music gets the most people to tune in. Larger populations can allow for certain niche stations like classical or whatever to work also. There's just not enough profit in some death metal where you live evidently. Also ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What is the overall goal/point of google deep dream? | [
"Google deep dream was developed as a test of Google's image recognition software. Basically, they're running it backwards - rather than taking a picture of a dog, and asking the software \"Is that a dog\"; they take a random picture and ask the software \"show me what looks like a dog\". By seeing what the softwar... | [
"It depends on a lot. What is your name, address, and link to the file you were downloading?"
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Why does it seem like most funerals in the US are open-casket? | [
"Films and TV do open-casket because of course it is more dramatic and visually interesting. In the US, the family picks which they want."
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"I don't know why you think \"America\" makes anyone pay for anything. Families pay for proper funeral and burial service *because they want to*, it's not required to have a coffin. It's not required to have a plot at the cemetery. It's not required to have a catered funeral with an open bar in a nice church. it's ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why are we mean to people we crush on or love? | [
"Many people are unable to express their feelings of affection towards people they like. Some are embarrassed at showing these feelings and lash out in frustration which turns into rudeness or meanness. This usually happens in people when they are not shown affection in their lives early on or experience \"tough lo... | [
"Men socialize by insulting each other but they really don't mean it. Women socialize by complimenting each other, they don't mean it either."
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Why is medicine dosage measured in half-life if half the medicine is still in the body? | [
"It's not used to purely say when a patient has \"0\" of any drug in their system, it's more to help when giving \"Top Up\" doses, say you have a patient on Morphine that needs an extra dose, knowing the half life helps Doctors/Nurses decide of they're able to give them a slight dose if they need it. It's also use... | [
"Half-life and duration of action are both very specific to the drug/compound and the person. There is no One-size-fits-all with regards to half life and activity. For instance, if I take aspirin to thin my blood, that effect lasts about 7 days because my body takes 7 days to replenish my blood cells that were affe... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Teresa's daughter Riddle. | [
"There's a couple of things you need to take away. We can work this out similar to how algebra work. \"my daughter's mother\" = \"me, or my female partner\" So now the riddle is \"Teresa's daughter is me or my partner\" If Teresa's daughter is me, I am Teresa's daughter If Teresa's daughter is my partner, I am Tere... | [
"X does make that sound in the word Xylophone. Also: Xavier Xander Xenophobia Xanthum Xanadu *Xenon thanks /u/bovfem"
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The Jets releasing Tim Tebow and why it's such a big news story. | [
"Short version: He has a lot of fans because of his religious beliefs. People are interested in him even though he isn't very good. Long version: He was a top college player, but also a vocal evangelistic Christian, which made him very popular among like minded people. When he got to the pros, his fanbase insisted ... | [
"At the end of the day Chris Brown is his own brand, while Ray Rice represents the NFL as well as the Baltimore Ravens. Getting another running back is always easier than dealing with that PR nightmare."
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The "cooling" sensation when eating a powdered-sugar donut. | [
"The process of sugar dissolving in saliva is endothermic (absorbs heat). Since it's such a fine powder, it happens quickly and the effect is noticeable."
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"I was just watching a candy maker on YouTube the other day. The sour flavor comes from adding citric acid. That ingredient makes the candy hazy."
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Why do people have to swear under oath? If they're willing to lie, they'll do it with or without the oath. | [
"If you lie while under oath, you're guilty of [perjury](_URL_0_), which is a felony in the United states, punishable by up to 5 years in prison. If you lie in your day-to-day life, you're just an asshole exercising the 1st Amendment."
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"You don't have to swear on a bible, all you have to do in US court is to affirm you will tell the truth, no bible or \"so help me God\" is needed."
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Can someone explain string theory to me? | [
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"Can someone explain the question to me like I'm five?"
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How do game cartridges and video game discs work? | [
"Cartridges have memory chips inside that have the game code stored in them. When you insert the cartridge into the console, metal contacts in the console touch metal contacts on the game cartridge, and they can exchange data via electrical signals. The console loads the game off of the cartridge, and you play. Di... | [
"The cassette tapes were used for data storage. Just as you can have data CD's, and music CD's. The tapes were played and the data input into the computer's RAM. No game data was stored on the computer's tape itself. Data loaded much more slowly than happens now. But a program could be saved. There were no CDs, DVD... | eli5_question_answer | {
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[Biology / botany] How is it possible that some plant species mimic the visual form of other beings, without being able to 'see'? | [
"Random mutation. Sometimes the random mutation results in a look that slightly mimics some other look, which might give an advantage. For instance, something that looks slightly like a predator, might scare away a herbivore intent upon eating the plant. Thus, that plant survives to reproduce. Others that don't ha... | [
"Everything evolves to get better at survival. Birds, bees, and other major pollinators are unable to see blue colour as we see blue. So naturally, those pollinators go towards something that appeals to them. As they cannot see blue as an attractive colour, those plants were not able to spread. Atleast that's how I... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do people naturally put on a different voice when they're on the phone or serving someone? | [
"When on the phone you can't see facial expressions or body language so you have to communicate all that information through just your voice. Therefore some people try to use a happier or overly emotional voice in order to be perceived the proper or happier tone. While serving someone, the idea is to please the cus... | [
"When you're talking with someone in the car with you, you know they'll make allowances when they can see you need to concentrate on the traffic. When it's someone on the phone you feel more pressured to keep up the conversation at all times."
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Why do some tests and assessments require that answers are filled in using a #2 pencil? | [
"Because the machine that is used to scan it can only see a certain shade of black."
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"Pretty simple. Because they are easy to grade and organize students based on a score. There are much better ways to gauge learning, but they require a lot more time and effort than filling in bubbles and running them through a machine."
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How do one-way windows actually work? | [
"They are just heavily-tinted windows. What makes them one-way is that the room that's supposed to be visible is well-lit, and the room that's not supposed to be visible is dark (same way tinted windows on cars hide what's inside). The window is actually just as visible in both directions. It's placement that makes... | [
"How is the person who remote controls them supposed to know when to do so?"
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Why is the last percent when charging your device the one that takes the most time? | [
"In general, for charging batteries like lithium ion cells, there is a maximum safe voltage that shouldn't be exceeded (keep in mind batteries can hold a ton of energy, and you don't want that released uncontrollably). This generally means that as the charging cycle comes to a conclusion, the voltage of the charg... | [
"Leave your phone at a 40% charge and turn it off, and it will last almost as well as when it was in stock storage."
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Is it possible to not get addicted to Cigarettes and Alcohol? | [
"There's definitely a spectrum of people's physiological reaction to nicotine and how addictive it is. Some people just can take it or leave it. I was like you, a social smoker in college and for a few years after. (This was back in the day when you could smoke in bars.) I smoked when I drank, and a \"heavy\" day f... | [
"It's not the tobacco that's addictive. It's the nicotine in cigarettes that is addictive. Hookah does not typically contain nicotine."
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Why is the hiring practice so much more difficult for minimum wage jobs than skilled labor? | [
"I think part of it is weeding people out. The other part of it is that for skilled labor you usually have some other credentials that make the tests given at DQ pointless. If you have a bachelor's degree from an accredited institution, you should be able to pass a math and literacy test and have proven that you ca... | [
"The chief concern is job security and scarcity of entry level positions. Even though you might be able to get a job now, outsourcing creates the possibility that in five years you could be sacked when your position is moved overseas. Additionally, the jobs companies are most likely to outsource are those that wou... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why are people with a lazy eye unable to perceive 3D in 3D films? | [
"3D films used polarized light to create the effect. The footage is shot with 2 cameras, and projected through 2 projectors with different polarizing filters, one vertically polarized and the other horizontal. The 3D glasses are also filters, only allowing light of a vertical polarization to enter one eye, and ligh... | [
"\"Native 3D\" is filmed with 3D cameras, and the 3D information is always there. \"Post-Converted 3D\" is filmed with 2D cameras, and effects are added afterward to make \"flat\" picture appear 3D. The 3D quality of the former is almost always better than the latter."
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How are professional sports statistics captured? | [
"It's a bit of both. Traditionally stats are collected by the official statisticians - there is usually a team of them (although it depends on the sport.) For instance in hockey one person is responsible for tracking when each player gets onto the ice and when each player leaves the ice, for the purposes of trackin... | [
"If I can ask a follow-up: How did these companies respond to being targeted?"
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All these random pyramid schemes in the US | [
"There are two sides to the businesses. The products, and the MLM. Many of the companies sell actual products that people want to buy and will even pay a premium for. My wife buys the lip-sense stuff and swears by it."
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"Target marketing, old people participate in both Gold/Silver and Fox News. The same reason you see 10,000 Hover round and reverse mortgage commercials during the price is right."
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Why do people think that blacking out their eyes in pictures protects their identity? | [
"Eyes presumably show the most emotion / personality etc of any body part, so we're most likely to remember those, if we see them again. Also, who blacks out their own eyes..? It's usually done by others to protect the identity of someone."
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"Because they're trying to appeal to the teenage demographic and one of the ways to do that it to say that your main characters are in high school."
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why do dry erase markers erase themselves if you color over a line you already drew? | [
"The pigment in the marker is dissolved in alcohol. The alcohol evaporates after you write with the marker and expose it to air, leaving the pigment as a dry, solid layer (though easily wiped away). This is why you can't write with dried-out markers. But if you write over the pigment with the marker, it dissolves a... | [
"9 year elementary teacher here to share some knowledge. I use black Expos daily and the best way to keep the whiteboard clean and easy to erase is to not wash it. I know, sounds strange, but it works. The black will erase much easier and will not appear as messy as it does when you erase a freshly washed board. I ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Bohr's Theory of the Hydrogen Atom | [
"Basically, the atom was understood like a solar system. Electrons orbiting the nucleus. Bohr suggested that the electrons could only be in very specific orbits and light was emitted when it went from a high to a lower orbit and light was absorbed when it went from a lower to a higher."
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"[Part 1: Atomic Orbitals and Electrodynamics](_URL_1_) [Part 2: Filling Orbitals, Types of Magnetism, and Quantum Mechanical Exchange Interaction](_URL_4_) [Part 3: Domains and Domain Wall Motion/Rotation](_URL_3_) [Part 4: Hysteresis](_URL_0_) [Part 5: Spin Orbit Coupling and Magnetostriction](_URL_2_)"
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What does a a lawyer do to defend someone like Dylann Roof | [
"A defense lawyer's job is to protect the accused's constitutional rights. Even of a person is obviously guilty of the most heinous crime ever, they still are entitled to all the same rights and protections as anyone else. Just because someone is accused of doing something awful and appears obviously guilty - that... | [
"The point of a lawyer is to make sure his defendant receives a fair trial. Not to make him walks free, for example if the accuse is of intentional murder etc."
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why do musicals play a medley of the music in the musical at the beginning before things start? | [
"Traditionally the Overture (from French for \"Opening\") introduces the musical themes used later in a piece like an opera. The Finale will recap them at the end. It's a little like the essay structure Introduction - Body - Conclusion."
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"a remix uses parts of the original recording as part of a new song. parts that are used are not performed, they are just copied. a rework performs the material again. its a fresh recording of the same material. it could be a near duplicate, or be in a completely new genre, but someone is actually creating it, not ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Has Russia really decimated ISIS the way some reports suggest? | [
"\"The Russian Air Force has conducted more than 60 flights and bombed over 50 Islamic State targets in three days, according to Russia’s top armed forces official.\" _URL_1_ Assuming this is true (which sounds fairly accurate considering the amount of reports about it), having lost 50 installations would have a no... | [
"Russia does not have a good track record when it comes to telling the truth. Why start believing them now?"
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Why does rubbing your eyes feel so good? And is it bad for your eyes/vision? | [
"I have no idea why rubbing your eyes feels good, but if you rub hard and long enough (over a long period of time), you can induce a condition called [keratoconus](_URL_0_), which is a deformity of the cornea. Keratoconus can significantly distort your vision. Additionally, rubbing your eyes can lead to an increase... | [
"It doesn't. All it does is strain your eyes temporarily. Doctors think a lack of vitamin D contributes to bad eyesight, so spending time indoors might be part of it. But the actual photons aren't doing anything permanent to your eyes."
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Why can't we use spectrometry to reverse engineer the Coca Cola secret formula? | [
"At most that will tell you whats in the can and the approximate amounts. That information is already printed on the can. It wont tell you the process that was used to mix the ingredients."
] | [
"A chemical is a chemical. The source of it doesn't make it \"real\" or \"not real\". If there was a good tasting plant that derived its flavor from a complex of Fluorine, Uranium, Carbon, and Potassium, it would be no different than making that same complex in a chemical factory."
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Why is violence in video games acceptable, but sexual violence is an extreme taboo? | [
"Everyone is used to violence and in some cases it’s perfectly acceptable to use it (e.g. when defending yourself). There are no cases where sexual violence would be acceptable, however."
] | [
"This is an interesting topic, and I think the root of this censorship of sex lies in religion, specifically widespread christianity in America. Ever notice how depictions of Jesus nailed brutally to a cross, bleeding, are somehow seen as perfectly fine for a child to see? But when it comes to discussing sex in a ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do jokes make us laugh? | [
"A good explanation I have heard (I'm a bit of a comedy geek) is that most jokes *subvert our expectations*. In other words, they lead us to start following a trail of thought in a certain direction, then BAM! we are forced to think in a totally different way suddenly. The element of surprise makes us laugh. Here's... | [
"Or, to paraphrase, why do positive emotions make us show our teeth?"
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How do birds know which direction to fly when they head south for winter? | [
"Many birds have a sense of magnetic field that allows them to know direction and travel to the right place. Many sea turtles also have that sense. Many birds also have a sense of barometric pressure as well, which is why you can often birds leaving an area before a storm."
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"They were raised at their destination point (point a), learned it was home. Then they were taken to other places that would want to send that destination a message (point b). When the pigeon was needed to send a message it was released from point b and instinctively flew back home to point a. Birds fly hundreds o... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Doctors always super-sterilize everything before any procedure, from giving a shot to full surgery. Is this "can't be too careful" or would I take horrible infections from receiving a shot without alcohol wipes? | [
"It's less of a worry about giving you a small infection that goes away after a week or two and more of \"we don't want to get sued for $20 million because we gave a guy flesh-eating bacteria with his tetanus shot.\""
] | [
"They probably are not sterile gloves. They are probably just exam gloves. The needle and whatnot are sterile though. Probably because it is easier to get sterile needles than not sterile needles. And as George Carlin said, you wouldn't want to have the guy go to hell and have an infection."
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In what circumstances does a president sign a bill while Congress is in session? | [
"If in 10 days the president doesn't sign a bill and Congress is still in session then it becomes a law just like you said. In that case then, the president has three options. They are different in not just whether the bill becomes a law but also in what they mean. * The president can obviously veto a law meaning ... | [
"In response to the title, since the Executive branch has sole authority in enforcing the law, as a consequence it can choose not to enforce the law at all. In response to the post, since I do not know what specific bill you are talking about I can describe the two vetoes. First, the President can outright veto a b... | eli5_question_answer | {
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