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Can someone explain to me how Formula One works LI5? | [
"Formula One racing is generally considered the most high-tech racing circuit in the world. Each year, the different teams (called \"constructors\") work to make their cars better, spending millions of dollars. This means that each year, different teams will have the technological advantage. This year, for example,... | [
"You mean in the D & D sense?"
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why do humans perceive numbers in a logarithmic way instead of a linear way? | [
"Going from $1 to $8 is a 700% increase, while going from $501 to $508 is less than 2%. It's more about percentages than raw numbers."
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"A linear scale is exactly what it sounds like: The distance between two adjacent ticks on the scale will always be the same regardless of where it is located. Going from 0 to 1 is the same distance as going from 100 to 101. Your standard x-y plot uses linear scales. Logarithmic scales make use of logarithms. Inst... | eli5_question_answer | {
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In cases where people die of an allergic reaction, why is the reaction the body chooses one that kills you rather than letting in whatever its trying to keep out? | [
"Allergies are a *defect* (like a software bug) in the way our body's immune system works. Because having an extra-powerful immune system mostly kept our ancestors alive against many *real* threats, evolution didn't weed these people out, so we inherited this problem."
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"An allergic reaction is just our immune system trying to attack what it percieves to be a foreign threat to your body. Usually people develop allergies to things because they either weren't exposed to it enough when they were young or genetic reasons. Your body perceives the animal hair as a potential foreign body... | eli5_question_answer | {
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with taxes on almost everything, how is it that governments don't eventually end up with most of the money in the economy? | [
"> How is it, that the receivers of this tax money, don't just eventually end up with most of it, and the rest of us end up broke? The government spends a huge amount of money on goods and services. All those people working for the government get paid, all those things the government use are bought from suppliers, ... | [
"If the government wants to, they sell it to the highest bidder and take the money into the federal coffers. So it winds up reducing the amount of debt the government takes on by a little. You benefit with less of your tax dollars being spent on debt service."
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How do game designers fix glitches in their games when the cause of the glitch makes no sense? | [
"The cause of glitches is usually some miscalculation on the programmer's part. Fixing the glitch comes down to finding out where this miscalculation is, and fixing it."
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"Older games were much simpler, so it was far easier to make them without having as many bugs. Also there really was zero option to update games reliably with patches in the past, now it's automatic since everyone is almost always connected to the internet. \"more well written\" is incredibly difficult to answer, s... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How do showers get dirty if water and soap run through them all the time? | [
"1) water drops evaporate and the dissolved minerals are left behind 2) soap scum is left behind. It sticks to surfaces and doesn't wash off with just water"
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"It is better at freeing up oils. Imagine trying to wash butter off a plate using cold water. If you tried it with hot water, it would melt right off. The same goes for oils in your hands and your clothes. The oils can trap bacteria, which is why washing with warm water and soap is important."
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Eli how is it that a company like Comcast can change the terms on their residential package contract midway putting a 300gb cap on internet usage without customers re-signing new contracts and still get away with it? | [
"The contract with you probably allows for specific unilateral changes to certain aspects of it. This is quite common in these types of service contracts. You don't read the contract anyways, and if you want service from them then you need to agree to the contract. So agree or no service."
] | [
"Laws simply say they have to disclose all information. So they say it fast, print it small, so me as a user only sees $200 a month no credit check! While the fine print says all the legal stuff so that I can't claim false advertisement when I end up getting denied."
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How do they color black and white photos from before color photography was invented? | [
"Before modern day colorization techniques, my Mom grew up in the 40's and 50's, and she said when they got their black and white photos, they would use make up and color the photos just a little bit. I learned this when we were flipping through an old scrapbook and my Mom had a slight pinkish tone to her lips and ... | [
"The process of colorizing old footage is very tedious. Unless the color footage already exists the animators have to color each frame of video. A second of video contains approximately 23 frames. When the movie needs to be colored, all of the frames of the movie are extracted. Each frame of the movie is then color... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How literally are we taking the "like you are talking to a 5 year old" thing? | [
"I think this reddit would've worked better if it was called explainlikeimtwelve."
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"This is a weird thing to explain to a five year old."
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Why is everyone bringing up net neutrality all of a sudden? | [
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"You all seem to be asking a lot about communism here."
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Why does my iPhone say I have 4.4 gigs of memory used in pictures and yet I have no pictures on my phone | [
"It's photos saved in messages, possibly cached photos. Delete some conversations, or (I highly recommend) jailbreak your phone, install iCleaner and it will clear ALL that crap out."
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"So, I've read a lot of the answers, most of them are saying similar things. Where does it save the vide on your computer? For example, if I have less than a GB of space left on my computer, why can I still watch a several-minute HD video on YouTube without running out of space?"
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Why is there an increase in the number of insects and other critters in my home in the summer, vs in the winter, shouldn't it be the other way around? | [
"Because there are more insects. Most insects will hibernate or simply allow most of the species to die off in the winter and let eggs hatch in the spring. In the summer you have all those insects able to live easily and therefore they are growing and creating new colonies and laying more eggs."
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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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How do Venus flytraps digest pray? | [
"The head of the flytrap seals itself and essentially becomes a ‘stomach’ of sorts Once the pray is trapped and sealed inside the head, it begins to release enzymes and chemicals which break down the prey and digest the essential nutrients. It can’t always digest everything and often you’ll find parts of insects dr... | [
"Mosquitos and flies are 'bottom of the food chain'. Yes they bite us and annoy us. But mosquito larvae are amazing fish-food. They take tiny bits of algae, that are useless to most aquatic organisms, eat it, and convert it into a nice high protein snack for fish/fish-fry (Baby fish). MANY frogs rely on fly larvae ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Since Edward Snowden has been out of the inner circle for so long, how is he still relevant and threatening? | [
"What I have understood from [Citizenfour](_URL_0_) documentary, the information he released wasn't nearly everything he had access to. He simply decided to inform public just about the mass surveillance. Imo the argument that he can't do more damage now is false. Another thing is that he hasn't been charged yet t... | [
"Snowden became aware of classified information related to the US government spying on its own people. Because this information was classified it was illegal for him to share it. he decided to share it anyway. He broke the law. But many people believe that the government should not be doing what it was doing. So ma... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How do celebrity's nude photos get "leaked"? | [
"Modern phones have cloud technology that saves content on servers owned by the provider. Gaining access to an email and password is relatively easy work for a serious hacker and it would be all you need to access those photos on said servers."
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"Rule number one of business is know which demographic you're targeting. As it happens, a lot of the people who go out and get groceries for their family also masturbate to Fifty Shades of Grey."
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You know when you crack open an egg to fry and its a double yoker, if that egg had been kept alive and grown would the chicken(s) have been conjoined or...? | [
"I think this is pretty rare, but it's one possibility for a double-yolked egg.[half-sider parakeet](_URL_0_)"
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"IIRC I read something a while ago that some people doing a study found that the genes that produce the stuff chicken eggs are made of only come from chickens. So the chicken came first,I guess it was a pre-cursor to chickens that made chickens?"
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Why do our teeth fall out at such a young age and grow back? Wouldn't it be more beneficial for this process to happen at like age 50? | [
"Evolution doesn't care how long you live; it only cares whether you have children. So no, it would not be more beneficial to wait until age 50 to replace your teeth."
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"Human bodies were formed by evolution. Evolution is determined by natural selection. Natural selection means nature likes traits that help you survive to have babies. This means everything in the human body either keeps you alive long enough to reach sexual maturity, or helps you produce babies once you have reach... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How can a touchscreen project black in a power saving way (details on the screen inside)? | [
"An LCD element is made so it is transparent unless you apply a voltage. When you apply a voltage to the element it is going black. It does not take much power to do this as you only need a voltage and no current. The electricity does not pass through the elements but still affects it. You can get window sized LCD ... | [
"Sounds to me it may be some kind of settings issue. Auto choose best setting for connection, turned on, perhaps?"
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if insects do not have lungs, how do they drown? | [
"Answer in [gif format](_URL_2_) Now, we just have to debate how to pronounce \"gif\""
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"Fish are no more allergic to air then you are to water. We have lungs, these take the Oxygen (O^2) out of the air and use it in our bodies. Fish have gills, these take the O^2 out of water. We are unable to take the O^2 out of water because we don't live in it and likewise fish can't take the O^2 out of air becau... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How can a dollar of subsidy create more than a dollar of GDP? | [
"The 5 year old answer would be The simplest way to think of it is let's say you give a company a dollar to buy wood. They buy a dollar worth of wood and then make it into a statue. They then sell that statue for two dollars. Technically that one dollar of subsidy was used to make 2 dollar of GDP. The more complica... | [
"Not a huge strain. The total cost to the country is about $182 Billion per year, a bit under 1% of our annual productivity."
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Does anyone want to explain the Bohr Model of Hydrogen atom to me? | [
"so Bohr suggested that atoms arent muffins(like was thought before him) where electrons are inside of protons like raisins in muffins, but rather like planets, with protons being in the middle and electrons spinning around them like planets around sun(later with quantum physics it became more complicated than that... | [
"No, although that is still the model shown to students. It is wrong. The answer is quantum physics, which teachers deem is too complex to understand. The only way to fix that is for students to learn it at an early-ish age. The orbitals of electrons are regions of space where the electrons are probably to be found... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What do bears do while they're hibernating? | [
"They sleep, and that's it. They live off fat stores, just like you've heard, and they also convert that fat in to water. Hibernating mothers can even produce milk for their young from those fat stores. They don't pee, their body converts their urine in to proteins, IIRC. They develop a [natural fecal plug] (_URL_0... | [
"They're not hibernating for 17 years, they're actively living underground and just reach maturity in 17 years."
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What makes UNIX/Linux more stable and secure than Windows? | [
"Unix had privilege levels because it's originally a multi user system. You need root access to do any real damage to the system"
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"Unix was first released in 1970; Linux started about 20 years later. Why is it popular? It's free, reliable, and supports a lot of hardware. *Free* separates it from most of the early Unix implementations. *Reliable* and *supports a lot of hardware* helps make it popular."
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Where do the guys who sell oranges or flowers on the side of the road get their supply? | [
"I don't know if maybe it's different in other places, which is what I would assume reading the answers here already. I live in the American south, and if you come across someone selling produce on the side of the road it usually came out of their backyard. Even the \"certified roadside stands\" (like peach stands)... | [
"They have warehouses where they store a lot of their prime items. Since most people live somewhat close to a major metro area there is a good chance they have what you need within a few hours. That would be my guess."
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Why can't Social Security Numbers be like credit card numbers where they get renewed (new number) every couple of years and if they get lost or stolen the old number can be cancelled and you get a new number? | [
"The problem is that your Social Security Number is widely used as a *unique identifier* for a person. The whole reason it's worth stealing is because everyone uses the same number to reference a person. If you just get a new number every few years, it'd either be worthless for a credit report **or** somebody would... | [
"Also helps prevent credit card theft. It means credit card numbers that could of been stolen will automatically expire and then become unable to be used. Imagine lost credit or unused credit cards that are stolen and not properly cancelled, then customers are suddenly lumped with this debt from someone who found i... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How do some insects survive high velocity impact during flight without immediate fatalities? | [
"A beetle's body does not have too much mass, and the velocity of the beetle is not too high either. Therefore, the momentum of the impact is not enough to cause significant damage to the beetle. Velocity X Mass = Momentum. If the mass or velocity of the beetle was increased, damage to the beetle is more likely to ... | [
"Cockroaches can withstand higher levels of radiation because they lack soft tissues, which are the most vulnerable to radiation poisoning."
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How is it possible for the universe to have no starting point or end? | [
"\"The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.\" -NDT"
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"I always answer this question with another question. Where does time come from? Every second, a second for the whole universe is created. Where did this time come from? How was it created? Precisely the same way space is being created. It’s not expanding into anything it’s simply creating the space itself."
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in the year 1AD, what year did people of that year say it was? | [
"Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Paullus (or, less frequently, year 754 Ab urbe condita). There was no BC/AD at the time, Anno Domini was a convention adopted in the early medieval period. At the time the dominant calendar would probably have been the Julian calendar (We now use the gregorian calendar, which i... | [
"> Did they count down the years at the time, like BC They couldn't have. They'd have no idea what to count down to. > did they count up, like AD Usually they did, however when they count up from varied. For example the Mayans (of 2012 fame) had a calendar based on counting the days since 'creation', which happens... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why Valve aren't in trouble over Dota 2 | [
"DOTA doesn't actually belong to blizzard, it was a custom map made by ice frog, this person owns all of it apart form the fact that if blizzard never made warcraft 3 it wouldn't exist. so valve then hired ice frog(that owns all of DOTA to make a sequel under valve. source: _URL_0_"
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"CS:GO good at preventing hacking? What?? Have you ever played csgo??"
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How time was invented? | [
"Did we invent distances? or did we just invent ways to measure them and units to count them? Same goes with time. Clocks have existed for several thousand years (many civilizations had them as early as 2,000BC, in the form of water clocks and sundials). The passing of seasons has also been observed and measured fo... | [
"Someone told them what the answer is supposed to be."
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Is it true that disproportionally large numbers of Syrian refugees in Europe are young men? If so, why is this? Where are all the women and children? | [
"They are waiting for the man to get asylum/resident permit, so that they can safely travel. Basically the guy risks his life going with human smugglers and once he lands on his feet he can bring the children and wife to the new country through lawful means."
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"Not much. The EU has a total population of 500 million. So far only 4.2 Million Syrians have fled the country and most of them have gone to Turkey or Jordan or Lebanon with only a tiny fraction ending up in the EU. If all of these refugees decided to move to the EU instead they would still make up less than 1% of ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do we heal quicker over a night's sleep than awake? | [
"When you sleep, you're lying in one position pretty much motionless for 5-9 hours. Your body is using very little energy on your muscles or other activities, so it can devote itself to healing. And with no motion, there's no risk of further aggravating your injuries. Theoretically you would get the same healing ef... | [
"I'm no expert, but I do know it's harder for you to wake up and feel energized during the middle of REM sleep"
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With the recent information on Session's on Russia, why do we have to wait for him to resign? Can't we just go after him for treason or whatever and give him the harshest punishment for lying under oath? | [
"Resignation is the preferred method because it's the quickest and least politically messy. With a refusal to resign, a formal impeachment process would have to be initiated in the House of Representatives, beginning with a Judiciary Committee investigation, articles of impeachment being voted upon and presented t... | [
"How do you think he is going to pardon himself for a crime without telling anyone what it is? In any case, you can't pardon yourself."
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Why do some cars keep headlights on for a few minutes when the car shuts off? What is the point? | [
"It's to allow you to see your surroundings. For instance, so you can see the inside of your garage garage at night without having to fumble around in the dark for a light switch."
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"Without the electronics being computer-controlled it becomes difficult to essentially turn off the light with a timer that starts when the car is turned off. It'd be easy to just turn the lights off automatically when the car is off but there's cases where you might want to keep the lights on without the keys in t... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Do gas pumps really measure dispensed gas to the thousandths? And if so, how? | [
"Gas, fuel, diesel etc is typically measured using a special flowmeter called a turbine meter. Basically, the fuel is pumped through the turbine meter on the way to the nozzle. The turbine meter contains funnily enough a turbine which spins as the fluid passes through it. The spinning spindle of the meter has magne... | [
"Why do I need 60 seconds to fill up my car's gas tank, on average? What's happening in the last 10 seconds that doesn't happen in the first?"
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Why do 'modern' flags tend to have stars? | [
"First of all, that cross is only for Scandinavian countries. Look at the flags of Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Belgium, Poland, Hungary, Spain,... And many of those flags are more modern than others. The star spangled spangled banner was made in the 1770 or something. The German flag of today was made in 1945.... | [
"You might be interested in [this recent thread from /r/vexillology](_URL_0_). Nobody seems to know a definitive reason why. The most common belief is that it doesn't have anything to do with the Netherlands, and is just a way to put red-white-blue and a message on a flag."
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How do poor/third world countries support such high populations? | [
"> Is the standard of living so low that everybody can just barely get by? This. Not only that, but in many places, people DON'T actually get by. People starve to death every day on this earth. The fact is, many of these countries CAN'T sustain the population growth that they have."
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"Heavily debated (sometimes by less than reputable people) but the general consensus is no, it has more to do with the fact that the majority of black people and Arabs live in poor regions of the world with sub-par education which leads to lower average intelligence from a global point of view."
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Why does the camera pan to Dikembe Mutombo when a suns player makes a block? | [
"Because while he was in the NBA, he used wave his finger after he blocked shots. _URL_0_"
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"While he's not going to have super dunking skills, his footwork and ball control made him a superstar. Plus, his size made him incredibly fast in comparison to the giants on the court with him, if the other team lost the ball in his side of the court, a quick pass to him and he was down the other end with a layup ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do non-hearing people sound "that way" when they speak? | [
"They can see how lips move, but they can't see how throat, tongue, windpipe, etc move. Observing mouth movement is not enough to recreate all the sounds, you need to be able to hear it in order to accurately replicate what others are saying. Not to mention you can't get the tone or pacing correctly either by just ... | [
"My girlfriend is partially deaf, and she tells me that deaf people will commonly 'think' in sign language like you think in English."
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How do you text in Chinese? | [
"Pinyin and knowing the tones. Chinese has a writing script based on roman alphabet which is what kids and beginners use when first learning the language. This is called pinyin. This is basically the phonetic transcription of the language. There are then 4 corresponding tones in Chinese. Flat (1), Rising (2), Fal... | [
"What do you want to know about them exactly?"
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When we become overly emotional our chests/throats tighten up, why? | [
"We’re not totally sure, but this article gives some suggestions: _URL_0_ But how do emotions trigger physical sensations? Scientists do not know, but recently pain researchers uncovered a possible pathway from mind to body. According to a 2009 study from the University of Arizona and the University of Maryland, ac... | [
"Anxiety can release adrenaline. Adrenaline can increase heart beat which can cause palpations. A panic attack causes hyperventilation. This makes a person exhale too much carbon dioxide (which is why they tell you to slow your breathing). Too little C02 in the blood stream (hypocapnia) can cause muscles to tense u... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How come some people claim to only care about personalities and not physical properties yet aren't bisexual? | [
"Because this is a lie mostly, its just more of a statement of Personality > Looks, so even if they look like crap they wont date them its just lower standards than average, no one actually completely doesnt care about looks"
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"Wow! I must be thick since I just didn't get it. But the responses (thank you all) beg the question do we really need to identify non-transgendered people as such? I'm a bi man and I love the LGBT community but where did this obsession with labels come from?"
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What actual crimes did the "villians" from Scooby Doo commit? What could they be tried for and what would be their punishment? | [
"Generally harassment, theft, fraud, and trespassing. Realistically you could add attempt at murder and kidnapping to most of the monster charges, because of what they general do to the mystery crew. Also in a lot of places wearing masks for nonreligious or holiday reasons in public is a findable offence, but that ... | [
"You're not always guilty of what you're being charged with There are various degrees of homicide. Someone could have killed someone accidentally, but if they didn't plan to do it then they aren't guilty of Murder 1(pre-meditated murder) It's up to the State to show that someone is guilty of specific crimes, not ju... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why everyone hates Bono | [
"Because everytime he claps his hands, a child in Africa dies."
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"Because we aren't worried about beating the Soviets anymore."
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Before I put my contacts on I almost mistaked a white "push" thumb tack for the vitamin I had set out last night... What would happen if someone swallowed a thumb tack or nail? Would it pass regularly, or shred your insides during digestion? | [
"I doubt it's large enough to cause any harm."
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"Swallowing it just starts it on the journey out of your body. Typically if what you swallow will cause harm, your stomach will be good about rejecting it and sending it back out. I can think of more adverse effects from coughing and spitting it out... Most of which involve scarring memories of seeing dried up, cru... | eli5_question_answer | {
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The difference between Subvocalization (inner monologue) and "thinking" | [
"They're the same thing from my understanding. I believe it's more commonly referred to as 'inner speech' when we're thinking, and 'subvocalization' when we're reading, but subvocalization is what we do whenever we hear a voice in our head, whether its reading or thinking. Auditory hallucinations actually cause mov... | [
"> Why do we need to use a voice in our head to read? Short answer: you don't. However, almost everyone leans to read silently as a gradual shift from reading out loud, and so we tend to stick with that same mode of reading. This is called [subvocalization](_URL_0_). People who speed-read learn to read without subv... | eli5_question_answer | {
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what is the point of the 9/10's of a penny on gas prices? | [
"They are not the same. $4.999 != $5.000 -- even though you don't have a coin to represent the difference, there is a difference. 9/10ths of a cent adds up to some real money over thousands and thousands of gallons of gasoline."
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"I feel dumb and unoriginal: _URL_0_ It seems because the government covers it there will not be a pop just a slow in GDP."
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How likely could a baby or young child survive from e.g. the 10th floor of a building in an emergency situation if wrapped in thick layers of towels, blankets, and duvets, and the "ball" was somehow wrapped together with rope/belts/etc? | [
"How thick are the blanks around the baby I'll guess you used every duvet in your house so 12 -16 inches thick below the baby. The younger the baby the better as the lighter the baby the better the blankets will do. If the baby on its back not head or feet first lands on the thickest part of the blankets on soft so... | [
"Because nothing has better insulative properties than air. A knitted blanket holds air in the spaces between the yarn threads, and your body heat warms that air up creating a shield of warm air around you. If you wrapped up in that blanket and walked outside during a blizzard, you'd freeze because the wind would r... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What did people use before lip balm? | [
"People used goose or other animal fats on their lips and faces, especially in cold areas to protect against windburn and cold, dry air. Also, beeswax and oil. The Burt's Beeswax brand that I use now is essentially just that."
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"Why do you have so many lips and chins?"
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Why can we make fun of Muslims under freedom of expression but speaking anything against Jews will bring up Anti-Semitism? | [
"i don't know where you live, but in most countries you can easily make jokes about Jews without bringing up antisemitism. from the other hand in many countries you can't make jokes about Holocaust."
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"In America we have very strong free speech laws which means that you can say whatever you want as long as you are not directly threatening someone. You can not ban a political opinion just because it it is deplorable, even if the whole country is against it. We fought Saddam Hussein too, it is not illigal to suppo... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is it that some people need to adjust their sitting posture every 2 minutes but some people can sit in the same posture for one hour? | [
"I was actually thinking about this the other day because I'm the kind of person seems to never get comfortable. I found out if you stretch and loosen up your muscles you'll have an easier time sitting still or even falling asleep at night."
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"Next time you work an 8-hr stint behind a desk, count how many times you get up. Now see how far you can stretch or move around when you get cramps. Now see how long it takes for your arm to tire while holding on to the same object, always having at least one hand on it at all times, and moving or adjusting its po... | eli5_question_answer | {
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- Why isn't there a universal currency | [
"To allow different economies and their respective government bodies to inflate and deflate their individual currencies. On a macroeconomic level, this allows for proactive monetary policy that can curb the effects of a stagnating or expanding economy. If the world operated on the same currency...well, just look at... | [
"OP, how about a short explanation about how you know this?"
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What is String Theory? Has it been proved wrong? Whats the current replacement theory/idea? | [
"I cannot really answer your first question, at least not in any ELI5 appropriate manner. I can, however, give a little insight in the latter questions: String theory has not been proven wrong. One of the main reasons why this is the case is, that it is spectacularly hard to design an experiment to actually test s... | [
"Classical (Newtonian) Mechanics does not (ideally) hold for tiny particles like electrons. Quantum Mechanics is too complex/inappropriate to be applied to big bodies. The Grand Unified Theory is supposed to bridge this gap and give us a set of rules that would be applicable to everything in our Universe. Scientis... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How did the U.S manage to (mostly) eliminate the intense corruption common at various points in the 19th century? | [
"The problem with Eastern European countries that they spent a long time being ruled over by dysfunctional communist regime which encouraged a culture of political corruption. While they transitioned on paper to liberal democracies in 1989, that kind of political culture isn't something which disappears overnight. ... | [
"Weak governments that never really enforced the rule of law in the 19th and early 20th centuries would be the biggest reason."
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How incorrectly typing in a website address takes you to those random proxy sites that advertise random things. | [
"There's two things that can happen. First, someone may have bought the mistyped domain and put up a bunch of ads on the page, just for that case. Second, and far more annoying is that your ISP may be directing you there to get some extra profit. If you ask for a web site that doesn't exist, they're supposed to ret... | [
"Each time you open another page, advertisements load. Same reason why each of those 7 things will be on it's own webpage."
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Lost City of Atlantis | [
"Atlantis is mentioned in two of Plato's works, Timaeus and Critias, and serves as a hubristic enemy to Plato's ideal of a perfect state. Plato's perfect state defeats Atlantis, thus proving its superiority and soon after, the gods submerge Atlantis in the sea as punishment. Most historians and scholars dismiss Atl... | [
"Sleep - Shake Unconscious - Splash Coma - Wait and Hope Vegetative State - Wait and Bury"
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Why do people have to wipe their butts but animals don't? | [
"I know the answer to this from the last time I saw it posted.. Animals prolapse their cinnamon star when pooping, which means the poopy part retracts right back in so no mess!"
] | [
"There's usually not much you can do to sway their minds. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink."
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How does soap clean stuff? | [
"Soap acts as an emulsifier. An emulsifier is an agent that allows the mixture of oil and water. So the dirty oils on your skin mix with the water and it is washed off."
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"Are you asking how a wheel works ?"
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If I lift a pile of book and carry it towards another table, is work being done on the books? | [
"Yes- not from any force in the vertical direction unless you move the pile upwards. The work done comes from the force x the direction of movement- meaning when you move the books horizontally work is done."
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"You can compare it to trying to move a 10 kg box filled with marbles, and 5 kg of marbles without a box. For some reason moving the marbles are easier when they are in a box, even though you are moving more."
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What would happen if the US heavily taxed the wealthy? | [
"The fears of any progressive tax system is that higher taxes on higher incomes would limit growth, as there would be less incentive for a person to try to earn more. If I own a small business and earned $999,999 why would I want to try and earn more if I'd only get $.30 for every dollar I earned? The other fear is... | [
"Because a large part of the population was fed a string of lies about how much better life would be out of the EU."
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Why are the bellies of starving children always heavily swollen? | [
"It's a disease called Kwashiorkor, which is caused by a deficiency in protein intake. Sufferers are getting enough calories, but usually almost entirely in the form of carbohydrates. _URL_0_"
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"Addition: why are black people's upper lips black while their lower lips are pink?"
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How does a laser speed gun work to measure a car's speed? | [
"Light moves fast. Really, really, fast. But it still has a measurable speed, so as long as your timer is quick enough all you need to do is fire a laser at something and start counting until the moment the reflected laser light comes back. Because we know the speed of light is a constant, by counting the (very tin... | [
"So, you know when you're driving down the highway, and you see those horizontal lines that go all the way across the road? The DOT has those metered out at a set distance, and they'll time how long it takes you to cross the distance between those lines. Since speed is distance divided by time, they can resolve you... | eli5_question_answer | {
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If police officers are not required to tell us when they are undercover, what stops all police offers from just wearing normal clothes and always being undercover? | [
"Why would they? Clearly marked police presence is a crime deterrent. Very few police activities involve being sneaky and doing undercover stuff (though that's what you see on TV and the movies). A lot of what police do, like helping people, really isn't possible if you don't know who they are."
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"It could go either way. It could mean that police are less likely to engage in misconduct because everything they do is being monitored. Without the cameras, the police are more likely to be supported because they are seen as doing their job. There are also times when the police initiate the misconduct by intentio... | eli5_question_answer | {
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why do files when you change their format gets either corrupted or oftentimes changes into a different and oftentimes readable file format. | [
"It's not so much that *changing the format* corrupts it (because the data remains unchanged). All changing the extension does is change what program your computer is going to open the file with. If you switch something to .txt, it's going to try and open it in Notepad, which can only read plain-text files. Now if... | [
"The way notepad process the 1s and 0s is different from the way a mp3 player processes those ines and 0s so the notepad sees rick astleys never gonna give you up as a series of random letters and numbers"
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Why do we get skin tags when we're older? | [
"At the risk of sounding young, what are skin tags?"
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"Why do the glands in my neck burn like high hell when I'm holding back tears?"
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When a device needs multiple batteries, why do they always have to face different directions to each other? | [
"The design of the battery holder is cheaper that way. Ultimately, the batteries always need to be end to end + near the - on the next battery. By requiring that one row faces one way and the other row the other way, one side of the battery holder can be made with a simple metal plate to connect the two halves and ... | [
"Because you can make the device smaller, thinner and lighter when the battery is directly connected to the device and you don't need the additional hardware required for a removable battery."
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Why do people fear autism? | [
"No one is afraid of it in a classic sense. It's like any other abnormalities, everyone wants their child to be normal. It can cause serious lasting personal issues unless treated early and properly. I'm not a afraid of sheep but i don't want my son to be born with a sheep's head"
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"A follow-up question: Why do some people love that feeling while others detest it?"
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Why is it that when you swat a fly with your hand, it either appears to be completely unharmed or it dies/becomes seriously injured? | [
"So you swat a fly and you're wondering why its either: Unharmed, injured or dead? What the fuck other options are there? What would you expect to happen?"
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"Insects have heavy armor plates on their back and spindly little legs on their underside. If they fall, they'll usually land upside-down because that's where their center of gravity sits. If it doesn't flip back over fairly quicky it may be sick or injured, but they do get flipped occasionally because they definit... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do UK cinemas have advanced screenings instead of just releasing the film? | [
"To get people talking and blogging (etc.) about it, and gauge the audience response. Advanced screening audiences are generally a mix of reviewers and self-selected fans of the movie franchise who are already excited about it, or at least are in the target audience. That's the two groups of people most likely to t... | [
"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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Where does the dead bacteria go once you've sanitized it? | [
"Dead bacteria is just a bunch of dead organic matter. Its similar to dead skin cells that wash off in the shower or a slab of meat or bunch of vegetables. If somethings dead it can be absorbed by something else living for their nutrients. So the dead bacteria will quickly be broken down. Depending on the way you k... | [
"Because they've been treated to remove bacteria, which can grow by feeding on the material. Once you open it, you've exposed it to bacteria again. You can't get the cat out of the bag again.. wait is that how that goes?"
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Why Netflix would have to secure the rights to a certain song on a show they've begun streaming, when they're already paying for the show itself. | [
"You're trying to apply common sense to music licensing. Yes, they got the clearance for the music to be on broadcast TV. Yes, they got the clearance for it to be on the DVDs. But if those rights specifically excluded Internet streaming, then they have to change the song, unless they negotiate that clearance. And, ... | [
"Because TV shows are licensed for use on a country by country basis. If some network in your country has paid for the right to air SNL there, they'd get pretty upset if someone could watch it for free somewhere else."
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How does after-hours stock trading work? How can you trade when the market's not open? | [
"There are smaller trading platforms and you can trade among others on that platform, rather than the whole market as a whole. So if your brokerage uses one particular platform you might only be able to trade with 5 or 10% of potential traders. The smaller supply/demand pool means more volatility."
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"Stock trading is just the buying and selling of a share in a company. ELI5 the simplest way to trade stocks is to open an account with an online broker like E*Trade (I am not endorsing them...just an example). It will require you to put money into your account with them and then, with that money, you can buy stock... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What's the point of martial law, and when would it be enforced? | [
"Martial Law is, essentially, the suspension of due process. Police are authorized to do whatever is necessary to keep the peace or to address whatever situation is found, and government, specifically the executive branch, would be allowed to basically make up new rules as they see fit. Hopefully martial law is *ne... | [
"Yes, federal law enforcement agents could waltz in & arrest everyone. Currently, the president has issued an order prohibiting them from doing so Theoretically, that could be revoked at any time or when the next president comes into office."
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Counting Numbers and Numbers | [
"Subtracting is a measure of change. So subtracting the page numbers tells you how many times the page number changed, so you have to add 1 to get the total number of pages."
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"A Visual, Intuitive Guide to Imaginary Numbers: _URL_0_"
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if picking at scabs and zits is bad, what explains the irresistible urge to do it? | [
"The reason we have such a nagging urge is because our skin's nerves tell our brain that something is attached to us. The brain interprets this stimuli and responds by urging our hand to scratch it or get it off. The benefit to this response is that potentially harmful parasites or insects can latch on to our skin ... | [
"for me personally, I do it because it distracts me from the nagging urge to go."
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How do magnets break harddrives? | [
"Take a piece of iron and rub it across a magnet a couple of times. You'll notice that it becomes magnetic as well. This is called \"ferromagnetism.\" Now imagine that you have billions of pieces of iron, each one tiny. Some are magnetized and some aren't. That's how your hard drive stores data. The 1s and 0s that ... | [
"Two main reasons. 1. Before LCD displays there were Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) displays. These used magnets to direct an electron beam towards the phosphorescent screen to create the image. Having a magnet near the monitor could magnetise the display, altering the beam's path thereby corrupting the display. Degaussing... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why did it take up until now (this year), for something like Obergefell v. Hodges (National Gay Marriage) to happen? Why didn't a gay couple try this years ago or throughout history? | [
"It has been tried before, but they didn't win their cases. It took until now for the opinions of the supreme court to change. Here is a case from 1970: _URL_0_ And from 1986: _URL_1_"
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"Supreme Court reversals are exceedingly rare, and it would take an immense amount of public pressure to even get the cases pushed through. I don't see it happening. It's the same way that even when we've had conservative courts, they haven't tried to overturn Roe v. Wade."
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Why with certain neurological diseases do hands/fingers and feet tend tu curl up? | [
"This is caused by lack muscle control, which could mean complete relaxation or over-use of muscles. A neutral/relaxed hand position has the fingers slightly curled (you can test this yourself). So if your muscles can’t get signals from the brain, curling would be the result of them being relaxed. Also, if the mus... | [
"It's a nerve response. There's multiple layers of skin, one contracts while the other does not, which forms ripples on the surface. If the nerves to your hands or feet are blocked, they won't wrinkle, oddly."
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How does a Tornado kill you? | [
"As the great sage and eminent drunkard Ron White put it, it's not THAT the wind is blowing, it's WHAT the wind is blowing. Your body will become part of a random, high speed debris field. Something WILL intersect with you."
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"What do you want to know about them exactly?"
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If kids are normally taller than their parents, does that mean the human population is steadily growing in average height? | [
"Yes but no. Children are often taller than their parents because people get shorter as they age due to spinal cartilage wearing down. The average height of the population is increasing over time, but that's because height is seen as an attractive feature and more likely to be passed to future generations."
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"The real answer here is better nutrition. There hasn’t been enough time for it to be an evolutionary thing. People just used to have much more sporadic access to food, and often of lower quality which stunted their growth. Food is now plentiful and easily accessible in much of the world, so people are more likely ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How is it that people (general, public, politicians, scientists) deny climate change? | [
"I don't think that they are denying that it's happening, but they are more suspect to the cause of it. Some people think that it caused by human influence. Some people think that it is a natural fluctuation that we just so happen to be witnessing. Then there are people who are in the middle, who see facts like cow... | [
"It started around the mid-1990s. It was started by a few researches from outside the biosciences and agriculture fields and a lot of crazy luddites who react to anything they don't understand with hostility. Anti-GM folks have about as strong a grasp of the science as anti-vaxxers and global warming denialists."
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The sharp divide in America between the Christian message (love and peace for all, blessed are the meek) and the Christian practice (hatred of immigrants, ultra-wealthy preachers)? | [
"People are often hypocrites, no matter what they profess to believe in. Christians no more so than anyone else. FWIW, ultra-wealthy preachers are an exception, most clergy live modestly. Any many Christian organizations and believers actively work to support immigrants."
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"Pope Francis has spoken out against the greed culture of capitalism. Since Francis regards himself as one of the poor (he lives a very humble life, without luxury), he has been much more outspoken than the last few popes about the greed culture of living and worshiping money. He is always reminding us that there ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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The arguments now being made AGAINST Kony 2012/Invisible Children | [
"Toppling a leader does not resolve the underlying issue (and has the potential to lead to greater turmoil - known evil of Kony vs. unknown evil of the next person to step up). EDIT: For [this link](_URL_0_) to Visible Children."
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"Social media activists moved on to other, more \"trending\" causes. Kony 2012 couldn't stay viral and was forgotten."
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How does dumping a bucket of water on your head help the ALS cause? | [
"It's a combination awareness/donation drive. \"Dude, why the hell did you just dump a bucket of icewater on your head!?\" \"For ALS.\" \"What's ALS?\" \"The reason Steven Hawking's paralyzed.\" \"Oh, that thing. Yeah, that sucks.\" \"Yes it does. Wanna donate for a cure? If not, you've gotta dump a bucket on your ... | [
"Because it is worth a lot of money to the government!"
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Why can young kids practically abuse my dog and he doesn't give a shit, but as soon as an adult looks at him wrong he barks? | [
"Your dog may be aware children are like puppies, and as such treat them as puppies. According to [this study](_URL_0_) , bites to children are usually less severe, which may support that theory."
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"Semi-off topic: I have a shih tzu, and every time we see another shih tzu or Lhasa apso, my dog goes crazy like it is a long lost relative. Any other dog, small or large, she growls and fake attacks them and snarls. Seriously, I don't know how she knows those are her people, she hardly ever looks in the mirror."
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Why is internet (a direct connection) only fast enough to stream a few TV shows at once when digital TV antennas can receive hundreds simultaneously? | [
"Just for terminology correction. The antenna does NOT receive and do anything with the channels it hears. IT just funnels the signal into a tuner. The tuner, which is on a set top box or integrated into your TV can generally only deal with processing and figuring out a single tv channel at a time, not hundreds. IT... | [
"Analog radio technologies require no buffer at all. The only radio part of the internet is probably your WiFi - but the rest travels a long distance through several nodes (computer servers / devices) and data packets can get lost, also you may be streaming something that requires a lot of bandwidth and your connec... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Scientifically, what is happening in the body when we experience a "mini heart attack" after missing a step or any other "close call" in avoiding a potential injury? | [
"It's a hormone called adrenaline. Your adrenal glands, which sit on top of your kidneys, release it. It activates your body's fight-or-flight response, which elevates your heart rate, opens up your muscular blood vessels, and in general does a bunch of things to prepare you to fight of a potential enemy or run far... | [
"This phenomena is likely due to you feeling less pain during physical exertion, so a \"light scratch\" when resting is far lighter than a \"light scratch\" when working out. In other words, when you're working out, it takes a lot more force (and damage) before you notice a scratch at all."
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Why can I exhale for so much longer than I can hold my breath? | [
"The feeling of suffocation doesn't come from lack of oxygen; it actually comes from saturation of carbon dioxide in your blood. Your body needs to breathe *out* as much as it needs to breathe *in*, so a long constant exhale mitigates both the powerful breathing stimulus and more than half of the actual physical ef... | [
"> Are they able to close off their airways while they eat or do they have a separate process ? They close off their airway while they eat, much like how humans close our airway when we swallow. Get a cup of water, hold your breath, and take a drink while holding your breath. This is something you can do perfectly ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do different parts of my body smell different when I sweat? | [
"If I remember correctly, it depends on the type of sweat duct, most only release sweat, which is mostly water and therefore much less smelly, but others, especially in areas like the armpits, also release pheromones and other things that smell."
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"Why do the glands in my neck burn like high hell when I'm holding back tears?"
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What is the difference between Alternative Rock and "regular" rock music? | [
"IMO, it has to do with how the band is promoted, where they play, and largely what their \"message\" might be. Counter-culture is a big aspect, and even mainstream bands can be put in this genre."
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"Metal refers to subgenres of Rock, basically. It was originally Heavy Metal, as in Black Sabbath, Deep Purple etc., bands noted for being very loud and, well, heavy. These days there are all kinds of Metal sub genres such as Progressive Metal, Symphonic Metal etc., but they're all Metal, and all filed under Rock."... | eli5_question_answer | {
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why do we have capsaicin receptors on our buttholes? | [
"> I mean I understand evolving with capsaicin receptors in our mouth because we consume food that orifice You didn't evolve receptors to detect capsaicin. Capsaicin evolved because it irritates existing receptors in your tissues, making mammals less likely to eat the plant or its seeds. That the receptors exist in... | [
"Spicy foods are spicy because of a substance called capsaicin it is found in all spicy foods. Capsaicin is not acidic or anything like that it's actually an Alkaloid Oil but because of the odd shape of its molecule it can cause some weird things in mammals. Capsaicin attaches itself to special nerve cells on your ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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When I buy a domain, who am I buying it from? | [
"When you buy a domain name that doesn't previously exist, you're not buying it *from* anyone. You're paying a registrar for the right to create the domain name and have it registered to you as an individual or company. It's not like all the possible domains are sitting in a server just waiting for someone to choos... | [
"You register a domain for a certain period of time. What stops you from taking my domain from me is a key code that I have to get from my registrar that prevents transferring the domain from my registrar to yours."
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Why are penises and vaginas considered more taboo in movies then boobs? | [
"Sex is taboo. Penises and vaginas are actual sex organs. Just like butts, which aren't censored either, nipples/boobs are only sexual objects according to circumstance and culture."
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"In the US it's the equivalent of showing genitals. And such displays are considered to belong to the private sphere. Such as taking a shit. Someone pointed to me the following remark: female nipples, which are exactly the same as male nipples, are vulgar. Male nipples are not. However, sideboob, underboob... exclu... | eli5_question_answer | {
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If heat rises, why does it get colder the higher up you go? | [
"The atmosphere thins out and cannot hold the heat in. In your house, your roof acts like an impermeable atmosphere. That rule would apply even if your house was in the sky, so long as you had the heat on."
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"Putting the fan on you causes a breeze which cools you down. Pointing the fan out is blowing the hot air out, thereby causing negative air pressure inside the house and forcing fresh air to flow in. So, if it is hotter outside than in, point your fan at you. If it is hotter inside than out, point your fan out."
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The difference between isosmotic and isotonic. | [
"Isotonic is the value in which a solution must have the same values as the system it is being placed in so as to not cause a ph or salinity change. For instance isotonic water has a 0.09% (sic) salinity so that it can be administered to human bodies without adverse reactions, swelling or dehydration. A solution th... | [
"The hairs act as mini rollers, reducing chafing. Examble B, see the crotch."
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Why do people face the DJ? | [
"\"Raves\" have changed drastically in the last few years. With EDM being as big as it is, they have changed from the DJ just being there for music to where the DJ is now like the lead singer of a band. All the focus is on him/her. When I first got into the scene it was like you're describing it. Everybody just dan... | [
"In the real world why would anyone want to be a politician?"
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Why do certain things "grow on you"? | [
"Well, when you have more time to consider all the qualities of something, you have time to pick out the things you do like. And if you are mostly focused on the things you dislike about something, eventually you will learn to grow accustomed to these qualities and even reason them into being able to deal with the... | [
"I read this as \"why do people forget their hopes and aspirations so quickly?\" :("
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why a helicopter can’t drop me on the top of Mount Everest | [
"Because it's too high, at those altitudes the helicopters engine just cannot produce enough power , the blades also just cannot produce enough thrust , the higher the plane or helicopter flies the less thrust and power it has its called density altitude, and it's due to the fact that the higher you go the more spr... | [
"He's warming up for the eventual possibility that you are going to drop him in water. Why else are you holding him over the water anyways."
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Why do corn ears grow silk on them, and what is the purpose of it? | [
"Corn silks are the silky tassels running the length of an ear of corn. They serve as styles or tubes for collecting the pollen that fertilizes each seed."
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"Don't worry, you're not seeing waste, its perfectly normal. You're seeing the corn plant, not the corn ear. The plant dries down and turns brown before the grain moisture gets low enough to harvest and store. If you harvest corn while its wet and store it, it will rot. What you're seeing is perfectly normal. Most ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is Linux not very popular? | [
"It is *extremely* popular. The Reddit server that sent you this block of text is a linux machine. Linux utterly dominates every market in the computer world *except for desktops*. And that is only because linux wasn't totally usable as a desktop until fairly recently, Ubuntu wasn't 100% usable and stable until aro... | [
"A few benefits: 1. Your chance of getting a virus is basically zero. You don't need to use anti-virus software. 2. In my experience, my computers run faster on Linux. Boot time when I run Linux is much less. 3. I've experienced less system crashes on Linux than on Windows. 4. In addition to the operating system, t... | eli5_question_answer | {
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