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How does eating food stop one from feeling the effects of Cannabis? | [
"It doesn't. It just gives a burst of energy, but it in NO WAY sobers you."
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"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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How does one body hair (like arm hair) grow so much longer than all the others? | [
"I have the same issue, sometimes I get one hair on my arm or stomach that grows to be 4 inches or more. Always on my left side, too. I always assumed that it was a mutation. Hair goes through growth and resting cycles and I always assumed that the mutant hair wasn't getting the message to rest or fall out."
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"What you do to your hair does not affect the shape with which it comes out of your skin. The shape of your pubic hair is not determined by the amount of sweat or oils on your skin. The shape of hair is determined by the kind of hair it is (vellus versus terminal) and your genetic predisposition to what kind of hai... | eli5_question_answer | {
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If your mouth has more germs than your anus, why is it easier for you to get sick from putting your mouth on someone's anus rather than kissing them? | [
"Because \"number of germs\" is not in any way a good indicator of how likely you are to get sick. Your body contains many many billions of bacteria, most of which are actually beneficial to your body. In this specific case, E. coli (a gut bacteria) is responsible for the sickness. Early in your life, one strain of... | [
"The bacteria that are inside of you will still be the same bacteria that left you (toothbrush) and go back inside you (brushing teeth) again. It stands to reason that if they don't make you sick while they were inside you before, they shouldn't make you sick when they go back inside of you again. Obviously, the sa... | eli5_question_answer | {
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is there a way to conceptually describe a 4th dimension in terms of our 3 dimensional world? | [
"The way that made it sort of click to me is like this: Imagine that you, a 3D person, get transported into a 2D world. You can still perceive depth, but nobody around you can. They only have up and down, and forward and back, but no Z axis. Now imagine someone stuck you in a 2d jail and you didn't particularly fee... | [
"Yes. That really depends on how you define dimension. Most fractal are non-integer dimension _URL_1_ Even with this new dimension. Normal things still have normal dimension, so it is a clean extension from our normal undersatnding of dimension"
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How does the fuel gauge work in a car? | [
"Go to your toilet and lift the lid off of the water holder. Flush the toilet. See that little floaty thingy? Thats what in your fuel tank. The car takes a measurement of how high that float it floating (by using electronics it can measure how far on a stick that floater has floated up). Take a volume measurement w... | [
"Are you asking how a wheel works ?"
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Why are there so many Martial Arts in Asia? | [
"There's no more martial arts in Asia than there is in Europe. We just view them as foreign so they stick out more. Fencing, wrestling, gymnastics, boxing, and parkour are all European martial arts that are practiced today. Go back in history and you'll find dozens of styles of hand-to-hand combat and sword fightin... | [
"Where do you mean? Europe? The US? Middle East? Africa? Eastern Asia?"
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When Animals interact with each other why do they not look at one another in the eyes like humans do? | [
"A lot of animals see eye contact as intimidating. Looking an animal in the eyes can be a way to assert dominance. Dogs will usually try to avoid eye contact with a dominant individual, and they'll look down in submission. Other animals always try to maintain eye contact. Domestic sheep will usually only graze wh... | [
"Its a natural instinct which causes you to do this, look at animals in the wild they have these instincts from the moment they are born and it works for Humans too :)"
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Is the number of open gays increasing or is the ratio because of the change in times? | [
"Both. Population increase and the fact that people are not as afraid to come out and say they are because ridicule is less than it once was."
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"There may be less stigma in their gender identity (how they feel on the inside) being reflected in their gender expression (how they present themselves). If that is true, then there really may not be more, it could be just that you see more of them. Following that logic, it makes sense to exploit the economic adva... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why don't we simply desalinate/clean ocean water for situations like droughts? | [
"It's very expensive currently, and you have the problem of brine left over. The process is not perfect so you don't end up with pure water on one side and salt on the other, you get about half salt-free water and the other half is doubly-salty water, or brine. Disposing of brine is a problem. It is usually put bac... | [
"The water in your shower has been treated with chemicals to remove dirt and bacteria and is drinkable. So every time you shower you are contaminating water that could have been used in a better way. > it seems like the places that have clean water readily available to them now will have clean water for the forese... | eli5_question_answer | {
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When something hits me in the nose but doesn't make me bleed, I smell something that I never smell in other situations. What is this smell? | [
"Iron from blood vessels bursting inside your nose. Your smelling the iron in your blood most likely."
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"Kind of off topic, but like old people, people that have pretty severe cancer have this smell about them. Not a bad one, it's just a certain *something*. I've volunteered at hospitals, so I can kinda smell it. It's really sad, because I'll be at a diner and walk past an elderly lady and I can get the slightest whi... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How is aborting a pregnancy because the child would be special needs not eugenics? | [
"It is in a sense. But Eugenics usually refers to a political commitment or government policy designed to \"purify\" the gene pool by removing certain people from it. Deciding not to have a child because of the emotional or economic costs---or the belief that the child's life will be painful---of expected health is... | [
"Because a woman has the right (according to the supreme court case Roe V. Wade) to make decisions about her body. Others do not have the right to force women to do certain things with their body (also, Roe V. Wade). This is also why beating a pregnant women to miscarriage is considered murder. The law treats it di... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How does a queen bee/ant spawn and create their own colony? | [
"When a hive gets too large they will raise a generation of new queens. These queens then leave the hive at maturity along with a few males and a bunch of workers effectively splitting the hive. This is what is happening when you see a bee swarm (most of the time). They go and look for a new place to start a hive l... | [
"Colony insects. They breed with one breeder underground and have like super human strength when factoring in size to weight ratio. Until you kill the breeder they continue to multiple and even then they have backup plans for that contingency. The queen don't get out but she gets around."
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Why the Fibonacci Sequence is important | [
"Most people say the fibonacci sequence is important, because phi pops up and that's in nature everywhere. That doesn't really make it important(also, most of the places people \"find\" phi are pretty forced and not actually there.) Anywhere, I'm just saying that the fibonacci sequence isn't really important. I mea... | [
"The Words that are Capitalised are not done so through a Process of Randomness; Rather, They are Words which are Nouns or which are Nominalised Verbs. The Practise of capitalising Proper Nouns, Names, Titles, and the Initial Word of a Sentence is the Surviving Trace of this once-extant Rule, which was an Inheritan... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What is hypothyroidism and how does it pertain to obesity? | [
"Hypothyroidism is the term meaning \"extremely low thyroid-ism\". This basically means due to something, your thyroid gland does not produce the amount of specific hormones it needs too(not just the hormone thyroid but a lot of other ones in conjunction, remember just how many of these endocrines rely on eachother... | [
"Since it is excreted via the kidneys, prolonged use can result in a condition known as chronic interstitial nephritis. Its a type of kidney disease. Please consult a doctor regarding long term medication useage to prevent possible complications."
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If electronic voting machines are so easy to hack, why hasn't a group exposed the loop hole publicly so that the problem can be solved? | [
"It's like saying \"If a PC is so easy to hack, why hasn't it been solved yet?\" They're so easy to hack because they're based on PC's and there are uncountably many ways to do it if you're serious enough"
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"The Russian government could in theory have hacked into Democrats' emails and used the information that they found to make the Democrat candidates look worse or to find out what their campaign tactics were, and then passing the information on to the Republican campaign. That seems to have been one of the most comm... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do some LED displays seem to "jiggle" if I make a low growling noise with my throat or chew crunchy food? | [
"You're causing your eyes to vibrate, which leads to the illusion that the LED display is actually vibrating."
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"Your finger slaps against the palm of your hand at a high speed, causing that part of your hand to vibrate intensely for a very short period of time, which then causes the air to vibrate, which finally causes our ears to pick up the sound. Edit: I just realized something about snapping my fingers and why I always ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is the number pad on my keyboard opposite of the number pad on my phone? | [
"> There isn't a definitive answer, but the most cited theory seems to be that the telephone keypad has letters associated with numbers, so 1 2 3 across the top made more sense. Otherwise, the end of the alphabet would be at the top. Calculators, and therefore computer keypads had 1 2 3 at the bottom because it is ... | [
"Lower right corner, there is your tray, click on the icon that looks like a keyboard, and change the setting to US English, or just US. If you don't have this little icon, look for a little taskbar that can be anywhere on your screen, usually at the top. Change it to US settings. It happens whenever you change yo... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What's the big deal with pi? | [
"Pi the number is the circumference of half a circle in relation to the radius."
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"One of these is not like the others."
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Why isn't anyone(as in a country) doing anything to help Syria? What is going on? | [
"Who said nobody was doing anything? _URL_0_ _URL_1_ _URL_2_ If you're referring to sending in the troops, that's a much different and much more complicated issue."
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"I live in Turkey. Everybody hates them, nobody is helping ISIS. We actually sent thousands of soldiers to borders just to stop them. Can you be more specific on what you are referring to when you say \"help\"? Or where did you read something like this?"
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If a plane were to be flying as normal and then gradually on a steeper and steeper slope away from earth, what would happen? | [
"Airplanes have a ceiling above which they cannot fly. It depends on their engine power and the amount of lift generated by their wings. Yes they could overshoot this ceiling but would falter, stall, and descend. The pilot could regain control and fly at the highest possible altitude. Airplanes use the air to burn ... | [
"Air is not uniform. Different temperatures, different pressures. Imagine the plane is floating on a constant pressure cushion of air, and up ahead there is a area of air which is of a lower pressure. When the plane reaches this low pressure bubble, there is less pressure pushing the plane from below, and as a resu... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why are the lakes Michigan and Huron not considered the same body of water? | [
"I live less than 2 hours from the Mackinaw Bridge. They are usually considered to be individual lakes because of their currents around the straights of Mackinaw, making some very rough waters. Lake Huron's current runs counterclockwise along Canada and Michigan while Lake Michigan's runs clockwise along the Lower ... | [
"It's a lake. It is not connected to the ocean. It happens to be located at Earth's lowest point on land."
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The solution the Zeno's paradox. | [
"Simple, nonmath answer: Zeno only considers consecutive half-way points. The other points exist; they are just not being considered. By only going looking at the half way points you never look at the end point in distance *or* time. You get infinitely close to the end distance and infinitely close to the end time.... | [
"Apologies for no actual explaination but [Island of Stability](_URL_0_) article on Wikipedia has an interesting take."
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How does a caller to 911 from California able to give an address from Kansas during the swatting incident? Are 911 operators not local? | [
"It is very, very easy in this day and age to use software to make a phone call from either an anonymous number or spoofing a number. Even an anonymous call would have to be taken seriously by a 911 operator since obviously they can't risk the chance of not acting on a reported hostage situation. 911 operators are ... | [
"911 often does have that information. However, by policy, they always ask where you are in case there is an error in the reading."
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Why does a ship captain face prosecution for abandoning his or her sinking ship? | [
"I thought he faced manslaughter charges for running the ship aground, which is different than abandoning the ship. I could be wrong though."
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"Did sailors generally know the name of the ships they're fighting?"
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why can I not wake myself up from dreams even when I'm conscious of the fact I'm dreaming? | [
"Are you sure you are actually conscious of being in a dream rather than merely dreaming that you are conscious within a dream?"
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"They're not always closed. I sleepwalk almost all the time and when I do I'm usually in a state somewhere between being asleep and awake. I can see and walk around but usually I will be hysteric, thinking I'm late for school and stuff when it's in the middle of the night."
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I'm salaried weekly to make the same amount as what a 40 hour hourly wage employee would make. Does the min wage increase (which increases hourly wage) affect my salary? | [
"I'm not sure what 'salaried weekly' means. I presume it means you have an annual salary, which you are paid an equal portion of 52 times a year. If that's the case, then no, minimum wage increase means absolutely nothing to your pay. It only affects people who punch a clock and are paid hourly."
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"It's actually the responsibility of the employer to make up the difference if the waitstaffs' wages plus tips are less than minimum wage."
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Why is the trade deficit with China so bad? | [
"China makes most of what it needs, and sells most of what other countries want. They have little incentive to buy things from countries like the UK, and we have lots of reasons to buy stuff from them."
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"Deficit = the amount we are borrowing in a particular year. Debt = the cumulative amount of we've borrowed Even though the deficit is shrinking, debt is still going up. Just a slower pace than previously."
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Why can i be injected with radioactive liquid for a bone scan and not get sick? | [
"It's a very small amount of radioactive material. You are constantly receiving radiation all the time so while this is a larger amount than normal it's not at all enough to make you sick. Your cells can handle it easily. According to this, the amount of radiation you receive from a bone scan is 6.3 mSv _URL_1_ Acc... | [
"I had one done recently. Most reactions will occur within 30 minutes which is the time you need to wait there especially if you haven't taken any antihistamines. They draw circles on your back and inject one in each to differentiate them. With many injections they would have an understanding of what is allergic vs... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why does repeating a word or phrase over and over make it lose meaning in your brain? | [
"It’s a phenomenon known as Semantic Satiation. It’s just as you describe; one will say a phrase or word so many times that it eventually temporarily loses its meaning. Interestingly enough, there’s also a phenomenon where if you engage in Semantic Satiation, doing the task at hand will become slightly more diffic... | [
"Do you mean when you start to think more about the word? This happens to me. I type the word- and the longer I look at it the more incorrect it seems to be."
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Why do planes often pass the destination airport and land from the other direction? | [
"As a rule, planes take off and land into the wind. This means the speed over the ground is lower. Air is very much like a river. If you are swimming up the current, you are traveling slower in relation to the shore. Going with the current, you travel much faster. In both cases you are swimming at the same speed th... | [
"Basically a control tower judges if an airplane can take off or land. Radars allow air traffic control to understand the location of each nearby aircraft in relation to the airport, and they give the instructions to the pilots of when it is safe to take off / land. It is also possible to see the condition of the r... | eli5_question_answer | {
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why is it totally ok and expected to haggle some items (like cars and apparently mattresses), while others have a fixed price? Why can't we haggle the price of chips or an iPhone? | [
"Amount of inventory and volume of sales. High amount of inventory or sales means little or no haggle. Lower inventory or low sales volume creates better opportunity for haggling."
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"In some cases it devalues their product. It makes since they can't give it to would be customers or else the customers would just wait till closing and take free food. That said I have no clue why they can't donate to homeless shelters etc."
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How does a democracy work if the majority of individuals don't understand most of the basic concepts involved within their government? | [
"Well technically speaking, the US, alongside practically all other modern countries around the globe, isn't a 'democracy' - it's a 'representative democracy'. Effectively, this means the electorate don't *need* to be knowledgable in politics and the economy to make the political scene 'work', as they elect people ... | [
"Government is just a system of rules for people to live amongst each other and work towards common goals. Beyond that, whether it is based on the threat of force, divine right, or consent of the people varies by place."
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Why can I not just walk up to a drive-thru window & order food? | [
"It would be a liability to have pedestrians in a lane built for cars to travel through. If they allowed people to do it they would be responsible when someone got run over."
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"Those stores aren't always open, not to mention for someone in a hurry, they can run up, get a drink and then leave without taking the 2-5 minutes it takes to go inside the store, find your drink in the size you want, pay and then leave."
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The recent addition of 80 million years to the age of the universe. | [
"I think it is unfair to claim that scientists found an extra 80 million years, what they did was refine predictions based on more sensitive data. Using the previous set of measurements of the background radiation the prediction for the age of the Universe was 13.6 billion - 13.8 billion years, the newer, more sens... | [
"What we see is billions of years in the past."
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The new iPhone 6 and if it's better than current phones | [
"It's a typical Apple release. Incremental improvement in the specifications, interesting new capabilities. In 2014, all phones are powerful, and specs are interesting only when then enable new capabilities. Here's the interesting new stuff in the iPhone 6: * Apple Pay Payment system. Scan your credit cards and pay... | [
"Look at sales. There have been quite a few smart phones that have focused on battery life being the number 1 priority. The problem was that they didn't sell as well as the new phone that's 1 mm thinner."
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How is the length of a radioactive isotopes half life determined? | [
"The halflife of a substance is the amount of time it takes for _half_ of it to decay. So, in the case of Carbon 14, if you start with 1kg of it, you'll have .5kg in 5715 years. Now, you don't actually have to wait 5715 years to figure that out. By observing and measuring it, you can determine the rate of decay and... | [
"a way this is used is when some kinds of elements which are radioactive like some kinds of uranium releases radiation. This radiation comes in 3 forms. Well only talk about one form that is gamma radiation. When uranium radiates gamma radiation, this gamma radiation has no mass but it was observed that the uranium... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What makes a bad joke bad and why is it viewed in distaste when there is a clear humor? | [
"Jokes, at their core, are about subversion. The set up is mundane, common, understood. The punchline, a surprise, unexpected. Theres a reason they're called dad jokes. Kids haven't heard them before, puns and play on words that they've only recently gotten comfortable with are novel and fun. As we get older, ev... | [
"Intelligence. Understanding something and being able to break down the complexity into something less serious can make the mundane genuinely humorous. When we understand a reference or something or find it to be a parody of something we've known, it usually causes a laugh. It's like watching someone slip on a skat... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How a phone vibrates? | [
"it has a tiny little motor that spins a weight around. the weight is off-balance, so it makes the phone shake."
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"Because no one \"just glances\" at their cell phone when driving."
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Why are meals at American schools so expensive? | [
"Have you ever been to a baseball game? That same food would probably cost you $10. School lunches are run by a business who is (ultimately) a profit seeking entity. That being said, school lunches are generally pretty cheap unless you're going for the \"premium\" food such as pizza which is often brought in from t... | [
"What's so bad about having something made in Israel?"
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how dangerous are my uncovered florescent lights regarding UV rays | [
"Not dangerous. There is a coating in the lamp that absorbs UV rays"
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"Where is your room exactly that it has two poinds of dust a month?"
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What, exactly, led to the Holocaust? | [
"After ww1 Germany as a country became really broke and poor due to the sanctions the treaty of Versailles put on them. The government had to pay back money to all the other countries for all the damage that happened because of the war. Hitler blamed this on the Jewish people saying that while the true blooded Ger... | [
"Follow up: What *were* his reasons for siding with the British?"
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If women on birth control don't menstruate, why do they have periods? | [
"Birth control pills stop the ovaries from releasing eggs every month, but they don't do anything to stop the buildup of the uterine lining. When a woman switches to the placebo pills, the loss of hormones causes that lining to break down, just like it would in a normal period"
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"Have you been tested for [endometriosis](_URL_0_)? Endometriosis can cause severe pain especially during your period and, if left untreated, can damage your fertility. Cramps hurt, cramps suck, but if cramps hurt so much you can't get out of bed and are missing school, you should see a doctor in case something wor... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why does water have no smell? | [
"Smell (aside from taste) is the best sense for determining the toxicity of something. Because water does not have any toxicity or nutrients, and it is everywhere, humans did not need to evolve the ability to smell water, and so we didn't. Edit: the nose is just a chemical detector. There are certain chemicals that... | [
"Gasses dissolve more in colder water than hotter water. Solids on the other hand dissolve more in hot water than cold water."
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What exactly do people mean when they say a game runs on an engine? | [
"> Is an engine just the basis of a game's physics? That's pretty close, but there is more to it than that. The engine is what takes the *data*...physical description of the buildings, the vehicles, the people, the weapons, the lights and the shadows and the reflections...basically everything in the universe, and ... | [
"In the real world why would anyone want to be a politician?"
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Why does heating the house to 70 degrees feel so different from cooling the house to 70 degrees? | [
"Because it's impossible to maintain the room's temperature at exactly 70°F (for a system that switches on and off periodically). In reality, when heating you heat the room to around 73°F, and when cooling you cool the room to 67°F. When the temperature cools or heats past a certain point the system turns on again.... | [
"This is more related to relative temperature than actual water temperature. The pool temp is probably pretty constant, we'll call it 65 degrees Fahrenheit. If it's 90 degrees outside and your body has started to adjust to that setting, 65 degree water is going to feel nice and cool. On the other hand, jumping in a... | eli5_question_answer | {
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If China is a communist state, why are there so many multi billion dollar companies and free markets? | [
"Modern China was founded with communist principles in mind. But after Deng Xiaoping took power, he decided to move China toward a more capitalistic economy. But the Communist Party still rules China and therefore they still are labelled \"communist\". Similarly, the US isn't completely capitalistic because there a... | [
"Dubai is a cultural and financial center. Most of its economy comes from tourism, or financial sectors. Much in the same way that New York, and London are financial gateways to Europe and America so to is Dubai the financial gateway to Africa and the Middle-east. The majority of people who work there are either; A... | eli5_question_answer | {
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The militia thing going on in Oregon | [
"Rolling Stone has a pretty good summary here: _URL_0_"
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"Imagine that Texas was being uppity and rebellious, and that its governor was the one keeping a lid on the attempts to secede from the union. Obviously you'd hear a lot more about that, because restless areas get more coverage, \"For the third day straight, nothing exciting happens in Montana\" isn't headline mate... | eli5_question_answer | {
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why are gun sights always, or typically, red? | [
"There not. Modern pistol sights often include color dots on the iron sights for easier contrast in lower light conditions, [but can be many different colors, and even combinations of colors](_URL_0_). Even most modern military rifle iron sights are still gun metal black. Red Dot Sights are not as used by the milit... | [
"The scopes are already calibrated, or calibrated by yourself, to point where the shot will go. They don't just point out in a straight line from the end of the scope, unless you make it. If you put a laser pointer on top of the scope pointing straight out and having it be level, then looked through the scope, the ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Given all the technological information we have in the world, why does YouTube just tell me "An Error" Occurred? | [
"YouTube knows exactly what went wrong. They just have no interest in sharing that with you."
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"IT can, why do you think it \"can't\" Youtube has purposefully changed their system to attempt to prevent you from doing this on mobile devices and making that \"feature\" available only to their YouTube Red subscribers as a benefit of subscribing. tl;dr: You gotta pay"
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What happens to children if they don't get adopted? | [
"They become wards of the state. Bouncing around foster homes and so forth. More often than not brothers and sisters get separated. Unfortunately it is difficult and expensive for Americans to adopt inside the US."
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"Yes, even if they're prisoners they must be treated humanely."
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Despite having similar vocal cords, why do humans have a far versatile vocal ability than other mammals? | [
"our vocal cords aren't actually that similar. They're built the same way but developed farther than other animals. if you gave a chimpanzee super intelligence, they still wouldn't be able to vocalize like we can. a lot of our nuance, like writing, speaking, art, comes down to our concentration of fast-twitch muscl... | [
"Basically, birds evolved to make lots of sounds and some birds evolved to mimic sounds. It has nothing to do with language or learning to speak. To see that, check out the lyre bird: _URL_1_ When a parrot mimics speech, it does so because it has a well-developed syrinx and some tongue control that allows it to man... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is a constitution important? Why were efforts made to create a EU constitution? | [
"A constitution helps set basic laws that then can later be adapted with ammendments. It is the basis for a lot of countries because it is the most basic form of written law really. Im no expert though."
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"It was the convention held in the United States which lead to the drafting of the Constitution. Do you have a more specific question?"
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does all sound travel at the speed of sound? | [
"So I asked my personal genius; he said the speed of sound isn't constant; it varies with temperature. And it's speed is due to the way sound moves through the gases in our atmosphere. No gases in the air— no sound"
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"Radio waves move at the speed of light. Which is far faster then sound."
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What does refubished mean when looking at electronics? Is it worth buying? | [
"Refurbished means it has been checked and possibly fixed by somebody who is certified, usually by the manufacture, to do such work on the product."
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"There are a couple reasons. Furniture in general has a large profit margin. As far as furniture goes mattresses are probably the easiest to sell as just about everyone has one, and they get replaced more frequently than other furniture items, and mattresses are always one of the top comments when a thread comes up... | eli5_question_answer | {
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In court when one lawyer is doing something questionable why does the opposite lawyer have to object before the judge will take action. why doesn't the judge just stop questionable practices untill one party disagrees with it. | [
"Because that's the point of an adversarial system (both sides are supposed to have a zealous advocate for their position). The judge can't favor either side, and perhaps occasionally the side that isn't objecting may be running a xantos gambit."
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"You never need to talk, you will be put on trial, the evidence presented and a verdict reached. Though its possible the judge and your lawyers may get pretty fucking pissed at you for refusing to acknowledge the court and authorities asking basic questions like \"do you understand the charges\" and may declare you... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What does "brought to you by ..." mean on television shows for the company? | [
"It means that they are a sponsor of the show. They pay for ad time and product mentions."
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"Because that company hasn't paid for advertising. TV sells ad space, so why are they going to give it away to some random company for free."
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How can solid materials like glass be transparent? | [
"Transparency is simply the ability to let light shine through. Glass does not contain any molecules that absorb or reflect the photons that hit it, so the photons simply pass through the object."
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"It's all about density. Such a material is possible. Look into white dwarfs."
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How does someone like the Long Island Medium perform her, seemingly, precise readings? Any actual insight - not just speculation - would be appreciated. | [
"It's a \"reality TV show\", so \"reading the script\" is probably behind a lot of her precise readings. Leading up to getting your own TV show you can rely on the vague \"John Edwards\" type predictions, but once you've got your show you need to really rope people in. Drop all pretense of reality, and just start f... | [
"Don't listen to some of the ignorant comments here. The only truth we know about dreams is that we don't really know what their exact purpose is. There are many interesting theories about it, but the true purpose of dreaming is not yet understood. That being said, you can definitely choose to find meaning behind y... | eli5_question_answer | {
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If we need two eyes to perceive depth, how come I can close one eye and still see depth? | [
"You can determine depth with what are known as *monocular vision cues*. (basically, hints you see with one eye). Your brain has learned a lot of tricks to help decide what *might* be closer or far away. Texture: Things you know have lots of texture, like grass or carpet...if you know that you see a carpet, and... | [
"They have a much bigger field of vision than we do, and the brain seamlessly glues the whole thing together into one big picture. It's like they can see almost all the way around their body. Great for animals that get hunted. You can see this with your own eyes, because they don't completely overlap. With two eyes... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do some medications cause different kinds of dreams? Night terrors, hyper sexualized dreams, vivid deams etc. | [
"Some medications, such as pain killers or anti-depressants, change your brains chemical makeup. It makes some parts of your brain, brain chemicals and/or hormone levels change, increase and decrease. These things are all responsible for the way you think and feel. If a medication rises certain levels in your brain... | [
"Your brain usually does a great job with separating reality from the subconscious (sleep, REM sleep, etc.) Sometimes, the two states of mind mingle and affect each other. This mingling is evident through sleep paralysis and lucid dreaming."
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The Birthday Problem | [
"Did you read down to where it says \"Understanding the problem\"? It is a pretty clear explanation. 23 people have 253 different possible pairings. Person #1 could be paired with #2, #3, #4, etc. Likewise, #2 could be paired with #3, #4, ... Since there are so many possible pairs, the chances that at least one pai... | [
"Sleep - Shake Unconscious - Splash Coma - Wait and Hope Vegetative State - Wait and Bury"
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What is a fiscal year and why do we need it. | [
"Fiscal years are used by government and some businesses (usually mid-to-large businesses) concerning money. As to why they don't use a traditional calendar year, [here is one reason](_URL_0_): > December is a really bad month to try to close out an entire year's accounting books. Accountants and execs are on vaca... | [
"A fiscal year can start whenever because a company can start whenever. Your first 365 days of operation are your first fiscal year. If you don't start your business on January 1, it won't line up with the calendar year."
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What is happening with the Ebola patients "rising from the dead"? | [
"They aren't. The people either weren't actually dead, or the stories are complete fabrications. No zombie apocalypse for you."
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"With access to a first world hospital, your chances of surviving ebola go up greatly. There won't be an epidemic here."
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Why can't we transfer scents the same way we transfer images? | [
"Scents are actual physical particles moving in the air. Transferring a scent then requires that you actually move physical things, or that the receiver have the necessary components to manufacture scents when sent instructions. Smell-o-vision is certainly possible. It would just require scent compounds that would ... | [
"Because it has a very particular style. It's like why do people still paint with paint and brushes when they could do it on a computer, or why do people buy records when they can just get an mp4. New and efficient doesn't mean better in every way."
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how a crackws touchscreen can work in some areas but not others on the screen | [
"The glass part of the screen isn't what makes it \"touchable\", there is something under the glass called a digitizer that accepts your skin as an input through the glass. If this digitizer isn't broken due to dropping, or physical damage than the area will still accept input"
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"it is, and a lot of phones current have specs similar to that. some phones can connect to a tv and display. but it doesn't seem to be in demand."
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When to use "myself" in a sentence and when NOT to. | [
"Unfortunately, it is grammatically correct. *Myself* is a reflexive pronoun, but can be used as an intensive pronoun (adds emphasis to a sentence.) People hate it for the same reason they hate exclamation points. While technically okay, they're unnecessary and are only used to make your sentence seem more dramatic... | [
"Replace it with I or me. If \"I\" is correct, then use who. For example: I go to the pub with Johnny - > Who goes to the pub with Johnny? If \"me\" is correct, then use whom. For example: Johnny goes to the pub with me - > With whom does Johnny go to the pub? Like you're 12: \"who\" when it's the subject, \"whom\"... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How an Action Replay works | [
"The code you enter translates into instructions, these could range from \"only do the next instruction if a certain button is pressed\" to \"update the figure for health and set it to 9001\". These instructions are then inserted into the instructions sent to the games console at regular intervals to make your chea... | [
"Star Wars Episode VII: The Jar Jar Binks Adventures"
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Why do some manufacturers print their own prices on items? | [
"to prevent strors from over inflating prices. They know how much thier product costs. if someone is selling it for more, the customer knows its not Arizona and does not have those hostle feelings. keeps everyone in check."
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"Many products are sold in Canada where it's required by law in some provinces to have French on the label."
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Why is fighting allowed in North American professional fighting? Is it just for show, is it planned? What benefit does a player get out of fighting when they could easily be injured as a result? | [
"I don't understand your question. Professional fighting is a legitimate sport and the necessary precautions are taken so the fighters don't get seriously injured. Sometimes they do, but that's no different from other sports. In fact, fighting is a relatively safe sport. Basketball, soccer, ice hockey and football ... | [
"Most people accept that a risk of death is basically inherent to competitive martial arts. They probably have fighters signing waivers and such today to prevent litigation, but most people would probably recognize that it isn't the opponent's fault if someone dies in the ring. Of course, if there was evidence of f... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is my internet worse at nighttime? When its day time, multiple people are using it (family) but when its nighttime and its just me, it's painfully slow. | [
"Not a lot of details offered to give a clear explanation, but likely your internet is limited by the hub in your street (so the number of other people in your street also using the internet at night) and the connection your provider has with the world. When it is nighttime in the US, Asia and Europe are active."
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"> Do most people use more than 1TB of data? Well, let me put it this way, this cap exists for a reason, if people did not go over a terabyte, there would be no reason to have a cap in the first place. While I say that it may be enough for one person, for multiple people in the same household, it may not be enough.... | eli5_question_answer | {
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We attribute pollution to death tolls. Why can't we sue or press criminal charges against the united states government for being complicit in these deaths? | [
"> We attribute pollution to death tolls. First of all, you have that backwards. \"To attribute A to B\" means that B causes A, and I'm pretty sure you don't mean that death tolls cause pollution. Second, expecting the government to be responsible for deaths caused by pollution would be like expecting the governmen... | [
"People usually pay attention to what they are told to by the media. What few people know or pay attention to is that the number one source of foul exhaust in the world is the unregulated filth coming out of cargo ships' engines. Who cares about all the tiny cars in a nation when the cargo ships that feed the nat... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why churches and banks almost always include the word "first" to their names. | [
"To establish that they are the first church or bank of that type in a given location. It indicates to people who want to use them they are an older, more established organization."
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"Some Christians feel that churches, communities, and nonprofits can provide these services better than the government. Don't shoot the messenger."
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Why does water feel colder after chewing a minty gum or mints? | [
"Menthol (a compound in mint) activates your temperature receptors (which normally only get turned on when exposed to low or high temperatures), which creates the feeling of coldness."
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"Mint contains menthol, which is a chemical that decreases inflammation - a fancy way of saying that it relaxes your muscles and causes tight blood vessels to expand. Those things can be pretty painful, and were probably causing your headache. Menthol is also used in throat lozenges, and uses those same properties ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How come Trix stopped making the shape cereal? why is it only circles??? | [
"Well, young 'un, back in the day, *way* back in the day, in the dark ages before the 1990s, Trix *were* round. So, really, what they are now is what they should look like, not your hippity hop fruit shapes. Now get off my damn lawn, you punk kids, or I'll turn the hose on ya ag'in."
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"Its not, I cant call my cereal frosted flakes. I cant use the image of tony the tiger. But There is nothing to stop me from making \"Frosted cereal shards\" putting them in a blue box and having my mascot be a lion, why would there be?"
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General Government Net Debt Infographic - What does it mean? | [
"If you worked hard last year and earned $80,000, but you owe $60,000 on your credit cards, how secure in your finances would you feel? That would be 75% on this chart. Why isn't Japan also in trouble? Because there's more than just this one figure that decides when a crisis is happening. (For example, change \"cr... | [
"1. Make poor people poorer 2. Make rich people richer 3. ???? 4. PROFIT"
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Why can't we remember memories when we were a infant? | [
"our brains are still developing the ability to interpret and store information gathered from the sense, so the structures required to store long term memories don't exist yet."
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"They get one from a child and it grows as they grow. I don't know if it's the same for every organ but I assume so."
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Why isn't dodgeball a popular professional sport? | [
"There was an NES video game in the 80s that was an international tournament. Of course Russia was one of the final bosses, cause cold war. It was amazing in the ways pro Dodge Ball could be. It would need sponsers, eventually. Start up some local tournaments. Heck, check for a subreddit. There was a paper,rock,sci... | [
"You mean as in, why isn't it discussed more as a part of US History education?"
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Why is abortion a religious issue? | [
"The Bible doesn't take a position, but modern religious leaders do, and they're vocal about it. Many folks take their cues about political positions from the teachings of their religious leaders. Please note: I'm *not* saying that all people take political cues from religious leaders. Just that of the ones whose v... | [
"ACLU possibly. Look them up. Support them if you care about freedom of speech, press, religion, etc. This assumes this happened in the US."
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Surely someone must know: How do blind people use those bird chirping noises to cross the street? How do they know it's not for the kitty-corner side of the street? | [
"Bob is walking north when he approaches an intersection that he knows has an auditory signal. He wants to continue north. He presses the button and listens for the next auditory signal. There is one particular sound that's used for north-south intersections and a different sound that's used for east-west intersect... | [
"They are just like squirrels that wait until a car rolls by before they dart across the road. They're bored and want to cheat death for fun."
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How does the Leuxs hoverboard actually hover? | [
"The board itself is a superconductor, kept super-cold through liquid nitrogen. This causes it to magnetically repel ferric metals. Then they stick it on a steel platform so it repels the floor and hovers."
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"Are you asking how a wheel works ?"
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Why is .3^.3 larger than .4^.4? | [
"The minimum occurs at 1/e, where e is [Euler's number](_URL_3_). This number crops up a lot in math. So, we know that x^0 = 1 and x^1 = x. So if we're computing x^x in the range of 0 to 1, we have our end points. Moreover, we know that, as you move the exponent closer to 0, the result gets closer to 1, and if you ... | [
"Any decimal can be rewritten as a/b, and n^a/b will represent the b^th root of n^a. In this case: 2^1/2 = 2^nd root of 2 2^1/3 = 3^rd root of 2, etc. So we can rewrite 2^1.3 as: 2^1.3 = 2^13/10 2^1.3 = (2^13)^1/10 2^1.3 = the 10^th root of 2^13 EDIT: Corrected (but not simplified) as per DubiousCosmos"
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How do soccer players curve the parabolic trajectory of the soccer sphere? | [
"A ball only follows a parabolic trajectory in the absence of air resistance. A spinning ball deflects airflow around the ball, which creates a force on the ball. This is called the [Magnus effect](_URL_0_)."
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"Throw a soccer ball at a wall. When it hits the wall, what happens? It bounces. Now, the faster the ball is going when it hits the wall, the faster it will be going after it bounces off the wall. Because the soccer ball is bouncy, it is able to keep the speed it had before it hit the wall. All the bounce does is c... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why are dreams so crazy & random? | [
"While you are awake, your brain constructs an understanding of what's going on around you with continuous correction and revision based on information from your senses. While you are asleep, your brain constructs an understanding of what's going on around you with almost no correction or revision based on your se... | [
"Actually we remember our nightmares more than we remember dreams, (because when we're having nightmares we're more likely to be woken up during the REM stage) That's why it seems that we tend to have more nightmares than dreams."
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Why does vanilla extract taste amazing when paired with some foods , but tastes horrible alone? | [
"Pure vanilla extract is made from soaking vanilla beans in vodka or other strong clear alcohol, which is why it doesn't taste as good without any sweet flavoring to go with it."
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"You answered your own question! Think about sweet and sour sauce. Sweet sauce is alright, sour sauce is alright, sweet and sour sauce is a godsend. Flavor combinations can either work together or not. Just like adding some lemon juice to a Caesar salad can drastically improve the flavor of both, properly pairing y... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do male orgasms get more intense in relatively short amounts of succession? | [
"Well everyone is different. Wildly so, in fact. Some people are capable of sustaining multiple, repeating orgasms of increasing intensity. This is more common in women, but certainly possible in men. Others can only have one orgasm of great intensity, after which they lose sexual stimulation for a long refractory ... | [
"Why can some men eat 3 eggs for breakfast and some can eat 10? Because their bodies are different. Similarly, some react to the stimulation of sex more strongly than others. Young men are often 'faster' because their bodies are relatively inexperienced. Some medications can also inhibit the body's response so that... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is there no standard for which side the gas tank is on on a car? | [
"For the most part, the gas tank is centered on the frame. What you're probably thinking of is where the gas cap is, which generally will depend on the manufacturer. U/aykprod [answered that one](_URL_0_)."
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"They don't; you're thinking of a different kind of battery."
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How do airport scans actually work? | [
"Congratulations on making it onto a watch list! Without saying anything too classified, density. Density of materials is almost like a finger print."
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"Does natural lighting, in fact, make it easier to concentrate?"
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Why are Rolex watches considered to be so valuable? | [
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"People have different feelings about what is valuable to them. Some people might value a watch made with the latest technology. Some people have sentimental value for a watch their dad may have given them for their high school graduation. Some people have nostalgic value for a watch featuring G.I. joe because they... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How can you be sure that it is safe to give your credit card number to customer service online or over the phone? | [
"As someone who used to do this for a living - you can never be 100% sure, but that doesn't mean the companies don't have a load of policies in place to minimize the danger. Company I used to work for, we weren't allowed to read back the number (so nobody that is passing can copy it), everything got recorded, we ha... | [
"They have to verify that you are who you are in order to give you access or information about your account. Who knows where you're actually getting transferred to. Could be down the hall or across the country. It's safer to verify your information every time than to just assume and possibly give out personal infor... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do I find things funnier when I'm tired? | [
"Same reason you find everything funnier when you're drunk- impaired judgement."
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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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How and Why does the DEA keep marijuana as a schedule 1 drug? | [
"A little personal view, perhaps not the most informed: What I know is that marijuana has been legally considered that way because it's considered to be a \"gateway drug\" toward more damaging ones. However, in my opinion, the very reason why it's a gateway drug is because it's prosecuted the same way the other sch... | [
"From their site: Please note that we do not prescribe narcotics or pain medications, that have been designated as U.S. Controlled substances as a Schedule I, II, III or IV drug. Sounds like they can do antibiotics and the like, though."
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why there seems to be no patent war in the car industry. | [
"General Motors [patented electric car batteries and never used them](_URL_0_), so their competition couldn't either. I think this is even worse than patent warring."
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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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If the U.S. president is commander of the military, why isn't his/her experience in military tactics and strategy ever a talking point? | [
"Because we don't expect the President to be an expert in military tactics any more than we expect him to be an expert in medicine or prison construction or chemistry or meteorology or agricultural science or any of the other things that the President is ultimately responsible for, What we need out of our leaders i... | [
"Question for clarification: What does \"apolitical\" and \"compared to others\" mean? Generals have been presidents purely because of their military service. The armed forces have taken very strong voices on American political issues, especially recently. The military has been a frequent reflection on racial and ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why aren't beers required by law to have nutritional info on their label? | [
"Foods are regulated by the FDA. The FDA requires nutritional labeling on foods. Beer is regulated by the BATFE. The BATFE does not require nutritional labeling on beer - in fact, doesn't want it, because it would give the impression that beer is food."
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"Cigarettes aren't food, and thus are exempt from needing to print an ingredient list."
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November day light savings time | [
"You definitely gain the extra hour. Give him an example. Say you forget to change your clock the previous night. You wake up at 6, realize it's daylight savings, set the clock back to 5, then sleep until 6... again."
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"This isn't an explanation but newfoundland Canada also has a half hour time zone"
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How Momentum is Conserved when Light Refracts | [
"When light refracts at the boundary, it also reflects. This reflected light carries momentum which then satisfies momentum conservation."
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"Being Black Does Actually Have (Relatively Minor) Health Consequences, It's Just That They're Obviated By Modern Life. There's An Energy Cost To Have Extra Melanin, Even A Small One, So If You Don't Need It It Won't Be Selected For. Melanin Reduces Vitamin-D Uptake From The Sun If Sunlight Is Lower Than You're Ada... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why does it make sense for an internet company to charge more money for a faster connection speed? | [
"The more traffic you want to be able to carry, the more that network will cost to build and to maintain. The equipment capital expenditure is a lot of it, but service contracts and transit opex is also more. As an example, you can get an old switch with 1 gbps interfaces for next to nothing. Getting a new one with... | [
"Each makes slightly different claims, so they can all be right at the same time. For example one is fastest nationwide, one is fastest in your area, one has the strongest signal, etc."
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Why is ice cream soft when it's first opened but harden after you put in back in the freezer? | [
"When ice cream is made it's constantly churned while being frozen, the churning process breaks up the ice crystals into small pieces making the ice cream soft, when you put partially melted ice cream in the freezer there is no churning so large ice crystals develop leaving you with hard ice cream."
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"because you're going to eat it. Cooked meat can be dangerous if you leave it in the fridge for a few weeks. Just like raw meat. The difference is that if you put raw meat in the freezer, you can save it for a few months. Cooked meat can be left in the fridge for a couple days, but still is subject to rotting. Bein... | eli5_question_answer | {
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why is the square root of -100 an odd equasion? | [
"The square root of 100 is 10. There is no \"real\" square root of a negative number, because ~~no two numbers multiplied together~~ *no number multiplied by itself* can make a negative number. So we invented an \"imaginary\" number called i to represent the square root of -1. So the square root of -100 is 10 * i, ... | [
"Why is i2 = -1? Because that is exactly how we define i! When your start working with squares, it isn't long before you realize that the square of any number is always a positive number. The question that follows is, then what happens when you take the square root of a negative number? Well nothing happens, the sq... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How does Youtube channels like "WatchMojo" earn money when all their videos contain copyrighted materials? | [
"Youtuber here. Watchmojo is their own youtube Network. When you join a network, you are assigned a custom id under your youtube network. The ID number is what youtube references. As long as your content falls under the approved media for that ID number, you can monetize. If Watchmojo has these various forms of med... | [
"shamelessly stolen from yahoo answers > If the user who uploaded the video is a partner that means there are ads next to their videos. If the videos are being viewed on mobile devices there are no ads so the creator ends up not making any money off the view. Which is why a lot of video creators don't allow their ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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