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ytsu6 | why do products that have a yearly title use the next year instead of the current one (e.g. ncaa football 2013, ford 2013 models)? | [
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2wkpgf | what does it mean when energy drinks say 300% vitamin b6? | [
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"answer": "It contains 300% of you daily recommended intake of vitamin B6.",
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7nw6np | how does half sodium salt work? | [
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"answer": "It's something that is trying to approximate the taste of salt, but has less sodium chloride in it. \n\nThe LoSalt product uses potassium chloride. Potassium is right below sodium on the periodic table of elements, so it will bond to chlorine in the same way. It has a salt like taste, but no sodi... | null |
37h6yi | Will I still be able to taste if my tongue is numb? | [
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48pumt | Did the people in the front lines of ancient armies basically know they are going to die? | [
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"answer": "Modern depictions of ancient battle are very seldom anywhere near reality. There was an article on here recently which I cannot find now but it talked about the impracticalities of conducting war in the way the movies and TV shows depict it. Essentially, spreading out into open formations and charg... | null |
1jdjpm | the impeachment of bill clinton | [
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"answer": "First of all, I don't believe there needs to be any real reason to impeach the president. To remove from office it requires a serious offense, but he wasn't removed from office.\n\nThat being said the impeachment wasn't that he had an affair, it was that he lied under oath, which is kind of a big ... | null |
18uidz | Overarching explanations of history | [
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"answer": " > How do Historians view theories that attempt to explain all of history\n\nHistorians are a varied bunch of people, but I'm studying history in the Netherlands and most professors seem to oppose these overarching explanations. It's all about acknowledging different perspectives and relativism now... | null |
75j2vb | How and why were the Mamluks ruled by Circassians from the late 14th until the early 16th century? | [
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"answer": "The Mamluks were a class of non-Muslim boys who were taken at a young age and raised as Muslim warriors. Many of these solders excelled as administrators and soon enough grew to the status of governors and such. But as time went on the influence of these Mamluks grew to a point where they did a cou... | null |
yr4r2 | Probably simple/stupid: Does my behavior affect the genes I pass on? | [
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"answer": "I found this [video](_URL_0_) super helpful.",
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"answer": "Well, yes, no, and maybe.\n\nOnce this gets closer to the front page someone can provide a better answer, but there is a certain influence from epigenetics with your phenotype. Epigenetics has to do with h... | null |
3ucsrq | why south american countries are not and don't want to get involved in world politics? | [
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"answer": "Some South American countries are very involved in world politics. Brazil for example is a pretty big player, and Venezuela is heavily involved, if not particularly influential, in global politics.\n\nSome of the smaller countries though have made the same decision that small countries all over the... | null |
3dohqj | what is the difference between renting to own a home and purchasing a home, and what are the requirements for home-buying? | [
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"answer": "rent-to-own is an agreement between you and the real owner to transfer ownership after certain criteria are met.\n\nIf you get a mortgage from the bank, your home is yours (but it is also collateral for the home loan).",
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80zhf5 | how does gas compression work? highschool chemistry taught me that various states of matter are the same thing just molecularly tighter. why is a compressed gas not just liquid? | [
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"answer": "Only because it has not been compressed *enough* or is too hot. Keep compressing and cooling it, you get liquid.",
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1jml43 | What was porn like in the 1960's? | [
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"answer": "An interesting read on the subject is the article *An Empire of the Obscene* in journalist Eric Schlosser's 2003 book *Reefer Madness*. It focuses on the career of Reuben Sturman, who was the biggest distributor of pornographic materials from the 60's onwards and a very big figure in the business u... | null |
3k73vd | is it still solicitation for sex if i ask a hooker to make me a sandwich for what ever she charges then we both consent to have sex afterwards? | [
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"answer": "I am fairly sure this is how a lot of escort services work without getting into too much trouble. You pay for the \"date\" and if sex happens, well that's between two consenting adults!\n\nI think you may need an actual lawyer to answer this question as it is probably incredibly complex and would v... | null |
6zmosr | how hushing came to be the sound we use when we want people to be quiet. | [
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"answer": "I always wondered about the same thing and quite recently I discovered that the hushing sound is the most common sound you can make with your mouth to calm down a newborn baby: they naturally calm down when they hear vibrations and white noises.\n\nI wouldn't be surprised it just came out from this... | null |
42zrka | Why is Methionine commonly found first to begin protein coding regions? | [
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"answer": "The initiator tRNA appears to be one that is uniquely capable of a few things. One is that it can bind directly to the P site of a ribosome (the P site is the second of three chambers within a ribosome. Normally tRNA must first enter at the A site, then move to the P site where the amino acid they ... | null |
247u9l | How were Jewish released from concentration camps received in their communities after the Holocaust? Did they return to their homes and jobs? What was their reception? | [
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"answer": "In Canada, Jewish survivors who immigrated from Europe after the Holocaust were often received cooly - even among the pre-existing Canadian Jewish community. Franklin Bialystok describes this process in his book, *Delayed Impact: The Holocaust and the Canadian Jewish Community.* He argues that Cana... | null |
c4930i | Are there any animals that migrate towards colder climate during winter ? | [
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"answer": "Not that I know of, no. In the event of winter, the most northern animals are observed to begin migrating south first, relative to more southern animals. Animals are motivated to migrate due to a variety of reasons such as spawning or seasonal grazing but for winter migration, it's almost certainly... | null |
2z8tbr | why isn't the universe filled with light... or is it? | [
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"answer": "Since the universe only began a finite amount of time ago, not all the light from all stars has had enough time to reach us. And, given the expansion of the universe, some of that light will never reach us.",
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5l9d6y | aren't "gambler's fallacy" and "the rule of averages" at odds with each other? | [
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"answer": "In the short term, yes. But you're making a mistake if you apply law of average in the short term. Eg, if you flip a coin 5 times and get all heads and assume that will average out over the next 20 flips. Applying it to the short term is essentially the gambler's fallacy.\n\n If you do flip 5 heads... | null |
4sep9r | Why does social interaction make me (introverts) tired? | [
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64mt9r | When you heat an unstable isotope, does it decrease its half-life time and does the opposite happen when you cool it? | [
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"answer": "Heating and cooling doesn't really affect the nucleus, unless you get to temperatures comparable with the typical excitation energies of nuclei (on the order of MeV, corresponding to temperatures on the order of 10^(10) Kelvin).\n\nThe only exceptions are types of decay which involve the electron c... | null |
2n4dop | what causes the giant noise that airplanes make when going over you? | [
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"answer": "It takes very powerful engines to lift and propel tons of metal and people and luggage through open air. Powerful engines tend to be loud, and this is why most people prefer not to live near a major airport.",
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4vhnc9 | why do we bother with antihistamines that make us drowsy when non-drowsy ones exist? | [
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"answer": "Newer antihistamines tend to cause less drowsiness than older ones, though drowsiness is no indicator of effectiveness. My guess for why there are still drowsy and non-drowsy varieties is that some people find it easier to sleep with assistance when they're sick.",
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20o1sm | Clarification on Native American tribal distinctions | [
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"answer": "I suggest you try /r/AskAnthropology. You might actually get a response from someone with direct experience with the Sioux.",
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"answer": "For the benefit of those who don't check /r/AskAnthropology, I'll post my answer here as well:\n\nThere's a mix of synonyms an... | null |
chibyp | how do both eyes move in the exact same way? and why does it cause strain when they don’t (e.g crossing your eyes for too long) | [
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"answer": "When the nerve going to one eye is stimulated, somewhere along the way that same nerve stimulates the nerve of the opposite eye. So essentially both nerves for each eye are stimulated at the same time when your brain decides to look a certain way.",
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2dh1f0 | why do some spam email subjects look so obviously fake? | [
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"answer": "For efficiency. To weed out all the smart people that won't fall for the scam so that personnel efforts are only spent on the few that are likely to fall for it.",
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d19gir | how can a musician be sure that what he wrote is not similar to something that already exists? | [
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"answer": "As I understand it, it's the plaintiff's job to prove that it's very similar (one standard was that more than six consecutive notes have to be identical) and that the person who is supposed to have copied has heard the original.\n\nA good case example would be when the Chiffons sued George Harrison... | null |
1siu10 | why is flashing headlights to warn others on the road about a speed trap illegal? | [
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"answer": "It is? Shit... News to me. ",
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1ivnz4 | If hieroglyphics were split into word-symbols and sound-symbols, and each word-symbol was NOT composed of sound-symbols, how did people know how to pronounce them? | [
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"answer": "First off, it's important to distinguish partial writing from true writing. Partial writing is things like pictographs, where an abstract representation is supposed to serve as a reminder for what's there, rather than an actual abstract representation of some idea or sound. These systems are not \"... | null |
1j31id | why can't i see millions of stars from the airplane window? | [
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"answer": "Well to be honest, During the daytime the sun provides plenty of light pollution.\n\nduring the night you should see more stars from that altitude then from the ground.\n\nOf course if your cabin is lighted, that's it's own pollution right there. ",
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9nk9c2 | how do you know when someone is gaslighting vs. when the person is just stupid/has a selective memory? | [
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"answer": "This is basically asking how you know when someone is doing something wrong maliciously and purposefully vs. accidentally and innocently. The truth of the matter exists only within their own mind, which no one else can ever really know.\n\nFor such actions, we can only go off of their actions and r... | null |
463jfb | How does our body tolerance to a certain compounds work? | [
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5xkpn9 | why do people not realize how dependent their life is on oil? | [
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"answer": "People don't consider things like plastics and rubber. Or how we use oil in so many more ways than just vehicles. ",
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f6c2dc | how come an alarm wont wake me up, but someone walking around outside my room will? | [
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"answer": "To me it’s familiarity. I get accustomed to the sound of the alarm so I tune it out. Someone walking however is not familiar so it wakes me up. For that reason I change the tune on my alarm about once a week",
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309py4 | what's the difference between 'ebitda' and just 'profit' that a business makes? | [
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"answer": "EBITDA is earnings before income tax depreciation and amortization. Basically the difference is EBITDA doesn't take into consideration what happened in the past. It looks at how you would have done this year if you didn't have the burden or benefit of what you did in the past. ",
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zejsh | How "much" red, green, and blue light are there in sunlight? | [
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24h319 | I think I figured out how to send information faster than the speed of light using the Quantum Eraser experiment, can someone please debunk me? | [
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"answer": "If you take a look at the [interference patterns you would get](_URL_0_) (about halfway down the pate) after running the experiment, you can see that you have to separate the \"went left\" and \"went right\" events after the fact before you can see their respective interference patterns. Otherwise... | null |
2lkblf | why are all computers used by clerks in the service industry (retail, airline, car rental, etc.) extremely outdated? | [
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9osli4 | what prevents people from ripping cash and having the bank give them back a whole bill for the half? | [
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"answer": "Well the note has serial numbers and other identifying markers on it.\nThere's nothing stopping you except that you could be prosecuted for fraud.",
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cexz0k | How does a broken bone know how to exactly replicate how it was before it was broken? Position, thickness, ect? | [
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3c7go8 | if annual inflation in the united states has averaged 3.3% over the past 100 years, how is it possible to have low prices today? | [
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1s8s9g | If we lived in a colony on one of Jupiter's moon, how big would Jupiter appear in our sky? | [
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"answer": "If we lived on Ganymede, it would appear about 16 times as wide as the moon and the sun do from Earth.",
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2paoyg | Why has Fidel Castro's Cuba prevailed as a communist state for so long? | [
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2q3x9w | how is it possible for the hadron collider to reach a temperature of close to 1 trillion degrees without burning a hole through our planet? | [
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"answer": "Well the particles that reach that temperature are extraordinarily small, and only exist for the tiniest fraction of a second. Not only that there are extremely strong magnetic fields set up within the collider to prevent such things from happening.",
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4foxp7 | Was there a unifying way to specify years or days in the contemporary ancient world? Did people in ancient Greece, Persia, Egypt and Mesopotamia (for example) have a singular calendar they used so they could agree on dates? | [
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"answer": "Well, I'm not entirely certain if you're asking whether they could agree on these things between civilizations, so that the Egyptians and Mesopotamians (for instance) could agree on what year it was, or whether within any of these cultural groups there was a commonly agreed calendar. In either case... | null |
1ujrgw | why do we like the taste of cola so much? | [
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"answer": "Sugar sugar sugar. It's like candy without the hassle of chewing. \n ",
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"answer": "Because of Sugar.\n\nOur bodies have evolved to be VERY attracted to sugar, because it is very high in calories and when you're wandering the forests or plains trying to keep from ... | null |
3r053c | I'm very interested in early Canada (and North America), including mythology. Any recommendations? | [
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"answer": "Due to their prolonged exposure as equals, the Mi'kmaq of Eastern Canada also have an interesting history (Chief Membertou) and mythology (Glooscap).\n\nI am a fan the Mi'kmaq story of creating the Moose and Beaver. Initially both were too large and proved destructive to the land. So they were each... | null |
52wsh7 | why do people still die of lack of food & water? are there not the super rich and down to 1st world folks who even throw away tons of food? no way to solve it? | [
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"answer": "Famine is not a function of lack of food in general, it's a political and logistic issue caused by food not getting to the right places.",
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3wc4rz | How are anti-cancer/life saving drugs tested? | [
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"answer": "This website answers your question about the use of placebo: _URL_0_\n\nIn short, placebo trials are use sparingly and must not cause undue risk of death to the patient taking the placebo. For example, if an effective treatment already exists the patient is unlikely to be allowed to participate in ... | null |
85zeba | Where did the Sumerians "come from"? | [
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"answer": "The Sumerians didn't come from elsewhere, nor did they go anywhere. They were the native inhabitants of lower Mesopotamia, and that's where their descendants remained long after Sumerian died out as a spoken language. I wrote more about this in [Mesopotamians and Sumerians.](_URL_0_) Pay particular... | null |
7i0g1x | How were the properties of yeast discovered? | [
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6cwn79 | during ww2 how was post made possible between the uk and germany? | [
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"answer": "You go through a neutral 3rd country. \nFor Europe popular choices were Switzerland (usually involving the International Red Cross for sending mail to POWs and civilian internees) and Portugal (for everything else). \nThe British Mail service, in order to avoid appearing to colaborate with the en... | null |
238qgb | how do clicky pens work, and what is the mechanism called?! | [
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"answer": "Here is a great animation: _URL_0_\nAs you can see from the animation, the inner surface of the pen is grooved. The button has a \"holder\", which holds the pen shaft in place and slides back and forth on the grooves. The shaft has a complementary part that fits into the holder. The holder is desig... | null |
3ou04b | what is hawking's radiation, what exactly are these pairs of "virtual" particles? and how exactly are they formed? | [
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"answer": "According to quantum mechanics, particle-antiparticle pairs can spontaneously come into existence. Since their combined energy is zero, the universe allows such particle pairs. Usually, they annihilate each other after a short time; however, if they form near a black hole one part of the pair can f... | null |
2by1op | What was the international view of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement as it was happening? | [
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"answer": "BackStory (an awesome US history podcast) addressed this in their show about the Civil Rights Act of 1964. LBJ's work on the Civil Rights Act was very much shaped by the Cold War, as segregation was some seriously bad PR for the US, especially when diplomats from African countries in the process of... | null |
3d18oc | how do my cats understand when i'm calling them? | [
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"answer": "Most cat owners put on a different voice than normal when calling their pets. \nThink about animals, they make different sounds based on the general point they're trying to put across. A cat for example makes different types of sounds depending on when they want something from you (food, need to go... | null |
3s7nzx | do massive fires contribute to climate change like emissions and pollution? | [
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"answer": "a small percentage of overall pollution, but it is only a very small fraction of the overall scale of pollution. In contrast Human pollution is much much larger. \n\nEDIT: This guy below sounds smarter than me, listen to him my answer isnt as detailed (/u/Tokyojokeyo)\n",
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4a2wst | Was wondering what parts of an autistic brain develop slower than others, and at what rate? | [
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"answer": "I don't think it's been figured out completely yet, but one of the most popular theories is improper development of the [amygdala](_URL_0_) in autistic people. This theory explains only *some* of the observations of autism. For example, avoiding eye contact may be because it stresses them out. Sinc... | null |
44r5oh | Did Russia impose grammatical changes on East Germans? | [
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"answer": "There really was not that much of an imposed change on the German language in the GDR. Most of the differences between the two Germanies were lexical. Some of this was partly the fault of division. For example, in the GDR *Kaufhalle*/*Konsum* were used for grocery stores while in the FRG *Supermar... | null |
2ariw9 | is it bad to sleep with wet hair? i been hearing from everyone that it is bad. if so why? | [
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"answer": "As someone who sleeps with wet hair almost every night and has been doing so for decades I can debunk this is a old wives tale. Wet hair does not make you prone to bacterial or fungal infection. Its just allowing your hair to air dry while you're laying down. Air drying hair does not require \"addi... | null |
2agn9t | do caterpillars turn into liquid and then reform into a butterfly in the cocoon? or do they keep some of the same parts? | [
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"answer": "Here's an interesting podcast about that very thing:\n\n_URL_0_\n\nThe upshot is that yes, they turn into goo. But also, it's been proven that memories persist through the goo stage. So somehow, something carries through the chrysalis. It seems like there may be more to memory than we currently und... | null |
dwui4w | Is the Battle of Midway movie historically accurate? | [
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23s0n7 | Why was the Provisional Government of Russia in 1917 so short lived? | [
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"answer": "In the most simple terms, they didn't really do much. There was an insistence from the PG that people were going to have to wait for changes like constituent assemblies or land redistribution until after the war had ended. The original leader of the PG, Milyukov was also forced to resign after he p... | null |
1zel0w | how can bad moonshine cause blindness? | [
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6wvjco | I heard that Nazi SS soldiers would have sex with deployed regular soldiers wives often and were ordered to, is that true? | [
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"answer": "After the begin of the war, when the first casualties reports of the Poland campaign came in, Himmler issued an internal order to the SS and Police. (Although being an \"order\" it was more like a memo) The order explained that due the nature of war men will die, this was nothing bad as they died f... | null |
15di0s | did the Minoans speak an Indo-European language? | [
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"answer": "Normally, we would want to keep the issues of language and culture completely separate. But with Crete in this period, we are still struggling to find the linguistic and cultural connections of Crete to the rest of the Mediterranean.\n\nOne thing I would say is that we cannot speak of the identitie... | null |
32muhx | how are vpns legal with things like the patriot act in place? | [
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8ri9yn | how does the ocean go through two tide cycles in a day, where the moon only passes 'overhead' once every 24 hours? | [
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"answer": "To grossly oversimplify, one tide is caused by the gravity of the Moon, the other is caused by the centrifugal force of Earth orbiting the shared centre of gravity of the Earth-Moon system. \n\nBoth are delayed from when you'd expect them to happen by the friction with the bottom of the ocean. ",
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140few | Why does the month precede the day in American calendar system and when did it originate? | [
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1i489l | cookies...and that's not the kind you eat | [
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265sbw | : why is my computer downloading 36 mb/s, but my game is only downloading at a 4 mb/s speed ? | [
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"answer": "Your computer is reporting the transmission speed in Mbps (megabits per second). Steam, or whatever you're using to download your game is reporting the transmission speed in MBps (megabytes per second). One megabyte is eight megabits. That doesn't account for it exactly, but I'd wager you've do... | null |
5wjciu | how to work out percentages (help!) | [
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"answer": "What do you mean by work them out?\n\n Like if 68 people out of 212 tested positive, how to figure out what percent that is?",
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4fk4ov | how do animals actually get put down at the vet? what happens biologically? | [
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"answer": "Yes the dosage matters. Dogs are bigger than cats. The Vet can choose a number of options, all of them are painless. An IV is started and an overdose of something is introduced into the bloodstream. The animal goes to sleep and does not wake up.",
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e070z0 | Before VHS, were people completely unaware of previous decades' movies? | [
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"answer": "More of course can be said, but /u/lord_mayor_of_reddit wrote [this answer](_URL_0_) which might be of interest for you.",
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"answer": "Certainly not. It was more common for theaters to play classic movies back then. Additionally, classic movies were excellent mate... | null |
3i0cbr | why dogs never seem to get dizzy? | [
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"answer": "Maybe because your a pussy...but try spinning a dog in an office chair or something of that sort and you will see a dizzy dog.",
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"answer": "It's possible for dogs to get dizzy, but it's more common in older dogs. Both humans and dogs have a vestibular system in t... | null |
1os6nq | How much did drinks at a saloon cost in the Old West? | [
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"answer": "Most communities differentiated between one-bit and two-bit saloons. Really sleazy places would charge just a nickel for a beer, a whiskey, or a cigar, but they were relatively rare. Most saloons were one-bit places (with a range of quality in establishments charging these prices). Communities coul... | null |
equm1u | Is immunosuppression required in organ transplantation between monozygotic twins ? | [
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"answer": "In contrast to solid organ transplantation, in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation recipients receive immunosuppression for prevention or treatment of graft-versus-host disease (reverse rejection, if you will). [This](_URL_0_) pretty large (but now dated) case series of syngeneic stem cell tran... | null |
ebf6r2 | why does adding white vinegar to the laundry take care of bad smells and why don't laundry detergents already contain these properties? | [
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"answer": "Vinegar helps break down protein and minerals, like salt and calcium. \nSo vinegar will help remove smell from dirt, sweat, etc. \nBecause vinegar also breaks down calcium, it softens your clothes and helps clean your washing machine in good shape by preventing scale. \n\nCommercial laundry deterge... | null |
o0zug | karat markings on gold | [
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"answer": "There are other ways to test the purity, mostly used by jewelers. You can submerge the item to get a measure of its volume and compare to its weight, thus getting the density; golds of different purities will have different densities. You can also test the metal against known-purity samples in a ... | null |
m9lh4 | Can faecal particles in bathroom spread bacteria and viruses? | [
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"answer": "hepatitis is not an airborne disease, but im assuming this means in typical scenarios, but in general, about 50%!! of fecal matter is bacteria, so you can get other infections from not wiping properly (ie. UTI), or not washing you hands. Heres some more info on your risk tho: \"The greatest aeroso... | null |
1r6q06 | what is nash equilibrium? | [
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"answer": "The Nash Equilibrium is a point where neither player can unilaterally improve their position by changing strategy (if their opponent stays the same). This is not the same as the best outcome.\n\nIn the prisoner's dilemma, both confess is the Nash Equilibrium - neither player benefits by changing fr... | null |
1kcuhx | why is texting and driving not illegal? | [
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"answer": "It's illegal in a huge number of jurisdictions already. Where do you live?",
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"answer": "it is in ontario, canada. you can get a ticket for even muting an incoming call. ",
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"answer": "I think it's an issue that has been delegat... | null |
a10o4d | Why do we see hydrogen's spectral lines in absorption in the sun's spectrum? | [
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"answer": "These light bands are missing because the light is passing through that gas, and that gas absorbs some colors of light.\n\nStars run on hydrogen, so there's lots of it around, at all levels, including between the bright photosphere and you. That hydrogen absorbs some colors of light, leaving those ... | null |
2d89dz | why do women develop stretch marks on their breasts when gaining weight, but not when getting breast implants? | [
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"answer": "i dont know if they do this for everyone, but i've seen cases where they install something to stretch out the skin weeks or months before the actual surgery.",
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"answer": "Her skin was elastic enough to be stretched that much without risking her skin getting compl... | null |
1v54pk | Why doesn't dark matter give off blackbody radiation? | [
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"answer": "It is currently thought that dark matter does not interact through the electromagnetic force, and so cannot emit or absorb light in any form (which also makes it really rather hard to find), and instead only interacts via gravity and the weak force, the particle for which is imaginatively named the... | null |
1pqwm2 | A perspective/scale question: In a hydrogen atom, if the proton was the size of a tennis ball, (say 6.5 cm), on average how far away from the proton would the electron be orbiting? | [
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"answer": "A hydrogen atom is 1.1 angstroms in diameter, a proton 1.7 x 10-5. so the atom is 64706 times bigger than the proton. That means your scaled up atom would be 4206 meters across, or about 2.1 km from center to \"orbit\".",
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devunx | how do scientists know what a person's face looks like when reconstructing it form a skull? | [
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"answer": "Your skull helps define your facial structure. Then layer on things such a muscle, fat, et cetera as appropriate until it looks right. There's a level of guesswork associated with it, but it's still more accurate than not.",
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"answer": "It's part science and part ... | null |
2hh8aj | How is CERN able to produce the highest man made temperature without completely destroying their collider? | [
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"answer": "Basically, temperature is not the only thing that matters. If you slam a few protons together to make a soup of, e.g. 100, particles that together have a temperature of 5.5 trillion K, you still only have 100 particles. Those 100 particles can slam into the walls and spread their energy out into th... | null |
6ew8wq | how difficult would it be to intentionally build an immunity to a lethal poison, a la the princess bride? | [
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"answer": "There isn't a blanket answer to this. Some poisons you simply cannot develop an immunity to, and they will end you no matter how hard you try. If you were curious, the practice itself is named Mithridatism. ",
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3m2oa1 | how does the naming of marijuana strains work? | [
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"answer": "You make a new strain and name it whatever you want. If you want your strain to be called Dildofuck Dogshit, that's what it is.",
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"answer": "somebody makes a strain...and then names it, hence the sometimes rather silly names. theres no organized \"Marijuana Namin... | null |
3i45rp | why does dinner usually cost so much more than other meals i.e: breakfast | [
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"answer": "The general response is that patrons have a higher tolerance to paying more at dinner time. Culturally, dinner is often seen as the most important meal. Because of this, you can add in more expensive ingredients, different flavors and go way beyond for dinner. Breakfast, however, this isn't a whole... | null |
6r8tj1 | A question for historians about research and methods. | [
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"answer": "Try r/askacademia. \n\nIf you can, try to hunt down academic literature on this subject. Both Google Scholar and any local library will be helpful. Even better would be a university library. If I knew the specific field, I could probably point you towards some academic journals you may find helpful... | null |
6i2hf7 | Why are certain elements more common in certain parts of the earth's crust? | [
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"answer": "Each element has a different \"geochemical affinity\" or flavor. We break them down into 4 groups: **atmophile** elements like to hang out in the gas phase so they're concentrated in our atmosphere (e.g., noble gases, N); **siderophile** elements behave similarly to Fe so they're concentrated in ou... | null |
hpf5s | I have a question pertaining to dental hygiene. | [
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"answer": "There could be a few different explanations. We all have a ton of different bacteria (normal flora) in our mouths but not all of us have the same types of bacteria. Cavities(caries) are actually an acquired, contagious disease, as the bacteria that produce the acid to form the cavities are not with... | null |
4hzj0k | how saudi arabia, venezuela and other oil export depending countries are dealing so differently with low oil prices. | [
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"answer": "Imagine you have several households, and all of them have one family member with a pretty decent income as salesmen (oil revenue in this metaphor). However, some of them have to commute further than others, and have other expenses that mean they get to keep less of their total pay. If sales drop ... | null |
204et0 | How are inorganic bones in our organic bodies? How did they ever evolve? | [
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"answer": "First of all some parts of the bone are carbon based. Bones require an organic structure that the minerals can attach to to give them their form. The organic part also makes them more stable (because they may bend a little).\n\nFrom the evolutionary point of view they might have evolved from cells ... | null |
5ht42y | why do we gag when we push ourselves too hard when exercising? | [
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"answer": "Well there could be many possible reasons as to why you would gag. \n\nFor your situation, exercising hard for an extended period of time will draw blood away from the stomach, which is why you feel nauseous. This nausea can induce a reflex depending on how your brain interprets the stimuli as a t... | null |
9hqlyg | How do electromagnetic waves "look" likr in 3D? How do waves really work? | [
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"answer": "Great Question! The answer is quite simple but also kind of boring: depends on the wave.\n\nHere is a picture of a running electromagnetic wave which is the standard picture physics students see when they are told to imagine a light beam as a wave. However, waves don't need to be just sin or cos. U... | null |
1pe9l7 | why do we censor things like nudity and swears to children when eventually, they'll be predisposed to it and consider it "normal"? | [
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"answer": "You're question is completely contradictory. You cant \"eventually\" become \"predisposed\" to something. If you are predisposed, then it is either genetic or ingrained at a very young age, and it is outside your control.\n\nAlso, your assertion that nudity and swearing are considered \"normal\" is... | null |
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