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37n8re | how would zimbabwe reintroduce its own currency | [
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"answer": "At the moment they've introduced bond coins which can only work in Zimbabwe as time goes they'll keep increasing the denominations until there's proper Zimbabwean currency then they'll ban foreign currency for selling in stores I think ",
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12cok3 | Why did Jimmy Carter, a Democratic candidate, win so many Southern states in the 1976 election? | [
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"answer": "A combination of name recognition as a Southern governor and widespread mistrust of what was still essentially the second Nixon administration.",
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"answer": "Carter was from Georgia, and the South had voted Democrat from the end of Reconstruction until 1968.",
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9occ9i | what makes someone a polyglot? is it something about the brain, or simply a learning technique that anyone can do? | [
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"answer": "It's just hard work and dedication. The more languages you know, the easier it is to learn new languages. The earlier you start studying, the sooner you can start practicing, the sooner you can achieve mastery.\n\nIt's like any field of study. Just hard work and practice.",
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378qpu | why won't any of the arab nations take in and help the "palestinians"? | [
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"answer": "I'm not sure why you've got Palestinians in scare quotes. It suggests that you're not asking this question in good faith. However, I'll assume it's just a peculiar way of asking the question. As for the Arab states, Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon all contain large numbers of Palestinian refugees and hav... | null |
2h7ztk | Why does the Barrow Alaska have 15 more days where the sun does not set than rise? | [
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"answer": "To clarify, the OP means there are 15 more days of the year where the sun remains in the sky in the summer, than days where the sun does not rise in the winter:\n\n_URL_0_",
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"answer": "I can't comment exactly on Barrow's situation, but the Northern summer is slig... | null |
2pzeq0 | in american high school, i learned virtually nothing at all about african or south american history. why isn't it part of the world history curriculum? | [
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"answer": "I teach and I know that in California both subjects are part of the 8th grade curriculum. ",
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"answer": "\"World History\" is about the history of the world as a whole. If there have been no major world-changing events that happened in those places, they wouldn't... | null |
6s56ur | how do elites hide money successfully behind 'front' companies established in other countries? | [
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"answer": "So the first thing to understand is that a corporation is an independent legal entity from its owners. \n\nSo let's say I own a successful construction company. I make around $10,000,000 in profit every year. Now, I own a big company but I don't need that kind of money to live day to day. My ex... | null |
496xcz | why are car engine idles not lower? | [
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"answer": "I had a car that had problems with the idle adjustor. The engine would drop to 300-400 and would shake the whole car. I believe 800-1000 RPM is to keep the car from stalling as well as to keep the car from shaking. \n\nAlthough, I did own a car for a bit that would actually shut the engine off whil... | null |
7ma602 | how does apple slows down its phones? | [
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"answer": "A process in the background regularly checks the battery capacity, when it goes down a certain threshold set by Apple, that process kicks in and underclocks the CPU of the phone to 600 Mhz IIRC, so that means a slower phone but a slightly better battery life and prevents most unexpected shutdowns."... | null |
2a3aep | why is poor vision so much more prevalent across all age groups than other types of sensory loss, and why is it not viewed as a disability while others are? | [
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"answer": "My guess; vision is our most important sense. No one gets hearing aid if their left ear hears 10% less than the right, but if the left eye is 10% off-center...\nOn the other hand i think a lot of kids get glasses when they dont really need it. Parents are easy to sell to. I know i didn't need glass... | null |
1v4tg5 | Why doesn't the human iris produce a red color? | [
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"answer": "Do you mean why aren't there red-eyed people? Simple:\n\nThere are two pigment proteins in humans, eumelanin (black) and pheomelanin (reddish). Usually people have more eu- than pheomelanin. In the iris, if you have mostly eumelanin the eye will look brown. If you have a lot less eumelanin, the eye... | null |
4or7ab | how intelligent were prehistoric humans? | [
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"answer": "They were as intelligent as we are now. What they were able to expend that intelligence on was limited by a lack of knowledge, not cognitive ability.",
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16b4bo | Is there a material that can absorb air or a specific kind of gas? | [
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"answer": "Yes eg haemoglobin...preferentially absorbs O2. Co2 can be absorbed / recycled through Co2 scrubbers.\n",
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"answer": "Well, they _all_ do, to some extent. All molecules attract, if only weakly. (though 'weakly' here can mean \"so weak that the molecules won't '... | null |
6npkz1 | why do soda contents not drop/settle to the bottom and need to be mixed up or stirred but other drinks like juice do? | [
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"answer": "Juice has solids in suspension. They're not actually chemically dissolved, just \"stuck\" in the water molecules like a microscopic ball pit. Over time they'll settle to the bottom.\n\nSoft drinks don't have that many ingredients, and the few they do have are water soluble. Unlike the suspended ... | null |
3rq51t | 'magic underwear' worn by mormons | [
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"answer": "Mormons believe that certain ordinances must be completed in order to enter the highest kingdom of heaven. One of those ordinances is called an endowment. It takes place in their temples. During an endowment worthy members are gifted certain signs and symbols needed to enter heaven. There are disti... | null |
1sw2tb | why orgasms become more intense the more you have in a row? does this apply to all sexes? | [
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"answer": "This ain't funny OP. We know you girls have it good, no need to rub it in.",
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"answer": "doesn't even apply to all girls",
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"answer": "I can have multiple orgasms, but mine become less intense with each one.",
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reec2 | interlaced display vs noninterlaced (progressive scan) display | [
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"answer": "Picture a paper notebook with lined paper. You are going to make a cool flipbook animation with it.\n\nOn the first page, start at the top line and draw your picture on every other line down the page.\n\nOn the second page, start at the second line and draw your picture on every other line down th... | null |
2fbfd1 | how do subways not collapse? | [
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"answer": "You can think of it as like a pipe, only with a tunnel the pressure is on the outside of the pipe instead of on the inside.\n\nJust as the walls of a pipe need to be made strong enough to hold the pressure in the pipe without bursting, the walls of a subway tunnel need to be designed to take the pr... | null |
ao5ug4 | what is an interface in programming? | [
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"answer": "An interface is basically a class with no implementation that is intended to be subclassed so that a related set of classes all share a common set of methods. This lets you program parts of your code in a way where you don't have to worry about which of the subclasses you're working with, and anyon... | null |
9qu7jj | how are you supposed to know who to believe in political debates when both candidates just accuse the other of lying the whole time? | [
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"answer": "You could try doing your own research and coming to your own conclusions. This \"thinking for yourself\" is often superior to taking the word of people who are trying to persuade you of something that directly benefits them. Tasks such as essays or research projects during the various stages of for... | null |
canawo | What was the woman's role in Viking society, particularly but not limited to when men were out on conquest? | [
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"answer": "Jenny Jochens wrote the definitive treatise on women in Old Norse society in her creatively named, *Women in Old Norse Society*, where she examined what could be gleaned about approximately half of the human population in Scandinavia (though she focuses almost entirely on Iceland), from a few selec... | null |
24cs5k | when a dog or a cat's owner changes clothes or wears something out of the ordinary, do they think the attire is part of your body or can they tell that clothes are just something that we put on top of our bodies? | [
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"answer": "She probably realised you were the same person, but your hat scared or confused her.\n\nIt's hard to know what animals actually think, but whatever they do think, they get used to it. Animals go by more than just visual appearance, of course: smell, gait, voice -- all these are important. Your pupp... | null |
2pe69f | When American troops liberated Dachau, they were so enraged that they summarily executed dozens of SS guards. Did similar events happen at other concentration camps? | [
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"answer": "I don't know about Allied soldiers killing guards at other camps, but liberated inmates killed guards at Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald and Gusen-Mauthausen. I am sure it happened in other camps as well but these are the ones I have read about. \n\nYou can read the accounts here: \n\nRudolf A. Haunschmi... | null |
4yhfjh | what actually happens in our brain when we experience a heartbreak? | [
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"answer": "It works very similarly to withdrawal. I'm not a psych major and I can't get into all the chemicals involved in the process but I know that being in love is, to your mind at least, much like being on drugs (I think one study even showed that being in love activates the same parts of your brain as c... | null |
2r1teh | Was there any international outcry over the American coup in Hawaii and annexing it? | [
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"answer": "Just to start with the very last bit of the last question, there were *Japanese* internment camps on Hawaii. \n\nIf you read a bit on [the Hawaiian internment](_URL_0_), you might get a better sense of the context informing the rest of your question. \n\nAn excerpt from that page: \n\n > Given it... | null |
2g5jru | why does dental pain feel worse when lying down? | [
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"answer": "Your blood pressure increases in your head when you're horizontal.",
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5wdb1r | In the Revolutionary War, how did British troops lose Boston so quickly when they had an iron hold over New York? | [
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"answer": "The answer is actually fairly straight forward. The Continental Army managed to get artillery on the Dorchester heights above the city. Henry Knox and his men hauled them overland from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston. The position of the guns threatened the Navy in the harbor and was above the range of ... | null |
cxod96 | why are bricks stacked the way they are rather than just one directly on top of the other? | [
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"answer": "Have you ever seen that experiment where they put two phone books together with one page overlapping the page of the other, so they interlock?\n\nAnd then you can't pull the interlocking phone books apart from eachother? \n\nThat's why, the pattern they're in interlocks all the bricks together, for... | null |
cyo37q | Are people with Congenital Insensitivity to Pain (CIP) unable to feel emotional pain in the same way they are unable to feel physical pain? | [
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"answer": "[Congenital analgesia](_URL_0_) is a disorder of the peripheral nervous system where the sodium channels in nociceptor cells have a mutation. So it’s an issue with the sensory input, not with the brain’s ability to process pain. \n\nAlso, can you link the Eisenberger study? I’m curious how emotiona... | null |
1di735 | the ellen show keeps showing "psychics." what makes it all bullshit? | [
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"answer": "The fact that psychics can't do what they say they can do is what makes it all bullshit.",
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"answer": "There are no decent scientific studies that have shown that anybody that claims to have psychic abilities can actually provide specific information gained throug... | null |
13fa4u | Do gravitational waves really all travel at the same speed? | [
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"answer": "From a bosonic point of view, the gravitational field quanta must be massless due to the infinite range of its force. It's harder to answer the question of speed in terms of stress-energy tensors (due to gravity being a specific geometry) but gauge field theory suggests that all massless particles ... | null |
3pttwh | Is the form of a galaxy influenced by the black hole in its middle? | [
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"answer": "\nThe shape of the galaxy maybe not but, the mass and structure around the core are directly changed by the black hole. \nThere's also a correlation of the mass of the black hole to the total mass of the galaxy that surrounds it. \nYou can read more [here](_URL_0_) ",
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1w1hi4 | why does cold water make razor blades last longer? | [
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"answer": "First of all, are we *sure* that this isn't just an urban legend? \n\nThat said, I can think of an idea: hot tap water contains more minerals, which can either deposit crud on the blade, or corrode it.",
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"answer": "Never heard about this one, but one thing I know... | null |
lw93a | what the us holds against the palestinian state? | [
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"answer": "Well as usual with a question potentially related to the Israel Palestine conflict there are at least two answers to provide if we intend to be \"textbook fair\" I suppose the answer one would get from an American or Israeli official is that the USA doesn't have any problem with Palestine as long a... | null |
bxm8pc | how do gut bacteria actually make it to your intestines with the hydrochloric acid produced by the stomach in the way? | [
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"answer": "First, the stomach doesn't constantly produce acid. That only happens when you're digesting food.\n\nSecond, the bacteria in your intestines don't have to pass through the stomach. They live and grow in the intestines, and it would actually be pretty bad if they get anywhere else in the body. The *... | null |
7oxd69 | If we were in a nearby star system, would SETI be able to detect our radio waves? | [
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"answer": "It's a matter of the power of the signal being transmitted and the size, efficiency and isolation of the antenna that's receiving it and if it's focused on the exact source of the signal. Seeing as there's a seemingly infinite number of sources for which we could point our receiver, that's where th... | null |
77bm2e | What does 'locality' mean in terms of quantum physics? | [
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"answer": "In relativistic physics, the speed of light is an absolute speed limit of the universe. This means that two far apart objects cannot immediately act on each other; they have to wait some period of time, as the action propagates at the speed of light or slower.\n\nThis is called the \"principle of l... | null |
acd0hy | the point of volts, amps, ohms, etc... | [
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"answer": "Amps, ohms, and volts are all related to each other through the equation V = IR. r stands for resistance (measured in ohms), I stands for current (amps) and v for voltage (volts). If you increase voltage, your resistance or current must decrease proportionally to match, and so on for any other chan... | null |
310u2t | what do the numbers for my eye prescription mean. for example, my left eye is -6.0 and my right is -5.75 | [
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"answer": "The number is a measure of the optical power of the lenses in dioptres (the reciprocal of the focal length in meters). Essentially a positive number increases the optical power of your eye (which corrects for farsightedness) and a negative number decreases the optical power of your eye (which corre... | null |
lqkgs | us army camouflage | [
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"answer": "they've already changed it. as it turns out, the ACU pattern is pretty bad in nearly every environment...besides maybe gravel. they originally switched to that pattern for a number of reasons, cost being one.",
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"answer": "Look at the camoflage on a zebra. They'... | null |
6i84d5 | Why was Pompey described as 'the new Alexander the Great'? | [
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"answer": "Pompey certainly earned the comparison to Alexander, especially with the Pirate Command, but the title \"the Great\" popped up very early and in a not exactly flattering way.\n\nWhen Sulla returned from his war against Mithridates in the East (82 BCE), he marched from Brundisium north to Rome, disp... | null |
1u63fo | Happy New Year! As it is now 2014, the outward limit of the 'twenty-year rule' in AskHistorians has ticked ahead once more -- let's talk about 1994. | [
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"answer": "I look forward to being enlightened about the birth of Justin Bieber.",
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"answer": "It's only when I see lists like these do I become aware of my own advancing years...",
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aaw6fi | why do cameras “freak out” when they are recording someone with a striped pattern on their clothing? | [
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"answer": "I'm not sure what you mean, exactly. If you're talking about that trippy pattern that shimmers and moves over a striped pattern as the camera moves, that's a [Moiré pattern](_URL_0_). It's a sort of optical illusion that happens when you look at a striped pattern through some material that is also ... | null |
3jcnk4 | Is there a limit with telescopes? | [
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"answer": "The biggest intrinsic limitation of a telescope's resolving power is the angular resolution that its optical components are capable of. The [angular resolution](_URL_0_) is the smallest angular distance between two sources of light, for which the system will see two distinct sources rather than one... | null |
xbi37 | Is it worth it to get higher quality gas? | [
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"answer": "Higher octanes don't exist because they are \"better\". They are just different. You should use the octane that is recommended for your engine, which it will say in your manual. Using a higher octane fuel than what is recommended for your engine won't be beneficial.\n\nsource with more detail: _URL... | null |
3o3t8v | Is it true that the bible was not translated into different langauges for most of the middle ages? | [
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"answer": "As Frans van Liere succinctly puts it in *An Introduction to the Medieval Bible* (Cambridge 2014),\n\n > Contrary to popular perception, there was no blanket prohibition against biblical translation in the vernacular in the middle ages. (p 203)\n\n\nI've [written on this subject a bit before](_URL... | null |
4ihoxf | Did historians know of Tutankhamun before the discovery of his tomb? | [
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"answer": "Carl Richard Lepsius, an German Egyptologist who was in Egypt 1843-46 on a scientific expedition, and documented well it with hundreds of line drawings of incriptions, papyrii, maps etc. in *Denkmaeler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien*, an outstanding work, still relevant to this day as there are many i... | null |
40swiu | Why was Russia never able to build a great automobile industry? | [
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"answer": "Some clarification in this question is needed here. Are you asking why the Soviet Union did not create its own automobile industry or are you inquiring about the automobile industry of the Russian federation after the breakup of the USSR? \n\nThe answers to either question are going to be very diff... | null |
3inrqw | why do presidents seem to dissappear from politics after their term ends? | [
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"answer": "What are they gonna do, take a lesser job and be \"Senator\" instead of \"President\"? No way.\n\nMost presidents are pretty old when they leave office, and they have reached the pinnacle of the political world, so nothing to do but retire.",
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qipnt | the ending of the movie 2001: a space odyssey | [
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"answer": "Someone correct me if I'm mixing up the book and the movie (because there is a difference). IIRC, Dave Bowman basically gets brought through the monolith which turns into a kind of wormhole and gets brought to where the aliens are, and he is essentially evolved into a higher being. \n\nI haven't se... | null |
1fh8me | how people are so distracted from space exploration and technologies? | [
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"answer": "There are many, many interesting things in the world. Space exploration is just one of them. Lots of very clever people are busy working on different problems.\n\nThe majority of the population, though, just isn't interested in science and space, and would rather sit at home watching soap operas.\n... | null |
34nduv | What effect did the Nuremberg trials have on the U.S. Supreme Court during that period? | [
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"answer": "They heard cases without him, using the same procedures for cases when a justice recuses him/herself. For instance, Girouard v. United States (1946) was argued and decided (5-3) without Jackson's participation since he missed the entire October 1945 term. I don't have a list of cases from that term... | null |
cnghi9 | Since pi is and irrational number, it goes on forever. How do we know the sequence of pi beyond what current technology computes? | [
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"answer": "Here's an algorithm that can compute the n-th digit of pi without computing the preceding digits. \n\n\n[_URL_0_](_URL_1_)",
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2cf3hc | why are the conservative republicans afraid of the the tea party republicans? | [
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"answer": "There are people who desperately wanted to see an end to old DC back in 08 and never got it. The GOP also espouses many values that are falling out of favor with the majority of Americans, so they can't afford to have any infighting between two factions: people with simple traditional values vs rab... | null |
e06i7i | what causes the occasionally visible electricity when you plug things in? | [
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"answer": "If the thing you're plugging in draws a lot of current, then there will be a brief spark where there's enough connection to transfer electricity but there's not enough metal-metal contact to make it a efficient, low resistance connection. The metal right at the connection point gets hot and you ge... | null |
sv6dr | Is the average life expectancy thought to cap off at some point? | [
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"answer": "Some say that average longevity and outlier maximal longevity can grow indefinitely with future technology. I think it would be foolish to predict that eventual scientific discoveries *cannot* find ways to repair and replace body parts allowing extraordinary longevity. Already we do see evidence fo... | null |
8pmb4p | What population impacts were observed from adding iodine to table salt? | [
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"answer": "The sudden bioavailability of normal iodine levels in some individuals with chronic iodine deficiency and the resultant nodular goiter caused overproduction of thyroxin leading to hyperthyroidism – a condition called iodine-induced thyrotoxicosis.\n\nThere is a downloadable version of the paper at ... | null |
3jpl9r | why don't they put high quality microphones/speakers in air planes? i've never been able to hear what the pilot is saying clearly. | [
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"answer": "A couple reasons:\n\n1) Financial - If the current stuff works \"well enough\" that information is communicated between the tower and the plane, then it's enough to hear \"Brace for impact\" or something similar.\n\n2) Noise! - Airplanes vibrate...a lot. The vibrations cause the microphones and sp... | null |
k1xpw | how the does a printer work? | [
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"answer": "There are a few different ways printers work.\n\nInk jet printers work by placing small drops of ink onto the paper. That's why when you print something like a color photo that the paper seems a bit damp when it comes out of the printer.\n\nLaser printers work on a principal of static electricity.... | null |
8ikxrj | why are drugs that have no recreational use, such as a drug that you would get to treat a sinus infection, only available through prescription. | [
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"answer": "Im guessing youre talking about antibiotics. It would become a real issue if anyone at anytime could buy antibiotics when they have the sniffles. You see antibiotics ONLY work against bacteria, so if you dont have a bacterial infection they would be useless. Now it wouldnt be an issue if you were s... | null |
3k7v63 | why is their so much abuse on online gaming? | [
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"answer": "One of the key factors is anonymity, just the fact that nobody knows you, unless you are playing with friends. People are much more likely to lash out at people and even verbally attack them when they know the other person more than likely can't do anything about it. It's even a way for shy people ... | null |
4ktjwk | why are many important historical artefacts locked away and rarely displayed even though they are very well protected (climate control boxes etc)? | [
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"answer": "The space to safely display important artifacts is much smaller than would be required to display all the archived artifacts. It's just too expensive to put everything on display and take care of it.",
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bxs2op | In the middle ages did people really have gold coins? | [
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"answer": "The mainstay of the early medieval English economy wasn't gold, but rather the silver penny. Gold coins *did* exist, but they were largely symbolic propaganda pieces like the [gold *mancus* of Ceolwulf](_URL_0_), one of only eight extant gold coins from prior to 1250. The *mancus* was part of a wid... | null |
6e9pn3 | why is there a border crossing between hong kong and china since the british relinquished to the people's republic on china in 1997? | [
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"answer": "Hong Kong is an autonomous territory, meaning that although it belongs to China, it pretty much runs its own affairs. It has its own government and its own economy (even its own currency), so is almost (but not quite) a separate country. All China really does is to take care of Hong Kong's military... | null |
6lewna | how large corporations recover once they have been infected by ransom ware. | [
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"answer": "Any corporation with a competent IT department does regular system-wide backups on a daily basis. They also have a disaster recovery plan that allows them to stand up new instances of their critical systems on short notice.\n\nAnd sometimes, they just pay the ransom. They routinely put thousands ... | null |
cb14n0 | Do we have any surviving primary sources from ancient rome? | [
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"answer": "First off I assume you mean primary “written” sources since you refer to copying. \n\nNon-written primary sources would include paintings, mosaics, architecture, statues all of which have are essential primary sources to understanding the the ancient world. \n\nPrimary written sources from antiquit... | null |
2kbwyy | How has the "choreography" of opera changed? | [
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7xrmsb | How are Bi Elliptical Transfers More Efficient Than Hohmann Transfers? | [
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"answer": "[This past answer](_URL_1_) by /u/ThePsuedoMonkey might help:\n\n > Think of an orbit as an energy system; at periapsis your orbital velocity is the highest (high kinetic energy) while at apoapsis your elevation is the highest (high potential energy), so a higher orbit requires more energy to get ... | null |
2bq27b | Suppose I'm falling at terminal velocity with a large object near me. I positioned myself on top of said object and pushed up with my legs as hard as I can before hitting the ground. Under what parameters would I survive the fall? | [
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"answer": "Let's say you're falling on top of the object. In the reference frame of the object, you jump and give yourself a vertical speed of 4 meters per second. Then consider the reference frame of the ground. Instead of crashing at 50 m/s, you crash at 46 m/s, and are still dead.",
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rwtds | [meta] A modest proposal to further improve this subreddit. | [
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"answer": "I totally agree; for other suggestions, perhaps we should consider adding some commonly asked questions to the sidebar, along with bibliographies. I know there was a thread a good while back about putting together reading lists, but I don't think we really followed through with it.",
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dufwn4 | why do two transits of venus occur every hundred or so years, but the transits of mercury occur more frequently than venus? | [
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"answer": "Mercury orbits the sun much quicker than Venus. And Venus and Earth's orbit time are closer. That means Mercury is going to \"lap\" the earth far more often which gives opportunity for a transit.\n\n(Imagine a track race where you're on the outer track and the person next track in is running only... | null |
3n22v6 | why do states seem to carry out executions in the middle of the night rather than during the day? | [
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"answer": "If someone is due to be executed on October 1st, they do it right when it turns october 1st, right after midnight.",
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k702l | how lottery cards are made? | [
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"answer": "The non playing areas are all the same and made by standard off-set printing methods. A special printer based on the same technology as ink jet printers selects numbers at random from a computer bank and prints them on the playing area, along with the unique bar code. Then off-set printing is use... | null |
eia45p | Did Living Standards Decline After the Fall of Rome? | [
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"answer": "Hello there. This is not the answer you are waiting for, but I am going to try help you framing it differently so it can be answered by more knowledgeable people.\n\nBecause the question, as it is, is very very difficult to answer, for several reasons:\n\n & #x200B;\n\n* The processes you are asqui... | null |
48odch | How did Zhenjin die? (the father of Temür Khan and son of Kublai khan) | [
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"answer": "According to the **History of Yuan**, he died of alcoholism. However, it may not have been as simple as merely drinking too much. It also states that shortly before his death, some ministers of the court wanted to propose that Kublai Khan abdicate his throne to Zhenjin on account of old age and bec... | null |
t608z | If you bring a bucket big enough to put over your head underwater, can you breathe in the bucket, being able to stay underwater longer? | [
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"answer": "I did this in our pool, using a small 3gal bucket and a big rock. (Tried cinderblock, but it wasn't heavy enough.)\n\nBut unfortunately the CO2 builds up quickly. With my head in the bucket, most of the volume of the bucket is full of head, not full of air. I could only stay down for less than a... | null |
61ytji | why do islands come in chains? | [
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"answer": "From my simple understanding; those tectonic plates are moving slowly. As they pass over the hot spot where the molten rock is oozing from the earth's mantle, there is enough buildup to form an island.\n",
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1yes9b | my poop floats sometimes, and sinks others. what gives? | [
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"answer": "The density can vary based on things like fat content; having too much fat in it can make it float for example.",
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"answer": "I have a B.S in nutrition and a Doctorate in Naturopathic medicine. \n\nThis question actually needs a slightly complicated answer. So h... | null |
f9az61 | why are whites and yolks mixed in separately while baking cakes? sometimes extra yolk is also added. how does that affect the cake? | [
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"answer": "They aren’t always separate. More often than not the whole egg goes in. Yolks the fattiest most flavorful part so they extra yolks being more moisture and depth to taste. Whites are comparatively less so but whip well to being structure and solidify cakes (binder).",
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49qixr | how does the us democratic party's rule of proportional representation work? | [
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"answer": "All candidates who get 15% or more of the vote in a certain state get delegates. How many delegates they get depends on the number of people who voted for them: if candidate A gets twice as many votes as candidate B, then candidate A gets twice as many delegates (up to some rounding).\n\nAs an exam... | null |
49fl0s | spanning tree network? | [
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"answer": "I assume you have a basic understanding of networking to be asking this question. But essentially, if you have a layer 2 network without spanning tree or some other means enabled what happens is the broadcasts/traffic would propagate throughout the network forever. Spanning tree stops loops by di... | null |
dz186n | What invasive species invaded and destroyed ecosystems without the help of humans? | [
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"answer": "This can occur when previously isolated ecosystems become connected in some way. Check out the Great American Interchange, when North and South America became connected by a land bridge. A lot of South American animal species became extinct shortly after, likely being outcompeted by Invaders from t... | null |
fkrqw4 | How did the Haudenosaunee/Iroquois Confederacy form? | [
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"answer": " > How accurate is the story of Hiawatha and Great Peacemaker?\n\nTo start out with, there isn't a singular concerning the efforts of the Peacemaker, Hiawatha, and Jigonsaseh (the third major founder that is often neglected in these conversations). There are several different traditions, each with... | null |
q85iq | Would someone with anaemia get intoxicated easier? | [
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"answer": "First, anemia is not decreased blood volume but rather low red blood cells or hemoglobin in the blood. This is due to, as you said, a variety of reasons. \n\nAlcohol is metabolized in the liver by three primary systems: alcohol dehydrogenase, CYP2E1, and a catalase. Each of these metabolize ethanol... | null |
6of361 | Was there any serious opposition to the Habsburg dynasty for the Imperial throne between the death of Frederick III and the War of the Austrian Succession (1493-1740)? | [
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"answer": "You might enjoy my earlier answer on the [crazy negotiations behind the election of 1519](_URL_0_) (Charles V). And, er, \"negotiations.\"",
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4cj7rp | i know who takes over if a u.s. president were to die in office, but who would take over if a presidential candidate were to die of a heart attack or such? they're running mate or would their party nominate another candidate? what would happen? | [
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"answer": "The party whose nominee they would have been would decide how to replace them. There are reasonable arguments to be made for either the second highest vote getter in the primaries, or the Vice Presidential nominee. Unless this happened just days before the election I would guess there would be a so... | null |
273mh9 | There has been some claim that the Dalai Lama presided over a feudalistic/slave Tibet until Chinese Communism abolished the system. How accurate is this? | [
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"answer": "Using the term 'feudalistic' and 'slavery' as a comparative isn't a very appropriate way to view either system. Feudalism implies an aristocracy who owns land by inherited right, but also have a duty to the bonded serfs who work the land and recognition of a greater authority. Slavery implies the u... | null |
50a8mg | What was "Viking" ale? | [
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"answer": "First of all, we must remember than unlike today, \"ale\" and \"beer\" were not the same type of drink in early medieval times.\n\n\"Beer\" or björr might refer to ale-type beer, but also to mead or even cider. Its not exactly clear if this is supposed to be a catch-all term for fermented drinks, o... | null |
1p6ngw | Why did the Red Army in WW2 allow itself to be encircled time and again? Bad leadership, arrogance, or other factors? | [
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"answer": "A number of factors. First of all, encirclements in general were a product of the highly mobile warfare of WWII. It was easy for the side that had the initiative to mass their forces in a small area, achieve a breakthrough, and then use their mobility to quickly dash deep behind enemy lines. Envelo... | null |
4lxl3u | why when you look in a mirror with a mirror oppisite that it goes on forever, but seems to get darker the further in it gets? | [
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"answer": "Mirrors aren't perfect - not all of the light that hits a mirror is reflected back out again.\n\nIf, for instance, a mirror reflects 90% of the light that hits it, that means 10% will be lost.\n\nSo on the first reflection, you'll be down to 90% of the original light intensity.\n\nIt hits the secon... | null |
35yijm | What limited the hunter-gatherer population in comparison to agricultural societies? | [
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"answer": "Whenever food production capability jumps, like what happened in southern China after the advent of high-yield rice or what happened recently with fertilisers, population soon follows. Agricultural societies tend to make children more frequently. Studies in modern and ancient nomadic populations sh... | null |
2oxb83 | If comets are losing mass as they get closer to the sun, how are we able to accurately predict Halley's Comet's trajectory? | [
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"answer": "We cannot accurately predict it in the sense of being 100% accurate, it's a ball park figure based on intelligent assumptions being made & then plugging in those figures to work out the path of the comet. Done often enough (i.e. via a computer) you can start to model trajectories & work out the... | null |
9h45s6 | How Did Newfoundland Interact With Slavery in the Americas & Carribbean? | [
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"answer": "They were indeed, and the trade relationship between Newfoundland and the Caribbean has had a lasting effect on the culture that can be seen to this day. \n\nSince the first [livyers](_URL_0_) started staying in Newfoundland around 1610 till about the 1960's the only industry was based around the c... | null |
5y2kx2 | Is there any meaning to the phrase "twice as hot" or "twice as cold" as 0 degrees? | [
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"answer": "**tl;dr: Yes you can double or half the temperature of something, but not in the way you're probably thinking.**\n\nThe confusing part of this topic for most people is that the temperature scales that we use in day-to-day life are kind of...arbitrary. The \"zero\" on the Fahrenheit scale was based ... | null |
5obaha | How can TSA/Airport security workers stand next to X and T ray machines all day everyday without any ill effects? | [
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"answer": "Like any radiation worker, they apply ALARA. That means that you should take steps to make your radiation exposure \"As Low As Reasonably Achievable\". The ways to do this are the maximize distance from the source, minimize time near it, and use shielding when possible.\n\nIf you pay close attentio... | null |
bx10vk | could someone get in trouble for accidentally stumbling upon child porn | [
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"answer": "It depends on how many times this \"accident\" happened. And btw...before considering telling police that you meant to be committing a different form of illegal movie downloading...you might want to consult with a lawyer.",
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ia5bo | If something huge hit the Earth, would humans and objects on the opposite side of the planet go flying up in the air? | [
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"answer": "The earth is quite squishy on the big scale. It would be like hitting a water balloon i think. A gigantic shock wave would propagate around the earth from the impact location. If the object is big enough, the earth's crust would be thrown into space and the earth would turn into a giant ball of lav... | null |
1ffb4n | If I shot a lazer that went forever in a straight line through space, what are the odds it would hit an object - star, planet, nebula etc..? | [
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"answer": "All lasers (and all photons in general) do go in straight lines through space. \n\nEdit: Removed my answer which presumed a static universe. BarnardPancake is correct.",
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"answer": "This question is very similar to [Olbers' paradox](_URL_0_)\n\nWell if there wer... | null |
2tertv | why is there so much down time in professional football games? | [
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"answer": "I'm assuming you mean American football. There are a couple reasons: \n\n* It provides ample time to include commercials\n* Football is an extremely brutal and tiring sport; the downtime gives players a chance to recover between plays\n* Oftentimes there are a lot of things that have to happen betw... | null |
77kcc2 | why does rain make us feel cozy? | [
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"answer": "It depends on where you are. If you're at home, and it's also cold out, you turn on the heat and some lights, grab a sweater or a blanket, and bam, you're feeling cozy. Because those things make you feel warmer. If you're outside, you pull up your hoodie or get under an umbrella, maybe stand clo... | null |
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