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What is the slow motion effect we experience during car accidents or other traumatic events? | [
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how the strong nuclear force works? Why are neutrons needed in the core to keep the protons in place? | [
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What is a logarithmic scale? Why is it more useful for some things than a regular numerical scale? | [
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What would the universe look like after the heat death of the universe? Would rocks remain, or would they have somehow "decayed"? | [
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Why are people subconciously uneasy or disturbed by corpses even if they know that little harm can come from them? | [
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What is black pen ink made of and what color is it truly? | [
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What's the complete process of the milk I buy from cow to bottle? | [
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How much do hurricanes and other major weather events effect the underwater ecosystem? | [
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Why are some EU member states using different currencies? | [
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What distinguishes the different types of light from each other? | [
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How does squinting helps us see better? Is it psychological? Does it ACTUALLY do something? | [
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Why food get "fridge taste" when they are in the fridge for too long? | [
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Why is there so much buzz about sleeping early in night? Is the same 8 hour sleep not enough if done in the day instead of night? | [
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How come batteries can die out without being used just from placing them in a device, but keep their energy stored if not? | [
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How can one audio waveform contain so many concurrent frequencies? | [
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How do whales not die of dehydration? Do they drink salt water? | [
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How is the value of a new floating currency determined? | [
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Why is brown sugar always "wet"? | [
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if you dont use, you'll lose it. but why do you start to lose muscle mass if you dont use it? | [
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What happens during a heart attack? | [
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How do we know that the stars we see at night are actually still there? | [
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What exactly makes something flammable? Like why are rocks not flammable but wood is? | [
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When water gets in your ears after swimming in a chlorinated pool, how does it get drained out and not chemically damage the inside of your head? | [
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why would a healthy, modern, growing company, Verizon want to buy an old, outdated (for years), company like AOL? | [
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Why do mood swings occur? | [
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Whenever we are embarrassed in public, why do our faces get red? And a get huge lump of saliva in our throats ? | [
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How does gravity make time slow down? | [
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Why is a crowd cheering any louder than one individual shouting, if everyone is shouting at the same volume? | [
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Why can a rapid decompression suck you? | [
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Why and how does fire technically have a shape? I don't understand the reasoning behind the border between air and fire. | [
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How are victims of severe starvation (such as holocaust survivors), safely brought back to a healthy weight? | [
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We know the universe is expanding, but where is this new space coming from? | [
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Why do some contraceptives impact women so differently? | [
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Why is the tip of the human nose made of cartilage? | [
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What causes people to become less flexible? | [
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how do telescopic sight or scope in sniper rifle work? The scope is few inches higher than the bullet line so how are the bullet hit the mark in the scope? | [
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How does hitting a beer bottle with the bottom of another beer bottle make it foam up? | [
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How does Newton's 3rd law work? | [
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How does peeing on a jellyfish sting help make it better? (Or whatever it does, I really don't understand). | [
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How would we know if we’re seeing a color for the first time? How are new colors created? | [
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Why do clouds flatten out on the bottom side closest to the surface, yet have such tremendous shape variations everywhere else? | [
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When clay hardens can you re-soften it by adding water? how did cave men use clay to build structures in the olden days | [
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Why are some letters given different symbols depending on case whilst others are simply changed in size? | [
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Why is there only a single common ancestor for life? if it happened once couldn't it happen again? | [
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How does a car radio know the name of the station, and the song playing ? | [
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Why is there is so much oil in the Middle East? | [
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How are companies that are non-profitable so massive/successful? | [
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Why are computer CPUs so small? Wouldn't it be beneficial to make them bigger? | [
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If I buy a steam giftcard from GameStop, who is actually profiting? | [
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What does a 4-D Cube look like? | [
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How can a multi-level marketing company not be considered a pyramid scheme? | [
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Will cancelling my oldest line of credit negatively impact my credit score? | [
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Why are nocturnal animals attracted to strong lights? Shouldn't they fear them, like then diurnal animals? | [
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Why does it hurt so much when guys get kicked in the balls? | [
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I've heard that soldiers during World War 1 played soccer together on Christmas. If this is true, how did hostile soldiers know that they were coming over for a game of soccer? Did anyone get killed by mistake? Were leaders willing to allow this? Didn't these soldiers hate each other? | [
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Why is it that some people struggle to remember simple things (names, dates, conversations, etc) yet are able to categorically memorize more trivial things (the periodic table, sports stats, world capitals, etc)? | [
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How has the previous generation “ruined the housing market” for millennials? | [
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Why does a good amount of painkillers help with inside pain but not outside pain? | [
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Would a gallon of water weigh the sams as a gallon of ice? | [
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If you try and speak in really strong wind, are your words literally being "blown away" or can people just not hear you due to the wind noise? | [
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Why are instruments chambered to different keys? For instance, a clarinet is chambered Bb, whereas a flute is C, or concert pitch. | [
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Why do medications that control seizures also treat bipolar disorders? | [
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How do logic gates work? | [
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- Why do they say you can ‘sweat’ the commin cold or the flu out when unwell? | [
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Why is the instant reaction to getting hit with cold water to take a large breath in? | [
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Why does shampoo not lather up well when you shampoo for the first time in a while? | [
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How does infrared work in mapping the heat of things (like with thermal goggles) since it's just a form of light? | [
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What will happen if we keep wasting water? | [
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Why do so many car commercials try to appeal to viewers emotionally rather than advertise features of the car? | [
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why are eletric cars less harmful to the planet than oil cars? | [
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Why does 60 degrees outside feel completely different from 60 degrees inside? | [
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why does cheese come in wheels and some other brands come in blocks? | [
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How do fighter jets detect that they've been locked as a target of a missile? | [
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How do square rigged ships sail in upwind? Can they at all? | [
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Difference between NAT vs ARP? | [
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did we invent math or discover it? | [
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Why does ice reduce swelling? | [
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How do floods like Houston flooding happen with all the modern technology and drainage systems we have? How do they even happen? | [
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Why are nut allergies and gluten intolerance so prevalent and serious in certain populations (like in much of the US), and negligible to the point of being even considered a myth in other parts of the world? | [
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why flying takes so much out of you physically and mentally when you haven't done anything but sit there? | [
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Why can we not access all of our memories? | [
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Why doesn't the flame on a candle just burn up the wick and go out before the was melts? | [
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How do people determine if X poison/venom is 10 million times more harmful than Y poison/venom? | [
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What is the legal reason that a president might not be able to be prosecuted? | [
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What are derivatives in Calculus and where could one actually use this in the real world? | [
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How do interest rates affect the economy? | [
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What are network ports and how do they work? | [
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Why is it that playing a PC game at 30 FPS looks so bad, yet playing a console game with a 30 FPS cap looks buttery smooth? | [
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Why do we sometimes get unexplained VERY long hairs in random place on your bodies? | [
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Why does bottled water contain sodium? | [
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Why are native Australians so different from Native New Zealanders? | [
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Does a fruit gain calories as it ripens due to the production of sugar? | [
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Why do some bank and payment processes still take 3-5 days to complete? | [
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Besides color, what is the difference between salt, sea salt, pink Himalayan salt, and black lava salt? | [
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How are hard drives/sd cards/digital storage nearly doubling in storage capacity, while remaining roughly the same size, year over year? | [
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Why does building muscle not equal strength? Eg. High volume for hypertrophy/building muscle vs. Low reps for strength. Whats the difference exactly? | [
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"content": "The user asks a question, and the Assistant answers it. The assistant provides the user with the answer that strictly follows the following guidelines. The answer should be enclosed within <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <answer> ANSWER HERE </answer>.\nYour answer should follow these... | First things first. There isn't a line drawn in the sand for hypertrophy vs strength building. They go hand in hand. What you can change is which one you focus more on. Hypertrophy (muscle fibre enlargement) not building new muscle fibre (hyperplasia) is said to be best targeted at around 8 to 12 reps. Strength is basi... | Biology |
How can you prove that you can't prove something? | [
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"content": "The user asks a question, and the Assistant answers it. The assistant provides the user with the answer that strictly follows the following guidelines. The answer should be enclosed within <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <answer> ANSWER HERE </answer>.\nYour answer should follow these... | Keep in mind that when we say a proposition "can't be proven", we mean that it can't be proven in one particular system. It's always possible to make a new system that can prove the original proposition. Usually, to show that something can't be proven, you find or construct two examples of your system; one in which you... | Mathematics |
in chemistry, what's the difference between "-ite", "-ide", and "-ate"? | [
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Why does Microsoft care so much about people using Edge? | [
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How exactly do 'low-cost' airlines make money? | [
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"content": "The user asks a question, and the Assistant answers it. The assistant provides the user with the answer that strictly follows the following guidelines. The answer should be enclosed within <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <answer> ANSWER HERE </answer>.\nYour answer should follow these... | Lower amenities. Some pre-purchase fuel to better control costs. Often they fly a single type of plane, which means mechanics, parts, pilot training, etc.... is streamlined. Southwest Airlines is considered one of the best low-cost carrier success stories. They don't have assigned seating, don't list inventory in many ... | Economics |
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