question stringlengths 0 2.44k | prompt listlengths 1 1 | ground_truth stringlengths 0 8.31k | category stringclasses 12
values |
|---|---|---|---|
Telecommunications What options are available for extending the internet coverage to far-flung areas? | [
{
"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... | you could dig a trench and put in a bundle of fibre optic cables into the ground, that would be the best optiin. but since you said it is not an option you would need to use an wireless backhaul. checkout ubiquity. they have a productline called airfibre, which is able to span several km of distance. from then you can ... | Technology |
If the stomach takes 6 hours to digest food, how does it deal with you eating, wait for 5 hours then eat again? | [
{
"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... | It's not six hours in the stomach. It's six hours through the whole digestive tract. So by the time you're swallowing food to your stomach again, your first meal is likely through the small intestine and into the colon. There's also tons of variation in how different food types absorb, and the system can speed up or sl... | Biology |
What is the difference between all those different types of toothpaste? | [
{
"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... | There's not a lot of difference. Some manufacturers will add materials that have certain properties, but in real-life use, those properties will be minimal. Examples: Whitening toothpaste contains a higher level of ~~surfactants~~ abrasives, essentially "scrubbing" the surface of the tooth clean. This can damage enamel... | Other |
how does some dinosaurs get transformed into fossil fuel while others are perfectly preserved? | [
{
"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... | They didn’t. Oil is principally formed from microorganisms like algae and plankton falling to the bottom of the ocean over hundreds of millions of years. Coal is formed from vast forests of tree like plants that grew in swampy areas for millions of years before there were microorganisms that could break down their wood... | Biology |
- how do flu strains vs flu shots battle it out? | [
{
"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... | The flu shot, like other vaccines, work by triggering your immune system, causing it to produce antibodies that target the pathogen. This process ordinarily takes time, which is why it takes a while for your body to fight off a infection or virus since this is essentially a tailored response. However once it's done so ... | Biology |
How many sides can a shape have before it becomes a circle and does the concept of geometry exist on the very small scale? | [
{
"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... | In geometry, regular polygons become closer to circles the more sides they have. In that sense, you might say a circle is a regular polygon with an infinite number of sides. Real world objects can be neither perfect circles or perfect regular polygons. Eventually imperfections will crop up, at the molecular level, if n... | Mathematics |
when oil prices are down and there is a surplus of fuel; based on supply and demand why are prices at the pumps highest. Should the price of gasoline not be relative to crude? | [
{
"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... | While they are tied, there is a lag between the time the crude is purchased, transported, refined, stored, distributed and eventually hits your local gas pump. Of course stations seem to raise prices immediately upon increase of crude prices while only lowering prices once lower cost crude has worked its way through th... | Economics |
Can someone break down the health benefits of intermittent fasting and why it's gaining in popularity? How can NOT eating regular meals be healthy? | [
{
"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... | The three main meals model is not scientifically proven to be good or bad. It’s a product of culture, not medicine. Basically the government started saying, “Eat breakfast grow big and healthy” around the 1920’s. If you look at US agricultural trends, this coincided with the boom of grain production and industrial farm... | Biology |
When huge companies don’t pay tax, is it illegal? If not, what are they doing wrong? | [
{
"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... | The tax code is utterly, incomprehensively, massive. And as with anything that complex, there's a huge variety of what you may think of as loopholes to pay less in taxes. Many of these are intentional, but it's not uncommon to find a way that fits the letter of the law, but not in the way it was intended. For a made-up... | Economics |
How does the “I was in your area, and wanted to know if you’d be willing to sell your property” telemarketing scheme make money? | [
{
"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... | Their value proposition is to give you a "fair/market" price for your house straight up, without having to use brokers, lawyers, deal with house inpectors and open houses and all that. In fact, a lot of them will buy it even without a building inspection, sight-unseen. For one, not having to deal with all that usual "s... | Other |
Why do plastic milk jugs always have gross little dried flakes of milk crust around the edge of the cap? No other containers of liquid (including milk-based ones) seem to have this problem. | [
{
"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... | I work at a dairy. I've ran the machines that make the bottles and fill the bottles. Basically after the milk goes in the cap is for a lack of a better term dropped onto the top of the bottle, pressed down and then screwed tight in basically one quick motion that takes about a second. When the cap is pressed down exces... | Chemistry |
Why can you “hear” the difference between hot and cold water being poured? | [
{
"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... | Liquids have a property called *viscosity*^(1). Olive oil is more viscous than water. Honey even more so. This should give you some idea what viscosity is. You can roughly understand it as the liquid's 'thickness'. More formally, viscosity measures how resistant a substance is to deformations. In other words, how much ... | Physics |
Why do so many species have two eyes? | [
{
"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... | All of the answers so far have been focusing (heh) on binocular vision. While certainly useful for predators it is common for prey animals to have very wide fields of view without effective visual overlap or effective binocular depth perception. Yet they too have two eyes. What it really comes down to is a feature call... | Biology |
How do restaurants benefit from giving out free bread to everyone? | [
{
"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... | The free bread costs them very little to hand out, but helps fill you up. When deciding where to eat, on some level you compare the cost against how full you are. A moderately expensive restaurant that charges quite a bit of money for a relatively small bit of food seems like a rip off if you leave hungry, but if you'r... | Economics |
what is the difference between REST & SOAP web services? | [
{
"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... | A SOAP web service has a very structured request and response. Data types, required fields, etc., are all defined in a WSDL that you can consume with your application to automatically build the entire request structure. All of it goes over HTTP POST methods. The entire web service has a single endpoint that covers many... | Technology |
Why are the Earths "Magnetic field/polar poles" flipping? And how will this affect nature and us? | [
{
"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... | They aren't. The magnetic poles do flip occasionally but that is on a geological timescale. It happened a handful of times over the last few millions of years. There is no strong indication that such a thing is currently happening or about to happen. some conspiracy and new-age believers however appear to be fascinated... | Physics |
How would losing a limb (or multiple limbs) affect blood flow and oxygenation of the body? | [
{
"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... | The body has baroreceptors inside the arterial walls which regulate the pressure of the circulating blood. These receptors keep the blood pressure in a specific range via multpile mechanisms like renin-angiotensin-aldosterone, systemic vasodilation/comstriction via nitric oxide etc. If you loose a limb, the blood press... | Biology |
Why can you feel awake and ready to go after only 3 hours of sleep but feel overtired and exhausted after sleeping for 10 hours? | [
{
"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... | Most people have a sleep cycle that’s around 90 minutes long, so sleeping for a multiple of this means that you wake up during the lightest part of the sleep cycle. Waking up from deep sleep is hard, and can leave you feeling sleepy for the rest of the day. Waking from light sleep is much easier, because your body is m... | Biology |
If heat is particles moving fast and cold is particles moving slow, why does wind cool you down even though its moving fast? | [
{
"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... | It's not them 'moving its them 'vibrating. Think about a red hot block of steel that's not moving. It's hot because energy has been added to it which causes the steel molecules to vibrate faster than they would at room temperature. They'll slow down their vibrations as the heat gets transferred into the ambient air. Tl... | Physics |
How do certain joints crack repeatedly? | [
{
"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... | You know of one type of cracking. Other one is the tendons making noise over bony areas. Tendons snap on these bony areas,getting taut and suddenly released. Examples are ankles and wrists. Its not that much in humans, but some deers have this in their knees where it consistently makes noise when they kove,so they stay... | Biology |
Why are people not visible in Google Maps satellite images (and others)? | [
{
"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... | Any large scale map will be made up of many individual pictures stitched together. This allows you to zoom in and get detail in each image but still have a large final product. This sometimes causes vehicles to fade out of view from end to end, because they moved between pictures. I would imagine they turned this into ... | Technology |
How do domain servers (like at a company) and subdomains in Active Directory overlap with website domains/subdomains and DNS servers? | [
{
"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... | Ok, so basically, it works like this: When you register a domain, they enter a record for that domain that points towards your DNS server. That DNS server lists the IP addresses for the various services and subdomains you hold. AD is more than DNS, but it is a necessary component. Just like the public domains, your AD ... | Technology |
- How does URL_0 work? How do you get money back, by buying through their site? | [
{
"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... | Yes, it works. What it is is basically an affiliate program. Ebates has an agreement with a vendor, like Amazon, that if someone clicks on a special link they've created to go to Amazon (there are cookies that track this), and they buy something on Amazon, then Amazon will give them a commission of some percentage of t... | Economics |
How do people create viruses without constantly fucking up their own computer? | [
{
"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... | In the early days of hacking, viruses were created on test computers. A machine that has all the basic components of a computer, but doesn't have anything but an OS installed. It's just a dummy. Later, we created virtual machines for that. Basically, a whole computer that is separated from the rest of your computer by ... | Technology |
Is it coincidence that some measures are "perfect"? Like, 1 mL of water is equal to 1 cm³ and so on. How did they match this up? | [
{
"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... | No coincidence -- that is how they defined the units, on purpose! The definition of a centimeter is based on the size of the Earth, but the definition of a liter is based on the definition of a centimeter. A liter is defined as the volume of a cube 10cm on each side. And a kg was originally set as the weight of a liter... | Mathematics |
I was born in the UK in the early 90s, why aren't I allowed to donate blood? | [
{
"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... | They’re worried that you might be carrying Mad Cow disease. The UK had an outbreak during the period you were born and because the disease can have little to no side effects for years it’s still a slight risk. Edit: Also, generally speaking blood banks are very conservative about the blood they except. If they have eve... | Biology |
how did scientists know they had found new elements? | [
{
"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... | This is what the field of analytical chemistry is about. Scientists would take a substance and expose it to a variety of different chemical tests, designed to prove or disprove whether it was a compound, a known element, or something new. For example, imagine you have a mineral crystal, and you want to know what the me... | Chemistry |
What type of adhesive is on screen protector? It is crystal clear | [
{
"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... | It's called a Pressure Sensitive Adhesive or PSA. In essence, it stays wet so that it adheres to a multitude of surfaces, not only just by the bonding forces between atoms (intermolecular forces), but by physically entangling in the little mountains and ridges that are on all surfaces. What you may be used to is glue t... | Chemistry |
Why does a plastic straw rise out of diet, no ice, but stays put with ice in the drink? | [
{
"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... | The straws act as nucleation points for the formation of bubbles. These growing bubbles sticking to the sides of the straw from surface tension add their buoyancy to the straw which can lift it some out of the drink. The presence of ice can press on the straw enough to keep the minor change in buoyancy from moving the ... | Other |
How does a computer determine when a syntax error has been made? | [
{
"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... | Syntax errors are found at compile time while it's trying to understand your code and make assembly. They're easier to see in a language like C that requires semicolons. Let's take the following example Int x=2; Int y; If(x==2) { y=4 Else { y=7; } There are two issues in there so the compiler will read though it and co... | Technology |
Why do classical musicians read sheet music during sets when bands and other artists don’t? | [
{
"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... | My husband plays for a city orchestra. He usually gets his sheet music in the mail a week before performances start. He’ll start working on them, then the orchestra will have 2-4 rehearsals before performances start. Everyone needs to take copious notes, because the conductor will put his own spin on things: “Violins, ... | Other |
What is it about low budget film footage that allows me to immediately recognize that it’s low budget? | [
{
"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... | Its almost always the lighting. With decent enough equipment and a moderately skilled camera man you can get good shots in most environments. Lighting is difficult and is both an art and a science and its not only about the equipment and technician. Very small changes can have massive effects and getting the lighting j... | Technology |
Why do companies put their eggs in cardboard boxes if they don't want them to get crushed? You'd expect they just get better packaging? | [
{
"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... | You actually don't want a super hard material, you want something with some flexibility, since it will help absorb shock from things like loading boxes on top of each other, and hitting bumps while transporting, cardboard is really one of the most effective solutions. The next best would probably be silicone or some ki... | Other |
Why do some clothes only shrink the first time we wash them and not all the subsequent times? | [
{
"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... | Heat from drying causes the fibers to tighten up, if I’m not mistaken. It doesn’t actually get less material, it’s just bunched up closer together. So at some point, after shrinking once, maybe a bit twice, it will only want to shrink so much. Edit: Fixed one thousand spelling missed steaks. | Chemistry |
Why in a parallel circuit when you add a resistor the total resistance decreases ? | [
{
"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... | You have a bunch of people in a house who want to leave. There's only one door open so it takes a while because one person can leave at a time. Now you open another door. It goes faster because now two people can leave at a time. By adding a resistor in parallel, you're creating more paths for electrons to take allowin... | Physics |
What is the procedure for dismantling a chemical weapon and how is it disposed of? | [
{
"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... | Chem engineer here. I'm not sure, they don't teach us that in College. However I was pretty good at fucking solutions up and that's what they do in the dismantling process, so I can imagine a way to do this. The way I imagine is this: They dissolve the Gas in any liquid they can mixture it and then they make it react w... | Chemistry |
How is Proxima Centauri’s density 33 times that of our sun? | [
{
"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... | Lets say that Proxima Centauri weighs 1 pg(ProximaGram) and has a diameter of 1 pm(ProximaMeter). That would put the sun at 8 pg weight and 7pm diameter. Density is weight per volume, so we first have to calculate the volume of both. Volume: v = 4/3\*pi\*r\^3 v(proxima) = 4/3\*pi\*1pm\^3 = 4/3\*pi\*1 v(sun) = 4/3\*pi\*... | Physics |
Why can't we find the volume of a sphere by integrating cone elements? | [
{
"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... | This question is more suited to /r/science, really. But I'll give it a go. The teacher is PARTIALLY correct because there is still space in between your cone bases that is unaccounted for... *until you approach the limit*. And that's why you got the right answer. Since calculus is about reaching limits more than anythi... | Mathematics |
If cameras can take videos with fps equaling single shutter speeds, why do photographers take dedicated still shots instead of video recording everything and later just isolating single frames for “photographs?” | [
{
"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... | In some cases you can, but when you take a single frame you have more control over the light. When you take a photo you can balance the depth of field, aperture size and iso- getting the right ratio of the three can give you much needed control in certain scenarios. When you record video- most of those settings become ... | Technology |
How do telescope long exposures work, considering earth rotation and movement? | [
{
"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... | Equatorial mounts are used, which are devices that once aligned with the north or south celestial pole (depending on location), will move with the rotation of the Earth so things don’t appear to move. When people say they did a 24 hour exposure, it is often not a single 24 hour exposure, but rather a bunch of smaller e... | Technology |
Does inflation just keeping going forever/what causes it? | [
{
"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... | Some things to note about inflation. If there is $100 dollars in the caveman world split between all the cavemen. They have no tools. However, you can buy a rock for $X, a stick for $Y and make a hatchet. Now you've created a hatchet which is more value than $X+$Y so we've created worth without creating money. This doe... | Economics |
What is the difference between information and data? | [
{
"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... | > What is the difference between information and data? Context Incidentally that's what we're missing to give you a relevant answer to this question. A table of results from a study is data, but without the context of how the study was performed its just data not information. Once you have the context then you can tell... | Other |
How are you not able to read things from the corner of your eye? | [
{
"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... | It's because there's an area of your eye designed for seeing details in... well, in detail. It's called the fovea. This is the place on your retina where light falls from a thing that you're "looking at." It has a higher density of light receptors than other places in your eye, so it can see more details and make out t... | Biology |
When the government saves money by cutting public sector funding where does this money go instead? | [
{
"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... | What you're asking is the allocation of public resources at the disposal of government either by properietory of geographical jurisdiction or fiscal policy(statehood and taxes). In a democratic framework, government proposes a "budget" which is a kind of treaty between public and the state. The government allocates the... | Economics |
Is skin attached to anything or is it effectively a glued down giant sock? | [
{
"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... | The epithelium of skin is made up of 5 layers(google if u want details). The outermost layer is made up of dead keratinized cells. This cells forms a barrier between you and the external environment. They are shed and replaced, just like how you have calluses on your sole. The inner layer of the skin is held by connect... | Biology |
What are the white moons on your finger nails? | [
{
"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... | They’re called lunula. Basically they’re where your nail begins to grow distally(meaning away from the lunula). It’s practically your nail plate (part of your nail that is visible) except it’s white because it’s much thicker than the rest of your nail plate. This thickness hides all the blood vessels that are underneat... | Biology |
how is Pi actually calculated? | [
{
"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... | There are different computational methods for calculating digits of pi. The key insight is that pi occurs in many different math relations, not just circles. This allows a person to sum together [a series of calculated terms]( URL_0 ) based on integers and a few math operations -- as many terms as you want for the desi... | Mathematics |
Why is water so essential for Life? | [
{
"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... | For many chemical reactions, your reactants need to mix. They need to be mixed so well that every molecule reacts with every other molecule. Sure, you could grind it into a powder and mix it for a long time, or melt it and mix it, but if you add just a bit of water then they can dissolve and mix without *any* other wor... | Earth Science |
when the baby is in the womb. Its drowned in liquid. But the moment the baby comes out, it needs air to breath. How does the sudden transition work? And how did the lung didn't just fill up with liquid all that time. | [
{
"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... | The lungs are filled with fluid. Before birth though a lot of the fluid is absorbed, and some can be squished out during birth. (Newborns are kinda squishy like that) So the first breath after birth inflates the lungs. Some fluid is left over but that gets absorbed in the first few hours. Though it is possible too much... | Biology |
why do we find the sound of the rain soothing but can't sleep if there's a tap dripping? | [
{
"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... | rainfall is randomized, and produces what’s called a broadband sound: a sound which has lots of different frequencies, or pitches, in it. a dripping faucet is generally pretty regular, like a ticking clock, and each drop creates a sound that is more narrowband: it has fewer frequencies, sometimes even to the point of b... | Other |
how (and why) does depression affect one’s memory? | [
{
"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... | Depression causes a huge variety of symptoms and can be broken down to a chemical imbalance in your brain. Literally the brain is not working as it is supposed to be functioning. There are a variety of symptoms such as loss of interest, feeling of guilt, loss/gain in appetite, sleep disturbances (too little or too much... | Biology |
Why is the majority of the human population right hand and right eye dominant? | [
{
"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... | So there is definitely a tendency towards right handedness in people, but I would also point out that right now, there is social pressure on that as well: many left-handed children born in the 90s were forced to acclimate to right-handedness. When I was in preschool, I had to wear a sock on my left hand all day every d... | Biology |
How is there a higher chance of being killed by a meteor than winning the lottery if one happens frequently and the other has never happened in recorded history? | [
{
"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... | A little googling seems to show the 1 in 700,000 number comes from this article: URL_0 I couldn't find an actual paper. You might be able to find it in the book. The tldr: Most of the odds aren't just 1 person being hit by a meteor. It's that a giant meteor strike (think dinosaurs) would be an exinction level event. > ... | Mathematics |
Where do the blood vessels go after a chicken is cooked? | [
{
"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... | Blood vessels are held open by the blood pressure inside them. When the chicken is drained of blood, the blood vessels will collapse, like a small stretched rubber band springing back. The blood vessels are still in the chicken meat, but far too small for you to notice. Only large vessels like major arteries are visibl... | Biology |
Why isn’t flint Michigan fixed yet? | [
{
"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... | Politics, and logistics. And before anyone says it, parties are irrelevant. The crisis started under a city council comprised entirely of Democrats. And when it first got really bad (like, 100% undrinkable), they continued to do nothing, and actually rejected offers and proposals to fix the problem. At this point, the ... | Other |
What is the purpose of a place like the Wall-Street? Why is it needed that much and what do people there do and can make so much money out of it? | [
{
"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... | The purpose of wall street is a capital allocation market. It allows people to put capital into different ventures that could generate additional wealth. It is needed because you may have more money than you are using in any given moment, instead of letting that money sit idle under your mattress where it slowly loses ... | Economics |
How do firefighters fight huge forest fires? | [
{
"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... | From what I know they contain the fire from spreading by digging trenches. Sometimes they go as far as setting small contained fires to combat the large ones (hence the term “Fighting fire with fire”). This works along some way of starving or barricading the blaze. They also use tricks like wetting brush and soaking wo... | Other |
What happens to an enemy state's embassy in case of war? | [
{
"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... | Generally, they are allowed a few hours/days to leave the country in peace, under diplomatic immunity. The thing is, most countries who host an embassy also maintain one of their own in the other country, so whatever they do to the diplomats of the enemy could also be done to their own in retaliation. Furthermore, ther... | Other |
Why does the news always seem to say that new ways to kill cancer have been found yet no one seems to be benefiting from these discoveries? | [
{
"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... | News over-reports and mistranslates research regularly. And there are a lot of different things which cancer can do, and types of cancer. When research shows one treatment to be slightly more effective than another treatment in a select population under very controlled circumstances with a specific early stage of a rel... | Technology |
How Do rechargeable batteries work? | [
{
"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... | Batteries work by producing electricity from a chemical reaction (which is why they have names like lithium-ion, and nickel-cadmium, mentioning some of the ingredients of their battery). In a rechargeable battery, it simply is able to reverse the chemical reaction by being charged. Imagine you had a Kool-Aid packet and... | Chemistry |
What difference in the sky causes hail instead of snow ? | [
{
"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... | When enough force of hot air rising meets the cold air, it's strong enough to keep rain particles from falling. This causes them to collect moisture and than freeze. Than come back down to collect more moisture than go up and freeze. They keep yo-yoing like that until they become too heavy for that hot air that's risin... | Biology |
How do bees survive the winter? | [
{
"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... | They all go in the hive and make a large ball out of themselves, then they beat their wings and wiggle to keep warm. Hives can be pretty balmy in the winter, but you have to reduce the height down to about 3 feet so the bee ball fills most of the hive. For wild bees the idea is the same except their hive is already the... | Biology |
Why does cookie dough cut with a cookie cutter keep their shape when baked but not when it is cut by hand, such as with a knife? | [
{
"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... | Pastry Chef here! As I understand it, when you cut straight down, whether with a cookie cutter or a knife, you create a clean break in the dough and basically seal the fat (butter, which creates steam, which causes spread) in the shape you cut it. If you use a knife in a dragging motion, you're creating a less defined ... | Other |
How does car insurance work and why it is mandatory to have it? | [
{
"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... | Insurance in general works like this: Everyone involved pays the insurance company regularly. Let's say monthly. When one of them suffers a disaster, the insurance company pays them to help cover the expenses of the disaster. In this way, the financial risk of the disaster is spread across all of the participants and o... | Economics |
How does this vinegar/baking soda hot ice reaction work? | [
{
"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... | The clear liquid is known as a supersaturated solution. In this case, of sodium acetate. By using only a little water, the maximum amount of solid is dissolved when it's hot. When it cools down, it ought to crystalize out but it can't because there's nothing to start the them off. When some crystals are added they act ... | Chemistry |
Why is space cold when sun light must be able to travel uninterrupted to a location in space? Should thst make it really hot? | [
{
"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... | Space is neither cold nor hot. It is empty. The tiny amount of gas floating around up there *is* quite hot, but doesn't transfer heat. If an object is left in space, it absorbs heat from the sun and radiates heat. What temperature it reaches depends upon its geometry, distance from the sun, and coloration. Deep space w... | Physics |
Would connecting a large amount of Bluetooth speakers to a device exponentially increase the sound? | [
{
"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... | Not exponentially, rather, they would *logarithmically* increase the sound. 100 speakers would increase the decibels by log(100)=20 decibels. It works like this: each speaker puts out some amplitude of sound waves. If they are all *constructively* interfering (sound waves building on top of one another, rather than can... | Physics |
Why isn't the foliage cut off the top of a pineapple? | [
{
"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... | Floridian here. I have about 30 pineapples growing in my garden. The stem at the top of the pineapple serves several purposes: * First, it keeps the fruit from drying out. If you were to cut it off, juice would leak out, the fruit would become dry and taste worse. * Second, it serves as an indicator of health. If the s... | Other |
Why do things taste differently to how they smell? | [
{
"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... | Good point, and great question. We don't have "sweet receptors" in our nose. Things seem to smell sweet (vanilla, raspberries, cotton candy), but we just associate those smells with the flavor and experience. We can't actually smell sweet. As a side note: this question has been asked here before. If you search the ques... | Biology |
What about Denver’s air/altitude is different than others? | [
{
"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... | As you go up in altitude, the air gets thinner and thinner until, at about 100 miles up, you're basically in space and the air pressure goes to zero. Denver isn't anywhere near that high, but it's high enough that the air is noticeably thinner, especially if you're used to sea level. (The Denver Broncos play at Mile Hi... | Earth Science |
why can't you divide by zero? | [
{
"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... | Okay so say you have 10 apples. You can put those apples into 10, 5, 2, or 1 group/s quite easily. You could even put them into 4 groups by splitting 2 of the apples in half. How many apples would be in those 0 groups? How do you put 10 apples into 0 groups? The answer is that you cannot physically put those 10 apples ... | Mathematics |
How do companies like PayPal, banks, and other non governmental entities verify your identity? | [
{
"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... | There are three main ways of establishing identity. & #x200B; something you are, something you know, and something you have. & #x200B; something you are is biometrics. something you know is a password. something you have is two factor authentication. & #x200B; paypal of old used to charge $2 to your bank account then r... | Other |
Why isn't telemarketing illegal? Or if it is, why is it still so frequent? | [
{
"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... | It sort of is illegal. If you put your number on the national do not call registry (US, though I'm sure other countries have something similar), then telemarketers are not allowed to call your number, with an exception that I'll get into later. It takes about a month for your number to be fully registered, but after th... | Other |
Why does one unopened bottle have less than the other? | [
{
"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... | It has to do with the inaccuracies of the manufacturing equipment its really hard and expensive to get equipment that measures things out exact. So most companies figure out their target say 12 fl oz. they can't guaranty that every bottle will have the exact amount but it will be in the ball park (standard deviation?).... | Other |
How can skateboarders (who land on their boards) jump down large flights of stairs without getting hurt? | [
{
"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... | A flight of stairs looks impressive. It is long and it drops down. In reality when you watch a skateboarder your mind is being tricked- but only a little bit. I'll explain: What really hurts the skateboarder the most is gravity, just the same as anyone else falling. If you fall 1 meter you might be hurt, or might not. ... | Physics |
How was the new kilogram calculated? What is the difference new and old kilo? | [
{
"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... | I'm by no means a scientist, but here's how I understand it. There were multiple 1kg blocks made and 6 were houses in Paris and then a bunch more sent out to different countries any back in late 1800s. They were all brought in for a weigh in in the late 90s and they had found the weights have changed. So now instead of... | Mathematics |
Why do Mechanics have to pay for tools when other professions dont? | [
{
"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... | For some it does. I regularly go to the city's shop to do things here and there for them. Every single one of them has a 10k+ snap on box full of tools. Why you ask? I asked the same question myself. Well its called a tool budget. I have had long conversations with them about it. still blows my mind. | Other |
How does math explain the universe and physics so "conveniently"? | [
{
"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... | Youre thinking backwards. For the equations to make sence, theyre taught in the path they were discovered. We didn't study vehicles and time their speed and breaking distance/time, and make an equation to fit them conveniently. The math already existed. Its conveniently convenient because it fits the way it makes sense... | Mathematics |
If only 1% of DNA makes the difference between a human and a tree, then what is the other 99%? | [
{
"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, by most measures, we don't share anywhere near 99% of our DNA with trees. The typical figure thrown about is 60% commonality between humans and banana plants, for instance; the number would probably be somewhere in that vicinity for most species of tree. That said, there's a whole lot of shared functionality bet... | Biology |
What exactly happens to flies and wasps when you spray them with bug spray? | [
{
"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... | Most bug sprays that kill on contact contain pyrethrin, or modified versions of it. Insects don't have noses, they breathe through their skin (Exoskeleton). Because of this, they almost instantly absorb the substances sprayed onto them. In the case of pyrethrin, it causes their nervous system to fire rapidly, paralyzin... | Biology |
Why isn’t water a good buffer? | [
{
"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... | A buffer solution resists a change in pH because the acid and base are present in high enough concentrations that a reaction with any given chemical will not really throw off the balance between the two. if you have 100 moles of base and 100 moles of acid, and react with 1 mole of either, the ratio becomes 99:100. With... | Chemistry |
How can TVs playback content with a framerate thats not dividable by the refresh rate? | [
{
"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... | The most common is playing 24 fps movies on 30 fps TVs. It converts 24 frames per second into 29.97 frames per second. Roughly speaking, converting every 4 frames into 5 frames plus a slight slow down in speed. The first 2 output frames are original. Output frames 3 and 4 are a mix of input frames 1, 2 and 3. Output fr... | Technology |
What is "counting cards," why do casinos ban you for it, and how do they know you're doing it? | [
{
"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... | Why do they ban you: so they make more money by not giving some of it to you. How do they know you're doing it? By the way you bet. Counting isn't the hard part, the hard part is making bets to take advantage of the fact you are counting, while appearing as though you're not doing that. In order to maximize your winnin... | Other |
How do you explain the difference between sympathizing with someone and empathizing with someone? | [
{
"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... | Sympathy is the act of understanding someone else's emotions. Empathy is feeling those emotions yourself. For example, if a friend's parent recently passed away you might feel sympathy if you understand that they are sad. But, if you also had a parent pass away you can remember the same feelings you had at that time. S... | Other |
Why do people with amputations experience phantom sensations in their amputated limb? | [
{
"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... | For your entire life from birth until whatever accident cost you your limb, your brain was building up and monitoring nerve connections with that limb. There’s tissue in the brain specifically dedicated to interpreting signals from that limb and sending commands to it. It’s ready for pain signals, pressure signals, tem... | Biology |
What’s the physical difference between a low end budget speaker and a high end pro one? | [
{
"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, high-end and professional speakers are not the same. What you hear during concert will never work well at home. Second, speakers and speaker cones are very important, but it's just part of what makes a high-quality speaker. Budget speaker cones are made basically from paper with flimsy suspensions and tiny coils... | Technology |
why is it that when a tire loses traction, it remains without traction until it slows down to gain traction again? | [
{
"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... | Friction is a bit odd in that there are two kinds of friction. When an object isn't moving relative to the surface its on it experiences Static Friction. When an object is moving relative to the surface it experiences Kinetic Friction. The coefficient for Kinetic friction is always lower than static friction, sometimes... | Physics |
Why is a probability bell curve for the result of rolling 1 or 2 dice linear, but the probability bell curve for the result of rolling 3+ dice rounded? | [
{
"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... | A single die is a uniform discrete distribution - it can only assume a fixed number of specific values, with an equal probability of each value. When you add two probability distributions (not just uniform discrete - any distribution), you use an operation called *convolution*. One way of thinking of this is imagine yo... | Mathematics |
Why does one get that "stomach-dropping" feeling when falling? | [
{
"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... | Don't know about the scientific name but our innards aren't completely fixed in place inside our bodies. We're just used to them being where they are normally. When there are sudden changes in our body movement (for example, a rollercoaster) our innards move. The faster the change, the worse it feels. Especially when f... | Biology |
Why is it bad to refill the same plastic bottle? | [
{
"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... | It is not. It is a psychological marketing trick to increase the sale of bottles. Plastics can leech into the contents (e.g. water) of the bottle if it gets damaged either physically or chemically. But a standard polyethylene bottle will last a very long time when if treated well. Companies have been/tried to have been... | Chemistry |
In California, why is there a palm tree planted at the end of every fourth row in a grove of orange trees? | [
{
"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... | In Redlands, California there are many orange groves and there is a powerful wind that blows in the winter time (Santa Ana winds). These winds cause a lot of damage to limbs and can knock fruit off the trees and causing them to rot in the direct sunlight. There are two forms of protection from the winds that are common... | Other |
Why does looking into bright light sources damage your eyes? | [
{
"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... | The lens in your eye focuses the light entering your pupil onto your retina. The intensity of the focused light hitting your retina is therefore much higher than the intensity of the light when it first enters your eye. This concentrated light can therefore burn and damage your retina. & #x200B; It's sort of like if yo... | Biology |
why does your tongue rest at the roof of your mouth instead of the bottom? | [
{
"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... | Glottal blocking so that nose breathing is easier. If your tongue rested without touching the roof of your mouth it would not seal your mouth and it could allow air to be pulled in between your lips, or saliva to be inhaled. Try this little experiment. Open your mouth and don't allow your tongue to touch the roof of yo... | Biology |
Why do people keep stealing radioactive material (Iridium-192) used in medical equipment in Mexico? | [
{
"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... | Since 2013 this has happened at least seven times, and apparently all of the previous incidents led to the radioactive material being returned. This makes me think that the medical equipment is being stolen because it looks expensive (meaning thieves think they can resell it and make a lot of money) and not necessarily... | Other |
is there a difference, in terms of cooking, between the shiny and dull sides of foil? | [
{
"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... | Contrary to common belief, the difference in texture of both sides of foil is not a functional one, but a technical one. When we manufacture foil with the current tools and processes, one side is dull and one side is shiny, but it has absolutely no impact on its use, and is not designed that way or another, its just an... | Other |
Is there a reason why all or most IP addresses begin with 192.168..? | [
{
"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... | 192.168.x.x is part of the 'private' range of addresses set aside by the Internet masters (APNIC). Whilst these are valid addresses, they are specificically designed not to be transmitted across the wider Internet. There are actually 3 such sets, (Class A, B and C). These are: A: 10.0.0.0 to 10.255.255.255. B: 172.16.0... | Technology |
Why do we still need to bring our license and registration to drive? Considering it's 2017 and we have enough technology to have all this information in the cloud / in our phones and match with the cops information. | [
{
"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... | The thing about government is that it has to be slow to adopt these technologies to function well as they have to be able to server literally everyone, not just most. There are plenty of people that don't have smart phones but still drive, or don't have internet and drive. We know the current license and registration s... | Technology |
What is consignment and how does it work? | [
{
"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... | Consignment just means lending somebody else your property so that they can sell it for you. Let's say you own a bookstore, and there's a new author who wants people to buy his book. If you wanted, you could buy 500 copies of his book (in this example, he has already published his book and has 500 copies lying around h... | Economics |
Is it possible to collect a sample of Gold in a Gaseous State? What would it look like? | [
{
"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... | Yes, if you boil gold it will turn to gas at about 2805 degrees Celsius. At that temperature it will be glowing yellow-orange just like anything else due to what is called "black body radiation". Now another way you can consider the color of a gas is to shine white light through it and see what passes through it. In th... | Chemistry |
How do those balancing rocks that people stack, work? | [
{
"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... | The surface of rocks are not smooth, the key is to locate an area of the rock where the rock your Balanceing fits in on a tripod, that is the rock makes contact with three areas of the other rock. To visualize it, or you index, middle and thumb tips together to make a triangle, this is the foundation, than put your oth... | Physics |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.