question stringlengths 0 2.44k | prompt listlengths 1 1 | ground_truth stringlengths 0 8.31k | category stringclasses 12
values |
|---|---|---|---|
What triggers the intense coughing when cleaning your ears with Q-Tips? | [
{
"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 something call "Arnold’s nerve" in your ear which is connected to the "Vagus nerve". The Vagus controls important stuff like coughing and breathing. When you touch the inside of your ear the Arnold’s nerve sends a signal which sometimes the Vagus misinterprets. Instead of telling your brain that you have somet... | Biology |
What is this thing called after- or pre-market stock exchange? | [
{
"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... | Extended hours trading takes place on electronic communication networks, and not on the exchanges. This provides a few extra hours of trading per day, but also comes with a huge warning about liquidity: because of the much lower volume occuring these hours, prices may fluctuate wildly. As such, market orders are usuall... | Economics |
Why does it take longer to delete a bunch of files together, as opposed to deleting them individually? The size of the deletion is the same in both the cases | [
{
"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... | Pretend you have a football field, and 100m of string laid out in a line: it’s pretty easy to walk along it, and pick up the string. Now if the string is cut into pieces and spread all over, you still have 100m of string but you’ll have to find it all and go to it to pick it up | Technology |
Even before colonialism, why were European and Asian countries typically more advanced than African? | [
{
"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... | ELI5: Answer, your question is incorrect. History didn't happen that way. & #x200B; ELI20 Answer: So lets go over a few things. & #x200B; Pre-1500 West Africa was more advanced than Western Europe. The reason we know the name of Timbuktu to this day is because of how wealthy it was. The great library at Djenne is still... | Technology |
How do microtransactions work on the brain? | [
{
"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... | One of the most common and effective tricks is *reward removal*: "You got these 5 rewards! But oh no, your inventory only has 3 free slots. Would you like to buy more inventory space and keep these rewards?" Humans typically display a loss-aversion bias and value preventing the loss of an X they have more than gaining ... | Economics |
How do tariffs and bond rates affect mortgage rates? | [
{
"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 really 2 questions here, and we have to take them separately. How do tariffs affect mortgage rates? Not much. A tariff is a tax on imports. Usually, countries only put tariffs on physical goods (things you can drop on your foot), and do not put taxes on services or financial products. It's also very rare, outsi... | Economics |
What is happening when Microsoft Word puts the red squiggly under a correctly-spelled word and then it disappears when you click the word? | [
{
"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... | Microsoft products are very much known to have bugs. Sometimes bugs will live for years and never be fixed. What's most likely happening is Word detected the spelling error before you finished typing the word, but didn't put the red line until after you finished. Then Word forgot to check the word again to see if it wa... | Technology |
I know a tiny bit of inflation is considered healthy because it encourages investment. What kind of investment is specifically referenced here, and what are the consequences if people don’t invest? | [
{
"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 kind of investment, but mostly investment in better equipment, new production facilities, etc. Let's say you're a business owner and you have a million dollars in the bank. You don't need to use it right away... but you know that if you just keep it in the bank, inflation will make the money worth less in five year... | Economics |
If natural satellites (moons) are remains (or even consequences of collisions) of our planets, why do the orbits of the majority of them stay in the same plane as the orbits of the planets? Couldn't they be random? | [
{
"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 moons don't actually orbit in the same plane as their parent body. Our moon, for example, actually orbits with about 5 degrees of inclanation. But yes, generally speaking, they will adopt a similar orbital plane, and the reason for this is that when all this ejected material slowly gravitates towards other particl... | Physics |
Why are bridges more likely to freeze than a normal patch of the road? | [
{
"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... | Because there is cold air both under and over the bridge and it cools down faster than the regular pavement where the ground is still warmer than the air. So in essence, the highway doesn't freeze as quickly because it is being kept warmer from below. Edit: for those that are saying that it is because the ground insula... | Physics |
How are we able to make the voices of people we know speak completely new stuff in our heads? | [
{
"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’ve broken down the words from her accent into phonemes, or the individual sounds like fuh uk kuh yew. You’ve done this by being familiar with her accent (but not completely, Charles says yes as earus) and many others. Part of learning to talk is subconsciously learning these fragments in your parents accent (or a f... | Psychology |
Why cant atoms like hydrogen and chlorine have full shells and not make a molecule of 2?? | [
{
"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 is nothing that says they can't. But that would only likely happen in a vacuum. The electron they have had to come from somewhere. In your examples, the two Cl and H atoms are basically sharing electrons in a covalent bond. Even if you had a free electron to give them, they would become ions, meaning they would h... | Chemistry |
Why can't we create water? I heard that it's too dangerous but can't we do it in a controlled enviroment now that we have robots that can get up close instead of 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... | The only way to _create_ water is to combine hydrogen and oxygen. We don't have practical supplies of hydrogen to do this. If we did we'd be able to use it as a fuel source. Besides, it's not like we're running out of water... We have a few oceans full of it. What would be useful is a way of turning seawater into fresh... | Chemistry |
Why/How the hell can the worst bugs (fleas, ticks, bedbugs, etc) live for MONTHS with no food and just keep repopulating and repopulating and repopulating even though there's NO nutrition? | [
{
"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... | These pests have evolved to be very hardy, having built-in survival mechanisms that help them survive. Insects are cold-blooded so they don't need to use energy to keep them warm. Additionally, if it gets cold enough, their metabolism will slow down meaning they can go a long time without eating any food. Unfortunately... | Biology |
how does helium change your voice? | [
{
"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 you speak normally your vocal cords vibrate at a certain speed or frequency this is usually the same when you are breathing air. Helium is a much lighter gas than air, which is why balloons filled with it float so well. When it passes over your vocal cords they vibrate faster which makes the voice sound squeaky be... | Biology |
Why are some people more sympathetic/emotional 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... | The only answer to this is no one knows. There is a ton of research about it in psychology, but it's one of those things that is a trait of "personality." In the newest personality inventory in psycology (they always have a new personality test every decade or so. It used to be the Myers-Briggs) is the "Big 5." Of whic... | Biology |
What is the vanishing gradient problem in deep learning? | [
{
"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... | If you put a ball on the top of the mountain, it'll roll downhill - until it hits a valley. In optimization, this concept is called a "gradient descent": You pick a point and then move in the direction of the steepest slope (gradient) until you find a valley. The valley is, ideally, the best way to do something. So for... | Mathematics |
do satellites orbit the earth or are they held stationary by gravity as the earth turns? | [
{
"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... | > Do they go around the earth with the rotation? Do they move at a higher rate of speed than the earth? Depends. The closer to the earth they are, the faster their rate of orbit is. Close to earn, the ISS for instance orbits once every 90 minutes. Further away you have things like Geosynchronous orbit which is a specia... | Technology |
Why do computers have to restart to finish installing an update or software? | [
{
"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... | Imagine if someone tried to change your shoes at the same time while you're standing. You would probably fall down, because you need your feet to stand. For this to work, you have to sit down and wait for the person to change your shoes for you, then stand up. Likewise, in most computer operating systems, there are sys... | Technology |
Where does the color go when you bleach something? And why does it go? | [
{
"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 a little bit of chemistry to be known here. Chlorine bleach is an *oxidizer* -- that is, it removes electrons from chemicals. The reason clothes have color is because of the way visible light interacts with / bounces off of the molecules that make up the pigment. When it's oxidized, the removal of the electrons... | Chemistry |
exactly how the dollar is backed by Gold reserves. Also please explain, if possible, why we even need the resource to back the note? | [
{
"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 isn't. At least not directly, anymore. It used to be on a gold standard, meaning your 20 dollar note was worth a set amount of gold, the exact weight was changeable due to inflation, but was relatively stable. In times of crisis, they would temporarily drop off the Standard and issue money as "fiat", meaning it is w... | Economics |
i learned in school that all plastic comes from mineral oil. The amount of plastic is sheer unbelievable. Is what i learned in school still true? Can plastic be made out of something else now? Musn't oil end at some point? | [
{
"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 don't have to make plastics from mineral oil—it's not like it has magic properties that allow it to be turned into plastic etc, and nothing else can. It's just that it is cheaper to dig it out of the ground than use an alternative in many cases. Bioplastics have been around for some time, and use fermented plant ma... | Chemistry |
| Why do some places get massive tides while others 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... | Geography While the location of the moon changes the height of the tidal bulge, that doesn't actually resolve why some places have stupid large tides. The Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia has a 13 meter tidal range while the global average is just 1 meter The really big tidal ranges come from geography and geometry forming ... | Earth Science |
How does photography work exactly? | [
{
"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... | Light bounces off everything that isn’t absolutely black. Plants absorb red and blue and reflect green for example. A camera records how intense and what color the light is that bounces off stuff and hits the camera lens. Better cameras have more sensors, more accurate lenses and better software to give a better repres... | Technology |
How does chemotherapy help to remove cancer? | [
{
"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... | Chemotherapy is a treatment that kills cells that are in the process of dividing. Cancer cells divide much more frequently than normal cells (indeed, that's what makes them cancerous), so it kills a lot of cancer cells. It also kills a lot of non-cancer cells, since the human body needs to produce new cells regularly t... | Biology |
What does "/16 or /24" after an IP Address mean? | [
{
"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 a decimal representation of your subnet mask. Your computer has an IP address. Something like: 10.1.1.2 But this address represents two things: a) your computer; and b) the local network your computer is on. And it needs a way of knowing which part is which.^* To do this it uses what is known as a subnet mask whi... | Technology |
why is camera zoom measured in millimeters? | [
{
"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... | Focal distance of the lens. Of course, the x factor of "magnification" is related to sensor size too. It's focal distance and sensor size. That gives the true zoom value. But to answer your question, millimeters is because it's the distance from the lens at which parallel lines if light converge in one spot. | Technology |
How does the bail bond system work, when a judge says you bond is $XXXX why is it that many people pay less than that amount and do they get it back? | [
{
"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... | If a court orders a bail of $100, it's not uncommon for someone to be able to find someone (a bail bondsman) to post that $100 in exchange for a fee (typically around 10%). In this case, upon successful appearance(s), the bondsman gets his $100 back, and keeps the $10 fee. (In practice, established bondsmen are often g... | Other |
do spacecrafts and probes experience the same weathering effects that effect machinery on Earth? What is typical 'weathering' affects in space? | [
{
"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 might but it is a lot more complicated and depends on the conditions. Firstly if you have sealed bearing they will work fine both on Earth and in space. And they will have the same issues with wear and tear. But there is no significant amount of dust or wind in space to weather down machinery. But you do have much... | Other |
How are some infinities bigger 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... | There's a rule that set theorists use when talking about sets with infinitely many objects in them. They say that such sets are the same size if there exists some way to pair up members of one set with members of the other set so that neither set has any members left out. For every item in set A you could ever name, yo... | Mathematics |
where does the urge to spend money come from? | [
{
"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 question. Think it has something to do with control and self empowerment. If you grew up poor like I did, you might associate spending money with being able to gain / achieve things that were not in your reach before. Also boredom ‐ spending money and acquiring things gives us a dopamine boost of excitement. "I'm ... | Psychology |
How does the faster R-CNN model 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... | A neural network works by flowing a bunch of inputs (anything, really, but for this stuff it's each pixel of an image) through nodes to outputs (decisions). The nodes perform some basic math combining inputs. They giggle the weights or coefficients for every node according to some math about how far off the output is u... | Technology |
why is Australian internet so bad compared to the rest of the 1st world? | [
{
"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... | Depends on which internet you're talking about. Connecting from your Australian PC to an Austrailian Server should be first-world speeds. If you're connecting to a server outside the country, odds it's thousands of miles away, so it takes awhile for every message to literally travel those miles. Unfortunately, that's a... | Technology |
what causes the gurgle sound when our stomachs are hungry? | [
{
"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 is air in the intestine! (If that was a guess, then it was a good one, if not, then yeah, you're right!) The sound is created by a lack of food (obviously) which leads to an excessive amount of air and average amount of water. The muscles in your stomach recognize that they need energy (food) and produce a vibr... | Biology |
What sort of job can't be automated? What can be done about automation? | [
{
"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... | Software developer here, The only job I can think of that can't be automated is a designer. Even my job can be automated. Computers have demonstrated they can write very efficient software, but the techniques involved haven't been thoroughly explored for commercial exploitation because of liability - we don't know how ... | Economics |
What is it that gives a material the ability to be polished? | [
{
"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 two things that go into why a material can have a mirror finish. First, is whether light that hits it reflects straight back or gets scattered in many different directions. Smooth surfaces scatter less of the reflected light, and will be shinier than rough surfaces. Any material can be polished.* Polishing is... | Chemistry |
How do scientists know anything about distant planets beyond what they 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... | What we know about planets in other solar systems is very limited; in some cases, what you're reading about is pure speculation--the conditions on that planet are right to let something like the formation of diamond crystals in the atmosphere. What *can* we actually know? Well, in some cases we find the planet based on... | Technology |
Why is our blowing power so strong but sucking power weak, also same with leaf blowers and vacuum cleaners? | [
{
"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... | Blowing basically means you have an area of high pressure that is attempting to equalize with the environment pressure. Sucking basically means you have an area of low pressure that is attempting to equalize with the environment pressure. Assume the environment pressure is 1 atmosphere. Assume negative pressures are im... | Physics |
Why are dull knives more dangerous than sharp knives? | [
{
"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 cutting with a dull knife you have to use more force than a sharper one, you also have less control over a dull knife, this makes it very easy slip with a dull knife, and because you are applying more force with said knife you are more likely inure yourself when you slip. | Physics |
What is Eulers number and what does it do? | [
{
"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... | Euler’s number is the basis for growth that gets faster as more growth happens. A simple way to find it is with compound interest. Imagine you have a bank account that has a 100% yearly interest rate. How much money would you have after a year? $2.00 What if it compounded every month? $2.613035 Every week? $2.692597 If... | Mathematics |
What is the origin and/or purpose of the 5 cent refund on glass bottles? Why do only some states 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... | It is intended to create an incentive to recycle. It probably was a bigger incentive when five cents was a more meaningful percentage of the purchase price than it is today. Only some states have it because only their lawmakers saw fit to create a law to put the system to deal with it in place (which costs money to as ... | Economics |
Why don’t more countries use nuclear power? | [
{
"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 depends on what time period you are talking about because in Europe it cause a mass protest movement in the 80's (especially in Germany and Austria) in which they held a public referendum where the people voted to end all nuclear power. They were worried about the effects waste would have considering the power plant... | Other |
What’s the use of weather reports showing the “real” temperature instead of the “feels like” temperature? | [
{
"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 real temperature is the temperature you get when you remove every other effect affecting the possible result. Variables could be, for example, residual heat, wind, evapotranspiration (evaporation + transpiration), sunlight, radiation, relative humidity etc. That's why there's a specific set of condition required to... | Earth Science |
Why is salt the only rock regularly ingested by humans in its pure form? | [
{
"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... | Salt is actually a mineral, whereas a rock is a composite of multiple minerals and other substances. We can also consume other pure minerals safety in moderate amounts like gold and silver. Salt is uniquely tasty, soluble and cheap, so it’s generally the only mineral we eat in its raw form regularly. | Biology |
Why do darker colours tend to be shinier and glossier? | [
{
"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 similar reason why your smartphone is shinier and glossier when in use outside during the day instead of inside: the light reflecting off of the surface layer is brighter than the light transmitted through. Think of light as sticky balls of different colors being thrown at a wall. The stickiness of the ball and the w... | Physics |
So what is the difference between an allele and a gene exactly and when do you use either word? | [
{
"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 gene is a unit of heredity which is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring. For example, you have a gene in your cells that determines your blood type. An allele is a _variant_ of that gene which can produce different characteristics. For example, there ar... | Biology |
Why aren't Elephants, Giraffes and Rhinos domesticated for transportation and labor (maybe milk/meat too) like Oxen, Cow and Horse were? | [
{
"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... | Animals that are huge, resource intensive, and angry are bad candidates for domestication because they have a nasty tendency to stomp on your face. Elephants and Rhinos are meat-tanks, and giraffes are massive. How do you fence them in? They're also all pretty fighty, which isn't great if you want to keep big herds, an... | Other |
What biologically/chemically is happening in our brains when we try to remember something but can'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... | Think of your memory not as a hard drive or computer, but as a storage cabinet. & #x200B; When you try to remember something, the neurons are being activated that vaguely relate to the topic. But, for reasons we can't quite yet grasp, the neurons directly related to the topic are not activating due to there being a dis... | Biology |
Why are plays 5 acts long, movies 3 acts long and musicals usually 2 acts long? They all typically have the same length (ish, between 2 and 3 hours) and some plays have been adapted into musicals and movies (Les Miserables is a prime example of having been all 3) | [
{
"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 we're talking generally about story structure, I think we usually talk about three acts - something like * (1) introduce characters and situation; at the end, a problem arises * (2) characters contend with the problem, often things get worse; at the end, there's some kind of crisis * (3) the situation gets resolve... | Other |
Why do open wounds burn when touching them? | [
{
"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... | PIEZO2. It is a protein that is sensitive to pressure, one of the things that makes us feel touch at all. Researchers have found that after an injury that protein becomes hypersensitive, something called "tactile allodynia." It's why when you're sunburned, even putting on a shirt is painful. It's probably evolutionary.... | Biology |
When filling up the car with petrol, how come you can see shadows of the fuel gases, it not actually see the gases with the naked 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... | Pretty sure the vapors are colorless but it they have a different density than air, which causes light to warp as it passes through them. I’m guessing if you got your head down there and really tried to look directly through the vapors, you’d see distortion similar to a heat shimmer. | Chemistry |
How are potholes in the road formed? Seems like there’s nothing then one day 50 potholes overnight. | [
{
"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 the road expands and shrinks as it heats and cools. This cycle, along with a metric boatload of traffic, creates weak points in the road that eventually result in cracks. Once the cracks form, water can get inside them. In the summer it's not a big deal, but in the winter the water freezes and expands, which then si... | Chemistry |
Why is the day trading success rate so low? | [
{
"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... | Stocks are generally looked at long term. Day traders don't do this. On a day-to-day basis, during the day, each stock is generally highly volatile. Its near impossible to predict the ups and downs of an individual stock during a single day. We can look long term, and generally the market goes up 8%-10% per year on ave... | Economics |
Why does it feel cold when we go into a pool that is 80 degrees fahrenheit and then get out into 85 degree weather and feel freezing cold and need a towel? | [
{
"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... | Human skin temperature averages around 95° Fahrenheit, therefore when you get into the pool, despite the pool being relatively warm, your body still begins to loose more heat to the water and you therefore feel cold. While in the pool your body gets used to the environment, but then when you get out, the water on your ... | Physics |
When your chest feels tight, for example during a panic attack, what causes this? Is your chest actually tightening up or is it purely in your head? | [
{
"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... | Your chest is not actually shrinking (thank god). But it's not just 'in your head'. The feeling comes from a bunch of muscles contracting rapidly (most notably your heart) as well as your breathing ascelerating rapidly (aka your lungs going into overdrive). It's essentially your body going into (often contextually unne... | Biology |
What happens in the brain when catchy songs get stuck in our head for days? | [
{
"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... | If we had true answers to stuff like this, we'd likely be using to train folks. At least musicians of not also doctors and scientists. Not a ton of research has been done on the matter but basically we know that "catchier" songs are more popular on charts and such which kind of makes intuitive sense. We also know that ... | Biology |
how can our brains remember that we forgot something, but it can't remember what we forgot? | [
{
"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 asks "how is it possible?" and not "how does it work?", so I won't talk about actual brains here. But even very simple information storage and retrieval systems can be constructed so that it's obvious when information has been lost. For example, let's say you have a book with 100 numbered pages in it. Pag... | Other |
what does resetting a router actually do and why is that the most common internet fix? | [
{
"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... | Your in-home router usually does a few separate jobs. First, it literally routes data: from one computer to another in your local network, and between your local network and your ISP's network (and on to the internet). Second, it provides local network devices with their local IP addresses. Third, it acts as a Domain N... | Technology |
How are new digits of pi discovered? | [
{
"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 numerous mathematical algorithms that "converge" to the number pi. The more "iterations" (i.e. the more times you apply the algorithm to the last result) that you run, the closer it gets to pi, generating more "new digits". For instance, try this one: 4 divided by 1 minus 4 divided by 3 plus 4 divided by 5 mi... | Mathematics |
What is antimatter, and has there been any real-life examples in existence or is it only a theoretical substance? | [
{
"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... | Antimatter is basically the same as regular matter except with the opposite charge. For instance, the anti-electron is called a positron. Also, when matter meets antimatter they annihilate each other in a large explosion. Antimatter has absolutely been observed. Radioactive decay gives off both positrons and electrons.... | Physics |
why do our eyes adjust to the distances of objects reflected in a mirror as opposed to the distance of the mirror itself? | [
{
"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 mirror's reflection is not a 2D image. A mirror's reflection is a perfect mirror of the world it reflects. Here is a simple test. View a mirror from two different angles. Note that you see different things in it. Nothing has fundamentally changed about the mirror - it is reflecting light in exactly the same way as it... | Physics |
how do apps share data with other apps? | [
{
"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... | Typically app writers make a deal with an advertising service. When you do certain things, they send a description of what you did to that service, so the app can show you relevant ads. However, that service in turn may also be working with additional apps, so the ads show up on multiple apps. | Technology |
If babies weren't exposed to any language, would they invent their own common language? | [
{
"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 linguistics, this is called "The Forbidden Experiment" because it would be horrifically cruel. There have been several historical examples of feral children, to varying degrees, who have been raised individually with little or no exposure to language, but not enough to really draw any conclusions beyond it being inc... | Other |
Why doesn’t out heart get tired like our other muscles? | [
{
"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 does get tired out. This is what we call heart failure. When the heart get tired it can’t move the blood around our bodies the way it’s supposed to. When we don’t get blood to the right places that causes problems for people. So doctors have to be very careful and make sure your heart is working good, which is why t... | Biology |
How does an economy grow? | [
{
"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 "economic growth" is is an increase in the aggregate amount of goods and services that that economy produces. If we have a super small economy of just Bill and Ted and Bill grows 2 bushels of wheat while Ted grows nothing, then our total economic output is 2 bushels of wheat. If Ted starts farming too and grows the... | Economics |
How is it physically possible for one-way mirrors to be seethrough from one side but a mirror from the other side? | [
{
"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 are only partially reflective. If you look at a standard window, you can see through but you can also see a bit of reflection in them, especially if trying to peer into a dark room from a sunny outdoor location. One-way mirrors are closer to reflective windows than true mirrors, and they require the observation ro... | Physics |
Why does burnt food generally have the same taste even if the foods are different? | [
{
"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 the complex and varied organic compounds making different foods tend all to decay into more or less the same basic blocks (i.e. charcoal and simple organic molecules) when overheated, giving the universal burnt taste. Think of it like ice sculptures - they can be of varied shapes, sizes and impressiveness, but they... | Chemistry |
How do casinos prevent counterfeit chips. Why can't someone duplicate some chips and cash them in? It appear far simpler than cash. | [
{
"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 of the responses here are complete bs. While RFID chips exist, they are extremely rare as the chips and the equipment to use them is expensive and unnecessary. First off, making passable fakes is difficult and takes some equipment that most people can't get, you can't just go to Wal-Mart and pick up some poker set... | Other |
How can a business avoid paying taxes in a state by registring their business in a Tax Haven state like Delaware? | [
{
"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... | Businesses don't register in DE strictly for tax purposes. DE has a unique Court that strictly handles corporate law (Chancery Court). As a result, there is a large volume of case law and the model helps minimize the costs and time associated with commercial litigation. It is true that DE doesn't tax corporations that ... | Economics |
Why do brands sell chips for 3 or 4 or 5 dollars in normal stores, but in dollar/value shops, they are sold for a dollar for the same brand and size bag? | [
{
"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 the brands that decide the price. It's the store owners. Supermarkets and value stores have different business strategies, and the margin they try to make on a product is different. First, what is margin. Margin is the amount of profit a retailer (like a supermarket) wants to make on a product. Retailers have... | Economics |
Why is the ice that comes out of my fridge's ice maker white, or cloudy, while the ice you get at a restaurant or bar is 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... | The white/cloudiness is mostly small bubbles of air that was previously dissolved in the water when it was a liquid. Residential ice makers form the top down. The top layer of water freezes and slowly the ice grows downwards into the mold. This trap the air that was previously dissolved into the water. Commercial ice m... | Chemistry |
What causes transformers and other high voltage devices to emit a buzzing 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... | > I assume it's some sort of vibration, Yep! The transformers are using the inductive interaction between coils of wire to change voltages, and as the current is transferred using "Alternating Current" the magnetic fields will be rapidly switching back and forth. The result is vibration from the stresses imparted to th... | Physics |
Why do car insurance companies prefer to declare a car a total loss instead of fixing the damage to the car? | [
{
"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... | After an accident your car, even fully repaired, is never worth what it was before it was wrecked. This decreased value, plus the cost of repair, often is what pushes the decision. If you think about it, if you were buying your car from you - would you pay as much for it wrecked and repaired as you would for it never w... | Other |
Weather generally moves west to east. Is this the weather moving, or the earth turning underneath 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 premise of your question is incorrect. Not all weather tends to move from the west. Some simple observations make this rather obvious. Hurricanes familiar to those in the U.S. originate off the African coast and move towards North America. This is east to west. Other parts of the world have entirely different patte... | Physics |
What are linear equations used for? | [
{
"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... | Loads of things. Take, for example, a taxi. Taxis charge a certain amount of money for every mile you go, plus some initial fee. We can write this as P=r•D+c, where P is the total price, r is the rate per mile, D is the distance, and c is the initial cost. We can then plot a graph of P against D and work out how the pr... | Mathematics |
Before money was invented how did people accumulate "wealth"? | [
{
"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... | Given what we know about hunter-gatherer tribes, it's not all that likely that becoming rich, as an opportunity, preceded the existence of money. Most early societies appear to have had some form of exchange, such as beads and shells. That said, even today, while money is how we keep score, few people are rich in money... | Economics |
Can somebody explain to me the photoacoustic effect? | [
{
"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... | Sound is created by having different spots in the air that are at different pressures, that is, there's more air molecules, then next to that there's less air molecules (or possibly more/less pressure due to heat), etc. That's what the sound wave is, a series of high-low-high-low bits of air coming towards your ear. Wh... | Physics |
Why do cameras lose focus on certain objects? Can current technology make it so that losing focus is no longer a thing? | [
{
"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 a number of different methods cameras use to focus, including manual, and you haven't specified which. The general answer for automatic focus is that the camera doesn't know what thing in the frame you want to focus on. It has to figure out on its own what is supposed to be the object of focus and what's in fro... | Physics |
In stories, people trapped alone on a deserted isle tend to make a something to talk to. Would this be actually helpful, or would it cause more psychological problems? | [
{
"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 sometimes used as a way for a fictional story in third person to describe to the reader what the subject thinks when they are alone. It would be quite challenging to tell a story about someone stranded on a deserted island if they had nothing to talk to or share their emotions with. And while humans do like to ... | Psychology |
Why is gasoline rainbow on pavement? | [
{
"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 thickness of the gasoline is close to the wavelengths of visible light. Light reflects off of the surface of the gas/air border as well as the gas/water border. The two reflections can mix in two ways. At a given thickness, some colors are attenuated due to destructive interference, while others are enhanced by con... | Chemistry |
Why does it seem like I constantly see articles about new health benefits of medicines derived from the cannabis plant? Is the plant unique in having so many different beneficial compounds, or is a lot of this just hype as early research is performed? | [
{
"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... | Short answer is: we don't really know yet. There hasn't been enough legitimate research. A lot of it *currently* is probably hype. For instance, if one study finds that it *might* have a *tiny* benefit in \[insert condition here\], it will be reported and played up. However, since it is is still a schedule I drug, it i... | Other |
How does insurance work? You pay money overtime just so you don't pay when something actually goes wrong? How does that 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... | Imagine you, me and 98 other people are farmers. We can each sell our crops each year for 1 dollar. But each year 8 of us will lose our whole crop and make nothing. So we all decide we will pay 10 cents each year into a pot and the farmers that lose the crop get that money, so they are made whole. The remaining 20 cent... | Economics |
can we use artifical snow to help the environment? | [
{
"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... | Energy. That would take a *ton* of energy. The energy production/transmission (not to mention the *actual* snow blowing hardware) negatives would far exceed the climate benefits of snow coverage. In other words, there are many things to spend those resources on, or not spend them at all, if you want to mitigate climate... | Earth Science |
Why did cyan and magenta replace blue and red as the standard primaries in color pigments? What exactly makes CMY(K) superior to the RYB model? And why did yellow stay the same when the other two were updated? | [
{
"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... | Red Yellow Blue was used in early printing because that was the best they knew at the time. Technology advanced, and printing color images switched to using magenta and cyan to get a wider, more accurate range of colors. Our eyes see three basic colors of light: Red, Green, and Blue. Cyan pigment only absorbs one color... | Physics |
How come fair skinned people have harder time getting a tan? Can they even get a tan? | [
{
"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 tan is basicaly the skin's response to damage done by the sun, by increasing melanin. Since lighter skinned people naturaly have less melanin, it is harder for them to produce more. They can get a tan, but that tan will be lighter than a naturaly darker person's tan. It is also not a good idea to try and "force" a ta... | Biology |
How do ships sail against the wind? | [
{
"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 perform a series of "tacks" where they don't sail directly into the wind but sail at an incident angle while steering the boats rudder so the boat makes headway (albeit more slowly than downwind sailing) then they reverse the sail and rudder to the opposite incident angle so on average they are sailing toward the ... | Technology |
Why is white flour so much more common in bread/baked goods/processed foods than whole wheat flour? Isn't the latter easier and cheaper to make? | [
{
"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 of the oils in wheat are found in the germ and the bran which are the parts that are removed in the process of milling white flour. Over time, the oils oxidize (rancidity) producing stale flavors. The germ and bran oils also result in a more "wheaty" flavor in general, which some people don't like. So, items produ... | Other |
Where do the random bubbles in lakes come from? | [
{
"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... | Methane gas from decomposing plant matter in the sediment. Edit:. Moderator bot says this isn't sufficient so: Plant and dead animal matter collects at the bottom of lakes and ponds, and bacteria feeds on the cellulose in the plant matter, producing small amounts of methane (CH4). This collects until a sufficient amoun... | Chemistry |
Why does fire make things look blurry? | [
{
"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 shimmer you see above a fire, or on a hot day in the distance is because air, when heated, expands, causing it to become less dense, or thinner. Light travels faster through warmer, thinner air than through colder, 'thicker' air. Since the air density and temperature isn't uniform, you get a shimmer or haze. | Physics |
Why does an external hard drive have varying space depending on the device it's used with? | [
{
"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 usual culprit in those cases is Microsoft's confusing way of reporting space - Windows may *display* "GB" and "TB", but what it actually reports is GiB and TiB. Your discrepancy however is too large to be solely caused by this. Are all the partitions available to your Windows machine also accessible to and readable... | Technology |
How does our brain know to not fall out of bed when we are sleeping? | [
{
"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 popular belief you are not unconscious when you are asleep. Your brain is quite alert but doesn't bother waking up your conscious mind unless it has to. This means it's taking in information from the outside world including keeping track of where it is in relation to other things. If you start to roll over ... | Biology |
What happens when an atom has no electrons? | [
{
"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... | Then it becomes a positive ion. For hydrogen this is a pretty common condition - it has just one electron that has a tendency to wander off, leaving an exposed proton all alone. Heavier atoms produce increasingly powerful electromagnetic attraction and it's harder to strip off all the electrons. If you do manage it, th... | Chemistry |
Does the Monty Hall problem apply to the end of the TV game show Deal or No Deal? | [
{
"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, it doesn't apply. The removal of the cases is done by someone who doesn't know where the prize is, and the big prize could have been removed at any time up until the end. It is just as likely that the one left happens to be the one with the big prize (since you chose one case out of all of the cases to *not* start ... | Mathematics |
What's the difference between a message being 'sent' and 'delivered'? | [
{
"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 you put a letter in your outgoing mail, it's been "sent". When the letter carrier picks it up, it's "in transit". When a letter carrier drops the letter off at its destination, it's "delivered". When the recipient opens the letter, it's "read". Even though things *seem* instant, electronic messaging systems genera... | Technology |
Why is streaming Netflix so bad for the environment? | [
{
"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 inherently bad for the environment if it were not for the fact that most of our power is generated from fossil fuels. Watching netflix, or streaming in general, uses a crapton of power (think multiple data centres for your lag free high res watching). Also because it "needs" to be available 24/7. In my opinio... | Earth Science |
Why are Animals scared of us Humans? | [
{
"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... | Because most animals evolved with humans and other animals trying to eat them. Not letting predatory animals near you is an important survival tactic. There of course are exceptions. Domestic animals have been bred to trust humans to an extent. Animals can be tamed or trained to see humans as non-threatening or to asso... | Biology |
How does the US have so much debt? | [
{
"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... | Assuming you're talking about the National Debt and not just US citizen debt. About 1/4 is owed to other parts of the government (mostly Social Security and Federal Pension accounts). About 1/10 is the Federal Reserve, company created and controlled by the US government. About 1/3 is US Investors (Savings bonds, US Tre... | Economics |
How does acid break down and dissolve substances/materials/organics? | [
{
"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... | How strong or weak the acid depends on the pH (potential Hydrogen) of the substance. This is what makes an acid strong, or basic (opposite of an acid.) Numbers on opposite ends of the pH scale (~1 and ~14) are both dangerous, not just the acid. The reason it breaks down the substance is that the acid is taking away ess... | Chemistry |
What's the difference between center of mass and center of gravity? | [
{
"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 is no difference between the two unless the force of gravity varies across the object. On earth, gravity is almost exactly the same everywhere so, even for quite large objects, the difference will not be measurable. For huge objects, like a space elevator cable 40 & #8239;000 & #8239;km long, the centre of gravit... | Physics |
how do scientist know how much planets weigh? | [
{
"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 either see how it interacts with the sun, see how objects fall toward or orbit around it (these are the same thing - orbits are just falls which keep missing the ground), or use something like the Cavendish experiment in order to get a weight. Earth's mass (times the gravitational constant G) was discovered by the... | Physics |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.