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| QUESTIONS = [ |
| 'My boss died and shuttered the company I was only there 7 weeks. How do I put that on my resume?', |
| 'Eli5: How is it possible that deserts are super hot at day time and below freezing point at night time?', |
| "Explain like I'm five years old: Why does it feel colder inside in the winter even though the thermostat says the temperature is the same?", |
| 'Does anyone know how Amazon can pay their software engineers so much less than Google and Facebook? How can they compete for the same level of talent?', |
| 'How can a Milwaukee handheld drill make 750 ft-lb of torque when most cars don’t even make 300?', |
| 'How do you avoid "philosophical paralysis"? Can\'t everything be \'justified\', depending on what logic you\'re using?', |
| "Explain like I'm five years old: Why do science labs always so often use composition notebooks and not, for example, a spiral notebook?", |
| 'Explain like I\'m five years old: How does "moisturizing" soap moisturize if the point of soap is to strip oil and dirt from you body?', |
| 'Are all modern birds descended from the same species of dinosaur, or did different dinosaur species evolve into different bird species?', |
| "Explain like I'm five years old: what prevents the flame on a gas stove from igniting the gas that’s in the supply line and blowing everything up?", |
| 'Do you guys (employed engineers) actually have to solve differential equations by hand?', |
| 'What does \'it\' in "It is raining" mean? If it doesn\'t refer to anything, what would be an alternative sentence which expresses the same meaning?', |
| 'Why are car antennas so small now, when 10 years ago they were 2-3 feet tall?', |
| 'Why do we get "bags" under our eyes when we don\'t sleep enough?', |
| 'What philosophical theory, concept, or argument ought to be more widely known?', |
| "Explain like I'm five years old: Why do symptoms of a cold sometimes go away overnight and sometimes take several days to fade away?", |
| 'When a car wheel turns, does the air inside rotate at the same rate as the wheel/tyre?', |
| "Explain like I'm five years old:How does the human ear discern between a quiet noise and a distant noise?", |
| "Explain like I'm five years old: Deadweight vs. liveweight. Why does a 50lb bag of concrete feel heavier than my 50lb kid?", |
| "Explain like I'm five years old how you can make people hold such big secrets as Area 51 without having some leaked information?", |
| 'Can someone tell me why there is a chip shortage? Aren’t there multiple manufacturers?', |
| "Explain like I'm five years old: Why are there so many types of screws? (Phillips, flathead, Allen, etc.) Why isn’t there a single, standardized type of fastener?", |
| "Explain like I'm five years old: How does the White House prevent visitors or the press pool from planting a bug in the Oval Office? Do they sweep it after every visit?", |
| "When the sun becomes a red giant, what'll happen to earth in the time before it explodes?", |
| 'Are there crazy caves with no entrance to the surface pocketed all throughout the earth or is the earth pretty solid except for cave systems near the top?', |
| 'Should I be worried about not getting a job as a fresh graduate right now?', |
| "Explain like I'm five years old: How can fast food often contain so much salt, without tasting salty at all?", |
| "when astronauts use the space station's stationary bicycle, does the rotation of the mass wheel start to rotate the I.S.S. and how do they compensate for that?", |
| 'What advice would you give someone who is having existential dread? /topic', |
| 'How rapidly (or not) does a newborn star "ignite" once it reaches critical mass? Hours, days, years?', |
| 'Impossible vs real beef Can I cook with impossible beef exactly as i would with real beef? If not, what should I do differently for impossible?', |
| 'Are there any other compounds besides H2O that appear in 3 different states naturally on Earth?', |
| "Explain like I'm five years old: why does the bus driver on a school bus get a seatbelt but no one else?", |
| "Explain like I'm five years old: Why is that cars don't get significantly more fuel efficient year by year?", |
| 'Engineers who work in manufacturing: How have you used python to improve processes/ optimize systems?', |
| "Explain like I'm five years old: How did Salt and Pepper become the chosen ones of food spices?", |
| "Explain like I'm five years old: How are whales, some of the largest creatures on the planet, able to survive by eating krill, some of the smallest?", |
| 'Secular buddhism is growing in popularity. Is there anything like “secular christianity?” If not, why not?', |
| "Explain like I'm five years old:Do donated organs age according to the donor´s age or do they adapt to the age of the new body?", |
| "Explain like I'm five years old: Do birds fly for days while over the ocean? How do they sleep?", |
| "Explain like I'm five years old: why construction workers don’t seem to mind building/framing in the rain. Won’t this create massive mold problems within the walls?", |
| 'Does a burnt piece of toast have the same number of calories as a regular piece of toast?', |
| 'Eli5 if electric vehicles are better for the environment than fossil fuel, why isn’t there any emphasis on heating homes with electricity rather gas or oil?', |
| "Explain like I'm five years old: If sound travels better through water, why is it always quiet under water ?", |
| "Explain like I'm five years old: Why is it impossible to transplant a bladder? It seems strange to me that a heart can be transplanted and a bladder can't.", |
| 'What’s the reason head lice prefer the head and pubic lice prefer the pubic area? Hair is just hair isn’t it?', |
| 'Why is there so much hatred between philosophers and science guys, mainly physicists ?', |
| "Degree holders: What's been best thing about formally studying philosophy? How does that show up in your life/how have you been changed for the better by it?", |
| 'Are lost memories gone forever? Or are they somehow ‘stored’ somewhere in the brain?', |
| 'If identical twins have the exact same DNA, why do they often look slightly different than one another?', |
| "Explain like I'm five years old: Why can brushing your teeth too hard damage them, but the sharp metal points dentists use to scrape enamel off don't?", |
| "Explain like I'm five years old: What makes a beer belly how it is, round and hard? What makes it different from a normal stomach or a soft(fat) stomach?", |
| 'How do you get hardened caramel out of a porcelain bowl? I was dumb. That is the only context I will give for this.', |
| 'How would Ancient Stoics deal with people who did not think, even remotely, how they did, and how would they help them if in emotional need?', |
| 'What does Slavoj Žižek mean when he says "The only way to be an atheist is through Christianity."?', |
| "Explain like I'm five years old: How do “hostile takeovers” work? Is there anything stopping Jeff Bezos from just buying everything?", |
| "Explain like I'm five years old: Why does it seem like I look better in the mirror than I do on a camera ?", |
| "Explain like I'm five years old: How are animals that eat only one kind of food not horribly malnourished? Do they need a narrower set of nutrients than humans?", |
| "Explain like I'm five years old: Why do refrigerator doors suddenly need hulk strength to open at random times?", |
| 'When a concrete pillar is chipped or a chunk falls off, why is it enough to just patch it up with new concrete, won’t the entire integrity of the pillar be compromised?', |
| "Explain like I'm five years old how did banks clear checks and get funds from other banks before computerization?", |
| 'What were some of the most prolific philosophical rivalries and why were their rivalry so important?', |
| 'Is math only a human construct; that is to say, do humans discover math, or do we invent it?', |
| 'Does washing off fruits and vegetables before eating them actually remove much of the residual preservatives and/or pesticides?', |
| "If a person has been depressed for a long time, is there some kind of 'damage' to their brain, and can anti-depressants reverse the damage?", |
| "Explain like I'm five years old if our skin cells are constantly dying and being replaced by new ones, how can a bad sunburn turn into cancer YEARS down the line?", |
| "Explain like I'm five years old - How exactly does water put out a fire? Is it a smothering thing, or a chemical reaction?", |
| "Explain like I'm five years old: Why do computers become slow after a while, even after factory reset or hard disk formatting?", |
| 'You win the lottery for 200 million dollars tonight, do you report to work tomorrow? Why or why not? Is your passion for engineering enough to keep you going?', |
| 'Why do nuclear power plants have those distinct concave-shaped smoke stacks?', |
| 'is it possible to create a device to shoot electrical arcs from my hands? I want to cast chain lightning', |
| "How common are illnesses such as the cold or the flu in other animals? and if they aren't common, why?", |
| 'How many mutations does the average human have, if <1 what % of people have at least 1 mutation present?', |
| "Why can hormone therapy make a clitoris grow but can't make a penis grow?", |
| 'If I put a flashlight in space, would it propel itself forward by "shooting out" light?', |
| 'How “green” is nuclear energy? Compared to gas and coal. Should we get rid of nuclear energy and use other renewable energy sources like…', |
| "Explain like I'm five years old : Why does travelling make you feel so tired when you've just sat there for hours doing nothing?", |
| "Explain like I'm five years old: How do flies constantly fly into hard objects at high speeds(walls, doors, windows, etc) but never manage to get hurt?", |
| 'Engineers with bachelor degree, do you regret not getting a masters or PhD degree? And engineers with a masters or PhD degree, do you wish you stopped after bachelor?', |
| 'Is there anything in nature akin to crop rotation ? else, how do plants not deplete any particular nutrient they consume from a piece of wildland as time goes by?', |
| "Explain like I'm five years old: Why does adding white vinegar to the laundry take care of bad smells and why don't laundry detergents already contain these properties?", |
| "Explain like I'm five years old: How can Roman bridges be still standing after 2000 years, but my 10 year old concrete driveway is cracking?", |
| 'What engineering terms have crept into your everyday vocabulary?', |
| "Explain like I'm five years old: What does it mean when charcoal is 'activated'?", |
| "Why do only a few languages, mostly in southern Africa, have clicking sounds? Why don't more languages have them?", |
| 'If you transplanted a multi-decade old tree from a place like say Florida to up north, would the tree “know” to lose it’s leaves in the fall or would it just die?', |
| 'If a 20 year old gets an organ transplant from a 50 year old, 30 years later is that organ functioning as if it were 80 years old or 50 years old?', |
| "can someone attempt an Explain like I'm five years old of Deleuze vs Hegel?", |
| "What are your best 'fake it till you make it' tips for climbing the corporate ladder?", |
| 'How did you learn to plate food? Are there any good books, guides, or principles that helped you learn to have awesome plating?', |
| "Explain like I'm five years old: How fasting or changing the amount of food that you eat, tampers with your metabolism?", |
| 'Nuclear engineers: are any of you watching the HBO miniseries "Chernobyl"?', |
| "Explain like I'm five years old why are all remains of the past buried underground? Where did all the extra soil come from?", |
| 'If proteins are needed to create more proteins, then how were the first proteins created ?', |
| 'How can someone believe in personal responsibility if they do not believe that free will exists?', |
| "Explain like I'm five years old: Why do ships have circular windows instead of square ones?", |
| 'What environmental impacts would a border wall between the United States and Mexico cause?', |
| 'The US is criticized for the poor state of its road, bridge, and rail infrastructure. How are we doing in terms of water mains and our electrical grid?', |
| "What's the worst boss you've ever had in an engineering position and what did they do?", |
| 'Explain like I\'m five years old: Why is W called "double U" when it is clearly "double V"?', |
| 'What keeps wi-fi waves from traveling more than a few hundred feet or so, what stops them from going forever?', |
| "Explain like I'm five years old What is the purpose of the little individual hairs on tires?", |
| 'What percentage of 74-year-olds survive a COVID-19 diagnosis?', |
| "Explain like I'm five years old: Why is it necessary for refs to stand in the path of a javelin throw. Can’t they just stand on the sidelines and jog over after it lands?", |
| "Explain like I'm five years old: Why is 2160p video called 4K?", |
| '[WA] how offensive is phrase ”You are a real piece of work." in a professional email?', |
| "Explain like I'm five years old: Before computers, how were newspapers able to write, typeset and layout fully-justified pages every 24 hours?", |
| 'Do other monogamous animals ever "fall out of love" and separate like humans do?', |
| 'Do I really ever have to peel carrots? Any benefit I’d be missing? Besides appearance I guess', |
| "Professional Engineer here, what do I do when the only clean coffee cups left in the kitchen are from suppliers I don't like dealing with?", |
| 'Why is Friedrich Nietzhe often called a “nihilist” by most people. When he himself wasn’t one?', |
| "If I throw my friend from a 5 story building, but he gets head-shot mid air by someone else, who is to blame for my friend's death?", |
| 'When you roll down a car window with water on it from rain and it comes up clean, where does the water go? Are there vent holes or does the water stay in there?', |
| 'How many pages was your PhD dissertation? Please comment on your specific discipline, below!', |
| 'Eli5: Why does blood come out of the mouth when people are shot in the chest, or is this just a movie trope?', |
| 'Do NASA engineers ever say "come on guys, it\'s not rocket science"?', |
| 'If light can travel freely through space, why isn’t the Earth perfectly lit all the time? Where does all the light from all the stars get lost?', |
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