Question: Friction and energy can cause heat, but what exactly causes something to cool down?

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 Friction and energy can cause heat, but what exactly causes something to cool down?

If one thing is hotter than its environment it cools down by distributing its energy to the environment, however what you wante to know is how heat is converted to different forms of energy if i understood correctly. The simplest example is a chemichal reaction that forms a bond between two or more atoms or molecules using the heat energy and turning it into chemical energy.


Question: why do cross-platform PC games become increasingly harder to run during a single console generation?

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 why do cross-platform PC games become increasingly harder to run during a single console generation?

Games developed for a given console tend to become better and better during the span of that console generation, as studios accumulate specific experience on how to best exploit the HW, the quirks, and the possibilities afforded by that console (including ones initially unseen or overlooked by anyone). (They also become more confident of being able to avoid the pitfalls, and so willing to push it nearer to the edge). This can make the games increasingly harder to adapt to different HW.


Question: What is hard water, and how does adding salt soften it without making the water salty?

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 What is hard water, and how does adding salt soften it without making the water salty?

Hard water is just water with a lot of minerals in it. It makes soap less effective, builds deposits on surfaces, and can be itchy. Water softeners don't actually add the salt to the water. There are beads in the water softener that absorb the minerals. They must be restored by rinsing with a brine solution periodically. The brine is washed down the drain; it doesn't go into your tap (that's why the water in your tap isn't salty).


Question: Why is it that, sometimes when you enter a room that you rarely enter, you'll get really dizzy for a few seconds?

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 Why is it that, sometimes when you enter a room that you rarely enter, you'll get really dizzy for a few seconds?

I've never had that happen. Can you give more information?


Question: How is one car parked on the shoulder of the highway able to cause over an hour's worth of stop-and-god traffic?

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 How is one car parked on the shoulder of the highway able to cause over an hour's worth of stop-and-god traffic?

Slinkage. Car sees stopped car, slowed down just a little bit. Car behind slowed a little bit. Next car behind slowed down a bit. The cars at the end are stopped. This is because each car acts individually and no don't maintain distance between each other, deceleration, and acceleration at the same amount. Same issue happen in troop marching, lots of training to keep people from slinking.


Question: Why does a pandemic cause such an economic downturn?

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 Why does a pandemic cause such an economic downturn?

Here is a good example: College basketball in March is a billion dollar industry. This year it is a zero dollar industry.


Question: How do life insurance companies stay in business?

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Term Life Insurance is only valid for a particular time frame. Say I'm a healthy 30-year-old man. Chances are I can get a fairly inexpensive ten-year policy, since there's not a huge chance I'm going to die between 30 and 40. When I turn 40, that term life insurance policy expires. All of the money paid in during that term is the property of the insurance company. Say I want a new one - so I go back to the company and they look through my health history. I'm 40, and now I have high cholesterol and blood pressure, putting me at risk for cardiovascular disease. My premiums will be higher, because I'm at a higher risk of death. Finding the equilibrium between the amount of risk taken on and the amount charged in the premium is what the underwriters at the company do - they figure out how much they need to charge to never pay out more than they take in.


Question: are there any stitches involved with circumcision? Aren't there two rings of skin that need to be "put back together?"

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 are there any stitches involved with circumcision? Aren't there two rings of skin that need to be "put back together?"

The most common form of circumcision, in the U.S. at least, is done on infants and uses a plastic "bell" system. The foreskin is forcibly removed from the glans using a blunt probe to peel it off. This is done because the foreskin is fused to the glans at that age. Adult men who are circumcised and wonder why they have pitting or odd texture to their glans have that to thank: the pitting is from where the foreskin took little bits of the glans along with it when ripped off. After that, a plastic bell is inserted and the foreskin is clamped against it. The foreskin itself is trapped between two plastic rings (one on the inside and one on the outside). The actual foreskin is cut off with a sharp instrument (typically built into the bell/clamp assembly) and plastic rings stay in place, clamping the wound site shut. Assuming no serious infection/inflammation or other complications, they fall off later as the skin heals and the inner foreskin remanent fuses to the shaft skin, creating the familiar dark scar between the two zones of penile tissue. In the case of adult circumcision, however, there is almost always the use of dissolving stitches to secure the two areas of skin back together (as well as the use of medication for a period of weeks to prevent erections and the tearing open of the wound site).


Question: Why does putting a wet paper towel around a can in the freezer cool it so fast?

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 Why does putting a wet paper towel around a can in the freezer cool it so fast?

The water transfers cold into the can faster than air. Or, said more correctly, the water draws heat out of the can and into the surrounding (freezer) air faster than the aluminum is able to do it on it's own. Think about it like this. If you have a wet paper towel that's been sitting out on the counter all day (so it's room temperature), and you put your hand on it, does it feel colder, warmer or the same as putting your hand on the (dry) counter or a room temperature soda can? It feels colder because it can extract the heat from your body faster. Same reason a marble kitchen table or leather couch feels cold even though they're the same temperature as everything else.


Question: Why does shampoo lather so much more dramatically on a second application?

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 Why does shampoo lather so much more dramatically on a second application?

Guess not science: the shit goes flat when it hits the grease in your hair. Some sorta cuhraaaazy chemical reaction. So now that it's stripped your hair of oils there is nothing or very little to react with it to reduce the foamy-ness. Also your hair is now less clumped due to no grease so more air can work itself into the lather like a well whipped meringue.


Question: Why does it take so long to download something but such a short amount of time to delete it?

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 Why does it take so long to download something but such a short amount of time to delete it?

When you download something every individual byte of information has to travel down the line to your computer. So it has to sent that amount of information. For example maybe say 40 Gigabytes all down the line to your computer. When you delete that information you dont remove that 40Gb what happens is the computer tells itself it can overwrite that information. It's actually still there and can be recovered.


Question: Why do USB-Sticks get hot when you transfer data?

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The sticks contain a little chip that is able to store data. In order to write or read data from it, a current must pass through the chip. When a current passes through something, there is some resistance, meaning some of the energy of that current is lost as heat. This is the same for all electronics and it's why computers have fans to cool their components.


Question: How is it that I have never googled anything about glasses, just went to the Optometrist earlier today and later got my first ever glasses commercial on YouTube... the same day?

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 How is it that I have never googled anything about glasses, just went to the Optometrist earlier today and later got my first ever glasses commercial on YouTube... the same day?

I would assume you took your smartphone with you when you went to the optometrist. Your phone's location reported to Google's servers as having an extended stop at an optometrist, so their algorithms assumed you had an optometrist appointment. Many people don't go to the optometrist unless they feel like they need to get their vision checked.


Question: Why is it easier to ignore dialogue from a TV or radio than from a voice inside the room?

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 Why is it easier to ignore dialogue from a TV or radio than from a voice inside the room?

Are you sure it's not their physical presence? There's a big difference between an inanimate object with pictures of people on it and a real person in a room. Even if you can't see the person when hearing them, you might associate certain speaking styles or audio qualities with tv, so if you hear someone speaking differently, you know it's not from a tv in the room.


Question: Why are neodymium magnets so strong when neodymium is not a magnetic element?

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 Why are neodymium magnets so strong when neodymium is not a magnetic element?

Neodymium is actually magnetic. I is paramagnetic, which is fairly weak, but still magnetic. But Neodymium magnets are not actually made of neodymium. They are made of an alloy of iron (which is strongly magnetic) Neodymium and boron. From what I understand, rare-earth elements like Neodymium have strong potential for magnetism, but that is easily disturbed by normal room temperatures. Pairing it with Iron solves that problem, creating something with hybrid properties of both--the strength of neodymium and the temperature tolerance of iron. Unlike more rare-earth elements, neodymium isn't actually rare like the name suggests, which makes it relatively cheap, which is why its' the most common rare-earth magnet.


Question: Why we feel more tired after sleeping more hours than our normal sleep routine?

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 Why we feel more tired after sleeping more hours than our normal sleep routine?

I believe there are two reasons for this. First, sleep cycles. The average person has 4 main sleep cycles, going from alpha to beta to delta, and finally REM (rapid eye movement). Alpha, Beta, and REM stages are the easiest to wake up from, and it's generally accepted that waking up from REM is usually indicative of a full night's sleep. Waking up from Alpha is like a power nap, and from Beta is like a normal nap you take on a lazy Sunday afternoon that leaves you unwilling to do anything but go back to sleep. However, waking up from Delta is perhaps the most disorienting stage to wake up from. Delta is when you're in your deepest sleep and getting out of it is like trying to swim up from the bottom of the ocean in clothes that get ridiculously heavy when wet. On average, sleep cycles last around 90 minutes, with the actual sleep cycle of any individual lasting anywhere from 80 to 120 minutes. So, if we apply the average sleep cycle time to your sleep schedule, your 6 hours a day translates to roughly 4 full cycles, meaning you wake up just after your REM cycle ends and before you've fully transitioned into Alpha again. Not a bad time to wake up, since both of those cycles are the easiest to wake from. When you sleep 9 hours, it translates to about 6 cycles, where you just completed your second Beta cycle and probably already beginning to enter Delta, if you're not already there. Any grogginess and lack of productivity is most likely because of that. The other potential reason would just be that you changed your routine and your body had a hard time adjusting.


Question: What is tidal heating and how does it allow for moons to be potentially habitable (i.e. Europa)?

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 What is tidal heating and how does it allow for moons to be potentially habitable (i.e. Europa)?

In an elliptical orbit (oval orbit) the forces acting on a planet are greater at some points in the orbit than others. This deforms the celestial body somewhat through its orbit which creates internal friction which produces heat inside the body of the object causing it to heat from the inside. Heat is an important factor when it comes to the habitability of a moon as it can allow for liquid water to possibly exist and human life to be sustained much more easily due to not having to battle freezing temperatures on the surface.


Question: How many planes, vertices, edges and faces does a sphere have?

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A perfect sphere? Infinite. Every point on its surface is all of those things. 1 dimensional points have no area, so it has infinite of each on a perfect mathematical sphere. Imperfect (i.e. Real) spheres have about as many as they do imperfections. A cube is a really really imperfect sphere and it has 6, 8, and 12.


Question: how do clown cars work?

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Like... literally a circus clown car? They have false bottoms and park over a trap door, clowns climb up from below the stage.


Question: I see people talk about the national debt a lot and complain when it goes up, but it never goes down. Why is the national debt important?

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 I see people talk about the national debt a lot and complain when it goes up, but it never goes down. Why is the national debt important?

Currently, the federal government pays 11% of taxes on the interest for that debt. So for every $100 you pay in taxes, the government has to turn around and give $11 to... whomever has those bonds. Mostly US states, businesses, and rich people. The government, and therefore the taxpayers, are always and constantly paying back the national debt. If it simply stopped borrowing more than it paid back, it would eventually be debt free. Being out of debt give the nation more ability to react to crisis (like this plague). They can borrow more money (from the FED) and dive into debt and prop up a failing economy. The less debt they are in, the deeper they can dive to help out. If they're already up to their eyeballs in debt, they can't help out much. Borrowing ever more money is less critical if the economy grows. It's betting on the future though. If your income is probably going to be 20% larger next year, going another 5% into debt isn't such a worry. Until you lose that bet... There's a limit to how much debt we can be in. If we're paying 100% of taxes towards interest, we effectively don't have a government anymore as they can't afford to do anything. Currently Japan pays something like 50%, which is concerning. For what the Japanese pay in taxes, they could be getting TWICE as much out of their government. EDIT: typo. Thanks /u/nednobbins


Question: Do physicists or mathematicians actually remember hundreds of equations?

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I would in no way considered myself a physicist, but taken a few classes. From my experience, straight out memorization does nothing for you. I've always been given an equation sheet when taking an exam. What is important, is understanding the fundimental ideas and concepts. You do need to remember these, but they should be somewhat logical. Equations are only used to quantify concepts. You need to know how to use the math and exploit it, and that only comes through practice. Sometimes you use an equation so much, it sticks. I've had a very different experience in math. Having to memorize all the derivatives and many integrals and alot of trig. But the more you practice, the less effort you put forward in trying to recall them.


Question: Why some computer games need to be restarted to apply new video settings while some don't?

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 Why some computer games need to be restarted to apply new video settings while some don't?

This comes down to how the application was written and specifically, resource management. When a game is up and running, it got there by loading a bunch of pictures (the textures) and shaders (simply, graphical effects) and 3D models off your hard drive (or SSD) and mashing them together. The current settings you use determine which shaders, models and textures are loaded and how they can be processed before they are actually used to display something. Different settings may use different files. In any graphics API (Open GL, DirectX, Vulkan, etc.), when you want to load a shader or texture or model, it's given a unique ID. If you unload a shader to change it to another, it now has a new ID that has to be applied to everything that used it so the graphics API knows what items you need to draw something. There may also be different settings (less or more) that are applied to the new shader and the game has to do a little processing before it can start drawing again. The game engine may be written really flexibly (Doom Eternal) and is able to unload the current files, reload the files it needs for the new settings, re-apply the new IDs and keep going. Maybe they wanted to save time during development (I'm looking at you, Assassin's Creed: Odyssey) and it requires a restart. Why would someone do this? For a larger company like id Software and Ubisoft, it can come down to decisions made solely for the company or what kind of experience they want the players to have. Maybe their workflow mandates that the game designers can see changes in-game immediately because maybe the graphics programmers are always busy. So early on the programmers made it so that the artists can just update a shader file, push some hidden command in-game and reload stuff. Maybe they have some external tools they think are good enough and want to use them to save time on the graphics programmers and don't want/need to see it in-game for some reason, so the game engine was never given that flexibility. Source: wrote a small game engine and wrote support to reload the shaders while the game is running. I don't actually have to "apply" the new shader IDs because each object doesn't point *directly* to a shader. There's a layer in between. This was the flexibility I made to support dynamic shader reloads. It requires a full restart to change textures but can also dynamically reload changes to the UI.


Question: How is a site like SoundCloud on the verge of going out of business with ads and membership plans, but sites like Quora with no advertisement are still staying strong after all these years?

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 How is a site like SoundCloud on the verge of going out of business with ads and membership plans, but sites like Quora with no advertisement are still staying strong after all these years?

Quora is valuable for all the data people readily volunteer. I'm not entirely sure but they likely have some kind of deal where they sell info or are propped up financially because of all the consumer information they can generate. Soundcloud, by contrast, streams audio primarily which is incredibly taxing on servers compared to answering questions and thus has much higher hosting costs that they have to offset with declining online ad revenues.


Question: How far upward does a country's territory extend?

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 How far upward does a country's territory extend?

In international law, the space above a particular national territory is treated as belonging to the government controlling the territory, and is called the country's "[Airspace]( URL_3 )". A country's Airspace does not include Outer Space, which, under the [*Outer Space Treaty of 1967*]( URL_1 ), is declared to be "free and not subject to national appropriation". However, the treaty did not define the altitude at which Airspace ends and Outer Space begins. While there is no international agreement on the vertical extent of sovereign Airspace, suggestions range from about 30 km (19 mi)—the altitude of the highest aircraft and balloons—to about 160 km (99 mi)—the altitude of the lowest short-term stable orbits. The [*Fédération Aéronautique Internationale*]( URL_2 ) has established the [Kármán line]( URL_0 )—at an altitude of 100 km (62 mi)—as the boundary between the Earth's atmosphere and Outer Space. **ADDENDUM** *The Kármán line was calculated on the understanding that above a certain altitude the atmosphere would be so thin that a flying aircraft would have to fly faster than orbital velocity in order to get any aerodynamic lift, and if you are flying faster than orbital velocity you're not really flying anymore.* The United States considers anyone who has flown above 80 kilometers (50 mi) to be an astronaut.


Question: Why is money worth a different amount in different parts of the world?

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different countries have different currencies, but that's not relevant to the "worth" of the money. how rich a region is determines how much money is worth there. let's say you live in a rich fishing village, where somehow every fisher has their own ship and catches more than enough fish. even though an apple might be worth like half a small fish at most, you might be willing to pay an entire fish for an apple because a) you have so many fishes and b) getting an apple might be difficult where you live. in another village where people are less successful, the apple might be cheaper (because the one with the orchard doesnt want to carry all his apples to your village and rather sells them for less in the closer village). money is just an abstraction to facilitate these trades, and thus the prices vary corresponding to the underlying situation.


Question: when someone has a mental health issue like scizephrenia, why do the voices in their head always tell them to do messed up stuff? Why doesnt the voice sometimes just like remind them to floss and stuff.

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 when someone has a mental health issue like scizephrenia, why do the voices in their head always tell them to do messed up stuff? Why doesnt the voice sometimes just like remind them to floss and stuff.

They don't always tell them to do bad things. I had a friend who used to tune out mid conversation, lean out of our group, and start having a friendly conversation with "Medusa". He said she had power over him, but usually she just wanted to be a friend.


Question: Why animals react weird to mirrors?

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 Why animals react weird to mirrors?

It's quite rare for an animal to be able to recognize itself in a reflection. They usually think it's another animal and get defensive.


Question: the Boeing 737 Max uses a computer to 'fly against nature'. What does this mean?

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 the Boeing 737 Max uses a computer to 'fly against nature'. What does this mean?

I suspect the pilot attributed more to the changes in the new design then it could be attributed with. The 737 Max have limited changes from previous 737s and is mostly performance items from the 787 development. The flight computers and cockpit are the same as previous models and the airplane have most of its major design elements from 1966. & #x200B; But there is such a thing as he describes. It was developed for fighter airplanes. One of the fundamental principles of stable flight is that the center of mass have to be in front of the center of drag/lift. The most extreme example is a dart. If you throw a dart backwards it will flip around so the heavy pointy end faces front even as you release it. And a similar thing happens for aircraft as well. This is why the classical stable aircraft design is to have a heavy engine in the front and a long light tail with fins on it. The aircraft will naturally fly the way you are pointing it. However for fighter airplanes this is a problem as they often want to go a diferent direction and therefore want the front to face a different way. So starting with the F-16 the new fighter design have the center of mass moved far enough behind so the aircraft is unstable. The aerodynamic forces on the aircraft will always want to turn the aircraft around. And pilots are not fast enough to react when this happens which is why you need flight computers to do the actual flying. & #x200B; That being said the modern airplanes also have very similar flight computers and will constantly adjust different things like power and trim. However this is done for fuel economy and comfort more then being a requirement for stable flight. Pilots can and regularly do turn these features off for various reasons. For example when they are diagnosing an issue, certain items are not working or they need the training.


Question: If you could zoom in and watch something charge it’s battery, what would you see?

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 If you could zoom in and watch something charge it’s battery, what would you see?

Imagine a retail clothing store that has a bunch of customers but no sales. Throughout the day the customers ruffle through the neatly folded clothes, try them on and put them down somewhere else. Completely disorganizing the entire store. That is you using your battery. At the end of the day, the employees run through using their tiny hands to pick up crumpled clothes, fold them, and reorganize the entire store. That is the charging. The electrons come in through the wall, reorganize your lithium ions and leave.


Question: What on earth is a vector space?

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It's a space where vectors live. Like in 3 dimensions you have vectors going out 3 planes. The xy xz and yz planes. In math its called vector space instead of reality because math goes further to describe space with more plans. Like 4 dimensions and even 10. There's an old book that's still a good read or listen called flatlanders. URL_0


Question: Why is the existence of a middle class important in assessing the strength of an economy?

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 Why is the existence of a middle class important in assessing the strength of an economy?

That's a big one, yes. Compare an economy where there is a middle class to one where there's only very rich people, and very poor people. How will the economy continue to perform when the poor masses have little to spend to fuel it, and the few rich even though they can buy a lot probably won't do so, purchasing only what they need in terms of necessities and perhaps hoarding money instead of spending?


Question: Why is Luxemburg the richest country in the world on a per capita basis?

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 Why is Luxemburg the richest country in the world on a per capita basis?

Well for starters - [because nobody lives there]( URL_0 .). Then we throw in that plenty of people work in Luxemburg but [do not actually live there]( URL_1 .). The result is a very small population, with a much larger workforce feeding into the income number but not into the population number. Then you consider that the vast majority of Luxemburg jobs are high paying jobs in industries like Finance and you have a perfect storm. For a comparable example, imagine if we calculated the GDP of New York City per capita but included everyone in New Jersey's income as well.


Question: how do small animals and insects fall from great heights and not die on impact?

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 how do small animals and insects fall from great heights and not die on impact?

They can cast Feather Fall as a reaction. Insects are tiny. Tiny creatures have a much greater surface area compared to their volume, and surface area is relevant when thinking about air resistance. Take a feather for example. Very big, but almost weightless. It falls very slowly because it has a lot of air resistance and not much weight. Same is true for insects. However, it's also worth noting that plenty of insects that *can't* survive a long fall also exist. Small animals, while also being tiny, are really good at turning themselves around in the air. Cats for example. Since legs act as shock absorbers, its really important to land on your legs if you're falling. Cats and many other small animals can reorient themselves so their legs are downwards in a very short space of time, which is how they always land on their feet.


Question: How do so many poor people live in New York City?

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 How do so many poor people live in New York City?

You're looking for an entire apartment for yourself for $2k/month. Immigrant families put 6 people in that same apartment with 2 or 3 of them working full-time. Also, rent control. Over a million New Yorkers live in rent-controlled or rent-stabilized apartments, which means the same family has been living there for 30+ years and their rent hasn't gone up more than inflation. I know a family living in a rent-controlled apartment. 2-bedroom, 1600 square feet, an entire floor of a small building. Only $600/month. That's also the premise of the TV Show Friends, by the way.


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 How does your body create suction to suck up liquids?

The same way you suck in air. The basic key to it is that pressure always wants to equalize. If you have a higher pressure in one place, and a lower pressure in another, air will move to try and make that equal. Inside your chest, there's a sealed cavity in which your lungs sit. You have a big muscle at the bottom of that cavity called the diaphragm. When you inhale, what you're actually doing is moving that diaphragm muscle downwards. What that does is make that cavity larger. Because it's a fixed amount of air inside there, increasing the space that air occupies reduces the pressure the air is under. This causes the air pressure all around you (which is now at a greater pressure than inside your chest cavity), to rush into your mouth or nose and down into your lungs causing them to expand inside your chest cavity, and equalize the pressure in there again. What you do with a straw is very simple and very similar. You grip the straw between your lips ~~and then inhale~~ and you lower your jaw. That reduces the air pressure inside your mouth, much like lowering the diaphragm lowers the pressure in your chest cavity, which then reduces the pressure in the straw. Atmospheric pressure which is pushing down on the surface of the drink now has an advantage against the pressure in your mouth, and forces the liquid up the straw to attempt to compensate. *Edited in response to a correction*


Question: How can water be so slippery, and yet such a terrible lubricant?

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 How can water be so slippery, and yet such a terrible lubricant?

Water is a great lubricant, except for it's low boiling point. That's why it's so effective at making your car slip off the road. Tires are specially designed to minimize it's lubricating effects, but they often fail. To adapt to this "problem" human skin swells and gets sticky when wet, the "pruney" effect from too long a soak in the hot tub. That way you won't slip down that rope to your death. It's not a bug, it's a feature.


Question: why is the snow cover so even?

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 why is the snow cover so even?

There' so many of them (Like absurd numbers in the billions and trillions) that the noise of coverage is converted to one even looking smooth sheet to your brain. However it's not even, wind affects snowfall, localized temperature like from a house or street lamp; when snowflakes hit the ground they tend to fuse to other ones and the weight eventually collapses stacks into even flat piles. They are so small it seems like a flat sheet to the naked eye. There are odds though that some variable could cause a giant tower of snowflakes... it's highly unlikely.


Question: Why do flags wobble in the wind even when the wind is steady?

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 Why do flags wobble in the wind even when the wind is steady?

Not 100% sure but i think its because even though the wind looks like its traveling in a single direction, the air molecules are still moving in different directions and with different velocities. Therefore when the wind is traveling around the flag, there are areas of different pressure that push and pull the fabric of the flag around. You might be able to get the flag to not wobble in a wind tunnel where all the air molecules are traveling with the same velocity. There is also a fight between gravity pulling the flag down, and the wind trying to straighten it.


Question: when I'm in bed reading and I'm really sleepy like I'm going fall asleep just this instant but I decide to put my book away first why aren't I sleepy at all after this?

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 when I'm in bed reading and I'm really sleepy like I'm going fall asleep just this instant but I decide to put my book away first why aren't I sleepy at all after this?

The brain loves to think about things. When you read a book, you give it an excuse to stop thinking and fall into s regular pattern. That's something it likes to be in to go to sleep because it helps signify a period of downtime where you're less likely to be eaten by a tiger. When you move and put the book away, or even when you just close the cover, suddenly you're not in a pattern anymore. You've moved, your brain has gone "oop there might be a tiger after all" and has made you alert. Now you're alert, you're thinking again and the brain doesn't like to sleep when it wants to think. You can get a similar effect by suddenly starting to read the book backwards.


Question: why would a healthy, modern, growing company, Verizon want to buy an old, outdated (for years), company like AOL?

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 why would a healthy, modern, growing company, Verizon want to buy an old, outdated (for years), company like AOL?

While we consider AOL to be a has-been, one of the things you have to remember is these old internet companies own a ridiculous amount of intellectual property, which is worth quite a bit on the patent / IP licensing front. [Looking at what AOL has bought]( URL_0 ), there's a lot of names that jump out at you if you were around in the 90s.. Netscape, Compuserve, Mapquest, Engadget, Moviephone... not only does AOL now own their IP/patents but more than a few of these services are still kicking (and more importantly, still Making Money). Yeah, as a suave Millennial you may say "pshhhuh. Moviephone? Why would I call a 1-800 number to get movie times, I can just google." but a lot of the movie listing and online ticket purchasing is still run on their infrastructure.


Question: what happens to food inside a dead person?

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 what happens to food inside a dead person?

it sits there and is processed by the enzymes, acids, and organisms it is surrounded by. the same way it would be if you were alive, just without peristalsis.


Question: Why is 0 divided by 0 undefined? Doesn't it make sense to have the answer also be a 0?

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- Always start your response with <thinking> tag and end with </answer>.
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<thinking>
[Your detailed chain-of-thought goes here]
</thinking>
<answer>
[Your final answer goes here]
</answer>
 Why is 0 divided by 0 undefined? Doesn't it make sense to have the answer also be a 0?

Think of it like this: Let's "pretend" that 0/0 is defined and has a numeric value. If we do so, then let us write this: 0*3=0 By algebra, let us divide by zero: 0/0=3 Let's try it again, but this time using 0 instead of 3. 0*0=0 0/0=0 Since we stated above that zero divided by zero is equal to three and it is also equal to zero, then: 3=0 Since 3 is definitely not equal to 0, there is a problem in the math. This is part of the reason why the value is undefined. It appears that we can let zero divided by zero equal anything, which is not arithmetically possible. That is why it is undefined in mathematics.


Question: How impactful is the discovery of water on the moon?

The user asks a question, and the Assistant answers it. The assistant first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <thinking> </thinking> and
<answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <thinking> reasoning process here </thinking><answer> answer here </answer>.
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<thinking>
[Your detailed chain-of-thought goes here]
</thinking>
<answer>
[Your final answer goes here]
</answer>
 How impactful is the discovery of water on the moon?

Not really honestly. There's no way for life to exist on the moon, theres still no atmosphere and constant bombardment with high energy radiation. Its impactful in the sense of "someday, when we make a moon base, we can use the water instead of trying to find ways to generate it" We already know the moon falls into the suns zone for liquid water, since it orbits the earth. We've known the moon had water ice and flows since the 60s, and all but confirmed liquid water in 1994


Question: How does repressing memories due to trauma work?

The user asks a question, and the Assistant answers it. The assistant first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <thinking> </thinking> and
<answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <thinking> reasoning process here </thinking><answer> answer here </answer>.
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<thinking>
[Your detailed chain-of-thought goes here]
</thinking>
<answer>
[Your final answer goes here]
</answer>
 How does repressing memories due to trauma work?

Brains are fun like that! It's basically your brain trying to protect you/itself from whatever traumatic thing. Same thing can happen with your eyesight. See something traumatizing enough and you could go blind! (Temporarily of course and not actually physically blind, brain just blocking receptors). Memory also works that way too. Your brain can block out the really traumatic parts so that you can remember the jist of what happened but not remember super fine details. The response to the traumatic event can still be there (anxiety, depression etc) but it will not be as strong as when the event happened. Over time the response lessens and lessens. People usually define themselves as survivors after traumatic events.


Question: Why is it easy for flies and mosquitoes to get in your room, but so hard for them to leave it? Is it just a common impression or is there something else?

The user asks a question, and the Assistant answers it. The assistant first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <thinking> </thinking> and
<answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <thinking> reasoning process here </thinking><answer> answer here </answer>.
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- Always start your response with <thinking> tag and end with </answer>.
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<thinking>
[Your detailed chain-of-thought goes here]
</thinking>
<answer>
[Your final answer goes here]
</answer>
 Why is it easy for flies and mosquitoes to get in your room, but so hard for them to leave it? Is it just a common impression or is there something else?

It’s also not easy for them to fly in your room, but you don’t notice them doing it because they are outside, you only notice the once that come in


Question: If every matter is of a chemical composition, can't we in specific ways chemical produce almost any matter?

The user asks a question, and the Assistant answers it. The assistant first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <thinking> </thinking> and
<answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <thinking> reasoning process here </thinking><answer> answer here </answer>.
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<thinking>
[Your detailed chain-of-thought goes here]
</thinking>
<answer>
[Your final answer goes here]
</answer>
 If every matter is of a chemical composition, can't we in specific ways chemical produce almost any matter?

Sure. But it isn't always easy to get the atoms of one material to mix the way we want with the atoms of another material to produce the matter we actually want, and many compounds - especially organic compounds - are *incredibly* complex.


Question: How can two consecutive days with visually similar weather conditions (sunny and blue skies) have such different temperatures? (e.g. Monday sunny/25°c, Tuesday sunny/13°c)

The user asks a question, and the Assistant answers it. The assistant first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <thinking> </thinking> and
<answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <thinking> reasoning process here </thinking><answer> answer here </answer>.
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<thinking>
[Your detailed chain-of-thought goes here]
</thinking>
<answer>
[Your final answer goes here]
</answer>
 How can two consecutive days with visually similar weather conditions (sunny and blue skies) have such different temperatures? (e.g. Monday sunny/25°c, Tuesday sunny/13°c)

Weather doesn't just depend on the cloud cover in a given location. Air movement is important because the air has a temperature, meaning if the wind brings warm air over to you then the weather will be warmer regardless of how sunny it is.


Question: What is the use of recaptcha, why would a robot create a Nintendo account, even if it did why are we stopping it?

The user asks a question, and the Assistant answers it. The assistant first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <thinking> </thinking> and
<answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <thinking> reasoning process here </thinking><answer> answer here </answer>.
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<thinking>
[Your detailed chain-of-thought goes here]
</thinking>
<answer>
[Your final answer goes here]
</answer>
 What is the use of recaptcha, why would a robot create a Nintendo account, even if it did why are we stopping it?

Denial of service attacks on their servers are bad. Spam bots are bad. Have you ever been on a forum where bots got in and made users to spam horrible things or advertising messages. That’s why.


Question: How do modern cinemas show films? Is it still reel to reel or are all of our movies on usb?

The user asks a question, and the Assistant answers it. The assistant first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <thinking> </thinking> and
<answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <thinking> reasoning process here </thinking><answer> answer here </answer>.
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<thinking>
[Your detailed chain-of-thought goes here]
</thinking>
<answer>
[Your final answer goes here]
</answer>
 How do modern cinemas show films? Is it still reel to reel or are all of our movies on usb?

They're on encrypted hard disc/SSD cartridges plugged into digital projectors, in the same sorts of formats you can find on iTunes but at much higher bitrates. You won't see actual film unless you go to an "arthouse" cinema.


Question: what is happening at the molecular level when a length of string (or presumably more simply monofilament fishing line) is stretched to the the point of breaking?

The user asks a question, and the Assistant answers it. The assistant first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <thinking> </thinking> and
<answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <thinking> reasoning process here </thinking><answer> answer here </answer>.
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<thinking>
[Your detailed chain-of-thought goes here]
</thinking>
<answer>
[Your final answer goes here]
</answer>
 what is happening at the molecular level when a length of string (or presumably more simply monofilament fishing line) is stretched to the the point of breaking?

The molecules are sliding over each other. Monofilament line is made of polymers, very long molecules made of repeating units like a chain made of links. Polymers that are good for making fibers tend to stick to each other, like a bunch of strands of spaghetti with glue between them. As you pull and stretch, the polymers are aligning and sliding over each other, breaking and reforming bonds. This takes energy, which is why you have to keep pulling harder. Eventually the fiber gets thin enough that the remaining molecules and inter-molecular bonds aren't strong enough to resist the force and the molecules pull apart.


Question: Why do we feel stuff when we touch things when we are not actually touching them?

The user asks a question, and the Assistant answers it. The assistant first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <thinking> </thinking> and
<answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <thinking> reasoning process here </thinking><answer> answer here </answer>.
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<thinking>
[Your detailed chain-of-thought goes here]
</thinking>
<answer>
[Your final answer goes here]
</answer>
 Why do we feel stuff when we touch things when we are not actually touching them?

You're right, the atoms of our hands are not technically touching the atoms of the object we are holding. What we are feeling is the effect of those atoms repelling each other.


Question: Why do our brains see muscles (like abs and biceps) as attractive features in men, but typically does not find them as attractive on women?

The user asks a question, and the Assistant answers it. The assistant first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <thinking> </thinking> and
<answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <thinking> reasoning process here </thinking><answer> answer here </answer>.
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- Always start your response with <thinking> tag and end with </answer>.
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For example, your response follow this format:
<thinking>
[Your detailed chain-of-thought goes here]
</thinking>
<answer>
[Your final answer goes here]
</answer>
 Why do our brains see muscles (like abs and biceps) as attractive features in men, but typically does not find them as attractive on women?

Likely an evolutionary phenomenon. If you see abs on a man it is generally associated with increased muscle mass and decreased fat content in the body, which is associated with being healthy enough mentally and physically (and arguably financially these days) due to exercise. So someone with abs plausibly has a higher chance of giving good genes and be able to support his offspring (by hunting and protecting and so on) thereby continuing the contribution of the mother to the gene pool. If you see it on a female, it's a bit different because that means she's very skinny and muscle, in a biological sense, is more readily seen in men (therefore it bears a masculine property), which then suggests such females have a higher chance of having low body fat (not so good for pregnancy in an evolutionary sense, not talking about actual physiology) and a lower tendency to do feminine tasks due to her masculine characteristics (like taking care of the offspring and nurturing them). Please note these are not generalizations, and not facts about physiology, they're patterns we may have evolved to perceive, given what they signified a longgggg time ago.


Question: What happens to my data if I ignore the "accept cookies" button on a website and continue to browse it?

The user asks a question, and the Assistant answers it. The assistant first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <thinking> </thinking> and
<answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <thinking> reasoning process here </thinking><answer> answer here </answer>.
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- Always start your response with <thinking> tag and end with </answer>.
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<thinking>
[Your detailed chain-of-thought goes here]
</thinking>
<answer>
[Your final answer goes here]
</answer>
 What happens to my data if I ignore the "accept cookies" button on a website and continue to browse it?

That message is telling you they use cookies or might use them, it isn't asking your permission. You are accepting that you read the popup. Some sites will close if you hit no/cancel, which is neat.


Question: Why can't we upgrade phone parts like we do with PC parts?

The user asks a question, and the Assistant answers it. The assistant first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <thinking> </thinking> and
<answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <thinking> reasoning process here </thinking><answer> answer here </answer>.
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<thinking>
[Your detailed chain-of-thought goes here]
</thinking>
<answer>
[Your final answer goes here]
</answer>
 Why can't we upgrade phone parts like we do with PC parts?

Same reason you can't upgrade most parts on most laptops or All In One PCs If you want things to be as compact as possible that doesn't leave much space for user serviceability and if a custom part makes your product 5% smaller that makes it significantly more appealing than a larger product using standard off the shelf components There are laptops out there with components you can swap out but they're generally extremely expensive and significantly larger/heavier than an equivalent spec model with no swapping options


Question: why does very cold bottled water look unfrozen if you don't do anything to it, but starts to freeze when you open the cap?

The user asks a question, and the Assistant answers it. The assistant first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <thinking> </thinking> and
<answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <thinking> reasoning process here </thinking><answer> answer here </answer>.
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<thinking>
[Your detailed chain-of-thought goes here]
</thinking>
<answer>
[Your final answer goes here]
</answer>
 why does very cold bottled water look unfrozen if you don't do anything to it, but starts to freeze when you open the cap?

This process is called supercooling. The water is below its freezing temperature but due to a combination of factors, namely lack of a nucleation sites (places the liquid can start crystalizing) and or pressure inside the bottle (mostly nucleation sites) the water is unable to actually crystallize. This is why when you open the cap, tap it, or shake it hard enough, you change the equation and it can freeze. Since the water is below freezing already the transition is almost immediate, you can watch the ice form rapidly. Side note, water will 'spontaneously' freeze at around -39 degrees Celsius regardless of nucleation sites.


Question: What causes alkaline batteries to leak when mixed with other types of batteries?

The user asks a question, and the Assistant answers it. The assistant first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <thinking> </thinking> and
<answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <thinking> reasoning process here </thinking><answer> answer here </answer>.
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<thinking>
[Your detailed chain-of-thought goes here]
</thinking>
<answer>
[Your final answer goes here]
</answer>
 What causes alkaline batteries to leak when mixed with other types of batteries?

All batteries of the same size pretty much always put out the same voltage regardless of what they're made of, so I think it may be a case of the other batteries may leak and they just copy-pasted the same safety warning. Those cheap "Heavy Duty" batteries you see in dollar stores are I believe Carbon-Zinc or Zinc Chloride batteries, an older, cheaper battery technology that has a lower capacity, and, more importantly, leaks when it is fully discharged. If you mix alkaline cells with these cheaper ones, because their capacity is lower, they will deplete first, but because the alkaline batteries will still have power left, your TV remote might still work, but one of the batteries is rotting it's guts out and is a out to spray acid all over your lap because, of course, you lost the battery cover. Its most likely a warning because if you mix battend types, one type may start leaking when it dies, but you won't be warned by all the batteries running down.


Question: Why do plant cells have chloroplasts and mitochondria, but animals cells seem to lack those?

The user asks a question, and the Assistant answers it. The assistant first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <thinking> </thinking> and
<answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <thinking> reasoning process here </thinking><answer> answer here </answer>.
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<thinking>
[Your detailed chain-of-thought goes here]
</thinking>
<answer>
[Your final answer goes here]
</answer>
 Why do plant cells have chloroplasts and mitochondria, but animals cells seem to lack those?

Animal cells do have mitochondria. However, you are correct in that they don't have chloroplasts. Plant cells use chloroplasts to collect energy from light and transform it into chemical energy, but animal cells don't need this because animals don't get their energy from light. They get it from the food they eat.


Question: why is the western United States so much more geographically diverse/interesting than the east?

The user asks a question, and the Assistant answers it. The assistant first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <thinking> </thinking> and
<answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <thinking> reasoning process here </thinking><answer> answer here </answer>.
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<thinking>
[Your detailed chain-of-thought goes here]
</thinking>
<answer>
[Your final answer goes here]
</answer>
 why is the western United States so much more geographically diverse/interesting than the east?

As someone that lives in the Eastern U.S., what are you talking about? The Appalachian Mountains run through half of the Eastern U.S. There are wetlands in about 1/3 of the Eastern U.S. as well. The Great Lakes are in the Eastern U.S also.


Question: Why is Pi such an important number?

The user asks a question, and the Assistant answers it. The assistant first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <thinking> </thinking> and
<answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <thinking> reasoning process here </thinking><answer> answer here </answer>.
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<thinking>
[Your detailed chain-of-thought goes here]
</thinking>
<answer>
[Your final answer goes here]
</answer>
 Why is Pi such an important number?

Because circles, circular looking things, rotations, and circle-looking curves are *everywhere*. If a given thing could include a circle even in the most tangentially abstract manner pi will find its way in to your calculations somehow. It's an important number because it's a fundamental facet of anything circular. Because we live in a world where we have things that curve pi will appear everywhere, making it pretty important. It's not that pi is important, but that circles are important.


Question: Why would AirPower have created so much heat?

The user asks a question, and the Assistant answers it. The assistant first thinks about the reasoning process in the mind and then provides the user with the answer. The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <thinking> </thinking> and
<answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <thinking> reasoning process here </thinking><answer> answer here </answer>.
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<thinking>
[Your detailed chain-of-thought goes here]
</thinking>
<answer>
[Your final answer goes here]
</answer>
 Why would AirPower have created so much heat?

Running electricity through anything creates heat. All chargers create heat. Because wireless power is mysterious people like to play up the death ray idea and pretend it was like bursting into flame or something, but phones have a ton of very delicate requirements and things like thermal cycling of a few degrees in the wrong place can degrade screens unevenly and stuff. It doesn't mean it was being on fire or being too hot to hold or anything extreme like that.