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[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "- Why do boxers and other top sports stars have, and listen intently to, trainers and coaches that NEVER reached their level?" ]
Because the ability to coach is different than the ability to perform at a high athletic level. Being a top athlete, first and foremost, requires you to win the genetic lottery and have natural athletic talent. There are plenty of people who were just as good as top stars and worked just as hard, but they were a few inches too short, a few steps too slow, or got hurt at the wrong time. They fact they didn't make it as big doesn't mean they know less. In fact, superstars have a pretty poor track record as coaches. When you solved most of your problems by being bigger and stronger and faster than everyone else, you don't have much to offer the average player. It is the player who had to make the most of their lesser talents who understand the game well enough to be coaches. If you look at the NFL, there aren't many great QBs in the coaching ranks...there are a whole lot of backups, though.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "How can our relatively tiny eyeballs simultaneously absorb all the photons bouncing off something as large as the moon so that we can see it as a whole?" ]
They're not. If *your* eyes were absorbing *all* the photons bouncing off the moon, nobody else would be able to see it... plus your eyes would probably boil. Your eyes detect the minuscule proportion of photons that reach your pupils, and no more than that. Visible things scatter reflected and retracted light in lots of directions. Luminous things emit light in lots of directions. Only a fraction of those need to get to your eyeballs for you to be able to discern something.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "The difference between my voice and my recorded voice." ]
Your own voice resonates in your skull, which makes it sound a little lower and deeper. Think of it like singing in a big concert hall, where your voice echoes off the walls and creates a fuller sound. The sound of your voice literally echoes through your skull, but the echoes are so fast your brain doesn't sort them as separate sounds, they get incorporated into what is perceived as the single sound of your voice. With a recording, you don't get any of that.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Why is it illegal in Kentucky to carry an ice cream cone in your back pocket?" ]
_URL_0_ Apparently people used to stuff food into their back pockets to get horses to follow them. That way if they were caught they'd have an excuse that looked like they weren't actively trying to lead the horse away.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Why is DNA evidence always stored in paper bags instead of plastic?" ]
I had to look it up, but the answer is apparently moisture. Paper bags are permeable to moisture where as plastic holds in moisture. Anything that is wet goes into paper; anything dry goes into plastic. More specifically, moisture promotes bacterial and fungal growth as well as promotes enzymatic activity. Any one of these things can degrade DNA. There's a paper that shows DNA evidence that was dried out compared to just stored has a massive DNA.retrihttps://_URL_0_ rate difference.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "How can deaf people who've been given Cochlear implants understand speech?" ]
> the woman has been deaf since birth and therefore has obviously never heard sound before Not true. "Deaf" doesn't mean "completely unable to hear anything". Deafness is a range, and not a binary on/off description. Her hearing was just really, *really*, **really** poor. But she **had** heard before (badly), and knew what speech sounded like. Someone getting a cochlear implant after being *completely* deaf for their entire life **can't** understand speech.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "why do LED torches have multiple small LED's instead of one big one?" ]
Some of them (the nice, expensive ones) do have a single LED, such as Mag-Lite. Low-output LEDs are much less expensive to produce, so cheap flashlights often will have 25-50 of them (a dead giveaway is their very bluish tint); their overall light output is typically less than those with a single LED. When purchasing, look for how many lumens the flashlight produces, not how many LEDs; more lumens = brighter.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Why does America send so much aid around the world when it’s own people have a massive homelessness, drug, healthcare, infrastructure problem?" ]
Foreign Aid is to a large part a geopolitical tool. It also has a humanitarian aspect, but mostly it is political. This is not only about America (USA), but an answer in general. You are making sure countries are pro-you and stabilised (edit: regarding the *government*), people from there do not move (for example as refugees to "you"), countries are influenced culturally as you want, you ensure economic access, ensure the geopolitical grasp in that area (which explains when the aid is taking the form of military items or money for military). All those things are "pro you", but you also want them to be "contra other geopolitical and local players". Furthermore, a lot of that money goes back into your own companies. Especially regarding infrastructure (and military) projects which are usually done by large companies - and those are not from the place you're giving the money to.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Why are spiders unable to crawl on another spider's web?" ]
Spider webs are made up of both sticky silk (for catching stuff) and dry silk (for walking on). Spiders memorize where it's safe to walk and where it's not when building their webs, but a spider on a unfamiliar web won't know where the different types of silk are.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "A note from your friendly, ELI5 mods: Please, no more meta, \"what ELI5 is/isn't\" posts or arguments. We'll be removing them." ]
Thank you, those posts honestly get in the way of my enjoyment of the subreddit.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Why I see slightly different colours out of my left and my right eye" ]
My optometrist explained it as: It has to do with the Blood, if you lay on your side, the blood will pool more into the eye closest to the ground. It visually makes the image your perceive warmer in one eye versus the other.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "why does crying and being sad make you so tired? [Psychology]" ]
Emotional stress and trauma is both physically and mentally draining. Being overwhelmed in some cases can lead to blackouts. Tears, for example, obviously use water and potassium-so excessive crying can lead to dehydration.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "If this is the \"explain like I'm 5\" subreddit, and everyone here obviously knows that, why does everyone put \"ELI5:\" at the beginning of every post?" ]
Did you try readinng the rules? > Posts must begin with "ELI5:" > Posts only > Reported as: 10. Posts must begin with "ELI5:" > This is meant to help identify ELI5 posts on the frontpage or /r/all or any other collection.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Why does my dog go around in circles before pooping?" ]
To find the best playce of course. He probably has to check, whether no other dog had the same idea before.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Why TV shows like The Walking Dead can have extreme on screen violence but cannot air swear words?" ]
In America, foul language (and nudity, for that matter) tends to be much more heavily censored than violence is; in other areas (say, Europe), the opposite is often true. E.g., In Germany, graphic violence is more or less taboo. To put it another way, there's Kyle's mom from the South Park movie (I'm paraphrasing, here) -- "Horrific, terrible violence is O-K! Just as long as there are no naughty words!" Sadly, there are people who really do think this way. E.g., I worked at a game store when San Andreas came out. People were buying it for their 9 year old kids. When we warned them about the content, some parents would say "never mind, I don't want it." Some, on the other hand, would not care. The one that haunts me to this day responded, "Oh, it's fine! We just turn the volume off so he can't hear any bad words!"
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "How does the paint on the 2015 Bugatti change color?" ]
That is a video filter. The car doesn't actually change color. Had you not noticed that everything in the background also changes color?
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "A priori and a posteriori with easy examples" ]
A priori means independent from experience, thus 2 plus 2 will always be 4 and can't be changed. It will always exist no matter what - we can't influence the answer. A poseriori means you have observed it happen. Like President Trump is the president of the US. That's based on what you observed. That knowledge wouldn't exist without human observation. Hope that helps.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "What Do ISPs Gain From Throttling Internet Speeds?" ]
It keeps them from having to upgrade their network. You could offer everyone the top speed but then if more than X number of people used it they would run out of bandwidth and it'd all come crashing down. They throttle in order to keep this from happening so everyone gets the speed they pay for ideally. Now they've abused it and refused to upgrade their network when they should but that's a whole other point.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "What do people mean when they say something \"became a commodity\"." ]
Commodities, generally speaking, are goods and services that have little to no differentiation across a market. Gold, for example, is a commodity because all gold is basically the same; there's no functional difference between gold mined in Colorado and gold mined in West Africa. Agricultural and mineral raw materials are usually commodities. Commodities are often traded on large open markets, like the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. So, no. Porn doesn't really qualify. The commenter may be misusing the word, or they may mean it like a metaphor that porn was widely produced and easy to get.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "What's happening in North Korean government following the death of their leader, and how this impacts on South Korea + other affected countries." ]
Short Answer: Nothing. The transition seems to have gone smoothly. North Korea is still just a dictatorial, backwards, and dear leader worshiping as ever.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "How can goats climb near-vertical walls without falling?" ]
Their hooves have rubbery bottoms that help stick and the two halves can move somewhat independently that allow them to grip onto sheer surfaces. Source: [What If You Had Animal Feet!?](_URL_0_)
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "What makes that distinct smell when you heat up an old toaster?" ]
Crumbs wouldn't smell different after a few weeks. It's dust on the heating coils. Same smell you get when you first turn on central heating for the winter.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "What are the protocols put in place if a country sends out a nuke?" ]
Both the US/NATO, Russia, and China have extraordinarily complicated list of options in the event of a nuclear event. The current plans are of course among the most classified stuff in existence. The chance of shooting down a single missile is very very low, many missiles is simply not happening. Shooting down a bomber carrying nukes gets more variable depending on the specifics.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "What will happen on first contact? Who is in charge? Etc." ]
I am not sure who is in charge, or what the response will be, however lots of people have developed Post-detection Policies (or PDPs). A post detection policy is a set of guidelines and rules put together that give us information on how to react if we meet extraterrestrial life. At the moment, I am not sure which PDP is the go-to response. I think that is determined by who makes first contact. However, I believe that SETI (**S**earch for **E**xtra**T**errestrial **I**ntelligence) have a popular one. [You can see it by clicking here!](_URL_0_)
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "What is the purpose of the propeller on current hologram projectors?" ]
> Wouldn't make more sense to have a screen, grid, or lens (as conventional projectors have) for the holographic object to project from? In no case does an image "project from" the device. A spinning arm tries to fulfill the goal of having an image in an area where there doesn't appear to be a screen. When the arm is in an area it flashes some light, and after it moves out of the way it allows the viewer to see what is behind it. The result is that you can see an image seemingly floating in thin air because most of the time the arm isn't in any given location, but while it is the light it outputs is very bright. Our eyes tend to blend the flickering light into the perception of it being solid and steady. Technically speaking this display is not a hologram because it lacks the aspect of a third dimension. It is no different from a flat screen that is transparent.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Why does a bigger budget mean better CGI movie effects? Isn't it all made with software?" ]
Its made by people who know how to use the software. CGI is not easy. You need talented artists who know how to use 3D modeling software. Better artists cost more, but are able to make better visuals.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Cthulus, HP Lovecraft. Is it real Mythology or is it just old horror books, is it actually good/scary/cool?" ]
They are just old horror books. They were written by HP Lovecraft, who was not the greatest writer of all time, to put it mildly. They are interesting though.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Why do they call it Legend Of Zelda and not Legend Of Link?" ]
Because you are Link, and his name is whatever you put for him. His name doesn't matter, and for all the games history knows his name changes from game to game. The one constant is Zelda because after the first Zelda was cursed to sleep forever the king decreed, "So that this tragedy would never be forgotten, he ordered every female child born into the royal household should be given the name Zelda.". Skyward Sword changes this a bit, but you still have all the female children being named after the first one. So since the royal bloodline seems to be the keeper of the Triforce of wisdom, and it presents itself only in the women, you get the Legend of Zelda's.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "How were Romans able to build fountains ?" ]
The fountain was located downhill from a river, and water from the river was delivered via a closed pipe, so that it arrived under natural pressure (from gravity). Yo ho ho! Yer not alone in askin', and kind strangers have explained: 1. [ELI5: How ancient Roman fountains worked ](_URL_6_) ^(_6 comments_) 1. [ELI5: How fountains were possible in Classical Civilizations. How was the pressure kept and turned off and on? ](_URL_0_) ^(_48 comments_) 1. [ELI5: How did Ancient Greek fountains work? ](_URL_2_) ^(_9 comments_) 1. [ELI5: How did fountains work in medieval times? ](_URL_5_) ^(_4 comments_) 1. [ELI5: How did the public fountains work before using electricity to produce water pressure? ](_URL_1_) ^(_6 comments_) 1. [ELI5: How did ancient roman aqueducts work? ](_URL_4_) ^(_9 comments_) 1. [ELI5: Without access to modern pumping technology, how were ancient civilizations able to build fountains with such high flow rates like the Trevi Fountain in Rome? ](_URL_3_) ^(_2 comments_)
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Why does it seem like soap operas are filmed with different cameras than regular shows?" ]
Soap operas tend to be filmed on video with no post-processing to speak of, so the feeling is similar to news shows, reality shows, etc. They are also filmed in higher frame rates which, as it turns out, makes them seem less cinematic.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "How do evolution deniers use the laws of thermodynamics to prove their case against evolution?" ]
They take the notion of entropy, and point out that current scientific knowledge points out two things. First, entropy is always rising. Second, complex biological organisms decrease entropy. That sounds like a contradiction, right? That's the argument they make: there *must* be some divine intervention or, according to our best science, there would be no way for complex organisms to evolve. As you may have already guessed, the people making this argument are *not* trained scientists. They're missing a crucial detail: entropy always rises in a closed system (one which has no energy coming in). The Earth is not a closed system. In fact, none of the systems discussed by evolution, or biology in general, are closed systems. In a single sentence: creationists have forgotten that the sun exists.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "What are we hoping to learn from landing on an asteroid?" ]
If you are referring to the recent Rosetta/Philae landing on 67P, it is actually a comet that we are landing on, not an asteroid. If that is what you are referring to then I believe it is the life-cycle of a comet as it travels around the sun and simply the task of landing on a tiny rock barreling through space that we are after. Other than that I'm sure they are trying to gather as much other data as possible while they are there, though I am nowhere close to an expert on astronomy or the mission itself.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Even though birds can't taste the capsaicin in hot peppers, does it still burn like the core of a thousand suns when they defecate?" ]
Humans don't "taste" it either. Humans have receptors that register it as pain. Spice is literally a sensation, not a taste, which is why you feel it on the way out too. Birds dont have receptors sensitive to capsaicin anywhere in their body, so it doesn't burn coming or going
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "How do we keep discovering new amazing things in astronomy when it takes millions of years for said discoveries to develop?" ]
The universe is very big, we estimate there are over 100 billion galaxies (each containing an average of 100 billion stars) in the observable universe. With that sort of number, it's almost guaranteed that somewhere, something interesting is happening at this moment.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Why does petting animals give us physical comfort?" ]
Most mammals have special sense receptors that respond favorably to gentle touch, which is why the vast majority of mammals will enjoy being pet (or petting something soft). So gentle stroking feels good to them, almost as much as it feels good for you to do it. We also have a certain chemical in our body (oxytocin) which is related to bonding and affection. Research general states that this chemical is released while we're petting or sometimes even looking at our pets.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Why are some people able to function on much less sleep than others?" ]
Very few people can actually function properly with a good amount of sleep debt. Most of those people just get used to it, like a high functioning alcoholic.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "why don't girls have Adam's apples" ]
Adam's apples are found on both women and men they just show up more prominently in men as a chunk of bony cartilage that's wrapped around the larynx. Also known as the laryngeal prominence, the Adam's apple sits right on top of the thyroid gland, so the area is fittingly called the thyroid cartilage. Grown men have larger voice boxes that are a lot more prominent. This is also the reason why dudes speak in deeper tones.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "the difference between a thrift store, a flea market, secondhand store, and a \"goody store\"" ]
Thrift store is an established location that takes donations of used things and resells them. They often are run by non-profits that use the donated goods and funds to help disadvantaged individuals. A flea market (or swap meet) is typically a venue containing a number of independent vendors. They may be selling all sorts of things, some being little more than what you would find at a garage sale and others selling cheap knock-off brand goods. They are often only open on weekends at an outdoor location such as an old drive-in. Secondhand store is similar to a thrift store, but may also include antique stores and consignment stores. Consignment stores allow people to give their things to the store to sell them, with the store taking a commission of the profits. This is commonly used with things like baby clothes where one could use the same location to sell old clothes and buy new ones as the baby outgrows the clothes. I've never heard of a "goody" store.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "I often hear a deep rumbling noise that that last several minutes while outside, almost like thunder but on clear days or nights that seems to come from above me, is this a known phenomenon and what is it?" ]
Do you consistently hear it? Day after day? Are their times? I dread to post the following link because it feels to 'conspiracy theory' for my skeptic tastes, but it is not an unheard (ha) of phenomenon. _URL_0_ However, there have been cases where the deep hums that can last a while are actually minor tremors that are too small to feel but can be heard. More details of you exact situation are needed. Only at night? Frequency? Every day? Random? Can you go weeks/months without hearing it? How loud is it? Is it a really deep hum (Low frequency)? High frequency?
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "If the U.S can use drones in foreign countries, how is it that these foreign countries aren't capable of doing the same thing to the US?" ]
The US would shoot it down. Most of the time, US drones operate in places were there aren't really ~~air-to-~~ air defenses, so the drone is fairly safe. Also, very few countries that would want to operate drones have a base close enough to operate drones from, whereas the US has bases all over the world. EDIT: Air defenses, as /u/ClamThe pointed out.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Munching Noises (More in Description)" ]
You don't? Really? I hate the noise my mouth produces when eating pop corns at the cinema, it doesn't let me hear the movie. Anyway, I guess is because we are not really able to be annoyed by something we do. For example, have you have tried to leave the toothpaste's cap open? Isn't that annoying as hell when someone else does it? But when it's your fault, you don't care so much.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "What exactly is Quantum Dot Technology for TVs supposed to do?" ]
The basic idea is that they're made of a material that absorbs a wide range of light, and then re-emits most of the absorbed energy as a very fine-tuned frequency of light. Being powered by light re-emission rather than electricity means that you can use them as passive filters to improve the light quality of the LCD backlight, or to create LED light quality without LED or OLED cost.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "What is the difference between cheap shampoo and expensive shampoo?" ]
Source: I used to be a chemist for a private label cosmetics manufacturer. The more expensive brands have higher quality fragrances and a higher surfactant to water ratio (lower priced ones are essentially watered down). Also, many have silicones to make hair shiny and silicones are expensive relative to other shampoo ingredients. A lot does have to do with marketing and advertising too. We often made the same product and filled into two differently labeled bottles. The name brands are advertised more, thus cost more to market.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Which version of the bible is \"the bible\"" ]
None of them. Before Constantine the roman emperor made Christianity romes state religion there were different sects of Christians and hundreds of gospels competing for attention. When Constantine adopted it he called for the Christina elders to make one book everyone could rally around. Mark, Luke, Matthew, etc. weren't friends of Jesus they were the guys in charge of making a cliff notes version of all the different gospels floating around. Look into the gospel of Thomas, the dead sea scrolls, gnostisim, etc.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "If we can build the Keystone XL pipeline, why don't we build a giant water pipeline from the Great Lakes to California to alleviate the drought problems there?" ]
Because keep your hands off our water. But seriously, there's a whole ecosystem going on over there, and mass-draining the water will fuck with that. A ton of goods get shipped in and out of Detroit and other cities via freighters, and if the water level drops too low, it could cut off supply chains. Tourism would be affected if shipping the water damaged the beaches or made recreational boating impossible (Lake Erie is not all that deep in areas where people do a lot of boating so a drop of a few feet could make some areas impassable or some ports impossible to dock in). Those are mostly reasons why Michigan and the surrounding states wouldn't allow it. The real reason is just that there isn't all that much money in water, especially for irrigation, but building a trans-national pipeline is expensive and difficult. I imagine the profit margins just aren't high enough.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "How is outer-space relevant in modern warfare, what would space combat look like?" ]
It's where satellites are, and satellites are the backbone of modern communications and photo-reconnaissance technology. The GPS satellites, for example, allow the US military to guide vehicles and weapons to anywhere on the globe with a tiny margin of error. That's a *HUGE* advantage in a fight. Reconnaissance satellites orbit constantly and collect images of whatever the owner of the satellite wants pictures of. Being able to shoot down, damage, or confuse your enemy's satellites seriously limits his ability to gather information. As for space combat, at the moment it looks a lot like slinging missiles (or potentially laser beams) at your enemy's satellites/unmanned spacecraft to disable or destroy them. We're a few lifetimes away from spaceship dogfights.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "How does hitting hard surfaces with your fists make your knuckles stronger?" ]
The same way that walking barefoot for an extended period of time makes the sole of your foot more durable and tolerant to pain. The skin forms calluses (another example is callus formation at the finger tips in guitar players). Another phenomenon is something called Wolff’s law. The link below explains this law. Essentially, if you load a bone with physical stresses, it stimulates the bone to become stronger. The opposite is true as well _URL_0_ Astronauts lose something like 1 to 2% of bony mass per month because of the absence of gravity. When it comes to the body “what you dont use, you lose”
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Why are American houses often of such poor quality?" ]
But are they? I mean you are talking the dry wall in a house. There is no point of putting harder/heavier/more expensive materials on the inside of the house. As you have the studs in wall in case you need more support. Also take into consideration many houses in the US are built along the coast and made to withstand some Hurricanes, while in the Plains they are routinely hit with Tornadoes and some houses can withstand that. Again it all comes down construction costs, but I also think many homes are much more durable than you think. Keep in mind how much older homes are in Europe and how much less room there is in Europe compared to here. So different construction methods and different materials were used in the building process. I also think that another consideration is that American homes are much larger than in Europe. So if they are of lesser quality, I think that some of the cost may be spread out more materials for larger houses.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "why is there no thunder or lightning during a snowstorm?" ]
I've seen and heard lightning in a snowstorm. Worked at a ski resort as a lift operator, nothing more scary than lightning when you're sitting in a metal shack at the top of a mountain. The weather people call it *thundersnow*.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "How and why do spider webs become cobwebs?" ]
> How do the webs lose their "stickiness"? They get covered in dust. Spiders frequently rebuild their webs in new locations. The old, abandoned web ends up collecting dust, which makes it less sticky, just like covering a piece of tape with dirt and debris makes it less sticky.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Why does the raidio only play certain songs by an artist and not any song that is good by them? Even old artists with no albums to promote." ]
To put it simple, it's been analysed that the audience stay on the station when the music is recognisable.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "How come it seems no one on the east-cost of America is able to handle and prepare for a snowstorm?" ]
I live in coastal New England. One thing to note is our winters are extremely unpredictable. Last year we had like 20 feet of snow, this year we haven't had any (and am only getting a few inches from this storm). How do you budget in something that can cost anywhere from five million to nothing. Another thing to note is that our snow tends to be very wet and heavy. 18-24 inches of snow means collapsed buildings and roads that can't be plowed by anything but heavy duty, commercial trucks and machinery. My town of 80,000 relies mostly on private contractors to plow neighborhoods and uses big city plows to focus on the highways. Well we got 20 inches of wet heavy snow and the private contractors simply couldn't push it. On top of that we had downed power lines. So there were millions of people who had no power, no heat, and no ability to go anywhere. Also, the east coast of the US has ALOT of people. Any weather event that effects millions of people is overly covered.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Why is it a bad idea to freeze food that's been defrosted?" ]
Ice crystals form during freezing. These crystals cause microscopic damage to the food by poking tiny holes in the food's structure. When thawed the food's texture has changed. A second freeze-thaw cycle makes the problem worse. The food's quality after the first thaw is not as good as fresh, but still acceptable. After a second thaw the quality will be worse. Some foods may be OK after several thawings, others may not survive the first.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "I’ve stood every single day of my life, so how are my legs and back still sore after a day of work when they should be used to the strain?" ]
Your body doesn't handle standing all day well . It didn't evolve that way. Standing and moving takes a lot of muscle effort for us to maintain and is very hard on our joints.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Why is it sometimes so hard to remember someone’s exact face?" ]
I'll be mainly referencing How to Create a Mind by Ray Kurzweil. According to the book, the brain's working mechanism heavily relies on redundancy. The more you experience something, the brain creates more and more pattern recognizers for you to recognize. In the case of faces, for people that you see often, your brain have assigned more neurons for the task of recognizing them in different situations, different lighting, different angles, different facial gestures etc. Also, again referencing the book, remembering something means, reconstructing the memory from the information encoded in your brain. So people who you see more have more patterns for you to reconstruct their faces, thus you have more vivid mental images of them.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "If California is in a drought, why not build water desalination plants by the Pacific Ocean to make water readily available for everyone?" ]
Because a large scale plant costs literally a billion dollars and takes years to design and build. It's extremely expensive and requires a lot of approvals, environmental assessments, etc. This isn't something you can do on a whim.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "The mindset of very rich people that are trying to get even richer" ]
You ever seen the show "Hoarders"? Some people do that with money.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "How am I able to sleep eight hours without having to take a piss yet I can't even last three or four hours on a long car ride?" ]
When you sleep, your body secretes anti-diuretic hormone (also called vasopressin), which instructs the kidneys to reduce urine production (the inability of some young children to produce this hormone at high enough levels is what causes bedwetting). When you are awake, this hormone is not produced, your body makes more urine making you have to go pee.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Do atoms or molecules have colour?" ]
When a photon interacts with the electrons on the outside of an atom, some of the interactions result in a photon of a different wavelength (= color). Certain molecules hold their atoms in a way that causes them to absorb all but one color and reflect that color, and we call these molecules pigments.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Why do our public universities spend enormous sums of money on football/basketball coaches? Why do they need athletic teams at all? Universities should focus on education." ]
Money. People watch sports, which earns them more money. Money they can then put into education.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "How does the world look like to People with stereoblindness" ]
Every picture you see on the internet simulates stereoblindness. Another trick is to cover one eye and try to go about your normal activities.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "EL5: Bill Nye and the irony of green plants." ]
Plants can not absorb green light, it is reflected away and is why the plant looks green. The reason it is ironic is because "green light" is emitted from the sun more than any other color. Basically the plants excluded the most common wavelength of light from being part photosynthesis, which is rather ironic.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Why doesn't tin foil burn your fingers when its been in the oven for 15 minutes?" ]
Aluminum has a low [specific heat](_URL_0_) - the change in energy required for it to increase or decrease in temperature is relatively low. That is to say, not much energy is stored in a piece of hot aluminum (compared to, say, an equal mass of hot water). Since aluminum foil is so thin, you're talking about a very small amount of material which is lousy at storing energy. The specific heat of human tissue is much higher than that of aluminum (though lower than that of pure water), say roughly 3 times (depending on the kind of tissue). So in order for you to feel a 1 degree increase in temperature over some mass of tissue, an equal mass of aluminum foil would need to have stored 3x that amount of energy. Of course, the mass of your hands is probably much greater than the mass of the tinfoil, so the actual amount of energy needed is even greater. TL;DR: foil sucks at storing energy.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Why do we take selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) for anxiety and depression, instead of just taking serotonin? ELI5ish." ]
A *very* ~~convoluted~~ ELI5ish explanation. Serotonin is a messenger molecule that causes many different reactions. Let say that cells are like machines with switches, messenger molecules switch them on for some time before they switch back off. Serotonin works on many switches in different parts of the body - bowl movement, sleep, mood, blood clotting, memory, learning - flooding the system with serotonin would turn all of them on and it wouldn't be good. However these switches are not all the same and what we can do is change how they work. SSRI basically turn on the switch for a longer period of time or make it so that it takes less serotonin to switch it on in the first place. Because the switches are different we can change how one work, but everything else keeps more or less the same.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Why does it feel like every damn book is \"#1 on new york times best seller list\"?" ]
There is more than one New York Times bestseller list (the lists are split up into different genres/categories), so more than one book can be #1 at the same time, just not on the same list. Also, these lists are frequently updated (I believe weekly), but you get to claim the title forever. So a book may have been #1 on the list briefly for one week a couple of years ago, but it is still a "#1 New York Times Best Seller".
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Why were women's doubles badminton players deliberately trying to lose in the Olympics?" ]
Think of it in groups, where the top 2 teams in each group continue on to the next round. Let's assume, in the next round: * The Winner of Group A plays the 2nd place team of Group B * and * The Second place team in Group A plays the winner of Group B If the 2nd placed team of Group A was a particularly strong team, The two teams playing each other to decide who would win Group B would each try to lose, so that they would come 2nd and then avoid having to play the difficult team. The 2 teams at the top of group B already knew that they had won enough games to progress, so their head to head was just to decide 1st versus 2nd place - both wanted 2nd place so therefore tried to lose the game in a very obvious manner. For clarification to earlier post - Highly Seeded means a favoured team that are highly ranked in, e.g. world rankings.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Why haven't scientists genetically engineered trees to grow faster than they do now?" ]
The thing about fast growing plants is that they usually have very little biomass compared to slower growing plants. Things that grow quickly would be things like corn and bamboo. Things that sequester more carbon are the things that grow more densely and more slowly. I'm no botanist, and what I know of plant genetics is that it's really *weird*. For instance, to make a miniature palm tree, you just remove some chunk of the genome, which would kill an animal zygote, but just shrinks the tree. And the thing about GMO is that we need the gene to already exist somewhere. We don't create new genes, we just take them out of one thing and stick them in another. So to make something grow more quickly we would have to rely on the mechanisms that already exist and they produce plants of low density. So it may not be a terribly effective thing to do.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "How do things like Vending Machines know which paper Bills are being deposited?" ]
They use optical sensors to determine the location of markings on a bill. Since the markings on each form currency are unique to that specific amount, its very easy to set it up so it knows which markings correspond to a value. Its the same idea as bar code readers, at least as far as detection goes.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. Why are some people trying to add \"Art\" to STEM and calling it STEAM? Isn't that the exact opposite of the purpose of promoting STEM fields?" ]
The idea is that the arts are intertwined with STEM at this point, which becomes obvious if you think of something like product design or communication. I can tell you that I work for a software development company and I wish a lot more developers had *some* kind of background in the arts. Even something as basic as requirements development would be so much more effective if the developers could think beyond bare bones functionality and take into account aesthetics or intuitiveness. Don't get me wrong, some developers absolutely have an understanding, but a lot more don't. I suspect it's less of a problem for large companies who can attract top talent, but if you've ever used a government website, you'll know what I'm talking about.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Why do scientists assume that without liquid water, a planet cannot have life? Why can't aliens function off a different substance, why must it be water?" ]
More about likelihood, then absolutes. Of course a planet without liquid water could sustain life, but in our experience, only planets that have life, to our knowledge, are those with liquid water, to which life is dependant.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Could Texas vote for Independence?" ]
We fought a war over that question, and the winning side was the 'no' side.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "How can it be possible to be declared innocent of a crime when there is video and audio of the event?" ]
The point isn't to be declared "innocent", more "not guilty". The distinction is important because innocent means "we know he didn't do it" which is nearly impossible to know. "Not guilty" means there's not enough evidence to convict someone of a crime.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "If 10% of accidents are caused by wet roadways, why can't we create a tire type that doesnt hydroplane and is easily fitted for all vehicle types?" ]
Because we need to have tyres that work in all weather conditions, including completely dry roads. Producing a rubber compound that was super effective in wet conditions would likely involve a fairly soft tyre surface with loads of grooves to disperse water - if that tyre were driven on dry roads, it would introduce a lot of vibration from the grooves, and the rubber compound would break down, dramatically shortening the life of the tyre.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Why do phones sound so much worse when on speaker?" ]
The energy in a sound signal dies off pretty fast the farther away you get from it. This is fine for really small speakers that you put *very* close to your ears like headphones, earbuds, and telephone speakers. When you switch to "speaker" mode on a phone the speakers used are still very small and the power dies off pretty fast, unfortunately not all the frequencies die off at the same distance so the sound gets distorted.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "What exactly is a Diplomat and why do we have them?" ]
Trade agreements, negotiation of travel between boarders, military cooperation, cultural study, national security advisory....
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Why don't your palms grow hair?" ]
Animals evolved to not have hair on palms/soles of feet in order to have better traction for movement. Dogs, cats, primates, etc - all mammals have areas of hands/feet without hair. Primate have broader palms instead of the pads you see on the feet of other mammals, so our entire palms are hair free for practical use.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "How can bird/predators eat bugs or insects that are venomous?" ]
There's a difference between poison and venom. Poison takes effect when eaten or inhaled. Venom takes effect when injected into the blood, typically through a bite or sting. Their predators may produce a natural anti-toxin or, in the case of those that prey on venomous creatures, are just really good at avoiding getting hit.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Why African Americans are not given the prefix of their country of origin while European's are?" ]
Because Black Americans who are descendants of slaves usually don't know their family's country of origin. Slave owners and traders were not interested in the ethnic origins of their slaves and kept only the most rudimentary records. Many Black Americans find it impossible to trace their families back more than a few generations.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "What exactly is the Internet, where does it exist, how am I receiving it, and who is sending it?" ]
This is like asking where does mail exists. The Internet is a collection of devices all around the world that communicate using IP. There are major data centers for peering/etc but the answer is it's all around us.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "If lower frequencies mean less energy, why does bass seem so much more powerful than treble?" ]
Because the described frequency/power relationship assumes the same amplitude. Bass can be played at higher amplitude without being uncomfortable, and frequently has dedicated (large) speakers for it (woofers and subwoofers). Thus, the bass is played at a higher amplitude. There is also the association of low-frequencies with large, heavy impacts due to resonance.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Does fire weigh anything?" ]
Fire is in itself a really fast reaction with oxygen, releasing energy in the form of heat and light. The answer to your question depends on what you mean by fire. If you mean the reaction, no, that doesn't have mass, just like walking doesn't have mass. If you mean the flame though, that is actual chemical compounds giving off light - and that does have mass.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "How do people (and pornstars) manage to fit so much stuff in their ass without doing crazy damage? Is everyone built like that?" ]
The same way you do anything. Practice. They start small and ease their way up over a few years (Crawl- > Walk- > Run). They also learn to control the 2nd sphincter which allows them to go deeper (Very dangerous if not done properly or with care). Source: Asked DirtyGardenGirl how she got to be the way she was, 3 years of practice was her answer. Edit: Essentially if you really want to, you can condition yourself to do it as well. just do not expect to fit an eggplant in before a golf ball.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "How does this 64K algorithm generate a beautiful 6 minute long video with no resources?" ]
Most programme code nowadays is large because it has to be flexible and react to a variety of exceptions, test inputs, perform garbage collection, and play nice in an operating system with other programmes. This code doesn't have to do any of that. It takes direct advantage of in-silicon data processing. It doesn't have to manage memory well except to the extent that it needs to, to avoid crashing before finishing. It doesn't have to include hooks to libraries, or test inputs for security exploits, or query databases. It doesn't even necessarily need to deal with an operating system. It's also probably optimised by hand to the point where it would be extremely difficult to change any part of it without affecting other parts. 64k of machine code is a *huge* amount of machine code. Modern programming methods sacrifice code size in order to gain security, interoperability, and ease of debugging / maintenance, because storage and RAM are cheap, today.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Scientists grow beating heart tissue from plants" ]
Scientists grow bigger by beating up the heart tissue from innocent plants?
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "why is it generally taboo to ask someone how much they get paid even when you guys are friends?" ]
Generally because it can cause tension, if you work with that friend on they work in similar roles and you earn considerably more - while you might expect them to be happy for you - many people are simply annoyed by it.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Why are television channels such as TruTV allowed to advertise that what they show is true, when it obviously isn't? Isn't this false advertising?" ]
I believe (though I could be incorrect) that a false advertisement claim can only be filed if the advertisement somehow put the plaintiff in some sort of danger or caused a financial, legal, or moral burden to them or their family. The use of "or" was rampant in that sentence, but in my sleepy state I can't think of any other way to word it.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "When couples get married, why does the wife take the last name of the husband?" ]
Historically women were, by today's standards, sold. Their original last name tells you that they are still 'possessed' by their father. The new last name tells you that they are now 'possessed' by the husband. Many of our marital traditions are carry-overs from this paradigm.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Why does sleep feel *so* good?" ]
Anything that you need to survive feels good when you need it. Try not breathing (for just a few seconds) and see how good that first breath feels. Or try not eating for several hours past mealtime. You feel very hungry, and the food tastes *so* good. Sleep is the same way. When you need sleep, it feels very good because that's what your body needs. This is because of evolution. Creatures that didn't enjoy eating, sleeping, or breathing wouldn't live very long, and wouldn't have much of a chance to make baby creatures like them. Creatures that did survived longer, and had little baby creatures that liked the same things. This is part of the reason why Mommy and Daddy love each other so much, too. Creatures who *ahem* love each other are more likely to survive and have babies. You'll learn more about that when you're older. You'd just think it's yucky right now. (There's a lot of kissing.)
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Why has no country yet extradited Polanski to the US if he is so easy to find and a convicted fugitive?" ]
Polanski is a French citizen. France (like many nations) won't extradite its own citizens to face foreign charges. That policy is very common and dates back to Greek and Roman laws (upon which most European legal systems are based). He's cautious in his foreign travel not to travel to nations that would extradite him to the US (nations that perform extradition form a treaty which can be read by attorneys who can advise people as to what they say and mean). Would you want the US to send you to a third world country over bogus charges? Let's say you made a video that was shown in Thailand insulting their King which is a [serious offense](_URL_0_). French people don't want to take that risk either. Sometimes that means that bad results happen, and that's life.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Why is, no matter the colour of the shampoo, the foam always white?" ]
Because the bubbles that make up the foam are so thin that the pigments that make up he color are too thinly spread to matter much. Instead the light is fractured everywhere by every bubble making it effectively reflecting white light.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "What is the connection between oysters and Thanksgiving?" ]
This is the first I've heard of this; however... Oysters, clams, and lobsters are a readily accessible food item in New England where the first two-hundred odd years of American culture more or less developed, and the food remains a staple (icon?) of the entire diet of the region, sort of in the way cows are associated with Texas and salmon with the Northwest. Is there any chance you or your immediate ancestors are from New England? I'm mostly midwest so I know all about cranberries for Thanksgiving, but nothing about Oysters!
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Listening to the State of the Union, I notice what sounds like intentional coughing, constantly, after President Barack Obama's statements. Is this on purpose and, if so, what purpose does it serve?" ]
You are crazy, how many people are in there? You don't think a room full of old, mostly men isn't going to have some "dad sounds" going on in the back? People fall asleep in those things, even if it's there party's president.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Are some Japanese songs written specifically for anime in mind, having 90 second cuts?" ]
Both; depends on the anime. [death parades OP is just a real song by the band BRADIO](_URL_0_) its not hard to cut a song to a shorter version; remove a verse or two etc. but then theres also [shows like jojo, who have custom songs written](_URL_2_) [btw all of jojos openings are amazing](_URL_1_)
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "What exactly is a black box?" ]
It's a general term people use when they deal with a functioning component without necessarily knowing or needing to know how the component works. You know *what* the component does, but not necessarily *how*. For example, when you run [black box testing](_URL_0_) on a software package, you are examining the output you get when you run particular inputs into it. You don't know how it works, but you know what it outputs (or is supposed to output) based on what you put in.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "What is the point of a telemarketing business that hangs up or is just dead air when you answer?" ]
Much of the time it is because of a technology known as "predictive dialing". A computer dials hundreds of numbers, knowing that a certain number will be busy, most will not be answered, some will be answered by answering machines, etc. The program continually monitors how many calls are likely to get picked up by a human, and delivers those calls to the staff of telemarketers. "Hello, Mr. Smith - I am calling you from Microsoft to tell you that you have a problem on your Windows computer..." Sometimes the algorithm doesn't work: you pick up but there aren't any free telemarketers at the time. So the program hangs up on you (although they do record that there is a live person answering this particular number so they can call you back more frequently). You experience this as a hang up call, which it technically is. But no humans wasted time dialing you, so it costs almost nothing.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "How do freeways or Highways get their number assigned? Is there any rhyme or reason to it?" ]
For the US interstate highway system: _URL_0_ > the numbering scheme for the primary routes, east-west highways are assigned even numbers and north-south highways are assigned odd numbers. Odd route numbers increase from west to east, and even-numbered routes increase from south to north Three digit numbers are used for secondary freeways, like loops going around cities, with their number being based on the primary road's number (eg - I-405 is a bypass around I-5). These numbers are only unique to the state, not the whole system (eg - there's an I-405 in both Portland and Seattle). Other highway systems will have similar numbering systems in place.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "How does our body process foods with large amounts of artificial additives?" ]
This is really going to depend on the specific additive. The word artificial in your question is probably the least useful one. Your body doesn't really care how a substance came to be, it will do what it can to either turn it into something else, absorb and piss it out, shit it out, or some combination of all of those things. They don't usually have a meaningful impact on the food itself.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Do fish not feel pain like mammals do? Why is it so acceptable for us to do things like shove our fingers in their gills or drag them around by hooks in their mouths?" ]
Nobody knows. There brains are simpler than a mammal's. But they still react to pain and such. On the other hand, it's not difficult to make a computer program that reacts to "pain", and few people would consider that sentient. It probably mostly comes down to tradition and the fact that they're not as cute. If people didn't routinely shove hooks into fish's mouths and, if they're feeling nice, send them back into the water instead of taking them out of their suffering, then someone doing it would probably be seen as cruel. And if we normally caught deer that way, then nobody would bat an eye at someone doing that.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Why is the contraceptive pill only 99% effective? What makes it fail?" ]
The 99% effective is not to account for failure nessisariy, it is to prevent a law suite. If the claim was 100% effective and for some unknown reason someone became pregnant, the company who manufactures and markets that contraceptive could be held liable. There would be little statistical proof of even 99%, but it does leave enough room for error just in case.
[ "Provided a user question, retrieve the highest voted answers on Reddit ELI5 forum", "Does \"Student Athlete\" status vary from sport to sport in the NCAA" ]
Ryan Donato is no longer eligible to play NCAA hockey. He has joined the Bruins. He's still a junior at Harvard (and still attending classes apparently) but he isn't allowed to play hockey for the Crimson anymore. This was something that he chose, to turn pro early and forfeit his remaining NCAA eligibility.