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Why do quasars emit so much light?
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"text": "Quasars (/ˈkweɪzɑr/) or quasi-stellar radio sources are the most energetic and distant members of active galactic nuclei. Quasars are extremely luminous and were first identified as being high redshift sources of electromagnetic energy, including radio waves and visible light, that appeared to be similar to stars, rather than extended sources similar to galaxies. Their luminosity can be 100 times greater than that of the Milky Way.\n",
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"text": "Radiation from quasars is partially 'nonthermal' (i.e., not due to black body radiation), and approximately 10 percent are observed to also have jets and lobes like those of radio galaxies that also carry significant (but poorly understood) amounts of energy in the form of particles moving at relativistic speeds. Extremely high energies might be explained by several mechanisms (see Fermi acceleration and Centrifugal mechanism of acceleration). Quasars can be detected over the entire observable electromagnetic spectrum including radio, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-ray and even gamma rays. Most quasars are brightest in their rest-frame near-ultraviolet wavelength of 121.6 nm Lyman-alpha emission line of hydrogen, but due to the tremendous redshifts of these sources, that peak luminosity has been observed as far to the red as 900.0 nm, in the near infrared. A minority of quasars show strong radio emission, which is generated by jets of matter moving close to the speed of light. When viewed downward, these appear as blazars and often have regions that seem to move away from the center faster than the speed of light (superluminal expansion). This is an optical illusion due to the properties of special relativity.\n",
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"text": "Quasars inhabit the center of active galaxies, and are among the most luminous, powerful, and energetic objects known in the universe, emitting up to a thousand times the energy output of the Milky Way, which contains 200–400 billion stars. This radiation is emitted across the electromagnetic spectrum, almost uniformly, from X-rays to the far-infrared with a peak in the ultraviolet-optical bands, with some quasars also being strong sources of radio emission and of gamma-rays. With high-resolution imaging from ground-based telescopes and the Hubble Space Telescope, the \"host galaxies\" surrounding the quasars have been detected in some cases. These galaxies are normally too dim to be seen against the glare of the quasar, except with special techniques. Most quasars, with the exception of 3C 273 whose average apparent magnitude is 12.9, cannot be seen with small telescopes.\n",
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"text": "A quasar () (also known as a quasi-stellar object abbreviated QSO) is an extremely luminous active galactic nucleus (AGN), in which a supermassive black hole with mass ranging from millions to billions of times the mass of the Sun is surrounded by a gaseous accretion disk. As gas in the disk falls towards the black hole, energy is released in the form of electromagnetic radiation, which can be observed across the electromagnetic spectrum. The power radiated by quasars is enormous: the most powerful quasars have luminosities thousands of times greater than a galaxy such as the Milky Way.\n",
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"text": "This also explains why quasars were more common in the early universe, as this energy production ends when the supermassive black hole consumes all of the gas and dust near it. This means that it is possible that most galaxies, including the Milky Way, have gone through an active stage, appearing as a quasar or some other class of active galaxy that depended on the black hole mass and the accretion rate, and are now quiescent because they lack a supply of matter to feed into their central black holes to generate radiation.\n",
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"text": "Quasars, a class of active galactic nuclei (AGN), were considered a good candidate source because they are highly efficient at converting mass to energy, and emit a great deal of light above the threshold for ionizing hydrogen. It is unknown, however, how many quasars existed prior to reionization. Only the brightest of quasars present during reionization can be detected, which means there is no direct information about dimmer quasars that existed. However, by looking at the more easily observed quasars in the nearby universe, and assuming that the luminosity function (number of quasars as a function of luminosity) during reionization will be approximately the same as it is today, it is possible to make estimates of the quasar populations at earlier times. Such studies have found that quasars do not exist in high enough numbers to reionize the IGM alone, saying that \"only if the ionizing background is dominated by low-luminosity AGNs can the quasar luminosity function provide enough ionizing photons.\"\n",
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"text": "Quasars are believed—and in many cases confirmed—to be powered by accretion of material into supermassive black holes in the nuclei of distant galaxies, as suggested in 1964 by Edwin Salpeter and Yakov Zel'dovich. Light and other radiation cannot escape from within the event horizon of a black hole, but the energy produced by a quasar is generated \"outside\" the black hole, by gravitational stresses and immense friction within the material nearest to the black hole, as it orbits and falls inward. The huge luminosity of quasars results from the accretion discs of central supermassive black holes, which can convert between 6% and 32% of the mass of an object into energy, compared to just 0.7% for the p-p chain nuclear fusion process that dominates the energy production in Sun-like stars. Central masses of 10 to 10 solar masses have been measured in quasars by using reverberation mapping. Several dozen nearby large galaxies, including our own Milky Way galaxy, that do not have an active center and do not show any activity similar to a quasar, are confirmed to contain a similar supermassive black hole in their nuclei (galactic center). Thus it is now thought that all large galaxies have a black hole of this kind, but only a small fraction have sufficient matter in the right kind of orbit at their center to become active and power radiation in such a way as to be seen as quasars.\n",
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why is it that "time flies when you're having fun"?
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"answer": "I think because you focus much harder on the task at hand you stop thinking about the time so much.",
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"text": "\"Funny How Time Flies (When You're Having Fun)\" is the seventh and final single from American R&B singer Janet Jackson's third studio album, \"Control\" (1986). While \"Funny How Time Flies (When You're Having Fun)\" was officially released in the United Kingdom and Australia, it was released solely for airplay in the United States in 1987. The song was written by Jackson and collaborators/producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. It performed poorly on the UK Singles Chart, only reaching number fifty-nine but peaked at #24 on the Irish Singles Chart. In the U.S., though it never charted, it became a famed quiet storm staple on adult R&B and soul radio stations. No music video was filmed for the single. Jazz musician Stanley Clarke covered the song for his 1988 album \"If This Bass Could Only Talk\". The song was also sampled on The Lost Boyz's \"Renee\" and on Camp Lo's \"Coolie High\", both from 1996. In 2014, it was sampled on Tinashe's \"How Many Times\" from her debut album \"Aquarius\". Two years later, it was sampled on SWV's MCE (Man Crush Everyday). The song's main melody (excluding the verses and the French speaking introductions), bears resemblance to the melody of her brother's 1982 hit \"The Lady In My Life\" released four years earlier.\n",
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"text": "According to Johan Huizinga, fun is \"an absolutely primary category of life, familiar to everybody at a glance right down to the animal level.\" Psychological studies reveal both the importance of fun and its effect on the perception of time, which is sometimes said to be shortened when one is having fun. As the adage states: \"Time flies when you're having fun\".\n",
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"text": "\"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana\" is a humorous saying that is used in linguistics as an example of a garden path sentence or syntactic ambiguity, and in word play as an example of punning, double entendre, and antanaclasis.\n",
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"text": "It has been suggested that games, toys, and activities perceived as fun are often challenging in some way. When a person is challenged to think consciously, overcome challenge and learn something new, they are more likely to enjoy a new experience and view it as fun. A change from routine activities appears to be at the core of this perception, since people spend much of a typical day engaged in activities that are routine and require limited conscious thinking. Routine information is processed by the brain as a \"chunked pattern\": \"We rarely look at the real world\", according to game designer Raph Koster, \"we instead recognize something we have chunked, and leave it at that. [...] One might argue that the essence of much of art is in forcing us to see things as they really are rather than as we assume them to be\". Since it helps people to relax, fun is sometimes regarded as a \"social lubricant\", important in adding \"to one's pleasure in life\" and helping to \"act as a buffer against stress\".\n",
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"text": "The words \"happy\" and \"hour\" have appeared together for centuries when describing pleasant times. In act I, scene 2 of William Shakespeare's King Henry V, he says, \"Therefore, my lords, omit no happy hour/That may give furtherance to our expedition...\" The use of the phrase \"happy hour,\" to refer to a scheduled period of entertainment is, however, of much more recent vintage.\n",
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"text": "\"It's About Time\" is a 1960s typical \"silly\" comedy of the times (in the style of \"Gilligan's Island\", also created by Sherwood Schwartz) about two astronauts who accidentally break the speed of light with their spacecraft and travel back in time to prehistoric Earth, replete with cavemen (and cavewomen) and, anachronistically, dinosaurs. Unable to return to the future, they make friends with the \"natives\", usually through humorous interactions, misunderstandings, and dilemmas. Eventually, they do return to \"modern day\" Earth, taking some of the cavepeople back with them, who must then adjust to living in 1960s Los Angeles.\n",
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"text": "Some people behave like the fly because one day at random they will find the way out. Some behave like the trapped fish: the more they move the more they are entangled. Others behave like those lost in a maze: they try to escape using the faculties of mind.\n",
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what are the grey areas that we can see in the moon from down here?
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"answer": "They're called mares. It means \"sea,\" but these are actually more like patches of the surface that had melted and re-hardened in the distant past.",
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"text": "The lunar landscape used in the film is Vasquez Rocks, a popular television and feature film shooting location near Los Angeles. A red camera filter was used to make the blue sky photograph very dark on the black-and-white film, but the result is still far from the ideal starry black. Bits of scrubby vegetation can be seen in the background of some shots. No attempt is made to convince the viewer that the Moon is an airless void where humans would weigh one-sixth their normal Earth weight. When one of the space-suited astronauts is forced into direct sunlight, unshielded from its intensity, he bursts into flames, despite the lack of an external oxygen atmosphere; in seconds he is reduced to a skeleton.\n",
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"text": "White is a lunar impact crater. It lies on the far side of the Moon from the Earth, to the southwest of the huge walled plain Apollo. About one crater diameter to the south-southwest is the small crater Hendrix.\n",
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"text": "Unlike the Earth, whose umbral shadow appears black, as the Moon has no atmosphere, the surface appears not just black but red and brown, according to the Danjon scale. This is because the only sunlight available is refracted through the Earth's atmosphere on the edges of the Earth, forming an atmospheric ring.\n",
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"text": "The following simulation shows the approximate appearance of the Moon passing through the Earth's shadow. The Moon's brightness is exaggerated within the umbral shadow. The northern portion of the Moon was closest to the center of the shadow, making it darkest, and most red in appearance.\n",
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"text": "Earth's Moon is a grey disc in the sky with cratering visible to the naked eye. It spans, depending on its exact location, 29-33 arcminutes - which is about the size of a thumbnail at arm's length, and is readily identified. Over 27.3 days, the moon goes through a full cycle of lunar phases. People can generally identify phases within a few days by looking at the moon. Unlike stars and most planets, the light reflected from the moon is bright enough to be seen during the day. (Venus can sometimes be seen even after sunrise.)\n",
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since blue whales have aortas large enough to swim in, do they have fewer issues with blood clots?
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"answer": "considering they have an extremely active lifestyle (swimming constantly all the time) and a relatively low cholesterol diet (mostly plankton and krill iirc) they are presumably at very low risk for blood clots in the first place. ",
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"answer": "Also, humans don't tend to develop blood clots in our aortas. The aorta is susceptible to other things, like aneurysms, dissections and ruptures, while blood clots are typically found in much smaller arteries, for example the cerebral arteries or the cornary arteries.\n\nSource: me, I'm not a doctor.",
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"answer": "They do have large vessels, but they also have small vessels. Not every artery in a blue whale is the size of their aorta, and those are the vessels that would be vulnerable to clots. \n\nThey would likely have decreased clot risk because they are less likely to have hemostasis (where your blood flow is poor or pools). ",
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"text": "The mare has two ovaries, usually in length and thick, that generally tend to decrease in size as the mare ages. In equine ovaries, unlike in humans, the vascular tissue is cortical to follicular tissue, so ovulation can only occur at an ovulation fossa near the infundibulum. The ovaries connect to the fallopian tubes (oviducts), which serve to move the ovum from the ovary to the uterus. To do so, the oviducts are lined with a layer of cilia, which produce a current that flows toward the uterus. Each oviduct attaches to one of the two horns of the uterus, which are approximately in length. These horns attach to the body of the uterus ( long). The equine uterus is bipartite, meaning the two uterine horns fuse into a relatively large uterine body (resembling a shortened bicornuate uterus or a stretched simplex uterus). Caudal to the uterus is the cervix, about long, which separates the uterus from the vagina. Usually in diameter with longitudinal folds on the interior surface, it can expand to allow the passage of the foal. The vagina of the mare is long, and is quite elastic, allowing it to expand. The vulva is the external opening of the vagina, and consists of the clitoris and two labia. It lies ventral to the rectum. The mare has two mammary glands, which are smaller in maiden mares. They have two ducts each, which open externally.\n",
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When heating something to high temperatures it becomes “red hot” and then continues to change color to orange, yellow, and then white; why doesn’t the hot object start to glow green or blue after yellow?
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"answer": "The spectrum of a hot body forms a _hump_ in the electromagnetic spectrum. This hump is (as a function of _wavenumber_ - the number of radians of wavemotion per metre (in the region of about 12 million per metre for visible light)) _decaying exponential_ on the _blue_ (short-wavelength or high wavenumber) side, and a _cube_ function on the red (long-wavelength or low wavenumber) side. As the temperature increases, the hump migrates _up_ the wavenumber scale ... _and_ becomes more spread-out at the same time. At low temoeratures, the bulk of the hump lies below the window of visibility ... but at about 1000 K or 700°C it starts to cross it. At this stage, because it is very steep & exponential on its blue side (which is the first part to begin to cross the window of visibility) it is _very much_ more intense at the red end than at the blue end, so that the light is _very predominantly red_. As the temperature rises, it comprises more & more of the window of visibility from the red end, and because its curve is steep, is much like a _sharp front_ moving across that window ... so that at first only _red_ is comprised in it; then _red & yellow_ - so that the light appears _orange_; & then green is comprised, so that the light becomes yellowish: and by the time the temperature reaches about 5000K the hump is prettymuch filling the window of visibility with the _peak of the hump right in the middle of it, so that now _all_ colours are comprised roughly equally - & the light appears _white_. \n\nAs the temperature increases _yet further_, the hump is now _moving-off the blue_ end of the visible window, and the curve is sloping the other way, so that the light appears slightly _blue_ ... but the hump is of relatively _shallow_ slope on this side, so that the light appears only _slightly_ blue: and this situation does not really change very much thereafter with rising temperature, because the curve is a shallow _cubic_ function of wavenumber all the way to zero. This time there is no 'sharp front' passing across the window of visibility (in reverse of course it _would_ be) and the proportions of the different colours change little - a slow decrease from blue to red, even as the temperature becomes _extremely_ high.",
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why does fabric (temporally) change colour when it gets wet?
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"answer": "Ever look at the wet spot on fabric from the other side? The wet spot reflects less light to you because it is transmitting some of the light through it to the other side. Just like oil making paper translucent or even transparent.",
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"text": "Linen fabrics have a high natural luster; their natural color ranges between shades of ivory, ecru, tan, or grey. Pure white linen is created by heavy bleaching. Linen fabric typically varies somewhat in thickness and is crisp and textured, but it can in some cases feel stiff and rough, and in other cases feel soft and smooth. When properly prepared, linen fabric has the ability to absorb and lose water rapidly. Linen can absorb a fair amount of moisture without feeling unpleasantly damp to the skin, unlike cotton.\n",
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"text": "Linen fabric feels cool to touch, a phenomenon which indicates its higher conductivity (the same principle that makes metals feel \"cold\"). It is smooth, making the finished fabric lint-free, and gets softer the more it is washed. However, constant creasing in the same place in sharp folds will tend to break the linen threads. This wear can show up in collars, hems, and any area that is iron creased during laundering. Linen has poor elasticity and does not spring back readily, explaining why it wrinkles so easily.\n",
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what will happen if a republican president is elected in 2016 and signs the obamacare repeal bill?
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"text": "After President Trump took office in January 2017, Senate Republicans, under McConnell's leadership, began to work on a plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. They faced opposition from both Democrats and moderate Republicans, who claimed that the bill would leave too many people uninsured, and more conservative Republicans, who protested that the bill kept too many of the ACA's regulation and spending increases, and was thus not a full repeal. Numerous attempts at repeal failed. On June 27, after a meeting with President Trump at the White House, McConnell signaled improvements for the repeal and replacement: \"We're not quite there. But I think we've got a really good chance of getting there. It'll just take us a little bit longer.\" During a Rotary Club lunch on July 6, McConnell said, \"If my side is unable to agree on an adequate replacement, then some kind of action with regard to the private health insurance market must occur.\"\n",
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why there is no radio function in iphones (not sure about androids) radio was avaliable in almost all old phones
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"text": "Some previous iPhone models contained a chip capable of receiving radio signals; however, Apple has the FM radio feature switched off because there was no antenna connected to the chip. Later iterations of the iPhone (starting with the iPhone 7), however, do not contain radio chips at all. A campaign called \"Free Radio On My Phone\" was started to encourage cellphone manufacturers such as Apple to enable the radio on the phones they manufacture, reasons cited were that radio drains less power and is useful in an emergency such as the 2016 Fort McMurray Wildfire.\n",
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Did any Native American civilization possibly know that there was land and people beyond the Americas? Did they have any mythological tales about the rest of the world?
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Woodman went back to Hall’s notes and journals from the 1860s to challenge the traditional account of the disaster and carefully piece together a narrative based on the oral testimony of Inuit. Woodman also emphasized the location of relics, bodies, and other artifacts to paint a picture of multiple abandonments of the ships and multiple groups moving in different directions, some of which returned to the Erebus and piloted it south to where it sank in the Utjulik region. This narrative would account for stories of separate groups of white men encountered by Inuit far from the Great Fish River and stories of survivors still interacting with Inuit well into the 1850s. > > ... Potter believes Inuit testimony about the expedition to be “the single most important body of evidence we have” (2).\n\nIn addition, the accuracy and usefulness of Aboriginal Songlines are also respected and well as the impact of \"continual cartographic encounters, exchanges, and translations between American Indians and Euro-Americans\"(3, 4). \n\nThis leads to... Is there evidence within traditional knowledge respecting the existence of external cultures? First, I looked to see if the Native American of the North American Content were aware of the Southern Content or vice versa - but it is important to remember the scope and newness of current geographic boundaries. For this section \"pre-contact\" is to define the physical presence of sustained non-Native populations. \n\nAccording to an *Historical Survey of First Nation Market Culture* there evidence to suggest a working from of communication across Continents for there to be the usage of non-local materials. Two notable examples are that of trade between two divisions of Mayans of the\n\n > > Northern Lowlands and the Highlands was well established via water routes on the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf of Honduras as well as various inland routes. The Northern Lowlands Maya imported corn, fruit, cacao, various manufactured goods, flint, game, cotton, cloth, obsidian, metates, and manos. The Highland Maya imported honey, salt, ceramics, various tools, salted fish, marine shells, dye, incense, jade, and rubber.\n\n\nAdditionally the use of a soft stone (pipestone) found in the current Minnesota region as was important to the creation of objects for religious reasons was found as far as South Dakota, Ohio, and Kansas. After contact and with it the introduction of the horse, the material was found as far as Arizona and Kentucky (5).\n\nAll this contact is important as it allows for the development and subsequent preservation of intricate trade agreements. An example of this is that found in the pre-contact legislation of the Great Law of the Iroquois (now commonly referred to as Haudenosaunee). The Iroquois Confederacy had such an extensive documented sytem that it is still very much under legislative analysis. As noted in the brillant thesis *INTERNATIONAL LAW/THE GREAT LAW OF PEACE* by Beverley Jacobs, \"European diffusionism will be defined through an elaboration of brief historical accounts and an analysis of law that has affected O:gweho:we. Eurocentric values, ideals, language, laws and institutions are an integral part of diffusionism, which has tried to replace O:gweho:we history, language, religion, laws and philosophy.\"(6).\n\nNow that we have determined that there was contact, trade, and therefore knowledge across sections of the American Continents, and the risk that there is and will continue to be effects of non-Native interpretations of traditional knowledge, I attempted to source information about ex-Continental knowledge, firstly with that of the natives of Hawai'i. It might almost be cheating, in a sense, as the oral traditions of Hawai'i and New Zealand are quite well preserved compare to other Nations, and were treated with an unusual level of respect and importance to historical research. \n\n\n > > Some of the data provided by recent stratigraphic excavations in Poly- nesia is pertinent to this problem, however, for it allows some very sound inferences as to certain aspects of Polynesian voyaging. For example, as a result of intensive excavations for the last ten years, Emory believes that the Hawaiian archipelago was settled by a planned, well-equipped expedition of some size (Emory 1959). Pigs and dogs are found in the earliest sites so far discovered there, and it is believed that the domesticated plants must have also been present to support the population. > > In the Marquesas, excavations at site NHaal, the oldest known site in that archipelago to date, (ca 120 B.C.) yielded evidence that pigs and dogs accompanied the settlers. Furthermore, the presence of coconut grating tools and knives of a type generally used for peeling breadfruit and starchy root crops demonstrate that the main Polynesian staples also arrived with the settlers (7).\n\nThe trade and communication within the Polynesian region is not just known but documented (8, 9, 10). Referencing non-Polynesian sources was difficult so I plan on providing more later in the day if that is alright. \n\n--added--- \nWhile I did not want to deviate from your question, which was strictly about the North American continent, as I was limited to the papers I currently have access to. I have copied a section of a paper to illustrate part of the difficulties of studies into indigenous knowledge: \n\nAn important task of an \"Indigenous paradigm\" would be to challenge these notions according to which the world is divided along lines of Western \"high culture\" and non-Western ''folkloric'' traditions. Although many contemporary practices of poststructuralism, feminism, postmodern and postcolonial theories have undermined and rejected these assumptions, unfortunately they still guide much of people's everyday thinking and actions. Unlike many Western scholars who can ignore this since it is not as common an academic approach as it used to be, we as Indigenous peoples cannot remain indifferent, since it affects us directly in various ways through dismissive and biased attitudes on our selfhood, our culture and its products (11).\n\nAs my studies are in the field of criminology and legal development, I can say that indigenous people the world over are inheritances to some of the most historic and under studied legal systems on the planet with unique concepts of civil and criminal law. Further, the usage and impact of these legislative systems upon the cultures - and the impact this had on colonialism - is, I think, too often ignored. \n--added--\n\nTo be honest I am hesitant to touch the aspect of mythological tales - it is in no way my forte. In addition, sorry for the formatting and writing style, this was done in my phone on the train. Finally, I'm going to do my best to find more Indigenous sources as I felt there could be more I wasn't able to access on my mobile. \n\n\n(1) Indigenous Knowledges in Global Contexts: Multiple Readings of Our World edited by Budd L. Hall, George Jerry Sefa Dei, Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg\n\n(2) Finding Franklin: The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search by Russell A. Potter (review) Shane McCorristine\n\n(3) Songlines and navigation in Wardaman and other Australian Aboriginal cultures by RP Norris, BY Harney\n\n(4) Theorizing indigital geographic information networks by Mark Palmer\n\n\n(5) First Nations Trade, Specialization, and Market Institutions: A Historical Survey of First Nation Market Culture by Andre Le Dressay\n\n(6) INTERNATIONAL LAW/THE GREAT LAW OF PEACEA Thesis Submitted to the College of Graduate Studies and Research in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for a Masters Degreein the College of Law, University of Saskatchewan By Beverley Jacobs\n\n(7) Histmical Traditions and Archeology in Polynesia by Robert C. Suggs\n\n(8)Oral Tradition as History By Jan M. Vansina\n\n(9) Myth, Experiment, and the Reinvention of Polynesian Voyaging by Ben Finney\n\n(10) Polynesian settlement and palaeotsunamis by James Goff, Bruce G McFadgen,Catherine Chagué-Goff etc\n\n(11) TOWARDS AN \"INDIGENOUS PARADIGM\" FROM A SAMI PERSPECTIVE by Rauna Kuokkanen\n\n--added--\n\nAdditional Sources:\n\nTsilhqot’in Nation v. British Columbia (2014)\n\nHarry Daniels, et al v Her Majesty the Queen as represented by The Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, et al (2016)\n\n\n\n\nEdits: Spellings, additional context, more sources.",
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why are australia's vast empty planes simply not covered in solar panels to help with their power productions crisis?
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"answer": "The same reason they're not spinning up new gas plants - Money and maintenance. It's not like you just stick solar panels out in the middle of a dusty wasteland and that's that. They need to be continuously cleaned to deliver anything close to their rated output.",
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"answer": "A couple of reasons:\n\n* it's expensive as fuck\n* you lose a lot of the power having to transfer it across lines to where it is useful. \n* despite it being fairly inhospitable to people, there's still a great deal of wildlife there that would be impacted by such a huge construction project. \n\nI mean yeah put a solar plant or two as close as you can to civilization, but don't cover the land with them. ",
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why is it recommended to cook with cold water instead of hot water?
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"answer": "There are 2 reasons, that I know of, \n\n1. Hot water can leach minerals and metals out of pipes/ lining of the hot water heater affecting taste/ heavy metals are no fun.\n\n2. If a hot water heater does not properly cycle to high temps (160 I think) it can become a reservoir for legionnaires disease",
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"answer": "The notion is that the cold water is fresher. (This means it has more chlorine in it) It also has not picked up anything while traveling through the hot water tank.",
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What properties make an object heat faster in a microwave?
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How much of Real Madrid's early success was because of Francisco Franco?
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"answer": "Hi, just a note that this sub isn't always the deepest in sports historians, so if you don't get answers here - or even if you do - consider x-posting this to /r/realmadrid, /r/soccer, or /r/football",
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"answer": "Sid Lowe's book 'fear and loathing in la liga' goes into great detail on this. Essentially people on both sides will claim lots and nothing.\n\nAn important point to note is that real madrid were one of the best teams in the country directly before the civil war and were gutted by the civil war. Real madrid's president was a key part of the republican government and so was exiled upon franco winning the civil war and the vast majority of real's trophy winning team broke up and either left spain or went to other clubs. In particular, their star player Zamora ended up in a prisoner of war camp and was appointed manager of atletico madrid after the war finished, where he won them their first league title despite the fact that atletico had been relegated prior to the civil war and therefore probably shouldn't have been allowed to play in la liga that year. \n\nSo as result, the first 15 years of franco's reign were real's worst ever as a club (they won no league titles and only two cups), because while Atletico had the reputation as the establishment's choice and barcelona were assembling their firstly truly great team, Real were doing very little at all.\n\nThe tipping point, though it wasn't obvious at the time, was a copa del rey semi final with Barcelona. Barcelona won the first leg 3-0 thanks, in part, to a great support from their fans resulting in the ref being a bit of a homer. Real made a big deal in the papers about this and encouraged their own fans to do the same in the return leg and they won 11-1. Barcelona players have claimed they were basically told before the game by officials not to try and win that game and were threatened into losing.\n\nNow during the civil war, barcelona and madrid were the two main centres of opposition to franco. It was only when first barcelona and then madrid finally fell that the war was won. Franco was advised to not base his capital in madrid after the war but in a loyalist city instead and he choose to move there precisely to conquer his enemy, to make madrid his. Both Real and barca had funded the republican side in the civil war but after the war you started seeing franco's narrative taking from, in which the catalans did that because they were traitors but the madridstas did it because they were victims of the republicans looting their club. But Franco's dream was a united castilian spain, run from the biggest castilian city. He didn't want madrid and barcelona united against him but he also didn't want them fighting among each other. He wanted the catalans and the basques to forget they were catalans and basques and become spanish, which is why he even changed the name of barcelona fc. \n\nAnd so this squabbling between a catalan club and a castilian club really didn't suit him especially when both clubs were calling upon their fans and thus the spector of regionalism. So he acted by deploring spanish clubs hating each other when they should be united, had the madrid journalist who'd told real fans to make their stadium a cauldron of noise blacklisted and asked for the resignation of the president of both barcelona and real madrid.\n\nThe first thing the new presidents did were give a speach in which they talked about a new era of friendship and peace between the two clubs. And both of the new men had served in franco's army during the civil war so this was him taking control of the football clubs. Barca's new man was Colonel Josep Vendrell and real's was their ex player and decorated war veteran Santiago Bernabéu.\n\nBernabeu's first major act was to build the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium with money raised by local businesses so that real could have the attendences they needed to afford the best players. He then used that money to buy a bunch of players, threw his support behind the new european cup and turned real into the biggest club in the world. He pretty much did that single handedly and he was only in charge of the club because franco had exiled the president who was there in 1939 for treason and then asked his replacement to stand down for beating barcelona 11-1. So in that respect, 100% of their success was because of Franco.\n\nAlso Bernabeu, like Vendrell, was trusted by the regime, which probably helped him a lot in terms of being able to fight his corner. Sid Lowe uses the fact that bernabeu banned a major francosist figure from the ground as proof that bernabeu had connections, that an outsider would never be able to do that but someone within the regime could without fear.\n\nAnd once Real became successful, Franco used them as much as possible. Real being the best club in the world was fantastic pr for Franco. They were essentially his diplomats in an era where he was trying to build bridges with the west, they were a great source of prestige, and even within spain, it suited propoganda that the best team were castillian and from madrid and not catalan or basque. But again, barcelona were also used for propaganda, the great hungarian footballer Kubala who played for barca starred in a francosist propoganda film depicting his flight from communist hungary to the better land of fascist spain.\n\nSo in the 1950s you had spanish embasseys welcoming the real madrid team when they were playing away in austria or germany say and giving them dossiers of the opposing team before asking them to do a photoshoot or visit an ambassador. The regime wanted Real to remain dominant because it made the regime look good.\n\nA francoist minister said at the time that di stefano's goals, bull fighting and opera singers were there three best weapons in the fight for the hearts of the west.\n\nBarcelona fans argue that as a result Real got the benefit of the doubt in referee decisions and transfer desputes (in particular that di stefano ended up at real rather than barca) because everyone wanted Real do do well.\n\nThere's not much in the way of actual proof of that, though. My own opinion is that it's probably true to an extent.\n\nI do think that if bernabeu had gone to valencia or atletico or seville and made them the best club in europe instead, Franco wouldn't have intervened to help Real at all anymore than he did in the first 15 years of his reign.",
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"text": "His first years leading the club were very successful and saw the rise of the \"Quinta del Buitre\". Real Madrid won a record 5 consecutive league titles and was considered one of the best teams in Europe at the time. However, the club never managed to win the European Cup during those years, losing memorable ties to clubs as Bayern München, PSV Eindhoven and Arrigo Sacchi's AC Milan. The second half of his presidency was marked by a slow decline in the successes of the club, a fact that was highlighted by a very strong Barcelona team.\n",
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"text": "Despite the most recent report showing 8% growth in La Liga revenues, the highest of any European league, the overwhelming majority of the extra money went to the two dominant clubs, Real Madrid and Barcelona, primarily due to their ability to negotiate separate TV deals. During the summer of 2009, Real Madrid paid a world record transfer fee of £80 million for Cristiano Ronaldo. Despite being the world's second richest club according to the \"Forbes\" List, heavy spending on two other players, Kaká and Karim Benzema, with their associated high wages, trebled Real's net financial debt from €130 million on 30 June 2008 to €326.7 million on 30 June 2009, as the signing Raúl Albiol, Benzema, Kaká, Ronaldo and some minor players to the 2009–10 squad were included in the 2008–09 financial year. Madrid's signing one additional big name, Xabi Alonso in August 2009, made the net financial debt only drop from €326.7 million to €244.6 million on 30 June 2010, still higher than previous eight seasons. The net asset/equity, however, increased from €195.9 million to €219.7 million.\n",
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"text": "Immediate success followed for three seasons, with Real winning La Liga in 2000–01 and 2002–03, and claiming the UEFA Champions League in 2001–02, with Zidane scoring the winning goal in the final. After winning the 2002–03 La Liga title, Real Madrid added English midfielder David Beckham from Manchester United for €35 million. Beckham's status as a world-class footballer, in addition to his heavily publicized marriage to pop star Victoria Adams, resulted in Real Madrid gaining great advertising potential around the world, especially in Asia. By further promoting the other superstar players in various marketing campaigns in the continent, the club became the world's richest club in terms of revenue in 2005–06.\n",
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"text": "It was under Florentino Pérez's first presidency (2000–2006) that Real Madrid started its ambition of becoming the world's richest professional football club. The club ceded part of its training grounds to the city of Madrid in 2001, and sold the rest to four corporations: Repsol YPF, Mutua Automovilística de Madrid, Sacyr Vallehermoso and OHL. The sale eradicated the club's debts, paving the way for it to buy the world's most expensive players, such as Zinedine Zidane, Luís Figo, Ronaldo and David Beckham. The city had previously rezoned the training grounds for development, a move which in turn increased their value, and then bought the site. The European Commission started an investigation into whether the city overpaid for the property, to be considered a form of state subsidy.\n",
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how is it possible that we encounter plateaus when losing weight even if we continue to operate at a caloric deficit?
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How does our body keep track of time? And how might this effect space travel?
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"answer": "On your question about the role of the sun and the implications for space travel, there were a series of interesting studies a while back that provides part of the answer. The goal of these studies was to determine if our normal [circadian rhythm](_URL_3_) (as measured by physiological markers like the body temperature) as well the sleep/wake cycle was set by some kind of an internal clock or by external factors such as sunlight and other temporal cues. To answer this question researchers placed a group of individuals in a controlled environment e.g. in bunkers), where at first they gave them temporal cues (by providing access to TV, radio, etc) about the time of day. \nDuring this adaptation period, both the circadian rhythm and the sleep/wake cycle remained matched to the 24 hour cycle. But then, the researchers removed these cues to see how the individuals would adapt. \n\nInterestingly what happened is that the [sleep cycle of many of the individuals gradually lengthened](_URL_4_) ([source](_URL_1_)). In fact further studies have a shown that the sleep/wake cycles can vary significantly among individuals. In contrast, when the circadian rhythm was monitored by measuring physiological markers (such as the core body temperature), [researchers found that individuals maintained a circadian rhythm of about 24 hours (on average 24.18hrs)](_URL_0_), with much less variation. These results suggest that while external cues and stimuli can cause the activity cycle (or sleep/wake cycle) to change dramatically, the internal clock that sets the circadian rhythm is much more stable and in most people is tightly aligned with the 24 hour daily cycle. Nevertheless, this fact does not mean that external stimuli do not matter as far as the circadian rhythm is concerned. In fact over time the circadian rhythm can respond to match external stimuli such as the light/dark cycle in a process called [entrainment](_URL_2_). This fact makes it possible to gradually shift the circadian rhythm (within a certain range) from the normal 24 hour cycle by changing the external conditions.\n\nEdit: Added in the original sources of the studies referenced, and made a key correction as pointed out by /u/whatthefat ",
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"answer": "You're mixing a few different topics that makes your question difficult to answer clearly. I'm going to attempt to tackle some of the parts of it, but I cannot offer a clear answer. Hopefully someone with expertise in ageing can help.\n\nYour \"internal clock\" is your circadian rhythm. It's synchronized to outward stimuli like the sun, but it's trainable and adaptable. When you disrupt your circadian rhythm (like flying across the world), you experience jet lag. In space, it's been suggested to set up a light-dark cycle artificially on long duration exploration flights ( > 6 months) to help give astronauts a sense of normalcy, but that's for sub-light speed travel.\n\nNow, to address relativity, or the effects of time dilation from travelling above the speed of light. [Here] (_URL_0_) is a super cool video explaining relativity to a layperson, including addressing ageing due to lightspeed travel. He explains it very succinctly and clearly, but here is an explanation for the lazy. All of the normal processes (like ageing) that happen in the body can be broken down into a series of interactions at the quantum level. To interact, these particles move at the speed of light over a very short distance to interact with each other, which happens very quickly. However, if your body is moving at the speed of light, the particles have to travel their normal tiny distance, plus the large distance your body has traveled, to get to their destination. Since distance increases with a constant velocity, the time for this interaction to occur happens increases. The faster you travel, the longer it takes for these interactions to occur, and, theoretically, the slower you age.\n\nNow, I'm unsure how the ageing process in particular works and how it's changed in space. Hopefully someone else can shed some light on the matter.",
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"answer": "Circadian clocks are built into the majority of cells in the body, and are synchronized in large part by the suprachiasmatic nucleus in the brain (which is in turn entrained by light from photosensitive cells in the eyes) and circulating melatonin (which is produced in the pineal gland when it's dark out). Circadian rhythms are thus largely regulated by the 24-hour light/dark cycle (though other cues, such as typical meal times, also play a role).\n\nWithout photoentrainment, circadian rhythms run longer than 24 hours, though this varies across individuals (usually around 25 hours). For example, folks who are totally blind (i.e., no light is processed by photosensitive cells in the eyes to the brain) often have trouble sleeping because their internal clocks run out of sync with the rest of the world. It has been suggested that daily administration of melatonin (at the same time each day) assists in entraining the clock in these individuals and relieving sleep issues. See: Sack, R. L., et al. (2000). Entrainment of free-running circadian rhythms by melatonin in blind people. New England Journal of Medicine, 343, 1070-1077.\n\nAs for \"how does it matter how fast the body is moving\", that's more a physics question than a biological one. A physicist will do a much better job than I could, but suffice to say that physical time (such as it exists) is relative to your perspective. As far as your body is concerned, I expect that travelling near light speed would be processed in the same way as travelling at any other speed, and the only difference would be that time would have been moving more slowly for others relative to you. As far as you are concerned, x time has passed (because it has relative to you); and as far as others are concerned, y time has passed (because it has relative to them). \n\nKeep in mind that relativistic speeds at the macro level are not something that cell biology normally needs to account for.",
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"answer": "I will try to adress the last part of your question, about near light speed travel. Let's say you are travelling at a constant speed very close to the speed of light. As you are traveling very quickly compared to the people left on earth, you and everything on your spaceship will experience time dilation. Time will pass more slowly on your spaceship than on earth, you will age slower. \n\nNow let us imagine you wanted to measure that effect from inside your ship. What kind of test could you perform? You could try keeping track of \"earth time\" by bringing a piece of radioactive rock and measuring its decay. But all the atoms in this rock would experience time dilation at exactly the same rate as you. If you brought an earth pocket watch it too would slow down by exactly the same factor. Even the neurons firing in your brain would fire more slowly and hence even your thinking would be slowed down by the same amount as the watch and the rock. No matter how you tried finding something to measure time dilation from inside your spaceship you would run into this same problem. In fact, given that you are traveling at a constant velocity, there is NO experiment whatsoever you could perform that would behave any differently than if you were sitting still on earth's surface in your spaceship doing the same experiment. (Let's assume there is some way of replicating earth gravity in your ship)\n\nSo since it is physically impossible for any kind of test to separate the two cases this means there is litterally no way you could experience six months passing on your spaceship any differently than you would have on earth. ",
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"answer": "I'd like to piggyback this question by asking, how do our brains regulate time in a more immediate sense? Like if I'm clapping at an even tempo, how does the brain tell how much time has passed since we last clapped and when it's time to clap again?",
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"answer": "Biochemical reactions (including ageing) would occur at the same rate as your perception of time - after all, your perception of *everything* is due to biochemical reactions. Although ageing is currently a hot topic in current research, I think the general feeling is that it is due to an accumulation of reactions and occasional misreactions in your cells, ie protein misfolding, DNA damage, leading to cell senescence, depletion of stem cells, etc. The internal clock is just due to circadian rhythm, as mentioned in other posts - for the first number of \"days\", a space travellers wake/sleep cycle might be messed up, and I think astronauts would enforce a Earth-like light/dark cycle to keep this normal. A prolonged period without light would mess up your circadian rhythm and psychology, and may have knock-on effects to inrease ageing, but I don't think that's specific to travel - just ask anyone who lives North of the Arctic circle.\n\nAt relativistic speeds, all of the molecules in your body are within the same frame of reference, so there shouldn't be any difference to biochemistry as you perceive it. Your body would be expected to age to the same amount of time that you have experienced personally. (This is ignoring any effect of increased radiation due to being outside of the protective atmosphere of Earth)",
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"answer": "Neurobiologist here. It's early, I'm hungover, but allow me to try and explain this the best I can. As others on this thread have commented there are various ways your body keeps track of time, the most notable are circadian rhythms. But this is somewhat wrong, you see it's not circadian rhythms that *produce* our sense of time, but rather are a *product* of various biochemical events in the brain (notably the superchiasmatic nuclei) which give rise to frames of reference that we perceive as time.\n\n\nHow this works in its entirety is still somewhat a mystery. My old phd mentor was actually looking at how subregions of the frontal lobe may use various methods to check and compare events that have recently occurred to give a reference frame for length of duration between events. Others have pointed to a series of chemicals in the brain for giving that 'value' for duration of time elapsed, one of which is adenosine, the others are the circadian chemicals 'Clock' and 'BMal' (plus one more I can't remember for the life of me). These chemicals and their density in certain receptor sites encode values for duration awake and roughly can translate into time elapsed since your last 'Brain event' which signals a 'checkpoint' like sleep or other cycles. \n\n\nLet's start with adenosine. You may not know it but this little bugger is something we all hate and try to inhibit on a daily basis. When adenosine triphosphate (atp) breaks down over the day from atp to adp to amp it finally rests with just a single adenosine molecule. These adenosine packets then float around the brain till they fine their receptor site and bind there, with enough binding you start to feel groggy and sleepy. It's also the receptor site that caffeine binds to and prevents said tiredness. While this isn't translated directly into 'time perception' as we know it, it is one more daily cycle that allows your brain to make reference points and determine how much time has gone by in your single wake cycle, and as such the amount of free floating adenosine may allow for the brain to reference around what time events have occurred.\n\n\nNow for the slightly confusing parts with our circadian rhythm making friends BMal and clock. These chemicals have little known use beyond producing a slow, continuous wave of increase and decrease in each other. We think this rise and fall of the two chemicals produce circadian rhythms; they achieve this in a pretty cool manner, clock and BMal both affect each others production amount. As one increases in concentration, the other decreases, doesn't sound complex right? Wrong! As the decrease occurs it inhibits production, which then inhibits the inhibiting factor of the other, which in turn increases the amount, which in turn inhibits itself. Bah, go look up the fine points, my head is throbbing too hard to think about this too hard. But the underlying point is that the two regulate each other, when one gets to be too concentrated, it produces the other, which decreases the first, then the second becomes too concentrated and the cycle continues with each regulating the other. The byproduct of this ebon flow of ups and downs is a predictable, constant wave. With the wave having roughly the same amplitude and frequency each time, it allows your brain to use other reference points from your long term or short term memory, encode them to a point in the 'wave' and then reference the cycles to determine how much time has passed. (This is my most sloppy part of my post, bear with me I'll edit more points in after I wake up more.) \n\n\nSomething you may have noticed is that I have constantly said 'reference' that's because the brain needs cues to operate. You need light and other factors to tell the brain 'it's this time in the day'. Or else we would be bound to one internal clock and jet lag would suck so much harder. (I just realized I left out a part on melatonin, while it helps set cycles I don't think it has that much to do with time perception) because we need cues our brains, and that of other animals, have developed strategies. For instance some species of lizards have a very very thin skull right above their pineal gland; they use this to tell if it's light outside and to deliver light directly to the brain! Yes, you heard me, lizards have photosensitive brains...that act like... Well, a third eye (cue spooky music). We, on the other hand, are not as cool. We use our eyes and optic nerve to deliver light to the brain and let it know \"dear brain, it's X brightness outside, leading me to believe it's X time of day\". But even then it's all to do with frame of reference.\n\nTo conclude, your brain constantly communicates with a plethora of biochemical and physical indicators of duration/frame of reference. The amalgamation of all these things I mentioned (and many more I did not) lead your body to have a sense of time, or at lease how many 'cycles' have occurred since last frame of reference. The body clock isn't perfect, it can make time feel very slow (like being hungover listening to the garbage truck crash around outside your house, ugh) or very fast (like explaining your scientific passion to someone who cares to ask), but at the end of the day it's really a hard question to answer. How do we perceive time? The best I can do is explain what I know, what others have observed and what the community thinks. For all we know it's could be all wrong... I guess time will tell ;)\n\n",
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"answer": "Aging has nothing to do with the body \"keeping track\" of time, other than in some very metaphorical sense perhaps. Aging is basically cells degrading because of things like junk accumulating within and betweem cells making them work more and more poorly. This is in principle \"curable\" in which case time could go on indefinitely without any biological aging.",
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"answer": "This may or may not be relevant of a question to post here, but I always wondered how my brain knows to wake me up 5 minutes before an alarm, or just before I need to wake up. Unless I'm sick or tired (or drunk), I never use an alarm and wake up an hour or before I need to leave for work just fine. It's like my brain 'knows' I need to wake up. ",
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"answer": "You're confusing two different things. Our physical age is not determined by our sense of time. Or perception of time is completely separate. \nFor example, people who are unconscious for short periods of time or in long term comas. You can wake up from a coma and not realize a year has passed, your body might feel like it's been a few days, but this doesn't mean your body has only aged based on its perception of a few days. Cell processes still occur as normal, aging continues to happen. You cannot age differently by messing with your body's clock, which gives us our sense of time. \n\nSomeone else mentioned things like puberty and hormone changes based on age. This is again independent of your sense of time. You don't turn 14, your body realize you're at the right age and then start altering hormone levels. Hormone changes occur based on certain brain functions which occur as your brain reaches certain development points and certain biological events are triggered. \n\n\nAll this means is that with space travel, you'll be largely unaffected. Regardless of your speed, time passes the same within your reference point. Within your reference point, 1 year may pass but to those traveling at slower speeds, 10 years will pass. Your body will age one year because that is how much time has passed for you. Your body won't be confused and think \"shit 10 years has passed for everyone else, I better catch up\". ",
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"answer": "This is more of a follow up question than an answer.\nI have studied linguistics and touched onto the subject of the construal of time by the brain (in order to understand the metaphoric system of TIME AS SPACE in language (ie. moving FORWARD in time, phrases like ACROSS time etc)). In some of the literature they talk about certain neurons firing in bursts, than having an empty space, and firing bursts again. This is hypothesized to induce a sort of feeling of time passing. It is argued that it is a sort of sense that we have to perceive time, as opposed to it being an illusion our brain puts together from the sequence of events around us.\nAdditionally, they talk about a perceptual moment, the smallest unit of time we feel as passing. It is somewhere between one and two seconds. An example where this becomes obvious is that we dont hear single ticks of a clock, ie. tick tick tick. Instead, we pair them up as tick tock tick tock. One tick is shorter than our perceptual moment, therefore we make two ticks into one unit.\nNow I'm not sure how up to date this is. cognitive linguistics is sometimes a bit weird when it comes to actual cognitive sciences. Can someone tell me if this is somewhat accurate or makes sense at all?",
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"answer": "Our bodies are adapted to life on a planet where there is a 24h light cycle, with the light/dark ratio varying depending on how close to the equator you are. Many processes in the body, such as temperature, athletic performance, cognitive function, and most obviously sleep oscillate daily. There is actually an entire field dedicated to this called chronobiology.\n\nCurrent studies suggests that there are peripheral oscillators in our bodies, but our main biological rhythm is driven by a part of the brain called the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), which is in turn stimulated by input from the eyes. There are many components to the proposed molecular clock, but it is proposed that this light causes degredation of a protein that builds up during the night, which in turn alters transcription of clock genes, which control expression of clock-driven genes. So for your question, it's both! We all have an endogenous clock due to molecular mechanisms, but it can be \"entrained\" to external light, such as the sun. \n\nThe circadian rhythms Wikipedia page is pretty through, if you want a well-worded explanation.\n\n\n",
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"answer": "I am several hours late, so hopefully this is helpful. I have tried to read through some of these answers, and like a lot of people mentioned I can't speak to all these questions. However, I have done quite a bit of work on the body clock (i.e. Circadian clock) found in the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus (SCN). I will try to keep it relatively simple (it is a complex topic). \n\nIt is internal: The 24 rhythm is accumulation of various processes from the translation, transcription, dimerization, localization and degradation of various genes and their products (such as BMAL, PER, CLOCK and various other parts). Literally anything and everything that can happen to them that affects their relative concentration in various parts of the cells will affect the timing of the clock. These processes are a feedback loops that are self-regulating (i.e. these components all feedback and control each other in a big loop). \n\nThis accumulation of processes within the cell, and within the population of cells within the SCN give around a 24 hours rhythm to the organism. But *any change* to any of these processes will affect the timing of accumulation/degradation and will therefore affect the systems timing^1. And if fact it is this principle that helps organism to adapt to the an environment (i.e. entrain to specific cue/light/time). And light is something that entrains us (and most animals at least) to a specific time (and is the strongest entrainer). But so does food and other things (e.g. exercise). \n\nAs for space travel, my physics is limited, so others can answer it. But since the circadian clock is a relative marker of time (it marks cycles, so that it knows where you are relative to the 24 cycle of earth's rotation) rather than \"time\", I doubt it would notice any specific issues with space travel. I would be guessing as to what happens, but I am pretty sure so would anyone else. But I am pretty sure any affect you feel would be similar to how you feel overall. \n\n\n-----------------\n^1 Any mutation in any of these processes will also affect either the timing, entrainment ability or \"free running\" rhythm (timing in absence of any external timing cues). ",
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"answer": "You have a few concepts wrapped together that are actually unrelated. Others have explained pretty thoroughly the biological component of the question, how the body keeps track of time. However, it's important to note that the body's internal clock does more to regulate your day to day activity than the process of aging, aging is largely the accumulation of errors as your cells replicate (I can go into more detail if you'd like), not something the body does on purpose and largely unrelated to the day to day rhythms. \n\nIn space, the cues which inform your body on how to set your day to day cycle can be different, but the rate at which your body degrades (read: ages) remains the same. If you strap a watch to someone on earth and another to someone in space, after 80 years the two people will have both aged by 80 years. But, and this is very important, the watches will be off from eachother by about 5 seconds. \n\nEven if the watches keep time perfectly, there will still be this difference. Einstein's theory of relativity states that time moves more slowly in the presence of a strong gravitational field (relative to someone in a weaker gravitational field), and that time acts more slowly on something moving close to the speed of light (relative to an observer). This is what people are talking about when they say you can be gone 2 years on a space ship and return to find everyone aged 80 years, time itself has run differently for you. As far as your body rhythms are aware, they go at the same rate as they always have, and your environment is being affected by the same time-warping effects as your body, so every method you use to tell time is warped as well. There is litterally no way to know until you return to the reference frame in which you started.",
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"answer": "To the best of my knowledge, the bond between the graphite and the paper isn't chemical. The bond should primarily be through van der Waals forces, which are electrostatic as opposed to chemical. What's happening is that graphite has a structure like [this](_URL_0_) with lots of layers. \n\nThese layers are only weakly bonded (compared to a covalent or ionic bond) to eachother by van der Waals forces, allowing them to shear easily away onto the paper when you use your pencil, which is why we use graphite in pencils in the first place- most solids won't rub off onto a surface so easily. So after being sheared off of the pencil tip, the graphite planes (referred to individually as graphene planes) will bond with the paper using the same van der Waals forces. The reason paper makes such a good writing surface is, as you can see from /u/PoorAuthor9's post, it is very rough on a molecular scale- lots of little edges and loops that the graphite planes can get stuck on while you're sliding your pencil across the surface. This is why pencils work rather poorly on very smooth surfaces.\n\nAn eraser works by giving the graphite that has adhered to the paper something more attractive to stick to. I'm not exactly sure on the molecular level details, but something about the structure of the rubber material makes the graphite stick more strongly to it than to the paper. Because it has a stronger attraction to the graphite than the paper, the stronger bond will remove the graphite from the paper when you move the eraser.\n\nSimply washing with soap and water will also remove the graphite- water & the surfactant will interrupt the van der Waals bonding between the graphite planes and the water, causing it to come off the surface. This would probably be easier than erasing if you got a lot of pencil drawn onto yourself or your clothing. Obviously not a good approach to fix mistakes on your homework, though. :)",
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Royal chefs in Middle Ages
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"text": "The most well known French chef of the Middle Ages was Guillaume Tirel, also known as Taillevent. Taillevent worked in numerous royal kitchens during the 14th century. His first position was as a kitchen boy in 1326. He was chef to Philip VI, then the Dauphin who was son of John II. The Dauphin became King Charles V of France in 1364, with Taillevent as his chief cook. His career spanned sixty-six years, and upon his death he was buried in grand style between his two wives. His tombstone represents him in armor, holding a shield with three cooking pots, \"marmites\", on it.\n",
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2c1k27
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why would human poop be white?
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"text": "White roll is the white line that borders the top of the upper lip. It's an adnexal mass of specialized glands and fat. White roll occurs naturally for nearly everyone, although it can be not white and less visible for dark skinned individuals. Well defined white roll indicates youthfulness and is considered aesthetically pleasing.\n",
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what is actually in contraband (cheap) cigarettes and why are they so cheap and illegal?
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"answer": "Because some states like New York tax cigarettes heavily. Contraband cigarettes are purchased out of state to avoid the taxes and sold at a discounted rate.",
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"text": "The ICC (International Chamber of Commerce) warns counterfeit cigarettes were found to contain unsanitary ingredients (such as human feces, dead flies and mold), as well as a higher dosage of lethal substances in excess of legitimate cigarettes. Illicit cigarettes seized in Canada and the United Kingdom were found to contain five times more cadmium, six times as much lead, 160% more tar, and 133% more carbon dioxide. Consumers are warned to take caution and avoid the temptation to save money by purchasing illegal cigarettes as it poses greater health risks compared to legal cigarettes.\n",
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"text": "Since 2003 it is illegal to label a tobacco product as \"light\", \"mild\", \"low-tar” or any other misleading form of advertisement which could cause the impression that the product causes less damage than other tobacco products.\n",
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"text": "The illicit trade of tobacco is both supply and demand driven, as consumers look to save money by evading taxes on tobacco; and suppliers want to take advantage of easy border entry, high profit margins, and weak repercussions if caught. Illegal cigarettes are priced much cheaper than legal cigarettes, and do not undergo stringent regulation in the form of health warnings, product checks, or age verification. Studies highlight that increased tobacco taxes do not dissuade consumers from smoking, rather, consumers turn to cheaper brands and illegal cigarettes. Low costs of production and high levels of demand make illicit cigarettes one of the world's most trafficked illegal goods (Allen 2011). In London alone, 85% of smuggled cigarettes were found to be counterfeit, while the UK Border Agency averages more than 1 million counterfeit cigarette seizures per day (ICC 2007). Similarly, South Africa reports the incidence of illicit cigarettes has doubled the past 3 years, accounting for 25% of the total market in 2012. Public tolerance and acceptance of illegal cigarettes as a norm also factors into the continued purchase behavior among consumers, as they believe legitimate cigarettes are over-taxed and too expensive.\n",
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"text": "A federal law passed in the United States in 2009 has made it illegal for tobacco shops and stores to carry cigarettes that contain flavors other than menthol. The law affects the Djarum Black cigarette brand, and has made it unavailable for purchase within the United States.\n",
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"text": "The lawsuit claimed that Altria's marketing of \"light\" and \"low tar\" cigarettes constituted fraudulent misrepresentations under the Maine Unfair Trade Practices Act (MUTPA) because it deceived smokers into thinking the products are safer than regular cigarettes.\n",
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"text": "Vending machines, individually sold single cigarettes, and product displays near schools, next to candy and sweet drinks, and at the eye-level of young children are all used around the world to sell nicotine-containing products. Even large brands are frequently advertised in ways that break local regulations. In many countries, such marketing methods are not illegal. Where they are illegal, enforcement is often a problem. For instance, Dr. Suresh Kumar Arora, New Delhi's chief tobacco control officer, said: \"We were wasting our time fining cigarette vendors and distributors. They had no idea of the law. Most are illiterate. Our teams would tear down posters and in no time, they would be up again because the real culprits were the big tobacco companies – ITC, Philip Morris (now Altria), Godfrey Phillip. I told them to stop giving posters to their dealers otherwise I would drag them through the courts. Since last May, Delhi has been free of tobacco posters, 100% free\". He has, however, been unable to keep mobile vendors from illegally selling cigarettes next to schools.\n",
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Winston Churchill often spoke about his "little black dog" (i.e. depression) that constantly followed him around. Did any Nazi leaders suffer from depression or other clinical mental disorders?
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"text": "The book revealed that \"Black Dog\" was the name Churchill gave to \"the prolonged fits of depression from which he suffered\", leading many later authors to suggest that throughout his life Churchill was a victim of, or at risk from, clinical depression. Formulated in this way, Churchill's mental health history contains unmistakable echoes of the seminal interpretation of Lord Moran's Black Dog revelations made in an essay by Dr Joseph Storr. In drawing so heavily on Moran for what he took to be the latter's totally reliable, first-hand clinical evidence of Churchill's lifelong struggle with \"prolonged and recurrent depression\" and its associated \"despair\", Storr produced a seemingly authoritative and persuasive diagnostic essay that, in the words of John Ramsden, \"strongly influenced all later accounts\".\n",
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If I unraveled the DNA in a human cell, how strong would it be?
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why everyone seems to hate /r/politics.
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"answer": "It just turned into a bit of a circlejerk, so i gave up",
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"answer": "stay out of all subreddits whose primary topics are sex, religion or politics. They are doomed because of the nature of the internet.",
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"answer": "Any attempt at expressing an opinion that differs from that of the Hive is ruthlessly punished by moderation and any opinion that plays to the hive is upvoted without regard to its factual merit.",
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"answer": "Obviously Reddit skews liberal so /r/politics is going to skew that way as well which can’t be helped. But a conservative or anyone that has a thought different than that of the hivemind is immediately attacked and derided. Even worse there are many instances of moderators removing posts they don’t agree with, which is pretty much a slap in the face of the entire core of Reddit as a place for people to discuss ideas and opinions. /r/Politics is simply a joke at this point in time and will be until Reddit removes the offending moderators and works to instill some basic Kindergarten rules of “play nice with others” and “don’t call people Nazis just because you don’t like what someone says”.",
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"answer": "Because politics and politicians in general just suck.",
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"answer": "I find the problem being that it is the type of politics which is pretty nonacademic, reactionary and sensationalist. So they tend to discuss things in a very aggressive way which never leaves a good result of any debate, they tend to base their opinion more on gut feeling and fail to look at the details and causes rather than just being outraged at x forcing this on y. It's all american politics and very partisan, liberals and conservatives who stick very much to their party lines. \nAn example was \"That's it, Congress has made Pizza a vegetable\". Although eating it counted as a fruit portion, there was a lack of analysis of why it was being seen as a fruit portion (the tomato pureé and the lobbying power, as well as an ideological battle against the big state), instead it was quite a big shouting match about something that wasn't so well defined.",
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"answer": "I should add that that r/politics constantly leaks to other subreddits, and that is annoying for some people.\n\n ",
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"answer": "Reddit as a website skews young, especially on the default subreddits. Reddit also skews liberal (which I am too).\n\nAs a result, you get a bunch of 15-18 year olds yelling about politics they have only recently started to be interested in and learn about and which they barely understand. They lack an awareness of context/historical precedents. Further, [/r/politics](/r/politics) has turned into a witchhunt for any sign of conservativism while it derides conservatives' endless debasing of liberals. The whole of the subreddit doesn't seem to grasp the irony that they're as distorted and left wing as Fox news is distorted and right wing.",
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"answer": "It just turned into a bit of a circlejerk, so i gave up",
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"answer": "stay out of all subreddits whose primary topics are sex, religion or politics. They are doomed because of the nature of the internet.",
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"answer": "Any attempt at expressing an opinion that differs from that of the Hive is ruthlessly punished by moderation and any opinion that plays to the hive is upvoted without regard to its factual merit.",
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"answer": "First of all, as MySuperLove explained, the subreddit is particularly suited toward young liberals. On any given day, if you look at the articles on the front page of r/politics, you'll see that just about every article supports the same side of an issue or candidate in an election. I haven't been keeping up to date with it since I unsubscribed, but I can't recall seeing a link showing how a Republican presidential candidate, other than Ron Paul, did something good.\n\nAnother aspect is the constant accusations of America being a police state or something along those lines. While I'm not one of those Americans who is so patriotic that I wear red, white, and blue every day, have a flag waving on my front lawn, or possess an incubator for baby bald eagles, I still have some respect for the way my country functions. Simply put, particularly during the Occupy Wall Street protests, many articles and comments were upvoted that referred to the US as a police state, where freedom of speech was non-existant and police could arrest whomever they wanted. Needless to say, not everyone agrees with that view, and I find such views a bit insulting. It's hard to take a group of people seriously when Occupy protests lasted a few weeks and continue to be discussed on a relatively well-known site like Reddit, and they still insist that the government has surpressed all free speech against the status quo. ",
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"answer": "Obviously Reddit skews liberal so /r/politics is going to skew that way as well which can’t be helped. But a conservative or anyone that has a thought different than that of the hivemind is immediately attacked and derided. Even worse there are many instances of moderators removing posts they don’t agree with, which is pretty much a slap in the face of the entire core of Reddit as a place for people to discuss ideas and opinions. /r/Politics is simply a joke at this point in time and will be until Reddit removes the offending moderators and works to instill some basic Kindergarten rules of “play nice with others” and “don’t call people Nazis just because you don’t like what someone says”.",
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"answer": "Because politics and politicians in general just suck.",
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during the cold war, how did the united states (and by extent, the soviet union) know that a nuclear missile was fired at thier respective country early enough so that they could deploy countermeasures?
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"answer": "Both countries deployed radar stations and other surveillance set ups around each other, looking for the distinctive sounds or signatures of a missile launch. This wasn't a perfect system, we nearly had some false alarms that ended humanity.",
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"answer": "Radar systems. Also the \"counter measures\" we're launching your own. There wasn't a viable set up to completely intercept a massive incoming nuclear attack. ",
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"answer": "ICBMs weren't really a threat b until around 1960. For the first part of the Cold War, bombers were the real threat and much easier to detect in advance.",
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"answer": "A combination of huge long range radar stations and satellite early warning systems.\n\nYou can't really hide a rocket launch from a satellite. Large rockets like ICBMs have a *massive* thermal signature that is easy to spot. That is why the US and USSR (and now Russia) notify each other of peaceful rocket launches in advance.",
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"answer": "There were no countermeasures. Neither the USSR nor the US had any method whatsoever to shoot down or even deflect an incoming nuclear missile. And still don't even today.\n\nThe only response to an incoming nuclear missile is to launch a nuclear missile of your own back. This is known, in complete seriousness, as the MAD doctrine, \"Mutual Assured Destruction.\"\n\nAnd MAD is how it's still working, right now.",
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Do rainbows also have sections in the infrared and/or ultraviolet spectrum?
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"answer": "They do, and this is how William Herschel discovered infrared radiation.\n\nHe was conducting an experiment to see if the different colors of a rainbow (as produced by a prism) had different temperatures. He placed a series of thermometers in the different colors of the rainbow and another to the side, next to the red in the rainbow, as a control. When he discovered that his control thermometer indicated a higher temperature than any of the others, he correctly theorized that there was an invisible form of light that was being split off past the red component.",
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"answer": "Yes! In fact, that's how we accidentally discovered IR radiation. William Herschel was experimenting with color temperature to see if any color was \"hotter\" by breaking sunlight up with a prism and putting a thermometer in the different color zones. He put a thermometer next to the red as a control thinking there was nothing there, but to his surprise that one got the hottest. If he had put it next to the purple side, we may not have known about the extended spectrum for another 50-100 years. ",
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"answer": "Well, it's been about 45 years, but I remember from school that the way infrared was originally discovered/proven was when some scientist put a thermometer just past the red on a spectrum coming through a prism, and the temperature rose.\n\nAnd while I imagine in works for lower frequencies too, I know with higher frequencies the ability to lens them gets lost because of the shortness of their wavelength. Which is why x-ray cameras don't have lenses.",
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"answer": "Yes, this is actually how we discovered IR/UV. (Newton? I think?) Placed thermometers under a spectrum to measure each colors' temperature, believing some might be warmer than others. His control thermometers on either end of the spectrum also heated up, revealing there were components to the spectrum that humans couldn't see.",
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how can we identify different instruments playing at the same time if it is the same air that is vibrating?
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"answer": "The amazing human brain takes all the sound waves in as a raw input just as you say, but the truly spectacular thing is that it can decode this information for us into separate sounds all playing at once. I don't think neuro scientists have discovered exactly how the brain does such a feat but it must use previous knowledge of sounds to do so. \nFor example if you do not listen to electronic music then it would be quite difficult for you to pick up on two different sounds of synth playing over he top of one another, where as someone who does would find it quite easy to distinguish the two sounds. ",
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"answer": "Vi Hart explains it better than I ever could. Basically, it's what your ear was made to do. _URL_0_",
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"answer": "I've always wondered the same thing. When you overlay two or more colors, you see the new blend they create, you don't see the individual colors. But when multiple sounds are happening at the same time, they pretty much remain distinct and don't blend.\n\n(Yes, I know that all I did was re-phrase your question.)",
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"answer": "Simple version:\nYour cochlea is the part of your ear that actually turns vibrations into neutral impulses and enables you to hear. Everything else (I.e. your ear) is just there to get sound to the cochlea. \n\nThe cochlea is constructed so that different parts respond to different frequencies, so when you hear a complex sound (with many different frequencies), your cochlea detects each individual part of the sound separately! Your brain is pretty good at taking multiple different aspects of a stimulus and recognizing that they are part of the same stimulus... for example, when you see an orange your brain perceives the shape and color of the orange separately, but can easily 'put them together.' Your brain can do the same thing with sounds: it can 'put together' the different sounds in different frequency ranges made by a particular instrument.\n\nSource: master's degree in neuroscience.",
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"answer": "To some extent, we can't identify the two different instruments playing. There are two major attributes of the sound sources that make it possible:\n\n1) Stereo placement\n\n2) frequency spectrum\n\n3) \"filling in the gaps\" over time i.e. \"interpolation\"\n\nGiven two instruments where 1) and 2) are similar or the same, your ear really will \"hear\" only the loudest one.\nBut then, over time, your ear and brain \"figures out\" that there are two instruments because of differences in what they are playing, and fills in the gaps so that you appreciate both instruments.\n\n\nThis is largely how mp3 compression works, in that it removes information that your brain doesn't need to follow the music.\n",
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"answer": "All the sound waves fill the air at the same time and become in super position with one another. (Essentially summed together) The resultant signal carries the all the information of all the sound waves together. Reaching the ear it can then be split back into its original constituent frequencies and interpreted by the brain. This can be done mathematically with a Fourier transform. I assume the brain has a specialized circuit for doing this.\n\nThe point of my statement is that this is nothing mystical, the mathematics underlying it are used every day.",
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"answer": "Sound is more than just the basic note. The tone of an instrument has various characteristics. \n\nAttack: the initial intensity of the sound, often louder than the succeeding sound. A plucked guitar string has a strong attack. A bowed violin string has a soft attack.\n\nDecay: how quickly the sound fades after the initial attack. A plucked string instrument will have a fast decay (in the absence of electronic processing). A bowed violin string has a slower decay. A banjo has a fast decay, as does a drum.\n\nSustain and release: the later parts that describe the sound.\n\nIn addition, instruments have overtones. When you play a note on an instrument it also produces higher tones, often multiples of the primary tone. So, a note played at 100 hz also has tones played at 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, etc. The loudness of each overtone contributes substantially to the sound of the instrument",
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"answer": "They're playing in different frequency ranges. If they're playing similar frequencies it's hard to distinguish them (and it usually sounds like ass.) \n \nThis is from a music production standpoint, not sure if it's the precise scientific answer.",
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"answer": "I'm getting to this a little late but I think I've got something that'll answer your question a little more specifically. It's something I've always wondered about myself: how can a single membrane (either the eardrum or a speaker cone) reproduce the sound of an entire orchestra? How does a single speaker cone sound like both a cello and a violin (and a flute and a trumpet and everything else) at the same time?\n\nThe thing that allows that to happen is called the Fourier Theorem. The Fourier Theorem states that any wave function, no matter how complex, can be represented as the sum of a series of sine waves. Conversely, any number of sine waves, no matter how much they differ in amplitude and frequency, can be expressed as a single complex wave function. \n\nThere are some great visual examples of how exactly that works on the [Fourier Series](_URL_0_) Wikipedia page. But the general idea (and this is a bit of an oversimplification for purposes of illustrating the concept) is that complex audio information can be \"encoded\" in a single waveform that can be reproduced by a single vibrating membrane. \n\nWhat happens next has been largely covered by the other commenters. The inner ear and brain \"decode\" the single waveform into its component parts (again, oversimplification for purposes of illustration), and those parts are analyzed as a whole to determine what we're hearing. That's where timbre and frequency spectrum come into play. If you've heard a trumpet before, your brain has created a pattern recognition schema based on its timbre, the harmonics characteristic to that instrument. The brain recognizes, decodes, and interprets patterns of harmonics within the total spectrum of what we're hearing. The fact that the ear and brain can decode and interpret that many simultaneous patterns in an audio spectrum is nothing short of miraculous, but that's how it's done.\n\nThis is something that can be done visually as well, assuming you have a good spectrum analyzer (the thingy that creates a moving, visual wave based on audio data). If you play the beginning of Mahler's 5th through a spectrum analyzer, you're going to see that first trumpet melody show up as a series of spikes, representing the trumpet's fundamental frequency and all of the harmonics above it. When the trumpet plays later on over the rest of the symphony, those spikes will pop up again among the dozens of other spikes from all the other instruments, and the brain is able to recognize that particular pattern of harmonics among everything else that's going on.",
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what is the reasoning behind above-ground power lines? germany buries them, mostly, but the usa keeps them exposed to the elements.
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how do free mobile games make money when all the ads in the game are from other free mobile games?
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"answer": "In game purchases are the primary income stream for that kind of game. Advertising is a thing too - last quarter [Zynga reported 18% of revenue in advertising](_URL_1_) - but it's not what the business is built on. \n\nIt's worth remembering that a large portion of the income in this kind of in game purchase comes from a small portion of the player base, which is often [directly targeted with addictive mechanisms](_URL_0_).",
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"answer": "Free mobile games make money primarily in three different ways: \n\n(1) offering in-app purchases usually used by their ‘whales’ (i.e - 20% of their customers who spend a significant amount of money on the game and keep it alive for the rest of the non paying users).\n\nEdit: Just wanted to clarify that the 20% isn’t supposed to be an exact figure, it’s a reference to the [Pareto principle](_URL_0_) also known as the law of the vital few. I’m aware that the actual amount of users who pay can be significantly fewer.\n\n(2) Is by running ads, usually bought as a advertising package (meaning you don’t have to you choose a specific game to advertise on you can just specify which customers you aim to target and how much your company is willing to spend on it and it is accordingly shown to such users. Alternatively, if your game if quite similar to another one in the App Store, you can specifically target that app as you might find a lot of users with the same interest all conveniently in one place) and shown to you based on your past user data and preferences from the App Store. They always make sure to give you the option to remove ads with a small fee - which appeals to our human need to remove a ‘pain point’ (an inbuilt aspect in many free to play mobile games that slows down the player or tries to push them towards making paid purchases - these include things like in-game wait timers). \n\n(3) That other major way they make money is buy selling your user data to other third parties (businesses) as user data is an extremely powerful tool for companies to have because it allows them to understand you and how to market and target you as a customer.",
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"answer": "They get paid to host a bunch of third party SDKs on the backend and hidden away from users. There's an interesting article from the POV of a small-time app dev [here](_URL_0_)",
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"answer": "What about games that only monetize with Ads ?",
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"answer": "May I stop your scrolling to tell you about an amazing game? It's called Raid Shadow L...",
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"answer": "They get money in various ways. Running ads of other games earns them ad revenue paid by the other game companies. The more popular a game gets the more likely people are to subscribe to them, get membership or premium features, which gets em even more income. And then there's other in-app purchases like currency to buy in-game items, to speed up in-game progress, unlock access to new areas or items or quests or characters, etc.",
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"answer": "Some of these ads are so dumb....showing gameplay that has nothing to do with the advertised game. They should have rules and regulations for the dumb shit they’re allowed to show....I’m talking about you Homescapes",
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"answer": "Just an fyi if anyone sees this. Disabling wifi and data before opening a game should disable adds especially if its one of those simple addictive games that have adds every level",
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"answer": "Mobile game maker here, I'll try to explain to some extend (sorry for my english).\n\nFirst thing after you create your free mobile game is to find people downloading your game. Most common thing to do is to \"buy\" players, you pay money for the ads to appear on any other game or platform, and it will cost you money for each download you get, we will call this Cost per Install (CPI)\n\nBut each time an Ad appear in our game, we also got money from the Ad Network (Admob, Ironsource,...). The money, of course are from anyone who paid to get users. So basically it's a loop with Ad Network tries to improve their AI to be more effective (reach the right people), and game makers try to encourage player to watch more Ad (or IAP) so our revenue from each user higher than CPI\n\nWe game makers also use players data but not for sale, just to track and improve our game based on the data we have so our game will have better retention rate",
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"answer": "Don't forget that _you're_ seeing game ads because you're being targeted. Not everyone sees all game ads",
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"answer": "Even if this were the only way they could make money (it isn’t), the vast majority of game “companies” lose money buying ads for their games. They’re actively pumping money into the ecosystem while the top maybe 1% actually make money.",
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"answer": "Oh I have some background here. Finally an area I can share some expertise on. \n\nGenerally speaking, every digital company is connected at this point in the advertising world. \n\nWhen you go to your local grocery store and buy some coke and use your “shoppers club” card, that is then sold to one of the thousands of companies interconnected to what is known as DMPs. These DMPs then hold a lot of this data to be resold in some sort of targeting tool. \n\nThe idea of “click through” for paid ads is old, and largely not used due to inaccuracy. They use impression methods for payouts on ads. Looking at one of these partnering networks to see if the ad was effective, then getting paid out on said ads. Effective as in you purchased the good they sold. Using one of the thousands of available IDs they use to tie you, to the marketing campaign. \n\nThe digital advertising world is a vast network of companies buying and selling data in the same method. One example of these networks is the \n\n_URL_0_\n\nSo as indicated earlier on ads, thats how some of the revenue is being generated.",
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"answer": "I worked in the mobile free to play industry. The current answers I see don't reflect what I experienced.\n\nAds are nearly worthless. Usually 1 to 2 cents per view. So if we have a user base of 5000 active users a day and they each watch 5 ads it's $250. Which is not terrible but that number is basically the maximum many dev studios would see.\n\nAnd more importantly ads give resources without training purchasing behavior which is discouraged. You will often see limits on the number of ads you can volunteer to watch for instance. This is because it's not valuable to allow you to farm currency that way. It's a supplemental income, not the main focus.\n\nWhaling would be a great term for how free to play games actually make their money.\n\n99% of a studios income will be from a very small percentage of the userbase. These people are the whales, they spend literally thousands to tens of thousands of dollars on free to play games. They do this because free to play games focus on including every single mechanic they can to encourage addictive behavior. With many strategies pulled right out of casino textbooks.\n\nIt's very important to gate time. You can't have people burning through content. So time sinks need to be made. All resources are monitored to make sure that their are good gold/gem sinks. So that players are properly on the verge of just having enough to push them to buy more.\n\nAlso it is very important to encourage purchasing as early as possible to normalize the behavior. You'll be given premium currency as part of the FTUE (first time user experience) and this will maximize the likely hood that you will be tempted to purchase more premium currency.\n\nLots of people will spend a few dollars here or there. But all of the players that spend a reasonable amount combined likely do not add up to what the biggest whale is spending.\n\nSo when trying to understand these markets, remember they are whaling industries trying to land the big one. This is why so much of what they do seems so unappealing. They don't care about you shrimp, because the whales 'love' it. (Or at least they will drop their money endlessly and that's the important bit.)",
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"answer": "Wow hey a topic I'm an expert at!\n\nWell, the basic idea is that when you show an ad for your game in another game, you're paying in CPM, or 'Cost Per Mile' which means 1000 views. \n\nOne ad can get millions of views per day or even hour if the budget is high enough.\n\nThe goal then, is to get the users to come to your game and filter through your business model--whether that be in game purchases, in game ads, subscriptions, rewarded ads, or offer walls.\n\nIf you run an action game called Ninja Attack and I have an RPG game called Ninja Hero Gaiden, chances are players of your game might want to play my game too. So I would contact an advertising company like Google, Facebook, Unity, or Ironsource to get advertising. \n\nThe key is the Business Model. Do I make my money from advertising or from in game purchases?\n\nIf it's from advertising, the goal is simple, make you play long enough to see more ads than I paid for. \n\nMore likely thought, it's to get you to come and play the game and spend money. \n\nOne user out of 100 coming and spending $1 will net me 10x what I spend. Worth it.",
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"answer": "South Park season 18 episode 6 is about Freemium gaming.\n[Click here for the episode](_URL_0_)",
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"answer": "For mobile games:\nGame companies spend most of their money on advertising and wages.\n\nThey get most of their money from in app purchases and from investors.\n\nNew mobile games spend a ton of money on advertising and get all their money from investment (can’t get IAP before releasing). So if there are 10 new mobile games all running ads for each other, you are seeing investment money being used to buy ads for games in other games.",
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"answer": "In-game monetization, at least in some cases, you'll be surprised the amount of money some people can spend in this. One friend spent over $500 to pull an specific character in FE Heroes.\n\nI've played Clash Royale, I'm not proud of doing it but I have no regrets neither because I've spent around $300 total during these 3.5 years playing it. However about 2 years ago when they released Graveyard (Or some other cards), there were reports of people cashing $20k or more for maxing out that card in Day 1, and I meant not only 1 or 2 people, but hundreds or more. This last week they released a \"special pack\" with some stuff, the stuff is kinda expensive IMO, because everything could be obtainable in the store for much cheaper or easier methods, but the lure is an exclusive \"emote/emoji\", and I've seen dozens of people using it while playing against me, so basically they paid $50 for an emoji.",
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"answer": "They advertise and then the advertisers advertise, when they run out of advertisements they have to buy more. Eventually they buy and circulate some Paddy's Dollars. The money keeps moving in a circle, thus creating a self-sustaining economy.",
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"answer": "In actual ELI5:\n\nBecause ads cost money, any mobile game that can afford to make an ad must not actually be completely free. If it were really free, they could afford the ad. So they must make money some how, and usually it's by making the app free to try and then some parts of the game actually cost money later.\n\nIf you want a game, look for ones that cost money, ask me if I'll buy it for you, and if I approve, I'll get it for you. That way you get the entire game at once and also won't see ads for other games in your new favorite game!",
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"answer": " > Is it just a closed loop of game companies paying eachother \n\nHow would this even be possible?\n\nMicro transactions is how freemium games make the most money.\n\nWhales get addicted to games and drop thousands of dollars per year on them. That's their main source of income. Its why you have obnoxious games where you pay 100 bucks for a mediocre skin on a bad mobile game.",
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"answer": "And while it's not always true, there is a portion of this old adage that applies:\n\n\"If you're not paying, YOU are the product\"\n\nAs mentioned elsewhere, these games are often largely making money off of whales - a small percent of the userbase who make large purchases at the cash shop for overwhelming advantages in-game.\n\nTo keep the Whales playing, they need a never-ending supply of sheep for them to roll over. What good is buying an invincible army if you can't gank noobs? These people don't want to fight another whale's giant army, they want to embarass a free-to-play noob and crush them completely.\n\nSo you, the free-to-play player, goes through the tutorial, maybe gets one or two matches against other free-to-play people - then boom - they throw you at a whale or two in a matchup you literally cannot win.\n\nSo take these free-to-play mobile games with a grain of salt. The more pay-to-win they are, the less you need to invest emotionally into actually winning.",
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"answer": "You greatly underestimate the amount of people literally addicted to pouring money into these games. They single-handedly keep those mobile game schemes running.",
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"answer": "Good question. All roads eventually lead back to in app purchases. You may well get an ad for a game with no IAP (just more ads) but if you follow the chain it would eventually lead to IAP (or other real revenue apps/products like an item on Amazon, a credit card, online poker, etc).",
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"answer": "To understand this, first you have to understand that these ads are managed by \"Ad Networks\". Google, Facebook, Apple, all have their own ad networks. These ad networks decide what ad to show where. And there are advertisers who just want people to know about their app/game. So, any games that show such ads have integrated one or more such networks.\n\nLet's say you're playing Subway surfer, and you see an ad for temple run, and if you install temple run using that ad, temple run guys pay some amount to the ad network because the network helped with a new install for their game. And in turn, subway surfer gets a share of the said amount.\n\nYou can actually integrate such networks in your own apps and start showing ads. If any of your app users found anything interesting for themselves in any ads your app shows, well, good for you.\n\nNow the question arises, what if no one ever clicks on any ads ever shown by your app? Well, whenever any ad is shown in an app, it's called an \"impression\". The ad networks also pay on the basis of per 1000 impressions. \nThis amount is very negligible and also depends on the region the impression was made. Also the rate of per 1000 impressions vary (like stock market). \n\nAnother way how games make money is In-app purchases. You pay real money to buy stuff in the game. It's just that simple. \n\nEven though, ad revenue seems promising at first, it's actually not. To generate a decent amount of revenue through ads would require millions of downloads and god knows how many impressions.",
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"answer": "Even if the game that you are playing does not have microtransactions the games in the ads will most likely have some pay to win scheme.",
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"answer": "Micro transactions. Extra loot boxes extra packs of cards extra weapons extra money for the in-game transactions. All of which make them a shit ton of money.",
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"answer": "They barely make any money from ads - most income is from in-game purchases available. \n\nSpotify has a similar problem. You may notice on Free Spotify most the ads are just for premium spotify. They've always had trouble making the free version profitable due to low ad income, but premium is what makes spotify its money. Free mobile games with premium options / in game purchases work the same way.",
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"answer": "Can anyone explain to me how the ad for gardenscapes, is completely different from the actual game?? I finally gave in and downloaded it because I thought man I love a good brain teaser, these look like fun puzzles and it’s all some repair game with a candy crush game??? Someone help me I’m baffled here",
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why are electoral votes all or nothing(for the most part)? why are they not divvied out representative to popular vote?
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Why is the strong force repulsive at small distances?
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"text": "This is because gravitation is an attractive force, but if there is an underdense region it apparently acts as a gravitational repeller, based on the concept that there may be less attraction in the direction of the underdensity, and the greater attraction due to the higher density in other directions acts to pull objects away from the underdensity; in other words, the apparent repulsion is not an active force, but due simply to the lack of a force counteracting the attraction.\n",
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What are your favorite historical books about great empires and/or historical figures.
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"text": "The Conrad Stargard books belong to the subgenre started by Mark Twain's classic \"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court\", in which a modern person goes back in time and anachronistically introduces various modern technical innovations and social institutions centuries sooner than happened in our history.\n",
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What did pre-Columbian indigenous nations do with the dead bodies of people who they fought? Did they just leave them on the field?
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"text": "Military confrontations between the groups were frequent, and prisoners of war were sent to ritual sacrifice, even without the habitual cannibalism in Mesoamerican ceremonies. The missionary friar Agustín de Cevallos, when he refers to the many indigenous groups in southwestern Costa Rica in 1610, states that they lived in constant war with each other, because they had to periodically sacrifice some people, \"and when they have none, without sacrificing any from their nation, attack those of another [village] and those that they capture are sacrificed; and if they have any left, they sell them to other neighbors for the same.\" The slaves would also be sacrificed for burial with chieftains or other members of the upper class.\n",
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why do we get random bouts of euphoria?
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"answer": "Well, there are a couple of reasons. Number one, when we lower our expectations for something, we are usually pleasantly surprised with the outcome. An example of this is a rainy day. On rainy days, we wake up and go, \"Looks like today is gonna be crappy.\" In thinking like this, we have already lowered our expectations for the day. Then, when you have a good interaction with someone, or something goes your way, it seems even better as you realize, \"Hey! Today ISN'T crappy!\" \n\nThe second, and more troubling answer, is something along the lines of a mental disorder like cyclothymia or bi-polar disorder, which is characterized by marked changed in mood, both lows (depression), and highs (euphoria). \n\nThe way you've posed the question, I'm more inclined to think that the answer is the prior. You've lowered your expectations so that smaller things make you happier. Hope this helps! \n\n",
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why does ssds have a specific number of reads/writes.
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Why do so many aerosol products use things like propane and butane as propellants? Why not air or nitrogen?
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In WWII, did anyone become an ace as either a pilot or gunner of a bomber?
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"text": "Norman Francis Williams, (3 November 1914 – 30 June 2007) served as an air gunner in Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) bombers in the Second World War, becoming its most highly decorated non-commissioned officer. A rear gunner in a Halifax bomber, he was credited with shooting down 8 German aircraft and damaging several others, making him the RAAF's only \"ace\" who was not a fighter pilot.\n",
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"text": "Kurt Welter (25 February 1916 – 7 March 1949) was a German \"Luftwaffe\" fighter ace and the most successful \"Jet Expert\" of World War II. A flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat. He claimed a total of 63 aerial victories—that is, 63 aerial combat encounters resulting in the destruction of the enemy aircraft—achieved in 93 combat missions. He recorded 56 victories at night, including 33 Mosquitos, and scored more aerial victories from a jet fighter aircraft than anyone else in World War II and possibly in aviation history. However this score is a matter of controversy; research of Royal Air Force losses suggests Welter overclaimed Mosquito victories considerably.\n",
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why should i bother getting married?
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"answer": "Do you live in some religious autocracy where that carries the death penalty? If not probably nothing stops you.",
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how do mesh networks maintain speed?
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why do i see product placement at big events in the form of only the name of a brand?
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What was the power relationship between USSR "spy agencies" and the Communist Party up until the fall of the Soviet Union?
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Could a large object come close enough to Earth to cause people to temporarily float without knocking the planet out of orbit?
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What was happening along the rest of the eastern front during the Battle of Berlin?
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"text": "Stalin directed the Red Army to move rapidly in a broad front into Germany because he did not believe the Western Allies would hand over territory they occupied, while he made the overriding objective capturing Berlin. After successfully capturing Eastern Prussia, three Red Army fronts converged on the heart of Eastern Germany, with one of the last pitched battles of the war putting the Soviets at the virtual gates of Berlin. By April 24, Berlin was encircled by elements of two Soviet fronts, one of which had begun a massive shelling of the city on April 20 that would not end until the city's surrender. On 30 April, Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide, after which Soviet forces found their remains, which had been burned at Hitler's directive. German forces surrendered a few days later. Some historians argue that Stalin delayed the last final push for Berlin by two months in order to capture other areas for political reasons, which they argue gave the Wehrmacht time to prepare and increased Soviet casualties (which exceeded 400,000), though this is contested by other historians.\n",
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can someone explain to me what a tax bracket is?
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"answer": "When declaring your income while doing your taxes, a \"Tax Bracket\" helps the government know which % of tax you owe based off of said income.",
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"answer": "The government taxes your income based on a percentage of how much you make. If you make more money, the government takes a larger percentage of your pay. How does it know how much to take? It groups people into 'tax brackets' based on how much you earn. For example, if you make, say, between 10,000 and 30,000, government takes 20%. If you make 30001-50000, government takes 25% etc. etc.\n\nI hope this answers your question, and sorry if i'm completely off. I\"m not IRS agent.",
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"answer": "As you have higher income, you pay more and more \"marginal income\" in taxes. Your bracket is the highest marginal rate.\n\nSo one person might bay 0% on the first 10k and 10% on the , for a total of $1000 in taxes out of 20k in income. \n\nSomeone making 30k is in a higher bracket, so they might pay 20% of the next 10k they make, which means they'll pay $3000 in taxes on a 30k income. does that help?",
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"answer": "A tax bracket says the percentage of your income that is taken as income tax when you're earning a given amount.\n\nSo, for example, it might be (taken from the Australian tax scheme):\n\n* 0 - $6,000: Nil\n* $6,001 - $37,000: 15c for each $1 over $6,000\n* $37,001 - $80,000: $4,650 plus 30c for each $1 over $37,000\n* $80,001 - $180,000: $17,550 plus 37c for each $1 over $80,000\n* $180,001 and over: $54,550 plus 45c for each $1 over $180,000\n\nOne thing to note here is that each bracket gets applied in turn. If you look at the $80,001 - $180,000 bracket, you'll notice that it says \"$17,550 plus 37c for each $1 over $80,000\". This is because $17,550 is what you would have owed from the previous tax brackets if you earned $80,000. Generally speaking, you are said to be 'in' your highest tax bracket, as that informs how much of every extra dollar you earn will be taken in tax.\n\nAs an example to see how much tax you'd pay in this, assume that you earn $70,000.\nFrom the previous brackets, you'd pay $4650. Then from the current bracket, you'd pay (70,000 - 37,000) * 0.3 = $9900. So your total income tax on $70,000 would be $4650+$9900=$14,550.",
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"answer": "There are four categories of tax brackets in the United States: Single, Married filing jointly, Married filing separately (same bracket as single for each spouse), and head of household. Married filing jointly provides the best tax bracket, and each category will have different dollar amounts for the tax brackets.\n\nI'll provide the single tax bracket:\n\n* 10% - $0-8,500\n* 15% - 8,501- 34,500\n* 25% - 34,501 - 83,600\n* 28% - 83,601 - 174,400\n* 33% - 174,401 - 379,150\n* 35% - $379,150+\n\nFor example. If you make $50,000 per year, the first $8,500 is taxed at 10%; all income between $8,501 - 34,500 is taxed at 15%; all income between $34,501 - $50,000 will then be taxed at 25%. \n\nSo if you calculate that, your tax bill (ignoring credits and deductions) will be $8,625.\n\nEdit: four categories, not three",
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"answer": "So let's say your taxable income was $100,000. The first $8,735 of that income will be taxed at a rate of 10%. Your income from $8,376 to $34,000 will be taxed at a rate of 15%. This goes on until you reach the highest tax bracket that your income reaches. The system is set up this way so that someone just barely slipping into a higher tax rate doesn't suddenly pay much higher taxes.",
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"text": "Tax brackets are the divisions at which tax rates change in a progressive tax system (or an explicitly regressive tax system, although this is much rarer). Essentially, they are the cutoff values for taxable income—income past a certain point will be taxed at a higher rate.\n",
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"text": "The personal income bracket tax (\"trinnskatt\") is, as the employee's and self-employed's social security contributions, levied on \"personal income\". In 2018, is levied in four different income brackets:\n",
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"text": "Tax ladder is a term sometimes used to refer to the formula for calculating a taxpayer's tax liability in a given year for United States federal personal income tax purposes. The term \"ladder\" is used because as your taxable income increases, you \"climb\" the ladder and your tax rate increases.\n",
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"text": "Percentage rent, or a percentage lease, is a type of lease seen in commercial real estate. It is a rental charge based on the gross income of the tenant rather than a fixed monthly or annual value. In most examples, the percent rent only applies after a certain amount of base rent has been paid. The amount where the percentage rent begins to apply is known as the breakpoint. Some leases may be purely percent based and have no base component, but such cases are not common. Percent rent is normally considered an additional rent term.\n",
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"text": "There is a progressive tax on wages, social security benefits and pensions. Thus there are tax brackets, each with its own tax rate. Mathematically, apart from discretization (whole euros both for income and for tax), the tax is a continuous, convex, piecewise linear function of income.\n",
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"text": "In a proportional tax, the tax rate is fixed and the average tax rate equals this tax rate. In case of tax brackets, commonly used for progressive taxes, the average tax rate increases as taxable income increases through tax brackets, asymptoting to the top tax rate. For example, consider a system with three tax brackets, 10%, 20%, and 30%, where the 10% rate applies to income from $1 to $10,000, the 20% rate applies to income from $10,001 to $20,000, and the 30% rate applies to all income above $20,000. Under this system, someone earning $25,000 would pay $1,000 for the first $10,000 of income (10%); $2,000 for the second $10,000 of income (20%); and $1,500 for the last $5,000 of income (30%). In total, they would pay $4,500, or an 18% average tax rate.\n",
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Why is there so little known about seizures?
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"text": "It has been reported that repeated seizure stimulation can result in spontaneous seizures, but studies have had conflicting findings on this question. In humans, some seizure disorders come to an end by themselves even after large numbers of seizures. However, in both human epilepsy and in some animal models, evidence suggests that a process like that found in kindling does occur.\n",
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"text": "There are many causes of seizures. The factors that lead to a seizure are often complex and it may not be possible to determine what causes a particular seizure, what causes it to happen at a particular time, or how often seizures occur.\n",
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"text": "There is evidence that epileptic seizures are usually not a random event. Seizures are often brought on by factors such as stress, alcohol abuse, flickering light, or a lack of sleep, among others. The term seizure threshold is used to indicate the amount of stimulus necessary to bring about a seizure. Seizure threshold is lowered in epilepsy.\n",
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"text": "Concerns that video games can trigger epileptic seizures began in the early 1980s, with the first medically documented case of a video game-induced seizure occurring in 1981. In early 1993 \"The Sun\" reported a boy choked to death on his own vomit during a seizure triggered by playing a video game; similar though less serious incidents were subsequently reported by news media around the world, and within a year all video game console manufacturers required that epilepsy warnings be included in the instruction manuals for all games published for their consoles.\n",
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how does billing work for toll roads?
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"answer": "Will be helpful to list the specific system you are talking about \n\nIn many cases in the US, tolls may be assessed on certain entry/exit points and certain points along the road.",
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"answer": "In Massachusetts we have gantry open road tolling now, every gantry charges you a set rate per axle on the vehicle. If you don’t have a transponder “ez-pass” they snap a photo of your plate and send you a bill in the mail I believe with an added surcharge for not having the ex-pass. The bill will have the break down of every gantry you went under and what time etc.",
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"text": "The toll can be paid by different means. Firstly, a particular route can be pre-booked over the Internet. Secondly, the toll can be paid at terminals (often found in fuel stations). Thirdly, the preferred method is the fully automated billing using On-Board-Units (OBUs) deployed in the trucks, receiving GPS signals. When the truck is started, the OBU localises the vehicle by satellite navigation. Based on the position and the road data stored in the OBU, the device can determine independently the toll regulations for the particular route. The data collected in this manner are transferred to the data center by (land-based) mobile data communication, and processed for billing. Thus the terminology of the system being \"satellite based\" relates to the positioning only, not to subsequent communication.\n",
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"text": "With a few exceptions, tolls on national expressways are based on distance travelled. When entering the expressway, one collects a ticket, which can be inserted along with the fare into a machine or handed to an attendant upon exiting the expressway. There is also an Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) card system installed in many cars which automatically pays at the toll gate. As of 2001 toll fees consist of a 150 yen terminal charge plus a fee which depends on the distance travelled. The rate of this fee depends on the type of vehicle as shown in the following table.\n",
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"text": "The Ontario Highway 407 Express Toll Road (ETR), opened in Toronto in 1997 to ease the burden of traffic on Highway 401 which passes through the heart of the city to the south. Special technology is used to collect tolls without the use to toll booths. Regular users can equip their cars with a transponder that sends a signal to highway sensors when the vehicle enters and leaves the road. For those vehicles without a transponder, special electro-optical sensors read the number plate and a bill for the toll is sent to the vehicle owner in the mail.\n",
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You're in a medieval European city and you need to find yourself a place to call home. Who do you talk to? A medieval realtor?
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"text": "In Medieval days a destination for such days out would be religious (to a nearby shrine) or commercial, for example to a seasonal fair. Later, in England, visits to stately homes by those who regarded themselves middle class became frequent and it was the tradition to reward the butler or housekeeper with a tip for providing access to their employers' home. As such homes were meant for show it is unlikely that the owning family would object, provided they were not in residence at the time.\n",
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"text": "The old town (Barribalto) is the stage for a return to the past where herrereños participate, either by incorporating their business, their welcoming spirit or their desire to have fun during one of the weekends in the October Herrera Medieval Market. Around the Parish of Santiago El Mayor and its square, a large number of taverns, inns and populate craft stalls with their products, the streets allowing visitors to move a few centuries back in time. Among the activities that have been conducted over the years and can be found in the Medieval Market include exhibitions of handicrafts made by local artisans, the parades, the tasting concoctions, crafts workshops, displays of fireworks, juggling, theater and belly dancing as well as activities for children, such as storytelling and face painting.\n",
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why does it hardly rain in southern california, despite being adjacent to the pacific ocean?
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"text": "The large Westerly winds from the oceans also bring moisture, and the northern parts of the state generally receive higher annual rainfall amounts than the south. California's mountain ranges influence the climate as well: moisture-laden air from the west cools as it ascends the mountains, dropping moisture; some of the rainiest parts of the state are west-facing mountain slopes. Northwestern California has a temperate climate with rainfall of to per year. Some areas of Coast Redwood forest receive over of precipitation per year.\n",
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"text": "Despite its long coastline, California is not vulnerable to tropical cyclones. Because of the cold California Current from the North Pacific Ocean and the fact that the storms tend to \"steer\" west, California has only been hit with two tropical storms in recorded history, a storm which came ashore in 1939 and dumped heavy rainfall on the Los Angeles Area and interior deserts and Tropical Storm Nora. The remnants of tropical systems will affect California more commonly, every several years.\n",
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"text": "There are two reasons why tropical cyclones rarely strike California at tropical storm intensity or higher: sea surface temperatures, and the usual upper level steering winds in the eastern Pacific, with sea surface temperatures being more important.\n",
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"text": "Northern parts of the state have more rain than the south. California's mountain ranges also influence the climate: some of the rainiest parts of the state are west-facing mountain slopes. Northwestern California has a temperate climate, and the Central Valley has a Mediterranean climate but with greater temperature extremes than the coast. The high mountains, including the Sierra Nevada, have an alpine climate with snow in winter and mild to moderate heat in summer.\n",
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Mom says you will catch a cold if you go out in the cold weather or rain without a coat. Do these actually contribute to getting you sick? And how?
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"answer": "No, the temperature outside will not cause a viral illness (catching a \"cold\").",
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"text": "In addition to providing warmth for residents, cold weather rules help prevent damage to homes. Wintertime temperatures can freeze Water pipes, potentially causing bursts in the lines as the water inside expands as it turns into ice. Cleaning up after this can lay heavy burdens upon people who are already of limited financial means.\n",
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"text": "Grif and Simmons present various tips to combat the cold and flu, though they have little expert knowledge of the subject. To supplement this, Doc appears to offer his own advice, though it becomes obvious that he considers many of the side effects of 's possession of him to be common ailments that are met with the cold and flu, along with a series of listed effects. It is revealed that Caboose has been suffering from avian influenza, from which he believes he can fly, and falls off a rock trying to demonstrate his ability. Finally, Donut advises to stay warm and avoid computer viruses. As Grif pretends to be sick himself, Sarge prepares his own unorthodox treatments.\n",
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"text": "BULLET::::- Those sick with flu-like illness are recommended to stay home for at least 24 hours after their fever is gone, except to get medical care or for other necessities. (The fever should be gone without the use of a fever-reducing medicine.) The sickened are advised to keep away from others as much as possible to avoid making others sick.\n",
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Instead of a space elevator, how (un) feasible would a railgun /coilgun be to shoot things into orbit?
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"answer": "Would it be feasible on the Moon? There wouldn't be any atmosphere problems and the Moon's gravity is a lot weaker than Earth's (in other words, can Heinlein beat Clarke?)",
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Hypothetically, if someone with a cold ate ice cream out of a tub of ice cream and then the rest of that ice cream tub was put back into the freezer, would all the cold germs "freeze to death" making it safe for someone else to eat that ice cream?
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"text": "In 2006, some commercial ice cream makers began to use liquid nitrogen in the primary freezing of ice cream, thus eliminating the need for a conventional ice cream freezer. The preparation results in a column of white condensed water vapour cloud. The ice cream, dangerous to eat while still \"steaming\" with liquid nitrogen, is allowed to rest until the liquid nitrogen is completely vapourised. Sometimes ice cream is frozen to the sides of the container, and must be allowed to thaw. Good results can also be achieved with the more readily available dry ice, and authors such as Heston Blumenthal have published recipes to produce ice cream and sorbet using a simple blender.\n",
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how does an iud work?
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When I take medicine that supresses symptoms, do I prolong the sickness?
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"answer": "Not necessarily, in some cases when the symptom is damaging, like running a dangerously high fever in an attempt to kill off the sickness, you can do more damage to yourself. So taking some tylenol and knocking out your fever is actually more beneficial to your recovery process. ",
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"answer": "I actually have always wondered about a variation of this question, maybe the answer's obvious, but any insight would be appreciated: one of the things that I wonder is whether treating the symptoms can prolong the illness not because of any intrinsic reason, but because people then get up and go about their day as if nothing was wrong, when in fact they should be getting rest. Any research on that?\n",
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"answer": "For some contexts such as bacterial enteritis (e.g. Drinking contaminated water and having a diarrhea afterwards), the use of antidiarrheic drugs (like loperamide or imodium) might prevent the \"ejection\" of the pathogen load that's inside the gut. Same principle for upper respiratory tract infections and the use of antitussive drugs (cough suppressants) like dextrometorphan. So in some cases, yes it could prolong the \"disease\" (and the accompanying symptoms) ",
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"answer": "There's a phenomenon known as the [rebound effect](_URL_0_) which causes symptoms to return after a medication is discontinued, often with greater severity than pre-treatment. There are many examples of this.",
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"answer": "Masking back pain with pain meds and muscle relaxers can be dangerous. Not only are there other safe options, but these pills are highly addictive and toxic to your body when taken for a while. Not to mention you trash your back even more when on them and they turn you into a zombie. Masking any pain with pain killers might be a quick temporary fix of the pain symptom, but its kinda like cutting the wire to the \"check oil\" light in your car to fix the problem instead of just getting your oil changed.",
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if what we see and hear has happened in the past does that mean that time outside our sphere of awareness is moving faster?
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"answer": "It means that you're on an 80 millisecond delay. The rate at which time goes by is the same, you just don't notice it until 80 milliseconds after it happens.\n\nFor an analogy, they often use something called a 7-second delay on live TV and radio so that they can bleep swears and stuff. The host says something, and then it gets broadcasted seven seconds later.\n\nThe host is still talking in real time, though. A second to him is a second to you. You just don't hear it until seven seconds after he talks.",
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Is there any evidence to suggest that the Coliseum was flooded for sport?
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Were there ever any battles that involved artillery units targeting each other?
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"text": "The firefight included large-scale troop movements and the simulated destruction of major bridges – coal dust and dynamite were used to create explosions. Nine troop formations held three positions each during the tightly scripted invasion sequence; they were directed via telephone (one line per formation) and flash-lamp signals from the headquarters established at the Chamber of Commerce building. The defensive pattern employed was similar to that used during the First World War in Paris to conduct soldiers to the front. Light tanks were stationed at road and rail junctions as fighting intensified. Thirty anti-aircraft vehicles fired blanks at fighter planes overhead, assisted by anti-aircraft gunners on buildings downtown. The first mock casualty was reported at 8:00 am. Dressing stations were set up at strategic points to treat the mock casualties; they also treated the two real casualties of the event – a soldier who sprained his ankle, and a woman who cut her thumb preparing toast during the early-morning blackout.\n",
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"text": "Only one U.S. soldier was wounded by enemy fire during the battle. In the confusion, however, three U.S. M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles of C Company, 3rd Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment were accidentally hit with 5 depleted uranium rounds fired by the tanks of Charlie Company, 3rd Battalion, 69th Armor Regiment. At the time, the Task Force was under indirect fire and were \"buttoned up.\" The engagement took place using their thermal sights and the Bradleys of C Company were misidentified as retreating Iraqi vehicles. They fired between 15 and 25 rounds at what they identified as T-72 Iraqi tanks. This friendly fire incident resulted in the 10 additional American casualties: two deaths and eight injuries.\n",
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why does adobe publish so much software for free?
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"answer": "They dont. Most of Adobe's software is at least a couple hundred bucks. What software (other than reader) are you referring to?",
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"answer": "The viewer software is free because you want anyone to be able to view the content. It is the content creation software that is so expensive. Yeah, there are millions of people using Adobe Acrobat Reader, Shockwave viewer and Flash Viewer, but to create Shockwave and Flash content you generally have to use the Adobe tools. PDF files though can be created with other free software, but the full version of Adobe Acrobat is for pay.",
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"text": "Adobe produces a suite of publishing software. SoftMan sells various software through its website, including individual copies of Adobe software that was originally part of a bundle. Adobe claims such sales are unauthorized and SoftMan is infringing both Adobe's copyright and violating terms of service that is embedded in each Adobe Software. The users need to agree to these EULA to install the software. In addition, Adobe claims that SoftMan is distributing Adobe software that is not genuine, because unbundled software does not give the customers access to Adobe's support services. Based on the aforementioned claims, Adobe applied for a preliminary injunction.\n",
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"text": "Judge Pregerson ruled that Adobe has sold its software instead of licensed the software. Thus under the first-sale doctrine, Adobe can not control how SoftMan resells those particular copies of Adobe software after the initial sale. The Court also found that SoftMan had not infringed on the EULA because SoftMan had never run the program and therefore never assented to the terms. In addition, the Court found that factual disputes exist on whether the separately sold copies are materially different from the original copies, which is central to Adobe's trademark claim. Since Adobe was unable to demonstrate a likelihood of success on both copyright and trademark claims, the Court denied Adobe's application for a preliminary injunction against SoftMan.\n",
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"text": "Adobe retains copyright on Atmosphere and does not give permission for others to distribute copies of the software, so the company's decision to stop making the Builder available for purchase has essentially halted the creation of new worlds. The plugin remains available as a free download on Adobe's FTP site, however. Adobe still provides 3D capabilities in its more popular Adobe Acrobat product, but these features were developed using technology from New Zealand's Right Hemisphere, rather than using Atmosphere. Nearly all of the Atmosphere development team went on to work with the Acrobat team. The only Atmosphere component still in use at Adobe is the scripting API; other Atmosphere components including scene graphs and the physics engine were licensed from other companies, such as Viewpoint.\n",
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if the europe-central map projection used in most places is inaccurate, why isn't a more accurate created and used instead?
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"text": "Modern national mapping systems typically employ a transverse Mercator or close variant for large-scale maps in order to preserve conformality and low variation in scale over small areas. For smaller-scale maps, such as those spanning continents or the entire world, many projections are in common use according to their fitness for the purpose, such as Winkel tripel, Robinson and Mollweide. Reference maps of the world often appear on compromise projections. Due to distortions inherent in any map of the world, the choice of projection becomes largely one of aesthetics.\n",
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"text": "Some maps, called cartograms, have the scale deliberately distorted to reflect information other than land area or distance. For example, this map (at the right) of Europe has been distorted to show population distribution, while the rough shape of the continent is still discernible.\n",
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"text": "The conveyance of proper scale was the foremost challenge in preparing the maps. Kaufmann noted that most modern readers are acclimated to online maps like Google Maps that allow users to easily zoom in and out, which is impossible to achieve with paint on paper. In order to present an \"easily digested, unified vision\" with a homogenous sense of scale, Kaufmann used a simplified legend across all of the maps. For convenience and uniformity, the legend's symbols flatten the differences between certain features. For example, the same icon is used to describe both a campground on one map and the much larger Fort Irwin National Training Center—with a total area of about –on a second, larger map.\n",
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what is the tech bubble burst that everyone keeps talking about will happen soon?
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What was the original motivation, intent, and context of the 14th amendment to the US Constitution, specifically in regards to the public debt?
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Such a debt can never be assumed or paid by the loyal people of the United States, and if suffered to remain in *quasi* existence it can only be left in that condition as a subject of political squabbling and party wrangling.\n\n > The assumption of the rebel debt would be the last and final signal for the destruction of the nation known as the United States of America. Whatever party may succeed in so wicked a scheme, by whatever name it may be called and under whatever false guises or pretenses it may operate, if it succeed in assuming this indebtedness, puts an end first to the credit of the Government, and then, as an unavoidable consequence, to the Government itself. I do not propose to spend time upon this branch of the subject. I simply refer to it as a necessity of such magnitude as in my judgment to demand our action and the action of the States of the Union without delay. It is necessary to act, to extinguish this debt, to put it beyond the pale of party controversy, to put it out of sight, and to bury it so deep that it can never again be raised to life in such manner as to become a theme of party discussion. The amount of that debt is probably not less than five billion dollars. We do not know its exact amount, and I am not sure that it is possible ever to ascertain it; but if there should ever be a fair prospect of its assumption by the United States or by the States it is perfectly certain that the evidences of it would multiply thicker than the leaves in Vallombrosa. Those evidences are a great curiosity in the history of commercial affairs.\n\n[Cong. Globe, Sen., 39th Cong. 1st Sess. 2768 (1866)](_URL_1_)\n\nAnd here is what the Supreme Court had to say about Amend. XIV, Sec. 4 in the Gold Clause Cases:\n\n > While this provision was undoubtedly inspired by the desire to put beyond question the obligations of the Government issued during the Civil War, its language indicates a broader connotation. We regard it as confirmatory of a fundamental principle, which applies as well to the government bonds in question, and to others duly authorized by the Congress, as to those issued before the Amendment was adopted.\n\n[*Perry v. United States*, 294 U.S. 330, 354 (1935)](_URL_0_).\n\nIndeed, the divided Court in that case appears to be unanimous in holding that the Fourteenth Amendment's injunction on questioning \"[t]he validity of the public debt\" is merely declaratory or confirmatory of a principle already part of the U.S. Constitution prior to the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment. And the Justices have the right of it.\n\nSection 4 is a great example of a literary technique the Constitution often employs, which I like to jokingly refer to as \"the passive-aggressive tense.\" The device operates when there are two interacting legal principles, one of which is uncontroversial, and the other of which is either a contested principle and/or a proposed innovation. Instead of stating the *innovation*, the Constitution will reiterate the *uncontested* principle, applied in such a way that it necessarily implies the innovation, while unstated, is now a part of the law.\n\nFor instance, the Eleventh Amendment, says that the sections of the Constitution setting out the subject-matter jurisdiction of the judiciary \"shall not be construed to\" abrogate a State's sovereign immunity. The thing is, everyone already knew that giving jurisdiction over a party doesn't necessarily abrogate immunity; the real debate was whether the States had immunity in the first place. By stating the point about jurisdiction not abrogating immunity, the amendment implies that immunity exists, but it doesn't actually state the principle which grants it.\n\nSimilarly, the Fifteenth Amendment states that the \"right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged ... on account of race....\" Well, the thing is, the Constitution already prohibited discrimination based on race when it came to rights of the citizen. The contested question was whether voting was even a right of the citizen in the first place, such that a racially-restrictive voting law denied someone the right based on race. By stating the point about discrimination, the amendment implies that voting *is* a right, and that denying it based on race *is* racial discrimination against that right. But, again, it doesn't actually state the operative principle, leaving us to sort out if there any other implications of the principle implicitly being affirmed.\n\nSection 4 of the Fourteenth Amendment is doing a similar thing. The uncontroversial principle at the time was that the grant of power to Congress \"[t]o borrow Money on the credit of the United States,\" Art. 1, Sec. 8, cl. 2, implied that money properly borrowed became an obligation that continued until repaid, and that the obligation could not be cancelled by a subsequent law. (Note that actually *paying* the debt is another matter, which I will explain below.) The controversial matter was how this should apply to the Confederacy:\n\nIf the Confederacy were thought of as an independent nation which had been defeated and annexed by the U.S., then the U.S. was the successor state to the Confederacy under international law, and therefore ought to assume its debts. Likewise if the State governments of the Confederacy were legitimate, then the Reconstruction governments were their successors and still owed their debts. But if the Confederacy was thought of as invalid from the start, then there was never a legitimate government there, and the U.S. was not in any sense a successor to the Confederacy or its debts.\n\nThis latter interpretation is the one that the Reconstruction-era government consistently takes. And it is this interpretation that Section 4 aims to enforce in the context of sovereign debt. The amendment does not say that \"the public debt ... shall not be questioned\" because that principle needs stating. It says that the debt shall not be questioned because the correct *application* of that principle needs stating. The amendment gives an authoritative gloss to the principle by asserting that it does not mean that the U.S. has (or even could have) an obligation to pay the Confederate debts.\n\nNow, I should add as an afterthought that affirming the validity of debt is different from actually paying it. An analogy to the States illustrates the difference:\n\nThe Constitution also provides that the States cannot invalidate contracts by power of law. (\"No State shall ... pass... [a] Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts....\" Art, 1, Sec. 10). And this extends to a prohibition on invalidating its debts. Nevertheless, States have permanently defaulted on debts on numerous occasions. The States do this not by questioning the validity of the debt, but by acknowledging the wrong and providing no remedy for it. The States simply deny anyone access to their courts to collect on the debt, and rely on their immunity from suit in federal courts. That leaves only the very rare case where it is possible to sue a State in *another* State's court, and to then seize assets of the first state found within the second state.\n\nCurrently the U.S. government grants its permission to be sued on its debts (waiving its sovereign immunity), but conceivably it too could withdraw this permission to be sued on its debts, never questioning the *validity* of its debts while still failing to actually *pay* them. The proposition has never been tested in court, and is the subject of current (if infrequent) debate.",
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why do we pronounce the "w" in words like "swore," but not in "sword?"
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"answer": "Not sure about those two words specifically, but common English words come from many different langauges, often using the same letters. If the words of origin are vastly different (like not just different words but from different langauges) it is not surprising the pronunciations would be different.",
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"answer": "I'm no expert, but linguistics is always something that has been a major interest for me. First of all, English is a weird language. It has tons of strange rules that complicate the language significantly. I think that in this case, it depends on the etymology of the words, or what language the words came from. Some languages pronounce letters in different ways, and when the words pass into English, they tend to somewhat retain the same pronunciations as they had in their previous language. For example, the word \"swear\" has kept its pronunciation [as it transferred from Proto-Germanic to Old English to English](_URL_2_). \"Sword\" is a bit more difficult. Looking at the [etymology](_URL_0_) it appears that it retained it's hard \"sw\" sound even in Old English, but in recent times has lost that hard \"w\" sound. I cant explain that. Take the word \"wreck\" however. Looking at the [etymology](_URL_1_) one can see that it gained the silent \"w\" when it passed from the Swedish \"vrak\" (pronounced we-rek (although its really one syllable, but I'm emphasizing that the \"v\" is pronounced like a \"w\")) to Anglo Norman \"wrec\". During that time period, the sound that the \"w\" made probably became less pronounced as it is a difficult sound to produce being next to the \"r\". over time, the sound was completely phased out of the word and is now pronounced as we know it: \"rek\". \n\n\n**TLDR: It depends on which language the words come from.**\n\nHopefully this helped, If you have any further questions, Ill do the best I can to try to answer them.\n",
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"answer": "We used to. \n\nThe K in Knight, for example. Kuh-nicht. Similar to German Knecht.",
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how can you get pregnant when not taking the pill every day at the same time/missing a day or when leaving the hormonal ring out for more than 3 hours? doesn't hormonal bc have a longer-term effect on women's bodies?
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why is it we find walking outside in 90 degree heat unbearable, yet sitting in a 90 degree sauna is so relaxing?
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Why isn't Juneteenth a national holiday in the United States?
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the expulsions of the germans in european countries during and after ww2.
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"text": "Germans fled, were evacuated, or were expelled as a result of actions of Nazi Germany, the Red Army, civilian militias, and/or the organized efforts of governments of the reconstituted states of Eastern Europe. Between 1944 and 1950, at least 12 million had fled or had been expelled and resettled to post-war Germany, almost all (11.5 million) from the territories of post-war Poland and Czechoslovakia. About three million persons of German ancestry remained in the expulsion areas, but gradually emigrated westward in the Cold War era or have been assimilated into the local populations. The areas from which the Germans fled or were expelled were subsequently repopulated by nationals of the states to which that territory now belonged, many of whom were Poles who fled or were expelled from the former Polish territories in the USSR. 148 000 of Polish citizens declared German nationality in 2011.\n",
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"text": "After WWII ended, about 11-12 million Germans were forced to flee from or were expelled from several countries throughout Eastern and Central Europe including Russia, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary Yugoslavia and the prewar territory of Poland. A large number of them were also displaced when Germany's former eastern provinces were given to Poland as part of the Potsdam Agreement, regardless of those annexed lands being ethnically, politically, and culturally German for nearly a thousand years. The majority of these expelled and displaced Germans ended up in what remained of Germany, with some being sent to West Germany and others being sent to East Germany.\n",
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"text": "Ingo Haar believes that civilian losses in the expulsion of the Germans from eastern Europe have been overstated in Germany for decades for political reasons. Haar argues that Cold War political pressure influenced the findings of the Schieder commission and the 1958 West German government demographic study that estimated 2 million expulsion deaths . Haar maintains that the actual number of deaths directly related to the expulsions is between 500-600,000 persons based on the findings of the German church search service and the report of the German government archives. Dr. Haar maintains that the figure of 2 million expulsion deaths includes \"a fall in the German birth rate, persons assimilated into the local population, military dead, murdered Jews and missing persons\" Haar has criticized the Federation of Expellees for inflating the numbers of German victims of the expulsion of Germans after World War II,; the former expellees' president Erika Steinbach in her reply accused Haar of reducing the number of victims.\n",
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"text": "In contrast to expulsions from other nations or states, the expulsion of the Germans from Hungary was dictated from outside Hungary. It began on 22 December 1944 when the Soviet Commander-in-Chief ordered the expulsions. Three percent of the German pre-war population (about 20,000 people) had been evacuated by the Volksbund before that. They went to Austria, but many had returned. Overall, 60,000 ethnic Germans had fled.\n",
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Why wasn't Augustus one of the "5 good Roman emperors"?
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How does the fact that heat moves from warmer objects to cooler objects relate to IR emitted from greenhouse gases?
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"answer": "So, the surface of the earth radiates long-wavelength, infrared heat upwards, from the surface.\n\nEach layer of atmosphere with greenhouses gases absorbs some of the heat being radiated upwards **from lower layers**. It re-radiates in all directions, both upwards and downwards, **equally**\n\nThe lower layers are absorbing more heat, from the earth and also from the heat being radiated downwards from the upper layers. The lower the layer, the warmer it is.\n\nHope this answers your query.",
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"text": "When greenhouse gas molecules absorb thermal infrared energy, their temperature rises. Those gases then radiate an increased amount of thermal infrared energy in all directions. Heat radiated upward continues to encounter greenhouse gas molecules; those molecules also absorb the heat, and their temperature rises and the amount of heat they radiate increases. The atmosphere thins with altitude, and at roughly 5–6 kilometres, the concentration of greenhouse gases in the overlying atmosphere is so thin that heat can escape to space.\n",
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"text": "Glass coated with a low-emissivity substance can reflect radiant infrared energy, encouraging radiant heat to remain on the same side of the glass from which it originated, while letting visible light pass. This often results in more efficient windows because radiant heat originating from indoors in winter is reflected back inside, while infrared heat radiation from the sun during summer is reflected away, keeping it cooler inside.\n",
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"text": "In all cases, the air has to be cooler than the object or surface from which it is expected to remove heat. This is due to the second law of thermodynamics, which states that heat will only move spontaneously from a hot reservoir (the heat sink) to a cold reservoir (the air).\n",
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"text": "The basic mechanism can be qualified in a number of ways, none of which affect the fundamental process. The atmosphere near the surface is largely opaque to thermal radiation (with important exceptions for \"window\" bands), and most heat loss from the surface is by sensible heat and latent heat transport. Radiative energy losses become increasingly important higher in the atmosphere, largely because of the decreasing concentration of water vapor, an important greenhouse gas. It is more realistic to think of the greenhouse effect as applying to a layer in the mid-troposphere, which is effectively coupled to the surface by a lapse rate. The simple picture also assumes a steady state, but in the real world, the diurnal cycle as well as the seasonal cycle and weather disturbances complicate matters. Solar heating applies only during daytime. During the night, the atmosphere cools somewhat, but not greatly, because its emissivity is low. Diurnal temperature changes decrease with height in the atmosphere.\n",
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How did Plato's name become root word for non-sexual friendship? Platonic.
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how do the "double irish" and "double irish w/ dutch sandwich" tax avoidance techniques work?
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how do they get water up large skyscrapers
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"answer": "with pumps! the pressure that is supplied by the water main available in most cities is usually only adequate to get water up around 6-8 stories. any building higher than that needs to supplement the water pressure in its system with pumps. ",
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how did media control symbols become standard (play, pause, fast forward, etc.)? do other parts of the world use different symbols?
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"answer": "The media control symbols for play, fast forward and pause originate from tape players. \nThe play button pointed to where the direction the tape would go, pressing it would move the tape. \nThere used to be a button that was a triangle pointing the opposite direction that would cause the device to play backwards. \nThe fast forward button is just the play button repeated, meaning the tape would move faster than play. \nSince there was a backwards play button, it was repeated for fast rewind. \n(Also note the term \"rewind\" refers again to tapes being wound up again.) \nThe pause button just looked like the tape head (thing that read the tape) and would mean the tape head would do nothing. \n\nThe square stop symbol actually comes from musical notation, and means [\"large rest\"](_URL_0_)",
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"answer": "This statement is a basic tenet of anarchism, that everything belongs to everybody, or rather, belongs to no one, so that all are equal. No government or individual can own the land in which they reside, and therefore no government can exist. If that seems strange to you, you're probably not an anarchist.",
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why has the global temperature spiked so dramatically in the last 10-20 years even though that's the timespan we've become aware of global warming and started trying to combat it?
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"answer": "Guess what happened before 20 years ago? Rampant pollution while being oblivious. \"Just exhaust it, planet Earth will pick up the slack and balance out\" was the mentality back then.",
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"answer": "Because awareness doesn't imply doing something about it, the efforts to combat it are tiny, oil was cheap, and the alternative tech wasn't there.\n",
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"answer": "Combat it? Hell, we can't agree it's real. We're putting more co2 into the air every year, didn't notice til the shit hit the fan. Way too late now. \nWe're xxxxscreweded! (Edit4eli5)",
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"text": "The anomalously high global temperature in 1998 due to El Niño resulted in a brief drop in subsequent years. However, a 2001 Hansen report in the journal \"Science\" states that global warming continues, and that the increasing temperatures should stimulate discussions on how to slow global warming. The temperature data was updated in 2006 to report that temperatures are now warmer than a century ago, and concluded that the recent global warming is a real climate change and not an artifact from the urban heat island effect. The regional variation of warming, with more warming in the higher latitudes, is further evidence of warming that is anthropogenic in origin.\n",
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h6fal
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How do trees grow in such a way as to not fall over?
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"answer": "I think it has more to do with the roots than with the branches. If trees had to balance their branches in order to stay upright, they would get blown over all the time.",
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"answer": "Clearly you've never tried to dig up a tree before.\n\nThe answer is the roots. They grab onto the ground and they never let go. ",
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How did the idea of the atom advance beyond a theory? (other questions inside)
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"answer": "Let's be clear, your question is really, \"How did atomic theory advance beyond a hypothesis?\"",
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"answer": "Theory isn't a pejorative in science.",
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"answer": "Atomic theory came from chemistry, from the realization that there must be little indivisible bits of each element. (Actually atomic theory is often said to go back to antiquity and the Greeks, but that's a bit misleading, because until the 19th century it all amounted to little more than \"I bet stuff has bits in.\")\n\nSo the chemists did their thing for about a hundred years, and came to the conclusion that you can't ever have less than *this much* of any element, and in fact all stuff is made of integer multiples of these little indivisible bits.\n\n*Subatomic* theory didn't come until about a hundred years later, with the discovery of the electron.\n\nI'm not sure where you got the idea that different elements can have the same number of protons. That's the *opposite* of the truth. Elements are *distinguished* by the number of protons in their atoms. That's why the periodic table of the elements has one entry for each number of protons, starting at one — hydrogen — and counting up to 118 or whatever we're up to now.\n\nThe number of *neutrons* in an atom, for a given number of protons, distinguishes *isotopes.* Some isotopes are stable, and others are unstable and will decay into more and more stable forms over time. This is the source of radioactivity.\n\nThe number of *electrons* in an atom can change essentially any time, through a process called ionization. Chemistry is concerned almost entirely with the way the electrons in different atoms interact.\n\nAnd no, quarks are not \"the smaller version of atoms.\" They're in fact completely different. *Completely* different. Once you get past \"here are some things that are too small to see,\" you're basically done comparing the atomic model to the quark model.",
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"answer": "Let's be clear, your question is really, \"How did atomic theory advance beyond a hypothesis?\"",
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AskScience AMA Series: We're a group of paleontologists here to answer your paleontology questions! Ask us anything!
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"answer": "How did the ancestors of crocs fare during the mass extinction event 65M years ago?\n\nDid they actually survive, or was it just a case of convergent evolution? If yes, why and how did they survive?",
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"answer": "What do you think is some of our greatest evidence supporting human evolution?\n\nAlso, in the age of anti-intellectualism, how do we help people trust experts again?",
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"answer": "What are all of your favorite dinosaurs, and what time period are they from? Why?",
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"answer": "Which mass extinction do you think had the biggest impact on the evolution of life? I know there have been several and the one that occured 65 million years ago is by far the most well known, but maybe not the most important?",
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"answer": "Are any of you worried about the current administration defunding your research? ",
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"answer": "Are there any lesser known but important human ancestors like lucy? ",
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"answer": "Why is it that birds survived the K/T extinction, while other, similar species did not? Along with this question, did other bird-like animals survive the extinction event, and die out afterwards?",
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"answer": "In your field, what is the biggest unsolved mystery or unexplained fossil that you want answered? ",
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"answer": "Dr. Drumheller, I feel like I may have asked you this years ago, but did your name have anything to do with your career path?\n\nGeneral question, what is the current consensus on how bird-like dinosaurs are on the lizard-bird spectrum? Are basically all dinosaurs thought to have been feathered now, or just certain upright walking ones? Is there a transition in the fossil record where dinosaurs starting seeming more like birds?\n\nAnd, what is the most surprising thing you've learned from your research?",
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"answer": "What \"big break\" is the paleontology world waiting on / in your respective fields? What finding has been hypothesized and \"it's only a matter of time\" before its found?\n\nOr, what is the \"big debate\" going on right now in paleontology?",
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"answer": "Do you think that humans are due for a mass extinction event or have we (some of us) evolved enough to adapt? And if humans went extinct what do you think would supersede us as the dominant species?",
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"answer": "I live in Eastern Kentucky. One of my favorite pastimes is walking down the creek hunting for fossils. How is there so much variety of fossilized aquatic life in southern Appalachia? Often I find several different varieties, sometimes even salt and freshwater remains on the same matrix. Very exciting to find but makes you go \"huh?\"",
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"answer": "Dr. Sumrall - if there were large species radiations in the Cambrian and Ordovician for echinoderms, what is the current thinking about the triggering event? Did this occur immediately after a mass extinction?",
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"answer": "Is it possible to extract the dna out of a fossil and make a new creature",
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"answer": "Did any dinosaurs survive the mass extinction event 65m years ago?",
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"answer": "How do early echinoderms look different from modern echinoderms? Considering how morphologically diverse deuterostomes are today, how similar or different are early deuterostome groups?",
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"answer": "1. What do you think was the reason for the Cambrian explosion ? In comparison, how fast / slow is evolution today ?\n\n2. What lessons for humanity do you find in the sands of time ?",
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"answer": "In a dinosaur death match which features one of every kind of dinosaur, which dinosaur would you bet on?",
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"answer": "What is the predominant theory right now as to when, how, and why warm-bloodedness developed in both early mammals and birds? Since they are two different branches off of reptiles is being warm blooded a case of convergent evolution? Or did it develop in a common ancestor of birds and mammals? ",
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"answer": "Do you think dinosaurs tasted like chicken?",
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"answer": "What do you think it would be the biggest paleontology discovery that would rock the world right now? (Besides the transitional fossil for humans)",
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"answer": "Would you have rather seen the movie titled Cretaceous park for accuracy, even though it doesn't sound as cool as Jurassic?",
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"answer": "What is the general process of becoming a palaeontologist and where will you find your career path going generally? \nHow did you all decide which species you wanted to specialize in and how did you come to that point through the education process? \n\nWhat's the most exciting/most boring part of your job and how much education did it take to kickstart your career? :)\n\nThanks! \nEdited for clarity",
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"answer": "Do any of you subscribe to the phylogenetic species concept, why/why nor?",
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"answer": "I have an Anthropology degree, what are some entry level jobs in the field?",
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"answer": "What period is mboscodictiasaur from?",
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"answer": "How many \"Ross Geller\" have you meet ?",
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"answer": "What prehistoric creature would you be most scared of if it was still around today?",
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"answer": "I have two questions.\n\nFirst what species have undergone the greatest changes in the past 20,000 years and what are the likely reasons behind those changes?\n\nSecond, I have a bachelors in wildlife and conservation biology. Would a paleontology masters program accept someone without a directly related degree?",
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"answer": "My son loves dinosaurs. What is the coolest dinofact I can tell him? \n\nAlso, how do you combat the indominus rexification of dinosaurs? He used to loves t-Rex but all the kids at school try to tell him that indominus rex is better. Every day he has to re-learn that indominus rec is not real.",
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"answer": "Is it possible for intact DNA from dinosaurs to be preserved and if so, what would the conditions for it to be preserved, where would you find it and what would the chances of it being found or appearing be?",
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"answer": "I have a question about dinosaur intelligence. I've heard it said that the current scientific consensus is that even dinosaurs with a reputation for being \"smart\", like Velociraptor (and maniraptorans in general) were actually probably only about as intelligent as a cat. The reason usually given is that their brains were not large enough.\n\nMy question is, some avian dinosaurs such as corvids and parrots are known to be very intelligent. Do these species of birds have notably large brains compared to their bodies? If not, how do we know that there were no dinosaurs with, for example, crow-level intelligence?",
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"answer": "I feel like I'm wasting your time, but anyways, how often (if ever) do you utilize geophysics to locate fossils? I figure some form of seismology and/or GPR could be useful? Also, Dr. Drumheller is in the right field with a name like that.\n\nEDIT: how many species of dinosaurs are showing evidence of having had feathers!?",
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"answer": "Is it scientifically imposible to one day clone (in lack of a better word) some of the extinct prehistoric species? ",
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"answer": "In all seriousness, what came first: the chicken or the egg? What are the leading theories to explain this?",
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"answer": "What are you opinions about the ability to clone an extinct species? Would it be ethical to try and reintroduce it to its previous environment, or could they just be used as test subjects or in zoos? If ethics and logistics were out of the picture, what species would you most like to bring back? ",
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"answer": "Can you recommend some good books on the subject for someone who doesn't have a lot of exposure to the field? Kind of like A Brief History of Time did for cosmology?\n\nI always love learning in new fields but a lot of academic works usually require having already read a whole truck load of other works.",
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"answer": "Hey guys! \n\nThanks for doing this AMA with us today! \n\nWhere would you say our current understanding of the extent of the biological component of Early Paleozoic and even Precambrian paleosoils now stands? Was life generally abundant in these soils or was it a hit-and-miss localised occurence?\n\nWhen I was an undergraduate, there was a pretty broad consensus that surface environments older than, say ... about the Devonian, were pretty barren, to the point where they might as well be considered abiotic. This, of course, had all kinds of implications for modelling weathering, erosion and sedimentology in general.\n\nBut I'm getting the idea that there is growing evidence that soils as far back as the Precambrian were replete with biological activity, mostly from [isotopic evidence but also microfossils](_URL_0_). I've even come across sparse reports of Paleoproterozoic macrofossils (e.g.: [*Diskagma buttonii*](_URL_1_)) which sort of blew my mind (although I'm still skeptical it's really an organism and not some microbially induced sed-structure).\n\nSo : what kind of \"creepy-crawlyness\" should one expect from a Cambrian soil, or a mid-Proterozoic one? Rare extremophiles in the pore space or abundant complex communities of microbes in pores, mats and biofilms? Or something else?\n",
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"answer": "Specific question here, because plesiosaurs are my favorite... \nIf a plesiosaur is not a \"dinosaur,\" is it simply called a marine reptile? Are they catagorized different because of the time period, and being aquatic?",
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"answer": "If a mass extinction were to occur due to humans in the recent future, which species would you expect to survive and why?",
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"answer": "Is Brontosaurus really \"accepted\" again in the paleontology community or is there a lot of controversy still after the studies done by Emanuel Tschopp?",
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"answer": "For Dr. Karim: I heard once that part of the reasons museums still have outdated positions for dinosaurs, graphics, etc. is just a basic lack of funding to update the collections. Given the advent of, say, 3D scanning and printing substances, augmented reality and the like, how possible would it be to keep such collections up-to-date for the public experience? Example: Say a kind of museum peer-to-peer wikipedia to display common information of a species on-hand or for part of a traveling exhibit, but also integrate specifics for an individual piece (especially identifying markers on a particular specimen)?\n\nI feel that the public still harbors a '90s view of dinosaurs / prehistoric life and for that to change, museums need to change; so what would be a good way to help facilitate that?",
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"answer": "My son is absolutely fascinated with dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. What kind of resources are there if any to help support his hobby and desire to be a paleontologist some day?\n\nHe has his own book shelf that's almost full and devoted to the subject, and we're talking about taking a trip to South Dakota to see a dig site. Any other suggestions or resources that might be available?",
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"answer": "My six year old wants to be a paleontologist when he grows up (more specifically, a fire-fighting paleontologist!). He's been consistent on this for the past 4 years, so he seems as serious as a six year old can be.\n\n Aside from trips to museums, what can we do to nurture his interest?\n\nBonus points if you can provide answers that also include firefighting! ",
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"answer": "Is there any evidence at all as to what color dinosaur feathers may be?",
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"answer": "Which came first? The dinosaur or the egg?",
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"answer": "I have a degree in biology, but work in a completely different field. Since I was a child, I always wanted to be a paleontologist. Any suggestions as to how I could volunteer in your field? I live in Florida, and have frequented phosphate mines in the past, but that's the extent of my specimen hunting experience.... digging around the excavated material (I wouldn't disturb something untouched). My current job pays the bills, but I do miss the things I was passionate about when deciding to major in biology. Any suggestions?",
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"answer": "Is it true we don't know what color dinosaurs really were?",
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"answer": "Hiya. Do you ever look for fossils in areas that have a lot of crude oil deposits? Is there any correlation there? Conversely do you ever find surface crude oil to be an indicator of fossils? ",
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"answer": "Could you describe how/why the evolution of feathers proceeded differently than hair? I.e., how do you theorize that each incremental step of feather evolution increased fitness enough to disproportionately get inherited by the next generation until we reached fully flighted birds?",
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"answer": "Do you find the character of Ross Geller in Friends, surely TV's most high profile paleontologist, a flattering comparison? Was there a boom in interest in the field that people, to this day, call the \"the Friend's boom\"? ",
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"answer": "What are your theories about when humans developed a conscious mind and why/how? Is it possible other animals could develop this as well?",
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"answer": "My 5 year old daughter has two key questions: How do we know what dinosaur's names were? How do we know what sounds dinosaurs made?",
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"answer": "Do we have any fossil evidence of when or how vascularization in plants evolved?",
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"answer": "Would you consider there to he a difference between a paleontologist and a paleobiologist?",
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"answer": "What is the most prevalent and/or frustrating misconception you wish you could clear up about your field?",
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"answer": "Would it be possible to \"clone\" dinosaurs at all. From what I've heard the DNA actually breaks down (even preserved in amber.) Is there any way at all to reconstruct a dinosaur by using current animals and tweaking them or something like that? Then, would they survive an amusement park type captivity if we spared no expense? (asking for a friend.)",
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"answer": "Of all the species that disappeared during the Holocene extinction, which one's loss do you think had the biggest impact on what our world looks like today? ",
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"answer": "Hi Dr. Sumrall. I've read about stalked echinoderms attached to fossil drift wood. If this is true, do you believe that these creatures were floating around or do you think the wood had already sunk to the seafloor when the creatures attached?",
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"answer": "I was just reading about the unit of measurement , the Darwin, and didn't really understand it. Do you really use that? How does it work on a practical level? How do you determine how much, say humans have changed compared to a chimpanzee since their common ancestor?",
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"answer": "Sorta towards Dr. Karim ... I live in Colorado, specifically in the Western Slope area. A museum supposedly in the GJ area went out-of-business and sold-off most of their collections, but had boxes of dinosaur bone-parts/pieces that no one seemed to know what to do with, so they took them out into the desert and dumped them. People showed up and started taking \"samples\" of these bones and there was even a guy there directing people to the pile of bones. I ended up with 2 big coffee cans filled with pieces of dinosaur bones. Is this something that happens a lot? The guy sitting there said the bones came from this area and the museum wanted to return them to approximately where they were dug out. I posted some of the fragments on Imgur which I found there: _URL_0_",
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"answer": "Was Ross's version of a paleontologist in friends, accurate?",
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"answer": "What is your stance on the aquatic ape hypothesis?",
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"answer": "I really enjoyed the \"Walking with Dinosaurs/Beasts/etc\" series of documentaries, even though I've heard they're not entirely accurate. What are some dinosaurs/extinct species documentaries you'd recommend? Also interested in book and especially online resources you'd recommend for an interested layman.",
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"answer": "What organism have you discovered to be extinct that if alive today would be our greatest benefit or vice Versa, our biggest threat predator(excluding T-Rex's and other obvious things)",
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"answer": "1. Do you feel threatened by the new administrations' religious zealotry, especially in the figure of the VP? He said some things like \n\n > ...And I also believe that someday \nscientists will come to see that only the theory of intelligent design \nprovides even a remotely rationale explanation for the known universe...\n\n while addressing congress. [\\(source\\)](_URL_0_) There's also the additional travel restrictions that may prevent foreign scientists from entering the US and american scientists from entering other countries as they take retaliatory measures. Does any of this impact your work? If so, how will you circumvent it?\n\n2. How big a problem for you are the people who insist on keeping fossils and other historical evidence in their private collections, where they can't be researched, instead of in museums or universities' collections, where they will be well kept and available for researchers?",
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"answer": "I wanna know if your appreciation for the job outweighs the instability and the lack of available jobs in the field and how you have managed that in your lives.... you guys have my dream job!",
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"answer": "I've been applying for PhDs in palaeo for a while and had no luck. I have both a degree and a Masters in the subject. What advice could you give to those starting and searching for a career in research? \n\n",
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"answer": "Visiting the Natural History Museum at the Smithsonian in D.C., what can't I miss??",
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"answer": "I've always wondered, how do you get into the career of paleontology? As a kid Ive loved dinosaurs and now that I need to choose a path for my future life I thought I could check out this again. Studying fossils does sound cool. ",
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"answer": "hello, can you look for microscopic fossils? how do people find such small fossils and be certain it was life and not something else.",
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"answer": "Not to be rude or anything but how much funding does the field get?",
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"answer": "I'll be defending my thesis on mysticete whale paleoecology in a few hours. Any last-minute master's defense advice?",
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"answer": "Colin, I heard you used to have a pony tail, what happened man??",
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"answer": "How often do you get asked about Ross?",
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"answer": "Thanks for doing this AMA!\n\nI'm a super amateur fossil hunter in MA and am having the hardest time with:\n\n\n-identifying fossil digging locations that are public access (only know of 2 locations in MA) near me\n\n\n-extraction techniques for extremely hard shale\n\n\n-identifying which layers are fossiliferous \n\n\nAny tips on the above topics?\n\n\nAlso, I found a bird fossil in Utah about 10 years ago. It's an OK fossil but, my 13 year old brain couldn't figure out how to extract the entire fossil properly so I'm stuck with an mostly complete baby bird sans back feet. I figure it's not particularly useful to the scientific community since I can't recall where I pulled the fossil from...what should I do with it?",
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"answer": "Are there any names of creatures you've researched that kinda make you chuckle/laugh at when you think about it? ( Like just a silly sounding name )",
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"answer": "My 6 year old son is obsessed with dinosaurs, and says he wants to study them when he grows up...his specific plans are to make a dinosaur zoo, and be their zookeeper. Anyways, he has questions for you guys, if you don't mind...\n1. What is your favorite dinosaur? \n2. Why are t-rex arms so short? \n3. Did all of them die? \n4. How do I make more?\n5. What grade do you have to be in to study dinosaurs? (I believe he means how much schooling is required to become a paleontologist?) \n6. Do you want to work at my zoo?",
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"answer": "What's your favorite paleontology joke?",
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"answer": "Sorry if this is a dumb question, but how do \"big traits\" evolve from an animal that never had it? For example the evolution of a dinosaur that doesn't fly to a bird with wings. How does something that never had anything that looked like wings start to develop them, when the in-between stage of the wing which cannot fly wouldn't be helpful at all? Thanks and I have been wondering his for a long time.",
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"answer": "Can you please write an easy to follow explanation on how carbon dating works? I want to know why I should believe that a 125 million year old bone is 125 million years old. \n\nThank you :) ",
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"answer": "I found [this](_URL_0_) in the tailings pile of an excavation. The guy I was with (who brought me there looking for fossils) said he thought it was bone, but the Manning Canyon Formation wasn't supposed to have anything with bones this big.\n\nI figure my best bet is to take it to the local university, short of that is there any characteristic I can look for to determine if it is bone?",
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"answer": "In an effort to understand metazoan evolution, I am interested in the Cambrian explosion. I've read about drops in sea level that lead to the exposure of nutrients from continental crust. What other kind of geologic events took place around that time that made it possible for metazoans to evolve? Thanks for doing this! ",
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"answer": "Are there any large animals alive today, that evolved after the dinosaurs went extinct, that could've evolved if they hadn't died out? I've always heard that if the asteroid didn't hit we wouldn't have been here and neither would pretty much any mammal bigger than a lemur.\n\nEDIT: A few more questions. \n\n1. What, other than lack of feathers, do most dinosaur movies get wrong? Compared to other dinosaur franchises is Jurassic Park pretty good in terms of accuracy, or do you know of any dino-based movies/games that really are pretty accurate?\n\n2. Are there any living animals (individual or pack) that have a chance at beating large dinosaurs like the tyrannosaurus, ankylosaurs, spinosaurus, or triceratops in a fight?\n\n3. If, theoretically, the dinosaurs/extinct creatures of an area of the world (say, the Indian subcontinent) were spared from the extinction, would humans be able to live there? Could they maybe have been domesticated, or would they not meet the requirements for domestication?\n\n4. Let's say we brought a dinosaur back here. Would it have trouble breathing or was the air at the time not too different? How about even earlier eras, like a gigantic dragonfly?",
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"answer": "Hi. My daughter is five, and loves dinosaurs. She knows more six and seven syllable words than I do at this point. All she has talked about for almost a year now is that she wants to be a paleontologist. What can/should I do as her Dad to help her expand upon her interest in the subject?",
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"answer": "You must be a fossil sample, and I'm an impatient paleontologist - because I want to date you badly.",
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"answer": "Sorry not even sure if this AMA is still happening right now but I had a question or two about you guys. First, did you find it difficult to get a secure job and actually into the field doing work? And second, (if allowed hehe) I am a marine science uni student, finishing my degree this May, and I would really be interested in palaeontology, is there anyway you would suggest to start the journey? (Like is another degree course the right thing to do ((please say no more debts sake))) Thanks very much :)",
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"answer": "My little girl is 5, she has autism and she wants to be a palaeontologist when she grows up. She can name nearly every dinosaur, as well as their family groups and features, her favourite dinosaurs are the pachyrhinosaurus and the muttaburrasaurus. We live in Melbourne, Australia, and we are currently planning a trip to outback Queensland where there is (I believe) the largest collection of fossilised dinosaur footprints in one place, as well as the largest collection of marine fossils from what used to be an inland sea.\n\nMy questions are:\n apart from lots of reading about dinosaurs, and watching documentaries (she loves watching dinosaur docos!) what else would you suggest to foster her love of fossils?\n\nDo you have many women in your field?\n\nAnd\n\nDo you have many autistic palaeontologists that are successful?\n\nThanks\n\nETA: my daughter is also always asking me how the first mammals (like cynadonts) evolved - do they have any ancestors today or did they diversify too greatly?",
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"answer": "I'm trying to nurture my niece 9, and nephew 7, love for science and I seem to be winning them over. I'm fascinated by paleontology and was wondering if there are any kid oriented projects, kits, magazines or books you would recommend to educate them? Any words of advice or encouragement young scientists?",
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"answer": "In terms of the dinosaurs we think of today (not birds), how long did dinosaurs last after the meteor crash that initiated the K/T extinction? Was it for a very short period of time or perhaps many millenia?",
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"answer": "Am I too late to ask a question? If not (I hope not);\nSay we find 1 fossil of any given animal, and it's the only fossil we've ever found of its species, ever. However, it has a mutation like polydactyly, dwarfism, or something similar - noticeably different from the rest of its kind. \nBut, because we only know its species from 1 fossil, would we just assume that every animal of its species looked like that? Or would we be able to look at a fossil and say \"yeah this whateverodon has 1 more toe than the rest of its species, even though we've never seen any other whateverodon fossils before\"?\n\nI mean, there're a lot of animals out there with super weird anatomy, and a lot of animals we only know from 1 or 2 fossil specimens... Would this be a completely impossible scenario? \n\nAlso, have we ever actually found a fossil of a \"mutant\" animal at all, one that we *could* say is different from the rest of its species?",
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"answer": "Hi Ross! I'd like to know if you still think you were on a break. Thanks!",
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"answer": "I know very little about paleontology but something I've always wondered is if paleontologists are religious. If so, what religions are most common?",
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Why were the Channel Islands not liberated soon after D-day?
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"text": "It was not all over after D-Day. The Germans continued to strafe and lay mines the remainder of the year. The Channel Islands were still held by the Germans which served as a military base from which to launch attacks. There still was a concern regarding enemy submarines.\n",
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"text": "During June 1944, the Allied Forces launched the D-Day landings and the liberation of Normandy. They decided to bypass the Channel Islands due to their heavy fortifications. As a result, German supply lines for food and other supplies through France were completely severed. The islanders' food supplies were already dwindling, and this made matters considerably worse – the islanders and German forces alike were on the point of starvation.\n",
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"text": "An important military consequence of the occupation and fortification of the Channel Islands was the deployment of very large numbers of German troops and high usage of slave labour relative to the minor amount of military resources and strategic value they held. This became evident in July 1944, shortly after the D-Day landings and the subsequent St Lo breakout. As the Allies simply chose to bypass the Islands, and many of the arguably far more militarily-significant French coastal ports such as St Nazaire, Lorient, Brest, and St Malo as well, all of which Hitler had previously ordered to be defended and held at all costs and consequently all of which were all heavily garrisoned, this meant that well over 100,000 German troops which could otherwise have served to help to defend Occupied France (and subsequently Germany itself), at a time when Germans forces on the Western Front were suffering from a massive shortage of manpower, were tied down in positions which were essentially militarily useless. The German historian Joachim Ludewig estimates from his study of German archival records that in the middle of 1944 the Channel Islands occupation alone was responsible for over 30,000 such misdeployed troops. Around 500 Germans had died in the Channel Islands.\n",
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how did mining work back in the day? did people just picaxe long tunnels into the rock hoping they’ll find something useful?
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"answer": "Yes and no. Depending on what's being mined.\nTypically they'd find a vein and surface level evidence. (Think of gold washed down a creek, it comes from a vein somewhere)",
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"answer": "It depends a bit on how long ago \"back in the day\" is. For the mines I've visited here in Norway that's around the 1600s. At that time, the mining was mostly accomplished with heat (wood fires) to make the rock brittle and manual picks or chisels. Using fires to heat the rock and then flash-cooling with water can also break rock faces apart. As chemistry advanced and explosives became cheaper and safer, they gradually took over. \nMining was a craft and geological experts were used to survey the mine and identify where to dig in what direction. Norway largely imported these experts from Germany and France, and you can still see some evidence of this foreign influence in for instance street names in [Røros](_URL_0_).",
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"answer": "Before modern methods of geology, finding ore in the rock was often a matter of luck. The ore might have shown itself on the exposed surface, or it might wash out and deposit on the surface. If they found a large ore deposit, they could follow the ore veins deep into the rock.\n\nBy the way, pickaxes we know today aren't a typical mining tool, they're more for breaking heavy dirt and rock on the surface. Instead, they used hammers and chisels in order to be able to get highly precise strikes on the same spot over and over. That's why you can still see [this logo](_URL_0_) on the coat of arms of many historical mining towns in Europe.",
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"text": "The task of excavating the tunnels began on 25 May 1782, carried out entirely by hand. The miners broke up the limestone rock using a variety of methods, including gunpowder blasting, fire-setting (building a fire against the face of the rock to heat it, then quenching it with cold water to cause it to shatter), quicklime (used to fill boreholes which were then slaked with water, causing it to expand and so shattering the surrounding rock) and hammering in wooden wedges which were expanded by soaking them with water, again causing the rock to shatter. The fragments were then removed with crowbars and sledgehammers. Progress was slow, advancing at a rate of only about per year, but the tunnels thus excavated have proved extremely stable and are still readily accessible today.\n",
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how does someone go from being christian to jewish and vice-versa?
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"answer": "Judaism discourages conversion (but encourages people once they've been accepted for conversion). So you'd first have to convince a Rabbi that you're serious about wanting to convert. Then you'd have to engage in study so that you know enough about what it means to be and live as a Jew (which will vary depending on denomination). When your Rabbi thinks you're ready, you'll appear before a Rabbinic Court, and convince them that you're ready. If they agree, then you can go through the ritual immersion (in a ritual bath called a *mikveh*) and, in the case of men, circumcision. ",
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"text": "List of former Jews, or more accurately, people of Jewish ethnicity and adherents of Judaism who have converted to another (or no) religion. According to certain concepts of Jewish being (cf. who is a Jew?), a Jew who converts to another (or no) religion is still \"a Jew,\" by family and heritage alone, if not also by culture, and to a certain extent, belief (cf. monotheism).\n",
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"text": "Israel's Law of Return stipulates that a Jew is someone with a Jewish mother or someone who has converted to Judaism and is not a member of another religion. The Israeli Chief Rabbinate requires documents proving the Jewishness of one’s mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and great-great-grandmother when applying for marriage. The Office of the Chief Rabbi (OCR) has underlined the basic principle that a child is not recognised by the OCR and other bodies as Jewish unless his or her mother is Jewish, or they underwent a conversion recognized by the body.\n",
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Can you recommend any sources (book or journal articles) that summarize issues related to Oral Tradition?
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"answer": "/r/IndianCountry founder, mod, and Virginia Indian reporting in. The Custalow family at Mattaponi circulated and promoted a series of \"sacred oral traditions\" concerning this *exact* subject matter. A recent publication from NMAI afforded them too much credibility; one of many problems with that publication.\n\n[Disclosure: I am related to the author, the families, and the subject matter, so please pardon my brevity and generalities. And **kindly** don't mention me, rather, verify for yourself.]\n\nThe same is true for the supplemental oral histories promoted by the Tayac faction (the Piscataway Indian Nation), if you are also going to be teaching about entities contemporary to the Powhatan Paramountcy in the early colonial period.\n\nI'll defer to /u/itsallfolklore and /u/Reedstilt on the latest developments in academia, however I would recommend [Powhatan Foreign Relations](_URL_0_) if you're interested in the political landscape, in particular. Other works by Dr. Helen Rountree also provide generous footnotes (where her works *truly* live) for further inquiry. \n\nI'd also like to hear other recommendations to keep current, anyone would oblige.",
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"answer": "You have received a message from on high! By which I mean someone on twitter had a suggested resource for you. [Check it out here!](_URL_0_) ",
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why is feet bone structure much more complex and composed of so many bones, while hands are much more simple?
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"answer": "There are 27 bones in each hand. There are 26 bones in each foot. Can you please explain what you are talking about?",
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what exactly happens to my body when i get the flu.
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The M60 was the only machine gun authorized by the Army to be used on gun trucks in Vietnam. How did officers react when they saw gun trucks armed with M2s and miniguns?
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is there such a thing as a material that is completely impermeable? For example, can some molecules get though a plastic baggy?
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why is it a mark of quality for a watch to be "swiss-made"? couldn't a swiss company make a crappy watch?
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"text": "Currently the aforementioned Swiss legal standards permit watch brands or watchmakers to label watches Swiss made under certain legally defined circumstances. These standards have changed over time and were not always codified in the national law, so older watches which bear the mark Swiss made may not necessarily meet the current legal definition. On the other hand, they might well exceed the current legal definition of Swiss made. Indeed, the current law of the applicability of Swiss made was codified on December 23, 1971.\n",
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Is it possible for an astronomical body to have a molten core, without orbiting a star?
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if working out is just damaging and repairing muscle tissue, couldnt we just mechanically damage the tissue and recouperate saving time and energy?
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"answer": "Finally something I might have insight on! First off, you can use electric pulses to build and repair damages tissue. I have had terrible knees for years, I started physical therapy at around 17. However, the cartilage damage was so bad in my knee, that I couldn't build the muscle in a healthy way to keep my knee in better traction. Long story short I had surgery. I am 22, and recovering. Because of the nerve and tissue damage I cannot build muscle in my leg through exercise alone. Instead, when I go to PT they hook me up to a machine that sends a small electric charge into my knee, making the muscles contract, nerves reactivate, and swelling in my knee go down. Because of this machine I am able to do my exercises after with little pain. So, regular exercise is needed to build muscle quickly and healthy, but you can use electric shock therapy to help your body out! It is really amazing.",
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"answer": "Depends on what you're thinking of - several of the comments refer to electro stimulation, which could work. If you're thinking 'I'll just cut my muscles and get stronger', that won't work. Your body adapts to the environment it experiences, so if you try it by cutting muscles, you won't get stronger, just a little more resistant to being cut (and this isn't much good either, because while it might make your skin/muscles slightly tougher, a knife can do more damage than you could ever hope to prevent with mere human tissue).",
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"answer": "It's not damaging muscle and repairing it. There's also a lot of cellular signaling involved for nutrient/energy sensing that feeds into a complicated mostly opaque box of anabolic/catabolic programming that takes additional inputs such as immune signaling, DNA synthesis/repair, reactive oxygen sensing, etc. Also hormones and other signaling factor triggered through the brain. Working out is very complex. ",
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"answer": "In the future, could we just have machines doing this to us and all have six-pack abs and great muscles from getting shocked while laying around watching TV? I hope so!",
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Chemistry - A few questions about pH buffers.
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"text": "Aqueous buffer solutions will react with strong acids or strong bases by absorbing excess hydrogen ions, or hydroxide ions, replacing the strong acids and bases with weak acids and weak bases. This has the effect of damping the effect of pH changes, or reducing the pH change that would otherwise have occurred. But buffers cannot correct abnormal pH levels in a solution, be that solution in a test tube or in the extracellular fluid. Buffers typically consist of a pair of compounds in solution, one of which is a weak acid and the other a weak base. The most abundant buffer in the ECF consists of a solution of carbonic acid (HCO), and the bicarbonate () salt of, usually, sodium (Na). Thus, when there is an excess of ions in the solution carbonic acid \"partially\" neutralizes them by forming HO and bicarbonate () ions. Similarly an excess of H ions is \"partially\" neutralized by the bicarbonate component of the buffer solution to form carbonic acid (HCO), which, because it is a weak acid, remains largely in the undissociated form, releasing far fewer H ions into the solution than the original strong acid would have done.\n",
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When fat is burned via exercise, which is burned first: the most recently stored fat or the oldest fat in the body?
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At the start of low intensity exercise, lipolysis increases further, thereby providing sufficient FFA to provide energy substrates in excess of requirements. However, lipolysis does not increase further as exercise intensity increases, and fatty acid oxidation becomes approximately equal to the total amount of fatty acids available at 65% of VO2 max. When plasma FFA concentration is increased by lipid infusion during exercise at 85% VO2 max, fat oxidation is significantly increased. **Taken together, these observations indicate that fatty acid availability can be a determinant of the rate of their oxidation during exercise. However, even when lipid is infused well in excess of requirements during high-intensity exercise, less than half the energy is derived from fat.** This is because the muscle itself is a major site of control of the rate of fat oxidation during exercise. We have demonstrated that the mechanism of control of fatty acid oxidation in the muscle is the rate of entry into the mitochondria. We hypothesize that the rate of glycolysis is the predominant regulator of the rate of carbohydrate metabolism in muscle, and that a rapid rate of carbohydrate oxidation caused by mobilization of muscle glycogen during high intensity exercise inhibits fatty acid oxidation by limiting transport into the mitochondria. **During low intensity exercise, glycogen breakdown and thus glycolysis is not markedly stimulated, so the increased availability of fatty acids allows their oxidation to serve as the predominant energy source. At higher intensity exercise, stimulation of glycogen breakdown and glycolysis cause increased pyruvate entry into the TCA cycle for oxidation, and as a consequence the inhibition of fatty acid oxidation by limiting their transport into the mitochondria.**\"\n\n_URL_0_ **The rate of carbohydrate utilization during prolonged, strenuous exercise is closely geared to the energy needs of the working muscles. In contrast, fat utilization during exercise is not tightly regulated, as there are no mechanisms for closely matching availability and metabolism of fatty acids to the rate of energy expenditure.** As a result, the rate of fat oxidation during exercise is determined by the availability of fatty acids and the rate of carbohydrate utilization. Blood glucose and muscle glycogen are essential for prolonged strenuous exercise, and exhaustion can result either from development of hypoglycemia or depletion of muscle glycogen. Both absolute and relative (i.e. % of maximal O2 uptake) exercise intensities play important roles in the regulation of substrate metabolism. The absolute work rate determines the total quantity of fuel required, while relative exercise intensity plays a major role in determining the proportions of carbohydrate and fat oxidized by the working muscles. **As relative exercise intensity is increased, there is a decrease in the proportion of the energy requirement derived from fat oxidation and an increase in that provided by carbohydrate oxidation. 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A large increase in muscle glycogen concentration, far above the level found in the well-fed sedentary state, occurs in response to carbohydrate feeding following glycogen depleting exercise. It was recently found that this muscle \"glycogen supercompensation\" is markedly enhanced by endurance exercise training that induces an increase in the GLUT4 isoform of the glucose transporter in skeletal muscle.\n\n_URL_2_ **Endogenous triacylglycerols represent an important source of fuel for endurance exercise. Triacylglycerol oxidation increases progressively during exercise; the specific rate is determined by energy requirements of working muscles, fatty acid delivery to muscle mitochondria, and the oxidation of other substrates.** The catecholamine response to exercise increases lipolysis of adipose tissue triacylglycerols and, presumably, intramuscular triacylglycerols. 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Did Sherman purposely let the Confederate garrison in Savannah escape?
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"text": "Sherman's 1864 campaign against Atlanta, Georgia, was initially characterized by a series of flanking maneuvers against Johnston, each of which compelled the Confederate army to withdraw from heavily fortified positions with minimal casualties on either side. After two months and of such maneuvering, Sherman's path was blocked by imposing fortifications on Kennesaw Mountain, near Marietta, Georgia, and the Union general chose to change his tactics and ordered a large-scale frontal assault on June 27, 1864. Maj. Gen. James B. McPherson feinted against the northern end of Kennesaw Mountain, while his corps under Maj. Gen. John A. Logan assaulted Pigeon Hill on its southwest corner. At the same time, Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas launched strong attacks against Cheatham Hill at the center of the Confederate line. Both attacks were repulsed with heavy losses, but a demonstration by Maj. Gen. John M. Schofield achieved a strategic success by threatening the Confederate army's left flank, prompting yet another Confederate withdrawal toward Atlanta and the removal of General Johnston from command of the army.\n",
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"text": "Sherman was able to concentrate his army faster than Beauregard had anticipated and arrived at Columbia on the afternoon of February 16. The only Confederates defending the city were small detachments from Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler's cavalry corps, Maj. Gen. Matthew Butler's cavalry division, and Lt. Gen. Stephen D. Lee's corps from the Army of Tennessee. Heavily outnumbered, Lt. Gen. Wade Hampton ordered an evacuation of the city without a fight, although they destroyed all bridges over the Congaree and Saluda Rivers in an attempt to delay the Union forces. Sherman occupied Columbia the following day. Much of Columbia burned to the ground in a fire that has engendered controversy ever since: some say it started when the Confederates set fire to cotton bales in the city, others say that drunken Union soldiers were fanning the flames of vengeance, while a few witnesses claimed that some of the fires were by accident. James W. Loewen researched the topic for his book, \"Lies Across America\", and found that most likely, the cotton bale fires spread and caused most of the destruction. He did find that there were some fires started by Union soldiers, but the effects of these were minimal. Most likely, the Confederates' scorched earth policy was to blame for the burning of Columbia (in which not much of it burned). After the burning, Sherman was quoted as saying that he never gave the order to burn Columbia to the ground but he was not sorry that it happened.\n",
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Are there more planets or more stars?
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if atoms have a positive nucleus with electrons that orbit it, why don’t they collapse into themselves?
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"answer": "There are many levels of understanding this.\nIn the simplest terms, one can think of the electrons as spinning around the nucleus in circles. In the same way as you feel pressed outwards on a carousel, the electrons don’t want to stay on circles but move outwards. This outwards force is cancelled by the attraction between the positive nuclei and negative electrons (opposite charges attract) so the electrons stay on their circular path. In fancy physicist terms, the electric attraction acts as the centripetal force to keep the electrons in their orbits but is not so strong as to make the electrons fall into the nucleus. \nLook up the Rutherford model of the atom for more detail. \n\nIf we want to be a bit more advanced (don’t worry if you don’t understand everything from here on, this is starting to get into university level physics), there is one problem with that description. We know from other fancy physics that when a charged particle moves in a circle, it loses energy and slows down, which would mean that the electron falls into the nucleus after all! The way we solve this problem is by saying that there are a certain group of distances between electron and nucleus where the electrons don’t lose energy after all, and the electrons are only ever allowed to be at these distances (this doesn’t seem like a good answer but it works well with the experiments - and since this idea we have gained a much better although much more complicated understanding of why some distances are special). \nThese different distances have different energies, just as an object has a higher energy when we lift it up (which increases the distance between earth and the object). The electrons can jump between those distances (or ‘levels’ as physicists call them) and can emit or absorb light (they emit light when jumping down and need to absorb light when jumping up to higher energy levels - you can’t get more energy out of nothing). This is what happens in neon lights, the electrons in the atoms jump to levels with lower energies and we see the light they emit. Look up the Bohr model of the atom if you want more details or mathematics. \n\nIf we want to get even more technical, we need some more hardcore quantum mechanics. Basically, the electrons aren’t really like billard balls but more like a diffuse electron mist, or electron cloud. The reason we often think of them as Billard balls is that when this cloud is very bunched up it looks like a solid ball from far away and it is easier to think and calculate with this image (even if it isn’t technically correct). The shape of this cloud that forms the electron (also called the save function of the electron) is determined by a certain equation, the Schrödinger equation (in fact, all matter and not just electrons work like this!). If we calculate the form of this cloud, we find that only certain energies are possible, for which the cloud has different form. And the distance where most of the cloud is turns out to be the Special distance that is allowed for the electron (nice when things work out). And none of these forms have any cloud right at the nucleus. If this last explanation feels a bit like “the maths says so, so it’s true”, that’s because it is - quantum mechanics is really weird and often the only insight one can get is to do the calculations and see that something must be true. ",
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Does cold have diminishing returns, e.g. does -40 degrees generally really feel that much colder than zero degrees?
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why do bulbs (that glow white) become green and stays illuminated for a while?
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can anyone explain if there is any actual valuable take-away from schrödinger's cat? or just an abstract thought experiment?
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Should the Chinese Emperors' mausoleums be excavated?
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"text": "The Wanli Emperor died in 1620 and was buried in the Dingling Mausoleum among the Ming tombs on the outskirts of Beijing. His tomb is one of the biggest in the vicinity and one of only two that are open to the public. The tomb was excavated in 1956, and remains the only imperial tomb that had been excavated since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. In 1966, during the Cultural Revolution, Red Guards stormed the Dingling Mausoleum, and dragged the remains of the Wanli Emperor and his two empresses to the front of the tomb, where they were posthumously denounced and burned after photographs were taken of their skulls. Thousands of other artifacts were also destroyed.\n",
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"text": "The Eastern Qing tombs (; ) are an imperial mausoleum complex of the Qing dynasty located in Zunhua, northeast of Beijing. They are the largest, most complete, and best preserved extant mausoleum complex in China. Altogether, five emperors (Shunzhi, Kangxi, Qianlong, Xianfeng, and Tongzhi), 15 empresses, 136 imperial concubines, three princes, and two princesses of the Qing dynasty are buried here. Surrounded by Changrui Mountain, Jinxing Mountain, Huanghua Mountain, and Yingfei Daoyang Mountain, the tomb complex stretches over a total area of .\n",
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"text": "The temple served as a mausoleum for several emperors. Their tombs are grouped together in what are today known as the \"Seven Imperial Tombs\" at Ryōan-ji. The burial places of these emperors—Uda, Kazan, Ichijō, Go-Suzaku, Go-Reizei, Go-Sanjō, and Horikawa—would have been comparatively humble in the period after their deaths. These tombs reached their present state as a result of the 19th century restoration of imperial sepulchers (\"misasagi\") which were ordered by Emperor Meiji.\n",
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"text": "The Qianling Mausoleum () is a Tang dynasty (618–907) tomb site located in Qian County, Shaanxi province, China, and is northwest from Xi'an, formerly the Tang capital. Built by 684 (with additional construction until 706), the tombs of the mausoleum complex house the remains of various members of the House of Li, the imperial family of the Tang dynasty. This includes Emperor Gaozong (r. 649–83), as well as his wife, Wu Zetian, who usurped the Tang throne and became China's only reigning female emperor from 690–705. The mausoleum is renowned for its many Tang dynasty stone statues located above ground and the mural paintings adorning the subterranean walls of the tombs. Besides the main tumulus mound and underground tomb of Emperor Gaozong and Wu Zetian, there are 17 smaller attendant tombs or \"peizang mu\". Presently, only five of these attendant tombs have been excavated by archaeologists, three belonging to members of the imperial family, one to a chancellor, and the other to a general of the left guard. The Shaanxi Administration of Cultural Heritage declared in 2012 that no further excavations would take place for at least 50 years.\n",
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"text": "The Dingling () is a mausoleum in China where the Wanli emperor, together with his two empresses Wang Xijie and Dowager Xiaojing, was buried. Dingling is one of the thirteen imperial tombs at Ming tombs in Changping district 45 km north of central Beijing. Dingling is the only tomb of a Ming dynasty emperor that has been opened.\n",
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"title": "Mausoleum of Genghis Khan",
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"text": "The Imperial Burial Palace (寢宮) or Back Palace (後殿) is high and covers about . It has three yurts with yellow silk roofs; the central yurt houses the coffins of Genghis Khan and one of his four wives and the side yurts house the coffins of his brothers. Genghis Khan's coffin is silver decorated with engraved roses and a golden lock; weapons allegedly used by Genghis lie around it. There are also two other coffins for another two of his consorts. The site's main altar lies in front of this yurt. The cenotaph and its placement are highly unusual in China, which usually follows Han principles like feng shui in the placement of tombs, employing mountains, rivers, and forests in the belief that this increases its spiritual power.\n",
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