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Economics | Why do businesses have promotions that are FREE and you only pay for shipping? What do they gain from this? | [
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Technology | Why does it take half a year to decode an airplane's black box? | [
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Economics | how do all fixed costs become variable costs in the long run? | [
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Technology | what does resetting a router actually do and why is that the most common internet fix? | [
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Physics | Why does some scientists/countries still want to go on the moon ? | [
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Technology | How does the newer generation of captcha determine I'm not a robot? (The one where all you must do is click) | [
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Other | Why does the brain not like change? | [
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Other | Law in UK, how does it work? (According to wikipedia, it does not have single constitution, what does it mean?) | [
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Chemistry | How do field drug tests return so many false positives? | [
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Other | Prior to playing, musicians tune their instruments to a specific note or small set of notes. Why do orchestras tune to A while bands tune to B♭? | [
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Economics | how are the people that run churches/religions living such luxurious lifestyles? Literally living in palaces. Apart from collection plates, where is the money coming from? | [
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Mathematics | Why is true randomness near impossible? | [
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Biology | why do Orchard Growers periodically chop all their trees down? | [
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Chemistry | Why does 'quick sand' make you sink and where does the sand go? | [
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Chemistry | What is protein folding and how does it work? I have tried to understand and can get the concept. | [
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Biology | why are we so certain that water and oxygen are required for alien life? | [
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Technology | I remember gifs being horribly low quality just a few years ago, but now we have super high quality ones. Image quality didn't really get better, so what happened? | [
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Physics | bouyancy, and how far does something sink? | [
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Technology | Why does water-resistance change with time? | [
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Earth Science | why are most people natively scared of tiny rodents and insects like cockroaches, rats, mice etc, even though they are order of magnitudes smaller than ourselves? | [
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Mathematics | what is group theory and why is it useful? | [
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Biology | Why are polar bears and grizzly bears considered different species if they can interbreed and produce fertile offspring? | [
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Economics | Why do you need several film/TV streaming services to get full coverage, when music streaming has several competing platforms that basically offer everything? | [
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Other | Why are the Nordic Countries so well off? | [
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Chemistry | Unpopped popcorn is listed as 590 mg sodium, popped has 450 mg. How does it reduce? Where does it go? Carbohydrates and fat goes down too, but not as much. | [
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Biology | how are cancer and tumors related? Does one cause another? | [
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Technology | How can computer security people determine whether election software has been tampered with or not? | [
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Other | Why do judges sentence criminals to more than life terms? - Ex: 2 life terms plus 65 years. | [
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Economics | Why does price of agricultural (like fruits) changes all the time? | [
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Biology | How do your bones know when to stop growing? | [
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Mathematics | if multiplying by Zero returns Zero, why does division by Zero return 'undefined'? | [
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Other | Is there anything that says you can't cheat in a US election? If cheating was proven true, would it have any effect on the results? | [
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Biology | How do professionals know when it's the right time to release a patient from a mental institution? | [
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Earth Science | from earth, we can see stars. From the ISS live stream, we cannot see the stars. How come? | [
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Other | what does it mean for something to be unironically good? | [
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Biology | why do you feel hungry the morning after eating a big meal? | [
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Physics | why is it so difficult to balance on a bike/motorcycle when stationary compared to while in motion? | [
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Technology | how the video feeds are shared globally for events like the Olympics. Is everything mixed and edited in one place then shared or do local broadcasters receive all of the video feeds and edit themselves? Also is the data shared via satellite? | [
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Biology | Can you re-give yourself a virus? Ex; if you wipe your face with a towel while you have a cold sore, after its cleared up could the germs on your towel reapply to your lips and give you another? | [
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Other | Can we actually save our planet or are we too late to stop certain extinction of our species? | [
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Biology | What is the relationship between mental health and serotonin produced in the gut? | [
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Physics | why do things that are hot (like lava or fire, or... lights) generate light? | [
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Chemistry | Why does mac-n-cheese not taste cheesy after you reheat it? | [
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Biology | Humans are mammals and are not able to use salt water for nutritional value yet how do marine mammals such as whales and dolphins process salt water for its nutritional value? | [
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Other | Why are Americans able to vote on the privatization of the World Wide Web? How will this affect the rest of the world? | [
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Biology | Why is fresh air good for mental health? | [
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Biology | Why is internal rotation of the shoulder bad? Is it bad in all cases? | [
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Biology | Are we able to kill bacteria and viruses by force? (E.g. if I slap my leg, have I killed the microbes there?) Why or why not? | [
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Technology | How come rotary phones came before phones with buttons? Isn't it much simpler to use buttons? | [
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Economics | when govts buy land from people to build roads, railway, etc, how do they know figure out how much to pay for it? | [
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Technology | - How do Video Game servers work? | [
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Other | How can North Carolina introduce a law banning same-sex marriage, directly negating a federal court decision? | [
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Physics | Why do small objects grip to wet surfaces best, but large objects grip to wet surfaces worse than a dry surface? | [
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Biology | If the symptoms of being sick are your body’s reaction to fighting an infection, why are my symptoms different every time and vary in severity so much? | [
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Chemistry | what is a hot spot after a fire, and why does it last for hours after the fire has been put out with cold water? | [
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Earth Science | What’s the meteorological processes that made the current winter storm so particularly bad? | [
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Physics | Why does light have a finite speed? What is preventing it from going faster than it does? | [
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Chemistry | How do enzymes work? I know that they speed up chemical reactions, but how? | [
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Economics | What exactly is an executive order and what does it mean for everyday Americans? | [
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Other | Why do the last few pieces of cereal tend to come together and form clumps rather than float independently? | [
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Mathematics | Are the Gambler's Fallacy and Bayes Theorem Contradictory to one another? | [
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Mathematics | How can Fibinacci do stuff like this? | [
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Technology | what is the Kernel in an operating system? | [
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Physics | How is time different on the moon? | [
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Mathematics | How can we think in terms of more than 3 dimensions? | [
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Physics | How does both fission and fusion create usable energy? | [
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Technology | Why is Adobe Flash so insecure? | [
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Biology | Why do salt water fish NEED salt in the water to survive? | [
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Other | is there a chemical reason we don’t make banana jam or jelly? Or is it just some weird flavour preference that the whole world seems to share? | [
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Physics | Why exactly does length contraction occur? | [
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Biology | How do chicken pox work, and why does it become more dangerous if you get it at more mature age? | [
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Other | When photographing a model, why do photographers stay far away and use a huge lens rather than get closer? | [
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Physics | Why cant paper be folded more than 7 times? | [
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Earth Science | if the Grand Canyon was created by water erosion from the Colorado river, then how come there isn't grand Grand Canyons around all or most major rivers? | [
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Biology | Why is it that you breathe into someone’s mouth during CPR, but we exhale carbon dioxide which is something humans shouldn’t inhale? | [
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Biology | - why are there tears when crying? | [
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Economics | If low interest rates stimulate the economy what are the advantages of raising them? What are the disadvantages of keeping them low permanently? | [
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Other | why does the west coast burn while the east coast seems relatively unaffected? | [
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Other | How we went from Hurricane Laura to Hurricane Delta when hurricane names are supposed to be in alphabetical order? | [
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Biology | How do scientists make an adult cell turn back into embryo like state? | [
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Technology | How is military technology developed? | [
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Other | What is the difference between an RN and a CNA? | [
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Other | Why do car speedometers go up to > 120 mph when we can’t go that fast on roads? | [
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Other | why is our first instinct to grab and hold where it hurts when we stub our toe or otherwise accidentally hurt ourselves? | [
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Chemistry | Why are some clouds blacker than others? | [
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Economics | why isn’t cost of housing include in the CPI? It seems like it’s the largest inflationary factor in most people’s lives? | [
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Chemistry | - Why does it take so many eggs to scramble vs fry to make a meal? | [
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Technology | What is preventing us from effectively storing energy harnessed by windmills and solar panels? | [
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Technology | . Since VPNs can change your IP address, can you connect to a WiFi even if your device is originally blocked from that same WiFi? | [
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Mathematics | How do we draw a straight line on a curved surface? | [
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Biology | How does heartburn imitate arrhythmia? | [
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Economics | How do the companies that sponsor benefit from having game shows give away their products to contestants? | [
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Physics | Why does light bend when it goes from one medium to another? | [
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Technology | How do radio stations broadcast album art? | [
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Technology | How do TV channels know their viewing figures and how accurate can they be with the numbers? | [
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Biology | Why can a drug test tell us if a drug is present, but can't determine the last time the drug was used? How could you prove for instance you weren't driving under the influence of marijuana, and it is in your system from the day before, weekend before etc. | [
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Biology | Do animals besides humans exhibit symptoms of severe mental illness (manic depression, schizophrenia, personality disorder)? | [
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Economics | How does devaluing the currency help the country? | [
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Technology | Who is the mobile provider for the US Government? What mobile devices do they use? I would assume it's not a private carrier like Verizon. | [
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Technology | Why is it often advised to unplug an electronic device for a few minutes to resolve an issue? How does unplugging it (instead of restarting it) make a difference? E.g. Smart TVs | [
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