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simask234 t1_jeelwls wrote
Reply to comment by Soory-MyBad in eli5: Why do seemingly all battery powered electronics need at least 2 batteries? by OneGuyJeff
My Samsung TV's remote has the batteries arranged vertically
MurkDiesel t1_jeek6r3 wrote
Reply to comment by BGFalcon85 in ELI5: If the chemical dopamine stimulates a 'feel good' sensation, is there a chemical that makes us angry? by Kree_Horse
>People can get addicted to anger and aggression because of it
yep, they're called football players, they get business degrees and run corporations
MercurianAspirations t1_jeejrm7 wrote
Reply to comment by PerturbedHamster in ELI5: How are we able to direct narrow bands of magnetic fields like utility lines if Earth's magnetic field emanates outward from the core towards the atmosphere? by femmestem
Right okay that makes sense. Hopefully this explains it for OP
LudwigVonPoodle t1_jeejn9t wrote
Reply to comment by Seankps in ELI5 What is “mastering” in a music studio setting? by Kshock95
When they’re brand new and in good shape, they’re not lossless, but they are about as good as you can get in the analog world. The problem is that the tapes are a physical media and will deteriorate over time. Or, even worse, they might get destroyed either by accident (like in a fire) or on purpose (like when they destroyed episodes from “Dr Who” and “the Tonight Show”).
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stevekeiretsu t1_jeeitj6 wrote
Reply to comment by Seankps in ELI5 What is “mastering” in a music studio setting? by Kshock95
Better than crappy 80s cassettes yeah but not lossless. One of my favourite albums is Fresh by Sly and the Family Stone and that famously sounds a bit weird because apparently perfectionist Sly overdubbed so obsessively he wore the tape thin
PerturbedHamster t1_jeeic9v wrote
Reply to comment by MercurianAspirations in ELI5: How are we able to direct narrow bands of magnetic fields like utility lines if Earth's magnetic field emanates outward from the core towards the atmosphere? by femmestem
Yeah, OP is actually correct that it's the field. If you have say a 700 kV power line, that means the voltage difference between the two lines is 700 kV. The laws of E&M mean that there has to be an electric field between the two lines, so if you took a charged particle from one line to the other, it would pick up a ton of energy. Incidentally, this is why working on high voltage lines is kind of intense, and the lines themselves have to be incredibly smooth (I think surface imperfections are micron scale or smaller to avoid coronal emission). It's the electric current moving through the field, both of which are provided by the generating station, which carry the energy. It's easy to forget that Maxwell's equations still apply to transmission lines, but they do!
To answer what I think is OP's question, classical magnetic fields don't do any work because the force is always perpendicular to the direction of motion, so the Earth's magnetic field doesn't do anything for power transmission. The Earth doesn't have a large scale electric field, because ions in the atmosphere would rapidly adjust to cancel it out. There aren't a lot of ions in the lower atmosphere (and again, transmission lines are very carefully designed to not create new ones), so the electric field doesn't get cancelled out and we can send power down the lines.
mvgr t1_jeehpl8 wrote
Reply to ELI5: If the chemical dopamine stimulates a 'feel good' sensation, is there a chemical that makes us angry? by Kree_Horse
I believe oxytocin, the "love" chemical, also contributes to anger (or at least defensive behavior) against out-groups. The logic here being that you love your in-group so much you hate out-groups.
Source: https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1189047
Seankps t1_jeegsrd wrote
Reply to comment by stevekeiretsu in ELI5 What is “mastering” in a music studio setting? by Kshock95
I assume those kinds of tapes have a lossless quality. Compared to those crappy cassettes I had in the 90s?
stevekeiretsu t1_jeego31 wrote
Reply to comment by Seankps in ELI5 What is “mastering” in a music studio setting? by Kshock95
tape, if we're talking vinyl era
Seankps t1_jeega3k wrote
Reply to comment by Trumpet1956 in ELI5 What is “mastering” in a music studio setting? by Kshock95
But what form did the original recordings take?
esmith000 t1_jeefui3 wrote
Reply to comment by IamMe90 in ELi5 If the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into? by cashmoneyhash
Simple google search.
Does space itself have energy?
Vacuum energy is an underlying background energy that exists in space throughout the entire Universe. The vacuum energy is a special case of zero-point energy that relates to the quantum vacuum.
Also, look up quantum fields. These exist outside of space and time and are everywhere. So space, even going with metaphor that it is mostly nothing isn't all there is. There is a whole other realm of stuff. The consensus is in physics is that the universe emerged from quantum fields.
couchmaster518 t1_jeefucl wrote
Reply to comment by ToxiClay in eli5: Why do seemingly all battery powered electronics need at least 2 batteries? by OneGuyJeff
I recently saw a picture of the insides of a 9 volt battery and, guess what, it contained six AAA batteries.
Captcha_Imagination t1_jeefoh8 wrote
Reply to ELI5: If the chemical dopamine stimulates a 'feel good' sensation, is there a chemical that makes us angry? by Kree_Horse
Anger/rage is also a dopaminergic activity and that's why a lot of society now is addicted to anger and outrage, often fed by the 24 h news cycle
PagingDrHuman t1_jeefchf wrote
Reply to comment by fiendishrabbit in ELI5 What is “mastering” in a music studio setting? by Kshock95
This can often be a problem as newer remixes often reduce the dynamic range in older pieces
mjb2012 t1_jeef0jp wrote
Mastering can involve making a new transfer from original tapes (in hopes of getting a better starting point than the last transfer), but mainly it is sonic enhancements: noise reduction, EQ, and dynamic compression/expansion. Judicious use of these tools (not just turning all knobs to "11") can result in a more polished, modern sound that makes each song sound as good as it can (in the engineer's opinion); and it can smooth out inconsistencies from song to song (so everything on an album sounds like it belongs together). *Re-*mastering is just when someone does all this work again, often just for the sake of being able to market the same music again as "improved".
The ELI5 version is more like:
You know how your audio player has an "equalizer" or "tone controls" where you can change the volume of, say, just the bass and treble pitches in the music? When you mess with those settings, you are, in effect, "remastering" the audio as it plays. Well, someone did that (and a few other things) on every piece of recorded music you've ever heard, after it was created, to make sure it sounded really "good", in their opinion. This was "mastering" the audio. At some point, when the record company wanted to sell more copies, they got someone else to do that work again, and they marketed the result as "remastered", implying it sounds even better now. Whether it sounds different, and whether it is actually better, is often a matter of taste.
Source: I have done mixing and remastering work professionally.
Pitxitxi t1_jeeer6t wrote
Reply to comment by M0ndmann in ELI5: If the chemical dopamine stimulates a 'feel good' sensation, is there a chemical that makes us angry? by Kree_Horse
Have you ever met a man?
Isolus_ t1_jeeeqwy wrote
Reply to comment by GalFisk in ELI5 Why does a Minus Negative turn into a Plus? by doggie_doggie
There are different ways to achieve this and it's hard to say what you have seen. The "classical" and "easy" approach is to use vectors and apply rotation matrices. But for a flying device you often rotate around an arbitrary axis and not around x, y or z. That is where quarternions come in handy. They can represent a rotation around an arbitrary vector. But they are harder to understand so most teaching of those concepts is done the "classical" way. Quaternions are also numerically stable. Computers can only represent an approximation of a number (for example you can't store Pi, only the beginning). Using matrices it's happens more easily that an error introduced through these approximations changes your result a lot.
ziput t1_jeee9ty wrote
Reply to comment by BGFalcon85 in ELI5: If the chemical dopamine stimulates a 'feel good' sensation, is there a chemical that makes us angry? by Kree_Horse
So articulate 👏 👏
Rayjc58 t1_jeee44p wrote
Just marketing , grass fed animals can walk , run ? Roll around , gallop if they want - all of which improves muscle mass and tone but this takes land and good pasture which can be expensive , grain fed or the other hand - cattle are kept in feed lots with minimal room to walk , run , in general exercise so muscles atrophy become flabby and cattle just put on fat which you pay for in the weight , you think you are buying tasty meat but end up getting flabby loose meat and lots of fat. Fat can be tasty if it’s built on varied muscle and variety of grasses but corn just makes a yellowish tasteless fat Feed lots are good for profits but useless for anything else PROFITS FIRST! ITS THE AMERICAN WAY !!
Remarkable_Inchworm t1_jeedwu3 wrote
Reply to ELI5: Why does every mail subscription seem to have an unsubscribe button? I have seen this even for the scammiest subscriptions. by OldDew
Also: some mail clients (gmail, for example) will add an unsubscribe option when they detect something that appears to be from a mailing list. That might be what you're noticing.
ReadOurTerms t1_jeedplw wrote
Reply to Eli5:How does alcohol kill germs?? by invisible_potion
Denaturation - proteins require a specific shape to function. Alcohol can alter that shape and make them useless. Bacteria rely on the products that proteins make and die due to lack of those products.
mmmmmmBacon12345 t1_jeedlen wrote
>Is there a scientific explanation for why the two are separated in lifestock feed advertising or is it just marketing?
Because they're wildly different in appearance and nutritional content
Grass and Hay are both very bulky but not very nutrient rich, that's why cows have 4 stomachs to help them break down grass and get the nutrients
Grain is wayyy denser in nutrients. A pound of grass hay has about 900 calories for the cow but a pound of feed corn has about 1500 calories, and corn is about 3x denser than hay so the same volume of corn contains about 5x the amount of calories making it a lot easier to fatten up a cow off grains like corn than just grass
The cow is going to eat until its stomach feels full. If you're feeding it grain then its going to eat a lot more calories and pack on a lot more fat than if you were just feeding it low density hay
NightCrawler2600 t1_jeedg8m wrote
When people talk about grain fed, I think they really mean corn fed. There is a difference in grass fed vs corn fed. Corn fed is actually less healthy for the cow because they are not supposed to eat corn, they can have bacteria in their body and that bacteria gets on the meat during slaughter/butchering. This is why some livestock gets antibiotics, to counteract the bacteria. So they say grass fed is better, but there is a change in the way fat is stored / distributed in the body when they eat corn vs grass, and this has an impact on how the food tastes / the cut of meat.
jjbdfkgt t1_jeemf3k wrote
Reply to ELI5: Why sugar in fruits is good for you but processed sugar in chocolate and desserts is not? by Sensitive_Apple_7901
different molecular makeup. i’m pretty sure it’s because natural sugar crystals have stronger bonds between the molecules/ atoms which means your body has to expend energy to break them up and digest them, while processed and artificial sugars have their molecules very available to our systems so they go right through and don’t require extra energy to be broken up. another knock on effect (?) is because as well as artificial sugars in those foods, you’ll usually find a lot of flavourings, “bad” fats, and and other processed stuff, but in natural sugary foods you’ll find fibre, phytonutrients, protein and other things that your body has to work for to break down :)