- ELI5: Why do inflamed areas of the mouth taste more salty? - 1 hour
- ELI5: What causes that "BURUURUUR" effect when one of the windows in the car isnt open enough? - 1 hour
- ELI5: can you explain the Business model for professional sports like the NBA and NFL? - 2 hours
- ELI5: Heightened drainage with wind - 2 hours
- ELI5: How do we map a place we visit a lot in our mind? - 2 hours
- ELI5: Why do banks use Apple/Google pay for contactless payments instead of their own apps? - 3 hours
- ELI5: Why do they not limit speakers sound output to prevent them from “blowing out” - 3 hours
- ELI5: How do IQ tests work, and are they an accurate way to measure true intelligence? - 4 hours
- ELI5: Why is it that occasionally the roof of the mouth becomes sore when eating soft foods? - 4 hours
- ELI5 How do noise canceling headphones work? - 4 hours
- ELI5: Why are our tears salty? - 4 hours
- ELI5: How exactly do eyeglasses work and let you see better? - 4 hours
- ELI5: Why is it that as you get older and if you do to much of something like drinking or exercising you don't really feel the aftereffects the - 5 hours
- ELI5: Why are fevers a bad thing, if the body gets hot to fight sickness etc ? - 5 hours
- ELI5: Car water pumps - 5 hours
- ELI5: How come tadpoles can breathe underwater but frogs can’t? - 5 hours
- ELI5: why does a dishwasher manage to dry everything except for the plastic bowls and plates? - 5 hours
- ELI5: How does a seasonal indoor plant know what season it is outside if the indoor temperature is kept the same through the year? - 5 hours
- ELI5: Why is there blood outside the veins? - 7 hours
- ELI5: How are a pregnant women's craving different than my late night cravings as a teen? - 7 hours
- ELI5: Why aren't plastic water bottles being replaced by canned water? - 7 hours
- ELI5: How do diving birds know how deep the water is so they don't break their necks or legs on impact? - 7 hours
- ELI5: How does the 5 second rule work? - 7 hours
- ELI5: Why do CPUs and GPUs perform better when cool - 7 hours
- ELI5: What is biosemiotics? - 7 hours
- ELI5: rapid mental calculations - 8 hours
- ELI5: Why do mirrors facing eachother get greener? - 8 hours
- ELI5: What do all the different toothpastes mean (eg. tartar fighting, whitening, etc.)? Do they actually make a difference? - 9 hours
- ELI5: If mother and fetus do not share blood, how do these blood tests to determine a fetuses sex work if it only collects the mother’s blood? - 9 hours
- ELI5: How come whenever we get something in our eye, we always get the instinct to shut our eyes instead of getting said thing out? - 9 hours
- ELI5: How can 1 milliliter of diesel contaminant 1.000 liter of water? - 9 hours
- ELI5: How does tobacco suppress the immune system? - 10 hours
- ELI5: What components make somebody "naturally athletic" or not? - 10 hours
- ELI5: How did artists in the past paint objects that overlap another object? - 10 hours
- ELI5: What actually happens when you "build a tolerance" to something such as alcohol/cannabis? - 10 hours
- ELI5: Who owns the rivers that run through a counties border according to international law? - 11 hours
- ELI5: Why do some food combinations (such as garlic and bread) taste good, while others (like garlic and sugar) taste bad? - 11 hours
- ELI5: How do video game engines work and how do they last so long? - 11 hours
- ELI5: What is “baby fat”, and how do we lose it as we get older? - 11 hours
- ELI5: What is the “empty” space in the body? Like what’s chillen where there isn’t an organ or blood vessels in me? - 11 hours
- ELI5: How does a seed in the ground orient itself? - 12 hours
- ELI5: How Ana Humphrey's mathematical model of determining the possible locations of exoplanets work? - 12 hours
- ELI5: what is the difference between feed-in tariff and feed-in premium and how are these able to encourage renewable energy generation? - 12 hours
- ELI5: What are orientation-specific columns and how can they contribute to visual analysis? - 12 hours
- ELI5: How do mountains like the Yellow Mountains in China form? - 12 hours
- Eli5: Why is human skin selectively permeable? What "good stuff" in nature enters through absorption into the skin? - 12 hours
- ELI5:why catchy music get stuck in our heads - 13 hours
- ELI5: Why are people now so much taller than they were hundreds of years ago? - 13 hours
- ELI5 why does skin turn green because of certain jewelry? What is the scientific reason behind it? - 13 hours
- ELI5: How are we able to analyse DNA that is thousands of years old? How do we even find it? - 13 hours
- ELI5: Ever Played DuckHunt? How did that gun even work? - 13 hours
- ELI5: Why when someone is 7ft do they look twice the size of somebody 5ft? - 15 hours
- ELI5: What is the three jewels in Buddhism? - 15 hours
- ELI5: Why are escalator step surfaces jagged? - 15 hours
- ELI5: What would actually happen if you were to go through airport security with drugs drugs hidden up your vagina/anus? - 15 hours
- ELI5: How does moisturizer work and why does sticking my hands in water not work instead? - 15 hours
- ELI5: how do e.g. yellow and red make orange - 15 hours
- ELI5: When taming / domesticating an animal, how does it work, how does the animal see humans before and after taming and what does it do to the - 17 hours
- ELI5: What is canon and lore? - 17 hours
- ELI5: Why when you're outside and then go inside, you can't see properly for a while - 17 hours
- ELI5: Is the immergence of right or left brain dominance in a person truly random? Why is there such a disparity in the ratio between lefties and - 17 hours
- ELI5: The sky is blue because the blue wavelengths get scattered - but isn't that just how colours work? - 18 hours
- ELI5 Why is an increased heart rate from exercise considered healthy but from stimulant based drugs its unhealthy? - 18 hours
- ELI5: What are the differences between North American and Eurasian Moose(Meese,Mooses?) - 19 hours
- ELI5: how are we trillions in debt? - 19 hours
- ELI5: If time is relative, how do we measure it? - 19 hours
- ELI5: The difference between a Good Movie vs a Bad Movie. - 19 hours
- ELI5: Why is it that sometimes the heart starts beating harder but it doesn't beat faster? - 19 hours
- ELI5: How do they keep making micro processors chips smaller and smaller? - 20 hours
- ELI5: Why does octopus meat not have muscle fibers like pork or beef? - 20 hours
- ELI5: How does a neutrally charged particle have an antiparticle? - 20 hours
- ELI5: Why didn't Louis Slotin's criticality incident at Los Alamos lead to a full-scale nuclear explosion? - 20 hours
- ELI5: How did Charles Lindbergh navigate across the featureless Atlantic with 1927 aeronautical technology (no autopilot) and land just outside - 20 hours
- ELI5: Why are fingerprints so unique? - 22 hours
- ELI5: Why don’t all cars have harness seatbelts like racecars do? - 22 hours
- ELI5: How does the US know that our nuclear weapons still work if we don’t test them any more and many are decades old? - 22 hours
- ELI5: What is Foucault's Views of Relational Power? - 22 hours
- ELI5: How do optometrists decide which lenses are going to work for a baby's eyes? - 23 hours
- ELI5 - when you eat food that makes you sick, how/why is able to travel so fast through your intestines? - 23 hours
- ELI5 Why multiple stones are used in sharpening knives? - 23 hours
- ELI5 yawning and the reasons we don't understand it. - 23 hours
- ELI5: How do apps such as sweatcoin pay you to walk? Where do they get the money from, and how do they make profit? - 23 hours
- ELI5: Since the body moves via Electrical Signals from the Nervous System, Is it possible to feel the Electricity that makes our body move? - 23 hours
- ELI5: Do a certain number of germs need to enter my body in order for me to get sick? - 24 hours
- ELI5: Used oil? Why is it considered bad for environment? - 24 hours
- ELI5: How do glowsticks work? - 24 hours
- ELI5: if convection occurs while water is boiling, does it also occur when ice cubes are put in water to cool it? - 24 hours
- ELI5: How does tobacco suppress the immune system? - 25 hours
- ELI5: what does a neurologist do that’s different than a psychiatrist? - 25 hours
- ELI5: What is the difference between heat and light? - 25 hours
- ELI5: How do people develop ticks or quirks? - 25 hours
- ELI5: Why is it that places like the dollar store need a PIN to use my card, but restaurants dont? - 25 hours
- ELI5 Why bunch of people think saying ching chong is not offensive to asians? - 26 hours
- ELI5: How come plugging in a USB device to my laptop slowly makes my device recognize it better than plugging it in at a faster rate? - 27 hours
- ELI5: Why doesn’t the government include average annual wage earnings when they release the Employment growth? Wouldn’t this help with context? - 27 hours
- ELIF5: How do trees and plants in general produce oxygen? - 27 hours
- ELI5: Why can you get a little extra juice out of dead AA batteries in a remote control by flipping them around? - 27 hours
- ELI5: How does music like heavy metal, and other sub genres of that, seem to have an effect on our performance in either sports or working out? - 29 hours
- ELI5: Does taking 10mg of a drug every day, the same as taking 20mg every other day, when it comes to building a tolerance? - 29 hours
- ELI5: How do PID controllers, when used for stability, work? - 29 hours
- ELI5 - How do events on Earth’s surface shift Earth’s axis? - 30 hours
- ELI5 What causes vodka and tequila not to freeze at -1 Fahrenheit? Is it the alcohol percentage? - 30 hours
- ELI5: What “type” of information is received by the brain from the eyes? - 30 hours
- ELI5: Why does a reverse imagine of a sign remain after certain types of signs are taken down? - 30 hours
- ELI5: Why do people see stars when injured? What causes this occurrence? - 30 hours
- ELI5: How in the world do trees and other plants make wood? - 30 hours
- ELI5: How do whales regulate their temperature in the vastly different seas they travel? - 31 hours
- ELI5: What was it that happened to Detroit that made parts of it "abandoned"? - 31 hours
- ELI5: Why does smoke from factories look still/stationary when viewed from an airplane? - 31 hours
- ELI5 why a lot of places in Canada have cold ass winters and hot ass summers - 31 hours
- ELI5: Do throwing knives always hit blade first? - 31 hours
- ELI5: What is Don't Ask Don't Tell? - 31 hours
- ELI5: Why do certain colours absorb more heat than others? - 32 hours
- ELI5 - What is political efficacy and how does it affect presidential candidates - 32 hours
- ELI5: Why are vibrating objects (such as musical instruments) most resonant at frequencies that are multiples of the harmonic series? - 32 hours
- ELI5: What benefits would a carbon tax have to provide in order for us to see a wider application? - 32 hours
- ELI5: Why do/how can "zero/low calorie sweeteners" have sugar, specifically dextrose, in them, if they are supposed to be sugar - 33 hours
- ELI5 : why iron is considered the most 'stable' element. Wouldnt helium or the inert gases be it? - 33 hours
- ELI5- What happens when photons hit a molecule? - 33 hours
- ELI5: What exactly are “Antioxidants” and what do they do? - 33 hours
- ELI5: how can someone become immune to pollen and if they can't, why not? - 33 hours
- ELI5: What is it about language that the same experience or phenomenon can be described in many different sets of words where some are more meaningful - 33 hours
- ELI5 : What exactly triggers the burst of an asset bubble? And why would it lead to unemployment, loss of savings etc? - 34 hours
- ELI5: If someone with the flu touches something (doorknob), how long does that item stay contagious? Also why is there a flu "season"? - 34 hours
- ELI5: Why is pneumonia more common in elderly and children? - 34 hours
- ELI5: LED lights vs incandescent bulbs - 34 hours
- ELI5: What happens when we get dizzy - 34 hours
- ELI5: How do clothes dry when left out at room temperature given water boils at 100 degrees? - 34 hours
- ELI5: How to radio waves make it through the atmosphere. - 34 hours
- ELI5: How are woman able to carry up to 5+ babies? - 36 hours
- ELI5 does our heart has to work harder while we're laying on the right side than if we're laying on the left? - 36 hours
- ELI5 why is it okay to have beef tartare or blue rare steak vs undercooked pork or chicken? - 36 hours
- ELI5: Where do those monster waves in the middle of the ocean come from? - 36 hours
- ELI5: What would happen to someone’s body if they spent a year up to their neck in fresh water? Would salt water change the result? - 36 hours
- ELI5: Star creation - 36 hours
- ELI5 : Why are market crashes bad? If all the prices go down then just buy them again?? - 36 hours
- ELI5 - Why does the kettle stop whistling as soon as you turn off the heat? I would think it would continue for a little while after - 37 hours
- ELI5 - What is a Data Center "flip" and what exactly is entailed in that? Bonus question, why have a data center flipped? - 37 hours
- ELI5: what is happening physically or mentally in your body/nerve system when you have to pee really badly? And as a follow up, what happens when you - 37 hours
- ELI5: How are video games developed for different platforms? How are they made to be consistent with each other? - 37 hours
- ELI5: Why are some batches of eggs harder to peel than other batches even though they're cooked exactly the same? - 37 hours
- ELI5: Does my brain hear and feel stimuli when i'm asleep, even though i don't ? - 37 hours
- ELI5: How come we can swallow when we're lying down even though liquid moves down the esophagus via gravity? - 37 hours
- ElI5- why do Jewish people (as in a race) when we don't refer to other religions like that. - 38 hours
- ELI5 why the four seasons have the effect they do on animals (such as breeding or hibernating season) and vegetation (such as sprouting, growing - 38 hours
- ELI5: How to increase a countries birth rate? - 38 hours
- ELI5:How can light maintain a direction when traveling through a substance? - 38 hours
- ELI5: The 2008 financial crash (implications and what caused it) - 38 hours
- ELI5 What happens to sunscreen? Does my body absorb or metabolize it? Is it stored in some form? - 38 hours
- ELI5: Crispiness - fried vs dehydrated - 39 hours
- ELI5: What is an inner product? (linear algebra) - 39 hours
- ELI5: REM stands for Rapid Eye Movement. What causes/is the purpose of our eyes to still move during sleep when the rest of our body is nearly - 39 hours
- ELI5: How had European explorers communicated with Native people in New World ? - 39 hours
- ELI5: How do antibiotics help malnourished kids? - 39 hours
- ELI5:Is there a limit on how massive a corporation can get? if so why - why not? - 39 hours
- ELI5: What are keys in music? - 39 hours
- ELI5: What causes throwing up, and why does physical activity (after having eaten) stimulate it? - 39 hours
- ELI5: Why is it easier for all things to get ugly rather than becoming beautiful? - 39 hours
- ELI5: WTF is r/mgtow? - 41 hours
- ELI5: How come most of the time we do things like blink and breathe subconsciously but we can also control them consciously? - 41 hours
- ELI5 How do charity tax writeoffs work? - 41 hours
- ELI5: How can you invest in Real Estate at 18? - 43 hours
- ELI5: Why do certain things only have a transient effect on the brain? - 43 hours
- ELI5: sound in space - 43 hours
- ELI5: How do private prisons make money? What is their business model? Who decides a prisoner should go to which prison? - 43 hours
- ELI5: How am I supposed to react to a wounded military veteran if I don't agree with my country's involvement in the Middle-East? - 43 hours
- ELI5 - Why do some languages have male and female words? Eg German. - 43 hours
- ElI5: How did the Apollo missions communicate back to Earth while on the moon? - 44 hours
- ELI5: How come when you heat up cream not much happens but when you melt butter (which essentially is just very whipped cream) it’s yellow? - 44 hours
- ELI5: Will i die if i use normal super glue on a cut? - 44 hours
- ELI5: How are insects able to crawl on the bottom of objects without falling off? - 44 hours
- ELI5: Why can’t we stop bone pain? - 45 hours
- ELI5: Why do some desk chairs only move when weight is applied from the top? - 45 hours
- ELI5: Why do certain medications like tetracycline increase the risk of getting sunburnt? - 46 hours
- ELI5: How does the hardware in a computer (capacitors, diodes, transistors, etc) process logical information? How does it go from electricity applied - 46 hours
- ELI5:why do galaxies taken with optical teloscopes( have planets in the center that have night skies? - 46 hours
- ELI5: What causes "roller-coaster fainting." - 46 hours
- ELI5: why is saltwater recommended for so many ailments? - 46 hours
- ELI5: How does epilepsy kill people? - 47 hours
- ELI5: How are electric cars more environmentally friendly than gasoline cars when coal burnt to produce electricity has a bigger carbon footprint than - 47 hours
- [ELI5] Whenever I go deep underwater, the pressure hurts my ears. How do divers deal with the pressure? Is it something in their suits, or a device - 47 hours
- ELI5: How can nuclear fusion and fission both release energy? Aren’t they opposites? - 48 hours
- ELI5: If Chinese letters represent meaning instead of pronunciation how do they write foreign words like air conditioning or computer? - 48 hours
- ELI5: How does the US have the ability to mass produce several brands of a single product? - 48 hours
- ELI5: Why can some fruit be left out but if I buy it’s juice, it must be refrigerated? - 48 hours
- Eli5: Why does rebooting the router make the internet go faster/lag less? - 48 hours