- ELI5: The difference between macro and micro economics - 1 hour
- ELI5: There's a coin shortage, and apparently they aren't "flowing" like normal. Where did all the existing coins go? - 1 hour
- ELI5: Why do embers in a fire burn such a bright orange? - 1 hour
- ELI5: How do they get fireworks to make those shapes? - 1 hour
- ELI5: why does storage on games on disc for the ps4 have to be downloaded to the console and not be stored on the disc like say the ps2? - 1 hour
- eli5 - Why can’t you move a body part if you break the bone? - 2 hours
- eli5 Help with component speakers - 2 hours
- ELI5: The Rule of Thirds. To me it just looks like people get a random picture or illustration and put a grid on it to claim everything aligns with - 2 hours
- ELI5: How does 5G work? - 3 hours
- ELI5: How do health bills in the US work after the patient's death? - 3 hours
- Eli5: Cellular Respiration - 4 hours
- ELI5: How do arteries get blocked up? - 4 hours
- ELI5 How does putting power back into the grid work if you have solar panels at your house, like if I plug a battery into the outlet that's fully - 4 hours
- ELI5: why can we see through air? - 4 hours
- eli5: Closed ears - 4 hours
- ELI5: Why do fans and propellers have different amounts of blades? What advantage is there to more or less blades? - 4 hours
- ELI5: How does PTSD really work? - 4 hours
- ELI5: How is The Way by Lil Uzi not a copyright violation. - 4 hours
- ELI5, if an mismatched network phone/sim card pair work perfectly fine for calls why wont the internet work - 6 hours
- ELI5: Why does the ventilator keep us cold? - 6 hours
- ELI5: why are smaller blackholes more radioactive than larger blackholes? - 6 hours
- eli5: So if you technically can't touch anything because of the repulsion at the molecular level, what explains the sensation of touch? - 6 hours
- ELI5: Why does chilli burn on the way in and on the way out but not in between? - 6 hours
- ELI5: How does the brain compare to NVIDIA’s most powerful GPU, the TITAN V? - 7 hours
- ELI5: How do video game mods work? - 7 hours
- ELi5: Why do some websites take one click to get in but multiple clicks to get out? - 7 hours
- ELI5-Why is it, that when it’s cold outside, my eyes immediately start to water and my nose runs? - 7 hours
- ELI5: What’s the resolution of our eyes - 7 hours
- Eli5 how does magic shell work - 7 hours
- ELI5: When and how did the News Media begin losing the trust if the people? - 7 hours
- eli5 : What happens to the egg during an anovulation period? - 8 hours
- ELI5: What is net worth and how is it calculated? - 8 hours
- eli5: why aren't atomic and nuclear test sites as radioactive as the cities where they were dropped? - 8 hours
- ELI5: How do wars end? - 8 hours
- ELI5: Why are we embarrassed to watch another person do something embarrassing? - 9 hours
- ELI5: How do emergency services dispatchers use What3Words? - 9 hours
- ELI5: What is the most important algorithm in modern computer science? - 9 hours
- ELI5: How do graphics cards work? - 9 hours
- ELI5: How do cochlear implants work? - 9 hours
- ELI5: How do Video Game Companies go about the process of suspending or banning players? Is there a review process? - 9 hours
- ELI5: How is it that very public figures can continually use musicians work during events without copyright issues? Especially when musicians - 10 hours
- ELI5: How do search engines work? - 10 hours
- ELI5: How are transistors on a CPU made? - 10 hours
- ELI5: What's that wall of gibberish text when you open some type file in notepad? - 10 hours
- [eli5] What exactly happens when your face tingles from cold sores? - 11 hours
- ELI5: If 99.9999% of an atom is empty space, how do these atoms form matter that we can touch and feel? - 11 hours
- ELI5: If food gives you energy, why are you tired after you have a big meal? - 11 hours
- Eli5 why electrons doesn't go straight into the nucleus? - 11 hours
- ELI5: With all other things being equal, why is heat much more manageable when your skin is dry, than if it is actually wet? - 11 hours
- eli5: when the battery of an electronic toy is low, why does it repeat the beginning of a sound instead of only playing it less loudly? - 11 hours
- Eli5 What will happen if we just gulp our food without chewing? - 11 hours
- ELI5: since money is mostly just zeroes and ones on hard drives nowadays, what prevents a bank from just creating money to an account by just - 13 hours
- ELI5 Why do women, generally, have more fat storage on their butts and tighs when compared to men? - 13 hours
- ELI5 Where do sea turtles live?! - 13 hours
- ELI5: What are these lines on nails called and what is the significance? - 13 hours
- ELI5: Why can digital watches also go wrong? - 14 hours
- ELI5: How does doing a few minutes of exercise regularly makes a difference when you spend the rest of the day sitting or sleeping? - 14 hours
- ELI5: Why does using goggles/dive masks let us see more clearly underwater? What is it about direct water to eye contact that makes it blurry? - 14 hours
- ELI5 - No gold reserves are backing the full US economy, so how is it valued and how is the USD currency kept up against other currencies without gold - 14 hours
- ELI5: How does screen time affects our health ? - 15 hours
- ELI5 Why do YouTube ads load quickly with a poor internet connection but the actual video doesn’t? - 15 hours
- ELI5: How do babies look like both parents at the same time and even aunties and uncles on different side of the family. And is there a word for - 15 hours
- ELI5: how can a company take down a website that is owned by someone else due to something like DMCA - 15 hours
- ELI5: Why does a pimple still feel hard even after you’ve popped it? - 15 hours
- Eli5: Why does standing in boiling/very hot water feel almost cold? - 16 hours
- ELI5: The sensation of falling while you are sleeping, sometimes the feeling like spinning also - 16 hours
- ELI5: How are fireworks made? - 16 hours
- ELI5 If FM radio sends data by changing the frequency of the radio waves, then how can different station broadcast at different wavelengths (say 99.00 - 17 hours
- ELI5: What is the actual shape of black holes. We keep seeing 2d images of black holes on the net where it consists of a black circle devoid of - 17 hours
- ELI5: Why does rubbing my eyes create weird colors and shapes after a while? - 17 hours
- ELI5: What are blackholes and how do they work? - 17 hours
- ELI5: if you’re swimming and a small boat comes your way, can you swim under it and wait until it passes and survive? - 17 hours
- eli5: How do octopi change color? - 18 hours
- ELI5: What happens during a tantrum? - 18 hours
- ELI5: Why can't we control some parts of our body such as the heart for example? - 18 hours
- ELI5: What exactly are Dissociation and Depersonalization episodes? - 18 hours
- ELI5: Is it possible for a rock that falls down to bounce back in the exact same direction and with the same amount of energy it fell down with? - 19 hours
- ELI5: Why does cling wrap become less clingy after reusing it? - 19 hours
- ELI5: Why do certain smells trigger vivid memories? - 19 hours
- ELI5: Why are my memories in third person? - 19 hours
- ELI5: when running two graphics cards in SLI, how is there not a massive overheating issue when there’s no space at all between the cards? How does - 19 hours
- ELI5: Why do you feel dizzy when standing up to fast? - 19 hours
- ELI5: Pigeon carriers. How does it work? How do you train them to travel cross country. Are they accurate and still being used? - 20 hours
- ELI5: CPU threads and cores. Whats the difference? How do they work? - 20 hours
- eli5 How do tv shows get their money? - 20 hours
- ELI5: I literally need help explaining the afterlife to a five year old. - 22 hours
- Eli5: Why is it that salt-water fish/animal can not survive in freshwater and vice versa? Are there exceptions to this? - 22 hours
- ELI5: How is it that most concerts, not necessarily jazz and that sort, change up there sets randomly and extend certain parts (ex: guitar solo) and - 22 hours
- ELI5: How are fireworks that create complex designs made? - 22 hours
- ELI5 How does sugar influence alcohol drinks? - 22 hours
- ELI5: How do computer chips work? - 23 hours
- ELI5: How do foreign music charts work? - 23 hours
- ELI5: Why does resetting the modem fix/improve the internet connection and speed? - 23 hours
- ELI5: How come a remote with batteries that are almost dead, starts working when you slap it ? - 23 hours
- ELI5: How come that objects in space are always ellyptical/circular/rounded rather than square/sharp edged? - 23 hours
- ELI5: Why do most people like their food hot? - 23 hours
- ELI5: How do English politics work? Like how is England, Scotland, Welsh and Northern Ireland countries but at the same time a part of another - 24 hours
- Eli5 Pepsi and Mentos. - 24 hours
- eli5 What is a middle school in the US and when does the transition start to high school? - 24 hours
- ELI5: How do news networks vet their guests such that on air guests usually display the same views as themselves and their viewers? - 24 hours
- ELI5: Why does electricity always seek the ground? Why not the sky? Why not stay where it is? - 24 hours
- ELI5: What's a Fraternity / Sorority house and why do they use Greek Letters? - 24 hours
- ELI5: How are computers able to understand code? - 24 hours
- ELI5: There exist different versions of Windows like Professional, Home, etc. If they’re the same operating systems with different sets of features - 25 hours
- ELI5: Why are mosquitoes starting to bite me again? - 25 hours
- ELI5: How do Home security systems work and how are breeches of data possible? - 25 hours
- ELI5: Why can you feel spicy things on your skin? - 25 hours
- Eli5 Why is it that when you give your child the sex talk, it’s about the “birds and the bees?” - 25 hours
- ELI5: when a video game glitches is it the game not understanding your actions or is it literally you breaking code with anomalies? - 25 hours
- ELI5: Why does it seem like the “standard” instruments in bands/orchestras hasn’t changed in 100s of years? - 25 hours
- ELI5:Where does the money go when we purchase a domain online? - 25 hours
- ELI5: Water boils at 100°C, so why can we have a roaring boil and a low simmer? Isn't all water at the same temperature? - 26 hours
- ELI5: What makes it hard to drink hard liquors fast? For example, even if you love the flavor of whiskey, you can't chug it like water. - 26 hours
- ELI5: Derrida's concept of deconstruction - 26 hours
- ELI5: How come contact lenses don't bother your eye but when you get an eyelash in your eye all hell breaks loose? - 26 hours
- ELI5: Aveeno’s active ingredient is dimethicone. All others (including it’s famous oatmeal) are listed as inactive ingredients. How do they - 26 hours
- ELI5: Why are the U.S troops deployed all over the world? Even in countries where there isn’t a need for them. - 26 hours
- Eli5: How does wicking not defy the laws of thermodynamics? - 26 hours
- ELI5: Why does the sun seem to move faster while it sets/rises? - 26 hours
- ELI5 : How were maps drawn back in the day ? - 27 hours
- ELI5: After a day in the sun, why do tan lines become more apparent when you are in the shower? - 27 hours
- ELI5: Does a mouse send 1s and 0s to the computer? - 27 hours
- ELI5: Why do some photos from the 19th and early 20th centuries appear to be of higher quality than photos from the mid to late 20th century? - 27 hours
- ELI5: Why is dental insurance not part of overall medical insurance? - 28 hours
- ELI5: how do they put those advertising cars in malls ? - 28 hours
- Eli5: How come video game graphics haven't improved much in the last 10 years? - 28 hours
- Eli5 If cockroaches can survive a nuclear explosion, how does Raid kill them - 30 hours
- eli5: Why does mould form out of nowhere? - 30 hours
- ELI5: energy lost as heat - 30 hours
- ELI5: Why does Xanax/Alprazolam make food taste better? - 31 hours
- ELI5: How is it possible to sell fully cooked bacon at room temperature? - 31 hours
- ELI5 Why is 3D filament cheaper than 2D ink? - 31 hours
- ELI5: what’s going to happen if I pull the hand brake while drive at high speed (e.g. 70 mph)? How is it different than step on the brake hard? - 31 hours
- ELI5: I’ve googled what modalism means but I really just don’t understand the concept. Can someone explain this in a way that makes actual sense? - 31 hours
- ELI5 - How do eagles and other birds see more? Eg zoom - 32 hours
- ELI5: Why does DEET kill ants? - 32 hours
- ELI5: Why is the range of healthy human body temperature so small (only 3-4 degrees)? - 32 hours
- ELI5: As a plant grows, it gains weight. Where does the majority of this mass come from? - 32 hours
- ELI5: How is carbon dioxide pumped into water? Shouldn't it just bubble out? - 32 hours
- eli5. Why do invasive species thrive in areas not part of their homeland? - 33 hours
- ELI5: Why does water pressure within a house drop as faucets are opened, but (presumably) other houses continue to have full pressure? - 33 hours
- ELI5: How do cookies in cookie flavoured ice-cream stay crunchy all the time? - 33 hours
- ELI5: Why do classical musicians read sheet music during sets when bands and other artists don’t? - 33 hours
- ELI5: Why did we go from 4:3 to 16:9? - 34 hours
- ELI5: How does Raytracing work, and why is it better than the current methods? - 34 hours
- ELI5: How does a TV series have different directors for episodes, sometimes even for consecutive episodes? How do actors adapt to different directing - 34 hours
- ELI5: How does moving air, such as from a fan or a breeze, cool our bodies down on a hot day? - 34 hours
- Eli5 why hairs grow faster on moles and other things. - 34 hours
- Eli5: Why does acne "attack" primarily the face? - 34 hours
- ELI5: Why do public companies care about their stock price or market cap? Don't they only get money during their IPO or if they issue new shares? - 34 hours
- ELI5: Why is the caramel soft in ice cream bars, but if I were to stick a Snicker's bar in the freezer, the caramel would come out rock hard? - 34 hours
- ELI5: Does the total known mass orbiting the sun in comparison to its solar mass anyway correlate to planets orbits / mass / solar harmonics? or is it - 35 hours
- ELI5: What is Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD)? - 35 hours
- ELI5: Why do some things explode instead of simply burn? - 35 hours
- ELI5: What were the logistics of early colonists paying taxes to the British? - 35 hours
- ELI5: how does the earth keep dinosaurs bones and such "fresh"? - 35 hours
- ELI5: How do they make technology smaller with all of the same stuff? - 35 hours
- ELI5: What IS the Elephant's Foot, exactly? - 37 hours
- Eli5: Why does it rain diamonds on neptune? - 37 hours
- ELI5: Why do nutritionists and psychiatrists say sugar is poison for the brain & body? What does it do? - 37 hours
- ELI5: Click bait - 37 hours
- Eli5: Do businesses lose or make more money with Groupon? - 37 hours
- ELI5: What does different sides of the political compass represent? - 37 hours
- ELI5: How do satellites always point toward earth - 38 hours
- ELI5: How many people can this planet sustain? When it comes to food, space to live, being able to still have wilderness. - 38 hours
- ELI5: How can we know what molecules look like if we can’t really see them? - 38 hours
- ELI5:Why does the wheel of a fast moving car looks like it twirls back for moment and back to the front again? - 38 hours
- ELI5: Can Someone Explain this Mortgage Financing Strategy ? - 38 hours
- ELI5: When you get a concussion and it's dangerous to go to sleep, what do doctors do to cure it? - 38 hours
- ELI5: What happens when dead pixels fix themselves? Why does this happen? - 39 hours
- ELI5 How combustion engines work. - 39 hours
- ELI5: Why does some spicy food hit you on the lips, while others hit you on the tongue or even the back of your throat? - 39 hours
- ELI5: What causes a phobia to make people so irrationally scared of things? - 39 hours
- ELI5: How does a microphone works? how can it converts audio into digital? - 40 hours
- eli5 - what’s happened to those individual tastebuds that become SUPER painful/swollen/sometimes ‘burst’ and flap open out of nowhere? what went - 40 hours
- ELI5: If Putin is having his citizens vote on his increased term length, why can’t they just vote no? Do the Russians like Putin? - 40 hours
- ELI5: What are the benefits of a 24hr fast? - 40 hours
- ELI5 How did the old 'Etch a Sketch' Work - 40 hours
- Eli5 what is the cause of death of people who fell from big heights? - 40 hours
- ELI5: Why does freezing soda make it go flat? - 40 hours
- ELI5: How does "natural born talent" work exactly, and why does it vary so much between people? - 40 hours
- ELI5: Does an animal require sentience to feel physical pain? - 40 hours
- ELI5: Why do some irons (for ironing clothes) need water before they get hot? - 41 hours
- ELI5: What are MLM brands and why are they bad? - 41 hours
- ELI5: Why does feedback loop noise turn high pitched? - 41 hours
- eli5: how do elections work in the US? - 41 hours
- ELI5: Why is YouTube mini-player disabled for videos made for kids? - 41 hours
- ELI5: Why is it that e.g. 4ˆ-s = 1/4 s? - 41 hours
- ELI5: How are animals/organisms with short lifespans such as mayflies not constantly mutating/evolving? - 41 hours
- ELI5: I've learned that video game 'clipping' is caused by high velocity, thin colliders, and too-slow physics updates. Why are terrain - 42 hours
- Eli5 why aren't decentralized apps more popular? - 44 hours
- ELI5: What are all the Things A.I.s can do at the moment? What about the near future? And After? - 44 hours
- ELI5: If viruses are non living things, how does a sanitizer “kill” them? - 45 hours
- ELI5: Why do some countries use such high denomination currencies (e.g. Vietnam, India, etc) whilst others use lower denominations (e.g. UK, US, - 45 hours
- ELI5: Why do waterfalls sound so weird on camera? - 45 hours
- ELI5: Why do photos taken from space show a perfectly black “sky?” Why aren’t the stars visible? - 45 hours
- ELI5: If humans manufacture currency, why can't we manufacture more money and hand it out to the less fortunate /lower class? - 45 hours
- ELI5: why is it okay to talk about "narcissistic abuse" when similar concepts are considered horrifying? - 45 hours
- ELI5: Why if you actually look at a mirror is it blurred, but you need to look beyond it although there is nothing there to see your reflection - 45 hours
- ELI5 How do television networks know viewer statistics? - 46 hours
- ELI5: Why can we make heat without expunging cold, but not the inverse (make cold without expunging heat)? - 46 hours
- ELI5: Why do insects continue to infest areas that are routinely fumigated? Why aren’t they put off by the dozens of other dead insects/lingering - 46 hours
- Eli5: What is a canker sore? - 46 hours
- Eli5 How do the cables help the Golden Gate bridge stay up? - 46 hours
- (ELI5) Are penises cold to women because of the flow of heat since vaginas are warm - 46 hours
- ELI5: How does remittance work and help the economy? - 46 hours
- ELI5: What is that weird taste in your mouth when you wake up? - 46 hours
- ELI5: how do internal monologue develop growing up and how would the absence of an inner voice affect your thought process? - 47 hours
- Eli5: How is this audio altered—making it sound like I’m listening to it in a big room with a good sound system and not my AirPods? - 47 hours
- ELI5: Why does beer bubble so much more than other carbonated liquids when you pour it in? What exactly happens to cause bubbling in general? - 47 hours
- ELI5: Why are steroids like trenbolone & dianabol injected through needle (instead of orally like a pill), while anavar can be consumed orally? - 48 hours
- ELI5: How does the earths first gain more layers if there is a finite amount of material? - 48 hours
- ELI5: How did bad eyesight survive natural selection? - 48 hours
- ELI5: Neuralink (and others) claim that brain-machine interfaces can increase the bandwidth of information from brain to machine and vice versa. In - 48 hours
- ELI5: how do prisoners make toilet wine? - 48 hours