- ELI5: How do animals gauge time, especially with changing seasons and daylight timings? - 1 hour
- ELI5: Why is the oxidation number of carbon on ethane a -3 but the oxidation number in CO2 is +4? - 1 hour
- ELI5 why the Treasury/IRS rule change is important. - 2 hours
- ELI5: Why do noise cancelling headphones make me feel sick? - 2 hours
- ELI5: Why does everyday feel like it goes by extremely fast by the end of summer vacation? - 3 hours
- ELI5: Scientists have discovered that blue eyes are a result of mutation, if that's the case, why are babies born with blue eyes? - 3 hours
- ELI5: What is the fourth dimension? - 3 hours
- ELI5: How did WW2 proximity fuzes work? - 3 hours
- ELI5: How does our brain separate and transcribe individual tracks and notes when listening to music? - 4 hours
- ELI5 : Why is zoll used in the valve and tubing industries as the standard measuring of the diameter? - 4 hours
- ELI5 : How does the MixColumns step of the AES algorithm works ? - 4 hours
- ELI5: What exactly is the Text Rank Algorithm? How does it help in Text Summarization tasks of Natural Language Processing? - 4 hours
- ELI5: What happens to firearms after conflict? - 4 hours
- ELI5: How does Silicon Wafer Production actually work - 5 hours
- ELI5: why are the tv cables red green and blue instead of the three primary colors? How do they make yellow? - 5 hours
- ELI5: Debt-to-GDP ratio - 7 hours
- ELI5: How were companies (a few generations ago like in the 50’s and 60’s) able to hire people straight out of high school with no work experience - 7 hours
- ELI5: Why do humans sometimes cant seem to remember whether they did something or not? - 7 hours
- ELI5: Why is our address arranged as is whereas to get to an address you have to read it backwards as you go along? - 7 hours
- ELI5: Why do automatic transmission cars have so much trouble trying to shift gears uphill but seemlessly shifts gears downhill? - 7 hours
- ELI5: Why did it seem to be the protocol during WWII to fly so many bombers together in such tight formations? It seems in doing so, it was easier for - 8 hours
- ELI5: Small plastic container of hot sauce exploded. What could have caused this? - 8 hours
- ELI5: I thought I’d always understood how a fossil was formed thousands or millions of years ago, but now I’m not sure of my understanding, how - 8 hours
- ELI5: Where do the drugs police find go once they’re confiscated? - 8 hours
- ELI5: How come looking directly at the sun damaged our eyes, but seeing it in our peripherals doesn’t? - 8 hours
- ELI5: What’s happening when you forget something then remember it out of nowhere a couple minutes later? - 9 hours
- ELI5: How come a wet towel heats up way faster than a dry towel? - 9 hours
- [ELI5] Why does water start to taste funny (and it's always the same) after it's been left in a bottle for awhile? - 10 hours
- ELI5: What's the difference between whiskey and whisky? - 10 hours
- Eli5: why is the act of actually swallowing food so satisfying? - 11 hours
- ELI5: Concentration of sodium vs amount of sodium. - 11 hours
- ELI5: Why do modern software developers and programmers continuously prune options and functionality out of their product? - 11 hours
- ELI5: Company ownership re: Papa John's - 11 hours
- ELI5: Getting computer programs to utilize multiple CPU cores is difficult because the programs have to be specifically coded that way. Why can't - 11 hours
- ELI5: What would happen if you revoked all citizenships that you owned, leaving you with none? - 11 hours
- ELI5: Why is California consistency ranked low in its financial position despite constantly generating the most economic activity and GDP? - 11 hours
- ELI5: What actually happens when you roll your ankle? - 11 hours
- ELI5: What are weight percents/percentiles? - 11 hours
- ELI5: What is a positron and how come it's positively charged but does not weigh like a proton and is more like an electron? - 12 hours
- ELI5: Why when large company's earnings decrease(ex... by 3%) they freak out, talk about rough times, and sometimes decide to downsize, even - 12 hours
- ELI5: Why don’t people generally forget how to ride a bike ? - 14 hours
- ELI5: How can one country sue another. Who represents a whole country? Who adjudicates? - 14 hours
- ELI5: why do muscles become sore after lifting weights or prolonged use? - 14 hours
- ELI5: How do laser thermometers work? - 14 hours
- ELI5 Do I need a phone line for the NBN in Australia? If its no longer a phone line what's a nbn connection called? - 15 hours
- ELI5: The difference in all the fare codes for flights. What do they all mean behind the scene? - 15 hours
- ELI5: Why do some animals like Huskies pass down precise markings, others like tigers have specific markings but random placements, and some like - 15 hours
- ELI5: Why do animals seem to be able to shrug off bad injuries much better than us humans? - 15 hours
- ELI5: How does the opening bottle of wine in a shoe work? - 16 hours
- ELI5: Why is finer coffee (espresso) more potent than just regular coffee grinds? - 16 hours
- ELI5: Why do you have to work out 3-4 hours after a meal? Say I eat a good amount of protein, how does it fuel the muscle after the food is digested? - 17 hours
- ELI5: Why do hornets get weaker, or die late at night? - 17 hours
- ELI5: How can Amazon Prime video know which actors are in which specific seems for every single second of a video? - 18 hours
- ELI5: What is the difference between movies and films? Also directors and filmmakers? - 18 hours
- ELI5: Does magnetic levitation allow friction to occur? - 18 hours
- ELI5: How come flies don't kill themselves flying full force into the window? - 19 hours
- ELI5: Dirac Strings. - 19 hours
- ELI5: Why does sleeping in a particular direction unblock a blocked nose? - 19 hours
- ELI5: Why are plastic bottle caps particularly valuable as recycling material? - 19 hours
- ELI5: why did you need to wait for the "green light" on old cameras to use the flash? What was taking so long ? - 19 hours
- ELI5: Why do Roller Coasters/Motion Rides bother adults more than children? - 21 hours
- ELI5: Why do individual people have distinct scents? - 21 hours
- ELIF: Why do our bodies overheat in temperatures lower than 98.6 F? - 21 hours
- ELI5: If we're biologically programmed to find babies cute - why do so many people not find babies cute? - 21 hours
- ELI5: How do creams like Biofreeze, BenGay and Icy Hot work to relieve internal pain, ie back pain, despite being applied externally? - 22 hours
- ELI5: Why do fruit and vegetable brands advertise their produce so little to customers directly? - 22 hours
- ELI5: How pencil eraser works? - 22 hours
- ELI5: How do they make the nutrients in food today more accessible for our stomach? - 22 hours
- ELI5: What age do we become aware the rest of the world is always happening/lose the "ability" to only think of what we can see? - 22 hours
- ELI5: Why do vehicles with internal combustion engines have to be turned off when fueling to avoid explosions? - 22 hours
- ELI5: How do wealthy people manage finances? - 22 hours
- [ELI5] If you gave a monkey a typewriter and infinite amount of time will he eventually type shakespeare? - 22 hours
- ELI5: Why can you tell the difference between stepping on salt and stepping on sugar? - 22 hours
- ELI5: Why is it difficult to make false banknotes? - 23 hours
- ELI5: What is method variance in regards to the Implicit Association Test (IAT) & what does it have to do with IAT effect sizes? - 23 hours
- ELI5: Why do cable boxes respond to TV remotes so poorly, but video game consoles respond to their controllers excellently? - 23 hours
- ELI5: Are any objects able to emit all wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation simultaneously? - 24 hours
- ELI5: How those transparency changing windows work. - 24 hours
- ELI5: From where do you measure height of moutains and depth of seas? - 24 hours
- ELI5: Why does putting water on a grease fire cause a massive fireball? - 24 hours
- ELI5: mass production items - 24 hours
- ELI5: How is tea beneficial to our bodies? Can it be a substitute to coffee? - 25 hours
- ELI5: What is actually happening when a perfectly comfortable sleeping position eventually stops feeling comfortable and we must re-position - 25 hours
- ELI5: What does it mean for a compound to be a stronger base than a nucleophile? - 25 hours
- ELI5: Why can't we recycle the stuff that's sent to landfill? - 25 hours
- ELI5: Does applying cologne/perfume to pressure points (e.g. wrist, neck, etc.) really make the scent last longer? If so, why? - 26 hours
- ELI5: Why is Monaco a club team in football and not a country? - 26 hours
- Eli5 why do pharmacies always ask if you want generic brand of a prescription? - 26 hours
- ELI5: Why is the first episode of a tv series called “pilot”. - 26 hours
- ELI5: Why is MGM Resorts suing the victims of the Las Vegas massacre? - 26 hours
- ELI5: How do we know history is totally accurate? - 28 hours
- ELI5: Why is YouTube's video UI so smooth & reliable while every other website's video feed is at best, average - 28 hours
- ELI5: What makes us stop from rolling out of bed while we sleep? - 28 hours
- ELI5: Why do people and animals (maybe all mammals) crook their head to the side when they think about or are confused about something? - 28 hours
- ELI5: Why does the sky gradually get lighter towards the horizon? - 29 hours
- ELI5: How do Fighter Jets, packed tightly in a hangar, move without damaging one another? - 29 hours
- ELI5: How come when I'm doing something that can cause motion sickness (taking the train, sitting in a car) immediately crossing my eyes - 29 hours
- ELI5: How does one way glass work? (also tinted glass ) - 29 hours
- ELI5 How do we discover moons around Jupiter just now, when we have discovered planets more than a thousand light years away from us before that? - 29 hours
- ELI5: What would it look/feel like if we were able to fly through Jupiter? - 30 hours
- ELI5: Why is discussing pay from work a bad thing? - 32 hours
- ELI5: As a non smoker, I wonder why some bongs use water, and some don't. And if there is one, what's the difference? - 32 hours
- ELI5: Why do muscle cells grow instead of undergoing mitosis like other cells? What would happen if someone loss a large amount of muscle cells, how - 32 hours
- ELI5: How does the machine/computer with the wires “connected” to my forehead work? - 32 hours
- ELI5: How do they get huge cranes off the top of tall buildings? - 32 hours
- ELI5: How does massaging break down scar tissue? Wouldn't it harm the surrounding "normal" tissue? - 32 hours
- ELI5: How did people in the past estimate distance traveled? - 32 hours
- ELI5: why are there weather seasons when the world just keeps revolving around the sun? - 32 hours
- ELI5: How are Passenger Jet exterior lights configured? - 33 hours
- ELI5: Why is the heat wave in Britain causing structure outlines to reappear? - 33 hours
- ELI5: How are there 60 FPS versions of things that weren't shot/animated in 60 FPS? - 33 hours
- ELI5: Why are things more colorful when they're wet? - 35 hours
- ELI5: Why don’t companies like Amazon allow you to use paypal? - 35 hours
- ELI5: Why is there a gap between movies being played in theaters and being released to BluRays/digitally? - 35 hours
- [ELI5]how did the war on drugs and specifically the war on weed start? - 35 hours
- ELI5: How did so little people die in the construction of the Empire State Building when they had no fall prevention equipment? - 35 hours
- ELI5: How do batteries (AA, AAA, B, C, D, etc.) get their names? What do they mean? - 35 hours
- ELI5: Why do pencils have that hard part in the graphite when you are writing? - 35 hours
- ELI5: During wildfires, who controls air traffic for the planes fighting the fires? - 35 hours
- ELI5 Is there ever a circumstance where the US would need to re-do a presidential election? - 36 hours
- ELI5: What is the Windows .NET framework, and why is it useful? - 36 hours
- ELI5: Why does adding a 1/4 of vanilla to any drink makes taste like a creamcicle? - 36 hours
- ElI5: How do they do vitamin level checks to check for deficiencies? - 36 hours
- ELI5: How do lice outbreaks start in schools? - 36 hours
- ELI5: Can you explain me why or why not we should refrain from killing Spiders in one's house? - 36 hours
- ELI5: Why do drones usually have 2 blades on each propeller? - 37 hours
- ELI5: Why do vehicles in 4WD have a larger turning radius than when they’re in 2WD/RWD? - 37 hours
- ELI5: How do different varieties of quartz get their color? - 37 hours
- ELI5: money laundering through renovations - 37 hours
- ELI5: Why does sugar have so many calories but substitutes like Stevia and Erythritol have none? - 37 hours
- ELI5: How does VR not damage our eyes whereas sitting too close to the TV does? - 37 hours
- ELI5: How did we get the term for a magazine and didn’t just refer to them as a book? - 38 hours
- ELI5:What factors go into determining just how much an NBA 'max contract' is worth? - 38 hours
- ELI5: with a soda stream and syrup, why does it bubble over if the bottle is level, but doesn’t if you tip the bottle when adding the syrup? - 38 hours
- ELI5: Why is coconut oil such a popular/successful product even though coconuts only prosper in specific types of climates? - 38 hours
- ELI5: How stores like Dollar Tree and others survive only by selling items at 1 dollar? - 39 hours
- ELI5: Why do audio upgrades of ebooks cost so much? - 39 hours
- ELI5: Is it cheaper to keep a cool down a hot house with AC or to keep the hot house cool? - 39 hours
- ELI5: What is the science behind ‘the centre of the universe’ located in Tulsa? - 39 hours
- ELI5: What would happen if the Earth spun the other way? - 39 hours
- ELI5: Why does it seem hotter to stand still in the sunlight than it does to walk in the sunlight? - 40 hours
- ELI5: why aren't Italians considered "Latin"? - 42 hours
- ELI5 : why are most specs on electronic devices always a result of 2 to the power of X number like 1024mb ram and 32gb usb stick? - 42 hours
- ELI5: Why do most countries have a capital district that is not a part of any state/province/etc., whereas in some countries like Canada, that is not - 42 hours
- ELI5: Why do drugs that target serotonin (SSRIs) take weeks to start working when drugs that increase dopamine levels (Adderall etc) start working - 43 hours
- ELI5: Why is it so easy to distinguish a video from a photo even when the video is a still image of a still object? - 43 hours
- ELI5: How do surveyors determine land elevation? - 43 hours
- ELI5:If Bacteriophage's exist everywhere there is bacteria and they are so effective at replicating and killing bacteria then how is it that there - 43 hours
- ELI5 Why does water soak into fabric instead of falling right back out of it? - 43 hours
- ELI5: What would happen if a Nuclear Power Plant was left unattended? - 43 hours
- ELI5 : why is it when we are on roller coasters/rides etc we only get the "butterfly" feeling in our tummys when facing forward making a - 43 hours
- ELI5: If a photon experiences no time, how does it do things? - 44 hours
- ELI5: Why does hot air seem difficult to breathe? - 44 hours
- ELI5: Why do many rivers tend to make an "S" pattern in the way they flow? - 44 hours
- ELI5: Why do buildings that aren't being used or occupied have white paint-like stuff put in sgwiggly lines on the windows? - 44 hours
- ELI5:How can FEMA know/predict the flood boundaries of every single creek in the entire country? - 44 hours
- ELI5: why is 10^70 bits of information per square meter the maximum amount of storage possible? Isn't adding more info just changing the spin or - 44 hours
- ELI5: Why are bakeries, and fresh non-fast food in general, more prevalent in France than the U.S? - 44 hours
- ELI5: Why is it easier to tear paper in one direction more than the other? - 45 hours
- ELI5: Why cant we breed peaches / nectarenes without seeds ? - 45 hours
- ELI5: Most over the counter pills (e.g. ibuprofen) have a recommended dose of at least 2 pills. If this is the case why don’t the medicine companies - 45 hours
- ELI5: How do blade servers work? - 45 hours
- ELI5: Why is "0-60 in x seconds" used to measure a car's acceleration? - 46 hours
- ELI5 British Banks clearing. - 46 hours
- ELI5: What is Chemotherapy, and what happens during it? - 46 hours
- ELI5: To people learning new languages: How does assimilation of words from a foreign language to one's vocabulary usually go? - 46 hours
- ELI5: Why is wheat so popular? - 46 hours
- ELI5: When you take a shower, why do your nails get soft, making them easier to be cut? - 46 hours
- ELI5 Is there no 'middle' in seasons around the globe? - 46 hours
- ELI5: Sörgel's Plan To Drain The Mediterranean - Atlantropa - 46 hours
- ELI5: Why do home window replacements cost so much? - 47 hours
- ELI5: How does faster than light travel violate the law of causality? - 47 hours
- Eli5: How is heat related to brain activity ? If i'm correct majority of the time our brain is awake processing information.And if some specific - 47 hours
- ELI5: What was so controversial about Bob Dylan winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016? - 47 hours
- ELI5: why do lower temperatures feel hotter depending where you are in the world? - 47 hours
- ELI5: Why EU and AUS use same octane rating (RON) but cars in Australia can run on 91 while EU cars need 95? - 47 hours
- ELI5: Why does the extra copy of Pair 21 cause down syndrome - 47 hours
- ELI5:Why is there a liquid underneath rockets when they take off? - 47 hours
- ELI5: How can our brain store so much information and not reach a point where it can’t store anything else? - 47 hours
- ELI5 - why do atoms want full valence shells - 47 hours
- ELI5: How can a host 'fight' or resist a parasite? - 47 hours
- ELI5: Why do phones still (or ever) need SIM cards? - 47 hours
- ELI5: How can seizures just take control of your body? - 47 hours
- ELI5: What exactly makes something a vitamin and how did they get their names (C, B6, B12, E, etc)? - 47 hours
- ELI5 - difference between transmission and emission - 47 hours
- ELI5: why does a sphere fit into a cube more efficiently than a circle into a square? - 47 hours
- How To Search ELI5: A Quick Reminder About Rule 7 - 47 hours