- ELI5: "the medium is the message" - 2 hours
- ELI5: How did old settlements get physically buried underground - 2 hours
- [ELI5] is there a good explanation why passports need to be checked when departing and then again when arriving? - 2 hours
- ELI5: Why is insider trading so bad? - 2 hours
- ELI5: How does wind exists? - 2 hours
- ELI5: How come acid containers does not disintegrate when in contact with its super acidic contents? - 2 hours
- ELI5: Why are women more likely to be obese than men (WHO statistics says so but doesn't explain why) - 2 hours
- ELI5: How do they measure the age of a very old shark for example? - 3 hours
- ELI5: In those tourist bazaars where every stall is selling the same souvenirs, how do they all make money? - 3 hours
- ELI5: Can someone explain in layman's terms the credit default swap with Exxon after their oil spill? - 3 hours
- ELI5: Why European restaurants run your credit card at the table and American restaurants run your credit card at a terminal in the back? - 3 hours
- ELI5: how does washing detergent work? - 4 hours
- ELI5: Does restarting a computer actually do anything or is it just a placebo? - 4 hours
- ELIF: why does your body get itchy when you're over tired? - 5 hours
- ELI5: What is radiation ? What are the diffrences between the 3 types ? - 5 hours
- ELI5: Where do ruminants (cows, sheep, etc) get their protein? - 5 hours
- ELI5: Why do many felines refuse to eat when the bottom of their food bowl is visible? - 5 hours
- ELI5: Differences between putting some 87, 89 or 91 octane gas in a car - 5 hours
- ELI5: what happens if i play a 1080p video on a 720p display? - 6 hours
- ELI5: What are air pockets? - 6 hours
- ELI5: when a phone is vibrating in a TV movie, it feels/sounds like it's my phone vibrating. Why/How? - 6 hours
- ELI5: Why does one start sweating at 25 degrees (Celsius)/77(F) even though the body temperature is much higher? - 6 hours
- ELI5: Why do some speakers need an AMP and why are others working without one? - 6 hours
- ELI5: Why does printer ink use magenta and cyan instead of red and blue? - 7 hours
- ELI5 Why do things that have been around radiation become radioactive themselves ? - 8 hours
- ELI5: How does the nuclear material get put into a nuclear reactor? - 8 hours
- ELI5: What makes a computer programmable and not a single purpose machine? - 8 hours
- ELI5: There are four commonwealth states in the U.S. Why do they identify themselves this way? - 8 hours
- ELI5: How does light-based data transmission work? Fiber optics? - 9 hours
- ELI5: what is different in a humans body that is allergic to shellfish compared to humans who don’t have the allergy? And why does the allergic - 9 hours
- ELI5: Are there restrictions on how a person’s body can move based on their size? For example could you teach a 7ft2 person to do a perfect double - 9 hours
- [ELI5] Why does it feel disgusting/crap to watch the porn you have just been watching after you ejaculate. - 9 hours
- ELI5: Why can't people with hypertension or even those that have elevated blood pressure donate blood? Doesn't the reduction in blood volume - 10 hours
- ELI5: what is it that makes it possible for us to swing higher on a swing set when we move our legs? What is happening? - 10 hours
- ELI5: Why do things turn black when they burn? - 12 hours
- ELI5: What does it mean chemically to be "high"? - 12 hours
- ELI5: Why do elevators have an up and down button? - 12 hours
- ELI5: Why are people more prone to hiccups when they are drunk? - 12 hours
- ELI5: Why do your eyes water after you yawn? - 12 hours
- ELI5: Why does things seem to hurt more when I'm cold. (Like hitting my fingers on something after coming from outside.) - 13 hours
- ELI5: How does “heat lightning” work? Why doesn’t it make thunder? - 13 hours
- ELI5: Why do so many baseball players wear those rediculously large gold necklaces when playing the game? They have to keep tucking it back in their - 13 hours
- ELI5: Why does the sun make you sneeze? - 13 hours
- ELI5: How does inflammation contribute to cancer? - 13 hours
- ELI5: I keep reading that Mitch McConnell won't "let" certain things move forward or be brought up for discussion/a vote. How can one - 13 hours
- ELI5: How and why is the wasp's stinger area still actively moving despite the wasp already killed? - 14 hours
- ELI5: What the heck does that third prong on a Western Hemisphere power plug do (the "ground") if it isn't necessary for all - 14 hours
- ELI5 : What does it mean for a living thing to share the same ancestor? Like how do humans and lobsters have a common ancestor? - 14 hours
- ELI5 Why can't States indict a sitting President? - 14 hours
- ELI5: today I accidently sniffed Chlorine and it immediately made the back of my head hurt like when you get water up my nose, Why? - 14 hours
- ELI5: What do pilots do when they find air turbulence? Is the only option to wait it out, or are they able to escape it somehow? - 14 hours
- ELI5: What am I seeing in the sunlight? - 15 hours
- ELI5: How do lubricants actually work? - 15 hours
- ELI5: Why do package contents makes mail rates so different, even if weight is similar? - 15 hours
- ELI5: if we can absorb things through the rectum (e.g. alcohol), what prevents us from getting sick from the fecal matter passing through it? - 15 hours
- ELI5: If the moon has a big heavy mass that is not in the center, why is it on the far side of the moon and not the side closest to us? - 15 hours
- ELI5: When someone eats something that doesn't agree with their digestive system and it causes sudden diarrhea (ex: dairy), is it really that food - 16 hours
- ELI5: Why is the snooze setting on alarm clocks set at 9 minutes? Why not 8, or 10 or 15? I’m sure it has to do with what stages of sleep we reach - 16 hours
- Eli5: Why does water taste different after freeze and thaw? Like if you take the same water and make ice cubes with it, melt it in a glass and do a - 17 hours
- ELI5: How does a gas station manage to serve thousands of cars multiple gallons of gas a day when the gas tanker trucks that deliver gas don’t look - 17 hours
- ELI5: Why does our body begs for junk food (sugar, ice cream, chocolate, etc.) when we are sad? - 17 hours
- ELI5: Where the rest of 100MB file is being kept when it is compressed into 80MB zip file? - 17 hours
- ELI5: What are the differences between Trademark and copyright? (R) and (C) - 17 hours
- ELI5: Could we measure earths speed relative to the center of the universe? - 19 hours
- ELI5: How does an average earner afford a house in a high valued area - 19 hours
- ELI5: How do people (not in cars) get stuck on train tracks? - 19 hours
- Eli5 Auguste compte positivism - 19 hours
- [ELI5] How does the flash in cameras damage paintings in museums? - 19 hours
- ELI5: How is a word created? How does it become a generally accepted term by a population? - 20 hours
- ELI5: how do guarantors for apartment leases work? - 20 hours
- ELI5: Why is there a big brother figure being mentioned and who or what is it referring to? - 20 hours
- ELI5: what makes our eyes feel heavy and burn when we wake up or are very very tired and only closing them give us relief from this burn? - 20 hours
- [Eli5] What is a hormone? - 20 hours
- ELI5: What is the origin of the US-American "gun culture"? - 21 hours
- ELI5: Why is air colder when it's moving faster, or when we go through it while moving fast? - 21 hours
- ELI5: What causes metals to become magnetically charged? And can you force a metal to have its north or south poles on certain sides? - 21 hours
- ELIF why don’t women ‘save up’ their eggs when they take the pill which stops periods? - 21 hours
- ELI5: What exactly is radiation? - 21 hours
- Eli5- can radio hosts lie about sponsored products or services they have “tried” or “used”? They seemed to have tried and loved every product - 22 hours
- ELI5: Is the solar system flat the way it is depicted in images or is it spherical? If it is flat, why? - 22 hours
- ELI5: How is war profitable - 22 hours
- ELI5: Why does aluminum foil never get hot to the touch. You can leave it in the oven and touch it directly out of the oven without it feeling hot. - 22 hours
- ELI5: How do conservation easements work? - 22 hours
- ELI5: When you move your hand in front of a screen or light, why does it look like your hand is moving at a “lower frame rate” so to speak? - 22 hours
- ELI5: What is the purpose of baby teeth? - 22 hours
- ELI5: paint colour codes - 22 hours
- ELI5: The brain has to have a limit to how much information it can store. Is this limit ever reached and what happens when it is reached? - 22 hours
- ELI5: Aside from being unsightly, in what was does litter harm the environment? - 22 hours
- ELI5: Why do food allergies exist? - 23 hours
- ELI5: Why does the method of cooking change the taste of food so drastically? - 23 hours
- ELI5: Irrational numbers represented in real life? - 23 hours
- ELI5: Selling a house "For Sale By Owner" - 23 hours
- ELI5: How do peanut allergies work? - 23 hours
- ELI5: What exactly is glass? - 23 hours
- ELI5: How a chicken can stabilize their head and why ? - 23 hours
- ELI5: Why is it that dry towels and sponges are harder to squeeze/bend than wet towels and sponges? - 24 hours
- Eli5 is eating a blueberry frozen less nutritious than eating that same blueberry exact same age but not frozen? - 24 hours
- ELI5: why tea stains my cup but not coffee? - 24 hours
- ELI5: Why do eyes water when nervous? - 24 hours
- ELI5: Why haven’t we gone to a specific screw type yet? - 24 hours
- ELI5: Why are electronics stuffs called "electronics" but not "protonics" or "neutronics"? - 27 hours
- ELI5: What happens when a lightning strikes a body of water? - 27 hours
- ELI5: Why is radar hard to detect stealth aircraft while satellite telephones easily capture signals below the thermal noise floor? - 27 hours
- ELI5: Why is it recommended to seek shade when the UV index is high on a particular day? - 27 hours
- ELI5: Are employees paid during 1-2 month business closures for renovations? Common in the fast food industry. - 27 hours
- ELI5: How to MI. Machine Learning For Beginners - 27 hours
- ELI5: Why is it a fact that if a person were to look at a person they love, their pupils dilate? - 28 hours
- ELI5: Kosher VS Halal - 28 hours
- ELI5: How can kids play in movies being themself below the authorized viewing age restriction - 28 hours
- ELI5: Why do all medicine taste bad? - 28 hours
- ELI5: When you hurt your fingernail and it starts to come off, how does the body "know" that it has to start a new one? - 28 hours
- ELI5: How can an airbag know when it should go up or not? - 28 hours
- ELI5: How does smart watch measure stress? - 28 hours
- ELI5: difference between sympathy and empathy - 28 hours
- ELI5: I have just heard of the concept of “splitters” for computers and have questions.... - 29 hours
- ELI5: How safe is nuclear reactors? - 29 hours
- ELI5: How come studios can't make movies with IP they don't hold the rights to, but shows like Robot Chicken can have any characters they want - 29 hours
- ELI5: Is there such a thing as an Authoritarian Humanist? - 29 hours
- ELI5: Why do things that seem big and detailed suddenly turn out to be so small when you take a picture of it? (Ex. Moon, Mountain in the background, - 30 hours
- ELI5: What is the difference between a 2 in 1 shampoo/shower gel and the separate soaps? Is it just a mix of both? And is there any danger in washing - 30 hours
- ELI5: What exactly happens when someone regains consciousness? - 31 hours
- ELI5: How do Municipal and City Broadbands Work? - 31 hours
- ELI5: How does the human body generate the heat to stay on about the same temperature all the time? - 33 hours
- ELI5: How can I use the touchscreen of my phone even after putting on a screen guard or a protective mirror on meaning I’m not directly touching the - 33 hours
- ELI5: what are the needs of capacitors in many electronic circuits ? - 33 hours
- ELI5: how do subsidies work, such as fossil fuel or farm subsidies? What benefits do they provide and/or what harm would result from stopping them? - 33 hours
- ELI5: How can apple trademark "apple" - 34 hours
- ELI5: How do mirages appear on a hot day on a road and how does the mirage show a mirror image? - 34 hours
- ELI5: How are LEDs brighter and more powerful, yet use so little energy? - 34 hours
- ELI5: How do the saw that dont cut skin know the difference between skin and wood? - 35 hours
- ELi5: why are processed meats Group 1 carcinogenic along cigarettes and plutonium? - 35 hours
- ELI5: How can one computer infected with a virus spread it over LAN? - 35 hours
- ELI5: How does Dissociative Identity Disorder work? Are all the personalities conscious the same time? - 35 hours
- ELI5: What is Upregulation? - 35 hours
- ELI5: Why have humans acclimatized themselves to spicy flavors better than bitter flavors? - 36 hours
- ELI5: Why do printers make so much noise before and after actually producing a document? - 36 hours
- ELI5: How would a Dyson sphere actually work? - 36 hours
- ELI5: Why are women born with their eggs, but men produce sperm monthly? - 36 hours
- ELI5: Company structure rules - 36 hours
- ELI5: How does technology keep the time after being turned off and then back on? - 36 hours
- ELI5: How do record players work? What does the needle do to produce sound? - 36 hours
- ELI5: How does wind feel cool on the skin even if the air itself isn’t a low temperature? - 37 hours
- ELI5: How does LSD do *that* to your brain? - 37 hours
- ELI5: Why can’t ATMs be face ID to prevent unwanted payments on a stolen card, if so many phones can be mass produced with facial recognition tech? - 37 hours
- ELI5: Why does placing a wooden spoon across the top of a pot of boiling pasta prevent it from boiling over? - 37 hours
- ELI5: NASDAQ vs NYSE in terms od High FrequencyStockExchange? - 37 hours
- ELI5 How does plastic get into the ocean? - 38 hours
- ELI5: How to calculate safe radiation dosage per day and town? - 38 hours
- ELI5: Why does Boston robotics “abuse” the robots? - 38 hours
- ELI5: Why can't you take medication to get rid of plantar warts like any other virus? - 38 hours
- ELI5: How does vaporized liquid (specifically from electronic cigarettes/ vapes) not burn you? - 38 hours
- ELI5: We have goat milk and cow milk to consume, but why is it merely impossible to find pig milk in a grocery store? - 38 hours
- ELI5: Why do people taste metal when exposed to radiation? - 39 hours
- ELI5: Why do things like coffee, tobacco, spicy foods, etc. speed up the digestive process? - 39 hours
- ELI5: what is the plank length? What do they mean when they say it’s the “shortest length”? - 39 hours
- ELI5: How did higher education work in the Soviet Union? - 39 hours
- ELI5: Epsom Salt, how does it work to help relieve pain on sore joints? - 39 hours
- ELI5 Why do photos of stripes/patters get all messed up on computer screens? - 39 hours
- ELI5: How does composting work? How is it beneficial? What does it do? - 41 hours
- ELI5: Can someone explain extradition to me - 41 hours
- ELI5: how did people used to keep their teeth clean before toothpaste? - 41 hours
- ELI5: How do people get a count for large gatherings such as the protest in Hong Kong, where it’s approximated that 2 million people are gathered - 41 hours
- ELI5: How come when you were a kid you could do anything you wanted without getting sore, but as you get older you can't? - 42 hours
- ELI5: How do flight computers in planes know how high above the ground they are. - 42 hours
- ELI5 - What do people mean when they say that Hong Kong is “semi-autonomous” from China and how is this autonomy affected by the new extradition - 42 hours
- ELI5: If flu is seasonal, what happens to it in between seasons and how does it come back? - 42 hours
- ELI5: How do geiger counters work? - 42 hours
- ELI5: I know the pupil is a hole in the eye but why even in bright environments can't you see into it? - 42 hours
- ELI5: How are you able to keep bandages/dressings on post surgery for an extended amount of time before it can be washed/changed without getting an - 43 hours
- ELI5: Why is it that space travel takes so long? If space is (nearly) a vacuum and by Newton's laws, the acceleration of a spacecraft would be - 43 hours
- ELI5: what is spectral efficiency in telecommunications and what is it used for? - 43 hours
- ELI5: How do food dehydrators work? - 43 hours
- ELI5: All insects have 6 legs, but their larvae often has more. So is a caterpillar an insect? - 43 hours
- ELI5: What causes a material to be a solid object, and why does it not reform after it has been divided? - 43 hours
- ELI5: What are the protests in Hong Kong about? - 43 hours
- ELI5: How does a large radiation source cause surrounding objects to become radioactive too? - 44 hours
- ELI5 Can I store a AA battery backwards? - 44 hours
- ELI5: How do doorbells work? - 44 hours
- ELI5: What are API's, and how do they work between software or applications? - 44 hours
- ELI5: How come it’s so easy to take things or people for granted? - 44 hours
- ELI5: why do sheep, snakes and some other animals have slit pupils? How does this change the image created on the retina? - 44 hours
- ELI5: Why does sneezing feel good? - 45 hours
- ELI5:How do airports and railway stations that encounter massive delays due to accidents or disasters recover and get back to normal time schedules? - 45 hours
- ELI5: In disputed territories like Western Sahara, who is actually in charge? (e.g. if I commit a crime, which police is going to arrest me?) - 46 hours
- ELI5 How does prosthetic arms know how/when to move its fingers? - 46 hours
- ELI5: Why do lots of mobile video game advertisers just show random fragments of out of context gameplay, without showing us the name of the game or - 46 hours
- ELI5: What causes a "cough" - 46 hours
- ELI5: How on earth does the power supply to an entire Country fail? - 46 hours
- ELI5: Why does Germany retain a budget surplus, when most countries agree that incurring debt to fund economic growth is a better strategy? - 46 hours
- ELI5: How do wasps build nests? - 46 hours
- ELI5: Why can our arms get tired of moving if our heart never gets tired of beating? - 46 hours
- ELI5 what is happening in Hong Kong? - 46 hours
- ELI5: What is turbulence and how do pilots see it coming? - 47 hours
- ELI5: if a new AirForceOne is a modified 747($400mil) than why will it cost ten times more?($4,000mil) - 47 hours
- ELI5: Why are there millions of protesters in Hong Kong? - 47 hours
- ELI5: How do people crack databases of big comapnies? - 47 hours
- ELI5: How big is the internet? Can it be define in GB or TB? - 47 hours
- ELI5: What kind of techniques are best for counting the number of protestors in Hong Kong? Or any crowd for that matter? - 47 hours
- ELI5: Why sometimes for a brief moment cold water feels hot (vice versa)? - 48 hours
- ELI5 How come acid can't dissolve ceramic or glass vials but it can go through metal? - 48 hours
- ELI5: what does someone mean when they say something is a “Catch-22”. Please include any details from the novel that would make the explanation - 48 hours
- ELI5 Why is it so hard to force yourself not to yawn? - 48 hours
- Eli5: What is happening in Hong Kong? What is the protest about? - 48 hours
- Eli5 why is all this happening in hongkong right now - 48 hours