- ELI5: What causes autism in the brain what are neurological differences in the brain? - 1 hour
- ELI5 if you are stranded in a desert with almost no food, should you stay still waiting for help making sure you're not burning lot of calories , - 1 hour
- ELI5: When a big Hollywood movie flops, why do people usually blame the directors instead of blaming the screen writers or both? Isn't it the - 1 hour
- ELI5: How does getting a tattoo affect your blood sugar? - 2 hours
- ELI5:Why is Sunscreen White when you apply it, but when you rub it in, it Becomes Clear. - 2 hours
- ELI5: How do people build things like oilrigs and bridges over water? - 2 hours
- ELI5: You know how bees have to have a Queen - is the Queen bee born a queen, or when the queen dies does another bee transform into a queen? If so - 3 hours
- ELI5: How can the power go out during a storm and then come back the next second? - 3 hours
- ELI5: Why does a piece of chicken or even french fries take 15 minutes to cook in a 350 degree oven but only 3-5 minutes in a 350 degree fryer? - 3 hours
- ELI5:I'll say right off the bat I am Gen X. But I talk to younger guys at work about millennials. They always are upset to find out that they are - 3 hours
- ELI5: Why are some women "one and done"ers while others can have multiple orgasms in a short amount of time? - 3 hours
- ELI5: Can you please help understand what ibuprofen and acetaminophen is best used for? - 4 hours
- ELI5: How can nuclear launches be detected and identified? - 4 hours
- ELI5: Has celebrating birthdays historically always been a thing? If not, when did it become a thing? - 4 hours
- ELI5: How does a gas car work? - 6 hours
- ELI5: why would a doctor sue a patient? - 6 hours
- ELI5: What is the purpose of "cruise main" on a car, and should I avoid always having it on? - 6 hours
- ELI5: Why does the media keep referring to Beijing when Chinese government does something? - 6 hours
- ELI5: Colours. Are there theoretically colours out there that we can’t see because our eyes/technology can’t detect them yet, or have we seen all - 6 hours
- ELI5: Why does music sound louder when you take out one of your earphones? - 6 hours
- ELI5: P values in statistics... - 7 hours
- ELI5: How a satellite can send us a picture from the edge of the universe but we can't make a phone that doesn't lose signal in a parking - 7 hours
- ELI5: Why do organisms have different eye colors, what do they mean? Do some eye colors have advantages that others don't? - 8 hours
- ELI5: How can scientists determine the composition and atmosphere of planets very far away from our solar system? - 8 hours
- ELI5: Who decides the size of parking fines and how? - 8 hours
- ELI5: Why is some glass not allowed near open flames or it shatters (display candles, ETC) Yet some glass like scientific beakers can withstand flames - 9 hours
- ELI5: How is growth hormone secretion during sleep affected by circadian rythms? - 9 hours
- ELI5: What exactly were people afraid was going to happen during Y2K? - 9 hours
- ELI5: Why do they spray water everywhere at a demolition site? - 10 hours
- ELI5: How do bees make honey? - 10 hours
- ELI5: Why do hangovers get worse as you age? - 10 hours
- ELI5: How does Dremel flexible shaft work? How can the bit rotate while the shaft can be flexible? - 10 hours
- ELI5: How do life insurance companies actually make a profit - 10 hours
- ELI5: Why does water dry? - 10 hours
- ELI5: How exactly do pagers work and can people reply to messages they get? - 10 hours
- ELI5: If more Mpx doesn't mean better photo quality, is there a measure/paramter that you can rely on? - 11 hours
- ELI5: What is the reason for certain guns to not have a safety? - 11 hours
- ELI5: Why do renewable energy sources store excess energy in batteries instead of converting water into hydrogen and storing it - 13 hours
- ELI5: What is "Fractal Immitance"? - 13 hours
- ELI5: Why does sneezing feel so satisfying? - 13 hours
- ELI5: How are real life bombs defused? - 13 hours
- ELI5: What is the actual difference between acrylic, watercolor, and oil paints structurally? - 13 hours
- ELI5:Why do consoles lock at 60fps and don't go higher? - 13 hours
- ELI5:Why does it feel good to procrastinate? - 13 hours
- ELI5: Why is it when you type a sentence or a specific word in CAPSLOCK that it feels like shouting? - 13 hours
- ELI5: How do water droplets, something so transparent, form shadows on edges? - 13 hours
- ELI5, what makes the moon look randomly close and orange? - 13 hours
- ELI5: why does the color black “attract” heat? - 14 hours
- ELI5:How does 3d modelling and texturing work - 14 hours
- ELI5: Why Arrow's impossibility theorem and Gibbard's theorem work - 14 hours
- ELI5: Why do the last few pieces of cereal tend to come together and form clumps rather than float independently? - 14 hours
- ELI5: How did trans people become so central to the political and cultural discussion in America? - 14 hours
- ELI5: Why does math has theorem but other disciplines only get to theories? Are there theories in math? - 14 hours
- ELI5: Why are peanut allergies so common? - 14 hours
- ELI5: What is the origin of the current use of the word "flex?" - 14 hours
- ELI5: why do most tv remotes or any remote that takes batteries require you to put the batteries in in opposite directions? - 14 hours
- [ELI5] How do compilers work? - 15 hours
- ELI5: How do pacemakers actually work? - 15 hours
- ELI5: The hottest temperature ever recorded was 5.5 trillion °C. How did scientists manage to measure it? - 15 hours
- ELI5: how are helicopters able to turn or climb or decent? It’s basically just two fans spinning? - 15 hours
- ELI5: Do people with lazy eyes have more "field of view" or does your brain automatically fix it and make it a normal image? - 16 hours
- ELI5, why do some bugs splat yellow, and others splat white when they hit my windshield? - 16 hours
- ELI5: How do they manage to constantly provide hot water to all the rooms in big buildings like hotels? - 16 hours
- ELI5: What is a "lower receiver" and why is it dangerous enough to be treated as if it were a whole gun by some laws? Can you shoot someone - 16 hours
- ELI5 what do unfarted gas bubbles look like? - 16 hours
- ELI5 Why the body usually converts ATP into ADP and not into Adenosine. - 17 hours
- ELI5: How do the tails on animals help them balance, say a running cheetah? - 17 hours
- ELI5: If the Big Bang created time, how can things happen before it? - 18 hours
- ELI5: If there are many more animals that far superior in strength, why are we at the top of the food chain? - 18 hours
- ELI5: What causes our eyes to water when we yawn? - 18 hours
- ELI5: What exactly makes teeth go shades of yellow and why not any other colour? - 18 hours
- ELI5: how did the substance came into existence that led to the big bang - 18 hours
- ELI5: Possible to make antibodies from DNA to put in vitro against systemic DNA mutation from carcinogens or someone with cancer to make a cure from - 18 hours
- ELI5: SSRIs - 18 hours
- ELI5: What happens to an eyeball after it's removed from a body and loses its moisture? - 20 hours
- ELI5: Saliva that comes out of mouth while yawning sometimes - 20 hours
- ELI5: Why do hospitals use those small u-shaped trays for vomit, instead of a bowl that would actually catch all the vomit? - 20 hours
- ELI5:How did multiple species of "human" exist at the same time? - 21 hours
- ELI5: Why do women feel bad during their period? - 21 hours
- ELI5: What's wrong with the "anti-GMO" label? - 21 hours
- ELI5: What is a Hygrometer? - 21 hours
- ELI5: Why does music licenses make songs region-locked with things like Spotify and Apple Music? - 21 hours
- ELI5: help me understand the treaty of Versailles - 22 hours
- ELI5 How accurate are movies when it comes to how long it takes for bullet wounds to be fatal? - 22 hours
- ELI5: How do scratch n sniff products work? - 22 hours
- ELI5: How do allergy medications work, and how do different active ingredients deal with allergies? And why do some medications work better for one - 22 hours
- ELI5 Where does excess electricity on the grid go? - 22 hours
- ELI5: Why is time (usually) considered the fourth spatial dimension when it is a subjective construct used to conceptualize rates of change, passing - 23 hours
- ELI5: Why is it that an owner of a company can be kicked out of the same company he/she built? - 23 hours
- ELI5: how would the ‘life is a simulation’ theory work? - 23 hours
- ELI5: How do defective genes cause tremors and other neurological issues? - 24 hours
- ELI5: What does it mean when my phone doesn't support a frequency band - 24 hours
- ELI5: How do commercial airplanes take off? - 24 hours
- ELI5: How does surface tension allow some things to float? (ex. The Paperclip Surface tension video) - 24 hours
- ELI5: why do streaming companies give a discount if you pay for an an entire year vs. monthly? - 24 hours
- ELI5 why does meat (also fish) taste different depending on the animal? - 24 hours
- ELI5: when a skyscraper is being built, how do they keep the crane on top at all times? - 24 hours
- ELI5: Can obese people live longer without eating than people with average body mass? - 25 hours
- ELI5: How does a Pedometer (Step Tracker) app on a smartphone know how many steps I’m taking (and how many stairs I climb)? - 25 hours
- ELI5: How Do S3 buckets work? What’s the purpose? - 25 hours
- ELI5: whats the difference between a chart and a graph? - 25 hours
- ELI5: Why do some paintings cost huge sums of money? - 25 hours
- ELI5: Why is it so hard to stay awake or keep your eyes open sometimes, even though you've got more than enough sleep? - 25 hours
- ELI5: how zits just disappear over time - 27 hours
- ELI5: Why do cigarettes contain so many harmful chemicals? Why are they not just filled with pure tobacco? - 27 hours
- ELI5 With multiple confirmed scandals involving the president of the US. Why no decisive action has been taken? Who would be capable of taking action - 27 hours
- ELI5: Why does your stomach "drop" when you see something that scares you? - 27 hours
- ELI5: How is critical thinking done? - 28 hours
- ELI5: How do antiques gain their value, and why? - 28 hours
- ELI5: What is the placebo effect - 28 hours
- ELI5: How do batteries store power? - 28 hours
- ELI5: Why is necrosis so hard to contain? Why can't you just cut out the dangerous parts like other cellular diseases? - 29 hours
- ELI5: Can someone explain to me the Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development - 29 hours
- ELI5: When there are multiple people talking at once, how am I able to focus on just one person and tune out the rest? - 29 hours
- ELI5 Ok, how and why did dinosaurs sometimes turned into oil and other times into fossils? - 29 hours
- eli5: What is far infrared radiation and what are its benefits? - 30 hours
- ELI5: Why do girls naturally have better handwriting then boys? - 30 hours
- ELI5: How does drinking a hot or cold beverage help to regulate your body temperature? - 30 hours
- ELI5: why are so many competitive eaters relatively skinny? Wouldn’t constantly eating ridiculous amounts of calories make you fat? - 30 hours
- ELI5: Why is that when we wake up from a nightmare we don't feel sleepy at all? - 30 hours
- ELI5: How come sometimes when you go to sleep it feels like you just blinked and suddenly it’s morning, and you’re not tired anymore? - 31 hours
- ELI5: Perpetual stew. How is it safe to consume? - 31 hours
- ELI5 how are police officers/investigators able to tell how fast cars were going after a car crash? - 31 hours
- ELI5: In American politics, what is a swing state and how much does it affect the overall outcome? - 31 hours
- ELI5: Why are the voices in your head always negative for Schizophrenics? - 31 hours
- ELI5: How do internet routers store routing tables, even though there are billions of nodes in the internet - 31 hours
- ELI5: How do theoretical bodies or concepts in space even work? - 31 hours
- ELI5 Why do humans have hairy buttholes ? - 31 hours
- ELI5: Why do some of my bed sheets feel super silky smooth and cool, whilst others are rougher and warmer, despite both being 100% cotton? - 32 hours
- ELI5- What causes your skin to 'crawl' when you're around someone you feel is sketchy? - 32 hours
- ELI5: why do voices from robots/stuffed animals with sound chips break up when the battery is low instead of just dying? - 32 hours
- ELI5 : How do we store the info we receive - 34 hours
- ELI5: What does phrases such as "4 parts iron 1 part coal" actually mean? - 34 hours
- ELI5 why do CDs tend to have a higher quality than digital streaming like YouTube and Spotify? - 35 hours
- ELI5: why do our eyes water when we throw up? - 35 hours
- ELI5: The difference between a router, switch, hub, a bridge and a modem - 35 hours
- ELI5: what is behind the occurrence that people traveling leads to new allergies? - 36 hours
- ELI5: Are there any alternatives to growth-based economy? - 36 hours
- ELI5: Why do bees make honey? - 36 hours
- ELI5: What is a renewable energy credit and why should a consumer pay extra for a power company to buy one? - 36 hours
- ELI5: 4G cellphone service used to be the best option we had, and though it may not have been lightning fast by some standards, it still got the job - 36 hours
- Eli5: why is it a criminal matter if i steal food from a restraunt/fast food place but its a civil matter if the business takes my money and decides - 36 hours
- ELI5; Why do pills generally need to be kept at a certain temperature? - 36 hours
- ELI5: How does popcorn become like that when heated up? - 36 hours
- ELI5: How can martial artists (I’m thinking karate) chop something like a solid brick in half with just their bare hands? - 37 hours
- ELI5: how do online stock exchange work ? - 37 hours
- ELI5: Why can we follow moving things with our eyes moving smoothly, but not anything else? - 37 hours
- ELI5 how does listening to loud noises decrease your hearing over time? - 37 hours
- ELI5: What is Enron and what happened? - 37 hours
- ELI5: How do powerline Ethernet adapters actually work? - 38 hours
- ELI5: How are mobile devices powerful enough to send data? - 38 hours
- ELI5: Is the peaceful hijacking of busses by student activists in Mexico really a usual occurence as portrayed in the Netflix documentary series - 38 hours
- ELI5: why didn’t my belly button get completely covered up rather than the innie/outie we all have? - 38 hours
- ELI5: Why are viruses like the measles so dangerous? Wouldn't the virus want to keep the host alive to help it spread? - 39 hours
- ELI5: What exactly is a country's economy a measure of? And how accurately (if at all) does this reflect living standards? - 39 hours
- ELI5: why is there always a line for the women’s toilets and not for guys? - 40 hours
- ELI5: What decides about the order of colors in a rainbow? - 40 hours
- ELI5 : how do pigeons get trained to send letters to the exact wanted location - 42 hours
- ELI5: Why is the sidewalk elevated? - 42 hours
- ELIF- the 2.4 and 5GHz channels on my modem/router. - 42 hours
- ELI5: How does a company like Uber, which at first glance appears to have minimal operating costs, fail to turn a profit year after year? - 43 hours
- ELI5 Why does your metabolism get worse as you grow older? When is your metabolism at its best and when does it usually slow down? - 43 hours
- ELI5: Why does sticking my leg out from beneath the blanket make my whole body cool down? - 43 hours
- ELI5:How does light move forward from a flashlight or any other light source? - 44 hours
- [ELI5] Why do banana's that have been split from their hand (bananagroup) rot faster than if they had'nt been split from their hand. Same goes - 44 hours
- ELI5: How does audio zoom (from Samsung Note 10) work? - 44 hours
- ELI5: Why are confidential documents only shredded instead of something more permenant and irreversible? - 45 hours
- ELI5: What exactly in the debris from the 9/11 World Trade Center attack is causing the huge spike in cancer amongst those who were exposed? - 45 hours
- ELI5: Who decided to multiply matrix in such a weird way and for which reason ? - 45 hours
- ELI5: Why do dentists stab your gums and then tell you you dont floss enough? - 46 hours
- ELI5: Why do vehicles (especially trains/trams) have this "bump" when they stop completely? - 46 hours
- ELI5:How did the Australians lose the Emu War - 46 hours
- ELI5: If you get a vasectomy / tubes tied, how does the body know or what stops sperm / eggs from still being made and getting.. backed up? - 47 hours
- ELI5: How do highways get named? (ie. I-35) - 47 hours
- ELI5: How was film editing done before computers? - 47 hours