- ELI5: If you were to spend a few hours laughing really hard (like cry laughing, your stomach hurts level) would you be deficient on dopamine the next - 1 hour
- ELI5: When you want to do an action is your brain going through a series of yeses and nos like a computer goes through a ton of 0s and 1s? - 1 hour
- ELI5: How do complex money laundering schemes work? - 1 hour
- ELI5: Why did David Cameron have the U.K. vote on leaving the EU to begin with? What would he have had to gain if the vote had gone the other way? - 1 hour
- ELI5 How does Spotify's "Discover Weekly" work? - 2 hours
- ELI5: How exactly does Amazon avoid paying taxes and could anyone do so? - 2 hours
- ELI5: How do erasers work? - 2 hours
- ELI5: How does teeth move if it’s considered bone and thus fused to it? - 2 hours
- ELI5: If conifers and softwoods are generally adapted towards colder environments (needles meant to shed snow) why do Longleaf pines dominate most of - 2 hours
- ELI5: Why is it that in a lot of movies where a patient wakes up after treatment they immediately take off that wrist thingy that is connected to a - 2 hours
- ELI5: How do consumers know that face unlock features (Android and iPhones) that use IR dot projectors are safe since they aren't tested and - 2 hours
- ELI5: Why people does not acknowledge how drunk they are in loud environments like clubs and they do when they are outside? - 2 hours
- ELI5: How come whenever other things get hot, they melt and turn to liquid, but when you hard boil an egg it becomes solid? - 2 hours
- ELI5: Why do gaming apps like Steam and Origin update so often? - 2 hours
- ELI5: What are coordination polymers? - 2 hours
- ELI5: Why can certain fountain pen inks only sheen in certain colors? - 2 hours
- ELI5: How/why does picking at a scab increase scarring? - 3 hours
- ELI5: What is cultural misappropriation? - 4 hours
- ELI5: Why are you not allowed to park in front of fire hydrants in the US but in a lot of other countries this seems to be no problem? - 4 hours
- ELI5: Why does the sun hurt my eyes after coming outside from a darker house? - 5 hours
- ELI5: Why are phone screens so hard to see when you film them? - 5 hours
- ELI5: what are nuetron stars ? - 5 hours
- ELI5: why does it always come down to two big brand names in any industry? i.e. Apple and Samsung or playstation and xbox - 5 hours
- ELI5: Why do some kinds of pain (specifically self-inflicted) feel so good? - 5 hours
- ELI5: why is it spelt marine "corps" and not marine "core" in the US? - 5 hours
- ELI5: How does a pulse oximeter measure the blood oxygen levels without actually taking blood? - 7 hours
- ELI5: Why do you get drunk so much faster if you have a shot before a beer? - 7 hours
- ELI5: Why does the moon change places every night? - 7 hours
- ELI5: Greek theatre acoustics - 7 hours
- ELI5: How do photons have energy but no mass despite Einstein's mass-energy equivalence? - 7 hours
- ELI5: The Kreb Cycle - 7 hours
- ELI5: How does baldness occur? - 7 hours
- ELI5: Why do some women want to experience childbirth again? - 7 hours
- ELI5: Why do hard metals (mohs) get worn down by softer materials? - 8 hours
- ELI5: Tarski's plank problem - 8 hours
- ELI5: How do people in comas not die? - 8 hours
- ELI5: How does college football ranking work? - 8 hours
- ELI5: How does the brain store and process thoughts/memories? - 8 hours
- ELI5: Why are things cheaper in Poor Countries? Isn't products being cheap a sign of economic prosperity? - 8 hours
- ELI5 why is toast made under the grill harder and dryer than toast made in a toaster? - 8 hours
- ELI5: Why is it sometimes my lips will he bright red but most if the time they're pinkish? - 8 hours
- ELI5: How is the Tyrannosaurus Rex related to the Chicken? - 8 hours
- ELI5: In a fun way for 1st graders, how would you describe the difference between solids and liquids? - 8 hours
- ELI5: Does electrical resistance (Ohm) have an intuitive explanation like current (Ampere) and voltage (Volt)? - 8 hours
- ELI5: How are paintings or museum art classified as masterpieces? Some look like paint scratches and yet they are classics. Why is that? - 9 hours
- ELI5: Why do your teeth chatter when you're cold? - 9 hours
- ELI5: How do we know the age of Earth and old objects? - 9 hours
- ELI5: How do we know species on Earth actually originated here? - 9 hours
- ELI5: Why is it that when we touch a very hot surface, we have the same sentation as touching a cold surface before the pain kicks in ? - 9 hours
- ELI5: What causes the colour change in the sky with things like the auroras and the purple sky in Japan? - 10 hours
- ELI5: Why does inbreeding lead to less healthy animals/humans? - 10 hours
- ELI5: What is it that produces such an incredibly loud, sharp sound when you click your tongue against your palate? - 10 hours
- ELI5: How does crossing over take place in meiosis ? - 10 hours
- ELI5 What is State and State management and why should I use it instead of just getting and posting to the backend or storage? - 11 hours
- ELI5: How do eyebrows know when to stop growing? - 11 hours
- ELI5: Why does citrus fruits divide into boats (how does an orange benefit from it)? Does it have anything to do with how they grow/ the nutrition? - 12 hours
- ELI5: Why can't scientists agree if glass is solid or a slow-moving liquid? Don't phases of matter have fairly objective definitions? - 12 hours
- ELI5: What's happening in Chile right now? - 14 hours
- ELI5: Why does life require oxygen specifically? Why not nitrogen? If another gas was more abundant, could life be based on that instead? Phosphorus, - 14 hours
- ELI5 : What exactly happends during the days after you get high amounts of radiations ? - 14 hours
- ELI5: How do gas stoves turn off the flow if the fire goes out? - 14 hours
- ELI5: How does Microsoft get money from Windows licences, condisdering that you can crack it within 10 minutes? Do pepole still buy the licence? Or - 14 hours
- ELI5: Why does nail biting hurt more later compared to when you're actually biting them? - 15 hours
- ELI5: How can there be so much variation within the same species? - 15 hours
- ELI5: What force is driving all galaxies to rush away from each other at an ever quickening-speed? The expansion rate of the observable universe is - 15 hours
- ELI5: Why do animals tilt their heads when they’re confused? - 16 hours
- ELI5: For what reason do banks not employ two-factor authentication to ensure the authenticity of transactions? - 16 hours
- ELI5: When money is exchanged and stored electronically, what stops one from hacking this system to create virtual money? - 16 hours
- ELI5: When you get choked out how does your brain know to breath once the hold is released? - 16 hours
- ELI5: Would it be possible to make healthy cigarettes? - 16 hours
- ELI5: How do solids stay together? - 17 hours
- ELI5: Why dont sugar substitutes taste like sugar? - 17 hours
- ELI5: Why are pickled cucumbers just called pickles, but any other pickled food is referred to by name? - 17 hours
- ELI5 how does growing work? - 17 hours
- ELI5: What causes the "meat sweats" - 17 hours
- ELI5: Do rainbows actually have an end? If not, then why? - 17 hours
- ELI5: What happens to time once it has passed? - 17 hours
- ELI5: why is your skin shiny when you burn it? - 18 hours
- ELI5: How to breasts produce milk? - 18 hours
- ELI5: Why have there been so many memes about Bing wanting people to die? - 18 hours
- ELI5:Why are airplanes equipped with lifevests instead of parachutes as we mostly fly over distances of land? - 19 hours
- ELI5, how do clouds work? - 19 hours
- ELI5: How do 'fake' SocialMedia profiles/content get created along with "real" looking stats? How is it ensured that no one looks up - 19 hours
- ELI5: What's the difference of cross-fit and normal strenuous exercise routines? And why is it considered dangerous? - 19 hours
- ELI5: Does the earths atmosphere rotate at the same rate as the earth itself, or are they moving at different speeds? - 20 hours
- ELI5: How do Artificial Neuron Networks work and specifically what happens in the Hidden Layer of an ANN? - 20 hours
- Eli5: What on earth is this deal with Tulsi Gabbard being called a Russian asset? - 20 hours
- ELI5: Why are there not more females than males if chromosome pairs split into gametes to be paired up again? - 22 hours
- ELI5: Difference between white noise and pink noise? - 22 hours
- ELI5: Why is witnessing something as it happens so much more satisfying than watching a replay/video of it later? - 22 hours
- ELI5: How does Schönehage-Straussen multiplication work and why is it so much faster for computers to perform than traditional multiplication? - 23 hours
- ELI5: Why do some supermarket entrances have that ribbed floor? - 23 hours
- [ELI5] At night sounds are always louder, because of the fewer disturbances around, but why is it that sounds make even more noise, once you turn off - 23 hours
- ELI5: What does it mean for this blob organism to have 720 different sexes? - 23 hours
- ELI5: How do the eyes detect light whilst they’re closed? - 23 hours
- ELI5: What is a parent company? - 23 hours
- ELI5: How can you get so full from dinner but somehow have room for dessert? - 23 hours
- ELI5: Why is the first all-female space walk significant? - 23 hours
- ELI5: Are there specialized judges for certain industries ? if not, how are technical topics explained to them? - 23 hours
- ELI5: How exactly does lifting heavy weights improve the Sex Drive for men? - 24 hours
- ELI5: Do all liquids (for example glue, peanut butter) dry out at some point and why? - 24 hours
- ELI5: Why do computer get slower when they generate too much heat? - 24 hours
- ELI5: When people use steganography to hide illegal content within seemingly innocuous images, where do they usually lead to? - 24 hours
- ELI5: How does the sun make things pale? - 24 hours
- ELI5: Where did the word "cosplay" come from, and why is it used in place of the word "costume" so frequently? Are they the same - 24 hours
- ELI5: Can we collapse/remove space itself? - 25 hours
- ELI5: When you pressure wash (or touchless car wash) a vehicle, there is a thin, almost invisible layer of dirt that will remain that you can see if - 25 hours
- ELI5 How do you do genomic selection in plant breeding? - 25 hours
- ELI5: How does water "remember" where it's been and does this persist if the molecule is broken apart and those atoms later become part - 25 hours
- ELI5: how are the AP and coaches rankings in college football made? - 25 hours
- ELI5 Why some portions of software installs take longer than others? - 25 hours
- ELI5: Liquor before beer you're in the clear, why is this a saying and is it true? If it is, why? - 25 hours
- ELI5: What’s the difference between “Due Date” and “Closing Date” on a credit card? - 25 hours
- ELI5: How can there be more than 3 spatial dimensions - 25 hours
- ELI5 Why is it necessary for train tracks to have wood and crushed rocks? - 26 hours
- ELI5: Which's the most efficient metal for an ancient civilization to use for tools and weapons, copper or bronze? - 26 hours
- ELI5 How does seahorse pregnancy work? - 26 hours
- ELI5: Why is the typed lower case "a" so different from the way we (at least in the USA) were taught to write it? - 26 hours
- ELI5: Fixed vs floating interest rate in Mortgage Loan - 26 hours
- ELI5: Why does listening to indistinct background noise through my earphones send me fast asleep but actual background noise keeps me wide awake? - 26 hours
- ELI5: What are "merchant builder" funds / investment vehicles, and where can you find information on them? - 26 hours
- ELI5: How do we stay asleep despite switching positions at night or even in extreme cases with people sleep walking? - 27 hours
- ELI5: How do Hybrid Self Charging Cars get their first charge (ever) and how do they work after that? - 27 hours
- ELI5: How do dryer sheets work? - 29 hours
- ELI5: why does the soap bar get less soapy the more it’s used - 29 hours
- Eli5 why neuro muscular drugs are not called cholenergic drugs while parasympathetic system drugs are called cholinergic drugs. Both of them act on - 29 hours
- ELI5: why is blues the ancestor of so many music genres? - 29 hours
- ELI5: How do frogs hear each other over other frog's croaks? - 29 hours
- ELI5: How to survive the bit of two super strong magnets - 29 hours
- ELI5 why is not popular to custom make a phone - 29 hours
- ELI5: Why do objects in the atmosphere become hotter as they go faster? - 29 hours
- ELI5: is it normal to see blobs of colour when you close your eyes, - 29 hours
- ELI5: how does the skin on your feet get harder and thicker the more you walk barefoot on harsh ground? - 30 hours
- ELI5: How do invasive species breed/multiply when first being introduced? - 30 hours
- ELI5: How does cleaning your ears with a Q-tip often trigger a cough? - 30 hours
- ELI5: How is the speed limit determined in the United States? - 30 hours
- ELI5: Why do hotels use key cards instead of actual keys? - 31 hours
- ELI5 : Why do headaches hurt even through there are no pain receptors in the brain? - 31 hours
- ELI5: How do people buy a home with zero out of pocket? - 31 hours
- ELI5: Confused - Dielectric allow Capacitor Handle Higher Potential Difference and Decrease the Potential Difference Between Capacitor - 31 hours
- ELI5: Why does pouring hot liquid into a container make a different sound than pouring cold liquid? - 31 hours
- ELI5:Why is there such a big price difference between 87 octane and 89 octane but a smaller difference between 89,91,93? - 31 hours
- ELI5: What exactly is your brain doing when you’re “staring into space”? - 31 hours
- ELI5: why do companies like AT&T have workers hand dig holes every 20 or so feet to lay fiberoptics/wiring? - 31 hours
- ELI5: How does the front seat backrest in a car seat stay upright in a rear-end collision? - 31 hours
- ELI5: what is the zero gum theory? - 31 hours
- ELI5: What is a coalition government? - 32 hours
- ELI5: Why do traditional alarm clocks snooze for 9 minutes each time, why not 10? - 32 hours
- ELI5: how do changes in the weather make people feel physically unwell and exacerbate things like arthritis? - 32 hours
- ELI5: How do fish descend in a fish tank without spewing out air bubbles? - 32 hours
- ELI5: How were VHS tapes mass produced? - 33 hours
- ELI5: What kind of effect does sound (or music) have on cognitive function? - 33 hours
- ELI5 : why do girls grow faster than boys (up to age 15 or so). - 33 hours
- ELI5: How does the flash bang work and what's the feeling being flash banged? Does it really work like in FPS games? - 33 hours
- ELI5: Why do onions make make us cry? - 33 hours
- ELI5: Certain weapons and chemicals are 'banned' in combat/war. Why is war not banned instead? - 33 hours
- ELI5 why hasn't my insurance gone up after 2 accidents? - 33 hours
- ELI5: Why aren't home healthcare workers required to pay income tax in the US? - 33 hours
- ELI5: What does it mean when they say that " x shares y% DNA with humans " - 34 hours
- ELI5: Why do our eyes see in such "lower quality" in darker places/at night? - 34 hours
- ELI5: If elements are just atoms in a certain pattern, why can't humans create random elements buy making new patterns out of atoms? - 35 hours
- ELI5: Why do your eyes get itchy when you’re sleepy? - 35 hours
- ELI5: what causes cold smoke from the engine and why does it go away? - 35 hours
- ELI5: What is the point in separating the armed forces into army, navy and air force when they ALL have their own foot soldiers, planes and ships? - 35 hours
- ELI5 I've been told that satellite radio, some TV broadcasting, GPS, etc. all "bounce their signals off a satellite". But if satellites - 35 hours
- ELI5: What is agent orange and why does it cause cancer? - 36 hours
- ELI5: How do bubbles work? - 36 hours
- ELI5: Why do companies need to display color bars on their products? - 36 hours
- ELI5: Semiotics - 36 hours
- ELI5: How can the same pixel on a screen turn into different colors? - 36 hours
- ELI5: What causes a "natural" coma and how do medially induced comas work? - 36 hours
- ELI5: If blackjacks (the weapon, not the game) were effective, why do they seem to no longer be used? - 37 hours
- ELI5: how does google earth have such sharp images and 3d buildings correct to the number of windows if satellites are so high up? - 37 hours
- ELI5: Why is a .zip file smaller than the file that gets extracted from it. - 37 hours
- ELI5: Why is it that some nights, my pillow will feel like heaven, and others, like a rock? - 37 hours
- ELI5 Why cockroaches tend to die on their back? - 37 hours
- ELI5: How do banks make their money? I only use mine to deposit and withdraw and am curious how they'd make profits from that. - 37 hours
- ELI5: How does a currency loses it value? - 39 hours
- ELI5: What are the practical applications of calculating numbers to powers of e.g. -3… - 39 hours
- ELI5: How was sound stored on a vinyl and reproduced? - 39 hours
- ELI5: Plasma - 40 hours
- ELI5: How do SSRIs work ? - 40 hours
- ELI5:How do rocket scientists know for sure that the payload is not going to crash into a space junk while being deployed to space ? - 40 hours
- ELI5: Why aren't tax havens illegal in the USA? - 41 hours
- ELI5: why is human diet so complex? - 41 hours
- ELI5: Why is it that people with Alzheimer's can often hold a conversation and their language but can't remember or don't know answers to - 41 hours
- ELI5: Hypertonic vs. Hypotonic?? - 41 hours
- ELI5 Why it sometimes feel better to sit or lay down in a more "comfortable" position? - 41 hours
- ELI5 Let’s say, hypothetically I had owned 51% of the voting shares of a US company like Apple. What could and couldn’t I do? - 41 hours
- ELI5: The Papez circuit and the role it plays in episodic memory - 42 hours
- ELI5: How did AIG, an insurance company, go bankrupt when the housing bubble burst? - 42 hours
- ELI5: How are my eyes blue if my one of my parents have brown eyes? - 42 hours
- ELI5: The difference between a curve ball and a slider and a sinker and, etc and how the announcers can immediately tel what pitch was thrown. - 42 hours
- ELI5 why a tubal ligation (getting her tubes tied) is 100% covered by my insurance, but a vasectomy comes out of pocket until my deductible is met? - 42 hours
- ELI5: what exactly happens in the stomach when you bend over/lay over on your stomach right after eating? - 43 hours
- ELI5: Why are belly buttons technically considered scars? - 43 hours
- ELI5: why is there such a big problem with JUUL but not with cigarettes? - 44 hours
- ELI5: What is equity, how does it grow, and what is a heloc? - 44 hours
- ELI5: How does the pressure surrounding us (also called: air) work? - 46 hours
- ELI5: Why do warm showers feel better than cold showers? - 46 hours
- ELI5: Why is oily plastic so much harder to wash than oily metal/ceramic? - 46 hours
- ELI5: Why does water make a grease fire bigger? - 47 hours
- ELI5: How do touchscreens "know" when skin is touching them, and/or how do they know it's just a conductive glove? - 47 hours
- ELI5: How is "wasting water" bad for the environment if the water cycle recycles water? - 47 hours
- ELI5: What are the restraints in building the tallest building known to man? - 48 hours
- ELI5: How were TV broadcasts able to be hijacked and why don’t/can’t they happen anymore? Instances such as the infamous ‘Vrillon’, ‘Max - 48 hours
- ELI5: How can 'The Blob' have 720 sexes? - 48 hours
- ELI5: When tearing some types of paper like newsprint or napkins, why does it tear really jagged in one direction, but in a perfectly straight line in - 48 hours
- ELI5: If the universe is infinite in all dimensions, why is planc defined as the smallest size possible, and thus making depth a finite size? - 48 hours
- ELI5: Why does keeping food sealed away from air help keep it fresh? - 48 hours
- ELI5: Why are celebrities net worths low when their annual income is so high? - 48 hours
- ELI5 If you shake liquid soap making it bubble up does that waste its foam-ability? - 48 hours
- [ELI5] What causes heart palpitations to actually be felt? What makes them different from regular heart beats that you can't feel at all? - 48 hours