- ELI5: Why do different animals all need different ways to be named when in groups? - 1 hour
- ELI5: Can cooking pans "burn"? Why are the bottom of all my pans brown? - 1 hour
- Eli5- Are we evolving out of our pinky toenails? - 2 hours
- ELI5: How do scientists estimate the mass of distant stars, planets and blackholes? - 3 hours
- ELI5: Why is O- (O negative) the universal blood donor type but not O+ (O positive)? - 3 hours
- ELI5: why is red meat so bad - 3 hours
- ELI5 why there are no mammals with green fur to help camouflage them? - 3 hours
- ELI5: How do allergies develop? - 4 hours
- ELI5: What's the difference between "operations" and "administration" - 5 hours
- eli5: What is the interaction between meth and dental anesthetic? Why would it be fatal? - 5 hours
- ELI5: How come red & purple are on opposite, far ends of the electromagnetic spectrum, but when mixing colors together in kindergarten, purple is - 6 hours
- Eli5: Computers can calculate based on instructions. But how do you teach computers what does it mean to add something, multiply, divide, or perform - 6 hours
- ELI5 how can i tell the difference between Soul and Jazz Music? - 6 hours
- ELI5: What is the difference between a virus and bacteria? - 7 hours
- ELI5: Sensory Memories that are not moved to short term then long term memory - 7 hours
- ELI5: What exactly is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)? Why would someone who's perfectly rational perform irrational actions, while knowing - 7 hours
- ELI5: what is it about corn starch that allows oobleck to form? - 7 hours
- eli5: how do modern movie theatre projectors work? - 7 hours
- ELI5: Why is there potential for a global water crisis when all water evaporates and eventually falls again as rain? - 9 hours
- ELI5 how are jobs created? - 9 hours
- ELI5: How are plastic bags with "open here" markers made to tear easily in a specific place without any visually obvious structural - 9 hours
- Eli5 How does single-use plastic get from my garbage bin into the ocean? - 10 hours
- ELI5 why high speed trains in China move extremely smoothly while regular trains in America are bumpy as hell - 10 hours
- eli5 - Why do digestive conditions cause excessive gas? - 10 hours
- ELI5 why when your screen/monitor isn't working, do the solutions all seem to involve being able to see the screen? - 10 hours
- ElI5: How can a few % of chrome prevent iron in alloy from rusting? - 10 hours
- Eli5 - how does CO2 diffusion work? - 11 hours
- ELI5: After having chest surgery, how does the sternum heal? - 11 hours
- ELI5: The German healthcare system (the Bismarck model) - 12 hours
- ELI5: Why does being wet make things darker? - 12 hours
- Eli5: what exactly is depression - 12 hours
- ELI5: Why are those two voices in our head always argue and fight with each other? And why they always have different opinion for every decision? - 12 hours
- ELI5: How do astronauts on the moon not get blinded? - 13 hours
- ELI5: how do reflections work? - 13 hours
- ELI5: Why do biscuit get soft faster in hotter tea than in the colder one? - 13 hours
- Eli5: When training do your current muscle cells grow bigger or do you grow new cells ? - 13 hours
- ELI5: What just happened with the debt ceiling bill? - 13 hours
- Eli5 - How are pills made? - 16 hours
- Eli5 why humidity causes you to sweat more - 16 hours
- eli5 in highschool for uw gpas can if I take more classes will my gpa boost without an ap? - 17 hours
- ELI5: In a digital screen, how does translucency work? How can pixels display a subject that overlaps another, yet see both of them at the same time? - 17 hours
- Eli5: Why is it « error 404 » and not « error 555 », « error 609 » or something else ? - 18 hours
- ELI5: Time to clear the confusion. Does 1 KB = 1000 bytes or 1024 bytes? - 18 hours
- ELI5: How do orthopedic insoles for flat feet work? - 19 hours
- ELI5: How Life support machines work? - 19 hours
- ELI5: Why some clouds form so quickly from nothing? Could that process be artificially reproduced? - 19 hours
- ELI5: Why are predators valued for keeping prey populations in check, when available food could just as well keep the prey populations in check? - 19 hours
- Eli5 Where/how does fiber optic connect to the rest of the internet? - 19 hours
- ELI5: Why, if you tell a person not to do something (e.g. don't eat more than 1,600 cals/day), it becomes a billion times harder for them to not - 20 hours
- ELI5: when raw skin is healing, why does it hurt when we touch it or it's exposed to air, but things like bandages and old skin can touch it - 21 hours
- Eli5: why are obesity rates higher in some countries? - 21 hours
- ELI5: What happens if someone gets some extra blood in their system? - 21 hours
- ELI5: how far away from electricity in the water do you need to be to not affect you? - 21 hours
- Eli5: How do EMPs work? What do they actually damage and how hard is it to repair things that are damaged? Is infrastructure like powerlines - 23 hours
- eli5 How do glass stove tops work? - 23 hours
- ELI5: what is the benefit to a bank of offering a 15-year fixed mortgage if they make more long-term from 30y mortgages? - 23 hours
- Eli5: Why do a lot of reptiles and insects have to shed their skin/scales? - 23 hours
- ELI5: why do we round UP if something is at exactly .5? - 23 hours
- eli5 What makes some USB cables better than othes? - 23 hours
- Eli5, What are third party apps and what do they have to do with all the commotion going on? - 23 hours
- ELI5: Why is closing your eyes restful even when you're not sleeping? - 24 hours
- ELi5: Why does the human brain sometimes substitute a word with completely the wrong meaning for one which sounds similar? Is there a word for that - 24 hours
- eli5: what's a multivalent ion? - 24 hours
- ELI5: How does an entire city like Heracleion disappear into the sea? - 25 hours
- Eli5: third-party apps, why they would be doing this and why it affects so many - 25 hours
- ELI5, what happens to the marine wildlife during a tsunami? - 26 hours
- ELI5: When the ISS is on the opposite side of earth compared to USA, how do they transmit? - 26 hours
- ELI5: why is it easy to fall asleep in the afternoon than nighttime when equally sleepy on both occasions? - 26 hours
- ELI5: How do we get penicillin from mold today? - 27 hours
- ELI5: Why does dynamite become more unstable with time and does it also get stronger? - 27 hours
- ELI5: What is Temu? - 28 hours
- ELI5: Why do domestic animals get excited to eat the same food over and over again? - 28 hours
- Eli5: Why are the reflected images in concave mirror diagrams drawn as if it’s underneath the ground? - 28 hours
- ELI5 - The Mercator Projection - why do countries appear larger on maps? - 28 hours
- eli5 : how is it bad to smoke my vape on a burnt coil? - 28 hours
- Eli5 how a magnetic gas indicator works - 30 hours
- ELI5: Why do we laugh? What is physiologically happening to cause laughter? - 30 hours
- Eli5: Why do places with high humidity often have lower relative humidity numbers than places like Southern California? - 30 hours
- (ELI5) when babies are raised with bilingual families, are they learning it as just one jumbled language, or as two separate languages? - 30 hours
- ELI5: What are the floating spots in your eyes and what are they for? - 31 hours
- ELI5 Digital nomads - tax implications - 31 hours
- ELi5 - How are street adresses determined / how do they get numbered? - 31 hours
- ELI5: How does drinking a glass of water whenever you don't feel well make you feel better(is it even real?) - 31 hours
- ELI5 What Exactly Is The Plot of Splendor in the Grass? - 31 hours
- Eli5: how did humans get salt before modern means of transportation - 31 hours
- ELi5: How do some animals get enough nutrients out of eating hay or grass or a single variety of leaf for their entire lives? - 31 hours
- ELI5 How does it make sense that eg grapes from India get imported to Denmark and then get sold here for 2€? How does that economically pay off? For - 32 hours
- Eli5 currency conversion difference - 32 hours
- ELI5: Why do ballistic/ICBM missiles have such a long time before they can be fired? - 33 hours
- ELI5: Why do dead millipedes shatter? - 33 hours
- ELI5 What makes art art? I often go to museums and see abstract paintings, thinking I could have done something similar - what makes art art? Seems - 33 hours
- Eli5: Why is it that your gums bleed when you brush your teeth for the first time in a couple days or more? - 33 hours
- ELI5: Does wine and other alcohols used in cooking really take effect or contribute anything to the dish as alcohol has a really low boiling point? - 33 hours
- ELI5: Why do we feel sluggish/slow or tired when we are bloated? - 34 hours
- Eli5 Trying to buy a surge protector today, one was 375 joules rating and a similar priced one was rated 900. - 34 hours
- ELI5: why are hairs that grow in moles so much darker and thicker than other hairs? - 35 hours
- Eli5 Why is our voice deeper in the morning? - 35 hours
- ELI5: Why is it that when you sit still in cold water and you get used to the temperature, but when you move it feels cold again? - 35 hours
- Eli5 - How do we know what vitamins are in foods? - 35 hours
- ELI5: Can someone please explain the Philip Schofield scandal for me? - 35 hours
- ELI5: Why do so many images and gifs save as WEBP by default instead of GIFs or PNGs? - 35 hours
- Eli5 if I have enabled roaming and I’m in London and my friend hasn’t and is in America can they text me and why - 35 hours
- (ELI5): why do some organs come in pairs and some in singles? - 35 hours
- ELI5: why do we yawn when we’re sleepy? And why does the frequency of yawning increase as we progressively get more sleepy? - 37 hours
- ELI5: How does Google Maps work? How is it possible that mor eor less the whole world is captured? How did that happen? - 37 hours
- ELI5: How earth switches from tachicardia to fibrillation? - 37 hours
- eli5 why people naturally listen to music loudly? - 37 hours
- ELI5: Difference between Pyramid schemes and Common organizational hierarchy? - 38 hours
- ELI5: Why did militaries move from khaki/OG to camouflage for field uniforms? - 38 hours
- ELI5:Why does metal expand when you apply heat underneath but plastic just melts? - 38 hours
- Eli5: How did Tears of the Kingdom sold out it's digital copies? - 39 hours
- ELI5 : How does MrBeast make enough money? - 39 hours
- ELI5 Why are public bathroom stalls not fully enclosed? - 40 hours
- ELI5: how does water transfer painting work? - 40 hours
- Eli5: Alcohol and antidepressants mixture - 40 hours
- ELI5: How does food/water move through your digestive system if you are laying down flat? - 40 hours
- ELI5: How is paying $200k+ for a Bluefin tuna at auction profitable? - 41 hours
- ELI5: Why are most commercial roofs flat when most residential house roofs are peaked? - 41 hours
- ELI5: If a company has 1,000 shares outstanding and declares a $5,000 dividend, then stockholders will get $5 for each share they own; what does this - 41 hours
- ELI5: Why is it easier to update an app to a newer version on Android, but reverting it to a previous version is a hassle and even requires root? - 41 hours
- Eli5: How are board of executives created? - 41 hours
- ELI5: How local temperature differences work - 41 hours
- ELI5: The needle and grooves on a vinyl record and how sound is transfered onto vinyl. - 42 hours
- ELI5: Why do programs/games take long to load, but instantly close - 42 hours
- eli5: How does a Millstone actually spin and works? - 43 hours
- ELI5: How do some elements have multiple oxidation states? - 43 hours
- ELI5:Why does it take 3 to 5 days for a store to issue a refund on your credit card, but they are able to put a charge on your card immediately? - 43 hours
- ELI5: How does adding in a flavor emphasize the opposite flavor? - 43 hours
- Eli5: how does the blood pressure cuff determine your blood pressure so accurately? - 45 hours
- ELI5: Why does a hole in a flying airplane cause things to get sucked out into the sky? - 45 hours
- ELI5 the difference between "body doubling" (in an ADHD context) and just enjoying having another person around for chores and stuff?? - 45 hours
- Eli5: What's the psychology behind becoming uncontrollably emotional during live music? Is there a trauma connection? - 45 hours
- ELi5: Where exactly does the pain from a headache originate? Is the source different for various headache types? - 45 hours
- eli5: why is there not a “blood THC concentration” test to determine if someone is intoxicated/impaired right now? - 45 hours
- ELI5: why is PDF such a widespread text format, instead of a format that's actually easier to edit? - 46 hours
- ELI5: What is Bayes's Theorem? - 46 hours
- ELI5: What does J.P. Morgan downgrading Target Corporation’s stock mean? - 46 hours
- Eli5: Why we can't access all "levels" of internet with a normal browser? - 46 hours
- ELI5: Chickenpox and Shingles - 47 hours
- ELI5: Why does spicy food burn your butt but not your urethra? - 47 hours
- ELI5: How do LEDs produce light and how it differs from the traditional old incandescent light bulbs? - 47 hours
- Eli5: Can you use multiple programming languages for the same project? - 47 hours
- ELI5: Once I put my key in the ignition and turn the car on what are the sequence of events that take place? - 47 hours
- ELI5: How do tilt-controlled mobile games detect that the phone is tilted? - 48 hours
- Eli5:what is Tjprojmain and how it works?(for research purpose) - 48 hours
- Eli5: How can we avoid gentrifying neighborhoods. - 48 hours
- ELI5: Milage on a gas/electric plug-in hybrid vehicle. - 48 hours
- ELI5: What's the difference between BODMAS and PEMDAS in mathematics? - 48 hours
- ELI5 How do you measure the pain of a pregnancy and getting kicked in the balls and be able to compare them without one person experiencing both? - 48 hours