- ELI5: What happens to what would have been acoustic energy (where does it go?) when there is an impact (e.g., hitting a drum) in a vacuum or space. - 1 hour
- ELI5: Can anyone explain how a laser cleaner works? - 1 hour
- ELI5: how does putting sugar in an open wound reduce pain? - 1 hour
- ELI5: Why do eyes hurt when we wake up early / do't get enough sleep ? - 3 hours
- ELI5: What is ‘emotional exhaustion’? - 3 hours
- ELI5: How do torn ligaments heal? - 3 hours
- ELI5- Why do bubbles come out perfectly spherical? - 4 hours
- ELI5. Why is male sperm sticky. - 4 hours
- ELI5: How do credit cards work? What’s the point in having one? - 5 hours
- ELI5: How does the Robinhood app make money? - 5 hours
- ELI5: How do alarm systems know when a door or window has been opened? - 5 hours
- ELI5: Vein vs Artery - 5 hours
- ELI5: How de Epi-Pens work? Are there different types that work better in some cases some others? - 5 hours
- ELI5: Why does water taste bad after it's been in a cup for a long period of time? - 5 hours
- ELI5: Why sometimes you feel the urge to scratch a place on your body ? - 6 hours
- ELI5: If the Great Lakes is fresh water and and the Atlantic Ocean is salt water and they are connected by the various rivers how is the salt filtered - 6 hours
- ELI5:Why are states bidding for medical supplies? - 6 hours
- ELI5: Why is green the choice of color when it comes to editing in/out when recording video? - 7 hours
- ELI5: Why do different types of soap only clean certain things? - 7 hours
- ELI5: How do pill mill doctors get prescribing licenses? Don’t they have to go through med school and residency like regular doctors, or is there - 7 hours
- ELI5: How do investigative reporters find the leads to their story? How do they find out such detailed information about people who don't want - 7 hours
- ELI5 why do some moles become tumors? - 8 hours
- ELI5: I am somewhat aware that colours are the 'opposite' of what they appear, in that a green plant absorbs everything except green light, - 8 hours
- ELI5: the effect of regular exercise on bone health. - 8 hours
- ELI5:What is the difference between a wet market and a farmer's market? - 10 hours
- ELI5 - What is the cause of breathing deeply when we sleep? As I'm laying next to my son taking a nap he breathes a bit heavily at times. He does - 10 hours
- ELI5: What are the “butterflies” you feel in your stomach when excited? - 10 hours
- ELI5 Why do cars make that electrical wirring noise when reversing? - 10 hours
- ELI5: why do so many old people have 'small heads'? - 11 hours
- ELI5 in computer science, what does recursive mean? - 11 hours
- ELI5: Why is an egg used for structure in baking? - 11 hours
- ELI5: Why are we buried in coffins and not just in the ground? - 11 hours
- ELI5: why does the Fed buying junk bonds aid the companies whose bonds have been downgraded? - 12 hours
- ELI5: How does one domesticate a wild species? - 12 hours
- ELI5 Is any of the stuff Mark Watney did in Martian actually doable? I figure the botany stuff is but anything else? - 12 hours
- ELIF: How does a person develop an allergy/ intolerance late in life? - 12 hours
- ELI5: When someone is "fighting sleep" to stay awake, what exactly are they fighting? - 12 hours
- ELI5: Why is a pinch of salt such an important part of so many recipes? - 12 hours
- ELI5: how does putting an “x” of tape on glass protect it from breaking? - 13 hours
- ELI5: what is jury nullification? And how does it work/what are it’s limitations? - 13 hours
- ELI5: What happens when sugar “melts”? Its not a pure chemical element so it can’t literally melt like ice to water, but what is happening? - 14 hours
- ELI5: How do you know which notes fit in a musical key, espicially for Major and Minor? - 14 hours
- Eli5: Why does -30- appear at the end of some correspondence? - 14 hours
- ELI5: Why does your scalp produce more dandruff as more flakes come off? - 14 hours
- ELI5, what are batteries made of? - 14 hours
- ELI5: Why is there so much Latin written across our modern world? - 14 hours
- ELI5: How are gas elements separated? - 14 hours
- ELI5: Why do our arms and legs shake when positioned certain ways? - 14 hours
- ELI5: Why can't the sperm of other species fertilize human eggs? - 14 hours
- ELI5: What are the effects on the human body when we stay inside all day for weeks at a time? - 15 hours
- ELI5: Why does cilantro taste like soap to me but not others? - 15 hours
- ELI5: Why does tap water starts to taste funny a day or two after it's been poured while mineral water will keep its taste for days ? - 15 hours
- ELI5: Why do batteries get worse every time you charge them? - 16 hours
- ELI5: How Does Hypnosis Work? - 16 hours
- ELI5: How do surgeons treat injuries they've never seen before? - 16 hours
- ELI5: What is the doppler effect ? - 16 hours
- ELI5: differences between LAN, MAN, and WAN - 16 hours
- ELI5: How do they fix power lines when a tree falls on them? - 16 hours
- ELI5: Gerrymandering and what “packing and cracking” means? - 18 hours
- ELI5: Dust looks whitish on dark surfaces but dark greyish on light surfaces... So exactly what colour is it? - 18 hours
- ELI5: Why do some motion detectors have opaque, seemingly textured plastic covering the sensor? - 18 hours
- ELI5: Why does our body react so violently to certain foods/substances? - 18 hours
- ELI5: 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G. - 18 hours
- ELI5: If a cow were to eat meth before it died (for consumption) would it effect the meat quality/be hazardous? - 18 hours
- ELI5: How do the physics of Ripstiks/Casterboards/Waveboards work? - 19 hours
- ELI5: where does money come from? - 19 hours
- ELI5: What is it about showtunes that makes us know it's from theatre, as opposed to a regular song? - 19 hours
- ELI5: How do animal documentaries get the animals to follow the storyline? How are they able to get so close without disturbing them? - 19 hours
- ELI5: Why do computers get slower? - 19 hours
- ELI5: How does Emergence theory explains the universe? - 19 hours
- ELI5- Why is increased thirst a symptom of type 2 diabetes? How are the two linked? - 19 hours
- ELI5 how sites like Wikileaks and snopes work, where they get their information and why they are generally considered “debate Enders.” What sets - 19 hours
- ELI5: Why do Americans have to sign on the roadside for tickets? - 20 hours
- ELI5: How big and hard can your stool get before it becomes dangerous? - 20 hours
- ELI5: If dust comes from dead skin cells, how does it form in enclosed places that people don't go, like attics and crawlspaces? - 20 hours
- ELI5: How do people find out they are long lost siblings? - 20 hours
- ELI5: Why dont we give babies water? - 20 hours
- ELI5: What happens in a hard fork vs a soft fork? - 21 hours
- ELI5: Why does a nuclear world war means the end to humanity? - 21 hours
- ELI5: How do muscles work? How do muscles/muscle cells contract and what causes them to do so? - 21 hours
- ELIF: What's the difference between Social and Cognitive Psychology? - 21 hours
- ELI5: How does face filler work? - 21 hours
- ELI5: During an adrenaline rush, where was that adrenaline STORED before release? Did your body just make it on the fly? If it was already in your - 21 hours
- ELI5: How does a seed know what plant to grow into? - 21 hours
- ELI5: Some animals like hares, weasels and certain foxes becomes white during winter. How exactly does that work? - 21 hours
- ELI5: Why do certain TV remotes need to be closer or have a more direct line of sight to the TV to turn it on than they do for any other input? - 21 hours
- ELI5: How do movies which release exclusively on streaming sites like Netflix, Amazon Prime video etc make profits unlike those movies which release - 21 hours
- ELI5 How does binge watching affects cognitive function? - 21 hours
- ELI5: Why does YouTube allow ads from TickTock, are they not competitors? - 22 hours
- ELI5 why are our muscles sore a day after we work out? - 22 hours
- ELI5: why and how do we get nightmares? - 22 hours
- ELI5: What does acupuncture actually help you with? - 22 hours
- ELI5: Why are the presidential elections in the USA only between 2 candidates, as opposed to multiple candidates like in other countries? - 23 hours
- ELI5 Why is it easier (faster) to learn something we are interested in, than to learn something we don't show interest in? - 23 hours
- ELI5: why is there no inflation for gold? - 23 hours
- ELI5: Why are people scared of the 5G towers. Are they that much dangerous than 4G? And if they are dangerous is it worth it to switch from 4G to 5G? - 23 hours
- ELI5: How does nicotine turn things yellow? What is the chemical reaction to it? - 23 hours
- ELI5: why are there different skin color types and some get sunburned faster than others even though they might have the same skin color? - 23 hours
- ELI5: Why is nuclear power waste still so active, but can't be used to provide more power? - 23 hours
- Eli5: What is a hyperbole? - 25 hours
- ELI5: How can Palestinian still be seen as refugees after decades? - 25 hours
- ELI5: Venezuela - 25 hours
- ELI5: How did sex’s pleasure “diversify” from a mere motive nature has provided us with to help pass our genes to being obtained by different - 25 hours
- ELI5: If a country gets conquered, why would the citizens be allowed to stay in the country as refugees? - 25 hours
- ELI5: How does "getting used to it" actually work? - 25 hours
- ELI5: How did they make computers so small only computer could make the computers? - 25 hours
- ELI5: what is the difference between ionized radiation and non-ionized radiation. - 25 hours
- ELI5 what is a miscarriage is and how does happen? - 26 hours
- ELI5: Why can’t current gen console, run old gen games, when it’s made by the same developers? - 26 hours
- ELI5: Why do bulbs in a circuit have the same brightness? - 26 hours
- ELI5 When, where and why did the No-Vax movement appear? - 26 hours
- ELI5: Why is there a two-party system in the United States? - 26 hours
- ELI5 Latency vs Throughput (Computer Architecture) - 27 hours
- ELI5: What is the "knot" in your muscle that gets "worked out" during a massage? - 27 hours
- ELI5 How exactly US election works and why so many candidates are suspending campaigns? - 27 hours
- ELI5: Why does every book nowadays seem to be a #1 Best Seller? - 27 hours
- ELI5: As per the definition of electric field, electric field is radially outward from a positive charge and radially in toward a negative point - 28 hours
- ELI5: What is an "active ingredient"? - 28 hours
- ELI5: Why do so many animals like deer, boars, and tapirs all have dapple camouflage only when they are babies? Why do they lose it when they grow - 28 hours
- ELI5: What's the psychology behind the appeal of effeminate K-pop male stars to girls, even in places without the Korean "male beauty" - 29 hours
- ELI5 why is people panic buying alcohol in gel and not normal alcohol? - 29 hours
- ELI5 - Why doesn’t the stick on a corndog burn when you cook it? - 29 hours
- ELI5: What are first cousin, second, third cousin and first/second cousin one twice and thrice removed? - 29 hours
- ELI5:Can someone explain to me the sentence structural logic of "Have you done the dishes?" and "Did you do the dishes?" and why - 29 hours
- ELI5 How does money work? How does it gets its value and how the value fluctuates over a time period? - 29 hours
- ELI5: Why can't we just print more currency to reduce poverty? What is the proper reason behind this? - 29 hours
- ELI5: Why is every other person wearing these "N95" masks if they don't prevent you from getting sick? - 29 hours
- ELI5: Why do presidential candidates need millions of dollars to run? - 30 hours
- ELI5: why does the charge in fully charged rechargeable batteries go down even if I don't use the batteries? - 30 hours
- ELI5 How do those Instagram MGMT marketing teams generate so much followers for their influencer clients? - 30 hours
- ELI5: How come sometimes there’s lightning but no sound of thunder? - 30 hours
- ELI5 why does milk pair so well with sweets like PB&J? - 30 hours
- ELI5: I have smart LED lightbulbs that can change into a dozen different colors. How’s does that work? - 30 hours
- ELI5 you can't see through windows into dimly lit rooms when you're outside in the sunlight? - 30 hours
- ELI5: Does cold water reduce the effectiveness of soap? - 30 hours
- ELI5 I just learned that there is no gold standard measurement for the money that exists. It means there is not proper way to define the value of a - 30 hours
- ELI5 How do some water bottles change the flavor of what’s inside it without actually doing anything to the water? - 30 hours
- ELI5: What causes that butterfly feeling you get in your stomach when you’re nervous? - 32 hours
- ELI5 How does "kitchen hands" work? People who work in that environment get used to touching hotter things than normal and - 32 hours
- ELI5: What is the reason for naming this super moon cycle pink? - 32 hours
- ELI5: Why aren't movies filmed in order? - 32 hours
- ELI5: Why aren't phone numbers standardized when they're so ubiquitous? - 32 hours
- ELI5: What determines the longevity of car air fresheners? Why do some seem to last longer than others? - 33 hours
- ELI5 why do all the planets in our solar system orbit on the same plane relatively, why dont we have planets with an orbit 90° to ours? - 33 hours
- ELI5: When is Inflammation good and when it is bad? - 33 hours
- ELI5: What's the chemistry behind the TikTok temporary tattoo idea? - 33 hours
- ELI5 Does an electric fan’s speed remain constant on any given setting or does it ever fluctuate if left on for too long? - 33 hours
- ELI5 If Staphylococcus is literally on our skin, and it’s so dangerous and aggressive, why don’t we get staph infections every time we get any - 33 hours
- ELI5: If I had a $1,000,000 life insurance policy (paying like 22 bucks a month like they say in commercials and online), and then I die, do my kids - 33 hours
- ELI5: Why is stress bad for you? - 34 hours
- ELI5: How does popcorn pop and how do such big pieces fit in small kernels? - 34 hours
- ELI5 how memory gets “transcribed” or “encoded” from short-term to long-term memory? - 34 hours
- ELI5: Why was 911 decided to be the shorthand dial for emergency numbers? Why not other combinations that are easier to remember (e.g. 111, 123, - 34 hours
- ELI5: How do anti-inflammatory pills work? And what makes them different to painkillers? - 34 hours
- ELI5: why is it that you feel more focused when playing a video game if you lean forward towards the TV? - 34 hours
- ELI5: If cotton buds aren’t supposed to be used to clean your ears, what ARE you supposed to do with cotton buds? - 35 hours
- ELI5: Why does the CPU get hotter when doing more intensive tasks? - 36 hours
- ELI5: what causes the sudden jumping/dropping feeling in your chest when you're startled? - 36 hours
- ELI5: How do we retain so much music in our heads even if its from a long time ago but unable to retain some text we read yesterday? - 36 hours
- ELI5: What is the vision of an Eagle actually like? - 37 hours
- ELI5: Why do computers slow down with time? - 37 hours
- ELI5: Why are higher frame rates easier to recognize on smaller screens? - 37 hours
- [ELI5] Why do you open your mouth when you are surprised? - 37 hours
- ELI5: What happens, when you stand up suddenly and your head starts spinning/you immediately start losing balance as if you were really drunk for 3 - 39 hours
- ELI5 Why is it easier to get out of the bed when you wake up in the middle of the night instead when alarm wakes you? - 39 hours
- ELI5: How does Tourettes work and what happens during a ‘tic’? - 39 hours
- ELI5: Why dilute bleach instead of just using it straight from the bottle to disinfect? - 39 hours
- ELI5: What is the difference between FastCGI and normal reverse proxying? - 39 hours
- ELI5: Why do hot liquids soothe swollen troats? - 39 hours
- ELI5: How does authenticator apps work? How do the other ends like steam and discord know that the code provided is correct even when the auth app is - 39 hours
- ELI5: What is the advantage to disposing of large numbers of bodies in mass graves instead of mass cremation? - 39 hours
- ELI5: Can infra red heaters such as halogen heaters cause skin damage (same way UV light rays cause damage? - 39 hours
- ELI5: Why do organisms that grow the slowest often live a for longer period of times? - 39 hours
- ELI5: How forest fires can raise radiation levels in a radioactive contaminated environment - 40 hours
- ELI5: What are the fuctions and differences between ISO, Shutter Speed and Apeture in photography? - 40 hours
- ELI5: What does being a carbon based life form mean? And what would it look like to be based on a different element? - 40 hours
- ELI5: why is it hard to stand when you are intoxicated? Why does laying closer to the ground feel better than sitting? - 40 hours
- ELI5: Why do lower class people tend to be the ones who smoke cigarettes? - 40 hours
- ELI5 What is with the five G towers? - 40 hours
- ELI5: Why do many people prefer an inverted Y-axis in first person games? - 41 hours
- ELI5: How is it possible that scammers can make their number look like your banks number? And if they can do that, why can't they make it so if - 41 hours
- ELI5: How are rappers still able to release Music after their death? - 41 hours
- ELI5: Why does it take wireless earbuds cases to charge for a really long time even though they have a small battery size ? - 41 hours
- ELI5: When you can see the moon during the day, does the mean the other side of the planet can't see the moon at night? Does this have to do with - 41 hours
- ELI5: What does furloughed mean and why are people upset if they were 'furloughed'? - 41 hours
- ELI5 what does VMware do? - 41 hours
- ELI5: If cotton buds aren't supposed to be used for cleaning your ears, what ARE you suppose to use for ear cleaning? - 41 hours
- ELI5: Heat rising and how lighter flames know which direction to burn - 41 hours
- ELI5: Why would we still produce feces and let them out every 40 days or so if we stopped eating for a long time? - 41 hours
- ELI5 theorem on friends and strangers - 41 hours
- ELI5 When someone is sued for "5 times more than their networth", where does that money come from? Does the person suing get all that money - 41 hours
- ELI5: Why compost instead of throwing scraps in garden? - 41 hours
- ELi5 What’s the decomposing process after someone or something is buried? - 42 hours
- ELI5: What's the difference between a contributing factor and a sufficient condition? - 42 hours
- ELI5 what happens to the donations made to a political candidate when they suspend their campaign? - 42 hours
- ELI5: Is the reason that nothing can go faster than light because we have not tried hard enough - 42 hours
- ELI5:why do you remember speeches more clearly when you read it before bed - 42 hours
- ELI5: Why does pricing things at $19.99 instead of $20 still feel so much cheaper, even for people who have seen this tactic a million times? - 42 hours
- ELI5: How does ETFs work? - 42 hours
- ELI5: Why the sun feels hotter in some places than others? - 42 hours
- ELI5 What’s the reasoning behind a Presidential candidate (ie. Bernie) dropping out of the Primary race before all states have voted? Besides the - 42 hours
- ELI5: what happens when your eyes adjust to darkness? - 42 hours
- ELI5: Since ISPs sometimes throttle costumers' internet to save money, how does a customer consuming a lot of data cost them more money? - 42 hours
- ELI5: What is different about the insides of wires that transmit power (Charger), data (Aux, Ethernet), or both (USB-C)? - 42 hours
- ELI5: Does the USA’s Defensive Production Act have power over foreign production plants of domestically based companies like 3M or Tesla? - 42 hours
- ELI5: Is it true the snipers take into consideration that the rotation of the earth would eventually move their targets off their trajectory before - 43 hours
- ELI5: Why does most business like to offer promotion on their goods? - 43 hours
- ELI5: Why does moving air, such as wind, feel colder than still air? - 43 hours
- ELI5 When popular apps like Snapchat or Twitter go down for thousands of users, how do developers quickly find and solve issues? - 43 hours
- ELI5: What is a civil union? - 44 hours
- Eli5: Server trick that works...why? - 44 hours
- ELI5: What is the difference between an ASMR Sound and the normal sound you can hear in public? - 44 hours
- ELI5: why does deodorant turn cold when you shake it? - 44 hours
- ELI5 why do pictures taken of computer screens have that “expanding net” effect when zooming in and out on them? - 45 hours
- ELIF what causes the weird tingling feeling in your nose/throat right before a sneeze? - 45 hours
- ELI5 Why does a larger lens aperture result in a shallow depth of field? - 45 hours
- ELI5 how does/did the Danwei (单位) system work? - 45 hours
- ELI5: Why does one seemingly dehydrate faster when sleeping, compared to being awake (normal activity, no sport)? - 45 hours
- ELI5: What is DNS? - 47 hours
- ELI5: Why do you have to take an entire rx of antibiotics if you feel recovered before you’re done with them? - 47 hours
- ELI5 : What can the government gain by spying on me? - 47 hours
- ELI5: Why couldn’t we build an airplane/vehicle that could break earths atmosphere without doing a directly vertical approach such as a plane that - 47 hours
- ELI5: what is the difference between haptic feedback and regular vibration? - 47 hours
- ELI5 How does the body cool itself while submerged in hot water ? - 47 hours
- ELI5 Why was the 2008 recession as bad as it was? What happened? Will something like that happen again? - 48 hours
- ELI5: Why are airlines starting to stop using 4 engined aircraft? - 48 hours
- ELI5: Why does music sound good when playing using scales and other techniques but sounds horrible if random notes are played? - 48 hours
- ELI5: What's the difference between a graphic novel and comic book? - 48 hours