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ELI5: What about looking at someone smile makes involuntary smiling of one’s self? | dga9mx | false | explainlikeimfive | Psychology | I’ve always been someone to have a serious resting face while doing anything. My day was stressful and long, so I had virtually nothing I could think of to smile about. Once home from work, I turned the tv on for background noise as I cleaned. While I was up doing so, I glanced at the tv and there was a particular scene that made the camera linger on a character smiling, and cause me to involuntary smile until the scene changed. What caused that to happen? I truly caught myself and was sort of shocked afterwards. |
ELI5 - why is it that people prefer number divisible by 5 for things like volume or setting an alarm? | dg8coy | false | explainlikeimfive | Psychology | [removed] |
eli5: If ozone depleting molecules such as CFCs break down ozone molecules into oxygen molecules, and ozone is produced when oxygen molecules react with UV light, how is the ozone layer being destroyed? | v45kxy | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | null |
ELI5: why do modern religions not care that other religions have existed and died | v3q4uo | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Religion/Politics) | [removed] |
Eli5 why doesn’t California get more water from desalination plants? | v3qwht | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | [removed] |
eli5: why do high school coaches care about winning games and making it to state? Are they financially motivated? | v3slfh | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why can't US electiones just count individual votes? | v44o1d | false | explainlikeimfive | R7 (Search First) | [removed] |
ELI5: If we are made of atoms and so are non living things, what makes us 'alive' ? | v457xy | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
Eli5: How is there enough water for 7+billion people? | gjdy25 | false | explainlikeimfive | Geology | It seems like for most of humanity, access to clean fresh water was severely limited. And back then, the population was significantly smaller. So how are we pulling it off? |
ELI5 Why do humans feel love for animals such as pets? | cwu9aq | false | explainlikeimfive | Psychology | [removed] |
ELI5 - Why does Canada continue to construct large dams (site C) but USA has not? Eli5 | tkni0t | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Business/Group/Individual Motivation) | [removed] |
ELI5: what is escrow? | tkqdau | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
ELI5: how Makey Makey works | tksnkh | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | [removed] |
Eli5: Where does the sea and oceans wave power come from? | tkv2l3 | false | explainlikeimfive | R7 (Search First) | [removed] |
eli5 if we can't wear white clothes after labor day why do they still make white clothes? | tkvcrl | false | explainlikeimfive | R6 (Loaded/False Premise) | [removed] |
Eli5: What's in petri dishes, why are there different colors and what happens after they've been used? | tl8xkx | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
ELI5— what is the main substance of soil really. I know plant matter and bodies decompose and make dirt. But what am I really looking at when I grab a cold of dirt? | gmysoq | false | explainlikeimfive | Geology | [removed] |
ELI5— what are the main substances of soil really? I know plant matter and bodies decompose to make soil, but when I grab a clod of dirt, what am I looking at? | gmyveq | false | explainlikeimfive | Geology | [removed] |
ELI5: How is it that axolotls are listed as “critically endangered” species, but they are allowed to be pets that don’t even sell for more that much? | umcyab | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | Apparently there are breeders making Axolotls and they only go for a few hundred bucks at most. How is this possible? And how are so many people able to own them as pets if they are very close to extinction? |
ELI5: what is the least squares method of Gauss? What application does it have in astronom? | ulnlji | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | null |
ELI5 why do people still believe in an invisible man in the sky? | ullky7 | false | explainlikeimfive | R6 (Loaded/False Premise) | [removed] |
ELI5 : What is Space-Time? | ulnsuw | false | explainlikeimfive | R7 (Search First) | [removed] |
Eli5: Why are some businesses allowed to charge a fee when using a credit card/Debit card? | ulos4m | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Legal) | [removed] |
ELI5 how we are not running out of aluminum and other metals? | ulxcl4 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
Eli5 screen tear during credits and tradition of movie what causes it | ulzsac | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | [removed] |
ELI5: The difference between the FBI, CIA, and NSA. | um65qf | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Whole topic) | [removed] |
ELI5 Why Smart phones focus so much on Camera Quality? | um75k1 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Business/Group/Individual Motivation) | [removed] |
[eli5] How did a stablecoin like UST depeg and is it possible for its cousins (USDT, USDC) to do the same? | umal6q | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Recent/Current Events) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why Is The Ocean So Undiscovered? | umbg5z | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | [removed] |
eli5: Could CMBR actually be starlight from extremely far off galaxies that has been extremely red shifted into that particular portion of the light spectrum? | kj5fxt | false | explainlikeimfive | Does Not Belong Here | [removed] |
Eli5: Where did people learn the exact methods to prepare otherwise poisonous foods? | kj6m6l | false | explainlikeimfive | Does Not Belong Here | [removed] |
ELI5: Do corrections officers know what the convicts were convicted for? | kjg7jo | false | explainlikeimfive | Does Not Belong Here | [removed] |
Eli5 what makes a star a star, a planet a planet, a moon a moon, a meteorite a meteorite, and an asteroid an astroid? | kji1bn | false | explainlikeimfive | Earth Science | [removed] |
ELI5: What is the difference between second and third degree murder? | kjk5u3 | false | explainlikeimfive | Does Not Belong Here | [removed] |
ELI5: Why does Sprite taste “sharp”? | kjlo5x | false | explainlikeimfive | Does Not Belong Here | [removed] |
ELI5: When you imagine images or music, how can you "see" or "hear" them in your mind? | kjmrmi | false | explainlikeimfive | Did Not Search | [removed] |
ELI5: When a TV cartoon series gets a full-length movie made of it, the animation is so much better than the TV content. What do animators do to make the animation “better” and why isn’t the cartoon made like that to begin with? | kjnfmm | false | explainlikeimfive | Does Not Belong Here | [removed] |
ELI5: Why do we use 360 degrees? | kjnjv9 | false | explainlikeimfive | Does Not Belong Here | [removed] |
ELI5: what is that tingling feeling you get in your nose sometimes ? | kjo0mv | false | explainlikeimfive | Does Not Belong Here | [removed] |
ELI5: Is it possible for somebody to get a mood disorder without any genetic or environmental influences? | f1d9l4 | false | explainlikeimfive | Psychology | [removed] |
ELI5: Why do we as people feel such satisfaction from watching mundane things like when the DVD graphic hits the corner perfectly or watching film getting peeled right to the end but we feel horrible when these things don't happen as we want or if someone ruins it just before the end? | gh1w35 | false | explainlikeimfive | Psychology | null |
ELI5: Why can't we dispose of trash from landfills in volcanoes? | gggtsq | false | explainlikeimfive | Geology | [removed] |
ELI5: Why can't I see the ice around the north pole on Google Maps? | ggjwi6 | false | explainlikeimfive | Geology | [removed] |
Eli5 why hasn’t the left given the right a taste of their own medicine? | uhcyt3 | false | explainlikeimfive | R6 (Loaded/False Premise) | [removed] |
ELI5- how is it possible to have more debt than money in circulation? | uhe585 | false | explainlikeimfive | R7 (Search First) | [removed] |
ELI5: How do animals understand that they need to drink water? As opposed to urine or muddy puddles? | uhe9g8 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
ELI5: If I could leave the Earth’s atmosphere and hover above it for 12 hours before returning straight back down, would I end up on the opposite side of the planet? | uhhh1q | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Hypothetical) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why all of a sudden without any apparent reason I remembered an old song from many years ago and start singing it? | uhivaz | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Personal) | [removed] |
ELI5: When a small food particle gets unstuck from the teeth, why do we eat it before swallowing it, instead of simply swallowing it whole? | uhk0xi | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | [removed] |
eli5: What is the Met Gala? | uhmdza | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
ELI5: is every function of the universe derived from the fundamental forces? | uhowqp | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
ELI5: American football rules. | uhqoa8 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Whole topic) | [removed] |
ELI5 Help me understand tech degrees, jobs and its specialities | uhry1z | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Whole topic) | [removed] |
ELI5: Regarding TMS therapy, what is the difference between a bilateral approach vs a Dorsal Medial Unilateral approach? | uhtoif | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Personal) | [removed] |
ELI5 - 13th amendment; Could you have an auction selling off convicted criminals? | uhyyfv | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Legal) | [removed] |
ELI5: When Scuba Diving, is it uncomfortable having that part in your mouth? Do you get tired from biting down on it? | ui5wkz | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | [removed] |
ELI5 — what does it mean when the pressure of a hurricane drops? is this a good thing right now for people in Tampa??? | xpptkx | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | From the National Hurricane Center: 3 PM EDT Sep 27 position update of Hurricane #Ian. Data from an Air Force Hurricane Hunter aircraft indicate the minimum pressure has decreased to 952 millibars. that’s what they posted just now, but what does this data translate into? is this a good thing or a bad thing if you have a friend in Tampa? https://twitter.com/nhc_atlantic/status/1574836944856649741?s=46&t=o5h5PylUQn71_2W4Kx5XKw |
ELI5: Why some ISPs you can play games while people download/stream with no lag, but others you cant? | xp5npn | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | [removed] |
Eli5: How is yen is weakened? | xp8cio | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Recent/Current Events) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why Everyone Said DRAMless SATA SSD is Perfectly Fine for Game Drive/Storage | xpb7ay | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Business/Group/Individual Motivation) | [removed] |
ELI5 an Internet blockage from a Government? Do they cut the whole internet or just block some IPs? | xpdcos | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why on the Moon you can see other planets in the solar system but on Earth we only see it from the sky? | xpes70 | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | [removed] |
ELI5: Why do temperatures in houses feel so different? | xpfs8k | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | [removed] |
ELI5 : Why do planes load passengers front-to-back instead of back-to-front? | xppstn | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Business/Group/Individual Motivation) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why looking up while being on top of tall things makes you dizzy? | xpqrfg | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | [removed] |
ELI5 why no drug has been invented to stop you feeling hungry. | xpsd26 | false | explainlikeimfive | R6 (Loaded) | [removed] |
ELI5:What are a spaceship's energy options as solar power is reduced as it distances itself from the sun? | xpw3u1 | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | [removed] |
ELI5: Why do OLED TVs have tons of settings to get the most accurate picture but OLED phones (iPhone, Galaxy, etc) don’t have any of that? | xpwb32 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Business/Group/Individual Motivation) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why did the Sahara turn into a desert? | upov64 | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | Why does fertile land turn into sand and how exactly did this fertile land form in the first place? |
ELI5: Why do most pickup trucks have 4 doors now ? | uow4wd | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Business/Group/Individual Motivation) | [removed] |
ELI5: What is wind at its most basic form made of? | up5o67 | false | explainlikeimfive | R7 (Search First) | [removed] |
ELI5:why does the American Judicial System Respect The Seal Of Confession? | up7g93 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Legal) | [removed] |
Eli5: why is blackrock's founder Larry fink net worth just 1 billion dollar when his company almost owns the world? | up98ba | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
Eli5 How are ideologies created, who, why and how does someone take a thought and turn it into a system, school of thought or movement. | up9ef3 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Whole topic) | [removed] |
ELI5: why do we sweat sitting on certain surfaces wearing sweats or pajamas but not when we are wearing jeans? | upbp9h | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | [removed] |
ELI5: When airlines overbook flights, why do they kick off passengers already seated? It's horrible optics, and seems much harder than simply telling passengers still in the terminal that they can't board. | upcu5t | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Business/Group/Individual Motivation) | [removed] |
eli5: If nothing can travel faster than light, why are there galaxies that are beyond our reach even if we can travel at light speed? | upe8q7 | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | [removed] |
ELI5: It is said that a constant but small Inflation rate is good. But this would eventually still lead to huge Inflation, so this can't go on forever. Why is it good then? | upgs44 | false | explainlikeimfive | R7 (Search First) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why do people write numbers and their written form in a parenthesis sometimes? | upjlfe | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Business/Group/Individual Motivation) | [removed] |
ELI5 what makes Norse stuff so attractive to white supremacists? | v7b9yg | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
ELI5 What Exactly Radiation Is | v7bquv | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | [removed] |
ELI5: How is the pension system not a (literal) pyramid scheme? | v7erte | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
ELI5: Why have we not developed a space elevator yet? | tlzkl6 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | [removed] |
ELI5: Electric powered cars are known to be eco-friendly. Is it a fact or bluff? | tm13y1 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
ELI5: What is the difference between a County Public Health Clinic vs. a hospital clinic? Do they collaborate/coincide in anyway? | tmwp0t | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | [removed] |
Eli5 those really painful tiny bumps that appear on your tongue? They’re tiny but hurt so bad. | tmye3v | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
ELI5: what happens when food “goes straight through you”? | tn7hyt | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | [removed] |
ELI5: How do we know radiometric dating works? | k6zxwt | false | explainlikeimfive | Earth Science | ELI5: How do we know radiometric dating works? I understand the mechanisms, ive watched a lot of videos about it. My only concern is, how do we know how much of the parent element was orignially in the sample when it was first composed, or that it wasnt just a rock made up of a lot of the daughter element? Its probably dumb. But im confused |
ELI5 how far above the ground does the sky begin? | k746rf | false | explainlikeimfive | Earth Science | null |
ELI5: Why does plants grow with water, sunlight and must be under the dirt? | k79jw3 | false | explainlikeimfive | Earth Science | null |
eli5: When it rains, is there a point that you could go to that the rain would fully stop? Could you stand a few yards away from an area covered in rain and watch it? How does that sort of thing work? | l7mzfo | false | explainlikeimfive | Earth Science | [removed] |
Eli5 Why are different galaxies different colors? | vx24ts | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | I understand how different stars are different colors, and planets, and so-forth. But my thought process assumes the “law of averages” would make most galaxies at least close to the same overall color…..why aren’t they? |
ELI5: Why is the night sky not completely white ? | vwiwgf | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | null |
eli5: If the earth surface is over 70% water then why are there still water shortages in many places around the world? | vx6m8f | false | explainlikeimfive | Planetary Science | null |
ELI5: In boxing, why do refs rub the gloves of a KD'd boxer against their shirt? | vwipj5 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
ELI5: why is dietary fiber important? | vwj46v | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
ELI5: how do taps work? | vwjibk | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Straightforward) | [removed] |
ELI5:Can actress Gal Gadot beat the wild cassowary? | vwlk4r | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Hypothetical) | [removed] |
ELI5: why water is essential to life | vwmdn5 | false | explainlikeimfive | R7 (Search First) | [removed] |
ELI5: How is a multi-vitamin tablet the same physical size as a singular vitamin tablet? | vwrhw4 | false | explainlikeimfive | R2 (Business/Group/Individual Motivation) | [removed] |