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ELI5: Why is half-life so essential for drugs and not the whole time?

Submitted by [deleted] t3_zzul7k on December 31, 2022 at 1:53 PM

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eli5: How big a crack does water need to leak through and does the material of the container impact the size required?

Submitted by p2molvaer t3_zzuuo5 on December 31, 2022 at 2:07 PM

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ELI5: What’s the difference between a headache, migraine and thunderclap headache?

Submitted by Training_Repair_3672 t3_zzx1ut on December 31, 2022 at 3:55 PM

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eli5 how names work in the world

Submitted by Nakakapag_pabagabag t3_zzeiz7 on December 30, 2022 at 11:10 PM

11 comments

ELI5 why do legumes have so much more protein than other plants?

Submitted by [deleted] t3_zzl9xq on December 31, 2022 at 4:25 AM

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ELI5. Why are humans depicted as having a curved back in the future due to smartphones?

Submitted by Baguette_weeb t3_1000nrl on December 31, 2022 at 6:40 PM

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ELI5: What are the pros and cons of the American sports franchise-based model?

Submitted by [deleted] t3_zznzlf on December 31, 2022 at 6:58 AM

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ELI5: If money today is all digital, why can't all the countries governments just go on the computer and add like five more zero's to their account and fix everything? Same principal is 100 years ago too I guess, why not just print more cash?

Submitted by ss89898 t3_zzwrc4 on December 31, 2022 at 3:41 PM

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ELI5 Why aren't we curing more degenerative diseases with stem cell research?

Submitted by KaishiXYZ t3_zzlxv8 on December 31, 2022 at 5:01 AM

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ELI5: Why do electric vehicles need a MPG measurement? I

Submitted by WannaBelTGuy t3_zz8gia on December 30, 2022 at 7:00 PM

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ELI5: How web crawlers and other engines don’t constantly get infected with viruses?

Submitted by Officialsparxx t3_zzog7d on December 31, 2022 at 7:27 AM

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eli5: What cause a pee stream to sometimes split into multiple different streams?

Submitted by PhonedVenus21345678 t3_zzb45j on December 30, 2022 at 8:49 PM

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eli5: back then, before astronouts goes to space, how do we know about thing like nonexistent of oxygen & zero gravity?

Submitted by zetasstra t3_zzrw3w on December 31, 2022 at 11:14 AM

19 comments

ELI5: Angles in a semicircle

Submitted by [deleted] t3_zztem6 on December 31, 2022 at 12:48 PM

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Eli5: why is Saudi Arabia buying up sport stars?

Submitted by notdutch t3_zzgyzc on December 31, 2022 at 12:57 AM

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Eli5 getting ‘goosebumps’ on skin

Submitted by Conscious_Internal17 t3_zzvic7 on December 31, 2022 at 2:40 PM

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ELI5: What happens with an education system that makes people Capitalize Every Word In The Sentence? Is that some kind of an oversight, or it's just typical for people who speak English as their L2?

Submitted by shejesa t3_zzpsjn on December 31, 2022 at 8:56 AM

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ELI5: Why can't cell phones come standard with a thermometer?

Submitted by [deleted] t3_zzkmsi on December 31, 2022 at 3:52 AM

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ELI5: Why do mental health patients get grippy socks?

Submitted by Careful-Day7125 t3_zzhbmr on December 31, 2022 at 1:12 AM

21 comments

ELI5: How do we get such detailed pictures of planets and space?

Submitted by thegoodnamesRtaken9 t3_zzkrrg on December 31, 2022 at 3:59 AM

9 comments

Eli5 why do birds jump and hop around but parrots walk

Submitted by za6_9420 t3_zz7zy7 on December 30, 2022 at 6:41 PM

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ELI5 How can cells (Neuron) have another cell (Schwann's cells) inside them

Submitted by Original-Cookie4385 t3_zz9cc6 on December 30, 2022 at 7:36 PM

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ELI5: The main difference between Christianism, Judaism, Buddhism and Muslim religions

Submitted by sp4rkk t3_zzrp9t on December 31, 2022 at 11:03 AM

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ELI5: Why do we never lose certain skills we have learned, even if we haven’t practiced them for a long time. like for example riding a bicycle, and we lose some, like a new language we learned 10 years ago but can’t remember anything about it now?