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ELI5: Why is there a "pop" feeling when u burst a pimple, what causes it?
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ELI5: Why is Speculative Risk not Insurable?
Reading my textbook, supposedly only pure risks — certain losses of uncertain timing — are insurable, while risks with up-side potential are not. Just wondering
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ELI5- What is the Schumann Resonances, and how do you read those graphs?
I read/heard that there was more noticeable activity on 7/4-7/5/25. How does this affect humans and other species?
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ELI5: How do car speedometers work?
Title. I read that there’s some mechanism with a string attached to the gearbox which measures the rotations, but that means if i suspend a car in midair and re
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ELI5: Why can't population stagnate?
I understand that if you decline like Japan, life gets hard economically. But I find that growing like we do in Canada also puts a lot of strain on us. Is ther
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Eli5 I'm having a hard time under standing the pros and cons of AWD
Getting into and SUV after 4x4 trucks most of my life and want to know what I'm getting into? How do they fair with ice/snow?
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ELI5 Why do turbo engines sometimes feel slower in hot weather?
I’ve been playing around with a little turbo project car, and I swear it pulls way harder on cooler days. But when it’s hot outside, it feels kinda sluggish. I
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ELI5: what is Informatio literacy?
And may can you give me some examples? I couldn't find any source that gives me satisfactory answers.
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ELI5: How does a vacuum work?
Is it that a fan creates its suction by blowing air towards an exhaust, facing opposite from the hose, which causes the dust and such from the nozzle of the hos
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ELI5: How does Nmap figure out what ports are open, what services/versions are running, and even what operating system is used?
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ELI5:Why do boredom and impatiens feels straining even though youre not doing a task.
Or distressing even though you are not perceiving negativity.
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ELI5 What is paternalistic conservatism?
I dont understand what it is?
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ELI5: Why are aviation and maritime terms the same or similar?
Why do aviation and maritime/nautics use the same terminologies? Why do they have the same terms and measurement systems but not the same for land?
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ELI5 how yawning can make your ears pop on an airplane?
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ELI5 How do instincts get handed down in humans?
Specifically, how do we end up having certain instincts hardwired into us? I understand fight or flight and such, but how do these things get hardcoded? What me
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ELI5: Medieval Guilds
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ELI5 why we get such dopamine from looking at phones/screens
Evolutionarily, I can understand why we get dopamine from certain things such as porn, fast food, or gambling. But why is it that it’s so easy to lose ourselves
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ELI5 how sudden changes through metamorphosis evolve?
Many, many insects go through periods of extreme change from a pupa to some final new specialized form. I can wrap my head around gradual change and i
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ELI5 why do we need things like PDLC?
I came across product management and its kins this week, and the manuals just go on and on. I always thought these things were intuitive something no one needed
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ELI5: Vanishing Points in Computer Graphics
I understand that in perspective projection, every set of parallel lines (which are not parallel to the viewing plane I'm projecting onto) share a vanishing poi
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ELI5: F1 teams, their car and performance
Would like to understand what do the F1 teams to change the performance of their cars. For example, from 2010 to 2013 we had redbull dominance. Then from 2014 t
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ELI5: How do we know how fast the earth is spinning?
What about how far something is from Earth? How were these ideas proven?
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ELI5. Please explain to me what VAT is.
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ELI5: Why don't subatomic particles deteriorate over time?
Supernova explosions are responsible for creating the elements heavier than iron. In the center of these huge explosions, under huge amounts of pressure and tem
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eli5 what are steak and chicken juices?
some chicken when cooked, are juicy and moist on the inside. same applies to steak. now steaks usually more of a reddish hue, like watered down blood. while chi
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