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Back to SearchELI5 Alcohol - How does alcohol make you drunk?
Season 1 Episode 6
How does alcohol make you drunk? What is happening in your brain and body when you are intoxicated? What is it about alcohol that actually harms your body?
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Published on 6 years, 5 months ago
ELI5 Capcha - Why can't bots check 'I am not a robot' checkboxes?
Season 1 Episode 5
A reCAPTCHA is a CAPTCHA-like system designed to establish that a computer user is human. So how does the reCAPTCHA checkbox i.e. the "I'm not a robot" checkbox actually work? Why can't bots just che…
Published on 6 years, 5 months ago
ELI5 Spicy Food - What causes my body to react when I eat spicy food?
Season 1 Episode 4
What causes my body to react when I eat spicy food? Why does my nose run, why do I sweat, what’s going on in my body?
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Published on 6 years, 5 months ago
ELI5 Super Glue - How does super glue work and how is it different from a regular glue stick?
Season 1 Episode 3
How does super glue work and how is it different from a regular glue stick?
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Thank you to the r/explainlikeimfive community, and specifically the following reddit use…
Published on 6 years, 6 months ago
ELI5 Emergency Calls Only - If there is no cellphone signal, how does "emergency calls only" mode work?
Season 1 Episode 2
If there is no cellphone signal, how does the "emergency calls only" mode works? How does the cell tower system coordinate to make this possible?
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Published on 6 years, 6 months ago
ELI5 Caffeine - It has almost no calories, so where does the energy come from?
Season 1 Episode 1
Caffeine has almost no calories, but seems to give us a burst of energy on its own. Where does the body get this energy from?
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Published on 6 years, 6 months ago
ELI5 Trailer - welcome to explain like I'm five
A mini podcast where Tim & Kevin answer questions like: why it's so hard to run in your dreams, why no metal in microwaves, who do countries owe when they're in debt or who invented French fries if i…
Published on 6 years, 8 months ago