Explain Like I'm 5 (ELI5)

Objective and layman-accessible explanations, not answers aimed at literal five-year-olds.

 

ELI5: Why does garlic smell good in food but bad in breath?

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ELI5: What does the tax bill that was passed today mean? How will it affect Americans in each tax bracket?

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ELI5: NASA Engineers just communicated with Voyager 1 which is 21 BILLION kilometers away (and out of our solar system) and it communicated back. How is this possible?

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Seriously…. wouldn’t this take an enormous amount of power? Half the time I can’t get a decent cell phone signal and these guys are communicating on an Interstellar level. How is this done?


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ELI5: Why are cheap glasses with a positive prescription (ie reading glasses) readily available, but negative prescriptions need to be custom ordered at a much higher cost?

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ELI5: How can something exceed 2 Billion Kelvin?

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I read somewhereand they were saying it came from a reactor. How can something get that hot and be measured without burning its surroundings?


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