ELI5 Explain Like I'm 5: Bite sized answers to stuff you should know about - in a mini podcast 

Explain Like I'm Five, aka ELI5, is the mini-podcast series where we take the questions you always wanted to ask, and talk about them in a way that is easy to understand. Made possible by the amazing reddit community at r/explainlikeimfive. See episode show notes for user credits.

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Title	Date published
ELI5 Chocolate - milk, dark & white, what's the difference?	2020-05-29
ELI5 Yawning - why is hearing reduced when you yawn?	2020-05-22
ELI5 Blood Oxygen - why are pulse oximeters suddenly so popular?	2020-05-15
ELI5 Birthmarks - what causes our skin to have them?	2020-05-08
ELI5 Left & Right Wings in Politics - why the Elephant and Donkey as mascots?	2020-05-01
ELI5 Rainbows - how are rainbows formed, and why is the color brown missing?	2020-04-23
ELI5 Virus vs Bacteria - why getting sick from viruses is different to bacterial diseases	2020-04-17
ELI5 Wi-Fi - how does wifi hacking work?	2020-04-10
ELI5 Spanish Flu - as a global pandemic, why was it nicknamed Spanish Flu?	2020-03-27
ELI5 Everest - how did they measure it (and other mountains) originally?	2020-03-20
ELI5 Gray Hair - why does stress cause grey hair?	2020-03-13
ELI5 Sneezing - why our eyes water when a sneeze gets 'stuck'	2020-03-06
ELI5 Disinfectant Alcohol - why is 70% alcohol better than 90% as disinfectant?	2020-02-28
ELI5 Credit Card Security - is a chip really safer than a magstripe?	2020-02-21
ELI5 Ski Jumping - how do they not get injured when landing?	2020-02-14
ELI5 Credit Scores - why do FICO scores end at 850?	2020-02-07
ELI5 Face Masks - surgical masks, N95 masks what's the difference?	2020-01-31
ELI5 Pensions - where did the modern pension come from?	2020-01-24
ELI5 Gluten - why have folks suddenly become allergic to gluten this past decade?	2020-01-17
ELI5 Activity Trackers - how do they detect deep sleep?	2020-01-10

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