#Eli5

From Reddit - r/explainlikeimfive: ELI5: How did we find out the chemical structure of dna?? or anything for the matter like how do you map that??

From Reddit - r/explainlikeimfive: ELI5: what the heck is private equity? Has private equity always been a problem or is it modern? What does it all mean!

My question is how does a magnet have “endless” energy to, for instance- suspend another magnet. Or to fight gravitational forces to stay bonded to something ferrous? Is it that magnetism itself is the force that is doing “work”?

From Reddit - r/explainlikeimfive: ELI5: Slavoj Žižek's concept of "less than nothing"

I know that the wasps need to go in there to reproduce, but how does the fig benefit from carrying a male wasp corpse?

Is there any authority that fixes the value? Or if there is an organic natural way to regulate it?

I ride our local DH park, 2-3 days a week, mostly the jump lines. I must have no feeling because I'm not sure if I get kickback. I see them on bikes here from time to time so I'm mostly curious.

My home telescope changes field in view from a sneeze although it is bolted to the balcony rail. How is space telescope stable if it kept in position with rocket engines? .

Obviously my first language is English, so I’m most used to phonetic systems. I’m struggling, though, to wrap my mind around pictographic systems, such as ones like Chinese.…

From Reddit - r/explainlikeimfive: ELI5 what is an hours banked benefits program? What’s the benefit to the worker?