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

Nov 26, 2021

What can your Internet Service Provider see when you use an encrypted connection? How about when you don’t? What does RSA stand for? Why is prime factorization the mathematical basis for cryptography and encryption?

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Nov 19, 2021

Why is it called Black Friday? Why is thanksgiving always on a Thursday? Did Macys invent the thanksgiving parade? Why is American Football a thanksgiving tradition? Why is the weekend after thanksgiving the busiest day in the year for plumbers?

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Nov 12, 2021

What is the danger zone when talking about food safety? Can we leave meat in hot water or at room temperature to defrost it? If bacteria die from heat or say, boiled water, where do their corpses go? What is depyrogenation?

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Nov 5, 2021

How do cargo ship containers not topple over in rough seas? What’s the secret as to how they all stick together? How did they all become standard sizes? Who was the ‘father of containerization’ and how did he get things to change so rapidly?

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