Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/April 2015

= April 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 1


 * 1) Can lithium batteries and oxygen be used to make an impovised explosive device to blow up a cockpit door?
 * 2) What is real the difference between VF and IVF?
 * 3) Sallie Gardner at a Gallop
 * 4) Drosophila melanogaster
 * 5) Research reports
 * 6) Are there any studies as to what happens if you extract an embryo and inject it into someones blood stream?

= April 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 2


 * 1) Is Interpretivism Opposed to Using Mathematics in Understanding Social Reality?
 * 2) Potassium iodide as an radionicleotide preventative
 * 3) Arby's trans-fats
 * 4) Malassezia yeast commensal frequency of occurence
 * 5) Frozen coffee
 * 6) MosFet voltage drop
 * 7) How does relative permittivity work in homogeneous mixtures?
 * 8) What percentage of the contiguous United States are completely undeveloped?
 * 9) Could the ability of people savants exceed the functional capacity of the computer?
 * 10) Looking for an interpretation of QM
 * 11) If the Neanderthal man had not gone extinct, then would it be put in a zoo?

= April 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 3


 * 1) Hentriacontane molecular conformation
 * 2) Intermediate taxa
 * 3) Food science question -- evaporation
 * 4) Referencing
 * 5) What is "hydrogenated vegetable oil" ?

= April 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 4


 * 1) Blunt trauma and delayed death
 * 2) Is sexual attractiveness distinctly physiologically and phenotypically different from physical attractiveness?
 * 3) Feeding variac with 240 VAC at 110 VAC point
 * 4) The Rotation of the Voyager Space Probe
 * 5) The difference between mutation of gene and genome

= April 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 5


 * 1) What kind of psychometric test is this?
 * 2) Air Pollution Maps
 * 3) trees
 * 4) Female sexuality
 * 5) Jet aerodynamics of sound
 * 6) kettles in the bath

= April 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 6


 * 1) Electric bath warmer
 * 2) regrowing fingers
 * 3) Turning into a skeleton
 * 4) "Physicist's guide to life" book?
 * 5) sleep deprivation
 * 6) Losing weight
 * 7) Addiction
 * 8) Can an animal genetically engineer itself?

= April 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 7


 * 1) microwave
 * 2) How long do LED, CFL, etc bulbs stay "on"?
 * 3) Modern medicine / human evolution
 * 4) Engineering and design - constructional systems of the USSR
 * 5) Flat loudspeakers
 * 6) Squeezing a very round head inside an oval helmet?
 * 7) colleges for message therapy
 * 8) Discovering an asteroid
 * 9) Who realised that whales and dolphins are not fish?
 * 10) Can a human body creates toxins by itself?

= April 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 8


 * 1) Material for heaviest bat possible
 * 2) Women's buttocks and handicap principle
 * 3) calorific value of carbon monoxide
 * 4) Orgasm

= April 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 9


 * 1) Gravity in conditions of the planet Earth
 * 2) Capacitor
 * 3) Prototypes of computer
 * 4) Pressure reducing valve question
 * 5) Reservoir storage
 * 6) Radio question 1
 * 7) Radio question 2

= April 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 10


 * 1) Is there any hormone which exists only in human males rather than female, or opposite?
 * 2) Allura Red AC
 * 3) Metallic-like organic compound?
 * 4) Is there any relationship between limescale and nephrolithiasis or bladder stones?
 * 5) Higher atmosphere= More homogenized Earth?
 * 6) Can a rectovaginal fistula lead to pregnancy?
 * 7) How many cell types does the heart have?
 * 8) Chemistry
 * 9) Drag in Le Sage's theory of gravitation
 * 10) Earthquakes

= April 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 11


 * 1) Frog eyes
 * 2) How is the opposite of the cardiomegaly called?
 * 3) Injecting a substance into the veins with the tongue.
 * 4) Spectroscopy of molecules and atoms
 * 5) Space: digital or analog?
 * 6) selective mutism

= April 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 12


 * 1) Palm tree
 * 2) Why do your ears pop when you go over a hill in the car, but not when you go up several stories in an elevator?
 * 3) Effect of cold on human body
 * 4) Earth's magnetic field

= April 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 13


 * 1) Definitions
 * 2) Chimp evolution driven by interaction with gorillas?
 * 3) Highest area of the sky covered by moons of a terrestrial planet?
 * 4) Tomato-based products on clothes vs. containers

= April 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 14


 * 1) Eutectic systems
 * 2) Can one use air-conditioning equipment to manipulate different forms of energy (apart from heat)?

= April 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 15


 * 1) stability of neighboring orbits
 * 2) Lithinase

= April 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 16


 * 1) Please Explain Why This (Presumable) Crank Is Wrong...
 * 2) Plastic noodles test
 * 3) Soreness

= April 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 17


 * 1) Space having mass

= April 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 18


 * 1) Raw meat
 * 2) Rotating reference frame
 * 3) Effect of an astrophysical jet on stellar bodies
 * 4) Health effects of mixed triglycerides
 * 5) 36 miles of cycling - time?
 * 6) CNC Router Table build material

= April 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 19


 * 1) Effect of varying dark matter density on the Solar System
 * 2) Why is Tonsillectomy so common in the United States?
 * 3) hydraulic mechanism
 * 4) Possible to observe the motion of the planets as a motionless observer?
 * 5) Can drowning cause bleeding?

= April 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 20


 * 1) Average bloke time-travelling

= April 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 21


 * 1) Color of Eggs in Supermarket
 * 2) Does anything, besides  crude oil and petroleum products, get cleaned if spilled at sea?
 * 3) thermal expansion
 * 4) Seeing Hubble from 6,000 miles away
 * 5) Do the cells of multicellular organisms "think" collectively as one?
 * 6) Crops by parameters
 * 7) Circuit boards
 * 8) Lordosis

= April 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 22


 * 1) What's the brain size requirement for a life form to be intelligent?
 * 2) Faster than speed of light

= April 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 23


 * 1) asperger's syndrome and autism: how do they relate to schizoid and schizotypal
 * 2) Superathlete

= April 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 24


 * 1) What came first, the chicks or the chicken?
 * 2) What are the signs that there's a sinkhole beneath the ground you're on?
 * 3) meteorology vs aerology

= April 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 25


 * 1) Drilling holes and magma

= April 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 26


 * 1) Aircraft propeller design
 * 2) Bum hair
 * 3) Dying from eating too many eggs
 * 4) Does the size of the right ventricle indeed equals to the left ventricle size?
 * 5) N15
 * 6) surface temperature versus satellite measurements

= April 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 27


 * 1) Rollerball & Ballpoint mechanical differences--any?

= April 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 28


 * 1) Parrots and chillies (probably about the 15th question on this topic)...
 * 2) Dolphin rape
 * 3) Boiling
 * 4) Where can I find a good skeptical review of the "quantum magnetic resonance analyzer"?

= April 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 29


 * 1) Mourning dove sounds
 * 2) Race and outgroup homogeneity
 * 3) Predation in human history
 * 4) Why does water moving inside a water pipe make noise?
 * 5) Major earthquakes distribution

= April 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 30


 * 1) Amazon
 * 2) Is e-diesel/blue crude a feasible fuel?
 * 3) Scientific studies on good diets to gain a lot of weight?