Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/August 2007

= August 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 1


 * 1) The Nile River
 * 2) Help!!!!!anyone help me anwser this question....i have an exam juz few hours to go....i nid the anwser as quick as possible
 * 3) Blindness from birth affecting how one learns body language, etc.?
 * 4) Amesbury Archer had unusual configuration to the bones in his feet.
 * 5) Wormholes
 * 6) Solar Cells
 * 7) human anatomy
 * 8) natural abundance
 * 9) Frog
 * 10) residue left when bleach dries
 * 11) White stuff on old batteries
 * 12) Entry of blood from marrow to circulatory system
 * 13) How many human diseases are there?
 * 14) Trolleybus/Trackless Trolley
 * 15) Type of thought disorder?
 * 16) What is the definition of ORTHODOSES?
 * 17) Laser Pointers
 * 18) Angular momentum

= August 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 2


 * 1) volkswagon beetle
 * 2) I was wondering
 * 3) Blue Whale Migration
 * 4) Breath Holding
 * 5) MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
 * 6) social studies
 * 7) Paralysis from spinal chord injuries
 * 8) the United Kingdom vs Great Britain
 * 9) spider pigs
 * 10) Re:Solar flares, prominences, and sunspots
 * 11) Pinhole_camera
 * 12) Short term Memory
 * 13) Animala
 * 14) Copper Pipe
 * 15) What is the name of the 'no money - binge reflex'?

= August 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 3


 * 1) Finite Photons?
 * 2) Latex discoloration
 * 3) calculation
 * 4) silver plating
 * 5) molecular biology
 * 6) Heart rate
 * 7) Dogs and milk/chocolate
 * 8) Black Iron Pipe
 * 9) Biology/ snakes

= August 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 4


 * 1) Beneficial mutations "objective?"
 * 2) "Shunning" in gulls? - re-asking as my original question has been archived without answer...
 * 3) clouds
 * 4) Dr Donor
 * 5) John Doe Plant
 * 6) metric tons conversion to litres fuels
 * 7) Sunflowers with 2 heads
 * 8) efficiency of transport
 * 9) Is the earth materially closed?
 * 10) Boiling with less than the recommended minimum level of water...
 * 11) Piloting a spacecraft
 * 12) How do you declare a theory?
 * 13) Planting acorns and fruit stones
 * 14) Science project - heat to electrical energy transduction...
 * 15) Need help finding health issues
 * 16) Physics
 * 17) Gravity Question
 * 18) Latest consumer battery technology?

= August 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 5


 * 1) P -type conductor
 * 2) Messages and/or Words in Microwave Oven Heated Liquid
 * 3) Glare Circles
 * 4) shaver
 * 5) Homework question
 * 6) aircraft cabin pressurization
 * 7) What happens to it?
 * 8) Comfrey- visual recognition of bocking 14 variety
 * 9) Burnt edges of bread
 * 10) Kittiwakes

= August 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 6


 * 1) Saw
 * 2) Ants
 * 3) Gene Transfering
 * 4) Does electrons attract or repeal photons ?
 * 5) The Epidermis
 * 6) spin of neutron etc
 * 7) genetic intelligence
 * 8) Peacock snake diet
 * 9) volume of photon.
 * 10) Oil refining energy consumption
 * 11) Cooling down the body
 * 12) Seeing the sky from Jupiter's atmosphere
 * 13) pinprick sensation
 * 14) Where do we get so much energy???

= August 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 7


 * 1) Speling queston
 * 2) Blood group and Vegetarianism
 * 3) Where is the brachialis?
 * 4) pale monarch
 * 5) Weather book needed
 * 6) Clarification on Sun tanning
 * 7) Water in the human body
 * 8) Alcohol from beans
 * 9) Frozen Water Picture
 * 10) International Space Hygene
 * 11) Temporary fix to glassware
 * 12) Bernoulli Principle
 * 13) Voice
 * 14) Tappan Zee bridge clearance
 * 15) Human and animal sperm
 * 16) Possibility of landing on a neutron star

= August 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 8


 * 1) TRIGA Mark III
 * 2) Help finding news item on the plateau of cancer rates
 * 3) Dehydration and Gatorade
 * 4) Bird crap
 * 5) Microwave Oven Longevity
 * 6) Blood Plasma Discolouration
 * 7) Safe pesticides for use near Florida mangroves
 * 8) Voss and Fiji brand water
 * 9) Are we smarter now?
 * 10) Avoiding decompression
 * 11) Male dogs
 * 12) Just a thought
 * 13) Magpie nests
 * 14) Space Shuttle tracking

= August 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 9


 * 1) Do freezers use less energy when empty?
 * 2) centrifugal force and gravity
 * 3) centrifugal force and gravity (gravitons)
 * 4) bunsen burner
 * 5) Marble and Mobile Phones!!
 * 6) Relativity's successor
 * 7) Instruments of Measurements
 * 8) Conv. of units for cholesterol
 * 9) ice cream

= August 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 10


 * 1) Death - turning on back
 * 2) Headaches
 * 3) WHICH BIRD CAN FLY IN BACKWARD DIRECTION ALSO?
 * 4) Exact reason for the gender difference in essential body fat percentage
 * 5) light intensity
 * 6) Sleeping feet
 * 7) AIDS enquiries
 * 8) Fading of photogaphic prints
 * 9) Microbiology/statistics
 * 10) about sea monkeys
 * 11) changing the demand for electricity in a 24 hour period
 * 12) Melarsoprol - sorting fact from fiction

= August 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 11


 * 1) Questions about hydrogen/oxygen ratio in Eternal Tank, Kourou launch site and inclination
 * 2) What is the fate of insulin molecules in the body?
 * 3) name of Middle Eastern herb?
 * 4) Toe Nails
 * 5) biology --- moth question
 * 6) nano tech
 * 7) AC Adapter
 * 8) Intracranial pressure
 * 9) anxiety disorders
 * 10) How to find out the caffeine content thropugh experiment
 * 11) Term for an aggressive signal used by animals
 * 12) New fish in an ecosystem
 * 13) Slow vcr power-up
 * 14) Digital vs Analog Television Broadcasting
 * 15) Health,
 * 16) Enzymes releasing products after the reaction.
 * 17) CO2 levels

= August 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 12


 * 1) Need help with another link - hair pulling obsession
 * 2) Silicate Lattice - edges?
 * 3) Concentrated acids - definition, calculations?
 * 4) Fear of reading text books
 * 5) mitosis
 * 6) Recharging batteries
 * 7) Overcast Days
 * 8) Fractional charges on quarks
 * 9) Pseudocodes, DFDs and Flowchart
 * 10) Magic cleaning liquid
 * 11) The double pendulum...

= August 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 13


 * 1) BaBar Experiment
 * 2) Japanese Vehicle Horsepower Restrictions
 * 3) Ohm's law
 * 4) seperation of sugar solution from pure water
 * 5) Gravitation
 * 6) Infinite light box
 * 7) Electrons in String Theory
 * 8) box fan
 * 9) Realistic deaths in films?
 * 10) Fire diamond
 * 11) Health fairs at libraries
 * 12) Skin pigmentation in higher latitudes.

= August 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 14


 * 1) weather - humidity
 * 2) Ice
 * 3) about scientist  of friction
 * 4) Effects of gravitation from and on an object near light speed
 * 5) Swirling Water
 * 6) Car's rim
 * 7) Human body drinking issue
 * 8) Mouldy bread
 * 9) Benzodiazepine
 * 10) Electromagnetic Waves
 * 11) Why does a hand in warm water while asleep cause bed wetting?
 * 12) Lanthionine
 * 13) Adoption
 * 14) Perfectograph
 * 15) Plato on third region beyond true and false, fuzzy logic precursor
 * 16) Physics?
 * 17) Not a question!
 * 18) Laser Cutter in Woodshop

= August 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 15


 * 1) xenalights
 * 2) Cardio and Barfing
 * 3) Journal Cell Publication Period
 * 4) Glazing
 * 5) READING BURRETTES IN TITRATION
 * 6) Internet in Africa
 * 7) Hole in a spacesuit

= August 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 16


 * 1) Stupid pharmaceutical names..
 * 2) How long would you retain consciousness/awareness if your head was cut off?
 * 3) nickle silver alloy
 * 4) Does Nature utilize prime numbers (qua prime) for any reason?
 * 5) Hibiscus
 * 6) Source of non-copyrighted image of plants
 * 7) Can you fault my logical and scientific proof for personal immortality?
 * 8) Closed Time-Like Loops
 * 9) Iron pentacarbonyl
 * 10) cities
 * 11) Dream question
 * 12) Nero mammoths
 * 13) "Sashimi Grade" fish, and parasites and other nasties
 * 14) Banana skins
 * 15) cytochrome c measurement
 * 16) troubleshooting
 * 17) Birth of a seagull

= August 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 17


 * 1) Dangerous love
 * 2) Shape of the eye
 * 3) Chemistry and Botany
 * 4) Stroboscopic Effect again
 * 5) Vertical polarization
 * 6) Adherence
 * 7) clean pharmacy
 * 8) Quarks in the Universe
 * 9) Where do all the animals go that die???
 * 10) What caused the collapse?
 * 11) Time-lapse of bark growing
 * 12) Polarization filter for camera
 * 13) Photos of earless humans
 * 14) The sizes of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds
 * 15) Sensu?
 * 16) Rotation of drinking-vessel as a means of controlling flow
 * 17) force applied by moving water

= August 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 18


 * 1) Strange creature ID needed...
 * 2) Speculation
 * 3) Dreaming
 * 4) Dark energy
 * 5) What kind of squirrel is this?
 * 6) Who was Ed Hummel?
 * 7) pitcher plant
 * 8) Transdermal Deca Durabolin
 * 9) Stovetops
 * 10) Magnetic property of Hydrogen.
 * 11) Why doesn't air conduct current?
 * 12) bush height
 * 13) Absorbtion rate through skin
 * 14) Chagos Trench
 * 15) So, there are red, green and now blue laser pointers...
 * 16) How do I determine the age of an adult female budgerigar?
 * 17) Odd vision problem

= August 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 19


 * 1) Why do we go blue?
 * 2) A chemical bond
 * 3) Veins
 * 4) mimimum pixel size of lcd display
 * 5) Night vision
 * 6) TI-89 Titanium Units
 * 7) Bald-headed birds and the sun...

= August 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 20


 * 1) Cat Whiskers
 * 2) Peeling
 * 3) Cognitive Error.
 * 4) Birth rates following wars
 * 5) Trends across period 3 of the periodic table
 * 6) BIOLOGY
 * 7) Chemistry
 * 8) chemistry
 * 9) Petrochemicals
 * 10) Eagle Project
 * 11) Utah Mine Disaster
 * 12) Tension in a string tied between two supports
 * 13) MPG: reality versus EPA ratings
 * 14) birds
 * 15) Speed limit "c"?

= August 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 21


 * 1) Quantum Immortality....WTF?
 * 2) Psychomotor Retardation
 * 3) Travel adaptors
 * 4) Earth science
 * 5) pitcher plants
 * 6) What is true
 * 7) Pneumatics Vs Hydraulics
 * 8) Nettles
 * 9) isoxazole
 * 10) Palmetto Bug communication
 * 11) telescope design
 * 12) Hyperventilation
 * 13) DNA
 * 14) unidentified bird, mammal, insect
 * 15) Conjoined twins
 * 16) boat in current
 * 17) Qauntum Decay
 * 18) STS-3xx
 * 19) randomness mechanism
 * 20) Sea Shells

= August 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 22


 * 1) Medicine - The Spleen
 * 2) is this right?
 * 3) Power used by a car
 * 4) Toads and warts
 * 5) insuline
 * 6) PHYSICS D/L
 * 7) BOTANY
 * 8) sea
 * 9) Death by Fire
 * 10) physics
 * 11) Conjoined Twins
 * 12) How many islands are there?
 * 13) Light Bulb Pressure
 * 14) Why is warm cheese more flavorful than cold?
 * 15) Swallowing toothpaste
 * 16) helium ballons
 * 17) oxidative phosphorylation
 * 18) Vehicles Submerged in Water
 * 19) Alzheimer's Disease
 * 20) Quick, slightly vulgar question...

= August 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 23


 * 1) What is Lanalool?
 * 2) sun and moon simultaneously visible
 * 3) Megapixel equivalent of eye
 * 4) where is the sun in google sky?
 * 5) Recovering wet electronics
 * 6) The Federal Puke Ray: How does it work?
 * 7) Which animals sweat?

= August 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 24


 * 1) Weak bosons
 * 2) Wouldn't it sensible if Nature made us all hermaphrodites?
 * 3) Geometry of complex
 * 4) Colour question (related to one above)
 * 5) Scary Movie
 * 6) Salt in processed foods
 * 7) Editing Wikipedia telekinetically
 * 8) Running On Water
 * 9) Space-time continium
 * 10) user knowledge
 * 11) Maglev technology & Meissner Effect/Flux trapping

= August 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 25


 * 1) Mountain height limit
 * 2) Monounsaturated and Polyunsaturated Fats
 * 3) regarding heat
 * 4) bird blood
 * 5) Toxicity of unrinsed dishes
 * 6) Spherical Magnet?
 * 7) Bacteria in human mouth vs. at the end of the digestion process
 * 8) Camera emulating the human eye
 * 9) WHAT HAPPENS DURING MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER?
 * 10) WHAT HAPPENS TO THE BRAIN DURING THE DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER?
 * 11) 21 grams
 * 12) Hooke's law and its integral
 * 13) Mains adapter
 * 14) + & - chargged metals
 * 15) Sacrificial Anode - Aluminium
 * 16) Fused NaCl
 * 17) Recharging a Lone Ranger atomic bomb ring
 * 18) Fields of science
 * 19) Elasticity and Strain
 * 20) Animal intelligence testing
 * 21) liquid pressure
 * 22) Accents

= August 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 26


 * 1) Prozac and Weight Change
 * 2) Psychology
 * 3) Newtonian camera
 * 4) stepped transmission
 * 5) Building a wall or fence to block traffic noise
 * 6) Unidentified disease of Marigold
 * 7) lenses
 * 8) Acoustics
 * 9) If a tree falls in the woods, does it make a sound?
 * 10) How do you demolish a skyscraper?

= August 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 27


 * 1) Noise reduction history
 * 2) Plants Water Purifacation
 * 3) Photon duality
 * 4) Riverstone pebble tiles
 * 5) True open circuit- calculation
 * 6) toothpaste
 * 7) reaction machenism
 * 8) Telescope Physics
 * 9) Earths magnetic pole swapping
 * 10) Time dilation at the speed of light
 * 11) composite material, kitchen work top made of clear resin and white pebbles

= August 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 28


 * 1) When is the best time to change gear in a manual car?
 * 2) katydids/diet
 * 3) Laser
 * 4) XRF Bremsstrahlung Shape
 * 5) Area of Earth one can see.
 * 6) Gull feathers - do they make better duvet filling than duck/goose/chicken feathers?
 * 7) experiment to determine planck's constant
 * 8) ANTI-GRAVITY WORKSPACE
 * 9) White House
 * 10) Does ice conduct electricity?
 * 11) Unidentified Fixed Object

= August 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 29


 * 1) Chill
 * 2) Hollow moon
 * 3) Vision improved?
 * 4) Germans then and now
 * 5) Biros!
 * 6) Speedy Than Light
 * 7) What effect do creatine supplements have on insulin levels?
 * 8) Network subscribers in South Africa
 * 9) Helium Baloons
 * 10) odd question - spin inversion
 * 11) Discouraging collared doves from my bird table?
 * 12) The American Dental Association made a vaccine to Streptococcus mutans and then patented it and sat on the patent so ensure dentists stayed in business???
 * 13) Wind data

= August 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 30


 * 1) EFFECT OF ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE ON BODY WEIGHT
 * 2) Gecko feet
 * 3) Physics
 * 4) Hunger related
 * 5) Spider Web
 * 6) Time period for the deposition of calcium carbonate in Italy.
 * 7) geography/cartography issue, example included
 * 8) Bachelor of Science in Engineering vs Bachelor of Engineering
 * 9) SOAP Notes
 * 10) Time, space and the universe.
 * 11) Colored water on plants
 * 12) Looking back in time
 * 13) Flies in the dark
 * 14) Titration and pH meter/indicator
 * 15) Mythbusters

= August 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 31


 * 1) Fourth dimension
 * 2) Blood Sugar Dropping
 * 3) Gauss's law
 * 4) Moths.
 * 5) Gaussian_surface#Spherical_surface
 * 6) phenomena-defying gravity
 * 7) Really Odd Insect
 * 8) Black and white spinner
 * 9) The Membrane Cell for NaOH Production
 * 10) Blueprints
 * 11) eyesight
 * 12) Cobalt weight vs Nickel weight
 * 13) wbc
 * 14) The E
 * 15) Burning gas indoors
 * 16) Young snakes
 * 17) riverstone pebble tiles
 * 18) In an aqueous solution, why is [H][OH] always equal to a constant?
 * 19) Hydrophobic vs. Hydrophilic
 * 20) Escape velocity of the solar system for the sun
 * 21) Is my Sun Conure in pain??
 * 22) The gloowwww, the wonderful glowwww!