Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/August 2009

= August 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 1


 * 1) Swine flu
 * 2) Uncertainty principle
 * 3) Power line racket - What is it?
 * 4) image processing help.. required.
 * 5) huge moth, species unknown
 * 6) orange juice safety
 * 7) Crosswind landing
 * 8) Tin chloride for noble metal detection
 * 9) Species of peafowl
 * 10) What is a petoscope?

= August 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 2


 * 1) Genetic divergences between humans and clowns
 * 2) photo electric effect
 * 3) Calculating size of projected image
 * 4) Seeking a ray-diagram of a toroidal lens
 * 5) why so??/
 * 6) Lost in space during an EVA
 * 7) reduce CO2 by 89%: gross or net?
 * 8) Optical brighteners for photography
 * 9) dinosaurs, evolution and aliens...
 * 10) Wing contact on landing
 * 11) ID an integrated circuit (IC) manufacturer?

= August 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 3


 * 1) acid strength versus pH versus acid ability (for strong acids)
 * 2) Digestion
 * 3) Crash location on the Moon of Ranger 4 (April 26, 1962)
 * 4) Vegetable
 * 5) Scars
 * 6) Diamorphine pills
 * 7) Afterimage
 * 8) Rorschach Ink Blot Test
 * 9) History of science: from pseudoscience to empirical science
 * 10) car brakes question

= August 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 4


 * 1) Bond Energy
 * 2) Peter Pan Syndrome - refusing to heed written laws or just societal norms?
 * 3) Old refrigerators making more ice
 * 4) does the acidity of aromatic rings, alkenes (or even alkanes) contribute to petroleum formation?
 * 5) Interstellar travel
 * 6) Birch tree with golden bark??
 * 7) why do some nuts sqeak as you eat them?
 * 8) In space
 * 9) independent variable in x axis
 * 10) Moldy Bones
 * 11) electrical grounding
 * 12) COCONUT OIL

= August 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 5


 * 1) Knowing Allsorts
 * 2) Steel yourself for this question
 * 3) Catching flu twice
 * 4) Help identify this aquatic creature
 * 5) Forces
 * 6) Thermal Conductivity
 * 7) Transverse Processes
 * 8) PiCCO cardiac monitoring
 * 9) sunspot cycle
 * 10) Knives
 * 11) Gravity and Mass

= August 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 6


 * 1) can ethers act like alcohols in acid-catalyzed addition?
 * 2) Why is the Mandelbrot Set so complicated?
 * 3) amper-current and relativity
 * 4) METHANE ON MARS
 * 5) Ipod
 * 6) Fast poison
 * 7) Frying an egg with a nuclear weapon.
 * 8) Julia Set
 * 9) Jubilee Clips?
 * 10) Poisoning the sea
 * 11) Gravitational waves
 * 12) Jumping Americans cause earthquake in China

= August 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 7


 * 1) UV filters
 * 2) Bike gearing
 * 3) conservation of momentum and heat
 * 4) Bullets fired in the air returning to ground
 * 5) Space-filling models software
 * 6) Nipping out buds of tomatoes
 * 7) power leakage
 * 8) Surgery recovery time
 * 9) How can I tell if a martial arts school is crap?
 * 10) Lead lined coffins
 * 11) Is the mind software or hardware?

= August 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 8


 * 1) Ringworm
 * 2) Negative Matter Superluminal Travel???
 * 3) slow cooking of pork -- where does all the fat go?
 * 4) Light as a feather, stiff as a board
 * 5) Pushing things out of earth orbit
 * 6) Tyres and Dry-Rot
 * 7) Detecting nuclear weapons
 * 8) Antenna length

= August 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 9


 * 1) Is this guy a crank?
 * 2) Zero Velocity but accelerating!!!!!
 * 3) Untitled Query
 * 4) Suppose you're standing on the surface of a balloon
 * 5) I don't understand the 3-body problem
 * 6) What is the name of this insect?
 * 7) What the heck is going on in this video?
 * 8) Changes in DNA
 * 9) Attachment for cooling cars pre-ac?

= August 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 10


 * 1) Alice
 * 2) Total Perspective Vortex IRL
 * 3) Evolution and Paganism
 * 4) Relativistic Doppler effect-not theta_s?
 * 5) Ring Singularities
 * 6) First major sport to get the Deep Blue treatment?
 * 7) 'Bacteriocidality' of penicillin
 * 8) Tornandos and Hurricanes in US
 * 9) Neodymium Chloride
 * 10) spirit fire
 * 11) Orthodontic braces
 * 12) Questions/suggestions for Fetch (game)
 * 13) Pangaea 2
 * 14) South Africa and Cape Horn

= August 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 11


 * 1) Does the mass of the earth change with population growth?
 * 2) Howard Hughes Medical Institute
 * 3) Northern Canada, Anchorage and southern Greenland
 * 4) Conversions
 * 5) name of soviet car
 * 6) Cheap DNA restriction enzymes
 * 7) Battle excavations
 * 8) European Maple Syrup
 * 9) Relativistic Doppler effect-another problem
 * 10) Why is AIDS so Common in Africa?
 * 11) Electric field strength
 * 12) helicopter ejection seats
 * 13) The Moon
 * 14) Large population increases rate of evolution?
 * 15) core not molten
 * 16) esterification of edible alcohols, besides ethanol
 * 17) How do I get Ajax out of a can?
 * 18) plant intelligence
 * 19) Plants sleeping
 * 20) Does this sound right to you?
 * 21) elemental isotopes
 * 22) Broken stereo?
 * 23) Herbicide
 * 24) Thermal cleaning of high carbon steel

= August 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 12


 * 1) Southern New Zealand
 * 2) hot ice on Uranus and Neptune
 * 3) Speed of sound in a fluid
 * 4) IQ and Dunning-Kruger effect
 * 5) Viewing the Perseids meteor shower from Netherlands
 * 6) Time Dilation with Radioactive Elements.
 * 7) Purpose of cylinder at back of Renault FT-17 tank
 * 8) stringing power strips
 * 9) Transmission of swine flu
 * 10) Bluetooth Marketting
 * 11) Grantt Chart
 * 12) How to cause hypomania
 * 13) pluto
 * 14) Pain sensitive areas on human body
 * 15) Fat joe
 * 16) polar day animals
 * 17) X-rays
 * 18) Goumi (Elaeagnus multiflora)
 * 19) Global warming

= August 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 13


 * 1) Insane Plants
 * 2) Why are some dishes so greasy?
 * 3) Hideous mermaid image
 * 4) Ice Age
 * 5) neural optimization.. how to,..
 * 6) Moon at 100 km
 * 7) CPU gold content
 * 8) Are cats really this clever?
 * 9) non-therapy ancillary services
 * 10) Quantum mechanics and determinism
 * 11) insecticide
 * 12) Influence of the Southern Oscillation on tropospheric temperature
 * 13) Paper coffee cups and cold liquids
 * 14) What about Jerome Drexler and cosmology?
 * 15) Micro black hole scenario
 * 16) Study on tea and stress
 * 17) Human skin color
 * 18) Fun with negative refraction?

= August 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 14


 * 1) Gull-proof sack?
 * 2) Sitting too close to a TV
 * 3) Mineralogy of the Black Stone
 * 4) Direction of rotation of helicoptor blades
 * 5) Electric power stations
 * 6) Magnetism
 * 7) Positioning sound
 * 8) toxicity of crown ethers
 * 9) blood in the water
 * 10) acid question
 * 11) chameleons: will they eat off your hand?
 * 12) Calculating my daily calorie intake needed to lose weight
 * 13) Gene Identification

= August 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 15


 * 1) Power of gull bites - any data?
 * 2) executive chair that has a trigger
 * 3) How does evolution work where sexual selection is minimal?
 * 4) Multiple universe theory proves God exists?
 * 5) Species of monkey
 * 6) One of those things that you really should know about the human body...
 * 7) Human presence detection technique
 * 8) Candle pendulum
 * 9) Faraday Cage
 * 10) Musical tastes and mental health diagnosis
 * 11) Feeling tired when hiking, resting, then continuing

= August 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 16


 * 1) orbital
 * 2) Chirping transformer
 * 3) Capacitance and materials
 * 4) Cast iron stove paint
 * 5) Does exercise make people less drunk?
 * 6) Does a compressed spring weigh more than an uncompressed one?
 * 7) Toothpastes with two anti-bacterial ingredients
 * 8) De Havilland Dragon Rapide
 * 9) Fluorescent light comes on only after long, variable delay. Probable cause?
 * 10) BLAST search always fruitless?
 * 11) Artificial membrane
 * 12) "Good" or "Bad" Firewood
 * 13) DVD lasers

= August 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 17


 * 1) Bell peppers
 * 2) Phases of matter -- all relative
 * 3) Squinting
 * 4) Sleep deprivation and hallucinations
 * 5) Press releases on research papers
 * 6) No fish native to  a river is poisonous?
 * 7) THERMODYNAMICS  AND  FLUID  MACHINERY
 * 8) What lizard is this?
 * 9) Prion Terrorism
 * 10) Turbopumps on rockets
 * 11) color
 * 12) Ants sting instead of bite?
 * 13) Recycled ants?
 * 14) Digital Electronics
 * 15) DNA ligation in vitro
 * 16) suppository
 * 17) Cant (road/rail)
 * 18) Suppositories - q for the medical people here
 * 19) Looking for a nutrition web site

= August 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 18


 * 1) Harvestman
 * 2) Fruit on an empty stomach
 * 3) Transcendental Meditation and stress accumulation
 * 4) Fast acting diseases?
 * 5) Monitoring wireless
 * 6) Photo diode question
 * 7) Connecticut residence of Samuel Finley Breese Morse
 * 8) KINEMATICS
 * 9) brain blood barrier
 * 10) Spherical coincidence
 * 11) Blood pressure and emotions
 * 12) Airport Security & Philosophy
 * 13) Line
 * 14) Extracting ricin from castor beans
 * 15) haircuts
 * 16) Locked in syndrome
 * 17) What is "Real" Speed of Electricity?
 * 18) Genome Studies
 * 19) Species population
 * 20) Tundra Climates
 * 21) Longitude per mile
 * 22) plate tectonics

= August 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 19


 * 1) Paternal and maternal genes
 * 2) Carbon sequestration by farming bamboo
 * 3) parabola
 * 4) hi
 * 5) Recording live concerts with  microphones
 * 6) Instrument landing
 * 7) Teen years
 * 8) Actinidain
 * 9) Wicca and mental health
 * 10) Nitrated Compounds
 * 11) My Compost "Peters Out"
 * 12) Names of the first 2009 influenza A H1N1 pandemic virus.
 * 13) Blackheads

= August 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 20


 * 1) Motion, then no motion, in optical illusion
 * 2) how to get into research?
 * 3) Time Machine and Law of conservation of energy.
 * 4) Why soy wax?
 * 5) LED
 * 6) Wireless electricity
 * 7) Taking a picture of the past
 * 8) Are Monkeys Taxa
 * 9) Temperature of fire
 * 10) Trans-fat binder ?
 * 11) Physical exercise --> prolonged life. But will i actually have more time? Cardiologist may know?
 * 12) Why have many (most?) vertebrates not evolved to ejaculate quickly during intercourse?

= August 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 21


 * 1) Dog mess vaporization using liquid oxygen?
 * 2) Digital physics and the bugs
 * 3) what are the different types of leaves?
 * 4) Gallbladder-Thickening of the gallbladder wall
 * 5) How fast are we really, really moving?
 * 6) Electrical fuses on the European continent
 * 7) Sexuality: nurture or nature?
 * 8) Using a transistor as a relay/switch
 * 9) rectifier
 * 10) Home three phase supply
 * 11) Eating after a Work out
 * 12) Thick eyebrows?
 * 13) Why is a thunderstorm blue?
 * 14) Voltage between outlet and ground
 * 15) Supersymmetry and Noether's theorem
 * 16) Nuclear power advances and the environment
 * 17) Is there any evolutionary reason for natural disaster movies being so cool to watch?
 * 18) Energy drink studies vs. just sugar and caffeine?
 * 19) Drunk-happy or drunk-angry?

= August 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 22


 * 1) Tropical Cyclone Crossing the Equator
 * 2) Microsleep and discontinuity
 * 3) Naga Fireballs
 * 4) Experiment variables
 * 5) Oxidant Scavenging Systems
 * 6) Neanderthals
 * 7) Tiny flies in the kitchen
 * 8) Spanish flying insects

= August 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 23


 * 1) A moth I saw when I was a kid...
 * 2) Chinese Egrets! -- Where to report rare bird sightings for East Asia?
 * 3) Healing machines
 * 4) Motor learning and tools
 * 5) Exercise making someone more drunk?
 * 6) Known precision of the nuclear force binding energy constant
 * 7) software programming
 * 8) Streamlines and streaklines
 * 9) How to cross a river safely while hiking - portable boat?
 * 10) 'Level' as a point or a span
 * 11) Southwest Pacific islands
 * 12) History of mind uploading
 * 13) Three questions about potato
 * 14) Decaying stew
 * 15) Turkey thing

= August 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 24


 * 1) Digging yourself out of a hole
 * 2) extraction of MGO/CACO3 from DOLOMITE/CALCITE
 * 3) Calculating cumulative U-values
 * 4) Bouncing X-rays
 * 5) spontaneous endothermic solvation
 * 6) fm transmitter using crystal oscilator119.152.15.223 (talk) 18:56, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 7) siphon question
 * 8) Dr Jeffrey Arnett's theory of Emerging adulthood

= August 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 25


 * 1) Immunity to disease/infection/etc
 * 2) Inaccuracy of Significant figures
 * 3) Why old colour televisions with Cathode Ray tube show reddish colour when swithched on?
 * 4) Jump the Moon
 * 5) 220v /230v/240v
 * 6) Potential gain of irreversible, unidirectional, negative value time travel
 * 7) human hermaphrodites
 * 8) Recoil in a vortex launcher
 * 9) Who was "Lawrence" that named lots of southern African species in the early 20th century?

= August 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 26


 * 1) Leaf Color
 * 2) I thought this little black snake was harmless, can someone help ID it?
 * 3) Would it be possible to run a power plant with dissimilar metals?
 * 4) Doesn't having an irradiance comparison between Earth and New Extrasolar Planets make sense?
 * 5) Makeshift optical telescope
 * 6) Did Indians discovery Laws of Motion centuries before Kepler?
 * 7) Cracking joints
 * 8) movement of knee
 * 9) Doubling your gas mileage
 * 10) Addition Reaction of Alkynes to Alkenes
 * 11) Exotic Matter
 * 12) Fusion
 * 13) drifting
 * 14) Human Genetic Trait Pairings
 * 15) Dulce Base/Nightmare Hall/Underground Tunnels
 * 16) Sodium Sulphate solubility
 * 17) Cerium Sulphate solubility
 * 18) Maxwwell's Demon
 * 19) If Wikipedia has multiple server sites, where is the real encyclopedia image (the one that gets edited) currently?

= August 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 27


 * 1) Canine kidney failure
 * 2) A380 and An-124
 * 3) Re-OP: Is it true that using known data with known formulas is not synthesis?
 * 4) Reference Desk Organization
 * 5) Repeated static shocks.
 * 6) When do Baby's start going to the toilet?
 * 7) Choking
 * 8) How long till unmanned plants stop?
 * 9) Using antennas
 * 10) Local anaesthetics
 * 11) White noise generator
 * 12) Visual acuity
 * 13) electrical technology
 * 14) Sterilization of Psylocibe spores
 * 15) Gravity waves

= August 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 28


 * 1) invisibility
 * 2) Gravitational wave triangulation
 * 3) Relatively local area network
 * 4) how to interpret
 * 5) Firefighting with seaplanes
 * 6) one way salb
 * 7) Comparing male/female weight loss on The Biggest Loser
 * 8) Recharging Electronics in Different Countries
 * 9) what is the counterion for DNA?
 * 10) Brain Development
 * 11) Kirchhoff current law validity
 * 12) General fomula for electric fusing
 * 13) why is ammonia more acidic than water?

= August 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 29


 * 1) Alpha particle scattering experiment
 * 2) Parallax method
 * 3) Uncertainty principle-another question
 * 4) 'Hottest' chilli pepper
 * 5) Hottest pepper
 * 6) Ohm's law and Johnson–Nyquist_noise
 * 7) Le Chatelier's principle
 * 8) Bathroom scales inaccurate
 * 9) Wikipedia as Education
 * 10) Fruit beginning with U
 * 11) Smell after rain
 * 12) Severed vine
 * 13) Hurricanes in Southern California
 * 14) Engineering - 'agricultural drain"

= August 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 30


 * 1) QUANTUM NUMBERS
 * 2) Blood pH
 * 3) Cell phone jamming
 * 4) Single celled organisms and evolution
 * 5) Genus Canis
 * 6) Parameters of Planet Habitability for people? (not Extremophiles)
 * 7) "NOx" written in expanded form as...?
 * 8) Coal & Fossils
 * 9) Puzzling Puzzle
 * 10) Transparent objects
 * 11) Hair follicle imitator
 * 12) Fish safety
 * 13) Trying to figure out the name of a car part

= August 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 31


 * 1) Why do dogs sometimes chase their own tails?
 * 2) World Drug List
 * 3) Carl Linnaeus translated to English?
 * 4) Ground
 * 5) Moon
 * 6) Genetic modification of pubic hair for transplant?
 * 7) Spider identification
 * 8) Swine flu - dead birds
 * 9) Bug control with garlic water?
 * 10) Do snakes has vision
 * 11) The smallest hole water can penetrate
 * 12) Cockroaches
 * 13) Would New York City's subway be designed any differently now?