Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/August 2010

= August 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 1


 * 1) Question 9, part (d)(i)
 * 2) Identical twins and children
 * 3) Where is the center of the universe?
 * 4) Placebo Questions
 * 5) Computer-controlled cars
 * 6) few question about glycolysis
 * 7) What is convergent evolution?
 * 8) can loud music (esp. prominent electric guitars, drum, bass) kill cells on a microscope slide?

= August 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 2


 * 1) Units of Time
 * 2) Precambrian rabbits and natural fossil exposure
 * 3) Depression Medication
 * 4) Contact between shaft and bearing
 * 5) Electrolysis
 * 6) Fennec Hare
 * 7) documentary
 * 8) Real life lightsaber
 * 9) Hematite color change
 * 10) Wind Erosion on Venus
 * 11) aspartame
 * 12) Human consumption of uncooked cereal grains
 * 13) wasp-like insects
 * 14) Queen Ant
 * 15) Fluid balance - production of water by the human body throu metabolism
 * 16) Silicon Bakeware
 * 17) Tipler Cylinder
 * 18) What sort of mood disorder is the following?

= August 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 3


 * 1) How to attach ceramic capacitor to solderless breadboard?
 * 2) What benign medical conditions are easily misdiagnosed as a deadly incurable condition?
 * 3) Interesting problem with AM Radios...
 * 4) Brand name drugs vs generics
 * 5) Cold object
 * 6) sulfonates and cells
 * 7) stochiometric tests for hydrogen peroxide
 * 8) Not eating with tablets
 * 9) what happens when PBS cell buffer is exposed to air?
 * 10) Traveling to nearby stars

= August 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 4


 * 1) Special relativity and Ender's Game
 * 2) High levels of elements in the blood related to skin and eye color
 * 3) Mysterious movement of sediment in a wine glass
 * 4) How much smoke and smog would harm an engine?
 * 5) Spark plug disrupter ray
 * 6) Cloning Einstein
 * 7) Diamonds are forever (?)
 * 8) Eyeglass prescription
 * 9) Positive and Negative Overlap
 * 10) Expense of oscilloscopes
 * 11) "Eco" water bottles have more BPA?
 * 12) Retrieving sound of the past
 * 13) Weird Bug Redux
 * 14) Recent CMEs and auroras
 * 15) Number/measurement system

= August 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 5


 * 1) history of skin cancer?
 * 2) what is the difference between cytonemes and filopodia?
 * 3) Chimney
 * 4) gas central heating
 * 5) Fuss about Blackberrys and National Security
 * 6) Reason for adding synthetic colors in medicines
 * 7) Sides of leather
 * 8) Mathematical Tools for General Relativity
 * 9) chemistry
 * 10) Why can't Quantum Teleportation transmit information faster than light?
 * 11) lunar eclipses and "blood red moons"

= August 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 6


 * 1) Scent + washing
 * 2) microscopy terminology in a formal paper
 * 3) resin
 * 4) Bacon Cheeseburger Armpits
 * 5) oil paint
 * 6) Type of engineering degree
 * 7) Chronobiology of sunsets
 * 8) Surface tension
 * 9) I got a new water heater
 * 10) Voltaic pile question
 * 11) Sub-woofer orientation

= August 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 7


 * 1) Katha from acacia catechu tree
 * 2) Uphill running
 * 3) Drinking diethyl ether
 * 4) what is this plant?
 * 5) Sickness
 * 6) Scientific names of hybrid species
 * 7) Why don't scissors work upside-down?
 * 8) I saw this 50% chance dwarfism gene on some medical documentary years ago. What's that condition called?
 * 9) musical memory
 * 10) skin
 * 11) Processing multiple voices
 * 12) Identifying trees
 * 13) Soldering iron tip compatibility
 * 14) Evolution
 * 15) Building an insulated cabinet

= August 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 8


 * 1) North Pole?
 * 2) The Neurons or the synapses
 * 3) When is a heat sink necessary for a 7805 voltage regulator?
 * 4) Maximum knowledge
 * 5) Tetra Fish Fins
 * 6) SOx cooling atmosphere
 * 7) St. Bernard dog
 * 8) wave analyzers
 * 9) Yoplait has a fat-free Greek yogurt.
 * 10) How does a car's wheels get out of alignment?
 * 11) fridges
 * 12) Energy
 * 13) Jumbo Jet vs. Mortal
 * 14) Food poisoning, even after cooking?

= August 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 9


 * 1) What manner of turtle is this?
 * 2) Conservation of matter argument for Climate Change and Alternative energy?
 * 3) Present day radiation levels at Hiroshima and Nagasaki
 * 4) The Marangoni Effect in a wineglass
 * 5) Cricket type
 * 6) pollution
 * 7) Cement
 * 8) Waking up
 * 9) Q: Today's featured pic
 * 10) Crayfish in New Jersey streams
 * 11) Looking for reference for an experiment about expectations and performance
 * 12) Three meals a day?

= August 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 10


 * 1) What's the prospect of scientists creating enzymes that can treat prion diseases?
 * 2) Why did they change the iphone's antenna?
 * 3) is this text to speech or just a nerdy guy?
 * 4) Frogs!
 * 5) Cycle helmets - do they reduce vision and impair hearing?
 * 6) paint stirrers
 * 7) Transforming a principal stress tensor to maximum shear stress tensor?
 * 8) Chemistry/Software question
 * 9) What is a tensor?
 * 10) satellites.
 * 11) Most intelligent bird

= August 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 11


 * 1) Dunning–Kruger effect
 * 2) Banding during sunset
 * 3) More finds
 * 4) Reverberation
 * 5) mockingbirds
 * 6) Phage therapy
 * 7) Mnemonic for functional groups in IUPAC nomenclature
 * 8) Sexual Behavior in the Human female
 * 9) Buoyancy
 * 10) Toxins
 * 11) Bacon crisps state 65g protein/100g
 * 12) Cold bottles freezing
 * 13) is this apoptosis or autophagy (cellular)? Is it even programmed cell death?
 * 14) Burping in zero gravity
 * 15) Impact of piping on water quality
 * 16) Antibiotic-resistant "super bug"

= August 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 12


 * 1) Famous scientific hypothesis
 * 2) Quark
 * 3) Superfluids and conductors
 * 4) Prince Rupert's Drop Gun ?
 * 5) Colloids
 * 6) Erectile dysfunction drugs
 * 7) PROGESTERONE
 * 8) "Smotl."
 * 9) how can that possibly be true???
 * 10) How much does an aluminium soda can tab weigh?
 * 11) What did Edward Teller die of?
 * 12) Magic
 * 13) pizza condiments
 * 14) Seeing What People Are Thinking
 * 15) Ca2+ as a lewis acid
 * 16) Pulse deficit
 * 17) Who's good with chemical nomenclature?

= August 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 13


 * 1) Why expend effort finding pulsars?
 * 2) aspartic acid page
 * 3) Bloodletting
 * 4) Counteracting Diseases
 * 5) So if gravity is a pseudo force...
 * 6) Sieve Map
 * 7) Spectrum
 * 8) Quantum mechanics and predicting the future.
 * 9) Frog with yellowish stripes
 * 10) What primates other than humans are good swimmers?
 * 11) Test on toes
 * 12) Cheap vehicles
 * 13) Effects of Tramadol same as codeine?
 * 14) Floating islands
 * 15) Finding a wavefunction

= August 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 14


 * 1) Will scars ever be possible to remove/are they possible to remove?
 * 2) Drug prices
 * 3) AIDS Question
 * 4) Dwarf wheat
 * 5) Phase Diagram Topology
 * 6) isn't science a religion?
 * 7) Darksucker Theory
 * 8) MTech in IITs
 * 9) student directories
 * 10) If an icebreaker hit the iceberg that sank the Titanic...
 * 11) Measurement system used by the US Military
 * 12) Ether
 * 13) Adrenaline

= August 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 15


 * 1) House
 * 2) How is Hyponatremia (low sodium) diagnosed ?
 * 3) is there soap in stevia?
 * 4) Top human sprinting speed
 * 5) Nasty Prickly Sucker
 * 6) Displacement time response
 * 7) Relay race strategy
 * 8) how do armless people masturbate
 * 9) Freshwater fiddler crab
 * 10) Time
 * 11) Dinosaurs eating one another
 * 12) Is there a specific name for this concept?
 * 13) Workings of a rolling mill

= August 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 16


 * 1) Deutz gadget.
 * 2) planet
 * 3) PLACEBO
 * 4) Can you make a "fire hose" that shoots solid ice?
 * 5) EKG Analysis- practice Test
 * 6) pH buffer of 1 or 1.5 (out of household/edible/supermarket ingredients)
 * 7) Gene Therapy/Hormones
 * 8) EPO

= August 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 17


 * 1) HAARP Effects On Ionosphere
 * 2) Sex in Mount Everest
 * 3) how can ?
 * 4) Leopard frogs
 * 5) marine mammal biology
 * 6) Small-scale carbon sequestration using phytoplankton?
 * 7) Gene copy number: human genes that are rarely deleted or duplicated?
 * 8) House revisited
 * 9) Genes and Genomes
 * 10) Bouncing orbit
 * 11) is this (arch of books) real?
 * 12) Afterburners
 * 13) Mutation in genetic algorihms
 * 14) What is this tree?
 * 15) Optics: 35mm focal length equivalent
 * 16) Identify this snake

= August 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 18


 * 1) Blood arc?
 * 2) Origin of "Global Health"
 * 3) How does an Epipen helping with an allergic reaction?
 * 4) Voyager 2 propulsion
 * 5) the role of condensed milk in the imbibement of coffee?
 * 6) What is the primary purpose of the compression stage in a jet engine?
 * 7) Life extension versus curing diseases one by one
 * 8) Weight of one phytoplankton cell
 * 9) Adult male cat being breastfed by another cat
 * 10) Car mirror -- "closer than they appear"
 * 11) How a 3-year-old might participate in sharing his "knowledge" on Wikipedia: Deep Sea Tube Worms

= August 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 19


 * 1) Cocaine for numbing and other uses
 * 2) Glass Graffiti
 * 3) Abyss of time
 * 4) Human body fat vs. modern synthetic clothing
 * 5) Is my brainwave re: Joining Interplanetary Federation genius or loony?
 * 6) chemistry
 * 7) Destroying an ailanthus
 * 8) Effect of Humidity on visibility
 * 9) List of operational spacecraft in lunar orbit
 * 10) quantum mechanics
 * 11) Mystery ship mutilates seals
 * 12) Megaflow Heating Systems
 * 13) Mixture of energy and matter
 * 14) Puberty and menopause throughout history question
 * 15) Signs > and < with tilde below
 * 16) setting up of a SOLAR POWER PLANT to meet the requirements of a college campus
 * 17) abyss of time
 * 18) car key gets hot
 * 19) Canards
 * 20) Calculating Rising and Setting Times of Stars
 * 21) Cats and dogs

= August 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 20


 * 1) Car antenna
 * 2) Cats' whiskers...
 * 3) Web Bot predicting the future
 * 4) Mathematical computation, Symbol, Electrical check on circuit board
 * 5) Cooking wine?
 * 6) The Universe
 * 7) I'm a Galactic Zookeeper. What are the conditions of my human habitat?
 * 8) Why do humans cover themselves when they sleep?
 * 9) Bad dentist?
 * 10) Nootropics, Ampakines
 * 11) Dilute HCl
 * 12) Odd calculation for Percent Daily Values figures
 * 13) Origin of Life on Earth, compared to other planets
 * 14) Will atheists go to hell?
 * 15) Renewal alkaline batteries recharged in NIMH charger
 * 16) is all jerky salted?
 * 17) Bird identification?
 * 18) The subjective experience of dementia
 * 19) S-duct

= August 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 21


 * 1) Noah's Ark
 * 2) Space related
 * 3) Fishbone getting stuck in throat
 * 4) Adjusting the cost of energy for using carbon
 * 5) Identify this animal
 * 6) Callus
 * 7) The Brain

= August 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 22


 * 1) Strange shadow
 * 2) Water
 * 3) Spider
 * 4) Dissolved oxygen
 * 5) Titan's atmosphere
 * 6) Computer science
 * 7) Instructions for Filtering Water in Urdu Language?
 * 8) For Every Human
 * 9) Laser Cutting of Metal Sheets
 * 10) Yes, but there were no substantial faults in the textbooks WE used!
 * 11) Interspecies crying
 * 12) Contact lenses
 * 13) Thistle varieties that spread by root
 * 14) what kind of spiders?
 * 15) What's in between the dunes?
 * 16) Unknown special character

= August 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 23


 * 1) Wipe chimenea with "oily rag"
 * 2) Best wavelengths for interstellar communication
 * 3) Study of anti-HIV drugs, where there was little evidence of effect as the drugs became widely used by everyone before the trial finished
 * 4) Redox confusion
 * 5) Species
 * 6) Key gets tight in lock
 * 7) Sunny side condensation
 * 8) Abiogenesis and RNA
 * 9) Human feeding
 * 10) Can planets form and orbit around a white dwarf or neutron star?
 * 11) tomatos
 * 12) Honey
 * 13) A couple questions for a sci-fi world
 * 14) Libellula
 * 15) Galilean moons
 * 16) What bug is it?

= August 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 24


 * 1) What kind of lizard is this?
 * 2) Completing my physics education
 * 3) Coral identification (from the Great Barrier Reef)
 * 4) What is Galactic Alignment?
 * 5) Histrionic Personality Disorder
 * 6) Body Fat Level
 * 7) Need help understanding some poorly written chemistry info...
 * 8) Drunk
 * 9) Light
 * 10) Milky Way Galaxy
 * 11) Why did some prick throw a brick into this washing machine?
 * 12) 7 degrees of separation
 * 13) Common Descent
 * 14) Searching for fossils by radar
 * 15) motors
 * 16) Human IQ
 * 17) Floating Metal Ships
 * 18) Medical doctor specialties
 * 19) Unidentified moving blob in a sewer
 * 20) Top soil and a layer of clay

= August 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 25


 * 1) Growing Tree
 * 2) Getting an old scientific article - how?
 * 3) Double check my work?
 * 4) Anesthesia causing nerve damage?
 * 5) Human Appearance and Incest
 * 6) do more socially adept people mind less being lied to?
 * 7) Skin effect and AC resistance
 * 8) biology(human heart rate)
 * 9) What kind of bug is this?
 * 10) Redshifted starlight
 * 11) Stars that have passed near the Sun
 * 12) how to tackle Deliquescence property
 * 13) Water on skin
 * 14) Why does hair grow so long on the human head?
 * 15) Tree with leaves on bottom but not top
 * 16) Breeding

= August 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 26


 * 1) Hitler DNA
 * 2) Mirrors
 * 3) Kalam argument page needs science help
 * 4) Constellations
 * 5) Astrology
 * 6) Minimum-Diameter Nuclear Weapon Physics-Package
 * 7) Non-magnetic plasma?
 * 8) The Growth of Knowledge
 * 9) When is the Age of Aquarius?
 * 10) T-Rex
 * 11) life on other planets
 * 12) ghosts
 * 13) Carbon Excretion
 * 14) energy question
 * 15) Aurochs
 * 16) Sun
 * 17) Clock
 * 18) reading from your peripheral vision

= August 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 27


 * 1) Lard as sunscreen...?
 * 2) What is the wind-water-solar climate change mitigation scenario atmospheric carbon projection?
 * 3) Sam and Ella over easy
 * 4) Sourdough starter
 * 5) mechanics
 * 6) know
 * 7) White onion
 * 8) Mars drill
 * 9) Who invented Galvani cell (aka galvani element)?
 * 10) Velocity and acceleration
 * 11) A likely name for a science fictional superhard material
 * 12) Parallel connection of two sets of batteries
 * 13) 3D jumping spider
 * 14) Memory loss caused by Urinary Tract Infection - UTI

= August 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 28


 * 1) Strength of piss
 * 2) about ICs
 * 3) A gas that clumps together in a gravity environment?
 * 4) Bicycle physics
 * 5) pituitarum
 * 6) Meaning of 'Red" in Red-Al
 * 7) Entropy
 * 8) What is the solubility of polystyrene in acetone?
 * 9) Herbal remedies
 * 10) Wind on mars
 * 11) sneeze
 * 12) sequence, chain, scheme
 * 13) Synthetic cannabis
 * 14) Dragonfly Species Identification
 * 15) Guy being electrocuted

= August 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 29


 * 1) Surgery help
 * 2) What virus killed the most people ever?
 * 3) Another spider identification
 * 4) The Major Bones, Muscles , Muscles Joints and Joint actions involved in Baseball batting
 * 5) Incorruptibility of Bernadette Soubirous
 * 6) Giraffe
 * 7) Does Japanese longevity still stand after fraud relevations?
 * 8) Please help me shop for pool urine highlighters?
 * 9) water (specifically on Mars)
 * 10) Dogs burying bones
 * 11) Coin
 * 12) Climbing Olympus Mons?

= August 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 30


 * 1) Fishtank blind spot
 * 2) Electrocution?
 * 3) Starched shirt
 * 4) Eric Harris
 * 5) Water and Electricity
 * 6) Any way to cut a steel cable with common tools?
 * 7) Deep Blue vs. Deep Blue
 * 8) Cactus / Agavaceae
 * 9) Is it possible to test if the universe/multiverse is infinite?
 * 10) liquid air
 * 11) Why did clear polypropylene become whitish after melting & resolidifying?
 * 12) Candle dynamics / design, wicking
 * 13) water (on any planet)
 * 14) Cordless power supply
 * 15) Mixing unknown chemicals

= August 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 31


 * 1) Absolute vs. invariant
 * 2) Solar system
 * 3) The lack of progress in motor vehicles
 * 4) Vision at the speed of light
 * 5) Direction of Earth's Revolution
 * 6) "Reverse osmosis"
 * 7) I have a theory on what the crystal skulls actually are
 * 8) Eye Surgery
 * 9) At North Pole
 * 10) DIET PILL OVERDOSE
 * 11) How To Pronounce "Feynman"
 * 12) Number of boobies
 * 13) Sodium bicarbonate deodorant properties
 * 14) F5
 * 15) Binoculars - minimum focusing distance
 * 16) Cats' senses