Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/August 2013

= August 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 1


 * 1) Atomic spectrum
 * 2) Live flu vaccine causes extroversion?
 * 3) Does astrology say anything about when technological/social progress has head/tailwinds?
 * 4) Why only 2nd period elements show diagonal relationship?
 * 5) Why are underground power lines still vulnerable to electrical storms?
 * 6) Is it even remotely possible that this isn't a scam?

= August 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 2


 * 1) protect US electrical grid
 * 2) Things
 * 3) Loga
 * 4) Heat screen
 * 5) Could more co2 be good for the planet?
 * 6) Medicine package US and Europe
 * 7) Pressurize
 * 8) Vitamin overdose
 * 9) Soluble medication pills.
 * 10) Medicine without side effects.

= August 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 3


 * 1) Crescent Moon illumination
 * 2) Airliner emergency exits
 * 3) Where do kangaroos come from and what are they made of?
 * 4) What part of your brain is "You"?
 * 5) R/C control of a 12v drive motor
 * 6) Usefulness and accuracy of racialist website
 * 7) Zyprexa interacting with vitamins.
 * 8) How much vitamin B6 for akathisia?

= August 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 4


 * 1) # of days Medicare pays in rehab
 * 2) Bee-eater pic
 * 3) Father
 * 4) Is it possible to study human language development
 * 5) Do boron exists in asteroids?
 * 6) Fooling Archimedes?
 * 7) What kind of insect is this?

= August 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 5


 * 1) CNC milling?
 * 2) Poison ivy for apes
 * 3) Drawback or limitation of modern synthetic theory of evolution or neo-Darwinism
 * 4) Who was Dr Price?
 * 5) Epilepsy: is there a limit to how often seizures can be photoinduced?
 * 6) Human decontamination
 * 7) Deep space travelers beware

= August 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 6


 * 1) Which human ancestors invented fire?
 * 2) Type of solid
 * 3) American plague
 * 4) DNA questions

= August 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 7


 * 1) Creating a Faraday cage without matter.
 * 2) KDKA's weakened radio signal
 * 3) Melting and boiling points of the heavy alkali metals
 * 4) Relative motion..
 * 5) Why no industrial scale production of human breast milk using transgenetic cows?
 * 6) Most abundant organic polymers

= August 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 8


 * 1) Water-soluble material ?
 * 2) Cancer
 * 3) structure of element 171
 * 4) The social structure of ants, bees etc. and the evolutionary explanation to their sexual reproduction
 * 5) Are all flames produced by fire?
 * 6) mathematical proof to evolution

= August 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 9


 * 1) Stages
 * 2) Whey protein
 * 3) Placebo and nocebo effect
 * 4) How long after eating does "take with meal" not apply
 * 5) Dog reproduction
 * 6) Relative velocity?
 * 7) triple / triangle of life in emergency

= August 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 10


 * 1) Magnetic lines of force
 * 2) How many kinds of blood cells are there?
 * 3) Main Battle Tank
 * 4) on difference between serum and plasma?
 * 5) String bass v fretless bass guitar

= August 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 11


 * 1) A question of perception
 * 2) science )How did big bang occur?)
 * 3) State of matter of large biological molecules
 * 4) Can a zebra be ridden like a horse ?
 * 5) Low testosterone in women and low estrogen in men
 * 6) is this poison ivy???

= August 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 12


 * 1) Engine brakes restricted.
 * 2) IUPAC additive nomenclature
 * 3) Creep Rate Tensor
 * 4) Lymph node removal and blood pressure measurement
 * 5) How do I compute the charging time for Li-ion battery?
 * 6) plasma of blood and plasma of television
 * 7) A weird 100 F happen around Cape Horn

= August 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 13


 * 1) Who burns more calories
 * 2) Seat collision for swing ride caused by wind - how?
 * 3) Theory of Relativity
 * 4) Asthma
 * 5) Origins Of The Universe: Steady State & Big Bang Theories
 * 6) In relativity, whether actual mass changes or not
 * 7) Hawking radiation and the formation of black holes.
 * 8) AM radio reception (unconventional)

= August 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 14


 * 1) Ship traffic controller
 * 2) How is this slide possible?
 * 3) Fatty acids and the brain

= August 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 15


 * 1) Binary star systems and their planets
 * 2) nipples
 * 3) Butterfly Wings
 * 4) Is the daytime aurora visible in Northern Norway?
 * 5) Electric rocket propulsion: propellants and ground based use

= August 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 16


 * 1) Identification of bug
 * 2) Vacuum pump
 * 3) Gingko biloba cutting
 * 4) Fireflies completely gone from Indianapolis suburbs! Why?
 * 5) identify a plant
 * 6) Bom
 * 7) Bom 2
 * 8) Neutron gamma gamma
 * 9) How to compute the RGB values from the raw data of the camera?
 * 10) About running
 * 11) Thermic effect of food

= August 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 17


 * 1) Early gum disease
 * 2) using FASTA format
 * 3) Engine braking II
 * 4) Dragonfly behaviour

= August 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 18


 * 1) what substance is this
 * 2) How accurate is long-range DNA analysis?
 * 3) Basics of blisters
 * 4) audio recording
 * 5) recording video
 * 6) Contradicting specification on the density of Sulfur hexafluoride ?
 * 7) Stephen Hawking and The "Multiverse" - Does he really believe it?

= August 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 19


 * 1) Psychology of pricing and beach nourishment projects
 * 2) I've been reading that cancer cells communicate with each other...
 * 3) Upside down Mirror Image
 * 4) Antibiotics - Safe Amount To Take
 * 5) Probability to find a electron in a specific region
 * 6) Suppressors of evolution?
 * 7) how many percents of cpr cases are successful?
 * 8) Alcubierre drive

= August 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 20


 * 1) Hypothermic/hypothermia surgery
 * 2) sun  setting at different times
 * 3) Anchors unzipping
 * 4) Human body maximum performance
 * 5) examples of organs which made of some kinds of tissues
 * 6) doing a blood test for who did mastectomy
 * 7) Raid Fly Spray

= August 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 21


 * 1) Carbon Footprint Q: Whose foot is that, then?
 * 2) Transmission of light through transparent medium
 * 3) Is there any organ that made of only one tissue?
 * 4) Absorbtion of non-soluble medicine.
 * 5) nervus cells called neurons?

= August 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 22


 * 1) if Mars still have more greenhouse effect like Earth
 * 2) Do how old scientific articles matter the accuracy of informations?
 * 3) How do I identify a new type of earthworm?
 * 4) Getting a tattoo while tanned or burnt
 * 5) I have a Toad in my house but I can't find him!!!
 * 6) Explanation for the acronym SWE
 * 7) Effects of music while working & studying on performance
 * 8) Temperature ranges of gas giant moons

= August 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 23


 * 1) the shape of heart
 * 2) Breathing
 * 3) Alternative classification of Carnivora
 * 4) Enemy locked onto heat signature; release flares
 * 5) Is there any condition in which two vectors can be divided?
 * 6) Gap spanners on the International Space Station
 * 7) the haert rate in different bodies sizes
 * 8) survive in a space station without air renewal
 * 9) Femininity facial analysis?
 * 10) Geology/Pleistocene/CLIMAP
 * 11) Adults

= August 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 24


 * 1) World's biggest skyscraper
 * 2) Strongest known tornado outside of the United States; A question about the Fujita scale
 * 3) Astigmatisms and autostereograms
 * 4) What scientific problems have been proven impossible to determine?
 * 5) Why do the women have less blood than men?
 * 6) metal mixture
 * 7) A mineral that heats on contact

= August 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 25


 * 1) Fear and adrenaline
 * 2) Not too bright...
 * 3) engineering
 * 4) physics
 * 5) Stanford Torus / Elysium orbital habitat
 * 6) the heart realy in the size of the fist?
 * 7) Hairs and nails
 * 8) Underwater train

= August 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 26


 * 1) Which source is more trustworthy on masturbation?
 * 2) Boric acid
 * 3) Line on globe
 * 4) Teflates
 * 5) Extensively drug-resistant bacteria
 * 6) Resting heart rate below 30 bpm not unusual?
 * 7) Graph of Force with respect to acceleration
 * 8) Alcatraz modern day sewer
 * 9) About Latitude and radiation

= August 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 27


 * 1) mechanical seal
 * 2) Battery powered water boiler
 * 3) Validity of employment tests

= August 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 28


 * 1) recharge standard batteries?
 * 2) How much would we suffer if Earth was overcast?
 * 3) Article on Pharm D
 * 4) What determines a planet's angle of rotation?
 * 5) Black hole question
 * 6) Enthalpy of formation
 * 7) Rope stretch
 * 8) Homophobia
 * 9) Weather and sleep
 * 10) Is there a physical barrier between the peritoneum and fallopian tube?

= August 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 29


 * 1) Can't remember the name of a medical condition
 * 2) Elysium – "open to space" space station?
 * 3) How was the moon created?
 * 4) Antoher black hole question
 * 5) Ageing
 * 6) BMI
 * 7) FAT
 * 8) dog intelligence ranking

= August 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 30


 * 1) determining probabilities from rate laws
 * 2) Can you tell a person's race through genetics?
 * 3) L-system and proportions
 * 4) Correlation between adultery and education level?
 * 5) Ferdinand Richters (1849-1914) and Tardigrades - help!
 * 6) Linear bench power supply for charging batteries

= August 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 31


 * 1) DNA and heredity
 * 2) weathern pattern significance
 * 3) Are dogs born in winter less smelly than dogs born in summer?
 * 4) Polonium hydride
 * 5) Need help with Calculating the slope of the best fit line from a data table?
 * 6) Throwing away contact lenses
 * 7) herbicide for vines?
 * 8) Habits