Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/August 2014

= August 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 1


 * 1) Is there a list of unhealthy ingredients, in order from most to least common?
 * 2) If you have untreated onychomycosis, but use athlete's foot prophylaxis daily, is swimming OK?
 * 3) Latex condom
 * 4) Are dark cars hotter than other colors?
 * 5) what is worse, frontal crashing at 100 mph against a car exactly like yours driving at 100 mph or crashing at the same speed against a non-deformable wall?

= August 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 2


 * 1) resistors
 * 2) Fully hydrogenated vegetable oil
 * 3) Where does Rainier end?
 * 4) flower
 * 5) Does whole Chia Seeds dismantled anywhere in the Digestive system?
 * 6) HBV
 * 7) Help wanted at the Entertainment desk (botanists, arboriculturists, etc wanted)
 * 8) Untreated cancer survival rates
 * 9) Climbing steps for exercise

= August 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 3


 * 1) Is success of countries due to better human biological capital?
 * 2) Getting up
 * 3) Cats and Kittens
 * 4) How are instincts encoded in genome and get converted into information in the brain? Is the process known?
 * 5) Aerobic exercise
 * 6) Concurrent properties in materials?
 * 7) pelvic hip question
 * 8) Medicine: non mainstream therapies
 * 9) Classification of various things.
 * 10) Electric weapons
 * 11) Did men really become feminized 50,000 years ago?
 * 12) Thermolysis

= August 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 4


 * 1) Are Mathematical Dimensions incorrect?
 * 2) Effects of faking muteness
 * 3) Can a person get Ebola if they have sex
 * 4) Exercise and immune system
 * 5) Objects hitting the Moon?

= August 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 5


 * 1) Quantum vacuum plasma thruster
 * 2) Cooking with car exhaust
 * 3) Energy and momentum of refracted light
 * 4) Yawning pulling muscle
 * 5) Lithops plant withering

= August 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 6


 * 1) Pain and alcohol
 * 2) Shortest-lived tropical cyclones
 * 3) Weather forecast accuracy
 * 4) Frost Airship Glider

= August 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 7


 * 1) Human race
 * 2) Biodiversity of suburban gardens vs farm fields
 * 3) Automatic, non-poisonous mosquito deterrent
 * 4) Antagonistic interactions
 * 5) dog sense of taste
 * 6) What test?
 * 7) Sci fi vs real science

= August 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 8


 * 1) Bone marrow biopsies
 * 2) Transport careers
 * 3) Wood-burning cars and steam engines
 * 4) Abdominal fat
 * 5) Extraction of insulin from animal pancreas

= August 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 9


 * 1) Beckman's Internal Medicine
 * 2) WARF testing lab
 * 3) Sabaton (not the band)
 * 4) Light reflection
 * 5) Bird id
 * 6) Vortex rotational profile
 * 7) Rest & relativistic masses
 * 8) If two metals contact in space, do they blend, simply as that?
 * 9) Earth gravity and animal speeds
 * 10) Speed of magnetism

= August 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 10


 * 1) Blackbody propulsion
 * 2) Deep ocean internet lines
 * 3) Wall plugs that look like a nail/screw hybrid

= August 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 11


 * 1) Locking pin
 * 2) Footprints in streambed
 * 3) White Kidney Bean extract - is it cooked?
 * 4) Kidney activity

= August 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 12


 * 1) Nutrition question
 * 2) The feature of electrification of the USSR
 * 3) Orders of magnitude (viscosity)
 * 4) Innate propensities for certain living conditions?

= August 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 13


 * 1) Gravity lensing of gravity
 * 2) the smell of approaching rain
 * 3) Nd:YAG laser question
 * 4) Add a sort of Emotion to main Article

= August 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 14


 * 1) Graphene as armor
 * 2) animal brainwaves (Delta waves)
 * 3) End of power-of-2 cell division in human embryos
 * 4) Plateaus in sports science
 * 5) Invisible ink
 * 6) How did Prince Harry end up with red hair?
 * 7) stress hormones

= August 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 15


 * 1) Candida Fungus
 * 2) Light scattering
 * 3) Margaret Mead in Lake Papakeechie

= August 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 16


 * 1) Spider Gender
 * 2) Molecular term symbols
 * 3) How does a Cross Vacuum Scale work?
 * 4) Testing for alcohol in food
 * 5) Cordyceps

= August 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 17


 * 1) A properties of acids and caustic alkalis
 * 2) Medical test result human error statistics

= August 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 18


 * 1) Conclusions of an autopsy
 * 2) Mayer bullets
 * 3) Nuclear contrail thingies
 * 4) Water jet cutter as a weapon
 * 5) Kidney function questions

= August 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 19


 * 1) Lowest Possible Temperature
 * 2) Atoms as fact
 * 3) Can you accelerate the decay of radioactive material?
 * 4) Decline of large aerial predators

= August 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 20


 * 1) Wheel base anf friction
 * 2) Velocity of Saturn's moons
 * 3) Can a shooting cause gradual brain death?
 * 4) Question my nephew asked me to pass on
 * 5) Plastics oxidation
 * 6) Opera singer vs bulletproof glass
 * 7) Feral estrildid-like finches-- ID needed

= August 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 21


 * 1) Hydrocolloid techology (plaster)
 * 2) Explosive gel/foam

= August 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 22


 * 1) MO diagrams and term symbols
 * 2) Solid state flight
 * 3) What do you think the cushion is made of?
 * 4) What is a phone number?
 * 5) Using nukes to create graphene

= August 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 23


 * 1) Furnace cement
 * 2) Song identification after one musical note
 * 3) Whey protein
 * 4) Measurement of a standing object's stability
 * 5) houseplants peperomia obtusifolia trouble

= August 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 24


 * 1) Maxwell's equations
 * 2) Electricity

= August 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 25


 * 1) Formula 1 steering wheel

= August 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 26


 * 1) Is plasmid supercoiling sequence dependent?
 * 2) Purpose of naming new chemical elements and small moons
 * 3) Reliable source for vitamin dose suggestions

= August 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 27


 * 1) Are fusors dangerous?
 * 2) In simple words please - Mitochondrial DNA
 * 3) mass &weight
 * 4) What is meant precisely by "structure" in materials science?
 * 5) Intellect of human
 * 6) Lasers that curve

= August 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 28


 * 1) Anaplastic thyroid cancer and suffocation
 * 2) Microscopic blackhole vs. Sun
 * 3) Much powerful induction
 * 4) Link between the MMR vaccine and autism
 * 5) Antarctic Peninsula melt

= August 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 29


 * 1) Fission matrix
 * 2) "Shock" feeling in forearm while doing pushups?
 * 3) The stability of thorium and uranium
 * 4) Importance of great white sharks to the marine ecology ?

= August 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 30


 * 1) Recycling
 * 2) The ideal cases in mathematics, physics and chemistry
 * 3) Exterminating virtual particles
 * 4) Elevation and temperature

= August 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 31