Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/August 2017

= August 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 1


 * 1) Medical "treatment" of superstition
 * 2) What is the best way to evaluate the purity of single walled carbon nanotubes?
 * 3) What are all the easy and effective ways to separate single walled carbon nanotubes into metallic and semi-conducting?
 * 4) If a female goat is lactating and the human mother does not, then...?
 * 5) What's the highest octane rating liquid known? (AKI)

= August 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 2


 * 1) Maladaptive personality traits in nonhumans?
 * 2) Fitting a glass frit filter
 * 3) Atlantic hurricanes
 * 4) 2 degrees of warming
 * 5) Who makes the most oxygen?
 * 6) Rice and beans

= August 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 3


 * 1) Term for the brain's ability to maintain stable vision?
 * 2) Tr8x4(P2) Leadscrew
 * 3) Israel Border Police equipment

= August 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 4


 * 1) Why males in animal species are considered the default variant instead of females?
 * 2) Plant identification
 * 3) How is H+ (aq) + H2O distinguished from H3O+ (aq)?
 * 4) Particle, field interaction
 * 5) What's the lowest air pressure Earth life can reproduce in?
 * 6) Evolutionary pressure in mating

= August 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 5


 * 1) Surface-to-surface missile
 * 2) Direct eye contact

= August 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 6


 * 1) How to determine electric and magnetic susceptibility
 * 2) Mounting Hole Diameter for M1.5 spring pin
 * 3) Flowers' identification help
 * 4) Weight loss depression
 * 5) Understanding temperature
 * 6) What would happen if you brought a horse to a big pressurized lunar dome?
 * 7) Wireless telephone in 1922

= August 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 7


 * 1) Hearing aid battery tester.
 * 2) How hard of a hit to the testes would be needed to temporarily incapacitate a gorilla?
 * 3) Pot with water, time to boil
 * 4) Why was the helical structure of DNA such a big deal?
 * 5) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 7#Feynman_Lectures._Exercises._Exercise_10-3_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fhtml.scribd.com.2F91cmvs8wn433jb9d.2Fimages.2F27-291f977d2f.jpg_JPG.5D._Lecture_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fwww.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu.2FI_10.html_10.5D|Feynman Lectures. Exercises. Exercise 10-3 JPG. Lecture 10]]
 * 6) Can biomass be sold in bulk to thermoelectric plants?
 * 7) How much heat does a CCFL output?
 * 8) Mystery caterpillars (San Diego)
 * 9) Do scientists know what type of bugs are required to colonize the body for healthy living?

= August 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 8


 * 1) Escalators changing directions
 * 2) Neuroscience question
 * 3) Cooling a CCFL bulb without straining the glass
 * 4) Lard diet
 * 5) Ventricular fibrillation by palpation

= August 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 9


 * 1) timing belt idler wheels
 * 2) Blindness to important information because of deluge of irrelevant emails
 * 3) Antibiotic resistance by production of beta-lactamase
 * 4) Which Gazelle species is this article referring to?

= August 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 10


 * 1) Rapid spiderling growth
 * 2) Shivering
 * 3) Is there a phobia of being in a building much narrower than it's tall?
 * 4) Mother of all arachnophobia
 * 5) Formula for walking on gradients

= August 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 11


 * 1) Why do vanilla ice cream manufacturers have to color the vanilla ice cream?
 * 2) Metabolism of high-fiber food
 * 3) Eat fewer Calories to lose the weight or eat the same amount or greater Calories to build muscle and thus increase metabolism?
 * 4) Is any new research still done with optical microscopes?

= August 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 12


 * 1) Finding out the Map Projection
 * 2) Language loss
 * 3) Mottaphobia
 * 4) Eye color and light absorption

= August 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 13


 * 1) Nicotine addiction
 * 2) identify an insect
 * 3) Pressure during gravitational collapse
 * 4) Fat
 * 5) Tunnel, sea
 * 6) DIY crappy chokes for VGA cables?
 * 7) Industrial uses of seawater

= August 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 14


 * 1) Trying to find a video footage of Albert Einstein
 * 2) Is this clickbait real?

= August 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 15


 * 1) How many hours after aphelion could "the moment of the year you're furthest from the Sun" be?
 * 2) Electrical Engineering question, Therevin reduction
 * 3) From genes to organelles, bones, organs, their parts and shapes
 * 4) ketosis
 * 5) power supply
 * 6) Does "Absolute Colorimetric" intent do any good under uncontrolled light?
 * 7) Are there any receptors that detect fat?
 * 8) In quantum mechanics an electric current can move in opposite directions simultaneously. Where can I find the Wikipedia article?

= August 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 16


 * 1) Can foil dissolve in stomach?
 * 2) gluconeogenesis
 * 3) Do computer weather models take eclipse insolation drop into account?

= August 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 17


 * 1) From static electricty to current
 * 2) Is duckweed edible?
 * 3) The moon is moving away from the earth
 * 4) Computer languages vs human natural languages
 * 5) Metal dust versus metal shavings when breathed in
 * 6) Hugo Gernsback and the radar

= August 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 18


 * 1) Low pressure and high temperatures
 * 2) Safe not-quite-total eclipse viewing
 * 3) Cloudy days and humidity.
 * 4) Role of the client in large infrastructure projects
 * 5) What is the ultimate cause of seasons?
 * 6) Does relying on refined cooking oil explain why we cannot get EPA and DHA from plant sources?

= August 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 19


 * 1) how do commercial capacitance meters (DMMs with capacitance function) work
 * 2) Huge dandelion

= August 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 20


 * 1) Umbra speed on Earth's surface
 * 2) Runway construction on estuary examples
 * 3) LED bulbs and resistors
 * 4) Saving wild animals like in Operation_Breakthrough

= August 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 21


 * 1) The Octaeteris and the Cycles of Venus
 * 2) LED on mains power how is it possible
 * 3) Does Wikipedia have an article on the territorial behavior of various animals, including humans?
 * 4) Is it possible to have a total solar eclipse on a Full Moon instead of a New Moon?
 * 5) Would a solar eclipse be visible from the moon?
 * 6) Approximately what is considered a deep partial solar eclipse?
 * 7) Solar eclipse: why did the sun still look round in direct images?

= August 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 22


 * 1) Male autism-spectrum correlations with homosexuality, bisexuality, fetishes and paraphilias?
 * 2) Sunspots
 * 3) Gluconeogenesis
 * 4) Dissociation constant, Ph of water 'n' stuff
 * 5) STDs that spread despite use of condoms
 * 6) What causes red/green coloration in eclipse images?
 * 7) Physical mechanism of leafhopper song
 * 8) The Multiplication of Food Grains
 * 9) Biological maladaptions of living too far away from homeland

= August 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 23


 * 1) Before a storm, do electrons turn from   - to +  or  + to -  ?
 * 2) Name for optical illusion?
 * 3) What does it mean to have a mental age of 8 or 12?
 * 4) Design and build construction contracts

= August 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 24


 * 1) How strong does a pipe of water have to be.
 * 2) gelatin question
 * 3) Light concentration of a lens with a plane side

= August 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 25


 * 1) Eclipse on other planets
 * 2) Tree with the largest shadow
 * 3) Insect identification
 * 4) Study that involves babies that can chop long strings of gibberish into "words"?

= August 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 26


 * 1) Walden Farms
 * 2) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 26#Feynman_Lectures._Exercises._Exercise_12-5_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fhtml.scribd.com.2F91cmvs8wn433jb9d.2Fimages.2F36-db138997f2.jpg_JPG.5D._Lecture_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fwww.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu.2FI_12.html_12.5D|Feynman Lectures. Exercises. Exercise 12-5 JPG. Lecture 12]]
 * 3) Perception through yellow sunglasses

= August 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 27


 * 1) Dumper railway cars in Hungary
 * 2) Is it possible to speak chimpanzee if one is raised by a chimpanzee or a group of chimpanzees?
 * 3) Virus surveillance

= August 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 28


 * 1) Could a non-cooling planet with 100% water clouds rain everywhere at once?
 * 2) WP:Reference desk/Miscellaneous#Architecting or Engeniering

= August 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 29


 * 1) Frequency dependent amplification?
 * 2) While shepherds didn't watch their flocks by night
 * 3) Aural boxing?
 * 4) LM317 - conceptual difficulty

= August 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 30


 * 1) Today's featured picture of moss
 * 2) chess and reasoning power
 * 3) Tamping/ramming tool
 * 4) hurricane water
 * 5) Rail and highways projects
 * 6) Shelf life of computer science books
 * 7) drag coefficient and lift coefficient
 * 8) Toyota alphard - first generation

= August 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 31


 * 1) Winds picking up at night
 * 2) Bucket-spoon for cement
 * 3) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 31#Feynman_Lectures._Exercises._Exercise_12-12_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fhtml.scribd.com.2F91cmvs8wn433jb9d.2Fimages.2F38-c9a575d63b.jpg_JPG.5D._Lecture_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fwww.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu.2FI_12.html_12.5D|Feynman Lectures. Exercises. Exercise 12-12 JPG. Lecture 12]]
 * 4) Why was Hurricane Adolph added to the name list?
 * 5) Are foot orgasms real?
 * 6) Rocket consumption and energy
 * 7) Is global sea level drop due to heavy rainfall events measurable?