Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/December 2011

= December 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 1


 * 1) Electrical generation via the urban heat island - mesometeorology
 * 2) Range of a liquid fired from a hose related to pressure
 * 3) North-South flying jet lag?
 * 4) Current limits in different thicknesses of wire
 * 5) Jupiter's role on changing uranus axis
 * 6) Trichloroethylene  residue
 * 7) drywall mud
 * 8) Was Ernst Haekel really that ridiculous?
 * 9) Cluelessness (battery life)
 * 10) Color of flame
 * 11) Phalanx versus Tercio

= December 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 2


 * 1) Unidentified moss
 * 2) Classified US space rocket launches during the Cold War
 * 3) Atoms
 * 4) Sea Level Rising
 * 5) Unidentified Cricket
 * 6) Catalase
 * 7) orbitals...
 * 8) Mitosis
 * 9) Late C19—early C20 British diplomat and entomologist named Alfred E. Wileman
 * 10) Melting plastic
 * 11) Heating with an electric heater
 * 12) Diameter of an electron
 * 13) Galilean moons and longitude

= December 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 3


 * 1) Flame without combustion
 * 2) Titan lakes
 * 3) Is Wikipedia a conscious entity?
 * 4) Quasar distance, time and the speed of light
 * 5) Yet another animal factoid for discussion - swans this time...
 * 6) Difference between ram pressure and friction?
 * 7) Incorporating sounds in dreams
 * 8) Sound Frequency and Hearing Damage
 * 9) Einstein's thought experiment about simultaneity & detection of absolute motion
 * 10) Gauss 651
 * 11) Using cellphone in Atlantic

= December 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 4


 * 1) semi-starvation and multivitamin supplements
 * 2) Request for identification
 * 3) one piece CP9 abilities?
 * 4) Article on environmental impact of production of electronics
 * 5) Cricket Feet
 * 6) magnetic influence on water molecule clusters
 * 7) What's more dangerous propellant or the explosive warheads?

= December 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 5


 * 1) Has the mass of our sun or things in our solar system ever been measured with gravitational lensing?
 * 2) Rate equations
 * 3) Wind energy and health
 * 4) The annoying ambivalence of domestic cats
 * 5) Heat Transfer (Hollow Fin)
 * 6) Mass of chick and egg
 * 7) Which program prevents sexual harassment the best?
 * 8) exact meaning of unit phon
 * 9) How to progress ...?
 * 10) What Vehicle is this?

= December 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 6


 * 1) Ford Model T
 * 2) E=MC2 and wind up alarm clocks
 * 3) Unofficial record temperature
 * 4) How to fit Dfd, Dwd in Trewartha climate classifications
 * 5) Mung bean
 * 6) Noise pollution
 * 7) Microwave oven frequency
 * 8) Poor inventors who don't get the money/recognition they deserve
 * 9) Weak interaction
 * 10) How do we know the speed of light is constant? Part 2: Gravity Wells
 * 11) Killing me softly ?
 * 12) Cat's Eyes

= December 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 7


 * 1) Isn't sputum full of proteins?
 * 2) Copernican Model
 * 3) Powering civilization with something other than electricity
 * 4) Soybean protein
 * 5) conservation of momentum in inelastic collisions..
 * 6) spin is taken as a quantum number
 * 7) capilary rise
 * 8) Pulling Teeth
 * 9) contact lenses and acid
 * 10) Water collecting on paper towels

= December 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 8


 * 1) Why would you tell yourself the obvious?
 * 2) Proximity of modesto california to san andreas fault
 * 3) Gallien Kreuger
 * 4) Northern/Southern Leaf Blights?
 * 5) Blackberry color

= December 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 9


 * 1) Macro communicating with a running plugin in ImageJ
 * 2) Quality of soy protein
 * 3) Sort of a Science history question
 * 4) Does heating milk affect calcium and vitamin D content?
 * 5) Fusion power
 * 6) How would the 8 rotor Enigma machine have changed WWII?
 * 7) Full moon
 * 8) Synthetic honey

= December 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 10


 * 1) Coherence Length of Lasers / Lunar Ranging Lasers
 * 2) Plants and LEDs
 * 3) blood groups
 * 4) Liquid metal cooled nuclear reactor
 * 5) Killing dust mites
 * 6) jj thompson's third experiment
 * 7) Blood transfusion
 * 8) Light bulb dimmer switch

= December 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 11


 * 1) Load bearing capacity of 2x6 box beam
 * 2) Purple sky
 * 3) EKG question
 * 4) the mininmal age for gender nonconformity in children?
 * 5) Layers of North Pole Ice for Google Earth?
 * 6) formula unit ions for sodium hydroxide
 * 7) hydroxide similarities to fluoride
 * 8) occam's razor
 * 9) Radiation guns

= December 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 12


 * 1) Started with the big bang
 * 2) Regression to the mean
 * 3) Jehovah's witnesses denial of blood and Hippocratic Oath
 * 4) Soybean and male infertility
 * 5) Non-placebo effect?
 * 6) un-work hardening
 * 7) Most dense ceramic
 * 8) Elvis monkey
 * 9) Method of image charges

= December 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 13


 * 1) drywall mud
 * 2) Demixing of gases of different density
 * 3) First-line, second-line, third-line defense against cancer... What's the point of this?
 * 4) US scientific association membership for teenagers
 * 5) radiation
 * 6) Born's Proof of uncertainty principle
 * 7) Radio around the world
 * 8) pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease help me
 * 9) Kennedy's Disease
 * 10) focal length and depth of field and wavelength-dependence

= December 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 14


 * 1) Earth with Rings?
 * 2) Appearance of Moon - geographic variations
 * 3) Groung water tannins
 * 4) bonferroni correction
 * 5) Boulder clay?
 * 6) Geodesic for thrown body
 * 7) How do photons know the type of charge they are interacting with?
 * 8) Standard gravity and huge objects
 * 9) Rage-induced blackout
 * 10) Common Method Variance
 * 11) feynman
 * 12) Strange animal behaviour
 * 13) USS Constitution commander glass rooms
 * 14) Determining the polarity of the anode

= December 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 15


 * 1) Blood Pressure differential
 * 2) Exploding electrode
 * 3) how can i get :- a)ammonia gas      b)potassium hydride
 * 4) Gasoline fuel cell
 * 5) In what way is the Higgs mechanism not a fundamental force?
 * 6) Odd math

= December 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 16


 * 1) principal stress
 * 2) the meaning of isogene and examples are welcomed
 * 3) Gas cloud entering black hole in milky way
 * 4) how are promoter sequences discovered?
 * 5) Celsius vs. Kelvin
 * 6) Looking for details behind a Mr. Wizard science trick
 * 7) Damastes--redirects to Procrustes, but recommends "Huntsmen Spider"
 * 8) Extracting work from a positive current

= December 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 17


 * 1) Transatlantic travel
 * 2) Deploying lifeboats
 * 3) How far can you pull quarks apart
 * 4) Why is traffic on long open roads "lumpy"?
 * 5) Implications of the Higgs boson?
 * 6) How does the GRW theory in quantum mechanics handle multiple hittings?
 * 7) Angle of the shadow across the moon
 * 8) Galactic collison
 * 9) DIY antenna, starting from a USB adapter
 * 10) Physiology of getting warm
 * 11) Can an EMP shut down a diesel engine?
 * 12) Angular momentum of the observed universe
 * 13) How much leaf-area does it take to support a human being?
 * 14) Violating the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

= December 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 18


 * 1) Electricity from water
 * 2) "less than 5 kDa by molecular weight"
 * 3) Quantum measurement problem
 * 4) Patient-specific tumoral vaccines
 * 5) Ethanol expiration date
 * 6) Pepper and salt mills
 * 7) Dying in an elevator
 * 8) Electromagnetic radiation and their relationship with electro magnetism
 * 9) Duality
 * 10) Help finding source on Chicken vision
 * 11) Ayds
 * 12) Manuka honey health claims - quackery?
 * 13) Pauli exclusion principle and speed of light

= December 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 19


 * 1) Oh, you scared me!
 * 2) Bumping your head
 * 3) Dutch National Science Quiz 2011
 * 4) Probability
 * 5) Elasticity
 * 6) cities in southwest Greenland
 * 7) Anchorage and Northern Iceland in Trewartha climate class
 * 8) Animals with humor

= December 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 20


 * 1) T of E
 * 2) Efficacy of toilet tank tablets?
 * 3) Technology trees
 * 4) Winter effectivity????
 * 5) Blood variation according to region???
 * 6) power amd energy consumed
 * 7) Lagrangian when contact forces are involved
 * 8) How many bones in the ear are there?
 * 9) Is it true that all redox reactions involve hydrogen in some form?
 * 10) Geosynchronous orbit

= December 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 21


 * 1) vasaline
 * 2) How many muscles are there in the ears?
 * 3) boiling point of blood
 * 4) Size and cats

= December 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 22


 * 1) Contact lenses
 * 2) Nose blowing
 * 3) Incredible calculation
 * 4) Where does the higgs boson go?
 * 5) area vector
 * 6) hypothyroid
 * 7) Taste of pills
 * 8) space balls!

= December 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 23


 * 1) Standing on a satellite
 * 2) Wanted: Uranium asteroids?
 * 3) "prealloy"?
 * 4) motion in speed of light
 * 5) Could Solar roadways also reclaim the energy of vehicles pressing down on the pavement?
 * 6) Kinetic sidewalks: How viable are they?
 * 7) Whey
 * 8) Time Dilation
 * 9) which colour light travels speed and for long distance?
 * 10) LED v/s CFL?
 * 11) Why does a tubelight does not start as soon as it is switched on?
 * 12) Sugar = non-aqueous
 * 13) physics
 * 14) Hospital admission procedures
 * 15) Quenching and tempering
 * 16) Aspirin and gastrointestinal bleeding

= December 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 24


 * 1) what travel is?
 * 2) Differnce
 * 3) Is it true that electricity was originally used almost exclusively for just lighting?
 * 4) evolution

= December 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 25


 * 1) Help identifying plant pest
 * 2) Neurofeedback in time management
 * 3) Whereas a Defibrillator was invented to restart hearts, what needs to be invented to restart brains?
 * 4) Is there a brain EKG?
 * 5) Animals don't like the taste of humans?
 * 6) Pneumoencephalography in The Exorcist
 * 7) "Double" organ transplants
 * 8) Fear of horror movies
 * 9) Starwisp
 * 10) Christmas related question (sort of)
 * 11) Bed bugs and skin problems that are, conceivably, sometimes, autoimmune in cause

= December 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 26


 * 1) Plate tectonics: When did America and Asia collide?
 * 2) Parallactic mount
 * 3) Complex exponentiation
 * 4) Sex in space
 * 5) Neanderthals
 * 6) Bike

= December 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 27


 * 1) Snake handling evangelists
 * 2) What's the big deal about the OPERA neutrino anomaly?
 * 3) Why wasn't the Alleghenian orogeny simply an elastic collision?
 * 4) Drafting (aerodynamics) in the rain
 * 5) What is this?
 * 6) Ballistic vest in films
 * 7) Are the Quarks that make us as old as the universe.
 * 8) Do heavier objects fall faster?
 * 9) Marsquake
 * 10) i don't get fracture mechanics, the orientation of J1 joints of the Appalachians, and the stress field 315 mya
 * 11) Is there a name for this effect?

= December 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 28


 * 1) Deciding what drugs are OTC
 * 2) I wnt to know the basic requirements to repair electronics equipments.
 * 3) Does sleep sex leave a bruise patten similar to that in rape?
 * 4) Introduction to astronomy as an ebook?
 * 5) Temperature sensing mechanism in skin cells
 * 6) Landsberg efficiency
 * 7) Equations for a falling body with relativistic effects
 * 8) Have laptops stopped improving?

= December 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 29


 * 1) ClF3 vs. (CF2)n
 * 2) life
 * 3) Natural phenomena after Kim Jong-il's death
 * 4) Skin regeneration
 * 5) Bedroom window
 * 6) Sugar Thermite?

= December 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 30


 * 1) ? on finding syndrome name
 * 2) Fractional Uncertainty with Zero Sloppiness
 * 3) Pointed bullets
 * 4) Oddly strong magnetic force
 * 5) Maximum sustained G-force a human can endure for long periods?
 * 6) What'll it take to upgrade landline networks to allow texting to and from landline phones?
 * 7) Formaldehyde#Interstellar_formaldehyde
 * 8) Cross-Coupled Oscillator Driving Induction Heater
 * 9) How far away could Seti detect us?
 * 10) Beyond the speed of light

= December 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 31


 * 1) How -or why- do interleukins produce fever?
 * 2) Shaving with boiling water
 * 3) Prescription first aid kit
 * 4) What fraction of calories in food are typically needed for digestion, e.g. to produce digestive enzymes ?
 * 5) Lower resting O2 saturation in endurance athletes
 * 6) Are lotteries time travel proof?