Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/December 2013

= December 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 1


 * 1) Are deer "nearly blind by human standards" ?
 * 2) Chloroauric acid

= December 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 2


 * 1) RMWI?
 * 2) California coastal oak  balls
 * 3) A Sex Change (Dramatically) Changing One's Sexuality?
 * 4) Autonomous vehicle

= December 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 3


 * 1) Skin color and auto accidents
 * 2) How can we characterize the quality of OECD data on working hours vs productivity?
 * 3) 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
 * 4) Sex determination by the father?
 * 5) Best breeding age for human females
 * 6) Constrictor snakes' skin

= December 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 4


 * 1) Lagrange's equilateral triangle solution
 * 2) Twins
 * 3) stingless bees finding their hive
 * 4) Skin wearing thin during writing
 * 5) Will light inhibit dark dependent flowering once it's begun?

= December 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 5


 * 1) AGRIS vs AGROVOC thesaurus
 * 2) Surface gravitation of "kissing" spheres?
 * 3) Masochistic pigeons
 * 4) Best skin color etc.
 * 5) 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.

= December 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 6


 * 1) Why do peanuts make me thirsty ?
 * 2) Technique for avoiding nodding off
 * 3) Simulating incorrect vision?
 * 4) Follow up to "Surface gravitation of "kissing" spheres"
 * 5) Do humans' body size increase gradually in recent thousands of years?
 * 6) Is it dangerous to eat raw eggs?
 * 7) Self-healing cutting mats
 * 8) "Bridge" rectifier
 * 9) Geography question: which GNIS code should we use?

= December 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 7


 * 1) Recoil force and momentum
 * 2) NASA's recent picture of Saturn
 * 3) Hamiltonian
 * 4) Life cycle of frog
 * 5) An orbit that any point on the planet gets the same amount of radiation
 * 6) I will Survive!!!!
 * 7) List of experiments performed in space
 * 8) Tsunamis from non-earthquakes.

= December 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 8


 * 1) Ulysses butterfly
 * 2) Native North American genetics
 * 3) Endoplanet
 * 4) Repairing Things in Space
 * 5) "Genetic code" - first mentioned in which "publication" ?

= December 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 9


 * 1) Lake Drummond
 * 2) What size tree would I be ?
 * 3) Mathematical model of geographical determinism
 * 4) Producing dark energy

= December 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 10


 * 1) % new cases of HIV resulting from MSM globally
 * 2) maximum tree height
 * 3) Density of wood shop waste
 * 4) Outer planets: conjunction
 * 5) Exotic yeast gut flora
 * 6) "Discovering" the obvious
 * 7) Citalopram limit
 * 8) Distinguishing between wet and cold
 * 9) Inertial & Gravitational mass

= December 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 11


 * 1) Programming in non-computer science/software dev degrees

= December 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 12


 * 1) Why don't all viruses cause cancer ?
 * 2) Urine as a fertilizer
 * 3) Softening of the brain
 * 4) Appropriate shower length
 * 5) Blood disorders

= December 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 13


 * 1) No seagulls in Malta
 * 2) Fetal consciouness
 * 3) mice in winter
 * 4) Outer planets question

= December 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 14


 * 1) What is the relationship between Double-slit experiment and Newcomb's Paradox

= December 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 15


 * 1) How much would it cost to build the space colonies from Mobile Suit Gundam?
 * 2) Formation of memories
 * 3) Libido

= December 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 16


 * 1) Chopper crash
 * 2) Mining equipment
 * 3) The Climate Reality Project versus The Weather Conspiracy report (book 1977) on the coming of the new ice age.
 * 4) Astronauts' seats on their way back home
 * 5) Deadly overdose of SSRI's
 * 6) How do you know what to eat these days?

= December 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 17


 * 1) How are walnuts and Brazil nuts shelled in bulk?
 * 2) Approximately how much would the increased muscle on each arm weigh if:
 * 3) Conservation of energy in protein decomposition
 * 4) Ink and dye

= December 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 18


 * 1) I am a FAT rocket man! Rocket man!!!

= December 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 19


 * 1) Equivalents in Chemistry (in the Winkler Determination specifically)
 * 2) How much pseudoephedrine is sold every year?
 * 3) No space travel conspiracy
 * 4) Clocks (not computer or ipods) jumping ahead

= December 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 20


 * 1) High pressure animals
 * 2) Pedunculated fibroma
 * 3) IUPAC names
 * 4) Are Clostridium difficile spores completely killed by bleach?
 * 5) Geology of Seven Stones reef
 * 6) Sex and Pregnancy Question in Regards to Castrated Males

= December 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 21


 * 1) What does the letter C in anatomy stand for?
 * 2) Biochemistry
 * 3) Gaia Space Observatory Dimensions

= December 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 22


 * 1) Elephant flapping ears as a sign of aggression
 * 2) When have humans  thought for the first time about a machine that can process information?

= December 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 23


 * 1) Transplant an artificial heart?
 * 2) Shroud of Turin - ethnicity of image
 * 3) Before Sandra Bullock Gets Inside the ISS
 * 4) Polysaccharides
 * 5) How does viral filter defends on the caregiver?

= December 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 24


 * 1) chain's weakest link
 * 2) Orgasm
 * 3) Precise petrol filling
 * 4) Human eating carrion
 * 5) Why do we need to unify general relativity with chemistry?

= December 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 25


 * 1) Species identification
 * 2) biology of food temperature

= December 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 26


 * 1) Drinking Straws

= December 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 27


 * 1) Reading newspaper or book in a moving vehicle
 * 2) Do you happen electrical fault in an electromagnet? (explanation)
 * 3) Curing meat

= December 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 28


 * 1) Gravity
 * 2) Water Salinity reduction using  Salt Water Pool Chlorinators.
 * 3) Lorentz force helix
 * 4) Lack of sebaceous glands on palms of hands and soles of feet

= December 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 29


 * 1) Can vegetables be grown in Zhejiang & Jiangxi during winter?
 * 2) What is the reason behind this?
 * 3) Bricklaying stacked bonding and stretcher bonding
 * 4) ISS
 * 5) The Vortex Coils
 * 6) High tonnage on masonry arch bridges

= December 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 30


 * 1) Electro Magnetic Pulse missile
 * 2) CO2 Freezing?

= December 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 31


 * 1) Hair dryer
 * 2) What is the equation of J-integral in axisymmetric cylindrical coordinate(r-z plane)?
 * 3) Long distance vacuum
 * 4) Cat in the mirror