Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/December 2014

= December 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 1


 * 1) How scientific is economics?
 * 2) The hard science use of Wikipedia
 * 3) Meaning of endorse and endorsement in psychiatry

= December 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 2


 * 1) why is it cold at the north and south poles of the earth?
 * 2) Phenylketonuria and Obesity
 * 3) What is the reason that the covalent bonds are least specific?
 * 4) Why is keratin not as conductive as the skin on your finger?
 * 5) desert geography

= December 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 3


 * 1) rephrasing of my question
 * 2) Drivers of diesels who have to park in the cold
 * 3) People with knowledge in Organic chemistry  Symphatomimetic amines
 * 4) gemstone questions
 * 5) How long would Lake Erie have to be before Buffalo's climate gets less snow?
 * 6) Is the Adrenaline agonist while in the same time it's antagonist too?
 * 7) How do I make a perfect cup of hot cocoa?
 * 8) Shape of the continents
 * 9) PLL vs band-pass
 * 10) Conversion
 * 11) Is ascorbic acid strong enough to dissolve skin?
 * 12) How does a multicellular, eukaryotic body treat heat-resistant pathogenic bacteria?
 * 13) Correcting a user's name in sandbox

= December 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 4


 * 1) Making wine like soda?
 * 2) UK "Quantum hubs" applications
 * 3) Will there be any consequences if a human eats the glands of an animal?
 * 4) How do insects drink water?
 * 5) Isentropic efficiency of gas expansion process
 * 6) cold fusion

= December 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 5


 * 1) Does punctuated evolution provide an explanation for the lack of transitional species?
 * 2) Moment in a prestressed concrete beam
 * 3) Why does "Specific receptor binding"  occur with drugs that are extremely small (such as Lithium)?
 * 4) Einstein's theory

= December 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 6


 * 1) How to make crystal meth ?
 * 2) Swimming owl
 * 3) Stars
 * 4) Anorectic stimulants and Gastric symptoms
 * 5) How many kilometres per hour does the earth orbit around the sun at?
 * 6) Thermal resistivity of tungsten/molybdenum alloy (Dowmo alloy)
 * 7) Why 4 contact points in  battery?

= December 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 7


 * 1) Concrete core in tall buildings
 * 2) Bamboo structural behaviour
 * 3) Why don't people want to find out what kind of genetic disorders they have in their genes?
 * 4) Papain as male contraceptive
 * 5) James Watson's remarks
 * 6) Schröckingerite
 * 7) Using fabric scissors to cut paper

= December 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 8


 * 1) Virus contagiousness
 * 2) Baldness in males
 * 3) Very begulling
 * 4) Largest venomous/poisonous organisms
 * 5) Wooden chopping board on induction cooktop
 * 6) Universe's radius and the Big Bang's start point
 * 7) Antikythera mechanism questions
 * 8) Minimum air speed for traversing time zones faster than sun
 * 9) Medicinal Mushrooms Article Disappeared

= December 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 9


 * 1) What a shock!  You almost gave me a heart attack!
 * 2) Diabetes and hypoglycemia
 * 3) Facial surgery
 * 4) Deaf and blind people interacting with traffic
 * 5) Ethics of cloning humans without brains
 * 6) Defences against EMP
 * 7) How many lecture hours does a bachelor of science have?
 * 8) If you cannot breath, can you say "I cannot breath?"

= December 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 10


 * 1) Relativity Question
 * 2) How does an embryo know where to grow limbs etc
 * 3) Do mammals develop tolerance to anticholinergics?
 * 4) Genes & Memory
 * 5) Speed of Light
 * 6) Vaska's complex and its amazing triple-bonded oxygen
 * 7) Did my stain evaporate ?
 * 8) "Artificial" smallpox

= December 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 11


 * 1) Voice impersonation
 * 2) How can fresh cavities form at the margins of sliver amalgam fillings on teeth?
 * 3) effect of pupil responses on the electroretinogram
 * 4) What is the reason for low blood pressure during pregnancy?
 * 5) A/D using digipot?
 * 6) Why does Vitamin E called "antisterility"?
 * 7) Candies' strange behavior
 * 8) what was the incidence rate of general opc by 2007?
 * 9) why doesn't the atmosphere burn if it contains oxygen?

= December 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 12


 * 1) Why is it, when we need to cry, it just doesn't work?
 * 2) The suffix "olol" in the three beta blockers:  "Propranolol" "Atenolol" "Metoprolol "
 * 3) What will be the influence of the place without gravity on the cardiovascular system?
 * 4) self-destruct capabilities of military craft
 * 5) Tomato sauce as detergent
 * 6) Bubbles on chocolate milk

= December 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 13


 * 1) how does evolutoin come up with CRAZY stuff like, "I'll wrap my tongue all the way around my head and through my nostrils"?
 * 2) Can animals without a prefrontal cortex have anxiety disorders?
 * 3) Does GPS need satellites?
 * 4) What is the relation between green foods and vitamin k?
 * 5) How would we observe wormholes?
 * 6) Carbonylated dihydridoiron

= December 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 14


 * 1) depression
 * 2) Jellyfish snacks
 * 3) Tips for ACS Test?
 * 4) Post-translationational modification
 * 5) Bending stresses in a beam
 * 6) Battery charger: are they fail-safe?
 * 7) Which type of material is the most friendly for human body in transplantation?
 * 8) Humanities

= December 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 15


 * 1) When taking a shower, does the body loses liquids (/water)?
 * 2) Why is the day divided into 24 hours?
 * 3) Heating Shale Oil with Microwaves
 * 4) Long-term effects of antihistamines on mind and CNS
 * 5) B cell receptor editing
 * 6) Why can't you just buy antibiotics?
 * 7) How many percents of the human blood are water?
 * 8) What is the strongest organ in the human body, in all aspects?
 * 9) Where can I read about the influence of the gravity on the blood pressure?
 * 10) What do nutrient deficiencies tell us about early modern human diet?
 * 11) Do animals in nature just copulate among their peers?
 * 12) Capillary action in a tube of insufficient length in a gravity free space
 * 13) Sanity Test for Einstein's Train Experiment

= December 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 16


 * 1) Why we shouldn't eat already dead animal instead of killing & eat them?
 * 2) Why does anxiety cause diarrhea or constipation?
 * 3) Sound from laying your head on your hand
 * 4) physics
 * 5) Mumps
 * 6) Is it known which drug is with the longest half life
 * 7) Why wouldn't Mcdonald's French Fries rot?
 * 8) Can you "see" a cell-phone probing for a network?

= December 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 17


 * 1) Mystery fruit (?) in hay bale
 * 2) Gap in teeth
 * 3) Missing teeth (technical terms)
 * 4) Heat engine problem
 * 5) What's the centre of mass of the Local Group of galaxies?
 * 6) How accurate is reentry?
 * 7) Lioness hunting tactics
 * 8) Bugging the outdoors with spiderweb-like antennas

= December 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 18


 * 1) Hydrochloric acid and methylbenzene
 * 2) why is time known as the fourth dimension?
 * 3) Changes in Mammalian Milk composition - Biochemistry question
 * 4) circuit analysis
 * 5) How do the enzymes and nutrients in breast milk survive body temperature?
 * 6) Resistance of electrically conductive paint.
 * 7) Cloning by chance
 * 8) How much would it cost get tested for every genetic risk factor known to man?
 * 9) In your hair

= December 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 19


 * 1) Did anyone ever make a weird mathematical treatment of physics with extra dimensions of time?
 * 2) Is the heart's valves made of cartilage?
 * 3) Is it true that any tendon has two sides - one connected to muscle and the other to the bone or cartilage?
 * 4) how many people with gonorhea eventually go on to develop prostatitis?
 * 5) HIV testing
 * 6) Relative concentration of Chitinase in various fruits

= December 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 20


 * 1) Tiny islands
 * 2) Were blacksmiths losing their hearing?
 * 3) Is not keeping bread in a fridge really a good piece of advice?
 * 4) A to D s
 * 5) Could fat tissue be a beneficial cancer?
 * 6) Could slow-growing cases of prostate cancer be beneficial in some cases?
 * 7) Electrical wiring – wrapping electrical tape around swtiches and receptales
 * 8) Why does running water cause the need to urinate?

= December 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 21


 * 1) First date similarity to job interview
 * 2) Strength of 3D Printer Plastic
 * 3) Physics in the movie Gravity
 * 4) Not quite a robot, so what do you call it?

= December 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 22


 * 1) What is the difference between tap water to the physiology solution?
 * 2) When I take a shower does I lose my body water?
 * 3) Why weren't compound bows invented much sooner?
 * 4) many versions forms of the arm veins
 * 5) Given a perfectly sealed airship, could it remain in the air for years?
 * 6) Baumgartner's video
 * 7) The longest half life medication is known?

= December 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 23


 * 1) Why insulin is not taken oral but in injection?
 * 2) Custom books on water- and tear- resistant paper
 * 3) Is it dangerous to drink pure water (H2O)?
 * 4) Diving with TLB technology

= December 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 24


 * 1) What is the reason for the red color of SEDURAL that appears in the urine of the patient?
 * 2) Dealing with a difficult “educator”
 * 3) When cheeking blood for glucose- how many types of molecules of glucose does it cheeks?
 * 4) Insulin and other hormones
 * 5) Main Battle Tank
 * 6) Does having many dream-wake cycles in a few hours have an effect on content?
 * 7) The train-and-platform thought experiment:

= December 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 25


 * 1) Is steroid considered as protein?
 * 2) Exercise routine breaks
 * 3) Research
 * 4) Christmas Day moon eclipse
 * 5) depression and tiredness
 * 6) Aaron Swartz's major (possibly at MIT?)

= December 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 26


 * 1) Can anyone name any documentaries specially about the Narwhal?
 * 2) is Turritopsis_dohrnii immortal?  why isn't anything?
 * 3) Is it possible to buy large and affordable (artificial) gemstones like rubies, emeralds and sapphires?
 * 4) Excess of Nitrogen in the blood
 * 5) Road surfaces
 * 6) Please help me identify this anatomical feature
 * 7) Is universe a isolated system?

= December 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 27


 * 1) Reducing the fever by drugs doesn't harm the body?
 * 2) Self driving trains
 * 3) The visible "envelope" of atmosphere slightly beneath the aurora
 * 4) How detailed must a perfectly accurate brain model be?
 * 5) Tiles instead of continuous cover on Space Shuttles
 * 6) Cheeky/irreverent precious substance questions
 * 7) Reception of Einstein's ideas
 * 8) Why was any rocket ever painted?
 * 9) Hand pain
 * 10) Rabbit inbreeding and genetic diseases

= December 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 28


 * 1) Johann and Stefan Rausch Craniopagus Twins
 * 2) Frost overnight on cars
 * 3) late reproduction - quick evolution
 * 4) Expanding Earth vs. plate tectonics
 * 5) Blood-alcohol level
 * 6) Heavy water
 * 7) Does lemon juice dissolve polystyrene foam ?
 * 8) Humans are more closely related to cows/pigs/sheep than parrots are to chickens?

= December 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 29


 * 1) Is there a correlation between G6PD deficiency to allergy to penicillin?
 * 2) Why is jet fuel measured in pounds and not in gallons?
 * 3) Lichen and moss identification
 * 4) Hemorroids!
 * 5) Moment capacity of beam
 * 6) The crossing of a small female toy dog and a large male dog
 * 7) Question about contraception--Can RISUG/Vasalgel theoretically fail?

= December 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 30


 * 1) Can a dog's toe cut off when cutting nail?
 * 2) Which part(s) of North America has/have a climate most like New Zealand's?
 * 3) how does previously boiled water differ?
 * 4) What is the difference between adverse reaction and side effect?
 * 5) Graph Axis labels
 * 6) Asphalt question

= December 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 31


 * 1) Proper name for a wrench that works on smooth shafts and how it works
 * 2) Implantable Fuel-Cell
 * 3) What is the reason for the changes between the right and left valves in the heart?
 * 4) Why dont things stay floating in the air
 * 5) Bumper cars security when obtaining power just from the floor
 * 6) Influenza vaccine allergy