Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/February 2009

= February 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 1


 * 1) How delicate is the universe?
 * 2) How much would an outside observer (an alien scientist, if you like) be able to determine about life on Earth as a whole...
 * 3) explanation on tensors
 * 4) books on physics theories
 * 5) Hey, how do they know they've discovered methane (tm?) gas on Mars?
 * 6) Clearing Brush
 * 7) About the cooling and heating of the air as an affect of clouds
 * 8) what is the detail standard of MS20995AB32 or NASM20995AB32
 * 9) Clones and lung problems
 * 10) Day with the most number of deaths
 * 11) information in Dutch about Cryptosporidium parvum
 * 12) Should my adam's apple be perfectly symmetrical?
 * 13) Sound in Water
 * 14) Setting up a temporary "cleanroom" at home
 * 15) Identify plant?
 * 16) what are the best arguments for there being no objective truth?
 * 17) Electron configurations
 * 18) Gaur image
 * 19) Testing  for air tightness

= February 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 2


 * 1) Blood tests
 * 2) Snow fleas
 * 3) Dwarfism due to gas attack?
 * 4) Wind powered
 * 5) do insects have kidneys?
 * 6) Do not expose to direct sunlight
 * 7) wind power
 * 8) People who "Don't like music"
 * 9) Earthing
 * 10) Would lens flares ever have motion blur?
 * 11) [medical Q] identify a tool
 * 12) Black dwarf sun and planets drfiting

= February 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 3


 * 1) Front and back
 * 2) Breeding budgies and cockatiels
 * 3) Antidepressent
 * 4) Brain wave crosstalk
 * 5) Islam ... previous article
 * 6) Map projection where area is proportional to a statistic
 * 7) What the weather feels like
 * 8) Which is more prestigious as an honour;FBA or FRS
 * 9) Protein Supplements in diet
 * 10) Boolean logic
 * 11) Gluing  MDF
 * 12) Space
 * 13) Electric motor speed
 * 14) Photons having momentum
 * 15) How long will it take to go to Mars?
 * 16) Melting tarseal
 * 17) Bathymetry

= February 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 4


 * 1) Speed of light, sound
 * 2) Time Travel and Fate
 * 3) Isaac Newton's scientific fraud
 * 4) Breast enhancement scams
 * 5) Free will doesn't exist
 * 6) A hell of a question...
 * 7) Showing CO2 => global warming in a lab
 * 8) Effect of snow on rails
 * 9) Bird on wire not getting zapped

= February 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 5


 * 1) Prism's and white LED's.
 * 2) Sinkholes - Geology
 * 3) Science related to Neuorlogy
 * 4) Calculating Molality
 * 5) Chemical Content
 * 6) Alkali = ?
 * 7) Membership of American Academy of Arts and Sciences as compared to Royal Society
 * 8) Parallel Universes
 * 9) English language
 * 10) Cork taint
 * 11) "drawing" letters and words by moving your eyes
 * 12) Wine aging
 * 13) mass-energy equation
 * 14) Water flouridation and the crank estate
 * 15) Life without plants
 * 16) Eggs in candleflames
 * 17) Homeopathic medicine

= February 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 6


 * 1) Is there a problem if a blood sample for indirect coombs test was taken on EDTA not serum tube?if so,what should I do if I can not reach the patient?
 * 2) Chemical vapor deposition
 * 3) Absolute velocity in SR vs. GR
 * 4) Electrical variation on chicken and egg problem
 * 5) Robert Millikan and the Oil Drop.
 * 6) Was evolution first described by Islamic scientists much before Darwin
 * 7) Voice-to-computer device
 * 8) Feed the lions
 * 9) Oldest ice ?
 * 10) Euthanizing turtles
 * 11) Corn for sugar? Why not apples?
 * 12) Rock salt on the ice
 * 13) Chemical element
 * 14) Ants
 * 15) Immunisation through constant exposure
 * 16) Electrons and magnets and monopoles

= February 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 7


 * 1) Red Alert!
 * 2) Greed not genetic?
 * 3) heavy menstrual cycle
 * 4) Colour vision
 * 5) So, like, ...what's been happenin in science lately?
 * 6) And when are they gonna update the periodic table!?
 * 7) Radioactive Decay/Bombardment
 * 8) Solid when warm, liquid when cold
 * 9) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 7#Mater to Energy conversion (Moved from .5Bhttp:.2F.2Fen.wikipedia.org.2Fw.2Findex.php?title=Wikipedia:Reference_desk.2FComputing&action=edit&section=52 Reference_desk.2FComputing.5D|Mater to Energy conversion (Moved from Reference_desk/Computing]]
 * 10) Move Earth rocks to Mars
 * 11) These Questions are doing my head in
 * 12) Pancreatic Cancer

= February 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 8


 * 1) Where can I find information about NLP?
 * 2) effect of pulse polio programme on scheduled vaccinations!
 * 3) Colour of the Sun
 * 4) Sleep
 * 5) what is a time that is CERTAINLY too short for a person to displacce their hand by 1 meter ?
 * 6) tips to enthuse proto-computer scientists
 * 7) TV Noise

= February 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 9


 * 1) Decomposition of Styrofoam and Plastics
 * 2) is there a difference between: 1) water that has been frozen + melted  2) water that never was frozen?
 * 3) UFOs
 * 4) Philosophical differences between Ayurvedic and Unani medicine
 * 5) Why are black people better dancers/athletes?
 * 6) Instruments that don't start at zero
 * 7) deflection
 * 8) Frequency of Earthquake Waves
 * 9) Swarf
 * 10) Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
 * 11) Anaerobe anatomy
 * 12) stem cells
 * 13) Alprazolam vs. Diazepam

= February 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 10


 * 1) How come this image says that the galaxy is impossible?
 * 2) why are branched hydrocarbons more thermodynamically stable than unbranched ones?
 * 3) Genetic Modification potato
 * 4) Curious shadow over Moon - cloud, or not?
 * 5) Medically qualified people with main contribution in physicsmathematics
 * 6) Why is the death toll so high in the 2009 Victorian bushfires ?
 * 7) Be a good egg and answer this Q...
 * 8) do French and United Kingdom has same watts plugs?

= February 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 11


 * 1) Magnetic perpetual machine
 * 2) how to make a magnet
 * 3) A medical emergency that could lead to a diagnosis of anemia
 * 4) Engine silencer
 * 5) Missile range
 * 6) Degree of Relatedness
 * 7) Will Ultraviolet A or B rays kill the vibrio cholerae bacteria?
 * 8) Was William Harvey realy the first person to describe blood circulation?
 * 9) CIVIL ENGINEERING
 * 10) what happens in the fractioning column (in the lab) as ethanol-water mixture boils?
 * 11) Wireless invention;Bose or Marconi!
 * 12) Migraines and Auras
 * 13) Eyeglass prescription
 * 14) Checking that loading of wells in SDS PAGE is comparable or whatever
 * 15) mirror paint?
 * 16) CO detector going off
 * 17) Metamorphosis

= February 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 12


 * 1) First Ionization Energy
 * 2) Real D glassess
 * 3) milky way in the sky
 * 4) What is the largest academic journal in the world
 * 5) Authoritative anatomy terminology
 * 6) Darwin mechanism of evolution?
 * 7) Bodyhair
 * 8) Cognation Memory
 * 9) Same-sex gametes combining to form a zygote?
 * 10) universe expanding
 * 11) will my clothes rot / otherwise become damaged if I leave them unwashed for a few weeks?
 * 12) Uranus and Saturn's gravity
 * 13) what is Steve Baker's IQ? Why does he know so much?

= February 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 13


 * 1) Post-It Note adhesive Thickness
 * 2) Tesla, Edison, Einstein and Asperger syndrome.
 * 3) comb attracting little pieces of paper
 * 4) Syndrome or Disorder?
 * 5) asexual reproduction
 * 6) Fingerprints
 * 7) Snowflake symmetry
 * 8) Was  Banting really the first to discover insulin?
 * 9) Freemartin
 * 10) Faster-than-light communication idea
 * 11) PROPELLER ENGINE VS JET ENGINE AT HIGHER ALTITUDE
 * 12) 2009 satellite collision relative velocities
 * 13) Have scientists tried mixing every combination of chemicals, elements, etc. together?
 * 14) Imagination "like becoming someone else" to some people?
 * 15) Error measurement question
 * 16) Isaac Asimov quote on the fractal nature of discovery

= February 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 14


 * 1) Questions about catnip
 * 2) Neanderthals, Humans and Chimps
 * 3) Scientific name
 * 4) Mental illness and "colorful" writing
 * 5) Is there any way to repair a cracked DVD?
 * 6) so cola is TERRIBLE for your teeth.  Does swishing with water immediately afterwards help?
 * 7) Verifying that a CO detector works
 * 8) Mysterious Dead
 * 9) How fair is a coin?
 * 10) Energy vs mass
 * 11) Runaway propeller
 * 12) Can we create giant insects like those that lived during the Carboniferous period?

= February 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 15


 * 1) How do I genetically engineer the world's best sports team?
 * 2) speeding up human gestitation
 * 3) Yellow Sodium Light
 * 4) science/geology---tides!!!
 * 5) ENGINEER'S HELP NEEDED
 * 6) Is there any Green Agency at India
 * 7) Past weather data
 * 8) For specialist only...!
 * 9) is it a coincedence too
 * 10) Question about the nature of the expanding universe
 * 11) Boiling to Death
 * 12) Cream Smell
 * 13) The night sky

= February 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 16


 * 1) Time
 * 2) When does 12 a.m. mean noon?
 * 3) Academia at present
 * 4) quantum mechanics(a particle in box)
 * 5) Terpenes
 * 6) Vision, light pollution, and the Milky Way
 * 7) hydroponics
 * 8) sudden freezing
 * 9) Water freezing up in an ice cube tray
 * 10) Percent of people infected by the "common cold" each year in US
 * 11) Sex hormones in ham?
 * 12) New colours

= February 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 17


 * 1) New colors...Editing Break
 * 2) CIE 1931 color space chromaticity diagram equivalent tending towards black
 * 3) Matter and Anti-Matter creation from energy
 * 4) protein to build muscle mass
 * 5) Most complex  formula in Physics
 * 6) Microsoft Office Live Workplace for Linux users
 * 7) Liquid density
 * 8) Event horizon and neutron star crushing question
 * 9) Nuclear submarine crash
 * 10) The road to Xibalba
 * 11) Health: green tea leaves v. cabbage leaves
 * 12) Gold in volcano
 * 13) sort of alchemy
 * 14) Why is there a high concentration of catalase in the liver?

= February 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 18


 * 1) Hodgkin's lymphoma and GHB?
 * 2) Ionic Strength: am I doing it right?
 * 3) Voltaic pile chemistry
 * 4) Bacterial illness
 * 5) Al Jazir, Ancient Engineer?
 * 6) Clarification required
 * 7) Electron composition
 * 8) RadioShack Weather Stations
 * 9) Is there any scientific evidence backing 9/11 conspiracy theories?
 * 10) Speculation on Glaucoma and HSV
 * 11) Is it a coincedence 2... ?
 * 12) conservation of energy
 * 13) Adenoidectomy
 * 14) The tip of a laser beam
 * 15) Why did doctors administer calomel and bleeding in the 18th and 19th century?
 * 16) Purple Orange

= February 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 19


 * 1) xkcd science reference
 * 2) Boyle's Law
 * 3) Eyes wide shut?
 * 4) Weight Scales
 * 5) Aristotelian perfect heavens and Galileo
 * 6) Grooves (archaeology)
 * 7) Apple juice
 * 8) Coffee and brain
 * 9) Time travel survival
 * 10) Basics
 * 11) Linear Variable Differential Transformer
 * 12) Squirting Orgasm
 * 13) Blue supergiant
 * 14) Does shaking bus indicate particular type of drive train?

= February 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 20


 * 1) Bouyancy
 * 2) Energy transfere
 * 3) Does electricity move with inertia?
 * 4) A Few ?s...
 * 5) Archimedes' Law
 * 6) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 20#Most .5Bhttp:.2F.2Fwww.wordnet-online.com.2Ftemperate.shtml temperate.5D city?|Most temperate city?]]
 * 7) Dates Before Christ?
 * 8) Why did more colds develop into pneumonia in years past?
 * 9) Lancet reputation
 * 10) limitation of human understanding
 * 11) economy crises
 * 12) Chemisty Question - Silicone oil
 * 13) Cleaning anitfreeze ethylene glycol off concrete

= February 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 21


 * 1) moving charges
 * 2) by what year is the amazon rainforest expected to be completely logged/destroyed?
 * 3) Did Ross actually deserve his Nobel in 1902?
 * 4) Scientists with distinguished contribution to literature
 * 5) Hybrid eclipse: both annular and total at the same place?
 * 6) derivation of e = mc squared
 * 7) what is "Vital fluorescent staining" ?
 * 8) Hypothetical lifeforms on earth
 * 9) Why does the iris have a colour?
 * 10) Dysfunction in the instinct of nature
 * 11) Burns

= February 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 22


 * 1) Cardinal repeatedly flies into window
 * 2) Gold
 * 3) "Audible Drugs"
 * 4) Bubble´s prediction
 * 5) electrical conductivity

= February 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 23


 * 1) Red Hot Ice Cube
 * 2) Oil Platforms
 * 3) battery life in laptops
 * 4) Edison,Tesla spat cost them a Nobel !!!
 * 5) Manual gear
 * 6) increase of relative mass
 * 7) wood - properties
 * 8) Spread of Disease from America to the Old World
 * 9) "... Irradiated the world's supply of steel"? Clarify?
 * 10) How can I depigment hair extensions??

= February 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 24


 * 1) Measuring digits
 * 2) The atmosphere on comet Lulin
 * 3) Requirements for being published in Science Mag: Policy Forum
 * 4) Amoebas and White Blood Cells
 * 5) Photosynthesis
 * 6) low radiation
 * 7) Latent index and manifest index (in psychology)
 * 8) Ripen my mango
 * 9) adrenal and gonadal androgen
 * 10) Scientist head of states!
 * 11) a pill i found
 * 12) Singapore history
 * 13) Wave equation
 * 14) Band-stop filters
 * 15) Conservation of mass
 * 16) Ketonuria caused by a high protein diet.
 * 17) Tiny Springs
 * 18) Botany of antractica
 * 19) Sexuality being decided?
 * 20) DC power supplies in parallel/series
 * 21) hydrodynamic and aerodynamic
 * 22) Water Hammer Arrestor

= February 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 25


 * 1) Pipe noise
 * 2) Silver nitrate storage
 * 3) high  electric tension
 * 4) Could someone with CIPA still die from a chest stab?
 * 5) Colors of noise images?
 * 6) Is (or was) Antarctica really a single continent?

= February 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 26


 * 1) Mousetraps
 * 2) Constituents of InkJet Printer Ink
 * 3) Particles or waves in radiation
 * 4) water
 * 5) Largest open-shelf library
 * 6) Free university
 * 7) derivation of lorentz transformation
 * 8) Milky way part two
 * 9) opened bottled water shelf life
 * 10) television
 * 11) Einsteins prediction regarding the "weak force"
 * 12) Bad medical terms give me high blood pressure...
 * 13) "Treatment" for Aspergers Syndrome?
 * 14) Validity of Wikipedia

= February 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 27


 * 1) can hydrostatic testing damage household pipes?
 * 2) Macdonald 80 Shopping Center
 * 3) Psychological effects of norepinephrine
 * 4) I hope this Q doesn't put you to sleep...
 * 5) Anybody is answering it?????
 * 6) wavefunction in quantum mechanics
 * 7) Rear Axle
 * 8) Rear Axle rework
 * 9) Moth question
 * 10) Glutathione
 * 11) How to compare more than 5 products at biocompare.com
 * 12) Homo sapiens
 * 13) Bornholms Disease

= February 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 28


 * 1) Using neutrinos for communication
 * 2) Observation of a mysterious psychological phenomenon
 * 3) contradiction between lorentz transformation and length contraction
 * 4) current even not grounded
 * 5) Diagnosing asthma in children
 * 6) Why all the various notations for wavelength and frequency?
 * 7) Characteristic time scale for rotational motion.
 * 8) Hormones and neurotransmitters
 * 9) soda ash clairification
 * 10) Why Are People So Stupid?
 * 11) Stone-age axe-head factory.