Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/January 2015

= January 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 January 1


 * 1) Prove the Square-Cube Law
 * 2) vegetable oil additive
 * 3) Meta-Data question
 * 4) River landscapes
 * 5) Marlins Park
 * 6) Using the night-time electricity system as a means of dealing with excess electricity generation due to renewables.
 * 7) Analyzing data scientifically: Dealing with answers to determine preference between Coca-Cola or Pepsi, how many are gay or straight, or how many people took illegal drugs

= January 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 January 2


 * 1) Same Path for the Small Intestines in (most) Humans?
 * 2) Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501: passengers found strapped in
 * 3) Do we have an article on medical cross-sections ?
 * 4) Theroritically can EDTA administrated into the body?

= January 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 January 3


 * 1) Any one here proficient about Histamine & Appetite regulation?
 * 2) why does listerine packaging say not to rinse mouth straight from bottle?
 * 3) What is the way that EDTA prevents the clotting in the blood samples?
 * 4) science(cooking,heating)

= January 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 January 4


 * 1) Brain damage
 * 2) Llamas or alpacas?
 * 3) If I claim something has a 90% chance of happening the next day

= January 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 January 6


 * 1) Why no primates native to the US ?

= January 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 January 7


 * 1) Habitability of Alpha Centauri Bb
 * 2) What happens when the helium balloon enters the atmosphere ?
 * 3) Can I flatten a thick magnetic stripe card with a microwave?
 * 4) What's an incident infection and what's a persistent infection>
 * 5) If helium balloon goes on
 * 6) the balloon into Pacific Ocean
 * 7) Design code factor of safety in prestressed concrete design

= January 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 January 8


 * 1) Negative coefficient of friction
 * 2) Snow Extrusion
 * 3) Human only (or close) diseases.
 * 4) Beaver poo
 * 5) Are siblings the most genetically similar people to a person?

= January 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 January 9


 * 1) Trustworthy sources of Windows builds of open source software?
 * 2) ";" issue
 * 3) Damages caused by too much staring at a screen (be it TV, computer or smartphone)
 * 4) What's the problem of putting metal objects into a microwave oven?

= January 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 January 10


 * 1) Butterfly Flight
 * 2) Welch's
 * 3) PG-1302-possibly a pair of black holes close to colliding
 * 4) Chemicals used to enhance flavor in food?
 * 5) Why does new york city have a continental climate?
 * 6) does re-enamel toothpaste work?
 * 7) Structural system
 * 8) What distribution are the most common?
 * 9) Edibility/healthfulness of shellfish parts

= January 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 January 11


 * 1) Can a goat really eat and digest a tin can?
 * 2) Climate change vs. Global Warming
 * 3) What is the reason that the saturation (oxygen) rises after smoking?
 * 4) Attached with nails
 * 5) Body weight and g-force tolerance
 * 6) Reserves and ressources

= January 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 January 12


 * 1) Poly oxalate
 * 2) different units used in blood pressure measurement
 * 3) Why do electric guitars have tunable bridges but acoustic guitar fixed ones
 * 4) TTL IC L293D
 * 5) genetics
 * 6) Effective Lifetime of Hydrogen Peroxide Solution
 * 7) What are the most economical ways of removing or killing yeast on the surface of produce?

= January 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 January 13


 * 1) Can dogs survive in the wild?
 * 2) What is the difference between analgesic and sedation?
 * 3) Professional laptops
 * 4) Apollo mission photos left on the moon.
 * 5) Images on Voyager Golden Record
 * 6) Dumb questions? Science at school never explained certain stuff to me.
 * 7) Is it safe to add lactobacillus acidophilus to gazpacho and would it prevent or slow fermentation?
 * 8) How much Phytoestrogens, on average, we have on 100g of cooked soybeans?
 * 9) Female ejaculate
 * 10) How do household appliance water tanks work?
 * 11) Lorentz Contraction at near light and faster than light speeds

= January 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 January 14


 * 1) How sure is Moore's law?
 * 2) Archeology of dwarf planets

= January 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 January 15


 * 1) astronaut pulled because of gravity
 * 2) Antimatter
 * 3) What was the best Comet McNaught & Lovejoy (2011) looked like naked eye from 40°N?
 * 4) Magnitude of the vacuum energy density
 * 5) How far away from a well-lit city can you see the bazillion stars in the night sky?

= January 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 January 16


 * 1) Bigger, better, faster, Moore?
 * 2) should you mix water back into sour cream, or drain it?
 * 3) Subterranean rivers
 * 4) Raspberry Ketone B.Half life
 * 5) Kg to lunar lb
 * 6) What software would you use to model something spreading in water (river, lake, sea)?

= January 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 January 17


 * 1) Tail of comet Lovejoy
 * 2) How farther apart in wavelengths do two lights have to be in order to appear like two distinct colors to the human eye?
 * 3) Use of DNA in bodily substances to solve crimes
 * 4) Skink ID
 * 5) genetics (origin of somatic cell chromosomes)
 * 6) How and from what are hormones in pills/medical treatment created?
 * 7) Main Battle Tank
 * 8) Mallard ducks in Britain
 * 9) Road stabilisation
 * 10) Heat effect on skin: study of blow drier users versus non-users

= January 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 January 18


 * 1) Science method: If you want to compare a stock picking algorithm, a stock broker or a fund to a random number generator
 * 2) What are the most frequently written about species which don't have articles on Wikipedia?
 * 3) head hair lightening of certain caucasian populations during summer
 * 4) sane bounds on how much information the human brain can possibly store, and how much computational power it can possibly have
 * 5) What is the mechanism of Morphine on the breathing?
 * 6) Heat discolouration (?)
 * 7) Heat transfer
 * 8) Human evolution
 * 9) Atmospheric pressure at the height of the ISS
 * 10) measles

= January 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 January 19


 * 1) Handbooks vs. lectures
 * 2) Personal research project: histories and uses of "Dwarf Saltwort" or "Small Cordgrass"
 * 3) Spinning 'Rocket' ??
 * 4) Anion deficient solution
 * 5) Swallowing a long string
 * 6) Brain neurons
 * 7) Onions
 * 8) Explaining methods
 * 9) Concentrations of antibiotic in Indian rivers

= January 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 January 20


 * 1) After how many hours could you wipe off a butter knife and reuse it?
 * 2) Species summary format
 * 3) Dregs in Cherry Zero and Vodka
 * 4) What kind of  cat is this?
 * 5) Compass poles reversed
 * 6) Sagittal sutures and scaphocephaly
 * 7) Scratching athlete's foot - better than sex?
 * 8) Why is NASA hoarding the Dawn data on the Ceres mission?
 * 9) Goddard's first rocket

= January 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 January 21


 * 1) Is Harvard into a bogus product or is this solid science?
 * 2) IUCN Red List Status Code "CD"
 * 3) Are trichophyton fungi a type of mold?

= January 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 January 22


 * 1) Reviving the Beagle
 * 2) Electronic cigarettes and devices
 * 3) Urinating while sitting vs. standing up
 * 4) Slope or relief maps?
 * 5) Minimum photons to see something

= January 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 January 23


 * 1) Gross hamster tumours
 * 2) Is there any science source about the influence or damage of opiates on the kidney / liver when it's used for a long-term
 * 3) What are the proximal organs?
 * 4) Question about spaceships?
 * 5) How did humans form a diet that relies heavily on the consumption of carbohydrates?
 * 6) Is this a valid scientific method?
 * 7) What can't be modeled in science with differential equations?
 * 8) Ideas for Chemistry Paper Topic?

= January 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 January 24


 * 1) Vaccination
 * 2) M1 Abrams
 * 3) How much lead is dangerous?
 * 4) Prestressed concrete transfer equation
 * 5) Magnetic pick up for electric guitar
 * 6) Factor of 2 in photosynthesis equation
 * 7) If the birth rate is less than 2.0 birth/woman, is the population decreasing?

= January 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 January 25


 * 1) In which cases can we find infection or inflammation without Leukocytosis or non-normal CRP?
 * 2) Removing instability in a linear system
 * 3) How does the electric current of a Taser (or a similar electroshock weapon) spread?

= January 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 January 26


 * 1) What is the amount of gs in space???
 * 2) Genetics of Labrador Retrievers
 * 3) Coriolis force effect on a rifle bullet
 * 4) Fly eggs everywhere?

= January 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 January 27


 * 1) What kind of bird?
 * 2) LH & FSH produced by negative or positive feedback?
 * 3) What is the antonym of "conspecific"?
 * 4) Off Center Thrust in Spacecraft
 * 5)  S-IC S-II cutoff on Apollo 13

= January 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 January 28


 * 1) Does an undampened magnetic spring system ever stop?
 * 2) Flower ID
 * 3) Chirality
 * 4) What causes electromagnetic induction?
 * 5) How Strong is the Force Which Drives Hubble Flow?
 * 6) List of psychological activity, paranormal or psychic phenomena:
 * 7) Black Powder vs. Smokeless Powder
 * 8) AEROANDTECH

= January 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 January 29


 * 1) What is the simplest fatty acid?
 * 2) Body Odour
 * 3) Name that med
 * 4) Is formic acid a fatty acid?
 * 5) IUCN Red List for plants
 * 6) History of ocean going ships late 1800s - early 1900s

= January 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 January 30


 * 1) Snow by country
 * 2) Ideal computation
 * 3) Sublimation?

= January 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 January 31


 * 1) Fiber-spinning machine for carbon nanotubes
 * 2) About Binding antibody
 * 3) What is a good algebra textbook with lots of real-life examples?
 * 4) Infertility and safe sex
 * 5) Electrolyte problems and constipation
 * 6) Idea of space elevator
 * 7) Term for an F2-only heterozygous phenotype?