Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/July 2011

= July 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 1


 * 1) Fungus that looks like rags
 * 2) Black hole
 * 3) Name of our Black Hole
 * 4) Atomic weight notation
 * 5) Space Time
 * 6) Mercury in sea fish
 * 7) Maggots in my wheelie bin
 * 8) using the "scientific method"

= July 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 2


 * 1) Giving male hormones to transexual (biological) women
 * 2) Light in a tube?
 * 3) Tree with purple leaves
 * 4) ULAS J1120+0641's distance from us... too far?
 * 5) Training in the heat
 * 6) Athletic heart syndrome?
 * 7) Marlin fish question...

= July 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 3


 * 1) Planets
 * 2) chemistry-its uses
 * 3) Peeing on the lemon tree
 * 4) Nitrogen oxide, Carbon dioxide, Sulfur Oxide, Hydrocarbon
 * 5) Diet soda and type 2 diabetes
 * 6) Wrong speed indicator

= July 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 4


 * 1) Connection vagina - uterus
 * 2) Badger page needs help
 * 3) Death, Undead, Zombie
 * 4) Dehydration - overnight re-ocurrence
 * 5) Reccomendations of non-English sources on Evolution
 * 6) Inertial mass
 * 7) Specific Term Related to Ancient Anchors
 * 8) cables question
 * 9) Opioids and hearing loss

= July 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 5


 * 1) Hello, looking for a book
 * 2) Calling all cell molecular biologists and/or biochemists.  Article merge needs help
 * 3) Biological trait
 * 4) movie of semen into vagina
 * 5) Gradient of potential energy
 * 6) Hospital double doors
 * 7) Raw food
 * 8) solar wind temperature
 * 9) why is quantum mechanics weird?
 * 10) Sun photo
 * 11) Watching TV in the dark
 * 12) Equations
 * 13) Tree Falling
 * 14) Electron cyclotron resonance and tapping
 * 15) The Pineal Gland - do we have 2 of those?
 * 16) Questions about anti-entropic matter
 * 17) mouthwash
 * 18) Roundworms in my cat

= July 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 6


 * 1) Black hole powered slingshots
 * 2) detail about a herb
 * 3) dark matter
 * 4) Clarification: t-test and degrees of freedom
 * 5) solar corona
 * 6) Giant jellyfish
 * 7) Pyrite problem

= July 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 7


 * 1) Wood catching fire from propane or natural gas
 * 2) Pollination prospects
 * 3) Most commons monkeys
 * 4) Year the Duwamish Railroad Bridge in Seattle was built?
 * 5) BirAli Crater
 * 6) Why not adopt measurement scales better suited for very large quantities?
 * 7) Species identification request
 * 8) what will happen If any massive star comes to be black hole and it has planets?
 * 9) Estrous vs Menstruation
 * 10) checking xray escape from baggage machine
 * 11) Electrical Stunning vs Tasers
 * 12) Hardest Known Material
 * 13) Third most important blood property
 * 14) Astronomical observation time
 * 15) Regarding special relativity and time dilation
 * 16) Weak Interaction - article
 * 17) Orbits after central mass changes
 * 18) Why do so many adult males like my little pony?
 * 19) Genetics of garden flower colours
 * 20) Question about the sun

= July 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 8


 * 1) Climate in Kuwait
 * 2) Nuclear reticulum
 * 3) Hello, a question about the article "Wilson's disease"
 * 4) Electric Power
 * 5) Electric power2
 * 6) Inertial mass, again
 * 7) The flagpole experiment
 * 8) Plant identification
 * 9) is using a whiteboard and markers a health hazard?
 * 10) Radio waves
 * 11) Current plan for NASA
 * 12) Does special relativistic length contraction "hide" matter?
 * 13) Picture quality in digital cameras
 * 14) What looks like peas? We may soon know

= July 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 9


 * 1) Solid Oxygen Combustion
 * 2) Jehovah's Witnesses and oxygen
 * 3) Theory of mind article
 * 4) Tsunamis on Atolls and Small Islands?
 * 5) As life expectancy increases, do other events in our life happen proportionally later?
 * 6) Bond film realism
 * 7) Evolutionary pressure for theropod arms
 * 8) Anti-adhesive material

= July 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 10


 * 1) to balance the current
 * 2) Memory
 * 3) Questions about Antimatter?
 * 4) Zero-point energy?
 * 5) Butterfly effect in astronomy
 * 6) Skinning beef
 * 7) Waves spreading out
 * 8) Meaningful speculation on existence of anything possible?
 * 9) Car steering
 * 10) DEET insect repellent dissolving things
 * 11) Brief flash of light in the night sky
 * 12) looking for a picture of fluorine reacting

= July 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 11


 * 1) aerospace
 * 2) The Cambrian explosion
 * 3) Swimming in Jello
 * 4) what is the palm theory？
 * 5) Breeder reactor
 * 6) Large edible leaves ?
 * 7) Making my own peanut butter
 * 8) Is Coeliac_disease an allergy?
 * 9) Question about scintilating scotoma
 * 10) software filter on imageJ/photoshop
 * 11) Fluorescent lights in a brown-out
 * 12) Metals

= July 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 12


 * 1) Astronomical interferometer wavebands
 * 2) Evolution
 * 3) wireless power transmission
 * 4) How shall we name the phenomenon?
 * 5) Red-violet
 * 6) 84,000 chemicals
 * 7) Sycon
 * 8) Natural gas ownership in the US
 * 9) Earth-Moon formation contribution to the asteroid belt?

= July 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 13


 * 1) Cultural or instinctive - revulsion at homosexuality
 * 2) Metamorphosis in humans
 * 3) Annihilating a human
 * 4) DNA question
 * 5) Using fractionally distilled oil products to fractionally distill crude oil
 * 6) Practical Applications of Room-Temperature Superconductors
 * 7) Cloud rays
 * 8) Antimatter bomb

= July 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 14


 * 1) Toilets
 * 2) Neutrino
 * 3) Breaking molecules
 * 4) Oppositional defiant disorder - Political abuse of psychiatry?
 * 5) Severe weather warning beeps on radio
 * 6) Planck unit for luminosity
 * 7) Question about animal blood analysis.
 * 8) Exotic matter

= July 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 15


 * 1) mental retardation questions
 * 2) On heat flow.
 * 3) MOST LIKELY AVENUE
 * 4) Matter acceleration to speed of light...?
 * 5) Evolution reloaded
 * 6) Doing fine with 10,000 IU/day of vitamin D
 * 7) young earth creationism
 * 8) cancer stage
 * 9) Zoophilia
 * 10) Does knowledge of psychological experiments influence participants' behaviour?
 * 11) capacitance
 * 12) Do you have an article about hydrocution:
 * 13) snow cover
 * 14) tetanus
 * 15) summers in Tundra climate and Northern Siberia
 * 16) Androgens
 * 17) Estrogen
 * 18) Radio flux
 * 19) Double nuts on bolt

= July 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 16


 * 1) Papaya leaves
 * 2) Weight of water in the clouds
 * 3) Neanderthal and Denisova genome findings; bearing on the age of Genetic Adam and Genetic Eve?
 * 4) Healing of throat after radiotheraphy
 * 5) haloperidol--long term effects on children?
 * 6) Turning up the music volume
 * 7) What kind of bug is this?

= July 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 17


 * 1) Peripheral Lung
 * 2) Diamond test
 * 3) SEEKING JOB INDIA
 * 4) Yellowing of beige office equipment over time
 * 5) How is a rocket supported at the launch pad before ignition?
 * 6) water temperature -> air temperature equivalent conversion rate
 * 7) why does suntan lotion (all brands) have a characteristic smell?
 * 8) Female Common Snapping Turtle
 * 9) Citation of self-published blogs?
 * 10) chemistry
 * 11) pancreatic vs bile duct cancer
 * 12) Polyploid cherries

= July 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 18


 * 1) People like you killed Copernicus!
 * 2) Thermodynamics for beginners
 * 3) PARTICLE ACCELERATION
 * 4) cancer pain
 * 5) How does vo2 max work?
 * 6) Electronic wristwatch movement
 * 7) Aegis radar system
 * 8) When will Dawn transmit new photos of Vesta?
 * 9) Anabolic steroids and testosterone
 * 10) Non-orbital space rockets
 * 11) Why only one subspecies of humans survived

= July 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 19


 * 1) Gravity on earth if the sun vanished?
 * 2) Sanctum
 * 3) Dinosaur cloning
 * 4) autopilot
 * 5) My pet mouse escaped and I found it again. What should I do?
 * 6) Two SI-units for amount of substance. WHY?
 * 7) Theoretical applications of dark energy
 * 8) Asteroids in synchronous orbit
 * 9) Astronomy review papers
 * 10) Relativity with "flaws"...?

= July 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 20


 * 1) Strange chemical nomenclature
 * 2) Walter Lewin's circular track experiment
 * 3) Chocolate question
 * 4) Flattening coins on railway tracks
 * 5) Race as subspecies
 * 6) Who is Mr. or Ms. Southern?
 * 7) TCAS reversal
 * 8) Antimatter black holes?
 * 9) Sea surface temperatures and earthquakes
 * 10) Cavity Magnetron
 * 11) Reseaching hypothyroidism
 * 12) Megatsunami

= July 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 21


 * 1) Easy-to-understand applications of calculus
 * 2) need help
 * 3) Shuttle deviated from planned track?
 * 4) world map in future
 * 5) FTL
 * 6) animal classification
 * 7) Dishwasher magnets for softer water
 * 8) ISS Airlock Spec
 * 9) Venom
 * 10) Do breeding GBB gulls utilize 'helpers'?

= July 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 22


 * 1) Buzzing flies
 * 2) Succulent plant in the UK
 * 3) Sandwich ideas?
 * 4) Theoretical Physics - Extreme Edition (Now with black holes)
 * 5) please help me understand a paragraph in Masters and Johnson
 * 6) City climate website
 * 7) Not a birch tree?

= July 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 23


 * 1) About thiruchendur nazhi kinaru
 * 2) Regarding contour
 * 3) Scale factor with distance
 * 4) Nice in Israel, baking in NYC
 * 5) Watershed between rivers
 * 6) Wholemeal starchy food

= July 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 24


 * 1) The Brain and Exercise
 * 2) material property
 * 3) Irreducible complexity and vestiges organs
 * 4) What to do with wreck after train crash?
 * 5) Crazy gasoline additive
 * 6) mutation
 * 7) Dinghy sailing
 * 8) Time cloaking?
 * 9) Speaking of sailing
 * 10) Swelling of hands and feet

= July 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 25


 * 1) Line of cooling, line of heating
 * 2) Better US climate than London
 * 3) Phase diagrams
 * 4) Herman F. Becker - WP:N paleobotanist?
 * 5) question about origin of life
 * 6) Aquarium filters
 * 7) Lead screws
 * 8) virtual particles.
 * 9) Sleep of the ancients (and the not so ancient)
 * 10) O42-
 * 11) Organic ozonides

= July 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 26


 * 1) Penile exsanguination
 * 2) Preference for extreme versions of traits in evolution
 * 3) Metals in gas form
 * 4) formula of separation
 * 5) massaging muscles
 * 6) Clone armies
 * 7) Upper limit on size of atoms
 * 8) Dream induced nausea
 * 9) Neutron degeneracy
 * 10) Human clone and voice
 * 11) Blood drinking

= July 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 27


 * 1) Motor type and most likely wiring scheme
 * 2) Identify butterfly or moth species
 * 3) As seen in Knowing (film), could a solar-megaflare kill literally everyone on Earth?
 * 4) DNA question
 * 5) Starting up a nuclear reactor
 * 6) Only one higgs?

= July 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 28


 * 1) Please identify this Dragonfly species
 * 2) Any research or speculation in medical literature on using radiation or chemotherapy to treat obesity?
 * 3) Horse manure
 * 4) Baking powder
 * 5) Lovely mystery mushroom
 * 6) Dehumidifier in the desert
 * 7) Horses whinnying at bicyclist
 * 8) Trans fat in British soft margarine
 * 9) Chocolate for treating depression
 * 10) Should I get a food processor, mixer, or something else?

= July 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 29


 * 1) Radioactive casting
 * 2) Post graduate study in the renowned medical colleges in U.S.
 * 3) Brain in the heart
 * 4) Why do horses whinny?
 * 5) Mpemba effect
 * 6) Transmitter question
 * 7) How did Dewar make his flask
 * 8) Palladium
 * 9) Nightmares and Nightterrors.
 * 10) Couldn't he get prosthetic implants?
 * 11) Was Protoavis a bird or Saurischian?
 * 12) Volodushka and GURICHIRURECHIN acid

= July 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 30


 * 1) Bone bruise, hairline fracture, or something else?
 * 2) Cloud phenomenon
 * 3) Bone tracheas
 * 4) The history and use of coal balls
 * 5) Sounds of Earth from the Voyager Golden Record: volcanoes, earthquake, whale song, tractor... ?
 * 6) orbit and mass
 * 7) Does anyone know what this plant is, please?
 * 8) Funny Science Video Clips

= July 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 31


 * 1) Cold fusion
 * 2) Strength of atomic bonds
 * 3) Severed hands
 * 4) IR tech
 * 5)  fart. Erm, flatulence
 * 6) Cymbal-eared aliens
 * 7) NATO notation for color specification?
 * 8) HRT self-medication
 * 9) Perseids, August 2011
 * 10) Ciências - Química
 * 11) Kepler’s 3rd law