Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/July 2013

= July 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 July 1


 * 1) Malaria
 * 2) How would certain wikipedians do in the World Quizzing Championship?
 * 3) Two questions about the blood donation or blood test
 * 4) what is the purpose of the breathing from mouth to mouth in CPR?
 * 5) E 85 (Ethanol vehicles)

= July 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 July 2


 * 1) Mars will definitely survive or it is possible to get eaten by sun
 * 2) What's pictured in this astronomical photo?
 * 3) admission for engineering
 * 4) I've got this song stuck in my head...
 * 5) Dark matter/energy
 * 6) citation counts: most cited people
 * 7) "Physical" dark matter chunks near Earth?
 * 8) What's the sourest object in the known universe?
 * 9) Something is wrong with the magnetic induction " B" !

= July 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 July 3


 * 1) Bluejays and cardinals
 * 2) Total solar eclipse of Egypt circa 3100 BC?
 * 3) NYC and nuclear attack
 * 4) Bipolar Disorder associated features
 * 5) Rehydration of troops in Iraq/ Afghanistan

= July 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 July 4


 * 1) Colds and bacterial infections
 * 2) Boiling water in a kettle
 * 3) Putting an aspirin on the gum
 * 4) wild animals and spicy food
 * 5) Video on race and intelligence

= July 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 July 5


 * 1) Electricity
 * 2) Can magnetic fields be like a laser?
 * 3) Fern spore range
 * 4) Tension
 * 5) polymers
 * 6) Affinity constants
 * 7) Is Neptune habitable?

= July 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 July 6


 * 1) Potential energy stored in a capacitor
 * 2) Ayaks, its that even possible?
 * 3) Loss of weight after recovering from illness
 * 4) regarding equivalence of PG degrees.
 * 5) Men and asking for directions

= July 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 July 7


 * 1) alcohol consumption
 * 2) Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing?
 * 3) Race vs. Subspecies vs. Breed
 * 4) Effective population size of the X chromosome vs mtDNA

= July 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 July 8


 * 1) Angular Momentum
 * 2) clam nectar
 * 3) Technical terms for snap-together fastening mechanism?
 * 4) What is the function of women having longer hairs?
 * 5) Why is pseudoscience so popular?
 * 6) Secondary cells/rechargeable batteries
 * 7) Is it true that fasting "programs" your body to store fat?

= July 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 July 9


 * 1) Can an echo be reborn?
 * 2) Imported Fizzy drink tastes
 * 3) Crustaceans
 * 4) Metal-free

= July 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 July 10


 * 1) Why can't I run an electric heater in reverse to cool a room?
 * 2) Angular momentum II
 * 3) Go fuck yourself
 * 4) Raw Pork
 * 5) The genetics of the royals
 * 6) The "Runaway Train" Lever
 * 7) Coke didn't freeze

= July 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 July 11


 * 1) Post-operative fever : another Five Ws  ?
 * 2) Cricket Revometer
 * 3) Gastritis
 * 4) Boiling water with vending machines... in SECONDS! A miracle!

= July 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 July 12


 * 1) Heads of State who were also Medical Doctors?
 * 2) How soon til the island of stability?
 * 3) So, how much did L Ron Hubbard actually get right...
 * 4) Natural human lifespan in the wild, without modern medicine

= July 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 July 13


 * 1) equal pressure gas airlocks
 * 2) Glycaemic Indices of Gluten-free flours.
 * 3) Looking for an Approachable In to Quantum Field Theory and Particle Physics (As in books)
 * 4) Lac-Mégantic derailment
 * 5) Natives
 * 6) Does the human body only use glucose and ketone bodies as fuel?
 * 7) Peculiar cell nuclei

= July 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 July 14


 * 1) Need help identifying a catapillar
 * 2) Heavy legs

= July 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 July 15


 * 1) "Hearing the wind"
 * 2) Noisy ladybirds (ladybugs)
 * 3) River swelling

= July 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 July 16


 * 1) Carbon emission
 * 2) Totally off-topic, but I didn't find where to ask!
 * 3) When on H. sapiens' evolutionary timeline did the equivalent of the hallux ("thumb" on lower limbs) stop being opposable?
 * 4) First embryonic stem cell transplantation in lab rats
 * 5) Energy into matter...

= July 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 July 17


 * 1) How do people sleep during daylight conditions?
 * 2) Measuring rate of rotation by the Doppler effect
 * 3) When do we call a celestial body a moon?
 * 4) Energy of Earths Spin
 * 5) reaction of amino acids with formaldehyde...a simple way to decarboxylate to form a hetero-diene?

= July 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 July 18


 * 1) 19th century medicine on sexual health
 * 2) Mental inheritance
 * 3) Making oil from CO2
 * 4) Optimal watering schedule
 * 5) Is the gravitational lensing caused by Earth measurable?
 * 6) Is it an example of precipitate reaction?
 * 7) Correlation between continuous visible spectrum and the models used in display/detection of red, green, and blue channels
 * 8) If Feverfew is poisonous to animal pets
 * 9) longest-running experiment to reach an unknown conclusion?
 * 10) Laser Magnet

= July 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 July 19


 * 1) Distilled vulcanoids?
 * 2) video games
 * 3) Aphasia?
 * 4) Things getting stuck inside bivalves?

= July 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 July 20


 * 1) Bubbles in carbonated wated
 * 2) Analog retransmitting rain gauge
 * 3) Putting a cadaver in a morgue drawer
 * 4) Do they always detonate the explosives?
 * 5) Filling a gas cigarette lighter.

= July 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 July 21


 * 1) Lightning and outdoor sport
 * 2) Insulating patches in otherwise-complete Faraday cages
 * 3) Why are deciduous trees light green ("spring green") in the spring?
 * 4) Main Battle Tank
 * 5) What is Osmazome?
 * 6) Operating characteristics of induction motors on modified sine wave

= July 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 July 22


 * 1) MInimal human sustaining-crops?
 * 2) Wasp-eating birds
 * 3) Phosphates
 * 4) Isostearamidopropyl Morpholine Lactate
 * 5) Can lime juice "cook" shrimp ?
 * 6) How accurately known are the orbits of Space debris?
 * 7) Two MRSA questions

= July 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 July 23


 * 1) Help identifying a plant.
 * 2) Why doesn't aluminium spark?
 * 3) Is each transmitter restricted to a specific frequency?
 * 4) Side effects

= July 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 July 24


 * 1) How is fatty acid chain length regulated by Fatty Acid Synthase (in plants/bacteria)
 * 2) Paper gives peak modal age at death for hunter-gatherers at approximately 69 years old. Inaccurate?
 * 3) Mass of smoke in a wood fire?
 * 4) Iron in breakfast cereals
 * 5) Question on so-called copulins
 * 6) Schrödinger's cat

= July 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 July 25


 * 1) Is this a horse fossil?
 * 2) Is a fat person more resistant to alcohol intoxication than a skinny person is?
 * 3) Precision engineering contest?
 * 4) G forces when two cars collide

= July 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 July 26


 * 1) Did the Earth ever exist?
 * 2) Lego structural integrity
 * 3) Controlling menstration schedule
 * 4) Skip-Dr.
 * 5) Malignant growths
 * 6) Spontaneous time travel
 * 7) Travelling faster than the speed of light
 * 8) Does light accelerate?
 * 9) Heracleum mantegazzianum (invasive species)
 * 10) Has any valuable discovery been made through the Nazi human experimentations?
 * 11) Measuring "Northness"?

= July 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 July 27


 * 1) Why do bullet-proof vests expire ?
 * 2) Hatchet wasp "attacking" spider?!
 * 3) Hero shrew article - what does this mean?
 * 4) Diode?
 * 5) Audio physiological effects
 * 6) Bee
 * 7) flare
 * 8) Long reverberation time in stone-walled cathedrals
 * 9) If sperm from a white man, black man, chinese man and indian man were inserted into a woman?
 * 10) Why do people feel tired after eating ?

= July 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 July 28


 * 1) Parthenocarpy in cherry trees
 * 2) Division of a vector by a vector
 * 3) Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
 * 4) What would be the difference if earth was pyramid?
 * 5) Light, mass and gravity
 * 6) Deriving relativistic kinetic energy for curvilinear motion

= July 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 July 29


 * 1) Nearest non-extinct species
 * 2) "Inheritance" of the notion of female beauty
 * 3) Endemism and the Eastern United States...
 * 4) Can mathematical models cause errors in astrophysics

= July 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 July 30


 * 1) Domesticated Hedgehog
 * 2) Feeling pain in a dream
 * 3) Deaths Cap in homeopathy and well poisoning
 * 4) Symbol/syntax for denoting an (intentional) error?
 * 5) MPN / CFU relationship

= July 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 July 31


 * 1) Visibility of the New Moon
 * 2) To somehow detect Everett's "other worlds": some new "telescope?"
 * 3) Is the moon in the sky exactly as often during the day as during the night?
 * 4) Electron Affinity of flourine< chlorine, why?
 * 5) Utilization of infrared, solar cells.
 * 6) How do you determine if a bird is fat?