Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/June 2008

= June 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 1


 * 1) Are scientists not telling us everything?
 * 2) Need to see parts of a pig
 * 3) Non-quite-black snake in central Florida?
 * 4) Need Bird Expert
 * 5) Refererencing
 * 6) Why does wintergreen oil dissolve plastic ?
 * 7) Do Horses and Zebras have more in common than Humans and Chimps?
 * 8) Shuttle SRB exhaust composition
 * 9) Word jumble
 * 10) what is water resistance
 * 11) Pholidota
 * 12) What are the most distantly-related animals that have successfully been interbred?
 * 13) snakes in mt holly nc
 * 14) Feline Behaviour

= June 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 2


 * 1) Battery Life in Hybrid Vehicles
 * 2) what is the three intrinsic property of a pure substance?
 * 3) If stars can't fuse past iron...
 * 4) liquid water versus water
 * 5) Very strange pigeon picture....
 * 6) redox
 * 7) measuring fecundity
 * 8) Compressed hydrogen car
 * 9) Number one exporter of potassium
 * 10) DREAMS
 * 11) Burr oak
 * 12) thin film book
 * 13) Nutritional information Aquafina Alive Satisfy water -  specifically, what substance is the fiber?
 * 14) Propeller aeroplane under water
 * 15) Mercury poisoning
 * 16) Toy helicopter
 * 17) journal article without subscription
 * 18) Liquid state of water
 * 19) Benzodiazepines and barbiturates at the GABAa receptor
 * 20) strobe lights

= June 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 3


 * 1) Better name for 'africanization'
 * 2) Inverted icicle mechanism
 * 3) Serious question about masturbation
 * 4) Platypus and falsifying the nested hierarchy
 * 5) Is wikipedia a conscious entity?
 * 6) Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 3
 * 7) birds and current
 * 8) greenhouse effect
 * 9) How do Fleas find their hoasts?
 * 10) About career options
 * 11) Colleges near Mumbai
 * 12) how do u fit a knife in2 an electric sokket?
 * 13) Order
 * 14) Oil crisis and food crisis, the next 50 years.
 * 15) New Guinea forest wallaby
 * 16) Food/drink to help your memory
 * 17) Do Marsupial mammals have placentas?
 * 18) ??Lightning
 * 19) Glyceryl Trinitrate and Phlebotomy
 * 20) Zits
 * 21) Drixoral
 * 22) US upcoming analog to digital TV change over
 * 23) Color variation in the mallard duck
 * 24) Red-winged blackbirds are seen quite frequently on mile marker posts, and along rural highways...why?
 * 25) Find out who cited an article?
 * 26) Biomes by latitude
 * 27) Photodissociation
 * 28) Alien life and falsifying our current theories of evolution

= June 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 4


 * 1) Electromotive Force and Potential Difference?
 * 2) mental health
 * 3) ears
 * 4) Can you plug a 115 volt appliance into a 110 volt outlet?
 * 5) Animal behaviour
 * 6) I cut the skin on my knee
 * 7) Parachute for rock climbing
 * 8) Quantum mechanics and wave functions
 * 9) Vehicle Fuel Economy declines by 10% for every mile per hour over 60 mph. Is this true?
 * 10) Why aren't pygmies considered a separate species or sub-species of Homo Sapiens?
 * 11) Baby seagulls
 * 12) Escaping from a falling plane that is going to crash
 * 13) Electric Motors
 * 14) Ants smell
 * 15) Lidocaine and a couple of other questions
 * 16) Dust from old books
 * 17) Why electricity 60Hz in some countries and 50Hz in other?
 * 18) Nuclear weapons underground  (forgot to give this a title, sorry)

= June 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 5


 * 1) What is the latest scientific understanding of the relationship between dietary cholesterol & coronary heart disease?
 * 2) Unknown Equation
 * 3) Bodybuilders
 * 4) research resources for the history of the discovery of anaerobism in bacteria
 * 5) Asteroid
 * 6) Celluar Biology
 * 7) Brain
 * 8) Possessions
 * 9) Social-dependance on alcohol
 * 10) Inner workings of the package that Edge shaving gel comes in
 * 11) Open access - self archiving

= June 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 6


 * 1) Ballpoint pen ink
 * 2) Huge Problem
 * 3) Another Unknown Equation
 * 4) Holographic projection...
 * 5) Yeast and brewing
 * 6) effect of overly large stimulus
 * 7) flowers
 * 8) Hypothetical Suicide only
 * 9) Diagnosticians
 * 10) BACILLI MICROORGANISMS
 * 11) Largest molar mass
 * 12) Phthalate
 * 13) Natural occurence of dry ice?

= June 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 7


 * 1) Stones in trees in Yellowwood State Forest
 * 2) Phobos (moon)
 * 3) Threshing and winnowing?
 * 4) Hybrid car mileage
 * 5) A possible method for superluminal travel
 * 6) Reduce voltage drop through a diode
 * 7) United States Of America
 * 8) Cancer stage vs grade
 * 9) Stopping earth quakes
 * 10) Phenylketonuria
 * 11) Why is LSD illegal?
 * 12) Toothpaste toxicity (fluoride)
 * 13) applied sciences
 * 14) Synesthesia

= June 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 8


 * 1) Suppose that we discovered a large-ish asteroid on a collision course with the earth...
 * 2) Looking into the past
 * 3) Lunar Module Ascent Stage
 * 4) help please
 * 5) Cancer screening
 * 6) Weather forecast
 * 7) Wing layout
 * 8) How do astronauts commit suicide?
 * 9) Garbage into oil?
 * 10) The worst case of food allergies and religious food laws
 * 11) Rubber
 * 12) Strange hypnagogic sensations

= June 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 9


 * 1) Prevnar vaccine
 * 2) Tooth restoration
 * 3) Psychological concept of your perception of others
 * 4) Enzymes that remove pet urine odor

= June 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 10


 * 1) Feisty baby gull...
 * 2) gravitational redshift
 * 3) Fans and heating/cooling
 * 4) Physics -- Force, Mass and Acceleration
 * 5) Gyroscope
 * 6) Neptune
 * 7) Physics
 * 8) Intelligence enhancing drugs
 * 9) Looking-glass protein
 * 10) Increased Gravitational Pull on Earth
 * 11) Jumping from big heights
 * 12) Cat spray / Territorial marking
 * 13) ball lightning?
 * 14) About mirrors, and short sightedness
 * 15) Photosystems and Primary electron acceptors
 * 16) Toenails
 * 17) Wierd Subconscious Dream

= June 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 11


 * 1) Does MOND have problems with Newton's third law of motion?
 * 2) Beavers
 * 3) Phthalate
 * 4) custom parts
 * 5) Opening Boxes of Tablets
 * 6) Neutrino oscillation and conservation
 * 7) Blow job pregnancy
 * 8) Hypothetical Questions about Gravity and the Sun
 * 9) Rancid meat
 * 10) Why don't we have 4 seasons every 27 days?
 * 11) Sweating
 * 12) Cameras in rough times
 * 13) How come radio waves aren't stopped by walls and such?
 * 14) The Radius of the Earth
 * 15) Hottest time period in Earth's history
 * 16) Planet orbit question and the formation of our solar system
 * 17) Weight of human hair
 * 18) Flammable cleaning products

= June 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 12


 * 1) Succession in Commmunities
 * 2) automatic sphygmomanometer
 * 3) Berembang tree
 * 4) Modeling a Body Moving in a Fluid
 * 5) Robotic spacecraft maintains air pressure?
 * 6) Martian North Pole
 * 7) Baseball
 * 8) Covalent Bond
 * 9) The most powerful earthquakes...
 * 10) Science do not solve all of man's problems
 * 11) blood
 * 12) Exponential equation, solve for I0?
 * 13) Magnetic monopoles and turning matter into energy
 * 14) Eye myopia
 * 15) Need Help in Finding an article  previously found in Wikipedia

= June 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 13


 * 1) Any ideas on how to create a concrete sign?
 * 2) Black hole confusion
 * 3) earth's magnetism
 * 4) How can I know if a telephone is also touch tone?
 * 5) raccoons
 * 6) Shovel-Shaped Incisors
 * 7) Big red ant!
 * 8) fruit contamination
 * 9) water pressure
 * 10) Addicted to you

= June 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 14


 * 1) Flood stage and topographic maps:Cedar Falls,Iowa: A question touching on the sciences of mapping and hydrology.
 * 2) Ants native to the South Pole
 * 3) Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 14
 * 4) Question on atomic structure
 * 5) Eutanasia
 * 6) Ununoctium
 * 7) bread mold causing dancing
 * 8) Growth rings versus Wood grain
 * 9) Polyphenylethene residues

= June 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 15


 * 1) Allergy medicine
 * 2) Physics-- Force, Mass and Acceleration
 * 3) Simple Inorganic Reaction
 * 4) Mercury
 * 5) polyatomic and monoatomic ions.
 * 6) Mass/Weight of a Pokemon in a Pokeball

= June 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 16


 * 1) Course of the moon in the sky
 * 2) Using very short people as astronauts
 * 3) Blue skin on a Budgerigar's nose
 * 4) want to know how to figure out isotope half life
 * 5) Natural sleeping position
 * 6) special relativity
 * 7) How does a canon work?
 * 8) Noble Gases
 * 9) Autism
 * 10) Ants in my Car
 * 11) Driving Ms Smokesalot
 * 12) Speculative probe
 * 13) Theory of disease
 * 14) HIV+ People who don't develop the AIDS Virus
 * 15) Archaeopteryx / dromaeosaur scaly muzzle?
 * 16) dogs and cats
 * 17) Hot humid wet vs. Dry desert climate, overheating which more dangerous on the human body

= June 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 17


 * 1) Male orgasm and analgesic chemicals
 * 2) Ibotenic acid
 * 3) Formation of peptides
 * 4) North
 * 5) allopathy
 * 6) Photons
 * 7) Safest, Richest Country in the World?
 * 8) future in biotech ???
 * 9) kidney transplant
 * 10) Einstein and the Atomic Bomb
 * 11) Coriolis effect and cyclones
 * 12) Enough Data?

= June 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 18


 * 1) Metal detectors and gold
 * 2) Question about inventors/mechanical engineers.
 * 3) Bees & Orangutans
 * 4) I am searching for a circuit of blood pressure monitoring machine
 * 5) What is the SPF of hair?
 * 6) Vegetable oil in diesel motor
 * 7) reaction torque
 * 8) Male animals killing young
 * 9) Coefficient of restitution
 * 10) aircraft carriers
 * 11) Juniper Trees
 * 12) Catching seagulls
 * 13) Hydrogen cars

= June 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 19


 * 1) Less moon near summer solstice
 * 2) why only rock salt prism is used instead of glass prism for obtaining infrared spectrum ?
 * 3) Why do dogs wag their tails?
 * 4) Soybean based Biodiesel processing
 * 5) Hemimetabolism vs Exopterygota
 * 6) Gene promoter prediction
 * 7) Reproduced embossed seals in diploma plaques
 * 8) sentient dinosaurs
 * 9) Bird population control
 * 10) measuring airflow
 * 11) Getting Kicked in the Testicles and its effects on the digestive system
 * 12) evolution/natural selection and complexity
 * 13) Does the nature need the primitive organisms to exist?
 * 14) How best to refute a common myth about central heating?
 * 15) Last surviving human artefacts?

= June 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 20


 * 1) Homework Question
 * 2) Retaining wall - construction
 * 3) Cells and Tissue
 * 4) Friction down an incline
 * 5) Pubews
 * 6) Sodium laureth sulfate
 * 7) Human Evolution
 * 8) Not voices in the head, but similar
 * 9) Related question to above question
 * 10) Aerosol Can
 * 11) Asperger Syndrome in Females
 * 12) Lab coats
 * 13) Rainbow frequency
 * 14) Color of birds' eggs
 * 15) Hawk-headed Parrot - undeserving of bad reputation?

= June 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 21


 * 1) cheaper coffee - instant or ground?
 * 2) Trig
 * 3) sunburn
 * 4) the stereotype about women being scared of bugs more than men
 * 5) Question about neutron bombs
 * 6) how is sugar used to treat battlefield wounds
 * 7) Skin effect of jewelry
 * 8) Simple Demonstrations to Show the Faultyness of Human Memory?
 * 9) Blood types
 * 10) sports drinks
 * 11) alcohol based vinegar
 * 12) Heat transfer through different mediums

= June 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 22


 * 1) Is there a name
 * 2) Psychology website
 * 3) Pain
 * 4) On hair loss
 * 5) Mould is a floater?
 * 6) Research alone
 * 7) If all parts of the LABURNAM tree are poisonous,when the petals fall and decay is the poison carried into the soil making it poisionous to other plants.
 * 8) Stanovoi Mountains vs Stanovoi Range
 * 9) Survival in depopulated world
 * 10) Creation of an organism
 * 11) Green stuff on fence

= June 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 23


 * 1) Lobster
 * 2) Coffee
 * 3) Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 23
 * 4) Experimental Design vs Procedure
 * 5) Ground-effect birds
 * 6) Gold thesis
 * 7) Unconscious mind
 * 8) Bohr Diagrams
 * 9) Weird lights when rubbing eyes
 * 10) chemistry: acid's strength
 * 11) Cowry shell probabilities
 * 12) STD transmission from female to male
 * 13) water discharged by AC
 * 14) Human Cell division and Gravity
 * 15) Is paper really a good barrier against germs?
 * 16) Can I crush a Tramadol Pill and drink it in water instead of swallowing the pill whole?

= June 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 24


 * 1) Can any microorganisms live in 8N NaOH?
 * 2) Albatrosses and seagulls
 * 3) Ice on Mars
 * 4) Science
 * 5) how much kerosene does a lantern takes to burn for 1 hour ?
 * 6) SEM's huge depth of field?
 * 7) Painting as therapy for mentally ill
 * 8) Psychology: When having children... Is it true that men prefer little girls and women prefer little boys??
 * 9) Weight of sails and ropes
 * 10) bumblebee behavior

= June 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 25


 * 1) Icarus-style 'wings'
 * 2) progesterone intake
 * 3) Electromagnetic relay
 * 4) Nothingness
 * 5) Nordic walking, also known as ski walking, pole walking or fitness walking
 * 6) Rhesus macaque with a tumor?
 * 7) Should I be concerned about meeting with someone with hepatitis C?
 * 8) Medical profession
 * 9) What distance is travelled on foot by an average person between birth and adulthood?
 * 10) Natural In-Store Herbs that have the Similar Euphoric Effects of Dihydrocodeinone
 * 11) Frog on a lily pad (or ??)
 * 12) Hypertension medication
 * 13) Amine chirality
 * 14) Medical grades
 * 15) Parrots and corvines

= June 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 26


 * 1) Weird "grass circles".
 * 2) Load leveller
 * 3) Germs on bar soap
 * 4) optimum size when maximising star lifespan
 * 5) Electrolysis of Saline Solution
 * 6) is this picture real?
 * 7) how much walking until adulthood?
 * 8) Applications of the theory of General Relativity
 * 9) Costly Projector Bulbs
 * 10) Negative Feedback Amplifier
 * 11) Calculating the horizontal force exerted by a 60 ton vertical press on an aluminum extrusion
 * 12) If that Mockingbird Don't Sing
 * 13) Flooding in the US midwest
 * 14) Wheelchair users exiting a high-rise
 * 15) ABO blood grouping+
 * 16) Death and spectacles...

= June 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 27


 * 1) Neutron annihilation
 * 2) Nose
 * 3) what is this formula?
 * 4) Repost - Black holes and Hawking radiation
 * 5) Cilia
 * 6) Pubic hairs
 * 7) Options after completing MBBS
 * 8) Videos of adults or adolescents with harlequin ichthyosis
 * 9) Eating cancer cell
 * 10) What is this spider?
 * 11) Gun and bullets

= June 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 28


 * 1) Why is spitting in someone's face considered to be particularly offensive?
 * 2) Cavy
 * 3) Heliostat
 * 4) AC Power - Generation, Voltage and Current
 * 5) Evolution in Physics
 * 6) Medical diagnosis
 * 7) EMF Transmission Dangers

= June 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 29


 * 1) galaxy edge on
 * 2) Flying Mammals
 * 3) Medicine-Patella replacement.
 * 4) Human and agricultural uses of antibiotics, and the development of drug-resistant bacteria
 * 5) Inseminating Mars
 * 6) Starting out with electronics...
 * 7) SImple pendulum
 * 8) mars
 * 9) Amount of energy on earth remains constant.
 * 10) Space left by crude oil
 * 11) Insect

= June 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 30


 * 1) Complexity and Self-organization in Thermodynamics
 * 2) artifact
 * 3) Why are the planets in that order?
 * 4) An "immortal" plant
 * 5) Identify this kelp?
 * 6) Volume percent
 * 7) Primates on the Moon
 * 8) CERN
 * 9) protein energy malnutrition
 * 10) Leap second
 * 11) Endorphin half-life
 * 12) Relevance of "Space, Time, and Gravity" by Robert Wald
 * 13) (Relative) Quantification of Human Genetic Diversity
 * 14) Nemesis
 * 15) Another quick question about my parrot
 * 16) Frozen heart