Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/June 2011

= June 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 1


 * 1) Apparent anomaly
 * 2) What are the black cylinders hanging from the wires across telephone poles?
 * 3) What year is this? (in another year numbering system)
 * 4) Pound-mass and pound-force?
 * 5) Monoperoxoboric acid and Sodium peroxoborate
 * 6) Particle accelerator
 * 7) How to efficiently get data for alignment from Ensemble?
 * 8) Confused about quantum mechanics
 * 9) Rye from Wheat

= June 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 2


 * 1) Help with snake identification, peculiar feature
 * 2) List of Tropical cyclone names that were retired after only one use?
 * 3) Escherichia_coli
 * 4) EHEC
 * 5) Immune system response to vaccine
 * 6) gravity
 * 7) Diamonds
 * 8) Cutting a moving object in half
 * 9) how much butter
 * 10) Fractal antenna for TV ?
 * 11) The easiest, simplest, most "populistic" way to prove to a person the earth is older than 6000 years old?

= June 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 3


 * 1) E. Coli Outbreak
 * 2) Countermeasures against RFID
 * 3) How much calories does it burn?
 * 4) Creating phylogenetic trees
 * 5) Finding the source of the German E. Coli outbreak
 * 6) Assisted suicide vs. euthanasia
 * 7) relationship between forces
 * 8) Sideways gravity
 * 9) Could the E. Coli outbreak be the result of a bio-terror attack?
 * 10) Organs to donate
 * 11) A beatiful question about Parrots and their voice producing system..

= June 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 4


 * 1) Htrae
 * 2) Water
 * 3) What species is this fungi?
 * 4) anatomy
 * 5) DC vs AC
 * 6) How to check for signs of life in a non-pulsatile person
 * 7) Calibrating length markers for micrographs?
 * 8) EHEC again, receptor
 * 9) Sleep in older people
 * 10) 3 questions about Endocrinology

= June 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 5


 * 1) Foods S.PROVEN to include Somatotropin?
 * 2) Please help me identify unknown bacteria
 * 3) Half-life of Proton-AntiNeutron bound state
 * 4) EHEC, and now it's biogas
 * 5) What is the name of alkane that has 1000 and 10000 carbon atoms?
 * 6) Hair colour
 * 7) East and west reversed when looking at the Moon?
 * 8) Force = mass x ____
 * 9) WKD colour loss
 * 10) Sound-guided missiles
 * 11) Safety of BPA-free plastic water bottles

= June 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 6


 * 1) To charge a phone on a bicycle
 * 2) Earthquake tilting Earth axis
 * 3) What are the materials of Polyethylene terephthalate
 * 4) Global Warming – Why Predominantly Negative Effects?
 * 5) Is it right that.. (Talking birds)
 * 6) radiation from magnets
 * 7) Brightness of R136a1 when it goes hypernova
 * 8) excited states / energy level diagram of nitrogen
 * 9) Desert basins
 * 10) Rotational physics
 * 11) Ionic liquids
 * 12) Sleep and endurance athletes

= June 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 7


 * 1) Bowel and bladder control with ALS
 * 2) Mechanism of rotating gas cloud round gravity center
 * 3) grouping and cross-matching in blood bank
 * 4) How healthful is this bread?
 * 5) Physics Is Phun!

= June 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 8


 * 1) Red/white poppy flowers
 * 2) Stomach and food poisoning
 * 3) Exercise and rest
 * 4) Animal Testing
 * 5) Four wheel drive..... and two wheel drive
 * 6) A king cobra question
 * 7) How to compound risk factors
 * 8) gold nuggets
 * 9) conservation at the amino acid level is evil
 * 10) explanation about metallic solids
 * 11) how does diamond crystal look on the surface?
 * 12) Which way around is the Moon in the sky?
 * 13) Solder
 * 14) anaphyalactic shock
 * 15) nuclear power reactor
 * 16) "The design of an idiot"

= June 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 9


 * 1) Small flows of water
 * 2) Gauss's Law for Electric Fields
 * 3) Second coming of Christ & research support
 * 4) Bootstrapping differential Manchester encoding
 * 5) Infinity and superconductivity
 * 6) Coulomb's Law
 * 7) Adrenaline sensing anti-perspirant/deodorant
 * 8) science
 * 9) Earmarking Human Infants at Birth
 * 10) Safety on stairs
 * 11) "Cotton intended for food use"
 * 12) Electron spin
 * 13) color perception different in each eye
 * 14) Good cholesterol

= June 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 10


 * 1) Avian body odour?
 * 2) Hijacking a ride on a comet
 * 3) Do pigs have orgasms that last for thirty minutes?
 * 4) Same weight or not?
 * 5) Electric signal
 * 6) Question about prisms
 * 7) Re; Electro Mechanical Spectrum
 * 8) Isotopes
 * 9) Electron diffraction
 * 10) Echolocation in cats?
 * 11) Bookbinding question

= June 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 11


 * 1) Eye muscles
 * 2) The klein bottle as a musical instrument
 * 3) Navigation in space
 * 4) Infinite vs. infinite
 * 5) Low earth orbit
 * 6) Plasticisers and incineration
 * 7) Principles of Quantum Mechanics
 * 8) History of airline lavatories
 * 9) Orbital docking
 * 10) Is the Pythagorean scale universally pleasing?
 * 11) virtual particle exchange for attraction forces
 * 12) Inertial temperature

= June 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 12


 * 1) What biotech company is doing the study that replicates ccr4 immunity for people with hiv?
 * 2) Vulcan hearing
 * 3) Probability Of Destruction In "Super 8"
 * 4) Cold fusion applicability
 * 5) Diet by cold/hot air
 * 6) Electronic compass
 * 7) first magnet
 * 8) Interchangeability of USB wall chargers
 * 9) Identifying small trilobites in Ordovician-age rock
 * 10) Pain & C-Fibers
 * 11) Fat

= June 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 13


 * 1) what are the health effects of chronic *low* blood sugar? (if there is such a thing)
 * 2) Bed Bugs
 * 3) Need help identifying this ladybird-lookalike
 * 4) Recent Volcanic Eruptions
 * 5) Triplet carbenes
 * 6) pressing question
 * 7) Strontium ferrite vs. barium ferrite
 * 8) body
 * 9) Normalizing Associated Legendre Polynomials to get Spherical Harmonics
 * 10) Cleaning styrofoam

= June 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 14


 * 1) Does the planet Neptune contain water? If so, is it possible that there's a chance that maybe there's life?
 * 2) Mystery drug
 * 3) lunar eclipse
 * 4) transduction, transformation, transfection and electroporation
 * 5) Raspberries
 * 6) Soundproofing with solids
 * 7) Unstable nuclei
 * 8) Fingerprints
 * 9) diffrence
 * 10) Physics and timetravel
 * 11) phone tracing

= June 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 15


 * 1) Measurement Unit Of Malleability
 * 2) Putting Humpty Dumpty back together again
 * 3) I am a mechanical engineer now i need a notes for the following topics
 * 4) Multiple biopsy
 * 5) Light's behaviour
 * 6) Neutrino oscillations and CP violation
 * 7) Problems topping up mobile
 * 8) Horticulture Nurseries
 * 9) Directions near the Poles
 * 10) Nose to the Brain
 * 11) spin current
 * 12) ADHD Medication Rankings
 * 13) Monkey from Antalya, Turkey?
 * 14) Why no CO2 clouds high in the atmosphere?

= June 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 16


 * 1) physics questions
 * 2) Lunar Eclipse - yet another q?
 * 3) Foil wrapped for freshess
 * 4) Solubility and pH
 * 5) About the Brain
 * 6) Onychogalea
 * 7) INFORMATION ON CAPTAFOL
 * 8) Scratched CD
 * 9) Clear fluid where a scab is ripped off
 * 10) Weatherproofing steel, black powder
 * 11) Measure rainfall
 * 12) Bioelectromagnetism Burn Marks
 * 13) Insect species
 * 14) Plant Identification

= June 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 17


 * 1) Average weight for Americans and Europeans
 * 2) Bawris
 * 3) Small photography
 * 4) Does a Encyclopedia Naziana exist?
 * 5) Big bang?
 * 6) Fixing nesting box on to tree trunk
 * 7) Detection of light at great distance

= June 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 18


 * 1) Text readable only at low zoom
 * 2) Spotting Jupiter with the naked eye during daytime
 * 3) If we(humankind) build 1 000 000 000 starships, Project Daedalus mass, that is around 50 000 tons each
 * 4) Space telescopes
 * 5) Accuracy of Altitude measurements
 * 6) Lunar eclipse
 * 7) Kill or capture a household fly
 * 8) Does Gamma Ray travels slower than Light Speed?
 * 9) Did the military have mobile phones?
 * 10) Hitting cows on their noses
 * 11) Relative pulling power of one horse

= June 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 19


 * 1) Iraqi National Oil Company
 * 2) Lunar eclipse (why not with every full moon ?)
 * 3) Psychological solar heating
 * 4) Purifying water with bleach in th UK - bleach source?
 * 5) Bad Rupture
 * 6) Using Nuclear Warheads for Electricity Generation
 * 7) plant breathing at night and fresh morning air
 * 8) With the help of Biotechnology study, How form (made) optimer?

= June 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 20


 * 1) Species of bird
 * 2) Bug ID
 * 3) Lab management
 * 4) Effects of bilateral seperation on humans.
 * 5) Digital camera trouble
 * 6) Septic tank
 * 7) Laptop on the lap and heating
 * 8) WLAN signal strength varies, distance the same
 * 9) Why are some hair products for men only?
 * 10) Blue whiting glowing in the dark
 * 11) Strange Fish
 * 12) typhoons in Russia
 * 13) Reynolds number for different constrictions
 * 14) Dormancy breaking

= June 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 21


 * 1) Is there an estimate available for the fraction of the Earth's mass that is dark matter?
 * 2) Primary 5 Science
 * 3) Atmospheric content of nitric oxide
 * 4) metastasis
 * 5) Any 2011 news on the 2000 year-old Judean date palm?
 * 6) How does a dry "dead" seed come to life?
 * 7) comets
 * 8) spin altering
 * 9) Bugonia, bee mimics
 * 10) Habitable planet/moon pair.
 * 11) Foil pan heat conductivity of a disposable grill
 * 12) Irish hurricanes
 * 13) Why can I see clearly when I wear two pairs of glasses?

= June 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 22


 * 1) Microstrip step discontinuity
 * 2) State of the Art in Abiogenesis Research
 * 3) Quick births
 * 4) Hand skin color

= June 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 23


 * 1) trap
 * 2) Hessdalen lights -- a legit phenomena or a lot of bogus claims?
 * 3) Spheres and Disks (and Disks to Jets?)
 * 4) Bumps on tongue
 * 5) Marijuana and chickens
 * 6) Fully charged and partially charged battery cells working together
 * 7) gene difference between Man, Woman, Chimpanzee?
 * 8) Great Lakes Storm of 1913#November 9
 * 9) Neurons Attached
 * 10) Polonium in cigarettes
 * 11) Crystal Violet Tetrazolium Agar
 * 12) Testing medicines

= June 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 24


 * 1) What kind of clothing do workers wear when doing work on power lines?
 * 2) muscle cramp consequences?
 * 3) Sugar water injection
 * 4) fish

= June 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 25


 * 1) Halo effect?
 * 2) Unknown bug
 * 3) Why are bird droppings white?
 * 4) Magnetic field of sun
 * 5) The solar wind
 * 6) Standard enthalpy of formation
 * 7) Use of figures from copyright protected references
 * 8) Lasalocid
 * 9) Permian–Triassic extinction event

= June 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 26


 * 1) Hotspot underneath Iceland is the same one that produced the Siberian Traps?
 * 2) crossing over
 * 3) Constitutional walk [close to speed of light] on Einstein’s treadmill:
 * 4) "9,900 years hyperbolic orbit"?
 * 5) Diamond and Lonsdaleite
 * 6) what is un-saturated polyester film
 * 7) Orbital speed and escape velocity
 * 8) Looking for a good Scientific Paper
 * 9) Subterranean rivers
 * 10) what is older?
 * 11) Asperger's syndrome and stalking

= June 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 27


 * 1) What is the biggest Humpback whale ever found?
 * 2) life and reproduction
 * 3) Rock-hard stools and fake fruit juice
 * 4) WIMPs
 * 5) Difference between curd and yoghurt
 * 6) Capturing CO2
 * 7) General Fusion
 * 8) bond angles
 * 9) how did biblical figures probably walk on water
 * 10) painkillers for waxing
 * 11) communication over vast distances
 * 12) Biology
 * 13) hello (identifying #7 plastic)
 * 14) weird plastic taste in coffee
 * 15) is it any easier to catch a bullet at the top of its arc if you throw it up than if you shoot it up?
 * 16) miami

= June 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 28


 * 1) Multiple sclerosis
 * 2) Colloquial medical expressions
 * 3) Quantum superposition
 * 4) MRI question
 * 5) Multiple Alleles
 * 6) From the Caspian Sea to the Black Sea
 * 7) Are we evolving?
 * 8) Deep Tissue Massage

= June 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 29


 * 1) Isn't hair loss an evolutionary trait?
 * 2) Antarctica without an ice sheet in the summertime?
 * 3) Gases
 * 4) General Tau Theory
 * 5) 50%t
 * 6) potassium and sodium in seawater
 * 7) Low-gear torque

= June 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 30


 * 1) The universe, consciousness and the anthropic principle
 * 2) String theory and time travel
 * 3) Request for RDS regulars to help with a teensy problem on another board...
 * 4) slow neutrinos
 * 5) Plugging in and electrical use
 * 6) Expansion of the universe
 * 7) Regenerating electric energy in motor vehicles
 * 8) color
 * 9) What is this little white bug?
 * 10) Photons exchange inside atoms
 * 11) How do pigs groom or clean themselves?