Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/March 2009

= March 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 1


 * 1) Lineage dna testing
 * 2) voice on the moon
 * 3) Do Homophobic Men Harbor Secret Homosexual Desires?
 * 4) How long would my body take to realize I'm healthy again?
 * 5) Psychology: why is working on computer dull, but computer games fun?

= March 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 2


 * 1) Egyptian Goose?
 * 2) Is there a psychological reason why...
 * 3) Nonstick coatings
 * 4) Established biological basis for neuroses and biological therapy!
 * 5) Hardness of teeth
 * 6) Blow it out your hole...
 * 7) Chloroplasts and mitochondria
 * 8) Eggs or secretion by unknown Animal/Creature ?
 * 9) About miracles
 * 10) Creating New Land
 * 11) Death by bloating
 * 12) Damming the Strait of Gibraltar
 * 13) Gardening: Are hardy annuals usually or always self-seeding?

= March 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 3


 * 1) do indoor roses need a night phase?
 * 2) How bad are shrooms for you?
 * 3) Are chard and beets the same plant? "beta vulgaris"
 * 4) sub : Quantum mechanics
 * 5) I do not understand Faster-Than-Light( physics, relativity) article
 * 6) Unpleasant screeching noises
 * 7) dual exhaust and fuel efficiency
 * 8) Angular momentum

= March 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 4


 * 1) Creation (and use) of mass alternative fuel based cars would solve the petroleum Environmental effects?
 * 2) Density
 * 3) Length of one second in meters
 * 4) Plumbide
 * 5) medium oil
 * 6) Legal "uppers"
 * 7) Fluid therapy
 * 8) The Rust Process
 * 9) Birds and sex
 * 10) Expected decline of the Earth biosphere
 * 11) looking for a photo

= March 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 5


 * 1) Osseous structures and soft tissue uptake in L3 vertebra
 * 2) magnatizing a charged body
 * 3) How do we know how high the sea level was 500 million years ago?
 * 4) Chlorine in tap water
 * 5) Interchangeable left and right hand driving
 * 6) Systemic Beta Hemolysis Infection
 * 7) Woman with 3 breasts
 * 8) LC/NE system and the ascending activating systems
 * 9) Question on mag fields and EMF
 * 10) Force meter question
 * 11) Why blood groups and Rh?
 * 12) Malaria: Worst. Disease. Ever?
 * 13) Hypertension

= March 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 6


 * 1) Early Lifeforms
 * 2) Carbon again
 * 3) science joke
 * 4) Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy
 * 5) Unsure...?
 * 6) Writing on batteries
 * 7) How does VIH resist reverse transcriptase inhibitors?
 * 8) Clean coal...for real?

= March 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 7


 * 1) My penis is multicoloured (this is not a joke or vandalism)
 * 2) Is the Yangtze River drying up?
 * 3) perpetual motion machine
 * 4) why is there no article about biological (genetic) basis of breeding?
 * 5) Prevailing winds in Israel?
 * 6) Work done by magnetic fields
 * 7) Species commonly known by binomial name?

= March 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 8


 * 1) King Faisal's Dream
 * 2) Crystal structures in Anza Borrego (California) State Park
 * 3) destroy the copper
 * 4) Strange Lamarckian studies...
 * 5) Why do cancers seem to have purposeful ways of spreading or resisting death, yet cannot have evolved?
 * 6) HDU
 * 7) Doe anybody have the Book introduction to Biotechnogy By Thieman
 * 8) Interpreting food nutritional value data
 * 9) What are the lower limits for RDA for saturated fat
 * 10) Is This a Valid Concept in Evolution?

= March 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 9


 * 1) Exploding Cell Phones During Recharging
 * 2) Hardness of diorite?
 * 3) Identify an insect
 * 4) Are all treatments that depend on belief placebos?
 * 5) does atmospheric pressure include the vapor pressure of the water vapor in it?
 * 6) air sacs
 * 7) Meson number
 * 8) photons
 * 9) light
 * 10) light
 * 11) The meaning of Frequency in physics
 * 12) Heparin and Bleeding Tests
 * 13) SNOMED-CT abbreviations
 * 14) Communicating meaning with distant space aliens - no pictures allowed

= March 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 10


 * 1) blood alchohol content
 * 2) Rainbows
 * 3) Eye-testing telescopes?
 * 4) Bananas
 * 5) Encoder for remote application
 * 6) Effect of heat on the weight of gold?
 * 7) Running dog
 * 8) Sparrow behavior
 * 9) Energy loss in Reflection (intensity loss)    [formula wanted please]
 * 10) benefits of wanking
 * 11) We need to settle a debate:  Athletic vs Non-Athletic People
 * 12) Looking for a biochem comic
 * 13) Loop-the-loop on a skateboard

= March 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 11


 * 1) Tongs Cause Illness!
 * 2) Disinfecting a Chicken Wing
 * 3) How does cancer kill people?
 * 4) Hygiene without soap
 * 5) Is my head younger than my feet?
 * 6) Finger and toenails
 * 7) dark matter 2 questions
 * 8) Gibb's free energy of a reaction
 * 9) Poison Ivy Tolerance
 * 10) nearsighted from reading?
 * 11) what is the most false thing generally accepted in science as true?
 * 12) Pancreatic cancer

= March 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 12


 * 1) Chemical reaction writing programs
 * 2) Heat in the human brain
 * 3) Rhesus incompatibility
 * 4) What is the usefulness of hESC compared to Adult stem cells
 * 5) Tomentella Fungus and Dicrocoelium dendriticum
 * 6) Surgery
 * 7) Orchid Species
 * 8) Genetic traits split across continents

= March 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 13


 * 1) Name of a test
 * 2) Worms in face
 * 3) Pressure ridges in ice
 * 4) Formula Unit vs Empirical Formula (Ionic Compounds)
 * 5) Is there a theoretical maximum upper limit to handgun size?
 * 6) Toilet seat warmers
 * 7) Donating bodies
 * 8) Are psychological illnesses contagious?
 * 9) UV light to reveal body fluids // cat spray
 * 10) Uranian axis tilt > 90 degrees?
 * 11) Any difference between brush with a dry or wet toothbrush?
 * 12) Breathing dust from cat litter, unhealthy?
 * 13) Molecular bio technique: protein expression?
 * 14) Need information from an Icarus article
 * 15) Evaporation of methanol/water mixture
 * 16) banded krait bite
 * 17) Corneal diseases of less severity than Fuch's Dystrophy
 * 18) Why the location of the new Russian spaceport?
 * 19) X-Z motorized stage

= March 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 14


 * 1) Soundwaves
 * 2) In what year in firearms history was antimony first added to lead in the manufacture of bullets?
 * 3) Orbits of moons
 * 4) Solutions
 * 5) Cataract surgery
 * 6) Jaundice
 * 7) light in context with black holes
 * 8) domestic turkeys
 * 9) Why is it that bullets often don't have nice round numbers for their calibers?
 * 10) Why do some ducks quack constantly?
 * 11) CO2 in an aquarium

= March 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 15


 * 1) Melatonin activity and the human eye
 * 2) Pain in the...eye
 * 3) Death
 * 4) Tesla's wireless electricity
 * 5) Roses: meaning of "perpetually" or "repeat" flowering
 * 6) When is certain pet article content a "How To"

= March 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 16


 * 1) Turning a clear LED light bulb into a frosted one
 * 2) Optimum sizes/shapes for ice cubes
 * 3) Animal olympics
 * 4) Solar cooker
 * 5) Killer cancer
 * 6) Measurement of breast size by water displacement
 * 7) Why doesn't clingfilm / plastic wrap cling to Parmesan?
 * 8) Transmission line simple problem
 * 9) error in lorentz transformation
 * 10) Perchloric acid
 * 11) nutrition
 * 12) why?who?when?what?  (questions)
 * 13) Supermassive black hole collisions...again.
 * 14) VERNIER CALLIPER
 * 15) German toilet
 * 16) bladder removal
 * 17) Lice
 * 18) Euclid's Elements
 * 19) Painful bumps in Inner Lip

= March 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 17


 * 1) Trachelospermum jasminoides
 * 2) piperazine
 * 3) Theory of Chemical Emotions: Pointless to Pursue Happiness?
 * 4) Flashbangs
 * 5) car farts
 * 6) Astronomy/night sky question

= March 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 18


 * 1) Launching a satellite via balloon
 * 2) Light can't be seen unless it's reflecting off of matter
 * 3) technology
 * 4) How does it affect our lives to know why particles have mass
 * 5) Evolution
 * 6) Methanol again
 * 7) learning languages
 * 8) Surgery complications and PT age
 * 9) Question about the knee
 * 10) Materials
 * 11) INDENTED CONCRETIONS
 * 12) Super conducting armor vs. Lightning
 * 13) Laser application
 * 14) earliest/latest snow
 * 15) How to write on a photgraph
 * 16) Black hole thermodynamics and gravity
 * 17) meteorite
 * 18) How does one teach a parrot to ride a tricycle?

= March 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 19


 * 1) Natasha Richardson's fall
 * 2) Yellow cheese
 * 3) A possible problem with spinning for Artificial Gravity
 * 4) I spent a year and a half on Mars and all I got was this stupid t-shirt...
 * 5) Research with Blood
 * 6) Waterflow of the Amazon River
 * 7) query
 * 8) Biochemical processes within crocodile...
 * 9) Cold-hearted orb that rules the night....
 * 10) Stents
 * 11) Help Me! I am stuck on some issues about Evolution
 * 12) Soami Oil?
 * 13) Laser safety
 * 14) String theory
 * 15) What's that smell?
 * 16) Pharmacological naming convention
 * 17) sinus operation......
 * 18) Focalin shortage?
 * 19) doors
 * 20) Synthesis of Vanillin from Benzene
 * 21) Free will
 * 22) Carbon Fiber
 * 23) hair drug tests

= March 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 20


 * 1) Supernova confusion, and the fate of nearby/bright stars
 * 2) hair tests again
 * 3) Are humans the fastest long distance runners?
 * 4) When the sun becomes a red giant...
 * 5) whats the origin of universe
 * 6) the iron content in steel wool lab queries
 * 7) potential energy
 * 8) pls help...
 * 9) does anyone know??
 * 10) can anyone help...
 * 11) Solar Panels
 * 12) Russell Watson Brian Tumor
 * 13) Should I add this to an article? Electrolyzed water applications

= March 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 21


 * 1) Olaflur
 * 2) sweetness equivalent of the Scoville scale?
 * 3) cacti
 * 4) Depth of Field vs. aperture diameter
 * 5) High Pressure lighting fixtures
 * 6) Is this Munchausen, or...?

= March 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 22


 * 1) Pick on somebody your own size...
 * 2) Pyrethrins
 * 3) Metal spoon in microwave
 * 4) ATTN Steve Baker - do we really have complete dinosaur dna like in Jurassic Park?
 * 5) Falling
 * 6) 1 Milkshake, 2 straws
 * 7) Injuries causing memory loss

= March 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 23


 * 1) zero point energy questions
 * 2) protonation of the alcohol group in 2-methylcyclohexanol
 * 3) Folic acid
 * 4) Scaled Drawing
 * 5) mirlodermabration
 * 6) Monophyly of amphibians
 * 7) Expansion of Space
 * 8) Wren diet
 * 9) Wolves, dogs and foxes
 * 10) Windmill Turbines
 * 11) ammonium nitrate

= March 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 24


 * 1) Dystonia and body movement
 * 2) Fingerprints
 * 3) Cancer or Sickle Cell????
 * 4) Humanity as a negative example?
 * 5) How long do CDs last?
 * 6) Fingernail
 * 7) What's the hottest a human can stand for more than a few seconds?
 * 8) Expansion of space cont.
 * 9) Dark energy
 * 10) Syngerism
 * 11) How bright is Earth in the radio astronomy sky?

= March 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 25


 * 1) Radioactive sickness?
 * 2) In Flight Pitch Control / Dive or Stall
 * 3) Mount st Helens
 * 4) Sunny Delight
 * 5) Endocrine stress system
 * 6) vegetable oil for fuel
 * 7) Red decoder screen reveals blue text?
 * 8) Optical inversion, but not reversal?
 * 9) Fault zone or short metamorphism
 * 10) Earth Warming... not!

= March 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 26


 * 1) Gravitomagnetism
 * 2) Is human food killing the seagulls?
 * 3) Adverse drug reaction: Rabeprazole
 * 4) Identify this fish!
 * 5) Electric arcs: Possible terahertz sources?
 * 6) A quantum mechanical "proof" that any positive real number is zero

= March 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 27


 * 1) Simple Motor -- Won't Work -- Please Help
 * 2) Radio source SHGb02+14a
 * 3) ecg explanation
 * 4) Historical composition of shaving creams?
 * 5) Speed of light and time
 * 6) Muscle Tearing from 1st Time Strength Training
 * 7) Ice cores
 * 8) Does all life share some genetic code?
 * 9) Make time history from PSD?
 * 10) list of self HOMO-LUMO gaps (especially that of chlorophyll a)
 * 11) Seasonal affective disorder and sunshine advertising

= March 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 28


 * 1) Antibiotic deodorant
 * 2) How do pet parrots perceive humans?
 * 3) Mechanism of Copper (II)  Sulphate on the iodine clock reaction
 * 4) Neuro Behcet's disease
 * 5) HER2/neu
 * 6) Frequency in physics
 * 7) What would actually happen if you used a defibrillator on yourself?
 * 8) When does a square become a rectangle (Psychology)?

= March 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 29


 * 1) Marsupials
 * 2) Indoor Vs Outdoor Air Quality
 * 3) Nutritional Question
 * 4) Galaxy cluster data
 * 5) Attributes or Parameters of Sound
 * 6) Alien Fast and Slow thinkers.
 * 7) Possibility of recovering methane hydrate from seabed

= March 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 30


 * 1) why don't sugars taste like alcohols?
 * 2) Developing  immunity or resistance to a pathogen
 * 3) macrophage apoptosis and fever
 * 4) Humans on Titans surface.
 * 5) monochrome TV transmitter and reciever
 * 6) Send analog values over isolated grounds
 * 7) Doppleganger
 * 8) Hello - you're on Car Talk...

= March 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 31


 * 1) If raptor-type dinosaurs existed today...
 * 2) New York City higher education
 * 3) Electric car
 * 4) Alternatives Sleep
 * 5) Buried in flies
 * 6) VH-3D Sea King [Obamacopter] range
 * 7) Valuable garbage
 * 8) rss feed
 * 9) Eating carnivorous animals
 * 10) extra part
 * 11) chemistry
 * 12) Cleverness
 * 13) Science types needed