Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/November 2007

= November 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 1


 * 1) What Are Some Things All Things On Earth Have In Common That Are Living Or Non-Living?
 * 2) Contradiction in mass-to-energy equivalence?
 * 3) Medical question
 * 4) Big Bang
 * 5) "Superlinear"
 * 6) Do all the biochemical reactions happened in our body have a negative free energy?
 * 7) Blood phobia
 * 8) constraints based on age
 * 9) Exercise/muscle Pain
 * 10) Water - Oxygen redox?
 * 11) Michelson-morley experiment
 * 12) Game of life
 * 13) Gleason score image
 * 14) 5-digit "telephone" numbers
 * 15) Particle geometry
 * 16) Electrical path
 * 17) Unlimited source of free energy?
 * 18) lab procedure- AP Chem exam style question
 * 19) Medical question

= November 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 2


 * 1) m203-uses
 * 2) Fe0
 * 3) round earth and gravity related question
 * 4) Artificial Intelligence
 * 5) Cholesterol
 * 6) Is this Physics problem even possible to solve?
 * 7) Total energy
 * 8) water (and oil) balloon in zero gravity
 * 9) What's wrong with global warming?
 * 10) Catapults
 * 11) How long does it take for a sudden cease of gravity to be felt?
 * 12) Is there an acid so strong that it behaves like acid is usually depicted in movies/tv?
 * 13) endothermic vs. exothermic
 * 14) atomic size constraints
 * 15) Spherical wheels on cars?
 * 16) Where did the energy go
 * 17) Antonym: Congenital?

= November 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 3


 * 1) How to disappear completely
 * 2) Artery defurring
 * 3) Dissociation
 * 4) use of superbugs in oil slicks
 * 5) The night sky, stars, and galaxies
 * 6) motor tracts from the cortex
 * 7) Cocaine
 * 8) Atomic movement
 * 9) Glue board adhesive composition
 * 10) X-inactivation and color blindness
 * 11) Detecting nuclear blasts
 * 12) Any clues as to this equation?
 * 13) Two locomotives
 * 14) Computers and adverse health effects
 * 15) General relativity: gravity Doppler?
 * 16) Radiative Forcing

= November 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 4


 * 1) Cognitive and socio-cognitive developmental psychology
 * 2) DNA related question
 * 3) Europa
 * 4) Pyramidal neurons and the extrapyramidal system
 * 5) phone calls
 * 6) reverse-reverse engineering
 * 7) QUESTION:  Can someone help me locate "one stop" lists of animal species on-line?
 * 8) Lawns versus parks
 * 9) megapixel claim
 * 10) weird clock
 * 11) Charged Black Holes
 * 12) Question about black headed gulls

= November 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 5


 * 1) classic (cliché) explosive detonator?
 * 2) Magnetopneumodynamic Drive?
 * 3) archeology question about Magan, Sumer's source of copper and diorite
 * 4) deoxidizing
 * 5) How do you control snails in an aquarium ?
 * 6) question about erotic asphyxiation-a mirror effect?
 * 7) Dilmun and Bahrain,Sumer's apparent Garden of Eden-like myth and paradise for Utnapishtim
 * 8) decomposing
 * 9) bicycle transportation system
 * 10) Beyond the universe theories.
 * 11) Could fat cells be originally, very long ago, cancer cells that made a deal?
 * 12) Helicopters in the rain
 * 13) Think mechs will ever be used on the battlefield?
 * 14) theoretical yield
 * 15) Amazing little horned garden spider
 * 16) Which is the best alternative to gasoline for cars, hypothetically
 * 17) Stiff neck
 * 18) about IR
 * 19) is the california fire still burning?
 * 20) Down insulation
 * 21) How do I tell white gold or platinum jewelry from stainless steel?
 * 22) Oil consumption versus oil creation
 * 23) Photon Energies
 * 24) Tapeworm

= November 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 6


 * 1) Hearing own voice
 * 2) Olestra formula
 * 3) DNA polymerase requires a "primer"?
 * 4) Magnetopneumodynamic Drive - I'm gonna build me one! (Maybe)
 * 5) Artificial oil production
 * 6) Global warming
 * 7) Choice
 * 8) electric vehicles for the post office
 * 9) seeing blood vessels
 * 10) Astronomy, living far north
 * 11) space diamonds
 * 12) Can chewing your lips cause cancer?
 * 13) Selection of yeast by growth media
 * 14) Axial muscles
 * 15) Why do we call alcohol, ethanol when talking about fuel?
 * 16) If we can drain lakes, why don't we drain Loch Ness to see if the Loch Ness Monster is there
 * 17) Diaphragm
 * 18) Nuclear Ingredients
 * 19) What's the name of that multicolored thing on TV?
 * 20) Could a parasitic twin lead to an evolutionary change?
 * 21) Altruistic act? I dont think so
 * 22) In vitro mitochondrial respiration states

= November 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 7


 * 1) my girlfriends disorder?
 * 2) Diversity Antenna?
 * 3) Sun and moon at midday
 * 4) Bindeez to GHB??
 * 5) The Counterpartness (Not a Real Word, But You Know What I Mean) of Human Races and Animal Breeds
 * 6) Material Properties in outer space
 * 7) Two Questions about Gravity.
 * 8) Omega-3 fatty acids in water-inhabiting animals
 * 9) Correct design?
 * 10) derivation of phrase sex maniac
 * 11) Chicken-eating spiders
 * 12) OP-AMP LM324N
 * 13) Civil engineering: Factor of safety?
 * 14) Too obvious to be realizable?
 * 15) Psychology: person A evaluates B by the evaluation of C, D, E.... for person B.
 * 16) Energy
 * 17) The way intelligence grows on the "nurture" side
 * 18) Human Evolution
 * 19) Special Wheel Supported on the Lower Rim
 * 20) Why is the waste disposal system the same as the reproductive system?
 * 21) series of vaccine for rabies
 * 22) Are other mammals attracted to female mammary glands?
 * 23) a reaction is either oxidative or non-oxidative, never inbetween
 * 24) Amnesia
 * 25) effect heat has on rubber

= November 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 8


 * 1) cells
 * 2) navel
 * 3) Reception of off air frequency standards
 * 4) Minerals
 * 5) microwave hyperthermia
 * 6) Why is water transparent?
 * 7) Tectospinal tract
 * 8) Point and shoot digital camera
 * 9) Inelastic collision
 * 10) camera pixel resolution
 * 11) Old cars carbon emissions
 * 12) Ladder to Space
 * 13) The effect of stars on Earth
 * 14) growing crystals of copper sulfate
 * 15) Viruses
 * 16) ecosystem
 * 17) nuclear energy: a given
 * 18) Reichsbrücke

= November 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 9


 * 1) Robinson projection
 * 2) Muteness
 * 3) asbestos -microencapsulization healing?
 * 4) Time
 * 5) absorption refrigerator
 * 6) paleontology & neuroscience
 * 7) How would one find out about the kind of society of prehistoric humans?
 * 8) First Solar
 * 9) gryroscopes
 * 10) LEL and UEL of gases.
 * 11) methylphenidate Q.
 * 12) SILVER RINGS
 * 13) the scifi kitchen
 * 14) Ever heard of "ear music" heard by hearing impaired people?
 * 15) Why is chicken, rabbit and pork meat a different color from cows, deer,elk etc?

= November 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 10


 * 1) What is the oxidation number of carbon in methanol?
 * 2) Slowing time
 * 3) Greenhouse Gases
 * 4) Battery charge
 * 5) Freezing Water Question
 * 6) anti inflammatory
 * 7) Bullets
 * 8) Gold-labelled antibody = "fusion protein"
 * 9) Neurotransmitters
 * 10) DNA sequence around integrated HIV viral DNA attachment site?
 * 11) Rocket speed
 * 12) Robot Cars
 * 13) Jupiter (the planet)
 * 14) The planet Mars
 * 15) Cause and Effect

= November 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 11


 * 1) Physics and Ancient Greece
 * 2) does inhibition of PKC-β activity decrease pigmentation in vivo?
 * 3) Feces - taste like what?
 * 4) commercial radioisotope
 * 5) asteroid belt
 * 6) Aldol
 * 7) Heisenberg t-shirt

= November 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 12


 * 1) Seriously hurt in the news
 * 2) Jupiter's moon Io
 * 3) stpm trial exam question
 * 4) "brush harder, not smarter"
 * 5) Bamboo nomenclature
 * 6) Laxative agent in apple juice that's not in pear juice?
 * 7) Pseudo-stable isotopes
 * 8) Penguins in the Arctic? Polar bears in the Antarctic?
 * 9) Wrinkled face
 * 10) medical ebooks
 * 11) how does our organism recognize foreign tissue?
 * 12) Potassium chloride and seeds
 * 13) Mobile phone buzzing
 * 14) A designer wishes to calculate the thickness of a steel cable for suspending a passenger lift
 * 15) Percent solutions
 * 16) Running cool water over frozen drink defrosts. Why?
 * 17) Melted ice contains white particles, even purified water.
 * 18) E = mc2  - how does c relate to the weight and energy units?

= November 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 13


 * 1) Technology and Depression
 * 2) Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 13
 * 3) horizontal component of speed
 * 4) stars come down
 * 5) What snake a specific book refered to
 * 6) Condensation and Deposition
 * 7) Biofuels
 * 8) PMTs, APDs, DUV, and other exciting acronyms
 * 9) Free-falling
 * 10) Length of US State Coastlines
 * 11) Squinty eyes focus better
 * 12) Hard Coupled Forces Problem
 * 13) Is there a landmass under Antartica and the Arctic?
 * 14) Hard disk
 * 15) Antenna length
 * 16) Simplified Electromagnet Math
 * 17) BINDEEZ
 * 18) Two identical humans
 * 19) Blade metallurgy chart

= November 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 14


 * 1) What is a Dye Front?
 * 2) labrador coat
 * 3) Chemtrail Crazies, why is the bandwagon so big?
 * 4) Polystyrene cups
 * 5) chemicel contents of ferro titanium
 * 6) Help on the Antlion
 * 7) Plasma rockets
 * 8) Gold Detecting
 * 9) Dried Banana Chips
 * 10) Why don't they make bullets out of steel instead of lead/tungstun?
 * 11) Mystery of the freezing water
 * 12) Levitating at the center of the world
 * 13) Why do raw carrots taste like soap?
 * 14) Potassium/Rubidium-filled bullets?
 * 15) Sodium bicarb and ethanol turning black

= November 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 15


 * 1) Criticality weapon
 * 2) Emergen-C etc
 * 3) in vitro-fertilisation
 * 4) Human Eating Habits
 * 5) Principles of plasmid dna isolation
 * 6) principles of plasmid dna isolation
 * 7) Most probable method of attaining pure fusion?
 * 8) How do whales drink water?
 * 9) Zinc restoration

= November 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 16


 * 1) Theory of Everything Solved?
 * 2) Vanadium
 * 3) Burning track in the sky
 * 4) Can you tell if a movie was made in colour if you watch it on a b/w TV set?
 * 5) Solar Energy Radiation
 * 6) Chemistry tool
 * 7) Genetic Algorithms
 * 8) Heinz Tomato Ketchup
 * 9) A dog in motion
 * 10) Universe ending next May?
 * 11) TV satellite downlink antenna shape?  Datasheet?
 * 12) Horton GO229 German WW2 All wing fighter
 * 13) Do Variations in Earth's Gravity Field Cause Variations in Air Pressure?

= November 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 17


 * 1) scenario - the best type of telescope?
 * 2) CGPM news; possible redefinition of the kilogram
 * 3) Some very old technology
 * 4) physics
 * 5) enerhiya
 * 6) GAA triplet repeats
 * 7) Waterboarding
 * 8) Friedreich's ataxia
 * 9) Nazi freeze/atomic bombs
 * 10) Construction of a tower
 * 11) Is there a difference between a sunrise and a sunset?

= November 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 18


 * 1) water, ethanol, and dehydration
 * 2) A hole in a rib?
 * 3) TIME
 * 4) Coenzyme Q and statins
 * 5) Space Folding
 * 6) Economics
 * 7) What is E-rosetting?
 * 8) Keeping eggs in the fridge
 * 9) Douglas Adam's computer called "Earth"
 * 10) Cancer Funding- Treatment valued over Cure?
 * 11) Atomic orbitals
 * 12) Automotive question

= November 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 19


 * 1) Are clearer lakes necessarily more "healthier" than less clear ones?
 * 2) Error with finding the elasticity of rubber?
 * 3) Curved Frizzy Hair
 * 4) Brain Power Limited or Unlimited??
 * 5) Compared to other animals, are humans physically strong or weak for our mass?
 * 6) If you put food in a total vacuum, will it last forever, and still be edible?
 * 7) What is the fastest form of propulsion through water?
 * 8) Researchers ignoring other researchers
 * 9) If an asteroid/meteor killed off the dinosaurs, why didn't it kill off the other animals too?
 * 10) Science
 * 11) genetic engineering
 * 12) Power Production
 * 13) what comes out?
 * 14) Carbon dioxide and water

= November 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 20


 * 1) Could gold jewelry, such as a necklace, have toxic amounts of mercury or other heavy metals on
 * 2) Is Universe expanding or deflating?
 * 3) How sharp is that knife?
 * 4) Growing up in zero-g
 * 5) Sound from Jupiter
 * 6) physiology
 * 7) Can nanomachines potentially cure RNA viruses?
 * 8) interaction of infrared with skin
 * 9) If you had a gallon of pure white blood cells would it look white?
 * 10) Can radar detect organic flying creatures?
 * 11) Why do cows moo?
 * 12) Why hasn't the Polar Bear been reclassified as a subspecies of brown bear?
 * 13) Extinction
 * 14) Being sliced
 * 15) molecular weight help
 * 16) whole breast tumour samples
 * 17) Density of nerves as the body grows
 * 18) Good Viruses?
 * 19) Amoeba have more DNA than a human?
 * 20) Anyone know what this is?

= November 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 21


 * 1) Sociology
 * 2) Psychology
 * 3) information technology in 21st century
 * 4) Arsenic Level in Diet
 * 5) Fertilization
 * 6) Facultative Aerobes
 * 7) Airplane movement
 * 8) Hypochondria
 * 9) collagen/gelatin
 * 10) What is coulombic interaction energy?
 * 11) Does lava/magma conduct electricity?
 * 12) Outdoor warm-weather ice-skating rinks
 * 13) Regaining consciousness
 * 14) particle - antiparticle pairs

= November 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 22


 * 1) Cooling down -- drink or pour?
 * 2) physics
 * 3) Zoom lenses
 * 4) over working the kidneys
 * 5) Anti-aliasing in human vision
 * 6) String theory and the shape of the Universe
 * 7) piezoelectricity
 * 8) Glassware for baking

= November 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 23


 * 1) Apoptosis
 * 2) Michael Faraday established that magnetism could affect rays of light?
 * 3) Spacetime and FTL
 * 4) Shared blood system
 * 5) definition of latitude

= November 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 24


 * 1) Supercavitation
 * 2) IUDs and large penises
 * 3) Is suicide unique to our species?
 * 4) Genetic possibilty of genius IQ
 * 5) Antisocial personality disorder
 * 6) BOOLEAN OPERATORS
 * 7) Pluto
 * 8) Path integrals and lightcones
 * 9) Orbitofrontal cortex and ventromedial prefrontal cortex
 * 10) Another question on the prefrontal cortex
 * 11) Symmetry of animals
 * 12) Lunar warfare
 * 13) a cardiac procedure called mase
 * 14) Artificial gravity
 * 15) It's not a your mum joke, promise.
 * 16) What is the best way to self-study string theory?

= November 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 25


 * 1) Can chiropractors prescribe scheduled medicines?
 * 2) Illegal Plant - USA
 * 3) Does my sun conure have another name?
 * 4) Identify this plant
 * 5) Another identification, please
 * 6) Ammonium chloride
 * 7) Lysogeny
 * 8) Respiratory Acidosis
 * 9) Rodents
 * 10) Tornado's
 * 11) Stars on moon

= November 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 26


 * 1) Fire Accelerants
 * 2) Balancing a chemical equation with silver nitrate copper and water
 * 3) Kinetic energy released by expansion of space
 * 4) Two Point Function
 * 5) Query related to Urine
 * 6) gide us
 * 7) GREATMIND Q ABT. DOG
 * 8) Does being cold and wet, increase your chances of getting a virus like a cold or flu?
 * 9) Reflection of voltage/current ???
 * 10) Possible to destroy a virus by smashing it?
 * 11) Why do I get cold after I eat?
 * 12) Metal case enclosure heat transfer coefficient
 * 13) What metal is the worst conductor of heat?
 * 14) Quartz
 * 15) Spacetime Dipping
 * 16) Calcium carbonate from breathing into a solution
 * 17) What is the biological basis for appreciation of music?
 * 18) How do you derive the properties of chemistry (ie, flowing liquids) from physics?
 * 19) Failing audio cables

= November 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 27


 * 1) Lighting yourself?
 * 2) Beta decay and W bosons?
 * 3) What did I see?
 * 4) Rechargeable batteries
 * 5) Endosteum: soft tissue?
 * 6) Cats, the hunting instinct, and feline psychology
 * 7) acting out of character
 * 8) Building services
 * 9) Gadget Show phone comparison
 * 10) Why do amps kill you, but volts don't?
 * 11) Big Idea of Particles, Mass Conservation
 * 12) Inability to Scream
 * 13) What happened to the Michael Pursinger page?
 * 14) Accessory cell (immunology)
 * 15) Liquidfy Diamonds?  Solidify oxygen?
 * 16) Why doesn't lightning damage antennas when it hits them?
 * 17) Theropod dinosaurs and birds
 * 18) Why does Carbon nanotube have stronger properties than buckyballs?
 * 19) How much would someone weigh on mount everest

= November 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 28


 * 1) Nasal cauterization
 * 2) Electrochemistry
 * 3) Brain activity: reading vs TV
 * 4) whey protein
 * 5) Chemicals Released while burning...
 * 6) N-glycosylation
 * 7) Thermodynamics of heating your house
 * 8) Trust the mass on a bottle label?
 * 9) Power lines, and electric shock
 * 10) Future of Everyday Travel
 * 11) What happens during the cooking process (and what are those black bits)
 * 12) Eating just before bedtime
 * 13) Machine lubrication oil contaminates kitchen...

= November 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 29


 * 1) How many SigFigs?
 * 2) Particle Accelerators use electric fields to accelerate and magnetic fields to bend particles?
 * 3) Extended/Extra Optical Zoom?
 * 4) Time to fall
 * 5) Drunken vampire bats
 * 6) Using carbon nanotubes to transport electrons?
 * 7) If you fill an airtight car with helium, will it become lighter?
 * 8) ionic,covalent,coordinate bonds
 * 9) ornamental millet
 * 10) Largest marine animal in captivity
 * 11) How big would your arms have to be in order to fly/glide?
 * 12) Why doesn't boyancy work in solids?
 * 13) Natural and Phenomena and Natural Resources

= November 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 30


 * 1) MO theory
 * 2) Light green slime
 * 3) Planet Venus
 * 4) Can dolphins and whales REALLY talk in some way that humans do?
 * 5) Long acting injectable drugs
 * 6) Vandalism?
 * 7) Why does poliovirus preferentially infect motor neurones
 * 8) splitting atoms
 * 9) Why does lightning shock you even if you are ungrounded?
 * 10) how tall is the talest dwarf
 * 11) Bone marrow transplant and DNA
 * 12) What's the largest galaxy that we know of
 * 13) Zero-point energy and manipulating objects
 * 14) White holes attract matter?
 * 15) The most destructive thing in the universe?
 * 16) Is it possible for a Terrestrial planet to be as large as a gas giant?
 * 17) Manipulating objects without touching them
 * 18) Andromeda-Milky Way collision
 * 19) Supposing that vampires existed and had the same basic daily calorific needs as regular humans...