Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/November 2008

= November 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 1


 * 1) Do chimpanzees and apes have menstrual periods?
 * 2) When was the speed of sound broken (by man made object)
 * 3) Paleobotanist
 * 4) PVC pipe ROV
 * 5) Mechanical Puzzle
 * 6) Schwarzschild Radius
 * 7) UK digital tv switchover
 * 8) Glaciation during an ice age - source of the ice?
 * 9) Type of ammunition ?
 * 10) Hypothetical Noble Gas
 * 11) Why aren't there better batteries for portable devices?
 * 12) Temperature
 * 13) Using cat litter to defuse potency of medicines/pills

= November 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 2


 * 1) Carboniferous
 * 2) Geography buffs needed...
 * 3) Lovebirds and loneliness
 * 4) pH
 * 5) Atmosphere Seperation
 * 6) what is the use of garlic?
 * 7) "Unperturbed chain"
 * 8) Need Resources - Can you help?
 * 9) Efficacy of multi-sensory room.
 * 10) Discovering intelligent extraterrestrial life
 * 11) Viscous hot water
 * 12) ZENN electrical motor
 * 13) Organic Functional Group Interconversion
 * 14) Library scanner things

= November 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 3


 * 1) causes of high ferritin
 * 2) Biological Condition of Not Being Able to Sing
 * 3) 'Intensity' of  dreams
 * 4) cognitive power of a feline
 * 5) Lizard Question
 * 6) How many video game references can you find in the Arecibo message?
 * 7) charging objects..
 * 8) DNA
 * 9) What is happening here?
 * 10) Why do lovebirds cuddle up to each other?
 * 11) Power 8
 * 12) Why do plants use chlorophyll?
 * 13) earthworms
 * 14) Preventing inbreeding among critically endangered animals
 * 15) Is there a difference between emperical evidence and observational evidence?
 * 16) THC effect on blood donation?
 * 17) Why Earth's rotation slows down?
 * 18) Are there any legitimate scientific alternatives to evolution?
 * 19) Mesoscaphe
 * 20) Imaginary helium balloon
 * 21) observing the dead cat

= November 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 4


 * 1) Religion, sci-fi and the brain
 * 2) Thermodynamics
 * 3) Functional Group effects on the acidity of a compound
 * 4) Robo-thugs
 * 5) environmental issues
 * 6) Descendants of Abraham
 * 7) Do fairness creams really work?
 * 8) Noble and Ig Nobel for same work?
 * 9) Suspensions
 * 10) Does anyone know
 * 11) Functional morphology
 * 12) forces
 * 13) Compound
 * 14) Mercury surface temp.

= November 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 5


 * 1) Do Angel fish come from Africa or South America?
 * 2) Arrow shields
 * 3) http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OvenLogic "Oven logic" and microwave power levels
 * 4) Violation of conservation of mass in positron emission???
 * 5) The strength of a monkey
 * 6) the JFK shot
 * 7) Temperature of mixture of methanol and water
 * 8) Stress, Breaking force and Cross sectional area
 * 9) Ancient bacteria in ice
 * 10) Dead pigeon
 * 11) Effect of Ultraviolet (UVA) on Crystal Growth Versus Visible Light
 * 12) Space trash
 * 13) Neptune and Pluto disc color

= November 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 6


 * 1) Frames per second
 * 2) Why is there no flicker in real life?
 * 3) The singularity-less black hole
 * 4) Endocannabinoids and autism spectrum
 * 5) an imaginary history of time
 * 6) what is the temperature of heat (not mainstream).
 * 7) BLASTing lots of short sequences
 * 8) Textile Finishing
 * 9) Lamictal
 * 10) let's try this again.
 * 11) Iron content in apple juice
 * 12) Proton Proton Chain
 * 13) Colour of the sky
 * 14) Capsaicin fatality
 * 15) Cat Scan of Serial Killer's Brain
 * 16) Why don't birds on the power lines get electrocuted
 * 17) Ringnecked Parakeet and Alexandrine Parrot
 * 18) Negative calorie food
 * 19) Muscle density
 * 20) Uranus and neptune surface temp

= November 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 7


 * 1) Properties of Water
 * 2) Photsensitivity and Effects of UVA Light on Copper Sulfate Solution
 * 3) Extinct gull species
 * 4) Advancing human evolution
 * 5) Global warming and climate change.
 * 6) Tangent Galvanometer
 * 7) current electricity and magnetism
 * 8) impossibility of stable equilibrium in electrostatics
 * 9) Chihuahua and Great Dane
 * 10) heating with a gas stove
 * 11) Intensifying Artifical Light, ie from a Flashlight
 * 12) Popcorn and Cell Phones
 * 13) Traditional ship hulls and maximum speed of these
 * 14) Metals for Spaceships
 * 15) Moon Colony

= November 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 8


 * 1) Deceptive practice?
 * 2) non-flammable comprimise gas mixture for an airship
 * 3) cement production on other planets
 * 4) Komodo Dragons in North America
 * 5) Relativity's contradiction
 * 6) A few questions about immunology
 * 7) So what causes the corn to pop?
 * 8) Garden burial of animal remains enhances soil fertility?
 * 9) opinion on those chairs you sit in with your legs folded under
 * 10) Top Elo rating
 * 11) Sex in space
 * 12) Centrifuge
 * 13) Proving evolution with drugs

= November 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 9


 * 1) do electric blankets save energy vs. an electric heater?
 * 2) Speciation in the lab
 * 3) spacetime deformation
 * 4) mechanical reactionless drive?
 * 5) Human brain  -> computing power
 * 6) Bell inequality
 * 7) Is the space shuttle capable of breaking Earth's orbit?
 * 8) Total ship water displacement
 * 9) Input resistance of nerve fibres
 * 10) low-cholesterol heart attacks

= November 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 10


 * 1) physics
 * 2) scientific names
 * 3) Putting things up your ass
 * 4) electricity
 * 5) Asperger's and phone conversation - is it talking or just calling?
 * 6) Is this compound acidic or basic?
 * 7) Bodily fluids in the wash
 * 8) VCR tape to DVD
 * 9) water clock from 2008
 * 10) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 10#.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fwww.newscientist.com.2Farticle.2Fdn14814-galaxy-flow-hints-at-huge-masses-over-cosmic-horizon.html Galaxy flow.5D|Galaxy flow]]
 * 11) is my scientific methodology sound?
 * 12) Speed of Electricity.
 * 13) Square seconds
 * 14) Nuclear reactor efficiency numbers

= November 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 11


 * 1) How to move energy faster than the speed of light
 * 2) Is concussion or neck injury common in horned animals?
 * 3) How many cells are in an embryo when it splits into twins?
 * 4) basic anatomy
 * 5) How does the exchange of virtual photons mediate attractive vs. repulsive coulomb force?
 * 6) Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 11
 * 7) glass recycling projects third world
 * 8) surface of last scattering
 * 9) Black knees
 * 10) any way to guess how long it took someone to write something?

= November 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 12


 * 1) What shape is this?
 * 2) Potential Energy
 * 3) Camera red eye and white eye
 * 4) Light Has Intelligence?
 * 5) How come garbage explodes only when it's buried?
 * 6) Methane as cause of global warming
 * 7) Full moon on birthdays
 * 8) Pneumonia
 * 9) Query about today's featured picture.
 * 10) Mars
 * 11) Leaves changing color at different rates
 * 12) human fat
 * 13) length of Vibrio cholerae
 * 14) yeast need salt?
 * 15) Strength difference men-woman
 * 16) Animal abuse
 * 17) Why is 350°F the standard for cooking food?

= November 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 13


 * 1) anaerobic motor /propulsion
 * 2) Artificial holographic sun
 * 3) Bird identification
 * 4) rectilinear perspective
 * 5) Ceiling fan
 * 6) Echinoderm diversity
 * 7) dangerous situation arising from killing germs?
 * 8) What do you call this camera trick?
 * 9) Energy drink ingredients
 * 10) Visual acuity of hawk's eye: why/how?
 * 11) resistors
 * 12) Fructose Malabsorption
 * 13) Poisoning through the ear
 * 14) spider-silk 'stronger' than steel.  What does that mean?
 * 15) Polar deserts
 * 16) Newton and the travel time of light from the Sun
 * 17) LHC

= November 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 14


 * 1) non-enzymatic catalyst
 * 2) Neem oil as insecticide
 * 3) creatively, how heavy might I make pure heat (historical caloric) in liquid form?
 * 4) CONTRADICTION TO RELATIVITY
 * 5) Retrocausal information transfer.
 * 6) bronchitis/passing out - need information
 * 7) Cure for AIDS by giving him transplanted blood stem cells
 * 8) RNAi in flatworms
 * 9) Isn't species an artificial distinction?
 * 10) heat and static transfer through extension cables
 * 11) Being infected and sweating
 * 12) searching for the name of a old device with large glass discs
 * 13) oxyfuel combustion engine( IC engine)
 * 14) How does water put out a fire?

= November 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 15


 * 1) Vapor pressure
 * 2) Frameshift mutation.
 * 3) General equation for two bases (or metal hydroxides) reacting
 * 4) Fuller's formuls
 * 5) Would an organism that could successfully repair all cellular damage be theoretically immortal?
 * 6) publishing thesis
 * 7) air compressors - energy required.
 * 8) Neurotransmitters
 * 9) in theory, could a discovery about reality invalidate the possibility of physics as a field of science?
 * 10) Another one for the bird psychologists here...
 * 11) Conservation of momentum
 * 12) transistor configuration116.71.178.160 (talk) 20:33, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 13) photoelectric cell
 * 14) Rainfall runoff  through a four inch pipe
 * 15) Effects of global warming on microbes

= November 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 16


 * 1) Bee stings on different body parts
 * 2) Surface area of the internet
 * 3) Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 16
 * 4) Does black hole evaporation violate the second law of thermodynamics?
 * 5) Paradox
 * 6) Bad smelling, but delicious?
 * 7) Medical advice
 * 8) cables and auto transformer

= November 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 17


 * 1) Water
 * 2) Geology
 * 3) Home battery recycling
 * 4) What killed the airship?
 * 5) Airships again
 * 6) Explain this optical illusion?
 * 7) Jupiter causes an additional parallax
 * 8) Smoking and breast milk
 * 9) toilet seats
 * 10) Red / Blue Shift
 * 11) Tricks by Nikola Tesla in the movie "The Prestige"
 * 12) Earth-like planet forming in the absence of life
 * 13) information on the temperature and precipitation in the BOREAL SHEILD ecozone
 * 14) Neolithic period and a Young Earth
 * 15) The Laws of proportioning aggregates for concrete
 * 16) comparative  world livestock populations
 * 17) Compost pile
 * 18) Math and physics podcasts
 * 19) type of screen
 * 20) Buoyancy

= November 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 18


 * 1) CMBR
 * 2) Theremin range?
 * 3) How can air barriers be permeable to vapor?
 * 4) Advice for developing young scientists?
 * 5) Resistance in space.
 * 6) Tankers and aircraft carriers
 * 7) Selective breeding pros/cons
 * 8) Brain Tumor Cells vs. Normal Brain Cells
 * 9) Where does the Earth's heat go?
 * 10) is Jesus's 100% man/100% God dualty like quantum wave/particle dualty?
 * 11) Anatomy
 * 12) gama rays
 * 13) The color of Dunkleosteus
 * 14) hubble telescope
 * 15) Finding the amount of moles
 * 16) How many human habitable planets can there be in a solar system?
 * 17) How hot would Venus be if it was in Mar's orbit?
 * 18) Newton's Second Law (F=ma)

= November 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 19


 * 1) Heroes
 * 2) Plasma
 * 3) The very first victim of a weapon
 * 4) What if we cut a hole through Earth?
 * 5) To what does 'bi' refer in 'bicarbonate'?
 * 6) The color of shower gel
 * 7) Restrictive NAT on DSL modem?
 * 8) stupid question -- water filters filter flouride or no?
 * 9) Apple trees
 * 10) Are there more extreme temperatures (way above or below average?) than years ago?
 * 11) Levoglucosan
 * 12) Nuclear Science

= November 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 20


 * 1) Rotating spherical shells and gravity
 * 2) The Universe is Red and Purple
 * 3) Restarting the Earths spin.
 * 4) Compounds:both ionic and covalent
 * 5) genius of firefox
 * 6) Evolutionary Mammal Anatomy Blunders
 * 7) Egg nutrition
 * 8) BACON...cholesterol

= November 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 21


 * 1) Question for all the people in the medical profession here...
 * 2) Quantum dots
 * 3) Potassium bicarbonate question
 * 4) Double Gravitational Acceleration Paradox
 * 5) Pipe bursting temperature
 * 6) What is glabrata?
 * 7) Mystery objects
 * 8) Scientific term and research on the topic

= November 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 22


 * 1) equatorial water:direction
 * 2) Fate of the universe
 * 3) Flower Identification
 * 4) Air conditioning plant sizing
 * 5) Name of old mechanical airport/rail schedule signs?
 * 6) states of matter
 * 7) false positive in blood test
 * 8) The Rydberg Constant in Balmer's Formula
 * 9) Plaster Glue?

= November 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 23


 * 1) i need a help please in organic chemistry
 * 2) Television Logo Removal
 * 3) Spacetime
 * 4) Adrafinil vs Piracetam?
 * 5) Protein folding
 * 6) Balloon

= November 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 24


 * 1) Motion of gas atoms
 * 2) Preventing propagation by cutting
 * 3) Differences it doesn't make
 * 4) Children's game
 * 5) Non-persistent UV dyes
 * 6) on improving economy using science
 * 7) Calories
 * 8) Plant Identification
 * 9) Skeleton's kids
 * 10) Paper lens cleaning cloths
 * 11) malignancy as a blood infection?
 * 12) THC absorption
 * 13) Doubling CO2 in atmosphere
 * 14) Extreme Precision

= November 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 25


 * 1) Frolov (the inventor of the Frolov breathing apparatus)
 * 2) Chicken head movement
 * 3) Three colors in a LCD projector
 * 4) Black holes
 * 5) Fingerprints in electronic devices
 * 6) Logic Gates
 * 7) Marmosets
 * 8) Opinion Question
 * 9) Near-death experiences
 * 10) windmill turbines
 * 11) Quantitative CO2 IR spectrum
 * 12) mouth-to-mouth resuscitation
 * 13) Red caviar
 * 14) What to be done
 * 15) was a wheel (by an axel) distinctly created at a single earliest moment?
 * 16) Flatulence
 * 17) Relativity
 * 18) Why is refrigeration of tin a bad idea?
 * 19) Sinusitis
 * 20) Type of illusion where one treats Wii sport like regular?
 * 21) (anthropology/biology) universals that turn women on?
 * 22) Stars and Planets
 * 23) Water marbles

= November 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 26


 * 1) 'Writing about Vampires' seeks Comprehensive list of Disease Involving Sunlight
 * 2) Black holes
 * 3) Are CD jewel cases recyclable?
 * 4) Lights
 * 5) Fuel consumption with a cold engine.
 * 6) Endorphins and interest in sports
 * 7) Boundries of longitude and latitude for western europe 1955-1990
 * 8) 4d rotation of 3d objects
 * 9) "Brain Balance" autism treatment
 * 10) Firemaking in the 1700's.

= November 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 27


 * 1) Chicken head stabilization
 * 2) Why are limes seedless?
 * 3) Bromelain from Pineapples
 * 4) is this for real???  -- Bruce Lee plays ping pong with nunchuck
 * 5) Perturbation theory in quantum mechanics
 * 6) Natural selection in humans
 * 7) dissassociation of salts
 * 8) Salt solubility in non-aqueous solvents
 * 9) Engineering handbook in English, German and Japanese
 * 10) Jacuzzi Question

= November 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 28


 * 1) Chemistry 1310
 * 2) A psychology question - when do we feel we've "seen all the examples"
 * 3) Overlap of electron orbitals in violation of Pauli Exclusion Principle?
 * 4) Possibility of life on another planet which does not Evolve
 * 5) Disease transmission from old books (and other artefacts)
 * 6) Single or multiple breasts
 * 7) erath gravity
 * 8) PCR Primers

= November 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 29


 * 1) caffiene
 * 2) Cost of an additional degree of heating
 * 3) THC absorption (repost)
 * 4) Hydrogen peroxide and yeast
 * 5) Food Safety
 * 6) Plant Propagation
 * 7) Ground-breaking Cardiac Surgery Technique.....
 * 8) Feeding the seagulls
 * 9) Psychoneuroimmunology
 * 10) Please Be Patient And I Thank You For Your Time
 * 11) What does "higher mammal" mean?
 * 12) Accession number needed for BLAST
 * 13) Lipid and Phosphate Granules

= November 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 30


 * 1) Shooting the ISS out of the sky
 * 2) 2012
 * 3) Piperidine,
 * 4) Why not freeze food twice?
 * 5) grant for study and visit st buddhist temples are over the world
 * 6) Publicly accessible free scientific lectures?
 * 7) Water pressure
 * 8) Thoughts, feelings and reality.
 * 9) Instituto Conmemorativo Gorgas
 * 10) Is it correct to say this (see below)?
 * 11) Leaking batteries
 * 12) Medical opinion (but not advice)
 * 13) Telling sunrise from sunset
 * 14) Where does today end and tonight begin ?
 * 15) Distortions of sunrays and starlight by atmosphere: what can we conclude?
 * 16) Cough-induced abdomenal reflex