Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/November 2011

= November 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 1


 * 1) HOW DOS MOVE SOLAR WIND IN INTERSTELLAR SPACE
 * 2) Technological Singularity, if rewritten in sci-fi franchises.
 * 3) Physical Geologic Driver
 * 4) Health statistics
 * 5) Decay
 * 6) Minimum recovery time for a gunshot wound?
 * 7) Point of greatest gravity
 * 8) Quantum computers
 * 9) 2002 PT Cruiser shuts off on its own, but the dealers can't find diagnostics. Help?

= November 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 2


 * 1) Forces on an inclined plane
 * 2) George Dantzig
 * 3) wave
 * 4) alloy NF616, HCM12A, E911
 * 5) Outer Covering of Animals
 * 6) Neutrino
 * 7) Rice and carbohydrates
 * 8) Are programmers different genetically?
 * 9) Identify atmospheric phenomenon

= November 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 3


 * 1) motion
 * 2) organic chemistry
 * 3) I cannot identify this bird, please help me
 * 4) Genetic studies of modern Steller's sea lion populations suggest...
 * 5) atom
 * 6) Instead of electrical current could there ever be a situation where protons or positrons are made to flow as a current?

= November 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 4


 * 1) regulator  genes
 * 2) message to director of wikipedia
 * 3) is methyl salisilate reacting with tollen's reagent
 * 4) S.I.M card
 * 5) attic insulation
 * 6) Theoretical maximum possible temperature
 * 7) Elephants, Cape Buffaloes and hominids
 * 8) Do cooked carrots have more calories than raw carrots? Why?
 * 9) Reflection and smoothness

= November 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 5


 * 1) Sending a new theory around
 * 2) EMP protection
 * 3) charge
 * 4) Davies equation, ionic strength and molality
 * 5) Simple optics/meteorology question?
 * 6) Quantifying splashing; changing the property of the splashing solvent
 * 7) Physiological details of figure skaters' increased tolerance of dizziness
 * 8) Fiber optic cable damage

= November 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 6


 * 1) speed reading
 * 2) Intensity of the superposition of two coherent waves
 * 3) Which is more stable, K or K+?
 * 4) Genealogy
 * 5) charge
 * 6) Tempture and heat
 * 7) A mirror and an image projector
 * 8) What kind of effect?
 * 9) Likelihoods and conditional probabilities, in the context of sensitivity and specificity.

= November 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 7


 * 1) Explaining those who claim to communicate with God
 * 2) Historical choice of "positive" and "negative" charge in the one-fluid theory of electricity
 * 3) Vin de Borgia
 * 4) cotton balls
 * 5) calculating the entropy of dissociation for an ideal gas
 * 6) added insulation
 * 7) Turning our sun into a black hole
 * 8) Is the bowsprit considered a mast?
 * 9) Destroying the Vatican
 * 10) Schlick-Tweedie principle
 * 11) molar heat capacity of a black hole

= November 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 8


 * 1) Neurons v computer chips
 * 2) Oxidation & Reduction
 * 3) Signal Format Specification of Very Early Television Sets
 * 4) Properties of brass
 * 5) Is the universe hologram-like?
 * 6) crazy cure for both AIDS and blood cancer
 * 7) source of elwha river pre dam chinook salmon numbers
 * 8) aliens?
 * 9) Expanding universe and conservation of energy.
 * 10) STEM shortage: education or raw ability?
 * 11) Making suet for birds at home...

= November 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 9


 * 1) Why can't you watch 3D movies on a regular television?
 * 2) Cylindrical tube elastic deformation?
 * 3) Red Arrows Accident 8 Nov 2011
 * 4) 2005 YU55
 * 5) Issues with dog's eye
 * 6) Aspirin question
 * 7) time series
 * 8) suggestion
 * 9) Weak acids: shift in equilibrium?
 * 10) Sodium Acetate Trihydrate
 * 11) Touching pain
 * 12) Monkey Identification
 * 13) Detectors on U.S. roads
 * 14) Destroyable biometrics
 * 15) Can happiness be measured?
 * 16) Difference between deductive reasoning and scientific theories?
 * 17) Oxidisation of Polyethlene

= November 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 10


 * 1) Infrared-to-optical wavelength coating
 * 2) Sodium electrolysis
 * 3) Proof of Conservation of Momentum
 * 4) I keep getting knocked off my wireless internet several times a day. What gives?
 * 5) How do I mimic phone static and hang up under the cover thereof?
 * 6) planck distribution function
 * 7) radioactive iodine
 * 8) Experimental drug slims obese monkeys
 * 9) Diamond as radiation shielding?

= November 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 11


 * 1) Looking for simple General Relativity formula
 * 2) Burning with fluorine
 * 3) Electric field=flux density?
 * 4) Is acne becoming less prevalent?
 * 5) "Lone Tree" on rock (Copper Canyon, Mexico) (done)
 * 6) chemistry
 * 7) help ....plz (best physics and maths book)
 * 8) Large French spider
 * 9) Propagation of  oxalis triangularis plant.
 * 10) Electomagnetism, quantum mechanics, and the strong nuclear force vs. black holes
 * 11) fiberglass insulation
 * 12) radiation
 * 13) Terraformed Mars map
 * 14) Smallest circle with no perceptible curvature?
 * 15) Mexican plane crash
 * 16) Global warming

= November 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 12


 * 1) Magpies
 * 2) What raises metabolic rate?
 * 3) Big boned
 * 4) Aniline napth-1-ol (or α-napthol) coupling reaction
 * 5) Hot dog aroma lingering on a toothbrush for two months
 * 6) Heat
 * 7) Why some proposed changes to SI base units?
 * 8) baldness and buzzcuts

= November 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 13


 * 1) Doing more damage with less recoil
 * 2) why does Jupiter rotate round its axis so fast?
 * 3) Potential
 * 4) Diode and clipper circuit
 * 5) Subliminal distraction exposure?
 * 6) Speed
 * 7) acidic alpha-proton in Ascorbic acid?

= November 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 14


 * 1) Direction of force in a current-carrying wire
 * 2) HIV
 * 3) Neptune and the IAU's definition of "planet"
 * 4) The big four engineerings
 * 5) Endemic v/s Endangered v/s Extinct species
 * 6) Which international agency has got  the power of terming a species as "extinct" or "endangered"?
 * 7) Roslyn Pliosaur find date
 * 8) Coldsores
 * 9) Saying about creationist/ID in science
 * 10) Human longevity related to height?
 * 11) Speed of Light

= November 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 15


 * 1) DNA Bank of endangered species
 * 2) Rayleigh scattering
 * 3) How long has the importance of blood pressure to human health been known
 * 4) What would be the evolutionary and epistemological basis for Aliens being "too alien" for human communication?
 * 5) Holocene epoch
 * 6) 2 x 4 wall cavity
 * 7) 2 inch foam board insulation
 * 8) wet insulation
 * 9) Non-finger interaction with iPad touchscreen -- how to generate touches with objects
 * 10) It's photons all the way down.
 * 11) hormone change
 * 12) Mar's Low Gravity
 * 13) Sham-Wows and the Hudson River
 * 14) Kangaroos and the Fourth Dimension
 * 15) natural selection in medicine?
 * 16) Calling all frog-experts
 * 17) a-theorem?
 * 18) Scum on my teeth

= November 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 16


 * 1) Blood type factor correlation
 * 2) Handedness and computer games
 * 3) placing in constellations
 * 4) is it possible to check a diastolic blood pressure without a stethoscope?
 * 5) What's the English names of these compounds?
 * 6) Active ingredient - Botox
 * 7) Ingredients: Dr Pepper Zero
 * 8) Help naming the insect
 * 9) Tunneling + Superluminal neutrino?

= November 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 17


 * 1) Gravity and Water
 * 2) Physics of the artificial trees
 * 3) Which office furniture / equipment would last the longest?
 * 4) NMR and pi and pi/2 pulses
 * 5) Life on Europa and water under extreme conditions
 * 6) Diode circuit solution
 * 7) Heat loss and gain
 * 8) leonardo da vinci laminate adhesive
 * 9) PC monitor bugs (the 6 legged kind)
 * 10) Simple thing.

= November 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 18


 * 1) Na2CO3
 * 2) "Infinite" resistance, lightning, and quantum tunnelling
 * 3) Neutrino Circuit--real or a hoax?
 * 4) hydrogen bonding
 * 5) exercise not improving fitness
 * 6) Solar sail max speed
 * 7) Specific Gravity of various substances
 * 8) MO theory and the shapes of molecules
 * 9) Extension cord AMP ratings

= November 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 19


 * 1) More force by pedaling
 * 2) Photon engine
 * 3) cooling in vaccum
 * 4) hydrogen bonding
 * 5) Pseudo science or genunie plughole at equator
 * 6) Superluminal neutrinos
 * 7) inorganic chemistry
 * 8) inorganic chemistry (isomeric ethers)
 * 9) inorganic chemistry (why water is a versatile solvent)
 * 10) Zion Nat'l Park stone tool?
 * 11) Facial hair growth hormone?
 * 12) Cancer

= November 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 20


 * 1) Morning erections & psychogenic ED
 * 2) Relativistic attraction of current-carrying wires
 * 3) optic nerve damaged and loss of vision
 * 4) Proof?
 * 5) Tsunami
 * 6) Crystal Fusion Turbine
 * 7) Repeat trauma
 * 8) Cumbre Vieja

= November 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 21


 * 1) Methods to measure change
 * 2) Marburg virus
 * 3) "right-hand-side" hypothalamus?
 * 4) Object in the night sky
 * 5) Brain size/body size and intelligence
 * 6) Simple explanations for the recent neutrino experiments
 * 7) Oxide world
 * 8) Digestion of Monosaccharide
 * 9) Curiosity
 * 10) Measurement of sweetnewss?

= November 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 22


 * 1) banana
 * 2) Spin of a massive object reaching relativistic speeds
 * 3) Relation of  molecules in mixture
 * 4) Curium nuclear weapon
 * 5) Separated, spherical plate capacitor
 * 6) aliens

= November 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 23


 * 1) Introducing life
 * 2) Why when we put cold water on ours skin, it bring about the blood to come there?
 * 3) Watch Gears
 * 4) fluid flow
 * 5) Magnetism
 * 6) Small bowel adenocarcinoma doubling time
 * 7) Bridge Records
 * 8) How long does it take for water to get from your mouth to your bladder?
 * 9) why does a dft bin's output noise standard deviation (rms) is proportional to sqrt( N ) ?

= November 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 24


 * 1) Creature in brinicle ice video
 * 2) The usefulness of the Washington Accord (or how to become licensed in the US)
 * 3) Water and heating device temperatures.
 * 4) Relative speeds

= November 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 25


 * 1) MAP2K1 enzyme
 * 2) Where does money come from?
 * 3) pH:
 * 4) Can not eating help cause depression
 * 5) Which Place
 * 6) Budgeting for things that haven't yet been invented

= November 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 26


 * 1) Newtonian gravity and relativistic mass
 * 2) Calculating latitude via Earth's celestial rotation speed
 * 3) Observing light indirectly
 * 4) Non traditional mosquito repelent
 * 5) Freezing pop
 * 6) Dark Matter questions
 * 7) science
 * 8) Anti-gravity properties of jam
 * 9) Deinosuchus skull reconstruction
 * 10) inventor of potentiometer(voltage divider)
 * 11) "Tangential" Relativity
 * 12) Special Relativity: how does it work?

= November 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 27


 * 1) Radio distance
 * 2) Can "Ice Giants" become comets just as Kuiper-belt objects can?
 * 3) Capacity of brain
 * 4) why does boiling point of water decreases at higher altitudes?
 * 5) why do people start  bleeding when they climb hill stations of higher altitudes?
 * 6) Blue butterflies of Japan

= November 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 28


 * 1) Nuclear grenade
 * 2) Using pulleys to open a coop door
 * 3) Diluted Alcohol
 * 4) physics
 * 5) Is there a transparent rock tumbler anywhere in existence?
 * 6) Correct Speed?

= November 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 29


 * 1) Sky of Venus
 * 2) Nanotechnology to improve the efficiency of heat engines
 * 3) The Moon
 * 4) Colour shifts in field of vision

= November 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 30


 * 1) Vanda Station and Hope Bay
 * 2) Carbon cycle
 * 3) What's this SPAAV?
 * 4) Neocortex and suffering
 * 5) Effeminacy
 * 6) Is it possible for Man to destroy the Sun?
 * 7) Wood not decomposing after 400,000 years?
 * 8) Is there a quantum of mass?
 * 9) Stars: death, birth, spreading, clumping
 * 10) "First Human"