Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/November 2016

= November 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 1


 * 1) Is every living thing which has a nervous system can think?
 * 2) Gardner Island
 * 3) what kind of weather can I expect under the jet stream boundary?
 * 4) Is any living being with a brain so simple that it can be predicted?
 * 5) How well did remarkable scientists from times past followed the publish or perish

= November 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 2


 * 1) What could you drill into that would make sparks?
 * 2) Human (How far can a human eye see?)
 * 3) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 2#Feynman_Lectures._Lecture_32._Ch._32-4.2C_32-5_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fwww.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu.2FI_32.html.5D|Feynman Lectures. Lecture 32. Ch. 32-4, 32-5 ]]

= November 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 3


 * 1) Strabismus and Amphetamine use?
 * 2) Reasons for immune response in food allergies

= November 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 4


 * 1) Physics: Black hole inside a larger black hole
 * 2) Hidden wire
 * 3) Belief perseverance
 * 4) Full meaning of:" 66.038 ± 0.025/0.049 Ma " in Science (journal)
 * 5) Transitional epithelium and urothelium
 * 6) Is this static electricity?

= November 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 5


 * 1) Protrusions in lower jaw?
 * 2) Manganese Poisoning
 * 3) Is it possible to control heart rate directly as we can control our breathing?
 * 4) why do people get sickness and diseases in the winter more than in the summer?
 * 5) Nuclear attack
 * 6) Generating electricity from domestic water pressure
 * 7) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 5#Feynman_Lectures._Lecture_33._Ch._33–6_The_intensity_of_reflected_light_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fwww.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu.2FI_33.html.23Ch33-S6.5D|Feynman Lectures. Lecture 33. Ch. 33–6 The intensity of reflected light ]]
 * 8) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 5#Feynman_Lectures._Lecture_33._Ch._33–7_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fwww.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu.2FI_33.html.23Ch33-S7.5D_._.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fwww.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu.2FI_33.html.23Ch33-F7_Fig._33–7.5D|Feynman Lectures. Lecture 33. Ch. 33–7  . Fig. 33–7]]

= November 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 6


 * 1) Thermally unstable compounds
 * 2) Borrachero tree
 * 3) What is the scientifical explanation for that phenomenon?
 * 4) Main Battle Tank

= November 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 7


 * 1) Are there any dinosaur museums in BC?
 * 2) How accurate is the Einstein’s light clock?
 * 3) fracking, Project Mohole

= November 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 8


 * 1) Using microwaves or IR to stabilize a compound?
 * 2) Name of condition when one side of the face is tensed
 * 3) Artificial islands near China, earthquake stability
 * 4) Scaling of muscular strength
 * 5) Radiation and cancer
 * 6) Orbicularis oculi

= November 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 9


 * 1) Wiktionary: "timescape"
 * 2) Can cancer be treated by infecting cancer cells with microbes?

= November 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 5


 * 1) ID of the species
 * 2) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 5#Feynman_Lectures._Lecture_33._Ch._33–6_The_intensity_of_reflected_light_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fwww.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu.2FI_33.html.23Ch33-S6.5D|Feynman Lectures. Lecture 33. Ch. 33–6 The intensity of reflected light ]]
 * 3) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 5#Feynman_Lectures._Lecture_33._Ch._33–7_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fwww.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu.2FI_33.html.23Ch33-S7.5D_._.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fwww.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu.2FI_33.html.23Ch33-F7_Fig._33–7.5D|Feynman Lectures. Lecture 33. Ch. 33–7  . Fig. 33–7]]

= November 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 11


 * 1) Antimicrobial resistance
 * 2) What's the name of the star?
 * 3) What is the most polluted?
 * 4) Retinal Scan
 * 5) "Tumbling in Orbit"
 * 6) x-ray or ultrasound
 * 7) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 11#Feynman_Lectures._Lecture_34._Ch._34–6_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fwww.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu.2FI_34.html.23Ch34-S6.5D|Feynman Lectures. Lecture 34. Ch. 34–6 ]]
 * 8) What happens if I quit taking sertraline in a "cold turkey" way?
 * 9) Testing of water for fecal coliform bacteria

= November 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 12


 * 1) Volcanic eruption
 * 2) Is it shorter going around Cape Horn or using Northwest Passage?
 * 3) Is there any progress toward a "brain alarm" to prevent stroke?
 * 4) Mysterious beach blobs (San Diego)
 * 5) Patterson–Gimlin film

= November 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 13


 * 1) Can half a human sleep normally while the other half's awake like sharks?

= November 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 14


 * 1) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 14#Feynman_Lectures._Lecture_35._Ch._35–4_The_chromaticity_diagram_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fwww.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu.2FI_35.html.23Ch35-S4.5D|Feynman Lectures. Lecture 35. Ch. 35–4 The chromaticity diagram ]]
 * 2) Pain and fever relief
 * 3) Projected disappearance of vestigial organs
 * 4) Correlation between penis size and cultural acceptance of nudity--sexual selection?
 * 5) Are there indeed only 3 anatomical planes?

= November 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 15


 * 1) FOD
 * 2) Butterfly vs. fighter jet
 * 3) (Non) conservation of pH
 * 4) Plant-based diet and healthfulness
 * 5) The Rising of the Moon

= November 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 16


 * 1) Sea level rising equally everywhere
 * 2) Does orchiectomy have similar effects on a man's body in order to the effects of menopause on a woman's body?
 * 3) Tailbone
 * 4) The season of profit
 * 5) Anatomical plane is rectangle or square or can be any shape or different shape?
 * 6) Steyr datacode

= November 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 17


 * 1) written language as part of the native competence
 * 2) Activity of Bowman–Birk protease inhibitor
 * 3) Airline hitting hobby drone
 * 4) Is the Vo2 of the brain taken from its Q?
 * 5) Caesium splitting frequency at zero gravity

= November 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 18


 * 1) Owl Call Identifictaion Requested

= November 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 19


 * 1) Bacterium or Virus that actively infects both a Plant and an Animal?
 * 2) When Worlds Collide
 * 3) Induced coma and general anaesthesia
 * 4) Naming of human settlements in the U.S.

= November 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 20


 * 1) Does the vas deferens contain stem cells?
 * 2) Artillery question
 * 3) Firestorm
 * 4) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 20#Feynman_Lectures._Lecture_38._Ch._38–1_Probability_wave_amplitudes_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fwww.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu.2FI_38.html.23Ch38-S1.5D|Feynman Lectures. Lecture 38. Ch. 38–1 Probability wave amplitudes ]]
 * 5) Culmination of constellation's visibility
 * 6) Uncoupling agents as a hypothermia countermeasure?
 * 7) High voltages, low currents, and Ohm's law, oh my!

= November 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 21


 * 1) About Transformers
 * 2) High wattage circuit breakers

= November 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 22


 * 1) How much medical personnel is needed to harvest and transplant organs?
 * 2) Servo horns
 * 3) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 22#Feynman_Lectures._Lecture_38._Ch._38–2._Fig._38–3_Determination_of_momentum_by_using_a_diffraction_grating._.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fwww.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu.2FI_38.html.23Ch38-F3.5D|Feynman Lectures. Lecture 38. Ch. 38–2. Fig. 38–3 Determination of momentum by using a diffraction grating. ]]
 * 4) Article from Cosmetics & Toiletries
 * 5) Physical barriers to halt tumor progression
 * 6) Momentum of photons in a high refractive index material

= November 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 23


 * 1) Any difference between braking slow and fast?
 * 2) Women whose work is on the circulatory or lymphatic systems?
 * 3) What's the highest-walled endorheic basin on Earth?

= November 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 24


 * 1) Sources (RR Lyrae variables)
 * 2) Space colonies in intergalactic space

= November 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 25


 * 1) Charger question
 * 2) Testing pipelines
 * 3) Ticking time - bomb?
 * 4) Can female Guppys reproduce via parthenogenesis?
 * 5) Is "plausibility" built into spacecraft?

= November 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 26


 * 1) Feedback (positive) !!
 * 2) puzzled about theta Eridani
 * 3) The definition of amino acid
 * 4) Could a tectonic tsunami from the tropical Pacific enter the Atlantic?
 * 5) Can two neurons (or networks) have infinite possible connections?
 * 6) The lees liquid in the body - the more sugar concentration and decreased freezing point
 * 7) segway design useful for hovercraft?

= November 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 27


 * 1) Can I say that every protein made by peptides?
 * 2) Could the moon be terraformed?
 * 3) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 27#Feynman_Lectures._Lecture_39._Ch._39–4._Temperature_and_kinetic_energy_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fwww.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu.2FI_39.html.23Ch39-S4.5D|Feynman Lectures. Lecture 39. Ch. 39–4. Temperature and kinetic energy ]]
 * 4) what are proteins, lipids, nucleic acids and carbohydrate classified?

= November 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 28


 * 1) video
 * 2) Removing red-28 dye from a carpet - and Red-28 in children's toothpaste.
 * 3) What is the common denominator of all the lipids?
 * 4) Stubborn fat???

= November 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 29


 * 1) Causes of sudden death in dogs
 * 2) Water temperature at the bottom of a kettle
 * 3) Helicopter (in)stability
 * 4) Helicopter yaw control

= November 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 30


 * 1) Set in the stars....
 * 2) Borked Latin taxonomic names
 * 3) Elements 119-120
 * 4) Genetics or disease?
 * 5) Light bulb life