Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/October 2011

= October 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 1


 * 1) Garfasil DNA contamination
 * 2) World after 100 years
 * 3) Oh-My-God particle & force
 * 4) Imaging ripples
 * 5) automated blood draw
 * 6) Water-added chicken breast
 * 7) Why do vegetables cooked quickly in Pressure Cooker
 * 8) Miller indices and reduction to lowest integers?
 * 9) Reproductive isolation of humans?

= October 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 2


 * 1) Does it hurt getting shot?
 * 2) Photon-tachyon interactions
 * 3) Weighing the atom
 * 4) Bacteriophages as antibiotics?
 * 5) Terrarium vs. tank
 * 6) AK47 vs. Bulletproof glass
 * 7) Global warming and future
 * 8) Wind instruments
 * 9) Inflation-Adjusted Cost of Electricity?
 * 10) By which methods and how accurate can we predict the properties of an unknown isotope?
 * 11) future binary solar system?
 * 12) Antimatter vs. black hole
 * 13) Exothermic reactions in warm-blooded creatures
 * 14) Newton's laws of motion
 * 15) Infinite Regress and General Relativity
 * 16) Worried about eating gnats
 * 17) Alcubierre drive vs. black hole
 * 18) Shot three times
 * 19) Radar display updating in "real-time"
 * 20) Confining the electron
 * 21) Building "life expectancy"
 * 22) Angle of repose
 * 23) N-terminal signal sequences in Archaea

= October 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 3


 * 1) Dark Matter as molecular hydrogren
 * 2) What kind of worms are these?
 * 3) Lower size limit on mammals
 * 4) Greame Bartlett
 * 5) Losing weight
 * 6) Potato fruits
 * 7) Petroleum value and chemical uses
 * 8) Mean swell wavelength in the open ocean
 * 9) My cat pees on a power socket. Why? How can I stop it?
 * 10) Are smart meters evil?

= October 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 4


 * 1) High protein in chicken noodle soup
 * 2) Egg white vitamin content
 * 3) seeing our scalp
 * 4) Acrophobia and attachment to the ground
 * 5) What are big open questions in Science?
 * 6) Maximum weight per unit surface area that water can support
 * 7) Class warfare question
 * 8) Copper(2+) v.s. copper(1+)
 * 9) What species do those fungi belong to?
 * 10) firing a blank
 * 11) Strength of glass vs aluminium
 * 12) What makes a material tough from a molecular point of view?
 * 13) Irish winters
 * 14) thunderstorms
 * 15) Electron probability distribution
 * 16) Wardens

= October 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 5


 * 1) Why are impact craters on Moon all circular?
 * 2) Visibility of 1-atom-thick Materials
 * 3) Height Increase

= October 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 6


 * 1) Nepeta cataria
 * 2) induction motor
 * 3) homology / analogy of env viral coat proteins, across mammals and Drosophila
 * 4) Eating "unpleasant" foods
 * 5) Centipedes
 * 6) Day Length and Seasons
 * 7) oxidation no. in halogens
 * 8) Dark energy and the local cluster
 * 9) More information on the Marbled Lungfish's genome please
 * 10) Damped oscillations in real life
 * 11) Gulf stream
 * 12) Spin–lattice relaxation of different substances
 * 13) Is there software that can animate chemical reactions?

= October 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 7


 * 1) Largest arthropods: land versus sea
 * 2) Official level of radioactivity in Japan
 * 3) Genetic Population Statistics Question
 * 4) rabbits and radiation
 * 5) 2D creatures in a 3D space - could not resist taking it up again
 * 6) are stars visable from space.
 * 7) Petroleum Refinary

= October 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 8


 * 1) T power?
 * 2) Cosmology fact checking
 * 3) Why must it be this set of solutions?
 * 4) Defibrillation
 * 5) Study claiming immortality bad for evolution
 * 6) Hearing loss
 * 7) Can Mount Teide really be seen from the African coast?
 * 8) Egg ID (snake?)
 * 9) "choked with a board"

= October 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 9


 * 1) Mucokinetics
 * 2) Immune system strength
 * 3) Weight-guessing
 * 4) Integrity of the Cryogenically Preserved Brain
 * 5) arthritis
 * 6) coin drop

= October 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 10


 * 1) Lightning and auroras
 * 2) Modified HIV-based cancer vaccine
 * 3) Human Sensitivity to IR
 * 4) How a Latino could not be a Caucasien?
 * 5) hydrogen peroxide
 * 6) Timing of natural death
 * 7) Animal sadness
 * 8) How do bats avoid bees and wasps?
 * 9) About satellite communication
 * 10) Push-ups and the "funny bone" nerve
 * 11) Drunkeness
 * 12) Etymology of gestures, difference between intented and unintended gestures, and animals
 * 13) Woodpecker facts I've been told - true or false?
 * 14) Drop impact absorbtion
 * 15) time travel

= October 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 11


 * 1) Neutrino
 * 2) What is the function of the long carbon tail of Chlorophyll a(and b,d also)?
 * 3) A speed debugger?
 * 4) Fanning and temperature
 * 5) Magnesium based leavening?

= October 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 12


 * 1) menstrual taboo
 * 2) Aboriginal North Americans and alcohol
 * 3) About the alleged FTL neutrinos
 * 4) Knappable stone in Southwestern CT
 * 5) Power Input vs. Voltage Output.
 * 6) Surrogate instead of abortion
 * 7) How long does it take for acquired immunity to form
 * 8) Sun seen from space
 * 9) Water on Earth and the physical properties of water in ocean
 * 10) Species identifcation (flower)
 * 11) Can a Chihuahua survive in the wild?
 * 12) Electron configurations
 * 13) Species identification (beetle)

= October 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 13


 * 1) Why are multiple personalities a disorder?
 * 2) Microwave oven safety
 * 3) Chemical formulae: technical term for subscripted numerals
 * 4) Collapsible earth embankment
 * 5) Is it true that a normally healthy person can get cancer from the normal background radiation on this planet?
 * 6) Species Identifcation
 * 7) Bucket brigade efficiency ?
 * 8) Online obituary
 * 9) Astrologist Claims
 * 10) RBC Indices
 * 11) What kind of snake is this? (US Rockies region)
 * 12) Household Bleach
 * 13) Types of fermentation
 * 14) Muon positron annihilation
 * 15) Silicon based life
 * 16) Arbitrary digital record of sound
 * 17) Global observation of the Miracle of the Sun
 * 18) Is the science in The Subtle Knife correct?
 * 19) Becoming ambidexter
 * 20) Shock wave and blast wave

= October 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 14


 * 1) Is this a viable method for calculating two-body tension?
 * 2) Will the two giant stars of Capella merge?
 * 3) Neurosurgery questions
 * 4) Levers
 * 5) Transplanting external human body parts
 * 6) Photons in an empty universe
 * 7) Dingoes vs. rabbits in Australia
 * 8) Shuttle launch camera footage
 * 9) p53 damage and its frequency in cancers
 * 10) Prions
 * 11) Jerks and mental illness

= October 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 15


 * 1) Highest-temperature superconductor
 * 2) USS Ponchatoula AO 148
 * 3) Power of a sneeze
 * 4) Microwave power draw: volt-amps versus watts
 * 5) Fetuses Upside Down
 * 6) 9/11 analysis
 * 7) nucleotide reformation
 * 8) Speed of a falling person
 * 9) Free electronic (CFL) ballast schematic?
 * 10) marine electrical engineering

= October 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 16


 * 1) termodinamika
 * 2) best glue for specific materials
 * 3) cholangiocarcinoma advanced stge IV
 * 4) Self discipline
 * 5) Let's get real: Could we really survive a nuke inside a refrigerator?
 * 6) Power generation from Earth Magnetic Field
 * 7) Is antiviral prophylaxis possible?
 * 8) top 1000 Fan pages on Facebook
 * 9) Neutrinos not faster than light: Do GLONASS and GALILEO have dithering, too?
 * 10) Claims of 430 ppm CO2 in 1940 atmosphere

= October 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 17


 * 1) Redox question
 * 2) May-December Marriage -- Marriage Age Difference
 * 3) Which is the better DIY telepresence robot?
 * 4) Volkswagen TwinDrive
 * 5) Generating MIST from still water
 * 6) The psychology and science behind folk dentistry
 * 7) Map scaling
 * 8) Do parrots copy human mannerisms?
 * 9) Fossils in the future
 * 10) Hummingbird speech?

= October 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 18


 * 1) Wiping out humanity
 * 2) Certifying obtained knowledge
 * 3) Duck vs. Goose
 * 4) Electrothermal-chemical technology
 * 5) question (coloured bats)
 * 6) Quantum "locked" levitation
 * 7) vandalistic cockatoos and Tabasco Sauce
 * 8) sql queries
 * 9) Fusion, Fission, and Iron
 * 10) Urine albumin valid ranges
 * 11) Electric energy from highly intensive neutron radiation?
 * 12) beaches in shantou
 * 13) Successor to the Large Hadron Collider?

= October 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 19


 * 1) Does a shipping crate made of plywood pass international ISPM 15 standards?
 * 2) Future ice age
 * 3) how much do sound waves obey the superposition principle?
 * 4) Dead zone (satellite) and GIS talking bus system
 * 5) Seismic travel time graphs
 * 6) constants
 * 7) homology between yeast and human alcohol dehydrogenases
 * 8) It is between fall and follow
 * 9) How long will a 9 volt battery power an LED?

= October 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 20


 * 1) Identify this insect
 * 2) Shark longevity myth
 * 3) How to clean up the Pacific Garbage Patch?
 * 4) oxygen masks drop on planes
 * 5) Manufacturing Technique of First Transistor Makers
 * 6) How Long?
 * 7) re: the man with the golden gun's golden gun
 * 8) Faster than light neutrinos?

= October 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 21


 * 1) Spider ID
 * 2) does an equivalent of a SOFAR channel in the sun exist?
 * 3) Compatibility between GPS and Galileo
 * 4) Crohn's disease.
 * 5) Sky box uk
 * 6) Why human body gets heat up and cools in fever...?
 * 7) How Phone Companies Restrict Access To Paying Customers
 * 8) What is this please?

= October 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 22


 * 1) a fixed volume of gas is heated from 273K to 546K ... does free energy and entropy increase or decrease?
 * 2) Where can I get some brown or grey
 * 3) Mercury is more dense than lead?
 * 4) Archery
 * 5) More redox questions
 * 6) Measurement uncertainty
 * 7) Plutogenic
 * 8) malleability and ductility
 * 9) Minerals and radiactivity
 * 10) Faster than light travel, causality, and time dilation
 * 11) Effect of blood sugar on weight loss

= October 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 23


 * 1) Women & Yeast Infections
 * 2) ice age
 * 3) Neutrino interactions
 * 4) Why not ? (RDX)
 * 5) Molecular bonding
 * 6) Key is stuck in lock; how to remove anyhow?
 * 7) Center of mass of a van
 * 8) sleep
 * 9) 3 CRT questions
 * 10) Seismic wave polarisation

= October 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 24


 * 1) Reptile heat source
 * 2) Giant human skeleton
 * 3) breast cancer risk
 * 4) What color would the moon be
 * 5) Blue sky
 * 6) Ice
 * 7) How can a particle be its own antiparticle?
 * 8) bird "song"
 * 9) kinetic theory and compression: explaining Boyle's law

= October 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 25


 * 1) Speed of the average water molecule at room temperature?
 * 2) Lightsabers
 * 3) " dissolving " water in other solvents
 * 4) Price of airplane ticket: weight vs. volume
 * 5) Boas vs. pythons
 * 6) EMP effects on artificial pacemakers
 * 7) Decapitation
 * 8) Earthquakes and Brick Buildings

= October 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 26


 * 1) Phase space
 * 2) Can just anybody get fat?
 * 3) Photon to electron
 * 4) Dry ice snow

= October 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 27


 * 1) At the time of when Islam was first arose...
 * 2) If a proton were the size of our sun...
 * 3) Rods and cones in the male/female eye
 * 4) Laws of Physics
 * 5) Night vision
 * 6) How much heat can Asbestos withstand?
 * 7) Egyptian battery powered lamp
 * 8) not a science question, but...
 * 9) Human pheromone, sextual attractant
 * 10) metric system

= October 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 28


 * 1) How do human beings copulate?
 * 2) Molecular bonding II (Repost)
 * 3) Sequentially precipitating certain metal salts out of a solution
 * 4) to find out a pill cant find its use
 * 5) Red shift due to gravity, where does the energy go?
 * 6) What if the best lie detectors only worked on people who haven't been tortured?
 * 7) Contact lens + eyeglasses?
 * 8) Chlorine trifluoride
 * 9) contact lenses

= October 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 29


 * 1) opposite of attraction for black holes
 * 2) Antarctic station
 * 3) high-rise building
 * 4) Car battery
 * 5) uv400
 * 6) how fast is dynamite
 * 7) Getting rid of dishwashing liquid smell
 * 8) Starlight
 * 9) Calculating probabilities
 * 10) The smell of winter

= October 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 30


 * 1) botany
 * 2) Photon as source of  gravity
 * 3) Buying electronic components
 * 4) Solar System
 * 5) Non-stiff motorcycle/bike helmets

= October 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 31


 * 1) Colliding black holes
 * 2) Scientific integrity
 * 3) Firecracker pollution
 * 4) Dubois and Fernholz
 * 5) Australia's beaches
 * 6) Accurate test for mercury poisoning
 * 7) Scientist who controlled a bull's brain
 * 8) Identify large structures
 * 9) Florida building code
 * 10) Windows of buildings: Europe vs. US
 * 11) Adhesive connecting painted wood and Styrofoam
 * 12) IFF: The German roll
 * 13) Reverse Time
 * 14) Junk food
 * 15) Batteries