Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/October 2013

= October 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 1


 * 1) Car power
 * 2) Solubility units
 * 3) Common ancestor in the theory of evolution
 * 4) The tortoise and the hare
 * 5) Limits of a dynamo
 * 6) Bad eggs?
 * 7) semiconductors called alloys
 * 8) yDNA results
 * 9) Identify species of grasshopper

= October 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 2


 * 1) Can human live for a long period under a gravity of 2g?
 * 2) Magistral blood vessels
 * 3) Rabies as a behavior-altering parasite
 * 4) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 2#‎chemicals_.28.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fen.wikipedia.org.2Fw.2Findex.php.3Ftitle.3DWikipedia.253AReference_desk.252FScience.26diff.3D575462324.26oldid.3D575456347_affect_of_sleep_on_brain_chemicals_involved_in_memory.5D.29|‎chemicals (affect of sleep on brain chemicals involved in memory)]]
 * 5) How much alcoholic content is in church wine in Orthodox churches?
 * 6) Do any ancient Egyptian drugs cause amnesia?
 * 7) redox buffer? Acids and bases have buffers, why not oxidizing and reducing agents?
 * 8) parallel and series cct
 * 9) Ancestor of human races

= October 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 3


 * 1) Sugar conductivity
 * 2) Space-time origami
 * 3) Ionic bonds
 * 4) Equation
 * 5) Concrete mixer truck

= October 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 5


 * 1) 3D printer that can make a copy of itself
 * 2) Neanderthal diets
 * 3) Why does skin feel nicer after a shower?
 * 4) Side Effect -vs- Symptom in Psychological Disorders (context = psychopathy)
 * 5) Is the tricuspid valve identical to the semilunar valve?
 * 6) Do batteries exposed to the cold lose their ability to produce power permanently or just temporarily?

= October 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 6


 * 1) SAM system guided by phased array radar whose components are distributed over a wide area
 * 2) Anomolous nature of LiAlH4
 * 3) Islamophobia
 * 4) Sal ammoniac for soldering and "tip refresher"

= October 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 7


 * 1) Fossils in antartica
 * 2) What's the likelihood of a disease occuring by means of a french kiss?
 * 3) Could we eat grass?
 * 4) Brain wrinkles

= October 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 8


 * 1) Going to Space
 * 2) 1999 gmc yukon slt
 * 3) I have a chemistry question: If you mix hydroxycitric acid and Atropa_belladonna together in a bowl what will happen?
 * 4) Good alcohol, bad alcohol
 * 5) Suppose the entire observed and extropalated universe

= October 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 9


 * 1) Does anyone know of philosophers or physicists who've discussed turtles all the way down vs.
 * 2) Chemistry
 * 3) Saturated fat research

= October 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 10


 * 1) Compulsive disorder
 * 2) Types of Iodine?
 * 3) Fluorine planet
 * 4) I'd like to submerge my hands in boiling water...
 * 5) Ancient  years
 * 6) Non-flammable explosive
 * 7) Efficiency of a thermodynamic cycle
 * 8) Rain in Midwest United States
 * 9) Georgia's water shortage

= October 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 11


 * 1) Have people really fused with their own sofas?
 * 2) Why do light rays bend while passing from one medium to another (during refraction)?
 * 3) Metal used in hard disk drive chassis?
 * 4) What kind of spider is this?
 * 5) Say WHAT?  Nostril specific sniffing test for Alzheimers
 * 6) Ethics in scientific research
 * 7) Digital clock speeding up.
 * 8) Photonic molecules

= October 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 12


 * 1) Eat stuff or convert light into energy
 * 2) Einstein disproof of Friedmann's expanding universe calculations?
 * 3) What roads (non-mwy) in the UK have jct numbers?

= October 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 13


 * 1) Floor tile material
 * 2) Vegetable identification
 * 3) Solution book of University Physics with modern Physics 13th edition
 * 4) What is a prepalate?
 * 5) What is the scientific explanation for this !
 * 6) Is there any picture of the mixed flow compressor in the pratt and whitney pw 600f?
 * 7) amazing spider web bridge line (which type of spider?
 * 8) Male and female variation, height and puberty

= October 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 14


 * 1) Do fruit flies spontaneously generate?
 * 2) Spectral radiance/Planck's law
 * 3) Are neutron star collision energies as large as supernova energies?
 * 4) Cytomegalovirus and HIV
 * 5) Is light from light-emitting diode emitted with same phase?
 * 6) What is the opposite of Wikipedia's List of mental disorders?
 * 7) Can axon tracts travel *around* the internal capsule?

= October 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 15


 * 1) Overview of chemistry - book?
 * 2) ray of light theory of eyes
 * 3) binder related to textile.
 * 4) Thermal radiation
 * 5) Surgical Caps and Shoe Covers
 * 6) Domestic waste solder
 * 7) Human mortality question

= October 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 16


 * 1) Trackside thing
 * 2) Children crying because they can't do something?
 * 3) Power used by mobile phone and radio towers
 * 4) A geometrical analyze of camera capture blur?
 * 5) Can natural remedies also be synthetic?
 * 6) Antibiotics in routine lab work
 * 7) Bupropion: Elontril and Wellbutrin
 * 8) Lucid dreams
 * 9) is it true you can peer into the distant past?
 * 10) Quantum Relative Entropy

= October 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 17


 * 1) Second opinion
 * 2) Why do people tie off their arms when shooting up?
 * 3) Fish tank
 * 4) Good scholarly sources
 * 5) Drinking coke
 * 6) Megawats, generating capacity and consumption
 * 7) How much time should I studying for the astronomy GCSE?
 * 8) Binaural beats

= October 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 18


 * 1) DNA variability within a single organism
 * 2) Hot food kills good gut bacteria?
 * 3) Hydrocarbon smell
 * 4) Nazi gas chambers
 * 5) How to make a real 3D movie?
 * 6) How long from TIA to CVA (stroke)
 * 7) How rare is it to have no viewable eclipse for 5 2/3 yrs?
 * 8) CFL fixture problem

= October 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 19


 * 1) Global warming and agriculture
 * 2) Icebreaker
 * 3) Largest and most used Gastroenterology textbook?
 * 4) Asymmetric reciprocal effects
 * 5) i ask you again:is there any picture or graphic of the mixed flow compressor from the Pratt and Whitney pw610f?
 * 6) Special dietary treatments for Autism
 * 7) Potential Energy and Kinetic Energy
 * 8) Recrystalization vs. acid-base extraction
 * 9) Health effects of low exposure to pesticides

= October 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 20


 * 1) Measuring tension in a belt
 * 2) Is reading in your DNA?
 * 3) Dropping a Slinky
 * 4) Power use in simple remote control
 * 5) Can airplane runways be sloped?
 * 6) Galvanised nails as plant water sensors
 * 7) Effects of high speeds in outer space
 * 8) Did the Nazis  performed unethical psychological experiments too?

= October 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 21


 * 1) Metric
 * 2) Regarding the absence of a very well known info on SEXUAL DESIRE on wikipedia
 * 3) Opportunities for Exploring Comets and Minor Planets
 * 4) Soda pop can exploding when frozen
 * 5) Meat from unstressed animals
 * 6) Cline variation
 * 7) Why are screw propeler more efficient than paddle wheels?

= October 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 22


 * 1) Penicillin-producing fungi in the human body
 * 2) House dust mite - Helping me with this could very well improve my life
 * 3) Damp clothes smell
 * 4) anaphilaxis and andrenaline
 * 5) Looking for articles or references on epidemics due to lack of immunity
 * 6) is space what we really see?
 * 7) Feeding habits of the subterranean invertebrata
 * 8) Cleaning from background radiation
 * 9) Smog contest: Great Smog of 1952 in London versus today in Harbin, China
 * 10) What is this medical process called?

= October 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 23


 * 1) Killed so quickly pain is not registered
 * 2) Cryogenic neutrons
 * 3) Pin tumbler lock
 * 4) Escape velocity
 * 5) How do mirrors work ?
 * 6) Ammonia to remove mildew from clothes?
 * 7) Repotting a Marigold and Inducing Flowering
 * 8) cancer evolution

= October 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 24


 * 1) Why does the green of afterimages look so weird?
 * 2) Deflection calculation
 * 3) Can lungs by cleaned by inhaling a spray of lung macrophages?
 * 4) Plugged noses

= October 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 25


 * 1) Soil dynamics
 * 2) Mr Frosty cryogenic storage containers - replacing isopropyl alcohol
 * 3) Sooo.... what does the fox say?

= October 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 26


 * 1) Elements in other stellar systems
 * 2) What is the velocity of the particle at the origin?
 * 3) Flexible-fuel vehicle: diesel + ethanol + gasoline
 * 4) physics (T-equation is the the real solution of time dependent Schrodinger wave equation)
 * 5) Hunting oscillation
 * 6) "Real world" length contraction

= October 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 27


 * 1) About (vomitting while) pregnant
 * 2) Insolation as a function of latitude (alone)
 * 3) Woolly bear caterpillars
 * 4) Fukushima radiation on the NW coast of the US

= October 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 28


 * 1) Ice cube capilliary free energy?
 * 2) Touching a black dwarf
 * 3) Infrared and microwave radiation
 * 4) How to research symbols?

= October 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 29


 * 1) Voltage divider.
 * 2) Questions about Dietry Fibers
 * 3) Wouldn't retrograde amnesia erase a person's mental illnesses too?
 * 4) Side-stick controls in cockpits
 * 5) Animal learning by experiences of other animals without direct exposure themselves...
 * 6) Does anybody know how many citations an article has been cited?

= October 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 30


 * 1) The term for the tendency for dominant entities to get more dominant
 * 2) Heisenberg's delusion of adequately well behaved standard reality?
 * 3) Division by nothing
 * 4) Drinking Ethanol, does it makes you live longer?
 * 5) Practically visible universe stops growing
 * 6) XENON-100 project regarding dark matter detection?

= October 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 31


 * 1) Testing for Pink Noise
 * 2) Agriculture and global food supply
 * 3) World Population in 50 years
 * 4) Trousers
 * 5) RPG-29
 * 6) 'Real world length contraction' moved to archives. Why?
 * 7) Contracted Earth diameter and atmosphere depth
 * 8) SSRI/SSNRI WITHDRAWAL
 * 9) Effect of poor Eyesight on life skill development