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May 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 May 1

1. Elephants are good mimics?!?!
2. Swine flu question
3. midlatitude cyclogenesis -- exactly how do low pressure systems deepen?
4. INVISABILITY CLOAK
5. To steve baker buddy about sodium
6. geostrophic/gradient wind and equilibrium
7. lifespan of dinosaurs
8. Mobile phone radiation
9. Radio waves and humans
10. most common basics to staying beautiful
11. medium oil
12. acid question
13. Creation of A Death Note?
14. Instincts in Humans
15. Materials science
16. Please help identify the correct species of this butterfly
17. Please help identify the correct species of this bird / duck / egret - what ever it is!
18. Alcohol (hand sanitizer, communion wine) and the flu

May 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 May 2

1. Correspondence section of scientific journals
2. Term for sounds or smells that trigger past memories
3. Hairy
4. Tear duct plugs
5. Speakers
6. Why can we envision things from before we were born?
7. Speed of Electricity Part II
8. B vitamins and stress?
9. Are all sexually reproducing animals genetically unique?
10. Science Channel Documentary and Quantum Uncertainty
11. Infinite speed communication
12. Liquid to solid phase change due to shock

May 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 May 3

1. virus evolution
2. Broken leg on a horse = death sentence?
3. Wikipedium
4. What happened to this gentleman?
5. Gyroscopic couple
6. Best shape of a blade to cut through a homogenous medium?
7. Tsunami hit US?
8. Pigs in Egypt
9. What is the Weight of the Earth in Pounds?
10. Is milk marked as hazardous
11. how do I frickin slice bread???
12. Endergonic but exothermic reaction
13. Unecessary use of radioalablled nucleotides?

May 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 May 4

1. Charging small objects
2. Lenz's law and equilibrium
3. Do container ships carry containers in their holds?
4. dimensions
5. foods that are unsafe COMBINED in stomache?
6. shelf life of ammo
7. Time travel (sorry)
8. Processional orbit
9. Spring stiffness

May 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 May 5

1. meaning of computer
2. Steve Baker
3. Overeating fish
4. Help understanding a poem
5. sawtooth wave amplifire.
6. How to convert between micrograms per ml and parts per million?
7. Extra-specific contagious yawn
8. Stabbing the brain dead
9. Act of (Human) Crying
10. Standing on the world's axis
11. Cross-breeding: human + something
12. Digital audio player with resume-from-playlist function
13. Best sources
14. Buoyant plume
15. spinning
16. Group velocity of a monochromatic wave

May 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 May 6

1. Wouldn't adding any potential energy to a system make something infinitely massive?
2. Gravity well thought experiment
3. Pls help me wid my hw?
4. Noisy flies
5. Cartridge specifications
6. Can you explain me this?
7. Spider Question
8. planetary search
9. Can our hops, or released bodies from the ground cause slip with respect to the Earth rotation?
10. Stirring vs. jiggling
11. Russian "quarantine" after spaceflight?
12. Birds tapping on windows

May 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 May 7

1. IQ
2. Dudaterin
3. Race of the Future
4. Living fungus?
5. Fly sounds
6. Double Slit Experiment
7. Science and believe
8. Saw sheet of tiny plant 1/8th inch high
9. where's the article for NH2COOH?
10. What causes fishy odour?
11. Relation between two angles in doppler effect
12. Mercury and Venus
13. EU / US mpg difference
14. Ringnecked parakeet

May 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 May 8

1. Skin color in Hindu art
2. Gravitational potential of an 'eccentric' object
3. How to ensure 100% RDA with supplements?
4. neutrons, protons and electrons
5. Surface tension
6. British bird identification/song question
7. Identifying a tree
8. Magnatite and hydrochloric acid
9. Random number
10. When two waves intercept at a right angle
11. youtube
12. mWS in a mesurement of pressure drop
13. buffer solution
14. Speed of magnetic and electric fields
15. Carbon Dioxide and Dry Ice
16. Aluminium in tap water, tea, vegetables, and foods?

May 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 May 9

1. Cockatiel Blues
2. Thought Experiment: Perpetual Energy
3. MSUD in Adults??
4. Earthquakes
5. Electric circuit for highpower sawtooth wave output.
6. Downshifting vs. braking
7. Climate change vs. Global warming
8. marine diesel engine
9. Kc calculation
10. teeth
11. Class of drug
12. How a factory works
13. Net charge of earth
14. Polynomial in several variables
15. cloud formation
16. Pur water filter.
17. Light bulb
18. Balanced symbol equation

May 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 May 10

1. Microwave oven question
2. has there ever been a double-blind study of any of the claims of the bible?
3. Quark strangeness and charm
4. Submarine hull breach
5. The volume of ice at the north and south ice caps and Greenland?
6. Time Travel
7. Psychokinesis
8. Why do males have nipples?
9. Physical error in Star Trek?
10. the sun's limb
11. Lightning Photographs

May 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 May 11

1. Quanta
2. Hypocenters
3. Chimera
4. "God probably doesn't exist"
5. Does half the voltage mean half the power?
6. What are the benefits of a tree structure?
7. Mutants leaving home to adapt

May 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 May 12

1. cold virus and cold water
2. using computer and eye problems
3. Temperature of the Exosphere
4. dogs and grass
5. Is the speed of everyones brain similar?
6. units
7. molecules and electrons
8. What's That Bug, episode 271,828,183
9. electrons and molecules
10. Removing COSTAR from Hubble
11. egg yolks
12. Common liquids
13. magnetic rotation
14. Redox
15. Keeping strong alcohol in plastic bottles

May 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 May 13

1. Blood in near vacuum
2. Runway threshold markings
3. Potential energy
4. MICROPROCESSOR
5. Hypnotic state of mind while watching t.v.
6. Sound Energy Converter
7. megawatt to kg, dm and minute
8. So I just measured my penis size, why am I not happy with it?
9. Why does sticking your thumb on a water hose make the water come out faster?
10. why do women love chocolate
11. Perspective of an electron
12. Grumbling Tummy

May 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 May 14

1. Zoological Society of London - Presidents and Secretaries
2. Nature of electron
3. Future remote DNA sampling
4. average life of furniture?
5. 'Bubbles' in the Sky
6. Name that disease
7. Faffing about in space
8. global positioning system
9. SI to cgs
10. meiosis
11. enhanced oil recovery
12. what is nitrostyrene?
13. KCN
14. Climate Chart Search
15. Rockets

May 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 May 15

1. Can tame, captive-bred animals be used to breed offspring that can be returned to the wild?
2. Huntington's disease in Scotland
3. Making the Rage Virus
4. Partial Pressure
5. Yet another perpetual motion machine
6. molarity
7. Gene Accession to Protein ID conversion
8. Wet, Soap, Wash, Rinse, Dry
9. What is reality ?
10. Left/right and relativity
11. Identify this military equipment
12. calculation
13. Biomass
14. EARTH
15. units

May 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 May 16

1. Dryer sheets
2. Digestion
3. Bird identification
4. Suicide Bridge
5. Age and energy
6. Swans - can they break your arm?
7. is there any evidence that the NSA uses Papal infallibility?
8. How to identify flowering plants - both wild and garden?
9. Adaptation or death effect?
10. Minimum force to break an arm (inspired by swan question above)
11. HIV antibody testing
12. Metal Salts
13. quantum mechanics
14. Is it physically possible to rip a man's arm off with your bare hands?
15. Infinite Improbability
16. Science Desk Question
17. TB treatment that grants immunity to lung cancer?
18. Time Zones

May 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 May 17

1. what spider is this?
2. Variable Frequency Sine Wave Generator
3. Human digestive system - top speed? ;-)
4. 3 PHASE IN ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM
5. Egg crystals?
6. Little gas poker
7. What is the name of this bird?
8. HIV and preeclampsia
9. LOL
10. Magic and illusion
11. Lye in a swimming pool

May 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 May 18

1. Dry skin itch
2. Evidence of a civilization a billion years ago
3. coefficient of volume elasticity
4. dimensional analysis
5. Brain health
6. Houseplant identification please...
7. Earth Rotation Effects
8. name that snake
9. 8D type batteries
10. Name that fluffy white lint bug!
11. Radios in tunnels
12. fuel stability
13. Does space feel cold?
14. Plastics, Playdough and thermoelastisity
15. Identifying some Australian animals from Sydney Wildlife World

May 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 May 19

1. Tree questions
2. dimensional question
3. explosive force calculation based on weight.mythbusters??
4. cats landing on their feet
5. mass increase or mass energy equivalence
6. artifact hoaxes
7. momentum and relativity
8. biomedical projects?
9. Number of individual lifeforms on this planet?
10. Film speed vs. digital gain?
11. Amount of vegetable fat in ml
12. Involuntary digestive organs?
13. Climate Variation
14. Radios in tunnels
15. fuel stability
16. Does space feel cold?
17. Plastics, Playdough and thermoelastisity
18. Identifying some Australian animals from Sydney Wildlife World

May 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 May 20

1. What labs, books, and conferences are there about research on the neuroscience of empathy?
2. Throwing a ball of wool (or twine) to a lion/tiger...
3. Genus
4. Butterflies/moths identification
5. Work = Force*Distance or = Force*Time?
6. How to best boil water?
7. Unability to lose fat?
8. CO₂
9. Hubble Propulsion
10. Setup to play music in apartment
11. Human Skulls
12. mt doom
13. Professional sport gamblers
14. Early primate Darwinius shown at keyboard?

May 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 May 21

1. Coraline and Real-D
2. Velocity profile of typical 12V DC electric motor
3. Was the ice age cold enough?
4. When birds sleep...
5. On the topic of thunderstorms and humans
6. Avoiding sexual arousal
7. Rules of thumb to identify wildflowers?
8. Biology - water
9. Self-suggestibility - link to confabulation?
10. Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
11. Scanning western blots randomises results...
12. Energy from walking feet

May 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 May 22

1. does THC cause weed's smell?
2. Hypermetropia
3. Lilac bushes
4. BTU'S produced by a conventional 4 or 6 cylinder engine
5. List of longest rivers in Poland
6. Eating too little fats
7. Question
8. Question 2
9. How long before the earth runs out of food?
10. food web
11. Phlegm and vocal range
12. Calulating the Surface Area of the Human Body
13. Hip anatomy
14. When did fruit bearing plants first evolve and what was the first fruits?
15. Dendritic cells
16. What is the average pushing power of a man in psi
17. Fancy Guppy Reproduction

May 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 May 23

1. Solar-powered vending machine indoors?
2. Insect identification
3. Air vortex force calculation
4. Fancy swordcraft and damaged clothing...
5. Calculating oversteer/drift in a car
6. Today's featured pic
7. Looking for a quote by Taiichi Ohno
8. Breaking stength of an extension cord.
9. Mystery sea creature
10. 5d optical recording
11. Irresistible force paradox

May 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 May 24

1. Cold air
2. Cartophilia
3. Cooler to wear long sleeves in the sun?
4. Strange blue sea creature on NSW coastline
5. Theoretical lower bound of maximum member load in a truss?
6. Swimming pigs
7. How "lagged" is my television or radio?
8. Why do humans need fat in their diet?
9. Why is the Dust bowl no longer a problem?
10. Building muscle
11. Instrumentation
12. Powering a Phobos Colony
13. flourescent lights inop.
14. prognostic markers
15. Saturn floating on water
16. Weird Bug
17. Jet fighter sledging along on wet grass

May 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 May 25

1. Casino Royal Poisoning Scene
2. Virginity -- Celibacy
3. Strange aircraft wing
4. derating factor
5. Steam II
6. Gray hair
7. Racism and science.
8. casimir effect pressure anomalies
9. the color of protons/nutrons
10. Snakes
11. Spider eyes
12. "You can lead a cow up a flight of stairs but not down a flight of stairs - because of the design of their legs..."
13. Distance That Whale Song Is Audible
14. scientific method and evolution
15. Predicting Rainstorms

May 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 May 26

1. Understanding the Michelson-Morley Experiment
2. why do dragsters have thick tyres?
3. What does the "d" stand for?
4. UNIVERSE
5. Health care professional slapping patients
6. Bird-flight
7. Smoke deflectors on steam trains
8. cats
9. 60m
10. Adding R-values for bulk ceiling insulation not allowed

May 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 May 27

1. Amalgam
2. MM Experiment
3. Root growth in cut roses
4. Who are these things?
5. A Zeppelin filled with helium
6. Concave tympanic membrane
7. Are gulls lactose intolerant?
8. Could a human break their own neck simply by unassisted extreme rotation?
9. casimir effect pressure anomalies 2
10. Reliability of Air Armament
11. Medical term
12. helium production
13. Burning fat
14. chemistry
15. Self-published scientific magazine
16. What makes organisms yellow?
17. calluses on fingers
18. Passage of matter through descendents
19. Genetic crossing notation

May 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 May 28

1. Cat physiology
2. Incubation Period
3. Sound ever transverse?
4. Maximum optical zoom
5. Live Google Maps
6. Does heat contribute to production or increase in PCB's (Polychlorinated Biphenyls)
7. What is needed to heal Humanity's ills?
8. Cerebral Hemispheric Dominance
9. Motor Oil
10. Poor TV picture improves a lot when VCR on
11. determining diet via feces
12. Mix rice varieties to reduce clumping?
13. two questions about force, motion , and displacement
14. Fog and cloud

May 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 May 29

1. Time quickens?
2. TV signal splitters for coaxial cables
3. Why are cockroaches such a pest in the US but not in the UK?
4. Automatic train control
5. relay setting calculation for spaj 140 c
6. Pork
7. beer freezing
8. Best solvent for a blocked printer head?
9. Sleep
10. Fetus affected by anesthesia?
11. Could this rocket put a person into space?
12. pH change at river mouth?

May 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 May 30

1. Plumeria
2. Carnivores' flesh indigestible for humans?
3. Body pressure and atmoshperic pressure
4. Numerical Schrodinger solutions
5. Is burnt food bad for you?
6. Storage capacity of the human brain, in gigabytes?
7. light acting like a solid

May 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 May 31

1. Determining the Concentration of a Solution
2. Particle interactions
3. New islands found in aerial/satellite photos?
4. Relationship b/w focal length and magnification of a lens and of a mirror
5. Basic advantage of hybrid cars
6. How many human beings can Australia support?
7. General Motors EV1
8. Do owls ever get aggressive with people?
9. Muscle Contraction question
10. Downtown Tokyo
11. La Défense