Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/March 2009

Welcome to the Wikipedia Science Reference Desk Archives
The page you are currently viewing is a monthly archive index. While you can leave answers for any questions shown below, please ask new questions on one of the current reference desk pages.

March 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 1

1. Lineage dna testing
2. voice on the moon
3. Do Homophobic Men Harbor Secret Homosexual Desires?
4. How long would my body take to realize I'm healthy again?
5. Psychology: why is working on computer dull, but computer games fun?

March 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 2

1. Egyptian Goose?
2. Is there a psychological reason why...
3. Nonstick coatings
4. Established biological basis for neuroses and biological therapy!
5. Hardness of teeth
6. Blow it out your hole...
7. Chloroplasts and mitochondria
8. Eggs or secretion by unknown Animal/Creature ?
9. About miracles
10. Creating New Land
11. Death by bloating
12. Damming the Strait of Gibraltar
13. Gardening: Are hardy annuals usually or always self-seeding?

March 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 3

1. do indoor roses need a night phase?
2. How bad are shrooms for you?
3. Are chard and beets the same plant? "beta vulgaris"
4. sub : Quantum mechanics
5. I do not understand Faster-Than-Light( physics, relativity) article
6. Unpleasant screeching noises
7. dual exhaust and fuel efficiency
8. Angular momentum

March 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 4

1. Creation (and use) of mass alternative fuel based cars would solve the petroleum Environmental effects?
2. Density
3. Length of one second in meters
4. Plumbide
5. medium oil
6. Legal "uppers"
7. Fluid therapy
8. The Rust Process
9. Birds and sex
10. Expected decline of the Earth biosphere
11. looking for a photo

March 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 5

1. Osseous structures and soft tissue uptake in L3 vertebra
2. magnatizing a charged body
3. How do we know how high the sea level was 500 million years ago?
4. Chlorine in tap water
5. Interchangeable left and right hand driving
6. Systemic Beta Hemolysis Infection
7. Woman with 3 breasts
8. LC/NE system and the ascending activating systems
9. Question on mag fields and EMF
10. Force meter question
11. Why blood groups and Rh?
12. Malaria: Worst. Disease. Ever?
13. Hypertension

March 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 6

1. Early Lifeforms
2. Carbon again
3. science joke
4. Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy
5. Unsure...?
6. Writing on batteries
7. How does VIH resist reverse transcriptase inhibitors?
8. Clean coal...for real?

March 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 7

1. My penis is multicoloured (this is not a joke or vandalism)
2. Is the Yangtze River drying up?
3. perpetual motion machine
4. why is there no article about biological (genetic) basis of breeding?
5. Prevailing winds in Israel?
6. Work done by magnetic fields
7. Species commonly known by binomial name?

March 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 8

1. King Faisal's Dream
2. Crystal structures in Anza Borrego (California) State Park
3. destroy the copper
4. Strange Lamarckian studies...
5. Why do cancers seem to have purposeful ways of spreading or resisting death, yet cannot have evolved?
6. HDU
7. Doe anybody have the Book introduction to Biotechnogy By Thieman
8. Interpreting food nutritional value data
9. What are the lower limits for RDA for saturated fat
10. Is This a Valid Concept in Evolution?

March 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 9

1. Exploding Cell Phones During Recharging
2. Hardness of diorite?
3. Identify an insect
4. Are all treatments that depend on belief placebos?
5. does atmospheric pressure include the vapor pressure of the water vapor in it?
6. air sacs
7. Meson number
8. photons
9. light
10. light
11. The meaning of Frequency in physics
12. Heparin and Bleeding Tests
13. SNOMED-CT abbreviations
14. Communicating meaning with distant space aliens - no pictures allowed

March 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 10

1. blood alchohol content
2. Rainbows
3. Eye-testing telescopes?
4. Bananas
5. Encoder for remote application
6. Effect of heat on the weight of gold?
7. Running dog
8. Sparrow behavior
9. Energy loss in Reflection (intensity loss) [formula wanted please]
10. benefits of wanking
11. We need to settle a debate: Athletic vs Non-Athletic People
12. Looking for a biochem comic
13. Loop-the-loop on a skateboard

March 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 11

1. Tongs Cause Illness!
2. Disinfecting a Chicken Wing
3. How does cancer kill people?
4. Hygiene without soap
5. Is my head younger than my feet?
6. Finger and toenails
7. dark matter 2 questions
8. Gibb's free energy of a reaction
9. Poison Ivy Tolerance
10. nearsighted from reading?
11. what is the most false thing generally accepted in science as true?
12. Pancreatic cancer

March 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 12

1. Chemical reaction writing programs
2. Heat in the human brain
3. Rhesus incompatibility
4. What is the usefulness of hESC compared to Adult stem cells
5. Tomentella Fungus and Dicrocoelium dendriticum
6. Surgery
7. Orchid Species
8. Genetic traits split across continents

March 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 13

1. Name of a test
2. Worms in face
3. Pressure ridges in ice
4. Formula Unit vs Empirical Formula (Ionic Compounds)
5. Is there a theoretical maximum upper limit to handgun size?
6. Toilet seat warmers
7. Donating bodies
8. Are psychological illnesses contagious?
9. UV light to reveal body fluids // cat spray
10. Uranian axis tilt > 90 degrees?
11. Any difference between brush with a dry or wet toothbrush?
12. Breathing dust from cat litter, unhealthy?
13. Molecular bio technique: protein expression?
14. Need information from an Icarus article
15. Evaporation of methanol/water mixture
16. banded krait bite
17. Corneal diseases of less severity than Fuch's Dystrophy
18. Why the location of the new Russian spaceport?
19. X-Z motorized stage

March 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 14

1. Soundwaves
2. In what year in firearms history was antimony first added to lead in the manufacture of bullets?
3. Orbits of moons
4. Solutions
5. Cataract surgery
6. Jaundice
7. light in context with black holes
8. domestic turkeys
9. Why is it that bullets often don't have nice round numbers for their calibers?
10. Why do some ducks quack constantly?
11. CO2 in an aquarium

March 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 15

1. Melatonin activity and the human eye
2. Pain in the...eye
3. Death
4. Tesla's wireless electricity
5. Roses: meaning of "perpetually" or "repeat" flowering
6. When is certain pet article content a "How To"

March 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 16

1. Turning a clear LED light bulb into a frosted one
2. Optimum sizes/shapes for ice cubes
3. Animal olympics
4. Solar cooker
5. Killer cancer
6. Measurement of breast size by water displacement
7. Why doesn't clingfilm / plastic wrap cling to Parmesan?
8. Transmission line simple problem
9. error in lorentz transformation
10. Perchloric acid
11. nutrition
12. why?who?when?what? (questions)
13. Supermassive black hole collisions...again.
14. VERNIER CALLIPER
15. German toilet
16. bladder removal
17. Lice
18. Euclid's Elements
19. Painful bumps in Inner Lip

March 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 17

1. Trachelospermum jasminoides
2. piperazine
3. Theory of Chemical Emotions: Pointless to Pursue Happiness?
4. Flashbangs
5. car farts
6. Astronomy/night sky question

March 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 18

1. Launching a satellite via balloon
2. Light can't be seen unless it's reflecting off of matter
3. technology
4. How does it affect our lives to know why particles have mass
5. Evolution
6. Methanol again
7. learning languages
8. Surgery complications and PT age
9. Question about the knee
10. Materials
11. INDENTED CONCRETIONS
12. Super conducting armor vs. Lightning
13. Laser application
14. earliest/latest snow
15. How to write on a photgraph
16. Black hole thermodynamics and gravity
17. meteorite
18. How does one teach a parrot to ride a tricycle?

March 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 19

1. Natasha Richardson's fall
2. Yellow cheese
3. A possible problem with spinning for Artificial Gravity
4. I spent a year and a half on Mars and all I got was this stupid t-shirt...
5. Research with Blood
6. Waterflow of the Amazon River
7. query
8. Biochemical processes within crocodile...
9. Cold-hearted orb that rules the night....
10. Stents
11. Help Me! I am stuck on some issues about Evolution
12. Soami Oil?
13. Laser safety
14. String theory
15. What's that smell?
16. Pharmacological naming convention
17. sinus operation......
18. Focalin shortage?
19. doors
20. Synthesis of Vanillin from Benzene
21. Free will
22. Carbon Fiber
23. hair drug tests

March 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 20

1. Supernova confusion, and the fate of nearby/bright stars
2. hair tests again
3. Are humans the fastest long distance runners?
4. When the sun becomes a red giant...
5. whats the origin of universe
6. the iron content in steel wool lab queries
7. potential energy
8. pls help...
9. does anyone know??
10. can anyone help...
11. Solar Panels
12. Russell Watson Brian Tumor
13. Should I add this to an article? Electrolyzed water applications

March 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 21

1. Olaflur
2. sweetness equivalent of the Scoville scale?
3. cacti
4. Depth of Field vs. aperture diameter
5. High Pressure lighting fixtures
6. Is this Munchausen, or...?

March 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 22

1. Pick on somebody your own size...
2. Pyrethrins
3. Metal spoon in microwave
4. ATTN Steve Baker - do we really have complete dinosaur dna like in Jurassic Park?
5. Falling
6. 1 Milkshake, 2 straws
7. Injuries causing memory loss

March 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 23

1. zero point energy questions
2. protonation of the alcohol group in 2-methylcyclohexanol
3. Folic acid
4. Scaled Drawing
5. mirlodermabration
6. Monophyly of amphibians
7. Expansion of Space
8. Wren diet
9. Wolves, dogs and foxes
10. Windmill Turbines
11. ammonium nitrate

March 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 24

1. Dystonia and body movement
2. Fingerprints
3. Cancer or Sickle Cell????
4. Humanity as a negative example?
5. How long do CDs last?
6. Fingernail
7. What's the hottest a human can stand for more than a few seconds?
8. Expansion of space cont.
9. Dark energy
10. Syngerism
11. How bright is Earth in the radio astronomy sky?

March 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 25

1. Radioactive sickness?
2. In Flight Pitch Control / Dive or Stall
3. Mount st Helens
4. Sunny Delight
5. Endocrine stress system
6. vegetable oil for fuel
7. Red decoder screen reveals blue text?
8. Optical inversion, but not reversal?
9. Fault zone or short metamorphism
10. Earth Warming... not!

March 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 26

1. Gravitomagnetism
2. Is human food killing the seagulls?
3. Adverse drug reaction: Rabeprazole
4. Identify this fish!
5. Electric arcs: Possible terahertz sources?
6. A quantum mechanical "proof" that any positive real number is zero

March 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 27

1. Simple Motor -- Won't Work -- Please Help
2. Radio source SHGb02+14a
3. ecg explanation
4. Historical composition of shaving creams?
5. Speed of light and time
6. Muscle Tearing from 1st Time Strength Training
7. Ice cores
8. Does all life share some genetic code?
9. Make time history from PSD?
10. list of self HOMO-LUMO gaps (especially that of chlorophyll a)
11. Seasonal affective disorder and sunshine advertising

March 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 28

1. Antibiotic deodorant
2. How do pet parrots perceive humans?
3. Mechanism of Copper (II) Sulphate on the iodine clock reaction
4. Neuro Behcet's disease
5. HER2/neu
6. Frequency in physics
7. What would actually happen if you used a defibrillator on yourself?
8. When does a square become a rectangle (Psychology)?

March 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 29

1. Marsupials
2. Indoor Vs Outdoor Air Quality
3. Nutritional Question
4. Galaxy cluster data
5. Attributes or Parameters of Sound
6. Alien Fast and Slow thinkers.
7. Possibility of recovering methane hydrate from seabed

March 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 30

1. why don't sugars taste like alcohols?
2. Developing immunity or resistance to a pathogen
3. macrophage apoptosis and fever
4. Humans on Titans surface.
5. monochrome TV transmitter and reciever
6. Send analog values over isolated grounds
7. Doppleganger
8. Hello - you're on Car Talk...

March 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 March 31

1. If raptor-type dinosaurs existed today...
2. New York City higher education
3. Electric car
4. Alternatives Sleep
5. Buried in flies
6. VH-3D Sea King [Obamacopter] range
7. Valuable garbage
8. rss feed
9. Eating carnivorous animals
10. extra part
11. chemistry
12. Cleverness
13. Science types needed