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December 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 1

1. How scientific is economics?
2. The hard science use of Wikipedia
3. Meaning of endorse and endorsement in psychiatry

December 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 2

1. why is it cold at the north and south poles of the earth?
2. Phenylketonuria and Obesity
3. What is the reason that the covalent bonds are least specific?
4. Why is keratin not as conductive as the skin on your finger?
5. desert geography

December 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 3

1. rephrasing of my question
2. Drivers of diesels who have to park in the cold
3. People with knowledge in Organic chemistry Symphatomimetic amines
4. gemstone questions
5. How long would Lake Erie have to be before Buffalo's climate gets less snow?
6. Is the Adrenaline agonist while in the same time it's antagonist too?
7. How do I make a perfect cup of hot cocoa?
8. Shape of the continents
9. PLL vs band-pass
10. Conversion
11. Is ascorbic acid strong enough to dissolve skin?
12. How does a multicellular, eukaryotic body treat heat-resistant pathogenic bacteria?
13. Correcting a user's name in sandbox

December 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 4

1. Making wine like soda?
2. UK "Quantum hubs" applications
3. Will there be any consequences if a human eats the glands of an animal?
4. How do insects drink water?
5. Isentropic efficiency of gas expansion process
6. cold fusion

December 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 5

1. Does punctuated evolution provide an explanation for the lack of transitional species?
2. Moment in a prestressed concrete beam
3. Why does "Specific receptor binding" occur with drugs that are extremely small (such as Lithium)?
4. Einstein's theory

December 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 6

1. How to make crystal meth ?
2. Swimming owl
3. Stars
4. Anorectic stimulants and Gastric symptoms
5. How many kilometres per hour does the earth orbit around the sun at?
6. Thermal resistivity of tungsten/molybdenum alloy (Dowmo alloy)
7. Why 4 contact points in battery?

December 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 7

1. Concrete core in tall buildings
2. Bamboo structural behaviour
3. Why don't people want to find out what kind of genetic disorders they have in their genes?
4. Papain as male contraceptive
5. James Watson's remarks
6. Schröckingerite
7. Using fabric scissors to cut paper

December 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 8

1. Virus contagiousness
2. Baldness in males
3. Very begulling
4. Largest venomous/poisonous organisms
5. Wooden chopping board on induction cooktop
6. Universe's radius and the Big Bang's start point
7. Antikythera mechanism questions
8. Minimum air speed for traversing time zones faster than sun
9. Medicinal Mushrooms Article Disappeared

December 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 9

1. What a shock! You almost gave me a heart attack!
2. Diabetes and hypoglycemia
3. Facial surgery
4. Deaf and blind people interacting with traffic
5. Ethics of cloning humans without brains
6. Defences against EMP
7. How many lecture hours does a bachelor of science have?
8. If you cannot breath, can you say "I cannot breath?"

December 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 10

1. Relativity Question
2. How does an embryo know where to grow limbs etc
3. Do mammals develop tolerance to anticholinergics?
4. Genes & Memory
5. Speed of Light
6. Vaska's complex and its amazing triple-bonded oxygen
7. Did my stain evaporate ?
8. "Artificial" smallpox

December 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 11

1. Voice impersonation
2. How can fresh cavities form at the margins of sliver amalgam fillings on teeth?
3. effect of pupil responses on the electroretinogram
4. What is the reason for low blood pressure during pregnancy?
5. A/D using digipot?
6. Why does Vitamin E called "antisterility"?
7. Candies' strange behavior
8. what was the incidence rate of general opc by 2007?
9. why doesn't the atmosphere burn if it contains oxygen?

December 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 12

1. Why is it, when we need to cry, it just doesn't work?
2. The suffix "olol" in the three beta blockers: "Propranolol" "Atenolol" "Metoprolol "
3. What will be the influence of the place without gravity on the cardiovascular system?
4. self-destruct capabilities of military craft
5. Tomato sauce as detergent
6. Bubbles on chocolate milk

December 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 13

1. how does evolutoin come up with CRAZY stuff like, "I'll wrap my tongue all the way around my head and through my nostrils"?
2. Can animals without a prefrontal cortex have anxiety disorders?
3. Does GPS need satellites?
4. What is the relation between green foods and vitamin k?
5. How would we observe wormholes?
6. Carbonylated dihydridoiron

December 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 14

1. depression
2. Jellyfish snacks
3. Tips for ACS Test?
4. Post-translationational modification
5. Bending stresses in a beam
6. Battery charger: are they fail-safe?
7. Which type of material is the most friendly for human body in transplantation?
8. Humanities

December 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 15

1. When taking a shower, does the body loses liquids (/water)?
2. Why is the day divided into 24 hours?
3. Heating Shale Oil with Microwaves
4. Long-term effects of antihistamines on mind and CNS
5. B cell receptor editing
6. Why can't you just buy antibiotics?
7. How many percents of the human blood are water?
8. What is the strongest organ in the human body, in all aspects?
9. Where can I read about the influence of the gravity on the blood pressure?
10. What do nutrient deficiencies tell us about early modern human diet?
11. Do animals in nature just copulate among their peers?
12. Capillary action in a tube of insufficient length in a gravity free space
13. Sanity Test for Einstein's Train Experiment

December 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 16

1. Why we shouldn't eat already dead animal instead of killing & eat them?
2. Why does anxiety cause diarrhea or constipation?
3. Sound from laying your head on your hand
4. physics
5. Mumps
6. Is it known which drug is with the longest half life
7. Why wouldn't Mcdonald's French Fries rot?
8. Can you "see" a cell-phone probing for a network?

December 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 17

1. Mystery fruit (?) in hay bale
2. Gap in teeth
3. Missing teeth (technical terms)
4. Heat engine problem
5. What's the centre of mass of the Local Group of galaxies?
6. How accurate is reentry?
7. Lioness hunting tactics
8. Bugging the outdoors with spiderweb-like antennas

December 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 18

1. Hydrochloric acid and methylbenzene
2. why is time known as the fourth dimension?
3. Changes in Mammalian Milk composition - Biochemistry question
4. circuit analysis
5. How do the enzymes and nutrients in breast milk survive body temperature?
6. Resistance of electrically conductive paint.
7. Cloning by chance
8. How much would it cost get tested for every genetic risk factor known to man?
9. In your hair

December 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 19

1. Did anyone ever make a weird mathematical treatment of physics with extra dimensions of time?
2. Is the heart's valves made of cartilage?
3. Is it true that any tendon has two sides - one connected to muscle and the other to the bone or cartilage?
4. how many people with gonorhea eventually go on to develop prostatitis?
5. HIV testing
6. Relative concentration of Chitinase in various fruits

December 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 20

1. Tiny islands
2. Were blacksmiths losing their hearing?
3. Is not keeping bread in a fridge really a good piece of advice?
4. A to D s
5. Could fat tissue be a beneficial cancer?
6. Could slow-growing cases of prostate cancer be beneficial in some cases?
7. Electrical wiring – wrapping electrical tape around swtiches and receptales
8. Why does running water cause the need to urinate?

December 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 21

1. First date similarity to job interview
2. Strength of 3D Printer Plastic
3. Physics in the movie Gravity
4. Not quite a robot, so what do you call it?

December 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 22

1. What is the difference between tap water to the physiology solution?
2. When I take a shower does I lose my body water?
3. Why weren't compound bows invented much sooner?
4. many versions forms of the arm veins
5. Given a perfectly sealed airship, could it remain in the air for years?
6. Baumgartner's video
7. The longest half life medication is known?

December 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 23

1. Why insulin is not taken oral but in injection?
2. Custom books on water- and tear- resistant paper
3. Is it dangerous to drink pure water (H2O)?
4. Diving with TLB technology

December 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 24

1. What is the reason for the red color of SEDURAL that appears in the urine of the patient?
2. Dealing with a difficult “educator”
3. When cheeking blood for glucose- how many types of molecules of glucose does it cheeks?
4. Insulin and other hormones
5. Main Battle Tank
6. Does having many dream-wake cycles in a few hours have an effect on content?
7. The train-and-platform thought experiment:

December 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 25

1. Is steroid considered as protein?
2. Exercise routine breaks
3. Research
4. Christmas Day moon eclipse
5. depression and tiredness
6. Aaron Swartz's major (possibly at MIT?)

December 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 26

1. Can anyone name any documentaries specially about the Narwhal?
2. is Turritopsis_dohrnii immortal? why isn't anything?
3. Is it possible to buy large and affordable (artificial) gemstones like rubies, emeralds and sapphires?
4. Excess of Nitrogen in the blood
5. Road surfaces
6. Please help me identify this anatomical feature
7. Is universe a isolated system?

December 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 27

1. Reducing the fever by drugs doesn't harm the body?
2. Self driving trains
3. The visible "envelope" of atmosphere slightly beneath the aurora
4. How detailed must a perfectly accurate brain model be?
5. Tiles instead of continuous cover on Space Shuttles
6. Cheeky/irreverent precious substance questions
7. Reception of Einstein's ideas
8. Why was any rocket ever painted?
9. Hand pain
10. Rabbit inbreeding and genetic diseases

December 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 28

1. Johann and Stefan Rausch Craniopagus Twins
2. Frost overnight on cars
3. late reproduction - quick evolution
4. Expanding Earth vs. plate tectonics
5. Blood-alcohol level
6. Heavy water
7. Does lemon juice dissolve polystyrene foam ?
8. Humans are more closely related to cows/pigs/sheep than parrots are to chickens?

December 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 29

1. Is there a correlation between G6PD deficiency to allergy to penicillin?
2. Why is jet fuel measured in pounds and not in gallons?
3. Lichen and moss identification
4. Hemorroids!
5. Moment capacity of beam
6. The crossing of a small female toy dog and a large male dog
7. Question about contraception--Can RISUG/Vasalgel theoretically fail?

December 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 30

1. Can a dog's toe cut off when cutting nail?
2. Which part(s) of North America has/have a climate most like New Zealand's?
3. how does previously boiled water differ?
4. What is the difference between adverse reaction and side effect?
5. Graph Axis labels
6. Asphalt question

December 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 31

1. Proper name for a wrench that works on smooth shafts and how it works
2. Implantable Fuel-Cell
3. What is the reason for the changes between the right and left valves in the heart?
4. Why dont things stay floating in the air
5. Bumper cars security when obtaining power just from the floor
6. Influenza vaccine allergy