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June 1

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 1

1. f-ing ipods
2. .tga
3. Prompt supercritical masses don't "explode" - why
4. underwater
5. is this true?
6. science
7. world wide web.
8. GIF Compression
9. Blend ratios in fabrics
10. Second
11. The Last Person on Earth who Used a Slide Rule to Design a Digital Computer
12. Mother seagulls and their babies
13. Where do seagulls sleep?
14. Orbit Question
15. Ph of Orange Juice before and after pasteurization?
16. Night vision?
17. signals
18. sds
19. protease size
20. Water loss in relation to leaf's surface area
21. The moon and cheese
22. abdominal/tummy fat reduction techniques
23. GREENHOUSE GAS
24. cancer treatment and research 1450-1750
25. how to run a Monte Carlo simulation on a DEM using ArcGIS
26. dental implant
27. From Windows to Mac
28. "Acess is denied"
29. USB
30. Shut up Microsoft Windows

June 2

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 2

1. Levitation
2. Some complex ions questions
3. Computer repair questions
4. Long-distance Music Sharing
5. Kidney
6. moon
7. Epinephrine/Adrenaline
8. Simulation of Outer Space
9. Rockets
10. Nazi experimentation
11. Materal safety data sheet
12. single phase pole mounted transformer
13. men nipples
14. Insect identification
15. Diesel exhaust
16. Universe expansion
17. Taxonomy tables
18. enriched uranium for peaceful purposes
19. Perfect vacumn
20. Radio Nerve Treatment
21. lightning rod
22. Pharmacist
23. Chickens Without Heads

June 3

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 3

1. Xbox 360 hard drive
2. Souring of Milk
3. Are there free hard drive recovery options?
4. Toes
5. Ability to Self-Update to New Versions in Linux Distributions
6. wearing heel shoes
7. sleeping birds
8. life on mars?
9. Itching
10. TV static
11. Industrial Engineering
12. Buckminster fullerine
13. Online Streaming of english music
14. le chatelier's principle
15. carbon emissions
16. BOTANY LIFESCIENCES
17. Sciatic nerve damage?
18. chemistry
19. Hamsters

June 4

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 4

1. Mother seagull refusing to feed her baby
2. Kinetic Energy Problem
3. Windows
4. Diamond
5. Black holes
6. How fast can an Alligator run?
7. Couple of black hole questions
8. Curing Snoring and Apnea
9. training a shark to be a vegetarian
10. Considering Half Life 2's headcrabs...
11. Biology
12. what is the RFM of RFM
13. Typewriter font
14. Lawnmowers and pollution
15. Water distillation methods
16. Colloidal Paritcles
17. Save the Candiru?
18. cure for cancer
19. Microphone
20. Qubits and quantum computing
21. one-way capacitance?

June 5

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 5

1. bin in /bin stands for 'binaries'?
2. Computer Terminals Under Linux
3. Bird Species
4. DVD/CD-ROM drives in Device Manager
5. Internet Explorer Shortcut
6. Natural hair strainghtener ?
7. Browser home page problem
8. Mouse Question
9. Contact lens
10. Good ole racsism
11. which is heavier?
12. Concerning heat in phase changes
13. Fear of needles
14. More Nucleation Sites than Mentos?
15. Black Holes
16. Weird fly identification
17. Which freezes faster?
18. oxbow lake
19. Plate tectonics- where is is taking us?
20. Question about a massive black hole
21. The archives, science desk
22. water flow
23. Thermometers
24. Gold!!
25. Medicine (AIDS)
26. Global warming controversy
27. Computer science - Linux
28. Another HIV/AIDS question.

June 6

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 6

1. Electromagnetism
2. Book of Tables
3. mmm... fava beans
4. why should i or should i not go with linux?
5. Mind-body transfer organization?
6. Expansion of Water by Freezing
7. Ubuntu
8. wierd colors and patterns
9. Headache during flying
10. Control Systems
11. Fuel cell
12. camphor
13. Do birds have sensation in their beaks?
14. balance disorder (vertigo Problem)
15. Internet Explorer Script Error
16. IQ
17. Plant watering Faux Pas
18. My own DNA?
19. OS 9 in school computer labs
20. Writely invites?
21. Hydrogen bonding
22. Thanks
23. wings
24. Quantisation of Angular momentum
25. Recycle Bin For Linux
26. Vitamin A
27. Humans and Raw Meat?

June 7

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 7

1. spinal meningitis: asprin? or not?
2. If the sun turns off, when does the earth freeze?
3. Chemistry - crystallisation
4. Hydrogen supplement devices for gasoline engines
5. Home-made infrared filters
6. Nuclear weapon question
7. Anti Magnetic Metal/Substance
8. Blue Eyes
9. Computer power-off
10. Way forward for Struts/Stxx application.
11. Visual "chemical noise" in the brain
12. Medical Question: Disinfectant
13. Windows Source Code
14. Type of Wood (Picture of Veneer)
15. Atomic radii exception
16. Fear of witnessing eye injuries?
17. N's in chemical nomiclature
18. Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
19. Product that creates a rubber coating on metal
20. Vegetable People
21. Sodium methoxide
22. Wood
23. Penicllin
24. Hams at the desk
25. Injecting heroin into the eyeball?
26. Breathing from the freezer
27. Boranes and regular polyhedra
28. Fake tans?

June 8

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 8

1. Linux and SATA drives
2. medical question on horses
3. Water absorption in loose bowel movements
4. Physics problem
5. Theoretical question on time
6. Nuclear Engineering
7. Lightning Rod
8. Combo Drive/Computer
9. That's weird, my post to this page disappeared
10. Mental calculation
11. low vs. high pressure
12. Games where the rules change
13. NeuroNetworks
14. kilograms = liters of h2o and vice versa
15. Electrical resistance
16. Active X controls and other internet security considerations
17. humming in my head
18. Where is the best place to live on Mars?
19. Acetyl-CoA synthesis
20. Virtual Machine Screensaver
21. How does this edit conflict thing work?
22. Distance Light Travels

June 9

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 9

1. One server, multiple domain names
2. Plumbbob
3. Possible damage from anal vibrator
4. Special relativity
5. gp120/41/160 stability
6. Microkinesitherapy
7. sea gull poo
8. insect hair
9. eyeglass while reading a computer
10. Speculative CSS and/or Javascript question
11. the largest tram network
12. Low TSH-levels and hyperthyroidism

June 10

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 10

1. Ubuntu #2
2. Compounds
3. First Springtime Flowers
4. The Ultimate Speed Limit
5. Antimatter
6. Gravity
7. Allergy
8. Science -Mostly Already Discovered?
9. Neural Networks and Parallel-Processing Computers
10. The Reaction Between Silver Chloride and Concentrated Hydrochloric Acid
11. Revision IDs
12. What (human) bodily fluids can disslove gum?
13. Light going though matter
14. Neural network
15. multiplexers
16. Chemeleon Frog
17. Biology vaccinations
18. Crabs - what do they eat?
19. What connector???

June 11

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 11

1. Spam
2. Specific weight of Helium under pressure and different temperature.
3. Why isn't water flammable?
4. HIV
5. Suffocating sensation when tired
6. Psychology Experiment
7. SquirrelMail
8. Question about plecostomus (a type of fish)
9. Embedd flash into powerpoint.
10. Maximum Heart Rate and Aerobic Threshold
11. Salvia divinorum
12. Baby seagulls have just hatched - what's the best food to give to the mother/father gull?
13. Popular Mechanics
14. Different colours of cigarette smoke?
15. Food coma
16. Black holes - yet again... :)
17. Meaning of gull squawks/caws/cackles/etc. and body language?

June 12

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 12

1. Headset adapter question
2. Seizures and blood pressure
3. moon
4. Insect question
5. Web
6. Birds' sexual organs
7. learning how to fix mobile phones
8. Civilization of birds
9. dna
10. difference b/w velocity and acceleration?
11. Body Volume
12. additives
13. pop and pop3
14. mobile phone as modem!
15. IP address configuration
16. Several Science Experiment Questions
17. phd or research in Bioinformatics
18. Duchenne's muscular dystrophy
19. Balancing a chemical reaction =
20. Using a second screen just to show a screensaver
21. training as bodybuilder
22. Genetics
23. The Genesis of Life- Crocodiles
24. GMA 950
25. Odd Trait

June 13

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 13

1. Guarani Indians from Asia
2. Half-life comprehension and computation...
3. Frontbend
4. ELECTRONEGATIVITY
5. Accidentally consuming electrons
6. Redox reactions in steel manufacture.
7. Water Pressure
8. PE string for making fish net
9. keyboard shortcuts
10. Rare neurological disorder...
11. Covalent bonds in HCl
12. Carbon-14 detection threshhold
13. bios viruses
14. Proportionality / Physics of a shiny black shoe
15. Formula for heptyl rocket fuel

June 14

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 14

1. Adjusting Depth Of Feild On Regular Digital Camera
   1. Question
2. Measuring mass
3. Fibre Optics
4. Tilt in the Earth's axis
5. Flying Saucer
6. Bacteria ...
7. Television,Broadband&Media
8. Background music in Blogger
9. train noise
10. world
11. career in science
12. The FDA has been tapping my phone calls
13. ant .5 mm
14. Young's two-slit experiment
15. Opera Web Browser and Flash Blocking
16. New body
17. Self-aware
18. "seven-year-itch"?
19. Who invented the shag carpet?
20. Two Questions
21. Earth's Greenhouse
22. The noise mosquitoes make
23. The Sun

June 15

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 15

1. Composition of Matter
2. Java Image Editing
3. can fireflies overwinter in warmer climates?
4. fever and bitterness?
5. IQ
6. Carbon Dioxide
7. Question about Marine and Ship Designing.
8. Nuclear apocalypse
9. Orgasm
10. Speed of light changing?
11. worms - destined for greatness?
12. Excercise
13. Outer Layer of Salmon Meat
14. Unwanted shawdows behind icons
15. Lobsters
16. Jogging at the speed of sound
    1. New question
17. The end of the world...
18. Gull identification...
19. tremors

June 16

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 16

1. Large-caliber guns
2. If God exists
3. Why does the last thing I ate effect my taste?
4. ARTHROPOD APPENDAGES
5. Physics
6. Radiation therapy and Brachytherapy
7. SVG Map problem
8. Why do airplanes draw their wheels in ?
9. shaving with acne
10. Audio files on websites
11. First Software written
12. What happens if you fall into a aeration tank at a sewage treatment plant?
13. Movement of the Earth's Crust
14. Reductants for use in aldehydes/ketones
15. How does the thickness of the metal affect the force needed to compress a spring?
16. Weather Balloons
17. Soccer balls and helium
18. Summer Meteor Showers 2006
19. Playing Windows games on a Core Duo Macintosh
20. HTML .chm files in a program
21. Glycol and Methanol Brines?
22. Global Warming
23. human genome company
24. foreskin smells

June 17

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 17

1. Cancer Rates
2. Is it possible to pull your own head off?
3. Help
4. Orange peelings and antibacterial benefits
5. Optics glossy/matte colours
6. Alcohols and Sodium Metal
7. software testing
8. Bios Virus
9. Schrodingers Equation
10. How hard would it be to write this software?
11. Biological classification systems
12. Sinking lifejackets?
13. IIS
14. Use of cows milk vs. soya milk and toothpaste
15. Stable beer
16. Building a bomb
17. e-mail address harvesting?
18. Ergonomical Sleeping

June 18

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 18

1. Old Alcohol
2. My budgerigar's eyelids
3. How does my Electric toothbrush recharge itself?
4. HIV Transfer
5. PNG graphics transparency
6. Can you explain me the types of sugar?
7. Web based file sharing
8. MILF!
9. Diffusion and Osmosis
10. Case in e-mail addresses
11. Health
12. drugs
13. Turkish spider
14. biology question.
15. Non-microwavable security devices
16. Firefox problem
17. Scientific Reviews
18. CSS DIV issue
19. Blade Sharpening
20. Static On My Person
21. Please help me identify this insect

June 19

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 19

1. Arrowroot Flour
2. Is the Wikipedia being censored by the academic guild?
3. First patented form of life...
4. Ridiculous Information from Wikipedia.
5. Wavefunction, quantum mechanics, electrons etc
6. Appropriate Waste Disposal
7. Can medium format (120) film be developed by my local pharmacy?
8. The Moon
9. Fish question
10. How much did Apollo 11 cost?
11. Edibility of Cucumis melo leaves
12. EMP nullification
13. JPG image problem
14. Orbit/gravity/weightlessness
15. Symptoms of long-term oxygen deprivation
16. Centrifigal Force and Gravity
17. Why is AC current prefered over DC?

June 20

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 20

1. Currency
2. Stupid question
3. Do you suffer from short-term memory loss? - I don't remember
4. Medicine
5. electricity in sea water
6. Another quantum mechanics question
7. Cutting animals in half?
8. how does biology affects our life?
9. Jumping from a height?
   1. Falling in an elevator
10. Hairyness and evolution
11. Circumcision
12. Texas Instruments subfamily abbreviations
13. Ethanol
14. Microsoft Outlook Problem

June 21

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 21

1. Bismuth Tellurium Transistors used in water heating/cooling
2. Science
3. Color and black body radiation
4. Cockroaches
5. Diluting sulfuric acid
6. Train Vs Fly
7. Mobile phones radiation
8. Aircraft Safety
9. Electromagnetic Question
10. Better Solar Panels
11. Sunglasses
12. Osmosis in potatoes
13. Processor Architecture
14. I forget where I buried my threads...
15. THREE CLASIIFICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY
16. Lowering cholesterol levels through exercise
17. Paleocollapse
18. Shortest & longest day
19. Larva
20. Java SDK
21. Propane....
22. how phenolphthalein was invented/discovered?
23. Death
24. DVD decoder?
25. Metal Plate in Head Questions
26. 'Good' cholestrol

June 22

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 22

1. Bomb detection
2. Need help in physics
3. Leg length
4. Biological Evolution versus Intelligent Design
5. Equation out of the Middle East
6. Most effecient device
7. Amount of water in dew
8. Meaning of "MMgy"
9. Binoculars
10. Environmental Question
11. The Ultimate Speed Limit
12. Food
13. Define "temperature equilibration"
14. Buffalo Coin Value
15. Why does insulin stimulate glycolysis
16. Data Flow Diagram
17. jvc video tape
18. US Experimental High Speed Recon Crafts
19. Browsing v Downloading
20. Untitled Windows XP Install Issue
21. Teaching myself anatomy
22. human diagram - showings measurements of age groups

June 23

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 23

1. Name of a Phobia?
2. percolated coffee
3. mesh-ups
4. breaking down .rar file into little parts
5. Memory
6. Why don't ships sink?
7. A QUESTION ABOUT C PROGRAMMING.
8. Human genetic variation by continent
9. Dream
10. Referrence
11. ocean currents
12. Glycol-modified PET
13. IAU and the naming of satellites
14. entomogamy
15. Sugar Granule Size - Does It Really Matter?
16. photosynthesis and cellular respiration
17. Macbook Pro // Bootcamp
18. Types of melting
19. Optical propreties of the human eye
20. steriliziing an Ace bandage
21. Solquid
22. Yellow Water-lily

June 24

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 24

1. Help Me Identify This Butterfly
2. Ice cubes
3. Neuroprosthetics or Neuro cybernetics
4. Magnetic fields
5. Solid eggs
6. Part 15 of the FCC rules.
7. Has anyone ever disproven this idea?
8. technology
9. Cure for a phobia
10. Seagulls
11. Glasses
12. Application Error
13. remove coating
14. PC's Parellel Port Programming in C++
15. Bios problems?
16. Levorotary sugars?
17. Info Needed about Arrow International
18. Hand swelling
19. While on the subject of gulls again...

June 25

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 25

1. Insomnia side-effects
2. Lightening in my eye
3. How closely are seagulls and fulmars related?
4. Hissing soft drink
5. History of AIDS epidemc in Dallas, Texas
6. Spider identification
7. Officially Respected IQ Test
8. brazilian essential oils
9. Rate of diffusion
10. Man made lakes
11. Aircraft safety
12. major revisions complete
13. Alternative to internal combustion engine
14. 5th state of matter?
15. Clinical depression
16. Stinging and Biting pests
17. Rehydrating drinks
18. Engineering Software
19. Condoms
20. Reading faces, liver lines etc.

June 26

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 26

1. Evolutionary question
2. Does facial structure change during puberty?
3. Mars Meteorites
4. Fire
5. Fermi's Hypothesis
6. How the hell!?
7. Tired eyes
8. browser/URL
9. Musky odor of certain woman
10. Has anyone ever posted themselves in the mail?
11. Possible solution to rising sea levels (copied from Talk:Global warming)
12. Thunderstorm
13. Spotted humans
14. Methylated spirits?
15. Rapid strep test
16. HIV Transmission
17. Gull vs. Fulmar
18. Jammed Thumb
19. Lightbulb
20. Unknown tiny animals
21. Grandpaternity testing
22. vaccinations
23. Weight of US Quarters

June 27

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 27

1. Human fear/revulsion/hatred towards 'minibeasts'?
2. Light, tough metal alloys... Which is best?
3. Long term costs of wind farms
4. Global warming - solution?
5. What Is the Absolute Temperature... in Heat?
6. Homework help needed, thanks
7. Cheat/trainer programs
8. Vegetation vs Urbanisation
9. Can you catch AIDS from a tick bite?
10. I/O current booster
11. same chance of getting the HIV as dying within the next year
12. Age progression software
13. Electro Convulsive Shock Therapy
14. AIDS/HIV infection
15. Chemistry
16. What do I have to do to work in Intel/AMD?
17. tramadol

June 28

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 28

1. Identifying an insect species
2. Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development
3. which school of thought am i closest to?
4. Image Processing
5. Calculating rate of osmosis
6. Looking for the Right Material
7. Cooking query
8. SLAX problem
9. consuming about 5 to 10 liters of water a day
10. Timeline from death to skeletal
11. would putting a powerful magnet on your head alter your thoughts?
12. Snapping neck
13. Why can a black hole not explode
14. chemistry

June 29

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 29

1. Looking for the Right Material #2
2. physics problem
3. Isomers of Pentanol
4. Computer-aborted space shuttle launch
5. Ancient creatures of the deep
6. BSD licensed X Server in Java
7. Mosquitos
8. Why two different carrier systems... E1/T1???
9. chemistry
10. Faulty MPG
11. Electronics - Wah pedal adapter
12. Definition of Time
13. Icelanders
14. Arbidol question
15. ?
16. Mercury shape in water
17. Question about days and nights
18. What's the name of this chemical?
19. Criss Angel

June 30

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 June 30

1. Energy
2. Waveguide modes
3. History of locks
4. Peeing into bleach-filled toilet...
5. toxic exposure
6. Counseling vs. Therapy
7. Blood Donation
8. destroying the reference desk?
9. enlight me with a light......
10. Yin & Yang + 5 Elements Theory
11. Corn cob
12. Medication Methods
13. Females taking Viagra
14. Ship's bridge - round windows?
15. Regex help
16. JustSnipe.com Looks Dodgy...