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January 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 January 1

1. Cross laminated timber versus Plywood
2. PID bacteria

January 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 January 2

1. Basal metabolic rate and Resting metabolic rate

January 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 January 3

1. Why don't they just put parachutes on rocket stages to make them reusable?
2. Hex bar
3. Why use less paper and more eletricity is good for earth?
4. Oldest dolphins?
5. Blu tak-- thermal conductivity

January 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 January 4

1. long term hydration/survival
2. Metabolism and obesity

January 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 January 5

1. AWG table, ampacity and voltage
2. mean free path of a neutrino inside a neutron star
3. China's nuclear stockpile as a deterrent
4. White dog poop
5. What happened to Andrew Wakefield's co-authors?
6. Lithium batteries - "dangerous to aviation"?
7. Why don't humans eat the pests on crops instead of spraying crops with pesticides?
8. If humans die off from their own technologies, then can the planet recover from what humans leave behind?
9. Could an extant jet engine start on Mars without modification?

January 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 January 6

1. Chameleon colour change

January 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 January 7

1. Talc containing asbestos
2. Afterburner
3. Unknown plant
4. Building a snowman when conditions are not optimal

January 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 January 8

1. Euginic is base from correct evoltion science?
2. Vancouver cold this winter
3. What are these little spikes on the beach?

January 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 January 9

1. Alcohol-based hand sanitizer
2. Steam locomotive speed
3. Feynman Lectures. Lecture 6 (6-3, 6-4) [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_06.html], Lecture 41 (41-4) [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_41.html], Lecture 43 [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_43.html]. Probability = 33%
4. Feynman Lectures. Lecture 43. Ch.43-6 Thermal conductivity [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_43.html#Ch43-S6]
5. Why are the leaves still red?
6. Where can you drive through a redwood?
7. Engineering question: fit, clearance and tolerance

January 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 January 10

1. Feynman Lectures. Lecture 43. Lecture Summary [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_43.html]
2. How is gluten-free flour made?
3. Is it scientifically proved that menstruation causes women to be irritated or nervous or it's a myth?
4. Earth Axis Axial Precession

January 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 January 11

1. Physicists vs. Mathematicians
2. Why does capital punishment have to be by lethal injection in the US?
3. Does an increase in your heart rate result in greater thirst on your part?
4. Decimal years

January 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 January 12

1. Zeroth
2. Bird hipped and reptile hipped
3. Why do nurses remove bubbles from syringe before injection to IM?

January 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 January 13

1. Is there something like a reactivity series for melting points of organic compound types?
2. What are the borders of the cerebral circulation?
3. How could air embolism in the artery (by syringe) cause heart attack or stroke?
4. Sleep-wake in DSM
5. life expectancy of guns in terms of EFC?
6. Stopping power
7. Honey bee behavior and oatmeal?

January 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 January 14

1. Liver damage
2. Stopping power, part 2
3. What is string?
4. EU power cable mod
5. Why are the leaves still red? The sequel
6. Are there units that take spacetime into account?
7. Nasal breathing and tonsils

January 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 January 15

1. Physical interest/meaning of a certain Bernstein function
2. Feynman Lectures. Lecture 44. Ch.44-4 The efficiency of an ideal engine [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_44.html]
3. Tritium tube concentration and pressure for brightness
4. Helicopters and drones on Everest

January 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 January 16

1. Why is the lymphatic system not symmetric in the body?
2. What is the reason that chewing gum causes to appetite?
3. Lower sex drive during the daytime,higher sex drive at night

January 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 January 17

1. Three objects rearranged
2. Inverse of pressure
3. Do small children have more nerve endings per unit skin area than grown ups?
4. Do humans ever crave romaine lettuces and tomatoes?
5. Were moonwalkers allowed to keep any pieces of it?

January 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 January 18

1. Mass, space etc
2. How loud and "shaky" is an H-bomb at various distances?
3. Binomial badgers
4. Battery as a blasting cap?
5. Endocrine and exocrine hormones

January 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 January 19

1. Matter is liquid... at zero temperature?
2. What does it mean "generation number" in histology?
3. Why is the benzyl group a phenyl group with atoms added?
4. Why aren't carboxylic acids COOH molecules literally COOH?
5. Why is the 5.56×45mm NATO called like this, when it is neither 5.56 nor 45mm in dimensions?
6. Psychopathy and Monoamine oxidase
7. Feynman Lectures. Lecture 44. Ch.44-6 Entropy [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_44.html]
8. Mechanism of curly hair
9. Time dilation and getting there faster by travelling at a lower speed
10. Diff

January 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 January 20

1. Blood and wounds
2. Dispersion of atmospheric greenhouse gases

January 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 January 21

1. How long ago was there a year when the global average temperature on Earth was as high as it was in 2016?
2. Feynman Lectures. Lecture 44. Ch.44-5 ,Ch.44-5 Internal energy as function of something [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_44.html]
3. Plastic food boxes, drink cans and bottles, use water wash then recycle
4. Convergent evolution in humans
5. Medical apparatus

January 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 January 22

1. A diet rich in fruit and vegetables

January 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 January 23

1. syphilis among first peoples in south america, north america, and nearby islands, etc.
2. Dehumidifier performance when the coils develop a coating of ice

January 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 January 24

1. Why doesn't bariatric surgery lead to starvation?
2. Brothers and sisters in dog packs
3. milk tooth
4. Have you seen someone at the age of 90 grow teeth in his mouth again
5. my patent
6. As in movies
7. Octane rating: why are combustion kinetics faster for linear molecules?
8. Ratings for lamp shades based on heat or light output?
9. Food waste and rat traps
10. material science
11. Genetic modification
12. Does the SI need 7 basic units?
13. Animals making knots

January 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 January 25

1. How much do minor planet spacecraft change their targets' orbits?
2. Gerard J. M. van den Aardweg review of Sexual Preference
3. Uncertainty represented through significant digits
4. Evolution of the gaps

January 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 January 26

1. Weather forecasting
2. Double slit experiment - observer variation
3. Feynman Lectures. Lecture 45. Ch.45-3 [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_45.html]
4. Triplicate experiments

January 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 January 27

1. Microwave oven radiation and computer storage media
2. Is this an approved method in other spacecraft?
3. Counteracting force
4. Releasing pressurized gas near absolute zero

January 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 January 28

1. Why ketone "bodies?"
2. Fingernails
3. NIST's non-normalized scientific notation
4. What happen when cold blooded creature use a coat?
5. US crude oil pipelines
6. Predicting stability of particles
7. Man-eating Pteranodons of Transyl...vania! (WTF?)
8. Are different populations of "humans" around the world really the same species and thus have the same diet?

January 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 January 29

1. Strange sticky brown condensation on bathroom wall
2. Water gurgles and urine
3. Machining is so boring!
4. Feynman Lectures. Lecture 46. Ch.46-3 [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_46.html#Ch46-S3]
5. Medical terminology may please be explained in simple English
6. Drug addiction when you don't enjoy the drug
7. boiling water that already were boiled and cooled
8. password
9. Is there a term for the continents excluding Antarctica?

January 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 January 30

1. Toulouse botanical gardens
2. Are wind patterns guaranteed not to change
3. Non-dairy creamer is not sweet

January 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 January 31

1. Which parts of one's brain can trick one into thinking that one is thirsty and/or fatigued/exhausted even though one isn't?
2. Use of definite article "the" before names of biological features
3. Medicine school duration in French is indeed 9 years?