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June 1

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...
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