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November 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 1

  1. Is every living thing which has a nervous system can think?
  2. Gardner Island
  3. what kind of weather can I expect under the jet stream boundary?
  4. Is any living being with a brain so simple that it can be predicted?
  5. How well did remarkable scientists from times past followed the publish or perish

November 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 2

  1. What could you drill into that would make sparks?
  2. Human (How far can a human eye see?)
  3. Feynman Lectures. Lecture 32. Ch. 32-4, 32-5 [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_32.html]

November 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 3

  1. Strabismus and Amphetamine use?
  2. Reasons for immune response in food allergies

November 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 4

  1. Physics: Black hole inside a larger black hole
  2. Hidden wire
  3. Belief perseverance
  4. Full meaning of:" 66.038 ± 0.025/0.049 Ma " in Science (journal)
  5. Transitional epithelium and urothelium
  6. Is this static electricity?

November 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 5

  1. Protrusions in lower jaw?
  2. Manganese Poisoning
  3. Is it possible to control heart rate directly as we can control our breathing?
  4. why do people get sickness and diseases in the winter more than in the summer?
  5. Nuclear attack
  6. Generating electricity from domestic water pressure
  7. Feynman Lectures. Lecture 33. Ch. 33–6 The intensity of reflected light [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_33.html#Ch33-S6]
  8. Feynman Lectures. Lecture 33. Ch. 33–7 [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_33.html#Ch33-S7] . Fig. 33–7

November 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 6

  1. Thermally unstable compounds
  2. Borrachero tree
  3. What is the scientifical explanation for that phenomenon?
  4. Main Battle Tank

November 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 7

  1. Are there any dinosaur museums in BC?
  2. How accurate is the Einstein’s light clock?
  3. fracking, Project Mohole

November 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 8

  1. Using microwaves or IR to stabilize a compound?
  2. Name of condition when one side of the face is tensed
  3. Artificial islands near China, earthquake stability
  4. Scaling of muscular strength
  5. Radiation and cancer
  6. Orbicularis oculi

November 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 9

  1. Wiktionary: "timescape"
  2. Can cancer be treated by infecting cancer cells with microbes?

November 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 5

  1. ID of the species
  2. Feynman Lectures. Lecture 33. Ch. 33–6 The intensity of reflected light [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_33.html#Ch33-S6]
  3. Feynman Lectures. Lecture 33. Ch. 33–7 [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_33.html#Ch33-S7] . Fig. 33–7

November 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 11

  1. Antimicrobial resistance
  2. What's the name of the star?
  3. What is the most polluted?
  4. Retinal Scan
  5. "Tumbling in Orbit"
  6. x-ray or ultrasound
  7. Feynman Lectures. Lecture 34. Ch. 34–6 [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_34.html#Ch34-S6]
  8. What happens if I quit taking sertraline in a "cold turkey" way?
  9. Testing of water for fecal coliform bacteria

November 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 12

  1. Volcanic eruption
  2. Is it shorter going around Cape Horn or using Northwest Passage?
  3. Is there any progress toward a "brain alarm" to prevent stroke?
  4. Mysterious beach blobs (San Diego)
  5. Patterson–Gimlin film

November 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 13

  1. Can half a human sleep normally while the other half's awake like sharks?

November 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 14

  1. Feynman Lectures. Lecture 35. Ch. 35–4 The chromaticity diagram [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_35.html#Ch35-S4]
  2. Pain and fever relief
  3. Projected disappearance of vestigial organs
  4. Correlation between penis size and cultural acceptance of nudity--sexual selection?
  5. Are there indeed only 3 anatomical planes?

November 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 15

  1. FOD
  2. Butterfly vs. fighter jet
  3. (Non) conservation of pH
  4. Plant-based diet and healthfulness
  5. The Rising of the Moon

November 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 16

  1. Sea level rising equally everywhere
  2. Does orchiectomy have similar effects on a man's body in order to the effects of menopause on a woman's body?
  3. Tailbone
  4. The season of profit
  5. Anatomical plane is rectangle or square or can be any shape or different shape?
  6. Steyr datacode

November 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 17

  1. written language as part of the native competence
  2. Activity of Bowman–Birk protease inhibitor
  3. Airline hitting hobby drone
  4. Is the Vo2 of the brain taken from its Q?
  5. Caesium splitting frequency at zero gravity

November 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 18

  1. Owl Call Identifictaion Requested

November 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 19

  1. Bacterium or Virus that actively infects both a Plant and an Animal?
  2. When Worlds Collide
  3. Induced coma and general anaesthesia
  4. Naming of human settlements in the U.S.

November 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 20

  1. Does the vas deferens contain stem cells?
  2. Artillery question
  3. Firestorm
  4. Feynman Lectures. Lecture 38. Ch. 38–1 Probability wave amplitudes [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_38.html#Ch38-S1]
  5. Culmination of constellation's visibility
  6. Uncoupling agents as a hypothermia countermeasure?
  7. High voltages, low currents, and Ohm's law, oh my!

November 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 21

  1. About Transformers
  2. High wattage circuit breakers

November 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 22

  1. How much medical personnel is needed to harvest and transplant organs?
  2. Servo horns
  3. Feynman Lectures. Lecture 38. Ch. 38–2. Fig. 38–3 Determination of momentum by using a diffraction grating. [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_38.html#Ch38-F3]
  4. Article from Cosmetics & Toiletries
  5. Physical barriers to halt tumor progression
  6. Momentum of photons in a high refractive index material

November 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 23

  1. Any difference between braking slow and fast?
  2. Women whose work is on the circulatory or lymphatic systems?
  3. What's the highest-walled endorheic basin on Earth?

November 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 24

  1. Sources (RR Lyrae variables)
  2. Space colonies in intergalactic space

November 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 25

  1. Charger question
  2. Testing pipelines
  3. Ticking time - bomb?
  4. Can female Guppys reproduce via parthenogenesis?
  5. Is "plausibility" built into spacecraft?

November 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 26

  1. Feedback (positive) !!
  2. puzzled about theta Eridani
  3. The definition of amino acid
  4. Could a tectonic tsunami from the tropical Pacific enter the Atlantic?
  5. Can two neurons (or networks) have infinite possible connections?
  6. The lees liquid in the body - the more sugar concentration and decreased freezing point
  7. segway design useful for hovercraft?

November 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 27

  1. Can I say that every protein made by peptides?
  2. Could the moon be terraformed?
  3. Feynman Lectures. Lecture 39. Ch. 39–4. Temperature and kinetic energy [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_39.html#Ch39-S4]
  4. what are proteins, lipids, nucleic acids and carbohydrate classified?

November 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 28

  1. video
  2. Removing red-28 dye from a carpet - and Red-28 in children's toothpaste.
  3. What is the common denominator of all the lipids?
  4. Stubborn fat???

November 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 29

  1. Causes of sudden death in dogs
  2. Water temperature at the bottom of a kettle
  3. Helicopter (in)stability
  4. Helicopter yaw control

November 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 November 30

  1. Set in the stars....
  2. Borked Latin taxonomic names
  3. Elements 119-120
  4. Genetics or disease?
  5. Light bulb life
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