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August 1
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- Body part focus of cell phone health studies
- Predatory Dinos
- Allylic halides and nucleophilic substitutions
- Can you explain this 'major discovery'?
- Life time of hydrogen economy
- Zenker's Diverticulum is well know among Gastroenterologists, who was Zenker and where did he publish his new disorder?
- Applied maths
- Why didn't man evolve wings?
- Synthesis problem
- human cloning
- Pigs on the wing
- Risk of contracting MRSA
August 3
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- Amount of energy needed to reach the speed of light: Infinite. Amount of atoms to destroy the sun: 1?
- I don't understand Schrödinger's cat
- A bit near the question above...
- Double alkylation of carboxylic acid derivatives
- Extremes of earth's atmosphere
- Baked limestone
- Shining Metals dug from the mountains
- Why do we care about faces?
- Mechanical pencil uses chuck?
- Plant defences and herbivory in the African savanna
- On the subject of human cloning (not sure if this is the right desk for this)
- Anyone here a doctor?
August 4
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- Heparin lock
- five kindoms
- chordee
- A lot of quasi-related questions
- I was washing dishes...
- Drinking water vs. pouring it over your head to cool down
- Existance of God
- Calculation of pipe dia. Formula Needed?
- Medical appliances (?), early/mid-20th C.
- Post thunderstorm ionization
- Tree of life
- Blood plasma
- Help diagnose my ear deficiency!
- Earths core
- Galactic Center of the Milky Way
- Why can't bullets fly ?
- Plant identification: red berries
- Why did Newton think light speeded up in glass?
- Gas
- Viscious liquid
- Expansion on shaking container of hot water
August 5
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- Apparent Incandescence of Planets
- Height of mountains
- Semiconductor Resistivity
- Applications of Chem kinetics
- Kissing scenes in movies - health risks?
- Do newspaper inks contain cyanide?
- Logical human thought
- electro etching of copper with copper suphate soln
- Rise time
- Question of utmost seriousness
- Harmful bacteria
August 6
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- Shoe polish and solubility
- Recycling plastic
- Gasoline Expiration Date?
- Genital herpes Outbreaks
- Windowboxes
- how to submit a picture with an question?
- Buoyancy on the ocean floor
- Epileptology and Neurophysiology
- Name for when skin hurts
- Dental membranes?
- Heat rub on the testicles?
- Please identify this spider
August 7
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- Please try to disprove this theory
- Will going faster than the speed of light create a black hole?
- TeleDeltos paper
- Why cant I type?
- Helium lifting gas
- Curl of F
- Cats and their waste
- Air brakes
- Loud booms
- Čerenkov radiation/speed of light/follow on from previous question
- Keeping Cool
- Wormholes and momentum
- Project Management
- Why would a pencil sharpener need microbial protection?
- 111-year-old reptile
- Why are their bellies cut open?
- Vectors
August 8
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- Color of Water
- Monitor colors keep changing
- Anywhere on earth?
- Paradox?
- Thermocouples
- Why does quantum mechanics only work on a small scale?
- cooling/heating vortex
- Do any types of dementia result in loss of tact
- Physics of boat towing
- Water to Ice
- Permeability of plastic
- Beta plus decay and conservation of mass
- Water for the West
- Too Many Magnetic Minerals in me Coffee
- Structure of liquid water
August 9
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- Mosquitos
- Botany(project topic)
- obstertricians
- Conservation of linear/angular momentum
- Triceratops vs Tyrannosaurus Rex
- Pollution and cycling
- Supertime
- Centrifugal Sorting of Saturn's Rings
- What STD can be transmitted through oral sex?
- Educational videos in psychology
- Academic, corporate and free researchers
- Automobile bumpers
- Control group in statistics
- Caffeine timing and sleep
- Space-time equation
- Recent Horrible News!
- Comet of Sodom
- I can't find my mistake
August 10
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- Herbivores and omnivores in same species
- Wet wipe marker
- Density of human blood
- If everything in the universe suddenly doubled in size, would it matter?
- Thremocouple power output
- Cooking Pasta
- Ants climbing trees
- How do we know Planck measurements are the ultimate?
- Centrifugal Sorting of Materials
- Eucalyptas Tree,nor Cal
- Flu like symptoms
- The Matrix
- Animals
- Umbilical Cord
- Bismuth tin alloy
August 11
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- Favored cigarette brands by ethnicity
- What's this map projection?
- sea anemones
- Inexpensive sheets of transparent elastic material
- Legs on a whale
- How fast will a fishhook rust
- Zucchini plants with white lines
- Black holes in the solar system?
- Deadliest lightning incident?
- Plate movement and longitude
August 12
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- silverback gorillas
- Mosquito species?
- Welding Smoke
- Eyebrows
- Autism-spectrum disorders and evolution
- The End of the World!
- Protein Bending
- Two-stroke engines
- Heparin suppresion of platelet count
- Need info about penis meds
- Measuring age
- Communiction with Aliens
- The Big Bang Theory
- Chemistry and /or biology
- Blood types
- Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.
August 14
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- Issue of quantum
- plum tree bark
- 'pop' sound 11 seconds after a shooting star
- Kidney output not in article
- CD player -- most common type of fault
- Railway locomtive Steam Cycle...
- UFO sightings
- Skin effect in transmission lines
- Electric Current
- Hot water cold water
- Electromagnet
- The End Of The World as we know it!
- Causality
- Uses of propane vs. uses of natural gas
August 15
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- Common/Household "soft" magnets
- Vitamins
- food science
- IUPAC Nomenclature of carbohydrates
- Obtaining special dc power supply.
- Evaporating black hole
- Calcium and Acne
- Glucose question
- Electronically squaring a signal
- Is everything technically light?
- "Most chemicals are white."
- The colour white
- Electromagnet, Again
August 17
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- Confidence boosting
- Physics
- Sperm cell
- Building an atomic bomb
- Christmas suicide
- Two wheels, spinning in different directions
- Mail sorting
- Strongest acid!
- science / about the reproduction of animals
- Habitable planet/moon systems
- light chains of immunoglobulin
- Aero engine lubrication
- Red meat
- mama
- Antiperistasis
- Does human perception of time speed up with age?
August 19
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- Black hole evaporation and time dilation
- Using sig figs in calculations with both addition and multiplication
- Earth's rotation
- How a redshift affects the appearance of the moon on the horizon
- size of earth
- Banked Corner
- Brass shell casings corrosion rates in soil
- Brightness of the Sun and other stars
- Scientific/medical reasons for Heartbreak
- Tea
- Black holes again: interior
- 21 Hockey Pucks
- Moving toilet water
August 21
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- Herbal infusion
- eye damage from hand dryers
- Astronomy Question: Need a Repeating Celestial Event
- "Green Bags"
- The Large Hadron Collider and the Sun
- Apparently Natural Causes?
- Liquids going from perspiration to waste in humans
- what is important of material sciences?
- Telephone call to 911
- Solutions and volume changes
- Optical zoom
- For Chemistry Experts
August 22
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- When someone says that they can see the intelligence in an animal's eyes...
- Drunk Driving deaths by country
- not a question, but... worth it (LHC)
- Frostbite
- Physics with Calculus queston, regarding differential mass elements
- Tornados at night?
- Apple
- Is it right that accidentally snorting msg can cause bleeding from nose and eyes?
- drug reaction
- Olympics
- Glass figure changing color
- On the Topic of Color Changes
- Victorian women
August 23
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- Earth's Magnetic Poles
- Spontaneous human combustion
- Experiments with body gases and blow back
- Earths core
- Pure fusion bomb
- Heliocentrism
- Hygiene
- What is the nature of consciousness?
- Oxycodone and Morphine: Detection periods?
- Inhalent detection (inspired by question above)
- Hairspray vs. Houseflies
- neo cortical physiology and art/drama/music therapy
- The Size Of The Universe
- Terminology re: motion created by amniotic fluid
- Future studies in areospace
- find definitions
- What is this bird?
- advantage of youth in gymnastics
- Space Questions
August 25
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- Frequency of Meiotic Crossover
- Human growth hormone production.
- Cooked meat and air in a refrigerator
- Alcohol-and-cigarette-based human combustion
- power system
- Medical Term for No Fear in Crisis.
- Is copper(II) ion more stable than copper(I) ion?
- Useful life of commerically packed grated ginger
- WTC floor plan
- Why do we laugh at people who get hurt
- why do I look worse in photographs than in mirrors?
- Human eggs
- Infinity
August 26
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- Gas snorting
- Any way to discourage my parrot from washing her head in her water pot?
- Cheap, small, low-power technology for detecting a short-range distance?
- General relativity analogy thoughts.
- Given the same amount of sleep
- Listeriosis
- Curling a ribbon by scraping it?
- Maglev
- Why is 3d10 configuration so stable??
- Geomagnetic reversal and the End of the World
- Keep a "hard(permanent) magnet" floating
- Lifespan of an American Spadefoot toad
August 27
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- Springs and simple harmonic motion
- Yawning
- man without a face
- Cat Eyes
- Can tapirs pick things up with their nose?
- Jurassic Park question
- Is there any animal which lacks self-preservation instinct?
- Glaucoma / abd pain
- What happens when blood goes into tissue?
- Evolution and the "no new information" argument
- The evolution of intelligence
- Objects rotating in space
August 28
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- Spider silk
- What eats starfish?
- Do today's dyes weaken fabrics still?
- ELISA kit aging
- Sliding filament theory
- Metaphase of mitosis
- Name that plant
- Flying cats
- Who would win?
- cryptozoology and biology
- humidification operation
- Yeti and Bigfoot
- spider web sacs in trees?
- what is animal.
- BIOLOGY
- Spider eggs?
- dog
- has our buddy broke his leg?????
- Conflicting information on effects of neutering dogs
August 29
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editWikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 31
- Magnetic "field lines"
- Where could I buy lead ball bearings?
- Asteroids and comets
- Poisonous things that taste good
- Breakdown via anti-hydrogen
- DNA inbreedinng
- when to plant nectarines from saved pits
- lipid movement in a liposome..
- Mozzy bites
- Unknown insect
- Magnetic cows
- Path integral formulation
- blood
- Life in the most polluted environments?
- Physics Degree
- Red jelly growing in fridge
- Why do we find some animals attractive?
- Human lungs
- Sweet smell from blown up capacitors?
- Hydrogen Peroxide and Bacteria
- The Big Bang and Gravity