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August 1
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- Block erasure
- Disulfiram and fetal alcohol syndrome
- popularizing chemistry
- DNA testing of cremains
- energy solution
- better fit?
- Statistics on Human Penis Size
- What is an airlift system
- Current Control vs. Voltage control
- Resurecting extinct species
- Leptinella/Cotula
- Weedicides
- Blushing
- aspirin
- Instantaneous force
- I have some Astronomy Questions:
- How much does gravity hold the human body together?
- Geomagnetically Induced Currents
August 2
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- Snowing right now
- hammerhead sharks
- Torque and power
- Effect of star Jupiter on Earth
- Beyond the standard model and low temperature physics experiments
- Getting sulfur from Gypsum.
- Evolution
- EM waves traveling through a vacuum
- Gravitational waves and frame of reference
- Destroying the Popemobile
- the moon should have an atmosphere
August 4
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- Spotting nocturnal animals at night
- Response to Creationwiki
- ABO/Rh retype
- International space station
- humans on other planets
- World War II US Submarine Equipment
- Temperature inside an atomic nucleus, & what if it were cooled
- Green birds in Greater London
- what effects onbody organs human hanging death
- Freeview signal, UK
- Brownian ratchet
- Living liquid
- Hanging: suicide or execution?
August 5
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- Question (acetone)
- Thomisida
- WHAT PERCENT OF THE PLANETS IN THE GALAXY HAVE LIFE
- Water flowing on Mars???
- Claims of Scientific Evidence Against Evolution
- Radio frequencies
- The "Laotian bird" Nock-ten (2011)
- When in the history of Astronomy could a planet on the far side of the sun be ruled out?
- move the world
August 6
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editWikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 8
- Shortest division of time
- How hot is my oven?
- Acetone
- Self combusting essential oils?
- How to interpret my test results
- chock2
- who started the "information processing theory" ?
- need some recommendations for digital cameras that are good at recording insects (specifically fruit flies)
- Treeline and Kangerlassuaq
- What vehicle make-&-model has had NO accident fatalities in its entire history?
- How many MPH is the bumper rated for on our MRAPs and M1A2 Abramses?
- Satellite dish ears
- chernobyl nuclear plant
- Water and Electricity
August 9
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editWikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 11
- Influenza
- Airport and weather station identfiers
- florida homes
- need some explanation about electrical transformers
- How is commercial-scale vacuum-sealing done?
- constellations and their relationship to spiral arms.
- Badger Diet Question
- Tides
- Black hole and stellar evolution
- state of a dissolved solid (chemistry)
- energy savers
August 12
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- Space shooting
- Potatos strapped to the wrist
- escape velocity
- Measuring atomic mass
- Barycenter
- Compound movements workout
- predicting toppling
- Stomach anatomy
- 200 proof alcohol sale and consumption
- Cute little Israeli Rodent which I cannot identify
- Does it exist a Pyrenean Isthmus?
- Origin of viviparous fishes
- Leptictidium Cretaceous
- Deep sea fish and rupture of something (I guess)...
August 14
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- Why are humans physically weak?
- Guinea pigs and motion sickness
- What leaf is this?
- Quantum mechanics/many-worlds
- Growing catnip
- manual
- transformed circuit drawing for all electrical component
- Human survivability envelope on a newly discovered planet
- How can I get rid of Acetone in my car
- what is the function of the iPhone's 3GS 6R8 coil?
August 16
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- Relativity and Bernoulli
- Strength of Immune System for healthy adult from 2010 versus 1810
- Heat and salty taste perception
- energy and matter
- Uterine fibroids
- galactic orbits
- Dishwashers and salt
- Diabetes and low blood sugar
- 21 cm line of Hydrogen
- The "Chupacabra" of DC
- Aircraft with rectangular wing profile
- Why are there two kinds of screws?
- Surviving on raw food alone.
- Mind uploading and transactional integrity
August 17
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- Fly stickers redux - 'hazardous to bees'
- Hydroflouric acid in Breaking Bad
- Grave question about violins
- Adding thermodynamic and statistical physics rules to gravity field equations
- Dogs playing tug of war
- RE: Have you seen this flower or fungi
- nicotine patches
- Critical angle and the refractive index
- Problems when connecting HTC Trophy with PC
- aspirin
- Autism and restaurant chains
- Immunization from HIV?
August 19
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- Concave lens and a "projection" of a virtual image
- Battery & Aerogel
- Are there algorithms for numerical partial differential equations that are implicit in time and in space?
- newtonian question
- Looking for a plastic strip for a DIY project
- How does the human brain process the failure to grasp/loss of Abstraction; or how does it process concrete interpretation of metaphors/symbollism?
- Galvanic anodes
- bond order
- Pls help me (what does valency mean?)
- US presidents in the military
- Trying to remember the name of bioinformatics / computational biology researcher [SOLVED]
- Why is the moon (a) red and (b) missing the top?
- Gas and carbon monoxide poisoning
August 20
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- Are individual photons visible to the dark-adapted naked eye?
- How do seeds know which way is up?
- Total lunar eclipse at December 31
- Information on linitis plastica, a form of stomach cancer
- Tossing and turning
- phenobarbitol/ataxia
- Soymilk makes boobs bigger?
- nova & dwarf nova difference?
- Does JPL's default simulation accurately depict the orbit of asteroid 2010 SO16?
August 22
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editWikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 23
- How good is Scientific Learning Corporation's Reading Assistant?
- tomato, hot pepper - why are they toxic?
- event horizon
- What would happen if you injected fat into a vein?
- Total amount of platinum
- Online seismograph reports?
- lizards
- Required muzzle velocity of a cannon to shoot any target on Earth
- Unreal Creatures in Cave paintings
- vehicle skid marks
- rainfall and earthquake
- Pressure sores
- Identical Universes
August 24
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- Dark side of a planet
- Carrot overdose
- Hand propping
- Costly military technologies
- Classification of TNOs: SDO vs. Detached TNO
- Moon
- Space tourism
- Flying submarine
- Fly me to the moon ............. and then?
- Why do flies hit windows repeatedly without realizing they can't get out that way?
- Hurricane Irene on Weather Underground: computer models much scarier than 5-day forecast
- Bladder Cancer
August 25
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editWikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 27
- Hurricane predictions - too far to the west
- Squirrel Behavior Question
- Strings and Wave Packets in Physics
- Where do the baloons go
- Discoloured teeth from drugs/meds
- Shoddy reporting story???
- space moving
- shrinking galaxies
- Largest LED
- Why do most Jews not look, well, semitic?
- Weird maple disease
- Light reflecting off light
August 28
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- Plants in anoxic environments
- Bug Help
- National Weather Service storm surge map
- Where does precision come from?
- Fast weight loss - is it healthy?
- Morphological Crystallography revisited from the 2007 archives
- What species is this?
- What laws of physics are violated in the The Adjustment Bureau
- Darkest hour
August 29
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- An atom of hydrogen
- Dicarbon
- Hypervalent phosphorus
- Inland hurricane warnings
- How does the Esselstyn diet unblock blocked arteries?
- Evolution
- Are there any land-dwelling chordates with other than zero, two or four legs?
- Silver coating that makes tarnish removable without polish.
- Vasodilating food
- X-ray photography
- Rabid skunk
- Stem cell compatibility
- Sterling engine charger?
August 30
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- Negative matter
- Why isn't there an X-Ray Structure of Bovine Serum Albumin?
- Dizziness caused by a somersault
- What injuries can be instantly healed?
- Sound transmission and atmospheric pressure
- Exactly why couldn't Jurassic Park happen?
- Errrrr
- ET phone home ......... from L2?
- Evolution in animal thinking
- Standard model vs GR
- Mammals physically capable of sticking their head up their bottom?
- Helium ionization detector
- Chocolate bars
- Io and Pulsars.
August 31
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- Superfluid
- Exactness of astronomy in 1602
- Chemistry XII Grade
- zebras
- potatoes, catalase, hydrogen peroxide...and an oven!
- Name of the selenium analogue of greigite
- Artificial gonads
- Really big mosquito. Species?
- Citrobacter Nuclear Reactor
- Coordinates
- Underice explosion
- Energy Efficiency Calculations for Waste Heat Used in a Combined Heat and Power System
- 3066 McFadden