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January 1
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- Date
- An optional use for leeches?
- do the congenitally blind understand literary descriptions?
- Mechanical device that keeps something spinning in exactly the right speed
January 2
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- Electro magnetic theory
- What the Fuck is Fermet's Last Theorum?
- penetration of UltraViolet A rays in flesh
- Solar cell production capacity
- DNA math
- pittuitay tumors
- How many species are there?
January 3
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- What is it eating?
- Do we have any defense at all against meteors, black holes, etc.?
- Pesticides
- Kale
- "Blind spot" in face recognition?
- Bolbidia
- World steel supply irradiated ?
- sexual reproduction would never work.
January 4
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- Engineering indexes
- Frequency of mass
- Advantage of large population
- Acceleration?
- Why is Jelly easier to swallow than water?
- Placebo
- Animal cooperation and co-learning
- Where/when was c first used as the symbol for the speed of light?
- Time dilation
- Asteroid orbital elements
- Please identify this flower
- Special relativity, time dilation, practice?
- What is the difference between neuronal circuitry and neural circuitry?
- How often do transposons jump?
- Hard-boiled eggs
- ZMF in special relativity
January 5
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- Possible Meteorite strike
- Ray that stops internal-combustion engines
- Are there any Nobel winning scientists in baseball?
- Titanium Knives vs. Stainless Steel
- Daytime Conflict with clock time
- Headphones jack or line out?
- How long will it take for Pluto to clear its neighborhood?
- how many horsepower can a horse pull with?
- Racemates/racemic mixtures
- Genetics
- Volume controller
- Artificial Gravity
- A Zebra Finch as a pet?
January 6
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- Looking back in time through space
- Potassium supplement dosage
- The Universe
- Four fundamental interactions as four formulas
- mech engineering related(new idea)
- Ice in craters of Mercury
- Atomic masses
- chemicals for surgical gloves
- Definition of "Life"
- Whistle in water
- Charges on a sphere
- Breathing in cold weather
- [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 January 6#|]]
- Gaining immunity to the common cold?
- Fighter plane firing a bullet
- Shape of Planets
- Deliriants vs. Hallucinogens
January 7
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- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avobenzone This]
- Transistor configuration in a radio Tx/Rx
- Quantum Physics - The double Split Experiment
- dextrose & ct scans
- Darting PVDF membrane magic trick
- Scabies
- you better have an explanation for this
- Does this represent inertia?
- Buying Optical fiber
January 8
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- problem in thermodynamics
- In Electric current(AC-230V) transmission-household wiring, why cannot we sense Nutral current using normal Current tester?
- Light as waves AND particles
- if an acid is added to a salt...?
- Mensa and god
- Solar power for a house
- Temperature at which Magnesium ignites
- Colorlessness of a solution
- knotty problem
- If the sun went out...
- Alcohol
- Child and Adolescent psychotherapist
- What's the lowest pint in Badlands national park?
January 9
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- Do we know if egg-laying is painful for birds?
- If our universe is an open one, is not that a a paradox?
- Strength of intermolecular forces
- Lightning
- CO2 in a fish tank for plants
- How is it that all life on Earth descended from a common ancestor and not multiple ancestors?
- Orders of magnitude for force...?
- Cnidocysts stronger than a bullet??
- Protein Engineering
January 10
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January 11
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- Polarisation and magnetisation
- I got a question if water can explode?
- Audio quality - sampling rate versus bits per sample.
- Getting Younger Every Day
- Apparent Size of the Moon
- What are recent developments in Internal Combustion Engines?
- tingling in the chin
- Levitation - frogs or otherwise.
- Phosphate pit
- light
- "Super greens" pills
- Doing X will "flush the toxins out of your body"?
- Radar turns on a radio?
January 12
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- A pile-up limit?
- Blood Diseases.
- White metal?
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avobenzone This]
- Benzophenone
- ICOS or Icos?
- cannibis
- Torque
- Copolovian Mischief
- A question on gravity
- Temperature
- Supersonic wind?
- Immunofluorescence
- LED light bulbs dimmable?
- so much for your precious physics!
- Gravitational Earth xray
January 13
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- Paternity Test
- penetration of UltraViolet A rays in flesh
- How Alternating Current Flows in elcetrical wire?
- Ground Glassware Joint sizes
- The genetic aspects of personality ?
- Medication Expiration
- STARS AT NIGHT
- Medical question
- what is the relationship between heat and information?
- can an Electric shock actually throw you across the room?
January 14
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- Synthesis study?
- LED lamps - how they change colors so smoothly?
- Duration of Venlafaxine withdrawal symptoms?
- number of mice in lab
- Breathing out - controlling the temperature/heat
- two sets of DNA in one person - episode of house.
- Poor performance of guerrillas
- Geography of Quebec
- M2 Browning machine gun acessory
- Bandy Ball
- USP
- Human perception of light versus sound
- Something smells fishy...
- Speed of light
January 15
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- Why don't mountain climbers' eyeballs freeze?
- work and momentum
- Fate of feral pigeons, feral gulls and feral starlings if humans became extinct?
- Neutron star with event horizon
- Is there a center of the universe?
- Power adapter
- No sleep
- menstrual cycles
- Meniscus Lens Ray Diagrams
January 16
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- Saving money by freezing water
- Stone use
- Question about waves
- solid objects behavior under stress
- fibrinogen
- fifth dimension
- unified theory
- What do economists know, really?
- Using frogs to keep milk cold
- moment of inertia
- Blood spurts
- Short tongue and snipping
- How many possible genetic variations or combinations from one couple ?
- Storage capacity of the human brain ?
- Perception of one colour being "brighter" / "darker" than another
- Organ barter
- Private health care in the US
- why does gas burn blue?
January 17
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- Will Uranus and Jupiter eventually lose it's rings?
- Darvocet (Propoxyphene) Overdose Dosage
- Tidal lock with the sun
- What's a good resource for algae?
- mass of photon
- Vitamin D and Tanning
- sun collapsing
- Collisions with the sun(four related questions)
- Tachycardia
- Limit of Cold
January 18
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- Can I buy cyanide being 16 year old
- Chest pain
- related to physics
- knowledge key
- dim flashes from a Fluorescent lamp
- pi calculation formula
- Long-term storage of lithium ion battery
- Muscle Tone and Protein Intake
- Negritos, Indigenous Australians, Pacific Islanders, and Thai people...
- A question and a few "if so..."s
- wet vs. cold
- leaded brass
January 19
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- What kind of audio processing is this?
- Is the areola/nipple of the breast (any breast, but a female breast I'm thinking of) a mucous membrane?
- Apparent violation of the Second law of thermodynamics at quantum level?
- MANUFACTURING PROCESS
- Fresnel drag
- Is there any solvent in the world has ph below 1.5 but without bubbles when spraying?
- tensing head/neck muscles
- stimulated emission
- Is there a chance that Mars will be swallowed up/?
- Original use of copper wire, before electric use
- Longevity of woman
- Types Of Cells Containing Nuclear Pores
- abbreviation for the word molecules that is different from mol or moles
January 20
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- A pore excuse for a question...
- True color image vs. false color images
- Rechargable batteries - the 'S' terminal?
- First movie projector for more than one person?
- Homo genus
- von brun's nest
- nissle's substance
- Is this a lichen or an animal colony?
- MAG 29
- Temperature of a lit cigarette
- rice in a silo exploding
- Golden Ratio
- Nutrition of a Egg whites
January 21
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- Surface roughness
- BATTERY
- Plastic In Bandy Balls
- penicillin test
- 747-400 seat cushion dimensions
- Depleted uranium
- Natural Polymers
- Iris Depigmentation
- Lingual Frenectomy in Adults?
- Total size of all Wikipedia articles
- Submarine motion
- steel
- concrete specimen
- Regarding sight
- Titan vs. Europa over 5-7 billion year sun
January 22
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- Aerated autoclaved concrete
- How to have a nightmare
- Creation of unfeasably large nuclei through the quantum zeno effect
- Effect of Sildenafil (Viagra)
- Expanding universe
- Foucault pendulum in Lost
- :: in gene notation
January 23
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- air compressor
- how do explosions destroy things
- Viewing memories from a cat's brain?
- Do female athletes and sportswomen, especially in 'masculine' sports, have more testosterone than average women?
- Neanderthal cranial size
- spiral bevel gears
- Electronics
- microbiology
- Question about the hologram universe article in New Scientist issue 2691
- What does "space is a vacuum" mean?
- Energy stored in air, compressed by supersonic object
- Chaos Theory. Is this a croc, or what?
January 24
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- Non-teratogenic mutagens
- Space tube: Sucking or Blowing?
- Space/matter
- Compressible liquids
- Second moment of area
- treeful of goats??
- What kind of bacterium does this?
- Equations of motion
- Kids holding books upside down
January 25
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- Burying charcoal to mitigate global warming
- Rope bridges over big gaps
- Circuit schematics: are these good?
- Death by toaster?
- Choice of anticoagulant
- help
- communicating space tube
- power available from daylight
- Gluten question
- Cosmic gods
- mt st helens
- Which lightbulb?
- Identifying a street light bulb
- Water Clock Thingie Question
- Definition of Work
January 26
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- Air pressure or surface tension
- Catching the milk
- The car of the future!
- Einstein Field Equation
- Drake equation with infinite L
- In dogs, say a Great Dane and a Chihuahua were to breed through artificial insemination...
- Progesterone receptor A - isoform
- [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 January 26#greatest possible scientific progress 40 years ago
from single twitter?<.2Fstrike>|greatest possible scientific progress 40 years agofrom single twitter?]] - Displacement, s
- viscosity vs. temp
- Alternating current outlet
- Compact fluorescent light bulb hooked up backwards
- Why do octane raings vary?
- Skin temperature and freezing
January 27
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January 28
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- [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 January 28#Can one guess the mass of
a<.2Fs> dice?|Can one guess the mass ofadice?]] - Backwards FET operation
- intensity light
- Feed the sailors with carrots so they'll have better eyesight.
- Organ donor records
- Osmole Confusion Part II
- Wearing a coat inside making the cold outside feel colder.
- Synthesis of Benzene
- Letter to the BMJ
- Autodidact: how to prove that you learned something
January 29
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- Parallel Universes' Laws of Physics
- Centripetal vs. Centrifugal
- Seeing bubbles on a leaf in water
- Atomic Bombs and Radiation Burns
- Loss of memory cells
- Doctors in Médecins Sans Frontières
- About Ocean Tides
- Crystal violet staining for cell-counting
- Swollen abdomen in Kwashiorkor
- Cause of death in the ocean
- Guidance required.
- Tons to kN conversion
- NPN transistor as a switch
- Space
- Determing the thermoelectric cooler's current output when using a fan as a load
- humans ≠ able to tell time
- Earth without a moon.
January 30
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- Rice and Play-doh
- Digestive grinding stones
- Eosinophil
- What makes heating a house using geothermal inefficient in the US
- UFOs
- Mitochondrial DNA from sperm to zygote
- Scientific question
- Firing a pistol sideways
- Engineering Book for Children
- Quantam Mechanics, de Broglie wavelength, baseball
- My UFO Story or What did I see?
- Skywarn Spotter Training
- Atlantic hurricane tracks
- Robert Burns and gold conductor
- Islam...
- Gravity escaping black holes.
- Books on string theory
January 31
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