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= December 1 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 1

1. Are deer "nearly blind by human standards" ?
2. Chloroauric acid

= December 2 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 2

1. RMWI?
2. California coastal oak balls
3. A Sex Change (Dramatically) Changing One's Sexuality?
4. Autonomous vehicle

= December 3 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 3

1. Skin color and auto accidents
2. How can we characterize the quality of OECD data on working hours vs productivity?
3. 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
4. Sex determination by the father?
5. Best breeding age for human females
6. Constrictor snakes' skin

= December 4 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 4

1. Lagrange's equilateral triangle solution
2. Twins
3. stingless bees finding their hive
4. Skin wearing thin during writing
5. Will light inhibit dark dependent flowering once it's begun?

= December 5 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 5

1. AGRIS vs AGROVOC thesaurus
2. Surface gravitation of "kissing" spheres?
3. Masochistic pigeons
4. Best skin color etc.
5. 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.

= December 6 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 6

1. Why do peanuts make me thirsty ?
2. Technique for avoiding nodding off
3. Simulating incorrect vision?
4. Follow up to "Surface gravitation of "kissing" spheres"
5. Do humans' body size increase gradually in recent thousands of years?
6. Is it dangerous to eat raw eggs?
7. Self-healing cutting mats
8. "Bridge" rectifier
9. Geography question: which GNIS code should we use?

= December 7 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 7

1. Recoil force and momentum
2. NASA's recent picture of Saturn
3. Hamiltonian
4. Life cycle of frog
5. An orbit that any point on the planet gets the same amount of radiation
6. I will Survive!!!!
7. List of experiments performed in space
8. Tsunamis from non-earthquakes.

= December 8 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 8

1. Ulysses butterfly
2. Native North American genetics
3. Endoplanet
4. Repairing Things in Space
5. "Genetic code" - first mentioned in which "publication" ?

= December 9 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 9

1. Lake Drummond
2. What size tree would I be ?
3. Mathematical model of geographical determinism
4. Producing dark energy

= December 10 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 10

1. % new cases of HIV resulting from MSM globally
2. maximum tree height
3. Density of wood shop waste
4. Outer planets: conjunction
5. Exotic yeast gut flora
6. "Discovering" the obvious
7. Citalopram limit
8. Distinguishing between wet and cold
9. Inertial & Gravitational mass

= December 11 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 11

1. Programming in non-computer science/software dev degrees

= December 12 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 12

1. Why don't all viruses cause cancer ?
2. Urine as a fertilizer
3. Softening of the brain
4. Appropriate shower length
5. Blood disorders

= December 13 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 13

1. No seagulls in Malta
2. Fetal consciouness
3. mice in winter
4. Outer planets question

= December 14 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 14

1. What is the relationship between Double-slit experiment and Newcomb's Paradox

= December 15 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 15

1. How much would it cost to build the space colonies from Mobile Suit Gundam?
2. Formation of memories
3. Libido

= December 16 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 16

1. Chopper crash
2. Mining equipment
3. The Climate Reality Project versus The Weather Conspiracy report (book 1977) on the coming of the new ice age.
4. Astronauts' seats on their way back home
5. Deadly overdose of SSRI's
6. How do you know what to eat these days?

= December 17 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 17

1. How are walnuts and Brazil nuts shelled in bulk?
2. Approximately how much would the increased muscle on each arm weigh if:
3. Conservation of energy in protein decomposition
4. Ink and dye

= December 18 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 18

1. I am a FAT rocket man! Rocket man!!!

= December 19 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 19

1. Equivalents in Chemistry (in the Winkler Determination specifically)
2. How much pseudoephedrine is sold every year?
3. No space travel conspiracy
4. Clocks (not computer or ipods) jumping ahead

= December 20 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 20

1. High pressure animals
2. Pedunculated fibroma
3. IUPAC names
4. Are Clostridium difficile spores completely killed by bleach?
5. Geology of Seven Stones reef
6. Sex and Pregnancy Question in Regards to Castrated Males

= December 21 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 21

1. What does the letter C in anatomy stand for?
2. Biochemistry
3. Gaia Space Observatory Dimensions

= December 22 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 22

1. Elephant flapping ears as a sign of aggression
2. When have humans thought for the first time about a machine that can process information?

= December 23 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 23

1. Transplant an artificial heart?
2. Shroud of Turin - ethnicity of image
3. Before Sandra Bullock Gets Inside the ISS
4. Polysaccharides
5. How does viral filter defends on the caregiver?

= December 24 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 24

1. chain's weakest link
2. Orgasm
3. Precise petrol filling
4. Human eating carrion
5. Why do we need to unify general relativity with chemistry?

= December 25 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 25

1. Species identification
2. biology of food temperature

= December 26 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 26

1. Drinking Straws

= December 27 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 27

1. Reading newspaper or book in a moving vehicle
2. Do you happen electrical fault in an electromagnet? (explanation)
3. Curing meat

= December 28 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 28

1. Gravity
2. Water Salinity reduction using Salt Water Pool Chlorinators.
3. Lorentz force helix
4. Lack of sebaceous glands on palms of hands and soles of feet

= December 29 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 29

1. Can vegetables be grown in Zhejiang & Jiangxi during winter?
2. What is the reason behind this?
3. Bricklaying stacked bonding and stretcher bonding
4. ISS
5. The Vortex Coils
6. High tonnage on masonry arch bridges

= December 30 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 30

1. Electro Magnetic Pulse missile
2. CO2 Freezing?

= December 31 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 December 31

1. Hair dryer
2. What is the equation of J-integral in axisymmetric cylindrical coordinate(r-z plane)?
3. Long distance vacuum
4. Cat in the mirror