Help me find a wildebeest article, please? [more inside]
posted by dichronic at at 7:03 PM - 3 answers

Is there a psychological term for this? You like/dislike certain names, traits, or appearances in people, then you go on to have positive or negative associations with those traits, favor/disfavor those names/traits/appearances with individuals you don't know, in the future. [more inside]
posted by Dukat at at 2:47 AM - 11 answers

Please recommend your favourite books on theory building. [more inside]
posted by Sutekh at at 8:43 PM - 1 answers

What acoustical phenomena explain the apparent pitch-shifted echo I heard while observing tonight's fireworks display? [more inside]
posted by Songdog at at 8:26 PM - 11 answers

What combinations of colourless non-toxic substances result in something that's coloured, or at least opaque? [more inside]
posted by greatgefilte at at 4:17 PM - 4 answers

What's the best reading available for a summary of "Junk Science"? [more inside]
posted by Neale at at 7:44 PM - 21 answers

Is it too late for me to get into physics? [more inside]
posted by reenum at at 7:49 AM - 15 answers

What are the best recent books on emerging infectious diseases? [more inside]
posted by msharp at at 10:50 AM - 3 answers

Insect Identity Crisis: So I took a picture of what I originally thought was a mosquito on a leaf, but upon closer inspection, realized it was something else all together. [more inside]
posted by Atreides at at 6:50 PM - 21 answers

MolecularBiologyFilter: Embarrassingly easy question for any immunologists out there: are Toll-like receptors (or other pathogen recognition receptors) only expressed in professional antigen presenting cells (DCs, macrophages etc), or are they in e.g. epithelial cells too? [more inside]
posted by metaBugs at at 4:59 AM - 7 answers

Can you identify these two plants? [more inside]
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at at 6:59 PM - 14 answers

in my work, there is a requirement to test two plastics and compare the properties for an automotive application. the testing is done by an external agency, with whom i have no background, and they just give a table of results. what tests are they doing, how do they do them, why do they do them, and what tricks should i be on the lookout for? [more inside]
posted by edtut at at 4:00 PM - 2 answers

How do I learn to smell like my dog? [more inside]
posted by tr0ubley at at 3:37 PM - 16 answers

As a former scientist, help me gain some faith in economics. What were the great successes of economics as a tool for making better decisions in the last 100 years? [more inside]
posted by zaebiz at at 12:54 PM - 20 answers

Was the entire universe created by the Big Bang, or is the space/time generated by the Big Bang part of a larger universe? [more inside]
posted by Lownotes at at 10:55 AM - 23 answers

Can the Universe hold all of mathematics? [more inside]
posted by DU at at 5:33 AM - 107 answers

Wild hair, related to this. I am of truly unknown Northern European ancestry (closed adoption). My hair was brown with auburn highlights before charging on to grey over the past couple years. My abundant beard was always about 30% bright copper red. Am I a redhead gene carrier?
posted by mwhybark at at 10:58 PM - 13 answers

What are the chances my baby will have red hair? [more inside]
posted by anonymous at at 11:48 AM - 32 answers

Both of my parents have brown hair, brown eyes. I also have brown hair, brown eyes. My two older brothers have blond hair, blue eyes. Is that strange? A reason to think they may be adopted? [more inside]
posted by scottreynen at at 6:11 PM - 22 answers

Tidepooling near Boston? [more inside]
posted by Sublimity at at 10:12 PM - 10 answers