Since mealworms eat styrofoam, can they realistically be used in recycling?

Since mealworms eat styrofoam, can they realistically be used in recycling?
What does the electron flow look like for a radio antenna?
How is glass made, which is a mirror from one side, and a window from the other?
When I shift my focus between the image on the TV and the reflection of the window behind me is that happening in my eyes or in my brain?
Is the Montreal plan to dump sewage into the St-Lawrence river actually that bad for the environment or is opposition to it just people trying to get environmental brownie points?
Given their long lifespans, do turtles or bowhead whales get dementia?
If human-created GHG are causing global warming, how come we don’t see any ozone holes over the biggest polluting industrial centers like China, North America, Europe?
How does cerebral hypoxia cause euphoria?
What makes cat reflexes so fast? How does it differ from that of a human?
Why is e.coli so dangerous? I thought it was sort of everywhere since it's in our gut.
When a video game runs at 60 frames per second, does that mean only the display shows what happens every 60th of a second, or does the game have markers that take inputs and produce outputs only at those times too?
If I make low-purity polycrystalline diamond, will I still get thermal conductivity that is far above copper?
Won't a bubble be perfectly round?
If i had a bowling ball in the middle of outer space. Could a m&m orbit around it?
Are men more likely to have seizures?
How is time "defined" in the very early universe?
When I get a cold, how much of the symptoms/misery are caused by the illness itself and how much are caused by my body's reactions to the illness?
Why do we loose appetite when we're sick?
What are some good data analysis programs?
How can Fluorine have the greatest electronegativity and not have the greatest (or most negative) electron affinity?

Posted: 09 Nov 2015 08:10 PM PST

Stanford released a study that found that 100 mealworms can eat a pill sized (or about 35 mg) amount of styrofoam each day. They can live solely off this and they excrete CO2 and a fully biodegradable waste. What would be needed to implement this method into large scale waste management? Is this feasible?

Here's the link to the original article from Stanford: https://news.stanford.edu/pr/2015/pr-worms-digest-plastics-092915.html

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What does the electron flow look like for a radio antenna?

Posted: 10 Nov 2015 06:34 AM PST

I'm having trouble visualizing how antenna's actually work in a circuit. They are connected to a circuit, but only on one end. So how do the electrons flow? If they were flowing through the antenna, wouldn't it basically be a Tesla coil?

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How is glass made, which is a mirror from one side, and a window from the other?

Posted: 10 Nov 2015 03:19 AM PST

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When I shift my focus between the image on the TV and the reflection of the window behind me is that happening in my eyes or in my brain?

Posted: 10 Nov 2015 06:54 AM PST

Also, what about when I look out a window and adjust my focus from my reflection to things outside -- this I would imagine is done by my eyes as it's a different depth of focus -- but on the TV both images are the same distance away. Cheers. *edit: spelling

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Is the Montreal plan to dump sewage into the St-Lawrence river actually that bad for the environment or is opposition to it just people trying to get environmental brownie points?

Posted: 10 Nov 2015 05:39 AM PST

Link to article in case people aren't sure what I'm talking about

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Given their long lifespans, do turtles or bowhead whales get dementia?

Posted: 10 Nov 2015 06:46 AM PST

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If human-created GHG are causing global warming, how come we don’t see any ozone holes over the biggest polluting industrial centers like China, North America, Europe?

Posted: 10 Nov 2015 05:29 AM PST

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How does cerebral hypoxia cause euphoria?

Posted: 10 Nov 2015 06:47 AM PST

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What makes cat reflexes so fast? How does it differ from that of a human?

Posted: 10 Nov 2015 05:09 AM PST

This question has been bugging me for a while now. Are cats built physically different, allowing for them to both react and move with lightning fast speed, or are humans just slow?

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Why is e.coli so dangerous? I thought it was sort of everywhere since it's in our gut.

Posted: 10 Nov 2015 06:18 AM PST

Recently read of a kindergarten where several children were two kids were sent to the hospital because of e.coli. But, isn't gut bacteria everywhere already? How can some e.coli be more dangerous than other?

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When a video game runs at 60 frames per second, does that mean only the display shows what happens every 60th of a second, or does the game have markers that take inputs and produce outputs only at those times too?

Posted: 10 Nov 2015 06:05 AM PST

For example, I know that the CPU that's processing everything can make a cycle every couple billionths of a second, and all though it would take a lot of them to produce a result, taking an input and sending it to the game should be very fast, and be able to happen in between frames, right?

So for instance say there's a certain game that runs 60 fps, where the simple objective is to press a button before your opponent. If you press it after exactly 101 ms, and your opponent presses it after 115 ms, since the next "marker" for the game would happen at 116.6 ms, would this produce a tie, or would you win? I would imagine that the CPU could tell you pressed it first, but when working with emulators and such, everything is cut into individual frames.

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If I make low-purity polycrystalline diamond, will I still get thermal conductivity that is far above copper?

Posted: 09 Nov 2015 07:42 PM PST

I want to make a lot of polycrystalline diamond. I mean A LOT (imagine 2 square yards). Buying that in the open market will cost you a cool $800 million (I'm not kidding, look it up). But... I only want thermal conductivity that's above copper, and not the hyper-pure stuff that most professionals want. So... if I make some hillbilly, low-purity PCD, will I still get my high thermal conductivity material?

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Won't a bubble be perfectly round?

Posted: 09 Nov 2015 08:18 PM PST

I watched an episode on the "roundest object in the world", a silicon ball. Won't the equal pressure of the gas in a soap bubble make it perfectly round?

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If i had a bowling ball in the middle of outer space. Could a m&m orbit around it?

Posted: 09 Nov 2015 06:09 PM PST

What size ball would you need to get something like an m&m to orbit around it?

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Are men more likely to have seizures?

Posted: 09 Nov 2015 05:34 PM PST

I've heard this a lot lately. If so, why?

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How is time "defined" in the very early universe?

Posted: 09 Nov 2015 02:29 PM PST

How are the numbers for the duration of the Planck-, the Grand unification-, and the Electroweak-Epoch obtained? And how is time even defined in this context?

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When I get a cold, how much of the symptoms/misery are caused by the illness itself and how much are caused by my body's reactions to the illness?

Posted: 09 Nov 2015 02:02 PM PST

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Why do we loose appetite when we're sick?

Posted: 10 Nov 2015 06:12 AM PST

With many illnesses you get a lower appetite, why is that. I would think you need extra energy when your sick.

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What are some good data analysis programs?

Posted: 09 Nov 2015 09:43 AM PST

I'm an undergrad in a chemistry laboratory and I'm looking for a program (preferably free) to graph a few thousand data points and fit multiple trendlines to the graph, like this. I'd need to be able to add my own trendlines with set slopes, etc, and also fit trendlines to data. Excel doesn't cut it and is near impossible to use for my purposes.

If this isn't in the right subreddit, please point me in the right direction. Also, not sure what to tag this as, but computing seems like the best fit.

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How can Fluorine have the greatest electronegativity and not have the greatest (or most negative) electron affinity?

Posted: 09 Nov 2015 03:37 PM PST

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