Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week:
- Scicurious delights and entertains while explaining a study all about rat urine, in song and rhyme. She instructs: If You're Happy And You Know It, Smell Some Pee.
- Christian Jarrett of BPS Research Digest asks, Did you see the unicycling clown?
- More Vodka! It should all taste the same, considering vodka is just water and 40% ethyl alcohol. Right? Torah Kachur of Science in Seconds explains whether different types of vodka actually taste different.
- And finally, a post of my own: do dogs have contagious yawning?
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