Editor's Selections: Urine, Clowns, Vodka, and Dogs

By jgoldman on July 20, 2010.

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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