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Today, you\u2019ll learn about how the human sense of smell may be much better than we ever thought, how the bones inside your body are having interesting conversations with your organs, and a new innovation in desalination technology that uses significantly less energy than its predecessors.

What\u2019s that smell?

• \u201cLet\u2019s obliterate the myth that humans have a bad sense of smell\u201d by Brian Resnick
  • https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/5/11/15614748/human-smell-good-science
• \u201cMechanisms of scent-tracking in humans\u201d by Jess Porter et Brent Craven, Rehan M Khan, Shao-Ju Chang, Irene Kang, Benjamin Judkewitz, Jason Volpe, Gary Settles & Noam Sobel
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/nn1819
• \u201cHumans Can Discriminate More than 1 Trillion Olfactory Stimuli\u201d by C. Bushdidm, O. Magnascol, B. Vosshalland, and A. Keller
  • https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1249168
• \u201cPoor human olfaction is a 19th-century myth\u201d by John P. Mcgann
  • https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.aam7263

Your body talks without talking.

• \u201cHow Bones Communicate With the Rest of the Body\u201d by Amber Dance
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-bones-communicate-with-the-rest-of-the-body-180979643/
• \u201cBones make hormones that communicate with the brain and other organs\u201d by Cassie Martin
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/bones-make-hormones-communicate-brain-and-other-organs
• \u201cBone-to-Brain: A Round Trip in the Adaptation to Mechanical Stimuli\u201d by Laura Gerosa and Biovanni Lombardi
  • https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2021.623893/full#:~:text=Thus%2C%20bone%20emerges%20as%20a,act%20at%20the%20brain%20level.

Water with salt on the side, please.

• \u201cModular Solar PV and Tidal Power Desalination Buoys from Canada\u201d by Ryan Kennedy
  • https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/04/11/modular-solar-pv-and-tidal-power-desalination-buoys-from-canada/
• \u201cWave-Powered Desalination Buoys\u201d by Solar Impulse Foundation
  • https://solarimpulse.com/solutions-explorer/wave-powered-desalination-buoys\\

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