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Tracy Rowland: An Inhospitable Smell

April 26, 2019

In a battle over her apartment's air quality, cat foster mom Tracy Rowland discovers how to use her kitten's parasite as a weapon.

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Tags Tracy Rowland, Season 9, Story Collider producer, cats, animals, smell

Stuart Firestein: A mentor with a nose for science

March 31, 2013

After a career as a theater manager, Stuart Firestein takes a biology class, which leads him to a completely new life, and a lot of salamander noses.

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Tags Stuart Firestein, season 3, senses, research, career, salamanders, smell

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