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sellers.

Welcome to this special standalone edition of Totally Bogus posted on October 8th.

Here are four science stories only three are true. See if you know which story is totally bogus. Story one, because of shortages of two chemicals,

highway departments are having trouble painting lines on the roads.

Story two, the White House will be solar-powered

for the first time since President Reagan removed President Carter's solar panels.

Story three, groups of individuals who are smart

get outperformed by other groups of people who may be less intelligent individually but who work better as a team.

And story for Andre Geim, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics on October 5th, is the first laureate, that we know of anyway, to have co-authored a paper with a hamster.

Times Up, Story 1 is true. There are shortages of titanium dioxide and methyl

metacrylate used in roadline paint. The demand for paint shot up with stimulus funding, but

the supply of the compounds is still lagging behind. Story four is true. Andre Geim published a paper in the journal Physica B condensed matter back in 2001 called

Detection of Earth Rotation with diamagnetically levitating gyroscope.

Geim was the first author with the second author identified as one H-A-M-Ster-Tia. And when you read it straight through, it's

Hamster Tisha. Geyme was the corresponding author as Tisha, the hamster, probably couldn't find

enough time off the wheel to deal with mail. And Story 3 is true. Teams of people with good

social skills outperformed other teams whose individual members were smarter.

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