New Eye Structures and Bad Smells

I have two unrelated topics today that were motivation enough to actually post something following the completion of my NSF Fellowship application this week.

Today, I graded the lab quiz I gave last week. One of the questions had a picture of a human eye with an arrow pointing to a structure my students were supposed to know, which was the sclera. Two of the incorrect answers included the papilla (a small projecting body part similar to a nipple on the female fetal pigs we dissected) and, here was the best one, a Corona. Since when did a structure of the human eye start sharing the name of a popular beer?

And on an unrelated note, I noticed a foul smell in the house when I came home two days ago. I pointed this out to John, who said Machelle and Nick had both been cooking chicken that evening. Wrong kind of foul. I knew this smell wasn't cooked animal flesh, but I eventually stopped noticing it. The next morning I went for a run, and that was long enough out of the house to notice the smell again when I returned. This time, it seemed worse, and I nearly gagged when I walked in the garage. I closed the door to the garage (which is normally open to the house), cracked some windows, and later sent John an email from school. The culprit? A rat one of the cats had brought in three days prior to the onset of the stench. It was alive when the cat dropped it inside, but he didn't know where it had gone. I realize now there are few things that smell worse than a rotting rat. But I guess my email prompted him to follow his nose, and what he found certainly wasn't cooked chicken.