Big Blue View podcast: Meet EDGE Elerson Smith
What might Elerson Smith bring to the table?
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The New York Giants circled back around to the EDGE position in the fourth round of the 2021 NFL Draft, selecting Elerson Smith out of Northern Iowa.
Smith didn’t play in 2020, as Northern Iowa was one of the schools who shifted their schedule to the spring of 2021. However, he showed up to the 2021 Reese’s Senior Bowl and showed conclusively that he could compete and win against the best seniors from the biggest schools in the nation.
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“Gee, I don’t know why people don’t pick up after their dogs. It stinks here,” moaned a friend as we were walking down a tree-lined street in Washington. The unmistakable scent of doggie doo was in the air, but heaps of the stuff would have been needed to produce such an intense odour. No such piles of poop were in sight, but there were plenty of what looked like squashed yellow cherries on the sidewalk. And they reeked! A mix of vomit, sweaty socks and outhouse fragrance would be an apt description. An upward glance revealed that they were not cherries, but rather the seed pods of ginkgo biloba trees, easily recognized by its duck foot-like leaves. Indeed, the ancient Chinese name for the tree, “yinxin” translates as “duck’s foot.”
Big Blue View podcast: Meet cornerback Aaron Robinson
Taking a look at the Giants’ third round pick
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With the 71st pick in the 2021 NFL Draft, the New York Giants selected cornerback Aaron Robinson from Central Florida.
For the third straight round the Giants selected a player with ties to the SEC, and the pick involved the team executing a trade. But unlike their selections of Kadarius Toney and Azeez Ojulari, which saw the Giants trade down before making the picks, they traded up from 76th overall to select Robinson.
The Giants obviously like Robinson and believe he can bring something they need to their defense. So who is he as a player, and what does he bring to the field?
The Right Chemistry: The problems with PFAS Chemicals used in certain cross-country ski waxes, non-stick surfaces and fire-fighting foam, among other things, also have major downsides.
Author of the article: Joe Schwarcz • Special to the Montreal Gazette
Publishing date: May 14, 2021 • 4 hours ago • 5 minute read • Cross-country skiers are loath to give up fluorinated waxes because they reduce friction, and when race results are measured in fractions of a second, wax makes a difference, Joe Schwarcz says. Nevertheless, the International Ski Federation is poised to ban fluorinated waxes, he adds. Photo by Lisa Rathke /The Associated Press
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Say “perfluoroalkyl substances.” That’s a mouthful, right? Luckily, we can get away with using the acronym PFAS, pronounced “peefas.” But the real question is whether we are getting a literal mouthful of these chemicals when we eat or drink. Time to get an earful about PFAS.