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Buck, who has been studying the sense of smell for 10 years, has discovered that each scenting cell, or neuron, has only one type of receptor. Each receptor type is found on about 5,000 neurons in a human nose, she said...
...neurons of each type are scattered throughout the nose, but they send messages that converge on distinct spots in the olfactory bulb at the front of the brain, Buck said. "What is most remark-able is that the locations of convergence are identical in different animals...
...first that he is tuning his banjo. That is until you realize that he is actually playing the banjo not by fretting, but by twisting the tuners on the head of the instrument. B‚la even went as far as to fret a note with his nose. He brought his brand blues to new realms, showing not only new territories where music could go, but also where it could come from...
Finally, I make 17. The lights come on and the familiar melody of "Closing Time" fills the room. J.P. and I bust our move. Suddenly, from the bowels of the room, a young woman approaches. She has a nose ring. It looks infected. She digs our groove. We head for the door...
...loyalty to the brilliant master he calls "the gent." But while Darwin may have the upper hand socially and intellectually, Covington is the superior psychologist, gifted with a rustic common sense that allows him to hold his own with the great man and slyly enrich himself under Darwin's nose by selling rare animals to London collectors. Like the fantastic tortoises they encounter in the Galapagos, servant and master are perfectly adapted to their respective niches in the world, "proof that God's hand sizzled here with one thing, there with another, and the chambers of his gallery were infinite...