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...embodied computing” will be able to replace “vision’s long held-dominance over the other senses.” Tolaas’s exhibition explores how the body uses varying physiological states to communicate different moods—focusing on body odor elicited by fear. According to Vadim Bolshakov, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, sweating is a typical “non-specific fear response.” Tolaas wrote in her proposal for the installation that in the West, smell is thought of in “aesthetic...
...took 3 1/2 years to roll out ovens, the biggest thing to hit Starbucks since the blender's 1995 debut. Starbucks knew there was demand--witness the bags of food carried in--but creating a good-looking oven that could cook a range of items and contain the odor--lest a store not smell first and foremost of coffee--was a challenge. Even after some breakfast sandwiches were developed, entirely new deployment routines had to be created so that employees would not slow the line. "If our espresso-only or drip-only customers suffered," says Alling, "it wouldn...
That morningcup of coffeemight smell better after you get up from bed. It has been shown that lying down can dampen such senses as hearing and spatial perception, and now researchers have found that reclining can also smother your ability to pick up odors. More than 60% of test subjects sniffing rose odor had decreased sensitivity to the smell when recumbent. The phenomenon could be the body's way of turning off potential distractions while you're trying to fall asleep, or it might be the result of fluids that rush through the brain while you're supine...
...began rising from her drain at about 8 a.m., but “as [the liquid] kept coming out it got murky and brown colored.” She said that while it did not appear to be sewage, the liquid had a “contaminated” odor. According to Silva, Eliot maintenance staff came to her suite at about 8:40 a.m. to tell her that they were busy in other rooms within the House, but that they would be in to begin cleanup in her suite soon. But she said they did not return until...
...first thing that hits you when you enter Little Sadr City is the smell. The odor of open gutters, animal pens and trash fires fill a thin haze that floats through the neighborhood, where posters of Sadr hang on many buildings. When U.S. patrols rumble into the area in armored vehicles, pigeons soar as lookouts signal their comrades as to the Americans' whereabouts. Gunfire often follows. Typically militia fighters will fire a volley of shots at a checkpoint manned by Iraqi security forces near a U.S. patrol. They may linger to fire a few more shots at U.S. troops arriving...