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...Officers were sent to D entryway of Wigglesworth to track down the source of a smell of smoke—reportedly smoke from marijuana. The officers’ search proved unsuccessful...
...Officers were sent to D entryway of Wigglesworth to track down the source of a smell of smoke—reportedly smoke from marijuana. The officers’ search proved unsuccessful...
When University of Oxford researchers presented volunteers with a vial of cheddar-cheese odor labeled either CHEDDAR CHEESE or BODY ODOR, guess which one they preferred? Sure enough, subjects found the odor significantly more pleasant when they thought they were smelling cheese. Researchers used imaging technology to try to pinpoint the neurological intersection of good-smell words with good-smell odors. Though the precise mechanism hasn't yet been worked out, it is clear that smell is in both the nose and the brain of the beholder...
...history graduate of Cambridge, Dean has a nose for detail. The references to pop songs and TV programs sometimes have the whiff of the library about them. But the details that matter - the inner turmoil of the compromised prison officer, the mother who wants a son, not a hero - smell of real and rarer history. From all her interviews, Dean concluded that "Northern Ireland is very much like, 'You don't come from here, so you can't understand.'" At a time when political polarization seems to be once again clouding the peace process, Dean's "ignorance" sheds welcome insight...
...tests in 2001, the Swedish scientists isolated two substances suspected of being human pheromones--an estrogen-like chemical distilled from women's urine and a testosterone-related chemical derived from male sweat. Using both MRI and PET scans, the researchers found that women registered the female pheromone in the smell-processing part of the brain. But when women sniffed male pheromones, their hypothalamuses lit up as well. In men, the results were exactly the opposite...