Category Archives: smells
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Nose Blindness, Toilet Plumes, and a Golden Nose
Leave a commentSeptember 21, 2024 by libroshombre
Ah, lovely serendipity abounds! Reading about nose blindness led to researching Tycho Brahe’s golden nose and wound up exposing a lot …
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Neanderthals, Dogs, and the Love Hormone
Leave a commentApril 19, 2021 by libroshombre
Philosopher Immanuel Kant liked to remind us that, “All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the …
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Sillage, Szag, and Japanese Toilets
Leave a commentAugust 5, 2018 by libroshombre
““Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it,” according to Vladimir Nabokov. That’s …
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Stinkers, Dictators, and Egg Spoons
Leave a commentMay 14, 2018 by libroshombre
People appearing to be real stinkers might simply be under the sway of their microbes. After all, BBC.com’s James …
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Old Books, New Books, and Guys Read
Leave a commentJanuary 16, 2017 by libroshombre
Most booklovers enjoy the fragrance of old books, and many also like the odor of new books. A local …
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Smelly Books, Double Falsehoods, and Categorical Thinking
Leave a commentFebruary 16, 2016 by libroshombre
Science fiction legend Ray Bradbury once wrote, “A book has got smell. A new books smells great. An old …
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