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First Nerve: Rudyard Kipling on Smell?

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Taking a scientific sniff at the culture of smell. Sunday, January 25, 2009. Rudyard Kipling on Smell? Rudyard Kipling wrote these well known olfactory lines:. Smells are surer than sounds or sights. To make your heart-strings crack—. They start those awful voices o’nights. That whisper, “Old man, come back! They are the opening stanza of the poem Lichtenberg. The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. This aphorism is attributed to him in about a thousand places on the Web&#4...

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First Nerve: ISDP July 2015: Abandoned Structures and Squatters Edition

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Taking a scientific sniff at the culture of smell. Sunday, July 12, 2015. ISDP July 2015: Abandoned Structures and Squatters Edition. It seems like only yesterday, yet is has been a full month since we last gathered the late-breaking accounts of recently deceased individuals whose remains were discovered through their putrescent emanations. Time flies when you are constantly on the move, as we are here in our newly adopted home state of Colorado. From WBFO 88.7 FM in Buffalo, New York, “ Buffal...The bod...

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First Nerve: Loving it in Colorado: July 4th Edition

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Taking a scientific sniff at the culture of smell. Friday, July 3, 2015. Loving it in Colorado: July 4th Edition. I keep finding new reasons to love my new home state. These are all legal in Colorado as long as you are 16 years old:. Cylindrical and cone fountain, ground spinner, torch and colored fire, dipped stick and sparkler, snake and glow worm, trick noisemaker and certain other novelties. They are all banned in New Jersey. Even if you are an adult. Posted by Avery Gilbert. View my complete profile.

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First Nerve: A Boy and His Rat

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Taking a scientific sniff at the culture of smell. Sunday, May 6, 2012. A Boy and His Rat. It seems like every few months we’re treated to another heart-warming story about scent-detecting service dogs. Lately it’s been dogs for diabetics. You know the drill: Fido alerts one way when Johnnie’s blood sugar is too low, and another way when it’s too high. The latest entry is Ben Ownby. And her Labrador Retriever mix named Shots. Timmy has bladder cancer? Recently published studies report more impressive suc...

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First Nerve: June 2015

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Taking a scientific sniff at the culture of smell. Tuesday, June 23, 2015. Pop Quiz: Psycho-Olfactive Sleuthing Contest. In his capacity as Special Correspondent for Allure. 8217;s Daily Beauty Reporter [ Well, isn’t that special? 8212;Ed.] Jeffrey Slonim attended last week’s Fragrance Foundation Awards at Lincoln Center. [ Wait, they still have those? 8212;Ed.] [Yes. They just don’t call them the FiFi’s any more.]. Alexandra Richards [ Who? 8212;Ed.] [Keith’s daughter. Try to keep up.]. 8212;Ed.] and.

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First Nerve: March 2015

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Taking a scientific sniff at the culture of smell. Monday, March 23, 2015. The All-New Paperback Edition of What the Nose Knows. The original hardcover edition of What the Nose Knows. Has been sold out for a long time. There has always been a Kindle edition but never a paperback. Until now. After sweating every detail for months, I’ve finally released my own paperback edition on Amazon. It’s a beautiful thing, if I do say so myself. (And I do! For your newbie DIY perfumer friend. Get one. What we do know...

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First Nerve: The Upside of BO

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Taking a scientific sniff at the culture of smell. Friday, July 3, 2015. The Upside of BO. Top five things I miss about Laura. Three: I miss her smell, and the way she tastes. It’s a mystery of human chemistry and I don’t understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home. Rob (John Cusak) in High Fidelity. Posted by Avery Gilbert. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Subscribe To First Nerve. Follow FirstNerve by Email. I Smell Dead People.

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First Nerve: The Stench of the Abyss

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Taking a scientific sniff at the culture of smell. Sunday, July 5, 2015. The Stench of the Abyss. Circle Six: The Heretics]. In su l’estremità d’un’alta ripa. Che facevan gran pietre rotte in cerchio,. Venimmo sopra più crudele stipa;. E quivi, per l’orribile soperchio. Del puzzo che ’l profondo abisso gitta,. Ci raccostammo, in dietro, ad un coperchio. D’un grand’ avello, ov’io vidi una scritta. Che dicea: ‘Anastasio papa guardo,. Lo qual trasse Fotin de la via dritta’. Translation by John Ciardi. A fin...

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First Nerve: Stepping in It: How Journalists Perpetuate the Myth that Dogs' Sense of Smell is Superior to Our Own

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Taking a scientific sniff at the culture of smell. Tuesday, July 21, 2015. Stepping in It: How Journalists Perpetuate the Myth that Dogs' Sense of Smell is Superior to Our Own. We’ve been hearing a lot about dog noses recently and how they are far more sensitive than ours. Liz Bestic kicked things off with a July 1 story in New Scientist. 8220;A dog’s sense of smell is between 1000 and 100,000 times more sensitive. Than that of humans.”. According to academic studies. Hooked up to the battery of a rusty ...

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First Nerve: February 2015

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Taking a scientific sniff at the culture of smell. Friday, February 13, 2015. ISDP: Sixth Anniversary Edition. The scent alarm on the steampunk astrolabe in the living room just delivered a puff of cadaverine to remind us that today is the thirteenth of the month and time to roll out a new edition of I Smell Dead People. As if we needed reminding: date is auspicious. Today is Friday the 13th. Six years of chronicling gruesome discoveries prompted by the scent of decay. Ah, good times, good times. And on ...