A big batch of cookies coming out of the oven. Fresh roses on a summer day. Your gym bag full of dirty clothes. How do you smell these smells and thousands more? It's your nose, of course. Your nose lets you smell and it's a big part of why you are able to taste things. The nose is also the main gate to the respiratory system, your body's system for breathing.
The aroma of turkey on Thanksgiving, the piney smell of Christmas, the woody smell of the season's first barbecue all evoke strong memories and emotions. Of what use is this? In a world of deodorants and sanitizers, what chance does the nose have of evoking the earthy warmth of the first kiss in June three decades ago from the subtle waft of pheromones today? Turns out perhaps more than we suspected.
This week, a look at what the nose knows.
TTFN, Fred.
Quote of the week: "Invenium viam aut faciam – I shall find a way, or make one." - Robert Edwin Peary (American explorer who claimed to have been the first person to reach the geographic North Pole, 1856 -1920)
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What the Nose Knows
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