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Emmeline lives on a remote island with her father, who teaches her about the natural world through her senses. What he won't explain are the mysterious scents stored in the drawers that line the walls of their cabin, or the origin of the machine that creates them. One day the unforeseen happens, and Emmeline is vaulted out into the real world-- a place of love, betrayal, ambition, and revenge. To understand her past, Emmeline must unlock the clues...
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Smell is our most ancient, but also our most underestimated sense. In a recent survey of young adults, just over half said they would rather lose their sense of smell than their access to technology, like laptops or smartphones. In this episode Anja Taylor investigates the hidden powers of smell, and how smell influences many aspects of our lives in ways we often overlook.
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“A rich, engrossing, and deeply intelligent story….This is a book I won’t soon forget.”
—Molly Wizenberg, bestselling author of A Homemade Life
“Fresh, smart, and consistently surprising. If this beautifully written book were a smell, it would be a crisp green apple.”
—Claire Dederer, bestselling author of Poser
Season to Taste is an aspiring chef’s
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Alexandra Horowitz, author of the bestseller Inside of a Dog, explores what dogs know in even greater depth, following their lead to learn about the dog's spectacular nose and how we mere humans can improve our underused sense of smell. Here Horowitz, a leading researcher in dog cognition, continues to unpack the mystery of a dog's nose-view, in order to more fully understand our companions. She follows the dog's nose--exploring not only its abilities...
9) Smelling
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As you inhale air, scent molecules move past the smell receptors in your nose. In turn, the smell receptors relay a signal to your brain. Smells can trigger memories and emotional responses.
11) Smelling
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"Simple text and full-color photography introduce beginning readers to the sense of smell. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
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Smell is the most mysterious and romantic of the five senses. It is also the least understood. This lack of understanding derives partially from the fact that smell cannot easily be described. However, it is known that smell conveys the strongest and most long-lasting of our memories. It takes only the faintest scent to remind us of the time when we first smelled it and bring emotions connected with it rushing back. This Horizon program tells the...
18) Smell and Taste
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Many people wrongly assume that between our senses of taste and smell, taste dominates. But what actually allows us to differentiate one food from another - especially when we venture beyond the basics of sweet, sour, salty, savory, and bitter - is the aroma. This program explores how smell combines with taste somewhere in our brains to create the perception of flavor. In on-camera experiments and interviews, a Toronto chef discovers innate sensory...
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Explains the science behind how the sense of smell and how the nose works, discusses the link between the brain and the sense of smell, examines the job of a professional sniffer, looks at the effects of aromas on moods, and answers the question of whether a nose can get tired.