Smell

Olfaction

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Olfaction (sense)
Categories: Olfaction | Flavors | Gustatory system
Odor
Olfactory fatigue
Olfactory system
Nose

Disorders of Olfaction

Anosmia – lack of ability to smell
Dysosmia – things smell differently than they should
Hyperosmia – an abnormally acute sense of smell
Hyposmia – decreased ability to smell
Olfactory Reference Syndrome – psychological disorder which causes the patient to imagine he has strong body odor
Parosmia – things smell worse than they should
Phantosmia – "hallucinated smell", often unpleasant in nature

• New Mexico could be first state with official aroma – The Guardian (02 February 2023)
  
  
• A nose for history: academics recreate lost smells from the past -- The Guardian (02 July 2022)
  
  
• Half of first-wave Covid cases may have lasting harm to sense of smell -- The Guardian (23 January 2022)
  
  
• Researchers find genetic link to COVID-induced loss of smell and taste -- The Hill (19 January 2022)
  
  
• Sometimes, Life Stinks. So He Invented the Nasal Ranger -- The New York Times (13 January 2022)
  
  
• The Ethereal Taste of Flowers -- The New York Times (08 September 2021)
  
  
• The Guardian view on taste, smell and Covid: getting back our appetite -- The Guardian (27 April 2021)
  
  
• Why single people smell different -- BBCFuture (21 June 2021)
  
  
• Covid: 'Smell training' recommended for lost sense of smell -- BBCNews (24 April 2021)
  
  
• How early humans' quest for food stoked the flames of evolution -- The Guardian (07 March 2021)
  
  
  • Dunn, Robb, and Monica Sanchez. 2021. Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
    
    
• How your sense of smell predicts your overall health -- BBCfuture (03 March 2021)
  
  
• Will Fish Sauce and Charred Oranges Return the World Covid Took From Me? -- The New York Times (02 March 2021)
  
  
• What Can Covid-19 Teach Us About the Mysteries of Smell? -- The New York Times (28 January 2021)
  
  
• The people who want to send smells through your TV -- BBCfuture (04 January 2021)
  
  
• ‘Covid-19 has an odour, and the dogs are detecting it’: meet the canine super-squad sniffing out the virus -- The Guardian (12 December 2020)
  
  
• Anosmia: how Covid brought loss of smell centre stage -- The Guardian (05 December 2020)
  
  
• Scents of history: study hopes to recreate smells of old Europe -- The Guardian (17 November 2020)
  
  
• Asafoetida: The smelly spice India loves but never grew -- BBCNews (22 October 2020)
  
  
• Yes, it smells like poop around the Twin Cities today -- Bring Me the MN News (09 October 2020)
  
  
• Why was Victorian London so smelly? -- BBCReel (08 October 2020)
  
  
• People With This Mutation Can’t Smell Stinky Fish -- The New York Times (08 October 2020)
  
  
• Coronavirus loss of smell: 'Meat tastes like petrol' - BBCfuture (28 August 2020)
  
  
• Food Tasting Too Healthy? Just Add Scent: Can scientists make cardboard diet food taste like the real deal? -- Smithsonian (23 August 2016)
  
  
• How Line-Dried Laundry Gets That Fresh Smell -- The New York Times (29 May 2020)
  
  
• Joshna Maharaj - The chef who lost her sense of smell -- BBCNews (11 May 2020)
  
  
• Lost Sense of Smell May Be Peculiar Clue to Coronavirus Infection -- The New York Times (22 May 2020)
  
  
• When Cadaver Dogs Pick Up a Scent, Archaeologists Find Where to Dig -- The New York Times (25 May 2020)
  
  
• India’s brilliant Bombay duck -- BBCTravel (31 January 2020)
  
  
• Family sue after being kicked off flight 'for body odour' -- BBCNews (31 January 2020)
  
  
• The people trying to save scents from extinction -- BBCFuture (12 January 2020)
  
  
• German court forced to rule as cheese smell gets up woman's nose -- BBCNews (17 December 2019)
  
  
• Left-handed women's quirk over sense of smell -- BBCNews (07 November 2019)
  
  
• How 'horror smells' and 'care smells' are being used to manipulate emotions -- BBCNews (26 October 2019)
  
  
• How often do Americans change their underwear? The statistics stink -- The Guardian (21 August 2019)
  
  
• Oman’s ancient biblical scent -- BBCTravel (14 August 2019)
  
  
• ‘I don’t smell!’ Meet the people who have stopped washing -- The Guardian (05 August 2019)
  
  
• Taipei’s tasty 'House of Stink' -- BBCTravel (07 May 2019)
  
  
• Dogs can smell epileptic seizures -- BBCNews (28 March 2019)
  
  
• How your language reflects the senses you use -- BBCFuture (26 February 2019)
  
  
• Scents of antiquity revived for exhibition at Athens museum -- The Guardian (30 May 2018)
  
  
• 'It’s wrong to stink up other people’s lives': fighting the manure lagoons of North Carolina -- The Guardian (24 May 2018)
  
  
• Hate body odour? You're more likely to have rightwing views -- The Guardian (27 February 2018)
  
  
• What's that smell? Farms, weather bring a stink into the Twin Cities -- MPRnews (21 November 2017)
  
  
• TEDGlobal: The computer that can smell explosives -- BBCNews (28 August 2017)
  
  
• Learn to sniff like a dog and experience the world in a new way -- MPRNews (08 June 2017)
  
  
• Exam revision students 'should smell rosemary for memory' -- BBCNews (04 May 2017)
  
  
• The scent that’s pricier than gold -- BBCTravel (08 March 2017)
  
  
• Anosmia . . . Odourless world: what smell means to those who don’t have it -- (Aeon, 2016)
  
  
• How Disgusting are Other People? -- Scientific American (03 May 2016)
  
  
• What our persperation reveals about us -- BBCFuture (04 August 2015)
  
  
• How Our Sense of Smell Evolved, Including in Early Humans -- ScienceDaily (02 July 2015)
  
  
• Why Can’t English Speakers Say What They Smell? -- Guardian (31 March 2015)
  
  
• English speakers, you stink at identifying smells -- New Scientist (30 March 2015)
  
  
• The Scent of a Newborn Baby: For Moms It’s as Uplifting as Chocolate, a Study Says -- Washington Post (12 May 2014)
  
  
• Human Nose Can Detect a Trillion Smells -- Science (20 March 2014)
  
  
• Nose can detect one trillion odours -- BBC News (20 March 2014)
  
  
• Can You Name That Smell? -- Science (13 January 2014)
  
  
• A Japanese iPhone gadget teases the tummy with food smells -- MPR (29 October 2013)
  
  
• Sense for Scents Traced Down to Genes -- Nature (01 August 2013)
  
  
• Can You Smell Yourself? -- Science (22 January 2013)
  
  
• Smell: 5 Future Technology Innovations from IBM
  
  
• Humans Smell Fear, and It's Contagious -- LiveScience (06 November 2012)
  
  

• The Center for Genomic Gastronomy ["The Center for Genomic Gastronomy Is an artist-led think tank that examines the biotechnologies and biodiversity of human food systems"]
  
  
• Is Mate Choice in Humans MHC-Dependent? -- PLoS Genetics (4(9): e1000184. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000184)
  
  
• Lia, Kari (Producer), & Lia, K. (Director). (2009). Mexico. [Video/DVD] BBC Worldwide. Retrieved from https://video-alexanderstreet-com.libpdb.d.umn.edu:2443/watch/mexico-2
  
  Directed by Kari Lia, Narrated by Stefan Gates, Produced by Kari Lia, In Feasts, 3 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2009) 52 minutes
  
  Stefan goes on a wild emotional and spiritual rollercoaster ride, starting with a teenage girl’s bizarre coming-of-age ceremony and ending with the Day of the Dead, a cacophonous cross-cultural festival of the senses during which Mexicans truly believe that their loved ones come back from the dead for three days every year to spend the day with them. In Oaxaca, he is dressed up as a dead woman and made to dance like a lunatic at the head of a procession as it makes its way through town. He is turned into an emotional wreck at the moment the dead return, bursting into tears as Dias de los Muertos makes him experience grief and loss for the first time. But then in the next breath, the family Stefan is living with teach him to celebrate and laugh at death. They turn his views on their head, allowing him to embrace and conquer his fear of death through an extraordinary sensual onslaught of food, flowers, songs and smells. The sight of the graveyards overflowing with flowers and mescal-drinking revellers is a truly life-changing experience.
  
  
• McQuaid, John. Tasty: The Art and Science of What We Eat. NY: Scribner, 2015.
  
  
• Mate Selection More Biologically Determined in Some Human Populations -- EurekAlert (11 September 2008)
  
  
• Olfaction -- John C. Leffingwell
  
  
• Onions Made Pre-Human Ancestors Cry Too, Study Suggests -- LiveScience (19 March 2010)
  
  
• Quick -- What's That Smell? Time Needed To Identify Odors Reveals Much About Olfaction -- ScienceDaily (03 August 2006)
  
  
• Research on Interesting Questions About Smells -- Andreas Keller Olfaction
  
  
• Roach, Mary. Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal. NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013.
  
  
• Scent of a Woman: Men's Testosterone Responses to Olfactory Ovulation Cues -- EurekAlert (13 January 2010)
  
  
• Sense of Smell -- Sense of Smell Institute
  
  
• Smell (Olfaction) -- Tim Jacob, Cardiff University, UK
  
  
• Sweet Scents Lure Clubbers onto the Dance Floor -- LiveScience (08 June 2011)
  
  
• Top 100 Stories of 2009 #75: Yes, You Really Can Smell Fear -- Discover (23 December 2009)
  
  
• "Variation in sensation and affect: We live in 'different taste worlds'" --Linda Bartoshuk
  Fifth Lecture of the Nobel Conference 46 Making Food Good Conference -- Gustavus Adolphus College (5-6 October 2010) (archives are available online at <http://gustavus.edu/events/nobelconference/2010/archive.php>)
  
  
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• Women 'Can Sense Attraction in Men's Sweat -- Telegraph (27 December 2009)
  
  
• Women's Natural Scent More Seductive Than Perfume -- DiscoveryNews (10 February 2010)
  
  
• Zaraska, Marta. Meathooked: The History and Science of Our 2.5-Million-Year Obsession with Meat. NY: Basic Books, 2016.