Smells to Blow Your Mind

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Science, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Life Sciences

4.3 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2011

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Did you know that smell is the only one of your senses with a direct connection to your brain? Or that fancy cheese and David Beckham's foot odor share the same molecular smells? In this episode, Robert and Julie break down the amazing science of smell.

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1:03.2	10 million people living here and it comes with a lot of noise. But if you tune those sounds out
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1:28.8	wherever you get your podcast. Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from howstuffworks.com.
1:42.7	Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lam. And I'm Julie Douglas. And we're
1:48.2	going to talk about smells. Smell and don't turn off the podcast. You made it this far into a
1:53.8	podcast about smells. You know you like smells. Yeah, because that's the thing. The sense of smell
1:57.6	is amazing and it is mind-blowing. We end up taking it for granted. But it's one of the strongest
2:04.0	senses that we have. Out of all the five, it's the only one that interacts directly with the
2:08.1	brain and just imagine how boring the world would be without it. And also taking into account that
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