Diane Ackerman begins her “A Natural History of the Senses” with this bold assertion: “Nothing is more memorable than a smell.”
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The sounds we hear too rarely
Maybe it’s because I don’t hear as keenly as I used to that I’ve been paying more attention to my auditory sense.
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The sex organ we call a nose
We begin life sniffing. Recent research suggests that human sperms are guided on their long, dark journey up the fallopian tube to a waiting egg by a chemical attractant emitted by the egg. The sperm, it seems, is a nose with a propeller.