When the researchers crossreferenced their causes of death with their results in the smell test, they found the poorest
smellers had a 46% greater risk of dying within 10 years than the strongest ones.
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In Nanjing, China, where one of our labs is located, our super
smellers conduct about 300 odour tests each year on materials and components that go into our vehicles.
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Gather all kinds of food that have odors ranging from strong
smellers (onion, mustard, cinnamon and other spices) to subtle
smellers.
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The women were asked to be the "
smellers" because they tend to have a better sense of smell than men.
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Then the samples are mailed overnight to groups of trained
smellers. These experts use their noses to judge the strength of smells.
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Then he categorised animals into what were basically called the
smellers (most mammals) and the non-smellers (including humans).
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101) "The result of an act of smelling is thus spatial:
smellers subsequently move toward or away from the odor, as well as relational:
smellers are not just interested in the subjective experience of the odor, but are in some manner concerned with the source of that odor."
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Really good
smellers could have detected way more than 1 trillion odor mixtures, the scientists said.
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Under the policy, the first time a complaint about someone smoking is substantiated with help from the Board of Health as independent "smoke
smellers,'' the tenant gets a written warning.
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The discovery "revises this current idea that humans are terrible
smellers," Leslie Vosshall, who led the study, tells Reuters.
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"I hope our paper will overturn this terrible reputation that humans have for not being good
smellers," she says.
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Full of humour and inappropriate jokes the six "wetterschmocker" (weather
smellers) each take it in turns to announce their findings to a packed and lively audience.
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The Cherokee Indians grouped plants into categories based on similar morphological characteristics (such as plants that have strong odors--"
smellers") and augmented by qualifiers that referred to cultural requirements, uses, or other characteristics (Cozzo 2004, 23).
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Their
smellers are far superior to ours and too much scent on the ground will alarm them.
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Tell students that koalas are excellent
smellers. They use their noses to tell which eucalyptus leaves are safe to eat!
Marsupials