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The Science Of How Smells Work - Harold McGee - #257

Modern Wisdom

12/12/20

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Harold McGee is an author and food expert.

Our sense of smell sits at the front of our daily experience and yet our understanding of what smells are and how they're processed is almost non existent.

Expect to learn why smell may be the oldest of our senses, how our brains combine what hits our nose to create sensations, whether smell will be the new frontier for the entertainment industry, what an opera singer smells like and much more...

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