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No one nose

Recode Daily

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Science, Technology, Society & Culture

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Believe it or not, scientists still don't know how the sense of smell works. But they're looking at how powerful it is - dogs can actually sniff out cancer and many other diseases - and they're trying to figure out how to reverse engineer it. In fact, one MIT scientist may have built a robot nose ... without completely understanding how his invention works. For further reading, sign up for the Unexplainable newsletter here: http://vox.com/unexplainable-newsletter Unexplainable's transcript and articles at: http://vox.com/unexplainable Article on quantum nose theory: https://bit.ly/3clurfs Email the Unexplainable team! [email protected] Support Unexplainable and Recode Daily by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:41.0

All knowledge must come through the senses, all that we perceive and all of the awareness of our daily existence.

1:02.0

Light double rainbow. Oh my god, sound.

1:06.0

Listen to me, listen to me.

1:08.0

Touch, orders and tastes.

1:12.0

What are your thoughts concerning the human senses?

1:15.0

As meat and wine are nourishment to the body, the senses provide nutrition to the soul.

1:22.0

All that we perceive, seeing, all of the awareness, hearing, all knowledge must come through the senses.

1:30.0

I'm know I'm Hasenfeld and this is making sense.

1:33.0

A series from unexplainable that asks some of the most perplexing questions about our senses.

1:54.0

So far we've talked about how the brain actually creates a lot of what we think we're hearing

1:59.0

and how touch could potentially help treat pain in some of the tiniest most vulnerable people.

2:05.0

This week we're trying to make some sense of smell.

2:08.0

This whole series was actually inspired by one of the very first episodes of unexplainable,

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