I live and work in downtown New Orleans, where we don't see or (contrary to initial reports) smell any oil, yet most of us feel a sense of dread and worry about the future.
A thematic companion piece to Lars von Trier's Melancholia, this eerily affecting oddity posits a world in which mankind's senses are slowly shutting down, with the initial loss of smell provoking outpourings of Proustian grief as tangible memory evaporates like perfume on the breeze.
While the sights were the initial attraction, the smells and sounds were what really made cycling a richer experience than driving would.
Yes, there were a few initial concerns that chimps smell (they do) and that they might escape (unlikely).
Comparison of initial and final code smells showed that the tool removes a proportion of them and also metric values show that the surrogate metrics are improved.
Fossil skulls of two ancient, mammal-like reptiles suggest that natural selection for a keener sense of smell was the initial spur behind bigger brains in early mammals, according to a report online today in Science.
When eating a food the initial olfactory stimulation takes place as we smell the aroma of the food before the food is in the mouth.
We first measured time spent sniffing a Q-tip dipped in water upon its initial presentation and then habituation to the smell on the 2nd and 3rd presentations.
This involves an initial sensing of the subject, by sight, smell, touch, hearing, etc., the formation and potential long-term consolidation of a memory, and the eventual remembrance of the subject in a subsequent encounter.
Recology says the smell was the result of an initial, faulty installation of the technology, which the company says it has corrected.
When prawn cocktail was introduced by Leicester-based Walkers in the 1980s, the initial seasoning was so pungent that staff went home smelling like a Seventies hors-d'oeuvre.
