I was all set to share a list of freakish search terms that have led people (unintentionally) to my blog of late, when — Hullo! A legitimate question appeared! How many things can a human smell? That, unlike the query, “Hannah from Cape Cod,” I can address. Ten thousand. End of post. Smell, along with [...]
I always thought stress sweat smelled different than sport sweat. When a panel of sweat sniffers was asked to ponder perspiration, they didn’t notice a difference. But their brains did. The Blog has poked its nose into this before, particularly regarding human mating. It’s a cool subject because humans were for EVER considered to be [...]
Love at first sniff, there’s nothing so romantic! Fresh research this week adds evidence for one of the weirdest features of human mating: We sniff our way to a good match. We kinda-sorta knew this. Previous studies have revealed that humans manage to find mates whose immune system is complimentary. This makes for offspring [...]
One of the questions I get most often is: If humans can sniff out each other’s immunity profile (and we can), then what do perfume and deodorant mean for our mating prospects? Are we covering up really important information? Previously, my stock reply was: Humans take so many things into account [...]
