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Science Says Weed Makes Food Taste and Smell Better
Anyone who's ever smoked a joint knows that weed can make you ravenously hungry. But why? According to recent research, THC can make your brain smell and taste food far more acutely while high—meaning there's a scientific basis for the munchies.
The Most Valiant Attempts to Program Our Five Senses Into Robots
Because the only thing better than stopping to smell the roses is letting a machine do it for you.
Sniff at Your Own Risk: Beers That Reek
Some craft brews treat you kindly, like a overeager gentleman on a first date. But other beers put some stank on the nose and throw your senses into an orgy of odors. These are just some those beers, and they smell to high heaven.
Smell Is a Challenge for Professional Chefs
As a cook, smell is quite problematic, because we spend most of our time thinking about flavor—not smell—combinations. But flavor is actually inseparable from smell, a motion that happens at the same time while we taste our food that we need to pay...
The Enigma of Pulque
I've written quite a bit about pulque in passing. But in all the years that I've known about the ancient Mexican "drink of the gods," I've never been as stumped by it (as a subject) as the time not too long ago when a reader asked me to describe its...
I Have Lost My Sense of Taste
After a recent biking accident, I'm suffering from anosmia. That’s right. I cannot smell, or subsequently taste the difference between anything, and I'm not sure if my taste will ever come back. It sucks.
What the Internet of Smells Will Smell Like
Not many people have been wondering why the internet doesn’t have a nose. But some have.
Martynka Wawrzyniak Smells Like a 12-Year-Old Living on an Organic Farm
Tomorrow, artist Martynka Wawrzyniak will open her new show, “Smell Me,” in which she displays the results of her year-long project to collect and synthesize the aromatic elements that make up her personal stink, which, it turns out, smells pretty good.
Shooting the Shit
War reeks. If smells can sometimes act as forceful memory triggers, it’s no surprise that militaries found a way to robotize the stink and use it as a tool of deception, dispersion, or fear.
Gross Jar 2012 - Part Five: Election Day at Shitty Hall
The jar goes public for the first time and meets Ken Livingstone.
Tidbits
Chopping off a guy's dick is gross. Chopping off a guy's dick who has super-serious venereal warts is mega-gross.