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Nature’s Chemical Invisibility Cloak
To give you an idea of how the cuckoo wasp operates, imagine a ninja secretly penetrating a samurai’s castle and causing complete carnage without ever being seen. The brilliant metallic colouring shouldn’t deflect from what a highly specialised parasitic critter this is. In point of fact, the cuckoo wasp has a distinctly subtle way of avoiding detection, which owes less to the way it looks than the way it smells.
Continue reading...Smell-O-Vision Is Back!
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Image by Mario Sepülveda Believe it or not, scientists at one point did attempt to make a television that, through concentrated oils, could broadcast smells that complemented the mood on screen, and sucked you deeper into the drama from an emotional standpoint.
Continue reading...The Seven Smelliest Creatures in the World
Monday, March 10, 2008
The other day I came across a dog that, to put it politely, smelled like something dead. Bigfoot ftw! Image by Joshua C. Lerner After I hurriedly rushed away from the animal, I started thinking about what animals might smell worse than a nasty, wet, unwashed dog. So I [...]
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Monday, January 26, 2009
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