Smell

If SciShow Tangents had a smell what would it be? It’s full of knowledge, so maybe a dusty old book? We talk a lot, so maybe all of our nasty breath?  We talk about butts a lot… you know what? Podcasts don’t smell, and maybe that’s for the best. 

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[Fact Off]

Rats smelling concepts

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-11/uog-tso112520.php

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201125164455.htm

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2020.2327

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000628

Big cats and perfumes

https://www.thecut.com/2020/01/big-cats-love-calvin-kleins-obsession-for-men.html

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/100624-big-cats-cologne-vin-video

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/youe28099ll-never-guess-how-biologists-lure-jaguars-to-camera-traps/

https://www.rsc.org/Merck-Index/monograph/m3604/civetone?q=unauthorize

https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Viverricula_indica/

[Ask the Science Couch]

Smells & memory

https://www.livescience.com/why-smells-trigger-memories.html

https://www.discovery.com/science/Why-Smells-Trigger-Such-Vivid-Memories

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23147501/

[Butt One More Thing]

Indole smell

https://io9.gizmodo.com/why-is-a-compound-that-smells-like-feces-put-in-perfume-1717903411