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://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