Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2020-12-12
Chris Williamson & Harold McGee: books mentioned on Modern Wisdom #257
The Science Of How Smells Work - Harold McGee - #257
Harold McGee is an author and food expert. Our sense of smell sits at the front of our daily experience and yet our understanding of what smells are and how they're processed is almost non existent.
Harold McGee discussed MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE by Herman Melville. Chris Williamson recommended Nose Dive by Harold McGee.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE
Discussed“well we do have over here this this classic novel moby dick about the whaling industry there's a lot about ambergris in in moby dick”
Where to get it
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Nose Dive
Recommended“harold's nosedive a field guide to the word smells will be in the show notes below”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Nose Dive
“i mean one of the things that i write about in the book is the smell of a laptop you know if you stick your nose down next to the keys and inhale you'll get the smell of the the circuit boards in there which are made of particular molecules that are given off and so it has a very”