Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2020-12-12
Books mentioned on 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.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville is a classic American novel detailing Captain Ahab's obsessive quest for revenge against the giant white sperm 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
Nose Dive by Harold McGee is a comprehensive field guide to the science of smells, exploring the chemistry and evolutionary history of aromas in the everyday world.
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
Own book 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”