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www.anildash.com www.anildash.com
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That was the emotional context, but there was also the visceral, sensory experience of being around those days. The most pervasive part was the acrid, searing smell of electrical fire, from the smoldering rubble pile that would keep burning downtown for the better part of a year. It pervaded everything, and you could be almost anywhere in town and the wind would change and then suddenly the smell would catch you off guard and you’d be crying again.
When I stood at ground zero a few weeks after, the smell is what made me cry then. It catapulted me suddenly back to the explosions in my home town a year before. That a smell could so abruptly and vividly surface those emotions took me by suprise.
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- Aug 2024
- Mar 2024
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www.cs.princeton.edu www.cs.princeton.edu
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The occurrence of a do-while instead of a while should always raise a question: why isn't the loop termination condition being tested at the beginning
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- Feb 2024
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Virginia Woolf described her childhood at 22 Hyde Park Gate: ‘Ourduties were very plain and our pleasures absolutely appropriate.’ Life wasdivided into two spaces – indoors, in a nursery and a book-lined drawingroom, and outdoors, in Kensington Gardens. ‘There were smells and flowersand dead leaves and chestnuts, by which you distinguished the seasons, andeach had innumerable associations, and power to flood the brain in a second.’
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- Oct 2023
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www.sciencedaily.com www.sciencedaily.com
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- for: technology - dementia - treatment - smell
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- Aug 2022
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twitter.com twitter.com
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Anthony Costello. (2022, February 24). The risks of cognitive symptoms lasting at least 12 MONTHS were much higher in the infected group. 4.8x higher for fatigue, 3.2x for brain fog, 5.3x for poor memory, and an incredible 51x for altered taste and smell. We need data on children, but it could easily be similar. (17) https://t.co/JC1qYyW2Xc [Tweet]. @globalhlthtwit. https://twitter.com/globalhlthtwit/status/1496957266016313348
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- May 2022
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news.ycombinator.com news.ycombinator.com
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typeof v === "number"
Using triple equals to check the results of
typeofis totally unnecessary, and a sure sign that someone, somewhere has unthinkingly adopted some dubious advice; it's a code smell/red flag.A standard equality comparison (using
==) does exactly the right thing while also avoiding association with questions/doubts about the quality of the surrounding code.
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- Mar 2022
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Geddes, L., & Sample, I. (2022, March 7). Covid can shrink brain and damage its tissue, finds research. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/07/covid-can-shrink-brain-and-damage-its-tissue-finds-research
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proprioceptive cue may be the mostpowerful of the three: research shows that making gestures enhances our abilityto think even when our gesturing hands are hidden from our view.
Annie Murphy Paul indicates that proprioceptive associations may be more powerful than auditory or visual ones as she notes that "research shows that making gestures enhances our ability to think even when our gesturing hands are hidden from our view."
This is something that could be researched and analyzed.
My personal experience is that visual >> auditory >> smell >> proprioception. Smell with respect to memory is incredibly difficult to exercise as are auditory method. Visual and proprioceptive methods are easier to actively practice though.
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- Feb 2022
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www.nature.com www.nature.com
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Shelton, J. F., Shastri, A. J., Fletez-Brant, K., Stella Aslibekyan, & Auton, A. (2022). The UGT2A1/UGT2A2 locus is associated with COVID-19-related loss of smell or taste. Nature Genetics, 54(2), 121–124. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-021-00986-w
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AbScent. (2022, February 7). the study quoted here looked at an 18 month time interval. In our Covid19 FB group of 34.5k, we have reports of recovery after 18 months—2 years is not unknown @Dr_Ellie @MailOnline https://t.co/5DdXDWLBSQ [Tweet]. @AbScentUK. https://twitter.com/AbScentUK/status/1490636119322644484
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- Jan 2022
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twitter.com twitter.com
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Eric Topol. (2022, January 14). Much less loss of smell and taste with Omicron, but more sore throat than with Delta https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1046623/Technical-Briefing-34-14January2022.pdf @UKHSA symptom data from ~175,000 Omicron and ~88,000 Delta cases https://t.co/DIGRGkoXa9 [Tweet]. @EricTopol. https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1482029245580808192
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- Nov 2021
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www.farmersalmanac.com www.farmersalmanac.com
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https://www.farmersalmanac.com/popular-christmas-tree-varieties-29268 Top 5 Fragrant Christmas Trees
- Balsam Fir
- Douglas Fir
- Fraser Fir
- Scotch Pine
- Colorado Blue Spruce
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- Oct 2021
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Weir, E., Reed, D., Pepino, M. Y., Veldhuizen, M., & Hayes, J. (2021). Massively collaborative crowdsourced research on COVID19 and the chemical senses. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/z36xe
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Blomberg, B., Mohn, K. G.-I., Brokstad, K. A., Zhou, F., Linchausen, D. W., Hansen, B.-A., Lartey, S., Onyango, T. B., Kuwelker, K., Sævik, M., Bartsch, H., Tøndel, C., Kittang, B. R., Cox, R. J., & Langeland, N. (2021). Long COVID in a prospective cohort of home-isolated patients. Nature Medicine, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-021-01433-3
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- Aug 2021
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www.bobvila.com www.bobvila.com
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Alternately, set out a few bowls of white vinegar, which also neutralize odor molecules.
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To remove any lingering musty smell, try the old-fashioned yet effective remedy of setting out a few small bowls of baking soda around the room; baking soda absorbs and neutralizes odor molecules well.
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www.waterdamageplus.com www.waterdamageplus.com
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Treat the carpet with a white vinegar spray. One part vinegar to two parts warm water. A simple spray over the carpet will remove any light surface residue – definitely better suited for a lesser spill or odor.
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- Feb 2021
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Marshall, M. (2021). COVID’s toll on smell and taste: What scientists do and don’t know. Nature, 589(7842), 342–343. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00055-6
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Yom-Tov, E., Lekkas, D., & Jacobson, N. C. (2021). Association of COVID19-induced Anosmia and Ageusia with Depression and Suicidal Ideation. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/qy2vu
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- May 2020
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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Roland, L. T., Gurrola, J. G., Loftus, P. A., Cheung, S. W., & Chang, J. L. (2020). Smell and taste symptom‐based predictive model for COVID‐19 diagnosis. International Forum of Allergy & Rhinology, alr.22602. https://doi.org/10.1002/alr.22602
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New research shows that stress causes people to sweat special stress hormones, which are picked up by the olfactory senses of others. Your brain can even detect whether the “alarm pheromones” were released due to low stress or high stress. Negativity and stress can literally waft into your cubicle.
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- Jun 2015
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caseyboyle.net caseyboyle.net
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flag up associations with flowers and femininity
I wonder if scent/smell is a feminized sense...
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effeminate Roman noblemen in Ciceronian invective
Just a note that Cicero uses smell a LOT in De Oratore. He describes the orator, in fact, as a hunting-dog tracking down the scent of an audience in DO 1.223. It makes more sense to me now how that particular sensation might be relevant to audience identification, particularly in the context of porphura.
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too highly developed olfactory sensibility, then perceived as a symptom of hysterical hyperesthesia
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just when the outlines of the social order were becoming blurred. Smell, in particular, the sense of transitions (Howes 1987), of thresholds and margins, which reveals the processes by which beings and things are transformed, fascinated at this period of confusion, whilst the sense of sight was no longer able to read the hierarchies with the same assurance
Heather Brook Adams: something in the language here caught my attention
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caseyboyle.net caseyboyle.netjay.pdf1
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warns us against equating changes in scientific understanding of a sense such as smell, what is called “osmology,” with experiential transformations. Attending to the history of smell, he tells us, is also valuable in undermining simple binary oppositions between boundaried individuals and their englobing environ- ment, the basis of Cartesian subject/object dualisms. Instead, it helps situate us in a more fluid, immersive context, where such stark oppositions are understood as themselves contingent rather than necessary
This reminds me of our Monday discussion of Spinoza re: how expanded "scientific understanding" changes (or doesn't change) sensory experiences.
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- May 2015
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extradiegetic sense experience
Disney's California Adventure has a ride that uses scents as part of the experience.
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might represent olfactory experiences, let alone reproduce them
Good news, everyone!
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‘it is through catching a whiff of oneself, and being able to distinguish that scent from all the other odours that surround one, that one arrives at a sense of one's own identity
Love this passage; it makes me think of Derrida's Animal That Therefore I Am.
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