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Natural selection also explains many basic revulsions, such as the horrid smell of rotting meat, or fears, such as the fear of snakes or standing close to the edge of a cliff.
They're extremely sensitive to smell.
It learns how to find the target smell in a cage with several holes, up to 10 holes.
So in our common language, Dutch, the name for T.B. is "tering," which, etymologically, refers to the smell of tar.
It was frightening, and it showered us with leaves and a pungent smell.
I love the way that they'll stare slack-jawed at their first baseball game with wide eyes and a mitt on their hand, soaking in the crack of the bat and the crunch of the peanuts and the smell of the hotdogs.
You can smell bakery air, walk around with rain hair, pop bubble wrap or take an illegal nap.
And you know, without the smell that would have accompanied that, we had the same thing on the Internet: very bad burn rate calculations.
I do not want to step into a vehicle and ask the question: "Why does this car smell like awkwardness, failure and shame?" (Laughter) If I want to ask that question, I'll walk into my own bedroom.
And there's nothing wrong with my sense of smell.
And people can smell that, and it feeds cynicism.
And always take time to smell the flowers, and let it fill you with beauty, and rediscover that sense of wonder.
This one doesn't smell so good.
Behind every sound, sight, touch, taste and smell is a corresponding set of cells that receive this information and interpret it for us.
Don't use White Rain shampoo or you'll smell like Sticky Vicky."
And sometimes they'll resort to what's known as the "burn and sniff" technique where they'll burn the plastic and smell the fumes to try to determine the type of plastic.
Or do I smell some doubt in the room?
Or that look of disappointment that you can just smell from miles away.
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
By seven months of gestation, the fetus' taste buds are fully developed, and its olfactory receptors, which allow it to smell, are functioning.
Really when we think of our senses, or when we think of the loss of the sense, we really think about something more like this: the ability to touch something luxurious, to taste something delicious, to smell something fragrant, to see something beautiful.
And as a blind person, your visual memory fades, and is replaced with how you feel about things and how things sound and how things smell.
He'd smell it.
The best thing you can do there to create value is not actually to improve the food still further, it's to get rid of the smell and clean up the floor.
You can smell the oatmeal raisin cookie that he's about to shovel into his mouth.
Bakers smell good when they come home from work.
And the answer is smell, the smell of her body.
And since we all smell different and produce chemicals on our skin that either attract or repel mosquitoes, some of us are just more attractive than others.
They smell us.
But perhaps if we can attract these mosquitoes to traps, bait it with our smell, we may be able to stop transmission of disease.
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