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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Oh yuck, things wiggling in our noses <g>  Sorry, but that pictures just
popped into my head.  I guess I need a rest <g>  Or maybe too much rain
which was supposed to be snow.  ya know, if I'd made as many mistakes when I
was working for someone else as weathermen do I'd never had held a job for
long!

Lynda
----- Original Message -----
From: Marie McHarry <mmcharry AT dtnspeed.net>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 4:10 PM
Subject: RE: [Homestead] Re: Notes From The Farm


> Lynda queries:
>
> <<Now, just for musings, if it is wiggle that causes the smell, how come
> almond is one of those odors/smells that some folks don't smell?  Are they
> "immune" to wiggle?>>
>
> Hmmm, I hadn't thought about the biochemistry of smell in years, but this
> conversation has tweaked some dormant brain cells (of which I have
plenty).
> The theory of smell with which I'm familiar is that noses have molecular
> receptors (just as the tongue does for taste). When an airborne molecule
> wafts up your nose and hits a receptor, you interpret the hit as odor.
Using
> this theory, it's easy to understand that a person missing a given
receptor
> would also miss the smell associated with it.
>
> How are people supposed to detect the wiggle?
>
> Marie
>
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