“You can almost smell the smoky and delicious aroma of your steak grilling to perfection” – says the radio ad for your local restaurant. But can you really ‘almost smell’ the aroma when you hear the ad? If so, how could you quantify that? A team of investigators at Virginia Tech have investigated just such […]
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Recognitions – part 1 – Where is the nose?
“An important issue in face recognition research is whether faces are recognized on the basis of their individual features or more holistically, on the basis of their overall shape.” To clarify, researchers professor James Tanaka, now at the University of Victoria, Canada, and professor Martha Farah University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, decided to show […]
Pork, the surprise (yet traditional) remedy for a nosebleed
A new medical study recommends a method called “nasal packing with strips of cured pork” as an effective way to treat uncontrollable nosebleeds. Ian Humphreys, Sonal Saraiya, Walter Belenky and James Dworkin [pictured here], at Detroit Medical Centre in Michigan, treated a girl who had a rare hereditary disorder that brings prolongued bleeding. Publishing in […]
Mysterious withdrawal: Nose-breathing paper
An author of this study yanked it back, making only the cryptic comment “Hi, I just wish to withdraw this paper from the site until further notice. Thanks.” The abstract remains online: Discriminating between Nasal and Mouth Breathing Authors: Kevin Curran, Peng Yuan, Damian Coyle (Submitted on 24 Aug 2010 (v1), last revised 25 Aug […]