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When the receptors interact with molecules, they set off a chain reaction that ends by sending a message to our brains. What’s the smell of Coca-Cola? Or Chanel No. 5? The answer, again, isn’t a list of molecules. “It’s a pattern of receptor responses,” says Aromyx founder Chris Hanson. Each receptor, their research showed, is uniquely primed to react to a few different molecules, and our noses sense distinct odors when many receptors fire at the same time. John Kauer, then a researcher at Tufts University, relates the idea to playing chords on a piano. “The piano only has 88 notes,” he says. “If you were only able to use one note per odor, you could only detect 88 different odors.” If odors are more like chords, then the math suddenly works out. molecule’s shape, in other words, is not synonymous with its smell. Instead, many receptors bind to many different molecules and vice versa. But each receptor has what some scientists call a distinct “affinity” for each molecule. It’s that special affinity, the theory now goes, along with the combinatorial nature of olfactory reactions, that accounts for unique scents. The piano doesn’t just have 88 keys that can form chords; it also has pedals and dynamics. “You hit piano keys at different strengths, heavy and light and so on,” Zhang says. “Heavy, you get one sound; light, you get another sound.” Or to put it another way: The theory of smell just gets more complicated. |
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it's actually like the difference between notes on a page and the act of perceiving music. |
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i think maya associated the substance with food, she eats only when i light up one, and it doesnt work with cigs. |
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maya eats.. |
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maya eats, lets raise the hands and prostate to the gods in sign of gratitude |
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isn't chris hanson the guy from catch a pedo |
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prostate lol |
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smell is not a combination of molecules, but your reaction to that combination of molecules. music is not sound, it is your reaction to sound |
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