Olfaction

Slipping my boots on, my focus was fully on the task of getting my mare bathed and ready for the barrel race we were heading to that evening. My thoughts racing in my head as I reached for her halter and lead from the hanger on the tack room wall. I've been to barrel races so may times in the past twenty years that I should be at ease, but I'm almost more anxious now than I've ever been before. Walking toward the gate, lost in my thoughts, I'm wondering what the night ahead has in store for…

The Secret to Love: Analyzing the Relational Stages shown in the Movie When Harry Met Sally There are many relationships that can be seen inside the movie When Harry Met Sally, a comedy directed by Rob Reiner. The most underrated and interesting relationship, I would argue, is the relationship between Jess and Marie. Where Harry and Sally resemble many other common love stories, Jess and Marie’s relationship is much deeper and significant in its meaning. On the surface, their relationship is…

The Sea Bear Transformation mask at the Montclair Museum was carved by Don Svanvik of the Kwakwaka'wakw. It is made mostly out of painted wood. When it is in the closed position it looks like the head of an animal, and the sides are painted green, the lips and nostrils are red, and the eyes and nose are black. On the top of the head there is straw or bark fiber sticking up, and this continues around the back of the head to create a sort of mane. In the mane, two green webbed ears stick out. The…

One of my exceptionally most loved spots to go in my extra time is the shoreline. A shoreline is a national geographic nature made landform that is almost a waterway. It normally comprises of free particles, which are as often as possible made out of sand, rock, shingle, stones, or cobblestones. The particles living on a shoreline are every so often natural to the causes, for example, mollusk shells or coralline green growth. Shorelines normally show up around territories along the drift where…

The hunted prey galloped through the thick, dense dark forest. The prey dodging tree after tree, using fire eyes to see. Stomping on the ground hard, braking color leaves the prey leaped faster. The wild creature knew these woods well. The creature couldn't end in the open field. The prey glanced back three seconds fast. First second think about where the predator shall be, another second remind itself to keep on running, third second wondering where to go, to get away. The creature quick…

Diane Ackerman, a writer intoxicated with the senses, writes about the sensory experience of smell in the first chapter of A Natural History of the Senses. She engages the reader with an aromatic story consisting of the evolution, cultural obsession, and science of the “mute sense”, smell. From early on Ackerman asserts that smell is the most direct of all of our senses. To help support her point, she describes the mechanics on smell. She informs the readers about receptor cells containing…

Cel was hungry. Not eating for a week had begun to take it’s toll on her. She felt tired more often, and was lonelier than ever. Despite all this, Cel was happy. She had made her way out of Brooklyn, and now she was in Central Park. Just being there made her heart sing, and she felt free. The tall trees and thick, thigh length grass made it difficult to see them though, dragging themselves along the road behind her, their arms broken and skin rotting, inching slowly but tirelessly after her.…

Taste buds are located on you tough,taste buds are sensory organs that are found in the little bumps on your tongue. The nose provided with the sense of smell nerves, is the organ of smell, these nerves also account for different tastes of substances taken into your mouth. The chemicals in your food you eat it alert the taste buds to carry taste signals through your nerve cells to your brain. It is in your brain that you actually become aware of the taste of something. Your tongue must be wet…

I’m so sick of sitting in my bubblegum-butt colored living room. It seemed like an awesome decision at the time to paint the hideously textured box I live in for the sake of my “totally unique blogging atmosphere.” Jokes, Melanie, you got jokes. It was a great idea at least until I became a super uninspired shut in, who’s seen two Christmas, and three Halloween specials of The Office in the same week. I need to get out of here. The smell of warm vanilla has left me completely “nose blind,” as…

Removing the sense of sight altered the ability to identify taste among the flavors of jelly beans being sampled by the test subjects. The control group was able to easily recognize the lime, cherry, orange and banana flavors. Test subjects 1 and 2 were given the citrus flavors lime and orange consecutively so perhaps the sour taste influenced their taste perception. Pear was the least distinguishable and was associated with a different type of fruit. Experimental group 1 had a significant…