Dear book nerds, you who drink ink, you who smell pages, you who love books as physical objects: I don’t know how it took me so long to find this TED talk. You will love this.
Nose Dive, by Harold McGee
“In his detailed survey of scents, food writer and cooking scientist McGee elegantly explains olfaction… His exploration of our smelly world includes the odors of flora and fauna, soil and smoke, food and fragrances, but also the unexpected: primordial earth, rain, and the whiff of old books. Pungent and even rancid smells—skunk spray, ammonia, manure—are…