Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
So many smells are nearly identical, how do we learn them apart?
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
New research shows a single negative experience linked to an odor rapidly teaches us to identify that odor and discriminate it from similar ones. According to the researcher who studied this, "it warns us that it's dangerous and we have to pay attention to it." Maybe we should start calling it the newfactory.
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