Time Magazine’s Romance Issue
Time‘s current special section, “The Science of Romance,” is available online, but if you’re too busy getting busy to read it, here are some highlights: If someone calls you a flirt as an insult, just...
View ArticleSmells Like Trouble
New research from Northwestern University shows that a single negative experience linked to an odor teaches us to discriminate against that and similar-smelling odors. While they discovered this in the...
View ArticleYour Nose Was A Sexual Organ
Millions of years ago, humans could detect pheromones. We could “smell” each others’ genetic material through particular detectors that have since gone dormant now that we can see in color. It seems...
View ArticleFlashback: Lysol Is Not For Your Ladybits
Did you know Lysol used to advertise itself as appropriate for feminine hygiene? “A man marries a woman because he loves her,” the copy for this vintage ad reads. “Instead of blaming him if married...
View ArticleThe Daily Squeeze: Breast Milk At Ben & Jerry’s, Grandma Smells, And Bad Dreams
This sounds too crazy to possibly be true. PETA sent a letter to Ben & Jerry’s, urging them to substitute human breast milk for 75 percent of the cow’s milk in their products. A spokesperson for...
View ArticleNew Opera Stinks, Literally
Ever wonder what music smells like? Just ask Christophe Laudamiel and Stewart Matthew, perfumers who are at work creating a “scent opera” called “Green Aria.” Except in this case, there are no singers...
View Article7 Better Ideas For Yankee Candles’ Man Candles Line
Yankee Candle recently released its new line of “Man Candles,” which are, you guessed it, candles marketed specifically to men. The scents in the collection include manly favorites such as “MMM, Bacon”...
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