Thursday, September 4, 2025

The Third Rule of FirstNerve

 

The third rule of FirstNerve is—follow the links for the freshest content.  

Beaming Radio into the Nose: Seoul music at 2.45 GHz

Olfactory Loss and Alzheimer’s Disease: Commercialized smell testing could pay off big time.

OUT: Human Pheromones, IN: Whole Body Odor / Smell scientists get their noses out of the armpit

Decoding Female Axillary Odor: The Al Bundy theory of human pheromones

Who’s Talking About Smelling? The current crop of perfume commentators

Fat or Tasteless? A possible sensory link to Ozempic face

Eustace Tilley Takes a Sniff: The Feminization of Smell Culture

Is AI About to Revolutionize Fragrance? Or are we living in Dot Com Bubble 2.0?

Blowing Smoke: NPR and the Smell of Weed- Cutting through media blather

Novelists and the Nose: Scented fiction in the 21st century

Sniffing Mummies for Science: And other scents from the ancient world


Thursday, February 6, 2025

Hungry for New Content?

Here’s what’s on the menu over at my Substack!

À la recherche du vols perdu: The New York to Paris run back in the day

The Cheesiness of Weed: Non-terpene molecules grab the sensory spotlight

AI Bogosity in Berkeley: The scent of desperation

O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum: Your piney scent delights us

Sniffing Between the Lines: An English Lit dissertation blows the roof off of X

An Indescribable Russian Space Stink: Plus, holiday fermentation fun

Step Right Up, Folks, Don’t be Shy: How to mass market a “rare” smell

Practicing the Wertz Catch on Alice Street: Farewell to a Boyhood Hero