‘Scents’ talk draws family crowd
A lecture titled “Scents and Sensibility: The Molecular Mechanisms of Olfaction” would seem to target a somewhat older audience, appreciative of highbrow literary puns. But throw in some booger jokes, jelly beans and recurring praise of combination pizza, and suddenly the lecture appeals to Science Saturdays’ usual crowd — that is, kids of all ages.
Last Saturday, neurosurgery and neurobiology professor Charles Greer spoke on smell: how our sense of smell works, the behavioral consequences of smell and the anatomy involved in smelling everything from Proust’s madeleine to your...
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