Stinks

You can also listen to this podcast on Iono.fm here. JEREMY MAGGS: There have been reports of a so-called special directive from government, instructing Transnet to find space for three gas-to-power ships that would be in the Coega…

Each week, Dr Kirstin Ferguson tackles questions on the workplace, career and leadership in her advice column “Got a Minute?” This week: a very smelly colleague, how to leave a job that makes you unhappy, and how to leave a job that makes…

Issued on: 17/03/2023 - 17:22 The amount of trash uncollected on Paris streets due to a waste workers strike has surged to 10,000 tonnes, despite efforts to force them…

OpenAI said Tuesday that it has released an AI “classifier” for identifying AI-authored text written by AI like its own ChatGPT. The problem? ChatGPT is pretty good at evading OpenAI’s new tool. ChatGPT has absolutely overwhelmed…

VR still stinks, and its stench has many notes. It reeks of rich white guys, who wildly overfund and consistently overhype the always-on-the-verge-of-a-breakthrough technology. It has a festering funk of entrenched privilege, despite its…

Recent research may indicate that humans are more sensitive to body odor than our evolutionary ancestors were. Is this good news?It could be for Phillip Miner, a nightlife promoter who holds a party called “Pheromone” for armpit fetishists…

Smell, taste and flavourTo understand what’s going on you need to get your head around smell, taste and flavour. Smell is managed through cells and receptors in your nose. Taste is all about your tongue and it’s where you get sweet, sour,…

Listen carefully, though, and he often addresses debates that transcend his day-to-day work, escaping the realm of science altogether and drifting toward the metaphysical: Is the human aversion to putrid smells nature, or nurture, or both?…

Three years ago, as I contemplated ending my marriage, I looked out my kitchen window and saw my husband mowing our lawn. I didn’t yet know if I’d be able to manage on my own, living in the New Jersey suburbs as a divorced mother of two.…