Then he categorized animals into what were basically called the smellers (most mammals) and the non-smellers (including humans).
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The next time the plate of those crowned, green stalks comes around, take a few extra and find out which part of the population you belong to—smellers or non-smellers.
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I had people asking whether humans are better [smellers] than dogs.
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The jar-smellers are funny, until they are not so funny.
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To these excellent smellers, a fragrant brown fig might also stand out.
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Are English speakers flawed smellers, or are the hunter-gatherers of the Malay Peninsula exceptional?
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So we assembled a team of expert smellers to determine which candles were worth the investment.
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Still none of the scientists I spoke with would say we're "better" or "worse" smellers than dogs.
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And you might think we lag behind dogs when it comes to our sense of smell, but we're actually quite adept smellers if we learn to train ourselves.
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Sharks are popularly considered to be the best smellers in the business because, anatomically, the amount of surface area in their snouts devoted to smell receptors is major.
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It's not that some people are generally better smellers, like someone else may have better eyesight, it's that any one person might experience certain scents more intensely than their peers.
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"Damn look at those chops (Image: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons)Writing today in the journal Science, McGann explains that the myth that humans are terrible smellers probably took hold in 19th century France, when the Catholic Church was trying to fight "materialism.
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Action Bronson and MUNCHIES editor-in-chief Helen Hollyman proceed to discuss a huge range of topics from food pairings to truffles to super-smellers to how Action is living his best life possible, even if it means working like a maniac.
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The researchers also measured the subjects' chewing behavior, then had a panel of smellers determine what each sample smelled like using a multiple choice selection of four words: "wet flour", "fermented", "wheat", and "butter" for the bread crumb-only samples from the non-crusted bread, and seven, "wet flour", "fermented", "wheat", "roasted cereals", "cardboard", "toasted", and "grilled," for the crumb-and-crust samples.
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If it was determined that some misfortune which had befallen the area had been caused by a witch, the chief summoned his people to a great meeting, in which they all sat in a circle, sometimes for four or five days. The witch smellers then took their places in the center. The witch smellers wore extravagant costumes, usually including animal skins and feathered headdresses, and face paint. Their hair was heavily greased, twisted in complicated designs, and frequently dyed bright red.
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Witch smellers, almost always women, were important and powerful people amongst the Zulu and other Bantu-speaking peoples of Southern Africa, responsible for rooting out evil witches in the area, and sometimes responsible for considerable bloodshed themselves. In present-day South Africa their role has waned and their activities are illegal according to the Witchcraft Suppression Act, 1957.
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Surrounded by a circle of women and girls who clapped their hands and droned a low, monotonous chant, the rhythm of which changed occasionally with the stamping of feet, the witch smellers proceeded to work themselves up into a frenzy. In this state, they spun, stalked and leapt, eventually touching one or more of the people with their switches, upon which the person was immediately dragged away and killed. All the living things in the accused witch's hut, human and animal, were also killed. Sometimes an entire kraal was exterminated in this way.
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The Bemba people believed misfortunes such as wartings, hauntings and famines to be just actions sanctioned by the High-God Lesa. The only agency which caused unjust harm was a witch, who had enormous powers and was hard to detect. After white rule of Africa, beliefs in sorcery and witchcraft grew, possibly because of the social strain caused by new ideas, customs and laws, and also because the courts no longer allowed witches to be tried. Amongst the Bantu tribes of Southern Africa, the witch smellers were responsible for detecting witches.
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