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Today you\u2019ll learn about what really happens when we get a whiff of something, about the mechanism that allows dolphins to communicate with vocal fry, and the dark and windy history of body donation.

Find episode transcripts here: https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/odor-receptors-whale-vocal-fry-body-donation

Odor Receptors\xa0\xa0\xa0

• \u201cHow do we smell? First 3D structure of human odour receptor offers clues.\u201d by Miryam Naddaf. 2023
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00818-3
• \u201cFirst 3D model of human odor receptor tells us how we smell.\u201d by Nergis Firtina. 2023.
  • https://interestingengineering.com/science/first-3d-model-of-human-odor-receptor
• \u201cMaking Sense of Scents.\u201d by Robin Marks. 2023.
  • https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2023/03/424956/making-sense-scents
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Whale Vocal Fry

• \u201cWho\u2019s Using Vocal Fry in the Ocean? Dolphins and Whaaaaaales.\u201d by Sam Jones. 2023.
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/02/science/dolphins-whales-vocal-fry.html
• \u201cThey\u2019re, Like, Way Ahead of the Linguistic Currrve.\u201d by Douglas Quenqua. 2012.
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/28/science/young-women-often-trendsetters-in-vocal-patterns.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all

Body Donation\xa0

• \u201cFrom grave robbing to giving your own body to science - a short history of where medical schools get cadavers.\u201d by Susan Lawrence & Susan E. Lederer. 2023.
  • https://theconversation.com/from-grave-robbing-to-giving-your-own-body-to-science-a-short-history-of-where-medical-schools-get-cadavers-199947
• \u201cThe Body-Snatching Horror of John Scott Harrison.\u201d by Livius Drusus. 2015.
  • https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/64221/body-snatching-horror-john-scott-harrison
• \u201cIn Need of Cadavers, 19th-Century Medical Students Raided Baltimore\u2019s Graves.\u201d by Antero Pietila. 2018.
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/in-need-cadavers-19th-century-medical-students-raided-baltimores-graves-180970629/

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