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Ep 106: Luca Turin On Decoding Smell

Smell is the most mysterious of our senses and we've been getting it wrong. Biophysicist Luca Turin joins Vasant Dhar to reveal why and how our noses detect vibrations and what that could mean for disease diagnosis, security, and the future of AI.

Useful Resources:

1. Luca Turin.
2. Perfumes: The A-Z Guide - Luca Turin, Tania Sanchez.
3. The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell - Luca Turin.
4. Perfumes: The Guide, 2018 - Luca Turin, Tania Sanchez.
5. A Spectroscopic Mechanism for Primary Olfactory Reception - Luca Turin.
6. Laying a controversial smell theory to rest - Leslie B. Vosshall.
7. Status of the Vibrational Theory of Olfaction - Ross D. Hoehn, David E. Nichols, Hartmut Neven, Sabre Kais.
8. Implausibility Of The Vibrational Theory Of Olfaction - Eric Block, Seogjoo Jang, Hiroki Matsunami, Hanyi Zuhang.
9. A Psychophysical Test Of The Vibration Theory Of Olfaction - Andreas Keller and Leslie B. Vosshall.
10. A Novel Multigene Family May Encode Odorant Receptors: A Molecular Basis For Odour Recognition - Linda Buck, Richard Axel.
11. A Principal Odour Map Unifies Diverse Tasks In Olfactory Perception - Brian K. Lee, Emily J. Mayhew, Benjamin Sanchez-Lengeling, Jennifer N. Wei, Wesley W. Qian, Kelsie A. Little, Matthew Andres, Britney B. Nguyen, Theresa Moloy and Alexander B. Wiltschko.
12. Luca Turin On Substack.
13. Episode 81 of Brave New World: Alex Wiltschko on the Sense of Smell
14. Episode 97 Of Brave New World: Alex Wiltschko on Digitising Scent

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