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Smells Humans Are Ridiculously Good At Detecting
The Rest Is Science·Jan 13, 2026
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Michael Stevens argues that humans are actually highly sensitive to smells, but we generally fail to notice them because we lack conscious attention unless a smell is extremely intense.
“We have to be slapped in the nose by a smell to notice it. Like we we we can listen, but we only pay attention if it's screaming.”
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In the transcripts