The Web: you can hear it, you can see it, you can read it, but you can’t
smell it. At least not yet. Netropolitan toured the Net for some useful
olfactory offerings. No one really knows how the nose works. But Tim Jacob, a
physiologist at Cardiff University, describes five theories of smell on his
website, including one to do with molecular vibration. Just follow the smell links from
www.cf.ac.uk/uwcc/momed/jacob to the smell tutorial, where he walks
you from the nasal epithelium to the olfactory bulb.
Wine lovers will find the key to unlocking all those tip-of-the-tongue
descriptions of a…
