Ah the stench of aging! ----- Original Message ----- From: Ray Harrell To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION,EDUCATION Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 9:06 AM Subject: [Futurework] Does it pass the smell test?
I know this is true of old Art. I suspect its true of old economic theories as well. Doesn't matter how you dress them up its still predator /prey or as the anthropologists say: Hunter/Gatherer. It's all about the smell test. The young won't come within a mile of an old theory unless you use fabreeze on it. We use sage and cedar scent. Keeps the bedbugs away as well:>)) REH The Telltale Scent of Old People Aging | By Nicholas Bakalar , 11:14 AM Did Grandma's house smell funny? Chances are it did, and researchers may have discovered why: Old people have a different body odor from younger people, and young people are good at detecting it. Researchers had 41 healthy people in three age groups - young (ages 20 to 30), middle-aged (45 to 55) and old (75 to 95) - put absorbent pads in their armpits for five nights to collect odors. Then the scientists asked people in their 20s to smell the pads. The results appeared online last week in the journal PLoS One. The smellers were asked to distinguish old from young in various ways - by making a choice between two pads, by sorting pads into age groups, and by guessing the age as the pads were presented randomly. They were also asked to rate the pleasantness and intensity of the odors. Analysis showed that smellers were able to discriminate between age groups and place the old-age pads together at rates significantly greater than chance. For most of the young people, the smell of old people was not particularly intense or unpleasant. "We definitely have an old people odor," said the senior author, Johan N. Lundstrom, an assistant professor at the Monell Center in Philadelphia and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. The smell seems to be unoffensive, he added, when sniffed in the absence of any particular person. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
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