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Resources

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American Psychological Association style guidelines for a reference list

Rules for quoting, in your paper, from one of the works on your reference list

Turin, Luca (2003). "Rational odorant design." Retrieved Nov. 15, 2003, from: http://www.flexitral.com/research/Rational_odorants.pdf

This new article answers a number of the questions raised by students in preparation for the video conference. It is not technical.

Audio files: for Feld, Sound and Sentiment

Date: seminars on Nov. 20 and Dec. 2

Funerary sung-weeping by Hane (ch. 3)
Seance gisalo song by Aiba with weeping (ch. 5)

Stories in the news relevant to our curriculum:

New Luxury-Car Specifications: Styling, Performance, Aroma

Date: 10-25-03 in The New York Times

DETROIT, Oct. 24 — For Cadillac, the new-car smell, that ethereal scent of factory freshness, is no longer just a product of chance. General Motors recently revealed that its Cadillac division had engineered a scent for its vehicles and had been processing it into the leather seats. The scent — sort of sweet, sort of subliminal — was created in a lab, was picked by focus groups and is now the aroma of every new Cadillac put on the road. It even has a name. Nuance.

[The only news here is that this appeared on the front page of Friday's paper.]

Research into Cell Gatekeepers Wins Chemistry Nobel
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Date: 10-08-03 on National Public Radio:

Two American scientists share this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work that helps explain how water and other substances move in and out of living cells. Living cells couldn't exist if they didn't have the ability to accumulate material like nutrients and to control the flow of water. Peter Agre at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine wondered just how water gets into and out of cells. He discovered a molecule that's a gatekeeper for water -- it lets only water in and out of the cell.

American, Briton Win Nobel in Medicine
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Date: 10-06-03 on National Public Radio:

American Paul Lauterbur of the University of Illinois and Briton Sir Peter Mansfield win the Nobel in medicine for his pioneering work on magnetic resonance imaging.

Blind Man Calls Game
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Date: 08-26-03 on National Public Radio:

Alan Tomlinson reports from St. Petersburg, Fla., on Enrique Oliu, a blind man who does Spanish radio commentary on the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Oliu calls the game with the help of his wife and his remarkable memory for baseball statistics

Man's Restored Sight Aids Scientists Studying Vision
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Date: 08-26-03 on National Public Radio:

After 46 years of blindness, a California man is learning to see. Researchers say testing on Michael May, who was blind until he underwent surgery in 2000, suggests blindness has long-term effects on how the brain processes information. The case is documented in the journal Nature Neuroscience .NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Michael May.

Websites (a few) relevant to our curriculum:

Dr. Luca Turin, "the emperor of scent," (we will be reading about him in week III). You will find links to his original publication that challenged the "shape" theory of smell reception, also a link to the company for which Turnin now works, Flexitral.

HUMANUM:"HUMANUM is a research oriented web site maintained by the Research Centre for Humanities Computing of the Research Institute for the Humanities (RIH) , Faculty of Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong . Our task is twofold: namely, 1) meta-indicing humanities resources worldwide, and 2) develop texts, tools and pages covering various interests in the humanistic scholarship."