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Recent Examples of smellersPlants are indeed more than remedial smellers.—
Jenny Odell,
Longreads,
2 June 2026
In one scene, a pair of revellers dance naked just outside the fence of the Calvary Cemetery, thumbing their noses at the reaper while the Manhattan skyline towers in the distance.
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Chris Wiley,
New Yorker,
4 July 2026
What made the difference was an angle here, a line there, small dimensional differences in eyes, noses, mouths.
With their snouts, the pigs would feel each beat of my heart the way a human would feel a silver dollar that had been flipped in the air then caught in an open palm, flipped and caught, coming up heads or tails, whichever side had been called when the coin was at its apogee.