A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last Mystery of the Senses
by Chandler Burr
Recommended by Eric Weinstein
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The Emperor of Scent tells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide and bandied about an outrageous new theory on the human sense of smell. Drawing on cuttingedge work in biology, chemistry, and physics, Turin used his obsession with perfume and his eerie gift for smell...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Science, and History.
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Eric Weinstein
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“A wonderful introduction to how the dissident voice is marginalized.”
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“Accidental Presidents offers eight narrative portraits of men who succeeded to the U.S. presidency without election, using anecdote-rich scenes and readable context to show how personality and circumstance interact with office power. It’s strongest as a set of self-contained stories that make succession stakes concrete for non-specialist readers; it does not prioritize dense archival argument or exhaustive methodology, so expect some interpretive generalizations and repeated themes across cases. Use it for fast historical orientation rather than scholarly deep-dives.”
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