Alie Ward (host)

But before that strikes, let's take a quick break and donate to a cause of Dr. Luke's selection, which this week is the UN Crisis Relief, specifically the Occupied Palestinian Territory Humanitarian Fund, which is managed locally under UN leadership and immediately available to a wide range of partner organizations at the front lines of response.

And this way, funding reaches the people most in need when they need it.

And for more on the conflict in Gaza and the humanitarian crisis we're all seeing unfold,

you can listen to my 2024 chat with Dr. Dirk Moses, who's a leading global expert on genocide.

That episode is titled Genocidology.

And in it, we talk about crimes of atrocity and yes, the nature of genocide.

So that donation went to UN Crisis Relief, specifically for the Occupied Palestinian Territory Humanitarian Fund.

And on a side note, several Separatologies donations were made this week directly to families in need who are suffering aid blockades and starvation in Gaza.

Again, highly recommend the Genocidology episode.

Okay, let's get back to smelling stuff and let's take in the essence of your questions.

Amy Ford Rosa and Robin Kuhn asked about vocabulary.

Amy asked, could you speak on the emotional baggage of the word smell versus scent versus odor versus stink?

They each have different meanings that I'm interested that you used smell for your thesis instead of scent.

Smell you later.

Right.

So this is Professor of History Alain Corbin's classic 1986 work, The Foul and the Fragrant, Odor and the French Social Imagination, which explores personal sense in the 17 and 1800s.

And I can only imagine what a richly

aromatic time it was in France.

As the first words read, today's history comes deodorized.

And it's, of course, not just history.