October 4: Smell the Cinnamon Buns

On 4 October 2004 Dr. Richard Axel and Dr. Linda Buck were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. They received this reward because they had discovered how the olfactory system (sense of smell) works.

Axel and Buck had first discovered a gene family which had over one thousand genes. From there they worked they discovered that your nerve cell sends neurons to the olfactory bulb in your brain which lets you smell various things. Their discovery is a very important date in history because our sense of smell is very dear to us. Having a sense of smell is not only important but it is a privilege because with this gift you are able to enjoy the best thing in life…food.

Food is essential for human life. We need food daily in order to finish our tasks throughout the day. Food is more than just filling your stomach and curbing your appetite. Like most things it has moral values, food helps bring us together.

You have many types of different foods and different holidays that celebrate food. For example, October 4 is cinnamon day! This day celebrates the delicious, not nutritious, beautiful food our great Swedish folk created.

Food also helps us realize that we may be different in many ways we are still the same. So you ask yourself, why do we hate people that worship different religions? Why do we hate people who have a different skin color? Or why do we hate people because they are attracted to their same sex? How can we as humans all do the same life sustaining functions like eating food, but not accept that we have the same makeup—just with different personalities?

–Kelsi Thomas

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Meet the Author: Kelsi Thomas

I am a second year student at Schoolcraft College planning to transfer to the University of Michigan in the winter. I am studying bio medical laboratory science and hope to become a successful medical scientist in my future. I am very outgoing, compassionate, and ambitious. Some of my interests include music,tennis,singing,and the well -being of others.

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4 Responses

  1. Riccardo says:
    4 October 2012 at 1:31 am

    P.R. here again ….Young woman you did a very Good Job on this piece …I Love Cinnamon Buns..My own recipe of course..But none the less…I enjoyed very much…Thank You….In case you don’t know I am Dr.Berg’s partner therefore I must read these hours in history everyday and rarely Do I Enjoy what I read…So again Thank you ! …p.s. I also really enjoyed the one on STD’S…lol

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  2. lauren badalamente says:
    15 November 2012 at 9:25 pm

    what i found out was every sexual. hahah sorry !!
    The attractive powers of pheromones (scented sex hormones) have often been exaggerated – not least by advertisers trying to sell pheromone-based scents and sprays which they claim will make men irresistible to women such as cinnamon! also In fact, the study in question – conducted by the Smell and Taste Research Foundation in Chicago – discovered only that ‘in those with a normal olfactory ability, a variety of odours can increase penile blood-flow’. These odours included pumpkin pie, liquorice, doughnuts and lavender, and various combinations of these, as well as oriental spice and cola.

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  3. Kelsey Barraco says:
    9 December 2012 at 2:59 am

    I love cinnamon buns! :) I found out something very interesting about the sense of taste. The human tongue can only taste four kinds of sensations. They are sweet, salty, bitter, and sour. All other’s are due to what type of food you are smelling. But what makes the person feel that the smell they are smelling is the flavor they are tasting? The brain. What you are smelling is switched to what you taste by your brain. These processes are called Ortho-Nasal Olfaction and Retro-Nasal Olfaction. (How Smell Affects Taste)

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    • Zach Yates says:
      9 December 2012 at 9:00 pm

      Like Kelsey said, our sense of smell is connected to the brain; and so are each of our other four senses. While each of our five senses plays a unique and specialized role, they are all connected to the nervous system which links each sense to the brain. Aristotle is given credit for the basic classification of each of our senses (sight, hearing, taste, touch, and of course, smell). Even though we have five distinct senses, they often work together to make us stronger and more alert human beings. For example, you may not know exactly when a cinnabun is perfectly baked, but you can rely on your paired sense of sight and smell to help you realize when the gooey treat is ready to meet your sense of taste.

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