Scent is inherently persuasive, but the language of scent is largely missing from rhetorics vocabulary. This is because language cannot express the "truth" of an odor. Identification of odor as substance is dependent on consubstantiality between the author and reader. We instead describe smells using metaphorical language, or by invoking episodic memories and emotional reactions. In this way, scent is dramatistic. In order to consider the possibility of a grammar of scent beyond metaphor, the author develops an olfactory pentad (Sniff, Context, Emanation, Odor Object, and Response) by...
Scent is inherently persuasive, but the language of scent is largely missing from rhetorics vocabulary. This is because language cannot express the "t...
Fitness books love fad diets, creative exercise regimens, and, most of all, catchy headlines and marketing. But real success in fitness, sports, work, and life all begin with understanding and optimizing the human balance system. Proper balance is the key to unlocking your full athletic potential and can quickly help you become a faster running, smoother pivoting, better aiming, throwing, and hitting performer, with far lower risk of injury. But there's a dark side to the story of balance. Over the past decade, deaths by fall have doubled and falls have cemented themselves as the...
Fitness books love fad diets, creative exercise regimens, and, most of all, catchy headlines and marketing. But real success in fitness, sport...
