http://www.metafilter.com/tags/anosmia Posts tagged with 'anosmia' at MetaFilter. Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:42:29 -0800 Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:42:29 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/57352/Anosmia <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0396171/">Perfume,</a> the new movie (IMDB) is about the world of a man who has an unparalleled, acute sense of <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6199605.stm">smell</a> where the BBC go on to ask "But what is life like for the millions of people who have lost it / Imagine burning the toast unawares, every day. Mowing the lawn without a breath of fresh-cut grass ... That is day to day life for the thousands of people with anosmia, who lack a sense of smell." <br><br> I lost my sense of smell in 1995 and refer to the <a href="http://www.anosmiafoundation.org">Anosmia Association</a> for contemporary developments. Links from <a href="http://www.jenniferboyer.com/AnosmiaInfo.html">this</a> dysfunctional victim's website are helpful, there are 91 incidents of anosmia at <a href="http://www.furl.net/search?enc=UTF-8&search=true&sort=&dir=&pos=1&count=25&showRead=all&expd=7&keyword=anosmia&src=4&x=19&y=9&category=-1&date=0">Furl</a> (sign up) and there are <a href="http://personal.ecu.edu/wuenschk/Anosmia-Discussion.htm">Smell Disorders Discussion Groups</a>. Earlier metafilter <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/36841">here</a> and <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/43643">here</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.57352 Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:42:29 -0800 anosmia furl Schroder