Posts Tagged ‘death and smell’
Haiti’s Anonymous Dead
19, Jan 2010As Haitians Flee, the Dead Go Uncounted Damien Cave, New York Times (January 18, 2010) Last home of country’s most famous families turns from place of respect and mourning into installation of horror Ed Pilkington, The Guardian (January 18, 2010) Following up on yesterday’s Haiti earthquake post, these New York Times and Guardian articles expand [...]
- By: John
- In: Burial|Cemeteries|Death + Disaster
- Tags: death and smell, decomposition, Haiti Earthquake, mass graves
The Impossibility of Identifying the Dead in Haiti
18, Jan 2010How can a country in the grip of an apocalyptic tragedy deal in a dignified way with its victims? Paul Harris, The Guardian (January 17, 2010) The current stories emanating from Haiti are incomprehensibly awful. This Guardian article uses the word apocalyptic and that seems utterly appropriate. A crisis situation of this enormity is compounded [...]
- By: John
- In: Burial|Cemeteries|Death + Disaster
- Tags: death and smell, decomposition, Haiti Earthquake, mass graves, video
Corpse Flower Blooms in Milwaukee
14, Jan 2010Corpse flower to Bloom at Milwaukee Museum Associated Press (January 12, 2010) It seems only too fitting. That a seven-foot tall Sumatran “Corpse Flower” will soon bloom at the Milwaukee Public Museum. I’m from Wisconsin so I can make all the jokes I want. Oddly (or perhaps not so oddly) it turns out that the [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + Biology
- Tags: death and smell
The Nose Knows
13, Sep 2009The smell of death is all around us. Sometimes it hits the nostrils like a hammer to the skull; other times it goes undetected and unnoticed — at least to us humans. A few recent articles got me thinking about the phenomena of scent in the presence of death, or even in one case as [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Death + Biology
- Tags: death and smell, decomposition, research
Putrescine, Cadaverine, and Dog Job Stealing Robots
27, Aug 2009New Insights into the “Smell of Death” Could Help Recover Bodies in Disasters and Solve Crimes (pdf) American Chemical Society Press Release (August 16, 2009) via SmartPlanet, “Smelling Death Electronically” (John Dodge, August 26, 2009) Okay, so “robot” may be an overstatement. Nonetheless, Penn State chemists are working on detecting and identifying the properties and [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Biology|Death + Technology
- Tags: death and smell, decomposition, research, video, wayward bodies