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Ep 204: A Scientist in the Kitchen

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Sensation of Heat Is Not a Taste

Taste comes from the taste buds, which work by very specific sensers that detect for something. Sensations are actually primarily to warn you against things like food being too hot or acetic. The entirety of our digestive tract has those senses that detect for temerature. plants are basically nature's ar absolutely biochemical magicians in the sense that, forget animals,. nothing comes anywhere close.

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