Column: Love and Mom's Shaghetti Sauce

I'm still experimenting with the column format. At the same time, I've signed on at Scientific Blogging, a fairly new blog network.

Scientific Blogging, led by Hank Campbell,  is extremely well-done, and getting a lot of interest. It's full of the cool social-media stuff, like the ability to promote stories. I'm really proud to be part of it!

My first column is "Love and Mom's Spaghetti Sauce." And <shameless plug> if you like it, Hank has made it very easy to Digg, Reddit, etc.</shameless plug>

Comments

[Paul Sunstone]

That was a thought provoking first article, Susan. Among other things, it caused me to recall how when I was a kid I noticed my best friend's family smelled different than my family -- and how significant that seemed to me.

[Susan Kuchinskas]

That's so true! I'd forgotten about that, but indeed, you'd go over to your friend's house and there would be this ... odor. It usually felt weird, sometimes pleasant, sometimes truly scary.

While a lot of this ambient odor probably was from regular smelly molecules from cooking, feet, carpets and pets, it's possible that neurochemicals were also a component.