Category: Culture & History
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Beyond the five senses: a history of human perception from antiquity to neuroscience
Ask most people how many senses humans have and they’ll say five. Ask a neuroscientist and you’ll get a longer pause. This is a history of that pause – from Aristotle and Avicenna through Buddhist philosophy and classical Chinese medicine, all the way to interoception and what we’re still figuring out.
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Why is cherry the scent of 2025? Psychology, symbolism, and something more
Cherry is back, but not how you remember it. Not lip gloss, not candy. In 2025, it’s something darker, more honest. Sweet and sharp in the same breath. It carries contradiction in the way we carry ourselves right now: layered, a little bruised, and refusing to apologize for taking up space.