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Purdue Students Sniff Manure for Science

Posted January 02, 2008 10:05 AM

From PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news:

Purdue University students are making some extra cash through a project that might turn some of their classmates' stomachs - by sniffing livestock excrement. Students earn $30 per session as they take whiffs of a variety of smells collected from barns filled with hogs, cows and chickens for odor research being conducted by Albert Heber, a Purdue professor of agricultural and biological engineering.

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01/03/2008 2:42 AM

In Malasia the cow manure used to be sniffed using a coconut shell to get high.

Don't know what the long term effects are?

but wouldn't the tester bias have to be determined each session? For general Farm students and city students would have different baselines.

smell is like taste some people are much better at it than others (pun intended)

mood influences our likes and dislikes so thats another vector.

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01/05/2008 4:43 AM

Some student is intending to write a thesis on the subject.

Complete with actual examples, of course.

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