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Sharks are supposed to have the best nose in the ocean, able to smell a drop of blood from miles away. Your nose beats them, and the thing it beats them at is the smell of rain. You catch it at a level two hundred thousand times finer than a shark catches blood.
That smell after rain has a name, petrichor, and most of it is one molecule called geosmin, pumped out by bacteria living in the dirt. Your nose is freakishly good at catching it. We're talking a teaspoon of the stuff stirred into two hundred Olympic swimming pools, and you would still notice.
The two hundred thousand is just division. Your nose grabs the rain molecule at a tiny concentration, a shark grabs blood at a much bigger one, and one of those numbers is two hundred thousand times the other. The math is right.
Each nose is doing a different job, though. You're smelling one clean, specific molecule. The shark is hunting for a messy cocktail, the juices that leak out of a wounded fish. Putting your single perfect molecule up against the shark's blurry stew was never a fair race.
And blood is the shark on an off day. The smells it was actually built to chase, fish oil and torn flesh, it picks up at concentrations up to ten thousand times fainter than blood. Line your rain-smelling up against that, the shark doing what it does best, and your lead drops from two hundred thousand times to about twenty. You still win, but only just, and only on this one smell.
It doesn't mean you out-smell a shark in general. To a shark, your blood and sweat are dull background noise, which is why that old line about periods drawing sharks has been knocked down by scientists for years. The drop-of-blood-from-a-mile-off image is a tall tale too. In open water a shark gets maybe a few hundred yards before the scent thins out and the trail goes cold.
The reason a human ended up this tuned to the smell of wet dirt comes down to water. For our ancestors, the smell of rain meant a drink instead of dying of thirst. In 2024 a lab in Germany pinned down the exact smell-catcher we use for geosmin, then found the very same one in camels, polar bears, mice and monkeys, barely changed across a hundred million years of evolution. Camels in the Gobi are thought to sniff their way to water from fifty miles off using it.
The sharpest version of that rain-detector on Earth belongs to a little desert rodent, the kangaroo rat. Its nose runs about a hundred times finer than yours.
Ethiopia was never colonized.
For much of its history, it was one of the poorest countries on the continent.
Meanwhile, Vietnam was colonized by the French, devastated by decades of war, and is now on its way to serious economic prosperity.
If colonialism were the answer to why Africa is poor, Ethiopia should be rich and Vietnam should be broke. Neither is true.
Can we please retire this excuse?
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I think this is smart learning. It will be helpful to Nigerian students, if it is adopted in our educational system.✍️
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