Odor Hunter Extraordinaire Cliff the Z Man Zlotnick

Cliff the Z Man Zlotnick on IAQ Radio

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If you suspect a dead animal hiding in your walls (because you're house smells like a dead animal), here's what Cliff the Z Man Zlotnick does, as described back in 2007 on the IAQ Radio Show:

Put a handful of raw ground beef in a garbage bag in a wastebasket and leave it outside. Within minutes, flies will be attracted to the meat. That's when you close up the garbage bag, bring it inside, open it back up, and watch as the flies fly straight to the problem. The gases that emit from a dead animal pass through the wall itself, and the flies can smell that. 

Image credit: AI Art - Middle Aged Woman Using a Nebulizer - 2023

Mandatory shout out to Avery Gilbert and his I Smell Dead People Column on his First Nerve blog (or his newer substack).

On Sweat vs Smell vs Robots vs Humans

Kevin Grennan’s Robot Armpit Prototype. Yup.

Thanks Japan. Humanoid robots are doing really well over there. Even the artificial skin is starting to sweat. This technological development is lauded in the world of humanoid robots because the artificial skin has all of the proper parts to be a functioning thermoregulating membrane, i.e., it sweats. But is it humorous to note that Japanese folks have very few apocrine glands themselves? People of East Asian descent are less likely to have body odor than others. I’ll bet if the robots had a choice, they would smell like their Japanese creators, i.e., not at all.

Notes:

Artificial skin grows hair and sweat glands

April 2016, Riken Institute