r/ProfessorFinance • u/LeastAdhesiveness386 Goes to Another School | Moderator • 4d ago

Off-Topic A light hearted off topic post before the holidays. Love that smell.

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u/zoinks690 4d ago

The smell that surrounds youuuuuu....

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u/PapaSchlump Master of Pun-onomics | Moderator 4d ago

Well apparently you don't love that smell, you love Water. And I commend that

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u/devonjosephjoseph Quality Contributor 2d ago

Interesting phrase evolutionary past. What other behaviors are a product of our evolutionary past?

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u/Available-Mini 1d ago

Palmar grasp reflex newborns have this grasping reflex, which helps them to hold on. It's thought that this reflex helped baby's hold on to the mother fur. We lose the reflex by the age of 6 months - 2 years

Really fascinating stuff

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u/curvyang 4d ago

Wrong. Petrichor is the word for this. Geosmin is a component of petrichor.

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u/HateChan_ 4d ago

It never said it is called Geosmin.

The smell of the air after a storm is CAUSED by Geosmin

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u/curvyang 4d ago

The smell of rain: Geosmin is a major component of the smell of rain, especially after a dry spell. This smell is called petrichor, which comes from the Greek words petros meaning "stone" and ichor meaning the fluid in the veins of the gods. 

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u/DeltaV-Mzero Quality Contributor 4d ago

Damn petrichor is a metal af name

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u/LSUChE94 3d ago

Pretty sure it’s a character in the graphic novels Saga.

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u/Plodderic Quality Contributor 4d ago

It’s a TARDIS password in Doctor Who.

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u/Moist-Pickle-2736 Quality Contributor 4d ago

Wrong☝️🤓

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u/MousseCommercial387 3d ago

That's retarded. this is actually just really, really stupid. It just rained, there is obviously water EVERYWHERE.

I can't believe people don't have two neurons to rub together.