Courtney humphries

4 articles

- Neuroscience
We Weren’t Designed to Appreciate Good Perfume
- By Courtney Humphries
- June 30, 2016
Our sense of smell may have evolved to detect danger, not beauty.
- Sociology
Have We Hit Peak Whiteness?
- By Courtney Humphries
- July 23, 2015
Our obsession with cleanliness is running afoul of scientific reality.
- Technology
Ingenious: John Ochsendorf
- By Courtney Humphries
- May 21, 2015
Meet the architectural rebel who champions ancient engineers.
- Technology
Why We Should Let the Pantheon Crack
- By Courtney Humphries
- May 19, 2015
Modern architects have a lot to learn from the sound engineering of the ancients.

We Weren’t Designed to Appreciate Good Perfume