Nose is nose?

A recent post on 7 'oops 7 suggested that a medical metaphor (or that whole set and its myriad relations) may be powerful.

Well, that plays into the theme of this blog; let's say the focus here is measurement which requires resolution of what, why, who, when, how, and a lot more (as there are relations between these, for instance).

Of course, we have more senses than that of smell, yet the nose, as the more prominent (after the skin, of course), may play more of a role than has been realized.

We'll have several things to look at.

Thanks for the noses

We can be thankful that nature gave us our nose and its close tie to our brain (Proust, et al).

We can be thankful that we can learn how to apply our nose to ferret out the truth while balancing that glorious instrument with all of the other means at our disposal, whether of sense, common sense, or other.

Modified: 11/24/2007

Noses and sock puppets

Given the new media in all its potentials and glorifications, we find ourselves in a predicament of not having the proper 'nose' for determining the truth. The issue of the sock puppet is one thing of concern, or some might just say the use of aliases for anonymity.

Perhaps there is a better characterization that we need since some PR work can border on disinformation when what we would expect ethically would be misinformation, at worse.

The younger generation likes to talk about things sucking. The evolution of that phrasing has some interest aspects, yet thinking about the same issues in terms of stinking would appeal more to the appropriate intuitions.

That we need to develop various types of 'noses' will be one focus in this blog.