Sniff My Finger
Taste, Touch and SmellBy B.Tenorio, A.Jay
Length7h 50m
About this audiobook
What if your senses are lying to you?
You trust your tongue to tell you what you taste, your nose to tell you what you smell, and your skin to tell you what you touch. They seem like the most direct way of finding out what is real.
They aren't.
Sniff My Finger, Book Three of the Boring Science Stuff series, takes three senses we rarely question—taste, touch and smell—and pulls apart the things we think we know about them.
A chilli can feel as though it is burning when nothing is being burned. Cross your fingers and one object can feel like two. Taps can create the sensation of something travelling across your skin where nothing has touched you. Smells can trigger memories before you can find words for them.
What actually happened?
Funny, strange and rigorously curious, Sniff My Finger explores the unsettling gap between detecting something and experiencing it—and discovers that sometimes your senses are not recording reality at all. They are explaining it.
Audiobook details
GenreScience and Nature, Education and Learning
Length7 hrs 50 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 1, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A Note Before We Start
2Part One — The Oldest Sense
3Chapter One — Four Seconds of Memory
4Chapter Two — Aristotle's Number
5Chapter Three — The Diagram With No Scale
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6Chapter Four — What the Airway Tastes
7Part Two — Reports of Things That Did Not Happen
8Chapter Five — The Burn That Is Not There
9Chapter Six — Why Anybody Does This
10Chapter Seven — The One That Goes Up Your Nose
11Chapter Eight — Fifty Times a Second
12Chapter Nine — The Only Headache You Can Order
13Chapter Ten — The Taste of Water
14Chapter Eleven — Hold Your Nose
15Part Three — The Hand That Isn't There
16Chapter Twelve — The Robot That Tickles
17Chapter Thirteen — Two Harmless Things
18Chapter Fourteen — Reading About It Is Enough
19Chapter Fifteen — What the Body Will Accept
20Chapter Sixteen — When the Lights Go Out
21Chapter Seventeen — What the Ridges Are For
22Chapter Eighteen — The Bath Test
23Part Four — The Sense With No Words
24Chapter Nineteen — Vanillin Is 7122
25Chapter Twenty — Before You Know What It Is
26Chapter Twenty-one — One Bad Prawn
27Chapter Twenty-two — Coriander Tastes of Soap
28Chapter Twenty-three — Five Parts Per Trillion
29Chapter Twenty-four — The Smell of Things That Came Back
30Chapter Twenty-five — The Odour Wheel
31Chapter Twenty-six — Finding the Way Home By Nose
32Chapter Twenty-seven — The Molecules Nobody Found
33Chapter Twenty-eight — The Top of the Head
34Part Five — The Experts
35Chapter Twenty-nine — The Same Wine Twice
36Chapter Thirty — The Accident in the Laboratory
37Chapter Thirty-one — The Berry That Rewires the Lemon
38Chapter Thirty-two — The Letter
39Part Six — Losing It
40Chapter Thirty-three — The Year the Coffee Stopped
41Chapter Thirty-four — I Smell Burnt Toast
42Chapter Thirty-five — The Woman Who Smelled It First
43Chapter Thirty-six — Broca's Mistake
44Part Seven — Selling It
45Chapter Thirty-seven — A Green Drink Tastes of Lime
46Chapter Thirty-eight — Natural Flavouring
47Chapter Thirty-nine — The Smell of the Shop
48Chapter Forty — Four Things About Your Own Mouth
49Part Eight — Contact
50Chapter Forty-one — Between One and Ten Centimetres a Second
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