Odds and Ends — 22 March 2021

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This raises two questions. Who would want the interior of their car to smell like black ice? And who was the lucky chemist who got down on hands and knees to find out what black ice smelled like so that they could ty to recreate the olfactory experience?

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And who was the lucky chemist who got down on hands and knees to find out what black ice smelled like so that they could ty to recreate the olfactory experience?

The intern. Clearly.

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