The Five Senses is an educational activity for kids to learn about taste, smell, vision, hearing, and touch.

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Take the jellybean test to see how your sense of smell enhances taste.

Use Braille to create a message for a friend.

Some of our tastes in food are determined by our genetics, but culture, memory and parental coercion all play a role.

Hang on to your faces because Dr. John Craig goes deep and shares why he’s so passionate about rhinology.

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NPR Short Wave reporter Emily Kwong speaks to neurobiologist André White, assistant professor at Mount Holyoke College, about our senses — the beautiful, intricate system that carries information from the outside world in.

In today’s episode, Short Wave reporter Emily Kwong and Short Wave producer Rebecca Ramirez cook two recipes from Nik’s book and explore the scientific principles at work.