Sometimes, Life Stinks. So He Invented the Nasal Ranger

For Chuck McGinley, an engineer who devised the go-to instrument for measuring odors, helping people understand what they smell is serious science.

by Winston Chol-Schagrin

SOUTH ST. PAUL, Minn. β€” Chuck McGinley, a chemical engineer, stepped out of his car, eyed the smokestack of an animal processing plant rising above the treetops, and inhaled deeply. At first he smelled nothing except the faint, sweet fragrance of the nearby trees.

Suddenly, the wind picked up. β€œWe have an oh-my-God smell!” Mr. McGinley exclaimed.

Immediately one of his colleagues pressed a Nasal Ranger to his nose. The 14-inch-long smell-measuring device, which looks like a cross between a radar gun and a bugle, is one of Mr. McGinley’s most significant inventions.

Using terms from one of Mr. McGinley’s other standard tools, an odor wheel, a chart akin to an artist’s color wheel that he has been fine-tuning for decades, the team described the stink. β€œSour,” one person said. β€œDecay, with possibly some petroleum,” said another.

Then, as quickly as it had arrived, the smell disappeared. β€œThe wind decided it was going to gift us only a short sniff,” Mr. McGinley said. β€œTo tease us.”....

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The light of my life, the stink inside my house. The one and only, Moira πŸ–€
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Some dude got in my comments one day and said β€œher ass too big. I kno her ass stink”. Y’all real life weirdos πŸ˜‚πŸ€¦πŸΎβ€β™‚οΈ v.redd.it/7sk2rgc5v4381
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Sometimes, Life Stinks. So He Invented the Nasal Ranger. nytimes.com/2022/01/13/cl…
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Grandmother enjoys the island life a little too much, made a luau-d stink about being asked to leave! reddit.com/r/legaladvice/…
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Something about raising these helps the Mental Health issues that go along with my disability... cathartic and very soothing when Life seems to stink. youtube.com/shorts/t5haHq…
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Adolin finds some new perspective as to why Kaladin’s love life stinks.
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Even Helen Keller knows life stinks

As someone who writes marketing copy for a living it makes me sad that I will never, ever top that line.

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My life kinda stinks rn. That’s all. Hope y’all are having a better go at it than me
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Found on my shirt in my drawer. I get the occasion stink bug but it doesn't look like any life cycle of one. reddit.com/gallery/rsd6zc
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Battery life stinks - is this normal?

Just got my Light Phone 2 and Iove everything about it except the battery life. I can't make it close to 24 hours without needing to charge it and using any of the features (directions, hot spot) drains it very fast.

I've had the phone on for 2 hours today, made a 15 min phone call and used the wifi hot spot for 20 mins and the battery is down to 67%.

The other day I went for a 15 min walk and tested out the Directions app and saw the battery drain almost 15% in that time.

One of the biggest selling points of this phone was the long battery life so this is a bummer.

But is this normal? Are there some settings I can change? Or maybe I have a bad battery?

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You'd think his job stinks, but professional Australian poo diver Brendan Walsh says he's 'never worked a day' in his life.. big WTF
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A little late to the black cat appreciation day party, but hopefully that's OK! This is Miss Olivia Bean aka Demon, the Great Deem Deem, Deemaleen, Stinky Demon, Stink Stink, and so on. She is so full of life and sass and really likes showing off her murder mittens. reddit.com/gallery/p6sfjz
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My best friend Ever! RIP to my best friend (Azrael). After 10 years of being my best mate I had to send him to doggy heaven today. He got me though so much in life with anxiety, depression, drug and alcohol abuse. I’ll never forget you and it’s going to be lonely with you mate. Love you stink man.
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TIL just how destructive Bradford Pear trees are. They're considered a highly invasive species (it was once thought they would be sterile as a hybrid). They're incredibly weak and are often damaged in storms, so their life span is usually 15-20 years. They're all around bad trees. Plus they stink! conservingcarolina.org/br…
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Life and its unfair advantages stink

We all already know that the world and life is naturally unfair. So the fact that people were given an advantage over others through having good looks which then leads to a whole range of opportunities is just maddening. Why couldn't it be normal for everyone to be good looking so then we only have to deal with preferences when trying to date. Although on second thought, I guess if everyone were good looking then no one would be. Because being attractive is defined by the non-attractive......

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I have had a couple of β€œbest friends” throughout my life, but they have all had other β€œbest friends”. They were mine, but I wasn’t theirs. And it really stinks.

And now I just feel so lonely and left behind. I just hope to one day find an actual β€œbest friend” that will view me the same way, and will want to keep the relationship growing. I’m tired of always being the one keeping it going. Sorry for the venting, just needed it to get out there.

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My brother has been missing and life in general stinks

My half brother has been missing for 2 weeks his name is Caleb and I don’t know him the best. I was adopted when I was 5 and didn’t knew he existed until 5 years ago. The beginning of this year we connected over Facebook and I got to meet him and we’ve been close since. He has mental heath issues that make things tough but I still love my brother. He’s been missing 2 weeks yesterday and he’s not on his meds so who knows how he is, it’s been really hard into of everything else going on in my life, I just hope they find him 😒

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What makes life stink so much?
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FIRST LOOK: Louis CK in remake of Mel Brooks's classic tale of rich vs poor "Life Stinks" - scheduled for summer 2022
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He's the baby whose mouth smells like death... run for your life, it's Baby Stink-Breath!
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We shit on life and wonder why it stinks.
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TIL just how destructive Bradford Pear trees are. They're considered a highly invasive species (it was once thought they would be sterile as a hybrid). They're incredibly weak and are often damaged in storms, so their life span is usually 15-20 years. They're all around bad trees. Plus they stink! conservingcarolina.org/br…
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bruh Kawaki had a mans that was already gonna die, begging for his life. To rub it in even more, the last words he heard were β€˜Your breath stinks, pig’. Boruto and Kawaki about to tear up the new gen anime scene it’s amazing 😒 v.redd.it/qf7okbj2dsl61
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Tim Dillon - Your life stink? Make it worse youtu.be/9ddLK57xI40
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A Bug's Life: BOOM, Suck That Stink Bug! - Session 1 (#WackyWednesday) youtu.be/iK63b_1w91g
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Let him into your life. Stink and all.
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LIFE STINKS - I'M A WEED youtu.be/c0aDD3iRs9I
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I hate my life and I want to die, I ain’t got no internet, P.S. tried to upload last night but my internet stinks lol.
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To me there is this tragic beauty on the image of smoking, as if you were trying to slowly consume your life. That being said, please don't smoke, is terrible for your body, and makes your mouth stink.
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This is kitty, she may give a mean stink eye but she's a secret sweetheart. 23 years ago we found her, her mother and 7 siblings living under an upturned john boat. We really weren't sure any of the kittens would survive their first... crazy how life is sometimes
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When you can identify bugs because of this game.....real life stink bug...after 6 hours of cleaning. You sneaky little.....
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my stink nugget, charlie, living her best life reddit.com/gallery/o54cy2
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Life Stinks (1991)

Not on TSPDT master list; Director: Mel Brooks; Writer: Mel Brooks, Rudy DeLuca, Ron Clark, Steve Haberman; Watched April 17th on Amazon Prime IMDB

91 minutes. Mel Brooks directed 11 movies. 10 of them I would recommend to anyone at any time as having at least a few funny moments if not being classic comedies. Rather than focus too much on how #11 was a miss, I would like to take this time to say I’m appreciative for what Director Brooks did with his material. He was ahead of his time in pushing discussion around race, his deep intellect was shown off with some of his brilliant satire and I think he is underrated for his ability to balance the chaos that existed in the confines of his films with well-placed silence.

Quickly on Life Stinks, it’s basically A Christmas Carol with a touch of Sullivan’s Travels mixed in and a dab of Brewster’s Millions. It is sweet at times, and feels like Director and Writer Brooks made this as a personal story about the importance of having a roof over your head and a meal every day. I do not think it was executed well, but after so many films where the person of Mel Brooks was hidden behind jokes and gags, I did find it charming to see him so clearly lay out his position on treating everyone, homeless or otherwise, with respect and dignity.

And whether or not his final film worked, I would watch 10 more from him like this just to support him after the high levels of joy he brought me and my family. Many memories of my dad excited to show my Blazing Saddles and bonding moments that came from his story of seeing Young Frankenstein in theaters. This to me is the legacy of Mel Brooks. His films are funny, but I think their legacy will be that he created moments, across generations, where people could laugh together. And for that act of Tikkun Olam I’ll always be grateful.

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