Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born under his mother's table at the fish market, onto a pile of muddy fish guts, establishing from the beginning his repulsion for putrid scents. A childhood of neglect and, later, a job at a tannery, encourage Jean-Baptiste to develop his olfactory sense rather than his verbal skills. When an opportunity to prove his worth to Parisian perfumist, Giuseppe Baldini, it results in his immediate hire into a promising new career....

Jiminy Cricket is your guide to exploring how each of the five senses work, and how to protect them.

Learn the five senses: sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. Learn the different things that each can do.

A chef and a scientist fall in love as an epidemic hits that causes people to lose their sensory perceptions.

"[This] three-part series provides a fascinating window into the inner workings of the brain as never before. Through interactive experiments and tricks, [the programs] reveal how our brains create the illusion of a seamless reality. As these revealing experiments provide a unique view into our brains, the world's leading experts explain how and why these tests work." -- Container. Bonus program: How to build a beating heart: "Scientists are using...

Colors have scent. Sounds possess images. In a future world, where biochemical weapons have changed the game, an unlucky few have their senses blended.

Uses interactive experiments, tricks, and people with extraordinary brains to reveal discoveries about attention, sensory perception, and memory.

From a castle in England to the New Jersey shore, host Jason Silva and renowned guest experts engage volunteers in experiments, games and exercises that reveal fascinating truths about the workings of the human brain. This season explores topics like the brain's amazing, if sometimes inconvenient, selective memory function, and whether or not people are literally born to be bad.