Karen is the 11th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, which began June 1 and ends Nov. 30. The system would be the second to hit the U.S. this year. Tropical Storm Andrea made landfall in northwestern Florida in June and then moved up the East Coast.
February 3, 2009February 2, 2009 Neil Pasricha. Fresh cut grass smells like twilight in the countryside, a football game about to start at the park, or a sunny Saturday morning in the suburbs.
We like the smell because we have come to associate it with summer and weekends. You are smelling a mixture of oxygenated hydrocarbons that include methanol, ethanol, acetaldehyde and acetone, called green leaf volatiles (GLV). We like the smell because we have come to associate it with summer and weekends. The smell isnât just an accidental by-product of the cut leaves, however. There is some evidence that plants deliberately emit volatile compounds in response to damage. Wild tobacco plants, for example, emit a certain GLV only when they are being grazed by caterpillars.