Critic Reviews for A Master Builder. There is muscle and volume in the performances; but had Demme hung back, and kept things cooler and quieter, the mastery of what Ibsen built, and the agon of his extraordinary hero, would have cast a more looming shadow.
Dogs can detect tiny amounts of smell diluted in air, water or far beneath the ground. According to the Marbach Road Animal Hospital, dogs can pick up scents that are diluted to 1 or 2 parts per trillion; This allows them to smell things buried as far as 40 feet underground! In one experiment, a dog was capable of sniffing out whale poop floating in Puget Sound from a mile away, according to Nova.
Dogs have a remarkable ability to discern and remember scents, far superior to that of a human. A dog's sense of smell may be as much as 100 times better than ours, making it the most sensitive and vulnerable part of its body. The human nose has only three-square centimeters of olfactory membrane where some dog breeds, such as Bloodhounds, have as much as 150 square centimeters of scent-sensing material in their noses.