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What did the past smell like?

15 mins | Dec 20, 2020
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Get a whiff of a new sensory experience in history. Ann-Sophie Barwich, a cognitive scientist and empirical philosopher, and the author of "Smellosophy: What the Nose Tells the Mind" gives us a class on the past of scent, and looks at the reasons why researchers, machine learning, perfumers and chemists could see a museum of scents coming to us sometime soon.

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