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“Historical past” can appear large and imposing. But it surely’s at all times intensely private – it is all of our particular person experiences that add as much as historic occasions. Over the following few episodes, we’re exploring the non-public and the way it’s modified historical past: from the story of romantic love, to the person who tried to remedy ageing, to the contents of our goals…
First up, reminiscence and our sense of odor. What if we informed you that the important thing to time journey has been proper in entrance of our eyes this entire time? Properly, it has: it is in our noses. In the present day on the present, the science — and politics — of odor, and the way it hyperlinks our previous and our current. (Initially ran as The Scent of Historical past).
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Friends:
Rachel Herz, adjunct assistant professor of Psychiatry and Human Habits at Brown College and writer of The Scent of Need: Discovering Our Enigmatic Sense of Odor
Mark Smith, sensory historian on the College of South Carolina and writer of A Sensory Historical past Manifesto
Ernestine Deane, musician and storyteller primarily based in Cape City, South Africa.
