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Welcome to your sensory revolution, thanks to the pandemic

  • Written by Mark M. Smith, Carolina Distinguished Professor of History, University of South Carolina
No smell, no touch: People line up in Prague, Czech Republic, to get tested for the coronavirus. Getty/Gabriel Kuchta

The way we see, hear, taste, touch and smell may never be the same again.

Courtesy of COVID-19, we are undergoing a sensory revolution. All of the senses have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic – not because the senses...

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