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Dana G Smith

Feb 2, 2021

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Don’t Take Your Nose for Granted

A defense of the most underrated sense

This is a modified excerpt from Inside Your Head 🧠, a weekly newsletter exploring why your brain makes you think, feel, and act the way you do, written by me, Elemental’s senior writer and a former brain scientist. Subscribe here so you won’t miss the next one.

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Dana G Smith

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