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Music From KQED. From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Mina Kim.

Coming up on forum, you can't actually revisit your elementary school years, but your nose can take you there, says Jude Stewart, with a mere whiff of dry chalk, wet wool, or the stale waft of cafeteria lunch.

We'll talk to Stewart about why smells are able to transport us, the power of our olfactory sense to shape our perceptions of the people and world

around us. And we want to hear what smells grab you, for better or for worse. Join us. This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim. Did you know that joy has a smell? As does frustration and sadness, that there's a name for the momentary smell

after rain, or that you can even trademark a smell. These are some of the fascinating things I

learned from reading Jude Stewart's new book, Revelations in Air, all about the complex world of

smell. It's a sense that Stewart says is having a cultural moment, helped

along perhaps by the fact that a virus has ravaged our world that can temporarily cause us

to lose our sense of smell completely. Jude Stewart, welcome to forum.

Howe, thanks for having me, Mina. Glad to have you on. And I really love that part of the reason you said you wanted to explore

smell and write this book was that you were feeling jaded by visuals. So what about the visual

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