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Editor's note
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Your nose is really weird and so is mine. I learned this week from a Conversation article that our sense of smell is a complex mechanism that we still don’t entirely understand. Our olfactory processes can become tangled, for example, causing us to lose our ability to smell. Sometimes, when you get a cold, that ability just never returns. It just goes to show that great mysteries lie up your nostrils. This and other curious facts about your
honker here.
What happens to driving tests when cars can drive themselves? That’s a question I’d never really thought about until this week, when I read this article on the vehicles of the future. It’s not just how individual cars will operate that we need to think about but also all the bits and bobs around the edges, like the test, and the decisions over who gets to drive flying cars. There are some interesting questions to ponder, even for people who
aren’t into the tech side of the topic.
There have been some very important developments in Russia this week, where President Vladimir Putin announced plans to radically change the nation’s constitution. At first glance it sort of looked like he was giving himself less power. But that doesn’t sound likely, does it? And sure enough, when we asked an expert to set it all out in easy-to-understand terms, it quickly became clear that Putin is actually finding canny ways to ensure his
influence continues.
This week we’ve also been following the monkey, rooting for Little Women and exploring an extraordinary new exhibition at the Jewish Museum in London.
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Laura Hood
Politics Editor, Assistant Editor
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Veres Production/Shutterstock
Jane Parker, University of Reading
Smell – the strangest of all the senses.
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Flying along…
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Andrew Morris, Loughborough University
How to get from A to B – in the future.
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Vladimir Putin: let’s make these changes.
Michael Klimentyev/Sputnik/EPA
Richard Sakwa, University of Kent
The seven ways Vladimir Putin wants to change Russia's constitution.
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Little Women, the touching story of the four March sisters, received six Oscar nominations.
Sony Pictures
James Zborowski, University of Hull
In converging two timelines to retell Little Women, Greta Gerwig's writing and direction create emotions in the audience that made her deserving of an Oscar nomination for direction
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Charlotte Solamon’s expansive work told a story over 784 paintings that saw words intermingling with pages of beautifully painted pictures.
Collection Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam/ © Charlotte Salomon Foundation/Charlotte Salomon ®
Emma Parker, University of Leeds
Charlotte Salomon's dizzying work of hope and creativity amid destruction and despair, is a moving early example of the contemporary graphic novel
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Tracie McKinney, University of South Wales; Marie Nicole Pareja Cummings, University of Pennsylvania
Ancient frescoes suggest Europe and south Asia had trade links as long as 3,600 years ago.
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Sangeeta Khorana, Bournemouth University
The Modi boom was built on sand – and now the tide has come in.
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Simon Lee, University of Hull
When you look at what the PM is up against, the Brexit trade negotiations might almost seem like light relief.
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Wayne Wilson, The University of Queensland
When you read in the back seat of the car, your eyes tell your brain you're still. But your ears can sense you're moving. Your eyes and ears are having an argument that your brain is trying to settle.
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Megan Arnot, UCL
We found that women who had sex at least weekly or monthly were less likely to enter into early menopause compared to women who engaged in sexual activity less often.
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