Episode 821
Smelling history: from AI to chemistry
A new project to characterise the whiffs of history
Naked Scientists, In Short Special Editions Podcast · The Naked Scientists
November 26, 20205m 27s
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Show Notes
Tired of just seeing and reading about history? Soon you'll be able to experience its smells as well! This is thanks to an ambitious project called ODEUROPA, which has just received a big EU grant that brings together researchers from a range of disciplines including historians, computer scientists and chemists to reconstruct the pongs of the past. Marieke van Erp is one of them; she's from the Dutch Digital Humanities Lab, and spoke to Eva Higginbotham... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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