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b'\\u201cSmell is a startling superpower,\\u201d writes Brooke Jarvis, the author of today\\u2019s Sunday Read. \\u201cIf you weren\\u2019t used to it, it would seem like witchcraft.\\u201d\\n\\nFor hundreds of years, smell has been disregarded. Most adults in a 2019 survey ranked it as the least important sense; and in a 2011 survey of young people, the majority said that their sense of smell was less valuable to them than their technological devices.\\n\\nThe coronavirus has precipitated a global reckoning with the sense. Smell, as many have found in the last year, is no big deal until it\\u2019s missing.'