Inner Nature: That sense of smell

By Vidja Rajan, Columnist, The Times When preparing a body for embalming, the Ancient Egyptians carefully entombed organs considered necessary for the afterlife with the body. The brain was considered dispensable and was pulled out of the skull with a hooked rod inserted through the nose (http://legacy.mos.org/quest/mummy.php). In this, the ancient Egyptians discovered something significant: it’s...

The quest for the perfect self-tanner

Not that I’m asking for much, mind you, except everything By Kelly Hockenberry, Columnist, The Times Being a natural redhead, I know a thing or two about self-tanner.  I know, for example, that I need it before even thinking about putting on shorts or a bathing suit. As such, I have become something of a connoisseur due to the never ending quest to find the perfect one. It can’t make me...