The American Magazine Conference in New York was briefly evacuated yesterday after a noxious smell filled the conference room. Turns out it was just a copy of National Review.
The Ten Basic Smells You Can Smell

Scientists have determined that humans can detect ten basic smells:
The Very Real Odors of New Jersey
Fact: New Jersey smells terrible. So officials from the Middlesex County Landfill have devised a plan to neutralize putrid methane gas odors—spray hundreds of gallons of a citrus-scented air freshener from a truck. Good luck with that!
Decide What Lady Gaga's Perfume Should Smell Like
Lady Gaga is continuing to cash in on her stratospheric rise to pop superstardom: According to "insiders," she's launching her own perfume and it "will have an extremely 'unusual' fragrance." What do you think ol Gags' scent should smell like?
Smelly Stores Cause a Stink
The new Hollister store on Houston and Broadway seems to be pumping its fragrance outside its doors, and neighbors are pissed that it's stinking up the 'hood, the Post reports today. (One dissenter even allegedly set off a stink bomb outside the So-Cal wannabe-surfer palace in protest.) It's only fitting that…
The Stinkiest Day of the Year
Today will go down as one of the hottest of the summer—thus far, at least—so if you can sneak out of your office and head to Central Park, this would probably be a good day to do that. Of course, this also means that the NYC is officially ten times smellier today, as the 93-degree temperatures take a toll on the…