It’s Christmastime at Star Labs. But Kris Kringle has left Dr. Bernard Klein a rather strange gift.
A lump of coal, and a heatable pressure chamber?
As he entered the foyer and began wrestling out of his coat, he breathed deeply, the myriad scents of fir trees and ginger snaps, of hot apple cider and cinnamon stimulating the G-protein coupled receptors on the olfactory receptor neurons in his superior nasal cavity, generating a unique pattern of neuronal depolarization that positively breathed the word ‘Christmas.’

Michael