Everyday Experiments

I was in the middle of compiling my personal Jane Austen movie collection when I came across this message from a site I frequent for my movie fixes:

I finally made it to the Helium Homepage! And my article got top spot at that!

I'm so happy and thrilled and ecstatic that I just might forget my previous and present hang-ups about the site (namely, the inability to log in occasionally, and also the... oh, heck, I'll just drop my nitpicking). I've been part of Helium for 3 months and have written only 9 articles so far....and I was absolutely thrown off my seat when I got the email from Helium congratulating me for making it to the homepage. I'm so happy and proud I'm literally bouncing off my rickety office chair and doing cartwheels in my head. Yey for me.

Now only if being featured meant receiving some sort of prize or compensation... oh well, guess I'll have to do with my 15 minutes of fame and short-lived bragging rights for now. Yipee!

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Has the husky voice of a man ever turned you on so bad it can elicit uncontrollable shivers through your spine?


Well, it turns out that there's probably an evolutionary reason why women find men with very masculine voices especially irresistible. A study just published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society has found a correlation between perceived masculinity in a male's voice to actual macho-ness in terms of physical strength. In the study, male and female subjects were asked to listen to speakers from four distinct language groups and asked to evaluate their upper-body strength based on their voice alone. Results showed that male speakers perceived as physically strong actually fared better than their counterparts in tests of hand grip, chest strength, shoulder strength, and bicep circumference. This, the subjects gleaned just from hearing the males say “When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act like a prism and form a rainbow.”

Guilty as charged :-p