Dispensary Corner 15 Dec 10
December 15, 2010
GOING green this Christmas.
The Helsinki Sea Life Centre in
Finland has come up with a
highly energy efficient way of
powering its Christmas lights this
festive season- its electric eels.
Each of the aquarium’s eels
produces 650 volts of electricity,
more than enough to power the
Christmas tree lights.
“We wanted to conserve energy
so we looked around for ways to
be more green,” said a
spokesperson for the aquarium.
“Then it struck us that we have
a free source of natural electricity
right here in our tanks,” the
spokesperson added.
To harness the energy, the
aquarium had a special conduit
built which sits in the eel
enclosure and captures their
electrical discharge, which it then
feeds into the lights.
“At feeding time it really powers
up,” the spokesperson said.
“You can hear the voltage
increasing and the lights shine
bright and steady,” the
spokesperson added.
MALE lipstick sales just went up!
The pick-up line “you have
beautiful lips”, according to
behavioural psychologist Jo
Hemmings, is the ‘holy grail’ of
pick up lines, because it is “bold
and personal”.
The statement comes on the
back of an online survey of 12
different pick-up lines rated by
200,000 dating site users, which
rated “you have beautiful lips” as
the most successful line.
“A lot of men on dating sites
send a sort of generic message
and women recognise something
that hasn’t been customised for
them,” Hemmings said.
Having studied female behaviour
for her book ‘Love Signals: A
Practical Guide to the Body
Language of Courtship’, Hemmings
said that women also responded
to comments about their lips
because “from adolescence
onwards, they cosmetically adorn
their lips, applying lipstick and
colours... they have been doing
so since ancient Egypt.”
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