if you have a longer ring finger, it means you got more testosterone as a fetus and are more likely to be hyperactive, aggressive and disgusted by anything featuring Hugh Grant. A longer index finger, on the other hand, means more estrogen, making you more neurotic and sensitive. … Studies found that it was when the two fingers were nearly the same length that the subjects were more likely to be gay (men and women both).

Wikipedia adds:

in males, the second digit(index finger) tends to be shorter than the fourth (ring finger), and in females the second tends to be the same size or slightly longer than the fourth.

This article adds:

Scientists … have since found links, for example, between long index fingers in women and a likelihood of being highly fertile, unassertive, neurotic and unlikely to take risks.
men with particularly long ring fingers are more likely than average to be fertile, athletic and aggressive and to have poor verbal skills.
“The other very strong relationship to digit ratio is found in running speeds — there is a pretty good chance of predicting who is going to win a race.”

According to this article, femme lesbians are exposed to less androgens than butch lesbians – or rather it’s logical to infer that  because of differences in the ratio of their finger lengths.

So….look at your index finger and your ring finger and finger. What do your finger lengths say about how masculine or feminine you are? Does it match up with your personality?

Wikipedia says it’s present at about 5ppm in salmon, which is 5 mg/kg so you’d have to eat over a pound of salmon per day to get what some people recommend (4mg per day).  But that’s for farmed salmon. In wild sockeye salmon, it can be 10 times as much as that, so you can get astaxanthin pretty easily.

It’s kind of surprising that Odwalla hasn’t added this to their drinks yet. All they have to do is add this one type of microalgae, Haematococcus, to their drinks, just like they add spirulina to their green superfood drink and voila – a new or improved product.

Also we don’t know a lot about the stereochemistry of astaxanthin. Most of the studies have only been done on one enantiomer, while natural astaxanthin comes in 3 main enantiomers.

Lines like this are delivered with a straight face:

“The lord can not enter a body sullied by alcohol” -Georgina
“Good because I like to be the one doing the entering”-Chuck Bass

“Why is it when you say ritual I think human sacrifice?” -Chuck Bass

Gossip Girl can even use biblical quotes to justify bad behavior. When Georgina, a bible lover, is about to do something horrible, she says “They shall know I am the lord when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.”

The inspiration for this post occurred when I tried to write my friend who runs a great blog called  Luvvbugg that captures clever quotes and snippets on dating. I sent him quotes from Gossip Girl for his blog, but then realized it wasn’t the best fit for a blog about reality.

That was helpful.

This is not meant to be just an articles blog. This blog is about self-expression more than anything else. Articles are just part of it.

So this is meant to be a public thank you for that comment – since I’m still figuring out which direction I want to take this blog in.

I know that I want to blog. I’m figuring out how I want to blog.