How to Find out if a Girl Likes You

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You really like this girl and yes, her body language hints it, but you’re still not sure if she likes you. Here are some ways/tests to find out if that girl is crushing on you.

Steps

1. If she sits next to you, move a little closer, into her personal space, but not too much. If she doesn’t scoot away, she probably likes you.
2. When she is talking to you, have a friend of yours say hi to her. If she briefly says hi back to him/her then starts talking with you again like she wasn’t even interrupted, there’s a good chance she likes you.
3. Get a group of people (including her, of course) around you and ask them who they like. When you come to her, it’ll seem natural that you’re asking her. If she says “Nobody!” and giggles, she probably likes you.
4. If when you ask her simple questions, she not only answers them, but follows up her answer with a comment to keep the conversation going, she probably likes you.
5. Ask the guy that sits next to you to watch her as you walk up to the front of the classroom. Make sure she notices you. When you sit back down, ask the guy if she did anything such as stare at you or giggle to one of her friends while looking/pointing at you. If any of this happened, she may like you.
6. Ask her where she likes to hang out, as if you eventually wanted to ask her out, and if she gets real excited, she probably likes you.
7. Drop something like your pencil case or binder. If she takes the initiative to help you or doesn’t laugh at it when everyone else is laughing and stands up for you, she probably likes you.

Tips

• A lot of times if you catch her looking at you, she may look away, but it’s not because she likes you. See if she continues to look back at you.
• Body language you should look out for is if she is doing the hair toss, mirroring you, and acting differently than she does around her friends.
• Try these tests repeatedly, maybe once a week.
• Get to know her friends and ask them who she likes. Also, tell them that you like her and they will probably tell her. Then she should ask you out.

Warnings

• Don’t do gross stuff like burping or farting around her. That’s a huge turn -off.
• If these tests don’t work, it doesn’t mean she doesn’t like you.
• If she is way too mean to you, don’t think she doesn’t like you because she actually probably does.

Things You’ll Need

• A girl
• Confidence
• The ability to read this article

Related wikiHows

• How to Ask a Girl Out
• How to Act Around Girls
• How to Overcome Shyness with Girls
• How to Start a Conversation With Your Crush Without It Being Awkward

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Following is a selection from the Top 10, appearing in this Saturday’s issue of the British science magazine:

Elephant on acid

In 1962, American researchers, curious about what might happen to an elephant injected with LSD, fired into a tusker a syringe-full of the drug, about 3,000 times the maximum dose for a human being.

The elephant trumpeted violently, keeled over and died within an hour, despite attempts to revive it with antipsychotic drugs.

“It appears that the elephant is highly sensitive to the effects of LSD,” the researchers sheepishly concluded, in a paper published by the August journal Science.

Reversing death

Seeking to restore life to the deceased, Robert Cornish, a University of California scientist in the 1930s, seesawed corpses’ bodies up and down to circulate the blood while injecting adrenalin and anticoagulants.

Forced off the campus for his controversial experiments, Cornish continued at home, building a lab that included a heart-lung machine built out of a vacuum cleaner and radiator tubing.

Thomas McMonigle, a prisoner on death row, volunteered to be Cornish’s guinea pig, but was turned down by the State of California, which worried that if McMonigle came back to life, he would have to be freed.

Eyes wide open

In 1960, University of Edinburgh sleep researcher Ian Oswald wondered if it was possible to sleep with one’s eyes open. He got volunteers to lie down on a couch, taped their eyes open, placed a bank of flashing lights in front of them, attached electrodes to their legs to deliver painful shocks and blasted loud music into their ears.

Three plucky volunteers signed up for the experiment. Despite all the impediments to sleeping, an electro-encephalogram (EEG) monitor of their brain showed all fell asleep within 12 minutes.

Turkey turn-ons

Pennsylvania State University’s Martin Schein and Edgar Hale discovered that male turkeys, when placed in a room with a lifelike model of a female turkey, mated with the surrogate as eagerly as they would the real thing.

Schein and Hale experimented to see what was the minimum sexual stimulus, gradually removing parts from the model one by one until the male bird finally lost interest.

“Tail, feet and wings—Schein and Hale removed them all, but still the clueless bird waddled up to the model, let out an amorous gobble and tried to do his thing,” said writer Alex Boese for New Scientist.

“Finally, only a head on a stick remained. The male turkey was still keen. In fact, it preferred a head on a stick to a headless
 

Bluetooth is an industrial specification for wireless personal area networks (PANs). Bluetooth provides a way to connect and exchange information between devices such as mobile phones, laptops, personal computers, printers, GPS receivers, digital cameras, and video game consoles over a secure, globally unlicensed short-range radio frequency. The Bluetooth specifications are developed and licensed by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group.

A typical Bluetooth USB dongle, shown here next to a metric ruler

An internal notebook Bluetooth card (14×36×4 mm)

A personal computer must have a Bluetooth adapter in order to be able to communicate with other Bluetooth devices (such as mobile phones, mice and keyboards). While some desktop computers and most recent laptops come with a built-in Bluetooth adapter, others will require an external one in the form of a dongle.

Unlike its predecessor, IrDA, which requires a separate adapter for each device, Bluetooth allows multiple devices to communicate with a computer over a single adapter.

Operating system support

For more details on this topic, see Bluetooth stack.

Apple has supported Bluetooth since Mac OS X v10.2 released in 2002.

For Microsoft platforms, Windows XP Service Pack 2 and later releases have native support for Bluetooth. Previous versions required users to install their Bluetooth adapter’s own drivers, which were not directly supported by Microsoft.Microsoft’s own Bluetooth dongles (packaged with their Bluetooth computer devices) have no external drivers and thus require at least Windows XP Service Pack 2.

Linux provides two Bluetooth stacks, with the BlueZ  stack included with most Linux kernels. It was originally developed by Qualcomm and Affix. BlueZ supports all core Bluetooth protocols and layers. FreeBSD features Bluetooth support since its 5.0 release. NetBSD features Bluetooth support since its 4.0 release. Its Bluetooth stack has been ported to OpenBSD as well.

DNA is the blueprint for the individuality of an organism. The organism relies upon the information stored in its DNA for the management of every biochemical process. The life, growth and unique features of the organism depend on its DNA. The segments of DNA which have been associated with specific features or functions of an organism are called genes.

Molecular biologists have discovered many enzymes which change the structure of DNA in living organisms. Some of these enzymes can cut and join strands of DNA. Using such enzymes, scientists learned to cut specific genes from DNA and to build customized DNA using these genes. They also learned about vectors, strands of DNA such as viruses, which can infect a cell and insert themselves into its DNA.

With this knowledge, scientists started to build vectors which incorporated genes of their choosing and used the new vectors to insert these genes into the DNA of living organisms. Genetic engineers believe they can improve the foods we eat by doing this. For example, tomatoes are sensitive to frost. This shortens their growing season. Fish, on the other hand, survive in very cold water. Scientists identified a particular gene which enables a flounder to resist cold and used the technology of genetic engineering to insert this ‘anti-freeze’ gene into a tomato. This makes it possible to extend the growing season of the tomato.

At first glance, this might look exciting to some people. Deeper consideration reveals serious dangers.

The departure of Michael Schenker led to the breakup of the Scorpions. In 1973, Uli Roth, who had helped the Scorpions complete the Lonesome Crow tour, was offered the role as lead guitarist, but turned the band down, preferring instead to remain in the band Dawn Road. Rudolf eventually decided that he wanted to work with Roth, but did not want to resurrect the last Scorpions lineup. He attended some of Dawn Road’s rehearsals and ultimately decided to join the band, which consisted of Roth, Francis Buchholz (bass), Achim Kirschning (keyboards) and Jurgen Rosenthal (drums). Roth and Buchholz persuaded Rudolf Schenker to invite Klaus Meine to join, which he soon did. While there were more members of Dawn Road than Scorpions in the band, they decided to use the Scorpions name because it was well-known in the German hard rock scene and an album had been released under that name. 

 Rise to popularity (1974-1978)

In 1974 the new line-up of Scorpions released Fly to the Rainbow. The album proved to be more successful than Lonesome Crow and songs such as “Speedy’s Coming” and the title track began to establish the band’s sound. Achim Kirschning decided to leave after the recordings. Soon after, Jürgen Rosenthal had to leave as he was being drafted into the army, joined German progressive rock band called Eloy in 1976 and recorded three albums with them. He was replaced by a Belgian drummer, Rudy Lenners.

In 1975 the band hit their stride with the release of In Trance, which marked the beginning of Scorpions’ long collaboration with German producer Dieter Dierks. The album was a huge step forward for Scorpions and firmly established their hard rock formula, while at the same time garnering a substantial fan base, both at home and abroad. Cuts such as “Dark Lady”, “Robot Man” and the title track are still considered classics by fans today.

In 1976, Scorpions released Virgin Killer. The album’s cover featured a nude prepubescent girl covered by broken glass, was designed by the German branch of RCA Records, their label at the time. The cover brought the band considerable criticism and was ultimately pulled or replaced in several countries. In spite of the controversy – even lead singer Klaus Meine expressed shock – the album garnered significant praise from critics and fans alike. The following year, Rudy Lenners resigned due to health reasons and was replaced by Herman Rarebell.

For the follow-up Taken by Force, RCA Records made a determined effort to promote the album in stores and on the radio. The album’s single, “Steamrock Fever”, was added to some of RCA’s radio promotional records. RCA also supervised the album cover design avoiding any controversy by including introduction-type photographs that included the names of each member under individual photos. Roth was not happy with the commercial direction the band was taking. Although he performed on the band’s Japan tour, he departed to form his own band, Electric Sun prior to the release of the resultant double live album Tokyo Tapes. Tokyo Tapes was released in the US and Europe six months after its Japanese release. By that time in mid 1978, after auditioning around 140 guitarists, Scorpions recruited new guitarist Matthias Jabs.

Commercial success (1979-1990)

Following the addition of Jabs, Scorpions left RCA for Mercury Records to record their next album. Just weeks after being evicted from UFO for his alcohol abuse, Michael Schenker also returned to the group for a short period during the recordings of the album, giving the band three guitarists (though Schenker’s contributions to the final release was limited to only three songs). The result was Lovedrive, an album which some critics consider to be the pinnacle of their career. Containing such fan favorites as “Loving You Sunday Morning”, “Always Somewhere”, “Holiday” and the instrumental “Coast to Coast”, the ‘Scorpions formula’ of hard rock songs mixed in with melodic ballads was firmly cemented. The album’s provocative artwork was named “Best album sleeve of 1979″ by Playboy magazine but was ultimately changed for American release. Lovedrive peaked at #55 on the US charts proving that Scorpions were gathering an international following. After the completion and release of the album, the band decided to retain Michael in the band, thus forcing Matthias Jabs to leave. But after a few weeks of the tour, Michael, still coping with alcoholism, kept missing a few gigs (at one point collapsing on stage) and Matthias Jabs was brought back to fill in for him on those occasions when he couldn’t perform. In April 1979, during their tour in France, Matthias Jabs was brought in permanently to replace Michael Schenker.

The Scorpions’ logo

In 1980, the band released Animal Magnetism, again with a provocative cover showing a girl kneeling in front of a man. Animal Magnetism contained classics such as “The Zoo” and “Make It Real”, it would be a party favorite across the Midwest. Soon after the album’s release, Meine began experiencing throat problems. He required surgery on his vocal cords and there were doubts as to whether he would ever sing again.

While Meine made a full recovery, the band began working on their next album, Blackout in 1981. Don Dokken was brought in to provide guide and backing vocals so that Meine could let his vocal cords completely heal. Meine eventually healed completely and was able to finish the album. Blackout was released in 1982 and quickly became the band’s best selling to date, eventually going platinum. Meine’s voice showed no signs of weakness and critical response to the album was good. Blackout spawned three hit singles: “Dynamite,” “Blackout” and “No One Like You“.

It was not until 1984 and the release of Love at First Sting that the band finally cemented their status as rock superstars. Propelled by the single “Rock You Like a Hurricane“, Love at First Sting went up the charts and went double platinum in the USA a few months after its release. However, Scorpions did manage to stir up controversy once again with their provocative album cover. This time it was a boy kissing a girl and at the same time planting a tattoo on her naked thigh. Some shops refused to sell the album, mimicking a gag from the satire movie This Is Spinal Tap that came out the same year. MTV gave the album’s videos “Rock You Like a Hurricane”, “Bad Boys Running Wild”, “Big City Nights”, and the power ballad “Still Loving You” significant airtime, greatly contributing to the album’s success. The channel even supplied Scorpions with the nickname “The Ambassadors of Rock”.

Poster for the 1986 Monsters of Rock at Castle Donington

The band toured extensively behind Love at First Sting and decided to record and release their second live album, World Wide Live in 1985. Recorded over a year-long world tour and released at the height of their popularity, the album was another success for the band, peaking at #17 on the charts.

After their extensive world tours, the band finally returned to the studio to record Savage Amusement. Released in 1988, four years after their previous studio album, Savage Amusement represented a more polished pop sound similar to the style Def Leppard had found success with. The album sold well, but was considered somewhat of a critical disappointment. British heavy rock magazine Kerrang! did award the album 5 K’s out of 5 though.

On the Savage Amusement tour in 1988, Scorpions became only the second Western group to play in the Soviet Union (the first being Uriah Heep in December 1987), with a performance in Leningrad. The following year the band returned to perform at the Moscow Music Peace Festival. As a result, Scorpions developed a strong Russian fan base and still return regularly to perform throughout the area.

Wishing to distance themselves from the Savage Amusement style, the band separated from their long-time producer and “Sixth Scorpion,” Dieter Dierks, replacing him with Keith Olsen when they returned to the studio in 1990. Crazy World was released that same year and displayed a less polished sound. The album was a hit, propelled in large part by the massive success of the ballad “Wind of Change“. The song muses on the socio-political changes that were occurring in Eastern Europe and in other parts of the world at the end of the Cold War. On July 21, 1990 they joined many other guests for Roger Waters‘ massive performance of The Wall in Berlin. Scorpions performed both versions of “In the Flesh” from The Wall. After the Crazy World tour Francis Buchholz, the band’s long-serving bassist, left the group.

 Later days (1993-present)

In 1993 Scorpions released Face the Heat. Bass playing was handled by Ralph Rieckermann. For the recording process, Scorpions brought in producer Bruce Fairbairn. The album’s sound was more metallic than melodic and divided the band’s fan base somewhat. Many “headbangers” responded positively to the album while many long time fans were put off. Neither the hard-rock single “Alien Nation” nor the ballad “Under The Same Sun” came close to matching the success of “Wind of Change“. Face the Heat was a moderate success.

In 1995, a new live album, Live Bites, was produced. The disc documented live performances from their Savage Amusement Tour in 1988, all the way through the Face the Heat Tour in 1994. While the album had a much cleaner sound in comparison to their best-selling live album, World Wide Live, it was not as successful.

Prior to recording their 13th studio album, 1996′s Pure Instinct, drummer Herman Rarebell left the band to set up a recording label. Curt Cress took charge of the drumsticks for the album before Kentucky-born James Kottak took over permanently. Many feel Pure Instinct is a response to the complaints levied against Face the Heat. The album had many ballads. Still, the album’s singles “Wild Child” and the soothing ballad “You and I” both enjoyed moderate success.

1999 saw the release of Eye II Eye and a significant change in the band’s style, mixing in elements of pop and techno. While the album was slickly produced, fans were unsure what to make of the band, responding negatively to almost everything from pop-soul backup singers to the electronic drums present on several songs. The video to the album’s first European single, “To Be No. 1″, featured a Monica Lewinsky look-alike which did little to improve its popularity.

The following year, Scorpions had a fairly successful collaboration with the Berlin Philharmonic that resulted in a 10-song album named Moment of Glory. The album went a long way towards rebuilding the band’s reputation after the harsh criticism of Eye II Eye. Still, critics accused them of following on the coattails of Metallica‘s similar collaboration (S&M) with the San Francisco Symphony which had been released the previous year. However, the orchestra had first approached Scorpions with the idea back in 1995.

Scorpions in 2007

In 2001, Scorpions released Acoustica, a live unplugged album featuring acoustic reworkings of the band’s biggest hits, plus new tracks. While appreciated by fans, the lack of a new studio album was frustrating to some, and Acoustica did little to return the band to the spotlight.

In 2004, the band released Unbreakable, an album that was hailed by critics as a long awaited return to form. The album was the heaviest the band had released since Face the Heat, and fans responded well to tracks such as “New Generation”, “Love ‘em or Leave ‘em” and “Deep and Dark”. Whether a result of poor promotion by the band’s label or the long time between studio releases, Unbreakable received little airplay and did not chart. Scorpions toured extensively behind the album, and played as special guests with Judas Priest during the 2005 British tour.

In early 2006, Scorpions released the DVD 1 Night in Vienna that included 14 live tracks and a complete rockumentary. In LA, the band spent about 4 months in the studio with producers James Michael and Desmond Child working on their new concept album titled Humanity – Hour I, which was released in the second half of May 2007 . A “Humanity World Tour” has already started. Tour dates are available on the band’s official site the-scorpions.com.

In 2007, the band saw 2 of their signature tracks featured in the popular video game series, “Guitar Hero.” “No One Like You” was featured on the “Rocks the 80′s” version of the game while “Rock You Like A Hurricane” was released on “Guitar Hero 3:Legends of Rock.”

On May 14 2007, Scorpions released Humanity – Hour I in Europe. Humanity – Hour I became available in the U.S. on August 28, 2007 on New Door Records, entering the Billboard charts at number #63.

In a September 2007 podcast interview, Meine said the new album wasn’t so much a “concept album” as it was a collection of songs with a common theme. “We didn’t want to make another record with songs about boys chasing girls. I mean, come on, give me a break,” Meine said.

When asked if the band plans to release a Humanity – Hour II, Meine replied:

Band members

Current members of the Scorpions

• Klaus Meine – lead vocals, backing vocals, rhythm guitar, percussion (1970-1981, 1981-present)
• Matthias Jabs – lead & rhythm guitars, 6 & 12 string acoustic guitars, slide guitar, fatbody jazz guitar, talk box, voice box (1978-1979, 1979-present)
• Rudolf Schenker – rhythm & lead guitars, 6 & 12 string acoustic guitars, sitar, ebo, backing vocals (1965-present) rhythm & lead guitars, lead vocals (1965-1970, 1970-present)
• Paweł Mąciwoda – bass (2003-present)
• James Kottak – drums, percussion, backing vocals (1996-present)