Autism
Autism, it’s one of those things that many people have to deal with. It is not deadly, so you can live with it. But in some cases, it is hard to handle. According to CDC.gov, every 1 in 68 children have been identified with autism. That includes 2 of my family members—my brother and my cousin....
Thirdhand Smoking
My parents smoke in my house. The whole house smells terrible! The walls, the carpet, even the couch smells like disgusting smoke. Some people’s clothes and hair smell like smoke because their parents smoke. They smell like this because whomever they live with smokes in the house or in the car and they’re exposed to the smoke. When...
Infographic: Violent Video Games Cause Violence?
Infographic: Violence and Video Games This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License Blaise Lanter
Infographic: Where Did All of the Shrimp Go?
Where Did All of the Shrimp Go? This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License Daniel Schmidt
Infographic: More Milk, Less Cows
More Milk, Less Cows Taylor Morgan This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
New Strain of Flu Threatens Humans
A new strain of the flu called the bird flu, known as H5N1, is raising alarm. “More then half of the people who became infected with the bird flu died from the disease,” says the Mayo Clinic. According to The World Health Organization, (WHO), 600 humans have been infected with H5N1 since 2003. WHO states the virus has...
Time Travel
There have been many stories, books, and movies about time travel. In reality, time travel has not yet been achieved. Ronald Mallett is researching several methods for time travel. He wants to build a time travel device and test it in the next 10 years, and “twist” time in order to go into the past. Mallett is a...
Could the Sting of a Chinese Red-Headed Centipede Prevent Pain?
“I take 4 to 7 pills a day because of my back pain and I usually take them in the morning.” Dante’s step-dad has back pain and takes the pills in the morning. Whenever he is in pain, he is usually not happy. Dante’s step-dad’s spinal cord was injured in the army in a car wreck that injured...
Accidental Accents
In December 2010, a woman named Sarah Colwill suffered a migraine and made her accent turn from Plymouthian—an accent of English people that live in Plymouth—to Chinese, according to the British newspaper, The Telegraph. Another case on the National Public Radio (NPR) news streaming website by Jane Greenhalgh reported that an Oregon woman woke up with an...
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
My grandfather had a horrible case of PTSD. He was in a traumatic incident while in Vietnam. His nose was flattened due to an explosion. After his accident, he was extremely quiet. The same story goes for my step-dad. He has PTSD from serving in Iraq. He is somewhat quiet, and he never likes to speak about it....