10 Phobias You’ve Never Heard Of!

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:56:48 -0500

Top Ten Phobias You’ve Never heard Of!
By LeRana Carle

How many of you have heard of Arachnophobia? The fear of spiders.
Pretty much everyone has.So i decided to write about the top 10
phobias that are unfamiliar to most people in the United States. These
are some of the least commonly known phobias, some that you may think
are not real. The phobias listed may not make any sense so there is a
description of the phobia beside it.

    1. Kainophobia: The fear of newness, novelty, change, innovations
and unfamiliar things.

   2. Barophobia: The fear of gravity. Heredity and tragic events can
cause this phobia.

   3. Bibliophobia: The fear of books. A very uncommon fear.

   4. Ergophobia: The fear of working. Mostly the fear of their work
not being up to their expectations.

   5. Gynophobia: The fear of women. Many believe this is a drive to
homosexuality.

   6. Stygiophobia: The fear of hell or going to hell.

   7. Peladophobia: The fear of bald people.

   8. Keanuphobia: the fear of Keanu Reeves. I truely thought this
was a fake phobia, but apparently it is not.

   9. Geniophobia: the fear of chins.

   10. Papaphobia: the fear of popes. children are mostly the ones
who have this fear when first encountering religion and the catholic
church.

These are the top 10 unfamiliar phobias. If you do not believe that
they exist then i encourage you to research them and look them up so
you can learn more about them than just what they are.

“Mission To Mars”

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:04:47 -0500

Mission To Mars
By Tim Onufriev

A 520 day fake mission to mars has just "returned" in Moscow. This test, to see how human astronauts will be able to survive the amount of time it takes to get to mars and back, kept them away from civilization for quite some time. Russia's idea behind this Mars-500 experiment was to see how people will socialize while being stuck in tight quarters for a long time. Furthermore, Russia has hopes on actually flying to mars in about 25 years. Everything was smooth sail until disputes among scientific work and arguments over who does what came up. Astronauts on board the ship had to complete fake tests and over the days many got lazy and work wasn’t as productive. The absence of women psychologically and sexually angered some of the scientists. Giving up, would not get you the 100,000 US dollar promised at the start. Numerous physical fights and disputes arose. Luckily, by the end of the 520 day “journey” all the astronauts were physically healthy and fit.

Of course when a person is stuck in a small isolated area for over a year they will probably go insane. Being around the same people for such a long time will strengthen relations, but inevitably there will be fighting. Also, these scientists are deprived of society, the outdoors, intimacy, their families, and much more. A 100,000$ US dollars isn't a small sum, but is it worth it? Many psychologists state that such alienation from the outside world would cause clear psychological issues after the scientists are released. Most scientists did this for money, and no one really enjoyed being in a capsule with others for 520 days, especially since it wasn't the real deal. On a real trip however, I am sure a few motivated people would take such a tedious journey with others for the fame and for pure fascination.

Deadly Makeup

Mon, 7 Nov 2011 10:03:10 -0500

Deadly Makeup
By Lerana Carle
All across the world, women use makeup on a daily basis. it becomes a daily routine that many women see as a way to make themselves look prettier. The interesting fact is that all of the make contains more than a hand full of chemicals that are absorbed through the skin and can cause skin problems along with advanced aging. Yes, some products are okay on their own, but if you add in other products, there is no telling what would happen if the wrong chemicals mixed together on your face. The fact of the matter is that you should what chemicals in your makeup can be potentially harmful to you.
 Some harmful chemicals in makeup can include Talc (talcum powder). Talc is a chemical that can cause acute or chronic lung cancer and contributes to ovarian cancer as well. sodium fluoride can be found in makeup and can cause teeth mottling, bone problems, and can irritate skin tissues. DEA/ TEA (Triethanolamine) caused kidney and liver cancer in studies. These are just a few of the many chemicals in makeup.
A safe alternative you can use is to either not use makeup at all. a drastic measure foor some women or you can use organic makeup. though organic makeup is much better for your skin do to the organic ingredients like jojoba oil with can be used as a moisturizer because the oil is theorized to be very similar to the oil in our skin. any form of aloe vera (oil, juice, and fullet) which is a natural remedy for sunburns and skin irritation. All this sounds good, but at what cost? It is more expensive to buy organic makeup than to buy chemical makeup. so what do you do? Spend obscene amounts of money on organic makeup or take the risks with chemical makeup?

Oldest Mine Discovered

Mon, 23 May 2011 10:23:38 -0400

Recently archeologists have found the oldest evidence of organized mining located in the Americas when they discovered a 12,000 year old iron-oxide mine to be found along the coast of Northern Chile. The mine is about 130 feet long and 20 feet wide. It was found by a group of researchers from Universidad de Chile, lead by a man named Diego Salazar. The iron-oxide was used as a pigment for symbolic purposes that were most likely used to paint stone and bone instruments and used in clothing and body paint. This mine was created by a hunter-gatherer fished group, also known as the Huentelauquen people. The uses of the pigment are widely understood but it is poorly known of how they processed the pigments.
The new find helps reveal the techniques and technologies that were used to mine. There was also a recovery of 500 hammerstones that date all the way back to the time when the mine was first being used. According to radio carbon and certain shells found in the mine, about 12,000 years ago to 10,500 years ago, 25,000 cubic feet and 2,000 tons of rock were dug out of the mine. The researchers have figured that over the generations, improved techniques have been used for digging in the mine. Before this mine was discovered, a copper mine from 4,500 and 2,600 years ago was the oldest mine found in the Americas

The Hidden Ocean on Saturn’s Moon

Fri, 20 May 2011 07:41:56 -0400

The Hidden Ocean on Saturn’s Moon
By Kristen Collette
According to the new information NASA spacecraft has collected, it has been determined that it is possible for an ocean to be located beneath the surface of Titian, Saturn’s moon. The observations have been made by NASA's Cassini probe, which has been looking at Saturn since 2004. The new study is not the first to say that Titian has an ocean, but the study provides more reasons of why it is likely to have one.
Saturn has over 60 moons and Titan is the largest. It also has the greatest chance of hosting life beyond Earth. The surface temperature is around negative 290 degrees. Around the moon, different types of organic molecules circle around and it also contains methane rain that pools into hydrocarbon lakes.
Researchers had studied the rotations and the way Titan tilts to make more observations. They calculated the inertia and its orbit. With the measurements they had come up with had made it seem like it wouldn’t make sense if Titian had a solid body, but the measurements would seem possible if the moon had an underground ocean. The measurements were a great way to start a way to prove that there is an underground ocean and other researchers have found the same thing. The researchers will report their results in a new issue of the Astronomy & Astrophysics journal, and hope that it will help scientists figure out if there really is an underground ocean or not.

New Fossils Discovered

Tue, 3 May 2011 13:07:32 -0400

New Fossils Discovered
By Kristen Collette
A couple of weeks ago, it was announced that a new fossil had been discovered at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico. Ghost Ranch is a famous fossil site due to the thousands of fossilized skeletons found there. Hans-Dieter Sues of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History had said that he has never seen the characteristics of the fossil dinosaur that had looked like a Triassic era dinosaur. The fossil had slanting front teeth and a short snout. The dinosaur has been named Daemonosaurus Chauliodus. The designs on the neck and skull had indicated that the dinosaur had been one of the predatory dinosaurs from South America. The head and neck were the only parts of the dinosaur that were found, so they were unable to determine the exact size, but it is estimated to be around the size of a tall dog.
This discovery has filled the evolutionary gap between the dinosaurs that lived about 230 million years ago in what is now Argentina and Brazil. The dinosaur fits in good with the other dinosaurs that were around during that time even though most of the dinosaurs had longer snouts. The discovery of this dinosaur has made scientists excited to find more fossils of the dinosaur and see what else is left to discover.