Suicide among adolescents has become one of the biggest growing problems in the world. In fact, suicide is the second leading cause of death for people ages ten to twenty-four, and it has been reported that more young adults die from suicide than cancer, heart disease, AIDS, stroke, pneumonia, birth defects, chronic lung disease, and influenza combined. As teen depression
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A brand new addition to Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom in Bay Lake, Florida will be opening to the public this Saturday, and it might literally knock your socks off. On May 27, 2017, a 12- acre themed area based on the moon called Pandora from the movie Avatar, which is on its way to becoming a film series in the
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It is officially May, and this year’s Stanley Cup playoffs have been going on for almost three weeks now with fast, action-packed games every single night. The second round began last Monday after an exciting first round that had no shortage of exciting and nail-biting moments, as well as a few surprises. For instance, no one could have foreseen the
Read moreEverybody suffers from occasional back pain and ankle sprains every now and then; these are just facts of life. Although most people would assume that these things are due to poor posture and clumsiness, scientists now recognize that our path of human evolution is mostly responsible for all types of physical issues that affect everyone on Earth. Some of these
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Studies conducted by the Centers for Disease Control for Prevention, or CDC, say that teenagers in America are not getting enough sleep due to the fact that most middle and high schools are starting classes way too early in the morning. According to the CDC, less than twenty percent of schools start classes at the recommended start time of 8:30
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A recent study led by Josh McDermott, a cognitive scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, suggests that the type of music a person likes to listen to is mostly influenced by the society around them and the type of music they grew up hearing. Scientists have long been wondering if a person is born with their
Read moreRecent studies done by German psychologist Reinhard Pekrun and his colleagues show that there is a connection between how students feel about math and how well they perform in math class. Pekrun and his team of researchers followed over three-thousand German students from fifth through ninth grades and surveyed each student at the end of the year to see how
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