Why Is Being Scared So Fun?

    Somewhere right now people are lining up to scare themselves, maybe with a thriller ride or a horror movie. In fact, in October of 2015 alone, about 28 million people visited a hunted house in the U.S. but what could possibly be fun about being scared? An Essential Emotion: Fear has a bad rap but…

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      Habitable Planets Discovered By NASA

      Marilyn Thipthorpe NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope mission just made history, announcing the discovery of 1,284 new exoplanets. This is the most new planets announced at one time, with 9 of them considered to be potentially habitable. A new technique was utilized to make the discoveries, in which scientists were able to determine the possibility that…

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        Obama’s Post-Presidential Pad

        Marilyn Thipthorpe President Barack Obama will lease a home in Washington, D.C.’s Kalorama neighborhood after he leaves the White House next year, CNN has confirmed. The house was built in 1928 and has nine bedrooms and eight-and-a-half bathrooms. It was sold in 2014 for more than $5 million. Obama has said he and his family…

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          Signs: Introverts Who ACT Like Extroverts

          Marilyn Thipthorpe 1. You’re Selectively Social: You definitely don’t mind hanging out with a group of people, even large groups, but you can only take so much of it. You find yourself selectively scheduling when you go to social events because you’d prefer to spread them out whenever possible. 2. You Have A Small Friend…

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            To Overprotective Parents

            Myisha Nawar “Parents are going to ludicrous lengths to take the bumps out of life for their children. However, parental hyperconcern has the net effect of making kids more fragile; that may be why they’re breaking down in record numbers.” -A Nation of Wimps, Psychology Today So yeah, bad news-you are really messing up your…

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              Smartphone’s Bright Light Messes Your Metabolism

              Eshan Maitra Sunshine! Direct sun-beam sends signal to the brain that, it is time to wake up. In the same manner, when you reach out for checking that WhatsApp reply in your bed, in the dark, the direct bright LED light from your smartphone does the about the same thing. Shockingly the recent study proved…

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                Your Soul Purpose

                Nusrat Jahan Every day, you have the same schedule- work, eat, sleep, and repeat. With all our daily hurdles, we often tend to lose ourselves and what is important to us in a pool of stress; we lose our soul purpose. However, if we rediscover ourselves, we will lead a much more triumphant and satisfying,…

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                  Chemically Induced Love Y

                  Samiul Bashar Samin Love hurts”—as the saying goes—and a certain degree of pain and difficulty in intimate relationships is unavoidable. Sometimes it may even be beneficial, since, as it is often argued, some types (and amounts) of suffering can lead to personal growth, self-discovery, and a range of other essential components of a life well…

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