Arctic sea ice has drastically grown since the past year, by as much as 60% and almost 1 million square miles, according to a recent report by the Daily Mail. The Australian also reports that there is no large-scale melting of ice over most of Antarctica; rather, the ice is actually growing.
How horrible would it be to have a friend that you thought you knew but you actually didn’t? In reality, they were upset with themselves and would even go as far as taking their own life. In recent years, the amount of suicides among American teenagers has spiked, especially within certain social groups.
After surviving an exhilarating presidential election and the catastrophic Mayan apocalypse, the only recent controversy brought to mind is the Obama Care Act – What is it, and why is it so important? – but many Americans still know very little, if anything at all, about the goals, benefits, and effects of this health care…
For years, state governments have had trouble keeping guns away from the mentally ill. According to The National Conference of State Legislatures, approximately 45 states in the U.S. prohibit anyone that has been diagnosed with a mental illness to possess a firearm.
When school starts students dread the return of homework, but when physical education teachers start taking down heights and weights we all know what’s around the corner: fitness reports.
With the cost of postsecondary education – public and private alike – skyrocketing annually, outstanding low-income students are often discouraged from applying to their dream schools simply because they don’t believe they will be able to afford them. Some of these elite schools, along with College Board, are working to fix that.
It has been over a month since the rollout of the Affordable Care Act and the opening up of markets on healthcare.gov, and the administration is faced with a list of issues and glitches. With the end of November as the target date for when all the bugs should be fixed, the Obama administration announced…
“We are brought here today to learn the truth about the Holocaust,” said Neil Eichelbaum – Miami Lakes Educational Center’s retired American History teacher – on stage at the MLEC auditorium, in front of 300 students on November 5th, 2013.
When it comes to using the internet, many people feel like they are invincible behind their computer screen. They are much more willing to post negative comments when they are not being held accountable. YouTube is trying to fix that.
In what is the first surgery of its kind, Guo Zhihui, a Chinese surgeon, says that he has constructed a nose out of a 22 year-old man’s rib cartilage and implanted it under the skin of the man’s own forehead for later transplant.