By Teacher Alonzo Ruiz Who is Mon Laferte? Norma Monserrat Bustamante Laferte is a Chilean singer, songwriter and actress, known professionally as Mon Laferte. Laferte was born on May 2 1983 in Villa Del Mar Chile. She started her career of singer at the age of 9. Laferte began playing in smalls bars of her…
Más informaciónWhile all phobias are irrational fears, some are stranger than fiction. Most of us are afraid of dying, but people with Apeirophobia are cut from a different cloth. They are afraid of living forever. When Bobby Azarian was four years old, his grandfather died from cancer. Bobby was told the old man had gone to a happy place where he would enjoy eternal life with his loved ones. The concept of immortality scared the living daylights out of Bobby. He felt the idea of living forever was worse than dying. His brain struggled with the idea of infinity. It sent chills up his spine. Andrew Bullock has a crippling fear of chocolate. If he touches chocolate, he feels dirty. If he sees someone eating it, he goes into a blind panic. The fear of chocolate is called xocolatophobia. Andrew traces his phobia back to his mother. She is also terrified of chocolate. Andrew is aware that his phobia is irrational, but he can’t shake it. He said: “If I see someone else eating it, I start to feel worried about the chocolate getting on me…When I go out for dinner and someone has a big chocolate thing for dessert it freaks me out and I feel stressed.” There may be hope for people like Andrew. In the UK they are trailblazing a project to cure phobias with VR headsets. Patients are exposed, via VR, to situations they’d usually cross the road to avoid. By confronting their fears in a controlled setting, it is hoped patients will conquer their demons. Although no one wants to live in fear, not all phobias are bad. A germaphobe is a person with an overwhelming fear of germs. They also have an extreme obsession with cleanliness. Germaphobes shun social customs such as shaking hands or fist-bumping. This was once considered rude or weird. Yet, the Coronavirus pandemic has made us all germaphobes. Not shaking hands can now potentially save your life. Phobias may be a drag, but they can also help change the world. While Apple products have always been praised for simplicity, phobias also played a part in the design of their most successful product. Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple, suffered from koumpounophobia – the fear of buttons. He viewed buttons as dirty and was loath to touch them. While it is a rare phobia, Steve Jobs is not the only one. One in 75,000 people suffers from koumpounophobia. To the delight of Jobs and his fellow button haters, in 2000, Apple released a mouse with no buttons. And in 2007, Jobs shocked the tech world with the iPhone.
Más informaciónBy Teacher Alonzo Los Angeles Marathon or The LA Marathon is an annual running event which takes place each spring in los Angeles California, it is made up of 26 miles (41 km).Over the course of its 33-year history, the LA Marathon has become one of the largest marathons in the country with more than…
Más informaciónI AM Is the shortest completed sentence un the english language. WHAT IS A PANGRAM? A Pangram is a sentence that contains every letter in the language (the quick brown dogs jumps over the lazy dog). “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”, IS NOT THE LONGEST WORD IN ENGLISH “Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis“, is the longest word in the english language. It is…
Más informaciónSupermarkets are using new technology to make shopping for grocery items fast and easy for shoppers. In many U.S. supermarkets there are self-service “checkout lines”. In these lines, there are no cashiers, and customers scan the grocery items they want to buy. To scan something, the customer moves it over a glass scraeen on the…
Más informaciónLuis Miramontes Chemist, Luis Miramontes co-invented the contraceptive pill. In 1951, Miramontes, then a college student, was under the direction of Syntex Corp Ceo George Rosenkranz and researcher Carl Djerassi. Miramontes wrote a new procedure for the synthesis of the progestin norethindrone, the active ingredient for what would become the oral birth control pill. Carl Djerassi,…
Más informaciónAmérica del Norte tiene actualmente una mezcla impresionante de culturas y lenguas provenientes de una gran parte del mundo. El surgimiento de los lenguajes que tienen una gran influencia y se mantienen como los primeros más hablados en ese territorio, datan de hace más de 500 años. Tres de los cuatro idiomas más hablados en…
Más informaciónTo bug someone To bug someone means to bother a person. Example: My little sister is always bugging me about everything. Cash Cow Cash cow means a bussiness that makes a lot of profit. Example: Tony’s new business is a real cash cow. Bird Brain Bird brain is used to describe a person that is…
Más informaciónThe middle of winter has long been a time of celebration around the world. Centuries before the arrival of the man called Jesus, early Europeans celebrated light and birth in the darkest days of winter. Many peoples rejoiced during the winter solstice, when the worst of the winter was behind them and they could look…
Más informaciónDecember 23rd is Noche de los Rabanos in Oaxaca City (Night of the Radishes), a Christmastime festival that has no match in oddity and creativity anywhere else in Mexico. Wild animals, the Virgin of Guadalupe, mythical creatures and scenes of everyday Oaxacan life are all represented in shades of magenta and cream in the form…
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