HOW DOES FEAR WORK?

                                                                                 

Fear is an apparently simple - and yet extremely complex - concept. The most general definition of fear we can use is the emotion that arises in response to a potential threat. But exactly, what are the biological causes of fear? Where does it originate? What are its origins? What is its goal? In today’s article, we will try to answer to these questions.

First of all, in humans fear originates from a part of the brain known as amygdalae, which also manages various different emotions. When it detects something it considers a potential threat, the amygdalae starts sending to the entire brain electrical signals, informing them of the threat and stimulating the production of fear-associated hormones, such as adrenaline and dopamine, in order to make the body ready to flee from the threat.

THE MYTH OF ANFIELD

Anfield is a football stadium built in 1884 in Liverpool. Anfield could be considered a stadium like many others but that isn’t true.

Today  the Reds play football in Anfield Stadium and if we go back in time we can understand that Anfield isn’t only a stadium but also an amazing  legend.

Liverpool F.C, founded in 1892, has always been a great team and it has a great history, of which the stadium is the “main character”.

MY TOP 4 MAKOTO SHINKAI’S NOVELS

Makoto Shinkai (pseudonym of Makoto Niitsu) is a Japanese director, animator and dubber born in  the area of Nagano in 1973. He started very early to make animated films, both short films and feature films. However, the success arrived only in 2016 with his most famous film “Your Name”, considered a best seller of Japanese animation. 

Nevertheless, today I'm not going to talk about his films but about his novels. Actually, he isn’t a writer, or rather Shinkai doesn’t consider himself a writer. What  he wrote is practically the novelizations of his own screenplays, of four of them. Here they are in my top 4 list.  

HAVE WHALES ALWAYS BEEN THAT BIG?

Hello readers! Today,  with the second article of my  series,  I want to answer to this question :

 Have whales always  been that big ?

The blue whale is the biggest animal on Earth , you can swim into their artery and they have such a big network of blood vessels that if you laid them out in a line you could stretch them from the Sun to Pluto and back for two and a half times ,but ... unlike you would think whales haven’t always been that big , if we rewind the clock around fifty million years you wouldn’t  find any whale , you have to go ashore to meet the very first whale: the pakicetus. It wasn’t taller  than a dog, had legs with hooves and a long and thick tail .

PANDEMICS

There’s one thing that is consistently ranked as one of the most likely things to end the world, that would kill millions of people: a pandemic.

A pandemic is a disease that escapes our control, sweeping across the world, killing millions and changing civilization.

FIRES IN AUSTRALIA

During the past few months there have been several fires that brought Australia to its knees. Up until now milions of hectares have been burned, dozens of people have died, thousands of them have evacuated, and there have been more than a billion dead animals and incalculable environmental and ecological damage.

LEICESTER DREAMED BIG!

Hi everyone! This is James.  Welcome back to our blog! How are you? I'm fine, I expected this return to school to be more difficult, but luckily everything is fine, I'm ready for the “second half" of the school year! Last Saturday I was watching the Premier League match Leicester-Southampton, and the winning-title season by Leicester in 2015/16 came back to my mind, probably the best achievement for the small club in recent years. Let's find out more!

10 WEIRD GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS

Guinness World Records is a reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world. Here is a list of the 10 strangest ones. 

WHY DO PEOPLE TAKE DRUGS?

Why do people take drugs? There isn’t a specific answer because it changes from person to person. But there are common reasons why teens are most likely to use drugs and alcohol.

Here’s a list of four main reasons why young people (mostly aged 14-18) take drugs.