FMHS APES Third Spring 2019

Carter Henry It’s no secret that humans are a little bit irresponsible when it comes to disposing trash. So it’s no wonder that we have been getting increasingly more creative on how we deal with waste. You can find trash on streets, in houses, landfills and oceans. But I bet you never expected that you can find it in space too. So lets first take a good look at when this all started. I’m going to take you back to the year 1970, at the height of the Cold War and the space race. At this time Russia and the United States are both doing everything they can to get into space and get on the moon. What we do know, is that we did succeed in doing it. What you weren’t told is how many times we shot a satellite into space and got it stuck there. Here’s a rough sketch to give you an idea of how bad it is: Space trash isn’t bags of trash floating around space. There’s no banana peals and diapers in orbit right now. Instead, there’s literally thousands of broken satellites, pieces of rocke...

Afreen Fatima A growing concern in today’s society is the pollution of noise. It crept upon us ever so silently while being loud. Noise-- some may take it as a joke. A pollution of noise? Many may have not even pondered about this, and they might say its absolute nonsense. How is something so ingrained as a part of just our lives causing problems? Noise pollution can happen by a number of different sources, for example, cars, motorcycles, planes, construction, ships, lawn mowers, and leaf blowers. The list is really endless. Generally activities between 60-80 dBA are considered safe if done for less than 12 hours. In regards to human health, exposure to excess noises has been linked to heart disease, type two diabetes, stroke, and high blood pressure. How does this happen? Loud noises may trigger the sympathetic nervous system and cause a release of stress hormones. The frequent release of these hormones may lead to the development of these problems. Children exposed t...