Yes, that number is correct. The longest string of letters used to describe something isn't technically a word—it's the chemical name for a protein, begins withmethionylthreonylthreonylglutaminyl..., and continues for quite a while after that. The name has 189,819 letters, fills more tha...
3.Some people worry about being the target of laughter.These people are frightened.They suffer from an emotional disorder called gelotophobia.That long name comes from the Greek language.The word Gelos means laugh,while phobos means fear. ...
But it seems they are now matched by a new, peculiarly 21st century affliction-the fear of being out of mobile phone contact.Millions apparently suffer from "no mobile phobia" which has been given the name nomophobia. They have become so dependent on their mobile that discovering it is out ...
Eikositriophobia. Eight thousand four hundred and one days ago, I riffed on an article I’d found on Plastic.com, about Gordon Sinclair’s device designed to fling a haggis across Calgary’s Bow River, turning it into a brief knock on the concept of patent trolls; thus, blogging. —...
Some people worry about being the target of laughter.These people are frightened.They suffer from an emotional disorder called gelotophobia.That long name comes from the Greek language.The word Gelos means laugh while phobos means fear. Victor Rubio is an expert on human behavior at the Autonomo...
Some people worry about beingthe target of laughter.These people are frightened.They suffer from an emotional disorder calledgelotophobia.That long name comes from the Greek language.The word Gelos means laugh, while phobos means fear. Victor Rubio is an expert on human behavior at the Autonomous...
Between 3.5 and 6.1 percent of people experience such a phobia (惧症) of spiders. Phobias can stop people from traveling, working and enjoying their lives.Ben-Ezra hopes that their movie research might help people with phobias. But they caution that people with phobias shouldn’t just run ...
Social phobia, current and lifetime 37 (16.9) 3 (1.9) <0.001 Specific phobia, current and lifetime 54 (24.7) 10 (6.5) <0.001 Obsessive compulsive disorder, current and lifetime 23 (10.5) 2 (1.3) <0.001 PTSD, current 78 (35.6) 1 (0.6) <0.001 PTSD, lifetime 123 (56.4) 1 (0.6)...
To dismiss, police, or downplay someone’s sexuality on the basis of their gender presentation has its roots in femmephobia and biphobia. “It says that femmes are unfit to sleep with other queers,” says Maggie McMuffin, “bec...
The term computerphobia was abandoned in favour of a more comprehensive one, technophobia. A perverse circle between internally-generated anxiety about using technology and the reluctance of using it “maintains the technophobe’s belief system as the technophobe never comfortably interacts with technology...