I need a topic for my science and popular culture term paper!?

Does anyone have a lot of knowledge when it comes to science in pop culture? I took this class to fulfil a requirement and am regretting it big time! I have a 15 page paper due with the guidelines.. students will use primary and secondary sources to explore a major issue related to science and popular culture. Your paper should be grounded in a deep reading of both primary and secondary sources and should directly reflect in-class discussions. HELP!?I need a topic for my science and popular culture term paper!?
1.) PLAY – What’s It Good For?

Several studies over the past decade have looked at the effects of play deprivation and found that an absence of play in supportive, positive contexts can create violent, antisocial, mentally impaired and emotionally sterile adults. In one study, about 95% of the convicted murderers who were examined reported either the absence of play as children or illogical, brutal, abnormal play such as bullying, sadism and extreme teasing. In the same study, around 75% of drunk drivers who were examined reported play abnormalities. The play that builds children’s physical, social, cognitive and affective development does not happen in front of a video game after school or when a child is alone in her bedroom watching TV and instant messaging a friend. “Good play is play that involves physical activity,” says Dr. Frost, “creativity, spontaneity, exploration and social interaction. It engages the body in fine and gross motor development and the mind in negotiations, autonomous thinking, problem solving, imagination and flexibility."



2.) The Effects of Social Isolation: Feeling "left out in the cold," literally

A new study indicates that social isolation makes individuals feel physically cold and in need of hot foods and drinks. According to a study published in Psychological Science, getting the cold shoulder is more than just a metaphor. Feeling cold is part of the social rejection experience. The study found that individuals feel a considerable drop in room temperature when socially excluded; they literally experience being left out in the cold. Findings show that the choice of hot soup and coffee over warm or room-temperature foods and beverages in such conditions may be a coping mechanism for loneliness and social isolation. Loneliness not only induces anxiety and depression but also activates brain areas linked to the experience of physical pain. Psychologists concluded that the psychological world can bias an individual's sensation of the physical world, suggesting that emotional feelings are tied to physical sensations.



3.) The BP Oil Spill in Gulf of Mexico:

Environmental Impact -- Due to the difference in location, the depth of the oil spill, and the ecological systems in the area, it's difficult for scientists to determine exactly how the environment will be affected. The spill in the Gulf of Mexico occurred at a depth of 5,000 feet, thus affecting the water from seafloor to surface. Sadly the affects of the spill could last for decades. Dispersants are being used to help break up the oil on the surface of the water; however the oil will gather together to make globules that will sink to the sea floor, potentially causing problems that could last for decades. The globules that are formed eventually make their way to the ocean floor where they might remain for decades, thus affecting bottom feeding animals indefinitely. The globules cause algae to die, which rids the area of the oxygen. The fish flee the area, but bottom feeders, like crabs and other shellfish, are too slow to get away, and end up perishing as a result.



4.) Building and Dropping the Atomic Bomb:

In the history of technology, no decision has been comparable in consequences to the United States’ choice to build and eventually drop the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As some historians have noted, there was only one decision involved in the eventual use of the weapon, because the decision to build the bomb was, in essence, the decision to drop it. A new technology is hardly ever shelved before use, even though there was speculation that exploding the A-Bomb might set off a chain reaction that would burn up the atmosphere of the entire world. Nevertheless, there were 2 key decision makers in this story: Pres. Roosevelt, who had to be convinced by several of the world’s most prestigious nuclear physicists, including Albert Einstein, to undertake a nuclear development project through the Manhattan Project, and his successor, Harry Truman, who knew nothing of its terrrible existence until he took office, just a few months before he deployed it.



5.) -PHOBIAS: These fears come in all different, and sometime strange, forms. Cross-cultural psychologists point out that phobias are influenced by cultural factors. Agoraphobia, for example, is much more common in the United States and Europe than in other areas of the world. A social phobia common in Japan but almost nonexistent in the West is "taijin kyofusho", an incapacitating fear of offending or harming others through one's own awkward social behavior or imagined physical defect. Here are some of the phobias on the list of top 10 strangest phobias: Anablephobia(fear of looking up), Consecotaleophobia(fear of chopsticks), Geniophobia(fear of chins), Cacophobia(fear of ugliness), Phronemophobia(fear of thinking)