"neologism" doesn't mean "fake word". It means "new word" and it comes from the Greek "neo", "new" and "logos", which means "word". A quick wikipedia search would have told the article writer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neologism

If one write about this stuff one should first know what one writes about. (Not criticising the neatorama post, but the linked article)

This is most likely the "Moon Illusion". See: http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/moonbig.html

It isn't actually bigger at all.

Bah, the penny arcade version was mentioned, but nobody even bothered to link....

http://dailyramblings.com/images/shortcake.jpg