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Why You Sometimes `Fall´ When You Fall Asleep

The feeling that you literally `fall` asleep just when you start drifting away at the beginning of your sleep, the feeling that you make a misstep while you are laying in bed, this is called sleep twitch or hypnagogic jerk. You might not know this name, but most people do know the feeling! So what is it, and what is the cause of this, sometimes annoying, phenomenon?

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Your Idea About Science May Be Completely Wrong

Your idea about science may be completely wrong. If you think that science is about hard facts, irrefutable theories, and strong statements without room for doubt, this article will explain the scientific method and show you that you might have to readjust your ideas.

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A Series About Time: Reality or an Illusion? Part III: Philosophical Point of View

In philosophy, time was questioned throughout the centuries; what time is and if it is real or not. There are different theories about time and the universe. St. Augustine of Hippo asks himself, `What then is time? If no one asks me, I know: if I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.´ He begins to define time by what it is not rather than what it is. Augustine ends up calling time a `distention´ of the mind by which we simultaneously grasp the past in memory, the present by attention, and the future by expectation.

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A Series About Time: Reality or an Illusion? Part I: History and Culture

Time maybe not what you think it is. It is called the fourth dimension, but we cannot move in this dimension as we do in the other three. How we view time seems straightforward, minutes make hours, hours make days, days make weeks, weeks make months, and months make years, and so on. But there is only one direction, from present to future. Philosophers and physicists are trying to solve the riddles about time, and I will share some thoughts about time with you.

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