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THE WORLD WE LIVE IN CLICK TO VIEW SAMPLE PAGES The World We Live In When I was a child, my mother made the best investment for my general knowledge by buying me the set of pictorial books. It was a framework of general knowledge presented as a series of imaginative questions, answered with animated visuals & charts, suitable for children of most ages. I believe the initial concepts shown in these books helped me absorb information quickly, then  organize any newly learnt information into broader themes discussed in the book. FIND ONLINE : https://www.librarything.com/work/13592826 I believe that these books had the added benefit of training the readers' Critical Thinking Skills, as  topics were always presented as a question rather than a definitive answer. It always led to even more questions. Finally the symbolism of the kid with the question mark T-shirt, asking Prof Grandpa about the many curiosities in his mind. This rhetoric kept me ...

THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP (From Royce's Footnotes) I have had the fruitful opportunity to receive a lecture on the technicalities of sleep, sponsored by my company, Tropicana Corporation Berhad. The speaker is also known as a sleep doctor, or sleep specialist, which can also be your GP or Ear, Nose & Throat specialist. There is also the American Board of Sleep Medicine - http://absm.org/  to understand a collective of Sleep scholars. R.E.M - Rapid Eye Movement There are 5 stages of REM sleep and we begin our sleep by entering heavier, uninterrupted sleep at the start and progress into longer alternating intervals of light REM sleep and Deep (Non-REM sleep). TOOLS OF THE TRADE (PSG) http://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/guide/polysomnogram EEG   (electroencephalogram) to measure and record  brain  wave activity EMG  (electromyogram) to record muscle activity such as face  twitches ,  teeth  grinding, and leg movements; i...

Click For an Enlarged version. I have now included the TED.com link in my links list. On some Conferences about the future - http://conferences.ted.com/TED2010/ I particularly like the Most Fascinating Talks section